Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-04
Movement Goes Forward.

Movement Goes Forward.
Miss Johnston discussed the general
advancement of the woman movement
telling Of how all classes of serious
thinkers are now in favor of the move
ment. 1t is wrong to suppose. she said
that strength and beauty cannot be COM
bined in the same thing or. person. ..y,s.. !.
Mrs. James L. IaidiawS or New York;
auditor of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, introduced a reso.I-
ton calling on President-elect Wilson and
the next Congress to submit to the people
OF the United States a constitutional
amendment giving women the right to
vote. The resolution was unanimously
passed.
For two hours during the pageant the
suffragists struggled to pass through
solidly packed masses OF humanity that
blocked the Avenue from the Peace
monument to 18th street northwest
Long Before the parade started the ropes
stretched along the Avenue had been torn
loose In many places, while in other
places the crowds climbed over or under
the ropes.
Miss Inez Milholland Of New York
herald OF the procession. rode beside a
mounted policeman during the worst part
OF the crush and helped charge the
crowd Miss Milholand gesticu.ated and
shouted to the crowd and rode her horse
into 1t with good effect.
Failed to Clear Streets.
III was evident early in the afternoon
that the police were making no real Of.
tort to clear the streets for the pageant.
and from every side came the query.
why don't the police do something. or
why doesn't Maj. Sylvester call for troops
from Fort Myer?"
II was not until the women managing
the pageant got busy with the Secretary
OF war that details of the 18th Cavalry.
from the arpy post across Tho river, were
rushed TO the city. When the troopers
Inaoe thelr appearance at 18th street and
the Avenue they found tie police shooing
the crowds In a futile sort OF way waving
their big batons and grinning fatuousy
as the crowds jostled and pushed them
out OF the way. The troopers forming
two ranks, charged on the surging crowd
at the south side of the Treasury and
In less than three minutes had the people
back of the ropes, and then held them
there
Tie especially disgraceful exhibitions
were seen farther down the Avenue. how
ever. At 18th street the pageant was
halted for twenty minutes, utterly unable
to pass through the crowds that jammed
the street from curb to curb. At 9Th
street this scene was repeated, and at
18th street the crowd repea tedly broke
the parade. blocked the marchers
stance tore the badge off regular po-
liceman and defied the police to put a
stop to the insulting and ribald remarks
and actions that were going on unre-
buked by the officers that were supposed
to protect the paraders.
More Than Two Hundred Injured.
More than 200 persons were hurt more
or less seriously during the pageant,
and even the ambulances had to fight
their way through the massed humanity
to get to the victims AT Emergency
and Casualty hospitals the extra forces
of physicians and nurses had their
hands 1uii all afternoon and until late
at night. and at both institutions the
corridors were filled with extra cots
upon which to place the sick and in
jurea women, men and children brought
IN.
And. according to the reports at police
headquarters and the precinct stations
not single arrest was made by the
Washington police during the several
hours of unchecked rioting.
AS result of the lack Of police pro-
lection, the monster pageant which,
speakinp impartially, otherwise would
have been one of the most impostncIy
beautiful spectacles ever presented in
Washington, was broken up into frag-
ments, halted a hundred times before
1t had travelled ten blocks. and scores of
the women and girls participating in
the demonstration were made the vic
tins of ribald insults that. had the
crowds been held behind the ropes
would have been impossible.
Only those persons occupying seats in
the stands at the south side of the
Treasury saw the pageant as a whole
as it was planned and even these spec
tators did not see the entire body of
marchers that started two hours before
from the Peace monument. as many of
the delegations in uniform were blocked
by the crowds at 7th. 9Th or IIth
streets and dropped out of the line un-
able to proceed to the end of the march
The entire student body of one of the girls
.;eminaries OF this city was forced to
drop out of the line at 9TH street and
disband, the young women making their
escape as best they could through the
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