The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-02
CONNECTICUT
 SUFFRAGE NEWS
(By 4. c. Porritt., ].

All the leading suffragists of Con- necticut who are able to leave their homes for the day are in Hartford today for the great suffrage demon istration and parade. Many Of them arrived in Hartford two or three days ago and have since been busily at work completing the decorations of the floats. The main preparations for the floats had been done by the local leagues before the material was. sent floats are all being supplied by the 1 Bali Company in Hartford, and the decorations have to be put in place on the wagons. The decorations were 1 Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, chair l man of the Art Committee Of the IGonnecticut Woman Suffrage Associa- l ton. who was in Hartford from Tues day to Thursday, leaving for her home Ion Thursday only to return to Hart ford on the following day. M The floats in the parade were com tributed by the following local leagues
 naming them in the order in which the floats came in the parade: The Franchise League. Entranee to the Public Schools, New Haven Equal Franchise League; Entrance into the IColleges. Greenwich Equal Franchise League; Entrance into the Professions, IRidgedeId Equal Franchise League ' l Entrance into the Fine Arts, West port Equal Franchise League; Eh trance into the Trades. South Man chester Equal Franchise League: the Mothers Float, Stratford woman Sllf-
 frage Party: The Making of the Flag. Meriden Political Equality Club: Vis- lion of the Future, Hartford Equal t Franchise League.
 The Bridgeport Equal Franchise League is represented by the ox-car1 with the legend "Connecticut Trying to Catch Up. MT. g. c. Shay. who I undertook to drive the oxen, is the husband of the president of the Bridgeport E. l.. The Hartford IEquaI Rights Club sent contingent Iof automobiles decorated with; suffrage lcolors-yelIow is the color of their club land with the names of the suffrage
 pioneers on banners. Ths political float in the middle Of the parade, fol- lowed by the marching men, is the
 Icontributfon of the sGonnecticut Menss fLeague for Women Sunrage The New Britain Equal Franchise League undertook the getting together Of the representatives of countries where 1 women vote,s and the provision Of na-
 tional costumes for these marrhers
 The marshal in chief of the parade was Mrs H. H Knox of New Canaan. wien marshaled the executive board at
 l the head of the procession The
 Imarshals of the other groups were as lfolloWss College Women, Mrs. Helene M. Weed; doctors, Mrs. E. o. Parker of 3Greenwich; nurses, Miss Psyche Web ster Of the EimbaIi Day Nursery Of sl Putnam; ;S lawyers, Miss Susan OsNeill 4of Waterbury; social workers Miss Upham of Bridgeport; librarians Miss I Elizabeth R. Frost; photographers, Miss Mary B. Robinson of. Green
 wich milliners. Miss Juliet GrAenberg, iof New Britain; women from countries
 where women vote, Mrs. H. A. Taylor sIof New Britain: women municipal of- ihcers. Miss Elsie Tiemann Of Green
 Iwieh; arts and crafts section. Mrs.
 ISolon Borelum, New Canaan offfce workers, Miss Elsie Casey; factory workers. Miss Abloie O'Connor WiIlf-
 mantic: journalists Miss Sarah ".
 lJoyner of New Haven; the automobile section, Mrs George H. Day of Hart
 ford; architects. Miss Theodore Pope
 The caps and capes worn by the wo-. men in the various groups were loan ed to the Connecticut Woman Suf- I frage Association by the Congression- al Union at Washington They form T led part of the properties used in the Igreat women inauguration parade l which was held in Washington on March 3, of last year. The effect of uni m forTnity in the various groups, com sIbined with the magnificent color |schemes greatly added to the attrac- Itfveness of the parade.
 E After the parade all that could find Iroom in the building assembled in the l E aFtA sS asll1oz TOT sEhes mass meeting.
 iOverhow meetings were held outdoors for the rest of the crowd. and num- I Der of the women who had been in the procession made addresses in the lopen air from automobiles. Miss Rose l lWinsloW was one of the speakers in the hall and the crowd was also ad-a dressed by Mrs T. N. Hepburn presi- I dent of the c. w. S. A, who put the resolution to the meeting, asking Con- fgress to pass the amendment to ths limited States Constitution which is now before both the Senate and the I Hc-se.