The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-01

Earlier i'm the evening, according to
pT. Parkhurst. he notified the police
that he didn't want his service dis
turDed by music at the suffrage meeting
directly in front Of his church. \ po-
liceman delivered the message to the
suffrage leaders and Mis. Laidlaw in
structed the pianist 10 put on the soft
pedal and the lone giyl cornetlst TO
take II easy.
After n speech or two America" was
announced and the policemen delivered a
pcremptory order. saving b; wasn't law
ful for any street meeting to be held
within $50 feet of a church anyway. He
added that II the music didn't stop he
would have to perform a painful duty,
but Mrs. Laidlaw's diplomacy made tha;
unnecessary.
Portia Willis, Vida Sutton, Alice Duer
Miller and others made speeches until
the service closed. and Mr.. Barnhari
made iise of his idle time by going into
the sa~rS.is %syvt~sss<es3rs fvy~-s sPsY~,rrp.
mcnt the congregation filed out and the
lights OF the cross on top Of the church
which the sufrrIgists were facing died
away Mr. Barnhart ran to the front of
the platform and said:
Now that the sixty-four in the con-
gregatIon have gone out we viii have
some singing The first song was "My
Old Kentucky Home" and II was sung
with a will.
Several In the congregation who had
stopped on the church steps were heard
To say that IL was perfectly dreadful
for the sutraeists To hold meeting right
In front Of the church, but the women
who were running /, and the clergymen
who spoke later didn't agree with them
Crowd Likes Speeches.
Mrs. I.aldlaw told a reporter for THE
SIN that she considered the gathering an
evangelist meeting FOR her sex and said
i showed the spiritual aspect of women.
As for the audience, that didn't grow
any smaller during the rest u, the
speeChmaking and while "Nearcr, Ny
God. to Thee" was being sung 1t was
one Of the most Interested and well be-
havcd audiences that ever gathered in
the streets OF New YORK II was very
apparent that the crowd liked what was
sold and the hardest work the police had
Was 10 escort away small boys VINO
planted themselves IN front OF the
speakers stand and wggled too much.
Not an ami was heard from during the
entire night.
One of the best talks Of the evening
was made by Miss Rose O'Neill of Kew
pie fame. who never before had made a
speech, She got up with the intention
of snowing the crowd the suffrage argu- I
m.utS on large cards which she and
other women held In their laps while sit ,
ting under the advertisements OF arIiS /
In subway and elevated trains on Satur-
day. and her Irish wit bubbled over /
She soon had the big audience with her
and they wouldn't let her stop.
Miss O'N"ill took her hearers with her /
to the meeting of the antis in Carnegie :
Hal on saturday night. where she said |
she never saw 80 many rubber plants, 81 /,
artistic. You know. and 80 many bald /
heads. II was just like the front rows ,
at the vaudeville. She said.
Il never saw 40 many elderly women,
women who never thought a thought out /
side of tine domestic circle" she CON /
inued. And these women belonged 10 .
,lcverly thinking men" And then she /
added. "Some of those men were Of the .
Kind that rob the people. some OF those
corporation men, YOU know."
Miss O'Neill paid her respects TO the /
rink roses which the ants wanted to
pin on some of the suffrag!sts who went
20 the meeting.
''rheres nothing robust To- a pink !
-o~c." she said. "lI is now the symbo. |
II a womans slavery"
Clergynhen speak.