New-York tribune., 1913-06-22
SUFFRAGE PROVES SPUR
FOR MESSENGER BOYS
Appeals for Votes in Many
Tongues Hustled Along at
Dizzy Speed.
SHAME SPREAD BROADCAST
Miss Lavina L. Docks Banner
Brigade Almost Breaks
Ranks When Comment
Grows Caustic.

Well, for once In their lives some mes
senger boys went fast. And on a hot day
like yesterday. too
Miss Lavinia L. Dock was the motive
power behind this miracle. and she did Il
by hiring the boys from the Postal Tele.
graph Company TO carry banners In a
suffrage parade. She didn't intend them tc
go fast. Quite the contrary The object
Of the parade was to show the Greeks
and Jews and Turks and Hungarians and
Italians and so on I'm the "A Assembly
District. OF which Miss Dock is suffrage
leader. her collection Of suffrage banners
in their native tongues.
Not liking 10 take girls out when the
streets weren't cleaned. and she couldn't
ask that for such small parade, she
decided 10 hire messenger hoys and call
them suffrage kilograms 10 the people
She reckoned that the habits OF the spe-
cials just fitted them for a pace that
would enable the popuace to read the
banners at leisure as the parade passed
Read them? From start to finish those
suffrage kilograms. scarlet with shame
hit up a pace that left Miss Dock and
Policeman No. l,431, who went along
gasping for breath.
Western Union Refuses.
The Western Union Company wouldn't
let Miss Dock have its boys The
manager does not wish 10 hire messen.
gers out for such a purpose" was the
answer she received there But the
company headed by Mrs Mackay's hus-
band was kinder 10 the cause. though
the manager told her ne would have "a
ask the boys II they'd be willing 10 go
BOYS" he said, with n side glance at
the suffrage buttons on Miss Dock S
breast, boys are boys. you know"
What brbes that manager used no one
knows. hut az 40 O'Clock in the after
noon eleven sulky boys showed up in
their blue uniforms at the Nurses Settle
mcnt. No 265 Henry street. where the
parade started. With dropping heads
they received the banners. and allowed
Miss Dock to string them out in Indian
hic. A tall boy headed the procession
with a banner lettered.
kilograms for Mr. Voter Answer in
1915"
The next boy carried a gorgeous Irish
banner. with suffrage sentiments In Gaelic
lettered on green. Then came the Italian
colors with "Domandlamo n Voto per 90
donne mel 1915" and then the Greek. the
Yiddish. the Russian, the Hungarian, the
Turkish. the Chinese and the English.
Grand banners they were
The Turkish banner was embroidered
for Miss Dock by two Turkish cigar
makers on Chatham Square. DR.. J. 9.
Thorn. Of Brooklyn. made the Chinese
one. and Donal O'Connor. the Irish pa
geant man, the Gaelic one
One Look was Enouqh.
Now. boys hold your heads up" ad-
monished Miss Dock. as they started out
The eleven took one look at the forces OF
the surrounding populace, and shot
fairly shot-along Montgomery street and
along Monroe Oh the ignominy Of H.
Many n time and oft they had yelled
"Sunergetl sunerget" at speakers on
soap boxes. and now boys were hooting
"SuTergct" at them.
And wasn't that-horrors. yes,-a famil-
lar uniform at the corner Of oliver street.
A messenger happy boy. bound on some
errand that wasn't suffrage-and he had
spied his friends in the parade.
"Aw-r. gee Tommoy. Wherein git con-
verted Z de cause" he yelled in piercing
tones. list wait till I'm out O. dis an
I'll polish you of. sufterget er no suf-
ferget," growled the perspiring Tommy.
shifting his banner. Further along two
messenger boys popped out OF store.
See the pritty suffergets in blue ~
shrilled one. But the other was disgust
ed "Disgracin' the uniform that way 80
he muttered.
II IT hadn't been for Policeman l.Sl
some OF those hootinG messenger boys
would have had trouncing right then
and there from those suffrage. kilograms.
Policeman 1.431. who marched at the
head. kept the peace. but he couldn't make
the kilograms moderate their pace.
Never saw boys go so fast IN my life, %
he puned as the procession swung back
up Henry street at o'clock.
But in spite Of the ordeal Policeman
i.43l announced himself partial TO ladies'
suffrage. Those boys. he said tolerantly,
are young They'll learn"
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