The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1913, Page 8

Bit. RS Da an ~~ “TRE. EVENIVG .WORLD, Paris Correspondent of the London Tatler and the London Town Topics, Now in New York, Writes of Her Sea Trip and Her First Impressions for the Evening World. By Meg Villars. BRE | am, in New York at last! I've always wanted to come to the States, ever since I was a flapperish ‘hool- wir, crasy over Charles Dana Gibson's square-jawed men and iedainful sirens, ever since 1 chewed my first peppermint molasses candy (I don't quite know the right name, but that’s how they call them et Fuller's “American” candy store in London); ever since I firat encased my “number fives” in Amefican-bullt shoes, ever fince I read my firat American magazine story, ever since I wept over Little Lord Fauntleroy's sweet American mother in my nursery days, and that seems ages ago, even though I don't yet have to count my gray hairs! When you fe wanted anything for @ long time it often falls flat when at last you get it, but if I can help it thio first voyage of mine isn’t going te, ne, sir not it! Sv far I've had any amount of fun by trying to pretend that I'm an Americ the fun les in the fact that nobody will Delleve me, although I've learned no end of nice expressions, such as “Well, fen't-qhat flerce?’ and “Getting the ha- ha!” and “Falling off the water wag- o1 ‘The troudle seems to be that I use them in the wrong places—and the peo- ple laugh at me. Not that I mind. Lauehter makes strangers friendly. ‘The trip across the herring pond was Great, although we had 9n unusually cheap lot on board. The women were all ready-made skirts, knitted sweaters and jarge feet. It was wonderful to nee how well they handled those ‘®t, too, on slippery days! The men were all nose (not a “w" @mongst them) and pleated shirt frontal If there's a thing that is crimina! above all, it's the wearing of a soft pleated shirt with a dinner jacket! They all 4:4 {t, the wretches, and the fanciest of fancy buttons on their black waistcoats! ‘There were only four or five nice Americans in the whole crowd, but those were dears, beautifully tailored and groomed and altogether rich looking. I'm sure they must be the miillonary sort of Americans wio own skyscrapers and have luxurious offices on the top floor, with « view over the Hudson. There were two Eng hinen=an “ortle er’ in the King's \rmee and some ttle dukelet or her; they were well = cut you know, but @ little too ricky col- | PS) oured (their hair’ was unfortunately | ed) and blue-eyed; in fact, they were J 10% conspicuously , Enpiieh altogether. T hate any one to vave all the cari- atural characte: stice of their ra: vhey were very sleased with them- elves and proua of their British endur- * ¢ they showed that endurance by néver wear'ng overcoats; they went about in thelr weill-cut tw: by snow, hall, siorm, and fog, hands in their pockets and lips jauntily pursed for whistlin: unfortunately their faces were blue with cold, and you have no {dea what ® perfectly hideous colourea | realized the blessings of being a stranger) gm in trouble I can tly to the Phon’Bscem to have the strikers ready con- Meg Villars of Paris and London Tells of New York Eye Openers eods | 9° turned to an American lady who had| Frenchman—I hope a WAP RRNRDRRADDAN ORAARE DARREL AL A OA The New York F ighting Woman and Her London Sister— Contrasting Methods in a Remarkable Week of Warfare to the Night Court Tell Why They Aid the Striking Garment Workers—“We Endure Hardships and Run Risks BECAUSE WE’RE WOMEN,” They Declare—- “Do Our Laws Stand for Justice or Money?” Asks Miss Frebman. “Its War to the Knife!’' Cries “General” Mrs, Drummond as She and Her 21 Followers Are Arrested for Raiding England’s House of Commons —Lundee Suffragettes Break Up an Asquith Meeting and Dublin Women Smash Windows in Custom House—“We Will Create an Impossibie Situation,” Says Mrs. Pankhurst. ‘Marguerite Mooers Marshall. most remarkable week Part of a picket. One girl did give a etraight, but they're also hungry scab a slight blow. ‘Just before that| and miserable. ‘They certainly one of the manufacturer's thugs had 7 protection, e Durposdly run against the offending| “awe st, Pioket's companion, knocking her Into her night I saw a number of the mud and breaking her glasses, Can |the#e youths in conversation with two you wonder that such provocation of-|#!"! pickets in a doorway, 1 dia my fered to @ hungry girl provoked retalia. | Pet to wet to them, but in that case was ordered away by @ policeman, which shows how much moral protection the girls may expect from the police, Not that one would look for any different attitude where strikers are concerned, i i i i i : i + i i if il f [ i : ' | i : . 3 & E ? : i control tle satisfactorily. ore ae note, ooning “Another reason wh: we women must the a proof of bag oa rnry all take part in this business is to see of the feminist movement, Arma cause whether our Jaws stand for justice or ply that women would seom erful for, money—and, having seen, to act. to have learneg their most-necded Last night when Miss Leonora O'Reilly lesoon—"Tnited we en can oak and I were arrested we had made all ‘we fall.” Rich and poor, our plans to go down to the Island. young, sheltered women and work- Either we had broken the law or we ing women, ace pressing forward, ' to @ united Rest. ‘Their immediate battle, in New York, has to do with industrial conditions, In Engiand the suffragists, disappointed by the throwing out of their pariiamen- tary bill, are concentrating their forces ‘on the most militant campaign for the p 4 BREAK UP making a tour of tnapection to find out | great! A ig NESTING the driest, contest, darkest corner of the} I may sound stupid, and 1 probably . " Working from six ¢o ten hours a day, tramping through sleet and rain and cold, enduring insult, physical mishand- arrest, punishment, and all this for a cause the victory of which will bring them absolutely nothing in the why of very wet, uncomty and slippery deck. | ®M, for It took me an hour's hard work, I aldn't take long to get my seaciege| '@ tumble Into the right way of giving in spite of the puffectly awful weather, | 4% ofder when I finally reac I was in my cabin the first day, but the ee digs Vinacieenn nuh’ aed second saw me up on deck and doing roman-like I neglecte; e obvious = a the scenic railway stunt on my own! 1|4N4 didn’t read the notice hanging over a “ty Cie Se ein cartars hadn't @ Captain Jomes, or any other| the telephone telling you to communi-Go*, 05% 1 auton during the past week. Kind of Chill pictle, to help me prome-| cate with the floor clerk if you wantQwitn gplendid whole-hearted enthusiasm nade, It was funny, the way we went/@nything. It was that carelessness thatQiney nave entered the canks of the awitchbacking along, First of all you| sot me into trouble. siriking garment and white goode work- found yourself climbing up a steep wal!,) In Paris, at any hotel, you ring for th nd served side dy side with them then suddenly the ehip would dip, and| maid and she runs the circus, 1 tried peaceful pickets” for the factories : Stale you'd find that you were madly running| to do that here and took a wrong turn Qvhere strike-breakers are being em- Cwew yortr) or slithering along to ® watery grave,| ing. To begin with the page—a grown-@rloved. And scarcely popes bas gene uniess you could manage to hang on to} up one not a bit like the twelve-year. g°y Without its quota of gallant & railing or somebody's feet aticking| old ones at home—arrived in answer t ise, hadn't. Tf we had, then we deserved over the edge of a deck chair: my ring; he Jooked a bit surprised wheu I didn't actually wee the Statue of! 1 asked for the mald, but promised tot Liberty as we sailed into the bay the alone. morning of our arrival-two days late.| In came the house maid, “If you! The mist was tuo thick, but I can’t put ret Vike these things laun« that down a disappointment because I've: seen #0 many picture post-cards of It that I know Just exactly how It looks, |. and she disappeared, rin women forcing them- punishment. Outraged justice ought not | time he Theda acomplia peli tro apd to be satisfied with a fine, Yet it was.| flergely * et not ine {ble personal advantage can accrue to The strikers’ lawyer insisted on turning | umidate them!’ And T ed, TH them from the most favorable settle- over the money, despite all our protests. | not intimidating.’ And then he tried to of the strike? Why are they} the world ts arrayed against her. If disinterested women can induce the| drive me away by telling an absolute courting not merely discomfort but] ‘Then, of course, I believe emphat! Judge to bestow a few jail sentences on| jie, Hoe said that there was an in-| The connection between “bums,” po- downright danger—and all for no per-ycatly in the justice of the strike, ani|‘’em. they will win the day for the) junction againat picketing that shop. lice and employers 1s also of particular sonal grievance? I put the question, | wane to do all I can to secure every one | *ttking sirls, interest to Mra. Walter Weyl, wife “why?” to @ number of them, And the /of the concessions asked for. Think of | “Oh, if It only can be settled soo! the well-known writer and social econ- The ships in the harbor were all owt) Two minutes later a fair-haired, dainty? vinations I received were as illumi-|men compelling girls to take wages of ;¢*¢ltlmed Miss Freeman, her voice sud- omist. of thelr bearings on account of the fox; little gir} In @ muslin apron appearetSnating as they were sincere and com- | §3.60.and #1 a week, and not even steady | 1enly breaking as her hands went up to “My husband and I saw a thug and one huge monster grated across our; and took charge of my washing. As she prehens!v work all the year round at this ridicu- | Cover her tear-fillea gray eyes. hired by a manufacturer deliberately none, 9° = © Just two yarda| was going 1 remembered 1 wanted In @ sentence, every answer may | !0Us stipend! And think of asking chile} “I lay awake all last night thinking strike a ploket who wasn't even open- nearer, and there would have been a shirt waist dry-cleaned. "The valet # be summed up ae follows: “We are dren who ought to be in high school to|@bout the girls, thinking and thinking, ing her mouth,” Mrs. Weyl told me. Wonderful mixup! As It was the aweare! to the cleaning,” was the remark at work from 8 to 6, with only half an| trying, to see some quick way out. They w appealed to two policemen, ar Ing 1 heard was more than mixed, and Made with @ hour for luncheon! How can any|@re 80 brave and so patient, but thelr finally to the mounted Meutenant to ai the blue language mingling with the ‘Winkle in het woman read of such things and not| hardships are ao severe, If only that $5 rest that man, ‘I can’t touch him he auael dar cimeninetis € lege was tat Lape her influence on the side of ae reue oy fine could have gone to was the tnvarlable reply. Meanwhile a y . uy food for them! in y e end iurbance | it almost knocked us fat on The valet, was one of the firet women with whom| “Of course, too, we can reach some aut en necessary Racaaiire prpreyie per. bes biker by ae blake the deck! after taking my . Charter is the wife of! of the scabs and persuade them to join| there are so many not necessar! And now, how went the woman's bat- I dare say exciting little things like| blouses, passed me ft well-to-do business man, and her e0-| the union. But in my opinion the moral! “The girls are arrested for absolutely Gb eee Ge candede ee kee that happen matter of course over} on to the shoe lal position Is unquestioned. Yet she effect of the plokets is the great thing. | nothing at just as I was arrested Pankhurit would ony thab'it le a.» here, for next day none of the papers! valet about my was one of the first volunteer pickets, / When people seo us walking up‘and|iast night for calling out to the strike which she {s waging, a war to t commented about it, It's true that even| #H OCs that’ one and for two weeks she has averaged at | down in front of & shop they know that! breakers, ‘Why aren't you women f i | i | i 3 Marguerite Remington Charter i irs 7 if “T think that the policemen themselves vs vi of death, because death is better than Ii. daredil ‘American reporters don't. gop Sa¥e me over to 1 the manufacturer treating his em-|gome of the policemen, at least, have} ™@sht be more just in their treatment) oiicu: freedom, And thé militant the bath maid be- . +. Ployess unfairly, We are a living pro-| absolutely no conscience about lying in| !f they had the support of an aroused a swimming about in the river foggy WIN-| oguse 1 complained irrested and arraigned before Magis-| test that can't be disrezarded, iat the cas Public opinton—and women could arouse | Wornen behind her are conducting thei: ter mo ni on the off chance of seeing! of @ leak in the trate Herbert in the Night Court. “Why was I arrested?” Mre. Ci against the pickets. When I wes being taken to thé warfare for the ballot with the same the traffic behave badly and making! pathroom, a nd ry woman in New York | repeated, with a little laugh of deproca- ‘ation house I said to my captor, | Wonderful loyalty and sex solidarity ou copy out of it, do they? I enjoyed the| finally the bath howkd come into this thing," she urged.|tion. “Oh, simply because I called out, "You're etriking a blow against your| "*rvable among their New Yori sisters, landing and all the bustle it entailed.| mald confided me ‘It doesn't matter whether she is ‘rls, don't be strike breakers!’ Yes, ‘ewn peopl Hi 14, ‘E know it; 1}, Jt !8 now war to the knife,” saya The customs inspectors are delight-; to the tenJer mer- ‘General’ Mrs. Drummond, “The magis- ful to strangers, “As a visitor, my] lee Pha beads dear.” one of them said to me in| on, I becued for 4 jernal, tones (1 Was Inquiring) yestoring cup of aloud for my fur coat), “you are en-| ten, ‘The walter tied to everything you can wear’ Th a sympathetic uffragiet or an anti-suffragist. Before|thet remark was somehow an offense don't want to a it the girls, but I got be MM else she i@ a woman, and she is! against the law. Have I picketed since. to do it. ‘There's orde bli tte pl igh Dk ceded to do her part in retrieving the | Of course! Miss Violet Pike of the Woman's Trade | Of (rouble ahead of them. | Piey wil rongs done to women. ‘Then I went to see Miss Elizabeth Union League was enthusiastic avout | Ao t0 40 the dirty work and they wijt “Tt happens that I am a firm believer | Freeman, who, by the way, has taken the good accomplished by the pickets in| "Aye, Plenty OF It to dow’ ‘ n suffrage, but T should have volun-| her turn in London jails as a “militant.” converting the strike-breakers—of course | ta tones at Commons, “and: she hon cered for this work just the same, in| But she's a perectly good American, and the immediate object of all picketing. | self and her deputation of twenty-one M ny case, Women of a certain position, |far too busy helping strikers in New “The women who are helping the| women were arrested. In the scramble evidently been shopping extensively in, ho hasn't be en nd who can command protection if/ York to go back to London and help| should come out on our side!” white goods workers have done fine) She was thrown to the ground and Parla, and she had to go off with him| knocked over the head In the strike-¥ hey require it, are needed among the} suffragettes. And with Miss Freeman's earnest | service in winning over the scabs,” she! Knocked about severely by the police. and mwear to the correct pedigree of her|“"4 We parley-vooed — explanations®y ckets because of the absolutely preju-| “Yes, I've been picketing since the first| aeclaration ringing in my ears, I sought | declared. “You see, this is the frat | Brousht Into court, she and two con with volubility, Now, of course, I amitced attitude of the police, The mem- admitted Miss Freeman. j h panione were sentenced to fourtean Gays sealskin coat! That was the only time 1! rpectiy happ: I know that when {! ‘an.| Mise Mary Parsons, another young so-| strike for # lot of the girls, and while | j, ison for resisting th lice. Re- pel y happy. hi en F@vers of the force whom I have observed |“Nobody knew anything about it till last] ciety woman who has been arrested for | their Yntentions the beat, they fack | | later, against he; . wa iy night, when I was arrested, because I b AL r 2 , an : ‘Girls, please don't break the/ self-confidence and experience. Left to| unknown person, the courageous wom try. f , née flo 4 . se 0 | unknown wa ry sin om nes of a bricky complexion. turn- tad nts |S ellyara ney eral et ear Fe pd encima pean eee: Ty erm Ue Gioumht Td wet tbe, oonAdence Of ty Miss Parsons had still another | themselves, they go obediently to the| declared, “Whoever paid the fhe was ue g ‘ ania t te i . Ir ir y didn't think I was) good reason for the co-operation of wo- tory, but there they sometim no friend of mine, but T am going out One of the ladies on board amused me|°f course, for the fame of this huge EE Ti eiicts or tie Bal pa “apparentiy {relying on the | netping them for personal ends, ‘They he Manin cok chneetion Wit, tha | i eediat ine chia Scrat Ot sheer | ‘2, fight again.” quite lots * + she was very] caravansery has spread ail over Europe. | Mone tnt on w ietter to Europe, howd “ike the other women pleeete arn, [peleve we like to be written up, youl striking garment and white gooda| ignorance of how to approach them Pee UL a AES A sg p! a LA 1s who * iT ‘ ndee, ahort, built with a long body on dachs-| Although I was prepared to be startied.