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Show WOMEN ACTIVE IN POLITICS Automobiles Supplied and Managed and Thousands of Hungry Watchers Fed. New York, Nov. 5. Women took a more active part in election work here yesterda than they have ever done before i Hi iding the city into sections, sec-tions, some ol the women supplied and managed automobiles which carried car-ried men to and from the polls and others helped to feed thousands of hungry watchers, while thuse who were not enraged in ministering to the voters tried to take straw ballots to tr to learn how the men stood on the suffrage question. Miss Dorothy Perkins, daughter ol George W. Perkins, was one of several sev-eral wcimen who were conspicuous as workers for the Honest Ballot association as-sociation Miss Perkins had an uptown up-town headquarters, acted as despatching despatch-ing agent for more than a score of automobiles which were kept bus conveying lawyers to polling places where voters were challenged. Dr. Mary Halton led a band of yellow-sashed yellow-sashed women who took up their ' ,,d i Columbus circle where they induced 1500 men to sign for their cause Mrs J Borden Harrlman was one of the leaders among a group of women who distributed Io00 sand wlches to the men at work oat the polls. The roost Interested woman 4i the campaign, however, was un doubtedly Mrs. John Purroy Mltchol, who had shared with her young husband hus-band his confidence of election as mayor. While the rerurns were coming com-ing in justifying this confidence. Mrs. .Mlt. hoi was a happy hostess last evening eve-ning at their hoime on Riverdale drive, to a party of friends |