The evening world., 1914-05-02
SUFFRAGE WOMEN
PLEAD FOR VOTES
FROM ZOO AUTOS
Eloquent Advocates Of Cause
Attract Crowds in All
Parts of the City.
APPEAL DIVERSIFIED.
Parade Of Old Days Gives
Way to Speeches From
Seven Organizations.

The legion OF women and the few
COURAGEOUS men who are making the
fight for women suffrage gave New
York to-day . novel exposition Of
their earn estnesA This IL Suffrage
Day throughout the country and al
the women who are working for the
franchise are srraysd In hamlet. town
and city In the name Of their cause.
New York was TO have had . parade,
~ In former years. but tho celebration
was rsarrangsd to make II series Of
MAS meetings throughout the city.
al related In their object, but distinct
in their appeal.
The celebration began with . Een-
oral meeting In Washington Square
carly In the afternoon. There, In .
great number Of automobiles. each ray
with tho colors of the seven grea suf.
trags parties Of the city--the Women's
Political Union. the Woman Suffrage
Party, the Equal Franchise Society.
the Political Equality Association. the
College Equal Suffrage League. the
New York state Suffrage Association
and the Mons League for Suffrage
mobilixed for the work Of the day.
When they had been marshalled
there was q bugle blast. and In seven
different parts OF tho square the or.
ganixations started their mass meet.
ings for those who had gathered
about them to listen and learn. From
the vantage point OF . notorcar seal
the speakers for each Of tho parties
addressed the crowd and pleaded FOL
recruits to the "votes for Women
| standard.
| Then there was another bugle cal
and general resolution In behalf Of
woman suffrage was road by each oil
the speakers. This was practically
the termination Of tho Washington
Square meeting. for. with another
signal. the automobiles. Of which
there were at least two hundred II
line. formed and headed Up Fiftl
avenue to . great cheering and Nut
tering of bannsrS.
This was . means to an end rathe
than . parade. because after they has
gone q short distance up the avenu,
the organizations separated, ZACH 60
Ing to a different part Of the city t,
resume the mass meeting work.
A. the Plasa the Woman SuffraE
party made IT. stand with six of tn
motor cars while the Mems Lsagu
had one car with Mr.. and Mrs. Non
tague Glass and James Ices Laid
law. President oe the league. a &C
cupants. Mrs. Laidlaw's cur was q
the Ftfty-eighth street entrance 4
the Plaza, and In It were Mrs. Rober
AdaInson. Mrs. Frederick Gillette an,
Miss Lsvinia Dock.
Plasa was the car Of Ars. Joseph I
AoLans with Mrs. Hsvelock ELLIS an
William J. Schieffslin beside her. Al
ter speeches were delivered there tn
ak special cars Of the suffrage part
gathered their occupants and mad
. run TO the Polo Grounds. whsr
they met the car Of the Mems Lsayu
and addrsssed the ball game crowd.
On the Mali In Central Park. Mr.,
Harriet Stanton Batch. head OF tn
W0man's Political Union. with
band Of twenty nvs speakers an,
plsaders. Including Aiss Helen Tod
OF California: Mrs. Norman as !
Whitshouss. Mrs. John Rogers 4
and Miss Elizabeth Ellsworth, .,
ranged her meeting and addressed
large crowd.
Al Grants Tomb. MIS-. oliver
+. Belmont delivered her frss on,
door speech. 1t was there that N
organization, the Political EQualit
Association. held forth with the 10
] lowing speakers: Miss Alice Paul ,
Washington. Charles Edward Russell
Mrs.. Crystal Eastman Benedict, Mr.
4 Ines Milholland BotssevalJ,, Mins LUG
, Burns, DR.. Maude Glasgow, Miss GeI
. trude Waldemar. Miss Maude Malon
Ars. Maud Swsrtx, Mrs. j. Remin,
ton Charter. Miss Dorothy Miller a.
. Miss Florence M. Harmon.
: Mrs. Belmont had the Sixty min
. Regiment Band a. part OF her aggr
CATION. and to add q further intere
: she had Miss Mabelle Blake deliv
: an address in the costume she wo
!. as Susan b. Anthony In the reoe
( Mems League pageant:
. Over In Greenwich Village,
Tompkins Square and also At the d
= lancey street entrance to the WI
iamsburg Bridge the Women's Polit
I cal Union held other meetings q
= drew large crowds. And In Madis,
Z Square the Equal Franchise Sociei
: With Are. Frederick Nathan
b charge, Get up ~ banners and ralit
around them. 4yo. Charles tina