New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-02
Home of Conservatism
Opens Streets to First
Suffrage Meetings.
YELLOW CAR UTILITIES
TRAVELLING CIRCUS
Joins Parade in Athens and
DiSSeminates Literature of
Votes for Women.

imagine r suffrage street meeting
/ in Alabama
10 took lots OF courage on the part
/ Of the local women to give their per
mission. but the dauntless little riders
/ OF tho Golden Filler have no fear Of
Southern conservatism, and they got
a hearing in Montgomery. as they have
in every other Southern city.
This is the third instalment of the
/ diary Of the two sufragists who are
touring the country in behalf Of the
Federal suffrage amendment. Much
of the writing is done by the roadside,
when Mrs Alice Snitzer Burke pulls
out her baby typewriter while her
companion visits the neighboring
houses, distributing suffrage leaflets.
Augusta, Ga April 1.-THE town
OF Aiken, Ga, certainly put itself on
our suffrage map to-day. We weren't
scheduled to 20 through there, but the
Aiken women had telephoned and
wired so mistakenly and enthusiastical-
~ along our route that we did go and
had a perfectly rousing, whoop-it-up
time. We had street meeting.
Aiken's first (almost every one we
have down South is the first in the
community, and a wonderful yellow
luncheon. Everybody in the whole F,
town was out, and we take of our
bonnets 10 Aiken as a live little place: !
Just as we reached the outskirts OF 7
Augusta we ran into negro picnic
and | never saw so many knky- /
headed, beady-eyed, grinny little dark /
les in all my life; they were tumo- /
ling around everywhere, swinging on /
vines, rolling on the ground, diving /
into watermelons. hopping over each /
others backs, doing all kinds OF
monkey stunts. Their mothers ana .
fathers seemed to be busy with rcd F.
lemonade and banjoes, but when they /
saw the hier they stared until ] /
though their eyes would fall out OF
th,ir heads. We merely grinned and /
stopped to watch them and wait for
the Augusta delegation.
We felt like real society ladies in /
Augusta this afternoon when they took
y
rest a while on the big porches. We
had TO do some coaXing too, to get our
street meeting here, but we finally per
suaded the women to let US try it. We
we're all glad we did try 10 atterward,
for we had 500 men who made US talk
until we were so hOarse we couldn't
make a sound. Every time we would
stop they would ask questions, VIC
would answer, and then the speech
would be on again. We had another
meeting I'm the hotel that night, and
went to bed pretty we'll tagged.
Athens. April 18.-We ran into our
first Ford story this morning. The
Blue Book had said that at the foot Of
a high hill We would run into a deep
ford, and naturally VIC thought 1t WOULD
be a young river and kept our weather
eve out for IL. But, dear me, all Fords
are alike, it seems-smal, harmless
and not to be worried about. We felt
foolish this morning when the time
changed an hour and We didn't know
it, Talk about +. y. As Gultiest Feel
ing. I felt like a shoplfter when the
clerk in the small town hotel where we
stopped for lunch at ten minutes OF
twelve raised his eyebrows at US and
remarked that luncheon would not be
served for an hour and ten minutes
vet, as breakfast was hardly over.
But this afternoon VIC had circus,
and / speak literally and not in the
slang phrase when ! say that. For we
were amblng long the road when
suddenly we found ourselves right IN
the middle of a circus parade, red
wagons, elephants and all, and the
whole roadside lined up with people
who had come for miles 10 see il. The
chance was too good 10 be lost, so we
hoisted the banners quickly, selected
our place right behind the calliope
and then and there attached ourselves
TO that parade, footing the horn and
throwing suffrage literature out Of the
car on both sides. II was fine fun, and
the country people thought we were all
one. vowing that last year the circus
didn't have that little yellow car with
the women in IT,"
Athens is a lovely old place. We were
met, as usual, and escorted all over the
city, visiting the University Of Georgia
and passing dozens of ante-bellum
homes, pillared and stately.
Stone Mountain, April 10 We've
stopped here for luncheon and a rest
by the wayside. Miss Richardson is
finishing up a dress she started in
PENNSYLVANIA, for it will be two hours
before we need TO start for Decatur,
where the Atlanta suifragists are TO
meet us. Stone Mountain is an inter
cstng geological structure, single
enormous bowlder. perpendicular and
600 feet high The Daughters of the
Confederacy propose 10 cut great hall
out of the stone, setting up figures of
some of the greatest Southern heroes.
Gutzon Borglum has been engaged to
execute this remarkable piece Of work,
and the undertaking Will cost S2,OOO,OOO.
Atlanta, April 2O-The Atlanta
women gave us wonderful surprise
party, coming with fifteen cars to De
catur and simply crowding the old
courthouse steps to greet US. The wife
of the Mayor of Atlanta was there, the
president Of the state suffrage organiza-
ton. with about scventy-fve other
women, and it was one grand rally. IL
was election day IN Decatur and we
caught the men IN just the right frame
Of mind, especially the candidates, who,
Of course, were most enthusiastic and
made speeches in our behalf. After
much speech making and picture taking
and interviewing, etc, We started off
for Atlanta. We had a big, interested
meeting here last night luncheon to-
day and another meeting tonight.
The more we see OF Southern men