New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-20
VENUS De MILO At
A SUFFRAC|ST RALLY
But She Is Unframed. and
"Victory" Still Spreads Its
Wings at Museum.
POLICE SERGEANT QUAllS
Fifth Avenue Coaches Stop to
Listen to Votes for Women
Plea and Morgan Col
lection Is Ignored.

|
Metropolitan Museum of Art Yesterday
afternoon with-no. not bricks Be calm.
| Not brick was thrown. not thing was
harmed Every treasure in the museum
is intact this morning. so far as the sur
| fraSettes are concerned.
The museums replica of the Venus
de Milo remains whole, the Victory
still spreads her wings on the Prov
Of her ship. not one of J. Pierpont
! Morgans pictures Is ripped out of its
frame. there isn't spot OF acid on any
of the rare cmbroideries. The only things
that were Jared were the feelings of
two or three museum attendants, who
had heard how the British museum was
I closed to protect its treasures from the
fierce suffragettes. and so experienced
some terror when they saw the votes-ror-
women banners flying outside.
oh yes and there was some injury 10
the pride Of two policemen. who thought
they'd break mp the meeting. but went
down hard before Dr Mary HaltOn's
smile.
The meeting was in fun swing when the
! policemen appeared. Dr.. Halton. leader
| Of the 9th Assembly District for the
! Woman Suffrage party, in whose fertile
brain originated the idea that II would
| be grand 10 tell the people who were
| going TO see the j. Pierpont Morgan col
! lection OF paintings how much she wanted
the vote. Well. Or. Halton was orat-
Ing from the automobile loaned her by
Dr.. Morris Carpenter. Of the Holland
| ttor nd
| fectlv good art lovers were being de-
| hected from their course museum-ward
| by their anxiety TO hear what woman
| could he saying out there in the street
and Dundee. Miss Elizabeth Becker :
suffrage dog. was contributing barks 10
the cause. and Miss Ida Almquist and
Miss Gwendoln Brooks and other pretty
ciIs were circulating around getting sign
ors for tho cause. when Sergeant Tracy,
OF the 35th Precinct. pushed his way in,
followed by a plump Young patrolman.
| What's this?" said the sergeant Cant
allow any but religious meetings on Sun
day"
Suffrage is religion" tense young
sunragette informed him. but the SER
gcant didn't sec II that way.
SHOW your permit" hc Growlcd.
Ry this time Dr. IIaiton had got down
/ from nor perch and turned the battery Of
her smiles upon the sergeant. She told
/ him she had asked permission Of Captain
! Henry. and Captain Henry said lie liked
tho sGYragists 30 much that he would
even unloosc his purse strings for them,
and that they could hold all the meetings
they liked in his precinct.
Sergeant Tracy swcllcd with offended
pride and said that Captain Henry was in
tho 2ist Precinct. and what had that 10 do
with the 18th Precinct nc wanted To know
I n. IIalton said Police Headquarters had
told hor 10 cal up Captain Henry. and
she was awfully sorry. Sergeant Tracy
/ groved and Or IIalton smiled md the
crowd grew ana grew 10 vast proportions
! ~ last the officers turned awav
Wei call up Headquarters and ask
about this they said. But they never
| came back.
! Mrs. J. Remington Charter. the next
| speaker. captured the audience with her
/ rrst words.
II am an English sunragettc." she
cried. Il have done time I'm English jails
| again and again for the cause
| "Hooray," the crowd cried; and two
Fif,h avenue coaches stopped to listen.
we are told that the men will taHe
care Of the women" she said. That Is a
| lie I don't complain for myself. | have
good husband But. men, | have been
down working among the striking girls
on the East Sidc-grls who worked at
their trade for from s. to 81 a week
| what happens 10 girls who work for that
| starvation wage? Can you blame them II
| they 60 on the street? Hear the truth.
men! There are thirty-nvc thousand
women I'm New York CITY selling their
bodies because YOU won't pay them a
living wage for honest work.
but We women are going 10 get the
vote and change this. II We don't well
fight, and God help you men then, for
well knock the stuflins out OF YOU, And
God give me grace to be here To- hclp!'
| Many tall silk hats were seen in the
crowd. which so relshed the speeches
that IL wouldn't disperse even when the
meeting was formally closed.
DR.. Holton at last called policeman
TO tell the people TO go. for she was
afraid to leave tho automobile with the
crowd around II, and DR.. Carpenter, who
brought them up. had gone off TO play
GOLF and couldn't be found 10 take charge