New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-07
Mrs. Gait Well Received,

Mrs. Gait Well Received.
II would be Impossible for an audience
10 show more enthusiasm than greeted
the address Of the president Of the Ali
ancc. Mrs. Chapman Gait, OF New York,
mastery review Of the position OF
women in all countries as regards SUI
frage. which will be printed in pamphlet
form. on all occasions there is but a
step from the sublime 10 tho ridiculous
and nothing could have been funnier than
the attempts of the photographers 10 get
q picture OF Mrs. Gait as she came down
the steps OF the Academy Of Music or this
Sunday. There was a solid block Of hui
manitv I'm every direction and TO get them
out Of the way, the photographers in true
hungarian style screamed and gesticu-
lated and rushed at them until tho police
men themselves laughed so that they
could hardly keep order.
In none Of the cities where the con-
crosses Of tho Alliance have been held in
the past has the government shown such
courtesies as here. giving ten thou
sand crowns. over S2OoO, 10 the commit
tee OF arrangements. It urgently re-
ouested that the Royal opera. which was
close
opened should be continued, and the re-
quest was supported by the prima donna
and her husband, who holds high gov
eminent position, both OF them suffra-
r,sts. This was done and delegates and
visitors were invited to a beautiful per-
Torrance ending with an exquisite ballet.
In speaking OF the opening 1t should
have been mentioned that the orchestra
of the National Theatre played an over
lure written for the occasion by noted
Hungarian composer, and an ode written
nv another was recited in Hungarian and
an English by the two most noted
actresses in Budapest, all pronounced suf-
fraeists. We find the professional women
throughout Europe, as in our own cOun-
Try, in favor Of equal suffrage.
Peasant Women at Opera.
On the night OF the Royal opera not
o-ou the stage presented for us the at
traction Of one section OF the topmost
gallery. where were seated row OF peas
ant women with little brown shawls ted
over their heads. looking with wide open
ewes at this glittering scene whose mem
orv would go with them through HE.
They were delegates TO the congress from
The fiat country" many miles from
T2udapest. a very poor section, whose
women toll in the fields all summer and
keen alive in the winter through the sale
of their simple needlework, which they
send 10 the cities. They have TO endure
All the hardships OF the men agricultural
laborers and the added neglect and bru-
taiity of the men themselves.
Sc when they heard OF the suffrage
movement in Budapest they asked 10 Join
n and the leaders have helped them ever
since. Learning that they intended to
walk 10 the congress the committee sent
them railroad tickets. took care Of them
while here and assisted TO sell the needle
work they brought with them This is an
ant Illustration OF the universally and the
democracy OF the movement for women
suffrage. COuntesses are chairmen of the
committees of arrangements. finance and
decoration. and every day members Of
the nobility or women OF great wealth
have opened their handsome residences
for dinners, luncheons and garden par
ties and yet the delegates represent every
walk in life and the humblest has had no
sense OF inequality
Socialists Rant About Glasses.
The Socialists here have done exactly
what they have in every country where
the congress has been held-denounced
(, iu advance as "a movement OF the
women Of the bourgeois middle class
10 quote from the special edition Of the
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