New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-19
P[EKSK|LL FALLS 4.
LL''V'" 3
TO SUFFRAGE ARMY
Generals Three Splash Into VIII
Iaoe After Long and Wet
Morning "Hike."
cal BANY OR BUST" NOW

rown officials Capitulate and
Agree to Escort Pilgrims
To-day with Honors
of War.
Smashing on our way
Through the mud and wet.
oh what fun il Is TO be
A splashing sUfragettc.
Splashing YET,
Splashing YET
ON 10 Alliance.
on what fun II Is 20 he
A splashing suhragette.
s,arf correspondent OF The Tribune
'poakskiu. y. Y. Dec. 1S.-Generai Rosa
Iones rocked not of mud-stained boots
:. drowned millinery as she led her
V..os for Women" army of two into
-, ,ost hotel in Peekskill and collapsed
.u,,r,rbantlv in the nearest armchair.
NJ ala it, she cried. Hip! Hip!
,,aorav, Fifty miles from New York!
.,onIv one hundred more to go. Put me
% he'd. girls. quick
rh,,s came TO an end the third day
.-cb Of the original three members or
n, ALBANY or Bust Club they are
corsral Jones. General Doc" DOCK ana
con.ral Ida Craft. 1t was only o'clo'N
~. ,,s afternoon. but II was still morning.
-. the suffrasette mixers had had no
,,,.bAon. Even General crafts peanuts
-. given out. so they made forced
..,.S with the result that they We're
,h,.. hours ahead of their schedule wheh
,h.v reached the hamlet OF Monuose'
There they were met by friendly suHra-
r,..s n, Peekskill. who deserted their
e,,,or,ob,Ies and escorted the pilgrims on
,oo, into town. There were MIS- Aii'a '
wocK.,,ar the president OF the PeeksKll
woman Suffrage Club; Mrs. l. Fl. FINK
.,.a-,res,dent. Mrs. Jacob Fish, treasurer
I'd Mrs l. r. Jackson. More feehsh'l
frsnds Of the suffragettes would nave
besn ont had not the army been t''ee
ho,,rs ahead of time These four women
no,,a,,or we're so determined that the Pill
ar,-,s sbo,ld not get lost in the fog mat
thew had rung up every fural 'e'ep ~
s,,hscr,her ALI along the line for the iatesI
returns from the front.
coop after the Welcome from these O..
eciaI suffragiss come five hundreo e"i
hrvo voters came tearing down the ro"u'
scboo, was lust out. and every youhss'e''
Tror, the Riddles in pink pinatores ~
sunerior youths in blue overaHS' pIunse'
aor.n the winding road, yelling 'suff'a
-, -, Votes for Cats" according TO
age and sex.
Two Minutes for Cause.
Quick TO seize an opportunity Genera
- Mounted the step of Mrs. Fink S
ut. automobile and told those young
- al bout The Cause" in two min
,,as Thou General Jones splashed on
and the children followed as II she were
~. .,roet miner of Hamelin come to lie
and turned sItragette.
The day was damp but not without IN
cidert "Evcy little Journey has a thrill
lar n its own" the pilgrims sang Wheh
,bev tired Of "Splashing on our way
Va soone, psd they toasted in the early
ds,,.,, nm the fatted chicken back in Ciif-
ford Larnon's bungalow, than rumors OF
The oscsne Of Chester Yates from sing
c,,, rained upon them. Then every bush
had striped foliage and every shed
skulkipg shadow until the stoutest army
r.r,,es were on edge. The march was
halted while the great prison bells again
hooroed tho alarm over the dreary coun-
Try.
"on to Albany" cried General Jones
If We meet him he won't hurt us. and
s,vv,av they say he's hiding In the
prison"
SUFFICE II 10 say they did not meet him.
On crcton common Barbara Frietchie
raised IN attic window, waving her coun-
trv's fsg. The general halted her army.
Saint she cried. Then Come on and
marcr With us.
"Cai - said Barbara. I've got TO
get II old mans dinner
She lie out of the house into the ram
and L ted in the suffrage army under
the I J., Of Mrs. Emma Barton. Then
she red to her neighbor In the next
doory II
A. yoy for this. Hattie Tice?" she
dema Z
Il n. so. since I seen them" Mrs.
Tee I &C reply, and the pilgrims pro-
gresset >awa-d through the drizzle. leaV-
ing IN, trail of suffrage literature in
everyt gard.
At tie 4t4s Of Peekskill the pilgrims
met ard 2tured one Major John Pauld-
ing at the very spot, he said. where MS
great great grandfather, Major Johh
Peulding. met and captured the traitor
Andre in Revolutionary days. The major
observed that twas sweeter TO be capt
ured than capturer. and consented 10 ne
towed into town. telling his captors all
about how he had walked from Ne" forA
10 Poughkeepsie twice, and it was no
Joke for ladies to do
Male Escort for To-day.
He brought tidings. too. to the effect
that 49,. too hard for the town