New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-16
PUPILS EAGER TO LEARN
"A B C'S' Of SUFFRAGE
Women from Is States Enter
School for Workers of
"the Cause"
MRS. GAIT THE PRINCIPAL
Students Learn in First Lecture
Names of Feminist Opponents
from Plato to George
Foster Peabody.

Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait didn't take
any chances on the kind of women she
got into her School for Suffrage Workers.
which opened YESTERDAY
Here are few OF the questions one had
10 answer 10 matriculate:
l'l What is your name?
80. Where do YOU live?
g What is your age?
a. Where were YOU born"
g Where were you educated and when?
IS Have YOU received a college degree?
II 90, what"
=. II not. state the amount Of educa-
ton you have.
There were eleven other questions.
equally searching. Nevertheless. one hun
6red and fifty women were on hand and
painting TO enter when Principal Gait
opened her registration book in the big
classroom at the headquarters Of the
State" No. 80 Madison avenue. School
opened promptly at $50 O'Clock. too. IN
spite Of the fact that naturally II took
some Of the women a good while 10 an
swsr question No. :.
The alled out blanks are IN charge OF
Ms. Emma Kip Edwards. An attempt
on the part OF reporters 20 obtain the
answers 10 question No. was promptly
souelched by Mrs. Edwards, who declared
that she regarded such condolences as
sacred and would guard them with her
lfe.
Thirteen states were represented by the
pupils. They came from Maine and Penn
svlvania. from Georgia. Virginia. Ohio and
Rhode Island. Two women travelled from
Texas 10 take the course and one from
ST. Augustine. Fla. They ranged in age
from sweet seventeen up lowell. with
Mrs. Edwards feeling the way she did
about not showing the answers 10 those
questions II :s best 10 say no more.
SuHragists are always Young anyhow
even when white haired. The first lesson
was in suffrage history. Mrs. James
Cla~kson was the lecturer
She gave a light and airy description OF
the fight for the Acknowledgement OF
women. beginning with Plato-who put
UP arguments. she said. that the "antis'
can't answer to-day-and coming down 70
George Foster Peabody, Mrs. Gait and
Miss Mary Garrett Hay
That lecture was quite a piece Of work
for the one hundred and fifty pencils that
struggled to transcribe il, and even the
woman from Boston said she felt as II
she had so much TO digest that she didn't
want any luncheon.
At O'Clock the pupils showed up. gay
and happy, az the Equal Franchise So
cietys rooms, No. East 3dh street
where the afternoon session was slated 10
be held. Mrs. Jennie Long was the
teacher here. She gave the one hundred
and fifty instructions in: First, how 70
balance on q soapbox gracefully; second
how 10 talk at eighteen street meetings.
week loud enough 10 convince the voter
lingering on the outermost row and yet
not crack the voice; third. what TO say
Mrs. Long said the great thing for SUI
frage workers 10 strive after was polse'
She adjured her pupils not 10 gesture TOO
much and never TO descend 70 tricks OF
oratorv. for the truths Of suffrage, she
said. were too high and holy TO need inc
assistance Of oratorical tricks.
The most effective thing in oratoTY'
Mrs. Long told her pupils. was the pause
The evening session OF the school was
al the Hotel McAlpin, where Mrs. Anna
Garlin Spencer spoke. The course VIII
last two weeks. day sessions at the EquaI
Franchise Society rooms and evening
sessions al the Hotel McAlpin.
This afternoon Principal Gait VIII tame
her charges on sightseeing tour to the
rooms OF the National" No 90 titth
avenue.