Bad Roads Too Much
for a Suffragette. . . Representative of National Woman’s Party Has Horrible
Experience in Auto Between Elizabeth City and Norfolk
A large audience assembled at the Alkrama Theatre at 3 o’clock
last Sunday to hear Miss Mary Winsor of the National Woman’s Party discuss the
subject of equal suffrage, missed a corking good speech on the subject of bad
roads. Miss Winsor missed her train out of Norfolk Sunday morning and attempted
to get to Elizabeth City in an automobile, being assured by two jitney drivers
that they could bring her thru for $25. Leaving Norfolk at 10:30 o’clock Sunday
morning, Miss Winsor got within four miles of Elizabeth City by 4 o’clock that
afternoon, after having been pulled out of the mud three different times. She
finished the journey into Elizabeth City thru the kindly co-operation of an old
Negro a mule and a cart.
And so the standard bearer for the Woman’s National Party,
whose emblem is white, purple and gold, made her anything but triumphal entry
into Elizabeth City at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon, too late to get her audience
by the tail. Miss Winsor is a veteran suffragist and one of the ablest speakers
in the cause. She has traveled all over Europe and has crossed and recrossed
the American continent in the cause of suffrage, and this was the first time
she ever missed a lecture engagement. She has promised to write an account of
her experience for this newspaper and it promises to be a lively contribution
to the literature on North Carolina roads.
Miss Winsor was disappointed but not daunted. She says she
will come to Elizabeth City again and get that speech off on an Elizabeth City
audience, spite of our impassable roads.
In the absence of Miss Winsor, Sunday afternoon’s audience
was pleasantly entertained by local talent. Mrs. Fred W. Simons sang two
numbers, accompanied by Mrs. I.M. Meekins at the piano. Secretary Case of the Chamber
of Commerce made a 30-minute speech.
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