New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-25
Carnegie Hall Too Small to
Hold Admirers of Noted
Militant.
PROUD OF DAUGHTER,
WHO SHOWS MEN UP
Saws Cabinet Ministers Are All
Afraid-Defiant, Insists
Work Will Go On.

Carnegie Hall last night atoned to Mrs.
vmmeline PanHhurst for her Madison
souare Garden meeting, and if its seating
cs,aclty had been twice as large ii would
teve atoned Just twice as much.
Every seat from the first row in the
orchestra TO the last in the tOpmost gal
lery. was filed; people stood along the
usrls they crowded in the aiSles, and
when soon after the meeting opened, the
doors were closed. more than thousand
men and women were clamoring for en-
trance
So choked was the house that the super
,ntendcnt OF Carnegie Hall had TO inter
rupt Mrs Pankhurst's speech by calling
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. the chair
man 10 the edge of the platform and
telling her that if people could not be in
duced to clear the aisles he would have
10 call on the police.
I'VE are a woman's meeting Mrs.
panEhurst told the audience. Let us
show our respect for order by strict adj
herence 10 the regulations And rapidly
the aisles were cleared.
In this great crowd, however, were few
heads Of suffrage societies. The rank and
4l4 were there. but the leaders were alb
sent Mrs O. "A. p. Belmont occupied
scat on the platform, but Mrs. Harriet
Stanton Batch was represented by her
daughter. Mrs Nora Batch de Forest.
Others from the Woman's Political Union
we're Miss Caroline LcXow. Mrs. John
Rogers. ir and Miss Elizabeth T. COOK.
The leaders of the Woman Suffrage party
were conspicuous by their absence
though Mrs. Thomas Welles, the treas
urer. was i'm the body of the hail
Mrs. Boissevain There.
Mrs Inez Mnholland Boisscvain, look
ing like a goddess Of liberty in her white
gown sat near Mrs. Pankhurst and made
the speech at the end calling for sub
scriptlons-which she evoked to the
amount of $500
Yes, the rank and file were there IN
Carneeie Hall. $500 Of them. and royalty
they welcomed Mrs. Pankhurst, applaud
ing again and again when Mrs. Gilman
introduced her as "One of the greatest
speakers Of the century. one Of the great
est women Of all times Mrs. Pankhurst
wort gown OF white lace over silk. with
q draped skirt and looked at once sinSu-
larry Youthful and very tired.
She spoke for about an hour. giving hrst
rot defence she declared, but justiil-
cation Of the use of militant methods by
sunraeists in England. Then she passed
on TO the white slave traffic. woman
chief reason for Wanting the vote and
TO her daurhter Chrstabel's book, Plain
Facts About a Great Evil" which Dr.
James =. Warbasse. the other speaker OF
the evening. had already defended in
shorter talk
IF there is anything in my lie OF
which I am proud" Mrs. Pankhurst eN-
claimed when she turned to plain Facts
1T is Of having given birth TO the woman
who was brave enough TO tell the truth
about the greatest curse in the world to-
DAY"
sometimes her speech was lit by CLEANS
Of humor. as when she alluded TO car
toons in American papers about the Eng
lsh militants: Cartoons by gentlemen
who are clever artists, but who. perhaps,
do not know much about English mill
taxts
The other day / saw one showing the
army we nave recruited in the act Of go
ing TO bed. and each woman soldier IS
looking under the bed for burglar or
for a mouse