The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-03
ECST ASY OF
BEING EQUAL
Women Of Chicago Registering
Today just Like the Men,
for Coming Municipal
Election.

CHICAGO, Feb. with flying
squads OF trained nurses provided to
care for their babies and women esec
tion officials, rouge, flowers and the
odor OF perfume in the polling places,
Chicago women today began register
ing early for the aldermanic pr, mar
les to be held February "a.
Before the books close at nine p.
M, at least $4,000 women will have
accepted their first opportunity to
register, election officials predicted
and at least that many more Will
place their names in tn books on
March II, the last registration day
b sfore the aldermanic election OF
April Z.
Luxurious lmousines lined the
north shore as society leaders sped
through the early morning fog, gath
ering and depositing the suffragette
election judges at the polling places.
Some OF these are located in barber
shops and billiard rooms, but the
! women accepted the situation withous
protest.
| More motor cars joined the squad
ron an hour later, manned by leatars
! In the suffrage campaign, to get out
1 the registration Of women voters.
Precincts close to society wards re-
ported swarms OF women about the
polling places half an hour before
they were scheduled to open
| In the notorious first ward, girl
| workers, many Of them from the
Young Womens Christian Associat on,
competed with the army of bath
House" John Caughlin is getting out
! the vote They acted as challengers
for Miss Marion Drake, progressive,
who will oppose the bath in the al
1 dernanic election.
Lodging houses turnad out support
/ ers Of "the bath" early. In one pre-
cinct in the heart of the red ligal,
district, eighteep men bad regtstere5 ]
at 9 4. M. ana no women. Amos,
1 directly across the street thirty
names we're on the books, half Cd
these women.
Women inmates Of disorderly
houses In the first ward We're on tn:
streets at an unusually early hou.
i and about the polling places. They
were not registering, election officials
! said, but waiting curiously to ses
whether other women would vote.
i Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, presiden,
j OF the Illinois Equal Suffrage Assocfa
ton, temporarily abandoned suffrage
work early in the day to visit the
hospital whore an unidentified man
run down by an automobile in which
she was riding. lay dying. Mrs. Trou
was returning from a registration
rally OF women last might when TIL,
accident occurred.
The progressive organization back
ing Mrs. Drake furnished trainet
nurses to care for babies of mother
who wanted to register. Twelve o
them were in service in the first an,
second ward all day and other work
ers in the thirty-tirst precinct OF tn
first, established temporary nurser,
in millinery shop where they watch
ed children while tn air mothers regis
tered
In some of the polling places wcm
en- displayed considerable reluctanc
at telling their ages and election off
!, cials united in declaring that the ''hoy
old are you madam was helping Gu
. down the women registration.
A woman classified as OF doubtful
age amused workers In the secpn
precinct OF the sixth ward, when tol
positively that she must tell her age
shs raised small face, whispers
h,lrriedly to woman election judg
!, and departed hurriedly, her fac
: glowing from something deeper tha
: an artificial blush.
7, The registers followed closely Judg
! Ow ans ruling that women must tel
their ages to register, but no Dirt
certificates were required and n
| leading questions were asked whe
! women with touch of gray in thei