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Show GREAT DAY I FOR WOMEN I Men Join Women in Cheering Suffragists in Big Parade Washington, March ;. This was I ; woman's day of political crowning ! glory, short of actually possessing the f ! universal right to vote, for several I ! thousand of them turned out to form I j a great procession in Pennsylvania i avetiue to demonstrate the uuanim-Sty uuanim-Sty of their sex in its demand tor the ballot, Even before tho procession started enthusiastic thousands lined the broad avenue. Cheers greeted the small detachments de-tachments and a great wave of ap- 'M plause marked ihe progress of "Gen- i eral" Rosalie Jones and her little band j ! of hikers" as they proceeded to the I I rendezvous. I Men Join in Demonstration. 1 Mei and women alike Joined in the I enionstration and the human walls 'j ' that lined the course of the march I ffM a ea of shaking handkerchiefs and waving flags Precision and busi- I nesslike methods marked the carrying j out of the plans for the parade, which was to form at and around the Peace I monument. Trumpeters, stationed at intervals in the distance, stretching to the tre isurj building, were ready to sound the "advance," as the head of the pa-rade pa-rade started. On the steps of the government's treasure house the ac- 1 tors in the tableaux, symbolic of wo- j men's iriumph, stood attention and read to begin a series of dances and alluring qroupincr; Grand Marshal Busy Early. Mrs. Richard Coke Burleson, grand J marshal of the procession., was busy 1 trom an early hour today preparing lor the start. She was assisted by five aides, all excellent horsewomen. S who rode astride and dashed here and I there giving hurried commands and I bringing order out of chaos. Miss Inez Milholland. as the herald her-ald whose trumpet blast was to signal sig-nal the start, was dressed In royal '. purple and astride a mettlesome char- I Virtually no deviation was made from the order of march as already It made, public Allegorical floats found their way into line without a hitch; under ihe dashing directions of the ; mounted aideb delegations wpre as- I signed and the various section sjmmt WJfl placed in their individual plact''; M Elderly Women in Line. - 1 striking texture of the- gathering' I :it the loot of Capitol hill ws tho j number of elderly women, Wao ap- , ,' . fl ! : in i. b tor ii .iiue.'' The 1 i Hi" Nat K.n. 1 1 Woman Sufi 1 liage association were i.en I lie place ' : !. hind the gr.uul iiKn-hal . . her aides, fie purple lad h. bhid them were masked 4u "uslie W'vTMUc' , H prancing squadron of "petticoat t. . H alrj under the eommaad Ob Miss H Genevieve W imsatt . ij Seven Sections a Bright pjlfure. Then the seven aectiotisi'fnto which H ! the suffragette managers laid . divided the procession, formed a kwAacopic picture of ever shlftimdoloTj 'Gay tu- li' - - ' Oil Mil her lV-n gOW u.-.. the prii s oi profeseflftl nurses were the background for -gin?- H ham gowns and "poke' bo. ,br I the fanning women. wlAlo Hi H and i.-hionable att re oY.-cAjL known ,eii. , were in confre TflfiLth th" . purposely ink stane d li -j-' of the ' l literary women. ' Tfl Cheers for Golden Ciariofs ' When the six "golden cjt.ariots" fcon- fl tributed by the suffragist ot Bphi-more Bphi-more put in an appeajnaCTelead the seventh section they.' were ' acclaimed with cheers. The chariot -shared at- H teution with a more- somber "liberty H bell'' float, in the same section, the H contribution of the suffragists of Phil- I Prettiest Girls in Tableaux. It had been 'arranged that when H the parade started the dances and - H the tableaux on the treasury steps H were to begin, reaching their climax H as the head of the procession reached . j thni point Mmc. Hedwig Relcher. H Columbia, was to hold' the center H i r the improvised st ige.'ang to Bum- . mon to her side Justice. Charity, Lib- ' ertj Plenty, Peace and Hope The prettiest of the younger suffragists I had been cast for the parts. H The principals and dancing girls H I had spent anxious and busy hours in the preparation of costumes. 1 b were of varied colors, rlcn. in iunrdc-. 4 and crimsons and scarlets -hnr nil "fetfl had been so arranged as to' nwkc u 5fl perfect color scheme. Two of,, the ' W principals, whose rolc forced .them Lo jB (Inure in bare feet, found the' chill VI Stone floors of the treasury build- ' I ing very cold. Puritan Girls Serve- Lunches Long before the procession got un-. I der way eirht Puritan ; gtrla bu were prepared for a record business j in food supplies for the famished marchers. The District Federation of Women's Clubs, which proposes to build a woman's club house that will I be nationul in character, had provided four large vans, from which they j served hot coffee and sandwiches and other articles of food. The re- j ceipts will go toward the building fund. I Even up to the last minute dele- j gat ions of women arrived from all j o.er the United States Philadelphia, J Baltimore and New York sent the Jj largest delegations, more than 509 women coming from those cities. nf |