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t, ywy PWAi w ; ' W' TttE WASHINGTON HERALD. TUESDAY. MARCH 4. 1913. -' -- v.&vlfv ';- BIG PAGEANT IS UNPROTECTED Continued from Fare One, stroyed the symmetry of a pecteJeJo which some of the sreatest women of the world had ijlven their time, energy, their best endeaor. Tho paraders, both those afoot and those a-horse ard In carriages and floats, were Jostled, Insulted, almost spat upon as jtha crowds en eloped them In a pres sure that at times went far beyond the point of discomfort and became a dan ger, whose full effects cannot J et be est!' mated. Time and time again the paraders were completely stopped for many minutes. Wicn they moved forward their progress was a dead march along the meager found that lies between two steel rails of a car track. Why that slender lino of freedom was intermittently given them cannot be ascertained. It was a mon splendid procession of women in equal gmiraire history that buffeted its -nay westward along one of the ery widest streets in the country through the greatest aggregation of spec tators that e.er urned out In Washing ton. Humanity Packs Avenue, At least a quarter of a million tried to occupy Tcnrsjlvanla Avenue solidly, "without a break, from the front row of the grand stands on the North side of the Aenue to the grand stands on the bouth bide Near the main reviewing stand, at the south entrance to the Treasury, there was a constant succession of crushes that followed each attempt of the police, mounted, in automobiles. and afoot, and of tho special police men, a handful of troopers from I'ort Myer, and Boy Scouts to make a new opening for the broken sections of th parade to squeczn through. In tho short stretch of rennylanla Aenue between Klecnth and rifteenth Streets more thanthlrtj women and girls were taken out of the press and carried to Emergence Hospital at Fifteenth Street and New Tork Avenue. In a fainting condition in less thnn an hour. W Oman's Toot Mn tided. One woman was carried into the same hospital in the meantime with her foot b-idl mangled by th shod hoof of a mounted policeman s horse Automobiles that tried to butt tho crowd back in adance of the proces sion ran oer innumerable toes A din of squeal- lionklncs of path-rtnd-!n7 automobile manned h plain clothes men jells and curses from men, the cries of mounted and foot policemen who brandished their Ion1? clubs In the funllght above the head"" of the strugglinfr mases all merged Into one uproar alnnt? the mil" or more the paraders tried to march The moment thn automobile1 at the head of the lino had cleared a narrow path tho orottd. once the the police anil the head cf the line had passed, would ooze in again I-ate comer?, headed for box scats in automobi! s or on foot, came to a dead stop acalnit a curb to curb wide bank of liumanlt, whn the late arrivals tried to entir the tnue to their grand Hands from th cros streets And before the parade luid happed along at all two au tomobiles In h.ch were Mrs Taft and llis Taft and a iminb r of their wom en friends w n hopelessly held up b the mobs at the Southeast comer of the Treasur. Few r, cognized Mrs. Taft or 1 er daughter among the mobs of visitor; and seemlnglv none at all among the -malI bojs whs otherwise might hae be haved better, the mob leaned heavily upon the gunwales of the Taft automo biles and made flippant but good natured Iiniiiiries as to the health of Mrs Taft. her daughter and friends In a scrip, of cidow loucmng taiKs mat lastea until s waj final!1- was cleared for the ma chines nut iT the police a-rangrments wen derangtd b the crowds the arrange. ments .f the equal suffrage women in charge of the procession as usual were on the mmw NevcrtheksR the parade did not get started down at tho 1'eare Monument in front of the Capitol until 3 20 o'clock. Crowd Arrlvo Hnrly. Hours before the suffrage parade moved along on its one mile marLh huge crowds lined the streets through winch it would pass and puhed and Jostled for vantage I oUIons Tho crowd that fought to witness the equal franchise demonstration exceeded In size anj that had ever witnessed an Inaugural parade Store windows seats and seats in hastilv erected grand Uands nlong the line of march brought prices nimost equal to those paid for privileges of seeing the inaugural parade to-morrow Manv of the carlv arrivals brought their luncl Others patronized the suf frage sandwich venders, who disposed of 4 '000 ham and cheese sandwiches to the ln.ngrv multitude AH that part of Washington and Bal timore and the t Irglnla side of tho To tomar, not to mention a bis Prt of the IS0 0O0 or more visitors m toan for to dav s high jinks, who were unable to Jam Into Pennsjlvauia Avenuo ahead of th rarade, seemed to flock