The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-04
Most Splendid Pageant in
History of Movement Is
Cramped for Room
ONE MAN DROPS DEAD;
WOMEN ARE HURT
Police Arrangements Poor and
Handful of Troopers and
Boy Scouts Are of
Little Avail

WASHINGTON. March 3.-Rank
acknowledgement by the Washington
police during the womens suffrage big
procession upon Pennsylvania avenue
this afternoon resulted In steady
mile OF disorder for more than an hour
while the crowd, vaguely estimated at
q quarter OF million and more, as
sembied TO see a parade
One man In the crush at the south
END of the treasury dropped dead OF
heart disease. Three hundred women
and girls were brought into Washing
ton hospitals In fainting condition In
less than two hours One man had
his hip badly crushed In the jam. To
night matrons OF police station had
twenty-five lost children to look after.
eighteen husbands tonight asking the
police to find lost wives. More than
thirty girls. ono of them with g.
smashed foot where the hoof OF a
polLceman's horse almost severed the
girls toes. were carried into the
Emergency hospital In less than an
hour.
Women marchers had their skirts
torn of, sometimes with malice afore-
thought, by men mad clean through
when TANNED back by police auto
mobiles and horses or by men whs
were drunk. or both mad and drunk
Insults to the women marchers far
back In the line OF paraders that were
more vile than spoken insults some
times were suffered when men pressed
IN to the marchers. When the last
of the paraders had passed and the
crowds had melted away at the din
ner hour tonight Pennsylvania ave-
nue. was cluttered with haircomos,
bits of womens clothing and other
relics of the fight the sufYragists had
made to get through the crowd
Brilliant Suffrage Pageant.
The most splendid procession OF wo-
man in equal suffrage history this 81 :
ternoon buffeted its way westward
the greatest aggregation OF spectators
that ever turned out In Washington.
while from beginning 20 end the po-
lice ruisYnanagemen was the worst III
the known world. Even the members
of the United States Supreme court
in order TO witness the parade. aa-
tourned court after hasty motion or
two. Fully a quarter OF million
people witnessed the pageant
The paraders naturally wanted at
least the width OF the dRr tracks 10
march on, but even this space was
not accorded them by the crowd and
In their efforts to jam their way
through the crush mucn OF tne
spIendor of the procession naturally
was marred by the confusion.
Ambulances Kept Busy.
Near the main reviewing sfcnd a.
the south entrance to the treasury
building, a local liquor dealer drop
ped dead of heart disease In one 'oi
the almost constant succession OF
brushes that followed eacn h.ten,p J,
OF police, mounted, in automobiles and
afoot. and of the special policemen,
handful of troopers from Fort
Mver and Boy Scouts to make new
opening for the broken sections or the
parade 10 squeeze through In the
short stretch of Pennsylvania avenue,
beteewn Eleventh and ffften streets,
woman and girls were taken out OF
the press and hurried to the emer-
gency hospital.
Another woman was carried into the
same hospital with her foot badly
mangled by the shed hoof or q
:, mounted policeman's horse. Auto
mobiles that tried to butt the Grove
back in advance OF the procession
ran over innumerable toes. din OF
suleals. honkings of pathfndfnE au-
tomobiles manned by plain clothes
mon. wells and curses from men, the
cries of mounted and foot policemen
who hrandished their long clubs IN
the sunlight above the head or the
struggling masses. all merged into one
uproar along the mile or more the
= paraders tried to march
: The moment the automobiles al
the head of the lines had cleared q
path the crowd, once the police and
the head OF line had passed. would
ooze in again, whites ana blacks, IKE
chocolate vanilla ice cream melting
rapidly together and drowning out the
suffragists "loveliest platoons OF love
liness"
Mob Holds Up Mrs. Taft.
Before the parade had happened
along at all. two automobiles in which
were Mrs Taft and Miss Taft and q
number of their women friends were
hopelessly held up by the mobs a.
the southeast corner OF the treasury
The parade did not get started dowr
at the Peace monument IN front o.
the capitol until $50 O'Clock TWEEN
4. ~ minutes behind schedule.
The police foosled and delayed
things at the starting hour by tryins
to clear away the people by the ten:
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