Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-14
More Than Five Hundred
Shouting Students Go Out to
Meet Advance of General"
RoSaIle Jones,
FORTY-THREE MILES IN
TWO DAYS IS RECORD
Thirteen of Band Of Sixteen
Succeed in Covering Twenty
Seven Miles from Sun-Up to
Sun-D0wn,

lB, Morning Jouruni Spccni Ieased wire.l
Princeton. N j. Feb. l3--Ihc stac-
cato yol oi Princeton university with
the appenduge "Notc Tor Women
Vote for Women, Vote for Women
greeted the army of sunmgottes,
which is marching to Washington.
when It arrived here at o'clock too
night The women. thirteen strong.
had covered twenty-scycn miles In
eight hours of active walking and
several of them We're ON the point of
exhaustion when the lights of the
university town twinkled welcome.
General lpsallc Jones, command
cr OF the expedition. declared that for
real hardship. today's walk exceeded
anything she had experienced
corporal" Martha Kmtschcn who
is less than 8 feet tall, had TO Dee sup
ported on four miles OF march. She
staggered into the village am hour af-
ter the arrival OF the vanguard pluck
ily refusing offers of "a llfi from pass
ing automobiles.
The scheduled twenty miles be-
tween Metuchcn. n. D. the days
starting point ana TINS village. WAS
stretched into twcniy-scvcn as the re-
suit Of The women taking the wrong
road. This carried them over "a
stretch Of rough marching before they
found the main highway again Three
women dropped out enroute. leaving
thirteen regulars tonight
Mrs. John noldt, who reached the
ontskIris Of the village nearly am
hour ahead nf The main ARMY" rc-
cciyed reception which frghtcncd
her. The students who had all the
roads into the village guarded discov-
cred her pl0ddinn along and sent
word back to the campus that the
first mixer had arrived. Two hundred
strong the students marched out To-
meet her They surrounded her two
of the students taking her arm. Thus
they escorted her for mile singing
and yelling Mrs Boldt finally ape
pealed to two proctors of the unver-
sity who rushed in among the stu
dents and rescued her. a student
filled automobile that had been scour-
ing the country roads IN search of
the army" came into town shortly
afterward and announced that th9
"main division was approaQJle. .Thtb
students Immediately went HuHJtto
meet them and the scene was fesfTei
ed. This time. however. the marchcVJ
We're "in force and the greeting of
the students WAS less vocilcrous than
before.
The students fell in line and march
ed to the Princeton Inn. their num-
bers this time swelling to more than
FIVE hundred Here the students called
for "A speech from General Jones.
The sunragette leader undauntcd.
mounted q chairand ask
ed that the students form mems
league for woman suffrage. This rec
quest was greeted with cheers. min
gled with cat calls. The general
asked the students to rctnrn an hour
later to hear Miss Elizabeth Freeman.
"officlal orator of the party. They
did. and Miss Freeman talked 70 them
from the steps Of the hotel Cheers !
and good naturcd gibes interrupted a- |
most every sentence but unperturbed /
the sufragcttc orator spoke for more |
than an hour Earlier in the day the
army received similar reception at |
Rutgers college at New Brunswick, !
which was reached at noon.
The days march was through q /
stretch of comparatively lonely coun- /
try, but there was scarcely farm |
house passed whose inhabitants did |
not give the army words Of encourage I
ment. one farmer Hospitality opened !
his house for rest ana tea.
President-clect Wilson. to whom /
the suffragettes expect to deliver (
message at the time Of his lnausura
ton, was In town tonight but "Gcner
Al" Jones decided to make no attempt
TO see him here
The women have covered IN their
FIRST two days of marching forty-threc
miles and they were foot sore and /
weary tonight. Tomorrow they will 4
march ten miles to Trenton