The Washington herald., 1913-03-04
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stroyed the symmetry of a spectacle I
which some of the greatest women o
the world had given their time, energy
their best endeavor.
The paraders, both those afoot an
those a-horse ard in carriages and floats
were jostled, insulted. almost spat upo'
as the crowds enveloped them in a pres
sure that at times went far beyond tn
point of discomfort and became a dan
ger, whose full effects cannot yet be esti
mated.
Time and time again the paraders wer
completely stopped for many minutes
When they moved forward their progress
was dead march along the meage
ground that lies between two steel rail
of a car track. Why that slender lin
OF freedom was intermittently given then
cannot be ascertafned.
1t was a most splendid procession o
women in equal suffrage history tina
huffeted its way westward along one o.
the very widest streets in the country
through the greatest aggregation of spec
tators that ever urned out in Washing
ton.
Humanity Packs Avenue.
At least a quarter OF a million tried
to occupy Pennsylvania Avenue solidly
the grand stands on the North side OF
the Avenue to the grand stands on the
South side.
Near the main reviewing stand. a,
the south entrance to the Treasury
there was a constant succession OF
crushes that followed each attempt OF
the police, mounted. in automobiles,
and afoot. and OF the special police
men, a handful of troopers from Fort
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opening for the broken sections of the
parade TO squeeze through. In the
short stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue
between Eleventh and Fifteenth Streets
more than thirty women and girls were
taken out of the press and carried to
Emergency Hospital, at Fifteenth
Street and New York Avenue. in a
fainting condition in less than an
hour.
Woman's Foot M8nEIcd.
One woman was carried into the
same hospital in the meantime with
her foot badly mangled by tn" shod
hoof of mounted policcmans horse.
Automobiles that tried to butt the
crowd back in advance of the process
sion ran over innumerable toes. a
din of squeals. hOnkinCs Of path-find-
Ing automobiles. manned by plain
clothes men: yells and curses from
men. the cries of mounted and foot
policemen. who brandished their long
clubs in the sunlight above the heads
of the struggling masses-all merged
into one uproar along the mile or more
the paraders tried to march.
The moment the automobiles at the
head of the line had cleared a narrow
path, the crowd. once the the police and
the head OF the line had passed, would
ooze in again.
Late comers. headed for box seats in
automobiles or on foot. came TO a dead
stop against a curb to curb wide bank of
humanity when the late arrivals tried
TO enter the Avenue TO their grand stands
from the cross streets. And before the
parade had Mapped along at all two au-
tomohilcs in which were Mrs. Taft and
Miss Taft and a number of their wOm-
en- friends were hopelessly held up by
III" mobs at the Southeast corner of the
Treasury. Few recognized Mrs. Taft or
her daughter among the mobs of visitors
and seemingly none at all among the
small boys who otherwise might have be
havcd better, the mob leaned heavily
upon the Cunwalss of the Taft automo-
biles and made iippant but good natured
inquiries as to the health OF Mrs. Taft.
her daughter and friends in a series of
elbow touching talks that lasted until a
way finally was cleared for the ma
chimes
But IT the police arrangements were
deranged by the crowds the arrange
ments OF the equal suffrage women in
charge Of the procession s usual were
on the minute. Nevertheless the parade
did not get started down at the Peace
Monument in front OF the Capitol until
go o'clock.
Crowd. Arrive Early.
IIourS beFo-o tho srIera pe ma rade r,,oved
along on its one mile march. huge crowds
lined the streets through which It would
pass and pushed and jostled for vantage
positions.
The crowd that fought TO witness the
equal franchise demonstration exceeded
in size any that had ever witnessed an
inaugural parade. Store windows seats
q nd seats in hastily erected grand stands
along the line of march brought prices
almost equal to those paid for privileges
of seeing the inaugural parade tO-mor-
row.
Many Of the early arrivals brought
their lunch. Others patronized the suf-
frage sandwich venders. who disposed OF
80 900 ham and cheese sandwiches to the
hungry multitude.
All that part of Washington and Bal
timore and the Virginia side OF the Po-
tomaC, not to mention a big part of the
days high jinks. who were unable to jam
into Pennsylvania Avenue ahead of the
parade. seemed to flock about Capitol
Hill and the broad steps at the west
side of the Capitol building itself to see
the gay costumed women marchers and
riders and the glittering floats wheeling
Into positions around the Peace Monu-
ment below.
Blessed by Good Weather.
High up where the white down cleaned
IN the sunlight against a sky of bright
Est blue. little black specks OF humanity
'ringed the circular railing atop the Cap
tol dome And highest above these tho
hawks that like TO sail lazily over Wash
ngton warped their monoplanes and vol |
olaned close, hut not too close TO get
l good look at the gayety on the as
ohalt below.
Word had gone out that 600 students
rom Georgetown University collegiate |
department. Were waiting up the line |
zach with a pasteboard box under his |
lrm, and each box containing ten live
nice, which were to be liberated among |
he women marchers and bust up the |
proceedings. Preparations to start the |
procession went on just the same. When !
he mice story reached Capitol Hill at |
east two policemen in the reporters |
ahge OF VISION got Hoiu OF trouser clips. |
such as bicyclists wear. and made the |
over end of their trousers mouse-proof |
IF any one lets any mice loose here"
aid a plain clothes man an hour later |
n one of the automobiles butting a way |
It the head of the line, "all I say is that !
n this crush Lord help them mice"
Horsewomen who rode like crack cavaI- |
'ymen galloped all over that part of the
District of Columbia where the parade
vas forming during those carly hours of
orming line. Automobiles of other wom-