New Britain herald., 1914-05-09
SUFFRAGE ADVOCATES
 MARCH ON CONGRESS
Several Thousand WoIn3n ParliCi.
 pa'G in Washington Pageant.

Washington, May 9.-With banners
 flying, ten bands playing and the
 women singing marching song, sev-
 eral thousand suffragists from various
 sections of the country today paraded
 along Pennsylvania avenue from La
 fayette square to the capitol There
 e31 of them, representing every state
 in the Union, and assigned one to
 each senator and representative, pre-
 sented to the members of congress
 hetitions asking the passage of the
 Bristow M ondell resolution calling for a federal constitutional amend
 ment enfranchising women.
 Immense crowds viewed the process
 sion along the route. When the cap-
 ital was reached the bands were
 1nassed 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 stoles and fillets of green on their heads.
 5000 Demonstrators Present. Y Trains arriving in the capital dur ing the forenoon swelled the army of suffragi who have been gather ing here d6ring the week, until long before noon, it was estimated there were more than 5000 demonstrators here. and it was evident the parade would be the greatest suffrage dem- onstration Washington has ever seen. Many of the delegations brought their fife and drum corps and marching squadrons of girls. Among the early arrivals was the Maryland delegation of 400, led by Mrs. Donold R. Hook sr and Mrs. George $. Latimer, known as ''The little general
 Police Take Precautions. Unusual precautions had been talk en by the police to prevent d repeti- tion of scenes of disorder which marked last years parade. Rein forcements of officers to handle the crowds along streets in the route of the parade Were at their posts early in the day.
 l At the capitol, awaiting the coming | of the marchers were Senators Thom- ;tss Bristow. Owen, Chamberlain, Poindexter, Sterling, Galinger. Ken- Nnn, Sutherland, Jones and Thomp- son , and Representatives Mondell, Falconcr. Stone Rapley, Bryan of Washingtcn Sabath Campbell Knowland, Kahn, Heating and Mau- den. Mass Meeting Held.
 The parade followed a mass meet ing in a downtown theater, presided over by Mrs. William Kent, wife of Representative Kent of California, and at which stirring addresses were made by Miss Caroline Lexow, field Secretary of the WomanS P~Iitica union of New York; Mrs. Donald Hooker of Baltimore, and Miss Lucy Burns of Brookliyn. vice chairman of tlle Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, under the auspices of which the demonstration was held. Among those occupying boxes at the meet ! ing were Mrs. o. H.. F. Belmont, of New York; Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles, of Wilmington, Del, daughter of President Cleveland's secretary If slate; Miss Julia Lathrop, chief Wf the Federal Children's Bureau; Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch, of New York, Laughter of the late Elizabeth Cady
 stanton, one of the pioneer leaders
 n the suffrage movement; the Equal franchise society, of Philadelphia;
 Mrs Antoinette Funk, of Chicago,
 and the Pennsylvania Mems league for
 ouHrage. A number of young wom-
 en, many of them prominent in so-
 ciety, acted as ushers
 Many Novel Features.
 There were many novel features in
 the parade and the marching women
 were cheered loudly by the throngs