New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
FOUNDERS DAY, BUT
FOUNDERS ARE SCARCE
MooSettes Permitted to Pin T.R.
Badges on Many Who Shy
at Contribution Boxes.
EBERT MARTIN SPEAKS
Meetings, However, Are Same
Old Kind, and Mrs. Amos
Pinchot and Others Fail
to Peddle, as Advertised.

| W COulC, do faofCl GloCo'
Have you ever gone to one of those
charity bazaars where they had pre-
pared a whole lot of embroidered slippers
| and whisk- broom holders and glove boxes
and pincushions to sell, and hardly any
body came end everything was left over?
Well, Founders Day was a good deal
like that. Heaps and heaps Of Bull
Moose badges to sell, piles and piles OF
contribution boxes for the money, dozens
and dozens of bandannas and fags-and
! New York didn't buy them.
| 1t was Founders Day all right yester-
day, but after It was all over you could
hardly find a founder In each of the
twelve parks where the Moosettes held
meetings and proudly displayed their
big brass peddlers' badges from the De-
partment OF Parks, which made II per-
fectly lawful for them to sell things, per-
sons were ready enough to have the T.
r. founders badges pinned on their
breasts till they discovered that f. cost
money; but they SHE'D at the Contri-
button boxes.
1t would have made the members Of the
woman's finance committee Of the Pro-
gressve party feel real bad II they
had seen; but, with the exception OF
Mrs. Amos Pinchot, the chairman, who
stood by ner guns nobly and didn't desert
Founders Day even when It was down,
and Misc Clara b. Morrison, the man.
ager Of the event, they We're not there to
! see.
! Their absence was a great letting down
of expectations, for ever since Founders
Day was first planned alluring stories
have come out from the press room at the
| Bull Moose headquarters i'm the Hotel
Manhattan about how Mrs. Bourke Cock
ran and Mrs. Philip Lydig and Mrs. T..
Gordon Norrie and Mrs. Theodore Doug
las Robinson and other women Of the
best social position-to quote the stories
that came from the headquarters press
room-were going right out on the streets
to sell things October &c.
Gaynor Knocks Out First Plan.
! Even after Mayor Gaynor knocked the
| first Founders Day plan q body blow,
and ii narrowed down TO twelve pedlers'
licenses to hawk 7. II. stuff at meetings
in the parks, II was still understood that
members Of the finance committee would
wear those badges But when the great
day came they were nowhere to be seen.
Even the devoted Mrs. Pinchot and
Miss Morrison didn't peddle. They just
visited two or three meetings and looked
on. The women who peddlcd were the
same regular wheel horses who have been
doing the Moosette street meeting work
right along.
| All in all. about thirty-siN meetings
were held-some at noon, some at o'clock
and some at o'clock. The parks visited
were Madison Square. Union Square,
Abingdon Square, Chelsea Park, Carl
Schurz Park. Hamilton Fish Park, Rut-
gers Square Tompkins Square. Bryant
Park Seward Park the circle at 10th
street and Thomas Jefferson Park.
| The meetings were the same old meet
ings that have been held since the cam
paign began, only they have never be-
fore thought IT necessary to have
pedler's badges to sell 7. r. trinkets.
The women appeared quite proud Of
the badges yesterday. by the way. They
are imposing badges, as big as your
hand, each one decorated with q number.
But, imposing as they were, they didn't
bring customers.
Ebert Martin, the athletic young man
who leaped on Roosevelt's assassin and
| bore him 10 the ground was advertised
TO speak at Chelsea Park at noon, but he
didn't show up.
Miss Maud Ingersoll was there with q
pedler's badge and an armful or BAN
dannas and buttons. and Miss Eleanor
Brannan was there speaking, but no Mr..
| Martin.
Mr.. Martin Is Found.
| Two curious individuals who went up to
| the Bull Moose headquarters TO ask why
| he wasn't there as scheduled, found him
sitting peacefully in corner. smoking.
why, was L to speak," he asked in
great surprise. Nobody ever told me
that l was" Young Mr.. Martin, who !s
a most engaging personality. with sweet
smile and two dimples at the corners OF
his mouth. but very athletic looking in
spite OF that, was promptly chased down
TO Madison Square and made to speak
there at o'clock. Amos Plnchot spoke
| tHcTe, tOO ana Hnhue not dlldCh on lHe
great newspapers OF New York" for
what he termed their Misrepresentation
Of Theodore Roosevelt.
Then Oliver Roosevelt spoke and then
Mr.. Martin.
1t was evident that Mr.. Martin was
! deeply attached to Colonel Roosevelt lie
fairly beamed as he told how good and
how brave the colonel was, and refuted
with great Indignation the newspa per
stories that he drinks and smokes, and
that he never shot a grizzly bear and
never fought on San Juan Hill"
Part of Mr.. Martins speech, which he
said was merely the speech Of near
| amateur" was a description of what hap
pened In Milwaukee He told, too, how a
crank In Saginaw, Mich, aimed shot at
| Colonel Roosevets stomach, and how he,
! Martin, landed on the crank and knocked
! him about ten feet away.
! When the speaker stepped down a
woman rushed forward. MIR. Martin"
she cried, II want to shake hands with
I you. The whole country Is grateful to
| you"
MANY people want TO shake your
/ hand?" Mr.. Martin was asked "Oh, a
! few" he said Il get punches Of hero let
tiers. too"
ANY from women
"Now. now" he protested, "rve got a
wife, a good one, and l want TO keep