The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-14
COLONEL REPRESENTED BY
THE WOMEN OF HIS FANHY
Only 5000 Feminine Paraders Appear Instead of the
10000 Expenditures in Uniforms With White
Headdresses Are Impressive Spectacle.

For the first time in his life, probably.
Theodore Roosevelt retired from the
firing line yesterday and let the women
Of his family represent him. While he
remained at Oyster Bay. ava from the
preparedness parade. his wife. hts dauRh-
ter. Mrs. Richard Derby his daughter.
in-law, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. Jr..
and Mrs. George Roosevelt and Mrs.
J.. Lloyd Derby led the Independent Pa
triotic women's Division Of the women's
section up Fifth avenue.
II was the elder Mrs. Roosevelts frst
parade. as It was the first tina Mrs. j.
Borden Hartman. captain OF the first
subdivision, ever marched in. but Mrs.
Roosevelt marched like n soldier and
looked as II she were enjoying II With
all the Colonel's capacity for having
n good time. Clad In a plain blue silk
dress. and wearing a blue straw hat
trimmed with n few pink roses and green
leaves. she swung along. her shoulders
we'll back and her teeth showing in a
smile OF pure enjoyment. broadening
now and then into a laugh at the way
Daughter Ethel made her step along.
Mrs. Derby. the former Ethel Roose-
welt. walked just in front OF the line
OF twelve OF which her mother was the
second from the right. Mrs. George
Roosevelt was at the end. n Mrs.
Robert Bacon at Mrs. Roosevelt's right.
II was a real little family party. and
when Mrs. DERBY wasn't looking sternly
over her shoulder and saying Left.
right left. right" she frequently ex-
changed bits OF gossip with her mother
about the way Dick and Ted were doing
somewhere in the mems part OF the
parade.
Every step Enjoyed.
When IL was all over and the women's
division disbanded AZ FTfty-seventh street
Mrs Roosevelt shook her head snilingly
AZ those who tried 10 ask her what her
impressions were. and hurried away.
qua rded on one side by Mrs. Derby and
on the other by Mrs. George Roosevelt.
= md a taxi. But Mrs. Derby said
her mother had authorized her to say FOR
her that she was very happy
shes happy to be able - show her
bolief IN her principles" said Mrs. Derby.
she think the parade was grand. Won
derful"
rBully' injected = hystander.
Yes, everything that's fre," laughed
the daughter. And she saws she en-
joyed every step OF the way"
I've Independent Patriotic Woiren's
division came las, among the women
paraders. just before the National
Guard They reached the end OF the
II arch half an hour before schedule. time.
though tho head Of the women's section,
the municipal en- %ployees. didn't set oI'
from East Nineteenth street till nearly
: o'clock-more taan half All hOur AFTER
they should have had the signal. The
reason for this is that instead 90 10000
women in line. as expected. there were
but 5000. The lateness OF the hour. it
was said. accounted for this. Many
women came ready 10 march. and seeinR
the long lines OF men far down the
avenue. with apparently no end In sight
grew discouraged and went away.
The 1900 shopg.r!s Miss Mary Don
nelly had expected TO lead in the de-
p4ftnIert stores division shrunk to a
few hundred. The Nomen Teachers
were very few. and the American
Wom.n's League for Self-Dcf"rce
'hougA tho members, marshalied hy Mrs
Ida Powell Priest and Ms. General
Hungerford Miihank made . pretty
showing IN their military looking white
dresses. was not impressive as to mum
bers. There were moro nurses than any
others. and they were charmin all In
snowy uniform with flowing white cad
dresses that made the spectator :
them the White Sisters"
Many Hospitals Represented.
The White Sisters" graduate nurses
from Bellevue. the Presbyterian Hospi'