New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-28
CHICAGO FEELS EFFECT
OF "SUFF' VICTORY
Politicians Sit Up and Take
Notice, and. What's More,
Clean Up StOCkyardS.
WOMEN ON POLICE FORCE
Named Immediately After Bal
lot Was Won. Miss Addams
Tells School Of Suffrage
Workers Here.

"Chlcago's foremost citizen. as Mrs
Carrie Chapman Gait called Kiss Jane
Adams In introducing her lat night az
the closing session OF the School for
Suffrage Workers. az the Hote. McAipin.
told the big audience that Illinois women
had gained much through having the
vote. even though there had been no eieo-
ton since they gained IT,
Miss Mcdowell who lives ~ Hull
House" said Miss Adams. has Tor
years been struggling with the garoa2e
question ir her ward. The dumUs and
the Stockvards nre On that ward. and
when she tried 70 nave the dumps regu-
lated the politicians would say. Oh. your
reople don't mind those dumps. tnNF
wouldn't live near the stockyards . they
minded such things
Directly after the winning N the Pres
ldeutial and municipal suffrage By the
women OF Illinois last July that dumps
question was taken uD br the powers that
be and Miss MacDoweils ward got re-
lief You know one o. the politicians
said. ~ Miss Mcdowell ran FOR alder
man on the dumps issue thered be- no
stopping her.
For three years we had been trying %
get policewomen In Chicago. We had
the Los Angeles pol.cew0men there 20
talk. we tried every arEument-it was no
use But directly after our JULY victory
the Mayor appointed ten policewomen.
THE uositiou or our woman super
intendert of schools. Mrs. Ella Ilass
Young rs much stronger since our VIC
to-v II is rather bitter pill Dor the
politicians a woman having a 5000 a
wear position but now that she IS voter
u seems different. Everywhere ~e have
more respect a woman 7 know wno
has much 20 do az the City Hal tells
me that she feels a distinct change 90
the atnospnere Before July the men
there were poIbs. now they are cordial DO
Miss Adams said, TOO. that Of late the
segregated district had become tight as
a drum. but she would not venture 10 say
how much OF that was due ~ the fact
that women were now political factors.
The subject OF last nights meeting was
/ the social evu. and DR. Katherine Bement
atory for Women. who spoke first devoted
/ her speech 20 that, giving the result OK
I her observations at the reformatory.
But Miss Adams contented herself with
telling what Illinois women hoped % ac-
/ complish IN the way o, purifying the city
/ and protecting the bows and girls through
I the use OF the vote.
( ct recollect." she said. 90 pitiful letter
written by girl who committed suicide
/ because she could only earn 8 a week
and that would not give her any OF tho
pretty clothes or good times she longed
, FOR
I'VE don't realize. ] think. how dread
/ ful the complete Indifference OF a great
T city is 20 a stranger within It's gates
In CHICAGO we already have small parks
with many social features and a man
az the head Of these-yes. a man. but
there is no telling what We MAY DO now
We have the vote But We intend % In
crease the number of these parks. and
We intend 10 have more play zones IN our
streets. and altogether 10 have the streets
more human. more friendly. something
more than mere thoroughfares for traftic
We can do these things with the vote"
Dr. Davis evoked much laughter by con-
Tossing that her charges al Bedford Re-
formatory didn't think women ought 10
vote
I'VE mad sylvia Pankhurst 20 talk
there" she said and the day after she
spoke we got the women 10 vote on the
/ question OF woman suffrage. Almost every
l one voted against H. They thought IL
would be unlacylike 10 vote,