Show oman Office Holder Tells I Plans at Suffragette T Tea e z S. S Among Amon the V YORK Tan Jan tees of or Mayor Mayor John Purroy tho the oath of o office c si cl l who took lay day was Miss riss Dement theof tho the I the woman to become of ill a New Net York Cit City department ivis wis after her induction into theof the tho of commissioner of corrections ho he guest st at a 8 Now New Years Year's tea toa 0 of or oman Suffrage o party at its beadra head bead TB re She let lct it be known that shered she cd red to tolerate nothing inhuman treatment of prisoners and that het help an any proper inquiry into o or of city prisons know that than man many of the city's are overcrowded hiss Da Davis Dais DavisI is isI I lImo know don doubling bling- bling up exists I a souren of serious evil But lust remember that the tho wardens receive e the tho prisoners sent tont to Davis declared she sho did not lIol want meant 1 I the tho fact that she was as a woman noman to aid her in accomplishing reforms reform or orin orin orin in obtaining concessions front irom the dIe cit city government for her department At the suffrage tea teat Dr Davis was claimed as a suffragist anti ami she sho admitted ad ad- muted that she sho sympathized f with j ith the Her Her mother believed in suffrage she explained and ana her grandmother grandmother grand grand- mother was a member of tho the pioneer soup grollI of suffragists that included Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others Dr Davis Dais is not ra radical ical She has no no faith in the minimum wage as a panacea for tho the social evil Of her work ork of twelve years ears as head bend of ot the tho Bedford Now how York reformatory she sho said I began work feeling n sure that if you treated an erring girl kindly kindl without without with with- out sentiment but hut with sympathy if you ou remedied tho the deficiencies in hi her ber etli at thus making her efficient I anti and put ab au honest living Ji her 1 reach by teaching her a trade you would be C meeting her half wa way and that if Jf you ou went half way she ho would probably come the tho other half to meet you eu Dr Davis Davit as commissioner of or corrections corrections cor cor- will have havo power to appoint wardens of jails an and city prisons and other administrative officers cers of the corrections corrections cor cor- I department |