New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-20
English Suffragette Eats with
Good Appetite, but Nears
State of Nervous Col
lapse as Hope of Re.
lease Grows Less.
MRS. BELMONT ON ISLAND
She, with Other New York Women
Sympathizers, Goes to immigration
Quarters and Tries to Cheer
Distressed Votes for
Women" Champion.

WOmeu CudmplOu.
A hunger strike one which she says
she cannot survive more than twenty
four hours from its inception. will be
begun by Mrs Pankhurst to-day X
word comes from Washington that her
appeal from the order of deportation
has been denied.
The stormy petrol Of English poll
tics, not deferred by her experiences
in Holloway Gaol announced this in
tention yesterday in the room in
which she is being held at Ellis ISL
| and. Three women, Mrs. Harriet
Stanton Blatch. Mrs. John Rogers, jr.,
and Miss Alice Perkins, were told that
this radical method OF protest against
| Imprisonment would be employed,
when they arrived early In the MORN
, ing 70 convey expressions OF SYM
pathy.
III / am deported,' Mrs. Pankhurst
said, "the vessel taking me back will
carry me 10 my death. After Ave hun
ger strikes at the beginning OF the
year / feel that I cannot last much
more than twenty four hours II | en-
ter upon a sixth
Pale, worn and apparently having
lost some OF the buoyancy OF excite
ment which sustained her on her ar
rival here Saturday. Mrs. Pankhurst
appeared to have realized at last that
the immigration authorities were
treating seriously her record as al
English 'jailbirds."
Spirits Sink Perceptibly.
She had been confident that soon
after her lawyers. Herbert Reeves
jr.. and Frank S. O'Neil. had made her
yanpesl 10 the Commissioner General
Of immigration the telegraph wires
would sing with orders for her re-
lease. When the day grew old WIN
ont any word from the Department
of Labor in Washington, Mrs. PanK-
bursts spirits sank perceptibly
| The three women who made the
carly trip TO Ellis Island found the
militant leader propped up IN pea III
the sunny room which looks out on
tho bav A gray crepe kimono was
draped around her, and the remnants
OF a substantial breakfast sho"eu
that the process Of self-starvatlon was
a matter OF the future
"Ob 7 am so glad to see you she
exclaimed. She kissed each OF the"
affectionately. and then, remem oerhns
that the meeting was not or an oroi-
nary nature, she said
"But I am a prisoner here; don't ior-
get that. | have been made 10 reaii@e
In These good ladies-the hospi'ai
rurses-must obey the rules. and tney
have been coming in all curing 'he
,,.bt IN make sure that in some way
had not escaped. At that I had good
sleep.
"INbar word have you from Wash
ington?" she added.
Her visitors could only say that noth-
ing was decided.
"Wen. I am awaiting word from
there. II the decision OF the authori-
,,.s 90 adverse | will start hunger
strtke at once. 1 never suonitteo 10
unjust Imprisonment in England ana
shall not endure 1t here
She was reminded Of her i'll neai'h
and was asked how long she couid en-
dure such an ordeal.
AFTER the five strikes l have gone
.,ro,ob could not last more than
twenty-four hours she repiieo. II
tbev carry me on board the frehch
steamer on Wednesday, under the iaw'
,bev will carry me TO my death Ana
tho limited States government VIII De
rosnonsible. / certainly would be its
,,v,soner until landed In France.
stomach in Bad Condition.
"ror the first time in my life was
s.o s,ck when / last came 10 America
NJ stomach is in delicate condition and
am not in as good shape as one could
WISH"
| II developed that Mrs. Pankhurst was
transferred from one stateroom on the
provence TO another by the ships sur
econ in order to remove the annoyance
~ the vibration Of the ships engines.
This was done to help her nerves.
which have been wrecked since her I'M
prisonment.
There was physical demonstration
that Mrs. Pankhurst was in a state OF
,.eryous collapse. While she was talk
ing with her friends a bell rang. She
Jumped involuntarily in her bed and
4 her hands shook.
! The immigration officials also ap-
preciated yesterday that the health OF
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