New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-13
SUFFRAGE TALLY-HO OUT
Girls Distribute Literature to
Advertise Meeting Tonight.
PASSING AUTOISTS PELTED
Four New States Won by Won.
en- Represented by Vehi-
cle's Four Horses.
Murray for the sunragettes,"

Murray for the suffragettesp
Good shot, girlies! Ill vote for you"
Fifth avenue. doing In It's slowly moving
automobiles woke up and smiled AZ
O'Clock yesterday afternoon when a gor-
geous footing tally-ho dashed around the
corner of 9th street and began sprnkline
suffrage literature into the automobiles il
passed
The literature" was an invitation 70
the celebration Of citizenship" TO be held
this evening at Carnegie Hall but Fifth
avenue didn't need 10 read this. One look
at the tally-ho was enough TO change the
sleepy smiles TO grins. The four pert
horses were almost hidden under huge
purple, green and white blankets, each
one blazoned with the name of one of the
four new states to grant the suffrage to
women. Kansas and Michigan led of,
with-wel, the sufragists remarked on
their inspired countenances:
You needn't tell us that horses don't
know" they said. Just see how happy
Kansas looks"
Michigan. truth compes the chronicler
to note, stumbled on the way up Fifth
avenue Just after passing 42d street,
where, up on the seventeenth floor DR..
Anna Howard Shaw was reading a tele-
gram saying that the suffrage victory in
the state OF Michigan was not yet as
sured
To give the unhappy horse a chance 10
regain its composure the coach turned of
into the quiet Of nth street After a few
moments Michigan was herself again, and
her progress up Broadway was made
with head erect and feet proudly stepping.
Around Columbia Circle the four states
pranced then back to Fifth avenue and
into the tide Of automobiles and aristoc-
racy.
Coach AbIaze with Coiors.
On top of the coach, which was covered
with green, purple and white. the colors
of the Womans Political Union, were
dozen or more young suffragists who tried
their best TO look solemn, when Mrs.
Henry Butterworth reminded them that
It would never do TO invite even the ap-
pearance of-er-friyolity.
Oh, dear, [ can smile at the women
and get their attention" sighed one young
thing but If you can't look at a nina,
how can you get him interested"
How, indeed for it was not allowable,
either. to throw a paper and hit said
young man in the eye.
The police are watching us girls
warned Mrs Butterworth. Don't throw
any papers on the street. or you'll get US
arrested. They'd be only too glad Of an
excuse, you know. Careful, there's ore
looking at us now"
The young men In automobiles were
easy enough to manage, because there
IS no law against peting people with
literature. Passing chauffeurs sent the!t
machines swulng out Of their courses,
as they felt the sudden impact Of folded
piece Of paper on their noses, and drivers
OF hansoms reached over and grabbed the
slips which rained on the tops Of their
vehicles. Little girls and beautifully
dressed women looked up and laughed
to see the papers flutter into their laps.
And here the chronicler notes the most
remarkable phenomenon of the whole adj
venture The suffragists threw straight
When they folded up a paper and aimed
Il at a grinnins coachman, it landed
on that coachmans lap. YES, II did.
Whoever said women shouldn't vote be-
cause they can't throw straight need
only consult any one who was on Fifth
avenue yesterday afternoon.
There is proof, moreover, I'm the fact
that the women weren't arrested II
their papers had fallen into the street
the police would have been heard from.
AS II was. at 18th street an Office grinued,
held out his hand-but no. the women
would run no risks.
Here, boy" they called to a messenger
boy, who ran out into the street 10 receive
one OF the papers; take this one 10 the
policeman
The boy obeyed and far down the street
the suffragists craned their neckS to see
the officer reading and finally stutiing the
sheet into his pocket.
He's taking It home to his WIFE, they
said, nudging one another for Joy.
Incidents crowded the journey. one
young girl asked her escort 10 get her one
OF the papers the suffragists held out so
temptingly He refused, but the women
seeing her so eager, took a chance ana
threw one down to her. Would CLAUDE
please pick II up? Claude glowered. so
Ethel marched out into the gutter and
picked it up herself. and then, before
Claude's scandalized eyes, she opened and
read the offending sheet.
Among those who went on the exped'-
ton were Mrs. Calvin Tomkins. MIS-
John Winters Brannan, Miss Eleanor
Brannan, Miss Ethel Paine, Mrs. Henry
Butterworth, Miss Marion Lessey, MISS
Edna Gin, Miss Emily O'Keefe and Mrs
Smith Montgomery.
WANTS A MARK HANNA