New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-29
Black GOwned Multitude
Will Pour Down 18th Az.
in Silent War Protest.
MISS TARBELL SENDS
WORD OF PRAISE
Power Of Demonstration Lies in
Pathos Of Its Inadequacy,
She Writes.

wv bul your blN'SI bIdth NAT.
That is the advice that vert out
from the women's peace parade com
mittee to the women Of New York last
night. For the parade is 10 take place.
rain or shine. and the committee looked
at the lowering skies Yesterday and
realized that it could not ask thu
marchers 10 sacrifice their new hats.
All women are assured that they will
be welcome in their last years head
gear. and that they had much better
march in that than not march at all.
No attempt has been made 10 get re-
ports from the various women who
have been organizing brigades in diff
ferent parts Of the CITY and in other
towns. The committee itself has no
idea whether there will he hundreds or
thousands IN line. Miss Katherine
Leckic said yesterday that the time Cor
preparation had been too short 10 adj
NIT Of getting pledges or making esti-
mates. but that the multitude of en-
;husiastic responses to their appeals
made them feel that the dcmonstra-
tion would be large one.
The plan Of formation has been re-
viscI so that Mrs. Herbert Carpenter,
who was placed in row with iour
other members OF the committee, will
walk By herself This is the order as
il stands now:
Mounted police.
Miss Alice Carpenter, i'm white, car
rying the peace banner. with Miss Rose
Young and Mrs. Florence Woolston
holding up the end of the banner. and
Miss Portia Willis. grand marshal,
walking at their right.
The executive committee, Mrs John
Winters Brannan. Miss Lillian h..
Deaver. Mrs. Henry Willard, Miss
Lillian d. Wald and Miss Katherine
Leckie, walking abreast.
The mufled drum corps.
Mrs. Herbert Carpenter.
The parade committee OF two hum
bred. led by Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw,
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Miss
Mary Shaw, Mrs. Mary Ware bennett
and Mrs Bertha Maillcy, of the So
cialist party.
The refugees. led by Nine. Yorska,
Of the French Theatre.
Automobiles with mothers and babies.
All the rest of the parade.
Marchers are requested TO MOBILIZE
AZ 1890 o'clock. The parade starts at
4 o'clock. Women living northwest OF
Fifth av. and Gath st. will gather west
Of Fifth av. in 56th and 9th SITS. nose
living northeast of those thorough
fares will meet in the same streets
east of Fifth az. Those living IN the
southeast section will fall in from
55tb and 18th SITS, east. and those IN
tho southwest section will fall in from
both and 5Gth SITS. west. Out-ot-to"
marchers will 90 TO the streets imme-
diately below 55th.
The length of the march has been
changed three times, but that, MISS
Ieckie saws, is the fault of those men
in the Street Cleaning Department.
Thursday the committee was told that
Fifth av. would be impossible below
Madison Square. and the parade must
end there. Yesterday the department
decided that the whole avenue would
be thrown open. so the route Will De
from seth st. 70 Union Square;
The committee would now be quite
happy if it had $500 TO clear expenses.
Nearly $500 has been contributed DdO
more is needed to satisfy the printer
the telephone company. etc. All sorts
of oueer offerings have been received
One woman sent straw hat ana tnrec
new handkerchiefs, with a silver oline
pinned up IN each. ..-. 900,
A letter that caused rejoicing N@S
from Miss Ida Tarbell, who mas alWay9
baer opposed to parades or SIM III
Gor,orstrations. Miss Tarbell wrote:
"My Dear Mrs. Willard: -.
81 want you 10 know that the only
reason / am not marching tomorrow IN
the peace parade is that I must be "a. at
tbe beJside of my mother, who Is very
ycrv i'll | want to confess, too that
~ The first | did not like the idea OF
the parade. have come to iee feel, I"a y
the very pathos OF its inadequacy is
''s 81 pea can feel now that it is going to
10 creat moving expression. talth-
ne s IDA TARBELL.'
90 general" Resale Jones, Of the sui
frage pilgrims. has also been , won over oie !,
rom rom disspproval. She said yesterday
that she was going to march