The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16
DR.. ANNA SHAW SAYS
SHE'LL BE OUT TO-DAY
Despite Broken Ankle, Suffrage
Leader Insists on Going
TO BiitmOre Tea.
IN TAX1CAB SMASH TOO
Her Machine Hit by Car While
She Is on Way to See
X-Ray Specialist.
IN TAX1CAB SMASH TOO

Or. Anna Howard Shaw. president Of
ire National American Woman Suffrage
Association who fell on tho station plat
form Of the Lehigh Valley Railroad IN
Jersey City while getting OF q train on
her sixty-seventh birthday Saturday and
broke her right ankle. was doing we'll yes.
terday. She is at the Hotel McAipln.
The specialists who have attended DR..
Shaw said that there was very little In.
hammatlon Of the foot and ankle. The
x-ray photographs showed two simple
fractures These will heal easier than II
The bones had been crushed.
Despite the advice Of her friends Or.
shaw insisted yesterday that she would
attend the tea which will be given to-day
OF the Hotel Biitmoro In honor OF her
birthday and that OF Susan Il. Anthony.
After what went through yesterday
that won't hurt me-" she said.
Her Taaicab Smashed Tee.
Among the events Of DR.. shaw's sixty
seventh birthday was one nearly a. excit.
ing as the accident In which she was hurt.
This was DR.. shaw's trip in q taxicab to
have X-ray photographs taken Of the in
3ured ankle. After she had rssted q little
while at the Hotel McAlpin II was decided
TO take her to an x-ray specialist on
Fify-ninth street and the taxicab was
summoned.
on the way to Fifty ninth street q
Madison avenue street car ploughing
through the snow smashed into the ma
chine in which DIR. Shaw was riding. This
threw her to the bottom of the cab and
stOpped the enHinA
What do you want TO do KIN some
body?' shouted the taxicab driver. I'm
on may way to tho doctors with q sick
lady now
The taxlcab driver grabbed q shovel
and made for the notorman on the street
car Or. Shaw's secretary. Miss Lucy
Il. Anthony. who had visions OF their
trip ending In q police station, called
IN the taxicab driver and the rest Of the
Journey was uneventful
Jane Addams Calls to See Her.
Or. Shaw cannot be persuaded that her
Injuries are at all serious and insists on
seeing visitors and answering telephone
rails one Of those who visited her apart
ments yesterday was Jane Adams Of
Chicago
DR.. Shaw's rooms at the McAlpin are
banked with flowers. which were sent a.
birthday remesnbrances or since word
went out or her injury.
The injured suffrage leader spent yes
terday going over plans for the campaign
In Texas. which she was to have In.
sugurated. She had planned to leave
New York for that purpose tonight Dr.
Shaw cannot be persuaded that her in
Jury will prevent her from taking an
sctive part In the suffrage work of that
state even II she has TO delay her start
somewhat.
She was not able to leave her apart
ments for meeting in the Hotel Nc
Alpln OF the Woman's Political Union
held last night, but was very anxious TO
have her physician put her foot in a cast
TO enable her to he at the Biltmore this
afternoon
AT this tea number OF actresses,
Including Laurette Taylor. will receive the
visitors and take part In an Informal
entertainment. Nine. Pavlowa, wearing
the suffrage colors. will dance.