The Mena weekly star., 1913-05-08
10000 WOMEN IN
 SUFFRAGE PARADE
Orderly Crowd Cheers Marchers, Who Represent Practically Every Section of the COuntry-Miss
 MilhOlland Leads.

New 10fk, May 3.-Ien thousand persons-mostly women-marched ID Fifth avenue today to make one of the most effective and orderly demonstrations that America has ever seen. Nearly every state in the union was represented in the parade. Despite the sweltering heat of 98 degrees and the added heat from the pavement of Fifth avenue, not one marcher faltered.
 Ten thousand would appear to be fair enumeration. The anti-sufT- ragist counting machines, work ing industriously at Fifth avenue and Thirty-siXth street, registered Q6i2. This included 571 bandmen and F policemen. A private count showed 9,824. At any rate the thousands who thronged Fifth ave- nue from Union Square to Fifty ninth street saw sturdy army of women that marched with the pre- cision of Uncle Sam's regulars.
 The shibboleth of the cause Votes for Women'-was spread in yellow and black banners all along the line of march. And breaking in between the battle banners were thousand banners telling in suc- cnt and pertinent phrase just why these thousands of women were demanding the right to help make the laws which they must obey.
 1000 Men in Line.
 Of the 10000, there were probab- lv 1000 men. Tn these men the sidewalk mobs saw written plainly the fact that the suffragist has long ceased to be thing to mock.
 State senators and assemblymen, judges of the high courts, promi- nent members of the bar and the ministry, and, with the exception of the mayor, most of his official family, who reviewed the parade | from the grandstand put exclusive ly at their disposition by the parade | committee, shOwered continuous | applause upon the marchers as they stepped briskly along in mili- tary fashion past the stand in front of the public library, where 1,6OO proud husbands, including some of | the foremost political, professional, | business and social leaders of the | city. reviewed their marching | wives. No women were in the re- viewing stand.
 Special Orders of Day.
 The special orders of the day, is- sued by Miss lnez Milholland, grand |  marshal, were as follows
 If your friends won't march, cut them dead"
 Eyes to the front"
 "No talking or laughing
 Keep step
 Head erect and shoulders back
 Remember you are marching for a principle"
 Eight abreast, the women march ed. and were greeted with cheers all along the lines. There was an average of 10 policemen to a block | from Washington Square to Fifty ninth street along Fifth avenue, and special detail of mounted men were told off especially to pre- cede and follow the column to guard against the possibility of any such disorder as marked the in-I aucural suffrage parade in Wash lngton.
 Two Hours in Review
 IL took the parade precisely two hours to pass the reviewing stand. The final platoon of police, forced to every maneuver to press back the crowds that would have swal lowed up the little Pennsylvania and Delaware delegations at the rear saluted the stand at $40.
 From the very outset, when Miss Mllholland nodded in appreciation ot the grandstand applause. the pa rade promised to be a marvellous one. Behind her a red-coated band hIared "Marseillaise" in a fine swinging tempo, and clattering be- tween the statuesque Miss Milhol- land and the band came the chief marshal, Mrs. Richard Burleson, upon a mettlesome charger capari- Soned in yellow.
 Women Good Riders. \ caValcade of horsewomen who  really could ride horses, added dig nlly to the vanguard and a band, ornate in yellow and black velvets, followed playing The Parade March, which was composed for the occasion by Molle Stern Li- thauer, who walked in the musi- clans section.
 And then for two hours there came women from California, Utah and far-off Alaska, to show what cause theirs is. From every nook ana cranny of New York City they came.
 Fill Carnegie Hall. With every seat in Carnegie Hall rom the parquet floor to the sup permost gallery occupied, the great suffrage demonstration and parade was brought to close, with speeches and resolutions tonight. when you have that awful pain