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from Martha's Vineyard to take part in the parade. The youngest one in line was an Italian baby, Sarjo Martina, 1 year old, who was trundled in a Ko-cart by his mother, Mrs. Blancn Martina, beside a youthful equal-rights companion, Hannah Bernard, also in a go-cart, a little girl ei 18 months. They were entered in the " Future Voters " class. Features or tJie Parade. A banner carried by three of the suffragists' prettiest young women, Miss Inez Milholland, Miss Alberta Hill, and Miss Fullerton, headed the procession. On this were the words: Forward out of error, Leave behind the night; Forward through the darkness. Forward into li~ht. The Scotch bagpipes came next, to rep-i-esent primitive music for the early days representation, a fine-looking lot of men wearing the Scotch costume of the famous " Black Watch," led by the major domo in his tall bear skin, and one of the men wearing a big leopard skin. Mrs. Leigh French or New Rochelle came next in a sedan chair, " the > little lady of olden days/' The chair was made of papier mache by Seidel of the Metropolitan Opera House. One of Mrs. French's qualifications for her position was her daintiness, so that four big chair carriers, in Knickerbockers and cocked hats, had no difficulty in bearing her weight. The chair wobbled a little, but Mrs. French being a good sailor and a brave woman, made no outcry. There was great applause when the float which followed this came along olden days in the home, with a brick fireplace and big cooking kettle and the women spinning and weaving. Then came the bodies of women workers. Mrs Voll-mer, the woman farmer of Long Island one of her friends said, turned as nearly-pale as a farmer lady could when she arrived at the meeting place and saw the beautiful farmers' banner and she the only one to march under it. But there were others later. So was a woman jeweler a lone individual for a time She stood alone, holding a large banner with a jeweled crown and bearing the words We want this crown." The milliners' | banner with its hat with waving plumes attracted appreciative attention all along i the line, and it had many followers; so 1 had the dressmakers' banner, with its i sewing machine. j Cheers Along: the 1An*>. The College Women's League, with its members in cap and gown, twas an interesting feature of the procession. It was I i li-d by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, the National Suffrage President. Dr. Shaw received an ovation from the other march- __.era as she was taken in an automobile lo the starting place. The athletic girls, the " Columbia Physical Ed," hatless, with red ribbon bands tied around their heads, were cheered by sightseers Mrs. Mackay's society, the Equal Franchise, led by Mrs. Egerton Win-throp, Jr., and the society banner of blue and silver, designed by Mrs Mackay, received much applause all along the route. Mrs. Winthrop gave a luncheon party ; to twelve guests preceding the proces-i sion, and the entire party turned out for iho parade. The. Equal Franchise So-Mety was 100 strong, though many of its lembers are in Europe. Two pretty ¦'ims sir's, dressed alike in blue anil v-hite, carried the banner. Among the tequal Franchise members were Mrs Lorrimer Kalian, Mrs. Howard Mans-i Held, Mrs. Herbert Carpenter, and Mrs Walter Damrosch, and in line with Mrs Winthrop were Mrs. John Corbin Miss 1 Carolin King, and Miss Dorothy Whitney. , Mrs. Belmont put out her " Votes for ' Women " banners on one of the lower i floors of the building where she has her Political. Equality Association office, 505 Fifth Avenue, and Mrs. Belmont herself, in a black gown and a big black hat, could be seen standing back from le windows and smiling, trying to seeij nd not be seen. ¦ jj Society Women in the Parade. 1 There were some variations of the pro-1 cssion that had not been planned. Mrs. lilton Barker, who is a district leader >r the Woman Suffrage Party and who 5 also a member of Mrs. Mackay's Iqual Franchise Society, did not march i'ith the society, but came in at Forty-ourth Street with Mrs. Howard Gushing 'nd a number of other socially well-;nown women. The industrial women were well repre-ited. The Women's Trades Union gue bore the words on its bp.nner,; 'omen Need Votes to End Sweat-1 3.", The shirtwaist workers had the I tragic note of the parp.de. . Their I >n banner was draped with black, »ir companions lost in the Triangle! fire^ Otip nf'tho hip- whltp han- : Leaders of the P a r a d < Left to Right Mrs. Sarah McPiRe, Alberta Hil ners, intended for use and" nilt"beaufv, bore the words: ' s " New York State Denies the Vote to' . tVm a ' Itliots- and Women." i "hs,,are y°u marching under that , J\f asked