Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-02
WOMEN To LEAD
MEN IN PARADE
Snffragettes Astride Horses
and in Chari0ts at New
York Demonstration.

Ont of the most spectacular and force
full demonstrations In the history Of the
Woman Suffrage movement in this coun-
try will take place on Fifth avenue,
New York, Saturday. rain or shine, when
1t is expected that thousands of women
from New Jersey will take part in the
mammoth parade which is being planned
by the suffrage leaders.
The demonstration is being held I'M
der the auspices of the Woman's Political
Union of New York, and the promoters
of the movement are highly elnted over
the present Indications for the success
of the demonstration. Women from all
parts Of the United States are sending
assurances of their support and guaran-
teeing their presence In the parade, and
the enthusiasm shown has exceeded all
expectations.
There are to be colored sdffragettes,
Chinese s~uffragettes, suffragettes astride
horses, suffragettes carrying banners, a
suifra gette fife and drum corps, beside
the thousands that will trudge the New
York streets or ride the ma gnifcently
decorated floats emblazoned with pleas
OF Votes for Women" In addition to
these features, a California Suffrage
Special bringing hundreds of ardent
western advocates of the cause will
arrive in the Grand Central station on
Saturday morning, bearing perhaps q
thousand more sisters to swell the line of
marchers. 1t is estimated that 5 1000
women will be in line.
The women of New Jersey will be well
represented in the parade. Arrangements
are being made by the New Jersey
branch of the Women's Political Union
to have a large delegation of Jersey suf-
fragettes there. A separate section of
the representatives of this State will form
at Eleventh street east of Fifth avenue.
Cards have been sent out admonishing
the marclers to wear for that occasion a
white or light dress, low-heeled boots and
the following: 'Bearing-Head erect,
shoulders back, eyes to the front; no talk
ing or laughing; keep step; obey your
marshal; remember you are marching for
n principle"
the coming parade have been busy per-
fecting the details and organizing corps
of women to march. Mrs. Harriet Stan
ton Blatch, Mrs. Arthur Townsend, Miss
Eleanor Brannon, Miss Inez Milhollaud.
Mrs. O.. IL. p. Belmont and others known
from ocean to ocean for their activity in
suffrage circles, have lent their personal
and financial aid to the project. Prom
inent business men have been importuned
for aid and millions of dodgers have been
distributed by tallyhoes filled with suf-
fragettes which are daily to be seen in
the city streets.
Suffrage Hat to BE "a Feature.
The question of INFORMING the pa
raiders has been disposed of by the adop.
ton of a suffrage hat of butter-col.
ored straw, which viii be sold TO the
parading suffragettes at % cents apiece.
These hats are of pale gold clipped straw,
trimmed with black satin, and those in
dulging in spring millinery at the low
price quoted are required to give a writ
ten pledge that they will attend the pa
rade. The profit OH this headgear will
be turned over to the organization for the
dissemination of suffrage Fairgrounds.
Plans for the parade, which have been
under ADJUSTMENT since last August. are
now complete. The procession will start
from Washington Square and proceed up
Fifth avenue aud across Fifty-seyenth
street to Carnegie Hall, where a great
suffrage massmeeting will be held.
The procession will be headed by a
cayalcade of women on horseback. riding
astride. These riders will be followed by
the Women's Political Union squad. with
Miss Eleanor Brannon and Miss Caroline
Luxow taking turns at the arduous honor
of carrying the unions magnificent ban
ner.
hen will follow the different groups,
according to their occupations or to the
society they represent. A large number
of actresses hope to march, their profess
sional duties permitting. Among these
are Ethel Barrymore. Constance Collier,
Olive Wyndham, Gertrude Elliot, Mary
Shaw, Louise CHASER Hale. Elizabeth
Valentine and Mrs. Thomas Wiffen.
Besides this there will be chariots for
| guffra ppttpS too old IN walk Anony
these is the Rev. Antoinette Brown
Blackwell, one of the most venerable of
equal rights advocates, who will occupy
a iower-decorated chariot drawn by a
dozen pretty girls. Mrs. Blackwell has
been a suffragette since 1884.
To make suitable background for the
gorgeous decorations each membe of the
parade has been requested TO wear white.
The brigade of Chinese women will be
headed by Miss Myrtle jim, while the
colored aggregation will be under the
command of some prominent negress
fighter for the cause"
The out-of-town tenlistments in the
pageant are showing up particularly
strong, women from the South and North
signifying their intention of contributing
to the procession, in addition to those
from the West.
A squad of automobiles, filled with suf-
IraRetIeS from &onlecIlCut, MaSSachu-
setts, Vermont, New Jersey, Maine, New
York, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsyl.
yania viii be in the line of parade. Most
of these women will make the trip to
New York i'll their own machines.
Various Kinds of Cohorts.
Mary Johnston, the author, is organ.
izing a delegation of Virginia women
Mrs. Louis Fairchild Fuller is organizing
artists; Mrs. NJ. E. Alexander, business
women; Mrs. Robert Erskine Ely, Dutch
women; Nine. Gregori, Greeks and Ital
ians; Mrs. Walston Brown, women in.
terested in animals; Mrs. A. Lenalie, mu
s~icians; Miss Frances Peters, workers in
the shops; Miss Josephine Beiderhaze,
teachers; Mrs. Frederick Hazard, syria
cuse women, and Mrs. Edward Everett
Hale, Schenectady women.
AT last. but far from least, will come
a delegation from the Mems League
composed from masculinity attached ts
the %suffragette marchers, in the various
offices of husbands, sweethearts and