New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-10
N. Y. Suffragiists
Head for Prison
Via Picket Line
Twenty Women Leave City
to Make President Viii
son Uncomfortable"

Twenty New York women left New
York for Washington on the midnight
train last night to take their place
in the last suffrage picket line in front
/ of the White House.
/ Whether they are arrested or
whether the Washington police will be
| lenient toward the pickets because Of
( the fact that New York women are now
voters, this will be positively the last
appearance of the pickets, they say.
One reason is that there are few
candidates for the role remaining out
side of jail, and the other is that the
women hope that the next Congress
will pass the Federal amendment and
so make further picketing unnecessary.
Anyway, they are going to give Presi-
dent Wilson his chance to urge suf-
frage upon Congress by continuing
their policy of making him "uncomfort-
able" as Mrs. o. II. P. Belmont calls it.
Why They Are Picketing To-day
The farewell performance of the
/
ans party for November 10, because it
is on this day that the pickets figure
out that President Wilson begins to
plan his address to the new Congress.
"As he sits in the White House, tap
ping on his little typewriter, we intend
he shall look out of the window and
see our little banners" said Miss Elsie
Hill last night, at Mrs. Belmont's head
quarters, 10 East Forty-first Street.
eve shall remind him for the last
time that sending women to Jail for six
months does not hinder them from ask
ing for liberty. After November 10 it
will be too late to picket, as we believe
the message to Congress will then be
written and sent to the printer"
There were many anxious moments
at the picket headquarters yesterday
while the leaders waited to hear the
news about President Wilson's recep-
ton to DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, Mrs.
Carrie chatham Gait and other New
York suffragists, who went to ask him
to urge the Federal amendment upon
Congress. If the President had hap
pened to promise Mrs. Gait he would
do that very thing, what would the
pickets do then?
The question was put to Miss Doris
Stevens, personal representative of
Miss Alice Paul, leader Of the pickets.
"Yes," she said, 1--WE would have to
take President Wilson's word for it if
he promised to include suffrage in his
message; but don't believe we would
call off the pickets tomorrow. We
would still protest against the treat
ment accorded our women in Deco
guam"
Sleep in Upper Berths
The railroad had evidently no COM
passion on the women, who may have
to sleep for sixty days on prison beds,
for it gave them all upper berths for
their last night of freedom--twenty
upper berths.
However, they had hearty meal at
the home of Miss Vida Milholland to
fortify them against Occoquan's slim
rations. The delegation was led by Mrs.
John Winters Brannan. Mrs. Brannan
was in 0ccoquan once before, so ex-
poets a severe sentence tomorrow.
others of the delegation are Mrs.
Henry Butterworth, Miss Cora Week,
Mrs. Paula jacob, Miss Bertha Apter,
Misses Ida and Rose Postral, Misses
Alice and Betty Gram, Mrs. Ella o.
Guilford, Miss Edna Thomasson, Miss
Mary LANCE, Miss Cynthia Cohen, Miss
Elizabeth Hamilton, Miss Dorothy Day,
Miss Dorothy Bennett, Mrs. Margaret
Johns. and Miss Dora Wendrotf. The
New York women will be Joined by
fifty Washington women on the picket
line