New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
Whitman Is Asked
10 Sign the Pledge
BY Fifty Women
Petition Requests Governor
Personally to Forego
Alcoholic Beverages
Appointment Is Sought
olgners All Republicans and
United in Favor of Ab-
solute Prohibition

solute Prohibition
Alda " Dobbin, a married woman, of
2z9 west 101st Street last week for
"arded to Governor Whitman at Al
oany petition signed by fifty women.
VINO, Mrs. Dobbin says, are all Repub-
llcans and desirous of inducing the
Governor not only to .ake definite and
open stand for prohibition. but to EN-
phaslze still further his opposition to
'he llquor traffic and the use of intoxi
can's by personally signing a pedge to
lorego the use of alcoholic beverages.
Ihereby setting an example to others y
The preamble to the petition sets
lorth' among other things, that Gov
eihor hltman has declared for prohi-
oltlon by amendment to the Consti+n-
tlon OF the United States, and that the
republican platform adopted bv the nm
ohclal Republican convention at Sara
.oea IS silent on the question of pro-
hloluon. The petition ~oes on to sav
'hat committee of the signers will
call on Governor Whitman as soon az
ne has made an appointment to SEQ
."eA'' so as TO present to him the orig
inal petition.
Inc slgners are Aida Y. Dobbin. 300
west 1O1st Street; Lillian ]. RAYMOND
o4s West End Avenue; Estelle Raw
mond, S49 West End Avenue: Johanna
Noller, $40 West End Avenue; Fanchon
NJ. Paddock. S55 West End Avenue.
hannah Waller, 21o West lo9th Street.
Iessle Waller. 610 West 111th Street.
Ida r. Mulhall, 616 West 116th Street.
Emma L. Penfield, GIT West 18th
Street; Henrietta N Rosenberg. COG
west ll6th Street: Mrs. M. L. Lillien-
dahl, 210 West lOsth Street: Mrs
Grace W. Gould, 855 West End Avenue.
Mrs. Edith Mulhall Achilles, 616 West
1l6th Street; Rosabelle Hollander. ST.
west End Avenue; Lillian NJ. Holland
er' 877 West End Avenue; Selma Hol-
lander and Yetta Altman. of the same
address; Secy ". Denison, 324 West
1O3d Street, and c. M. Williams, 419
West Hath Street.
Other slgners are S. F. Brown. 2914
Broadway; Jessie M. Lucius, All Riv-
erside Drive; Barbara E. Lucius. AT
Riverside Drive; M. E. Williams, sol
Nest l09th Street; A. E. Snowden, 2O5
West 103d Street; L. H. Ward, 936
West End Avenue; L. Q. Stephenson.
S54 West End Avenue; Helen Lauter-
bach, 301 West 106th Street: Margie
n Knapp, 800 West 109th Street; Mel
lie r. Fox, 1860 Amsterdam Avenue:
Catherine Clark, 229 West 1O1st Street.
Mrs, Harry n. Goldberg, sos West 10th
Street; Loula r. Colvin, 456 Riverside
Drive; Mrs. Blanche Wood. 45s River
side Drive; Aline Sanborn, 46s River
side Drive. and Lillian II. Sumner. 468
Riverside Drive
Other signers: Nellie C. Bliven. 4s4
Riverside Drive; Winifred L. Harris,
464 Riverside Drive; Molly E. Waldron.
440 Riverside Drive; Mrs. Kathryne
Moorhead, 440 Riverside Drive; Esther
d. Morand, 440 Riverside Drive; Hen
rietta Ripperger, 400 Riverside Drive;
Alice L. K. Wood, 362 Riverside Drive;
Martha G. Bauman, 800 West 1O9th
10th Street; Grace S. McHarg. 611
West 10th Street; H. S. Carpenter. 6O5
West 111th Street: Jean G.. Koonz, $50
Riverside Drive; May X. Dresbach, $50
Riverside Drive; Edith NJ. Dresbach, $50
riverside Drive, and Frances A.
Thomas, 575 Riverside Drive.
All Are Republicans
Mrs. Dobbin, when seen yesterday,
said:
~ circulated the petition, and know
all the signers are Republicans. We
have asked Governor Whitman for an
appointment, SO that we may person
ally present to him the signed petition
and ask him to sign the pledge"
Miss Estelle Raymond. 84e West End
Avenue, another of the signers. said:
"Yes, | signed the petition after
reading the preamble and after dulv
weighing the purport of it. I have seen
fcl myself the effects of the use of in
toxlcants among our soldiers and sail
ers What we need at this time, in the
hour Of the nations peril, is total absti
nence from alcoholic beverages bv all.
from the soldiers and sailors to those
who are intrusted with the effairs Of
state. Although Mrs. Dobbin probably
had more to do with the framing and
Gil culatior of the petition than any one
else the document sets forth my sem
timents."
Miss Raymond is a retired school
teacher, and her sister Lillian is an
active teacher.
When Governor Whitman was seen
last night at the ST. Regis after his re-
turn from Brooklyn and asked if he had
received the petition sent by Mrs Dob
bin, he said that he had not received
1t, but that he was told about it in
Brooklyn. He would not comment on
it.. Neither would he comment on the
subway situation, other than to make it
clear that the management of the sub
way was in the hands of the Public Ser
vice Commission.