The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-05
SUFFRAGISTS TO
FIGHT ACTION
Women Planning Big Parade
Want Use Of Pennsylva-
MIA Avenue.
SYLVESTER OPPOSES IT
Thousands of Dollars to Be Spent in
City for, Costumes
and Floats.

Details of the most beautiful pageant
ever staged in America nearing compile
ton and decided opposition on the part
OF Maj. Richard Sylvester, superintend-
ent OF police, TO granting permission for
the use of Pennsylvania Avenue on
March for its presentation is the guam
dairy in which the national suffrage
workers find themselves. The women
have set their hearts upon giving their
supreme demonstration, for which, that
it may be brilliant memorable sue
cess, they intend to devote the next two
months in tireless contriving on the IA
nous thoroughfare of parades-Pennsyl-
Nania Avenue. This pageant is to repre-
sent a browning display for years OF
work. Ii is to take a historic place
among great paradeS held in America,
and as work of women. For this effort
the women believe only Pennsylvania
Avenue. the route along which so many
bodies have marched, is fitting.
Mai. Sylvester, on the other hand, has
issued a statement that he deems it in
advisable that the women shall hold
their pageant upon the Avenue on March
8 Any other line of march he is willing
to concede to them, but says he will not
be able to provide them with sufficient
Avenue feasible on the day before inau-
Suration. All available police strength
will be needed. the ma or points out, for
keeping order on the Avenue during the
inaugural parade the following day. That
this protection be granted two days in
succession. he stated. would be to i'm
pose an impossible burden upon the po-
lice force.
MAJ. sylvester further points out in his
statement that the Avenue will be filed
with the influx of inauguration visitors,
with visiting civic and military bodies,
or the day which the women have
chosen. He also expresses the fear that
the event might partake of the London
methods which would mean the melting
to disorder" and which he is required
to use every means to prevent"
Deny MiIitnncy.
officers of the suffrage committee hav
ing the arrangements for the pageant in
charge said last night that while they
appreciate Mai. Sylvester's reasons for
declining to give them the permission re-
quested. they believe that they will be
able to convince him his objections can
be met and arrangements taken to re-
move all grounds for them. They deny
that there will be anything militant in
their gala week. or the least suggestion
of ''militancy" in their pageant which
they plaR to be one of beauty, whose
story shall he ore of convincing logic
and not = isp'dE OF passions.
rhe wum,n have decided to fully eX
pain their case again to Maj. Sylvester.
and also to lay it before the board of
Commissioners. Several communications
have been sent to the Commissioners
asking that their requests be granted,
and many more are expected to follow.
President James F. Oyster. of the Cham
Der of Commerce.; Joseph Strasburger,
president of the Retail Merchants Asso- |
citation; Isaac Cans, influential official in
both bodies and chairman of one of the
important inaugural committees, togeth- !
cr with many other prominent Washing J
ton men and women, are interesting
themselves in prosecuting the women's
request.
To Spend Thousands.
Many thousands of dollars will be ex- |
pended in this city by the suffrage work. |
ers in staging their great pageant. All
materials for costumes. floats, banners, |
pennants, and other necessary parapher- |
MALTA will be purchased from Washington |
merchants, was announced by Mrs. |
GIenna S. Tinnin, chairman of the COM
mittee on the pageant, who spent yes |
terday with members of her committee !
submerged in sea of figures and ten |
tative estimates OF needed supplies.
Here are some of the estimates arrived |
at by the preliminary work of the COM |
mittee: Materials for more than LC0G |
rich medieval costumes for the actors in |
the pageant will be required. hundreds |
of caps and gowns will be purchased for |
the several contingents Of college women |
who will march, hundreds of banners.
material for the construction of twenty
five beautiful floats. and a few hundred
horses for the floats and the several
bodies of horsewomen will be rented for
the occasion.
Another item OF expenditure that will
be an unusually large one is that of
As the pageant is to be in the
nature of elimination. a browning of
all that has gone before, officers of the
Congressional committee and leading
women suffrage workers from all over
the nation want to have as many of
their rank and file present as possible.
The pageant is to be a celebration of
an announcement by the women
that they believe the time is near when
all over these Unittd States the ballot
will be given them, and IL is TO represent
their pledge to use the ballot for progress
and welfare of their country.
All true suffragists will come to Wash
ington and witness the pageant, MEM
bers of the committee believe. This will
..
women visitors. it was explained, spend
more freely than the men. They like
nothing so well as to go shopping in
strange town, and, 1t Is pointed out that
with the advantages offered for parting
with all unnecessary change by this
city's many up-to-the-mnute marts. an
amount of business should be
done. Most of the suffragists who come /
to witness the pageant are expected to
stay throughout inauguration week, and
for such the committee will plan many
Among the prominent women suffra-
gists who are to participate are Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, of New York City.
president of the International Suffrage
the Rev. Dr. Anna Shaw,
Of New York, president of the National
Association for Woman Suffrage: Miss
Jane Adams, of Chicago, and Mrs
James Lees Laidlaw, Of New York City
auditor of the National Association for
Suffrage. Mrs. Richard Y. Fitz-
gerald, of New York City, recording sec
rotary of the National Association.
Additions and new committees an
nounced yesterday were: Women voters,
Mrs. Stella McCalla, California; Austria
ians, Mrs. Leslie Street. Australia; Art
lsts. Mrs. Irving Moller. and Mr.. and
Mrs. Julius Kahn. new members on the
advisory committee.
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