The Washington herald., 1913-02-18
WEARY 'HIKERS'
S|CKEN OF TEA
Beverage, Served All Along
Route, Proves Too Much
of a Good Thing.
GEN. JONES LOSES STAFF
And Valiant Commander Sheds Tears
About 1t, Too-Arrive at
Chester.
GEN. JONES LOSES STAFF

Chester, Pa. Feb T--Thts hike tnat
Gen" Rosalie Jones and her determined
little band of rampant suffragettes are
making mas reached that crucial period
common to all movements and endeavor-
ers that mean make or break. They are In
Chester tonight sick unto death of vacii-
latipc weather roadside demonstrations,
and tea 1t is estimated that each MEM
ber of this hiking party has consumed
at least five pounds OF tea since they
started out from New York last Wednes-
day.
This pilgrimage has ceased to be a
lark. Smiles are rarities. The mixers
nave passed along the road Of intimacy
TO that junction where they hardly
speak to each other Fatigue has chased
the smile frorI the pretty face of Gen. "
Jones, AMI lines OF toll and hardship
have replaced it.
They passed cut of Philadelphia to-day
and struggled through a thrcng of 2O,OO9
persons who lined the streets as lar as
Darby. They left the Hotel Walton
wearily, escorted by mounted squad
of 100 policemen. who cleared path
through which they might move They
marched over Broad Street to Chestnut
thence to Woodland Avenue. where fully
900 students of the University of Penn
svIvania were massed in front of the
college buildings.
students Give Ovation.
The students were prepared to outdo
Princeton in their riotous welcome, Out
they wcra confined to cheering by the
poIic.men. By invitation of Mrs. NJ. c.
EIinglesnith, X librarian of the university
law school, Gen" Jones and her cohorts
held an enthusiastic meeting in one OF
the his cIassrcoms of Price Hall and
then proceeiel upon their way.
driving snowstorm mingled with a
disagreeable warmth made atmosphere
conditions totally opposed to comfortable
walking
At Darby the mixers were escorted to
the Darby Reading clubs rooms, where
they heard Mrs Rebecca Linford, sew
enty years old and a suffraGist for more
than fifty Years. deliver a speech on
the rly days Of the movement.
While the pilgrims were tarrying in
the, reading rooms some one stole Gen.
Jones' trusty staf. the one she carried
to Albany The little general wept. II
threw the whole organization out of gear
for the balance of the day.
Boys SNOWFALL "Hikers."
At LieperviIle n short stop was made
at the historic Lieperville Hotel, which
is l0i years old and, of course, possessed
of the distinction of having housed
George Washington on one OF his mil
lions OF stops. By actual count the pill
grims have tarried at sixty-three places
thus honored by Washington.
But it was at Lieperville that the most
disagreeable incident Of the hike &C.
Cured 4 band of young men and boys
began to snowfall the tired women. Find
ing that little attention was being paid
to this the loungers began to pack stones
inside the missiles. Fortunately no one
was hurt The pilgrims were similarly
greeted on the outskirts Of Chester, but
the chief of police put stop to this
by dispensing the mob and placing sew
eI al youths under arrest.
4 well-attended meeting was held in
the Y NJ. c. 4. rooms at Chester. The
inevitable tea was served and the hik-
ers after dining held another meeting at
the Chester armory.
They leave for Wilmington in the
morning