New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-24
THOUSANDS OF
MEN IN RANKS
100000 Crowd ille Side
walks and Windows
Along Route.
MAYOR REVIEWS LINE
Fifth Avenue Decorations Blend
with Colors, Flags and
Dresses of Procession.

Because they believed in a prin
ciple, $4,000 women marched yester-
day from early afternoon on into
the night. Women came out of great
houses and up from kitchens TO show
men they want the vote. Against a
biting wind the women marched
along, serious and intent because
they were marching for a purpose.
1t was after o'clock last night
when the last of the parade passed
the reviewing stand. Night had
come on an hour before.
New York never saw such suf-
frage parade. Its greatness and it,
dignity were deeply impressive. The
huge crowds packed thick along the
sidewalks, a bit skeptical at first.
grew more and more serious as
file after file of intelligent, purpose
full women passed by. 1t was the
attitude of the women marchers
spreading itself electrically through
the onlookers.
There has been in all New York's
, long history only one parade larger.
That was the Sound Money parade
/ of 1896, when $4,000 men were in
line.
The head of the parade, starting
from Washington Square promptly
on the scheduled hour of o'clock.
reached the reviewing stand and
greeted Mayor Mitchell forty min
utes later. Minutes passed by and
the women were still passing. One
hour grew into another and still
they passed. At > o'clock hundreds
and hundreds of marchers had not
even left Washington Square and
the adjoining streets.
Mayor Mitchell left the stand "A;
500 %. m. II was then dark. and
the lights in the windows of the
shops on Fifth Avenue CLEANED
brightly. The wind had grown cold.
But the women still marched by. II
was not until 7 o'clock that the last
of the marchers passed where
George McAneny, president of the
Board of Aldermen. dofed his hat
in place of the Mayor. And after
the marchers came the automobile
The last of these rolled by at ten
minutes after seven, just four hours
after the parade began.
Dense crowds witnessed the parade.
The sidewalks were literally packed. IL
IVA. difficult 10 move in some places
And the windows seemed almost ~
filed with humanity as did the side
walks. Even up to the TOD stories men
and women leaned out TO peer AZ the
women marching below. There must
have been more than million people
on the sidewalks and m the WINDOW
from Washington Square 20 sorty-see.
ord S,reet. And they nearly all remained
until the parade hat passed Dy. ~ Wa
not until the autoobles AZ the end o.
the line rumbled by that the watchers
left Chief Inspector Schmittberger
, said last night he fancied between
| 900 900 and 500 600 saw the parade.
/, WAS impossible 20 reach the exact
figures Of the parAders on account o.
the peculiar formations OF the diNi-
sions. Because OF this fact there were
. many varying guesscs. The snti-suf-
fra0ettes conceded 10000. the sunra-
I. eettes claimed 10000. Careful estl.
, mates made by The Tribune fixed 46,'
COO IS a conservative igurc.
The afternoon was cold and the
. night was colder. But the women who
marched in the parade never hinched.
, They were dead IN earnest and woui"
let nothing like weather deter them.
, They not only marched the whole long.
, colo route, but thousands of them stood
in the of streets below Fourteenth
|, street waiting for their turn 10 join
tn, long procession. In some cases
, these women had % wait two hour
before they could start The men, too.
who. by the way. turned out in unusu-
aly large numbers. shared the same
hardship. They were the last 10 march
in lire and so had to wait the longer.
, Color was everywhere In the greA;
procession. The women had outdone
themselves TO make IL picturesque.
Flags, banners. hatbands, floats. uni
formed bands. made up a harmonious
whole. OF course. the familiar J.
low. distinctive OF the suffrage orgsni.
zations, no matter what other colors
are combined with il, was the back
ground The American flag, its stripes
swapping in the wind. struck out boldly
time and time again in the long line
Crashing bands and songs added TO the
interest.
Old women, Is Old as suffrage.
marched. often beside them were lit
: tie girls scarcely in their teens. And
: there were even tiny babies in ".