The Washington herald., 1913-02-22
SUFFRAGE BAND
near COLLAPSE
"Col" Ida Kraft Goes Down in
Mud at Hog Wallow, but
Says She Will Continue.
BAGGAGE VAN ON FIRE
Flames Damage Luggage and Add to
Hopelessness Of "Hikers"-Reach
Havre de Grace.

Havre de Grace, Md, Feb. A.-Another
mile and Rosalie Jones suffragette army
would have been no more. Colonel Ida
Kraft collapsed in six inches of yellow
mud at Hog Wallow, a mile east of
Charleston, Nd, and was carried into
a farmhouse. She spent the night there
with a doctor in constant attendance,
Alfonso Majors motor car, which has
been doing duty as a baggage van, be-
came mired twice, once at the clay bank
hill and once south of Northeast, where
the pilgrims ate lunch, and finally took
fire near Principle. All the baggage,
coats, pilgrim capes, hats, and parcels
in the tonneau were thrown into a nearby
ditch and the Principle Gre department
was called out.
Majors car finally rolled into Harve de
Grace. Some of the pilgrims have bag
gage and others none.
Minerva Crowell, of Brooklyn. collapsed
on the roadside just outside of Perry
vile, and was assisted into town by
Mrs. Marie Baird and Harvey Johnson
the leader of the Havre de Grace band
which met the pilgrims at Perryville.
Phoebe Hawn retired early and forlorn,
only to develop a nightmare. and bringing
Havre de Grace to its feet at midnight.
by screaming Votes for women" from
the window of her room in the Hartford
House.
Mud Ankle Deep.
All these things, and more. were due to
a torturous hike of nineteen miles from
Elkton to this town, through roads that
totally defy description At no place
was the mud less than three inches deep
and often il surSed over the shoetops of
the suffragettes.
Lausanne. the suffraSette marc. was
mired to her knees at Glory-a four-house
was finally vankcd to the roadside by
Il Samaritan with two mules, and put
up in d stable for repairs.
Miss Freeman left the yellow wagon
weltering in the mult-colored mire and
hiked the rest of the way.
Neither the army of Hannibal nor the
troops which followed Napoleon across
Europe encountered greater agonies. suf-
fering. nor general hardships than did
this little band of pilgrims to-day.
From Elkton to Havre de Grace they
encountered the worst roads in the United
States. This is admitted by all the ma
tlveS
Given Royal Welcome.
At Perryville. at the north end of the
Susuuehanna River bridge, a crowd of
1000 men, women. and children, headed
by the Havre de Grace band and MEM
bers of the Wilson Social Club, met the
pilgrims.
At the town hall Mayor Walter Weber
made speech of welcome Gen.
Jones, Miss Freeman, Miss Aldrich, and
Mrs. Baird replied.
At Northeast. a town ruled by a com
mission, the entire commission. five in
all. headed by their chairman. Bert Snail
cross. met the pilgrims.
After luncheon the pilot car became
mired on the Cold Creek Road. near
Charlestown, and almost overturned.
Asad Rustum of 1876 Elmwood Avenue.
East Orange. y. j., came to the rescue
in a high-power car. The pilot drove into
Havre de Grace an hour after the pill
Erms.
The pilgrims leave for Belair. the coun-
~ seat. tomorrow morning.
Col" Ida Kraft. who collapsed at Hog
WalIow to-day. arrived in Harve de Grace
at . O'Clock, declaring that she would
continue to Washington if il killed her"
She was hysteriCal and was taken tol
her room. Gen Jones spent an hour
trying to dissuade her from walking to-
morrow.