NAWSA Gen. Corresp. New York State Suffrage Assoc 1811 Olive Avenue Santa Barbara, Calif. Dec. 30, 1949 Mrs. Edna L. Stantial 21 Ashmont St. Melrose, Mass. Dear Mrs. Stantial: Your letter of December 15th, asking for "material of any kind pertaining to the Woman Suffrage Movement" sent me hunting for a very old and very dilapidated sort of scrap book that I thought might have some thing of the sort in it as I remembered there were articles written by my father and mother on all sorts of subjects pasted in it. I found the book and it did contain such material but I am not at all sure that it is any thing that will serve your purposes; however I tore out pages that I am mailing to you under separate cover. Please destroy the material if you do not want it. I do not know when these articles were written or in what papers they they were published; perhaps the earliest ones were published when my father was teaching in the Univ. of Minnesota form 1873 to 1880. None of the material seems to have been published in the Woman's Journal but I feel very sure that she used to write for the Journal. My mother's work was done in the early days of the Suffrage Movement. She died in 1892 when I was a young girl but her interest in every sort of endeavor that pertained to the advancement of women is a vivid memory of my childhood and youth. During the New York Campaign, I lived on Staten Island and was a District Captain over there. For a long time my sister and I kept the yellow ribbons marked "Votes for Women" that we used to wear in the Fifth Avenue parades but I cannot now find them or I would send them to you. At the time of the California Campaign, my maternal grandmother lived in California with her daughter and son-in-law. She died here when almost ninety six years of age. I think the following obituary notice published in The Providence, R.I. Journal may interest you. "Mrs. Adriana Fisher Peck, formally of this city, the news of whose death in California was recently received here, was the oldest woman voter recorded in that state, Mrs. Severance the 'mother of Women's Clubs' ranking next. Mrs. Peck who was the wife of Charles Miller Peck, was allied with many of the leading families in this city and state. She was born in Edgartown, Mass., Nov. 2, 1816. * * * * Mrs. Peck had three sons and two daughters, the oldest daughter Mary Chace, being an exceptionally gifted woman. A pioneer in the suffrage cause, this daughter was associated with Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Anna Garlin Spencer and others and was a brilliant writer and speaker for the cause. * * * *It is said that Mrs. Peck declared when California women won the suffrage that since her daughter Mary Chace Peckham 'was a pioneer and worked so hard in the suffrage cause, I am going to vote once in my life anyway.' And so she registered and voted on her 95th birthday, 2 Nov. 1911. Mrs. Peck retained most of her faculties to the last and despite blindness and partial deafness was always a cheerful and charming companion and was deeply revered and loved for her rare qualities of heart and mind by all with whom she came in contact." Very sincerely yours, Miss Mary W Peckham Byrd Cliffe Woodstock, N.Y. Aug. 29- 48 Dear Miss Blackwell, I hope that all is well with you again and that you are going to feel better and better as time goes on. I have been in this delightful artists' colony for a week, and we have organized two 2 suffrage meetings in the neighborhood. Last Tuesday thru the energy of Miss Clara I. Watson, Vice President of the [Suterborough?] Association of Women Teachers a suffrage meeting was arranged at Mead's Hotel on Overlook Mountain. The Rev. Dr. Charles Kennedy [President] of New Rochelle presided and introduced the speakers most gracefully. Mrs. John Christopher Schwab, wife of the Librarian at Yale College told charmingly why she was a suffragist. Professor Marian Whitney of Vassar College gave a delightful account of the great woman's convention in Budapest and I gave the arguments for suffrage at the close. On Thursday Aug 25 we held the first woman suffrage meeting ever held in Woodstock. The town hall was crowded with an enthusiastic audience. None of the townspeople dared to preside so we introduced each other. Mrs. Nancy Nurssulman Schoonmaker was the first speaker and she made an ardent plea for the protection of the mother and child. Professor Whitney followed her with an account of the Budapest convention and a clear presentation of one of our most forcible arguments. I followed [Mrs Whitney] her in the best fashion I could and at the close of the meeting several people said that we had converted them. Nearly every one present signed as believers in suffrage - and best of all, tho we had no collection, three dollars and a quarter was given to Mrs. John Christopher Schwab who had charge of the paper [which she] for the signatures. It is too soon to say yet whether the meeting will bear fruit or not - but [ta??] hope that a suffrage society may be formed as a result of this first meeting. I have written this as a letter to you but I hope for the sake of the others who helped you may be able to notice it in the Journal. With warmest good wishes. Yours sincerely, Katherine S. Blake. 2609 Grand Ave., University Heights, New York. Dec. 8, 1913. To the Editor of The Woman's Journal, Boston,Mass. Dear Madam:- Thank you for your letter of Nov. 29th, acknowledging my communication regarding danger to girls. In yesterday's Tribune appeared an article which I wish to send you in case you have not already seen it. Publishing the exact drug used hardly seems a wise thing, as those who had not already known of it, and were seeking that vicious form of white slave work might profit by said information! Perhaps this will be of some use to you, and at any rate I send it to show you how the matter is being taken up. As far as I have seen your paper was the first to make any outcry or utter any warning to girls. Yours sincerely, Amy W. Hotchkiss (Mrs. Thomason) [*copied*] [*K.R.B.*] Malone, NY Dec 16 1913 My Dear Miss Blackwell It delighted me to see you at the Convention in Washington. I'm sorry about last summer's letter which Miss Briggs writes me she sent, it was lost. The membership of The Malone Political Equality Club & Assembly Dist. has 48 members I will send you a list. All the address needed is Malone N.Y. I have just taken [*29*] 33 None of my club subscribe to any suffrage [?a?er] take them all. Women are so stingy I don't believe they will subscribe either [?on] [d??] fraying enrollments for our Dist. My [???ly] Katherine L. Paddock Pres. P.E. Club Malone N. Y. Mrs [Elna?????] Reed Mrs Duffield Mrs Lincoln Mrs. Gehring Mrs. Robb. Taylor Mrs. H D Hercees Mrs Jeanette Hercees Joy Mrs Letitia Greene Mrs [J???] Bush Miss K. A. Paddock Mrs S. A. Beameu Mrs J J Seaser Mrs George Micholson I cannot remember the others K.L.P. Miss Clara Russell Mrs [P???] Phillips Mrs Northrup Mrs Bolsford Miss Eleanor Merriam See, Miss Lorrise Merritt [?reas]. Mrs Lillian Ross [?ice] Pres. Mrs Putnam Mrs Young Mrs S.G. Boyce Mrs. E. Sawyer Miss [A????a] Might Miss Beasie Hyde Mrs Harriet Patterson Mrs [De?el]. Mrs Herbert Reynolds Miss Georgene Hogle Mrs E.E. Hogle Mrs Hollis Hogle Mrs. J B. Swaddle Mrs Davis Mrs C L [Ca?rin] Mrs M L Greuch Mrs H A Kane [*Look up at leisure 20 [??] New York [?] [?]] January 14 -- 1914 My dear Miss Briggs:- Am in receipt of a letter from Mrs Fries, dated for 11th - in which the enclosed one from you dated the 13 - 13,- asking to be furnished with a list of members of our Suffrage Leauge - Am enclosing a list with this letter. I only wish I could send you a long list [*probably N.Y - K.G.B.*] Subscriber to Journal _ Mrs. E.B. Fries, Pres. Subscription Sent in by Anna McGraw_ but unfortunately we are small in numbers. We should be large in numbers and great workers, since we are called "The Anna Shaw". I only hope that we may in time be large in numbers, and great workers - Mrs Fries is in Clancy in attendance upon a very sick daughter - Let us pray for Votes for Women in 1916 - Faithfully yours [?elli?] S. Palmer. [*Friendship N.Y.*] Eliza B. Fries President Nellis S. Palmer 1st vice _ _ _ RUth Thurston 2nd _ _ _ _ Ethilina Hickory Secretary Anna McGraw Treasurer Ellen Skiff Ella M. [?sson] Elma Helm Julia Brown [?atti?] Carter [*Friendship New York See Subscription List for Mrs. E. B. Fries [?][?] *] [*copied [?] H_*] Martha Heming Mary Todd Julia Hyde Mary Rennick Mary [Al??id] copied Collins. Erie Co. Aug. 20- 1918 Dear Woman Journal Your request for names of Equality Club of Lawton's received and I am pleased to give it for I consider the (? ) (?) & wish every woman had it to read. The names follow: Mrs. Melville Harrkner (?) Lawton's Sta. " Clarence Lawton " " " Paul Willett " " " A.J. Lawton (now a subscriber) " " Mary (?) " " " Jessie Pratt " " " R.W. Law Collins (?) " Frank Maytham " " Mary Fritts " " Ed Herman " " Leander Herssey Lawton's Sta. Non Club members who might take paper Mrs. John (?) - (?) N.Y. " Norman Allen " " Dr. Lake " " Wm. Johnston Collins, N.Y. " Herbert Potter " " " Paul Berry 38 Kennard Terrace St. Paul, Minn. " Sarah Potter Collins Centre, N.Y. " Cynthia Cook " " " Miss Carlie Wood " " " " (?) Bates " " " Mrs. Ed Mugridge (?) " " " " Irene Sisson " " " I hope you may have several subscribers from this list - some I have already asked to subscribe but they were not ready, but I hope a perusal of the paper will induce them. It makes its own appeal. Sincerely wishing success. I am your friend, Sarah (?) Kerr - add (?) (?) member Lulu L. Bridges. Collins N.Y. [*Copied*] Dear Miss Ryan, I am sending you a list of the members of the Delhi Equal Suffrage Club_ Very truly yours. Louise Gleason Secy of the Delhi Equal Suffrage Club. N.Y. Mrs F B Jennings. Mrs M W Keating. Mr Stanley Kilkenny. Miss Freeman. Mrs M E Hine. Mrs W A Powell. Frank Farrington. W T Black. Mrs Maurice Farrington. Miss Anna L Butler. Frank P Harris. Mrs Gilbert Jackson. Mrs Wallace B Gleason. Louise Gleason. W Wallace B Gleason. Mrs Stanley Kilkenny. Mrs Jonas Person. Mrs E Harkness. Mrs Henry Pease. Mrs Howard Goodrich. Mrs C G Maxwell. Miss Rosa Raines. Mrs Harrison Gray. J B Murray. Mrs J B Murray. Mrs Henry W Cannon. Mrs Mary Campbell. Margaret Mc Laury. Mrs J E Harper. Mrs John Stoddart. Mrs Will Hutson. Anna E Harper. Mrs John Woodburn. Mrs E Paul. Mrs Mary Dann. Mrs Frank Farrington. Mrs Charles Penfield. Mrs M H Woodruff. Mrs George TenEyck. Mr " " . Mrs A E Dixon. Miss I K Penfield. Dr J H Robinson. Mrs Charles Franklin. Harry England. Clarence Smith. Kate Bartlett. Mrs Wm Gordon. Mrs Walter Edgerton. Elizabeth Mc Donald. Mrs Fannie Pitcher. Bertha Fisher. Mrs P Pomeroy. Gussie Reynolds. J K Penfield. L B Gleason. Andrew Nichols. Mrs George Cannon. Samuel Etter. Miss Jane Lewis. James E Harper. Delhi, n.y. Dr M O Landon. Marie Preston. W H Millard. Mrs W H Millard. Mrs G A Hechroth. W A Gemmel. W A Humphries. Jonas M Preston. Mrs S F Adee. John Nichols. Mrs M O Landon. Jennie McMurdy. Mabel Bishop. S E Smith. Carrie Lana Shaw. Catherine P Shaw. P B Merrill. W B Thompson. Marshall. Mitchell. Mrs J H Arbuckle. Mrs William Gleason. Mrs Howard Youmans. Howard Youmans. Mrs S F Penfield. Mary Sackrider. Mrs Charles Herring. Mrs H F Gilbert. Mrs George Fisher. Marguerite Honeywell. Mrs J K Hood. Miss C A Boomhower .. N .. Mrs J I Goodrich. Mrs Rohbert McIntosh. Miss Augusta Clauson. Sophia Herring. Helen Persons. John C Stoddart. Guy Shaw. S F Adee. Will Hall. Mrs John VanDerCook. Mrs Jack Vandercook. Miss Emma Pettingill. Mrs Firth. Susan D Hinckley. Laura Gay Smith. Mrs Emma Shaw. Mrs Joseph Tiers. Mrs Lizzie P Hull. Mrs W R Bill. Nereide Murray. Arimenta Mc Donald. Evelyn Clark. Mrs Walter Jackson. Mrs Howard Stone. THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL 585 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS TELEPHONE--BACK BAY 4717 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ALICE STONE BLACKWELL BUSINESS MANAGER AGNES E. RYAN [*Answered Oct 2 1913*] 269 - W -12th St. N. Y. C. Oct 1 - 13 My dear Miss Ryan:- Mother got your letter to-day. It seems dreadful about those watches & she, poor dear, is worried to death. The package was insured, but not for the full amount of cost. To-morrow I'll register two more to you. One with pearls & one with pearls & emeralds. I have not heard anything from the Adams Express package, which, is another loss of $35.00. I am simply on my beam ends about it all. Mrs. Blatch is trying to get me to join forces, and I cannot quite make her out. It all seems rather fishy, & yet I cannot put my finger on the short coming. I am enclosing you a statement about the flags & hat-bands we sold on the journey. 2 I suppose you will be soon starting on your western trip. Hope it is successful & you make some money for the Journal. By the way Miss Blatch's greeting the other day was "Oh! I was so sorry to hear you had taken that trip for the Journal. You see it has not ended in steady work for you & has amounted to very little for the hard work." I defended the whole position of the Journal, & told her I had gone on the J. staff for that stunt & no more. I wasn't going to let her think any one had failed in any way. I puffed up the trip & its financial side & she said no more. I guess she is still sore that the W. P. U. have not had the stunt to their credit. Re: the Y. H. B. club. The papers keep coming. Just jog that mailing dept. again! I am sending them away to various places down south. Can you let me have any names of places you want me to send them. Nothing definite or otherwise 3 regarding a job has turned up. I am going to the State Convention. I told Mrs. Galvin I'd help her in Subscriptions. I hope Miss MacKenzie is better. How goes the Columbus Day Parade? Well I hope. Has "Father" returned? Hope his holiday has been beneficial. Will send him a line sometime when I am in the mood. Just now I am full of worries & that is hateful to other folks. Almost wish some one would come along & tell me what to do & what not to do. I fancy the day has much to do with it. Rain Rain Thunder Lightning all day. My regards to all the family. Let me hear if the watches reach you safely. The one you don't want Elsie can register it back. Faithfully Elisabeth Freeman Yonkers Woman's Suffrage Association COMMITTEE ON MEETINGS: MRS. L. H. BAEKELAND, CHAIRMAN. [*Wrote 1/1/14 EVG*] Yonkers, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1913. [*Rush Send Mrs. Catt & Miss Addams, If we haven't then, write*] [*JAN 1 1914*] Woman's Journal, 585 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. Ladies:- We intend to publish and edit, ourselves, a woman's paper (one issue), on January 10, 1914. We wish to have on the first page, the pictures of Mrs. Catt, Jane Addams, Mrs. Raymond Brown, Mrs. A. Livermore, and Mrs. C. Osterheld. Are you in possession of these cuts and would you kindly lend them to us for this occasion? Thanking you for your courtesy in this matter, I am Faithfully yours, Celine Baekeland Editor-in-Chief Mills Bros.' Publishing House, The Record, Sodus, New York [*File Duplicate List- Copied U.H-*] April 20th, 1914. The Woman's Journal, Boston, Mass. Editor Blackwell, Below we send list of Sodus suffragists, which you are at liberty to keep: Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Gaylord. Rev. and Mrs. D. B. McMurdy; Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Hyde; Mrs. D. P. Barclay, R. F. D. Mrs. Peter Barclay; Prin. W. S. Droman; Miss Evelyn R. Nash; Mrs. O. E. Danford. Lewis H. Clark; Mrs. B. B. Seaman; Mrs. Belle S. Dolph; Mrs. J. E. Rice; Mrs. H. S. Bradley; Mrs. Laura Mills; Mrs. W. H. Powell; Miss Laura Clark. Sodus Point, N. Y. Mrs. Ophelia Coggswell; Mrs. F. L. Willson; Mrs. Aaron Shufelt; Mrs. Bessie Lutwig; Mrs. Raymond Pollock. Mrs. Sullivan. Yours truly, Anna G. Putnam Mills Bros.' Publishing House, The Record, Sodus, New York [*KRB Copied*] Mrs. C. B. Robinson, Sodus, N. Y. Mrs. Peter Barclay " 2 " Mrs. Sarah Seaman, " " Mrs. Laura Mills " " Mrs. H. S. Bradley " " Mrs. F. D. Gaylord " " Mrs. D. B. McMurdy " " Mrs. D. P. Barclay " " Rev. H. E. Hyde " " L. H. Clark " " W. S. Droman " " Mrs. J. F. Myers " " Mrs. Henry Hill " " Mrs. O. E. Danford " " F. D. Gaylord, " " Rev. D. B. McMurdy " " Mrs. Anna G. Putnam " " THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL 585 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS TELEPHONE-BACK BAY 4717 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF BUSINESS MANAGER ALICE STONE BLACKWELL AGNES E. RYAN December 17, 1913. My dear Mrs. Putnam: Last summer, we wrote asking if you would be willing to furnish us with a list of the members of your Suffrage League. We have heard from quite a number of leagues in your state, but as we wish to make our lists as complete as possible, we would very much appreciate receiving a list from you. Trusting that it will be possible for you to assist us, and thus as we believe, help the Suffrage work in your state by helping us extend the circulation of the Woman's Journal, we remain Sincerely yours, Katherine R. Briggs KRB/MH. [*Copied U.D.H. - KRB*] Cattaraugus, N.Y. Feb; 5, 14 The Woman's Journal: I wish to apologize for my remissness in not answering sooner your request for a list of the members of our Suffrage Club. I am just home from the Conference held in Buffalo last week and am full of plans for active work, and hope soon to have a longer list to send. Sincerely yours, Alice Davis Mrs. E. N. Davis Cattaraugus, N.Y. [*Copied U.D.H -*] Mrs. D. C. Allen Catt. N.Y. " A. J. Riegel " " " " H. O. Wachter " " " " E. C. Isbell " " " " Peter Larsen " " " " A. G. Setter " " " " M. D. E. Thompson " " " " Lydia Latlin " " " " O. C. Rich " " " " E. N. Davis " " " Miss Georgia Rich " " " Mrs. Burdett Johnson, Sherman, N. Y. [*Copied U.H.*] THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL 585 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS TELEPHONE-BACK BAY 4717 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF BUSINESS MANAGER ALICE STONE BLACKWELL AGNES E. RYAN December 11, 1913. My dear Mrs. Muller: Last summer, we wrote asking if you would be willing to furnish us with a list of the members of your Suffrage League. We have heard from quite a number of leagues in your state, but as we wish to make our lists as complete as possible, we would very much appreciate receiving a list from you. Trusting that it will be possible for you to assist us, and thus as we believe, help the Suffrage work in your state by helping us extend the circulation of the Woman's Journal, we remain. Sincerely yours, Katherine R Briggs KRB/MH. [*Copied*] [*UH*] [*Show Miss Briggs*] Dear Madam [*1 CBHJ*] [*101/1.00*] I am just pulling myself together -- from a nervous break down I will enclose what names I have at hand & am also enclosing 1.00 which I think I owe for the Journal. Will you please see that it reaches its destination Very truly Mrs. R. J. Mueller [*Sept 1914*] Members of Monticello Suffrage Club I am President Mrs R. J. Mueller Miss [Eleanola?] McCormack is Vice Pres. 1" Mrs Jacob Maybee is 2" Vice Pres. Mrs Anna Junkman [Morray] Treas & Sec Mrs Rosa Worth member Madlaen O. Neal " Mrs John Rossa Jr. member Mrs Frank Merrit Miss M. McCormack [*Monticello N.Y.*] Mrs Milldrid Morrison White Lake N.Y. [*copied*] Schaghticoke, N. Y., R.D.#1 August 21, 1913 Dear Miss Ryan Now I left Hoosick Falls in April but still have a keen interest in its welfare, and worked very hard for suffrage the three years that I was there. When I went there, there was no sentiment at all, they were perfectly ignorant on the subject, but there are a few now who believe in it. The most earnest and best worker these is Mrs. Ella Cross, if you want to correspond with anyone let it be her. The others are Mrs. Minnie G. Brown " Dr. Owens " J. C. Cotrell " A. W. Warren, Baptist minister's wife. Miss Helen Plamer. If I can be of any assistance to you let me know. A. N. Perry P.S. Enclosed check of one dollar for which send the Journal to Mrs. Anna M. Stiles, Schaghticoke, N.Y. R.D. #1. This makes five subscriptions each for one year that I have given, besides my own. Mrs. Perry [*1- Copied KRB U.H.*] Collins Center, N. Y. March 8 - 1914. Miss Agnes E. Ryan Dear Madam, Inclosed is list of the active members of Collins Center Political Equality Club. Please excuse the delay. Mrs. Chauncey B. Lennox. President Mrs. C. J. Bates Secretary Mrs. Florence Conyer Treasurer Mrs George Boardway Mrs Cora Staffin Mrs Rosine Wickham Mrs Anna Johnson Mrs Sadie Johnson Mrs May Parkinson Mrs Livy White Mrs Sarah Patter Mrs Alice Vail Mrs R. M. Cleveland. [*Copied U D H*] Mrs Frank Russell. Mrs Julia White Mrs Eleanor Ottenbacker. Beside these active members we have many associate members who do not pay dues. only enrolled. Sincerely Mrs Chauncey B. Lennox. [*KRB*] Political Equality League Mount Vernon, New York President Emma Hartley Stone (Mrs. A. D.) 247 Rich Avenue First Vice-President Frances Merriam Myers (Mrs. S. O.) 100 South Third Avenue Corresponding Secretary Katherine W. Law (Mrs. H. H.) 444 South Second Avenue Treasurer Florence M. Klein (Mrs. J. A.) 450 South Fourth Avenue Chairmen of Standing Committees Membership, Elizabeth B. Willcox (Mrs. H. P.) 20 North Ninth Avenue Program, Clara Fitzgerald Mann (Miss) 109 Washington Street Finance, Mary E. Cottrell (Mrs. George) 54 Glen Avenue Press, Cornelia M. J. Howe (Mrs. W. D.) 5 Chester Street Publicity, Elizabeth Wilson (Mrs. Rollin) 208 Rich Avenue Second Vice-President Rachael Ten Eyck Gebhard (Mrs. J. G) 114 South Sixth Avenue Recording Secretary Emma C. Robinson (Miss) 55 Crary Avenue. Tel. 889-J Auditor Helena D. Van Dendburg (Mrs. M. W.) 107 Union Avenue Mount Vernon, NY Jan 23, 1914 Editor Woman's Journal Dear Madam - I enclose the requested list of our members - As the letter was misdirected (kindly notice above heading) it did not reach us promptly, hence delay. Very truly K W Law Cor. Sec [*List copied U. D. H.*] 1. [*Copied U. D. H-*] 1- Miss Emma Babsien - - - 23 S. Bond St. 2. Mrs. M. E. Cottrell - - - - - 54 Glen Ave 3. Miss Grace " - - - - - - " " " 4. " Marie " - - - - - - " " " 5. " Gertrude Chapman - - 41 So. 8th Ave 6. Mrs R. Carter - - - - - - - - - 123 No. 7" Ave 7. " W. C. Clark - - - - - - - - - 54 So. 12" Ave 8. " Grace L. Craig - - - - - - 90 Hillside Ave 9. Miss Mary E. Crook - - - - 38 So. 10" Ave 10. " Caroline G. Dreyfoos - 33 Brookside Ave 11. " Mary Ellrodt - - - - - - - 312 So. 4" Ave. 12.Mrs. F. J. Fowler - - - - - - - 59 Fletcher Ave 13. " J. Gernberling - - - - - - 157 So. 3" Ave 14. Miss M. Geruon - - - - - - - 22 So. 13" Ave 15. Mrs. Edward Gay - - - - - - 434 So. 2" Ave 16. " J. G. Gebhardt - - - - - - 114 So. 6" Ave 17. Miss R Gay - - - - - - - - - - - 434 So. 2" Ave 18. Mrs C. V. Guymes - - - - - - 39 Union Lane 19. " H. M. Howie - - - - - - - - 143 Chester St. 20. " N. D. Howe - - - - - - - - - 5 " " 21. " G. L. Humphrey - - - - - - 33 E. Lincoln Ave 22. " E. C. Holbrook - - - - - - - - 40 So. 8" Ave 23. Miss Florence M. Holbrook - " " " " 24. " Katharine M. Ives - - - - - - 144 So. 2" Ave 25. Mrs. E. T. Johnson - - - - - - - - 356 So. 7" Ave 26. " A. M. Jenks - - - - - - - - - - - 11 So. 14" Ave 27. Miss Kittle - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 230 West 101" St. N. Y. City 28. Mrs. John A. Klein - - - - - - - - 450 So. 4th Ave 29. " H. F. Keller - - - - - - - - - - - 105 Brookside Ave 30. " S. LePage - - - - - - - - - - - - - 51 W. Sidney Ave. 2— 31. Miss Caroline M. Locke ---- 253 So - 9" Ave [*C—*] 32. Mrs O. R. Lovejoy --------- Colonial Heights, Tuckahoe, N. Y. 33. " E. A . Lantese ------ 54 So - 10" Ave 34. " H. H. Law -------- 444 So - 2 " Ave 35 " Chas. Lovett ------- 142 No. Fullow Ave 36. " A. R. Lowe ---------- 110 So. 12" Ave 37. Miss Clara F. Mann ------ 109 Washington St. 38. Dr. F. Merriam Myers ---------109 So. 3" Ave 39. Mrs. J. R. McAfee ----------------- 161 Archer Ave 40. " H. A. McLellan ---------------- 57 W. Sidney Ave 41. " McLean ----------------- 19 Rich Ave 42 " H. W. Olp ------------------ 327 No. Fulton Ave 43. " W. B. Palmer ---------------- 7 Fletcher Ave 44 " Cora E. Pingrey ------------ 132 S. 1" Ave 45. " M. J. Parsons ---------------- 245 Westchester Ave 46. " T. H. Pattee ------------------ 134 S. 1" Ave 47. Miss Emma C. Robinson ------------ 56 Cray Ave 48. Mrs. D Russell --------------- So. 5" Ave, Eastchester 49. Miss Harriett " ------------- " " " " 50. Mrs. J. R. Rockart ------------- 424 Nuber Ave 51. " L .E. Schneider ----------- 138 West 4 " St. 52. Miss C. H. Schmidt ---------- 31 No. Bleeker St. 53. " Alice M. Sousherout ------ 253 So. 9th Ave 54 " Sweeting ------ High School So. 4' Ave 55. Mrs. A. B. Smith -------------- 328 Union Ave 56. Dr. Elizabeth Sleight ------- 19 Park Ave 57. Miss C. Stamm ---------------------25 No. 7' Ave 58. " Alice W. Solis ------------ 188 No. Columbus Ave 59. Mrs. M. Stransky ------- 109 Penn. Ave 60. " A. D. Stone -------------- 247 Rich Ave 3 61. Miss Frederica Seeger ------- 134 Rich Ave [*C—*] 62. Mrs. E. M. Swan --------------- 29 East 2" Ave 63. Miss Sadie Simpson ---------- 148 Urban St. 64 Mrs. Frank R. Taylor --------- 274 N. Fulton Ave 65. " S. A. Taylor --------------- 153 Stevens Ave 66. " F. M. Tichenor ----------- Primrose Ave 67. Miss Edna B. Underhill ---- 11 So. 14" Ave 68. Mrs. M. W. VanDenburg ---- 107 Union Ave 69. " G. W. VanOlinda -------------- 219 Union Ave 70. " Rollin Wilson ------------ 208 Rich Ave 71 [Miss L. D. Weed] --------- 15 No. 9" Ave 72. Mrs. H. P. Willcox ----------- 20 No. 9" Ave 73. " H. E. Walter ----------- 180 No. Fulton Ave 74 Miss Nellie J. Wallerstein --- 188 No. Columbus Ave [*Copied*] Owego, New York August 30, 1913. Dear Miss Ryan, The Owego Suffrage league includes the following names all of whom may be reached by the same address,-Owego, Tioga Co., N.Y. Miss Florence Beck Miss Rowena Beck Miss Florence Corey Mrs. A. Cortright Mrs. C. R. Dean, Jr. Mrs. G. I. Hansell Mrs. J. G. Pembleton Mrs. G. P. Storrs Miss Ida Storrs Miss Frances Storrs Miss Nellie Yothers Mrs. C. Ball Mrs. H. J. Mead Miss Helen LaMonte Very truly yours, Drusilla B. Ellis [*Copied*] Dec. 23, 1913 Dear Miss Briggs, We have had no active club here for four years - We are reviving for the campaign which is on - which explains my tardiness in answering your letter of Dec. 17. [?????????] form names which come to [???] - I think many of them may be interested in the Journal. Very sincerely yours Evanetta Hare Empire State Campaign Committee MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, Chairman N. Y. State Suffrage Association — MRS. RAYMOND BROWN, President Collegiate League — MRS. CHARLES TIFFANY, President Woman Suffrage Party — MISS MARY GARRETT HAY, Chairman Political Equality Association — MRS. O. H. P. BELMONT, President Equal Franchise Society — MRS. HOWARD MANSFIELD, President Men's League for Woman Suffrage — MR. JAMES LEES LAIDLAW, President Eleventh Campaign District Comprising Counties of Rensselaer, Saratoga, Washington, Essex, Clinton Headquarters: Carl Building, State and Third Streets, Troy, N. Y. RENSSELAER COUNTY OFFICERS: MISS EVANETTA HARE — Leader MRS. W. H. REICHARD — Secretary MRS. W. M. HICKOCK — Vice-Leader MISS LENORE STAUDE — Treasurer H. R. 