Evening star., 1917-03-04
WOMEN RECOGNIZED
IN INAUGURAL RITES
Many Will March in Parade
Come From All Over the
United States.
AID IN FRAMING PLANS

Women have received unusual recog-
milton in. the inaugural celebration this
wear Two women have been placed
on the inaugural committee. making
arrangements for the induction into
office of a President of the United
States and a reception in the National
Capital to the sovereign people from all
of the forty-eight states of the Union.
These women are Mrs Wesley Martin
stoner. representing a number of ma
tional organizations of women, and
Mrs James X. Boggs, president OF the
Woman's Wilson Union.
For the first time women are to take
mart in the inaugural parade, and the
number to appear in the parade has
been limited only by two considerations
first, report that had been spread
throughout the country that on account
of troubled times the inaugural cere-
monies might not be held at all; and
second, because the inaugural commit
tee had made strict ruling against
floats in the parade or the participation
of organizations representing some par
tcular propaganda.
While the National American Wom
ans Suffrage Association is not in the
parade as a body, because of a purpose
10 maintain non-partisan position
until given recognition by the admins
tfaIIon. many OF Tie national leaders ce
the suffrage cause are enrolled as in
d,viduals IN the wonien's unit OF the
civic organizations division of the
parade.
Mrs. George Bass to March.
Mrs. George Bass. chairman of the
democratic women's bureau at Chicago.
to whose efforts is accredited much of
the democratic success in rolling up ten
of the twelve suffrage states for Will
son. and who in recognition of this is
TO be elected March 9 as a member of
the democratic national committee, the
first woman ever thus honored. is to
march in the parade. She Will be the
first woman ever honored by any polit-
zeal party by election to the national
committee.
Representing Utah. which state went
democratic for the first time in history,
Mrs. X. Z. L. Collier has come from Salt
Lake City to march. Similarly woman
leaders are here from every state in the
Union to march, not as suffrage advo-
Gates, peace propagandists what
else. but as loyal and patriotic women,
representative of the spirit of their
home states.
Mis- Hopkins to Be Marshal.
Heading the woman's unit will be an
equestrienne marshal on a seal brown
charger. with mounted aids. The mar
shall is Miss Margaret Hopkins Worrell.
an attorney in the Interior Department,
who organized and led the women of
the Interior Department in the pre-
paredness parade last year As aids
Miss Worrell will have Miss Abbie
Katherine Kurtz of Paris. ILL.,. and Mrs.
Lucy NJ. O'Neil of Dayton, Ohio, both
experienced horsewomen.
Miss Worrell, the marshal, is a native
of. 1ronton. Ohio, and a graduate of
kingsbury. She has been a resident of
Washington since 1909. She graduated
1911 with the degree LII B. and the
following year received the LII. NJ.
from her alma mater. Miss Worrell is
direct descendant from Stephen Hop
kins. one of the signers of the Declara-
tion of Independence, and is related to
the late Admiral Sperry and Nathaniel
Sperry.
Following the marshal in the parade
will be group of Maryland riders on
their own mounts, all wearing habits.
Mrs. Stoner to Head Section.
Mrs. Wesley Martin Stoner. who. as
sisted by a committee of prominent
women, has enlisted the women to
march in the parade. personally will
lead delegation of several hundred
Loyal Women" most of whom have
become nationally and even interna-
tionally prominent through humani-
tartan labors. Under the leadership of
Mrs. Stoner. many of these women con-
tributed to the inaugural fund for pay
lug the expenses of the celebration.
This contribution was a big surprise
to the inaugural committee. as it was
the first time that anything Of the sort
had ever been done.
Mrs. Mary Hauchett Stone Of Saginew.
Mich, who is known internationally as
we'll as nationally, will be one of the
mounted guards of the women's unit led
by Mrs. Stone.
One of the picturesque features of the
woman's unit will be a marching
squad representing THE Solid South"
Miss Margaret Hamilton Erwin. an at
torney at law from Chattanooga, Tenn.
known as the youngest criminal lawyer
in the world, and who is to carry
banner representing her home state.
Will lead this group. She is the only
praeticing woman attorney in Tennes-
see privileged to appear before the
supreme court of the state. Her very
first case was murder case. and she
won it. AT the St. Louis convention
she addressed the Tennessee delegation
in behalf of woman's suffrage, and per-
frage plank in the democratic plat
form.
Solid South Section.
following Miss Erwin will be two
standard bearers, the Misses Grace and
Helen Eastment. carrying a handsome
silken banner calling attention to THE
solid South" Behind them will march