El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-27
STUFF RAGETS
PLAN GREAT
PARADE
Thousands, All in White, to
March in New York City
May 4.
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New York. " Y. April 27.-Those in
charge of the great suffrage parade,
scheduled for a week from today May
4. predicted this afternoon that all past
performances of the equal rights advo-
Gates will be surpassed, and that the
coming pageant will go down in his
tory as the most spectacular and force
fuI demonstration ever staged by suf-
lragets. At the local headquarters Of
the Woman's Political union, under
whose auspices the regiments of wom-
en- viii assemble. rUmors of the
parade's immensely are confirmed 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 negro suffragets,
Chinese suffragets. suffragets astride
horses. suffragets carrying banners,
suffraget fife and drum corps
beside the thousands that viii trudge
the New York streets or ride the mag
uificently DECORATED floats emblazoned
with pleas for Votes for Women In
addition to these features a "Califor-
MA suffrage special picking up hun
dreds of ardent western advocates of
Central station on Saturday morning
next. bearing perhaps a thousand more
sisters TO swell the line OF paraders- Il
is estimated that $1,000 women viii
be in line.
Preparing for Big Parade.
For weeks the women in charge Of
the coming parade have been busy per-
fectiug the details and organizing
corps Of women to march Mrs Harriet
Stanton Batch. Mrs. Arthur Townsend.
1IlhoIlaud Mrs O. H. P Belmont,
and others, known from ocean to
ocean for their activity in suffraget
circles, have lent their personal and
financial aid TO the project Prominent
business men have been impOrtuned for
aid and millions Of dodgers have been
distributed by tallyhoes filled with
suffragets, which are dsuy to be seen
in the city streets
Hats ut IS Cents.
The question of uniforming the
paraders has been disposed OF by the
adoption Of a suffrage hat of butter
COlOred straw, which VIII be sold to the
paradiug sUffrag gets at IS cents a piece.
straw, trimmed with black satin, and
those INDUCING In spring millinery at
the low price quoted are required to
give a written pledge that they will
attend the parade. The profit on this
head gear viii be turned over to the
organization fort the dissemination of
suffrage propaganda
Plans for the parade, which have
been under advisement since last Au-
gust, are now practically complete The
procession viii start from Washington
square and proceed Up Fifth avenue
and across 5Tth street to Carnegie hall,
where a great suffrage mass meeting
viii be held
The procession will be headed by q
cavalcade of women on hoseback. Grid
ing astride, Of cOursel. These riders
will be followed by the WOman's PO-
litical union squad. with Miss Eleanor
BrannOn and Miss Caroline LuxOW tax
Ing turns at the arduOus honor OF car
rying the unions magnificent banner.
Actresses May March.
Then will follow different groups,
according to their occupations, or to
the society they represent A large
number OF actresses hope to march.
their professional duties permitting.
Among these are Ethel Barrymore,
Constance Collier, Olive Wyndham,
Gertrude Elliott, Mary Shaw. Louise
Closer Hale, Elizabeth Valentine and
Mrs Thomas Whiffen-
Beside this, there Will be chariots
for suffrag gets too old to walk. Among
these is the Rev. AntOinette Brown
Blackwell, one Of the most venerable
o. equal rights advocates, who will oc-
cUpy a flower decorated chariot drawn