New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-14
MOBS OF WOMEN
BESIEGE COMMONS
ONE CARRIED OUT FROM
FLOOR OF HOUSE.
Debate Intcwupted-Fire Thousand
Police Kept Busy-T5centyfour
SufragcttcS ArreSt6d.

London. oct. 13-The climax Of the suffra-
gette campaign was reached tonight when an
enormous mob hemmed in Parliament and
stopped the traffic in all streets leading 20
Westminster. For more than three hours the
crowds scufTcd good naturedy with the police
interfered with theatregoers broke windows and
disorganized things generally in the centre Of
London.
The heroine Of the day. from su~raEe,te
point Of view was Mrs Travors Symons for
merly secretary 10 James Kelr Hardie. tho 81
cialist member Of Parliament. She reached tho
door of the House of Commons by strategy The
House was -soemn1y debating bin prevent
children from cigarette smoking when the
dashed past the doorkecper 20 A position
in front Of the Speakers chair and shouted
shrilIy: Leave off discussing children and talk
about the women
Three officials seized Mrs Svrnons and carried
her out bodily. She was then led to the outer
door and dismissed. An order issued that
hereafter should not he admitted 10 the
building any rrotext whatever. and in the
future the grille will not screen feminine spec
tators
The appeal issued by the sunragettes rev
days ago for fifty thousand persons To help
them rush" Parliament at T.3O o'clock this
evening was their most successful stroke Twice
that number responded 10 the call. and nine
tenths Of these persons young people who
came 10 see the fun. There were also a Few
hundreds Of the unemployed and their SYM
pathizers.
Parliament in state Of siege 4 close
triple line Of police drawn around the three
sides Of the square in front OF the building The
yard within the gates swarnled with police. and
two hundred OF them guarded the terrace in the
rear against assault by water. which the women
twice attempted A small feet Of police boats
also patrolled the Thames approaches.
All the mounted police in London and sub
urhs had been modified at this centre and
loads Of hay were unstacked in the streets for
the horses The whole police force. together
with cavalry infantry and marines. numbering
more than five thousand. kept busy In re-
straining the pushing. struggling masses. espe-
cially about Trafalgar Square. where the Mel
son Monument lowered above dense crowds in
all directions, with buses. motor cars and cabs.
mostly filled with sightseers, trying to thread
their way through.
The police at times used the motor buses as
battering rams TO break the crowds.
The police kept the streets adjoining the House
Of Commons clear; elsewhere they endeavored
to the best Of their ability to keep the people
moving
hooted giving expression TO all the sarcastic re-
marks which a London crowd is capable Of.
These were aimed in a sem-good natured man
ner at the suffragettes. who. distinguished by
their orange sashes. swarmed everywhere. dis
tributing tracts.
A delegation of thirteen suffragcttes. which
annroached the police Gordon and to which ad-
mission TO Parliament formally refused. at
ten,uted a football rush. but the police ChivaI-
ro,,eIv repulscd the women with the least pos
.irIa roughness Two bodies OF the unemployed
however which approached the line driven
of with little ceremony, one across the West
Minister Bridge and the other to St. James's
PARK The police pelted with vegetables
and Sc, stones in few minor skirmishes.
t,,+ M one was seriously hurt. Twenty four
en- erraqettes and twelve Of the unemployed were
r,aced under arrest. Many persons tainted in
The crush: q few were trampled upon and taken
to the hcspitpls-
Mrs, Pankhurst, Miss Christabe Pankhurst
and Mrs Lawrence. who were summonsed yes
+orda, for incitin; a breach Of the peace, coolly
refused this morning to obey the summons. but
agreed to surrender themselves at o'clock in
the evening" which they did. spending the night
in the Bow street station.
The suffragettes and unemployed have kept
practically the whole police force duty con-