'Phone 2099 Troy CARL BUILDING, STATE AND THIRD STREETS Troy, N. Y., Mrs. M. W Hickok 5 Balsam Ave. Troy " Wade H. Richard 187 — 7th " " Miss Anna Patton 203 — 9th " Mrs. Daniel Crane 10th St. " Miss Ida Pruttaid 38 Oakwood Ave. " Mrs. Elizabeth Thayer State S 5th " " Miss Ellen A. Freeman 54— 2nd St. " " Marian Oaster 704 Grand St. " " Mary B. Gleason 37 Congress " " " Jane Frich 717 Grand " " Mrs. R. J. Simmons 15 Blakeley Court " " Jos. A. Behan 8 Park View Court " " Wm. Dodd 11 Monroe " " " Albert F. Demers Hawthorne Ave " " Jos. McInids 208 Pawling " " " W. H. Murray 5 Balsam " " Miss Elizabeth Knisella 3066 — 6th " " " Mary Crosby 87 Hoosick St. " " Nellie Casey 4th St. " Mrs. Robillard Browne 2522 — 5th Ave " Miss Louise Loeble — 40 Oakwood " " " Seymour Whitman Court " [Sr.?] Mary J. Ford 40 State St Troy Miss Bessie Young 18 " " " [Sr.?] Mary E. McDowell 102- 3rd St " Mrs. [Jostu?] Hartwell [Napa?] Troy " Miss Agnes Hartwell Glen Ave " The Woman's Journal 585 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts Telephone, Back Bay 4717 30 Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Alice Stone Blackwell Agnes E. Ryan August 12, 1913. Dear Mrs. Wright: We wish to make a special effort to enroll as subscribers to the Woman's Journal all of the active suffrage workers in your state. For this purpose, will you kindly have sent to us the names and addresses of the members of the Elm Valley Suffrage League? We realize that making a list takes time and so shall be glad to pay for the work of copying the list if you wish. If you prefer to send the list to us, we will copy it and return it promptly. Yours sincerely Agnes E. Ryan Copied (underlined) AER.NH Mrs. Jennie Howland, Wellsville N.Y. R. D. 4. " Grace Howland " " " " B. F. Howland " " " " A. A. Hincher " " " " Olive Downer " " " " Clara Caple " " " " Electa Hann " " " " A. J. Cole " " " " J. Burdick " " " Yours sincerely, Fanny Wright. Utica Political Equality Club PRESIDENT MISS LUCY CARLILE WATSON 270 GENESEE STREET VICE PRESIDENTS MRS. W. J. SCHUYLER MISS IDA J. BUTCHER RECORDING SECRETARY MISS BESSIE J. RENDELL CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MISS CORNELIA M. DAVIS 77 WEST STREET TREASURER MISS K. M. FENTON 222 SUSNET AVENUE TREASURER OF CAMPAIGN FUND MISS ELIZABETH J. SHARPE 323 GENESEE STREET ASSEMBLY DISTRICT LEADERS OF ONEIDA COUNTY FIRST — MRS. MARY I. BELL 373 BLANDINA STREET SECOND — MRS. WILLIAM H. CARROLL 122 SOUTH STREET THIRD — MRS. LAURA MAYHEW MEYER MARCY, N.Y. UTICA, N.Y., August 15, 1913. [*Copied*] My dear Miss Ryan, — Your letter of the 12th inst., addressed to Miss Roberts, of New Hartford, has been forwarded to me for reply. Enclosed, you will please find a copy of our list of members enrolled for 1913. I trust this is the desired information and that everyone who is not a subscriber for the WOMAN'S JOURNAL will immediately become one. Sincerely yours, Jennie Fink, Ex. Secty. -2- Uticia, N.Y. Illingworth, Mrs. H. R. - - - - Amsterdam, N.Y. Ivens, Mrs. Eliz. - - - - John St., Ilion, N.Y. Jacobs, Mrs. J. L. - - - 36 Watson Pl. Johnson, Mrs. J. W. - - - 1514 Bleecker St. Jones, Mrs. Emma - - - - 23 South St. Jones, Mrs. W. D. - - - 155 Park Av Jones, Mrs. Thos. - - - - 117 Elm St. Kellogg, Mrs. Mary - - - 19 Kemble St. Kuhl, Miss F. H. - - - 33 Clinton Pl. Kennedy, Mrs. Eliz. - - 75 Second St. Kellogg, Mrs. F. S. - - - - - - New York Mills, N.Y. Kennedy, Miss Eliz, - - - 74 Second St. Lawlor, Miss Mary G. - - 30 Hart St. Leurs, Mr. Ed. - - - - - 18 Linwood Pl. Lynch, Miss Flora, - - - 42 Miller St. Lee, Mrs. - - - - - - - 409 State St. Lord, Mrs. - - - - - - 264 Genesee St. Marrow, Miss. F. - - - - 58 Eagle St. Mc Adam, Mrs. Q. - - - - 23 South St. McGill, Mrs. J. G. - - - 21 Aiken St. Martine, Dr Angeline - - 325 Genesee St. Merna, Miss Eliz - - - - - 47 Taylor Av. Mizer, Mrs. J. C. - - - 174 South St. Moss Mrs. H. G. - - - - 15 Oneida St. Marion, Mrs. - - - - - - 5 Cottage Pl. Meyer, Mrs. Laura M. - - - - - - - - - Marcy, N.Y. Moshier, Miss L. L. - - 33 Linwood Pl. Moshier, Miss Nettie - - 33 Linwood Pl. Metcalf, Miss Mabel - - 17 Tracy St. Metcalf, Miss Maud, - - 17 Tracy St. Newland, Miss Frances - 17 Court St. Newth, Mrs. Charlotte - 121 Mary St. O'Dell, Mrs. Edgar B. - m- 412 Genesee St. These are all Utica, N.Y. unless otherwise designated. Miss Ashley, - - - - - - - - Utica, N.Y. Mrs Lena Bach, - - - - - - Cor. Eagle & Elm Sts. Brady, Mary E. - - - - - - - 59 Lafayette St. Butcher, Ida J. - - - - - - - 30 Court St. Butler, Mrs. Geo. A. - - - - 36 Linwood Pl Bouck, Mrs. Clara - - - - - - 100 West St. Burke - Mrs. Thos., - - - - - 22 Linwood Pl. Barrett, Theresa - - - - - - - 41 Lansing St. Baker, Mrs. Helen L. - p - - - 1 Walker St. Boyce, Mrs. Geo. - - - - - - - 48 Kemble St. Benns, Mrs. C. C. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - New Hartford, N.Y. Brodock, Mrs. Helen, - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rome, N.Y. Burke, Mrs. - - - - - - - - - - - 7 Clarke Pl. Brown, Miss M. - - - - - - - - Olbiston, Utica, N.Y. Coventry, Mrs. Geo. - - - - - 30 Clinton Pl. Cowdre, Mrs. Ellen - - - - - - 328 Mary St., Chapman, Mrs. Olive, - - - - 20 Spring St. Carroll, Mrs. Wm. H. - - - - - 122 South St. Cleveland, Miss Rose E. - - - Holland Patent, N.Y. Daley, Mrs. Emma - - - - - - - 15 Oneida St. De Long, Mrs. Frances - - - - 71 Howard Av. Disbrow, Mrs. Susan, - - - - - 32 Jewett Pl. Divine, Mrs. Ada. C. - - - - - - 316 State St. Dority, Mrs. - - - - - - - - - - - 41 Pearl St. Dunham, Mrs. Lydia - - - - - - - - - - - - - Whitesboro, N.Y. Doolittle, Mrs. J. T. A. 257 Genesee St. Davis, Miss Cornelia - - - - - - 44 West St. Egerton, Mrs. S. E. - - - - - - - Utica, N.Y. Emery, Mrs. J. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Chadwicks, N.Y. Evans, Miss. C. P. - - - - - - - - Utica, N.Y. Evans, Mrs. Arthur - - - - - - - Utica, NY. Evans, Mr. John V. p - - - - - Utica, N.Y: England, Mrs. Chas. - - - - - - 33 Clinton Pl. Fenton, Miss Kate M. - - - - - 11 Roberts St. Foote, Mrs. Mary - - - - - - - 606 Whitesboro St. Foster, Mrs. Theodosia, - - - - - - - - - - - - Vernon, N.Y. Frank, Mrs. Emma - - - - - - - 12 Chestnut St. Fullter, Miss Clara, - - - - - - - Ossining, N.Y. Fink, Miss Jennie - - - - - - - - Utica, N.Y. Gibson, Mrs. Wm: - - - - - - - 360 Genesee St. Glatt, Mrs. T. - - - - - - - - - - 24 Mary St. Goebel, Mrs. John - - - - - - 58 Eagle. Gray, Mrs. W. C. - - - - - - - 74 Mohawk St. Greer, Mrs. C. H. - - - - - - - Sunset Ave. Griffith, Mrs. Eliz. W. 141 Park Av. Greenman, Mrs. J. C. - - - - Genesee St. Gaune, Mrs. H. L. - - - - - - 110 Howard Ave. Hayden, Miss Margaret, - - - 266 Oneida St. Heffron, Miss Ella I. - - - - - 17 Cottage Pl. Henry, Miss Anna. - - - - - - 904 Sunset Av. Hill, Miss Anna - - - - - - - - 174 South St. Hill, Mrs. S. A. - - - - - - - - - 174 South St. Holden, Mrs. A. L. - - - - - - - 132 South St. Hopkins, Mrs. M. - - - - - - - - 28 West St. Hopkins, Mrs. Ella - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sauquoit, N.Y. Higins, Miss Alice - - - - - - - - Public Library. -3- Utica, N.Y. Scranton, mrs. W. J. - - - - - - 3 Hopper St. Sharpe, Miss. F. J. - - - - - - - 323 Genesee St. Staunton, Dr. Florence - - - - 14 Cottage Pl. Smith, Mrs. Sherman - - - - - 4 Howard Ave. Smith, Miss T. Ethel - - - - - - Utica, N.Y. Sanford, Miss Mabel, - - - - - Utica, N.Y. Thorn, Mrs. J. F. B. - - - - - - - 3 Kemble St. Taggert Mrs. T. E. - - - - - - - - 44 West St. Thomas, Mrs. T. E. - - - - - - - - 19 Oneida St, Titterington, Miss, I. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Whitesboro, N.Y. Titterington, Miss, E. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - " Thorn, Miss. S. Amelia - - - - - - 3 Kemble St. Tapley, Miss Ellen - - - - - - - - - 150 Blandina St. Towne, Mrs. J. J. - - - - - - - - - - 22 Olbiston. Uhlein, Mrs. Charlotte - - - - - - - 15 Faxton St. Veeder, Mrs. A. B. - - - - - - - - - - 33 Clinton Pl. Vaugh, Miss Marcia - - - - - - - - - 21 Tracy St. Watson, Miss Lucy C. - - - - - - - - 270 Genesee Weston, Mrs. M. J. - - - - - - - - - - 205 Seymour Av White, Mrs. H. L. - - - - - - - - - - - 294 Genesee St. Wrigley, Mrs. J. T. - - - - - - - - - - 47 Watson Pl. Ward, Mrs. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 164 Park Av. Zoebel, Mrs. - - - - - - - - - - - - - South St. [*Copied*] [*KRB*] [*Cobleskill N. Y*] The Women's Journal My dear Madam, Your letters regarding the names of members of Cobbleskill Club was received by Our club during my absence and for this reasons was neglected. I inclose list of members; Miss Susan Eldridge Mrs. Ida Wirling Mrs. Hemperly " A. L Norton Miss Dora Colin Dr. C. Olendorf Miss S. Overpaugh Mrs. Frank Ryder " Lizzie Shavers Mrs. Ida Haid Mrs. James Finnegan. Mrs. Frank Gordon Mrs. W. Larkin Mrs. Nellie McCafferty Mrs. W. Hutt Miss Gladys McCafferty " Chester Barnes " Gertude Lefevre Miss Grace Becker " M. Hodge Mrs. Frank Golding " May Willenbeck " Berthier Lamont Respectfully yours, " Patty Braley Minnie Humphry. " Eva Bishop. Mrs. W. L. Colloughly Political Equality Club Warsaw, N.Y. Nov. 7, 1913. Woman's Journal, Boston Mass. Dear Friends: Some time ago you requested a list of names of our Club women ?I enclose a list and names of some other workers we have secured in Towns where I wish they might have the Journal, the names on the list I have [of people] enclosed outside of Club I have sent same list to Woman Voter I have told that they could get The Woman[s]s Journal and Woman Voter & News letter together for $1/00 ,I do not kn ow how you manage to have sample samples [sent] , but if you will send Journal to them I think they will send Voter from N.Y Sincerely yours, Ella H. Crossett. Later, I have sent list to Women Voter so you need not return but keep the lists. [*copied*] Political Equality Club Warsaw, N.J. Members 1913 Bagg Mrs Krama Bliss Mrs Mary Brown Miss Elizabeth Brown Mrs Milton Fenson Mrs Chas Burr Mrs H.L. Bligh Mrs Julia Bartlett Mrs Geo Barber Mrs Milton Brownell Mrs Martha Ballentine Mrs Carrie Briggs Mrs Anna Bowerman Mrs A.W. Burch Mrs Wm. Benedict Miss Frane 34 N. Park Ave Chicago Baker Mrs Chas Beardsley Mrs Wm Crossett Ella H. Crossett Mr John B. Cornell Dr Cora Charles Mrs E.E. Cushen Mrs E. Coleman Mrs N.L. Chamberlin Mrs Emma Curtiz Mrs Lettie Childs Mrs Lois Conable Mrs Agnes Gouinlock Dann Miss Mary E. Hempstead, N/Y. Emory Mrs Kate Fargo Mrs Christine Gay Mrs Walter Gowdy Mrs Florance Gouinlock Miss Mary Glazier Mrs Cora Hawley Mrs W.W. Hutton Mrs Emma Harmon Mrs Mary Hatch Mrs Munson Holcombe Mrs Carolyn Crossett Humphrey Mrs Julia [Humphrey Mrs Julia] Higgins Miss Mary Keeney Mrs James Keeney Miss Maude Keeney Miss Katherine Keeney Mrs Dan Kent Mrs Juliet Crossett Knapp Mrs Harriet Lewis Mrs Geo Mapes Mrs Laura McConnell Mrs Will Martin Mrs Emma McMillan Mrs F. McConnell Mrs Truman McConnell Miss Fannie 1912-1913-1914 Merchant Mrs E.J. McClure Miss Ida McGee Mrs J.B. Mearns Mrs Wm Monroe Mrs Ella Munger Mrs D.C. Mills Mrs Helen Morris Mrs Nellie Chaddock Mrs Mary Older Mrs Nettie B. Potter Mrs John Peck Mrs Eli Silliman Miss Mary Smith Mrs Fred Oak St. Stearns Mrs Mary Sutton Mrs C.R. Sherman Mrs Elizabeth Snowden Miss Ellen Sweeney Mrs T.W. Whitlock Mrs S.B. Webster Mrs Ella White Mrs Mark Wilson Mrs M.J. Wheeler Mrs E. Whipple Mrs Sarah Williams Mrs Eunice Richardson Mrs Wm. Robinson Mrs Laura VanAllen Mrs Charles VanAllen Mrs Harry Yougans Miss Inez Relyea Mrs Frank French Mrs R.E. Glasier Mrs Fannie Holly Garretsee Mrs Elizabeth Thayer Mrs L.L. To Keep on list: Stone Mrs Geo. Smith Miss Agnes Charles Mrs H.H. Prentice Miss Carrie Peek Mrs Eli Walker Miss Adelia Payne Dr A.D. Cauffman Mrs Florence Hawley Miss Lora Ba-ker Mrs Jennie S.S. Wearsaw [Constable Mrs R.B.] Vincent Mrs Alta --------------------- Interested [Mrs Underhill] Mrs D.B.French hill Crest J. B. Crossett WARSAW, N. Y. {*Mrs Baker*] THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL 585 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS TELEPHONE—BACK BAY 4717 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF BUSINESS MANAGER ALICE STONE BLACKWELL AGNES E.RYAN August 9,1913. Dear Mrs. Elizabeth Lemmic: We wish to make a special effort to enroll as subscribers to the Woman's Journal all of the active suffrage workers in your state. For this purpose, will you kindly have sent to us the names and addresses of the members of the Walton Suffrage League? We realize that making a list takes time and we shall be glad to pay for the work of copying the list if you wish. If you prefer to send the list to us, we will copy it and return it promptly. [*Copied] Yours sincerely, Agnes E Ryan Mrs. Walter More Miss Eleanor Leighton Mrs. Edwin L. Guild Mrs. J.H. (?) Miss Sarah Warner Mrs. L. H. Mowbray " Julia White Mrs. P. C. Spring " Frances White Mrs. Paul Nichols " Kate Eills Miss Rebecca White " Helen Eills Mrs. A. S. Fitch " W. A. North Mrs. [?] Hand Mrs. C. W. Peak " Platt Harby N. Y. [*Copied*] Clifton Springs Aug 12. 1913 Mrs Agnes E. Ryan Dear Madam Inclosed find a list of the members of the suffrage club here as you request. We never have a meeting with out reading from the Journal, which they all enjoy but am unable to secure any subscribers for same. Assure them I could not keep house with out the paper. Am sorry I cannot give you any encouragement, Sincerely yours, Mary Coolidge Mrs Minnie Bundy Miss Mary Coolidge Miss Lou Fox Mrs Alma Mather Miss Mary Mather Mrs Fred Newland Mrs Josephine Newland Mrs Fanny Pitts Mrs Joanna Richardson Mrs Elizabeth Steves Miss Susan Wakefield Miss Emma Wakefield Mrs Kate Warner Mrs Mary Weston Miss Alice Whiting Mrs Jennie Gowing Mrs Isabel Jennings Mrs Nettie Bryant Mrs Jennie Fitch Clifton Springs. New York. [*Copied KRB*] The Woman's Journal - I can give you a list of names but we have no organization as yet: Those here who believe in our cause - are - Mrs Charles Beardsby the Heidelberg Inn Mrs Richard van Hoesen Main Street Mrs John Salisbury Mrs E. Lasher - L. A. Gale - (Edition of the Enterprise) Geo. Simpkins 391 Main St. Catskill Catskill - Miss Caroline Lewis 287 Main St. " Mrs Henry Fredenberg Miss Sophia Joseph — Mrs L. Magee all of Catskill — Mrs Mary Bedell Miss Winnie Whiting Athens N.Y. Mr Judson Betta " Jennie Waters " " Miss R. E. Barringer Mrs John Nichols " " 46 Liberty Street, Catskill Mr Adelbert Wolf " " Mr Harrison Person " Frances Best " " Mrs C. A. Wandell " William Waters " " Mrs Sabra Root Florence C. Ford 49 Spring St. Catskill G.H. Hollenbeck Miss Laura Coles. Clark St. " Mrs Jane M Siminix " " Mrs Joseph Spoor Mrs C. Rushmore " " Ella A. Goldsmith — Athens — Helen M. Ford. " Page W. Russell " Matilda Van Steinburgh " Ms L. A. Van Loan " Henry J. Van Loan " Kate L. Loomis " J.W. Hill " Nellie McKnight " Albertine Cleveland Mary E. Harvey " O. G. Porter " Stella L. Levy Coxsackie Mrs. F. L. Provost Coxsackie " Williams Shields " Evelina Brandow " N.A. Calkins " Mrs. Fannie H. Carr " " S.C. Bishop " Josephine B. Nelson " " Charlotte Bogardus " Mrs. A. P. Thompkins " " C. A. Powell " " Elizabeth Clark " " N. Plass " Mrs. W. E. Shufelt " W. B. Wagner Coxsackie Mrs. Arthur Smith " Mrs. P.J. Howard Cairo N.Y. '' Nathalie Rosenbery '' Miss Helena Wynkoop '' George W. Squire '' J. Eagleton '' Miss M. L. Howard '' J. L. Howard '' Mike Murphy '' J. W. Fiero '' Mrs. L. W. Braddock '' James H. Boensteel '' Maud L. Fiero Cairo N.Y. Albert Smith '' '' Grant E. Robinson '' '' Mrs. James Post '' Mrs Sherwood A Holcomb Palenville Green Co. N. Y. Mrs. J.W. Fiero Round Top. N. Y. Mrs. Prudence Bedell Medway. N. Y. Mrs W.F.B. Van Orden New Baltimore. Greene Co. N. Y. Miss Lyda Hoag West Coxsackie Mrs Romaine Wilsey Freehold Greene Co. N. Y. Mrs Cyrus Powell Grapeville N. Y. Mrs R. W. Butler Hillsdale N. Y. Mrs Rose R. Lee Tannersville N. Y. Jeannie L. Malcolm Catskill December Sixteenth 1913. [*Copied N. Y.*] Bolivar Aug. 12. My dear Miss Ryan: I most willingly send you a list of the names of our suffrage club. Their addresses are simply Bolivar, N. Y. Mrs. Geo. Beers '' E. J. Wilson '' Anna Williams '' Fannie Andrus Mrs. Lena Hitchcock '' Almeda Lyndale '' Will Dunning '' Lardin '' Minnie Wilson '' Mary Reynolds '' Libbie Ennis '' Hattie Centler '' Jennie Nichols '' Irwin Jordan '' Irene Henlett '' Mary Starr ''Anna Marchisi ''Edna Wilson '' Grace Rennick '' Minnie Kenyon Mrs. Nellie Sternberg " Bertha Walters Miss Frances Sheffer " Wallace Mrs. Amanda Williams. Would you please send a sample copy of the Journal to Miss Ella Crandall and Mrs. Mary Shuter, Bolivar and Mrs. Sarah Bliss Alfred, N.Y. Sincerely yours Minnie M. Bliss [*Rush & return*] The Woman's Journal 585 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts Telephone, Back Bay 4717 [*1 CBHJ*] [*2 M 10/1/3. sent Sept 27*] [*Send Sept 27*] Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Alice Stone Blackwell Agnes E. Ryan August 12, 1913. Dear Mrs. Gore: We wish to make a special effort to enroll as subscribers to the Woman's Journal all of the active suffrage workers in your state. For this purpose, will you kindly have sent to us the names and addresses of the members of the East Groton Suffrage League? We realize that making a list takes time and we shall be glad to pay for the work of copying the list if you wish. If you prefer to send the list to us, we will copy it and return it promptly. Yours sincerely, Agnes E Ryan AER.MH Groton Sept. 26, 1913 Dear Miss Ryan: Mrs Gore our President is ill and I am sending you the names of the club. Also, Mrs. Jane Barkus wishes the Journal sent to her for six months. Please send last copy issued by return mail. She is our delegate to the S. Convention. Success to the Journal. Mrs. Emily Benton Page. [*Apr 6 1914*] [*261.98*] [198.85 20 218.85*] Copied To the Woman's Journal. .List of names of members of the East Groton P.E. Club. Mrs Helena Stevens, Freeville, N.Y. " Anna Bingham, Groton, " " Lewis Lane, " " Pearl Stoddard, " " Mary Jennings, " " Stella Youngs, " " Juline Hicks, " " Minnie Bryant " " Harriet Wyckoff " " Anna Chapman " " Ida Metzgar " " Bertha Congdon " " Prudence Dimon " " Anna Erway, Freeville, N.Y " E. Gaston Groton, " " Cytheria Haight " " Phebe Morgan Freeville " Cora Nottingham Groton Copied East Groton P. E. C. 2 Mrs. Elizabeth Merchant, Freville, N. Y. Mrs. Frank Stoddard '' Louise Vorhees, Groton N. Y '' Lillian Van Marter " '' Mae Case " '' Julia Morris Freeville, '' Ella Beckwith Freeville '' Hattie Cummings Groton " Huldak Smith " " Ernest Metzgar " " Jennie Stevens " " Jane Backus " [*Copied*] Men's League for Woman Suffrage HEADQUARTERS 118 WAVERLY PLACE NEW YORK CITY Constitution and Charter Members of the Men's League for Woman Suffrage of the State of New York Officers of the League for the Year 1910 President Secretary and Treasurer GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY MAX EASTMAN Vice-Presidents WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Rev. JOHN P. PETERS Prof. NATHANIEL SCHMIDT, Ithaca Pres. LANGDON C. STEWARDSON, Geneva WILLIAM S. BENNET, M. C. Z. R. BROCKWAY, Elmira GEORGE F. KUNZ Rabbi STEPHEN S. WISE WILLIAM M. IVINS WILLIAM J. SCHIEFFELIN HERBERT PARSONS, M. C. JOHN MITCHELL JOHN B. OLMSTED, Buffalo Executive Committee Prof. JOHN DEWEY, Chairman OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD CHARLES C. BURLINGHAM CHARLES H. STRONG Prof. VLADIMIR G. SIMKHOVITCH Dr. SIMON FLEXNER Advisory Committee CARLETON SPRAGUE, Buffalo HAMILTON HOLT Prof. HENRY R. SEAGER LOUIS R. ENRICH WILLIAM A. DELANO Prof. W. P. TRENT EDWARD LAUTERBACH Prof. JAMES H. ROBINSON Rev. W. C. GANNETT, Rochester RICHARD WELLING THOMAS W. HOTCHKISS WALSTON H. BROWN G. E. FRANCIS, Syracuse ALEXANDER D. JENNEY, Syracuse GEORGE A. RICKER, Buffalo EDWARD T. DEVINE JOHN E. MILHOLLAND NELSON S. SPENCER LEE DEFOREST Rev. J. HOWARD MELISH GEORGE HARVEY EDWIN MARKHAM JAMES S. CLARKSON THEODORE WILLIAMS THOMAS F. FENNELL, Elmira Prof. HERBERT E. MILLS, Poughkeepsie Constitution of the Men's League for Woman Suffrage of the State of New York I. The name of this organization shall be the Men's League for Woman Suffrage of the State of New York. II. The purpose of this League shall be to express approval of the movement of women to attain the full suffrage in this country, and to aid them in their efforts toward that end by public appearances in behalf of the cause, by the circulation of literature, the holding of meetings, and in such other ways as may from time to time seem desirable. III. The officers of the League shall be a President, five or more Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, and a Treasurer. The offices of Secretary and Treasurer may be held by the same person. IV. Any voter in the State of New York may become a member of this League. V. The annual dues for membership shall be one dollar. Charter Members Almy, Frederic 19 Tupper St., Buffalo, N. Y. Anspacher, L Kaufman 142 E. 18th St., New York City. Beard, Prof. Charles Columbia University, New York. Bennet, Hon. William S. 60 Wall St., New York City. Bigelow, Richard 18 Broadway, New York City. Brockway, Z. R. Elmira, New York. Brown, Walston H. 45 Wall St., New York City. Burlingham, Charles C. 27 William St., New York City Burnham, Herbert D. 242 Lenox Ave., New York City. Bush, Prof. Wendell T. 167 Joralemon St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Byrne, Andrew 302 Broadway, New York City. Carpenter, Herbert S. 71 Broadway, New York City. Chisholm, George H. 410 Prudential Bldg., Buffalo, N. Y. Clarkson, James S. U. S. Customs Service, N. Y. City. Crosby, John Sherwin 280 Broadway, New York City. Crossett, J. B. Warsaw, New York. DeForest, Lee 103 Park Ave., New York City. Delano, Wm. Adams 4 E. 39th St., New York City. Devine, Edward T. 105 E. 22nd St., New York City. Dewey, Prof. John Columbia University, New York. Eastman, Max, 118 Waverly Place, New York City. Eastman, Rev. S. E. Elmira, New York. Ehrich, Louis R. 463 5th Ave., New York City. Elder, Robt. H. District Att'y's Office, Brooklyn, N. Y. Erskine, Ralph Hoosick, New York. Farrel, C. P. 117 E. 21st St., New York City. Fennell, Thomas F. 116 E. Chemung Pl., Elmira, N. Y. Flexner, Dr. Simon 105 E. 62nd St., New York City. Francis, G. E. Syracuse, New York. Gannett, Rev. W. C. 15 Sibley Pl., Rochester, N. Y. Gaylord, Dr. H. S. 113 High St., Buffalo, N. Y. Glen, Francis Wayland 736 Greene Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Goan, Orrin S. 15th St., and 9th Ave., New York City. Gouinlock, Dr. W. C. Warsaw, New York. Hall, Rev. Thomas C. 700 Park Ave., New York City. Harvey, George Franklin Square, New York City. Holt, Hamilton, 130 Fulton St., New York City. Hopkins, Henry, Jr. 136 W. 44th St., New York City. Hotchkiss, Thomas W. 699 Madison Ave., New York City. Howe, John K. 51 State St., Albany, New York. Howells, John Mead 100 William St., New York City. Howells, William Dean 130 West 59th Street, New York City. Ingersoll, Wm. H. 203 Montague St., Brooklyn, N. Y. IVINS, WM. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 William St., New York City. JENNEY, ALEXANDER D. . . . . . Syracuse, New York. JOSEPH, Rabbi THEODORE F. Troy, New York. KELLOGG, PAUL U. . . . . . . . . . . .105 E. 22nd St., New York City. KENNEDAY, PAUL, . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Washington Sq., New York City. KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN . . 16 Gramercy Park, New York City. KUNZ, GEORGE F. . . . . . . . . . . . .401 5th Ave., New York. LAUTERBACH, EDWARD . . . . . . 22 William St., New York City. LEVY ARTHUR S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Central Park W., New York City. LEWIS ALFRED G. . . . . . . . . . . . . White Springs Farm, Geneva, N. Y. LEWIS, READ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Columbia University, New York. LORD, Prof. HERBERT . . . . . . . . . Columbia University, New York. MCDOWELL, BOYD . . . . . . . . . . . Elmira, New York. MCAFEE, JAMES R. . . . . . . . . . . . .71 8th Ave., New York City. MACDANIEL, L. O . . . . . . . . . . . .West Genessee St., Syracuse, N. Y. MANN, DR. BALDWIN . . . . . . . . . 90 Grove St., New York City. MARLOR, HENRY S. . . . . . . . . . . . 18 E. 28th St., New York City. 