The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-14

THEIR WELCOME
is VOC|FEROUS
Suffragettes Reach Princeton and
Are Noisily Greeted by
Students.
THEY TRAMP 27 MILES.
Footsore and Weary, Some OF
They Are at Point OF EN-
haustion.
THEY TRAMP 27 MILES

Princeton, y. j., February l3-The
staccato yell OF Princeton University,
with the appendage. Votes for wo-
mon! Votes for women. Votes for
women" greeted the army OF suf-
fragettcs which is marching to Wash
ington, when 1t arrived here at Z
o'clock tonight. The women, thirteen
strong, had covered twenty miles
In eight hours of actual walking, and
several OF them were on the point Of
exhaustion when the lights of the
university town twinltlcd n welcome.
General Resale Jones. commander
of tho expedition, declared that for
real hardship. to-days walk exceeded
anything she had experienced Cor
poral Martha Klatschen. who is less
than fve feet tall, had to be support
sd during the last four miles OF the
march She staggered into the viii
lage an hour after the arrival OF the
vanguard. pluckily refusing offers of
lift from passing automobiles.
Take Wrong Rond.
Tho scheduled twenty miles between
Metuchcn. ~ j., the days starting
point, and this village, was stretched
into twcntysevcn az the result OF the
women taking the wrong road This
carried them over stretch OF rough
marching before they found tho main
highway again Three women dropped
out en- route. leaving thirteen reg
ulars" tonight.
Mrs. John Boldt. who reached the
outskirts OF the village nearly an hour
ahead OF the main army" received q
reception which frightened her The
students, who had all the roads into
the village guarded. discovered her
plodding along. and cent word back to
tho campus that the first hiker had
arrived. Two hundred students
rfrIa al
rounded her, two OF the students TAX
Ing her arm. Thus they escorted her
:, mile, singing and yelling Mrs
Boldt finally appealed TO two proc
tors OF the university, who rushed in
among tho students and rescued her
r. studcnt-f1llcd automobile that had
been securing the country roads in
search Of the army" came into town
shortly afterward and announced that
tho main divlHion" was approaching
The students inlmcdia tcly went out TO
meet them. and the scene was re
ncwcd. This time. however, the march
crs were lin force" and thc greeting
Of the students was less vocifcrous
than before.
The students fell in line and marched
TO the Princeton Inn, their numbers by
this times yelling TO more than 900
Here the students called for a speech
from General Jones. The sufra-
cctte leader, undauntcd. mounted a
chair and asked that the students form
II mems league for woman suffrage
This request was greeted with cheers
mingled with cat calls The general
asked the students TO return An hour
later To hear Miss Elizabeth Freeman,
official orator OF the party. They
did. and Miss Freeman talked to them
from the steps of the hotel. Cheers
and good natured gibcs interrupted al
most every sentence, but unpcrturbed,
the suffragettc orator spoke for over
an hour.
Earlier in the day the army received
similar reception at Rutgers Col
lcge at New Brunswick. which was
reached at noon.
Farmers Encourage Them.
The days march was through a
stretch OF comparatively lonely ooun-
try. hut there was scarcely Il farm
house passed whose inhabitants did not
give the women some words of encour
agement. One farmer hosItah,.-
opened his house for rest and tea.
PRESIDENT Elect Wilson. to whom the
sufragettes expect to deliver "a mes
sage at the time of his Inauguration.
was in town tonight, but General"
Jones decided TO make no attempt 10
see him here.
The women have covered in their