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by profession to show that there were women in all professions - a great many of them. Women doctors walked together. Women lawyers walked together. There weren't so many of them as there are now. There were district organizations.

There was an attempt, of course, to get men to sign up to walk with them. I don't think that any men walked in the first suffrage parade. It was quite short. I seem to remember that my division formed at 11th Street. It couldn't have taken over half an hour to pass a particular reviewing spot, That, of course, took a great deal of nerve really, because it wasn't being done too much. That first parade might have been in 1910, or might have been in '11.

I'm not sure they had a parade every year. They all merge now in my memory into just one great experience, but when I put my mind to it I recall that there were several and that the first one was small. The later ones were increasingly large and then finally came what is sometimes referred to as “the” woman's suffrage parade. That was just the last of many. It was either during the war, or just before it - during the war, I think. That was the great one that everyone remembers where so many men marched. So many men will tell you, “I marched in the woman's suffrage parade.” That was the one that took hours and hours and hours to pass. It went all the way up to Carnegie Hall.