one of the paraders of another who was carrying- it It apnenls to me." answered the other. Miss Harriet May Mills led the New J ork State women. The Woman Suffrage Party, with its many district leaders, showed a long line of followers, Mrs. Frederick Nathan, leader of the I' lfteenth, one of the best-organized districts in the party, made an impression. ! Mrs. Nathan has objected to parades, and this was the first in which she marcned. One man threw her a bouquet, and another called to her that he would vote for her for President. Mrs. W. W. Penfield and Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw were leaders, and Mrs. Augusta C. Hugh- '¦ ston, a large woman with commanding presence, was Marshal for the party The purple, green, and white of the Woman's Political Union, which organized the parade, was to be seen every-i where in the line, and its own delegation! was a large one. Mrs. Blatch, its head, was in college cap and gown; Mrs. John Winters Branmin wore a white gown with the purple and green and white 'of the party, the colors which tihe wears, ..'iltotretncr since she, has been interested m " votes for women." Mrs. Bvannan and Mrs. Blatch. with Mrs. John Rogers, I Jr. and Miss Carolin Le::ow, headed this' division. From the States where women vote there was a large delegation. . The Pennsylvania women had a. float'which'came last in the procession. It showed the Quaker women in the quaint dress of the I-nends under a big liberty bell made of flowers They had suffrage literature which they distributed from .the float The Men's League, U00 strong, was one or the last branches of the parade, and when it came into Union Square where mos-t oi tne women had already assembled, there was long applause arid almost cheers from the women. ^ As many of the women as could ran torwarii,. and banners were waved It was admitted that it took more courage or the men to inarch than for the wo-men and the women ?n;-1 they appreciates :t. James Lees Laitfinw. the banker; I rof. John Dewey of Columbia, and Vladimir Smikhovitch led tli~ Mm'r, League Max ICsiRiman was one ol" the officers of the league, in line. Mrs. William L Colt was clv.et marshal of the parade, and there was one for each division. Keeiiiusc the Women ju Line. _!.'." Come oh, darling." ono wouiri sav to1 a line of her charges, "shoulder to shoulder. That's it'. You do it like a soldier." .. .. . The anti-suffragists looked after their end of the work by distributing anti-suffrage literature in the crowd which waited for the suffrage parade. Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer, one strong anti-suffragist, watched the procession from among the crowds. Mrs. Gilbert Jones and Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins were at Union Square listening to the speeches.' . ¦- The crowd at Union Square a. few minutes after trte 'parade had disbanded was dense. For a time it was impossible to move. The police said there were 10.000 people, a large proportion of them men. From' a music stand Mme. Oregon's new Woman Suffrage March" was sung with a, band accompaniment, and then speeches began all over the square at once. The women spoke from carriages and auto-! .ci? .?,s' Mrs- Braunan and Leonora O Reilly mounted a brick pile and bc-Ci^nie the centre ff a crowd, Mrs. Blatch with a banner bearing the names of members of , the Judiciary Committee which hasn t voted the women's bill but of committee commenced with Aaron Levy, the iChairman, and dilated upon the unda-mocracy and unfairness of the men. Mrs. Blatch went to one corner of the stand where there was no speaker ano called; " Do you want a speaker? ' "Yes, yes!" the crowu shouted, and Miss Dorothy Frooks kept them shouting with laughter for a long time. The general attitude of the crowd along the line of march was respectful, anc there was often applause. There was e little jeering among young men, whe called: " Why don't you smile?" ^anc " Don't they wish they were men! There were several negro women in th« parade. Among the prominent women marching were physicians from Johns Hopkin: Medical College, Miss Lillian D. Wald Miss Amy Mali Hicks, Miss Adelaidi Johnson, Mrs. Alexander of New Jersey Mrs. Thompson Seton, Mrs. Mary Hutch-rason Page, Mrs. William M. Ivins, Mrs John Rogers, Mrs. Sehuyler Warren, Mrs Wary Beard, Miss Bertha Rembaugh, Mra.* Frederick Howe, Mrs. Raymond Brown,-1 Miss L. L. Dock,. Mrs. Simkhovitch, Miss Elizabeth L. Ely, Miss Katherine Blake.4 Mrs. Anne O'Hagen Shinn, Mrs. Mary Preston . Slosson, Mrs. Nora Blatch de Forest, Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gllman, Miss Marion Peters, the Misses Irene and Alice Lewisohn, Miss Maud Ingersoli, Miss Mary Greler, and Mrs. Wendell 1. .-Bush. . :