New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
"GeneraI' Jones Gives Up Sc
cret Communication on Or
ders from National Board.
OTHERS WILL DELIVER IT
Army Correspondents Engage in
Battle with Students, and
Commander Is Captured
In Washington TODAY.

Laurie. Md. 10 Hyattsville YESTERDAY
thank YOU. Even a suffrage enthu-
siast couldn't help noticing that it raine 4.
But If any Of the raindrops thar fell On
the pilgrims sizzled as they fell ii was
no wonder. for they were hot-hot clear
through with ange~ Al the national
board which is the governing body of
the National Woman Suffrage Assoc ia.
ton. and whose members were the sign
ers Of the secret message" TO President
slec; Wilson which General Resale
Jones was carrying from New York 10
Washington.
Was" is the word not is" Tor Miss
Alice Paul chairman of the executive
committee % the Congress committee of
the association. which is managing next
Mondays suffrage parade, took the mes
sage from the general" al Hyattsville
Yesterday afternoon Word had come
from the national headquarters that
morning that ii would be done. and this
WAS what made the army" hot through
the march. 1t was a bomb. and coming
from friends camp, from the camp
which had dispatched them, it-well. 1t
startled.
The general" received the telegram
IN Laurel but. like the diplomatic leader
she Is. she said noting until the army
had marched out OF the village and was
well on It's way. Then she gathered her
army" about her in brick kiln by the
roadside. with the rain dripping over
them. and she broke the news: Re
called" Wednesday the army" sang
EVERY body Works but Father" outside
OF the home Of the author Of that song
Yesterday ii was a case of Everybody
Mad hut the General. Whatever she
felt inside outwardly she was calm.
Got It from Mrs. bennett.
The message directed to President
elect Wilson was given to me by Mrs.
Mary Ware bennett. executive secretary
Of the national association, and il GER
tainly was autographed by Miss Jane
Adams Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Mrs
James Lees Laidlaw and the other mem
bers Of the board" she told the pilgrims
II remember that when first went
10 see DR. Shaw, 10 ask her II she would
like to intrust us with a message to the
l.
BIT doubtful whether II wouldn't be in
iruding on the rights of the association
Congress committee. That was ten DAYS
before we started. ] thought. Well. II
Dr Shaw feels so. that is all right. we il
find something else 10 do. But when
went 10 the national headquarters just
before We left Mrs bennett told me we
were 10 he the bearers OF the message.
and the next DAY Il was sent on 10 me
In New Jersey-the autographs hadn all
been secured when we left
a week ago was surprised 10 receive
a letter from Mrs. bennett saying tnat
she thought Dr. Shaw wished to head the
delegation presenting the letter TO Mr.
Wilson Miss Florence Allen and Miss
Florence Miller. of the national head
quarters. had come from New YORK 10
march into Baltimore, and ! talked the
matter over with them. They were very
angry with the association for wanting
to take the message from the army.
However. this morning 1 got this tele-
gram: The hoard voted 10 present the
message themselves with the Congress
committee
Il know" the general went on. mat
Or. Shaw disapproyed Of this pilgrimage
and Miss Adams. too. but Mrs. bennett
thought it was fine. and Mrs. Laidlaw
was very sweet about it.
Well how the general can take that
FLAP 50 quietly / don't see. exploded
Colonel ida Craft A mean trick.
call IT," cried another.
After We plodded through all that mud
last week. and then 10 have Dr.. Shaw
and those women roll into Washington
in Pullman car and take that message
from US. They don't know what 1t means
TO walk ar We have walked-no. they
don't" almost wept Private" Martha
Klatschken. YEARLY lifting her mud
coated feet from the bricks on which they
had rested through the conference.
Some Of the army were for taking
message to the President-elect anyhow
one OF their own. but they finally agreed
that their general was taking the dig
nifcd course.
insurgency developed late tonight.
however and Miss Elizabeth Freeman.
one Of the marchers. declared that If the
members Of the army were not permitted
to deliver the message she would desert
and return 10 New York.
The bright lining 10 yesterdays cloud
was the friendiness Of the countryside.
Hyattsvile did itself proud. The Prince
George Business Mems Association had
conceived the grand idea Of entertaining
the pilgrims Al luncheon. and having heard
Of the "armys" little way Of slipping
Into towns hours before schedule time,
had scouts posted all along the road back
10 Laurel. each one prepared 10 sprint TO
the nearest telephone and gasp over the
wire: The 'armys. acomin'. Put on the
kettle
However. they did not reach the town
much before . o'clock. for they stopped
several times. once because they were
"mobbed" by the students Of the Mary
land Agricultural College who captured
General Jones and insisted on speech
The remarks of the students finally De-
came so unpleasant that newspaper cor
respondents with the party interfered and
lively fist fight resulted. with the STU
dents getting the worst of the argument.
But when they saw that business men {
luncheon they felt better. There We're
Two long tables piled with pickles, SALAD,
sandwiches coffee and ice cream. Win
William y. Magruder. a good sufrragist
adherent 10 wait on them. and 6eaming
Hyattsville business men just falling over
each other IN their anxiety TO do the PHI
grims honor.
General" Jones's Mother Comes.
During the luncheon General Jones
mother and sister arrived In haste from
Washington. where they are staying. Inc
general" took calmly the news that her
anti relatives were there.