New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-20
MAYOR DISAPPROVES Of
MOOSETTES' TAG DAY
"You Shan't," Asserts GaynoT;
go Ahead and Try 1t,
Declares Waldo.
"WE WILL, SAY THE WOMEN
Much Muddled Situation on Eve
Of Last Effort to Gather
Money for T. RS
Campaign.

yam boAsS IL
As nearly as can be discovered. the
situation in regard to Founders Day. the
last and biggest plan Of the Moosettes TO
gather money for r. r. and the Pro
Cregsivc party, is this:
Mayor Gayuor: you shan't do it,"
Police Commissioner Waldo: Go ahead
and try it."
The MOusettes: Thanks. Commas
siOneT. We will
II wasn't until Friday. at a meeting
held by the Founders Day committee AT
the Hotel Manhattan. to consider maj
details for next Saturday. the great day
that the Mayor DOGGY reared its heao'
and as by that time hundreds OF dollars
worth Of Founders Day badges, etc,
had been printed, the ladies naturally
shook their skirts and said Scat!
Miss Clara B. Morrison and Mrs. Amos
Pinchot and the other leaders also saiu'
"Oh. pshaw." or words to that eHecI
when Mrs. O. IL. Ihlseng and Miss Flor
ence Guernsey the latter chairman Oh
the district captains appointed for the
day warned them that Mayor Gaynor
night MT a stop to their project. MISS
: Morrison protested that she had con
! suited the POLICE Department ana inc
bureau of Licenses, and it was periec''y
all light. they needn't even bother ao0u'
getting a permit.
Mo ENCOURAGEMENT from Adamson'
All tba sauna. when Miss Morrison arose
Yesterday she decided that she'd "ahuer
down 10 City Hall Miss Morrison 10
Timothy L. Woodruffs sister-in-Ia"' anu
she knows thing or two. she went "
c,,tv Hall and saw Robert Adamson' inc
Mayors secretary, the Mayor peihs 0u'
~ town. Mr. Adamson was pretty pussy
thinking up what he will say wheh He
,oas on the stump for Wilson and Sulzer'
n,b,cb he will do in a day or two. put ne
rooe,vad his Moosette visitor and hearo
what she had to say.
"rhe Mayor" ne told her, has eN-
messed the opinion that to permit tag
cling would be Of doubtful iegali'S ~nO
doubtful propriety Some time ago ne
vetoed a resolution OF the Board OF Al
dermen permitting a tag day LOT inc
benefit of Staten Island day nursery
Tben Mr., Adamson called in one OF the
Ginning lights of the Law Department
and he declared that tagging was teen
nfr,I violation of the law prohibiting beg
INC ~, tho streets So Miss Morrison
went away. after arranging TO see Mayo
Gaypor tomorrow morning. she knows
n Will be all right when she has had an
interview with him. because she can ten
rf,, something which evidently ne
foasr't know vet. and that is this: Tag
day isn't tag day when the Moosettes DO
IT. it is Founders Day.
No Begging, Says Miss Morrison
If he supposes that we are going out
10 tag men and ask them TO give Us
money he is mistaken" she said yester-
day. after her visit to City Hall. we are
going out In a perfectly proper and wen
conducted manner to sell badges which
make the buyers founders Of the Pro-
gressive party. All We mean to DO Is 10
ask men to buy these badges. IL Is very
different from tagging, and am sure
that when ] explain this TO the Mayor
and when / tell him how much money
we have spent for badges and things ne
will be perfectly reasonable
ANYHOW, we are going TO have Found
ers' Day. That's sure. l have been 10
the Police Department and have been
told TO go ahead"
Mr.. Durstan, press agent at the Ma
tIonal Progressive headquarters. In the
Manhattan Hotel, said last night thd'
Commissioner Waldo was telephoned 10
yesterday, and that he practically toid
the women TO go ahead
1T don't think" Mr.. Durstan said, that
Mayor Gaynor will try to stop this thing.
There are too many people or influence
behind It. It's a bigger proposition than
stopping a tag day for the benefit OF
Staten Island day nursery
Many OF the members Of the Nationel
Progressive women's finance committee
Of ffty are going out 10 sell badges on
Saturday. Among those who have VOL
unteered 10 serve on the streets are
Mrs Bourke Cochran, Mrs. Everett COL
by Mrs. Amos Pinchot. national hnahce
chairman; Miss Helen Coster, OF TUX
edo. Mrs. Joseph Sampson Stevens MRS.
p II, Hooker. wife of the national treas
urcr of the party; Mrs. Philip Lying
Mrs. Philip Livermore, Mrs. Theooore
Douglas Robinson. whose husband Is
nephew Of Theodore Roosevelt; MISS
Morrison and Mrs. A. Gordon Norrie'
Mrs. Norris is chairman OF Founders
Dav for New York State.
Badge Sellers Everywhere.
All over the city the women plan 70
be-uot only selling on the streets. but
at subway and elevated stations, at FER
ries and railway terminals. From
o'clock in the morning till at night
they will pervade little old New York.
and spry will be the man who escapes
6em Through the day they VIII pay
strict attention to the financial district
In the evening they will concentrate
largely around Broadway and 42d street,
where the theatres are.
The badge the women will sell is a slip
of white linen. bearing two Old Glories,
, Bun Moose i'm bass-relief and this
verse
Look up. not down
Look out, not in
Look forward. not backward
And lend a hand
Twenty-Five cents viii buy badge but
,-ou can pay more If you want to.
Mrs. Medin Mccormick Of Chicago who
is chairman OF Founders Day for the
whole country. expects many thousands