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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday October 8, 1908
Chicago, Illinois – Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jones
Mrs. J. A. Jones, better know as Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, New York’s “East Side Joan of Arc,” was recently photographed wearing a “long, romantic cape” and standing next to her husband whom she married in Two Harbors, Minnesota, ten months ago.
From The Spokane Press of October 7, 1908:
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Special Correspondence to The Press
CHICAGO, Oct 7.-On a freight train, all the way from New York came “Miner” J. A. Jones and his wife to attend the annual convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, at Brand’s hall, North Clark and Erie streets.
Mrs. Jones was better known as Elizabeth Gurley Flynn before she married Jones. The couple met at the Haywood trial [note: not true, they met at the 1907 I. W. W. Convention], and were wed last January.
Jones and his wife came from Philadelphia to Chicago in 55 hours via freight, a record any cinder studded “bo” might be proud of.
The attendance at the first day’s session of the I. W. W. was about 75. “there would be more here,” announced Delegate “Gavel” St. John, “but a great many brakemen are unaccommodating.”
The organization has 30,000 members, hundreds being socialists who see in the movement the strengthening of their cause. Among the thousands not one is more prominent than Mrs. Jones, who in New York is hailed as the “East Side Joan of Arc.” Attired in jaunty felt hat and a long, romantic cape such as Rosalind might have worn in the forest of Arden, she captivates thousands of earnest thinkers with her forceful eloquence.
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SOURCE & IMAGE
The Spokane Press
(Spokane, Washington)
-Oct 7, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/194788180
See also:
Rosalind (As You Like It)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_(As_You_Like_It)
Hellraisers Journal – Thursday October 1, 1908
Chicago, Illinois – I. W. W. Convention “Running Full Blast”
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Western Overall Brigade Present at Chicago Convention of IWW
Re EGF:
The Rebel Girl
-by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
International Publishers, 1973
https://libcom.org/history/rebel-girl-autobiography-my-first-life-1906-26
https://books.google.com/books?id=JawEAQAAIAAJ
Note: EGF met Jack Jones at the 1907 IWW Convention,
she did not attend the Haywood trial, see page 83.
https://libcom.org/files/rebel-girl-autobiography.pdf
Note: On page 86 EGF describes the hat and the cape:
My mother [Annie Gurley Flynn] had made me a red broadcloth cape, which I wore, with a broad-brimmed gray hat, for several winters. It kept me warm and was quite picturesque. Somebody gave me a pair of red silk stockings, but I never wore them. They were considered immodest and indecent, worn only in burlesque shows. No “good woman” wore silk stockings in those days. Black cotton was the conventional hosiery attire.
Note: according to “Rebel Girl” page 86, Jones “hoboed” his way out to Chicago” while EGF earned money for the fare to Chicago through speaking engagements in Philadelphia.
Note: EGF was pregnant at this time. Not sure how far along she was due to the baby’s premature birth. The baby was born before Jan 1, 1909. On pages 86-87 she describes life with Jones in Chicago during “that hard winter,” and the birth and death of their baby boy:
We moved to Oak Street, on the North Side [of Chicago]. We had a back room next to the kitchen which was heated by a small gas stove. The landlady was extremely kind and gave us credit on our rent during that hard winter. Jones got a job shoveling coal…
One morning, after Jack had left for his coal shoveling job, I was gripped with excruciating pains. Finally, I knocked on the folding doors between our room and the front room which was occupied by Ben Williams and another IWW…[Ben] immediately surmised that I had labor pains and called the landlady, who got a neighborhood doctor. The baby was born prematurely a few hours later. Jones came home, but the baby boy, whom we had named John Vincent, died in the night. All I remember of this fleeting first child of mine was his big blue eyes-opened wide on a world so soon to be forsaken. We were grief-stricken…
We were in debt and owed the landlady, the doctor and undertaker. On New Year’s Day, I only had three cents to buy a post card and stamp to write to my mother….
Note: re wedding in Two Harbors, MN:
-EGF & Jack Jones were married Jan 7, 1908:
Minnesota Official Marriage System
https://moms.mn.gov/
Hellraisers Journal, Friday February 14, 1908
New York, New York – Young Socialist Returns to Parent’s Home
Honeymoon of Elizabeth Flynn & Jack Jones Halted, Will Rejoin Comrade Husband in Spring
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