New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-03
WALDO Anglers WOMEN
Four SuffragiSts Try in Vain to
See Commissioner.
NO HELP AGAINST R0WDlES
Callers Wanted to Know Why
Police Asked for Were Not
Sent to Tenth Ave. Meeting.

Police Asked for Were Not
Sent to Tenth Ave. Meeting.
-Four angry suffraglsts turned away from
Commissioner Waldo's door in Police Head
quarters yesterday at II o'clock. after wait
Ing half an hour In vain 10 see him. Mrs,
]. Remington Charter and Mrs. Thayer
Iaccaci, who were mobbed by rowdies in
Tenth avenue when they tried TO hold
meeting there on Friday night. were two
Of them, and the others were Mrs James
Lees Jaidlaw, chairman Of the Borough
OF Manhattan for the Woman Suffrage
PARTY, and Mrs A. c. Hughston, the party
chairman of public demonstrations. They
were there promptly at 1880 o'clock under
the impression that they had an appoint
ment with the head Of the Police Depart
ment for that hour. But It appeared that
the Commissioner or his secretary, Winfield
Sheehsn. thought differently.
The first person who met them on their
arrival at Headquarters didn't think diff
ferently He was a polite person In uni
form, and when Mrs. Hughston explaineh
that they had come to ask why they didn't
have the police protection for which they
had asked at the Tenth avenue meeting, lie
said:
Certainly. remember: talked with you
when you called up yesterday to ask for
the appointment
He disappeared There was a walt Of
fifteen minutes, and then Mr.. Sheehah
came out He was very sorry' but the
Commissioner was too busy to see the
ladies. They were mistaken i'll thinking
there was an appointment; Mr.. Sheehah
knew, he said, because he had talked with
them over the phone when they asked
for II.
"But another man has just told US that
he talked with us over the phone about
H. We talked with only one man. How
could It he both OF you?" protested Mrs.
Hughston.
Mr.. Sheehan was sorry. but the ladies'
were quite on the wrong track. The west
| 37th street police station, in the 9th Assem-
! blv District. where the disorder occurred
WAS the place for them TO go.
| To the West 9Th street police station they
went. but not without some parting re-
marks at the Centre street headquarters
ooh. the Police Commissioner is nice
man-such a nice MANI said Mrs. Hughs-
ton. in sarcastic tones. He pats us on the
! back and says, There, run along, little
girls. have important matters to attend
/ to-"
| Mrs. Charter was in the famous Black
Friday demonstration before the Parlia-
ment Buildings with Mrs. Pankhurst in
London, and she has been arrested as many
as three times in one week over there.
But never once in London" she said
| yesterday, did I suffer such outrages as I
was subjected 10 at 4lst street and Tenth
! avenue Friday night Grocery boxes filled
with decayed vegetables were thrown at mo
when mounted the box and tried TO speak.
| Water was poured on me from the windows
| above. and I was struck on the back OF my
head with a stone. which made me so faint
and dizzy that when started home | wan
dered past the right elevated station and
! on for some blocks without knowing what L
| was doing"
At the 9th street police station Liouten-
ant McQueeny received the four women.
He was very polite, only as he was not, he
said, in the station house on Friday night
no couldn't throw much light on the ques-
ton why the suffraglsts weren't protected.
Captain Reidy, OF the precinct who was
there on Friday night, was unfortunately
not there now TO receive the ladies.
Mrs. Charter and Mrs. Iaccaci duetted a
statement Of what happened Friday night,
and Lieutenant McSweeny took II down.
He fingered over the writing with many
fourishes of the pen, for we'll he knew
the questions he was in for from the four
determined women lined up at the rail
when he should have finished.
Mrs. Hughston hurled the first one: I'VE
telephoned Police Headquarters in advance
OF the meeting 10 ask for protection, and
were told we should have It. Is It neces-
sary 10 telephone the precinct station
house, too?'
Not at ALL" the lieutenant assured
Thorn.
Then why wasn't there an officer at
that meeting? We saw one as Il began.
but he Immediately disappeared"
There IS no doubt" McSweeny said,
earnestly, that you are entitled TO pro-
lection at your meetings. and you shall
have It, ladies-you shall have 1t. The
thing shall never happen again-never."
But telephoned 10 this station house
six times in the course of that awful ex-
perience Friday night, begging for help,
and my requests were received with levity,
though explained that lives were in dan
ger" said Mrs. Iaccacl. ''Wnl you tell US
why that WAS, and why no officer was
sent until the end Of the evening""
McSweeny replied by again explaining
at length that the suffragists We're en-
titled TO protection at their meetings. and
should have II, and he Instantly agreed
when Mrs Hughston asked him TO send
four policemen to the meeting the suf-
fragists will hold at the same place Friday
night.