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WISE, Rabbi STEPHEN S. . . . . . .45 E. 68th St., New York City. Annual Report New York State Woman Suffrage Association 1898 Price 15 Cents. Hudson Convention November 8 to 11 Report of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. Thirtieth Annual Convention Hudson, N. Y., November 8—11, 1898. AUBURN, N. Y., KNAPP, PECK & THOMSON, PRINTERS, 1899. OFFICERS FOR 1897-98. President--Mrs. Mariana W. Chapmen, 160 Hicks Street, Brooklyn. Vice-President at Large--Miss Elizabeth Burrill Curtis, Bard Avenue, West New Brighton, Staten Island. Recording Secretary--Mrs. Mary Thayer Sanford, 20 James Street, Rochester. Corresponding Secretary--Miss Isabel Howland, Sherwood. Treasurer--Mrs. Priscilla Dudley Hackstaff, 282 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn Auditors--Mrs. Eliza Wright Osborne, South Street, Auburn. Mrs. Kate S. Thompson, 50 Allen Street, Jamestown. HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS. Miss Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, Miss Mary S. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, 210 W. 59th Street, New York, Mrs. Mary W. Manning, 64 Montague Street, Brooklyn, Mrs. Anna C. Field, 158 Hicks Street, Brooklyn, Mrs. Sarah L. Cushing, Lockport, Mrs Matilda Joslyn Gage,*, Fayetteville, Mrs. Abigail A. Allen, Alfred, Mrs. Caroline Gilkie Rogers, Lansingburgh, Mrs. Deborah W. Sedgwick, Syracuse, Mrs. Mary E. Bagg,* James Street, Syracuse, Mrs. Mary H. Hallowell, 97 Plymouth Avenue, Rochester, Mrs. Sarah L. Willis, 93 Plymouth Avenue, Rochester. Mrs. Sarah Anthony Burtis, 525 Jefferson Avenue, Niagara Falls, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, Geneva, Mrs. Jean Brooks Greenleaf, 64 N. Goodman Street, Rochester, Mrs. Eliza Wright Osborne, South Street, Auburn, Mrs. Henrietta M. Banker, Ausable Forks, Essex County, Mrs. Charlotte A. Cleveland, Perry, Wyoming County. * Deceased. COUNTY PRESIDENTS. Albany--Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell, 32 Lancaster St., Albany Allegany--Mrs. Ida K. Church, Wellsville. Cattaraugus--Mrs. Maria F. Lee, Little Valley, Cayuga--Miss Emily Howland, Sherwood. Chautauqua--Mrs. Jennie L. Allen, Fredonia. Chemung--Rev. Annis Ford Eastman, Elmira. Chenango--Mrs. Emma Bates Smith, North Pitcher. Clinton--Mrs. Alice H. Ricketson Plattsburgh. Columbia--Miss Kornelia T. Andrews, Hudson Dutchess--Miss Margaret Livingston Chanler, Barrytown. (317 W. 74th St, N. Y., in winter.) Erie--Miss Lucie Sherman, North Collins. Essex--Mrs. Henrietta M. Banker, Ausable Forks. Genesee--Mrs. Anna M. Brownell, Batavia. Greene--Mrs. Sabra Root, Catskill. Herkimer--Mrs. Juliette A. Shaw, Ilion. Kings--Mrs. Orpha Marie Conklin, 326 Sumner Ave., Brooklyn. Livingston--Mrs. Margaret L. Brayton, Dansville. Monroe--Mrs. Jean Brooks Greenleaf, 64 N. Goodman St., Rochester. New York--Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, 210 W. 59th St. Niagara--Miss Abbie E. Hufstader, Lockport. Onondaga--Miss Julie R. Jenney, Everson B'ld'g, Syracuse. Orleans--Mrs. H. A. B. Howell, Medina. Oswego--Mrs. Hannah Glass, Oswego. Queens--Mrs. Mary E. Craigie, Baldwins (268 Berkely Place, Brooklyn, in winter). Rensselaer--Mrs. H. B. Gifford, Valley Falls. Richmond--Miss Elizabeth Burrill Curtis, West New Brighton. Schoharie--Mrs. Lina Sias, Schoharie. Seneca--Mrs. Zobedia Alleman, Union Springs. Steuben--Mrs. Ella S. Hammond, Hornellsville. St. Lawrence--Lucia E. Heaton, M. D., Canton. Suffolk--Miss Ruth Tuthill, Riverhead. Tompkins--Mrs. Lucy Hawley Calkins, 6 Lake Ave., Ithaca. Ulster--Mrs. Annie E. P. Searing, Kingston. Warren--Mrs. Susie M. Bain, Glens Falls. Washington--Mrs. Chloe A. Sisson, Easton. Wayne--Mrs. Sarah B. Rogers, Lyons. Westchester--Mrs. Harriet M. Rathbun, Mt. Vernon. Wyoming--Mrs. Ella Hawley Crossett, Warsaw. Yates--Mrs. Julia D. Sheppard, Penn Yan. CHAIRMEN OF STANDING COMMITTEES. Organization--Miss Harriet May Mills, 926 W. Genesee St., Syracuse. Legislation--Mrs. Mary Hillard Loines, 26 Garden Place, Brooklyn. Industries--Mill Harriette A. Keyser, 260 W 99th St., New York. Press--Mrs. Elnora M. Babcock, Dunkirk. Finance--Mrs. Zobedia Alleman, Union Springs. Work Among Children--Mrs. J. Mary Pearson, 124 Owasco St., Auburn. Program Thirtieth Annual Convention of the New York state Woman Suffrage Association, Hudson, November 8, 9 and 10 1989. Headquarters, "The Worth" The Worth--Reception, November 8, at 8 P. M. The Court House--Day meeting, November 9 and 10 at 9:30 A. M. and 2 P. M. The Opera House-- Evening meetings, November 9 and 10, at 8 P. M. Tuesday, November 8. Afternoon, 3-5--Executive Board Meeting at the Worth Evening, 8-10--Public Reception at the Worth Monday, November 9. Morning, 9:30-12-- Court House Minutes, - - - - - - Mrs. Mary Thayer Sanford Announcement of Committees: Credentials, Resolutions, Finance, Courtesies Roll Call of the Counties, Report of the Executive Committee, - - Mrs. Mariana W. Chapman Report of Corresponding Secretary, - - Miss Isabel Howland Report of Treasurer, - - - - Mrs. Priscilla Dudley Hackstaff Report of Finance Committee, - Mrs. Zobedia Alleman, Chairman Introduction of Fraternal Delegates, County Reports, Afternoon, 2-4--Court House. Minutes, Report of Credentials Committee, Election of Officers, Report of Press Committee, - Mrs. Elnora M. Babcock, Chairman County Reports, Evening, 8-10--Opera House (Admission free; Collection) Music-Recessional, - - - - - - - - De Koven Quartette with Obligato, - - - - - Mrs. Hankes Prayer, - - - - - - - - Rev. James D. Hudson Addressed of Welcome: Mayor Richard A. M. Deeley, for the City of Hudson Mrs. Mary Holsapple for the Political Equality Club of Hudson Response - - - - - - - Mrs. Mariana W. Chapman President New York State Woman Suffrage Association Music, "From All Eternity," - - - - - - Mascherom Miss Loomis Address, "Mothers of Soliders," - - - Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake President New York City Woman Suffrage League Woman Suffrage Association. Address, "A Matter of History," - - - Miss Harriet May Mills Chairman of Committee on Organization,New York State W. S. A. Address, - - - - - - - Mrs. Annie E. P. Searing V. P. for Ulster Co., New York State W. S. A. Address, "Women in English Political Life," Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blanch Thursday, November 10. Morning, 9:30-12--Court House. Minutes Report of the Committee on Work Among Children, Mrs. J. Mary Pearson, Chairman Report of Legislative Committee, Mrs. Mary Hillard Loines, Chairman Report of Organization Committee, Miss Harriet May Mills, Chairman Report of Industrial Committee, Miss Harriette A. Keyser, Chairman Plan of Work. Afternoon, 2-4--Court House Minutes, Constitutional Amendments. Invitations for Convention of 1899. Report of Resolutions Committee. County Reports. Question Box. Evening, 8-10-- Opera House (Silver Admission.) Music, Prayer - - - - - - - - - Rev. Charles Park Address of Welcome, - - - - - - Judge Levi F. Longley Address, "Stand Up and Be Counted," - Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell Address, "Why the Moral Reformer Needs the Ballot," Rev. Annis Ford Eastman of Park Church, Elmira, N. Y. Address, "Woman in War and in Peace," - Miss Harriette A. Keyser Chairman of Committee on Industries Address - - - - - - - Rev. Anna Howard Shaw Vice-President at Larde National-American W. S. A. Friday, November 11. Morning, 9:00--Executive Board Meeting at the Worth. Members of the Local Committee. Mrs. H. Lyle Smith, Mrs. A. V. S. Cochrane, Mrs. H. V. Esselstyn, Miss Andrews, Mrs. F. C. Haviland, Mrs. Hadley Smith, Miss Higgins, Mrs. James D. Corby, Mrs. Claudius Rockefeller, Mrs. A. A. Cadby, Mrs. S. N. Holsapple, Mrs. Abram Gillford, Mrs. O. H. Bradley, Mrs. Richard Maey. RECORDING SECRETARY's MINUTES. The Executive Committee of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association held its mid-year meeting in Elmira, May 5 and 6, 1898, upon the invitation of the Elmira Political Equality Club. The first meeting was held in the parlors of the Y. M. C. A., called to order at 4:30 P. M. by the President, Mariana W. Chapman. Nine members of the Executive Committee responded to the roll call. The report of the Treasurer, Priscilla D. Hackstaff, was made and accepted. The President reported for the Corresponding Secretary who was not present. Reports of standing committees were received and accepted as follows: Finance Committee - Given by President in the absence of the Chairman, Zobedia Alleman. Press Committee - Elnora M. Babcock. Legislative Committee - Mary H. Loines. Organization Committee - Harriet May Mills. Mrs. C. C. Catt being present the question of best methods for organizing was discussed at some length. In the afternoon and evening of May 5, the National Suffrage Association Committee held large audiences spellbound in the Elmira Opera House, despite the copious and continuous showers outside. Mary G. Hay presided and addresses were listened to from Mrs. Mariana W. Chapman, Mrs. C. C. Catt, Harriet May Mills, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, and others, assisted by local talent. The second meeting of the board was held May 6 at 9 A. M, in the offices of the Y. M. C. A., with the President, Mariana W. Chapman, in the chair. Reports were given from Washington, Steuben, Chemung, Schuyler, Chautauqua, Kings and Monroe Counties. Woman Suffrage Association. 7 A motion was made and carried that the President should appoint a committee to correspond with various counties and urge the great importance of women using the school vote. Ella Hawley Crossett was made chairman. Resolutions of condolence were directed to be sent to the families of the late Mary E. Bagg, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, also a letter of sympathy to Chloe E. Sisson, in the recent loss of her mother. A vote of thanks was extended to the Political Equality Club of Elmira for entertainments, flowers, &c. MARY THAYER SANFORD, Recording Secretary. The regular meeting of the Executive Committee, preceding the annual convention, was held at the Worth House, Hudson, on Tuesday, November 8, at 3 o'clock, the President, Mariana W. Chapman in the chair. Margaret H. Esselstyn of Hudson was appointed Secretary, pro tem. The question of the amount of auxiliary dues to be paid by local clubs in unorganized counties was discussed. A committee to present to the convention an amendment to the by-law on dues was appointed. Letters were read from Mrs. Sarah Clay Bennett of Kentucky and Mrs. Eliza C. Gilford of Jamestown. Recommendations regarding the legislative work of the coming year were voted to be presented to the convention. In the evening a reception was held at the Worth House. THE FIRST BUSINESS MEETING of the Thirtieth Convention was called to order by the President, Mariana W. Chapman, in the Court House, in Hudson, on November 9, 1898, at 9:30 o'clock. Margaret H. Esselstyn was appointed to act as Recording Secretary in the absence of Mary Thayer Sanford, and Henrietta M. Banker as Auditor in the absence of Kate. S. Thompson. The following committees were announced: Credentials - Priscilla Dudley Hackstaff, Ella Hawley Crossett. Finance - Zobedia Alleman, Henrietta M. Banker, Mrs. A. S. V. Cochrane. 8 The New York State Courtesies--Kornelia T. Andrews, Harriet May Mills, Isabel Howland. Resolutions--Ellen Cheney, Lillie Devereux Blake, Nora E. Darling, Zobedia Alleman, Kornelia T. Andrews, Miss Webb, Emma Brooks Savage, Carrie S. Lerch, Anne F. Miller, Sarah Sumner Teall, Delia C. Taylor, Nellie F. Matheson, Mrs. Gillespie, Mary J. Olin, Effie D. Morse, Ella S. Hammond. The work of the Executive Committee was reported by the President. The report of the Corresponding Secretary, Isabel Howland, was read and accepted. Priscilla D. Hackstaff, Treasurer, reported the receipts of the year to have been $3,220.77 ; the disbursements, $2,584.44 ; the balance on hand, $636.33. Report was accepted. Zobedia Alleman, Chairman of the Finance Committee, reported having collected by means of brick postals, quarter cards and contributions, $102.65. Accepted. The following fraternal delegates were presented to the con- vention : Mrs. Sarah B. Stearns, from the California Suffragists ; Mrs. Sarah A. LeBoeuf, from the New York State W. C. T. U.; Miss Emma LeBoeuf from the New York State Y. W. C. T. U.; Miss Macy from the Hudson W. C. T. U.; Mrs. Luella Dowd Smith from the Hudson Lodge of Good Templars ; Miss Lucy Ackley from the Kinderhook W. C. T. U. Mrs. Sarah Sumner Teall, a Syracuse delegate, was introduced as a worker in the Daughters of the Revolution and Women's Relief Corps. Brief addresses were made by all. An invitation was received to visit the Hudson House of Refuge for Women. County reports were read and accepted : Albany . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mary Seymour Howell, Pres. Allegany . . . . . . . . . . . . Nora E. Darling. Chautauqua . . . . . . . . .Ellen Cheney, Pres. Cayuga . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Howland, Pres., read by Eliza W. Osborne Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . Kornelia T. Andrews, Pres. Erie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lucie Sherman, Pres., read by Cor. Sec. Essex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Henrietta M. Banker, Pres. Woman Suffrage Association. 9 Queens. . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary E Craigie, Pres., read by Cor. Sec. Monroe . . . . . . . . . . . . Martha J. H. Stebbins, Pres. Niagara . . . . . . . . . . . . Carrie S. Lerch, Pres. Onondaga . . . . . . . . . Harriet May Mills. Ontario . . . . . . . . . . . . Anne F. Miller. Oswego . . . . . . . . . . . .Christina A. Sinnamon, Pres. THE SECOND BUSINESS MEETING opened at the Court House, November 9, at 2 P. M., the President in the chair. The report of the Superintendent of Press Work, Elnora M. Babcock, was read and accepted. The election resulted in the choice of the following officers : President--Mariana W. Chapman Vice-President at Large--Ella Hawley Crossett. Recording Secretary--Mary Thayer Sanford. Corresponding Secretary--Isabel Howland. Treasurer--Priscilla Dudley Hackstaff. Auditors--Eliza Wright Osborne, Margaret H. Esselstyn. It was voted to send greetings to the National W. C. T. U. about to convene in St. Paul. Voted to send greetings to certain absent members : Susan B. Anthony, Mary S. Anthony, Charlotte A. Cleveland, Emily Howland, Mary N. Hubbard and Abigail A. Allen. County reports were read and accepted : Tompkins . . . . . . Lucy Hawley Calkins, Pres., read by Effie D. Morse. Washington. . . . Lucy P. Allen, Pres. Westchester . . . .Harriet M. Rathbun, Pres., read by Alma D. Kittel. THE THIRD BUSINESS MEETING opened at the Court House, November 10, at 9:30 A. M., the President in the chair. A letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton was ready by her daugh- ter, Harriet Stanton Blatch. It was voted to send greetings to Mrs. Stanton and congratulations upon her 83d birthday. The report of the chairman of the Committee on Work among Children, J. Mary Pearson, was ready by the Corresponding Secre- tary. Accepted. Other committee reports were made and accepted as follows : 10 The New York State Organization-- Harriet May Mills, Chairman. Industries-- Harriette A. Keyser, Chairman. School Suffrage -- Ella Hawley Crossett, Chairman. Legislation-- Mary Hillard Loines, Chairman. The convention then went into executive session to discuss work of the coming year. THE FOURTH BUSINESS MEETING opened at the Court House, November 10, ar 2 P.M., the President in the chair. The amendment to the by-law relating to dies as prepared by the committee appointed for the purpose by the Executive Board was adopted. Sec. 2 of Art. II of the By- Laws was made to read, "Any County Political Equality Club may become auxiliary to the State Association by paying annually in to its treasury 25 cents per member of its paid-up local auxiliaries and any Local Political Equality Club is and unorganized county may become auxiliary to the State Association by paying annually into its treasury 35 cents per member of its paid-up membership." Sec. 3 of Art. II was amended to read, "Every auxiliary county club shall be entitled to send three delegates at large to the annual convention of the State Association and every local club, whether directly auxiliary to the state or to the county, shall be entitled to send one delegate with one additional delegate for every fifty of its paid-up membership above the first fifty. But no club whose dues are unpaid on November 1 shall be entitled to representation in the annual convention." Sec. 8 of Art IX was amended to read, "The general officers of this association shall be elected on the morning of the last day of the annual convention." Priscilla D. Hackstaff gave notice of an amendment to the constitution: Sec. 3 of Art. IV to read, "The President of the State Association shall appoint a Vice-President to represent on its executive board any county where no auxiliary club exists. Such Vice-Presidents shall be entitled to the privileges of the floor but cannot vote." The association was invited to hold its next annual convention in Dunkirk. The invitation was accepted with thanks. Ellen M. Cheney reported for the Resolutions Committee: Woman Suffrage Association. 11 WHEREAS, The events of the last six months and the distress and sacrifice of the war, have forced upon the women of the country a realization of their helplessness in any great national crisis; therefore, 1. Resolved, That we earnestly protest against the injustice of excluding the women of the Republic from all voice in deciding the questions of peace or war. 2. Resolved, That we call attention to the noble self-sacrifice of those women who gave their services to the country as nurses, many of whom died from their devotion to this service, laying down their lives for the nation as truly as did any of the soldiers whose memory is held sacred by the nation. 3. Resolved, That we appreciate the grand work done by the Red Cross Society under the leadership of Clara Barton; the Woman's Relief Association under the leadership of Mrs. Ellen Hardin Walworth and Miss Helen Gould, and by all other organization of women who gave their money and their energy to supply the army with the comforts that the government failed to provide. 4. Resolved, That we are opposed to the spirit of militarism which has been developed by the late struggle in this country and desire to express our hearty approval of the proposition for universal peace made by the Czar of Russia. 5. Resolved, That we congratulate the women of this state on the election of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to the gubernational chair, because his course, when in the legislature, showed him to be a firm believer in the justice of Woman Suffrage. 6. Resolved, That we request all institutions under state control, where women and girls are imprisoned or detained, to employ women physicians to attend them. 7. Resolved, That we desire to express our deep regret at the death of Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage, one of the early Presidents of this Association, and to pay a tribute of respect to her high character, her executive ability, and her great literary attainments. 8. Resolved, That we add our expressions of heartfelt sorrow at the untimely passing away of Miss Frances Willard, a native of this state, whose last days were passed here, realizing that when her noble life closed, we lost, not only a leader for morality, but one who was also an earnest advocate of Woman Suffrage. We also wish to make loving mention of the death of Mrs. Mary T. Burt and extend our sympathy to the great organization of New York women who lost in her, a long-tried and faithful president. 9. Resolved, That we extend heartiest thanks to the Mayor of the City of Hudson, for his courtesy, to Judge Levi F. Longley, for securing the Court House for our use, to the Hudson Club for their warm hospitality, to the press for the excellent reports of our Convention, to the musicians and young lady ushers, and to all the kind people of Hudson who assisted in making our convention a success. A greeting was received from the Oneida P. E. C., lately become auxiliary. Letters were read from Susan B. Anthony and Harriet Taylor Upton. Pledges were made for State work as follows : Kings Co., $50 ; Essex Co., #50 ; Monroe Co., $25 ; New York, $25 ; Eliza W. Osborne, (for organizaton), $25 ; Washington Co., $10 ; Penn Yan Woman's Club, $10 ; Albany Co., (for press work), $5 ; Wyoming Co., $5 ; Warsaw P. E. C., $5 ; Dunkirk P. E. C., $5 ; Jamestown P. E. C., (for legislative work), $5 ; Lockport P. E. C. $5 ; Port Washington P. E. C., $5. One of the two women members of the School Board of Hudson, Mrs. Rockefeller, was introduced to the convention. County reports were made and accepted : Chemung..........Annis Ford Eastman. Kings.............Cornelia K. Hood, Pres., read by Cornelia H. Cary, New York..........Lillie Devereux Blake, Pres. Steuben............Ella S. Hammond, Pres. Wyoming..........Ella Hawley Crossett, Pres. Yates................Julia D. Sheppard, Pres., read by Cor. See. Adjourned. (For public meetings on the evenings of November 9 and 10, see the program.) MARGARET H. ESSELSTYN Recording Secretary pro tempore. The Executive Board met in the parlors of the Worth House, November 11, at 9 A. M., the President, Mariana W. Chapman, in the chair. Ella Hawley Crossett was appointed Recording Secretary. Arrangements were made for the selection of fraternal delegates and to attend the State Federation of Labor Convention, the State Grange and the State W. C. T. U. Standing Committees were appointed. (See list of committees for 1898-99). It was voted that the chairman of the Press Committee should be paid a salary for her efficient and most arduous labors. The School Suffrage Committee was made a Standing Committee. It was voted to print the manual for children prepared by the chairman of the Committee on Work Among Children J. Mary Pearson, if approved by a special committee named to examine it. A vote of thanks was passed to the son and daughter of the President for their assistance in typewriting during the past year. Delegates to the National Convention were appointed to the number of twenty-three. ELLA HAWLEY CROSSETT, Recording Secretary, pro tempore. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. Since our last meeting we have passed through a national convulsion. The men of the country, part of them, have been where bullets whistled, where cannon roared, and ships went down. A great many years ago, in 1805, at the battle of Trafalgar, from the top of the flagship, flew a signal with Admiral Nelson's watchword, "England expects every man to do his duty." So did America in Manila Bay and Santiago Harbor and she was not disappointed. But there were places deadlier still, more disastrous than all the battlefields. They were the camps and the hospitals wherein we placed our troops, and American women were there to do all in their power to feed the hungry, to relieve the suffering, to comfort the dying, and perform the last sad offices for some mothers' boys who never came home any more. It made them worthy of all the citizenship which has been given them and more. Their work was done in a quiet, dignified, effective way, but when necessity came they spoke out bravely and fearlessly to expose, for the sake of the soldiers, the fearful injustice done them through the inefficiency and criminal neglect of somebody whom nobody seems to be able to find. No such mistakes occurred in the management of the Red Cross Army under Clara Barton, nor in the National War Relief Association officered by the women of New York, Mrs. Ellen Hardin Walworth, Miss Helen Gould, Mrs. Russell Sage and their continuing sisterhood. .Best of all for our faith, nobody told them their homes were desolate while they were in public service. We have had our object lessons in values and they compare well. Nobody wants anybody in any place where he or she does not 14 The New York State belong, but we are gathered here together to declare that everybody should have an equal opportunity to demonstrate his or her fitness for any place whatever. We shall all find our level, but let not the limit of one-half be drawn by the other half of humanity. These women were at work in the housekeeping and homekeeping of the nation, and it needed them as in the day when "God created man in his own image." "Male and female created He them," and "let them have dominion." Did it ever occur to you that the public was anything but the men and women with whom we are always living and ought to be loving with the kind of love that is manifest in works? And as to the demoralization of women in outside association with men, is there anyone here who tries or has tried to go over with men in the Bridge trolleys to Brooklyn between five and six at night? If so, she knows there will never be any scramble in politics like that, and if one can find it at political meetings women are there already. They certainly will never find it at the polls, where men are doing their utmost to have the elections of the country conducted in a decent, orderly manner. Friends, women need that ballot now more than ever before. With all these wars and rumors of war they want it to protest against this tide of militarism; or with militarism ascendant they want it to protect the women of this country against a terrible danger peculiarly their own, a danger threatening the poor and weak and sinful of their kind who drift toward military camps in ever increasing numbers and who are, with their companions in vice, a threatening at the very life of the nation. "You have influence," you say. Oh, yes, but we want influence and constituency, too. Men have taught us that constituency behind lawmakers means a great deal. Even Mr. Platt must have his constituency behind him. When there is excluded from the body politic of New York State the half of its citizens which holds, according to statistics, the largest proportion of its native born citizenship and consequently of those which have received education from the state, and those which form the smallest percentage of its criminal and the largest proportion of its sober and religious element, the government of the Empire State is deprived, in my belief, of its strongest element for good that it contains. Woman Suffrage Association. 