The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-10-21
Freed From Ellis Island b,
Presidents Order. She Speaks
at Aldine Club.
GARDEN MEETING TONIGHT
Leader Elated at What She Calls
a Slap at Asquith and
Mckenna.

clock AIter fresiuent W iison nau taken
. personal interest in her case. She
iett the island without having TO sign
any papers limiting her activities here
b, any way and without furnishing a
bond
Ellis Island cheered her as she left
and crowd near the Battery wall
greeted her enthusiastically when she
,ame ashore from the immigration boat
. he taken In Mrs. o. II. r. Belmont's .
'.nrousine to the Belmont house at Az
Madison avenue.
Last night Mrs Pankhurst at a dinner
given in her honor by the Womans Polit-
zeal Union al the Aldine Clubs
roon,s in the Fifth Avenue Building made
" ess men and women diners. or all
no clubrooms possibly could seat. plus
Ill who were willing to go dinneriess so
'ong as they could hear Mrs. Pankhurst
speak.
When Mrs. Pankhurst, attired in
HACK chiffon evening gown set Off with
q striking sash of burnt orange. came
10 the clubrooms with Mrs. Belmont there
was pause while the militant and her
hctte,s looked about for Mrs. Harriet
Stanton Biatch. president Of the W. p l..
some one caught sg.t Of the seemingly
reelected guest OF honor and there was
much 10 do for a moment. And finally
Mrs. Rlatch came running up. all
apologies.
Smashed window Gets Laugh.
81 m so sorry cried Mrs. Blatch breath
,ssly, but was called to the telephone
= minute before YOU came in. The big
window OF our headquarters uptown has
Just been smashed!'
There was a roar OF laughter in which
he militant Joined heartily.
oh. il was the wind that sma shed it,"
MS. Blatch explained. "A sign was
blown down and broke our window
Mrs. Paakhurst at the end Of the dinner
, made an address that was received with
rInch enthusiasm and cheers, with misses
brown IN when the names Of AsQuith and
Home Secretary McKenna were mem
ioncd cries OF Shame. shame" when
Mrs Pankhurst told Of prison expert
.nccs Of the militants, and hushed. IN
ems. interest when Mrs. Pankhurst told
d story Of girl accused OF murder
ludgc who left the trial OF the girl and
pto was not heard OF again until his body
vas found in low resort--an instance
, .ho hsd used to some effect when ad-
,,rassIug another English Judge in later
ears.
pcrhaps the strongest memory brought
aWay by those who heard and saw MRS.
'auEhurst last night was that in the
matter of appcaranc. she is better look
na than her published pictures had led
oor audience to suppose. Also many COM
prmen,s were heard for her pleasing de-
VERY. a free flowing vocabulary and the
.bs,nce OF rant or violent speech that
som. of her audience had seemed to be-
love was inseparable from leader OF
militant leaders. -
she sat at Mrs. Blatch's right in
.oom decorated with oak leaves and the
>olors Of the w. L. l.. and or her own
iorres in England. green. white ana purple
A. the guest table also were Mrs. Charles
: Whitman, Samuel Merwin. Mrs Bel
mont. Mrs Frederick Hazard. Mrs. Flor
nee Kelly, Prof. and Mrs. John Dewey
and Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Cntermyer.
Norman Hapsood was to have been at
n. table also. but he sent telegram
ss,ing he had been detained. but would
rav his respects to Mrs. Pankhurst at the
nrs. opportunity When Arthur BriSbane
rame in Mrs. Blatch tried to get him to
come up to the dais table. but he begged
10 be excused.
Welcomed In CpPoar.
There was 80 much uproar when Mrs.
rsnshurst came into the dining room
ma, Mrs. Blatch finally had to Use strenu.
ols yocs, efforts to suppress the enthu-
sasts long enough to get the dinner
-Sarted.
Il, has long been honorable to stand up
for dead heroes Mrs. Blatch said in in
ucducing Mrs. Pankhurst. Let's begin
sanding up for living heroes"-and
everybody stood and whooped again.
Mrs Pankhurst began by saying that
although her dstention at Ellis Island
had had its unpleasant features she was
how more glad TO greet her friends
Ssrause OF that incident inasmuch as
what has happened in the last two days
aas done much to restore confidence in
the success OF democratic institutions.
To-day at knightsbridge, one of our
suburbs. gathered a body OF women who
are fighting for our cause. And into this
A'tls meeting OF Englishwomen was car
kd to-day stretcher upon which rested
NE wasted form OF a slender girl lying
there at deaths door.
But so unquenchable is the spirit OF
Anna Kenney tprolonged applausel ]. 80 un-
ausnchable the fighting spirit OF that deli
cato girl lying there. Just carried from
Nsr hunger strike in prison. that she
would attend that meeting so long as life
remained. And while she lay there word
ams TO her and TO all her friends about
r. that ! had been released from Ellis
lAsnd
II the American nation had decided
che quality OF my moral turpltude'
V'aushter) to be against me and had
ordered my deportation those women Of
NsiShxbridEe would have gone on fight
'ns Just the same. But think what It
must have been TO those women to learn
mat your far on American nation had
'novn itself able TO understand the differ !
'hcs between a breach Of law done for
'hs highest motives and a breach OF tho
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