New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-27
SEE SUFFRAGISTS;
FORGET PAY DAY
Carmen Won by Smiles of
Fair VoteS-for- Women
Advocates.
.OUAD DIDN'T WEAR
SILLY FUR AT NECK
Four Autos Made Rounds of Car
Barns-Will Also Visit
Firemen and Police.

Here v are, ladies'! Sure was
afraid ye'd forgotten us" Then the
old paymsster walked closer to the au-
tomobile, with its load of suffragists,
who had come TO canvass the car barns
where he presided over the cash.
"Dye know what like about the
su4ergettes?" he asked little Doc"
Dock 1--WE niver seen lady with the
Votes Fl Women button on her a.
wearin' one O. them silly fur things
around her neck"
To win the approval and the votes
Of the forty thousand men who run
the streetcars Of New York and keep
their equipment in trim is the chief
object Of the Woman Suffrage party
this wees Yesterday four automobiles
left the party headquarters at 4s East
Tbirtv-fourth Street early in the morn
INC and whirled from car barn TO car
harm. leaving suffrage leaflets md yell
low boutonnieres in their wake.
Twenty-three workers manned the
four motors. In the biggest one were
Miss Lavinia L. Dock little doc" OF
the suffrage hike TO Washington, Miss
Ida Kraft. Yrs. k B. Withrow and
seventeen year old Erminie Kahn
whose business was TO call the men at
the car barns by means Of trumpet
almost as big as herself.
This is the start Of movement to
reach classified groups Of men. I'VE
realize" Mrs. Withrow said, as the mo-
co. set out. chat the task of reaching
the voters by indiscriminate EFFORTS is
homeless. But by going TO the places
! vbere groups Of them are congregateo
we get at large numbers with compare
lively little effort. We are going after
The fremen, the policemen, the factory
hands and the postmen IN the same
| way We're having cinch with the
i car men. for the heads Of the companies
didn't make one objection when we
went 20 ask permission to VISIT Iher
kbtrns on payday:
The barns at Nj. sty-slXth street anu
Second Avenue were the first visited by
Mrs Withrow's party. There are a
good many Irishmen up there, and they
grinned broadly when they saw the
4 banner Doc" Dock carried. 1t Is green,
and says: "Irishmen, remember the
voroer November 2" in Gaelic.
"Sure. | can read that, an reckon
4 III have to remember ye," said tat
son of Erin, with a reeking pipe IN
his mouth.
This visit was marked by the ig-
nominious retreat of Germany before
"Doc" Dock. Little "Doc" approached
Il the big Teuton with the intention Of
mining a "Votes for Women on his
shirt. He tapped both hands at her
rbiddinCly and backed away.
"Nix. heraus, no goot! Shust keep
away. Der v ms blaze ISIS der home.
1 Go ind mind your XII er!" he shouted.
Little Doc" smiled and pursued him.
II Over the car tracks they went, the
man doubling and retreating, and such
was his fri Il that he actually fell
1 through the swinging doors Of the sa-
4 loon opposit. where he was seen later
taking a bracer 10 recover from ms
shock
To an outsider the canvass OF the
Il conductors and motormen WIN stood
1 around the front Of the barns seemed
4 discouraging. They were fattered to
4 be remembered by the suffragists-
I"Sure. we thought you were .goin'
afther Everybody but US car men" one
I young fellow said; but few Of them
Il seemed 10 think the cause for which
Il the women were working o. any i'm
1portance.
4 The sutfragists, however, went about
the work in hand in busnesslike way
tthat admitted Of no Encouragement.
I"WhGt's few rebuffs?" said Miss
Craft in an aside, as she stood UP and
dworked a "voiceless speech" Were
I gaining, and that's the point"
4 You're goin' to get it some time" a
Imam in a trim uniform agreed with her.
l"It's natural, ma'am, an it's comm.
but it amt the boys funeral, an you
mustn't blame 'em fcr thinkin' Of most
Ianything else"
i From there the automobile whirled 10
4the barns at Ninety-ninth Street and