New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-29
SUFFRAGE TIDE FLOODS
CONEY ISLAND BEACH
o,thers Turn from Sea When
"Merry-Go- Round" for
Cause Begins.
UMBRELLA PARADE HELD
creakers Prove That Crowds
Of Resort Care for Other
Things Besides Bark
ers and Ragtime.

ers and RagIlme.
n. Uomers Political Union set up the
&C., suffrage y-go-round at Coney
,.,,,d Yesterday. They planted five SOAP
.a~as in a big circle on the sandy beach
80, If tho municipal baths. and the i've
,Dsakers rotated from one TO the other to
-. music OF their own eloquence.
III. crowds also rotated. for when they
49, sneaker they followed her whittier
,bs went. so the beach was lively scene
80, o'clock until o'clock This is the
&c. time this plan has been tried, and
o.,t Commissioner Kennedy Of Brooklyn
s,4 not want % issue the permit Mr..
cernedv does not see the sense in preach
,,r suffrage 20 park crowds. anyhow. and
e Beadle. OF The Mems League for
yor,ar suffrage. who went carly IN the
40, IN get a permit for the Woman Suf-
f,sre PARTY % hold q meeting outdoors
=, Co7cy Island. was turned down. But
Miss Beatrice Brown. who went later 70
,st hermit for the Womens Political
Union would not be turned down.
When the Commissioner told her a
ronsv Island crowd would not listen 70
,,ytbirr bur ragtime and bankers she
said. we will make them listen And
thcy did
Suffrage Bankers Stylish.
rbev had their barkers. the suffrag.sts
did When thcy go TO Gomez Island they
6o as Concy Island does. Women in
,y-ple white and green rcsolia, carrying
rurplc white and green umbrellas. way
lid the passing throuCs on every side
NJ their section Of beach and adj ertised
,se attraction .r the best barker style.
The audiences were slightly peculiar I'm
costume Tat men BOO bathing suits lay on
their stomachs in the sand and waved
their feet IN the ain and listened 10 SUI
frare arguments Women IN dripping
warmers and Nmonos and bathing suits
shook their wet hair out 10 dry and list
ened Family parties camped at tho feet
n tic suffrage orators and ate pink ice
cream and sandwiches and drank ginger
ale while Tho, heard how IL vas not right
70 make poor oycrWorked father DO the
voting for the whole family.
They were quite appreciative-all but
one man This man listened TO Miss Rose
Wirslow telling why the factory women
ought TO have vote. Then ho wadeo
through tho sand and heard Miss Eliza
be,h Freeman demand the vote "on the
basis Of simple Justice" At tho next box
he paused 90 near Miss Elisa beth Al
d-ich. Al the next Miss Anna constable.
Then DC stood az the feet Of Major \. u.
Talrborne. OF tie salvation Army. who
was lending his cloqucnce 70 the suffrage
cause. Last Of all he cast an eye on the
barkers. with their purple, green and white
umbrellas. and then he shook his head.
And 10 think" he muttored m low
disgusted tone. Ito think the people shut
roor Harry Thaw up in IN insane asylum
and leave thos. women loose. by gum
Debates Are Free for AL
Several Of the meetings turned into free
fo7-au debates Men would assfil the
SPEAKERS. and other men, I'm sympathy
with the speakers. would assail them one
young man ir magenta bathing tights OBJ
lected that women had no time 10 vote
Anyhow. he told Miss Winslow, most OF
them had men 10 bring them hats anu
things.
All he'd take home a washing ma
chine not hats. that guy would snorted
plump man m red and black bathing
creation.
Young mon out with their sweethearts
vere considerably put out because the
sVecncarts would stop and listen 10 the
speeches
OF don't care" one pretty girl told her
young man. "I believe in votes for wom-
en- IL you don't"
OF don't when they take up the collec-
ton" DO said. she,riue off as Miss Mabel
Schofeld bore down upon him with q
purple basket.
s group of socialists seized -liss Con-
stables meeting, and gloomily assured her
that the vote was not worth anything
anyway. because it was always counted
wrong II was not til Miss Winslo"
mounted tho soap box that htey dis
persed
OF like socialism" she cried. but the
way socialists butt into our suffrage meet
ings and try % make them into socialist
meetings gets on my nerves"
One Of the soap boxes was planted near
the entrance 20 tine baths. and the police
man on that beat ordered Miss Freeman
who was speaking there. 10 take IT away.
Aside from that. with the aid Of their
permit, they got along all right.
The meeting WAS advertised ~ inc
morning by an umbrella parade, MISS
Brown. Miss Schofeld and Mrs. Louisa
Besant marching through Brooklyn streets
With white umbrellas lcttered with an
rOuncerncutc NJ tho a0air