New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-01
NO RICH IN HER o. ["
Miss DonneI|y Wants Only
Toi|erS in Her Quarter Club.
NO QUARTER TO ANTS
Failure to Get Arrested "for
Principle" Dampens Joy
of Organizer.


Miss Mary Donnelly, "Our Mary" Of the
18th Assembly District, has started to
form a club Suffrage and sociability are
its objects and true democracy is It's
watchword.
The %. C."-short for Quarter Club
will hold it's first meeting within few
DAYS at No. Al West 36th street, but any
working man or working woman who
wants to join needn't wait for the meet
ing. but can do so by sending quarter,
either in silver or stamps, to the founder
OF the club at the above address. That
Is the reason II is called the q. c., be-
cause it costs only a quarter 10 join; but
Miss Donnelly says she thinks she'll hitch
an IN" in front Of the %" because the
club will give no quarter to the "antis
Ii Is to be hoped that all wealthy per-
sons will take note of the words work
ing man" and working woman in the
paragraph telling how to join the .. {.
Wealthy persons are not wanted in this
club II John D. Rockefeller or J. Pier
pont Morgan or Mrs. Hetty Green or Mrs.
o. II. r. Belmont were to come to Miss
Donnely on their Bonded knees and offer
her thousand dollar checks in exchange
for memberships in the Q. c. she wouldn't
let them in. No, sir. The Q. c. is poor
mans and poor woman's club.
We stand for democracy" Miss Dom
nelly said
But isn't it undemocratic," the reporter
asked, ito shut out the rich? Why should
the Goulds and the Rockefellers and the
Clewses and the Belmonts be blscklisted
Just because they happen to have money?
That's not democracy
Miss Donnelly said firmly that it was.
The rich women and men had their Col
ony clubs and Union League clubs and so
on. and they could drop in at the Wal
dorf- Astoria and places like that any time
to hear suffrage lecture. but the poor
had no place to go and learn about votes
for women.
Mrs. Belmont Lunches.
That's what made me think OF form
ing this club" Miss Donnclly said. EVERY
time | show myself I'm the shopping dis
trict the store girls arc saying to me with
tears in their eyes oh Miss Donnely,
3.th street. where Mrs. Belmont used TO
sell us lunches. and YOU were always
there 10 give us the CHEEKY word about
suffrage There's other suffrage lunch
places. with white marble fronts, but
they're not the same
and workingmen say 10 me, Sure, Miss
Donnclly. I'd likely believe in suffrage II
| knew anything about it. but the likes
OF men, I'm these rough clothes. can't go
to meetn's In them swell hotels to hear
about IL. Set up a meetin'-place where
ovcralls will he full dress and you can
count me in. Miss Donnelly.' the>say 10
me.
And I'm going TO do it," "Our Mary
declared. We've got TO have the vote
OF those men in 1915 when the referendum
comes. haven't VIC? They're our brothers,
aren't they? I want 'cm 10 be welcome
at the .. c.. ovcralls and dinner pals
and broken finger nails and all the rest Of
the marks Of labor. Yes. and the tired
little shop girl. | want them all TO
feel that the q. c. is then club-just by
paving quarter said Miss Donnelly
Close calculation has convinced Our
Mary" that $50 would start a club nice
ly.
That's only two thousand quarters"
she said And I've got some now"
Seems pretty big order. to get
membership OF two thousand observed
the reporter. But Miss Donnelly said IL
would be just play. Why, II could get
the employees in one Of our big department
stores they'd make a club of that size"
she said. ANY big department store has
that many.