At first there was some rioting, or, rather, some display of rowdyism on the part of the spectators and some show of interference from the police.

The crowds listen respectfully now, and the police are friendly.
The most practical move the New York Suffragists have made was the organization, early in 1910, of the Woman Suffrage Party, a fusion of nearly all the suffrage clubs in the greater city into an association exactly along the lines of a regular political party.

At the head of the party as president is Mrs.Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the International Woman Suffrage Association.

Each of the five boroughs of the city has a chairman, and each senatorial and assembly district is either organized or is in process of organization.
[Illustration: THE WOMEN'S TRADES PROCESSION TO THE ALBERT HALL MEETING, APRIL 27, 1909] Absolutely democratic in its spirit and its organization, the party leaders are drawn from every rank of society.

The chairman of the borough of Manhattan is Mrs.James Lees Laidlaw, wife of a prominent Wall Street banker.