New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-26
Greenwich Women Do
Fancy EIectiOneering and
OutmanPuvre Men.
BRING ALIEN VOTERS
IN SPECIAL CARS
Town Meeting Votes to Let New
Organization Carry on Work
of Emily Bruce Home.
10y Telegraph to The Tribune ]

Greenwich. Conn. Feb. "a hurricane
in a demi-tasse might httinsly describe
the special town meeting which drew a
thousand men and women. some with
babies I'm arms. tonight to the Greenwich
Town Hall to decide the question as 10
whether the United Workers. the town s
fashionable charitable organization. which
dispenses $4,000 Of its personal funds
yearly for the uplifting of the com
muuitv. should be upheld in its dcclara
tion tn discontinue the Emily Bruce Me
mortal Rabies Home. which costs about
g. 900 "A year and farms out thirteen
babies. or whether a rival new women's
organization. known as the Emily Bruce
shelter. incorporated. should continue the
home.
After a two and a half hour discussion,
during which an attempt was made 10
table the resolution for thirty days, II
was voted to let the babies have insutu-
tional care under the eye of the new
organization Never was there better
electioncering displayed than that done
by the women Of the Emily Bruce Shell
ter. Their special chartered trolley cars
brought men Of Polish and italian socle-
ties to their aid.
A hundred limousines carried the more
elite TO the hall. Sammy Sarline, the Kew
Daniel Bella Polish priest; Nathaniel
Webb. +. y. Chapman, William ii. Wes-
sells, Sanford Robinson. Mrs. +. o. Parker,
Dr. V. c. Pietti, Judge c. ID. Burnes.
Ravnol c. Boiling and other silver tongued
orators favored the continuation Of the
home. Opposed to them and favoring the
United Workers were T. Harris Nichol,
William J.. Decker, Henry Dayton, Miss
Elsie Tiemann, Miss Shaw, of the Russell
Sage Foundation. and Mrs. +. c. Rursch.
Edwin H. Baker. George +. Dominick,
tr. town council, and Wilbur 5. Wright
were non-partisan speakers.
Judge James +. Walsh, as chairman
suspended parliamentary rules and an
nounced that there was free speech for
ALL and invited the women to talk. They
did. and they were listened 10 very re-
specially, for it had been frequently
stated that this was a woman's row and
they should be allowed to fight it out
They did.
+. Harris Nichols. championed the
United Workers cause. IT wasn't ques-
ton Of chucking the babies out in the
snow or drowning them, he declared. out
of substituting modern ideas of finding
proper homes for the babies.
When he said he could spend night
and a day giving logical reasons some
one cried out, ooh, Cod. one woman
asked him to name the babies. Cant do
IT," WAS the reply.
Treasurer W. +. Decker said 1t cost
81. 4s7 % TO support an average OF nine pa
bies lat year. He said politics seemed
to enter into the cause. Sammy MARITIME,
who brought one carload of voters out
objected to the use of the word politics.
and Mr.. Decker withdrew his statement.
Sanford Robinson. a New York lawyer
ridiculed the idea of placing out one bapy
with its thirty-six-year-o grandmother.
Mrs. T.. O. Parker, chairman or the
United Workers Baby Home committee
and Miss Elsie Tiemann, her successor as
probation officer. both prominent SUI
iragettes. took different sides.
Henry Dayton. dean of the commuters
called on God to bless the women ana thp
men not to vote to support alien babes
| and thus save taxation.