The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-05
WORKING GIRLS IN PARADE FOR
 EQUAL RIGHTS
Miss Emmet Describes The Dem onstrafian At Hartford
 On Saturday
tBy Emily Ernn1et. }

(By Emily Emmet3 l Votes for Women was the slogan everywhere predominant in the ban ners. coIors and faces of the little group gathered at the railroad station Saturday noon awaiting the train which was to carry us to Hartford to
 participate in the Suffrage parade.
 It might have been called .4tl1e working girls, train.,' for most of us had spent the morning at our regu- lar places of employment and had then hurried without IuIchins, to catch this train.
 Noticeable in our group was Mrs. Ruth Mcbride Fitzpatrick, the pres ident of the Working Girls League of this city. and the Misses Elsie and MaybeIIe Casey who represented Bridgeport in the Working Girls dele gation which called on President Wil- son in Washington couple Of
 months ago.
 Besides these there were many otn- CTS who wished to show their zeal by wearing the purple. white and green and marching Before God and all mem beneath the banner, Votes for Women.
 At New Haven another delegation joined us and sos all along the nne.. Der was augmented by new advocates of the rights of women.
 When the train drew into the cap- itaI city there WAS rush for the nearest lunch room. and then to the place where the parade was form ing.
 While the parade was not large. it was an interesting and pretty one. Some Of our local girls were enlist ' ed beneath the college banners. but most of them were found beneath. the banner actory Workers, Bridgeport Equality League
 The hit Of the parade was the OK cart float, from Bridgeport which came after the automobile floats rep resenting the various states where women already have the vote Miss Ada. Humphrey. one of our own group dressed as an Indian maiden stood in the cart hoIding out the banner. Con- necticut trying to catch up. Sam ueI c. Shaw of this city drove the cart.
 Stratford was represented with a large noat showing a home scene with tie verse at the side suggesting that perhaps Mother could also mend the vete.s'
 Marching with us in the parade were women doctors, lawyers, opti clans, teachers, social work CTS mar bIe and granite workers niI1iners, farmers. chirop odists, Journalists. writers, printers, others, and grand mothers. The men sympathizers were an especially interesting addition tea the parade. A large number of So- ciaIists wearing the red rose and ear- rying the fred banner had Joined our ranks.
 The Bakers Union of Hartford also had prominent part in the parade
 There were many beautiful floats but one of the most Interesting was the .'Vision of the Future,' a Hart Frso ffr4J wearing the classical drapertes of the Grecians goddess stood above a group of small children each one of which represented state of the Union, the broad purple, white and green band on each procIaiming that they had re- ceived the equal suffrage. One no- ticeable fact in connection with the parade was that there was no derf- sive laughter or jeering of any kind 3 from the thousands of spectators Whc had gathered to witness it.
 A mass meeting at the Park Casino on Elm street followed the parade and here we listened to a number of interesting speeches by various speak CTS
 A number of the girls remained in Hartford over Sunday, of those who did not, the midnight train into Bridgeport brought back a tired but happy group of advocates for equal suffrage.
 Noticed arn&ng the Bridgeporters at the parade were the Messrs- A. s. G. Taylor. William Mathewson and J. 6. Weiss and the Mesdames, S. c. Shaw, -euth MeBride Kilpatrick, S. Weiss, Emile c. Menards John Law, John RusIing, CorneIia P. Doherty, Chas Lewis. o. H. Johnson, s. T. Davis, Jr., C.. E. Hall, William B. Kelsey, David 1 Watacn, H. H. DeLoss. Louis B. Powe, l Alfred c. Fones, lilly Meyer, Dr. Claf- lin of Courtland School and Madam F. Rayelle and the Misses Landsear, l Bersen. Murphy, Grace c. Upham. Ellen Schfbbs, Sarah Curtis. Louise Gould, Dorothy Stanton. Grace S. l Wheeler, c. H. Shapiro, Teresa Mo Gertrude McMahon, Evelyn Barkey, J. ". Ccrbin. Helen Maxwell. l Jeannette Hickman, Irene Brewer, Ju- | lia, Masterson, Evelyn O'Nei1. Geor-.l gianna Ranton, Henrietta, Hoirns, Jes- sic Stabe, E. Fitilson. Tessie Barows- ! Xii, Sadie Sharpe, Mary Lynds, Augus- tine Rich, Christine Scharren, Annie | McBeadris, Katherine Heffernan. l Florence Berger, Mary M. Heferman, Ada Humphrey, Anna Mccormick, B. Levy, Rebecca Harvey. Josephine Donly, Mary Kane, and Elsie a and I MaybeIIe Casey.
 Among the Bridgeport suffragists E who could not attend the parade but who sent substitutes were: The Mes danes Nathaniel W. Bishop. William W. Bishop, Nathan Heft, William T. Hincks, Edgar W. Bassick, Archibald McNeil, Sanford stoddard. John s. John Rusling. John Law, William E.. See1ey, Frank Seeley, Charles Sanford and pr. George flaw ley
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