about Capitol Hill and the broad steps at the west side of the Capitol building itself to see the gav- tostumed women marchers and riders and tho glittering floats wheeling into positions around the Peace Monu ment below. lllesftcd b) fiOod " cnther. High up where the white down gleamed in the sunlight against a sky of bright est blue, little black specks of humanity fringed the circular railing atop the Cap itol dome nd highest above these th. hawks that like to sail lazilv- over Wash lngton warped their monoplanes and vol planed close, but not too close to get a good look at tho gavcty on the as pha.lt below Word had gone out that en students from Georgetown Unlversltj collegiate department were waiting up the line, each with a pasteboard box under his arm. and each box containing ten live mice, which were to be liberated among the women marchers and bust up tho proceedings. Preparations to st n t tho procession went on Just the same When the mice storr reached Capitol Hill at least two policemen in the reporters iti,ge of vision got hold of trouser clips, such as bicyclists wear, and made th lower end of their trousers mouse-proof "If anv one lets anj mice loose hern. ' said a plain clothes man an hour later in one of the automobiles butting a way at the head of the line, "all I say Is that In this crush Lord help them mice " Horsewomen who rode like crack cava! rmen galloped jll over that part of the District of Columbia where the parade was forming during tho-e early hours of forming line Automobiles of other wom en officials of the procession zipped across lots while the bebadged occupants stood tip in the tonneaus shouting sharp orders through megaphones that promptly were obej ed Oh. I say' Girls, girls, Where's Austro Hungar) ? Where s Norway, girls? Nor waj. sou fail In back of Iceland. Austro Hungary. joifrc to stand here and then fall In " Frrcss DcflCM Sentiment, Mrs. Ida Wells Bamctt. a brilliant ncgress, who is ono of the leaders of hr race and has lectured in the cause of the negro man and woman through out Europo and America, had come from Chicago to parade with tho Illinois dele gation of women, but some of the march ers from States farther South had ob jected to her presence when the Kortk and th South -cere lining up aie by side to await their plaoea In the Una, Wherefore, Mrs. Barnett quietly stepped aside and now stood back among onlook ers. "But th Illinois women want me to march In their BecUon." she smiled to the reporter, "and I shall. Illinois Is Lincoln's State, you know. I don't be lieve Lincoln's State la going to permit Alabama or Georgia or any other State to begin to dictate to It now. Aa Illinois comes along I'll Join them." and Mrs. Bamett did. Grand Marshal Burleson, who is the young wife of Lieut. HIehard Burleson, of the army, rounded the turn at the Peace Monument at the starting gun. with MJss MUlholland, Mlsa Hill and a troop of mounted girl aids In black rifling bsblts, leading the way Just back of the MaryvMe girls' band, from Mis souri niovinir tho national air. And once these leading horsewomen of the parade bad come Into the Avenue ana saw tho solid pavement 01 soim """" heads stretching without a break all the way westward to the Treasury, where the parade iru to break up after passing the main reviewing ataxia, inu i iMifftp. .Innnnl xehslt. The police. Instead of clearing the way earlier, now frantically inea u" " throwing a line of automobiles with mounted men along each curb and start forward half a block ahead of tho pro cession The front ranks of the crowd, where there seemed to be as many wom en and babies in arms along the firing line as men, were more than anxloua to climb backward over themaeives once the broad line of auiomooues ana mntmM nnllos began to charge. But thousands and tens of thousands were banked against the front rows and the throngs could be wedged backward only very slowly. Days ago requests had been made for army cavalrymen and militia to police the Avenue. The regulars didn't seem to favor the idea of so Important a branch of the eovernment as their own doing police duty for a suffrage parade. Gov ernors or elates. UKewise wojiq wov icuu their troons for the purpose. When, however, things got n. little wprse than the worst to-day. the armv was appealed to again and at the last minute two troops of cavalry from Fort Mver clat tered up before tho review Ins stand In front of the Sherman statue near tha Treasurv. much to the Jov of the municipal police and specials, and helped to sort out properlv a bit of the mesa In front of tho main reviewing stand The regulars gave the procession from this point, on around the north side of the Ellipse back of the White House, a fairly clear path But the tangle to the east resulted In a disjointed parade that passed tho reviewing stand In broken, disjointed sections. And once the marchers had got around the Ellipse to the disbanding point. Just bejond, maybe they didn't say their say about th,. Washington police and the oaths ana drunken revlilngs that at many points had assailed them TnbTcnnr Is Blc Teatnre. The suffrage parade took shape simul taneously at two different points The pageant proper, presented bv a tableaux of over a hundred classically garbed women, tvplfjing Faith. Hope. Charltv, Justice. Liberty, Columbia. Gov ernment and kindred subjects, was staged on the broad terrace of the Treas ury Building Among the women taking part in this portion of the suffrage celebration were Mme lledwlg Belcher, the German actress. Flora Wilson, daughter or mo Secretary of Agriculture. Florence Flem ing Noves. tho clas-ic dancer. Miry Shaw, the Shakespearean actress. Foil I-a. Follette. daughter of Senator 1. Fol- ktte. and manv other noted public per formers, all of whom held svm&oIKal pnes during tLeir revlw of tho mile long procession The parade formed about the l'eaee Monument, whi u stands at the foot of the Capitol terrace, at the lower end of Pennsylvania avenue. It was headed bv- the grand marshal. Mrs. BJchard Coke Burleson She w is clothed in sctni mllltarv attlro and sat her horse like a field marshal of Napoleon's Old Guard. Mrs Burleson is the wifo of Capt. Bur leson of the regular armv. Next came Miss Inez MUlholland, also mounted She was the herald for the parade and was dressed in robes of jellon surmounted bv n great purplo banner, whose staff fitted Into a stlrup cup and rose above her head Following Miss MUlholland came ten ushers, robed in light blue and gold and carrying e!Iow and blue pennants Young girls mostly of 'Washington, ap peared in tills group Thev marched on foot, preparing the Way for the officers of the National American Woman Suf frage Association. In this vanguard of the parade was the ' Amendment Float." which ("pro claimed the reason and purpose of the whole pageant, it waa a huge wagon, amply decorated and carrying the legend. "We Demand ad Amendment to tne uou stltutlon of the United States Knfran chhdng the Women tjf the Country." It waa greeted with tremendoua applause along the line or march. Officers on Horseback. Leading these offleers as they strode along waa their president, the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw. A pace or two behind Miss Shaw were Miss A. Anita 'Whitney. of California, second vice preeldont of the National Association, and Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, or New Tork, correspond Ing secretary. Behind these came Mrs. Susan Walker Fitzgerald, of Boston, re cording aecretary: Mrs. Katherlao Dexter McCormlclc, of Boston, treasurer; Mrs. Harriet Burton Laldlaw. of New Tork city, nrst auditor, and Mrs J. T. Bowen. or Chicago, second auditor of the asso ciation The District of Columbia Seoond Regi ment Band followed playing a martial air. Then came forty young glrla attired In light blue and gold, acting as body- guara icrr uie leasers or the cause, and followed by a mounted brigade comnosed of Washington women garbed In long capes 01 goiaen tan A huge sign banner waa next In line. It bore the legend, "Women of the World. Unite." and waa carried by two sturdy suffragists. A banner bearing the words. "Countries Where Women Have Fun Suf frage," followed, and Introduced a long series of floats ymbolio of the nations or the world which have bestowed equal suffrage upon their men and women- Norway came first. The wagon bearing tne platform, on which stood the figures dressed in Norwegian costume, waa driven Dy a woman, as were all of those which followed. Finland. New Zealand, and Australia were depicted by the next floats. "Countries Where Women Have Partial Suffrage" waa the legend udoh the ban ner which followed the Australian float. and Swedish people appeared on the mov ing stage Which next aooeared. Then came Denmark, and Iceland. Behind each float marched ten -rlrls In the native cotume of the nations represented Leads Canadian Women. Mrs. riora MaoDonald Dcnnlson. presi dent of tho Canadian Suffrage Associa tion, i-omm.anaed the Great Britain float. one of tho most Impressive In the pageant Behind this marched three rlrls for Wales, live girls for Scotland, five, for Ireland, seven for Canada and three for inaia. tne various contingents attired in tho distinctive costumes worn in these several lands. Then came the Belgian float, which preceded ten girls dressed in the clothing 01 i tanners. A banner bearing the label. "Countries Where Women Are Working for Suf frage ' was the next in line Then fol lowed banners and floats tvplcal of th nations represented. Among them were Great Britain. Trance. Germany. East Indian provinces, European provinces, countries of the South Seas and many others The second section of the parade was also led hy a gorgcouslv robed herald. Miss Janet Burns, of New York, earn ing a purple banner The section por travrd "the seventy-five years' struggle for freedom of Justice Conquering Pre judice " A brass band and a mounted brigade followed "Pioneers" In l.tne. The "pioneers" of the cause, eight In number, with ages aggregation C3 years, followed In automobiles Miss Louisa vv hlte. of Washington, led the "pioneers rafle waa led by a herald on horseback, blowing triumphantly upon a trumpet. She waa garmented In yellow robea and carried a, purple banner. Another band followed, and then camo r, green-caped mounted brigade, the Virginia division. commanded by Mrs. A. B. Whitney. A banner bearing the legend, "Man and Woman Make the State." "Man Alone Rules the State," followed with mora banners bearing Inscriptions. Then came a huge float labelled "In the Feld." A man in snuff brown clothing enacted by Kercheval Smith and a worn an In golden brown. Miss MaryrX. Deck er. Jr.. rode upon It. holding agricultural Implements. Women farmers follow ed them afoot, carrying a banner reading: "The Homemakera: We Pre pare Our Children for the State. Let Us Help to Prepare the State for Our Chil dren. Women Have Free Bathers. Let Men Have Free Mothera" The float which followed this confession of faith bore a man garbed In Quaker gray and a woman In gray with a green cloak. The boy with them wore gray and a green cape. Homemakera followed, and they also were dressed In gray. On the home- makers' float were Mlsa Eunice Hoffman. Miss Pauline Coleman, and Herbert W. Cornell. Mrs. William Eturtevant Moore led the marchers In this division. "In Patriotic Service." Tho next banner gave the title of "In Patrtotlo BcrvJce," to the float that fol lowed bearing a soldier and a nurse, both In blue uniforms. Nurses In blue trudged behind. Miss May Howard and William George took th part of nurse and soldier. Mounted nurses following the float were led by Miss PrisclIIa Page, mounted, and Miss Lillian Wald, marching. The nurses were recruited from Washington hospi tals. In "Education." the next float. Mlsa Margaret Page and Maurice Cohen repre sented man and woman teachers. They were follcwed by a large section t college women, led by Miss Eliza Hardy Lord, the first woman to attend college In America. Mrs Ellen Spencer Mussey. of the Washington College of Law, commanded next division . Edgar Leedy and Miss Rebecca Blaine, in law.virs raps and gowns, car ried on the next float, which followed a banner reading, ' In the Practice of the Law." Women lawyers pleaded their case by walking behind In the float. "Tho Practice of Med icine, wero Prs. May D Baker and Daniel S. Lamb. Dr A. Frances Foye, of Washington, led the marching physi cians Wage earners nnd banners followed the medical and labor floats, on which were Miss Ruth Fuller and John Brodle, and then camn moving stages telling the labor storv, "Greed and Tyranny" were Svmbolically depleted and "Indifference" was also shown Factory women and children stood beside them as their Ic- tlms. "Man Needs Her Help. But She Can not Give It." declared the next banner, which Introduced the Government float, on which wee Mrs Nora Todd Gold stone and Hunter Moss This showed man bearing tho state upon his shoul ders He wns shown as rather worn out by his task and the float was de signed to glvo tho spectators the impres sion that he was scarcely able to handle the matter, anyway Woman was shown standing beside him with her hands hopelessly tied RuslnraN Women March. Tho fourth section of tho parade rep resented the appeal of the business and professional woman for tho ballot A body of women emplojed by the Govern IMS," which depicted tha first woman's rights convention In tha United States, that In Rochester, N. T. Then came a mounted brigade and a float with a legend. "Nino States of Light Among Thirty-Nine of Darkness." The National Council of Woman Voters followed. They were led by Dr. Cora Kins, mounted. The National Men's League for Woman's Suffrage was led by James Lees Laldlaw, Its president. The seventh section was led by del egations from States working for woman suffrage. Four golden chariots, representing Montana, New Tork, Nevada and South Dakota, followed, and then a woman's brass band, and the pilgrims, led by Oon. Rosalie Jones. Delegations from all the other States followed. A float bearing the banner Inscribed, "The First 8Ute to Grant Property Rights to Woman," came next, followed by a float from Missouri, with a ban ner. "Suffrage for Missouri IMC Mlsa Genevieve Clark, daughter of the Speaker of tha House, led the Missouri contingent. State equal suffrage associations fol lowed. 