Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-04
WOMEN MARCHED
10000 STRONG
WHILE FORTY BANDS BLARED
FORTH MARTIAL
MUSIC.
$4,000 WITNESSED PARADE
Beautiful IncA Milholland ON q
Chestnut Cob, Lead Paradcrs
For Equal Suffrage.

NEW YORK, May 3.-The woman
suffrage army marched up Fifth
avenue this Afternoon, 10000 strong,
to the martial music of the Marseil-
lais, blared from forty bands. In uni
forms of white, cleaning with yellow
streamers they paraded In the heat
OF mid summer sun for three miles
from Washington Square to Fifty
Ninth street. A forest of yellow BAN
ners appealed for Votes for women"
to an unbroken wall of spectators es-
timated at quarter Of a million.
Inez Milholland, riding astride
mettlesome chestnut cob, directly be-
hind an escort of mounted police
led the marchers. Behind her walk
ed eight girls in blue with silken
flags; after them came two women
In yellow with the suffrage map and
its nine yellow" stars. And then
came tht long line of the rank and
file. marching resolutely, smillingly
for the cause"
Oklahoma Cow Girls.
Women with snow white hair, chill
dren not yet out of rompers girls
from Sweden, women from New Ze-
land; negroes from the northern
states, COW girls from oklahoma;
newsboys from the east side; Wall
Street brokers, these and the artisans
of many trades and callings marched
in unbroken lines, eight abreast, dis
banding finally at the Fifty Ninth
street plaza 70 overflow into two
great mass meetings.
The Womens Political union, thous-
ands strong, and broken into many
detachments, was in the forefront OF
the line. Their banners bore many
notices. Some Of them were: More
ballots; less bullets;' zone sex bears
arms; the other soldiers Peace
and persuasion" Getting there after
fighting forty years." Pioneers
against the white slave traffic." Let
the people rule; women are people"
Throughout the line there was borne
aloft on banners the roll of women
who have achieved great things.
~ General" Rosalie Jones and her
little band OF pilgrims that blaZed
the suffrage way from New York to
Washington, were there clad in their
marching togs and heralded by a
brass band of boy scouts. Then fol-
lowed teachers, students. sculpters,
decorators, social workers and musi-
clans. When the latter came abreast
the reviewing stand they wheeled, a
darkhaired girl of sixteen stepped
from their ranks and blew on her
bugle bar of stirring music. Stop
ped by the maneuver, the line behind
marked time while the little group
sang the Marseillase amid a thunder
of applause.
Then followed the army Of the po-
litical equity association, a thous-
and white clad women. The New
York State Suffrage association with
its banner Victory in 1913" The
New Jersey association, Victory in
1914" Greek. Jewish, Italian and
Syrian societies for suffrage came
next
Toward the end of the line march
ed AZ girls carrying an outspread
yellow flag, nine starred, upon which
were showered thousands of coins.
Br)oklyns thousands came next. Then
came the college women, more than
a thousand strong, whose members
composed the Wellesley, Smith, Bar
nard, Bryn Mawr, New York Univer-
sity, Nassar, Radcliffe, Adelphia, Cor
nell and many other universities.
The men followed and after them
came the news boys. Somebody
tossed a coin among the boys at For
ty Second street. True to instinct,
they broke ranks and scrambled for
II. Then came n shower of coins and
a two minute block of the parade till
the marshals could entangle the
struggling arms and legs. Last came
the other states where strong CAM
paigns are going on: New Jersey.
Connecticut. Massachusetts and Mary
land and last Of all was Ohio-a
solitary marcher bearln aloft a crepe
wrapped legend:
"Ohio. Where woman by perjury
may be ruined. She has no voice in
the judgesc election; she has no voice
in their Impeachment. Ohio needs
recall Of judges. Ohio needs votes
for women"