Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-20
TELL OF THE TRAMP
Miss Patterson Induces the
Suffrage Hikers to Talk.
AND GETS A ''P. ST." TOO
Varying Views of the Weary Wom-
an Walkers Frankly Expressed.
GEN. JONES KEPT MIGHTY BUSY
Gets So Many Letters Offering Mar
riage. Etc. She Doesn't Know
What to Do.
AND GETS A ''P. ST." TOO
GEN. JONES KEPT MIGHTY BUSY
BY ETHEL LLOYD PATTERSON.

Special bispatc;! to Tie star.
WI. MINGTON. Del. February 20
| Here are nine little interviews, all in a
row. And that IS good measure Because
person who writes for newspapers is
only supposed to get one interview at a
time. And am ambdextrous or amphb-
the nine interviews with the nine women
who are really suffrage pilgrims. The
others DO not count
To put it differently here are the nine
women who actually have walked every
step of TIE way from New York to Will
mington These are General Rosalie
Gardner Jones. "COlonel' Craft Cor
poraI' klatszschken. Mrs. Wend Miss
Leupp, Miss Crowell. Miss HawD, Mrs.
Boldt. Miss Aldrich and, by courtesy. Miss
Elizabeth Freeman, who drives the little
yellow wagon, because hers is part
quite as difficult that of the others.
On the other hand there are six or eight
recruits from somewhere around Philadel-
phla, or the suburbs of here, who devel-
oped dramatic gallery limps on the out
skirts of Wilmington. But they are gu te
another story. For the moment our con-
Germ is with the real pilgrims. And for
the present our interest centers in exactly
what each one did on the first day of rest
VouchSafed her since she left her native
heath. So, then, first place to general.
Gen. Jones Has First Say.
1t is dear little. gentle little Gen." Rosa
lie Gardner Jones speaking:
Il had some coffee in my room at $50
Then / thought 1 would attend to my
mail. l cannot tell you how the letters
had accumulated. Some of them from
such queer people. People who ask me to
marry them, or who tell ME l ought to be
ashamed of myself for my unwomanly
behavior, or who want me to advertise
something. One woman wrote me and
asked If she could name a brand of cor
sets after me. l told her l felt unworthy
of the honor.
Il did try to get as much mall as pos
sible out of the way. / was interrupted
so much, though that finally 1 had my
telephone disconnected. Then | Jared
better. When I aot through there was a
pile of opened envelopes as high as my
bed. You see that is quite a task. So
have not been outside the hotel all day
Col. Craft is a busy little person. She
is like a sparrow. l knew before / ask
ed her that probably her idea of day of
rest would be to turn out the work Of
three ordinary bolermakers. was right.
! 81 have been writing letters all day."
said the colonel 1t said in some papers
that l tainted and [ wish emphatically to
deny anything of the kind. The idea, me
faint
If l had not just called the colonel a
sparrow / would say that she SrOrted.
Burbank can do things in his business
that one must not attempt in journalism.
But to continue:
Il wrote a half a hundred letters deny
ing the faint story went on the snort
ing sparrow, land then l put 800 hat
bands in shape to sell. After that / sort
eel eco suffrage flags, and then / wrote
LOO suffrage buttons to he sent to us.
We only have 1GO suffrage buttons left