New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-01
SUFFRAGE ARMY ENTERS
WASHINGTON IN TRIUMPH
Welcomed by One of the Great
est of Capital ThrongS at the
End of Long March.
ROUTE ORDERS MIXED
Gen. Jones Proudly Leads the
Pilgrims, Marching Thirteen
Abreast, While Police Fight
Back the Crowds.

rrrcr stan Correspondent OF The Tribune
Wash inStou. Feb. Swell Washington
didn't care whether General" Resale
.iouc. had that letter TO Prcsident-elect
Wilson or not Washington was mad 10
SOC the suffrage pilgrims and TUNED out
to ercct their entry this morning i'm
crowds which ,hc city has seldom sur
passed.
.I'm a Wasninctonian hor1l." Miss con-
stance Leupp. one of the "through-from-
NcV York" pilgrims. said just after tie
finish i've seen six iuaugurstOns and
not one of them brought out more people
than lined .lc streets through which W
yasscG to-dJy'
20 was a reception that soOtneO the sore
hearts Of General" Jones and her army
and they were sore hearts, as well as
scr. feet. t.at left Hyattsville at Q O'Clock
ihis moin.uc Thor, was a sad mXup
about tine route. Tie "aimys" official
guide g. e. Lennon accent on the last
,tUsblc haI outlined ono along Brent
wood Road TO Rhode Island avenue and
intn Tenu-, Wanna avenue \'nCn ne sub
united this 10 Mrs Ai.C, Pa. c5~'~',,''l
OF .bc local committee OF the National
Woman SsGrace Association she coun-
t.i.d With what some 81 tho pilgrims de
Gerod was 'ba kdoo," roIte- one lad
r- into the cit, by tho Bladersburg Road
and alous Nar, land avenue.
Genera 'on,s like good soldier.
op,,,d tEe National" and took the
rladcnsburs Road. only 90 find. when
mo army was half way mere that the
local committee had telephoucd to her
late last night that she was 80 come b.
tho Brentwood Road The message was
1tvcr delivered
While tho army founderod through
sine mud of BladensbLrs Road the local
reception committee md some disguised
policemen we're trying +, meet them out
brentwood way. md 10 dent improve
thc feelings Of tho pilgrims any TO be-
halted FOR "a Ions wait at Sth street and
Maryland avenue while the reception
committee and the vondering police were
recalled
The committee knew the Bladedsburg
Road we'll enough when they came out to
get the Wilson message from rs yester-
day" cried one tired pilgrim.
PILGRIMS May See Wilson.
Just little way out of Hyattsville
General Jones halted her army and
produced telegram she had received
from the national board II was thus
Regret misunderstanding. Board with
Won from beginning. Delegation TO pre-
sent message 10 Prcsident-elect Wilson u
consist Of national officers Congress com
mittcc and pilgrims II interview with
Wilson is secured.
"It makes no difference. The matter Of
tlo letter to Wilson is over and done
with as far as am concerned" said the
gttl. general as she picked Up her staff.
bit further on she was cheercd 10y
tnc salltc Of lot Of bows from The M
Iiona Training Schoo-it used to he the
Buve Reform SchOol-who were grouped
on tho roadside. ON and on the army
p'odded past Mount Olivct Cemetery, past
tine hin where once American troops, hard
pressed hv the British. encampcd. and
whore a good many years later Coxey's
army pitched thcI tents. on and on,
vnilc tho punches OF onlookers grew
thicker-white people and black VOL
dressed women in automobiles and muddy
ones on foot-tiu at 1885 o'clock. Just five
minutes dflFl NftfUNif lllii't ut ilidA H'iiiif
they reached Maryland avenue and II
street and there the real crowds began.
Presently came a clattcr OF gallopinS
loofs. and mp dashed two women in
white habits. mounted on snow white
horses They were Mrs. Margaret Hop
bing Norrcll and Miss Lucy Ncil. After
them came FIVE women in khaki riding
astrido-the cavalry" sent ont from the
local headquarters 10 greet the army
last ~ all came Miss Paul. with other
members Of the committee. in carriage.
The wandering police had likewise been
recovered and nine mounted officers ana
any number on foot began doing their
best 20 clear the way for the little woman
IN the brown pilgrim cloak at the head OF
tho poddins army" the woman TO see
whom every soul i'm the great throng was
struggling As for her. she just accepted
Mrs pauls smiling greeting and then
pressed on, the only spot of color about
hey being a bunch Of pink roses carried
~ the head Of her staff.