The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-28
SUFFRAGE PARADE
 OCCURS SATURDAY
Predicted All Past Events
 Will Be Surpassed
WEAR SUFFRAGE HATS
Prominent Society Women of New York and Whole Country Busy Preparing for Event-Mary
 Johnston Is Interested

New York, April 27.-(Special. .)-Those in charge of the great suffrage parade, scheduled for week from today, May 4, predicted this afternoon that all past performances of the equal rights advo- cates will be surpassed and that the coming pageant will go down in history as the most spectacular and forceful dem- onstration ever staged by sufragettes At the local headquarters of the Woman's Political union, under whose auspices the regiments of women will assemble, ru- mors of the parade's immensity are con armed by the unprecedented preparations already made and by the enthusiasm with which women throughout the United States have come to the support of their eastern sisters.
 There are to be colored suffragettes Chinese suffragettes. suffragettes astride horses, suffragettes carrying banners, a suffragette fife and drum corps, beside the thousands that will trudge the New York streets or ride the magnf1cently decorated floats emblazoned with pleas for Votes for Women" In addition to these features a california Suffrage Special picking up hundreds Of ardent western advocates of the "cause," will arrive in the Grand Central depot on Saturday morning, bearing perhaps 1001 more sisters to swell the line of paraders. It is estimated that 15,000 women will be in line.
 For weeks the women in charge of the coming parade have been busy perfectng the details and organizing corps of wom- en to march. Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch, Mrs. Arthur Townsend, Miss Eleanor Brannon, Miss Inez Milholland, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont and others, known from ocean to ocean for their activity in suffrage circles, have lent their personal and financial aid to the project Promi- nent business men have been importuned for aid and millions of dodgers have been distributed by tallyhoes filled with suf- fragettes, which are daily to be seen in the city streets.
 The question of unforming the parad- CTS has been disposed of by the adoption of a Suffrage hat of butter colored straw, which will be sold to the parading suffragettes at 2S cents piece. These hats are of pale gold clipped straw, trimmed with black satin, and those in- dulging in spring millinery at the low price quoted are required to give a writ ten pledge that they will attend the pa rade. The profit this headgear will be turned over to the organization for the dissemination of suffrage propaganda.
 
 under advisement since last August. are now practically complete. The process sion will start from Washington Square and proceed up Fifth avenue and across Fifty-seventh street to Carnegie Hall, where a great suffrage mass meeting will be held.
 The procession will be headed by cavalcade of women on horse back (rid- ing astrlde, of course). These riders will be followed by the Womans Political union squad, with Miss Eleanor Brannon and Miss Caroline Luxow taking turns at the arduous honor of carrying the unions magnificent banner
 Then will follow different groups. ac- cording to their occupations, or to the society they represent. A large number of actresses hope to march, their profess sional duties permitting Among these are Ethel Barrymore. Constance Collier, Olive Wyndham, Gertrude Elliott. Mary Shaw, Louise Closer Hale. Elizabeth Valentine and Mrs. Thomas Whiffen.
 Besides this, there will be charots of
 Besides this there will be chariots for suffragettes too old to walk. Among these is the Rev. Antoinette Brown Black we'll one of the most venerable of equal rights advocates, who will occupy a flower decorated chariot drawn by a dozen pretty girls. Mrs. Blackwell has been a suffragette since 1SiS.
 To make a suitable background for the gorgeous decorations each member of the parade has been requested to wear white.
 The brigade of Chinese women will be headed by Mss Myrtle Jim, while the col ored aggregation will be under the com mand of some prominent negress fighter for the ''cause."
 The out of town enllstments In the pageant are showing up particularly strong, women from the south and north signifying their intention of contributing to the procession, in addition to those from the west
 A squad of automobiles, filled with suf- fragettes from Connecticut, Massachu- sets, Vermont New Jersey, Maine, New York state, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania will be in the line of marches. Most of these women will make the trip to New York in their own machines.
 Mary Johnston, the author. is organiz- ing a delegation of Virginia women; Mrs. Louis Farchld Fuller is organizing art ists: Mrs M. E. Alexander. business wom- en: Mrs. Robert Erskine Ely. Dutch wom- en: Mime. Gregori, Greeks and Italians; Mrs. walston Brown, women interested in animals Miss A. Lenaie musicians; Miss Frances Peters, workers in the shops: Miss Josephine Beiderhaze. teach CTS; Mrs Frederick Hazard. Syracuse women, and Mrs. Eward Eeverett Hale, | Schenectady women.
 And last. but far from least will come a delegation from the Mems league com posed from masculinity attached to the suffrasette marchers, in the various off, fees of husbands, sweethearts and broth CTS