New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-11
ALL TO WEAR '1R|KERS"
Silk RuffIe Things Taboo on
March to Washington.
WOOLLEN STOCKINGS ALSO
General" Jones Now in Field
Mapping Out Route and Ar
ranging Receptions.

Get your mixers ready. if you're GO
ing 10 Washington.
According to an order issued yesterday
! by Colonel Ida Craft. who, in the all
I scnce Of Commander in Chief Hossiie
| Gardner Jones. is IN charge OF the Wash
ingtol campaign. no GOOD suffragist WIZ
! take to the highway In long. draESly, un'
/ hygienic skirts. She will wear sho';
walking skirt and-or-"hikers" That's II
or them-or they. Colonel" Craft u
! having hers made nov. after the pattern
Of those worn by the Wise one in the Al
! bany hike.
/ Experience teaches many lesson 20
/ those who walk for suffrage. chief among
/ them is the lesson that skirts arc NOR
/ tai. Many a one which left New YORK
! fresh. young and vigorous was mustered
out. b total wreck o. had 10 be retired
! on half pay long before the advance on
! Albany was ended.
/ NO more silk rufles Give lis mixers, -
viii be the cry Of the Washington cru
( sGders. The model uniform which cot =
mel" Craft is having made consists o; !,
/ Norfolk jacket. short skirt-and "hikers"
of some heavy cloth. She VIII wear IL
, parade hat-nOt the same little yellow
and white one which braved the Column
] ba County SHOWS and the mud when
dripped from the roof Of the Albany raft
road station as she kept lonely. dreary
/ vigil for SulZer. No: Colonel Craft has
new hat-another little yellow and white
/ one. from the property room Of the WCm-
an Suffrage party.
Another article which is taboo is wool-n
stockings. Little Doc" Dock was the
| horrible example who called forth the
edict She Il was who had the most trout
bic with bllsters. and sore feet generally.
And she blames all her troubles on wool
len stockings.
Il had never worn them before" she
explained. but some one made me wear
them on that hike They make your
feet too sensitive. You keep warm
enough walking II you wear Just ordi-
nary stockings"
"CommanderinC Chief Jones took herself
out Of the city before the news came that
the long talked OF hike" TO Washington
was really TO be. so she escaped the curi-
Gus and inqusitive who iockcd 10 head
quarters yesterday TO hear all about II.
Colonel Craft explained that the general
had gone on ahead 20 map the line of
march and TO make arrangements for
hotel accommodations and meetings with
local suffrasists in the towns IN route.
The first report she wired back 10 head
quarters gave this tentative schedule:
Arrive Philadelphia Saturday evening,
February IL.
Wilmington. Tuesday evening. Febru-
AIRY Is.
Baltimore. Wednesday evening. Febru-
AIRY e.
Washington. Sunday evening. March ?.
The number Of recruits so far has not
exactly swamped Colonel" Craft The
whole army" at present consists OF Gen
eral" Jones. Colonel Craftsnd private,
sibyl Wilbur. all veterans or the Albany
hike" Elizabeth Freeman. Martha
Klatschken. possible recruits. and five
pameless heroines from Connecticut II
isn't that women don't have names when
they live in Connecticut. but Genera!
Jones thoughtlessly took their letter with
her. so Colonel" Craft couldn't announce
them. They are five perfectly good suf-
fraeists. though. who promised TO go
every step OF the way.
Mrs James Lees Laidlaw, when asked u
she would hike" said
Certainly. | always hike But cant
ST are time to 90 the whole distance. III
start with them, as ] did before.
But alas, also alack That Was all Al
the Woman's Political Union they were
So concerned with their ball to-nshi. ct
the 7lst Regiment Annoy. $'th street ana
Park avenue admission Jcc.-AdytD'
and with some twenty OF thirty other
schemes ND their sleeves 10 spring AFTER
the hall is over. that they admit even
know there was going 10 he like.
Miss Mary Garrett Hay. chairman OF
the Woman Suffrage party, said:
40. Stree New York for me. I'm
going 10 devote ell my energies 10 con-
yer,iug New York State before 1915. !
can't waste time on PENNSYLVANIA and
MARYLAND II We get New York IN l9l,
every state viii come tunii'l'ns after H.
Il IS the state We must get f DINER
paople are altruistic enough To give iner
hope Of the vote to Some other women
I'm other states. don't object, 81 coarse
only won't have anything 10 90 win IL.
Or Shaw spoke likewise.
March" she said. Not J. It's too
cold. February is the worst month in the
year. and the roads will he In awiul con
d,tion. on. III so down to Washington
for the parade, but III go By train THANK
you