New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-17
MUD DAUNTS NO MIXERS
SuffragiSts Planning March to
Washington Undeterred.
GEN. CRAFTS ARMY GROWS
Requests for Places in the
Ranks Come Pouring In from
Enthusiastic Volunteers.

Mud? Pooh,'
General Ida craft Tipped the warning
aside as indiTerently as she would an
auti-sunrage argument
Mrs. Jones and no other anti can
scare us out Of marching 10 Washing
ton" she proclaimed. tramping about
headquarters mn her best "On-to-Albany
gait-to keep I'm practice, Of course. The
spy samted. wheeled, when, stay the
general" cried. What was II Mrs. Jones
said?"
she said that the roads between VIII
miuCton and Baltimore We're rivers OF
mud She had motored through that see
ton and the natives begged her for rides.
because they couldn't wade through the
mud"
1t was at this point that the general
made her famous remark:
Mud? Pooh"
Then. Anything else" she demanded.
Yes" mwmured the spy. she said no.
body down that way ever served any
thing TO eat after ! o'clock in the after
noon
Bring me my bag murmured the
general" II must make a note Of that
nent our diet of peanuts and chocolate
ON this trip. / think they would have
hot water 20 make il with even in those
,yayside MARYLAND hotels. don't YOU?
I'VE have 10 20 that's all there is
about it, General craft NOHchsdied ~
the admring bystanders. Why why
because it is such magnificent propa-
eanGa. 1t IS the way all these states viii
a
have TO be Campasned. on can Ee'
the countrymdn vote au' Othri way
He can't come To meetings, ana ne
doesn't see our literature. You ca"
reach him from an automobile, elther.
You have 10 walk over 10 the BARNARD
fence and talk 10 him as man to man
This pilgrimage will DO for New Jer-
say. Pennsylvania and Maryland what
the Albany one did for New fOlk-Wahe
M the people in the small towns, ana
also show the women Of the state no"
10 do it for themselves. Wen nave
pro,ps of women walking all over these
states next summer.
That's the why and now for the
who Every day | receive letters from
women all over the East wanting 10
ioin We won't have any trouble getting
o,r nucleus Of fifty 10 start from New
York on February 10, and more Will
iojn us on the way. Here are three
Finnish women from Brooklyn VINO
nronise to go-Mrs. Aino Uksila' MISS
Sarah .Royly and Mrs. H. Lichtrum
Here is another letter from Mrs. George
Wend. of Albany. saying that she ana
| her son. a college senior. want TO go
with US. They saw US in Albany ana
| became Interested.
81 have another letter from three YER
mont women asking how much IL VIII
cost. ! answered them two dollars ana
! a half day That's the average
amount we spent in the Albany trip
| The most expensive place was three dol
/ lars a day, and the cheapest one uoiidI'
That was for dinner, lodging and break
! fast Sometimes We had 10 buy luncheoh
and that of course, increased the cost
| but usually we were invited TO luhcheoh
| bv local Suffragists. Twenty-Five uol-
| lars would be plenty for the Trip
| great many school teachers say they
would love TO go. and ask il theS
| couldn't get up hiking parties for thelr
summer vacations.
.''There are two reasons. / think, Wh!
so many more people are asking TO JON
this pilgrimage. They know well 40 II.
They sconed at the ilbany trip saiu
we'd all be back in New York before
three days had passed. They found we
didn't. and when they heard of the good
times we had they decided they'd IKE
10 try 1t, too. The other reason is that
, the time Of year and the fact that WASH
ineton is the goal are more propitious'
II was Christmas time before. Even
good suffragsts don't like to be away
a, christmas. People who weren't in
,oroe,ed in Albany. too, will he glad to
90 TO Washington to the inauguration
Oh. twill be success all right ms
second crusade