The second "Votes for Women" demonstration, organised by the more
advanced section of the supporters of women's suffrage, took place in Hyde Park last Sunday afternoon. Special trains brought large contingents from the provinces, and seven processions, numbering in all some thirty thousand women, marched from different quarters to the Park, where a crowd estimated at a quarter of a million gathered round the twenty platforms erected for the speakers. The proceedings were on the whole orderly, though the speakers were in some cases inaudible, and there were some unpleasant crushes when the crowd dispersed. Viewed merely as a spectacle, the demonstration was one of the most imposing ever held in Hyde Park. It is impossible to state, however, that the attitude of the spectators indicated any enthusiasm for, or serious sympathy with, the aims of the demonstrators.
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