The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-04

through which the women mafs@ed. Miss Inez Milholland, herald of the procession, distinguished herself by aiding in riding down mob that blocked the way and threatened to disrupt the parade Another woman member of the 'petticoat cavalry struck hoodlum a stinging blow across the face with her riding crop in reply to a scurrilous remark as she was passing The mounted polics rode hither and yon. but seemed powerless to stem the tide of humanity.
 A group of hoodlums gathered in front of the reviewing stand in Ynich sat Mrs Taft and Miss Helen Tafr and half dozen invited guests from the White House. They kept up a run ing fire Of caustic comments. Apiar- ently no effort was made to remove them, and evidently disguested, the .nte house party left before the pro- cession had passed in its halting and interrupted journey toward Contin- ental hall
 The tableaux of the treasury build ing formed in the great columns and the broad stairway of the govern
 
 when the parade started from it's rem dezvouz at the base of the capital beautlful III colorlng and grouping the dramatic generalization of women's as pirations for political freedom was completed long before the head cs the parade was in sight.
 In their thin dresses and bare arms, they stood shivering for more than an hour and finally they were forced to seek refuge within the building.
 Around the treasury department the crowds were massed so tightly that repeated charges by the police were seemingly ineffective. It was as though the blue coats charged a stone wall. Oc, asionally the mob gave way in one place, only to break over and under the wire hedge at some other.
 When the cavalry suddenly ap. peared, there was a wild outburst of applause in the reviewing stand The men in brown virtually brushed aside the mounted and foot police and took charge In two lines the troop charg- ed the crowds. Evidently realizing they would be ridden down, the mobs fought their way back. When they hesitated the calvrymen, under the orders of their officers, did not hesi- tate. Their horses were driven into the throngs and whirled and w-aeled until shouting men and women were forced to retreat A space was quick ly cleared.
 The parade in itself in spite oi the delays, was great success. Passing Irb fWn mnll of iufs sn humanity, the marchers for the most part kept their temper. They suffer ed insult and closed their ears to jibes and jeers. Few faltered, although several of the older women were forced to drop out from time to time
 The greatest ovation probably was given to ''Gen. Rosalie Jones, who led her little band of mixers from New York over rough roads and through snow and rains to march for the cause"
 When the women assembled in Con- tinental hall, the first resolution adopted. to be presented to President Wilson after his inauguration tomor- row called on him to demand of ,sn- gress a thorough investigation of the IduScS lOi tue pOOl pOhCt p4OlcCliOh, which would have been a disgrace to any city but which was doubly so here" with a further demand that the responsible authorities be punished for indifference and negligence.
 The opening address by pr. tsna Shaw, president of the National '.mer- ican Woman's Suffrage assocF tion, was bitter excoriation of the police.
 Oswald Garrison Willard, gr&s.dson of Wm. Lloyd Garrison, the great aDolitionist, at the conclusion of Dr. Shaw's address, read the res utioa which she had suggested during her speech, calling for congressional in- yestigation.
 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, ppesi- dent of the International Suffrage as sociation, declared that members of congress should demand an inyestiga- tion. Many of the men along the line, she said, were drunk enough for the lookup" In no other nation, but Switzerland she said. has the wom- en before been forced to take their appeal for the vote ste the rahble."