The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-26
PITCH GERMAN TOYS
IN RIVER, WOMEN CRY
Club Leaders Ready TO Bosrl
Ship Here and Emulate
Boston Tea Party.
WILSON BAN Is SOUGHT
Convention Members Prov.
Skill as Mattresses When
Astor Walters Quit.

A toy party in New York Harbor I,
overshadow the Boston tea party wa,
the suggestion made to the New Yos
City Federation Of women's Clubs ys.
terday. Two thousand women. mee,,ry
in convention at the Hotel Astor, woe
turned into q committee Of potential d..
struction by the statement OF Mrs Oh.
YER Cromwell Field. president Of n.
American Relief Legion, that 5000 ton,
of German toys had Just arrived at RI,
port, and unless somebody took actor
would soon be polluting the hands o.
our children. Everybody was for VIC
lent action excep. Mrs. r W. Iy',
chairman OF the war work COMMITTEES ~
the Texas Club. who suggested that N.
matter could be left to President wNsor.
II think It can safely be left to ou-
President and the War 1ndustr.
Board" she said. but her remarks wU,
drowned In Kisses. Then up sprang Mrs..
Mary NJ. Lilly. who is running for u,
State Assembly in the Seventh distrie,
but had taken n Few hours of fror
campaigning to attend TO her duties a
recording secretary OF the Fed"
LET us do as my ancestors did IN
Revolutionary times in Boston Harbol
let w 90 down in a body and fling tho.
toys into the water, as they did n,
enemy's tea" she cried in her stentortr
candidate voice.
Two Thousand Voices Heard.
From that time on the 1000 won,
talked at once, go q detailed report
impossible, but II was evident that Ire
1000 were with Mrs. Lilly. All e1ceg'
one woman, who tried to urge in behaN
Of the toys that maybe they were made
In Holland.
mo matter where they were mad,
they are German toys, and we want 10
germs or German toys In our nurseries
exclaimed Mrs. Belle de Rivera, wh.7
she could be heard. 'T move a resolu.
ton that the president Of this federsto1
appoint q committee TO investigate this
matter. and to write to President Wilsor
protesting against the landing Of those
toys"
The resolution was seconded and
passed with a unanimous rising vote art
A! feminine cheers that could be heard on.
= on broadway. Mrs. John Francis Yav.
ger. the president, will at once appo'r,
the committee. 1t Is said that appl.e,.
tons to serve on the New York Harbo'
toy party. II II Is permitted to be he'd
number almost as many as the at.sa.-
| ance at yesterdays convention.
! 1t was a long. busy day for the club.
| women, and on top OF all their menhl
and vocal exertions they had 10 hep
wait or table At luncheon. The Ho''.
Aston walters went and struck for
higher wages Just as the convention
| was rising from the morning session
| for luncheon. Dismay seized the lad
rrformers for a minute. but they rallied
their forces and some went 10 t-y
their Establishments on tho recalcitraa'
knights OF the apron, while others vo
unteere6 to help pass the food II only
Il could be got In from the kitchen, A.
| 3 the two thousand sat down to IL
belated meal and all was proceeding
khapplly. II largely waiterless. when thl'
chorus arose:
salt! Salt! Where Is the salty
Salt Is Found mt Last.
| There wasn't a grain on the tables
Then Mrs. Harvard Albert KehlbecE
re alizing that as chairman Of luncheo'
II devolved upon her TO see that IN
meal didn't remain saltless, arose an'
started for the eighth floor TsnarHni
that as banquets were frequently he
up there the missing salt cellars mig
be found there. In ten minutes she -
turned to the dining room on the IRE
| floor. where the two thousand wfF'
patiently pecking at their saltloss sal'h
and on a tray she bore the salt celia
| of tn. Hotel Aston. Ultimately ~
women finished their luncheon and y
turned to the grand ball room for N
afternoon feast Of reason.
Cyril Maude made brief and en
PERTAINING speech, though he said m
was dreadfully embarrassed Ia rae
such a gathering OF women. 81 d.n
believe I'd have been allowed IN Il
wasn't that my name is Maude.' u
said IT'S a case" he added waWr'
hir hard at the vegetables that torme
the decorations, "of Come into the ga'
den, Maude'" He said that as Io''
as he wasn't eligible to go to war "
he wanted to do, he was trying 10 seFN
n bit by helping 10 wipe away ms'ru'
the Germans are seeking 70 spread -
tween nations, and particularly hH'"es
the English and Americans Iheh q
told the women before him VIA T
women OF his country are upihs
TaI ~ Mar