New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-11
MERE MAIL |MPEDES
FEMALE SUFFRAG|STS.
Wagon No. 80 Almost Tears
Wheel from Auto in Votes.
for-WOmen Parade.


Usually 1t is the males that get in the
way Of the suffragists. Yesterday II was
the mails
Mail wagon No. 50. after running into
and nearly tearing wheel from an auto
mobile in the Womens Political Union
parade that moved down Fifth avenue
and Broadway from i2d street to city
Hall Park. FASTENED down. from Univer-
sity Place. where the collision occurred.
and nearly threw Or Parkhurst," Mrs.
Nora Batch de Forests horse.
Mail wagon No 50 was an auto. and
the suffragists unanimously agreed that
it-well it should have acted better when
the women came away down 10 the post
office 10 speak.
Yesterdays parade was small one, but
there was class TO make up for numbers.
1t included Mrs. de Forest. whose horse
was DR. Parkhurst' Mrs. Laura Cook
Carson. the suffrage bride of last week
who held a check rein on Senator Root.
for General Resale Joness suffrage
army Mrs Schultz drove her automobile
filled with suffrage leaflets buttons and
literature and with reporters. who worked
their passage by handing out the leaflets
and selling buttons
The start was made from the Woman
Political Union headquarters. No. 10 West
i2d street. at IL O'Clock. TO the accompani-
ment Of cheers and A few jeers. Dr
Parkhurst was inclined TO be FESTIVE until
he saw the placard he was 10 wear. 1t
announced In big letters.
DIR. Parkhurst invites you to a dis
cussion OF the white slave question, to be
held al the Maxine Elliott Theatre next
Sunday afternoon"
When the doctors eve lighted on that
he gave horse laugh OF approval. and
thereafter was an angel In behavior
Fire Commissioner Johnson. riding up
town I'm his red automobile, passed the
suffrage centaurettes, but acted as II he
didn't see them. They, less proud, hung
a handful Of leaflets into his car. leaflets
advertising the meeting at Maxine FL
liotts Theatre.
Just so he'll remember to have proper
fire precautions at our red-hot discus
sion" said Mrs de Forest 10 Mrs. car
son
Barring the collision with mail wagon
No 50. and a couple OF meetings held
along the way. and lively argument
with excited citizens in Twcnty-siNth
street who rebuked the ccntaurettes FOR
wearing the English militant colors'
there was a peaceful passage down 10
City Hall Park. There. In the mario"
street between the Park and the post
office. the mails and the males nearly
swamped the centaurettes' out they
gained the southeast corner and pro-
ceeded to hold a meeting.
Talking on horseback Is a new stunt.
and Or Parkhurst' and Senator Root
proved much more wabbly than soap
boxes. The speech OF the suffrage bride.
Mrs Carson. ran something like this;
Friends. we have come down mere 10
invite you-(whoa, Senator Root! ito
attend meeting next Sunday-littl'
boy. stop tickling the horse-at which tho
Women's Political Union viii conduct
a discussion OF the play called The Lure.
-(officer please keep those boys from
pulling my horses tail!!!-J.
Ultimately 1t vas discovered that "hiie
the boys who crowded around were Ger
tainly awful. Senator Roots chiet
grievance was a pin which, put IN 10
fasten the placard he wore to his mar
ness. had worked loose. This adjusted
the meeting went better.
! The centaurettes' best convert was the
bip policeman at Chambers street ana
Broadway. to whom in passing they gave
a leanet. He tucked II into his pocket
ladies" he roared at them, you re
] I'll night -