New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-10
DONKEYS PARADE FOR
CAUSE WITHOUT PERMIT
Aren't They the DufferS?" Is
Way Miss Mary DOnneIly
Sizes Up Cops"

Miss Mary Donnelly and the four don
keys who are playing in Joseph and
His Brethren" at the Century Theatre
put one over on the Police Department
yesterday. They did suffrage parade
down Fifth avenue from SSth street 10
Washington Square and along Broadway
! to Wall street entirely without the little
formally of a police permit.
| 1t cannot be denied that the valiant
| Miss Donnelly was nervous. or course,
she had the word of an attache at the
| City Hall, who told her. when she 'phoncd
that she was Mary Donnelly, the police
! mems friend and. sure. she never had 10
get a permit when she paraded that she
might go ahead and try it. But suppose
an officer demanded TO see her permit?
Whenever Miss Donnelly sighted 4
cop" the way she poked those melan-
| choly donkeys would certainly have won
the disapproval OF the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. How
ever. the melancholy donkeys never re-
sponded, and the cops just grinned.
Maybe they thought like an intoxicated
voter who viewed the parade from the
pavement at 14th street
and muttering wildly: Hurry up or
they'll run US in-theyll run us in"
"Ah. tn poor bastes," said the voter.
Sure. 'twould be a oliver officer that
could run thin
| They were perfectly good donkeys. ex-
cept that they had neglected to put their
| fur coats in cold storage. but had left
| them out for moth and dust TO corrupt.
Their coats didn't matter though, because
over them they wore costumes designed
and made by n Fifth avenue modesto
Mime. I.avalle. secretary Of Miss DON
nelly's Fifth Avenue Business Women's
Suffrage League. Mrs. Myra Butler, mil
liner, evolved the creations they wore on
their heads and altogether those donkeys
were some style as they moved down the
avenue drawing little cart, IN which sat
four young and pretty suffragettes and
with Miss Donnelly and five other SUI
ragettes marching behind
The parade had several reasons for be
ing. One was that "Our Mary" thought
Joseph and His Brethren" had been on
the boards long enough, and that in JUS
tee TO women Mary and her Sisters"
ought to be seen. Also, the parade was
TO advertise Miss Donnellys new league
and the dance II will hold next Saturday
night at No 10 West 3sth street. But the
main object was TO show mp the per-
fdious political parties that won't give
women the vote.
Each of the donkeys was a party
"Rep"-short for Republican-was chaste-
~ CARRIED in Old Glories and yellow suf-
frage flags. with a purple flannel Gle
plants trunk resting upon his meek
| nose. Prog" wore flags and a head
dress Of bandannas. "Sosh," meaning
Socialist, was IN brilliant red. Dem"
had hobble skirt OF stars and stripes
| but his head was "au naturel."
Elizabeth MCGOWAN was the pretty girl
who held the ribbons. with her rode
Myra COrdes Dorothy Lee and Katherine
Morris. Some OF those who marched were
DIR. Ellen Knight-who wrote a poem
about the donkeys that the suffragists
warbled as they turned into Wall street
Mrs. Francis Long. Anna Paulson and
| Ada Lavslle.
In Wall street, opposite the Sub-Treas-
ury, the donkeys were halted and the
suffragettes held meeting, with "Sus-
pender Jack" MCGEE for star speaker.
| With twelve policemen from the Old Slip
station on guard, the crowd, mostly mes
senger boys. treated the donkeys with
great respect, and even listened to the
speeches.