New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-02
oroan Grinding Suffragettes
PeIted with Mud and Even
Stones by Hostile Crowd.
sELF.DENIAL WEEK BEGINS
Traffic Held Up in Oxford Street
While Barrel Organ Is
Smashed-Hoax on
the Territorials.
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lines adopted annually by the Saliva
,ion Army. with great benefit to its
offers. The self denial week is de-
,cribed by Mrs. Pankhurst as special
.Nort to raise funds for the movement
bv personal sacrifices. and also by Sc
,uripC the cooperation and practical
help Of the general public.
Although endcavors on behalf of the
Vomen's Social and Political Union
will be- made wherever there are
branches. the most novel efforts will
IN, in the metropolis. where the mill
tauts are undertaking all kinds of self
imposed tasks in furtheranCe of the
cause. The following is a list Of the
methods to be used:
Flower sales. sales of candy, COL
Letting boxes. singing at theatre queues.
violin playing a theatre queues. recita-
lions at theatre queues. market stalls
in the provinces for the sale of flowers
and candies. barrel organ grinding,
pavement artistry. American teas
American suppers. American catch
penny white elephant sales, tumble
sales whist drives. concerts, a theatri-
cal performance, cafe chantants in
Scotland. decorated pony with flower
cart in Wales and collecting by collie
at Bath.
Crowd Grows Irritable.
Eight barrel organs were worked by
suffragists in London to-day. and these
again proved that the metropolitan
crowd is growing irritable. riot was
caused by one in front of F'rascatfs, in
oxford street. Passersby stopped TO
watch the grinding and soon laughter
and tests were followed by hooting and
Kissing. Finally. crash. and over went
the organ. to an accompaniment "
shouts and jecrs. The instrument was
wrecked. and the women were jostled
in the throng
In the mean time traffic came TO a
standstill. The attacking party were
fighting for relics Of the instrument
when policemen elbowed their way
through the crowd amid chorus of
creams and cries Of Serve EN- right
Every window from Frascatis to the
corner of Tottenham Court Road was
filed. and the passengers on top Of the
long line Of motor buses stood up and
added to the general din.
Then followed one Of the most
curious professions that ever passed
along a London street. Between side
walks lined as thickly as for Lord
Mayors show the organ grinder. es-
corted by policeman. beat painful
retreat Hundreds followed in their
wake not hooligans and thugs, but
many women in fashionable furs, smart
young men about town. venerable GER
tlemen and city fathers on shopping
expeditions. with their families. the
whole crowd almost unanimously hos
tile. with but very few expressions Of
sympathy
Ought To Be Whipped
The general opinion seemed to be
that they ought TO be whipped, and re-
cent expressions OF opinion that the
magistrates should sentence them to be
birched were quoted with approval
4 similar reception awaited two suf-
fragettes who began TO grind a plans
organ in Shaftesbury avenue. They
were surrounded by hostile crowd and
pelted numerically with mud and
stones. the organ being jumped on and
damaged. The police escorted them to
Coventry street, but the crowd was so
great that efforts TO place the women
In safety were unavailing. The chase
continued through Long Acre. and the
crowd dispersed only after the suffra-
gettes had taken refuge in chambers in
Lincoln's Inn.
For the first time for weeks the
women did not make a Saturday raid
al Richmond. There were rumors that
outrages would be attempted to-day,
and special guard was placed In Old
Deer Park, while extra police patrolled
the towpath. In Kew Gardens the
authorities made their own arrange
ments. and special men were watching
the most likely spots for damage to be
attempted
Suffragettes hoaxed the Territorials
at Pontypool yesterday. taking their
cue. undoubtedly. from the recent In
cident at Strassburg, where the whole
garrison turned out to welcome the
Kaiser. who. however was hundreds of
miles away. Word was sent that the
Territorials were at once to be placed
on a war basis and the local authorities
Immediately began to carry out the or
der
Walls, hedges and hoardings were
promptly placarded with mobilization
order and kilograms were sent to all
Territorial soldiers residing in outlying
districts. The arrangements for bill
letting the men on the inhabitants OF
the towns were well under way and
scores of men had reported at the
mobilization centre before the hoax
was discovered.