Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-24
FIFTY THOUSAND WOMEN
IN SIGNIFICANT APPEAL
Mighty Parade, in Name of Woman
Suffrage, Is Spectacular Event
i'm New York.
GREAT DIGNITY ATTENDS IT ALI.
Scofiing OF Past Years Missing as
Tremendous Army, Representing
Every Glass and Condition, Marches
Through Packed Streets.
Especial to The Times-Dispa,ch. !

NEW YORK. October 23-Fifty
! thousand women. in the most signih-
cant appeal that any cause has ever
known in New York. strodc up Fifth
Avenue from Washington Square TO
Fifty-ninth street this afternoon in
the name OF woman suffrage.
The most wonderful dignity attended
II all. From the women whose names
signify power and wealth to the low
liest factory worker in East Broadway,
the marchers strobe with their chins in
the air. their heads high. their backs
straight, their hct clicking like ma
chimes. Gone was all the sconing Of
years gone by. There We're none who
belittleh by jest and Quip.
Through the cold October afternoon
this great army of women marched in
mute appeal They came forward ask
ing the men of New York to grant
them the right TO govern themselves,
and tens OF thousands of these men to
whom they appealed applaudcd them as
they passed.
Mayor and Mrs Mitchell saw the spec
taclc from Il box in the grand stand at
Forty second Street. Borough prcsi-
dent Marks. George McAneny. president
Of the Board Of Aldermen; Judges. JUS
ticcs. bankers, brokers and lawyers
watched and pondcred.
No DEMAND FOR WOMEN
ALONE. nut FOR NEW YORK
Five hundred babies. carried and
wheeled. made appeal for their mothers.
Five thousand mcn-mcn we'll set up
and square -jawcd--brouEht up the rear
20 tell other men that this was no de-
niand fer women alone. but for New
York and its hopes.
Forty great bands hlarcd forth "On-
ward Christian Soldiers and other
glorious tunes. Fifteen thousand ban
ncrs, bearing the great motto of
womanlsind, and all the tcrsc argu-
mcnts in advocacy thereof, snapped like
whips in the thirty-milc breeze that
whipped the ihrongs. Three thousand
huge banners and 10000 small pen
nants cloudcd the sky above the
marchcrs and over it all was a great
spirit that was hardly defiuahle.
From the factories of the East Side,
from the great stores along Broadway.
from the salons Of Fifth Avenue from
the offices OF lower Broadway. from
the shops and mills of Harlem and Will
l!amsburS. from Brooklyn and all it's
cnvironS and classes, they camc--won-
derful in the spirit that pervadcd the
entire demonstration
Came first the platoon Of mounted
policemen sweeping out OF the way the
struggling ends OF the mobs that the
policemen on foot had pressed back
to the curbs. Then the Scventy-fir
Regiment Band. holding forth in tre-
mcndous cadence My Country 'Tis Of
Thee"
Mrs. Ethel Stcbbins. grand marshal.
came At the heels Of the policemen.
and the greatest parade in New Yorl;
city's history was on.
BATTERY or "ANTIS" MOTORS
SWEPT INTO SIDE STREETS
The battery OF "ants" motors that
carried the appeal to the throngs to
vote no on woman suffrage" had been
swept into side streets Here and
there an orator. rose to preach suf-
fragc pro or con. had sprung to the
head Of barrel or the top of soap
box. liut they. like all the rest. were
east aside to make room for the
mighty thronG that marched.
Mrs. Leonard Thomas followed Mrs
StcbbinS. heading the international di-
vision OF twcntysix groups. From
every nation of Europe came women.
From England. Germany. Italy. Russia.
sweden. Denmark. Norway, Greece.
Spain. France and all the lesser coun-
tries Of he north and east. From the
blood -drcnchcd Balkan countries also
came women.
All the states that already enjoy
equal suffrage and all those wherein
it is partially extended were repre-
Scntcd by women who had come to New
York.
Alaska was represented by Margaret
Howe, the brilliant young actress who
married President Wilson's nephew.
In white dresses and blue and yellow
Sashes, thousands OF American women
marched in mute record OF the fact that
women can and do govern themselves
Every division was spurrcd by band
music. Mostly the music was martial
and stirring. Rut came one band that
played "My Little Girl" and the words
caught the throngs that jammcd the
avenue from irty-eighth to Forty.
second Street.