New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-27
GEN. JONES AND ARMY
NEARING THE CAPITAL
Suffrage Army Covers "a Miles
and Limps Into Laurel, Md,
TO BivOuaC for Night.
nNE FALLSBY THE WAYSIDE
Pilgrims Follow Footsteps of
Washington and Lincoln in
Final Stages of Through
from New York"

from eW York.
by Telegraph 90 The Tribune
Laurel Nd. Feb 26-Oh. if Abraham
Lincoln had only been General" Lincoln
tbon the proud inhabitants of Laurel
could now say that three generals had
csssed over the turnpike road that leads
from the north into their town. General
Washington once led his army over this
road. II the people hereaboutS are cor
rect i'm their history. Lincoln came that
wav when he went quietly into Washing
Ton 10 be- inausurated President of the
limited States and Yesterday General
RosaHe Jones led her valiant. if limpins.
army Of suffrage pilgrims in the foot
prints of Washington and Lincoln. as
thew finished their twenty-four mile tramp
Of yesterday from Baltimore to Laurel
Oh il was joy, that turnpike road!
Firm and dry. IL was rather "A contrast
10 the ankle deep mud roads through
which the suffrasist loundered last
week Al; the way from Annapolis juno
ton I'd stretched. and il heartened the
pilgrims so that when they reached the
homo Of the man VINO wrote that song
Everybody Works but Father" they
stopped half dozen of them. outside
the fence and hummed a verse of his
classic production. Every body Works
but Father" unused Colonel Ida craft.
as she Cazed at the windows behind which
the song writer may nave been hiding
Yes. and especially the suffragists
Il was Q o'clock i'm the morning when
the general" led her army" from the
stafford Hotel Baltimore.
Schools Take a Holiday.
The army" reached EiNidse. nine
miles from Baltimore. a. J O'Clock and
took an hour for luncheon there. tn'n
marched on 10 Laurel The turnpike road
10 that town Vas. all the pilgrims agreed,
quite Tie most cheering bin they have
had since they left Newark. y. j.. not
onlv because the going was good. but o.
cause there was such "A surprising out
pouring az people TO see them and cheer
them on The country didn't look "a IL
ANYBODY lived there Eut somehow IT hdd
raised CroD Of friends fOr the suifrd-
eists Somewhere back IN those heldS
were hidden. on the way from EikrldSe To-
Laurel. nine district schools. and eNe.E
one Of those schools had a holiday 20 lie
pupils could see the suffrdeisis A.
bright bits Of color they made. those
groups Of children. who waited patiently
half the dav at their various CROSSROADS
inst 10 wave their flags and gaze al me
suffrasisis.
~ was o'clock when "Genera. Jones
cached Laurel tramplng or through a
thickenins throng of onlookers and wei
comers Colonel" craft was some ways
lehind. having been delayed 10y the mad
desire TO which she could rot Help Weld
ing. TO stop and roast two Of those pota-
toes. which she had been keeping Tor
her sore feet. at an enucine IRE IN the
fslds where some farmers were burning
brush. The only pilgrim who gave Out
and took 10 wheels was Mrs Rubin, Of
Philadelphia. who mad walked from the
Quaker City and had sworn 10 walk
every step to Washington. She was found
by a masculine rescue party a mile out
OF Laurel. stumbling along and murmuT
Ing hopelessly to herself that twenty
miles a day was too much for her
II don't believe Laurel IS only mile
away" she moaned in reply TO the rescue
party's words OF comfort. They re say
ing that for hours. Tor hours
The rescue party hailed passing auto
mobile and loaded Mrs. Rubin aboard
Been helping these ladies along all the
way from Philadelphia. he connded 10
friendly ear Cant 90 10 any longer
She's a heavyW eight. too.
Sunragette Gypsy Freeman horse
Vas taken into Laurel Dy parcel post.
Yes. she was met TWO miles out by cou-
plstof postnen who were delivering par
cel,. and they escorted her in. The don
KEY driven by Miss Margaret Geisi con
,ributed some excitement 10 the day
march by running away. She had 10 be
chased two miles oy her shrieklng mis-
tress and mob OF small boys before she
consented 10 oe caught.
Ine through from New lorh P"-
srims q.uo made Laurel last nigh al
together for each set her or his own
mace according 10 the indiVidu al lame
ness-were Genera" Resale Jones
'Colorel' Ida Craft. "Pr1vates Martina
Klatschken. Constance leuph, MIS-. Mary
Baird Mrs T. T. BOldt, Miss khzapelH
poe,sch. Mrs George Weni, Milton
Wend the bugler. Miss Grower, fIHDe
Hawn the array" beauty. Norman Speer
and ~ Ernest stevens. Or. stevens I"e
Colonel Craft cherished a epl alnt"
ankle. hut swears he will make asilh5
Ton n he mas TO do Il on one foot.