Volume 14 , Issue 51

100 Years Ago Today - 17 December 1912

One hundred years ago today, 17 December 1912, Tuesday, in The Washington Times, page 4, we found an article concerning "Only Seven Stick To Suffrage "Hike," Thirty Lose Heart. The article is below.

New York, Dec. 17 (1912) -- Only seven of the thirty-seven "hiking suffragists, who left New York to walk to Albany yesterday, toed the line when the second day of the hike began in the morning at Irvington, where they spent the night.

Thirty-seven started. Seven of them were clad in sweaters, mackinaws, short skirts and square-toed boots. And in the gloaming of the evening, seven gathered about the commissary automobile under the elms of Irvington. They were the seven of the sweaters, mackinaws, shorts skirts and square-toes.

The remaining thirty had dropped ingloriously by the wayside, dropped on a snappy, Indian winter, nut-brown Maine-woods day that was just made for walking. But the seven survivors were as fit as fiddles.

"Ten miles and not a request for a corn plaster, Fellow soldiers, I am proud of you," said Chief Organizer major General Rosalie Gardner Jones. "Today was but a bracer. Tomorrow we shall not rest until we pause beneath the classic outlines of Sing Sing. is it not so?"

"It is," answered the other six and there was not a quaver in a single voice. The seven were Rosalie Jones, Jennie Hardie Stubbs, Ida A. Craft, lavinia Dock, Helen Hoy Greeley, Frances Lang, Sibyl Wilbur.

There was to have been a rousing meeting that night in the fire house at Irvington. To hold a meeting it was necessary to exclude the fire engine. The fire engine must have had anti-leanings, for when a few of the reporters made as though to haul it out of its comfortable berth it just simply spread all over the place and wouldn't budge an inch.

Wherefore there was no meeting and the hikers got to bed at 9 o'clock.

"Our next stop is Ossinning, " decisively said General Jones just before setting the alarm clock. "And they'll be seven of us gathered about the commissary department tomorrow night."   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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