The sun., 1918-11-06
WOMEN CAST VOTES
HERELIKE VETERANS
Mrs. Tammany, Early Riser,
Leads Procession to
City's Polls.
STUFF LEADERS HAPPY
Liveliest Fight Centres in Con-
test Made by Mrs. Lilly
for Assembly.


In the Babcock Studios, In the Tenth
Election district OF the Fifteenth AS
sembly district. yesterday morning. She
was Mrs Veronica Tammany OF 80
West Fifty-fourth street, and though
living in a strong Republican district
she proved true to her name by voting
a straight Democratic ticket. =
This polling place. by tho way. is a
shining monument to the refining in
fiuence OF woman In politics. Citizens
In that election district have always
been content TO cast their ballots in a
shop that was much too small and
not very clean. When the ladies came
In the Republican captain. Theodosius
Stevens, and the Democratic captain
vents to Miss Mary Garrett Hay. big
boss OF the New York City Woman Suf-
frage party, and said TO her, as man
to man, that that place was no At
place for Mrs New Voter. Together
the three moved upon the Board OF
Elections. to the end that yesterday
there was a grand and commodious
polling place on the street floor of the
Babcock Studios at 10 East Forty ninth
street.
Cap Stevens bought a dollars worth
OF heavy pink paper to protect the
parquetry floor. and introduced the fur
Their innovation of having young
woman stand at the door to give IN
coming voters numbered tickets, so they
needn't stand in line. bat could sit
comfortably and wait till their number
was called out.
sun Leader Wins Praise.
John Rockefeller Jr., and Mrs. Rookie
Teller dropped in at 10 East Forty
ninth street to cast their ballots. while
Miss Hay was there on her tour OF in
spection. and Mr.. Rockefeller shook
hands and congratulated the sun leader
Several we'll known Democrats voted
there about that time. including Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Untermyer, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lewis Nixon. Mgr. Lavelle OF st.
Patrick's and George McAneny. Mrs
Lilias Rebarcr. who worked on the Al
fred f. Smith citizens committee, was
also one OF the voters there.
Miss Charlotte Delafeld is suffrage
leader in this Assembly district, but as
she Is In France Mrs. Laurens Carroll
acted In her place. The SUITS had
watchers outside the polls everywhere.
Miss Hay estimated that 1000 women
were acting In this capacity throughout
the greater city. Their function was to
instruct bewildered women who didn't
know how to vote, but there were few OF
those. Some were slightly habbergasted
by the road and canal amendments pre-
scented on a separate ballot. saying they
hadn't expected those. But in the main
the new voters, whether acting as in
spectors (and there were two women
inspectors at least I'm every polling
place. or as watchers or Just plain
voters acted as matter OF fact as they
would cooking dinner in their own
kitchens. Some much more so. perhaps
And the women came out. At polling
place after polling place along in the
middle Of the afternoon when the ques-
ton was asked: What's the proportion
Of women to men?' the answer was
"Fifty-ffty. They split even, as many
women as men," Later when shops and
offices closed more men came. The reg
istration for this election in New York
city was 600,029 men and 4l4,T60
women, but Miss Hay was strong in the
belief that women were more serious
about following up their registration by
voting than men and that there would
be little discrepancy between the sexes
at the polls to-day. But OF course that
will never be known exactly, for the
SUITS don't care to undertake the task
of going over all the books to weed out
the women voters.
Women Lead Mt Polls.
In some districts uptown women far
outnumbered the males. At 30 Morning
side avenue, a polling place in the FIJI
tenth Assembly district, the inspectors
said along in the early afternoon that
go women had voted and only so men.
which maybe shows the effect of a coll
lege neighborhood on Miss New Voter.
Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait, president
OF the National Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation. and Miss Hay of the City Party
voted at ten minutes to nine at 5O7 Co
lumbus Avenue. going there on their way
TO market.
1T took me Just two minutes to vote"
Mrs. Gait said after she left the booth
Il labored Thirty years and spent thous-
ands OF dollars to get that vote, and
cast II in two minutes. There might
be difference OF opinion as to whether
voted wisely. but can testify that IL
was worth all my work TO be able at
last to express my opinion like free
citlzen In free country"
LOU "aueTs on tnelr way to the polls
said they would vote for Gov. Whitman.
hes stood behind Us in the suffrage
nght and Wen stand behind him." they
SAID And Miss Hay was going TO vote
Tor FRED Tanner for Congress because
ne and she used to play in the same
pack yard. Miss Hay indeed declared
mat she voted the straight Republican
ticket, but Mrs, Gait said after voting
that she had changed her mind suddenly
while in the booth
The liveltest district IN all New York
was the Seventh Assembly. where Mrs.
Mary NJ. Lilly. woman lawyer, leader in
the City Federation of Women's Clubs.
&c, ran for the State Assembly on the
Democratic ticket. Mrs. Lilly voted for
herself and the other Deems" on the
ticket about A. NJ. at the High School
OF Commerce, on SiNty-ffth street, be-
tween Columbus and Amsterdam ave
nues, and then with various members OF
her non-partisan womans committee she
climbed INTO huge automobile deco
rated with tiger lilies (which were
painted on II by Mrs. ]. Vernon Cook,
a Republican but Llllyite) and took
candy and cigars TO the workers In
every polling place in her district.
Mrs. Lilly's opponent was A. Ellen
bogen On the front OF the auto was a
placard saying:
Vote for Mrs. Mary NJ. Lilly.
Send her to the Assembly.
Send him to the front"
Down on the East side and In spots
on the lower West side there was a
good deal OF bitter feeling between the
Deems" and Republicans on the one