The Washington herald., 1913-06-22
women TO MARCH
ON THE CAPITOL
viii Bring Huge Petition to
the Nations Law
makers.
PLAN DEMONSTRATION
On July 80 Hosts viii March on Con
gress, Asking for Passage Of
Amendment.

Several score suffrage tours will start
from cities all over the country on July l.
These tours will all aim at Washington.
where the suffragists will hold another
in their series of Capital City demonstra-
tons on July 80. All good suffragists are
coming to the Capital again, where they
will parade and storm Congress on that
date.
These tours have been organized to fur
Their the cause OF an amendment to the
Constitution for the enfranchisement' of
women. Five thousand blank petitions to
Congress, urging the passage OF this
amendment, were sent out from suffrage
headquarters here yesterday to the lead
ers of the various touring parties. These
petitions will be carried by the suffrage
pilgrims to Washington. They hope to
secure many thousands of signatures to
them on the wayside.
The different parties will time them
selves so as to reach the assembling
grounds just without the District from
one to a few days before July 20 On
their arrival they will pitch their tents
on the grassy meadows and on the wood
ed hillside and await the battalion of
local suffragists, who will march out to
meet them on the morning of July 20. and
who will then conduct them. bands play
ing. once more down Pennsylvania Ave-
nue. upon Congress.
According to local suffrage leaders, the
demonstration planned for the end Of
next month is to be significant and as
unique as the pageant which they held in
Washington on March g. After their big
days work Is done. they will hold BAN
quet, to which every loyal suffragist and
any anti seeking light will be invited.
Tours to Be Spectacular.
There is to be much that is to be spec
tacular in the tours themselves. A party
of men, members of the New York mems
equal suffrage organization, are coming
to the Capital on horseback; their leader
astride OF IS cent horse. Some of the
tours will be made afoot. Another party
have informed headquarters here that
they are going 10 ride into town upon
good Missouri mules. Still other parties
will come in automobiles. Tours from
the far West will have TO be accomplished
through the prOsaic medium Of railway
travel There is also some talk of reviv-
ing the bicycle. Miss Mabel Vernon, a
Washington girl, is to conduct a tour
through all the seaside resorts on the At
lantic coast, and she will hold a suffra-
gist revival meeting in each and every
one Of them. Altogether. the next suf-
frage advance up the Avenue is expected
to present some unexpected features.
Suffrage headquarters has again as
sumed a busy character. The Washing
ton suffragists are working hard upon
and they say that they
have all they can do If they are to make
the coming demonstration as big an oc-
casion as planned.
New chairmen of committees are Mrs.
Irving Moller. advertisements: Mrs. E. V.
BOughton, banners; Mrs. Claudius L.
Stone, banquets: Mrs. Nina Z. Allender.
benefits; Mrs. Helen II. Gardener. cam
paign literature; Mrs. Z. w. Boughton.
Mrs. Charles T. Owens.
headquarters; Mrs. NJ. F. Brooke, hos
ritality; Mrs. Virginia Hitchcock, liter
allure: Mrs. Katherine Woods. meetings;
Mrs. Nina (. Allender, meeting of July 30;
Miss Emily Perry. petitions: Miss Mildred
Koonce, press; Mrs. Mary NJ lockwood,
treasurer. and Mrs. Z. C. Kalbfus. ush-
ers.
In the meantime, the suffragists are In
tending to stir up enthusiasm in the Dis
trict through a number of meetings. One
meeting will be held in the Chevy Chase
library, under the auspices of a new suf-
frage organization-Chevy Chase Equal
Suffrage Le2gue-on June "a. Dr. Ryan
DevereuX is president of this organiza-
ton. Its other officers are Mrs. Went
worth c. Brooke. vice president; Mrs |
Eugene E. Stevens, secretary; Ray p.
Teele, chairman Of the executive commit |
tee; Eugene E. Stevens, Mrs. Gift R. |
Mrs. B. Ashby Leavell. George |
J. Hesselman. and Miss Lucy V. Mack |
-ille. executive committeeman. A mass
meeting and a lawn fete will be held by |
he sufiragists on the grounds at Bel |
mont" on June Is. There are about a |
1ozen other meetings in planning.