The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25

formed. For instance, the intrepid
General Rosalie Jones, who led her
dWindling army from New Yrok to
Albany will soon depart from the
metropolis with a much more numer
Gus train of followers to march to
Washington to take part in the pro-
cess1on. In the procession her band
will wear brown sackcIoth robes and
monks cowls and carry slaves. And
they Will step to the sedate swing of
the Pilgrims Chorus" played by the
band which will precede them. While
Mrs. Gus Rubin will be the leader of
Ia light brigade of female cavalry
which will ride horseback to Wash
ington from New York. The cavalry
women will be dressed in khaki.
Co-Eds There Too.
Then there will be uniformed COM
panies of college girls, from Rad
cHffe, Fassar, Bryn Mawr and
Swarthmore, of the east, and co-eds
from the west, chanting their college
yells as they march. No mean con-
ungent in the procession will be the
ranks of the mems organization for
woman suffrage, led by James Lees
Laidlaw, the wealthy New York
lawyer. One of the latest enlistments
received for this part of the process
sion is that of Oswald Garrison Viii
lard, editor of the New York Evening
Post.
These are but some of the features of
the procession already arranged for OF
course, there Will be bands, many of
them The marshaling arrangements
for the parade are among its most
interesting points. Mrs. Richard Cope
Burleson, wife of a cavalry lieutenant
and declared to be the most perfect
horsewoman in Washington, has been
selected as grand marshal She will
ride a famous hunter and jumper
which has taken many a blue ribbon
at Madison Square Garden. In attend
ance upon her will be two esquires or
pages, young Washington society girls
picked for their good looks and riding
ability. They will be costumed in green
and Will carry trumpetS from which de-
pend green banners. And they will be
mounted on a pair of milk white Ara
bian stations owned by Mrs Helen
Gardener, the Washington authoress.
Green will be the color of the suffrage
demonstration. Mrs Burleson will
have 80 aides on foot. They will be
dressed in enveloping green capes, but
toned at the throat, and wear green
caps with big feathers. There will be
nine mounted heralds in the procession.
One of them will be Miss Inez Milhol-
land, of New York, a suffrage worker
famed for her beauty and wealth.
Songbirds on the Job.
The principal characters in the tab
iO~NA VIII We pldyed Dy famous dc-
tresses who have volunteered their
services. There will be Greek choruses
made up of the highest priced songbirds
of the Metropolitan grand opera troupe
headed by Mime. Lillian Nordica. an
ardent suffragette. Scattered through
the parade viii DE a score or more of
floats on which will be symbolic groups
representing victories for women. The
action of the tableaux, which will carry
the thread of history, will be timed so
that each float passes the granite stage
at its proper place in the mute story
Some of the groups on the floats will
leave the procession at the trea sury and
be welcomed at the steps by the central
characters, thereafter taking part in
the action.
The final touch to the picture will be
the arrival from the skies of a Moissant
monoplane piloted by Bernetta Adams
Miller. one of the most famous of Amer