New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-26
EDEN PRO tenn.
Suffragists Pack Up for Wash
ington Parade.
DESERTED CITY BY SUNDAY
Three Special Trains to Convey
Enthusiastic Women to
Capital.


New York will be suffra getteless Eden
by II D. m Sunday. BY that hour the last
breathles believer will have thrust her
suitcase upon the porter and thrown her.
self upon her berth in the Suffrage SDe-
cial'
On to Washington and Wilson, Is the
aim of every woman who can afford II
and not a few who can't 1t is said at the
party" headquarters that many women
are making pathetic sacrifices 10 go to
Washington for the great parade on
March 3.
a shabby little woman who said she was
a grocer's wife went to headquarters yes
terday. saying she felt 1t her duty 10 go.
I'm the only one in my neighborhood
that knows about suffrage" she said,
"and If go TO Washington and march in
this grand parade I'll have so much to
tell them all when ] get back that they'll
take an interest. You can't interest poor
folks much in meetings or dinners at the
Waldorf. but a parade they like to hear
about. Yes: / feel call to go"
Three Suffrage Specials.
There will he three suffrage specials
and the crusader may go on any one she
chooses II she give her name right away
TO Miss Eleanor Byrnes, at the National
Woman Suffrage Association. No. C1
Fifth avenue. The fare is IS 50 for the
round trip returning on Wednesday
morning. March ). Each train Is desis-
mated by the name OF the society which
of
is arranging for IT, though members Oh
any society are welcome on any other
society's train. They are the National
train. which will start OH Saturday AZ II
q. M: the state and Party train, leaV-
ing here Sunday at II n. m. and the
political Union" train at ii p. m, sun
day
The National" train will carry Dr.
Anna Howard Shaw and other orlcers
and members OF the national ASSOCIATION
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw and others WHO
arc To address a mass meeting or suHra-
cis,s in Richmond. Va, on SATURDAY
night Sunday afternoon there IS 10 De
mass meeting i'm the Belasco i"e''''
Washington. A.,
Dr Shaw is spending much OF her 'i'"e
des,qping clothes these days she mas
,oo. college gown. and she is trying to
devise way TO wear all her eoi'ese .o',
org upon il, She got new one Only 10
,yeek out in Kansas. IL Is crlthsoh' ~
the degree Of Doctor OF DIVINITY. S"e
atro,dv had the lavender and yellow hoou
for her r. ID. oegree ana inc gree" i''
her NJ. d. The combination thus assem-
hIed she saws. IS one worthy the powers
OF a militant suffragette
Much settlement was caused yesterday
~ beadouarters by the Homecoming OIL
Miss jeanette Rankin, who has CONVEX 'eo
two states in six months and starteu se'
cral others to thinking. Montana anu
cou,h Dakota. at her behest. adopted the
suffrage referendum bill. ana suffrage WI
coue 70 tho voters in 1914 in those states
sh. reports mot an anti in Montana.
Miss Rankin is TO lead the division OF
"non-su0rage states" IN the Washington
narade way up near the front close te
,h. e,ates where women do vote. IL sht
can nrd a real Indian maid, 10 De 'h'
symbol OF suffrage in the West, she VIII
resign TO her perfectly gorgeous ihdia'
costume she has in her trunk. OtherWist
she Will wear il herself impersonatihs
Sacsjawea. the Indian girl VINO suid'o
Lewis and Clark over the mountains q
century or so ago There are a. man!
camping grounds of Sacajawea IN MOT
tana to-day as there are houses where
Washington slept in New York and New
Jersey put together Miss Rankin says
adding that this Indian girl is the idoi OF
Montana and the symbol OF the American
suffrag ette She pointed the way FOR th'
men and also did all the work. She found
stores Of nuts. bull, the camp fire. did
the camp cooking and made clothes oil
bearslsin. AT the same time carrying hei
baby on ner back.