taxpayers of that village on July 19, 1868, to
vote upon the question of levying a tax of $6,000 for the purpose
of making and repairing highways and sidewalks, and for sundry
other public improvements. Over sixty per cent. of the real-estate
owners being women, they resolved upon asserting their right to a
voice in the matter, and issued a call for a meeting, signed by the
following influential ladies: Mrs. M. J. Law, Mrs. H. H. Leaver,
Mrs. Olive Leaver, Mrs. J. Haggerty, Mary H. Macdonald, Mrs.
Dorothy Ferguson, Mrs. M. J. Farrand, Mrs. Jeanette Oron, Mrs.
Thirza Clark, Mrs. S. J. Clark, Mrs. Nettie Morgan, Mrs. D. Downs,
Miss L. M. Hale, Miss Susie Law, Mrs. Celia Pratt, Mrs. Sabra
Talcott, Mrs. Mary Wilkie, Mrs. Elizabeth Latham, Mrs. Mary C.
Brown, Mrs. J. M. Lockwood, Mrs. May Howe, Mrs. Adaline Baylis,
Mrs. J. Harper, Miss Elizabeth Eaton, Miss C. Frederiska Scharft,
Mrs. S. A. Hathaway, Mrs. Margaret Hick, Mrs. Rebecca Dimmic, Mrs.
Catharine Alphonse, Miss Julia Cheney, Mrs. E. Watkins, Mrs. L. M.
Pease, Mrs. Margaret Coles, Mrs. Ruth Smith, Mrs. Mary A. Douglas,
Mrs. Sarah Valentine, Mrs. H. C. Jones, Mrs. J. Tomlinson, Mrs.
Amanda Carr, Mrs. Margaret Wooley, Mrs. S. Seeber, Mrs. B. Powers,
Mrs. S. A. Waterhouse, Mrs. H. M. Smith. But notwithstanding the
numbers, wealth, and social influence of the women, their demand
was rejected, while hundreds of men, who had never paid a dollar's
tax into the village treasury, were permitted to deposit their
votes, though challenged by friends, and well known to the officers
as not possessors of a foot of real estate.

[205] The Working Women's Association was organized in New York,
September 17, 1868, with Mrs. Anna Tobitt, _President_;
Miss Augusta Lewis, Miss Susan Johns, Miss Mary Peers.
_Vice-Presidents_; Miss Elizabeth C. Browne, _Secretary_, and Miss
Julia Browne, _Treasurer_. The three vice-presidents were young
ladies of about twenty. Miss Lewis worked upon a newly invented
type-setting machine.

[206] "Sergeant Robinson, of the Twenty-sixth Precinct, made a raid
on the abandoned women patroling the park last evening. At 11 p. m.
six unfortunates were caged." Thus runs the record. Will some one
now be kind enough to tell us whether Sergeant Robinson, or any
other sergeant, made a raid upon the abandoned men who were
patrolling Broadway at the same hour? Did any one on that night,
or, indeed, upon any other night, within the memory of the oldest
Knickerbocker,