New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04
ONLY 9,613 MARCRERS
IN PARADE, SAY "ANT|S'
They Have Eight "CllCking
Counters" Working to Keep
Tab on Hated Foes.
"COP'S" ESTIMATE 10000
President of Those Opposed to
Suffrage Insists There Was
Less Enthusiasm than
in 1912 Affair.

Click. There go four of our enemies"
Click. Click, That means eight Of
'em?"
What was it? Why. the official counter
the anti-suffragists had out to keep tab
on the suffrage parade. Neatest little
machine you ever saw It clicks once
for four abreast and twice for eight
abreast. Aad the ants had eight of 'em
stationed at intervals along the line. In
the horde of men-useful sex. men!-and
when the parade ended the men trotted
along to the special suffrage edition Of
the ant headquarters-that is TO say. the
anti annex established far over the pa
rade line at Fifth avenue and SSth street
and turned IN their counting machines.
The result was at once posted up In
the window. 1t read:
Number Of marchers in the suffrage
parade, including bands. 9,61S.'
Queer how different even numbers look
from different points of view The SUI
fragists also had an official counter, and
during the Carnegie Hall meeting card
was handed up TO Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Blatch, saying: "Oficial count gives num-
Der Of marchers as $3.50"
Which Was Dishonest
one or both of those counting machines
ought to be had up for gross political dis
honesty or malfeasance OF office, or some
thing pretty bad.
An automobile policeman, who stood at
s7th street during the parade. cooked a
doubtful eye at the numbers posted In the
"anti" window.
Them counters slips cogs," he OBJ
served.
Reckoning the way they do in the mill
tary parades. there was about 10000
marchers to-day"
Yes" said officer 1924, of the Esd
Precinct. who stood by, there was
and the crowds that watched was larger
than the crowds that looked on the SUI
frage parade last year"
But. anyhow, the "antis" had a nice
party at their Fifth Avenue Annex yes
terday afternoon. There was just one
blot. Some impairment SUITS. yclept
Miss Catherine Benton. and Miss Rachel
Irwin. of White Plains. rented the big
the same building. and hung a big yellow
woman suffrage banner just above the
ANTS window. They also had out
two poetic gems printed in big letters for
all who marched TO read:
THE 'antis' say home is woman s
sphere" Then what are the ants
doing here?"
Maybe that didn't make the suffragists
howl with joy as they passed.
"Antrs" President Satisfied.
But Mrs. Arthur NJ. Dodge, president
Of the National Association Opposed to
Woman Suffrage. said she didn't mind
She said she drew great satisfaction from
the fact, most patent to her as she
watched from the window Of the owner,
that there was far less enthusiasm IN
the marchers and in the crowds than
there was last year in the suffrage pa
rade
Il don't think We need be afraid Of this
demonstration" she observed. Il viii
say that the women marched much better
than they did last time. But 1t was far
more nfeless. There was less yellow dis
PLAYED in the windows along the avenue
and less interest altogether.
The numbers, as shown by our official
count. which is absolutely correct. are
not impressive. and i am told that the
suffraeists have made strenuous efforts
to get recruits. l hear that numbers OF
women were called up at the last minute
and begged to march. and | fancy almost
any woman would have been paid s. for
marching. Though. perhaps" Mrs. Dodge
added, only the working women who
forfeited the half days wages were paid
paid the equivalent OF their wage
which. Of course. was fair"
Many ANTS" dropped into the annex
during the afternoon. among them Mrs
oliver Livingston Jones, General
Resale Joness mother Mrs. Jones was
in the grip of two opposing emotions
pride in the applause her daughter got