15 Then the question arises naturally how we shall get this thing that we want, and at once we are engulfed in methods which it is our pleasure to compare and our difficulty to unite. Sometimes, perhaps, we wonder whether all the meetings which somebody must carry is a good expenditure of force, and then we remember that every step of advance for the human race has come from the convictions which have taken strong hold of somebody's soul, who was fearless enough to utter them and repeat them to people who gathered to hear them until consecrated workers took hold of their gospel and the ripples swept on until "The dark and dead waters leaped glad in the sun." And so we are here for the principle that was in the beginning and must be eternal, the principle of equality of opportunity for every human being. Let us spread it by organizations in every county, in every town, in every village, in every community. No man and no woman lives who is not the better for occasionally coming out to hear a truth that extends from the well being of his own home to the interests of humanity at large. "The mills of God grind slowly" but where? "In works we do, in prayers we pray, Life of our life He lives today." MARIANA W. CHAPMAN. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY'S REPORT. The routine work of the Corresponding Secretary is much the same from year to year. The report of last year might in many ways suffice for this. There are always certain things to be done which absorb much time in the doing and little in the telling. State officers, members of committees, national delegates, are to be corresponded with upon matters of importance at the time, but of no moment later. As usual the annual publication last year was a thorn in the flesh during the weeks when it was under consideration. As usual, almost superhuman effort was put forth to have it accurate and as usual there were a few failures, - one can never explain why afterward. In the main, however, the 1897 book is of value and more has been done with it than in former years. It was sent to our national workers and presented to several libraries 16 The New York State where it was accepted with thanks. In the latter case the file of reports, beginning with the first in '93, was sent. Our State Legislative Librarian, Mr. George F. Bowerman, wrote requesting a set. The New York City Public Library, when acknowledging the reports, requested to have anything we had published or might publish sent to it. About the first of May a letter was received from Heidelberg, Germany, relative to the report. The writer was Dr. Wolfgang Mittermaier of the university. A file of reports was sent to him and a month later came another letter acknowledging their receipt and giving some interesting facts about the condition of his own countrywomen. (Note.—The letters were read to the convention.) Six hundred and fifty copies of the report were ordered last year at a cost of $93.75. Only $16 have been received from their sale. We cannot expect them to sell for the reason that no such report is ever in demand. They are of unquestioned value in most cases but are not popular reading. Requests have come during the year from some other State Associations for copies of our constitution. Efforts were made, as every year, with some success, to find vice-presidents to represent our association in counties where there are no clubs. After the Mid-Year Conference at Elmira, in May, which I was unable to attend, there was among other duties, the one of writing letters of sympathy and condolence to the families of the devoted friends of our cause who had passed away earlier in the year: Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage, Mrs. Mary E. Bagg and Mrs. Elizabeth G. Peckham of Easton. Two of these letters were acknowledged with grateful expressions to the association for its remembrance. ISABEL HOWLAND. TREASURER'S REPORT. Priscilla D. Hackstaff, Treasurer, in account with the New York State Woman Suffrage Association, for the year ending November 1, 1898. Woman Suffrage Association. 17 RECEIPTS. Balance on hand, Nov. 6, 1897,............ $685 64 Admission and sale of badges at Geneva,... 116 05 Margaret A. Slocum, membership fe3e, 1897, $ 1 00 Genesee P. E. C. Aux., dues for 1897,...... 13 00 Columbia Co. P. E. C., " " ..... 2 25 Elmira P. E. C., " " ..... 7 00 Warren Co. P. E. C, " " ..... 3 25 __________ 26 50 Sale of abstracts of N. Y. laws, H.M. Banker, 2 35 " manuals,................................................ 1 50 " reports of constitutional convention,.. 50 " annual reports, per I. Howland,.......... 16 30 __________ 20 65 Contribution for printing, Lucy A. Ackley,...... 1 00 " " " I. Howland,...... 5 00 __________ 6 00 Contribution to l'g's't'v. work,Mary H. Loines, 25 00 " " press work, Sophia Willetts,.. 2 00 " " " Albany P. E. C.,.. 5 00 " " " Frankfort P. E. C., 1 00 __________ 8 00 *Raised by finance committee,........................ 102 65 * " " pledges for state work,................... 288 00 * " " " " nat'l organizat'n work, 663 35 " " " " " " 1897, 50 00 Contributions to general fund, national association, V. M. Glanner,............................................ 15 00 *Contributions for state organization work, .. 633 08 *Amount of auxiliary dues, paid for 1898,...... 477 10 *State membership for 1898,......................... 91 00 " " 1899,......................... 9 00 Auxiliary dues for 1899, Oneida P. E. G., ........ 3 75 ___________ $3,220 77 DISBURSEMENTS. *To expense of Geneva convention,....................... $ 172 52 * " National American Suffrage Association, 917 20 " expenses of press committee,................ 442 55 --- *Itemized statement appended. 18 The New York State To expense of finance committee, ....... $ 18 00 " " children's committee, ..... 3 46 *" " legislative committee,..... 185 64 *" " organization committee,... 625 75 " " school suffrage committee,. 10 16 " " Treasurer and Rec. Sec'y., 23 02 " " fraternal delegate to Federation of Labor,....................... 7 50 To postage and express,...................... 8 85 " stenographer for President,............ 3 30 *To printing and stationery............... 166 49 $2,584 44 Balance on hand, November 8, 1898 ... 636 33 $3,220 77 SUMMARY. Balance on hand, November 6, 1897,........$ 685 64 Received during year,.......... ......... 2,535 13 $3,220 77 Paid out during the year,. ................ $2,584 44 Balance on hand, November 8, 1898,. ...... 636 33 $3,220 77 ITEMIZED STATEMENTS. RECEIPTS. Auxiliary Dues--Albany Co., $6.25; Allegany Co., 24.25; Cayuga Co., 26.35; Chautauqua Co., 39.25; Chemug Co., Elmira P. E. C., 8; Cortland Co., Cortland P. E. C., 3.85; Columbia Co., Hudson P. E. C., 2.25; Erie Co., 20.50; Essex Co., 10; Kings Co., 67.25; Madison Co., Oneida P. E. C., 4; Monroe Co., 40; New York Co., 25; Niagara Co., 31.50; Onondaga Co., 25.50; Ontario Co., Geneva P. E. C., 36.75 and Phelps P. E. C., 7; Oswego Co., 11.55; Queens Co., 12.75; Steuben Co., Hornellsville P. E. C., 4; Tompkins Co., Ithaca Suffrage Sec., 5.75 and Groton P. E. C., 4.90; Washington P. E. C., 14.50; Westchester Co., 9; Wyoming Co., 25.75; Yates Co., Penn Yan, W. C., 11.20, $477 10 *Itemized statement appended Woman Suffrage Association. 19 Collections--by Finance Committee, Mrs. Z. Alleman, Chairman.--Quarter cards, $29.45; Contributions, V. M. Glanner, 1; M. Rathbun, 1; Mrs. Conable, 1; Hon. L. H. Humphrey, 5; Elizabeth B. Curtis, 5; Warsaw P. E. C., 6, $48 45 Brick Postals--Mrs. Geo. Taylor, 2; R. Talbot Perkins, 1; Hannah L. Howland, 2; Mrs. Ostrander, 1; Belle S. Holden, 10; Charlotte A. Cleveland, 10; C. E. Jenkins, 1; C. L. Carpenter, 1; H. M. Banker, 3; L. L. Riley and C. H. Bucklin, 4; J. S. Stewart, 1; Eunice Conable, 1; Mary Loines, 1; H. M. Chase, 5; Frank Benedict, 1; Gainesville P. E. C., 2; Warsaw P. E. C., 1; Frewsbury P. E. C., .70; So. Stockton P. E. C., 2; Dunkirk P. E. C., 1; Philadelphia P. E. C., 1; Byron W. S. Asso., 2.50, 54 20 Pledges for State Work--Auburn P. E. C., per Mrs. Osborne, $10; Miss Emily Howland, 50; Niagara Co., 5; Johnson Creek P. E. C., Niagara Co., 3; Kings Co. P. E. C., 50; Yates Co., Woman's Club of Penn Yan, 10; Chautauqua Co., 25; Onondaga Co., 25; Queens Co., Jericho and Westbury, 5; Port Washington, 5; Essex Co., per Mrs. Banker, 50; Cayuga Co., Society Political Study, Auburn, 5; Monroe Co., 25; New York City Woman Suffrage League, 20, 288 00 Pledges for National Work--Oswego P. E. C., $3; Fluvanna P. E. C., 2; Fredonia P. E. C., 5; Nunda P. E. C., 1.20; Woman's Club, Penn Yan , 6.15; Rochester P. E. C., 110; Bedford League, 10; Warsaw P. E. C., 10; Jamestown P. E. C., 5; Jericho and Westbury P. E. C., 5; Port Washington P. E. C., 10; Dunkirk P. E. C., 15; Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association, Rev. Mrs. Wright, 50; Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association, Mrs. Cary, 10; Elizabeth S. Miller, 25; Ella H. Crossett, Press Work, 5; Eunice Conable, 1; Emily S. Van Beil, 25; Anna Willets, 10; Emily Howland, 20 The New York State 300; Mary N. Hubbard, 20; Hannah L. Howland, 10; Elizabeth B. Curtis, 25, $663 35 Amount raised by Organization Committee for Organization Work, Miss H. M. Mills, Chairman. Contributions by Individuals - Martha J. Stebbins, $1; Susan D. Miller, 12; James Bagg, 5; Elizabeth Miller, 16.04; Elizabeth Root, 2.08; Dr. E. F. Butterfield, 25; M. O. Wilcox, 5; Ella H. Crossett, 5; C. A. Cleveland, 5; H. L. Howland, 5; I. Howland, 10; Susan Bergen, 2.50; C. A. Greene, 25; H. A. B. Howell, 1; Lucy H. Calkins, 5; Elizabeth B. Curtis, 24; Eliza W. Osborne, 25; Mary N. Hubbard, 5; James Sargent, 5; Mary S. Adams, 6; Emily Howland, 150; H. S. Holden, 50; Rev. A. B. Blackwell, 2; Belle S. Holden, 24; Henry Dormitzer, 4; Mrs. Henry Dormitzer, 14; C. A. Sisson, 3; Mrs. Henry Snow, 10; Sarah L. Willis, 10; M. T. L. Gannett, 5; Jean B. Greenleaf, 5; M. M. Knapp, 5; H. M. Mills, .45; Mary Whipple, 1; Julia D. Sheppard, 5; H. M. Banker, 12; Mrs. H. M. Saunders, 50; Mrs. Edward N. Trump, 5; Amanda Alley; 5; Ophelia King, 5; Martha Ball, .50, 555 57 Contributions by Clubs - Anna Shaw P. E. C., Friendship, $4.50; Nunda P. E. C., 1.20; Oneida P. E. C., 1; Frankfort P. E. C., 2; Ithaca Suffrage Section, 3.70; Easton P. E. C., 1; Cooperstown P. E. C., 6.65; Gainesville P. E. C., 5; Erie Co. P. E. C., 5, 30 05 Collections - Phelps, $3.90; Hornellsville, 2.50; Peruville, 1.30; Bath, 1; Etna, .85; Ilion, 3; Frankfort, 2.55; Dryden, 5.54; Groton, 1.90; Freeville, 1; Cazenovia, 4.66; Cortland, 6.93; Brant, 1.22; Eden, .25; East Aurora, 1.87; Collins, 1.05; Angola, 1.77; Saratoga, 6.07; Sale of Manual, .10. 47 46 Total raised by Organization Committee, 633.08 Woman Suffrage Association 21 DISBURSEMENTS. Expenses of Geneva Convention - Rent of Opera House, $50 00 Badges, printing and advertising, 22 92 Address, Susan B. Anthony, 25 00 " Rev. Anna H. Shaw, 25 00 " Alice Stone Blackwell, 25 00 " Rev.. Annis Ford Eastman, 11 65 National American Suffrage Ass'n leaflets 2 25 Woman's Journal leaflets 1 50 Expenses, Mary Seymour Howell 9 20 $172 52 Organization Committee - Mary E. Craigie 20 00 Harriet M. Mills, traveling and office expenses 197 03 salary 408 67 605 75 625 75 Paid to National Association - Aux. dues for 1897, 185 80 For bannerettes, 2 00 " leaflets, 3 05 Pledges for 1897, 63 00 " 1898, 648 35 Contribution to General Fund, 15 00 917 20 Paid out for Legislative Work - Florence D. Potter, 173 91 R.R. fare, Mrs. Conine and Mrs. Craigie, 11 73 185 64 Paid out for Printing - J.W.F. Bowles, envelopes , letterheads and circular letters, 17 25 Charles Mann, letterheads and expenses, 14 75 G.A. Pulis, for Legislative Committee, 1 25 Knapp, Peck & Thomson, membership cards, 2 00 Knapp, Peck & Thomson, auxiliary blanks and convention calls, 14 75 Knapp, Peck & Thomson, annual reports, envelopes and constitutions, 100 75 L.W. Swan, due bills and receipts, 4 00 22 The New York State John Underhill, for School Suffrage Committee, - - - - - - - - - - - - - $9 25 Robert A. Wood, - - - - - - - - - - 2 50 $166 49 PRISCILLA DUDLEY HACKSTAFF, Treasurer Audited by Eliza Wright Osborne, Henrietta M. Banker. Hudson, November 9, 1898 REPORT OF ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE. The retrospect of the year's organization work is full of encouragement for the future. Difficulties and apparent losses have come, but through them all it has been easy to see the onward trend of our movement, ever sure and ever steady. Unfortunately the active force of the Organization Committee has been reduced, through the inability of both Mrs. Craigie and Miss Keyser to do field work. The work has been, as in the past, along these three lines : 1. To agitate in new fields by public meetings. 2. To form clubs where possible ; where impossible, to appoint committees. 3. To encourage and strengthen existing organizations. The financial question has been a pressing one. Our subscription list has been shortened, owing more, no doubt, to the depression of business than to any loss of interest in the work. Of the 140 circular letters of appeal sent out, 33 received answers, 7 were negative, leaving 26 which brought pledges or single contributions. Some of our generous friends increased their subscriptions, one doubling the amount given last year. The total receipts have been : From individuals and clubs, collected by Mrs. Greenleaf, I. Howland and H. M. Mills, and paid directly to Treasurer, * $608.77 ; from collections, $44.86. Total $653.63 The expenditures have been : To office expenses, $37.25 ; rent of hall, Cortland, $2.50 ; - * All but a small part of this sum was collected by Miss Mills herself. - I. H. Woman Suffrage Association. 23 lecture by Rev. Annis F. Eastman, $5.00 ; traveling expenses, H. M. Mills, $164.39 ; salary, H. M. Mills, $439.67 ; total, $648.81. The time spent was a little more than four and one- third months. The following counties have been visited : Broome, Cortland, Dutchess, Erie, Herkimer, Madison, Montgomery, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Otsego, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schuyler, Seneca, Schoharie, Steuben, Tompkins, Ulster, Warren In nearly all of these meetings have been held. New clubs or committees have been formed in Cortland, Erie, Madison, Oneida, Ontario, Saratoga, Seneca, Steuben, and Tompkins. ONTARIO - The great victory of the year has been the Geneva Club which was the fruit of the annual convention. Both Miss Jenney and your chairman were present at the organization meeting, which was held in the Y. M. C. A. Hall, and was attended by a goodly number of men and women. The devotion and enthusiasm of the President, Miss Anne F. Miller, has made the Geneva Club a phenomenal success. Had we a prize for the largest increase in membership during the past year, it would go to Geneva. A club has also been formed in the neighboring town of Phelps with our steadfast advocate, Miss Mary Coolidge, as President Miss Coolidge was dubious about the possibility of organization, but willingly arranged for a public meeting at which the club was formed. The President wrote later, "The first meeting of our P. E. Club was fine. We received three new members. If the President has any control over the club, this one shall live. I am surprised to see how earnest they are." In a letter just received, Miss Coolidge says, "We have had two meetings this fall. The zeal of the members has increased. We now have 23 enrolled." TOMPKINS - A series of meetings planned by Mrs. Lucy Hawley Calkins, the County President, and by Mrs. Pinckney of Peruville, was held in Tompkins County, i. e., at Groton, Dryden, Peruville, Etna and Freeville. Clubs were formed at Etna and Groton, The president of the Groton P. E. C. reports much interest. Systematic work was done before school meeting aud a large vote of women polled. ULSTER AND DUTCHESS - One meeting was held in each 24 The New York State county. At Mrs. Searing's in Kingston, Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Connie of Denver and your chairman spoke, the night after the hearing at Albany. On the following afternoon Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Searing and your chairman spoke at Fishkill in Mrs. DeGarmo's parlors. MADISON--- This county shares the honors with Ontario, for it has joined our fold. The Oneida Club, organized by Miss Jenney in '95, failed to become auxiliary. A visit to the club in February showed the society in a flourishing condition. I know of no more active President than Mrs. Hitchcock, and attribute the gain of the club to her patient, persistent pressure in the face of the opposition of those who did not understand the advantages of joining the state association. We have not only gained the Oneida Club, thus securing a new county, but have found an active worker in Mrs. Bailey of Cazenovia. A successful meeting was held in Cazenovia and an organization is in prospect, waiting only for an arrangement of dates. HERKIMER-- This is a good field for missionary work. Mrs. Bellinger, of Ilion never falters, but finds it difficult to keep the organization active. Many who are sympathetic intellectually are not yet alive to the need of work. The two literary clubs of Ilion invited me to present our question and gave me a good hearing. Friends at East Schuyler, Herkimer County, arranged for a large evening meeting in the Congregational church at Frankfort, on condition that I would give a Browning talk to the literary club. This I did, and the result proved the wisdom of occasionally prefacing suffrage with poetry. Poland also gave me a hearing recently, and showed a number of sympathizers, most of whom are working in the W. C. T. U. SENECA-- This is difficult ground. On a stormy winter's day I held a meeting in Seneca Falls, finding some friends, but no opening as yet for an active center of work. ONEIDA-- Utica, Camden and Vernon have been visited. At Vernon a large and enthusiastic meeting was held on November 1, in the Presbyterian church. A committee is appointed and a club is in prospect. ERIE-- In Erie I spoke at a most successful country convention held in North Collins. Meetings were also held at Collins, Woman Suffrage Association 25 Eden, Brant, East Aurora and Angola. A club was formed at Angola which reports good progress. STEUBEN--- In Steuben the efficient County President, Mrs. Ella S. Hammond, arranged meetings in Hornellsville and Canisteo. I visited Corning and held a parlor meeting in Bath forming a club with Mrs. Leavitt as President. CORTLAND--This is one of our new counties having joined us through the Cortland club, which reports itself as flourishing. I formed this club after a large church meeting. SARATOGA-- Encouraging meetings have been held in Saratoga, two in the city itself and one at the Balston Spa. WARREN --- Our able President of Warren invited the club to her home to meet me and I found it doing excellent work. SCHOHARIE-- In Schoharie is our faithful worker, Mrs. Sias, who has labored single-handed. She arranged a public meeting on November 4. At Cobleskill there is an engagement prospect. SCHUYLER-- The County President, Mrs. Mary Robbins Mead, arranged a parlor meeting at Watkins. Rev. Annis F. Eastman was the speaker, and your chairman made a plea for organization. BROOME-- The Woman's Club of Binghamton is arranging for a public meeting. HARRIET MAY MILLS Chairman REPORT OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE At the final executive committee meeting of the annual convention, held in Geneva, November, '97, your committee was instructed to introduce into the assembly the same concurrent resolution to amend the suffrage laws, introduced the previous year. They were also instructed to have some one watch the bills introduced at Albany to guard against legislation inimical to the interests of women. The line of action was therefore chosen for the Legislative Committee and their part was to execute, to the best of their ability, the proposed measures. The first effort of your committee was to find a woman to fill the requirements in looking after the bills introduced at Albany. 26 The New York State It seemed best to have some one with a thorough legal education and after much consultation, Mrs. Florence Dangerfield Potter was chosen. A graduate of Cornell and of the University Law School of New York, with pleasing address and logical appreciation of women's right to suffrage, Mrs. Potter combined unusual advantages for the position. It was decided to make her attorney for the suffrage association to present our case to the members of the Judiciary Committee and arrange for the introduction of the concurrent resolution on a business basis. As Mr. Armstrong of Rochester, who introduced the concurrent resolution last year, was chairman of the Judiciary Committee this year, Mr. Kelsey of Monroe, who has always warmly espoused our cause, promptly acceded to the request to present it this year, and accordingly introduced it January 14, the first week of legislative session. Letters were sent to Presidents of Suffrage Associations and Political Equality Clubs throughout the state and to influential citizens who had signed the petition of 1894, asking them to write to members of the Judiciary Committee, to whom the concurrent resolution was referred. A hearing was expected at an early date, but on account of a misunderstanding with the chairman of that committee, it did not occur until March 2. The hearing took place in the Assembly library, which was well filled with supporters of the amendment, among them being a number of senators and their wives. The delegation consisted of Mrs. Mariana W. Chapman, President of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association ; Miss Harriet M. Mills, State Organizer ; Mrs. Mary E Craigie, President of Queens County Suffrage Association ; Miss Margaret Livingston Chanler, President of Dutchess County ; Martha A. B. Conine, formerly of New York, but now a member of the Colorado State Legislature, and Mrs. Mary H. Loines, Corresponding Secretary of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association and chairman of the committee. The opposition was called for but there was no response. Mrs. Chapman spoke on the basis on which the right to vote rests, and Mrs. Conine told the workings of Woman Suffrage in Colorado. Woman Suffrage Association. 27 After the New York delegation had been heard the Rev. William Brundage of Albany, spoke on the desirability of submitting the amendment of the people. It may be well to state here that when a resolution is referred to a committee, the opposition is rightfully to be called first. The Legislative Committees of this association have often been deterred from asking promptly for a hearing, thinking that if those opposed called for it your committee would have the stronger position in the closing argument. It was made clear to us for the first time, that the opposition must speak first. At the hearing, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee had before him a large file of letters in response to those sent out by your committee, asking for a favorable consideration of the concurrent resolution. The report was published some time before this hearing in a number of newspapers, that the resolution had been voted against in the committee, but this was untrue. Although there were several members of the Judiciary Committee strongly in favor of submitting the concurrent resolution to the people, notable, Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Bondy, Mr. Peterson and Mr. DeGraw, the majority were against it, and it seemed wiser to your committee, on consultation with your President, and to Mr. Kelsey, who introduced the resolution, not to force the vote to an adverse count, but to leave the resolution "in committee," assured that some educational work had been accomplished. The senate judiciary committee being composed of the same members as in the previous year, was pronouncedly opposed to the concurrent resolution and no attempt was made to introduce it into the senate. Several bills were introduced into the legislature, which touched upon the rights of women, notably, one affecting the right of dower, which, however, met with defeat in the assembly. In corresponding with Mr. Perkins who introduced this bill, he expressed the opinion that suffragists should favor this amendment, as it was now the law in most civilized countries and was introduced to limit the time during which common law wife could claim dower rights. Another bill, purporting to be introduced by Senator Lexow, makes a wife responsible for family bills, unless she specifically 28 The New York State states that her husband is alone responsible. This bill has failed to become a law. Your committee is happy to report that no further action was taken in the legislature in regard to amending the Consolidated School Law, on behalf of which so much work was done in committee last year. MARY HILLARD LOINES, Chairman. –––––––– REPORT OF PRESS COMMITTEE. Although questions of great national moment, during the past year, have filled the minds and hearts of the people, and likewise the space in the newspapers, still there has been no less a demand for the right kind of articles bearing upon the suffrage question. Articles pertaining to woman's work in time of war have been welcomed by the press and have been furnished them quite generally. One of the pet arguments of the opponents is that woman, being unable to bear arms in defense of her country, should have no voice in its affairs. The late war has served to illustrate the fact that women can and do play as important a part in times of war as in times of peace. It has been pretty thoroughly demonstrated that they are equally important in times of war with men. Then why should they not have an equal voice in deciding the necessity for war? Where will you find a man who has so unselfishly aided his country in time of need as has Helen Gould, or Clara Barton, or many another woman? And yet our government denies to these women any voice in choosing those who are to rule over its destinies, while giving the right to the most ignorant, degraded man. It would seem a most gracious act on the part of the government, to bestow the crown of full citizenship upon these women, in recognition of their services for their country and humanity. These are illustrations of the timely texts that are always present, from which strong suffrage arguments can be drawn and for which the newspapers will be pleased to give space There are newspapers and newspapers, which necessitates a great variety of matter, furnished in many different forms. The Woman Suffrage Association. 