New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-11
WALKING HABIT CL|NCS
SuftragiSts Organize Club to
Tramp in City Suburbs.
FIRST JAUNT APRIL 5
Colonel Ida Graft Sponsor of
New Venture-Gaynor Will
Get Invitation.

Its the Votes for Women Walking
| Club" now.
Colonel Ida craft has the habit Hay-
| Ing walked 100 miles to Albany and IS
miles TO Washington. and tasted the joys
| Of converting the passerby or the high
| way. she purposes now TO encircle New
York City and its suburbantes with
| eirdle of yellow
For health and for suffrage" is the
| motto OF the new club which has devel-
| oped from the pilgrimases.
The club will walk on Saturdays in
April and May. and as much longer a.
the weather permits. When the real not
| weather comes the colonel will resort
| 10 some other line on which to fight il
! out all summer The first walk will start
| April ). at 10 a. m. and the route will lie
In either Queens or Richmond. The suf-
| fragists Of both boroughs are understood
20 he bidding for the honor.
The colonel" has issued strict orders
| that il will be an invitation affair ONLY
| those who are already members Of some
suffrage organization will be admitted to
membership, and even those only on Civ
! ing assurance that they are joining for
the good Of the cause. not for the fun they
will get out OF springtime tramps through
the blossoming countryside.
| on DAYS when the apple trees are pink
and the grass banks are warm and dry
the club will picnic in the open. The
colonel" turns up her nose at hotels
Huh" she says We're walking for
health and for suffrage. You can't get
| either in stuffy hotels. Fresh air and
passing automobiles are what We are
after. Why. don't YOU remember that
| SUNDAY when we had a bonfire and roast
ed no,atoes and made coffee? 1t was the
Sunday we came into Philadelphia We
never attracted so many people. They
stopped and stared at us like 80 many
! children round monkeys cage
| Yes were going To get suffrage out
| into the open at last. We're Soins to
| arouse the labOrcrs by the Wayside. tie
farmer i'm the field. the women wheeling
babv carriages-all the people who never
90 10 suffrage meetings We're tired OF
| wasting our time talking to women III
| parlors. They just go to be amused.
We're done with entertaining women VINO
are already suffragsts. We want to get
| after the unconverted masses
| we shall not walk any twenty miles
a day. though-we'll just do reasonable.
| comfortable distance. Starting at 10
o'clock well walk for two hours then
s,on for Iunch-holding an outdoor meet
ing afterward Then. in the afternoon,
i "A
another outdoor meeting I'm the evening.
Wen go home by train. OF course. We u
! start by train. too when were going out
! into the country. Wen go To the city
/ limits and then start our walk.
! We want to cover Long Island. Staten
! Island and the counties on the west oanK
/ of the Hudson. Rockland County has
only one small suffrage society. In
! Oueens Mrs. Alfred Emo has Invited Us
/ to co-operate with the local sufragists
! in a big meeting.
! THE original army Of the HUDSON, OF
! course. are charter members Of the CLUB.
Dr. Mary Halton has asked tot JON. she
/ saws her district often has picnics any
way. and they would be glad TO turn
them into something useful
/ The walkers will wear their mixers
under short skirts. The only pretence at
uniformity Of costume will be the knap-
sack filled with literature and matted
milk tablets. which the women VIII pear
over their shoulders. All will have badges
of yellow ribbon with the familiar motto,
| Votes for Women
All the public school teachers of New
York city are to be invited TO join also,
inasmuch as Superintendent Maxwell adj
| vised them all to follow the mixers
| example the other day. Mayor Gaynor,
TOO AZ a famous exponent of the JOYS
Of pedestrianism. will have the privilege
nj membership for himself and his wife.