Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-13
"Oh, You General
Jonesl" Is Collegiians
Greeting to Hikers.
BOYS LEND WEARY
PILGRIMS THEIR EARS
Listen Respectfully to Ad
dresses and Then Escort
Hike Wagon, Singing.
BY RAYMOND J. BROWN
tstafT Correspondent of the Evening Star
with the Suffrage Army.)

<stan Correspondent of the Evening Star
with the Suffrage Army.)
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Feb. 1s.
With the muscular stiffness super
induced by yesterdays hike wearing
off at every step, the suffrage pill
grims made the six miles that lie be-
tween Metuchen, last nights stop
ping place, and this city IN record
time. Over the Raritan river is the
Hotel Klein, where the Gust little
weary walkers halted to be enter
tanned at luncheon by the New
Brunswick Political Study Club.
Miss Emma Mccoy, president of
the club. which is the centre of local
suffragette circles, made a short ad-
dress of welcome. There was no
other speaking. the pilgrims plea of
fatigue being received gracefully, if
regretfully.
What oratory the hikers were hid
ing in their bosoms, however, they
were permitted to spread about for
the instruction of the students of
Rutgers College.
Before the little band of suffragists
reached the campus, the student body
wellSin and the ears of the bystanders
college yells:
.Rah. Bow!
Wow Wow,
Rutgersl'
Individual contributions from the
college boys were "Oh. you hikers.f
"Oh, you. General Jones!"
The students restrained their en-
thusiasm while General Jones, Colo
mel Ida Craft and Mrs. Morgan adj
dressed them from the raised en-
trance to the main college building
The pilgrims were immensely pleased
with the college boys respectful at
sention to their arguments
Miss Elizabeth Freeman, who has
her little yellow gypsy wagon to help
her make up lost ground, tarried long
enough after her sisters to convert
the few students WHO hadn't been
floored by the logic of the others. The
boys escorted Miss Freeman and her
little wagon away, marching in lock-
step and chanting the Rutgers College
song:
ION the banks of the old Raritan"
It's now Princeton. matter of thfr>
teen miles from here, or bust, before
dinner-time.
The mystery of Hannes the Hiker
and his still more mysterious spangled
banner is cleared up or darker, if you
choose.
Hannes Joined the suffragette army
at it's start yesterday. He bore
banner stranger than the one the
youth in the poem wanted to plant in
the snow and ice. None of the pill
grims knew him, and Hannes was
wholly ignorant of their individual
and collective identities.
Questioned closely, he admitted
beautiful angel had appeared to him
In a dream and hidden him fashion a
pennant of the sort he carried, and
plant it on the highest point of Capt.
tol Hin, Washington.
Even after this explanation, though,
the pilgrims looked askance at Hannes
and his banner The plot became
thickest after the army had limped
into Metuchen hotel and Hannes
proceeded to make himself right to
home. II developed quickly that
Hanness capital consisted of
plugged dime and an English penny.
The police force here having re-
tired for the night, David Gross, pro-
prietor of the suffrage headquarters,
couldn't have Hannes arrested. He
Just cast the unfortunate color bearer
adrift.
Hannes spent the night in the Penn
sylvania station. Early today he was
discovered plodding industriously in
the general direction of New York.
His banner is in hook at the hotel,
awaiting settlement for Hannes's din
ner.
The irreverent correspondent used
It as blanket last night.
The unambitious disposition of
Lausanne. the mare which is draw
ing the ammunition wagon so
alarmed General Jones this morning
that she called in the services of a
local veterinary The surgeon pro-
nounced the animal capable. but
apathetic.