29 average newspaper, as found in the smaller cities, uses stereotyped plates, and many of them will gladly use suffrage matter if they can obtain it in this form, but will not be at the expense of setting type for special articles. Fifty papers in this state are furnished this matter free. There are many other papers that would like the plates, but the state funds will not warrant a further outlay of money in this direction. There is another large class of papers that depend upon the "patent outsides" or "insides" for their general reading matter, setting type only for local news. We are furnishing A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Co. of Chicago, with matter for their patent sheets. This is the largest company in the United States, having branch offices in all the principal cities. The number of newspapers supplied with suffrage matter through this company is very large. It is our intention to again try the publishers of other patent sheets. Four years ago we offered to furnish the publishers of these patent sheets with suffrage matter, but they all thought there was no demand for it. Now they very courteously reply that they will be pleased to use it. We have 150 papers that are using regularly duplicate articles upon suffrage, from the pens of some of our most prominent men and women. A new departure has been tried the past year which has proved a perfect success. The large illustrated Sunday papers have been furnished with illustrated sketches of some of our prominent state and national workers. While these are not strictly suffrage arguments, they nevertheless contain a strong suffrage lesson and never fail to secure a prominent position in the paper. Then we have the large city dailies, the most important by far, and the most dififuclt to reach. As a rule, these papers will use nothing but specials, No matter how fine an article may be, they object to it if it is to appear in any other paper. This is ideal press work, but requires a large force of writers which it is difficult to obtain free. The regular city reporters however, supply this need to a great extent, especially anything partaking of news. We should make it a point to furnish these reporters with any item of news that may come to us along these lines. They are always pleased to receive them and will not quibble about the suffrage bill. 30 The New York State Often we find articles that we have sent to a paper come out as editorials with very little change in phraseology ; others are written up as interviews with the writer of the article, anything to give it the appearance of a special. Requests for replies to articles that have appeared in some paper are of frequent occurrence, and are always wanted in a hurry for the next issue, which necessitates the state chairman to be in readiness at all times to throw everything aside and perhaps spend a half day in looking up facts with which to reply to their theories. We always make it a point as far as possible, to reply with well authenticated facts. In addition to this work there are county chairmen of press work in twenty-two counties who supply many additional papers. They all complain of the difficulty in finding women willing and able to give the time required to prep re an article for the press every week. The state chairman has endeavored to assist the local workers in every way possible by sending material and suggestions from which special articles could be prepared. The total expense for press work the past year has been $424.15. Of this, $222.30 has been for plate matter which is furnished the papers free, the remaining $210.85 has been for stamps, stationery, labor, and the Woman's Column which is furnished the county chairmen free. The National Bulletin is also furnished free to the county chairmen. I am of the same opinion as when first taking up the work that ideal press work must come through local press workers. Through them we could supply the papers with special articles of local interest, which would seldom fail in receiving space in a local paper ; but the impossibility of finding such workers is equally evident. The county chairmen almost invariably report that they have been unable to secure local workers for the papers in their respective counties, and therefore have been obliged to do what they could unaided by others. I cannot share in the feeling held by some that the average editor is opposed to publishing anything favorable to our cause if he can avoid it. I believe there are very few editors in this state who would refuse a short, spicy article bearing upon some point of local or general interest, no matter how strong a suffrage argument it contained. Woman Suffrage Association. 31 What we need is bright, energetic women who can show the fallacy of these arguments and bring facts to disprove their theories. I would appeal to every local club to see to it that some one is appointed in your town who will be on the alert and call attention to the inconsistencies and untruths that are continually being rehashed as logic and facts, and who will supply the local papers with any items of news that the paper may not have seen. ELNORA M. BABCOCK, Chairman. ______________ REPORT OF INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE. In this state there has been little labor legislation since our last convention in 1897. One bill passed whose object is to discourage the promoters of bogus labor organizations. The Duggists' Relief Bill passed both houses but was vetoed by Mayor VanWyck. There will be another bill in the interest of druggists and drug clerks introduced in the legislature during the session of 1899. As women are sometimes responsible for exactions in this respect, your chairman calls upon suffragists to look into this bill. The Employers' Liability Act rendering employers liable for injuries received by their employees through no wilful negligence or misconduct of their own, failed to pass. The strike in the state which has attracted the most attention is that of the Ladies' Tailors in New York city. The employers banded together for their own protection, refused to allow the workingmen to combine for theirs, and in their efforts to prevent this, violated a law of the state. There were other grievances. The attention of the sweat-shop committee of the Church Association for the Advancement of the Interests of Labor was attracted to this strike, and a joint committee of members from that association, the Social Reform Club and the Consumers' League are considering the matter. If no arbitration can be reached a co-operative shop for the benefit of the striking tailors will be established. Conciliation and arbitration are always the first consideration. If no settlement can be reached in this way other measures must be taken, but always of a strictly lawful character. 32 The New York State With regard to our growth and work your committee is glad to be able to report the establishment of an industrial committee by the Syracuse Political Equality Club and that to this committee is due the formation of the Consumers' League of Syracuse. In New York city an inspection of sweat-shops was made by the industrial committees of the Civic and Political Equality Union. In January, your chairman appeared before the convention of the State Federation of Labor and Workingmen's Assembly in place of Miss Arria Huntington, who has been appointed delegate. Your chairman was permitted to address the meeting, and with pleasure testifies to the interest exhibited in our cause. Referring to the progress in other organizations of women, the National Federation of Women's Clubs reports the formation of an industrial committee. The needs of the time demand increasing study of social problems, of which the cause of the enfranchisement of women is the most important, because it leaves a large class of unrepresented and yet subject to taxation. HARRIETTE A. KEYSER, Chairman. ______________ REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON WORK AMONG CHILDREN. The object of suffrage work with young people is to disseminate more definite knowledge of facts and a better understanding of our cause and its advocates. We are surprised that so little attention has been given to the young people. If we could but make thoughtfully alive a large number of the six million members of the various juvenile church societies, our hard work would be over. The time was never so opportune to interest and educate young people in suffrage work as now. Hundreds of thousands have been trained in temperance since the organization of the W. C. T. U. We want to preempt as many as we can of these thousands to work and vote for mother, home and country. At the last National W. C. T. U. Convention, held in Buffalo, your chairman was given free expression in executive meeting with the state superintendents, and since then the National Manual on Government Questions has been revised by the State Woman Suffrage Association. 33 Secretary of Loyal Temperance Legion work, Mrs. Metcalf, in our favor. In educational journals and other literature we find frequent reference to a more liberal and careful education for good citizenship. We hear of debates on Woman Suffrage in schools, halls and parlors in which the right mostly wins the day. The "Andrew and Philip" Club of Auburn, held a debate on the subject last week, in which it was decided that the "alone woman," the widow or married lady only, should have the privilege of the ballot. The plan of work suggested in our executive meeting last year at Geneva was to enter schools or societies of young people already organized, and to organize societies under the auspices of our own clubs. What next? A manual, with questions and answers, to be used as studies in our own societies and as supplementary reading in others, was considered essential. Your chairman was authorized to prepare such a manual, and a sum of money was appropriated to aid in the work. Filled with renewed zeal she returned to her home and a large correspondence was established before the object of the same was accomplished— which was to secure the right kind of people to prepare the different lessons. They were finally secured and arranged as follows : 1. Points on Parliamentary Law, by Orpha Marie Conklin. 2. Woman's Position in the State, by Margaret Wintringer. 3. Progress during the Past Century, by Margaret Wintringer. 4. Today, and a Prophecy of the Future, by Susan B. Anthony. (Arena article). 5. What is Woman Suffrage and What Class of Women Are Asking for It ? 6. Some Answers to the Women Protestants. 7. Why Women Want the Vote and How Young People Can Help Them, by Lavinia R. Davis, M. D. 8. A Suffrage Lesson from the United States Constitution, by Martha Griffith Davenport. 9. Sayings of the Clever and Wise of Our Day and of the Early Reformers. 10. Questions on Civil Government, by Lillian Cole Bethel. 11. What Is Proportional Representation, by Stoughton Cooley. 12. Famous Women as Pioneer Educators, by Mary A. Livermore. Words of encouragement were received from Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake and Mrs. M. W. Chapman. Miss Frances E. Willard sent a special message for the manual. George T. Angel, President of the American Band of Mercy, and Mrs. Lovell, Superintendent of the Department of Mercy in the World's and National W. C. T. U., have expressed themselves most kindly, and Archbishop Ireland's letter I should like to give in full. But the manual is still in embryo. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt suggested at the National Convention that it should be prepared so that all the states could use it. The financial side has been a barrier and the war thought has seemed to absorb all energy. Your chairman has also been unusually busy in other ways. Now, I would say, we have all the needed material, what shall we do with it ? We would advise, for society work, beside regular lessons once a month, oratorical suffrage contests, debates and prize essays to be read in a public hall or in private parlors as young America may plan. We believe our young people could use to great advantage, not only our own, but literature prepared by the "League of Social Service," which was organized this year with Miss Jane Addams and Bishop John H. Vincent upon its committee or direction. Phillips Brooks has said, "He who helps a child helps humanity with a distinctness, with an immediateness which no other help given to human creatures in any other stage of their human life can possibly give again." J. MARY PEARSON, Chairman. ______________ REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE. The Finance Committee decided to send out the remainder of the brick postals, a plan for raising money devised by Mrs. Maude S. Humphrey, deceased, and first tried by her in 1895. They were sent out this year with the request that friends contribute in her memory. $54.20 was raised in this way. Quarter-cards were next sent out. These were similar to cards used by the Outlook and other periodicals for securing three months' subscriptions. $29.45 was collected by this means. Other contributions amounted to $19, making the entire sum collected by your committee, $102.65.* Mrs. Carrie Hawley Bucklin of Ithaca gave most efficient aid in the committee. ZOBEDIA ALLEMAN, Chairman. ____________ REPORT OF SCHOOL SUFFRAGE COMMITTEE. At the State Executive meeting held in Elmira last May, a committee on School Suffrage was appointed and I was made chairman. Mrs. Chapman gave me authority to add to the number of the committee and have it scattered over the state, so that the women taking charge of four or five counties would be more apt to be acquainted with the workers and thus secure better help. I had 2,500 circular letters printed at first, and later another thousand, as the women seemed very willing to assist in this work. I mailed many hundred in counties where no one was secured to take charge. The expense of the work to the association was only about $17.00. Most of the committee and others assisting donated their postage. There seems to be a growing interest on the part of women in the schools of the state and they are beginning to appreciate the right they have to participate in the elections. Many women are serving on school boards and some are acting as county commissioners. ELLA HAWLEY CROSSETT, Chairman. ___ * For itemized statement see the Treasurer's report. COUNTY REPORTS. ALBANY. President—Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell, 32 Lancaster St. Vice-President—Mrs. M. E. Cleveland. Recording Secretary—Mrs. Sarah A. L. Boeuf, 399 Washington Ave. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Aletta N. Underhill, 46 Lancaster St. Treasurer—Miss Mary Lyman Storrs, 28 N. Pearl St. (All of Albany City). The Albany County Political Equality Club held its annual meeting, October 31, 1898. Papers were read, addresses given and fine music was rendered. Officers were elected for the coming year for the coming year and delegates to the state convention chosen. The club, although it has met with the loss of many members by death and removal to other localities, yet by addition of new members, numbers about the same. A most serious loss to the club was the departure of Mrs. Jennie E. R. McKinney, our Recording Secretary, and her mother to Phelps, Ontario County, but a very happy surprise awaited them in finding a Political Equality Club in their new home. Rev. Dr. Brundage, a member of our club, gave an eloquent sermon on Woman Suffrage, last November. Albany County is not organized. The villages are small and nearly all have a Temperance Union, so that in such places it seems almost impossible to have also a suffrage organization. However, we should be very glad to have an organizer sent through our county. In Albany we need a live city club but so far we have not been able to find a president. MARY SEYMOUR HOWELL, President. ALLEGANY. President—Mrs. Ida K. Church, Wellsville. Vice-President—Mrs. Eliza B. Fries, Friendship. Recording Secretary—Mrs. S. H. Morgan, Cuba. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Nora E. Darling, Wellsville. Treasurer—Mrs. Lizzie Smith, Friendship. LOCAL CLUBS. ANDOVER—"Lucy Stone Club,"—President, Mrs. Roxy B. Burrows. CUBA—"Greenleaf Club,"—President, Mrs. Sylvia Whitney. FRIENDSHIP—"Anna Shaw Club,"—President, Mrs. Eliza B. Fries. WELLSVILLE—"Anthony Club,"—President, Mrs. Nora E. Darling. TOWN COMMITTEES. Allentown, Mrs. Mary Caldwell ; Belfast, Mrs. H. H. Marsh ; Belmont, Mrs. A. M. Anderson ; Filmore, Miss Mary E. Crowley ; Fullmer Valley, Mrs. M. G. Stout ; Hallsport, Mrs. Olive W. Parker ; Little Genesee, Miss Mary E. Bowler.; Oramel, Mrs. V. I. Butler ; Scio, Mrs. W. Q. Browning ; Spring Mills, Mrs. R. H. Robbins ; Whitesville, Mrs. P. K. Millspaugh. The Allegany County Political Equality Club held its third annual convention at the Methodist Church in Friendship, May 3, 1898. Four clubs were represented—the Lucy Stone Club of Andover, the Anthony Club of Wellsville, the Anna Shaw Club of Friendship, and the Greenleaf Club of Cuba. The meeting was called to order at 10:30 A. M., by the President, Mrs. Ida K. Church. After devotional exercises and in the absence of the Recording Secretary, a newspaper report of the last meeting was read by Mrs. Nora E. Darling, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. W. Smith, the Treasurer, gave her report, which was followed by the appointment of committees. The reports from the different clubs were then given, showing that active work is being done in Allegany County. The election of officers was then held ; also of delegates to the state convention. The discussion of the plan of work was opened by Mrs. Chapman, State President, who gave many splendid suggestions. The discussion was followed by an interesting paper by Mrs. Sylvia Whitney, President of the Greenleaf Club of Cuba, "Status of Women in the Nineteenth Century." The afternoon session was called to order at 2 o'clock. The address of welcome by Mrs. Eliza B. Fries, President of the Anna Shaw Club, and the response by Mrs. Church, were followed by a very fine paper. "Women as Bread-Winners," by Mrs. Laura B. Gish of Wellsville. The address, "Women in 1848, and Women in 1898," by Mrs. Mariana W. Chapman, our State President was enjoyed and appreciated by all. Mrs. Chapman held the attention of her audience to the end and all felt that May 3, 1898, was a red letter day for the Political Equality Clubs of Allegany County. The Anthony Club is studying "The Problems of Citizenship." We have divided our work into topics and arranged our programs accordingly. During May we studied Social Purity ; during September, Dependent Races ; and so on throughout the year, other topics being Temperance, Civics, Patriotism, &c. We aim to have as many original papers and discussions upon each topic as may be. The Lucy Stone Club of Andover and the Greenleaf Club of Cuba are studying civil government, beside following largely the outline program used in the Anthony Club. The Anna Shaw Club of Friendship is studying civics and United States history. At the breaking out of the war, several meetings were devoted to the Cuban question. In February, the club voted to start a free public library and with the assistance of two other literary clubs of our town, a library of eight hundred volumes with about three hundred readers is the result. There are twenty-seven members and $6.00 is contributed each year to the state organization, the amount being raised by penny 38 The New York State collections. It is the aim of each club to educate its members in every problem of citizenship. NORA E. DARLING, Corresponding Secretary. CATTARAUGUS President––Mrs. Maria F. Lee, Little Valley. COMMITTEES. Randolph––Mrs. Mary L. Adams. Salamanca––Mrs. Louise A. Banton. CAYUGA. President––Miss Emily Howland, Sherwood. Vice-President at Large––Mrs. Eliza Wright Osborne, South St., Auburn. Recording Secretary––Mrs. Jennie Candee Robinson, 70 Fulton St., Auburn. Corresponding Secretary––Mrs. Zobedia Alleman, Union Springs. Treasurer––Mrs. Sarah A. White, 41 Clark St., Auburn. Auditors––{ Mrs. Effa C. Dunning, Fort St., Auburn. { Miss Sara Wadsworth, W. Genesee St., Auburn. STANDING COMMITTEES. Press––Mrs. Helen H. Root, Port Byron. Legislative––Mrs. Frances B. Aiken, 21 Orchard St., Auburn. School Suffrage––Mrs. Adelaide Howell, Fleming. LOCAL CLUBS. AUBURN. Society for Political Education––President, Mrs. Jennie Candee Robinson, 70 Fulton St. Political Equality Club––President, Mrs. Eliza Wright Osborne, South St. Poplar Ridge––President, Mrs. Amelia G. Searing. Sherwood-–President, Mrs. Hannah L. Howland. Union Springs––President, Mrs. Zobedia Alleman. TOWN COMMITTEES. (Given by Postoffices). Fair Haven, Mrs. V. E. Stafford; Ira, Mrs. John Talmage; Cato, Mrs. Anna Bassett; Conquest, Miss Minnie J. Collins; Meridian, Miss Edith J. Van Doren; Weedsport, Miss Ida Williams; Montezuma, Mrs. Ellen Beach; Throop, Mrs. Bedford Harlow; Port Byron, Mrs. Helen H. Root; Owasco, Miss Mary Branch: Cayuga, Mrs. Laura A. Yawger; Levanna, Mrs. Elizabeth Wakely; Dresserville, Dr. Helen M. Westfall; Locke, Woman Suffrage Association. 39 Miss Lucinda Harris; Sennett, Mrs. Hiram Mason; Fleming, Mrs. Avis Buckland; Mapleton, Mrs. E. Mosher; Scipio Cneter, Mrs. Gertrude Aikin; Scipioville, Mrs. Rhobie Sisson, Mrs. Ada D. W. Gifford; Genoa, Mrs. Eliza Beardsley; East Genoa, Miss Sophronia Lowe; Moravia, Mrs. Alwilda Atwood, Mrs. P. J. Adams, Mrs. Gertrude Wood; Ledyard, Mrs. Coral Ely; Niles, Mrs. Clara A. A. Beagle; Aurora, Miss Anna Hussey; Ellsworth, Mrs. Willard Akin; Venice Center, Miss Sarah J. Hull, Mrs. E Florence Murdock; Five Croners, Miss Jennie Peck. The Political Equality Club of Cayuga County held its 7th annual meeting on the 26th of October. Delegates were present from different parts of the county and reports were received and read from some localities not represented. The reports showed that even during the months when the horrors of battlefield and hospital "filled our souls with dread alarms," our cause was not wholly forgotten and some good work for it was done. The appeal to women to attend their respective school meetings issued by the mid-year conference of the State Association was widely circulated. It is gratifying to report that women have attended in more districts and in larger numbers than ever before, outnumbering the men in many instances. Women were elected trustees in several districts. Reports were read from the different clubs as follows: Union Spring Club had pursued a course of study and had interested itself in the public school of the town. Poplar Ridge reported the principal work done to have been for school suffrage, with encouraging results. Mrs. Root form Port Byron told of an interesting debate on Woman Suffrage between students of the High School, in that village. A report from Venice, sent by Mrs. Florence Murdock, told of the fine address given by or leader, Susan B. Anthony, at the Farmers' Festival at that place, where, one bright day last August, 2,000 people were assembled. The Auburn Society for Political Education reported a membership fo twenty-four. Capital and labor and co-operation were the topics of several meetings. Standing committees reported faithfully in their departments and interest was manifest in all their meetings. The Auburn Political Equality Club had made an effort to secure a woman physician for the women criminals in the prison––an effort not yet successful––and had discussed the formation of a society to improve the city, to prevent mutilation of trees, etc. It had met regularly and had studied Civil Government. Membership 25. The Sherwood Equal Rights Association reported 50 members, men and women. It had met monthly for the discussion of current political questions and the study of Civil Government. It celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first Women's Rights Convention in 1848, by an open air meeting. A program was prepared and short talks given showing the progress of women in the last half century in politics, education, the industries, and the professions. [Top of Page One] 40 The New York State A memorial meeting for Frances E. Willard was held. The community had the honor and pleasure of listening to our revered Susan B. Anthony, and later to the eloquent Rev. Anna H. Shaw. EMILY HOWLAND, President. CHAUTAUQUA. President—Mrs. Ellen Cheney, Poland Center. Vice-President at Large—Mrs. Elnora M. Babcock, Dunkirk. Recording Secretary—Miss M. Jennie Prescott, Fredonia. Corresponding Secretary— Treasurer—Mrs. Martha Fuller Prather, 863 Prendergast Ave., Jamestown Auditors—Mrs. Harriet Chase, Jamestown. Mrs. Lizzie Starr, Fredonia. Mrs. Jennie Allen, Fredonia. STANDING COMMITTEES. CHAUTAUQUA—Mrs. Martha F. Henderson, Jamestown. Mrs. Ellen Cheney, Poland Center. LEGISLATIVE—Mrs. Evaline R. Clarke, South Stockton. PRESS—Mrs. Eliza C. Gifford, Jamestown. LITERATURE—Mrs. Harriet M. Chase, 433 East Fourth St., Jamestown. LOCAL CLUBS. DUNKIRK—President, Mrs. Georgianna McBride. FLUVANNA—President, Mrs. Sarah M. Bentley. FREDONIA—President, Mrs. Lizzie Starr. JAMESTOWN—Acting President, Mrs. Martha Fuller Prather. KENNEDY—President, Mrs. Ellen Cheney. SOUTH STOCKTON—President, Mrs. Hannah D. Love. Chautauqua County this year appears to be satisfied with wearing the laurels previously won, and reports only six local clubs. The annual meeting of the County Club was held in Dunkirk in October, and was merely a business meeting. There were present members from Dunkirk, Fredonia, Fluvanna, Jamestown, Kennedy and South Stockton Clubs, and all reported for their respective localities. Mrs. Allen reported her work on the State Committee on School Suffrage. Mrs. Cheney reported her correspondence with the Chautauqua authorities, and Mrs. Gifford sent a written report of her work with the newspapers. There was a spirited discussion of the club situation in the county, and some revival work volunteered. During the year there have been held as usual, the two public meetings at Chautauqua and at Lily Dale. A large audience heard Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt at Chautauqua on "True Democracy," and many pronounced her the most forcible, and the most charming of all the speakers who have championed the cause of Woman Suffrage on that platform. There were several speakers [Top of Page Two] Woman Suffrage Association. 