SUFFRAGIST VISION GAINS HONORS.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: Associated Press

SENECA FALLS About 500 strong, they returned to this Finger Lakes town where it all began.

Women and a sprinkling of men marched some in 19th-century period costumes and some in jeans to the Women's National Historical Park on Saturday to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

Speakers included Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey, 1988 Nobel Prize winner Gertrude Elion and Helen Thomas of United Press International, the longtime dean of White House correspondents.

The speakers praised the vision of suffrage leaders Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia …