New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-13
WOMEN VOTE FOR
BIG PEACE PARADE
Demonstration Against
War Will Be Held Sat
urday, August %.
WOODS'S PERMISSION
READILY OBTAINED
Directors Silenced When Miss
Carpenter Points Out Only
Way Into Newspapers.

The committee Of the women's peace
parade held its first meeting yesterday
at the Hotel McAlpin, but instead OF
heino. as MANNED, a committee OF one
hundred il consisted of two hundred.
There were so many acceptances that
the number had TO be increased.
Eighty presidents of women's clups
each promised large detachment Tor
Commissioner Woods granted the
hermit without a murmur when MISS
Alice Carpenter and Miss Katherine
I,eckv went to Police Headquarters IN
the morning. The parade Will take
Mace on Saturday afternoon, august
%. 1t will start at seth st. at O'CLOCK
and move down Fifth ay. to Union
Square, where open air meetings VIII
wind I'D the demonstration. Inc az =
ferent sections will form in the side
streets south of 57th st. and fall INTO
line. fl.
The meeting yesterday was quite
peaceful, considering everything. Inc
doubters who had been urging that
parade was too sensational Demon
stration, that it wouldn't do any soou'
that you never could get women 70
march on q hot August day, etc. ana
who were expected to make trouble
Yesterday. didn't come, or if they came
tbev didn't try to talk. Miss Alice
Carpenter, who opened the meeting,
silenced them with one neat little sem
tence.
"a parade" she said, "is the only
kind Of protest thas will get into the
newspapers now"
After that nobody threw cold water
on the committees plans except ldrs'
Carrie Chapman Gait. Mrs. Gait, IN
fve-minute speech, told the women
that something more than parade was
needed. MT,
600 or 1000 or 10000 women march
ing down Fifth av. are going to have
the slightest effe,t on the situation IN
Furope il is because they don't know
the situation. Our President has lone
a bigger thing than we can do. IN OIL
fering his mediation. We mlgn:
achieve something practical If we could
ioin together in great numbers and M
duce the women of the neutral coun-
tries of Europe to work with us for
peace. But ! dare to stand here as n
prophet and say that no power can stop
this mighty war. No one who has not
been in the warning countries has any
conception of the torrent OF hate let
loose there"
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, who
loves a parade, and who set this one
on its feet at the start, took issue NTH
Mrs. Gait.
president Wilson has not gone as
far as he could" she cried. "Under
tho Hague conference he has the power
N ask the neutral nations of Europe
To ioin with him in offering mediation,
and IL we make our march demand
that he do so he will respond. Let
our parade be symbol Of woman's
suffering from war and a demand for
international arbitration. Then no one
can call it purposeless."
Mics Mary Garrett Hay, who sat by
Mrs. Gait, Jumped up with fire in her
eye.
he could" she said. ave all realize
that he has passed through much sor-
row this week. and this is no time to
trouble him; but there will be no need
10 demand Of President Wilson. lie
will 90 with US, step by step"
Aside from this slight breeze, the
meeting was perfectly peaceful. Miss
Lillian Wald presided until perma-
nent chairman for the committee Of
two hundred, Mrs. Henry Willard, was
elected. Miss Wald made brief speech.
"Our protest may seem feeble; 1t
NAV seem like mockery almost in the
face of a calamity so great that it near
lv unhinges the reason" she said. but
II we can have a tremendous parade il
will at least be means Of stretching
out hands of sympathy across the sea
20 the women and children who suffer
and 10 the men who are forced into the
ranks to die"
Mrs. Mary Elisabeth Lease demanded
five minutes for a speech and took ten,
Mrs. Wizards polite reminders that she
-. arnnndinn her time having no eff