The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-11-11

And give your women votes!
NEW YORK. NOV. 11.--For four
hours Saturday night, Fifth-ave. rang
with this refrain, In which were
raised the voices of 10000 women
marching I'm jubilant Celebration over
the addition OF four states to the list
OF those In which the franchise has
been conferred on both sexes.
A trumpeters' band. sounding the
familiar chorus from Aida" gave the
singers their cadence, and over them
all was shed the radiance OF myriad
golden lanterns. From Fffty-etghth to
Fourteenth-st., the pageant moved.
and whatever its effect on city and
state may prove to be, 100000 people
along the triumphal line gave every
evidence of having been walked to APP
probation at least.
New York has not seen many more
.picturesaue affairs than this suffrag-
lists parade. II wasn't much like the
torchlight professions OF the eighties,
but II was meant not to be. and its
impresarios succeeded In their puT-
pose. II wasn't much IKE any other
political procession OF any period, but
IL was meant not TO be, and in that
too there was full measure Of sue
cess.
No device that might lend individu-
ality to the parade was ignored in the
organizations for IT, Miss Beatrice
Forbes Robertson Hale, as grand mar
shal. rode a miIk-white steed In SYM
boil of the purity promised for politics
when women vote, CARRIED In white,
IL trumpeters accompanied her, In
symbol of the purity promised Tor
other activities than politics alone
Heralds and crusaders were there az
outriders, apparently In symbol OF a
fight for a faith.
Floats emblematic of the victory
won last week In Arizona, Michigan,
Oregon and Kansas had a conspicuous
place, and behind them came floats
emblematic of what has already been
achieved in Wyoming, Idaho, Utah,
Colorado, Washington and California.
Norway, Sweden, Denmark. Finland,
Iceland, Australia and New Zealand
were represented, too, but, after all,
the parade was successful because OF
its lanterns.
( The golden hue of these was the
orange OF the equal suffrage cause.
They we're OF crepe paper, and as they
danced above the heads OF the march
ers they were more like will-o'-the-
wisps than lanterns. Every marcher
had AT least one: hundreds Of enthu-
siasts carried two, and seemed regret
full that they could not carry more.
No chances were taken with mis-
hap--eyery lantern-bearer carried
matches and reserve candles. The
moment a light showed an Inclination
10 grow dim II was attended TO, and
for the two miles and one-half OF the
course. the glow grew ever brighter,
never softer.
. Five Thousand Men In Line.
The parade moved from Fifth-ave,
and Fifty-eighth-st. at s o'clock. The
marchers. who Included two battaffors
OF men, 5000 strong, began to gather
three-quarters Of an hour before thEt
time. When the signal TO move came
from the grand marshal the divisions
lay on either aide the avenue for six
blocks TO the south; when actual
movement began things moved as
smoothly as though there had been
rehearsals of II all.
Besides the picturesque general fea-
lures Of the parade there was brave
showing of the strength In organiza-
ton of the cause. Every society.
whatever its name. looking toward
the eufranchisement Of woman, took
part