The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13
New York Scene of Most Ex-
traOrdinary Demonstration.
Estimate 10000 Persons in
Spectacular Parade.
66 TRADES ARE REPRESENTED
Searchlights, Calcium and Color
Effects at Night.
Ovation Began at $3.50 A. NJ
and to Last Until 10 P. M.

New York, May 13.-Beginning at
$50 O'Clock this morning and ending
at 10 o'clock tonight, New York today
is staging one of the most extraordi-
nary parades in history.
Between the hours named, 10000
business and professional men and
women were marching in a parade to
show their interest and to stir up the
interest of New Workers in better
military, naval and industrial pre-
paredness in this country.
From the time the first delegation
of marchers is sent on it's way at $3.50
until the National Guardsmen COM
plete their march at 10 o'clock at
night, marchers will be on the streets.
the different delegations being sent at
intervals.
Representatives of sixty-six trades
and professions will be in the parade.
Roger w. Allen, the secretary of the
committee, estimates that there will
be at least 5000 women in line. The
women parade in the evening. Cal
ciun lights will be used from the tops
of buildings along the line of march to
light up the way for the women and
| soldiers.
1900 an Hour Pass BY.
Colonel Charles H. Sheriff., former
| ly United States minister to the Ar
gentine Republic, is the grand mar
shall, with Major Alfred r. Whitney
as chief of staff, and Colonel Arthur
F. Schermerhorn and Captain Latham
| G. Reed as chief of aids
| The program calls for the passing of
| IL, 900 marchers by given point ev-
cry hour of the ten. Electric light
corporations will add to the illumina-
ton of Fifth avenue by the installation
| of powerful searchlights at short in
tervals.
The National guard will be the only
marchers in uniform. No signs or
| banners other than to designate the
various divisions are permitted.
Only two vehicles will be in line
These will head the parade. One will
be occupied by Mayor Mitchell and the
other by Major Gen. Wood, command
ing the department of the east of the
| United States army.
! Erect Parade Stand.
The line of march is from Bowling
Green up Broadway and Fifth ave.
nue. to Fortieth street
| Sixteen hundred women will sit for
Preparedness. The twenty thousand
marchers will represent working
women, professional women and Wom-
en- of leisure, such as Mrs. Charles B.
| Alexander, Mrs Borden Hartman and
dehutantes and young matrons.
The sixteen hundred who will sit
are mostly members of the prepared
ness section of the National Civic Fed
Grafton. This section took vote on
the question of marching and Miss
Anne Morgan, Mrs Lindon Bates,
Miss Maude sWetmore and all the of
ficerS save one were against it. They
said there wasn't time to get out
representative division and they could
make much more impressive show
ing by building a stand and watching
| the parade.
Accordingly the stand was erected
at Twenty-fourth street, just across
Fifth avenue from the main review
ing stand. They will keep the stand
full from $50 a. m. until the hour in
the evening when it ends. They will
serve in three hour shifts, Miss Nor
gan heading the first relay.
Discard ''OfficiaI' Plug Hat
Col Charles H. Sheriff. never
| thought of asking the women. But a
young bride, whose husband was at
Plattsburg, went to Col. Sheriff. about
it, and he told her that if she could
pledge 200 women to go ahead. The
next day she was back with 200
names.
| Col. Sheriff. put the women off to
| the very end of the day. The first
feminine section will leave Washing
ton Square at p. m. From then I'M
til s they will swing out from the arch
in sections at intervals of ten min
| utes apart. The late hour is a good
thing for the working women who
want to march.
Financial and business interests in
| lower Manhattan contributed 1000
| marchers.
Five bands of forty pieces each have
| already been engaged.
| Members of the Cotton, Produce and
| Coffee exchanges also are largely rep
| resented
| Precedent was disregarded and the
high hat was thrown into the discard
as a distinguishing mark for public
officials when the board of aldermen
| decided to march in a body wearing
derbies.