The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-18
CONNECTICUT
 SUFFRAGE NEWS
(By A. G. 9orritt.)

t1SJ A. xrOEE1bG.J
 A large and representative com |
 pany of suffragists assembIeo yester- i
 day evening at the Greenwich sCounr
 try Club, on the occasion of the dim 1
 ner of the Connecticut Mems League
 for Woman Suffrage The dinner was
 held under the auspices of the Green
 wich Equal Franchise League of
 which Mrs Ernest Thompson Seton is I
 president Hon. John H. Light acted
 as preciding officer and toastmaster.
 and speeches were made among others
 by Colonel Osborne of New Haven,
 Professor Yande1l Henderson, William
 E. Walling, Emil L. G. Hohentha1 and
 Mrs T. & G. Taylor MT. Taylor is
 secretary Of the Mems League and it
 was largely owing to the devoted work that he has given that the league
 membership is now go large and that
 so representative a gathering of men and women were brought together in Greenwich
 The Execution Board of the Con necticut Woman Suffrage Association held it's regular monthly meeting at Suffrage Headquarters in Hartford last Wednesday. Mrs. T. N: Hepburn. president of the association was away in Philadelphia, and in her absence the meeting was presided over by Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton. Besides the reports from the officers of the as sociation the state organizers and the county chairmen, the chief business concerned the details of arrangements I for the great suffrage parade in Hart l ford on May End. It was reported that all the floats had been secured and that several leagues had suggested and l wished to contribt1te extra floats not 1 included in the first scheme. Among. l these is one from the Meriden Poli- ticaI Equality Club representing the l making Of the first United States flag by Betsy Ross.
 The Hartford suffrage pageant and I parade on May 2nd is only the Con necticut link in great nation wide I suffrage dennonstration which is being promoted by the Congressional Union l in Washington and by the National American Woman Suffrage Association through the Gongressional committed I It is the intention of the dernonstra- ton to impress both state 1egisIAtures and Congress with the importance of the question of votes for women: and to this end resolutions will be present ed at mass meetings held in connec- 1 ton with the parades and pageants. The Hartford mass meeting is to be
 held after the parade in the Park Casino, and resolutions addressed to the political parties and to Congress will be then presented.
 I The following Saturday May sth, there will be great parade and page ant ih Washington which will be join- l ed by delegations from the states. This I parade 1t is intended shall be the larg- est suffrage demonstration yet held in the United States. There will be groups of marchers representing every profession, trade and occupation in which women are engaged, and there l will be beautiful symbolic groups to. lend beauty to the spectacle The central portion of the procession will however be composed of the delegates from the states hearing the resolutions passed the previous week. These dele gates will be escorted by women on horseback and every effort will be l made to add irnpressiveness to their l mission.
 Following the parade. and pageant there will be mass meeting in the sBeIasco theater. at which speeches will be made by a number of representa- tive suffragist Among others Mrs T. N. Hepburn of Hartford has been asked to address this meeting. and Connecticut will be we'll represented in the parade. In order to raise mon ey for this parade the Washington sllf- 1 fraglsts are planning to hold 3. suf- frage ball on Tuesday of next week, and some of the most influential so- ciety people in the National Capitol
 have already consented to take boxes The New Canaan Equal Franchise League is today giving play and dance with a view to raising money for suffrage. The p1ayA Pair of I.unatics-is presented by Mrs. Ray mona Streit and MT. Lawrence Erotf- inghan, and the music will be fur nished by Frank McKee's orchestra.
 The New Canaan League is contrfbut- ing float to the suffrage parade in II artford on May End.
 he Putnam Equal Franchise league held a large and successful public l meeting last Wednesday, evening. l There are as yet only two suffrage leagues in windham County-one at Putnam and one at Danie1son. So l great however. has been the interest in suffra se shown by people in Wil1i- mantle and the neighborhood that 1t is expectcd that a, league will be or
 ganized there within the next few weeks