New-York tribune., 1912-04-01
SUFFRACETTES IN CIRCUS
They Organize as Man-Eatlng
Hyena Grins. Elephants Trumpet.
KANGAROO REVEALS SECRET
Miss Josie De Mott, President,
Will Organize Women in
Other Shows.

Elephants trumpeted and got all tangled
IN in their chains and a man-sating hyena
poeked out of his cage and grlnned at IN
,crvals all yesterday afternoon. while soy
enty-Avo women connected with tho big Bar
mum & Bailey circus made speeches in tn"
menagerio room I'm Madison Square Garden
passed resolutions and formed the first cir
cus suffrage society In the history of the
world
Every press agent with the show solemn
Iy swore last night with his hand on his
heart that the meeting was a real. honest
to-goodness suffrage meeting and that the
leaders had done everything possible TO
keen the secret from leaking out. II prop
ally would have remained a secret, too. II
Sam. the baby kangaroo had not o""h
taken with collie shortly after luncheon
Yesterday. A. II was. one of the Keepers
who wouldn't let his name be known Tor
double his salary strollcd In with n"'S-
ing hottI" fun 81 soothing syrup ior sam
about q. clock IN the afternoon and there
no found the suffrage meeting I'm fun ses-
sion
This meeting came about II Is unoerstood'
through the enterprise ~ Miss Josie ~"
Mott tho world famous eN-narchack iider'
and Miss Zolla Florence, of the show. MISS
Dc Mot, is no longer accepting ovations
for bcr feats Of lorscwomanshp. Sh" re-
,ir.d from the circus business several years
.go and is now living down Hampstead
vs, Sic and Miss Florence are said to
have passcd the word early Yesterday and
demonstration.
The Woman's Political lu'on gave t'a
carly i'm the afternoon to Dr Anna SHAW
tho national president, at IT'S headquarters
at 40 a. East g9th street Miss DE M"tt
and Miss Florence were invited Ia attend
Aftcr the affair there was Wei siaIteh
tbov with Miss Adele Jones. Of the union
returned to Madison Square Garden ""'re
they found the circus meeting well uhder
way. For all the unusual setting the ne"
circus recruits to the cause didn seem ~
see ANYTHING remarkable In the eVent-"lth
tho execution of being suhIagists ana
enoecbes and CXhortatiOns OF all sorts rang
,rrougb the mcnagcrie. while the hons
moved about uneasiy In their cages ana
tho interested hyena grinned and grinned.
I'll, sr.ech,s however were not for the
nurpose Of converting any one, for every
ono was already converted. MISS he Mo't
vas elected president and Miss Florence
eocre,arv of the circus branch, ana MISS
Irres in behalf OF the union, announcer
80, some day this week Dr. Shaw ana
Mrs .IIarr.ot stanton Blatch would VISIT
IA, circus and make speeches To the SUI
fraeis,s. The inal touch was added to the
h,,siness Of the afternoon when the "hole
oa,bering left the seats and moved over TO
tho giraffe cage where the latest papS
oirare was named Miss Suffrage win
appropriate ceremonies.
Except for one embarrassing incident tho
.circus sufrragists made their bow TO their
.oouaI rights sisters with perfect grace.
Along about s o'clock Alexander Seabert,
q bareback rider who had waited patiently
and hungriIy for more than Two hours Ell
,.red and insisted upon putting to MIS-
C.,ber, the perfectly irrevelant question OF
uh.,ber she ever was going 10 get dinner.
Go irs,stent was he that Mrs Seabert FOR
got all about her newly acquired rsh'S dH"
Las,tIv excused herself She did not leave
,ba meeting. nevertheless, until the last
,,i.ce of business was transacted
This was the appointment OF MISS pe
Mott as special representative OF the union
to go about and organize the women Oh
a,.o,,, circus I'm the country under the SUI
fraee Ianner Mies be Mott VIII start out
next month on a Coast-to-coast crusade LOT
this purpose.