Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-07

government employees. well toward the
front of the procession. She said that
her section was frequently stopped and
the women pushed in close together Con-
dFions grew worse at 7th street, she
said.
Il noticed a general air of indiffer-
ence on the part of the policemen said
Miss Lathrop They seemed to take no
active interest in maintaining control"
Mrs. Upton said she was often very
much alarmed because of the dense.
crowd. The spectators were mostly men
and few women, but there were no
baby carriages she said. AS a general
| thing, she declared, the crowd was good
natured.
Il saw few police, but there were some
men who looked as though they had
! come in on freight trains who had clubs
They seemed to do nothing but watch
the procession pass.
1.-The most striking thing 1 noticed
about the policemen was their inactivity.
They all looked bored"
Says Policemen Jeered With Crowd.
Mrs. jerks. who said she had young
daughter marching with her. declared
! that some men in the crowd said very
insulting things to the girl and tried
to trip her. Some Of the policemen,
she said, jeered with the rest of the
crowd.
/ Il was just as much alarmed at the
policemen as l was at the crowd,
said Mrs. jerks. Il saw only five police
men during the entire march. l heard
one policeman call my daughter a
| Mrs. odenheimer, who was a spec
I tator Of the parade, said that near the
Treasury building policemen seemed
more concerned with keeping small
| boys out of the trees than with keep
| ing the crowds off the streets. She
said she saw very few policemen all
along the Avenue.
II asked one policeman why he did
| laughed at me and did nothing" said
Mrs. Odenheimer.
Mrs. Robert Baker said that when the
procession entered the Avenue 1t was
| like going into a funnel"
Miss Elizabeth Brown said that when
people in the crowd called out. Rats.
rats, rats rats, rats" and counted up
to ten. and recited the alphabet, the
police did nothing.
I ever saw" was remark made by one
policeman, according to Miss Verna Het-
field, who rode on a float with five other
young women. She said that men in the
crowd caught hold of her feet and hands,
position to keep away from them.
Declares Police Did Not Work.
George f. Bowerman said there were
plenty of policemen on duty, but that
they did not work They were stationed
thirty or forty feet apart, he said He
declared that "only occasionally" did
they make any attempt to keep the
crowds back. There were good many
drunken militiamen in the crowd, he
added.
MEN in the crowd called US hen
pecko,' and asked us why we did not
wear skirts, but we did not mind such
things as that said Mr.. Bowerman.
Mrs. Fisher, who said she was very
nervous during the parade, because she
had q daughter in 1t, said there seemed
to be no effort to keep Pennsylvania ave-
nue. clear.
Is Mrs Weed said that the crowd used
''barnyard"@ language, speaking of .'chtck-
ems ROSTERS and HENS" 1T was
the same kind Of language used by KEEP
resentative Hef1in Of Alabama during his
recent speech on suffrage in the House,
she concluded.
Policeman Tore Her Coat, She Says.
Mrs. Patricia Street said that one white
policeman had torn the sleeve Of her coat.
and had done nothing when a drunken
German spat in the face Of a woman.
IF you had stayed at home things like
this would not have happened" a police
man said to her when she asked for as
sistance, Mrs. Street declared.
Mrs. Happier Hall and other women told
of how one Boy Scout was knocked down
by a policeman while trying to keep the
| crowds back. Philip Elliott said he was
the Boya1eout, but said he had not been
| badly hdEL The policeman said nothing
to him, but simply pushed him down, the
boy said. Mrs. Street gave the number
Of the policeman who pushed the boy as
Senator Poindexter said there were
plenty of policemen along the route, but
that few OF them seemed to be doing
anything. He told Of how an automobile
ambulance had been driven almost over
the procession, and Of how he had stopped
it.
He gave the following numbers of po-
licemen who. he said, did nothing to keep
the crowds back: 613 COZ. 500. 247, 1S3
JO2. $50. 455. A.. 81. 53, 505. I'll, 4O4, 1884,
ITO, 160, 49,, 524, 229 and 221.
Want stimson Summoned.
suffragist leaders say they want for
mer Secretary of War Stimson and As
sistant Secretary OF War Oliver sum-
moned to appear before the Senate SUBJ
committee.
After Gen. Johnston and Maj. Sylvester
have told their side. Of the question to-
morrow, the women want to bring in
testimony in the form of rebuttal to
show the history Of their efforts to get
police and military protection during the
procession. Mrs. Helen H. Gardener, one
of the suffragist leaders, was busy this
morning interviewing women who talked
about that with Gen. Johnston, Mai. Syl-
vester, Secretary Stimson and President
Taft
Mrs. Gardener said that Miss Alice
Paul, chairman Of the procession COM
| mittee, and other leaders spent prac-
tically all of their time for several
days before the procession making eff
forts to secure safety for the marchers
Monday The women realized from the
first. she said, that there might be
tried to avert it.
The Twentieth Century Club has
i adopted resolutions protesting against
1.-The inefficiency or Intentional negli-
gence Of the police force during the
su fra nrncassian March e., Tho