New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-31
mixers" SPIRITS DROP
AT SUFFERS ABSENCE
PiCketed Albany Station in Rain
So GOvernor-EIeCt Could
Not Dodge Them.
SNUBBED BY W0MAN'S CLUB
Suffragists Repair to Merry
Tavern and Tell Tales, in
Imitation of the Canter-
bury Pilgrims.

| From STAFF Correspondent OF The Tribune
Albany Dec. 30.-The spirits of the suf-
frage pilgrims slumped away down to the
zero mark to-day. 1t is easy enough TO
be cheerful when one is pressing forward
battling with the winter winds for the
sake of the cause" but to linger and be
glad when one has to stand waiting alone
in drizzling rain and no Governor ap-
pears, that is different.
Little Doc Dock" paced up and down
the dripping. subterranean passages OF
the Albany Railroad station, waiting for
| a Governor who came not. She said she
had picketed the House OF Commons in
London. and she preferred II To Albany.
aid" Katherine T. Stiles, who started on
| the hike" as the mere wife OF mere
newspaper man, but was converted after
three days I'm "Genrar' Resale Jones's So
| ciety, lost 90 per cent OF her newly &C
quired zeal as she stood in the drizzle
with her eagle eye on every train which
entered the Albany station, and still he
came not.
I'D rather walk ten miles in 4 biz
zard.' she pouted
Give Up Quest of SuIzer.
At s o'clock General Jones received
word that the Governor would not arrive
until tomorrow. so she ordered I'm the
sentinels and issued the first command
for the nghtwatch: "Afternon tea, order
arms"' over the cups the SOLDIERS" gos-
sipcd amlably about Mr.. Sulzer.
Il don't believe he meant TO disappoint
us" the general insisted; IT think he
was just so busy he couldn't get away
from New York"
perhaps lie sneakcd in on freight car
so as TO avoid U.S." suggested aid" Stiles.
disconsolately. This remark was ordered
stricken from the minutes.
Tea revived the dropping spirits some
what, and plans for the evening party
helped. too. At S o'clock the pilgrims
donned their knapsacks and slaves again
and wended their way 10 merry tavern,
where they told tales OF the pilgrimage,
I'm imitation of the Canterbury pilgrims
General" Jones was scheduled for the
"Old Maids Tale" but the tale she told
might better called The Funeral Ora
ton OF the old Maid: or How the Albany
Hike Sounded tine Death hnell OF USE
less Piece OF Furniture"
Old Maids Extinct After 1915.
There will bc no more old maids after
1915" she said. Suffrage will mean the
extinction OF the specieA The old maid
of the past was a dear, sweet old thing
grown gray and wrinkled doing nothinS
Every year she became moro and more
useless like an old piece OF furniture
- 0un
the future. married or unmarried VIII pe
useful She will have . wider OUTLOOK OF
life, will be happier herself ana moro re-
spected by her brothers- She VIII ee'
married IL she wants TO. not just becauee
marriage is tho only thing she can think
If She will use her head more tnAn nel
heart in choosing a husband
The NURSES Tale" vas told by "ihtue
Doc Dock" who is unanimously voted the
heroine OF the hike"
~ have worked at the Nursef settie-
mon, on Henry street for years. but I'm
not nursing any more" she said III Is
useless 20 doctor tho Ills OF society WI"
court plaster. We cannot purge inc oous
politlc with little remedies We hlus'
prod deeper and ind the underlying cause
Of our troubles That is the subJcct'oh
OF woman. I am devoting my time now
first last and always, to gaining woman
suffrage"
Tn. New yvife's Tale" was told by
Mrs. Helen Hoy Greeley, of New forN'
who is a lawyer and is in pH tnersAp
with her husband
The widows Tale" was told by Mrs'
Jessie Hardy Stubs; the "Neighoors
Tale" nv Miss Ida Craft; travellers
Tale" by Miss Gladys Coursen. Blue
Stockings Tale" by Miss Evelyn McCul-
Ioch. Of Toronto. and Students Iaie
bv Miss Elizabeth Smith, OF Albany. Ihs
ou,et little party was the best tho SUI
fragtsts could do In the way OF celeDra-
ton.
The town hall in Rensselaer, was en-
gagged" but tho Mayor would not give
the pilgrims a permit Various other I'M
pertinent things happened, and all the
affairs promised had 10 be called OH
The Albany Iyomans Club was having
It's annual reception at tho Ten hch' pu'
the pilgrims were not invited. Mts' III
ner Blair, founder and president OF the
club. explained that there were both SUI
fragists and anti-suffragists In the CLUB
and 80 she could not extend the pilsrlms
anv official recognition. She also refused
On comment on tho effect OF the Pill
grimage on the prospects Tor suffrage III
1915.
Mrs. stubbs Finds Lost Father.
The little band was thrown into state
OF excitement this morning by the news
that Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubs had found
the father she lost twenty-five years ago.
In the course of all the publicity attend
ing this suffrage 'hike." Major A. Ia
Hardy. Of Pittsburgh. learned OF his
daughters whereabouts and wrote TO her:
Il am proud OF the position you have
acquired. Hope 10 hear from YOU
Major Hardy years ago was a promi-
mont nevsnaper man in Chicago and Is
rou histographer in the Carnegie Ii
brary
my father and mother separated when
Was eight years old" Mrs. Stuobs SAID
after receiving the letter. My rather
went West. and mother never heard from
him again. 1 was only a little girl, but
/ adored my father. and my baby heart
WAS broken. Mother died few years
LATER. really of a broken heart, for she
loved him in spite OF the trouble that
caused them to part. After was grown
ND | spent years trying TO find my father
and had almost given him up. Now suf-
frage brings us together"
LAKE COMPANIES MERGE