The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-05-01
BIG PARADE OF
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
WORKERS MAY 6
Shirt Waist Workers and
Society Leaders Will
March Side by Side in
This Demonstration.

The Suffrage Parade to be held on
May 9Th, in New York by the Wom-
ans Political Union promises to be a
great occasion.
The Woman Suffrage Party and the
Collegiate Equal Suffrage League are
cooperating. Many college women
will march. The Bryn Mawr group
alone numbering sixty. Johns Hop
kins University will send a delegation
of women physicians.
The Social Workers will be head
ed by Miss Lillian Valid of the Hen
ry street Settlement, and Mrs. Mary
Sunlishovitch, of Greenwich House.
Mothers, school teachers, doctors,
nurses, college girls, and shirt waist
makers will all march together for
a common cause.
Lest men forget that woman can
be suffragist and mother, there
will be a section composed of moth
ers-Mrs. Richard Aldrich, Mrs. John
Winters Brannan, Mrs. John Rogers,
Jr., Mrs. Livingston Schuyler, and
many others-the leader wearing a
banner with the words: I'VE prepare
children for the world; let us prepare
the world for children"
Among the many banners to be car
ried by the different groups, one will
colored one, draped in black to be
borne by the shirtwaist makers.
Emblems of the various trades
represented will be seen, and will in
clude a model airship, typewriter
will be carried on platform by the
stenographers. Eight Philadelphia
women in full Quaker dress will oc-
cupy a float in the great parade.
They will represent Miss Mary Win
sor's league.
Connecticut, New Jersey and a
large number of other states will be
ThOnnS0n
Seton will lead the Connecticut wo-
men, and in that group also will be
Miss Ely, head of the Ely school for
girls at Greenwich Another head
of fashionable school for girls who
will march is Miss Jessica Finch of
New York. Miss Maude Ingersoll,
daughter of the late Robert q. Inger-
soil, and the Misses Irene and Alice
Lewiston are among those who will
be in line.
Hazel Stanton. Is years old, will
carry a banner in honor of her grand
mother, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The
ensign of Mrs. Miller, another pioneer
is to be born by her grandson, Carl
Miller.
Mrs. Mary Hutchinson Page and a
number of other Massachusetts, wo-
men expect to take part A Henry
the mempbers of the Mems League
and perhaps will be carried by one of
them. Contributions are invited to
cover the cost of making the Julia
Ward Howe, Lucy Stowe and Mary
A. Livermore banners. The contri-
buttons may be sent to the Woman's
Journal, Boston, Mass. The process
sion will start down Fifth avenue
from 57th street at $3.50 p. M, led
by bands, floats and other historical
and musical features. The different
attachments will fall in from side
streets, where they will be stationed.
Arriving at at Union Square a meet
ing will be held with oratory and
song.
The Equal Franchise Society has
voted to join Mrs. Richard Aldrich.
now acting President will march and
SO will Mrs. Egerton Winthrop, Jr.,
who is on the executive board. Mrs.
Philip Lydig. another board member,
cannot march because she is going to
be out of the city, but she is giving
the banner to be carried by group
of western women, a gorgeous ban
ner with a verse of poetry telling how
the sun rises in the west instead of in
the east.
The Political Equality League was
asked to take part, but Mrs o. Fl. P.
Belmont, declined.
There will be bands and Scotch pip
ers and a great variety of floats. All
women interested are invited to join
the march.