New-York tribune., 1920-11-03
Women Voters Early to Polls and Stand in Line for Hours

o'clock; While the policemen tramped
up and down perplexed, Miss skinner
,narched out into the middle of the
road and, throwing back her head, cried
/ 10 the upper story:
Woman Gets the Kew
"Epi! Epi, Throw down the kew
presently tousled head appeared
at the window and the kew clattered
down. Later Miss skinner entertained
the voters with the newest records
from Mr.. Epi's stock.
Edward Hardy. the twelve -year-old
prodigy of Columbia University. es-
corted his mother to the polling place
at so Morningside Drive, but was not
allowed to vote himself.
ms presence was an inspiration to
the women voters, who had been stand
ing IN line for more than an hour. this
Delng one of the districts where the
congestion was particularly noticeab le
why not let Edward cast the vote
Tor the whole district? He's got more
brains than all the rest of us put to-
gether, snapped a school teacher who
wanted to go to the matinee
One of the election officials rebuked
her with the information that Edward
was valuable aid to the Republican
captain, and last year endeared him
self by taking messages to voters in
an apartment house where the political
workers had been forbidden entrance.
Jam Near Columbia University
The districts near Columbia Univer-
Slty nave more women voters than men
Two years ago the district was divided
INTO three parts in order to accommo-
date all the newly senfranchised stu
oents. school teachers and artists who
q rcL IL.
year two of the three districts have
more than 600 voters each and another
division was asked by the Republican
captains. They placed the blame for
Yesterdays confusion on the refusal
Of the Democratic members of the
board to allow further divisions.
In the 4th Election District only six
booths were provided for 6S2 voters,
although the law requires one booth
for every seventy-hve voters. In this
district many women stood in line
more than An hour. 1t was pointed out
that had the weather been stormy
many votes must have been lost.
Miss Sarah Butter, daughter Of
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
Columbia University, is the captain of
the Sd Election District in this section.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, president
of the international Woman Suffrage
Association, and Miss Mary Garrett
hay, chairman of the New York City
League of Women Voters, who live at
404 Riverside Drive, voted soon after
o'clock in a laundry at 2S79 Broad
way. For the first time in their lives
these two disagreed on a political
question, Mrs. Gait making the League
of Nations the chief issue and voting
for Cox, while Miss Hay stuck to the
% e. Oh
she was chairman Of the Women's
National Executive Committee.
Both Oppose Wadsworth
"We both voted against Senator
Wadsworth," said Mrs. Gait, "and more
than that we will not tell, save that we
split our tickets"
Miss Hay said they both voted for
Miss Harriet May Mills for Secretary
of State, Miss Mills being an old com
rade of suffrage days and former presi-
dent Of the New York State Woman
Suffrage Association.
The motion picture men and several
reporters We're on hand to watch the
two most prominent sutfragists in the
city cast their first Presto Dental ballot,
and a long line of women waited good
naturedly while the movies recorded the
event. Mrs. Gait went into the booth
first and Miss Hay came out first,
thereby scoring a great laugh
1--WE had more experience in voting"
she explained. "Mrs. Gait was so busy
working for national suffrage in Wash
ington last year that she didn't vote
then. while I've never missed chance"
Miss Virginia c. Gildersleeve, dean
Of Barnard College, whose name headed
the list of Democratic electors, voted
at the same laundry a few minutes
ahead of the suffrage leaders.
Women workers for the Anna How
ard Shaw Memorial Fund visited many
polling places, taking up the "women's
thank offering" for the vote.
Give as your heart dictates; Anna
Howard Shaw gave her life for your
vote" their yellow placards read.
Mrs. Thomas Wells and Miss Mary
Dreier, of the League Of Women Vot-
ers, patrolled Fifth Avenue near the
Public Library in the Afternoon 1or
the same cause Five hundred tnou-
sand dollars is being raised by sutfra-
gists for a memorial chair of politics
at Bryn Mawr and chair of prevent
i've medicine at the Woman's Mad,cal
College of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Henry Curran, mother of The
Borough President. was on duty at
the 10th Assembly District Republican
Club, at West Twenty eighth Street,
to give instructions to women about
marking their ballots The RepubN-
can Committee Of One Hundred, OF