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Show Nearly 100 Newspaper Correspondents Cor-respondents Will Accom- pany Army Under General Gen-eral Rosalie Jones. INDIAN WOMEN FOR WASHINGTON PAGEANT ! i i Dawn Mist, Daughter of; Three Bears, La -Command;' Troop of Mountain ' ': ! Maidens in Parade. ! Bv JntornatJonyl Xws Service. NEW YOTiK, Feb. S. Motc than! 200 women will begin the march of the suffragettes to Washing-j ton. They .will leave here on February J2, according to a statement i made at suffrage heudquarfcrs today. Applications from residents in town3 and cities .along the lino of march indicate in-dicate that the total number of entrants en-trants in the "hike' will approximate 40U. Among Iheae will be a number of malo sympalhiRcrs with the cause of equal rights, and nearly ;i hundrod newspaprr correspondents, nasignod to tho story hy their newspaper?. General Jones at Head. The marchers will be led by General Ifosalic Jones, Colonel Ida Craft, Surgeon Sur-geon Laura " Doclc a-nd Private Sybil, tho only women to finish in the march from I"cw York to Albany during the latter part of December. Bcsidoi tho3c veterans, hiker, from almost "Very stato of the north .Atlantic. eca'bu'aiW' jjiW'o.signilUejjtJiejjr rijlingucs.j ty. pay-, Uiitfir niotig, the t3vnMfe5$ii Pennsylvania, Jouotf cut. Vormout, Massachusetts Jtnd Maryland. J.n Philadelphia ihjs first men. .will oiti fcho marchem. Wrnesfc Stevens aud two othor zucmber.q of 'the Men 'a Walk-ing Walk-ing club Jiavo petitioned for the privilege privi-lege of marching. They were admitted on the- condition that thoy wear tho pilgrim's coat, a long brown garment of flannel designed na the most comfortable com-fortable dross for withstanding tho variable weather conditions that will mark tho trip. Avoid Militancy-Local Militancy-Local suffragettes havo manifested ! the. utmost, interest in the coming ' march, and havo hailed if. as a means of carrying on their warfare for the right to vote without resorting to the militant measures adopted by their Eugb'sh sisters. Tho interest shown by tho public iu the Albany hike, thoj' state, will bo far eclipsed during tho Washington march. According to tho present plans of tho hikers, thoy will arrivo in Washington Wash-ington on March J, where, after a rest in tho hotels of tho capital, they will tak part in tho suffrage parade on March 3, terminating their pilgrimage by literally "enrrying the word" to Prcsidont-olect Wilson. Issues General Orders. Tho route laid out by the hikers will carry them ovor about thrco hundred miles of country road, in maivy places Almost anklo doop in mud. To prepare for the rigors of the trip and to obviate ob-viate as far as possible desertions from tho ranks through fatigue, General Rosalie Jones, who is tho nominal head of tho movement, has prepared a series of general orders, founded on tho experience ex-perience gained through her hiko to Albany. Important among theso instructions is the adjuratiou to bring largo shoes with rubber heels. Tho Albany army lost most heavily through the failure of some of the marchers to abide by this primal law of walking. Woolen Htock-ings, Htock-ings, absorbent cotton, adhesive pJas-ter pJas-ter and gauze are other articles included includ-ed in tho kit of the pilgrim pedicures. Festivities En Route. Though ball gowns and evening clothes will bo strictly tabooed during tho march, tho army will b,e askod to luke part in a number of cutertain-menta cutertain-menta and ovations in the cities on their itinerary. In 'Elizabeth, Philadelphia Philadel-phia and Baltimore receptions have been arranged for them, while at the Manson and Dixon Tine the army will be mot by a delegation of Maryland women, led by Mrs. IL F. Foster, Mrs. Calvin Gabriel, Miss Doetsch, Mrs. Bertha Ber-tha Mather, Miss Louise Freizer, Miss Minnie .Tnckeon and Mrs. Ohnrlog Keller. Kel-ler. This band will escort the pilgrims j (Coutinued on Page Two.) suffragettes will march to emi (Continued from Page Ono.) to the capital. . A movement to cross the Delaware in small boats, after tho man-nor man-nor of "Washington's famous forryage of that liistoric stream is also under way. Indians to Take Part. WASHINGTON. Fob. S. Dawn Mist, daughter of Ghiof Threo Bears of the Glacier National Park Indians, will command a troop oi' mountain maidens iu the cavalry division of tho woman's suffrage pageant hero on March 3. This is said to be the first time Indian worn-en worn-en have taken anv part in the nationwide nation-wide movomeufc for extending tho franchise fran-chise to women. In Dawn Mist's troop will bo ton maidous, selected as being tho most representative rep-resentative of thoir tribe. All will be clad in their tribal ceremonial costumes and ho mounted on Indian ponies richly caparisionod with elaborate Indian boadwork. Dawn Mist, who has given much thought to tho woman's suffrage movement, move-ment, succeeded, in obtaining tho cooperation co-operation of Louis W. Hill, son of James J. flill, who h:i agrood to Xr-nibh Xr-nibh transportation for the young worn-en. worn-en. While in Washington the Indian girls will live in their own tepees on a camp ground provided for thorn. Tho cavalry division of Ihe pageant is taking largo proportions. It is believed be-lieved at suffrage headquarters , that nearly 200 women on horseback will bu distributed through tho procession. The division will be commanded by Miss Genevieve Wisatt of Maryland. It is practically assured that ono largo section will lie composed of women wom-en vagu-carncrs. Several of the women's wom-en's labor unions of Washington already al-ready havo Higniucd. their intention of marching, |
