Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-09
WOMEN MARCH
FOR SUFFRAGE
IN WASHINGTON
Immense Crowds See Several
Thousand suffragists Pa
rade to the Capitol.

WASHINGTON. May with ban
ners flying, ten bands playing and
the women singing a marching song,
several thousand suffragists from
various sections of the country to-
day paraded along Pennsylvania
avenue, from Lafayette square to the
capitol. There 531 of them, rep
resenting every State in the
Union. and assigned one TO each
senator and representative, present.
ed to the members of Congress petit
tons asking the passage Of the Bris-
w-Mondell resolution calling for a
Federal constitutional amendment
enfranchising women.
Immense crowds viewed the process
sion along the route When the capt.
tai was reached the bands were
massed on the plaza before the east
front, where they played the March
of the Women" composed by DR..
Ethel Smyth, of England. accom-
panying a chorus of 1000 women,
wearing robes of white, with green
stoIes and fillets of green on their
heads.
Parade Follows Mass-mecting.
The parade followed a mass-meet-
ing in a downtown theatre, presided
over hv Mrs. William Kent. wife of
Representative Kent, Of California.
and at which stirring addresses were
made by Miss Caroline Lexow, field
secretary of the Woman's Political
Union, of New York: Mrs Donald
Hooker, of Baltimore, and Miss Lucy
Burns. Of Brooklyn. yice-chairman
of the Congressional Union for Wor-
an Suffrage, under the auspices of
which the demonstration was held.
Among those occupying boxes at the
meeting were: Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont.
of New York: Mrs. Florence Bayard
Hilles, of Wilmington, Del, daugh-
ter of President C1eveland's secretary
of state; Miss julia Lathrop, chief
of the Federal Children's Bureau:
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch. Of New
York, daughter of the late Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, one of the pioneer
leaders in the suffrage movement: the
Equals Franchise Society, of Phila-
delphia Mrs. Antoinette Funk. of
Chicago, and the Pennsylvania Mems
League for Suffrage. A. number of
young women. many of them promi-
nent in society, acted as ushers
There were many novel features in
the parade, and the marching women
were cheered loudly by the throngs
that lined Pennsylvania avenue all
the way from Lafayette Square, op-
posite the White House. to the capt.
toll. First and foremost was borne
aloft banner twenty feet wide. bear
ing the inscription; I'VE demand the
passage of the Bristow- Mondell res
olution.' Then came the first Sec,
tion, the pageant division, typifying
spring, youth and hope, which had
been arranged under the direction of
Mrs. Eliphalet Andrews, a WELL
known artist Thousands of garlands
of flowers were carried by the young
women and children, the shades of
the blossoms having been selected
with an eve to harmonizing with the
unions eolors, purple, white and gold.
Chorus OF 1,00O.
In this division also smarched the
chorus of 1000. led by Mrs. Apolline
NJ. Blair, president of the Rubenstein
Club of this city.
Attractive as was this part of the
parade, it did not evoke any more
enthusiasm or interest from the on
lockers than the caTalry section
which came next and was command
ed by Mrs. Juliet Barrett Rublee. of
Washington, who also was the mount
ed grand marshal of the procession.
Hillside Park.
Dancing Saturdars Roller skating