The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-30
WOMEN FOES OF WAR
S0LEMNLY PARADE
Thousands Look On as Black
Clad Marchcrs Pass in
Fifth Avenue.
CLOUDS FAIL TO DATNT
Gray Haired Mothers Join DEM
OnStration i'm Face of
Threatened Rain.
CLOUDS FAIL TO DAUNT

Solcmr!ty was the keynote Of the
women's peace parade neutrality-suspicious.
nifty tina: fell like pail from the lowering
skies and spread from the black clad
marchers to the watching crowds. The
gay chatter and the waving peunants OF
the May suffrage parades were gone Now
and then there was little pa;ier OF
clapPing-ouce for the Henry street set
Element nurses in their uniforms. once
for mother with her baby In her arms
But for the MOS; part the parade went
by In the silence which would have greeted
some great funeral pageant.
1t was woman's parade. The gay
glrl!sh figures that had nuttered along
In the suffrage ranks were absent ox-
cept in the ranks OF the Socialists and
in the East side section where youthful
mothers dragged or carried their bases.
Because ~ the absence OF baunerN or
floats perhaps. the parade seemed much
longer than IL really was. II stretched
FOR ten blocks, and by actual count there
were lls5 women In line. exclusive OF
the ba-ds and tho nfty marshals.
Many Of the older women were kept
at home by the Veil of clouds which the
sun had drawn over his own face and
the telephone bell AT parade headquarters
tnkl"d all morning as they called up
to express their regrets.
Grny Haired Women In Line.
But there were many intrepid gray
haired women in lyme. Mrs Robert Inger-
soil marched with her daughter. Mrs
Walston Brown. and Mrs willard walked
at the head, behind the big peace ban
ner, with step that never Jagged But
flarn No Cal, ,rip
in spite ~ the white hair beneath the
mourning wells Almost no one fell out
along the way. Mrs. Darlington Cabbel
who is lame, lmped ns far as Thirty
fourth street with a camp stool under her
arm.
The parade was late In starting through
Misunderstanding with the Police De
partment. which. having once been in
formed that It was to take place at 3
O'Clock, refused to let II proceed before
that hour, though the women had been
standing IN line since 3 80 4 compromise
was finally effected by which the squad
OF mounted police swung from Fifty
eighth street out into Fifth avenue at
4 40. The front ranks reached Union
Square just ! hour and r minutes later.
First came youthful solemn figure In
white, Portla Wills, carrying her grand
marshals baton. Behind her was the
great peace banner carried by Miss Alice
Carpenter, Miss Rose Young and Mrs
Florence Woolston Then came Mrs WI
/ lard. chairman OF the committee Of zoo,
marching alone
The little executive committee which
had done the hard work followed. Miss
Lillian Deaver, Mis- Katherine Leckle
Mrs, John Winters Brannan and Miss Lii
liam valid
Next came the first Of the boy scout
drummers who were scattered through
the long line with the committee OF 200
behind them. Among the well known
women who marched thcrc--many OF
them giving up the day in the country 10
do Severe Mrs. I.auterbach, Mrs James
Lees Laidlaw, Mrs. Elmer Black Mrs
Marie Jenney Howe, Mrs. Charlotte Per.
kins Gilman and Miss Mary shaw
Drawn out by Great Purpose.
/ on the whole, however il was a parade
1 Of women whose names and faces were
unknown and who had very evidently
/ never marched before. II took them sew
eral blocks to get the trick of keeping ster
and dressing their lines. Middle aged
serious women they seemed, whom nothing
hut great purpose could have dragged
from the privacy OF their homes
The sentiment which had brought them
out was expressed perhaps by little Mrs
Edward Moral. who walked from Fifty.
. tlBulH u luIINN -lbuTln street Win neI
. eight-months-old baby In her arms
mo. I'm no suffragette." she said 81
/ do all my own work and after ! gel
through | go and meet my sister that,
coming to visit me. But | feel 70
awful about this war Just had to come
and march ! wouldn't want my husband
TO go,"
There were few breaks in the long lines
Mrs Bertha Mallory walked alone carry
ing a great bunch OF purple and whit,
gladiolas sent by "A florist, and In tn,
East side section Mrs Rose Berge,
wheeled her wo-year-old son, Irving, n
a gocart Just behind her, Eleano
Redcn carried a globe draped with Z
black band, with peace band rount
her own hair. The Brooklyn section ha,
several children, one whole line led h,
little Anna MCDavid. Four-year- ole
Wendy Ferzst marched bravely along will
her girlish mother. who cried: Il am no