The Washington herald., 1913-01-12
hike" LEADER
VISITS CAPITAL
Gen" Resale Jones Confers
with Suffrage Heads, Then
Goes Back to New York.
DOES NOT LOOK PART
Popular Conception of What Sufra-
gette Is Like Upset by "Pil-
grim's" Appearance.
DOES NOT LOOK PART

General" Resale Jones, the leader Of
the intrepid band of suffra gists that re-
Gently braved the elements and the high
ways of New York to walk from New
York City to Albany, arrived in WASH
ington yesterday afternoon and left this
morning.
She did not come dressed in heavy
walking apparel and carrying a staff,
but rolled in prosaically enough in
Pullman and left in the same manner.
She was here to confer with the prime
movers in the suffragist pageant to be
produced March ,. in which MISC Jones
is 10 take part by leading another band
OF suffragists in a hike from New York
to Washington to take place in the
line of march on Pennsylvania Avenue.
This young woman who earned the title
Of general is of the type that may be
seen any afternoon in the autos that
thread F Street and Connecticut Avenue
at the fashionable hour. She is a recent
recruit to the army of wOmans rights and
until lately has not been associated in any
way with the cause of suffrage.
Born n Sufrragist.
Il have been a sufrra gist ever since I
was born said Miss Jones yesterday
afternoon, but ! never knew II until
about three years ago. Then / became
interested in some of the suffraGist clubs
of New York. But l did no active work
did not know then there was any active
work TO be done or any need for 1t.
Il have really only been in the field for
the last nine months. No: did not go to
college. l just did the things most girls
do-went out in society, travelled in Eu-
rope, and that sort of thing. That was
the only training l ever had for the suf-
frage cause
General Jones is enthusiastic about
the work she and her band are going to
do in connection with the pageant here
March 3
We will leave New York February 10
and We will limp into Washington March
/, if all goes we'll. l know we will lit
orally limp in, too. The last part of our
walk comes just before we reach WASH
ington. We are to cover the distance
between here and Baltimore in two days,
and it's forty miles"
The greatest difficulty she finds in en-
listing women in these long walks, ac-
Cording to Miss Jones, comes from the
fear of ridicule, and that. she says, is
the feature least to be feared.
Never RfdfcuIed.
In all the way from New York TO
Albany" said she yesterday, we had
not the least trouble in that way Every
where We received applause and never
AOINblN- AS we Cneu along the DeO-
pie came out to their gates and offered
us refreshments and encouragement
Sometimes they stayed inside and merely
waved at us as we passed by. for we
Travelled in some dirty weather, YOU
know. One day we walked twenty-five
miles in seven hours during which II
showed all the time. Then another day
we did twenty-four miles in the rain IN
six hours
There has been a good deal of mis-
in the general public
about our walk to Albany. 1t has been
thought and said that the majority of the
band that started out for the State
Capital backed out. That is not right.
1t is true there were only five of us at
the finish but there were only six at the
start pledged to go on through to AL
bany We had about thirty-five with us
when We left New York but they were
not pledged to go through"
Miss Jones says that already she has
six from New York; five from Connecti-
cut, and ten from Virginia pledged to
the walk to Washington. She expects,
however, that by the time the pill
grims'' reach Washington, their number
will have been greatly augmented by the
recruits that will be picked up along
the road.