in day the suffragists would call upon
them. The visits were made in autos decorated with barbers' poles and
laden with maps and posters to hang up in the shops and then open air
meetings were held out in front. Street cleaners on the day of the
"White Wings" parade were given souvenirs of tiny brooms and suffrage
leaflets and addressed from automobiles. A whole week was given to the
street car men who numbered 240,000. Suffrage speeches were given at
the car barns and leaflets and a "car barn" poster distributed.

Forty-five banks and trust companies were treated to a "raid" made by
suffrage depositors, who gave out literature and held open meetings
afterward. Brokers were reached through two days in Wall Street where
the suffragists entered in triumphal style, flags flying, bugles
playing. Speeches were made, souvenirs distributed and a luncheon held
in a "suffrage" restaurant. The second day hundreds of colored
balloons were sent up to typify "the suffragists' hopes ascending."
Workers in the subway excavations were visited with Irish banners and
shamrock fliers; Turkish, Armenian, French, German and Italian
restaurants were canvassed as were the laborers on the docks, in
vessels and in public markets.

A conspicuous occasion was the Night of the Interurban Council Fires,
when on high bluffs in the different boroughs huge bonfires were
lighted, fireworks and balloons sent up, while music, speeches and
transparencies emphasized the fact that woman's evolution from the
campfire of the savage into a new era was commemorated. Twenty-eight
parades were a feature of the open air demonstrations. There were
besides numbers of torchlight rallies; street dances on the lower East
Side; Irish, Syrian, Italian and Polish block parties; outdoor
concerts, among them a big one in Madison Square, where a full
orchestra played, opera singers sang and eminent orators spoke; open
air religious services with the moral and religious aspects of
suffrage discussed; a fete held in beautiful Dyckman Glen; flying
squadrons of speakers whirling in autos from the Battery to the Bronx;
an "interstate meet" on the streets where suffragists of
Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York participated. Ninety original
features arranged on a big scale with many minor ones brought great
publicity to the cause and the suffragists ended their campaign
valiantly with sixty speakers talking continuously in Columbus Circle
for twenty-six hours.

On the night