| 1 gor aowntown or out to RiversideBire not themselves strikers, I have worn [wow 8® ! dust Kept quiet and did all 1) workers. “We older ones call out to the girla| scotland. The keys of the city were und legs. The iong body was laced into | !ts immensity took my breath away, the! Drive, which t# the most delightful place an equally long corset, and as the lady | cfowa downataire—t'm going to investi-|1 have yu was rather piuntpish you could the corret began and ended there were 1.dges that sort of wobbied!| possibility of getting everything you) mind, I want to know what happens tv could, “ lain it best,” she eald, “%: " 1 ' he plainest, most unobtrusive ch 1 can explain it be e eald, ‘by | and explain to them Just what they're| being conferred upon him, when t om picket duty, trylog not to Piste There's one reason why every | giving my own experience as a picket. | doing. And we carry on loud conversa-| Women rushed the place crying, ‘Trai- tiate mysolf in any way from the work.| Wemas Whe te 8 mother of who BAS 17 was walking up and down in front of| tions among ourselves about the privi- | tor! Traitor!” In the attempt to throw women, ‘The airl @ stoter should piteh im and help |g certain shop, calling out to the scabs|leges and duties of the union. And we | ‘hem RANGE (ne. BAo share rere eae the plekets. Phat ts because the [4, they came out, 1 had thoroughty| won't let the policemen frighten us ‘3 nedare seon In New York, I to’ gate that peacock alley as soon as 1 get) the dime omnibus on Fifth avenue and my best bib and tucker unpacked—the | {ts fine, but being of a curious trame of, r iously* hur e's off the water wagon and cadets and white slave procurers ted myself on the law before bi | y, wo long an we keep withi Mak ar ett are from @ packet of hairping to a|® man If he's ay posted myself on efore away, ep within the! Over in Dublin Mrs, Mabel Purser has I used to waich those wobblings with A Pda ig re love. the lady who! can't oe straight (o put the coin in th S:npartial witness of what goes on, an. are doing their fine work—or trying ning the work of picketing, law. Ever 80 many of the strike-break-| just begun to serve a set fascinated glare every time she Or rather staysered, for one couldn't| sella them, she called me “honey” just) ning ra really waik, it was (00 rougii~up and| when I was feeling lonely and It bucked | 1 foe) that 1 shan't be able to make good @own the deck; it made her very an_ry| me up no end), The great elevators that jy Ameri With me, but I couldn't help it. 1 did #0 long to go and tell her to let Out the laces a little bitvat the top anu! at the bowom to give the ridges fair’ play © © © but, of course, tt would have been rather daring, and 1 hadn't the nerve, I wonder why it ts that fat women, Won't understand that the more they @queeze the more they accentuate thelr, embonpoint (I love that word—it's so hypocr.ticaily poliie!) Fat must go. somewhere if you've got 4 lot on you; Mf you squeeze it in one place g'!l only fol) out in another! From the fat lad) my mind wanders (o the little thin lady Bhe was a wiry, bid-eyed suul, with a. tendency to gush * * * for in- stance, when she would say “Gov. might” (0 @ deck a quainiance she would put ber bund injo als and pour herself into his eyes, saying, “Dear, dear Capt. Snmez, how can | ever, ever thank you for your kindn) Onlookers would think that the noble captain had no} @oubt jumped overboard dui ing the day toy Pom from the paint out that tho little lady, merely, A the captain's arm to 1 slot. at hard ny testimony cannot be dismissed ay| %¢ 40 it—aveund the factories where “A policeman came up and said stern-) ers have joined us, month in pris etter leave it at that, forQ. nat of an ‘ignorant foreigner, girls are om strike, They play the ly; ‘You must not molest these girls,’ “We also,” Miss Pike added, breaking the Custom House windows. The pickets have frequently beon| sympathetic and get tuto conversa- | 1 replied, ‘I'm not molesting the “are able to ‘% wast to give the lie to the used of not be.ng peaceful, In alj| tom with the pickets, pitying their | the next turn he approached me in| captain 00 (ho mow Gisle that while statement made in the House of Commo: 7 my experience I have seen only one in-| lard luck, offering them car fares and sald, ‘You must not interfere with! violence may be used against them, want ‘the eaten ne ie stance of unwarranted violence on the| end diners, The girls are maturally | tiese girls!’ I replied, ‘I'm not inter- they must mot retaliate, One girl was being carried off to her cell. t sd Mike McGraw Runs Into the Devil on West Fifty-fitth Street. * t more than that to-day whiz you up to the ‘teenth floor before; The strain would tell; J might get men- you can say “Jack Robinson,” it’s all ingitist ‘ OMETHING was wrong with MI- people who passed McGraw were #tue) With @ gin fizz, But Michael didn't) inany years and the street full of the stuck a bunch of peacock feathers and S chael McGraw, Voices were whis-, dents in the Clinton Peters's Art School, | tind automobiles, Hadn't he lived there] black ‘and red dev And he hadj underneath them Mike could see the Dering to him, voices he didn’t| Which has three studiow at No 15%, next oere Pel hl So acoraw| hora, And the face of him! Oh, the i mers ything at all when a a t alkane now. Strange songs were sing! - in| “And Michael Iked the quiet that day. taxicab drove right up in front of the rate ite i Leer ie at iis head. And Michael is no musician: | wor 4 week he had been hearing strange stable and stopped at his very door. | men's Day and redder than the ‘ante | fe knows "Where the River Shannon) noise, He had been seeing strange ‘The door of the tax! opened and out| inthe subway. And the awful eye: “lows,” but couldn't whistle it if they! rights at night. When he would go to stepped the devil! y. Ane ie See were to give him the river and it flow-|jle down the bed would Ket up and Yeu sir, He was a big dovil too. 16] ashes that drooped to the ear twig ng with mixed lager and ale. A horse! When he Kot up ise floor would go haa dikhs GaPMcbincteg With cartes cra | ee. Rlaokshorns: and he was walking right toward Mo- Graw! But Mike didn't wait for him “Glory be to God!" he cried, then beat Bray and | jp, Breen, or they might have been all of oughed in his stall close by—did he! own, Funny litte pam and green men | ough or did he laugh? Michael is an] “ould 0 ly rag omy lap a climb hostler and used to horses, and this was| UF the wall, One night one of his own mbed up on the footboard of | 0 hls own stable, No, 180 West Fity=| (io tog qnd daughed at hin. Amd th | rings on them and great gold dragons) and flower Mike thought the robes were blue and yellow ang red, or they might have been pink and fth street, “tut it gave him @ start] next morning he was hurrying | And the devil walked right on and into nd he moved out to the front door. over to John T the mixoculist on |S = them tomether, And cut of hie head next door, Sure he It was last Wednesday afternoon] Fifiy-siath » Who’ oracarte syecl PPPOSOO SOOO OOOO OOOO SO OOOOH OOOOO OOO OOOOOOOOOO8 | ei) 8: all, only a play actor, ..0 hen the weather was behaving like a| openers, didn't a man jump Nghe up Dowling or Downing ? avked Downing, Dowling was not alors. | sehuyler Lathl ) Daffodil ‘9 ‘an who has no mind of his own at all. cut of a manhole and Ko sivalght up in} The other day, when six members of] ,““! don't know,” repited the Neutenaut, vsurper, im “The Yellow Jacket.” x {3 ‘hrough @ Kray overcoat of fog the| the sky? the Curran committee Investigating Po-| {Tt Was One or the other—I guess it was) He ip als picture painted by ¢ now came down like 4 summer gown.| But it was quiet on Fiftyefifth street| ice Department conditions were up at| Pownlng,’ " Percy W, Muncie, one of Mr. Peters's ) hen the rain fell and made the street! then, Occasionaliy a horse would go|the Forty-seventh street atatiof, the} 80 Alderman Downing went to the] pupils, The show is somewhere over Mm — iook like Monday's wash. But the /elipping and slapping along the wet paye- | lieutenant on duty came out of the tel-] booth, He was there but a moment,! Brooklyn, wherever that js, apd the Q% ni street, with {ts high gates and low) ment. But McGraw was used to horses, /ephone booth and sald Alderman Dow-] 4nd came out with a disgusted look actor goes to the studio in his make y ce Arages, its little studies and its big] Once in awhile an automobile would go|ling was Wanted on the wire. wes quiet. Thp only! dy with a swish Mike seltzer getting busy! “Did you say ‘Dowling’ of ‘Downing’? “He wanted Dowilng,” he said. ‘Just! up. | another typographical error.’ Now q@asn't that too bad about uh