New-York tribune., 1922-02-19
MRS. FAY
OF THE FIRST
(Co7'fipued fro0 pqge fdrcej

than on Central Park West So 1T II.
little time with Mrs. Fay down wbe,a ~
get human nature in the raw
Fate has not dealt altogether kind,.. -.
Mrs. Fay. Death took son. who ..m.
France with the Fordham unit. and o.r...
With shell shock gripping him. Death
December, took her husband. big. broad
dered Policeman Fay upon whofn. sbo 49,.
she depended to that extent that =.
clocks ia the house often - anwound non
isn't there . wind tacm But sac ooa.
with her ministiatioas 70 the folks of her so.,.
ward
"I'll never move away from tai. ward
says. q was born nero. -Four generat;o..
mg family have gone to church =. ou
Peters down in Barclay s.see.. sDor
people. They're good people Fne .t..1
hard-working people thes are this d,t~..
and my heart goes out toward the man. :.
them that's feeling these bad tnes.9
On the center table in the room uber. NJ.
Fay sat was bouquet Of aoaers that ri,.,..
in hucs the wreath Of rose ,n ,6e Pm.
carpet on the floor
There vas little WIDOW brought er
nc, said Margaret Fay II heoed h.. az.
hcr widow pension. seveaty-.uo dollar.
month she gets, and By gong ou 70 work som.
She can keep the roof over her four ebildre-
heads and send them to scaool dressed no.,
She was grateful she brought me- r.
flowers. Yes, its many widow comes to ns
about her pension, they knowing ne throup,
my suffrage work in the pa ana pu. r
my lat and 20 down 70 the Child Welfar.
Board at City Hal and tell Nr. Kavanaps
1he secretary, about it. Hes got kind hear
for the poor, Mr.. kavanagh has"
There was ring at the door and q thin lsts
boy in well-mended clothes came INTO the ban
Mrs. Fay talked with hm while and sem
him away with doushnut his ast
Nov, there she said pushing her spec
tacles up over her nicely crimped hair with
worried gesture. there IS thing that VI
women nave right to be getting after. H
mother is dying Of tuberculosis. and her VIII
oWs pension stops when she goes -Four little
children and no one 70 care for ON but ne
eighteenye yearold sister thai eoes out TO wor6
They'll just be scattered in institutions WI.
wouldn't the pension be paid to that sister
She could keep the family together. va
we women should 90 TO Albany and get a
amendment TO the law, so if the mother de'
and leaves the children 70 an aunt. Ike, the
pension viii go on. Isn't it the children that
10 be thought Of?
And there's another thing" said Mrs. FAY
The Investigators don't always sfew sense
There woman with big FAM. Of lHts
ones. went to the Bureau Of Licenses an.
got her place for newsstand 80 she cous
partly support them but she needed her pen
sion and she was entitled to e. The invest
gators came and they saw an old piano shei
had a long time. It wasn worth much Ans
a rug on the floor she'd bought by paying dol
ar a week. You've 60. a piano and rug
they say. Why do you ask peasion?' Now
wasn't that silly? Could The children eat tha'
piano? went right down and told Mr. ka7
anagh the whole story ard he fixed her up
What worries Mrs Fay very much is the ua.
employment problem which looms 'arge in ths
streets Of quaint old houses around aer Never
she says. did she know So many people out Q.
work
God help the poor misfortunatcs. sb'
sighcd. is ii any wondci they'll sometime
be getting into crime I'fe got oHc hoy or
my list now; hc got into trouble think
was a disease Of the mind ike-and went ie
court with his mother but Judge Talley SEN
him to Blackwcls Island. | went to see Inn
and at last he was set free. but now can
find him a job Doesn't it seem q pity? DC
is ANXIOUS to work, but I can't find anything
Well. there is ,Any one Ia trouble now.
"There's one thing I've got to be thankful
for and that is that my boys never went wrong
They were good boys while they lived. Ny
" lille that died of she'll shock. ne was grea'
suffragist; he used to help me IN my suffrage
work. We had all the ncighbors IN for
party before he sailed for France, and We
trimmed the room with some suffrage decora
tions had He said, Mother. sou leave those
decorations up till I como home But the!
got that dusty we couldn't.
My husband did enjoy my suffrage parties
when We were working for the vote. We hsu
a house with yard then, and Id have MAJ
the district in. But he was against woman
suffrage all along though, would you believe
it, the day of the referendum ne came home
and he told me that he'd given the women MS
vote. And l told him he renegade 10,
1t. Believe in us or don't vote for us
said. Well, those were great days. we woiiie'
worked in this district and worked a1'ei-
ward, getting the woman vote out on Elec'io'
DaV MANY arc tho babies I've tended ana lHe