New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-07
BIG CROWDS CHEER
\ SUFFRAG|ST PARADE
A Feature ihe Banners Showing
NumberIesS Occupations of
Women of To-day.
MEN ALSO I'M LINE OF MARCH
Girls from Smith and Vassar
and Babies Share Interest
with Oldtimers Too
Feeble to Walk.

make this parade look ridiculous III
never forgive you. IN come right down
to your office and go for you good
This admonition was delivered Icy an
'old lady in white lawn and an old-fash-
toned blac.. bonnet, and it concerned
the woman's suffrage parade Of yester-
dav afternoon She was too excited then
over the first parade Of her seventy years
to know it. but her warning was un-
needed. one cannot ridicule ones grand
mother. one may be pardoned for
"iollying" sister Mary a home. but
when she appears in her cap and gown
with three hundred of her fellow gradu-
stes. she. too. is not to be ridiculed; nor
Is the trim stenographer who carries a
banner telling of the four great nations
and the half a dozen states that have
recognized the demands she makes in
this state.
1t was not spirit Of Iidicule that ami
mated the crowds that lined Fifth ave-
nue. Yesterday from 57th TO 18th street
10 watch the militant suffragists in their
march Of protest. 1t was not such
spirit that brought John Bigelow.
nincty-three years old. out in his auto
mobile to watch the parade from its
start 10 its end. or that kept ex-Fire
chief Croker leaning from his Office win
dow. al 10Th street and Fifth avenue;
or that called out the cheers from the
men that rolled along with the head of
the procession for the whole two and
one-haif miles Of the march.
Mrs Danforth need not have feared.
Mrs. Emma Butterworth Danforth.
seventy years old. of Cincinnati. she was,
and she marched the entire distance
from 57th street 10 Union Square and
then sat for an hour and a half in the
stand and listened to the speeches de-
manding votes for women.
At 70 Fighting TO Free" Women.
81 belong to the Virginia Butter
worths" she said My family freed their
slaves and moved to Ohio. My mother
was Nancy Butterworth. She lived TO be
ninety-fve years old. and she fought for
fOrty-fve years for the freedom of the
slaves am fighting for freedom for
women 1t is a demand that will never
he stilled until it is satisfied.
Il came all the way from Ohio 10
march in this parade" she continued.
"and have marched the whole way. The
CnIY I fn, ic no N
last longer. Wasn't il fine? | am sew
enty years old. and it is the first parade
ever marched in. Wasn't it fine? Didn't
YOU think it was fine"
Her eyes snapped and sparkled like a
girls The answer could be only Yes.
and there was no grudging Of i.
Mrs. Danforth though. was only one
Of the many interesting features OF the
parade Of which the college women, in
their caps and gowns, We're the most
dienifcd asset. ana the little band Of
militant men the most enlvening, with
the possible eXceI ton of J. w. TeTWilN
ger. who marched in the centre of the
representatives OF the 23d Assembly
District. and the lonely man carrying the
banner a. the head of the Brooklyn dele
cation.
Terwiliger started out bravely enough.
The women wanted him to march with
the mems club. but he said that he was
militant suffragist and wanted to
march with the women and show his
,olors plainly. 1t was a good start in the
front row. but as the procession moved
Gown from 5Ith street. TerWlliger faded
back until hc was IN the middle OF the
middle row Of the delegation, surrounded
on all sides by brave women and only
occasionally 10 be distinguished as he
fcrgot and took a full length step.
a Mere Man in the Ranks.
Tho man from Brooklyn carried the
banner If the delegation. and had to stay
IN front \ woman marched on either
SIDE of him hut half pace behind. and
ne stood forth ia plain view. To- bc the
target for tn" crowds. Even heavy
mustschc could not conceal the mutter-
ines Of revolt and there was no attempt
t. hide the deep scOwl.
But il was when the delegation from
the Mems Equal Franchise Suffrage
League came that the crowd let loose
everything il had. Terwiliger and
Brooklyn had only whetted the appetite
Frederick Nathan. James Lees Laidlaw
and Professor John Dewey led the chargo
aud ,arriod the banner. while two hun
drcd pcrspirnc men followed, in more
o. less regular formation. and listened t'
the cries and comments, of which Liz
zic was the kiudcsi.
lu their midst was a wavering banner
with the inscription:
There is word that is dearcr than
Home or Mother or Country: that u
Liberty"
OF course. there were banners alnos'
without number demanding votes fol
women and every marcher carried h"'
votes FOR women penrant. but the mos
Interesting We're those dcnOting the oc
cupaiions cf the women marching De
hind them. They were all Of SIX ah'
worked b. hand Many "onths mus
have been devoted To the preparation i"i
tse march of yesterday; and TO the aver
age man in the crowd the banners wei'
d revelation as To the varying occula
tons Of women to-day.
There were flags for lawyers, cNplof
crs, ministers, travellers. aeronautS
teachers. doctors. architects, farmers
actresses, iainters, musicians, sculptors
writer's. editors and journalists. traihe'
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