The evening world., 1914-02-03
100000 women
At CHICAGO POLLS
:. TELL THEIR AGES
Registering for First Time,
They Go Through Ordeal
~ to Get the Vote.
ALL FINISH SMILING.
Taken in Autos, Nurses Care
for Babies and $4,000
Z Workers Guide Women.

CHICAGO. Feb. S-womsn regis.
tsrsd to-day for the nrst time in Chi.
caSo preparatory TO exercising their
rtsAt Of franchise at the spring Al
doenanic primaries. Upward Of 3oo..
90 women, according to conservative
estimates. will have become regis
tered voters by the time the books
Close at o'clock tonight. Not less
than $4,000 men who have changed
their residence within the last year
will have aualined. according to esti-
mssss.
Al all the polling places It was said
the women were obeying the order Of
the Election Commissioners that they
Give ther exact ages. In most cases
they freely told the great secret. Some.
however. faltered when asked the
usual query Of the poll clerks: when
were you born?" Others dubbed and
argued. but the mandate was there.
apd the warning "No age. NO vote"
bfeught them to terms.
Some Of the replies brought smiles,
e. the birth dates did not At the age
appearance. but as no afiidavits were
required the statements were accept
"a ~ the whole truth and the great
expected barrier TO a heavy registra-
uon Of the women vanished.
DID NOT WHISPER HER AGE
"FoaTv.THRGG." eAio sne.
The FIRST woman to register In one
ot the precincts of a North Side ward
paid little attention to the ruling Of
the Election Commissioners that
women might whisper their ages to
sleGtion officials.
Il have lived In Chicago all my
iife." she said.
How long is thatr asked the
election Judge.
.'Forty-three years." replied the
/, sew votsr, Mrs. Elisabeth Heit-
schmidt Of North Winchester avenue.
Mrs. Carter II. Harrison. accom-.
tsAnied by her husband. the Mayor.
registered At q polling place in the
basement Of building In the Twen-
ty-third Ward.
"What IL your aGe?" asked the
clsrk Of election-a woman. FIFTY
two" replied Mrs. Harrison promptly.
/ DR.. Julia Holmes Smith. one of the
veteran suffrage leaders OF the State
when asked her age, said seventy-five
years.
Are you married." the clerk asked.
"Sir, I am a grandmother" said
Or. Smith.
Scores of business women, on their
way to work, were among those reg
istering early. Many accom- 'anied
their husbands to the places of regis
! tration and all seemed pleased at
the opportunity OF becoming a
registered voter.
In the hope Of getting a big regis
:. tration Of their sex as an argument
, for che further extension Of the fran
NCAise. woman suffrage leaders have
polled nearly all of the 1872 voting
Aprecincts In the city. Nearly 6o.o0t
women. organised under political par.
ties, non-partisan suffrage associa-
lions and women's clubs. worked to.
day to get the names Of the morgan
tssd women on the registration books
d, Baby stations" where mothers
Icould leave their children while reg.
istering, were maintained in several
wards by suffrage leaders and politi.
Zeal organizations. Mothers who did
! not want to leave their babies at one
of the nurseries were supplied with
4 trained nurse. who watched oveI
her household while she went 70 reg
Automobiles carrying nurses wen
to the homes of women reluctant t
xregister, and carried them and thetl
children to the registration booths