The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-05-04
SUFFRAGE ADVOCATES
TO MARCH IN GIGANTIC
PARADE IN NEW YORK
Between $1,000 and 10000 Men
and Women Are Expected
To Take Part
STATES ARE REPRESENTED
Mrs. Blatch, Mrs. Belmont and
Other Leaders To Be in
Procession

NEW YORK. May 4.-The biggest
woman suffrage parade the United
States has ever seen is scheduled 10
start at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
There will be members OF almost
every line of endeavor to the number
OF $4,000 TO 10000 in line. or these
1000 will be men, New York bankers,
brokers, clerks, sons, brothers. hus-
bands and sweethearts OF the women
who will march in the more than a
hundred divisions OF the big process
sion. Men from Harvard. Yale. Colum-
bia and half a dozen. other colleges
had pledged themselves TO march.
Secretary Beadle of the Mems Suf-
frage league, declared that the men
would wear no insignia or uniform.
I'VE are like the men who fought
at Lexington" he said. I'VE will join
the line of march directly from our
everyday work"
Among the fifty percent will be
members of labor unions.
At the head OF the long column as
II starts up Fifth-ave. Will be one nun
dred mounted women. Miss Anna Tin
ker was to have led the riders but
illness kept her away. SO Mrs. Charles
Knoblauch will marshal the hundred.
at Washington Arch. Precisely al the
stroke of they will start up the ave-
nue. behind the gorgeously arrayed
Old Guard band. playing the Marsel-
laise.
Then will come the Women's Polit-
ical union, of New York, headed by
Mrs. Harriott Stanton Blatch. In this
division will march the outdoor sur
frage orators. each carrying little
portable speaking platform.
Teachers and students who favor
suffrage will be in line, led by Mrs.
Florence Higginson Cabot. The pro-
fessional women, lawyers, artists,
doctors, nurses, actresses and social
workers will follow. Then will come
the industrial workers, the women OF
New York's shops and sweatshops, the
shirtwalst factory girls, and the Walt
resses. Among these many VIII not
be able 10 join the parade unui an
hour after IL has started.
FolloNiine the wsrlSers viii come the
spectacular features OF the parade.
In a sorgeously decorated Victoria.
driven by Mrs. Cyrus Field, IN
daintily feminine creation of coach-
mans livery, will ride Antoinette
Brown Blackwell, the only surviving
pioneer of the suffrage campaign OF
1s4S. and Harriott Stanton Blatch,
Jr., the granddaughter of Mrs blatcn,
The great granddaughter OF Eilzapeth
Cady Stanton. Following the carriage
will march voters from Norway ana
Sweden and fro zmthe various suffrage
states.
In the next division will march
suffrage organizations from Connectl-
cut. Kansas, Massachusetts. Mary
land. Nebraska, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Vermont
Virginia, and Washington, ID. {. Foia
IaFollette. daughter OF Senator La
Toilette will head delegation from
Wisconsin. Mrs. Winston Churchlll
will march ahead of the New Hamp-
shire delegation.
Europe and Asia will be represent
ed. Mrs. Loo Lin, the Boss, or china
town" will head delegation OF uny-
footed Chinese women, Fwho VIII De
among the few who vii, ride IN 1car-
riages. Their crippled feet = makes
marching impossible. Miss Tillie
Strindberg, niece OF the Swedish play
wright. will carry the Swedish nag
az the head OF the women or sweden.
Three women OF Finland, the nrst
country in Europe to give women the
vote. will be in line. They we're ex-
pected to carry the Russian flag, but
they rebelled and insisted on carry
ing the flag of the country Russia has
absorbed.
Mrs. o. II. p. Belmont will marshal
division of department store eir'
clerks. who will march pehlhu the
babv carriage brigade.