The Washington herald., 1913-01-19

Fifth Division Mystery
The fifth and last grand division OF the
parade is shrouded in mystery, and Is
destined TO remain so until il passes be-
fore the assembled thousands on the
Avenue March ;. At least, this Is the
announcement made by Mrs. Glenna s.
Tinnin, designer of the pageant She is
obdurate TO all questions. Beyond the
statement that this division VIII be Mt
ting as a climax of so great parade, no
information, she says, will leak concern
ing its structure until the day OF presen-
tation.
This division is called the Cartoon
division. II is 10 be a brilliant wind-up
of the most brilliant pageant that the
people Of the country have ever wit
messed What is meant by cartoon
division is matter for much conjecture.
1t bas beeh said that the suffrage work.
ers plan to tell a great international
story on March g. 1t is not only going
TO be a story of the past, but will also
be peek into the future. The inference
is that the cartoon" division points a
moral to a splendidly told tale, gives the
women's intuition of their future. What
form this announcement will take or
how deep its import will be must remain
the mystery of the pageant until the
day OF staging. The mysterious car
toon" division will follow the regular
divisional order, herald, standards, mu-
sic, and cavalry women.
Tableau on Treasury Steps
The passing of this wonderful, pano-
ramic pageant along the Avenue will be
toward a eliminating scene of beauty,
the evolution of a magnificent tableau
on the steps and spacious plaza, among
the lofty columns OF the southern front
of the Treasury, the use OF which Sec
retary MaCVeagh has granted for the
purpose.
Miss Hazel MacKaye. daughter of the
late Steele MacKaye, a dramatist and
manager, and sister of the dramatist
Percy MacEaye, who has had a ma
uonal experience in staging beautiful
displays. has designed the pageant's cli-
max, which, it is said, will far surpass
any of her previous productions.
The evolution of this wonderful tableau
will begin at the same moment the
pageant has left the Capitol grounds and
will add unit by unit to its structure
until the last company of marchers has
swept by into East Executive Avenue
when it will stand completed. a treat
for all fortunate enough to view it.
Figures of the virtues which have al
ways been associated intimately with the
character of women will occupy the GEN.
ter Of the stage in the tableau. They
Will be Justice, Liberty. Charity, Peace
and Hope. A figure of Columbia will be
the central piece. Each of the virtues
Will have beautiful and imposing train
OF attendants. the graces pages, and
hundreds of subordinate figures. Artists
CT the note of Mrs. Florence Flemming
Noyes. the classic dancer, will interpret
the leading parts in the tableau.
Dance and Anegory.
The beginning of the scenes evolution
will ln
pets, whose strains will be taken up by
band of musicians, who will accom-
pany the ceremonies of the building OF
the picture TO its completion.
These ceremonies will start with a
pantomime in which the allegorical fig
ures will progress TO their places through
beautiful mazes of descriptive dance
AS the first strains of the pageant's
approaching bands are heard, Columbia
will advance to the head of the lofty
sttps. Columbia probably will be inter
preted by Nine. Nordica- simultaneously
with her advance two gigantic American
flags will be Unfurled on either side of
the broad platforms Columbia will
then descend to the broad plaza below.
where she will summon the figures of
the virtues and their retinues, to re-
view with her the passing of the pa
Eeant. The resplendent tableau around
the goddess will be formed through
many series of beautiful evolutions and
rnazes of descriptive and classic dances.
With the passing OF the last banner
and the final dismemberment of the
beautiful tableau. the women say an
event will have taken place before the
thousands of curious beholders of last
ing historic interest, and A new record
will have been set for similar displays
Of the future.
Work Hard on Plans
Thousands of dollars and the con-
certed labors of many people will be
necessary to carry out these plans upon
March g. Suffrage leaders will tour all
the States to enlist aid and marchers
for -Ie pageant. Chairman OF many
committees will put in long hours in the
intervening weeks that all of the details
of this great display may pass on
smoothly.
Thousands of banners for the pageant
are to be assembled from all over the
country by Mrs Olive II Holbrouck. Ac-
cornmodations for tens of thousands of
visitors are to be arranged by COM
nittee of which Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley
is chairman. Outdoor meetings are TO
be held in the principal cities of the coun-
try TO help create enthusiasm, this work
being in charge of Nina +. Alender
These are but few OF the examples OF
the vast amount of work to be accom-
nlished in the short intervening time.
Other busy chairmen will be Mrs. Eliza
beth T Kent who is in charge OF the
meeting following the display; Mrs. Lulu
Hemingway, in charge OF assembling
enough suffrage literature to convert all
chance inaugural visitors; Mrs. Nettie
Pudell Gutenberg, who will have charge
of its distribution, and Mrs Tenney,
chairman of the reception committee.
Perhaps the busiest chairman of them
all is Mrs. Helen II. Gardener, ardent
suffrage worker author. and society wom-
an, who is in charge of the press COM
mittee. Countless notices have to be ar
ranged for newspapers throughout the
country 10 supplement the work Of the
organizers As an evidence of the de-
votion to their great event, this chairman
is spending ten hours day at her desk
in addition to much work which she is |
accomplishing outside.
The idea of the pageant-a modern |
crusade-was proposed by Miss Florence |
Etheridge to members OF the National |
Suffrage Association convention in Phila- |
de!phia last fall, and was caught up with |
an enthusiasm which has been steadily |
increasing Miss Ethridge has charge of
one of the most important works of all |
that of procuring the many thousands |
Of dollars necessary to the stupenduous |
production.
Prominent Persons Helping
Among the long list of prominent per-
sons, who as members OF the advisory |
committee, are giving their best efforts |
toward the success of the event, are |