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Show 1 I SUFFRAGE PARADE I" BBILLIAHT AFFAIR B I New York, May 3Tho army I of women suffrage marched up Pifth avenue this afternoon, I 20, 000 strong, to the martial I music of fhe marsellaise, blared m from forty bands. I An uniforms of white, gleam- ing with yellow streamers, they 8 paraded in the heat of a midsum- mer' sun for three miles from Washington Square to 59th B street. A field of yellow banners abpealed for "Votes for wom-I wom-I en" to an unbroken field of spec- 8 tators, estimated at near a quar- ter of a million. I Inez Miholland, riding astride a mettlesome chestnut cob, di- rectly behind an escort of mount-B mount-B ed police, led the marchera. Be- hind her walked eight girls in B blue, with silken flags; after B ' them eame women with the suf-B suf-B frage map and its nine yellow B stars. Then came the rank and iile marching resolutely and B smiling for ' ' the cause. ' fc 4v B Women with snowwmte jpfir, B children- not yet out of rompers; B girls from Sweden, women B from New Zealand; cowgirls, mr from Oklahoma; newsboys from H the east side ; Wall street brokers jB these and tne artisans of many B trades and callings marched in H unbroken lines, eight abreast, dis- 9 banding finally at the -Fifty-H ninth street plaza- to overflow B into two 'great mass meetings. B Crowds, held to the curb by B 1,200 bluecoats, gave vociferous B welcome and applause. The city B anthorities, intent on avoiding a B repetition of the disorder of the B suffrage parade at Washington,' K ' made elaborate" police arrange-mI' arrange-mI' " " yuimua ami thEpfflifda'wag not I marred by any untoward inci dent. The woman's Political union, one thousand strong and broken into many, detachments, was in the forefront of the line. Their banners bore many mottoes. Some of them were; "More Ballots; Less Bullets." "One Sex Bears Arms, the Other Soldiers." "Peace and Persuasion." "Getting There After Fighting Fight-ing Forty Years." "Let the People Rule; Women Are People." - -! i |