New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Women for First Time Il
tend Council in Tam
many Hall
New Leaders Verv
Earnest, Says Bo..
First Feminine Resolut;,,
Is Endorsement Of Mil.
tary Rank for Nurse.

Charles F. Murphy had to ii.
back seat in the war councils d =.
many yesterday. Thirty-ons asss... /
leaders smiled one huge cooa,s.ss
smile at the Big Chief, and foytIsss
he rose from the seat from 81.
countless reformers, legislator 8.
crnors and pro bono publieo. i.
been trying in vain to oust him !.
years.
Ladies', said he. motionine "a a.
movie operator to pause the MA.
"ladies, one of the most erasifv;,'
events of this day is the presenes J,
our new women leaders in our s,..,
tive council. / suggest that the .d;..
take the front seats, while the ms.
men retire to the corner"
So while the Braves smiled ss.,,.
smile and the camera men reeo,a.,
the dawn of new era, Mrs. Eli,.h.tl
A. Vibbard, Mrs. Robins A. Lam ,,a
other women district leaders crovd.s
into the front seats.
All Harmony, Says Boss
Representative Tom Smith. A.,sr.
blyman Robert Wagner and aAr
Smith, President of the Board Of AId...
men, accompanied the Big Chief iu.s
Photographic oblivion. Feminine eAh.
airy, however. gave one seat to IA
Oldest member and Grand Sachem !,
Tammany Hall. Judge John Z. yco.
hies, who is eighty-eight years oil
Incidentally, he is the man who rul.a
last March that the women needaf
tell their exact ages when they vc.u
if they testified that they were sovr
twenty-onc.
Well, well! 1t only goes to show tie
refining influence of women in politics
Mr.. Murphy declared afterward tt..
1t was the most harmonious rasciisa
Tammany had had for long time, asl
TON" Smith, who was frankly again.
woman suffrage because he feared !.
would take away woman's feminine
charm, admitted smilingly that athey
had begun all right" and if all women
he said, were as fine and sensible 1,
the ones that sat in Tammany Hall sl
the first meeting he wouldn't have 1
word to say.
First Act of Women
And what was the first act Of ii,
new "squaws ?" Most gratifying it va
to all interested in the betterment d
women and children, even if it dee
look lonesome on the minutes of Tam
many Hail. 1t was a resolution il
favor of the bill now before Congfes
to give military rank to Red Cros
nurses serving in the war. 1t was pro
posed by Mrs. Elizabeth A. Vibbard
woman leader of the 22d Assemb,
District, and deserves capital letter
from history as being the first resolu
tlon ever offered by woman in Tam
many Hall. Needless to Say, it passei
without dissenting growl from th'
Tiger:
"All was harmony at the meeting
said Mr.. Murphy. Women are rts
leaders. They were very fine and ves1
earnest. l was much impressed"
President Smith had Che same ids
about it
tpiuA, Saiu ne, tHaJ IL WAS pfVp
ably the liyellest and most plessan
session the executive committee o
Tammany Hall has ever held. Tai
ladies knew their business, and an
sure they will be an aid to the Demo
cratic party in this city"
Judge yoorhies Praises Womea
Judge Voorhies congratulated %
women on their new position in polit.
cal life, and Magistrate Edward !
Boyle spoke on the technicalities d
the election law as it applies to "a
enrolment Of women on May Is
Mrs. Robins A. Lau, who is presI
dent Of the Democratic Forum 90
we'll known in women's clubs as mil
tant Democrat, explained to the r.
porters (who were not admitted TO ~
meeting. although there was no en-
barge on camera men) that women dii
trict leaders were going to play bl
part in getting out the Democrat!
vote, because there are so many polit'
cal spinsters whom the men distris
leaders don't know how to get alonl
with.
when there's a man in the family
she said, cts easy for the distrlt
leader to say, Tom, tell the wife wen
going to have meeting for the wone'
folks next week at the clubhcuse
There are thousands Of unmarried bus
ness women, however, that the @s
trict leaders don't know, and II the.
send a man to the house the womsl
think he's a book agent and slam %
door in his face. We women lesoen
can get at these women through ~
clubs and through visiting then y
their homes"
Five Yet To Be Elected
There are thirty-seven women ie.s
ers to be elected for New York Counss
but only thirty-one have been nam.' s ).
so far by their local committees. in0'
elected yesterday were: ~,
First Assembly District, Miss nsi 3,
garet Fay, Mrs. Thomas j. Nolan; - =
Mrs. B. Porges. Mrs. Elvira Barn, - =
Mrs. w. E. Murphy, Mrs. Martin p1Jt Ii
ney Zone vacant; 4th, Mrs. MARY -.
pin Zone vacant; 5th, Mrs. s, ysIs
Conley, Mrs. B. Mccarthy, Mrs; Msns' ss
Byrne; 9th, Mrs. Benjamin he1nMsr ~
7th, Mrs. N. Taylor Phillips; s.n, "a
Herman Bauman; 9th. Mrs. ROBINS =, ].
Lau: 10th, Mrs. Jean N. Norris w. -
vacant; 18th, Miss Elizabeth IL. psh.s ~,
Miss Anna Montgomery, MIS-. e., e.,
Hagerty; 18th. Mrs. Ab6se b6sssII I
Hughes; .14th. Mrs. Bernard Upo"srsIii, ri,
Miss Margaret Rooney; 18th, MS Mr..siI IN
Hastings; 10th, Mrs. Mary nsy, -
Mrs. Anna Naughton; 18th, MISS ,s,b n
Rothenberg. Mrs. Gustav ): fsu'' ns;e
Mrs. Frances Ecker. Mrs. Mary :. SS SssS
ley: 10th, Mrs. Anna Matthew's rj;ss
beth A. Vibbard; 23d. Mrs. Gensv's''
II Walsh