New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-05
Hughston whether she had permission I,
hold the meeting tHl

Hughston whether she had permission tc
hold the meeting. "t
Certainly" she replied. Inspector Nc
Cluskey gave US permission 70 hold meet
ings on Broadway at specified corners"
May see it?' inquired the patrolman.
"Oh. we haven't any written permission"
explained Mrs. Hughston. confidently. You
go to your box, call up the captain and he
will tell you the orders. We've been mold.
ing these meetings for three years now. and
we know how to do IT.,
The minion OF the law touched his cap
and turned away. satisfied.
Good luck to you he said
Others in the campaign car were Mrs.
Mary Beard, Mrs. Gertrude Duncan. Judge
John Sherman Crosby and James Lees Laid
Law, chairman Of the Mems League for
W'omen's Suffrage.
The other Broadway car contained Irs.
James Lees Laidlaw. Mrs Beatrice Forbes
Robertson Hale, niece Of Forbes Robertson.
tire actor. and her husband. Swinhurne
Hale; Mrs. Helen Griffith, marshal Of the
Manhattan division Of the Women's SUI
frage party, and Miss Veda Sutton, for
mcrly OF The New Theatre company.
ct is generally very hard TO get permits
for meetings on Broadway" said Mrs. Laid.
law, but we got these rather easily on &C.
count Of the parade in the afternoon. None
Of us have had anything to eat since morn
ing, except a sandwich apiece, which We ate
in the car between speeches.
That's what you might call plain living
and high thinking. This time We ate not in
the lobster palaces Of the Gay White Way,
but before them
The talks OF the women. delivered
straight from the shoulder, direct plea to
the man on the street corner, were remark
ably we'll received by that individual. Once
or twice a supposedly humorous remark
rose from the ranks around the machines.
but as a rule these were quickly Kissed
down.
When Mrs Gertrude Duncan rose to
speak at the corner of 10th street, succeed
ing the Little Magma Charta," raucous
voice from the crowd observed:
Il like your hat better than the last.
There was an immediate roar Of disap-
provaI and the humorist subsidized In the
recesses OF the throng.
A Susan B. Anthony Convert.
One Of the largest Of the outdoor meet
ings was held on the southwest corner OF
Fifth avenue and Goth street One OF the
.neakers. Miss Harriet Silverman, was
telling why women should have the vote.
Women" she said. rule the household
successfully, and why shouldn't they have
a saw in ruling the city, the state and the
nation?"
You're right" spoke UP man bent with
years. II vas for womans rights before
YOU were born. Susan Il. Anthony con-
verted me TO suffrage twenty-eight years
ago In Boston"
The old man was cheered. but he refused
the invitation to mount the soap box and
make a speech.
Miss Elizabeth Suchman next mounted
the accompanied box. one OF the many
which had been carried by the women IN
the speakers division.
Economy begins at home she SAID
land there must be woman pack OF IT,
I,kewise. there should be woman back
~ the ballot IL you want governmental
economy"
In at 4lst street, just east OK Firth ave
nue.. Miss Adelaide Sterling was speaking
70 another group Of listeners
At all the meetings were young girls ana
s,derlv matrons selling Votes for Women
literature. buttons and flags