The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-06
CONNECTICUT SUFFRAGE NEWS

Tomorrow will be a. grateful day of rest for the Hartford Suffragists who have been putting in a strenuous week
 at the Connecticut Fair at Charter
 Oak Park. Amid the many distrac-
 tions of the Midway, and even at times
 when most of the attention of the wis itors was concentrated on the races, all the time and every day, the suf- frage workers have been at their posts at the fine and attractive booth at the entrance of the Midway. The booth was secured by the Hartford Equal Franchise League and most of the
 workers was secured by the Hartford Equal Franchise League and most of the workers are members of that or ganization. The leaders were Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, Vice President of the League, and Miss Alyse Gregory, one of the organizers of the Connecti- cut Woman Suffrage Association,
 whose services were lent by the c. w.
 s. A. which to this extent came to the
 support of the local League.
 Among the volunteers were Mrs. F. B. Bryce, Mrs. P. M. Leakin, Mrs. B. ] M. Lincoln, Mrs. Annie Conroy and Miss Dora Goldberg. These were the helpers who were most constantly on duty, but there were also many work
 CTS who gave their services for definite
 and limited periods. There has been several handsome and interest | ing suffrage exhibits on view all the | week. These include the suffrage dolls house, which illustrates the con nection of the home with the city government, the U. s. Agricultural Department exhibit of adulterated foods and drugs, and some fllustra- tions of Sweated work which have | been borrowed from the New York l City Consumers League. Besides the
 exhibits, there are on sale all kinds
 of suffrage souvenirs such play l H. @Iy51, I7-af 1a T1C pennants, etc, in purple, white and
 green, inscribed with the motto, Votes for Women" Suffrage liter ature is on sale at the booth, and dur | ing the week vast numbers of suffrage
 hiers have been freely distributed to | the visitors to the Fair.
 | During the week open air speeches have been made at intervals each day | "a plan that will be followed at all the fairs in the State where the sufra- gists put in an appearance Thous- ands of people have listened this week to the plea for Votes for Women, many of them for the first time. The interest that is now being felt in the question is evidenced by the fact that several times the women were able to secure big audiences even when the counter attraction of the horse racing was concentrating the throngs around the race course. Connecticut Fair IS only the first of a series of fairs in all parts of the State that continue through this month and to the middle of October, and it is expected that the suffrage workers will attend practical ly every one of them.
 Judging by the preparations that are being made both by the Connecti-
 cut Woman Suffrage Association and by the Hartford Equal Franchise League, the Annual State Convention of the Suffra gists which is to be held l hn
 est event hitherto in the suffrage his tory of the State. It is intended to hold the session of the convention in
 Unity Hall, on account of it's near
 ness to the new suffrage headquar-
 ters on Pratt Street. It will not be possible to house all the delegates in
 the new suffrage rooms, for if every
 league were to send the full quota of
 delegates to which it is entitled, there
 would be an assembly of over six hun
 dred women. This number would
 take no account of alternates who may
 be appointed and who by the consti-
 tuition have the privilege of sitting
 with the delegates though not of Vot-
 ing. The sessions are also freely op-
 en to the public and a considerable
 number of interested visitors may be
 counted upon. It will thus be seen
 that nothing smaller than Unity Hall
 would suffice for the convention.
 In the evening of the first day of
 the convention it is proposed to hold
 a public mass meeting. The sugges-
 tion has been made that Mrs. Carrie
 Chapman Catt, President of the Inter
 national Suffrage Association be in
 vited to speak in Hartford on this oc-
 casion. The suffragists of New Ha-
 ven are also anxious to secure Mrs.
 Catt for a meeting there, and Connec-
 ticut people will thus have the oppor-
 tunity of hearing the woman who has
 inst made OIItSt3 ding A
 the Continent of Europe. Miss c.
 Ruutz- -Rees of Rosemary Hall,
 Greenwich, who is just back from Flu
 rope, reports of the International Con
 gress at Budapest, to which she was
 one of the American delegates that the
 success of the Congress was largely
 due to the dignity, the boise, the tact