Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-05
SEE SUFFRAGE HOST
Hundreds of Thousands Wit
ness New York Parade.
NO DISORDER PREVAILS
All Walks of Life Represented by
10000 Dignifed Marchers.
SOUNDS WARNING TO MEN
Miss Harriet Stanton Blatch Declares
They Had Better "Put Ears
to Ground"
N0 DISORDER PREVAILS
SOUNDS WARNING TO MEN

NEW YORK. May 4.-The promise of
the woman suffrage leaders to eclipse
all previous demonstrations for their
cause was fulfilled this afternoon when
nearly 10000 persons paraded for three
miles up 9Th avenue under suffrage ban
ners.
Hundreds of thousands of persons look
ed on from the windows and balconies of
hotels and business places along the are
nue.. and the sidewalks were SO crowded
for the entire length Of the route that the
mounted police were unable to keep the
spectators within bounds There was no
disorder, however. The spectators, three
quarters of whom seemed to be women,
passed among themselves all varieties Of
comment upon the demonstra ton, but
there was neither much applause nor
any cheering as the marching throng
passed.
There were women, men and children in
the ranks. Almost every profession and
industry in which women are engaged.
from educational leadership to laundry
work. was represented by a delegation
under appropriate banners.
Mrs. Blatch in Command.
A squad of mounted police led the
parade, but. vying with this equestrian
show, there followed nearly 100 women on
horseback. most of them riding astride.
The riders were dressed in simple habits
and all wore rough three-cornered hats
Of black straw with a purple and green
and white cockade.
The parade was under the command OF
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch. president
of the Women's Political Union. The ar
rangements which had been engaging the
suffrage leaders here for months were
carried out to the letter. and so de-
termined were the women to obey the
commands for promptness that the parade
was organized and under way punctually
at the stroke Of o'clock. Among the
groups which took their places as the
procession formed at Washington Square
were school teachers and students, doc
tors. lawyers, engineers. architects,
nurses, writer's, artists, actresses, libra
rians, social workers, miiliners, dress
makers, mattresses, domestic workers
Office workers. civil servants. ofhcehoid-
ers and representatives from the six
suffrage states, and various states which
are fighting for the vote for women.
Pioneers in Line.
There were number OF pioneers Of the
suffrage movement in line. including the
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. ninety
four eyars old, who rode in a flower
adorned carriage; Mrs. Charles v. Mills
mother of the president of the New York
State Suffrage Association. and Miss
Emily Rowland, eishty-five years old.
A majority Of the paraders wore thirty
innocent hats of yellow straw. and some
effort was made to preserve uniformity in
simple dress Of white and black. The
women kept step well to the music of
twenty bands. and conducted themselves
with the dignity which their leaders had
enjoined that they show.
The parade concluded with a meeting
at Carnegie Hall. at which Mrs Blatch
presided. and the Rev. Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw, national president of the woman S
suffrage party. and the Rev. Anna Car
lin Spencer. were speakers.
THE procession is over" said Mrs
Blatch. but inspiration goes marching
on. Women. we have found ourselves
AT last the women are standing together
in the fight for womanhood. Those men
that have refused to listen to our re-
quest had better get their ears to the
ground"