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but intended doing q lot of reading from
now on. so she could vote inteligently.
When the assessor called on Miss Lucy
Aide, Willow Grove avenue near Crit
tenden street. she told him she was not
satisfied which party should she join.
Sentiment among the women can
vassed in the Chestnut Hill district was
strongly for Harding.
At a numbe Of tire homes Of wealthy
Chestnut Hill resident. the assessors
found women servants who had not be
come naturalized. They were disap-
pointed when told they would not be able
to vote this coming election.
Many homes in Chestnut Hill, Mt.
Airy and other northern suburbs were
found unoccupied by the assessors, the
families having left for the summer. The
assessors listed these homes and will
make a special effort to have the women
put on the voting lists on their return.
Mrs. Emma Connors, who lives in the
rear of 400 Fitzwater street. and whose
husband is a pressman. told the asses
sor she already knew how she wns going
to vote
ITS about time we had the vote, y
Fifth street. You bet I'm going to
vote. Women have more right to vote
than men, anyhow
Rachel Sanderofsky. Ala Fitzwatcr
, street. told an assessor in the seventh
division Of the Third ward she didn' t
have time to do any voting because her
chicken store, where she sells live fowls,
'is enough to attend to.
MY business-I couldn't leave it,"
she told the assessor. However. she
! permitted her name to be put on tho
! list. aud said she would try to find
time to vote.
Volunteers Aid Assessors
! The regular assessors in the 1886
| election divisions are being assisted by
women designated by the women's Re-
publican committee and by ward COM
! mitteemen and workers assigned by the
! Alliance and Ware committees. When
the assessment is finished it is believed
| that the assessment lists will be swelled
by the names of approximately 800, ,OOO
potential voters.
! Mrs. George A. Dunning. acting
| chairman of the Philadelphia League
of Women Voters. nonpartisan or
ganization. in the absence of the chair
man., Mrs. George a. Piersol, today
called on all members Of the league tc
volunteer their help to division asses
sors.
Mrs. Dunning said the league was
very anxious to get out a big registra
! tion of women, and that this could only
b. done by having them all assessed. She
/ explained the name of the division as
SCISSORS could be learned by applying to
the ward committeeman of their party.
Many Offer Services
/ Mrs Dunning said already a number
of women have called up the league
headquarters and offered their services
She suggested to them that their best
procedure would be to get in touch with
the division assessor and offer to help
in the house to- house canvass.
Leaders at the headquarters of the
| Republican women's committee fol
! PENNSYLVANIA. 506 South Broad street
announced they had received numerou,
complaints that proprietors of roominl
and boarding houses had refused tc
give the assessors names of women eli
gible to vote.
In many such houses. the leaders
said. there are from four TO ten womer
who for business reasons may be away
the greater part of the day. The lead
crs urged that women in boarding
houses either leave their names writer
e.. out to be handed to the assessor wher
! he calls. or else to insist that the pro
! prietors supply the necessary informa
tion.
1t was estimated that there are man,
thousands of potential voters who ar,
engaged downtown in business or pro
fcssional way. Unless their names ar,
given to the assessors. they will b,
obliged to call on the assessors them,
selves at the polling places on eithe
August 81 or September l.
The office of the county commission
ers on the first floor of City Hall pre-
| Spnted a business like appearance today
when assessors from hundreds of di.