New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-22
WANTS VOTE, JOB GONE.
Teacher in ParochiaI School Says
Parade Caused Dismissal.
NOW WARD OF SUFFRAGISTS
They Espouse Her Cause, While
Catholic Authorities Await
the Facts"

The sUffragists have acquired ward.
Her name is Miss Aimee Hutchinson and
she lives at No. 3S5 West End avenue.
She is pretty dark eyed and-one If her
foster mothers, Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Blatch. says--is "a very charming girl
When Mrs. Batch was told, as she sat
at her desk in her home at No. 10 West
G1st street on Monday evening. that young
woman had called to see her who had lost
her place as paroChial school tcachc"
because she marched I'm the suffrage IA
radc Of May 6, Mrs. Batch went out folly
prepared she says, to meet sour person
who might have been discharged for some
good reason. But when she saw Miss
Hutchinson she instantly changed her
mind. and when Miss Hutchinson poured
out her story Mrs Batch assured her
promptly that she wouldn't be without
work long. for the suffraGists would find
her a place
The school where Miss Hutchinson
taught was that attached to the Church
OF the Blessed Sacrament, at Broadway
and list street, and It was the Rev.
Mathew 4. TAYLOR. rector of the parish,
who called, she says. for her resignation.
Gle told me-" she told Mrs. Blatch.
that hc did not Ike tho woman suffrage
movement and that he would not have
suffragist associated with the school. !
felt very badly. not only at losing IN"
positiOn-I felt worse to think that this
could come from Father Taylor for he Is
such a dear. good man; he christencd nc.
and | have grown mp I'm his parish. and
could never have believed that he could do
a thing like this.
Dumfounded by Dismissal.
"ITe never before said anything against
suffrage and sometimes would make kind
ly jokes about It when he came 10 tho
school. So I was dumfounded when h"
told me that he was dismissng me be-
cause Of his personal feeling against
suffrage. and he knew was a suffraGist.'
The Woman Suffrage party is much
worked up about Miss Hutchinson. Mrs.
Frederick Nathan, leader of tho 18th As
scmbly District. heard about It first. and
she sat down AZ once and wrote TO Mrs.
James Lees Iaidlaw. chairman Of the
Borough of Manhattan. Mrs. Laldlaw
fastened 10 lay the matter before Miss
Sardn MCi1Ke, VINO ~ 'Udll lldH VI NV
party's Catholic committee and the proud
compiler Of a list Of names Of Catholic
preates who are sympathetic To the
suffrage cause Miss McPikc went to
Monslgnor Hayes who attends to all such
matters for the diocese OF New York. being
its secretary OF state
"Monsicnor Hayes" she said Yesterday.
is going to speak 70 Father Taylor. but
he saws he cannot think the dismissal was
because Of Miss Ilutchinsons adherence 10
suffrage lie insists there must be some
other reason That is the way ne gets out
OF It"
That was the attitude taken by every
Catholic priest who would speak OF the
matter at all yesterday,
Father Taylor" said Father Hughes, "f
the Paulist Church, in West j9th street Is
a very charming man and a very just man
Like the Church itself he would not refuse
10 allow a woman her convictions.
Father Taylor is a very nice. broad
minded man. lie would never dismiss
teacher from his school because she lie
lieved I'm suffrage" declared the Rev J..
+ Hickey. rector OF the church at Sixth
avenue and Carroll street. Brooklyn who
thinks women ought TO vote on school
questions
However ] can't say anything about II
until know all the facts OF the case he
added
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