The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-04
SUFFRAGIST THRONG TN POSSESSION OF NEW YORK STREETS From Infants in Carriages to
 Nonagenarians In
 Coaches Remarkable Demonstration to Show Growth in Sen timent for "Votes for
 Women''

NeW Ork, May 4."fTOm tiny, pinch faced suffragettes in baby car riages, all suffragettedom today will be out today in the biggest woman suffrage parade ever seen. 1t was scheduled to start at o'clock, this afternoon.
 There were members of almost ev- cry line of endeavor to the number of 15,000, 10000 the suffrage lead CTS said, in line. Of these some 5000 will be men, bankers, brokers, clerks, and brothers, husbands, sweethearts of the women who will march in the more than 100 divisions of the big procession
 Theodore Roosevelt was reported a few days ago as scheduled to lead the men but "the exigencies of poli- tics" preventing him from joining the parade. Men from Yale. Harvard and other colleges participated. It was declared the men would wear no uniform or insignia.
 We are like the men who fought at Lexington" they said. ''We will join the line of march directly from our every day york;
 Among the men 50 per cent. will be members of labor unions. The ty, age and intellectually of feminine America, represented in New York, will be in line.
 At the head of the long column as it started up 9th avenue, will be 10O mounted women. Miss Ann Tinker kept her away, so Mrs Charles Knob lauch will lead. Precisely at the stroke of 5 they will start up the avenue behind the gorgeously arrayec old guard band playing the Mar seillaise.
 Then will come the women's Poli- tical Union of New York, headed by division will march the outdoof suff- rage orators with little, portable speaking platforms.
 Teachers and students who hunger for the suffrage will be in line. The professional women. lawyers, artists, workers. will follow. Then will come the industrial workers. the women of New York's shop and sweatshops, the -shirtwaists factory girls and the wait resses.
 Among these many will not be abie to join the parade until an hour af- ter it has started when they leave their work, at 6 o'clock.
 Following the workers will come the spectacular features of the pa rade. In gorgeously decorated Vic toria driven by Mrs. Cyrus Field, in d udIALIly lcH1lnln6 uu1Orm or a coachman's livery, will ride Antoin- cite Brown Blackwell, the only sur vivor of the suffrage campaign of 1s4S. and little F1arriott Stanton Blatch, Jr., the granddaughter of Mrs. Blatch and great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Suffra- gettes of Norway and Sweden will follow them.
 Next in line will be the suffragette organizations from Connecticut, Mas sachusetts, Maryland, Kansas, Ne- braska, New Hampshire, New Jersey. Ohio. Vermont, Virginia and Wash ington, D. c. Fola LaFollette, daugh- ter of Senator LaFol'ette, will head a delegation from Wisconsin. Mrs. Winston Churchill will march ahead of the New Hampshire women.
 Europe and Asia will be represent ed. Miss Tillie Strindberg. niece of the Swedish playwright, will carry the Swedish flag at the head of the wo- men of Sweden. Three women of Finland, the first country in Europe to give women the vote, will be in line. They were expected to carry the Russian flag but they rebelled and insisted on carrying the flag of the country Russia has absorbed.
 Mrs. O. Fl. F. Belmont will mar shal division of department store girls who will march behind the baby carriage brigade.
 As many of the women as possible will wear the official 39 cent hats de- signed for the occasion. But the feminine nature could not be bound by rules and regulations and today an official order was issued allowing the marchers to wear whatever they chose. The order was issued by Mr. Stanton Blatch.
 Uniformity of dress was the dream of artists for us.' it read. Any re- gret some may feel for lack of urj- formity in their fellow marcher should be outweighed by the thought that distaste for conforming may be but the promise of independence in a future voter.'
 Some of the banners the women will carry will read:
 All this is the natural consequence of teaching girls to read"
 ''The right to follow duty far and wide, to live as nobly as our men have died"
 We want the vote for protection"
 This last will be carried by the workers who still mourn their dead in the Triangle factory fire.
 After marching, most of the parade will attend big mass meeting at Carnegie Hall. Five thousand work CTS. however. will immediately scat ter throughout the city to hold street corner mass meetings.
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