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Practically everybody wore a white dress. It was the spring of the year and you were asked to dress in white, probably under the theory that we would all look better if we wore white dresses.

It was all gotten up very well. The banners were flying. Harriet Laidlaw and Inez Milholland rode white horses at the head of the procession. They were very handsome. They were very good horsewomen. They had fine horses, not some old livery stable hacks - a couple of good horses. They did look so beautiful riding on those horses in some kind of a costume. Inez was carrying a banner and might have been Joan of Arc.

It was practically conceded after that that as far as New York was concerned, women suffrage was won. My memory is that in New York State woman suffrage was granted before the federal amendment. That was the time that it was conceded that it would be done. It was, I think, passed in that session of the Legislature. It was that summer that they gave a big banquet to Vira Whitehouse and gave her a gold tiara. She's not dead yet. At one time she wore that tiara a great deal, but now it's quite out of style. It was made of gold beads in the form of an olive crown - it was a beautiful thing. Some of the very poetic women in the management of the suffrage society invented it. Vira was given