The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-03-07
NEW YORK SOCIETY GIRL HEADS
PAGEANT AND HELPS KEEP
CROWD BACK.
FIVE THOUSAND WOMEN IN LINE
Helen Keller, Exhausted in the Crush
So That She Was Unable to Ad-
dress Meeting at Continental
HaIl-Women Meet and
Denounce the Wash
ington Police.


sand women, marching in the woman
suffrage pageant today, practically
fought their way, foot by foot, up Penn
.sylvania avenue, through a surging
mob, which defeid the police, swamped
the marchers and broke their process
sion into little companies. The wo-
men, trudging stoutly along under
great difficulties, were able to COM
plete their march only when troops of
cavalry from Fort Myer were rushed
into Washington to take charge of
Pennsylvania avenue.
No Inauguration ever has produced
such scenes which in many instances
amounted to riots.
Later, in Continental hall, the wom-
en- turned what was to have been q
suffrage demonstration into an indig-
nation meeting, in which the Washing
ton police were roundly denounced for
their inactivity and resolutions were
passed calling on Presidential VIII
son and the incoming congress to
make an investigation and locate the
responsibility for the indignities the
marchers suffered.
Miss Helen Keller, the noted deaf
and blind girl, was so exhausted and
unnerved in attempting to reach a
grand stand, where she was to have
been a guest of honor, she was unable
to speak later at Continental hall.
The scenes were similar to those
which attended the eRtry of General
Resale Jones and her "hikers' on
Thursday when the bedraggled women
had to fight their way up Pennsylvania
avenue, swamped by a mob with which
a few policemen struggled in vain, but
upon a vastly larger scale.
The marchers had to fight their way
from the start and took more than one
hour in making the first ten blocks.
Many of the women were in tears un'
der the jibes and insults Of the mob
which lined the route.
Although stout wire ropes had been
stretched up and down the length OF
Pennsylvania avenue, from the peace
monument to the mall behind the
White House, the enormous crowds
that gathered early to obtain points OF
vantage overs-tepped them or crawl
ed beneath. Apparently no effort was
made to drive back the trespassers in
the early hours, with the result that
when the parade started it faced at
almost every hundred yards a solid
wall of humanity.
On the whole, it was hostile
crowd through which the women
marched. Miss Inez Milholland, herald
of the procession, distinguished her
self by aiding in riding down a moi
that blocked the way and threatened
to disrupt the parade Another woman
member of the "petticoat cavalry
struck a hoodlum a singing blow
across the face with her riding whip
in reply to a scurrilous remark. The
mounted police rode hither and yon,
but seemed powerless to stem the tide
of humanity
The group of hoodlums gathered in
front of the reviewing stand in which
sat Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen Taft. and
q half dozen Invited guests from the
White House. They kept up running
fire of caustic comment. Apparently
no effort was made to remove them
and, evidently disguised, the White
House party left before the process
sion had passed on its hating and in
terrupted journey.
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