Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-07
WOMEN TELL 0F
PARADE INSULTS
Senate Committee Begins h.
vestigation Into DiSOrdo,
During Parade.

" ASf1iNGfoN' March 7.-Adn,r,
Van Reyten, an aged ex-surgaon
erai of tine navy. was the first MI.
in the senate investigation into 4,
| days suffragette parade riotinu
said ne was in stand along The lin.
march on March 3, and Just hafo,.
suffragette procession came alor.
crowd surged to the center oe n.
sylvapia avenue, after the noro.
stopped the cars. He said no Aaa,
was made by the police to cleo, AZ
| street, and when the suffragetta, ,.~ ~"
along, headed by an automobile u,s,4'
had a police flag on it, the cro,ns
merely fell back to let the automobl'
go through, and then pressed in fro,.
Of the oncoTning paraders.
Il saw men poking fingers at tbA i,
dies on horseback and sneering =
Them" said the admiral.
How close were they to the maroA
ers?" asked Senator Jones.
They were right within a foo, a,
them,' replied the admiral. "There va,
but one policeman in sight, and he W.,
busy arresting one of the drivers n,
float. A single Boy Scout with a MI.
was trying to keep the crowd bscks
Warned Against Applause
The ladies' in the committee roo,.
vigorously applauded at this point ana
Senator Jones warned them in tia IN,
ture to refrain from this sort Of an,
plause.
Senator Pomerene asked what IN n.
| opinion of the witness, was the cap,,
of the congested conditions. The VIII.
ness said that, in the first place ,hss
were not enough police, and in the S.o,
ond, with the exception of one man
there was nobody endeavoring to ceas
the way.
Miss Julia Lathrop, chief Of theoAD.
dren's bureau Of the department Of d,
Dor, marched with the suffragettes n
the government employees division
She said the people crowded to within
| Is inches Of the marchers all along hs
| way
There was constant comment" ssn
Miss Lathrop; some of it rather
| coarse, but saw no direct afrronb"
Miss Lathrop saw no mounted 10.
| licemen along the line.
What were the police doing?" asked
Senator Jones.
"PoIice Doing Nothing"
For the most part. they were doiDg
nothing" said Miss Lathrop. "a srst
many of them seemed to be standing <
about, watching the parade. noticed
a general air of indifference about Tho K
| police"
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, Of Ohio K
was the next witness. She said;
II am fairly plump. There was Just
space enough for two ordinary persons ;
to walk abreast
In a report to the senate inyestgat. \
ing committee, Major Sylvester, super.
| intendent of police, declared that be
had done all in his power to protect tho Z
| suffragette marchers on March 8: that \
he had employed TIC policemen "a
guard the line of march, but that man 4
of them were temporarily appoints
and We're inexperienced. There Vg
many babies and baby carriages along
the line of march, he said, and the 20
lice were, therefore. unable to use iras
| tic methods in DuShing the crowd back
after the ropes broke.
Major sylvester declared that he m
in entire sympathy with the sufas
| movement and had done all he could
make the parade a success. He ai
that visiting police officials fully l'
| dorsed the methods adopted by the ~
cal police to keep the line of maN
clear.