New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-12
CAir: Rings on Her Fingers.D

You bet
CAir: Rings on Her Fingers.")
For when vote I want to vote for Gaynor.
For GaynOr knows the countrys need;
And when cheer | always cheer for Gaynor'
For hos our candidate, indeed.
So when ! drink I always drink to Gaynor,
our future White House resident.
And when ! dream dream or MIN
As Mister President.
Parallcl readings OF an old air sung IN
c. rtain castle In Spain)
Detective Burns lost a chance to gain
further renown when he allowed group
OF newspaper men to find the Gaynor boom
the whisper!ngs OF which were audible last
night at the dinner OF the Interoorough
Association Of Women Teachers at the
Waldorf, where about two thousand mem-
bers OF the association gathered to cele-
brate the victory which they have won IN
the Legislature by getting equal pay for
equal work. The boom started In So
prano key, and sustained the same high
Ditch all evening and II was series oil
very treble quavers which led TO the re-
markable discovery. AS song after soma
of triumph rent the air the Mayor blush
,ngly acknowledged the women's tribute
ana must tOHDlItSS IldNC b'N''
equal suffrage on the spot
Mayor Gaynor said;
came here to look and listen, but in
place OF that ! was greeted by the song
and shouts urging me TO thro" my IA. -,
the ring Just leave me alone. Don put
the bee In anybodys head. That mas
spoiled too many useful men in this coun'
try already | am simply plain, mum
arum. everyday sort OF man. an, vo -
tent with what have 10 do. Don't Try %
make me disconnected.
Speaking OF the six years It had taken
tho women TO win equal pay, the Mayor
said:
hone-vour name is the PETERBOROUGH
that is what makes me think OF I'll nope
that the conference committee OF tne
Hoard OF Estimate and Apportionment VIII
not be six, years reporting on inc in ner
borough subway proposition, aIthousH Ho"
Il tends 20 look little like H.
Regarding suffrage, the Mayor quoted
the Governor OF Washington, who had SAID
that suffrage worked well out there be
cause the women voted as their husbands
wished.
The women" said the Mayor. "can ge
Il lsufiragel as soon as they want It, be
lieve that the man from Washington was
right. God bless the 5000 women tha
paraded the other day and have been quar-
relling with the Police Commissioner ever
since and making life miserable with let
tors"
Besides the Mayor. the speakers were
Thomas T. Conway, Lieutenant Governor
Senator James \. Foley. Alice Fisher Har'
court: Justice Luke -. Stapleton. Assem-
blyman Alfred T.. Smith. Thomas w
Churchill. Commissioner of the Board Of
Education: Congressman William Suzer
senator robert +. Wagner and the Rev
Alexander Lyon.
All through the evening the teachers, whC
we're jubilant over their victory, cheereI
and sang. and the dinner, which had beer
scheduled for April 30. but was postponed
till last night on account OF the Titanic dis
acter, was hailed with Zest all the sharper
for the delay.
Miss Grace C. Strachan was the heroine
OF the night, and she was cheered to thu
echo for the part she played in helping th'
women teachers win their battle. AS presi
dent OF the association she presided, and II
introducing the speakers she stated tina
the women would surely have won In thu
end. over her head blazed a large electric
sign, reading Equal Pay for Equal Work,
and during the dinner she was enthusl
astically greeted in the different songs On,
went to the tune Of robin Adair,' as fol
lows:
who makes this banquet shine?
Miss Grace &. Strachan.
Who makes the spirit fine?
Miss Grace G. Strachan.
why all this Joy and mirth7