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WOMEN   OUT IN 'MASS
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Great Gathering Welcomes Mrs. Pankhurst
When She Speaks in Carnegie Hall.
New York, Oct. 25.—Ilarely if ever lias Carnegie Hall seen such a gathering of women as assembled there to-night, j voider the auspices of the Equality League of Self-supporting Women, to w«lconie Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the British militant suffragettes, and to proclaim their own right to vote.
The women on the stage included seventy-nine teachers, fifty-seven physicians, six dentists, forty-nine social i workers, thirty-eight trained nurses, 120 1 trade unionists, eight actresses, ten musicians, four civil engineers, forty-six business women, sixteen authors, three sculptors, one architect, four journalists, sixteen civil service employees, twenty-five lawyers and representatives' o£ thirteen trades in which womea. com-
pete with men. Over 1,000 persons not gain admission to the hall.
Among the boxholdcrs were Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Mrs. J. C. Phelps-Stokes, Mrs. William <M. Ivins, Mrs. E. H. Gary and Mrs. Senry Phipps.
On the stage a forest of banners proclaimed the women's organizations represented. Among them were the Woman's Trade Union League, the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, the Medical Women, the Municipal Ownership League, the Collegiate 'Equal Suffrage League, the Women's Progressive Suffrage Union and the William  Lloyd  Garrison League.
The flag of Wyoming, the first state to grant women the suffrage, hung" facing the stngo. The ushers wore orange-colored shoulder-sashes, bearing the familiar legend: "Jotes for women.'*