New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-06
Sufragists Declare Statue Spoke After Hearing Miss
Wycherly's Plea-Procession of Goddesses After
Yacht Decorated with Yellow Banners Makes Trip

The Goddess Of Liberty is for suf-
frage.
She announced it, in a loud, re-
sounding voice, to party of suffra-
gists who called upon her yesterday
at Bedloe's Island. Take it from Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, Mrs. Norman
do r. Whitehouse, Mrs. James Lees
Laidlaw and a hundred others who
heard her, she declared her conyic-
tons in no uncertain terms. To be
sure there are those who say that
as Miss Margaret Wycherly finished
reading the appeal to Liberty" which
was the feature Of the occasion, Mrs
Laidlaw bribed the Rev. Allan Nc
Curdy to mount to the feet Of the god
dcss. above the readers head, and to
shout In answer to Mrs. Cats de-
mand. What says the Goddess Of Lib
erty?"
"Votes for women!"
But Mrs. Whitehouse said that Mr..
McCurdy just climbed up there to ad-
mire the view, and that she saw the
goddess's lips actually move.
It was a very pretty celebration, that
with which the Empire State Campaign
Committee and the Woman Suffrage
party marked independence Day this
wear. Beginning with the trip OF the
Yacht Tourist to Bedloe's Island and
the ceremony there and ending with the
torcblight parade from Claremont Inn
down Riverside Drive. it won the en-
comiums of all who took part and all
who saw. The one hitch was at Clare
mont Inn. near which the yacht locked
and where the float on which Miss
Wvcberlv was to ride down Riverside
Drive was to be waiting at $3.50 O'Clock.
The thirteen goddesses who rode as
Miss Wycherly's guard took so long to
dress that they were thirty minutes
late.
Miss Janet Scudder, who draped
the goddesses said she never saw i'm
mortals so afraid Of catching cold.
One godydess wanted 10 wear
sweater, and another insisted on
putting on long cloak ove- her
white chesecloth draperies. Miss
Janet finally prevailed on them to
risk a few sneezes for art, and the
Goat AZ 9 o'clock rolled up from the
celestial dressing room. But rot be-
fore Controller William Prendergast,
who had come to speak for the suf-
fragists, got tired and walked down
the drive 20 "look for those goddesses."
lie missed them and came back an hour
later. but not too late TO speak.
Even the weather was on the SIDE
of the sutTragists. The skies, which
poured down such Focus OF ram upon
Miss Jane Addams's arrival from
Europe in the morning, smiled on the
suffrage Yacht when II left the pier
AT Battery Park at { in the afternoon.
And lust as the yacht sailed up TO
Bedloe's island, the sun shJne out
from n cloud. a golden ball, right be-
hind the goddess head.
Again. as Miss W;cherly finished
reading the Appeal" the sunlight
flashed even more brightly on the
listening crowd, like an omen, she
declared, of success.
A huge crowd watched from Battery
Park the departure of the yacht, which
was decorated with banners in yellow,
blue and white. the colors Of the
Empire State Campaign Committee.
Among those on board were Mrs.
Francis Brewer. Mrs. Egerton /.
Winthrop, jr., Miss Caroline Duer. Nor
man Hapgood, Mrs. Joseph Simpson
stevens. George Creel. Miss Katherine
Dreier. Mrs. John Blair, Miss Eleanor
Byrns Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid, Mrs.
Robert Adamson. Miss Marian May and
DR.. and Mrs. Percy Terhune Miss
Wycherly. in Grecian draperies, bore
the appeal which she was to read.
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