New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-20
SUFFRAC|STS SET FAST
PACE ON STATEN ISLAND
x.CoIonel" CraftS'S Fleet Footed
Band Upsets Both Schedule
and Miss Whitmore's Plans.
ONE CASUALTY MARS DAY
Mrs. Baird's Votes for Women
Calf Is Bitten by a Wicked
"Anti's" Dog-"Cop'
Converted.

Did Staten Island see Colonel Ida Graft
and her suffrage army yesterday? No;
Staten island did not. The colonel in
vaGed Richmond Borough. certainly. with
six sunragettes tried and true. and they
walked from Borough Hall by circuitous
ways to West Brighton. but all Staten
islanders saw were dissolying views of the
feet-footed army in the distance, with
reception committees of local suffrasists
gasping by the wayside. and Miss Edith
Whitmorc. suffrage chairman for that
borough. wringing her hands in the md
die background and eXclaiminS;
Il can't get Miss Craft TO stop any
wherel
Miss Nhitmore had arranged to have
the colonel ana her army stop every
where. 1t appeared to Miss Whitmore a
nice little opportunity 10 get her island
converted to the cause. So she arranged
a meeting in the Borough Hall. with the
departmental heads graciously consentins
10 stand in line and receive the colonel,
ana another at Sailors Snug HsrDor and
eighteen other meetings at shops private
houses. newspaper offices and street cor
ners along the way.
But the colonel and her army. went
there 10 walk. They walked.
They really couldn't DE blamed for not
attending the meetings in their honor al
Borough Hall and Sailors Snug liarbor'
for the message to come didn't reach
them til they were several miles on their
way.
Miss Whitmorc had to go somewhere 1t
the last mnUte--oh yes, she went to
bring a photographer; so she sent dele
CATION of suffragsts TO meet the SIS
boat and told Mrs William j. Wilcox.
who told Mrs. Jeanette BOynton, who
told Mrs Francis T. Brewer, TO tell the
colonel about the receptions awaiting
her. But Mrs. Brewer had to hurry home
TO give her husbands uncle his break
fast, and somehow tho message didn
get delivered
The colonel" was late starting. She
got the SIj boat from Manhattan, all
right, with Miss Elizabeth Freeman and
Alphonzo Major. but when she reached
Staten Island Mrs John Boldt and Mrs.
Alexander Baird, the youthful beauties OF
the Washington pilgrimage, hadn't ar
rived per promise. The colonel sailed
back to see if they We're at the New
York end. They crossed her in the boat
Then they FASTENED back to fetch her,
and she. returning. crossed them. This
time she stayed in staten Island, and III
timately Mrs. Boldt and Mrs. Baird ap
peared
Up TO Borough Hall the party dashed
preceded by a scout car and Il commissarH
car, both decorated with the suffrage col
ors Miss Jenny Heath drove the scout
car. with her gray-haired mother, Mrs
Harriet VI. Heath, by her side. and Mrs
Eta Bartran drove the commissary car
and wee Grace Bartran aged ten. blond
haired and blue-frocked, distributed lit
erature and begged signatures TO parade
slips whenever the car stopped, like a
veteran. Grace was the girl mascot OF
the trip and Keith Smith young sui
frseist of seven years. from Utah, was
the boy mascot
Through Borough Hall the colonel led
her army. BIZ paused not. In the ground.
of Sailors snug Harbor she stopped Ions
enough to shake hands with one or tive
old Snugs. The army was swinging along
Richmond Terrace when Miss Whitmore
painting, caught up with il.
ION. dear,' she cried. the head of th'
Tax Department and all the other head:
were waiting in one corridor in Borough
Hall to see you, and you must have gOn'
by the other corridor. And the dignitarie
at Sailors Snug Harbor-thoy were s.
disappointed. And ever so many of IN,
election district captains living aroun'
here had parlor meetings all ready TO
you to speak at. And there was a news
paper Office back there that was waiting
TO treat you 10 ice cream sodas. Oh, dear
what time ! shall have apologizing t.
all these people tomorrow. Oh, dear
Miss Craft, how fast you walk
And still the colonel like the boy i
Longfellows poem who said Excelsior,
pressed on.
She did stop at Livingston station I
address twenty-siX local suffragists an
a blind dog named Sandy. Three anxiou
policemen differed the meeting, and NJ
1886 was so pleased that he rode on III
running board Of the scout car all III
way TO Port Richmond Park, where I'll
army ate luncheon.
One casualty and one triumph attend
ed Yesterdays suffrage march TIL
casualty was that perfectly good vote
for women" calf (Mrs. Baird's) was bi'
ten by a wicked anti" dog at nous
where the owner of the calf went TO be
hot water TO make coffee for the luncf
con. The triumph was that when IN
army called at the Office Of THE State
Island Advance" they captured Fred Nc
Kay, 6 feet inches tall and broad /
proportion, a son of the Bishop of CHS
wick England and made him promis
10 march as guard for the pilgrims sec
ton in the suffrage parade on May ..
So fast did Colonel Craft march he
army that they brought up before Mrs
Dashner's restaurant in Tompknsvill'
which they were 10 have struck at
o'clock for supper and street meetlns
three hours ahead Of time