Ogden Evening Standard | 1913-02-12 | Page 1 | Suffragettes on Road to Capital

SUFFRAGETTES ON ROAD TO CAPITAL New Vork. Feb. 12 -Sixteen "regulars,' "regu-lars,' who have promised 'o march the entire distance of 230 miles, and some half a hundred Sympathizers, who planned to march for a I le; 91 ihe first day. mustered shortly after 't o'clock at the megaphone nll of Ccn-ral" Rosalie C.. .Tones, command er of the Suffragette expedition to Washington Their schedule called for a stop at Elizabeth. N I . al noon and al Meluchen. N. J., tonight a day's journev of 15 mil They expect ex-pect to reach Washington on March l8t- , , i Tbe regulars' were clad In pil enm cloaks tod hoods and carried knapsacks fined 'Uh suffrage literature. liter-ature. delegation of local suffragette, and sympathisers met the party when 'it detrained Bt Newark Here the vellow commissary wagon put in an appears and shortly after 10 o'clock the hike was started. The marchers got under wav after a brief ope. a.r meeting w is held in a park where Surgeon General Lavlnia Dock addressed the crowd