Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-24
NEW YORK BEHOLDS
SUFFRAGE PARADE
Leaders Estimate 10000
Women and 5000 Men Were
in Big Pageant.
YELLOW BANNERS FLOAT
ALL ALONG 5TH AVENUE
Every State in Union and More
Than a Score of Foreign Coun-
tries Represented.

NEW YORK, October 23-Fifth ave-
nue. for four hours today was given
over to the largest woman suffrage pa
rade ever witnessed anywhere. It was
the women's appeal to place New York
at the election November among the
states which have given women the
right to vote.
Participated in by women from every
state in the country and from more
than twenty foreign countries, by
women from every phase of business,
professional. educational, artistic and
official life. the parade extended from
Washington Square to Central Park,
and although 1t began shortly after 3
o'clock. it was long after. dark when
the last marchers had finished
Suffrage leaders estimated that 80, 600
women were in line. In addition, there
were 5000 men. representing, the leaders
said. only about half of the men who had
signed pledges that they would partici-
pate
Throngs Line 5th Avenue.
Throughout the line of march the side
walks. hotel balconies and windows of
clubs. stores and apartment houses were
filled with spectators. Both sides of 5th
avenue. with the yellow hammered woman
marchers moving between, were banked
by throngs of people, estimated by the
police to exceed 100000 All the side
streets off the avenue were blocked with
automobiles. wagons and improvised re-
viewing stands. There were thirty bands,
and. it was said, $1,000 yellow banners.
1t required four hours and twenty min
utes for the parade to pass any one of the
reviewing stands.
The weather was ideal, with the
bright October sun Illuminating the
varied features of the pageant as 1t
moved up the thoroughfare. where the
noise of traffic had given way to music
mingled with the cheers of women. A
brisk breeze, fiuttering the myriads OF
banners and Streamers, gave a touch
of lively animation to the parade. AS
darkness fell. the lights of shops still
disclosed the seemingly endless lines OF
marchers, eight and sixteen abreast
1t was tbs o'clock when the last Sec
ton reached Central Park
Babies Wheeled in Parade.
none attracted more attention than
several udpieS, WHICH were puSneQ In
baby carriages by their mothers and
heralded by banners votes for won
en-" One baby, wheeled by its mother.
occupied an open space half a block
long. 1t was wildly cheered.
New Jersey women who lost their
fight for suffrage in that state in the
election last Tuesday carried a placard
inscribed delayed, but not defeated"
1t was stated by Miss Alberta Hill
the grand marshal, who led the march
ers, riding on horse draped in purple
white and green, that every>department
of business and professional life, from
factories to colleges, was represented.
and women prominent on the stage, in
art and society took part as officials.
DIR. Anna Howard Shaw, DIR. Mary
Walker, Mrs. Herbert Carpenter, Mrs
Norman De r. Whitehouse, Miss Rosa
lie Jones, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
and Miss Fola La Toilette were among
the scores of women who headed vari-
Gus sections
Fifteen hundred policemen and hun
dreds of detectives. were on duty along
the line of parade. 1t was the verdict
of the police that SO many thousands
of women kept notably straight lines
and uniformly good step.
Mayor Mitchell, with prominent city
officials and judges, reviewed the pa
rade near 42d street.
The chief object of today's parade
was to urge men to vote November 2
in favor of a proposed amendment to
the state constitution to give women
the right to vote.