New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-12
ARMORY TOO SMALL
FOR SUFFRAGE BALL
Home of the list Regiment
Crowded to the
Doors.
DEMOCRATIC, WITH BIG D
Advertising Campaign Of the
Vote Seekers Reaps It's
Reward, for All the
World Was There.

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| Well the Womens Political Union did
one big thing last night. 1t made the list
Regiment Armory look small And the
list Regiment Armory holds a few peo-
pie. too-about ten thousand. At least
that number attended the unions ball, as
against three thousand at the ball the
union gave last year at the Murray Hill
! Lyceum.
The union did another thing. tooIt
demonstrated that advertising pays, ana
also that bunch Of energetic women can
give a business man more points OF
advertising than he could digest IN
year.
Never was thing advertised as TINS
ball had been. The suffragists advertised
1t from automobiles and they advertised
| It from shop windows. They advertised
it till they were arrested for 1t. and then
they advertised some more. Result: IL
was ball that made even the Albany
hike" pale into insignifcance for the mo-
| ment.
All the world was there except a few
anti-suffragists There were any NUMBER
of politicians, including Miss Mary Don
nelly. But Miss Donnelly wasn't being
| a politician last night. She was being
society lady, She had a handsome young
man. and she Joined in the grand march,
| drank ginger ale through a straw with
| her Young man. and announced her In
tention of doing mild suffrage turkey
trot later.
Mrs. John Rogers, jr chairman Of the
ball committee, has been announcing all
along that this affair was to be demo-
cratic with a big ID" and democratic IL
was There were tired. shabby little cash
girls there from shops. Waiting in shirt
waists and short skirts; there were boys
in worn, we'll brushed sack coats; and
there were Mrs Herbert Carpenter ana
Mrs. Beatrice Forbes-Ro bertson Hale and
Mrs James Lees Laidlaw In giittering,
spangled ball gowns and their husbands
in the correctest of evening dress And
they all had a good time together.
Armory a Blaze OF Color.
Very pretty the big armory looked, with
hundreds and hundreds OF yards OF green
and purple bunting draped all about the
length Of the gallery. Greenery hung
from the huge electrolier and the pillars
were wreathed with green.
From one side OF the building Votes
for Women" flashed forth in electric
lights. and from the other "Women's Po-
litical Union" High up on dais was
the easel which has done duty In the
window advertising stunts, and on 1t was
a placard bearing the legend: Register
here for the suffrage parade. saturday
May 3, 1913" The union Is already pre-
pairing for the next great suffrage event
While the dancing was beginning up
stairs there was almost a riot down
stairs. Long lines OF men were drawn up
outside the coat rooms. There were not
half enough attendants. Mrs. Rogers de-
clared. And when those men heard the
music upstairs and saw their best girls
with wraps Off. waiting TO be escorted to
the dance, maybe they weren't mad!
There were attendants enough In the
womens cloak rooms, but what good did
that do Mrs. Rogers wanted TO know,
when a girl naturally couldn't go into a
ballroom without her young man?
Fancy Dancing Came First.
A programme OF Russian and Hun
First, everybody crowded back as far as
they could, and then out into the clear
space In frolcked thirty young men and
women In gay Russian costumes and high
boots. They were volunteers, teachers in
the public schools in private life. One
old lady who was looking on shook her
head and murmured:
| Land sakes. Twenty years ago we'd
nave been scandalized at the notion OF
lettering young things like them teaching
our children!'
And now" her daughter told her
wed like to be out there doing that
Russian dance ourselves"
After the troupe had frolicked of the
: floor, Miss Eliza Morris and Louis II
Chalif did tie "Czarina." and Hun
, garian Rhapsody" and then Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait stood up on the platform
, and made a suffrage speech, which may
have been enjoyed by the musicians, they
being the only persons near enough tc
hear IN that huge place.
They Wanted No Speeches.
II didn't really matter, though. because
all the girls were tapping their feet and
humming. What did they want Of suf-
frage speech? They wanted the turkey
trot."
Mrs. Henry Butterworth, OF the union
gray haired, but young OF face and heart
was the first to grab a partner and start
the waltz. Soon the floor was full OF
them.
After two dances the grand march was
announced through q megaphone, but 30
great was the crowd that three attempts
were made before It could be carried out
Mrs. Rogers led It with Miss Josephine
Beidenhase, then came the executive
board Of the union, Mrs. Alfred Townsend
Miss Caroline Lexow, Miss Elisabeth
Cook and others, and then the public. two
by two.
One person was missing from that
march-Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch She
Is resting In the Bahamas. Mrs. Nora
Blatch de Forest. who Is looking after the
union in mothers absence. was there
but she couldn't make up for mother, who
! led the march last year.
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