New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-26
'HOSTS PLEDGED To MARCH
Suffragettes Gain Many Recruits
for Their Big Parade.
SIGNED IN MADISON SQUARE
"Everybody's DOM IT," Chirp
the Newsboys as Shopgirls
Add Their Names.

''Everybodys dom it," sang a small boy
on the curb
"Doin' what?'
"Aw-suffragettes" gtggled the boy. and
made his escape. But the tired business
one Of the crowd surrounding the suffrage
recruiting officers. II was in Madison
Square, yesterday afternoon.
Everybody was dom it"-that is, almost
every woman was doing II, namely, signing
pledge 10 march In the suffrage parade
on May l.
Can have one for my sister? She amt
wOrkin' to-day" inquired a little shopgirl.
and second pledge was joyfully given her.
That was only the beginning. At $50
o'clock. when business was at its height.
the young women were signing pledges for
ell their relatives and friends. VINO they
said were surely going TO march
Gimme a whole lot, and III get the girls
In the Office to sign tomorrow" was an
other oft-heard remark.
The tired business man and his brethren
looked on In silence.
1T certainly Is astonishing the interest
those men take in suffrage" laughed Mrs.
You'd think they'd have something more
important to do than to stand here watch
ing us. Some of them have been here ever
since We arrived.
NO. sir; we're not enrolling men. IL you
really wish TO march send your name and
address to the Mems League. at NO. IL
Broadway"
The atmosphere OF the suffrage corner OF
Madison Square was as balmy as the day
itself Mrs. Townsend and Mrs. George
Rub!ee bestowed their sweetest smiles upon
every woman who came near. assuring her:
You're going 10 march with us IN the
suffrage parade, aren't you?'
That tactfu little word "us" did the bust
ness I'm most cases. and the woman depart
ed bennington else II didn't do the busi-
ness. and she departed with her head high
and her lips shut in virtuous tight line
Some Of them look as II We had insulted
them" gigged the suftragettes. "and they
hurry away before any one sees them IN
such disgraceful company. The men here,
though, aren't afraid-they seem to ike us.
The supply Of green, red and purple SUI
frage dodgers had given out In ten minutes
after business began. and small boy was
dispatched for more from the offices or the
Woman's Political Union, No. - East 18th
street. Three pads OF pledge slips were
being circulated constantly. and all were
filed I'm q short time. Mrs Townsend, VINO
is treasurer Of the Womans Polltlc3l
T-nicn. said that in the office there are 90
many pledges that the attempt 10 keep
count Of them has been abandoned. Nolun-
ieer workers have been engaged for weeks
in filing tho names and addresses. Every
person who signs Is promised printed d.
rections early next week telling her Just
when and where 10 fall in
There was a recruiting stand In Union
SQUARE Park yesterday too. where the at
mosphere not quite so much Ike
pink tea A. II was I'm Madison Square
Giggling fat little shopgirls circulated
around tn" suffragsts. making remarks
about their hats and hoping II WOULD ram
the day Of the parade. Badly dressed
rather hloarv-eyed and not young women
muttered. "Sufrsgettes makes me sick
and rho great o'clock crowds passed
them by with laugh.
Mrs Edwin Jarrett and Miss Frances
Arnold. the recruiting officers, said how
They had nearly hundred pledges, es-
pecially from men.
we've found ever So many socialist
mon" Mrs Jarrett explained. and, 81
course. they ar" pledged 10 suffrage any
way"
IN civ Hall Park the spic ana span
Whit suits and gay banner OF the sui
fragists detected large crowd from the
bridge crush" and Mrs. Calvin Tomklns
and Mrs John Rogers, ir. had TO have the
services ~ four policemen 10 keep order.
Mrs Edward L. Hunt and Mrs iania
jacob had similar stories to tell OF tne'r
adventures in Bryant Park. The recruiting
officers have done such satisfactory service
that they will be kept on duty next week.
Meantime some far-seeng sufragists are
wondering II that parade won't he too long
for its own good