'Liberty Bell" float, on which were Mrs. Martha Scott Conser. of Tennes see, and Miss Janet FlUhugh. of Vir ginia, and Mrs. Ethel McBee, of West Virginia, a State car and a section of pioneers In automobiles closed the pro cession. The parade was more than a mile long and before the last float had left the Peace Monument the van bad arrived at the south front of the Treasury Build lng. Passing In front of the great stage, afforded by the broad stone terrace of the Treasury, the procession waa ro viewed by the "Suffrage Pageant" and then wound Its way past the White House and down Seventeenth Street to the Continental Memorial Hall, a wom an's Institution built by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Here mass meeting waa held and addresses were delivered by the suffragists' leaders The New Freedom section Mrs. Belva Lockwood. the noted mrnt departments In Washington, com- vvashlngton lawvr. onco candidate for the rresldi ncv of the I nlted -Slates. In this section The arst float was labelled 'As it was in ISM " Figures upon this float repre sntcd the pioneers who were present at the dawn or the suffrage movement, while other figures represented tho "srorners" The iloneer advocates were robed in light purple, and the scorners n darker huge of that color Mrs Iarvey W. Wiley, cf W ashlngaoi. was leader on this At at "As it was In 1-.T0' was tho next float, hich showed a pioneer surrounded by fight allies, all robed in light purpl Graco Ross of Washington, waa leader f this float- was In W Miss Katherine Hitchcock, -f Washlngeon, leader, was similarly dcplitc-d. nnd then followed the font 'To-di;-" "Ihls flcat showed a pioneer surrounded 1 thirty .allies, all floit would cam, indicating that there is now no lade of support for tho cause Miss Hazel Roberts, of Washing ton, was leader of this float The third section of the suffrage pa- WOMEN BANISH HUNGER. One of the most Interesting sidelights of the pageant was the portablo lunch- rooms of the Federate Women a Clubs Attired In the garb of tho Puritan maidens, over two hundred members of the federation, many of them antl-suffra-gists. provided coffee and sandwiches, beans and brown bread, to the thousands of weary marchers In the pageant, and to visitors. Two huge moving vans furnished, through the courtesy of one of the large transfer companies, were converted into vertlblo lunchrooms, and kept constantly moving up and down Pennsylvania Ave nue Quick lunch waa also told at a huge tent erected on the lot adjoining Conti nental Hall, and many a weary hiker re ceived a bracing cup of coffee at one of the tables inside While the salo was for the nucleus of a fond to provide a clubhouse for the federation and not for the suffrage cause, suffragists and anti-suffragists and Just plain people crowded around the vans Hnd were generous in their patronage. Five thousand loaves of bread were nec essary to make the JO.000 sandwiches which were sold Besides this, several hundred pounds of ham. cheese, and but ter were used It is estimated that the federation will realize more than $1000 from the sale of sandwiches. Much of the material was donated by the mer chants of the city. Get it to-day at all Book Shops By A book by the new President The first time in our history that a President has given to the country, on the very eve of hi3 inauguration, a full, frank statement of his beliefs and policies. "The New Freedom" breathes a spirit of su preme confidence in the American people. Read it it will inspire you. In its pages you meet the man himself, Woodrow Wilson. Net. $1.00. Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, N. Y. Woodrow Wilson ndtd liv Mis l.ll Ray Glenn A com nanv of Washington business women. Ifd bv Mrs i:. A Newman, followed Behind these came a large band of the public school teachers of W nshlngtnn. led by Miss Ruth M Obcrlv. They were fol-i lowed bv- Mrs W. C Stuart, leading social workers, by librarians, commanded bv Miss Harriet J Hltton, a prominent Washington suffrage worker. "An Enlightened Press Is Making an Enlightened People." was the legend of a float which follow eel the librarians Mrs Helen II Gardner, a noted writer, and Thomas Malnvvarlng. an artist, wire the central figures on this float, the oth ers being Mrs Owen Klldare, wrltr: Mrs Irving Molle-. .artist. Ml-s Tola I.a Toilette, vctrcss, and Mrs llcllc W 11 lotighby Ions, musician The fifth section, representing the ap pral of the States, was composed of marchers not In uniform In this wero Included all the late comers There wens delegations from the woman suffrage States marchers from all the political parties. 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