New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-03
5000 SUFFRAC|STS
To MARCH TO-DAY
Women Pour Into Washington
Ready to Take Part in Votes.
fOr-WOmen Pageant.
SENATORS TO JOIN RANKS
Parade Will Illustrate Progress
and Development of Cause
-Tableaus at Treasury
To Be Striking Feature

oDiSNuo uI 4lCdS vi
To Be Striking Feature.
From staff Correspondent Of The Tribune
Washington March THE suHraeists
who are gathered i'm Washington were
more than busy to-day. \ rehearsal at
Rauscner's Of the tableaus which are TO
he given on the south plaza of the Treas
ury Department as the parade passes up
Pennsylvania avenue tomorrow: a re-
hearsal at the Peace Monument OF Mrs
Richard Coke Curleson's "Petticoat Cav
airy which. seVenty-five strong will
ride in the van Of the procession: big
meeting AT the Columbia Theatre. at
which Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch raised
more than $500; speeches by Miss Inez
Milhollaud at Polls Theatre in the inter-
walls Of music by the Marine Band: the
reception OF hundreds and hundreds OF
sunrasists who poured Constantly into
the Union Station, singly, in groups and
in great big delegations-these are few
of the Jobs the Votes-for- women popula-
ton undertook and accomplished today.
Bat that wasn't the wearying part
The wcaryins part was the settling of
the thousand ami one final details No
body tonight knows whether they are
really settled or not hut all hope that
they will shake down somehow. There
will be 500 women in the parade.
Major Richard sylvester, chief of police,
SAYS he sincerely trusts so. lie told The
Tribune representative to-day that he was
prepared TO handle the crowds and pro-
tect the sudrdgiSts. il the suffragists will
do their part and begin formation at
1T street promptly q O'Clock ana start
the parade promptly ri g. as scheduled.
The major says he has been in 10 end OF
pickle about this thing lie wanted
from the first To stop traffic during the
parade. but the Railway Commission. 10
which he just appealed. did not think the
emergency justified it, and the district
commissioners 10 whom he went next.
turned him away and il wasn't until he
got at some of his suffrage friends IN
Congress and got that resolution through
that he was able to achieve his wish
I'm a suffragist." he said. Il had an
aunt holding office back in Nebraska in
1876 Chat shows how | stand. but |
think these suffrage bodies ought TO show
some cooperation and not blame a man
when he's DOING his level best under a
red-tape system such as hampers the
police here in Washington"
Plenty Of Police to Guard Marchers.
The major is giving the suffragsts more
police than he is giving FOR an escort 10
Presdent-elect Wilson. who VII arrive IN
the city tomorrow afternoon. The SUI
fragists will have twenty-five mounted
r
the ffty-three WHICH Washington boasts
will be scattered over the city. I'm all.
about seven hundred men, mounted and
on foot, will take care NJ the parade.
PENNSYLVANIA Avenue viii be roped off
with steel cables 10 keep back the surSiES
crowds. and there will be patrol wagons
stationed at the intersectng streets,
ready for accidents. So the chief of police
feels that ne has done his part. If the
sudraGists will do theirs. And they
mean to
Interest Of course. centres in the tab
leaus which promise 10 0e most spectacu-
lar Just at O'Clock a uis gun back of
the Peace Monument viii boom out. st
ne same moment Herald No. ! VIII pre-
pare to pucker-the heralds, as everybody
knows. are pretty girls on horseback
Herald No I. at lSt street. Will sound her
trumpet. and the note viii be taken up
excessively by the herdlds stationed
along the route until il reaches the Treas
ury Building. and when the trumpets
sound there the tableaus begin. Column
bla-no. not Nine. Nordica. because She 5
I'm California. but Miss Hedwig fletcher
Columbia will receive Justice, Charity,
Liberty Peace and Hope
Eigh,y-seven young and pretty girls
will form the background. and there VIII
he classic dancing and final grouping.
with the five grsces and the eiShty-seVen
attendants forming the outlines OF
crown behind Columbia. IT will all be
gorgeous. but. oh. pity the poor tootsy-
wootsies Of Justice If the wind blows AS
cold as IL did to-day across the Treas
ury steps For Justice is one Of those
who. despite the change in the weather
still cling TO their intention Of appearing
IN classic bare feet. II is 10 be hoped
that Miss Sarah Trusx, who takes the
part. has good constitution. and that
aer mother will have the hot water bottle
ready when she gets home.
Near Tears at Rehearsal
The rehearsals al Rauscher's to-day al
most broke M in tears because some OF
the girls didn't like the color scheme Of
the draperies. The prevailing note Is
purple. and they said purple WASH be-
coming 10 anybody hardly what they
wanted WAS pink. or else blue. II wasn't
Until they we're told that Miss lnez Mil
holland known as the "beautlfullest"
suifragist viii wear a purple costume
and carry a purple banner as she rides
her "pranclng steed" near The mead o;
Inc column that they became reconciled
Purple Is classic. after all they sighed.
II isn't any OF the women. No, I'm their
or the wonderful floats or even the great
"occupatiOnaP' groups of women who viii
march In the parade or the large delega-
lions that the parade managers are proud
EST Of. it isn't the suffrage pilgrims; no.
II isn't any Of the womec Nh. in their
hearts they are cockiest over the group OF
Suffrage senators who will march with
hem. Think OF il, Sisters-no. excuse
me-Senators La Toilette, Dixon, Cham
"erlsin SmOot PoindeXter and various
others. end almost double that number of
Fepresentatl, es have promised 10 swell
the suffrage parade And the suffragists
itel as those ancient Roman conquerors
must have felt when they had royal cap
ives bound 10 their chariot wheels In their
irumphal professionally the suffragists
I'el that they have bound their captives
ny the golden chains of reason.
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