So much is known about the hike in part because Phoebe, who was nicknamed by her hometown “The Brooklyn Baby,” became a correspondent for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, filing dispatches along the way and speaking about the hike afterward — even though she’d said she preferred walking to speaking.
Princeton students with Wilson in D.C.
Woodrow Wilson also made it to Washington on March 3d. Princeton students commissioned a special train to take him from Princeton to the capital, and 500 of them rode along with Wilson. Upon alighting, he was escorted to the President’s Room at Union Station. From there, the Princeton students formed an honor guard to the station’s exit on Massachusetts Avenue, where Wilson departed the station.
Crowds greet Wilson.
Although suffragists liked to claim that no one was at Union Station to greet Wilson because everyone was at the suffrage parade, the fact is that he was greeted by a large crowd of supporters. Some newspaper reports say 10,000 spectators greeted him in rows of ten to twelve deep.1
"Gen. Jones crossing the Delaware"
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The suffrage hike was covered daily in the newspapers, as reporters were assigned to walk along with the women and file stories along the way. Back at the newsroom, cartoonists drew comics that compared the marchers to George Washington and his troops or made fun of the furor the suffrage hike caused.
1 “Next President in Washington,” Washington Herald, March 4, 1913, pp. 1,3.
