The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-17
COST OF PAGEANT
TO BE $4,000
Committee Of the Sufragists
Makes Estimate Of Money
to Be Expended.
BLANKENBURG TO COME
Suffrage Specials" to Bring Marchers
Here From All Over
Country.

Thirty thousand dollars will be the
cost OF producing the wonderful suf-
frage pageant here March 5, according
to an estimate. regarded fnal by the
committee in charge of its preparation.
Nearly all of this large sum will be ex-
pended among the merchants of Wash
ingtos, the suffragist leaders say.
Eventually the item Of expense may
mount higher.
To meet the great expense connected
with their work many sources are to
be called upon. Liberal contributions
have been promised by suffrage organiza-
tions scattered ia all parts OF the coun-
try. Wealthy individuals. who faver the
suffrage movement, have asked for in
formation as to the amount the women
will need in staging their great dis
play. For the purpose OF answering
these inquiries, work upon the estimates
of cost has engaged the steady appli-
cation OF the pageant committee through
out working hours of the last few days.
Mayor Biankenburr Coming.
Mayor Blankenburg. ardent suffrage
supporter. and widely famed among ''re-
form MayorS' as the great renovatOr
OF equally famed Philadelphia affairs
has written to the suffrage workers that
he will lead the Philadelphia contingent
in the pageant. Both he and Mrs.
B!ankenburg will come with a company
Of their friends upon the Philadelphia
suffrage special to participate.
Another suffrage special will bring
Miss Ruth Verlenden with a full delega-
ton OF Swarshmore girls. who are to
march in the college woman's brigade. A
suffrage special with eight large State
delegations. under the leadership of Mrs
William Ellicott, will come from Balti-
RRnFngpnrafiyn RiFhNnpDd Pea
HObson will lead the District men. and
he expects to have one of the largest
ContinGents in the line.
Bettina Adams Miller. the famous little
aviatriX. announced her intention yes
terday by telegraph, OF bringing greet
inGs from The World" in her aeroplane
on the day of the pageant. As she deliv-
,rs her message and scars again into the
air. the signal for the start of the pro-
cession will be given. She will sweep
up the course OF the pageant, deliver her
message to Liberty, one of the group on
the Treasury steps, then disappear into
the West
New York Writer, to March.
Oswald Garrison Willard, associate edi-
tor of the New York Evening Post. has
written that he will march in the pag-
cant. and will lead a large party Of
writer's from the Empire State.
Meetings to create interest in their
event are being held by the suffrage
leaders all over the District. Miss
Florence Etheridge. president OF the
State Suffrage Association of the Dis
trIct. has been devoting the greater part
of her time toward making the part the
District women will take in the great
pageant one OF its most prominent fea-
lures Miss Alice Jenkins, daughter of
Admiral Jenkins; Miss Elsie Hill Mrs.
Jennie Monroe. and Mrs. AIlender are
spreading interest in the event through
out the homes in the District.
Under the able leadership OF Mrs. Les
lie Street large company of visiting
women, women who have
been long seasoned 10 the ballot in their
home country. is being recruited. They
will march in trig khaki costumes, leg
gins. and rakish, wide-brimmed soft
hats.
The West will have its own local at
mosphere in the section OF the pageant,
which is to be composed of Oklahoma
suffra gists" They have ordered from
their State mounts TO be used in the
pageant.
New names upon the advisory COM
mlttee announced yesterday are Repre-
sentative Richmond =. Hobson, Repre-
and Mrs. Edward Taylor. of
Colorado. Senator Perky OF Idaho.
and his sister. DR.. Leonora Perky Web
ster, who has also accepted the vice
upon the physicians COM
mittee.