New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-30
SILENT AS WOMEN
MARCH FOR PEACE
Throng of 10000 Watches
Impressive Protest
Against War.
1900 IN LINE; RAIN
DETERS MANY MORE
Mothers and Children, Wearing
Black and White. Keep Time
TO Mufflcd Drums.

Thirteen hundred women, most o.
them IN BLACK or in white with mourn
ing bands. marched down Fifth av.
Yesterday in protest against war.
Twenty thousand persons. Inspector
sebmittberger estimated, were IN INC
crowds that lined both sides Of inc
avenue TO watch them. CAPTAIN Gil
martin. Of Traffic Squad c. said the
,rowds matched those that saw the ias'
suffrage parade.
The threatened rain kept hundreds
a. women from coming out TO maren.
Many who had promised tclcphoneo INC
committee IN the morning that th'N
.op,5r't -isL the chance OF getting wet.
r the parade was not large. however
4, WAS impressive. The olscA Sn'
white. the crepe, the absence O. Dan
,crs and music. the mufleo drums the
t;rnitv with which the mareners
moved. their grave faces, all gave II j
.oni6csnee which needed no help from
numbers.
Silence reigned among the spectators
al the way from seth 81. 20 Union
Square. silence broken only two or 'nree
times bv slight handclspping here sno
there. and one had 70 look far 20 SSe
smiling face. The very CLOUDS Nn'SL
had kept msrchers away ao0eu 1" 1ue
imnressiveness. Sunshine would nave
been out OF place.
Dove Of Peace on Banner.
Following the mounted ponce me
30 white banner bearing dove ano
lie word Peace" almost obscured MISS
tbce Carpenter. though Mss nose
Soune and Mrs Florence NooISton'
CARRIED like Miss Carpenter. III "niIe,
Eeld the ends and kept II from blowing
about her ,,.5 NJ.
Henry Willard. chairman OF the com
,nittee. and behind her the rest OF the
,xeeutive corlmittee-Niss Lecke, MSS
lillian l. Deaver. Miss Lillian d. NaId
md Mrs. John Winters Brannan. linen
zane a drum corps, Boy Scouts IN uni
form and then the committee o. Two
hundred. headed by Mrs. Charlotte
Perkins Gilman. Mrs James Lees Laid
law. Mrs. Mary Ware bennett. Mrs.
Frank Day futile and Miss Mary shaw
The rest Of the marchers followed
with q boy drum corps breaking the
ranks at intervals.
The promise the committee made 10
President Wilson 20 keep the parade
absolutely non-parusan was broken
only BY the Socialist women. nun
dred and thirty Of them who lell IN a.
East 57th ST.. marshslled by Miss hath
ieen Tavlor. wore each a red badge on
her breast. Some had red bands on
their sleeves. and one woman marched
I'm a bright red dress and nat. MISS
iacke said the committee gave them
berr,ission 10 wear their badges.
Miss Lsvinia Dock. little Doc DOCK
Of the suffrage pilgrims. walked az the
head Of a large group Of East Sloe
women she had recruited. AFTER them
rame twenty nurses from the Henry
Street Settlement, no their blue UNI
forms.
Mrs Robert lngersoll walked well
toward the front with her two daugh-
tiers. Mrs. Wallston Brown and Mrs
Walter Probasco. ~ her side With
them were Mrs Edward Lauterbach
,nd Mrs. Elmer Black Miss Resale
Jonas. the Southern poet. led brigade
Of thirty negro women she had gath
cred from "Helps Kitchen
Bizarre Features Present.
General" Resale Jones, OF the SUI
frage pilgrims. was on hand early. and
went up and down among the pavement
crowds asking women 20 march. she
recruited a large group.
Bizarre features were not lacking
IN an automobile were q Chinese WON
an. Miss Ruth Kimlnsbee, and an
Indian woman. Mrs Isabel Hyde both
IN native costume. With them was
Mrs. J. R Casey. the oldest woman I'm
the parade Mrs. Bertha Mallory car
ried floral funeral piece. the Gift Of ?
Fifth az. florist
There we're many children in line
Tight-months-old Edward Moral, %
$50 East 165th st, slept peacefully in
his mothers arms al the way. Irving
Mscsbee Berger, Brooklyn baby, who
was propelled In d carriage by his
mother. was not as game as Edward
At 26th ST. he set up a howl. and was
hastily removed 20 the sidewalk. One
OF the drummer boys was only four
years old, but he kept up his end Of
the music bravely.
The refugees IN line were not many
One. who arrived yesterday morning
ON the Adriatic. was Mrs. Willard
niece, Miss Eleanor Garrison, OF Bos
ion.
At Union Square the procession dis.
banded quietly. There were mo
speeches The committee is resolved
that this demonstration shall be tho
starting point OF definite movement
and meeting 20 discuss details will
be held some time this week Plans
arc under way for parades in other
cities. a Chicago woman who marched
Mrs. a. r. Lance. said there would bc
one IN that city very soon.