New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-29
Fairy Godnothers
Use Pen Wands
To Aid Suffrage
Seven Workers Help Fill
Treasures to Push
Campaign
District Shops Ready
Speeches Made by Women
Telling All About Plans
for Referendum
District Shops Ready

II YOU don't believe in fairy god
mothers, just go talk TO the suffrage
workers in seven campaign districts oil
New York City. You will hear tale
Of limousines in downtown streets and
fairy fountain pens that turned seven
empty cigar boxes into seven well hlied
treasures.
The seven fairy godmothers APP
peared one day last week, with offers
10 finance the Headquarters Tor the
suffrage campaign. II Is known, now
ever. that every one OF the seven -
member Of the 1917 Campaign Coninlt-
tee of which Mrs. John Humphrey
Watkins is chairman, and whlch III
cludcs some Of the rlcnest women J"
the city.
As a result of the visits of the falfy
godmothcrs seven shop windows IN
seven districts where little suffrage
work has been done before are now All
decked out in golden and blue draperies
and yellow flowers.
The fairy godmothers (and some isiry
codfathers, too made speeches. teiilhg
all about the suffrage referendum
which is to 90 TO the people IN 30
vembcr. and how the result Tor thc
women OF the whole state depends upon
the vote in the largely populated DIS
tricts of Manhattan. These headquar-
ters are in the following locations
Clinton Hall at l5l Clinton Street
Greenwich Village, 32l West four.
teenth street: Chelsea, $40 "est
Fortv-second Street; Murray HUI, Az,
Lexington Avenue; Yorkyille, 24o Last
Fighty-sixth Street; Washington
lIeirhts. 34S West l45th Street, and
Audubon. INA Madison Avenue.
Three hundred dollars a month Is
understood TO be the cost OF MAINTAIN
INC each shop. This includes rent
sometimes the women get this very
cbeon owing TO the kindness OF larry
qodfather who owns the building) ana
the expenses Of organizers and speah-
ers. who conduct the work IN the head
quarters. as well as the canvassing oil
he voters throughout the district.
The fairy godmothers are backed by
the whole 1917 Campaign Committee
who have guaranteed $4,000 Tor the
cxpenses of the campaign this year.
Among the women on this committee
are Mrs. John ii. Watkins, chairman
Mrs. John Henry Hammond, wee ,ehslI
man; Mrs. Margaret Chanler Aldrich'
Mrs. Duane Armstrong, Mrs. Adolphus
G. Bartlett. Mrs. William l.. Benedict
Mrs Theodore Beran, Mrs. Wendell
Bush. Mrs. Francis II. Cabot, Mrs. W
Rourke Cochran, Mrs. FREDERICK H.
Crawford, Mrs. Barron &. Cohier, ME-
John W. Falls, Miss Mary Garrett Hay
Mrs. J. Borden Hartman, Mrs. Au-
gustus c. Hone. Mrs: Walter Lewis
sohn. Mrs. Eugene Meyer, jr, Mrs
Jobn l.. McCutcheon, Miss Ruth Nor
can. Mrs. Daniel ODsy, Mrs. Edgerton
PARSONS, Mrs. FREDERICK Peterson, Mrs,
! Bishop Putnam. Mrs. Herbert Lee
Pratt Mrs. Howard Rodgers, Mrs. Nor
timer l.. Schif. Mrs. f. Louis Shade,
Mrs. Willard Straight, Mrs. samuel Samuel
Thorne. ir.. Mrs. Charles l.. Tiffany,
Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip, Mrs. Horace
Wilkinson, Mrs. Arnold Wood Mrs V.
Eyerit Macy, Mrs. Z. +. Meseham, Mrs
Victor Morawetz, Mrs: william feI-
loves Morgan, Mrs. William X. shep-
berd Mrs Chester Stems, Mrs. Alex
ander W. Stein ard Edith Borg.