New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-26
,NEWARK'S PAVEMENTS
MAKE VOTES FOR WOMEN
sSuffragistS Groan as They Toll
Over Rough CObbIes in
Parade for Cause.
tAVARCHERS DEFY RAIN
Mass Meeting in Theatre After
Demonstration Addressed
by Two Senators and
an Elk Governor.

One thousand New Jersey suffragists
spentsan hour ard half yesterday walk
ing on an argument for woman suffrage.
The, argument was the pavement OF
Broad and adjacent streets in Newark,
the route OF the parade. which the march
ers unanimously pronounced the worst
pavement they had ever struck.
Just ,wait till we get the vote" they
muttered. as they'toiled over the irregular
cobblestGRes and splashed through the
puddles.
Puddles ,were deep all along the wa",
though III was not actually raining when
the parade formed at 3 80 o'clock In
front OF Mrs. Abram Van Wrinkles home,
at No. 80 Lincoln Park. II rained so
hard all day that there wasn't mere
man In Newark who thought the women
would march.
The policemen all took ii for granted
the parade was postponed and so informed
all inquirers ,up to BIS o'clock, when
hearing that those indomitable women
held to their intention, few policemen
hurriedly got, together TO head the line
SomesWomen Back Out.
Some of the women backed out, it Is
true. About 1000 failed for 1t was estl-
mated that 500 would have been in the
march had the skies been fair. The I'M
certainty and the impression OF the police
helped to declnate the ranks, keeping
away many who had actually started
for the place Of formation.
Mary Stewart Cutting, jr., didn't fail.
Dressed all white. with a tri-cornered
hat OF white felt, fastened with purple
cockade, with the purple. green and
white of the Women's Political Union
banded on her breast, and golden trum-
pet TO summon her hosts. she marched
in the van. signing bit OF sigh for
the twenty-four ltorsewomen she WAS to
have marshalled. but who had to forego
riding because the pavements were too
SlpItINE JSlbuN httpI dLfh iOdAo
ANONYMOUSLY under cover In barns. and
many a suffrage banner was left unrolled.
81 don't mind getting wet myself. hut
| won't have my banner spotted" de-
clared one leader from the Oranges.
There Were Banners.
There was a fair showing OF banners.
though, In the band that tramped down
Broad street from Lincoln Park 10
Military Park, around that Enclosure, and
along Clinton STREET.-THE Proctor's Theatre.
where at o'clock "a mass meeting was
held.
First came the yrllows OF the New
Jersey State Suffrage Association. with
Mrs f.. r. Feickert, the president. head
ing that section Mss Eda Falken. Of
Bayonne, dressed in white. with a yellow
cloak draped over her shoulders. was
herald for the Woman Suffrage party sec
ton Mrs. Everett Colby. chairman OF
the legislative committee of the four SUI
frage organizations OF the state. marched
with the yellows. Mrs. Colby arrived
breathless from a luncheon for Governor
and Mrs Hiram Johnson. OF California.
at which she was hostess, but which she
had to leave before coffee to join the SUI
frage parade.
Mrs. Harry Compton led the Equal
Franchise Society. Mrs. Abram Van VIM
kle headed the Womers Political Union
OF New Jersey and Mrs. Henry Butter
worth came over from New York to mar
shall it. A pretty feature OF this section
was the band of twenty-one nurses. who
came aver in their uniforms from Cedar
Grove Hospital TO march. All carried the
purple. green and white pennants. and
Miss Nellie Glenn walked at their head
with a white silk flag bearing the red
cross.
One Sombre Figure.
Mrs. d. w r. Macdonald was chairman
of the parade committees and marshal OF
the parade.
Much curiosity was aroused in the on
lockers by sombre figure-Miss Vlola
Agnew In mourning to8s-carrying box
SHAPED affair on a stick labelled: