The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-07-29
POLICE APLENTY
To GUARD MARCH
Maj. Sylvester Is Interested IN
Sufragist Parade and Prom
i,es Ample Protection.
FIFTY CARS IN PARADE
Many Women Gathering for Storming
Of Capitol in Behalf Of
Equal Ballot.

Mai. Richard Sylvester, superintendent
of police, yesterday grained formal per-
mission to the suffragists to conduct
their proposed automobile parade next
Thursday morning preparatory to visit
ing the Capitol and presenting to Con-
gress petitions for equality OF suffrage
coming from every State
Mrs. ellison Gardner, of the local woman
suffrage headquarters, made the request
for the necessary permission. Maj. Syl-
vester showed much interest in the plans
for the procession, assured Mrs. Gardner
the parade would be a success. and vol
unfairly offered to furnish ample police
protection.
The parade will start at Hyattsville
Md. six miles northeast Of Washington,
where the pilgrims coming from all sec
tions of the country with their petitions
will be welcomed. Maj. Sylvester will
send a bicycle squad to meet the process
sion at the District line and escort the
suffragists to the Capitol. At the corner
of First Street and Rhode Island Avenue
a squad of mounted officers will join the
bicycle policemen and ride at the head
of the automobiles.
The procession will start from Hyatts-
vile at IL o'clock. The route will be
along Rhode Island Avenue to Four
tenth Street Northwest. down to Penn
and around the north side of the building
to the east front. The automobiles are
expected to reach Fourteenth Street and
Rhode Island Avenue at 1l:45 o'clock.
Husbands Won't Give Cars.
There will be about fifty automobiles
in the parade. The women are still in
search of twenty machines, only about
thirty having been supplied so far. The
suffragists originally had the desired
number of cars promised, but many of
the women who had preferred their
machines are now out of the city, and
some of their husbands being sadly out
of sympathy with the cause. the work.
ers at headquarters have but little hope
of securing these cars.
All machines that are to be in the
parade are expected to be at the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Station at
Hyattsville by 3 o'clock on Thursday
morning. Mrs. Glendower Evans. of Bos-
ton. suffrage worker, reached the city
yesterday afternoon. She motored as
far as New York. coming the remainder
Of the journey by rail. She is the guest
here of Mrs. Robert NJ. LaFollette, wife
of the Senator from Wisconsin. Mrs.
Evans was responsible in largest meas
ure for the passage of the eight-hour
working law for women in Massachu-
sets. and she is one of the foremost
leaders of the Women's Minimum Wage
Commission of that State.
Miss Margaret Foley, Miss Caroline
Taylor. and Miss Reilly, the other mem
bers Of the party with whom Mrs. Evans
motored to New York. are making the
entire journey by automobile They will
arrive at Hyattsville Wednesday night
or Thursday morning The members of
the party are holding meetings along
the way.
Mrs. Susan Walker Fitzgerald, of
Boston. is making the journey by auto
mobile with a party of five. Meetings
have been held in more than forty
hve towns. factory employees largely
constituting the audience.
Senator Kern of Indiana was be-
siesed Yesterday with letters from suf-
fragists in his State urging the i'm
mediate enactment of the Federal
equal suffrage resolution. Many of the
other Senator's received communica-
lions from the women of their re-
spective States urging the passage Of
this measure.
Mrs. George A Armes, prominent
woman suffrage worker last night |
answered the attack upon woman suf- |
frage made by Representative J. |
Thomas Helm of Alabama in an ad- |
dress Sunday night. She said that all |
his arguments against equal suffrage !
were easily refuted. She added that |
at the banquet to be given next Thurs |
day night at the Brighton in connec-
tion with the suffragists' celebration.
women from Colorado and California |
will prove that Mr.. Heflins opinions
concerning the education of women
are grOundless and foolish.