41 at Lily Dale on Woman's Day, but chief among them was Mrs. Mary E. Lease. Most excellent work is done through the local press by Mrs. Eliza C. Gifford, who makes use of many and various opportunities to write short articles which point out the absurdity of disfranchising one-half the citizens of the state. ELLEN CHENEY, President. CHEMUNG. President—Rev. Annis Ford Eastman, Park Church, Elmira. LOCAL CLUB AT ELMIRA. President—Mrs. Ella N. Wasson, 480 South Ave. The club in Elmira held monthly meetings last year under the leadership of different members. We had no course of study but we did have some good papers. Our attendance averaged about 50. The Board of Trade offered us the use of its rooms. The interest kept up pretty well all the year. We hope next year to do some reading and study. One public meeting was held in the new City Hall. On May 5, the Mid-Year Executive meeting of the State Association was held with us. A successful public meeting in the evening closed the session. ANNIS FORD EASTMAN, County President. CHENANGO. President—Mrs. Ellen A. Clark, Bainbridge. COMMITTEES. NORTH PITCHER—Mrs. Emma Bates Smith. NORWICH—Miss Jennie L. Harris. CLINTON. President—Mrs. Alice H. Ricketson, 32 1/2 Loraine St., Plattsburgh. A Political Equality committee has been formed in Plattsburgh by Mrs. Ricketson and interesting meetings have been held. COLUMBIA. President—Miss Kornelia T. Andrews, Hudson. LOCAL CLUB AT HUDSON. President—Mrs. H. Lyle Smith. COMMITTEE AT GHENT. Chairman—Mrs. Marcia Chase Powell. The Political Equality Club of Hudson reorganized in November, 1897, and the old officers were re-elected. The club consisted at the time of nine 42 The New York State active members. The National Course of study was followed. In November of this year, 1893, the state convention was held in Hudson and as a result of the great interest aroused, it is hoped that a county club may be formed and many new members gained. KORNELIA T. ANDREWS, County President. CORTLAND President—Mrs. Lucy L. Linderman, Cortland. LOCAL CLUB AT CORTLAND. President—Mrs. Lucy L. Linderman. The Local Club at Cortland was organized May 10th, by Harriet May Mills, with 11 members. Our meetings are held the third Monday of each month at the homes of the members. We have now 20 members and our meetings are full of interest and very encouraging. We observe parliamentary rules to the letter. We have done some good work along the line of School Suffrage. We are now trying to get the curfew bell a village ordinance and expect to succeed. We have given to the public one lecture by Rev. Annis F. Eastman of Elmira. It was attended by the most cultured of the town and we feel that it did much to overcome the spirit of prejudice that assails our cause. We are preparing to have a parlor meeting. Our club is not made up of faint-hearted and doubtful women, but full of determination to do our part in the battle. We have been called to mourn the loss of one of our esteemed members, Mrs. Bertha Payson Kenyon, the wife of Rev. John Kenyon of the Universalist church, who died Jan 14th. She was a beautiful woman and beloved by all who knew her. LUCY L. LINDERMAN, President. DUTCHESS. President—Miss Margaret Livingston Chanler, Barrytown, (Winter address 317 W. 74th St., New York.) ERIE. —President—Mrs. Abbie J. Lawton, Lawtons. —Vice-President at Large—Mrs. A. O. Williams, 254 Franklin St, Buffalo. —Recording Secretary—Miss E. Ferguson, West Falls. —Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Ellen L. Ford, North Collins. —Treasurer—Mrs. Ida Bundry, Angola. LOCAL CLUBS. —ANGOLA —President, Mrs. Abbie Shipman. —BUFFALO —President, Mrs. E. C. Sprague, 254 Franklin St. —LAWTONS —President, Mrs. S. V. Kerr. —NORTH COLLINS —President, Mrs. A. M. Cook. —WEST FALLS —President, Rev. Caroline A. Bassett. Woman Suffrage Association. 43 Although this country has experienced no boom in suffrage work during the past year, there has been good healthy growth. When we organized one year ago there were three clubs in the county and about 60 members. Today we boast of five clubs and eighty members. A county convention was held at North Collins, May 24, which was largely attended. The program consisted of papers and discussions. In the evening Miss Harriet May Mills of Syracuse gave an excellent address. The week following Miss Mills gave several lectures in the county and organized a club at Angola. November 1, a county meeting was held at North Collins. The Buffalo Club reported having held two or three public meetings at the house of Mrs. Williams, which were addressed by public speakers upon subjects pertaining to municipal government. The North Collins and Angola Clubs had been studying civics. The Lawton Club had taken up department work and given special attention to the department of suffrage. LUCIE A. SHERMAN. Ex-President. ESSEX. —President —Mrs. Henrietta M. Banker, Keene Valley, (P. O., Ausable Forks.) —Vice-President at Large —Mrs. Ada C. De Lano, Ticonderoga. Recording Secretary —Mrs. M. H. Cook, Ticonderoga. —Corresponding Secretary —Mrs. Hannah Gertrude Flanders, Bloomingdale. —Treasurer —Mrs. Amanda Storrs, Upper Jay. LOCAL CLUBS. —KEENE VALLEY —President, Mrs. Henrietta M. Banker, Ausable Forks. —TICONDEROGA —President, Mrs. J. Milton De Lano. The Political Equality Club of Keene Valley has held regular meetings during the year, once in two weeks. The National Course of Study was followed and subjects relative to Woman Suffrage and Agricultural were discussed. Much interest was manifested. At the close of each meeting light refreshments were served. Seventy-five dollars was contributed for suffrage work during the year. The Ticonderoga Club held no regular meetings during the year but sent dues. HENRIETTA M. BANKER, President, GENESEE. —President —Mrs. Jennie C. Baker, Batavia. —Vice-President at Large —Mrs. J. C. Walker, Byron. —Recording Secretary —Mrs. Sylvina M. Greene, South Byron. —Corresponding Secretary —Mrs. J. F. Rich, Batavia. —Treasurer —Mrs. Anna M. Brownell, Batavia. {Mrs. Kerslake. Auditors — {Mrs. Bennett. [Top of Page One] 44 The New York State LOCAL CLUBS. BATAVIA—President, Mrs. Helen Moss Sherwin. BYRON—President, Mrs. Sylvina M. Greene, South Byron. LEROY—Chairman of Committee, Mrs. H. E. Walker. At the annual meeting of the Batavia P.. E. Club, Mrs. Helen Moss Sherwin was re-elected President, and the rooms formerly occupied by the club were retained in which fortnightly meetings are held regularly. The study of Spain is being pursued with two papers on the subject at each meeting. Oral topics, alternating with talks on woman's work and progress, occupy fifteen minutes at each meeting. Federation topics are also discussed. The Byron Club at its annual meeting re-elected Mrs. Sylvina M. Greene, president. This being in a farming district, meetings are held during the summer instead of in the winter. The Byron Club lost by death last year one of its most valued members, Mrs. Kate Terry Steele. Mrs. Steele had also been treasurer of the County P. E. Club since its organization. ANNA M. BROWNELL, Ex-President. GREENE. President—Mrs. Sabra Root, Catskill. LOCLA CLUB AT CATSKILL. President—Mrs. Sabra Root. HERKIMER. President—Mrs. Margaret A. Bellinger, Ilion. Sentiment is surely and steadily growing, although we have at present no suffrage organizations. During the past year Miss Harriet May Mills has lectured in the county. School suffrage circulars were sent out and forty women voted at school meetings. Other work was done through correspondence. M. A. B. KINGS. President—Mrs. Cornelia K. Hood, 21 First Place. Vice-President at Large—Mrs. Cornelia H. Cary, 33 Pierrepont St. Recording Secretary—Miss Julia Hicks, 3 Plaza St. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Eleanor M. Litchfield, 62 S. Portland Ave. Auditors—Mrs. Julia O. Perry, 30 First Pl. Mrs. Mariana W. Chapman, 160 Hicks St. Mrs. Priscilla D. Hackstaff, 282 Jefferson Ave. (All of Brooklyn). 46 The New York State incidental expenses and show a good remaining balance. Added together, over $500 has been collected in Kings County during this year for suffrage work. Without the exciting stimulus of an active legislative campaign, with such a financial and vigorous work record, the forward movement is evident and the outlook good for future prosperity and success. CORNELIA K. HOOD, President. LIVINGSTON. Corresponding Secretary--Mrs. E. G. Tiffany, Dansville. Recording Secretary--Mrs. E. H. Readshaw, Dansville. Treasurer--Mrs. Mary R. Boyd, South Livonia. LOCAL CLUBS. DANSVILLE--President, Mrs. O. A. Bunnell. NUNDA--President, Mrs. Kate E. Haines. CONESUS--Committee Chairman, Mrs. Dimmis Cole. The Dansville Club holds fortnightly meetings with a very good attendance. It is studying Political Economy. The women throughout the county are said to be interested in the Woman Suffrage cause.. MADISON. President--Mrs. Mary Bush Hitchcock, 121 Madison Street, Oneida. Committee at Cazenoiva--Mrs. George D. Bailey, Mrs. M. Helen Hemingway. LOCAL CLUB AT ONEIDA. President--Mrs. Mary Bush Hitchcock, 121 Madison Street. The Political Equality Club of Oneida, voted during the year to become auxiliary to the State Association. It has a small but enthusiastic membership. The program for the second season of '97 and '98, arranged by the President, mrs. Mary B. Hitchcock, included committees upon affairs at Washington and Albany, municipal matters, parliamentary usages, child culture and economics. Weekly meetings were held, and continued, because of the general interest, a month later than usual. The club appointed a committee to interview our member of assembly in behalf of the suffrage amendment. Considerable effort was made to secure attendance at school meetings. A parlor meeting addressed by Miss Mills was well attended, and recently the club and a number of invited guests listened to Mrs. W. W. Teall of Syracuse. The current year opens with an increased membership. LAVINIA R. DAVIS, M.D., Corresponding Secretary. Woman Suffrage Association. 47 MONROE. President--Mrs. Martha J. Hadley Stebbins, Churchville. Vice-President at Large--Mrs. Maria Whipple, Irondequoit. Recording Secretary--Miss Emma Pollard, Charlotte. Corresponding Secretary--Mrs. Helen Chase Anthony, 365 West Ave., Rochester. Treasurer--Mrs. M. D. Fenner, 30 N. Washington St., Rochester. Auditors--{Mrs. S. Blackall, 178 University Ave., Rochester. {Mrs. Lydia Parish, Churchville. LOCAL CLUBS. CHARLOTTE--President, Mrs. Josephine Wilder Stace. CHURCHVILLE--President, Mrs. Martha J. Hadley Stebbins. IRONDEQUOIT--President, Mrs. Maria Whipple. ROCHESTER--President, Miss Mary S. Anthony, 17 Madison St. The membership of Monroe County has improved since last year, as is manifested by a slight increase of its dues to the state; and it has, I think, conscientiously responded to all the requests for service made by the beloved State President. The local clubs of the county have done good work. The Rochester club has most successfully carried out its year's program for instruction and entertainment. Among other things, this club undertook to hold a public discussion of the questions of woman's political enfranchisement, in the largest theatre in the city. The affirmative side was to be presented by Miss Susan B. Anthony, Rev. Anna H. Shaw and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. Messieurs Joseph Choate, Elihu Root, Rev. Dr. Buckley, Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, Mrs. Anna Parker Pruyn and Mrs. W. Winslow Crannell were invited to present the negative view of the subject. Unfortunately no one of the Anti-Suffragists could be secured. The large field was consequently abandoned and one man being found in Rochester willing to take the negative side, he was invited to do so at a large parlor meeting, members of the club assuming the affirmative. He made his points with freedom and force, but his frail bark stranded upon the rocks of the affirmative argument and became a wreck. It is needless to say that the plan was an excellent one for the club, and one to be recommended to others. The club in Churchville has filled out a very remarkable year of study and activity, the report of which at the County Convention resulted in its efficient president being selected for the office of county president for the ensuing year. The other clubs of the county reported growing interest, paid their dues promptly, and their share of the county's pledge to the state. The press work has been in the charge of Mrs. Frances Munger for the past year, but other duties compelled her to resign and we have good reason to believe the present incumbent, Mrs. Maurer, being less busy, will be able to enlarge the scope of work done. The October Convention was a very successful one, addressed by Miss [Header Page One] 48 The New York State Anthony and Rev. Anna H. Shaw. The delegates chosen to represent us at the State Convention were instructed to pledge $25 for state work. The treasurer reported a balance on hand of $85.15 and while our showing is not what it ought to be, our field is ready for the harvest, and we confidently affirm that Monroe is neither dead nor sleeping, but under its new leaer is ready to show herself worthy the honor of being the home of Susan B. Anthony. JEAN B. GREENLEAF, Ex-President. NEW YORK. President—Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, 210 W. 59th St. Vice-Presidents—Mrs. Theodosia C. Goss, 97 Varick St. Mrs. Esther Herrman, 59 W. 56th St. Dr. Phoebe J. B. Wait, 412 Ninth Ave. Miss Harriette A. Keyser, 412 W. 99th St. Recording Secretary—Miss Hannah A. Babcock, 412 Ninth Ave. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Katherine Remington, 7 W. 26th St. Treasurer—Mme.. Van Norman, 280 W. 71st St. Chairman Executive Committee—Mrs. Theresa Barcalow, 141 W. 34th St. During the year nine regular meetings of the league were held on the first Thursday evening of each month, from October to June, inclusive. They took place in the pleasant rooms of Dr. Phoebe J. B. Waite, at 412 Ninth Ave., on the corner of 34th St. Many prominent persons addressed the various meetings, among them Mrs. Augusta Cooper Bristol, Mrs. Mary E. Craigie, Mr. Bolton Hall, Hon. H. H. Lusk, of New Zealand, Hon. L. Bradford Prince of New Mexico, Mrs. Julia N. Powell, of the Brooklyn Board of Education, Mrs. Priscilla D. Hackstaff and Mr. Josiah Collins Pumpelly. The Pilgrim Mothers' Dinner took place as usual, on the 22d of December, 1897, at the Waldorf-Astoria. A brilliant gathering of representative women made the occasion memorable. Among the speakers were Miss Annie S. Peck, the mountain climber; Mrs. Cornelia K. Hood, Mrs. Priscilla D. Hackstaff, and Miss Harriette A. Keyser. Original poems were recited by Mrs. Sophia Almon Hensley and Mrs. Belle Grey Taylor. During the year the league aided the national and state treasuries by handsome contributions, and also assisted in the legislative work by sending letters and memorials to many persons. LILLIE DEVEREUX BLAKE, President. NIAGARA. President—Mrs. Carrie S. Lerch, 306 West Ave., Lockport. Vice-President at Large—Mrs. Emma Taylor, Johnson Creek. Recording Secretary—Mrs. Jennie M. Knowles, Lockport. Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Mary F. Sterrett, 11 La Grange St., Lockport. Treasurer—Mrs. Margaret McDonough, 109 Chestnut St., Lockport. [Header Page Two] Woman Suffrage Association. 49 LOCAL CLUBS. JOHNSON CREEK—President, Mrs. Emma Taylor. LOCKPORT—President, Mrs. Josephine A. Sharp. COMMITTEE AT NIAGARA FALLS. Chairman—Mrs. Cathcart, 360 First St. Our annual meeting was held on October 15th at my home. The opening exercises were signing, scripture reading and prayer. Officers were elected for the ensuing year, other usual business transacted and reports received from local clubs. The Lockport Club had held twenty-give regular meetings during the year which had been announced in three daily papers, as well as in the weeklies. It had raised and expended more money than in any previous year ; had distributed many thousand pages of suffrage literature and had subscribed for the usual number of Journals and Tribunes. School meeting was largely attended and in my own district the women polled within three as many votes as the men. The Second Assembly District has a woman school commissioner. Fewer women than usual had attended Suffrage Day at Ontario Park (Niagara's Chautauqua), but the suffrage song leaflets were used and Mrs. Cora E. Seberry made a strong and convincing address. Josephine A. Sharp, local and true, is still president of the Lockport Club. New members have been received into the club, but a corresponding number have been lost by removal and withdrawal. Lena A. Crosby, a valued member, passed into the land of shadows last April. Miss Belle Kearney lately gave two reform addresses in our city which were very successful. Christian Citizenship was her last subject. The Johnson Creek Club, Mrs. Emma Taylor, President, has held twelve meetings during the year. Fourteen members paid dues. Interesting readings on the subjects especially pertaining to women's work along suffrage lines occupied a large part of the time at the club meetings. CARRIE S. LERCH, President. ONEIDA. President—Mrs. Elizabeth C. Beers, Trenton. COMMITTEES. UTICA—Mrs. Charlotte A. Uhlein, 15 Faxton St. VERNON—Miss Sarah A. Williams. ONONDAGA. President—Miss M. Florence Gregory, Skaneateles. Recording Secretary—Miss Alice I. Chamberlain, Elbridge. Corresponding Secretary—Miss Mary Fulton, Skaneateles. Treasurer—Miss Mabel Potter, Post-Standard Office, Syracuse. [Header Page One] 50 The New York State LOCAL CLUBS. ELDRIDGE—President, Mrs. Julia Monroe. SKANEATELES—President, Miss M. Florence Gregory. SYRACUSE—President, Miss Harriet May Mills, 926 W. Genesee St. The past year in Onondaga County has brought strength to the Woman Suffrage workers to be measured as much in the general gain in sentiment as in the membership which has at least not declined. The Skaneateles Club has held enthusiastic meetings. It also played the part of hostess at the annual county convention. This was held in the Skaneateles Library Hall on one of the hottest days in August. The Local Club served lunch to officers and delegates at the home of one of the members. At the public meeting in the afternoon papers and addresses were given by the retiring President, Miss Jenney, by Mrs. Teall, Miss Potter, Miss Chamberlin, Miss Gregory and Miss Mills. The Syracuse Club worked through committees during the winter. These were educational, municipal, philanthropic, industrial, social and a committee on press work. Practical work was done by all these committees. The following program was carried out: PROGRAM. 1897. Oct. 7: RECEPTION TO CLUB, 3 to 6 P. M., at home of Miss Harriet May Mills, 926 West Genesee St. Oct. 28 CURRENT LEGISLATION. 2:30 P. M., Kanatenah Parlors, Legislative Committee, Miss Julie R. Jenney, Chairman. Nov. 17. MODERN ART. 2:30 P. M., Kanatenah Parlors, Prof. Luella Stewart, Chairman. Dec. 15 PUBLIC CHARITIES. 2:30 P. M., Kanatenah Parlors, Philanthropic Committee, Miss Arria S. Huntington, Chairman. 1898. Jan. 12. CLUB TEA, 3 to 6 P. M., at the home of Miss Harriet Goodyear, 509 James Street. Jan. 19. EDUCATION OF TODAY. 2:30 P. M., Kanatenah Parlots, Educational Committee, Mrs. E. C. Wright, Chairman. Jan. —. PUBLIC LECTURE by Rev. Anna H. Shaw, (Date and place to be announced later.) Feb. 16. WOMEN'S PRESENT INDUSTRIAL CONDITION. 2:30 P. M., Kanatenah Parlors. Industrial Committe, Mrs. P. B. Brayton, Chairman. THE SWEATING SYSTEM, Miss Charlotte Wilkinson. Mar. 16. SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE FIRST WOMAN SUFFRAGE CONVENTION. 8:00 P. M., Women's Union Hall, Address by Susan B. Anthony. [Header Page Two] Woman Suffrage Association. 51 Apr. 20. MUNICIPAL REFORMS. 2:30 P. M., Kanatenah Parlors, Municipal Committee, Dr. Helen Cullings, Chairman. May 18. ANNUAL MEETING. 2:30 P. M., Kanatenah Parlors. ONTARIO. President—Miss Anne F. Miller, Geneva. LOCAL CLUBS. GENEVA—President, Miss Anne F. Miller. PHELPS—President, Miss Mary Coolidge. Ontario County appeared for the first time in connection with the State Suffrage Association, in. its last report, Miss Mary Coolidge, as President. Miss Phelps requests me to give an account of the two local clubs of our county, Geneva and Phelps. The organization of the Geneva Club by Miss Mills and Miss Jenney occurred on Nov. 30, 1897. A short report of the occasion was written for the annual report of the state by the Corresponding Secretary, Miss Elizabeth Root, in which it appears that fifty-one signatures to the constitution were obtained at that time. The names of 112 men and women are now on the list. Our membership has more than doubled, and we are entitled to two delegates in this convention. In our club meetings we endeavor to combine with the suffrage an interest in the general government and in matters of public import in our immediate vicinity. A class in civics is held once a week from September until June. The textbook is Fiske's "Civil Government in the United States." The class is in charge of Doctor Caroline Perkins and Mr. Charles Hemlup, one of the leading lawyers of our city. The fact of the sustained interest and increased membership of this class encourages the belief in the real usefulness of our club. Open monthly meetings are held in some commodious hall from November to May. The programs are varied. Beside reports from special committees we have a question box, which gives the members an opportunity to answer as well as to ask questions. One of our pioneer suffragists, Mrs. Maria Remington Hemlup, is chairman of the question box. Persons prominent in public affairs are invited to discuss them for our benefit. Early in the year Mr. P. N. Nicholas, one of the framers of the newly adopted city charter, gave an account of that document, and subsequently Mr. Frederick Malette, the President of the Board of Public Works, read a paper on roadways and the relative value of different pavements. At one of three afternoon meetings, which should be mentioned as a feature of our last season, Mrs. Anna Botsford Comstock of Cornell University gave us an inspiring account of the marked success of Miss VanRensselaer in her work as school inspector in Cattaraugus Co. For Mr. John Robertson of London, the club engaged the Opera House and distributed 1,000 free tickets. Mr. Robertson made an able address on "The Vote for Women," and even the most conservative were favorably impressed. Our next undertaking was the formation of a class in parliamentary procedure. Mrs. Ellen Hardin Walworth, of Saratoga, was engaged and seventy members joined the class which proved a success in every way. Our season closed on the 28th of May with a piazza party at the home of our honorary president. The program included several musical numbers and the reading of two papers relating to suffrage. The latter were prepared by Rev. Annis Ford Eastman and Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Light refreshments were served on the piazzas and a substantial sum resulted from the sale of 130 tickets for the occasion. The Treasurer's report shows an expenditure for the year of $175 and a balance of $50.40. The monthly meeting for this season begin Nov. 21st, when an account of the state convention will be expected. The club also anticipates an evening with Mrs. Barclay Hazard, the well-known Anti-Suffragist of New York. Mrs. Hazard requested that the invitation extended to her last season might hold good for this, and we trust that nothing may prevent our having an opportunity to hear her argument and prove its fallacy From Miss Mary Coolidge, President of the Phelps Political Equality Club, I have several items of interest concerning it. Organized by Miss Mills, on Feb. 8, 1898, with eleven members; on Nov. 1, 1898, its membership has increased to 23. The club meets on the first and third Mondays of each month and gives much time to the study of civics. Miss Coolidge says: "The object of the club is to convert the town, and it is evident from the interest shown (one of the meetings adjourned at midnight) that it will succeed. At the last school election in the Phelps Union School District 162 women voted, very few who were legal voters refusing to use the ballot. Miss Coolidge expects to be present at the next state convention, and she promises to bring a pledge from her club. Anne F. Miller. ORANGE. President- Miss Clara Taft, Newburgh. COMMITTEE AT MIDDLETOWN Chairman- Mrs. Octa C. Rorty. ORLEANS. COMMITTEE AT MEDINA Chairman- Mrs. H. Adda B. Howell, School suffrage circular letters were distribute through the county last year, before the time of the annual school meetings. H. A. B. H. OSWEGO. President- Mrs. Christina M. Sinnamon, 41 McWhorten St. Vice President at Large- Mrs. Alice Upcroft. Recording Secretary- Mrs. Delia C. Taylor Corresponding Secretary- Miss Grace Taylor, 30 East Oneida St. Treasurer- Miss Kate W. Maxwell, 103 E. Second St. Auditors- Mrs. Jennie B Stone. Mrs. Octavia A. Loyd. (All of Oswego City.) LOCAL CLUBS. Fulton Club- President, Mrs. Mercy A. Latham. Pulaski- President, Mrs. A[?]ta M. Austin. The Oswego County Political Equality Club numbers twenty-one paying members. The club at Fulton has thirteen members who pay their membership dues (thirty-five cents) into the state treasury. The Pulaski Club had a membership of seven at their last report. The County Club meets the first Monday in every month, and the course of study the past year has been Political Economy and important current events. A county convention was called the 22d of February. Delegates from the auxiliary clubs were present and visitors from adjacent towns came to learn our methods. The convention pledged ten dollars to the National Association. The club was addressed the 22d of April by Miss Arria Huntington, daughter of Bishop Huntington of Syracuse, and a member of the school board of Syracuse, upon the necessity of women on school boards and the duty of women in rural districts, to improve their opportunity to use the school franchise. An event of large moment to our club was the meeting of the National Suffrage Conference which occurred on the 2d and 3d of May. Owing to continuous heavy rain the attendance of the citizens was not as large as it otherwise would have been. The sessions were very interesting. Mrs. Catt, Miss Hay and Miss Shaw all gave profitable and delightful talks, and several papers were read by some of the leading citizens. Thirty circular letters were sent out by the club to the rural districts, urging the attendance of women at the school meetings. The annual meeting of the club was held on September 5. Christina M. Sinnamon, President. QUEENS. President-Mrs. Mary E Craigie, Baldwins. (Winter address, 268 Berkeley Place, Brooklyn.) Vice-Presidents- Mrs. George W. Bergen, Freeport. Mrs. Rhoda Glover, Baldwins. Mrs. Valentine Hallock, Queens. Mrs. Frank Wheat, Woodhaven. Mrs. Emma Underhill, Jericho. Mrs. Rebecca Wysong, Port Washington. 54 The New York State Recording Secretary--Mrs. M. F. Strickler, Lynbrook. Corresponding Secretary--Mrs. Asa Holt, Ozone Park. Treasurer--Mrs. Horace Secor, Jr., Freeport. Auditor--Mrs. S. M. Demorest, Queens. LOCAL CLUBS. HEMPSTEAD--President, Mrs. Helen E. Huntington. PORT WASHINGTON--President, Mrs. Anna W. Mott. QUEENS--President, Mrs. Valentine Hallock. ROSLYN--President, Miss Anna Willets. WESTBURY--President, Mrs. Emma Underhill, Jericho. WOODHAVEN--President, Mrs. Frank W. Comstock, Ozone Park. The local leagues of Queens county and the county league have continued their work during the past year on much the same lines as during previous years. The annual County Convention was held at Queens, Wednesday, June 15. The day was fine and the attendance good. A portion of the morning session was devoted to business, such as the reports of committees, reports of local leagues and election of officers, after which an interesting program was presented, the three subjects being education, philanthropy and suffrage. There were present some of the women from the local school boards, and some of the members of the Brooklyn board of education, who spoke on the educational work being done by women. In the county of Queens, there are five women this year serving on five different school boards. During the afternoon session Mrs. Mariana W. Chapman, the State President, made a fine address and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt gave one of her stirring appeals. Several clergymen from the county made brief addresses and spoke in favor of suffrage for women. The day was one of pleasure and profit and resulted in some new members for the leagues. The Queens P. E. League is carrying on the good work in the town of Queens, holding its meetings regularly. The Woodhaven League has lost two valuable members in Mrs. Wheat and Mrs. Comstock, who have removed from Woodhaven, but the league continues, and as a result of its efforts, a free library has been carried on for two years, and recently a library association has been formed, taking in some of the leading men and women of the place. The Hempstead P. E. League took an active part during the summer in the relief work for the soldiers. Its meetings have been largely devoted to political study, especially on the leading political questions of the day. The Port Washington P. E. League is one of the most active in the county, which is easily accounted for from the fact that our State President has her summer home at that place and keeps the women keyed up to a full sense of their responsibilities. Their meetings are well attended and full of interest. A Woman's Exchange and a Free Library are two local institutions that claim their interest and support. Woman Suffrage Association. 55 While the leagues of Queens County are holding their own, they are not increasing in membership as we would like to see them. MARY E. CRAIGIE, President. RENSSELAER. President--Mrs. H. B. Gifford, Valley Falls. RICHMOND. President--Miss Elizabeth Burrill Curtis, Bard Ave., W. New Brighton. Vice-President--Miss Ellen Bertha Bradley, Castleton Corners. Secretary--Mrs. Mary Otis Wilcox, Davis Ave., W. New Brighton. Treasurer--Miss Alice Frost Hicks, Clinton Ave., W. New Brighton. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Miss Jeanne de MaCarty, St. Mark's Place; Mrs. Charles Ingalls, Port Richmond; Miss S. M. Gay, Davis Ave., W. New Brighton; Mrs. George Middlebrook, Port Richmond; Mrs. W. C. Walser, Livingston Pl., W. New Brighton. The club has now twenty-seven members, of whom three are associates or members for the purposes of study. Its meetings are held once a fortnight and it has pursued during the past season, as during the previous two years of its existence, the course of study laid down by the National-American Association, using Bascom's Social Theory as its text-book, and now and then making excursions into the accompanying pamphlets, ending with extracts from Mrs. Stanton's autobiography. The next year is to be devoted to a consideration of what great people have said on the subject of women's rights and wrongs, beginning with Mary Wollstonecraft's Rights of Women. ELIZABETH BURRILL CURTIS, President. SARATOGA. President--Mrs. Jennie S. Travers, 172 Nelson Ave., Saratoga. SCHOHARIE. President--Mrs. Lina B. Sias, Schoharie. COMMITTEES. COBLESKILL--Mrs. J. Van Voris. MIDDLEBURGH--Mrs. Maritta J. Roberts. SCHUYLER. President--Mrs. Mary Robbins Mead, Watkins. 56 The New York State Seneca. President--Miss Electa E. Wood, Waterloo. Personal letters were sent to the town committees asking them to write to the members of the Judiciary Committee when the "Concurrent Resolution" was pending in said committee. The School Suffrage circular was also sent to the town committees. Zobedia Alleman, Ex-President St. Lawrence. President--Mrs. Emma Stitzer Coit, Potsdam. Committee at Canton. Chairman--Mrs. Marion W. Barnum reports from Canton that some suffrage work has been done during the year although no club exists. Women attended the school meeting and three women are on the board. The collector for several years has been a woman. The Canton Literary Association is taking up questions which will interest many in the line of Political Equality. Judge Russel recently lectured upon " The Legal Rights of Women." A good deal of work was done during the year by Mrs. Emma Stitzer Cat of Potsdam. She spoke in favor of Woman Suffrage on Sabbath before a large audience and she brought to pass some suffrage debates, etc., in the schools. Other general work was done. Steuben. President--Mrs. Ella S. Hammond, 3 E. Washington St., Hornellsville Local Clubs. Bath--President, Mrs. Jeannette Leavitt. Hornellsville--President, Mrs. Anna N. Cole, 36 Erie Ave. There are but two Political Equality Clubs in Steuben County, one at Hornellsville and the other at Bath. This is the third year of the Hornellsville Club; the Bath Club was formed in May last. No effort has been made to organize other clubs in the country except in Canisteo, a town of about 2,000 population. The state organizer called a meeting there June last, for the purpose of presenting the subject to the ladies of the place. A considerable number attended, but no organization was effected, it being considered better to postpone it until this fall when it was thought a strong club might be formed. The Bath Club meeting have been held regularly every month, except the one for September, which was omitted on account of sickness and death in the family of the President. The October meeting was held on the twenty-eighth of the month and was a pronounced success; a number of visitors attended and some of them became members. All the meetings have been instructive Woman Suffrage Association. 57 and useful and the local papers have given excellent reports of the proceedings that have tended to increase public interest. The Hornellsville Club has held regular weekly meetings ever since its organization nearly three years ago, and all dues are fully paid. Readings from various authors on different subjects, followed by discussions thereon, have been a source of instruction and pleasure to the members. During the present year the readings have been from Josiah Strong's work on Sociology. The members who have attended regularly usually participate in the discussion of the topic of the reading with profit to themselves and benefit to those who listen. During the year our State President, Mrs. Chapman, favored the club with a most delightful lecture given in the parlors of Mrs. J. A. Woodbury, and Miss Harriet May Mills has delivered two entertaining and instructive lectures in the same place that were highly appreciated and enjoyed by all who attended. The work of the club has been heretofore largely in the line of study. We shall follow out an entirely new plan of work during the coming winter; shall hold each month one meeting for business, one for study and one for social and literary entertainment, with music and possibly light refreshments. We hope thereby to increase interest and add to the membership of our club. Ella S. Hammond, President. Tioga. Committee at Owego--Mrs. Leonard Foster. Tompkins. President--Mrs. Lucy Hawley Calkins. 6 Lake Ave., Ithaca. Vice-President at Large--Mrs. Mary E. Pinkney, Peruville. Recording Secretary--Mrs. Mary Smiley Rhodes, Groton. Corresponding Secretary--Mrs. Ella G. Smith, Ithaca. Treasurer--Mrs. Ana F. Rodriguez, Groton. {Mrs. Lois Hanford, Etna, Auditors--{Mrs. Carrie Hawley Bucklin, Ithaca {Mrs. Flora S. Gillette, Ithaca Local Clubs. Groton-President, Mrs. Kate M. S. Baldwin. Ithaca--Equal Suffrage Section of the Woman's Club--President, Mrs. Effie D. Morse, 4 Edgewood. Town Committees Peruville--Mrs. Mary A. Pinkney. Etna--Mrs. Lois E. Hanford. Brookton--Mrs. Edward Lounsbury. East Lansing--Mrs. Nelia B. Haring. Dryden--Miss Hattie Moore. 58 The New York State An effort has been made the past year to arouse some interest in Tompkins County in the cause of Woman Suffrage. Although the results are not as flattering as we might hope for, still we think that the efforts of the past year's work will doubtless count largely in the gains of next. Miss Harriet M. Mills has helped us ably, having spoken in six towns to good audiences. Much interest was shown. A club was organized at Etna, but it could not withstand the indifference of the majority of its members and soon died. The Groton Club after several preliminary meetings was organized on April 19th, a historic date. Officers were elected, plans for future work discussed and monthly meetings decided upon. This club has held successful meetings throughout the year. The program when arranged, included a thorough study of the National Constitution, New York State Constitution and property laws relating to women. Standing committees were appointed to visit the schools and report upon them. Copies of the school law were secured f6r distribution, also a number of copies of "How to conduct annual school meetings." Thirty voters were in attendance at the school meetings as against eleven last year. Eight women were present. A public meeting with Miss Mills for speaker is planned for January. The County President acted on the State Committee, in sending out the school circulars, having charge of Ontario, Seneca, Cortland and Tompkins counties. The Equal Suffrage Section of the Ithaca Woman's Club is doing good work and showing great interest in all lines of woman's progress. Miss Mills gave us a fine lecture last winter. Mrs. Craigie was also with us and delivered two charming adresses. Prof. Schmidt of Cornell University, gave us an evening lecture which was full of helpful suggestions. Two thousand leaflets were distributed at the Tompkins County fair, pertaining to Woman Suffrage, Household Economics and Dress Reform. Over sixty notices of school meeting were sent out into the country districts. On the whole we are greatly encouraged and hope to be able to report further gains next year. LUCY HAWLEY CALKINS, President. ULSTER. President--Mrs. Annie E. P. Searing, Kingston. WARREN. President--Mrs. Susie M. Bain, Glens Falls. Vice-President at Large--Mrs. A. W. Fish, Glens Falls. Recording Secretary--Mrs. Ione Bowman, Caldwell. Corresponding Secretary--Miss Anna Murray, Glens Falls. LOCAL CLUBS. CALDWELL--President, Mrs. Ione Bowman. GLENS FALLS--President, Mrs. Susie M. Bain. 59 Woman Suffrage Association The club in Glens Falls is doing something towards educating popular sentiment in equal suffrage. We have named it this year "The Woman's Educational Club of Glens Falls." We have at each meeting a paper written on a topic outlined from Fiske's "Discovery of America," a selection of Bryce's "American Commonwealth," and also selections from the Woman's Journal. The topics were arranged at the beginning of the year and are given out in alphabetical order. SUSIE M. BAIN, President. WASHINGTON. President - Mrs. Lucy P. Allen, Easton Vice-President at Large - Mrs. Mary N. Hubbard, Cambridge. Recording Secretary - Mrs. Ida Barden, Granville. Corresponding Secretary - Mrs. Emma W. Hay, Salem. Treasurer - Mrs. Jane Davis, White Creek. LOCAL CLUBS. EASTON - President, Mrs. Celestia M. Slocum. GRANVILLE - President, Mrs. Nellie F. Matheson. WEST HEBRON - President, Mrs. Emma W. Hay. WHITE CREEK - President, Mrs. S. M. Sweet. CAMBRIDGE - Committee, Mrs. Mary N. Hubbard. The principal work of the year has been done by the Granville and West Hebron local clubs. Granville club co-operated with the W.C.T.U. by holding meetings at the same place, on the same afternoon, gaining thus for each society an increased interest and attendance. During the months of July and August they held weekly meetings, taking up the subject of "Village Improvement." The new members on the board of health were put on at their suggestion. Main stret was cleaned once a week, and there was a vast improvement in cleanliness in Granville. West Hebron Club has given several musical and literary entertainments for the purpose of raising money for a public library. They now have their library, the first in the place, a librarian secured and nearly all the people of their beautiful little village patronizing said library regularly. Our Seventh Annual Convention was held at West Hebron, October 26, 1898. The ladies of that club furnished a most bountiful lunch at the hall and the delegates from other clubs had the opportunity to meet socially the members of the West Hebron Club and their families. Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell gave an eloquent and stirring address on "Tennyson's Command, or Stand Up and Be Counted." The West Hebron band was present, and closed the evening's program by playing our national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." The Easton Club united with the Easton W.C.T.U. in holding a Frances Willard memorial service at Marshall Seminary. A large audience was present. The views of Miss Willard on the suffrage question, and her work as a suffragette 60 The New York State gist, were clearly and forcibly stated in many different papers read at that meeting. The Easton Club has lost by death two of its most devoted supporters, Mrs. E. G. Peckham and Mrs. Augusta Slocum. Though their voices were not often heard in public, their minds were large and logical and liberal, and in the home an in all our gatherings they were always strong advocates of the right, whether popular or otherwise. With open hearts and open hands they gave themselves to the cause of justice to women. All who knew them are glad to have known and loved these now sainted women and grateful to Divine goodness for influences so holy. LUCY P. ALLEN, President. WAYNE. President--Miss Sara Fritts, Macedon. COMMITTEE AT SAVANNAH. Chairman--Mrs. Marilla Soule. WESTCHESTER. President--Mrs. Harriet M. Rathbun. Vice-President at Large--Mrs. Elizabeth Craigie. Recording and Corresponding Secretary--Mrs. Carrie Gerow Ham. Treasurer--Mrs. Harriet M. Rathbun. Auditors--{Mrs. Sarah A. Taylor. {Mrs. Sarah C. Van Court. (All of Mount Vernon.) LOCAL CLUBS. Mount Vernon--President, Mrs. Harriet M. Rathbun. Mount Kisco--Mrs. Catherine L. Carpenter. We have held meetings regularly throughout the year, except the usual vacation months. Our attendance except when special attractions were offered has not been large, but the regular attendance of "the faithful few" argues well for any organization, and of that we have been sure. During the season we have had three notable meetings, notable because we were held in rapt attention by the forceful, eloquent utterances of Mrs. Mary E. Craigie of Brooklyn, Miss Harriette A. Keyser and Mrs. Helen Temple Brigham of Manhattan, all of New York City. Mrs. Craigie addressed an evening audience assembled at the Chester Hill Club House, located in the fashionable residential section of Mount Vernon, which was tastefully decorated for the occasion. Her subject, "Women and War," was ably handled, and elicited just applause. The music was elaborate, and well rendered. Mrs. Craigie always finds a warm welcome in our midst, where she has from time to time given us such valuable aid. Miss Keyser we look upon as our foster mother, Woman Suffrage Association 61 adviser and friend. She addressed a parlor meeting, giving one of her rousing practical lectures which furnish so much food for thought and stimulus to the organized effort sure to follow. She never fails to make us ashamed of our lethargy and inaction. Mrs. Brigham has also become a favorite of our club and its friends. She addressed us at a parlor meeting, taking for her subject, "Woman, her Position, Nature, Opportunities, and Progression." Her words of fire ad eloquence charmed her hearers, and much good was accomplished. At the close of her lecture she improvised poems upon subjects given, at the moment, by her audience, filling all with wonder at her marvelous gift. Local issues, mostly in the lines of education, have aroused much attention in our locality and earnest work has been required of suffragists, "antis," and non-committals, to bring about the satisfactory results in which we now glory. It looked at one time, tolerably certain that the first woman to be regularly nominated for an elective office in our city would be the chairman of the Mount Vernon Anti-Suffrage Society. It turned out however, that the chairman escaped while another, a most capable woman from their ranks, ran for the office of school trustee, and was, I am sorry to state, defeated. I am happy to add that her defeat was by a small majority, and said defeat is deplored by us all, as she is a most earnest and intelligent woman who is able to give much of her time to public affairs. The Mount Kisco Local, although weak numerically, continues to live, and I predict for it more rapid growth in the near future. Our members reside at New Rochelle and Yonkers, while not so closely in touch with us as we wish, are filling in their lives with good works which largely include universal suffrage. HARRIET M. RATHBUN, President. WYOMING. Honorary Presidents--{Dr. Cordelia A. Green, Castile. {Mrs. Charlotte A. Cleveland, Perry. {Mrs. Susan Look Avery, Wyoming. President--Mrs. Ella Hawley Crossett, Warsaw. Vice-President at Large--Mrs. W. C. Gouinlock, Warsaw. Recording Secretary--Miss Augusta Parmer, Perry. Corresponding Secretary--Mrs. Carrie J. Walker, Warsaw. Treasurer--Mrs. Clara D. Van Arsdale, Castile. Auditors--{Mrs. helen M Heath, Gainesville. {Mrs. Ida Dimmick, Gainesville. Executive Committee--Mrs. Mary J. Olin, Perry; Mrs. B. O. Fuller, Castile; Mrs. Jean Eastman, Gainesville; Miss Eunice Conable, Warsaw. LOCAL CLUBS. CASTILE--President, Mrs. Lucy S. Pierce. GAINESVILLE--President, Mrs Lucia A. Hatch. PERRY--President, Mrs. Charlotte A. Cleveland. WARSAW--President, Mrs. Ela Hawley Crossett. 62 The New York State The outlook in Wyoming county for woman suffrage seems very encouraging. We come to the convention with a larger membership than ever before. Our four clubs all plan their programs at the beginning of the year, thus showing people that it is for their own advantage to join the clubs. The Perry Club has finished the three years' course of study laid out by the National Association. Mrs. C. A. Cleveland has been at the head of this club and the meetings were held weekly at her home. The Castile Club holds most of its meetings in the gymnasium of Dr. Green's sanitarium. This club is highly favored, as many women of well-known ability in all kinds of work for humanity visit the sanitarium and often speak for the club. They took up the "Topics of the Day" and had papers and discussions. The annual club social was held at the home of the President, Mrs. Lucy S. Pierce. In March a very pleasant meeting was arranged. The county president was invited to give a report of the Washington convention. Nine ladies from the Gainesville Club were in attendance. A fine luncheon was served; music and short addresses were given. About sixty ladies were present. So much inspiration was received that the county officers voted at their next meeting to establish a "visiting day" among the clubs. The Gainesville Club took the name of Maude Humphrey. This was the Banner Club as far as increase of membership went, doubling their number the past year. Many of the young women have come into the work which is very encouraging. The President, Mrs. Tallman, was a teacher in the Union School. She received a better position, so has removed, but recently a new President has been elected. One great loss the club met was in the death of its Vice- President, Mrs. Mary Hunn, but it is going bravely on. The club meets evenings and take up the current topics, The Warsaw Club is one of the largest clubs outside of the cities, having fifty members. Meetings were held fortnightly. Two meetings were held with an admission charged and the proceeds were sent to the State and National Associations. One was a "Musical by Young People" and at the other the "Old Family Album" was displayed, which caused much merriment. Mrs. N. J. Humphrey, who is the only woman on the board of trustees of the state Blind School at Batavia, told us of the work being done there. We had an address on Co-Education by Mrs. Hobbs a graduate of Oberlin; a paper by the President of the school board, Mrs. Hayward, on "Good Books for Our Children to Read," and papers on various topics during the winter. The club closed the year with some money in the treasury and $110.81 had been raised and expended by the club and given by its members for suffrage work. The county officers were entertained at the home of the President in July, for a business and social meeting. Plans were made for circulating the school suffrage literature. The County Convention was held at Warsaw, October 7. There was a business meeting in the morning and a popular program in the afternoon, with a question box presided over by Rev. Anna H. Shaw. An address in the evening was delivered by Miss Shaw n her inimitable way. We expect much good will be realized to our society from holding the convention. A very Woman Suffrage Association 63 gratifying feature as that with the silver collection taken at the door and with some money donated for the expenses, it was not necessary to draw any money from the county or local treasury. About $200 was used and given to help the work. ELLA HAWLEY CROSSETT, President. YATES President--Mrs. Julia D. Sheppard, Penn Yan. LOCAL CLUB AT PENN YAN. President--Mrs. Julia D. Sheppard. Surely we still hold our own. We have held one public meeting during the past year. The Rev. Anna Shaw was the speaker. Her subject, "The American Home." Even our opponents were delighted with her address. In April, eleven women clubs of Penn Yan met with the Woman's Club, in my home. In July, the Woman's Club collected by a general subscription, $102 for sick and wounded soldiers and sailors, which was forwarded to the Woman's National War Relief Association. $32.30 have been given to suffrage work during the year. JULIA D. SHEPPARD, President. Officers for 1898-99. _________________ President--Mrs. Mariana W. Chapman, 160 Hicks Street, Brooklyn. Vice-President at Large--Mrs. Ella Hawley Crossett, Warsaw. Recording Secretary--Mrs. Mary Thayer Sanford, Sherwood. Corresponding Secretary--Miss Isabel Howland, Sherwood. Treasurer--Mrs. Pricilla Dudley Hackstaff, 282 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn. Auditors--Mrs. Eliza Wright Osborne, South Street, Auburn. Mrs. Margaret H. Esselstyn, Hudson. Honorary Vice Presidents. Miss Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester. Miss Mary S. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester. Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, 210 W. 59th Street, New York. Mrs. Mary W. Manning, 64 Montague Street, Brooklyn. Mrs. Anna C. Field, 158 Hicks Street, Brooklyn. Mrs. Sarah H. Cushing, Lockport Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage,* Fayetteville. Mrs. Abigail A. Allen, Alfred. Mrs. Caroline Gilkie Rogers, Lansingburgh. Mrs. Deborah W. Sedgwick, Syracuse. Womens Suffrage Association. 65 Mrs. Mary E. Bagg,* Syracuse. Mrs. Mary H. Hallowell, 97 Plymouth Avenue, Rochester. Mrs. Sarah Anthony Burtis, 525 Jefferson Avenue, Niagara Falls. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, Geneva. Mrs. Jean Brooks Greenleaf, 64 Goodman Street, Rochester. Mrs. Eliza Wright Osborne, South Street, Auburn. Mrs. Henrietta M. Banker, Ausable Forks, Essex Co. Mrs. Charlotte A. Cleveland, Perry, Wyoming Co. County Presidents. Albany--Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell, 32 Lancaster St., Albany. Allegany--Mrs. Ida K. Church, Wellsville. Cattaraugus--Mrs. Maria F. Lee, Little Valley. Cayuga--Miss Emily Howland, Sherwood. Chautauqua--Mrs. Ellen Cheney, Poland Center. Chemung--Rev. Annis Ford Eastman, Elmira. Chenango--Mrs. Henry W. Clark, Bainbridge. Clinton--Mrs. Alice H. Ricketson, Plattsburg. Columbia--Miss Kornelia T. Andrews, Hudson. Cortland--Mrs. Lucy L. Linderman, Cortland. Dutchess--Miss Margaret Livingston Chandler, Barrytown. (317 W. 74th St., N. Y., in winter.) Erie--Miss Abbie J. Lawton, Lawton's. Essex--Mrs. Henrietta M. Baker, Keene Valley, (P. O. Ausable Forks.) [*(49+19)/8*] Genessee--Mrs. Jennie C. Baker, Batavia. Greene--Mrs. Sabra Root, Catskill. Herkimer--Mrs. Margaret A. Bellinger, Ilion. Kings--Mrs. Cornelia K. Hood, 21 First Place, Brooklyn. Livingston--Mrs. E. G. Tiffany, (Cor. Sec'y) ___ *Deceased. 66 The New York State MADISON--Mrs. Mary Bush Hitchcock, 121 Madison St., Oneida. MONROE--Mrs. Martha J. Hadley Stebiins, Churchville. NEW YORK--Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, 210 W. 59th St. NIAGARA--Mrs. Carrie S. Lerch, Lockport. ONEIDA--Mrs. Elizabeth C. Beers, Trenton. ONONDAGA--Miss M. Florence Gregory, Skaneateles. ONTARIO--Miss Anne F. Miller, Geneva. ORANGE--Miss Clara Taft, Newburgh. OSWEGO--Mrs. Christina M. Sinnamon, Oswego. QUEENS--Mrs. Mary E. Craigie, Baldwins (268 Berkeley Place, Brooklyn, in winter). RENSSELAER--Mrs. H. B. Gifford, Valley Falls. RICHMOND--Miss Elizabeth Burrill Curtis, West New Brighton. ROCKLAND--Mrs. Margaret Conklin, Pomona. SARATOGA--Mrs. Jennie S. Travers, 172 Nelson Ave., Saratoga. SCHOHARIE--Mrs. Lina B. Sias, Schoharie. SCHUYLER--Mrs. Mary Robbins Mead, Watkins. SENECA--Miss Electa E. Wood, Waterloo. STEUBEN--Mrs. Ella S. Hammond, 3 E. Washington St., Hornellsville. ST. LAWRENCE--Mrs. Emma Stitzer Coit, Potsdam. SUFFOLK--Miss Juliet Wilbur, Manorville. TIOGA--Mrs. Harriet C. Lowman, Waverly. TOMPKINS--Mrs. Lucy Hawley Calkins, 6 Lake Ave., Ithaca. ULSTER--Mrs. Annie E. P. Searing, Kingston. WARREN--Mrs. Susie M. Bain, Glens Falls. WASHINGTON--Mrs. Lucy P. Allen, Easton. WAYNE--Mrs. Sara Fritts, Macedon. WESTCHESTER--Mrs. Harriet M. Rathbun, Mt. Vernon. WYOMING--Mrs. Ella Hawley Crossett, Warsaw. YATES--Mrs. Julia D. Sheppard, Penn Yan. Woman Suffrage Association. 67 STANDING COMMITTEES. ORGANIZATION. Miss Harriet May Mills, Chairman, 926 W. Genesee St., Syracuse. Miss Harriette A. Keyser, 260 W. 99th St., New York. Miss Anne F. Miller, Geneva. Mrs. Henrietta M. Banker, Ausable Forks, Essex Co. PRESS. Mrs. Elnora M. Babcock, Chairman, Dunkirk. Miss Mary Lyman Storrs, 28 N. Pearl St., Albany; Mrs. Helen H. Root, Port Byron; Mrs. Eliza C. Gifford, Jamestown; Mrs. Luella D. Smith, 593 Warren St., Hudson; Mrs. Emily L. DeGarmo, Fishkill-on-Hudson; Miss Lucie A. Sherman, North Collins; Mrs. Jean Malcolm, Catskill; Mrs. Margaret A. Bellinger, Ilion; Mrs. Helen M. Maurer, 80 Chestnut St., Rochester; Mrs. Charlotte A. Uhlein, 15 Faxton St., Utica; Mrs Mary D. Crane, 16 E. North St., Geneva; Mrs. Jennie B. Stone, Lansing; Mrs. Sarah A. Knowlton, Milford; Mrs. Belle S. Holden, 1,000 James St., Syracuse; Mrs. Jennie B. Travers, 172 Nelson Ave., Saratoga; Mrs. Lou W. Hollis, Woodhull; Mrs. Effie D. Morse, "Edgewood," Ithaca; Miss Julia M. Smith, Gainseville; Mrs. Frances B. Mitchell, Keuka College. LEGISLATIVE WORK. Mrs. Mary Hillard Loines, Chairman, 26 Garden Place, Brooklyn. Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, 210 W. 59th Street, New York. Mrs. Cornelia K. Hood, 21 First Place, Brooklyn. Mrs. Eliza C. Gifford, Jamestown. Miss Mary Lyman Storrs, 28 N Pearl St., Albany. 68 The New York State FINANCE. Mrs. Zobedia Alleman, Chairman, Union Springs. Mrs. Lucy S. Pierce, Castile. Mrs. Henrietta M. Banker, Ausable Forks. Mrs. Harriet A. Chase, Jamestown. Miss Emily Howland, Sherwood. INDUSTRIES. Miss Harriette A. Keyser, Chairman, 260 W. 99th St., New York. Miss Arria S. Huntington, 210 Walnut Place, Syracuse. Mrs. Anna Stirling, 67 W. 38th St., New York. Mrs. Priscilla D. Hackstaff, 282 Jefferson Ave., Brooklyn. Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell, Lancaster St., Albany. WORK AMONG CHILDREN. Mrs. J. Mary Pearson, 124 Owasco St., Auburn. (With power to choose assistants). SCHOOL SUFFRAGE. Mrs. Carrie Hawley Bucklin, Chairman, 120 N. Tioga St., Ithaca; Mrs. Ellen Cheney, Poland Centre; Mrs. Jennie Cowdin Baker, Batavia; Mrs. Martha J.H. Stebbins, Churchville; Mrs. Sarah A. LeBoeuf, Albany; Mrs. Ella S. Hammond, Hornellsville; Miss Mary Coolidge, Phelps; Mrs. Lucy L. Linderman, Cortland; Miss Elizabeth Burrill Curtis, West New Brighton; Mrs. Chloe A. Sisson, Easton; Miss Electa E. Wood, Waterloo; Mrs. Eliza B. Fries, Friendship; Mrs. Anna N. Mott, Port Washington; Mrs. Ella H. Crossett, Warsaw; Mrs. Lucy H. Calkins, Ithaca; Mrs. Henrietta M. Banker, Ausable Forks; Mrs. Mary C. Hall, 139 W. Castle St., Syracuse; Mrs. Julia D. Sheppard, Penn Yan; Miss Adelaide Howell, Fleming; Mrs. Mary L. Adams, Randolph; Mrs. H. A. B. Howell, Medina. Woman Suffrage Association. 69 PROGRAM FOR '99 CONVENTION. Miss Isabel Howland, Chairman, Sherwood. Miss Harriet May Mills, 926 W. Genesee St., Syracuse. Mrs. Elnora M. Babcock, Dunkirk. Mrs. Ellen Cheney, Poland Center. RAILROAD RATES. Mrs. Priscilla D. Hackstaff, Chairman, 282 Jefferson Ave., Brooklyn. LIFE MEMBERS.* Article III, Section 2 of the N. Y. State W.S.A. Constitution. -The payment of fifty dollars into the treasury of the Association shall constitute any citizen a life member, with all the privileges belonging to the regular annual members. Mrs. C.A.B. Abbe, 11 W. 50th St., New York. Miss Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison St., Rochester. Mrs. Susan Look Avery, Wyoming. (Winter address, 620 Division Street, Chicago.) Mrs. Henriette M. Banker, Ausable Forks, Essex Co. Dr. Edward F. Butterfield, Syracuse. Mrs. Cornelia H. Cary, 33 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn. Gen. C. T. Christiansen, "The Margaret," Columbia Heights, Brooklyn. Mrs. Charlotte A. Cleveland, Perry. Miss Elizabeth Burrill Curtis, Bard Ave., West New Brighton. Col. H. S. Greenleaf, 64 N. Goodman St., Rochester. Mrs. Jean Brooks Greenleaf, 64 N. Goodman St., Rochester. Mrs. Caroline H. Henderson, Lily Dale. (Winter address, 501 Holland St., Erie, Penn.) Mrs. Emeline Hicks, Lansingburgh. *Several of these names are given in the list for the first time this year, though the contributions of fifty dollars and more were made in 1894 and 1895. 70 The New York State Mrs. Belle S. Holden, 1,000 James St., Syracuse. Miss Emily Howland, Sherwood. Mrs. Hannah L. Howland, Sherwood. Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, 110 W. 34th St., New York. Mrs. Samantha Vail Lapham, 10 E. 68th St., New York. Mr. Augustus Low, 3 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn. Mrs. Mary W. Manning, 64 Montague St., Brooklyn. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, Geneva. Mrs. Eliza Wright Osborne, South St., Auburn. Mrs. Abbie Louise Pettengill, Lily Dale. (Winter address, 2,575 Euclid Ave., Columbus, O.) Mrs. Eleanor Butler Sanders, 433 Fifth Ave., New York. Mr. James Sargent, 98 East Ave., Rochester. Mrs. Angelina M. Sargent, 98 East Ave., Rochester. Rev. Anna Howard Shaw 1,830 Diamond St., Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Marion Skidmore*, Lily Dale. Mrs. Louisa Southworth, Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Sarah L. Willis, 93 Plymouth Ave., Rochester. Mrs. Mary W. Wright, 73 Remsen St., Brooklyn. STATE MEMBERS FOR YEAR ENDING NOVEMBER 1, 1898. Article III, Section I, of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association Constitution.--All citizens of the state of New York paying not less than one dollar annually into the treasury shall become members of the Association and shall be entitled to attend all its meetings, participate in all its discussions and receive all reports and other documents. Mrs. Mary L. Adams,........................................Randolph Mrs. Abigail A. Allen,..............................................Alfred Mrs. S. Augusta Armstrong,............195 14th St., Buffalo Miss Mary Bain,.......................611 Whitesboro St., Utica Mr. George W. Banker,..............................Ausable Forks Mrs. Henrietta M. Banker,.........................Ausable Forks Mrs. Clara A. A. Beagle,......................Niles, Cayuga Co. Mrs. Thomas K. Beecher,......................................Elmira Rev. W. L. Beers,..................................................Trenton *Deceased. Woman Suffrage Association. 71 Miss Bertha A. Bellinger,.........................................Ilion Mrs. Harriet B. Bissell,...........................................Leroy Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake,...210 W. 59th St., New York Miss Martha Bullard,..............Seymour Library, Auburn Mrs. Mary T. Hoes Burhans,.............................Kingston Mrs. Mariana W. Chapman,.......160 Hicks St., Brooklyn Mrs. Elmira E. Christian,......251 President St., Brooklyn Miss Charlotte A. Clark,.................21 First Pl., Brooklyn Mrs. Kate W. Clarke,.........................................Kingston Miss Mary Coolidge,............................................Phelps Mr. Chalres Coolidge,..........................................Phelps Mrs. Frederick R. Coudert,......13 E. 45th St., New York Mrs. Ella Haley Crossett,....................................Warsaw Mrs. Anna Shaw Curtis,.......................W. New Brighton Miss Elizabeth B. Curtis,.....................W. New Brighton Mrs. S. E. Dennis,.................319 W. 55th St., New York Mrs. Ella H. Dudley,.............................Keene, Essex Co. Mrs. Sarah Comstock Ellis,...............7 Steel St., Auburn Prof. Achsah M. Ely,........Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Mrs. Fannie F. Ernstein,............31 E. 72nd St., New York Miss Mary I. Ferguson,....................................Newburgh Mrs. Hannah G. Flanders,.........Bloomingdale, Essex Co. Miss Minnie Friedman,..............31 E. 72nd St., New York Mrs. R. M. Gale,..............................36 Lincoln St, Auburn Mrs. Flora S. Gillette,...............................................Ithaca Dr. Rachel B. Gleason,.............................................Elmira Mrs. Cornelia C. Green,.........................................Orleans Col. H. S. Greenleaf,..........64 N. Goodman St., Rochester Mrs. Jean Brooks Greenleaf,...64 N. Goodman St., Rochester Mrs. Priscilla D. Hackstaff,...282 Jefferson Ave., Brooklyn Mrs. Maria Holt,..............................................Keene Valley Mrs. Cornelia K. Hood,.......................21 First Pl,. Brooklyn Mrs. Eva Hoxie,....................................................Scipioville Mrs. Mary N. Hubbard,......................................Cambridge Mrs. Hannah J. Hurd,............................................Dansville Mrs. Charles S. Jenkins,....................Maple Hill, Newburgh Mrs. Fannie B. Johnson,.......................................Dansville Miss Jennie Lawrence,...................................Keene Valley 72 The New York State Mrs. Lucy M. Lent, Leroy Mrs. Laura C. Letchworth, 98 Anderson St., Buffalo Mrs. Mary Hillard Loines, 26 Garden Pl., Brooklyn Mr. Edward Lounsberry, Brookton Mrs. Mary E. Mack, Catskill Station Mrs. Jennie L. Malcolm, Catskill Station Mrs. Mary Wharton Mendelson, 159 W. 74th St., New York Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, Geneva Mrs. Susan Dixwell Miller, Peterboro Mrs. E. Florence Murdock, Venice Center Mrs. Frederick Nathan, 151 W. 85th St., New York Mrs. Lucy S. Pierce, Castile Mrs. Marcia C. Powell, Ghent Miss Sophie S. Pratt, Dansville Mrs. Alice H. Ricketson, Plattsburgh Mr. William H. Riley, 60 University Pl., Ithaca Mrs. Louisa Lord Riley, 60 University Pl., Ithaca Mrs. Eleanor Butler Sanders, 433 Fifth Ave., New York Mr. John G. Schumacher, 189 Montague St., Brooklyn Mrs. Annie E. P. Searing, Kingston Mrs. Clara Sebring, McDougall, Seneca Co. Mrs. Julia D. Sheppard, Penn Yan Mr. John Sherman, Watertown Mrs. Rhobie Sission, Levanna Mrs. Josephine E. Skinner, Hall's Corners Mrs. Margaret A. Slocum, North Granville Mr. George Small, Ithaca Mr. Wm. Smith, Geneva Mrs. Amanda Storrs, Upper Jay, Essex Co. Mrs. Florence C. Sutro, 20 Fifth Ave., New York Mrs. Addie Suydam, Geneva Miss Ursula E. Swarts, Dundie Rev. George E. Sweet, Cambridge Miss Clara Taft, Newburgh Mrs. Anne B. Taylor, Lawton Station Mrs. Delia C. Taylor, 30 E. Oneida St., Oswego Mrs. Charlotte A. Uhlein, 15 Faxton St., Utica Mrs. Delia C. Taylor, 30 E. Oneida St., Oswego Woman Suffrage Association. 73 Mrs. Margaret J. Valentine, Gorham Mr. S. H. Ver Planck, 803 Main St., Geneva Mrs. Maria Whipple, 336 E. Main St., Rochester Mrs. Jennie V. Stanton Wilcox, Saratoga Mrs. Anna T. Wilson, 46 Hazen St., Rochester Mrs. Love M. Willis, 243 Alexander St., Rochester Dr. Fred L. Willis, 243 Alexander St., Rochester STATE MEMBERS FOR YEAR ENDING NOVEMBER 1, 1899 (RECEIVED UP TO JANUARY 10, 1899) Mrs. Phoebe J. Adams, Moravia Mrs. Abagail A. Allen, Alfred Mr. George W. Banker, Ausable Forks Mrs. Henrietta M. Banker, Ausable Forks Miss Bertha Bellinger, Illion Mrs. M. C. Bentley, Cazenovia Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, 210 W. 59th St., New York Mrs. Dr. Blakely, Hudson Miss Martha A. Bullard, Seymour Library, Auburn Mrs. Ellen Cheney, Poland Center Mr. Charles Coolidge, Phelps Miss Mary Coolidge, Phelps Mrs. Ella Hawley Crossett, Warsaw Miss Ella H. Dudley, Keene Valley, Mrs. Mary I. Ferguson, Hall's Corners Mrs. H. Gertrude Flanders, Bloomingdale Mr. H. S. Greenleaf, 64 N. Goodman St., Rochester Mrs. Jean Brooks Greenleaf, 64 N. Goodman St., Rochester Mrs. Mary N. Hubbard, Cambridge Miss Anne F. Miller, Geneva Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, Geneva Mrs. Mary J. Olin, Perry Mrs. Eliza W. Osborne, South St., Auburn Mrs. Marcia C. Powell, Ghent Mrs. Emma M. Requa, 65 W. 52rd St., New York Mrs. Louise P. Rowe, Valatie Mrs. J. E. Skinner, Hall's Corners Mrs. H. Lyle Smith, Hudson Mrs. Martha J. Hadley Stebbins, Churchville Mrs. Delia C. Taylor, 30 E. Oneida St., Oswego Mrs. Charlotte A. Uhlein, 15 Faxton St., Utica CONSTITUTION OF THE NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. Article I. The name of this association shall be The New York State Woman Suffrage Association, auxiliary to the National-American W. S. A. Article II. The object of this Association shall be to secure to the women of the State of New York and of the United States protection in their right to vote by appropriate State and National legislation. Article III. Section I. All citizens of the State of New York paying not less than one dollar annually into the treasury shall become members of the Association and shall be entitled to attend all its meetings, participate in all its discussions, and receive all reports and other documents, §2. The payment of fifty dollars ($50.00) into the treasury of the Association shall constitute any citizen a life member, with all the privileges belonging to the regular annual members. Article IV. Section I. The officers of this Association shall be a President, a Vice-President at Large, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer and two Auditors. These officers shall be nominated by an informal ballot at a business meeting of the annual convention; the three persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be the nominees, and the final choice shall be made by a formal ballot. §2. Presidents of auxiliary County Clubs shall be Vice-Presidents of this Association. §3. The President of the State Association shall appoint a Vice-President to represent on its Executive Board any county where no auxiliary County Club exists. Such Vice-Presidents shall be entitled to vote on all questions, including the election of officers. §4. The officers enumerated in the preceding sections of the Article, together with the chairmen of all standing committees, shall constitute the Executive Committee of the Association, seven of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. §5. The Executive Committee may, at its discretion, elect Honorary Vice-Presidents from among the veterans of the cause. §6. The Executive Committee shall choose delegates to represent the State at the annual Convention of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association. Woman Suffrage Association. 75 Article V. This Constitution may be amended by a majority vote at any annual meeting, notice of the amendment having been given at least three months in advance. BY-LAWS. I. For the accomplishment of the object specified in Article II of its Constitution, this Association shall seek to concentrate the efforts of all the advocates of Woman Suffrage in the State of New York by the following methods: (1) It shall hold annually one meeting of delegates (according to the basis of representation stated in By-Law II), for the transaction of business, the election of officers, and the advocacy of its principles; and it may hold other conventions for the advocacy of its principles. (2) It shall form County Clubs auxiliary to itself in all counties where none such now exist and promote their local work by every means in its power. (3) It shall publish tracts, speeches and other documents, and shall furnish the same to county and local clubs, without payment, and to individuals at cost. (4) It shall prepare and circulate petitions to the state legislature on behalf of the political and civil equality of women. (5) It may employ one or more organizers and lecturers, and take such other measures for the promotion of Woman Suffrage as the Executive Committee shall determine upon, subject always to the will of the Association. II. - Basis of Representation. Section 1. Any County Political Equality Club may become auxiliary to the State Association by paying annually into its treasury 25 cents per member of its paid-up local auxiliaries, and any Local Club in an unorganized county may become auxiliary to the State Association by paying annually into its treasury 35 cents per paying member. §2. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer of each auxiliary club to send each year to the Treasurer of the State Association its annual dues, with lists of the officers of such club and if a county club, of all its auxiliary local clubs also, before November 1. §3. Every auxiliary county club shall be entitled to send three delegates at large to the annual convention of the State Association, and every local club, whether directly auxiliary to the state or to the county, shall be entitled to send one delegate, with one additional delegate for every fifty of its paid-up memberships above the first fifty. But no clubs whose dues are unpaid on November 1 shall be entitled to representation in the annual convention. §4. All officers of the State Association shall be ex-officio delegates at large, and shall be entitled to vote in all meetings of the Association. 76 The New York State III. - Credentials. All delegates (except the delegates at large specified in Section 4 of By-Law II), must present credentials properly signed by the President and Recording Secretary of the organization represented. Membership cards shall serve as credentials for the members of the State Association who are not delegates from other bodies. Membership cards shall entitle the holder to admission to all the business meetings. IV. The Executive Committee of the State Association shall hold one meeting preceding the opening of each annual convention and another meeting after the conclusion of such convention. V. The decisions reached by the Executive Committee shall be presented in the form of recommendations at the business meetings of the convention. VI. Every delegate shall be entitled to one vote on all questions, and only on the election of officers shall delegates be entitled to cast the full vote to which the organizations represented by them are entitled. VII. The Committee on Resolutions shall consist of one person from each county, elected by its delegation. VIII. At the concluding business meeting of each annual convention, the President shall appoint the following committees, each consisting of at least three persons, viz.: a Committeee on Program and a Committee on Legislative Work. IX. Section 1. The general officers named in Art. IV, §1, of the Constitution, viz.: the President, Vice-President at Large, Recording and Corresponding Secretaries, Treasurer and two Auditors, shall constitute a Business Committee to provide for and control the general interests of the work in the interim of the annual meetings, and to perform all other business not otherwise assigned, five of whom shall constitute a quorum, or a majority may act by correspondence addressed to every member of the Business Committee, not less than ten days beforehand by the President. §2. The President may call special meetings of the Business Committee when she shall deem it necessary, or in response to the written request of any three members of the Business Committee, and shall perform all other duties usual to such office. §3. The Vice-President at Large shall perform all duties of the President in case of the President's absence or disability. Woman Suffrage Association. 77 §4. The Recording Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Association and of the Executive and Business Committees; she shall keep a correct record of their proceedings and perform all other duties usually pertaining to such office. §5. The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct all correspondence of the organization, give due notice of meetings of the Executive and Business Committees, apprise officers of their appointment and sign orders on the Treasurer. She shall send to the Secretary of each auxiliary a request for report of its work, and a notice that said auxiliary shall send dues and lists of county and local officers, with addresses, to the Treasurer of the State Association in proper time. She shall perform all the duties usual to such office. §6. The Treasurer shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements of money, and shall present a detailed report thereof to each annual meeting. She shall pay no bill except on an order signed by the President and Corresponding Secretary. Two weeks before the annual meeting she shall send to the Treasurer of each auxiliary a number of credential certificates equal to the number of delegates to which said auxiliary is entitled, according to the number of members and amount of dues paid. She shall also send to the Treasurer of the National-American W. S. A., before January 1 of each year, the annual dues of the State Association (10 cents per member of all its local clubs) with a list of the auxiliary clubs and the names and postoffice addresses of their officers; and perform all other duties usually pertaining to this office. §7. The Auditors shall examine and verify the books of the Treasurer, and report thereon at each annual meeting. §8. The general officers of this association shall be elected in the morning of the last day of the annual meeting. §9. The term of the general officers shall expire at the end of the last session of the annual convention proper, and the term of the newly elected officers shall commence with the session of the Executive Committee held after the conclusion of the convention, as provided for by By-Law IV. §10. The Business Committee shall fill its own vacancies during the interim of annual meetings. §11. In case of the absence of a county president from the annual convention of this Association, the delegation from that county may elect one of its number present to represent the absentee on the Executive Board during the convention. §12. Robert's Rules of Order shall be the guide for parliamentary practice. §13. These By-Laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote at any annual convention. (Model constitutions for County and Local Political Equality Clubs can be procured from the State Corresponding Secretary, Isabel Howland, Sherwood, N. Y.) Annual Conventions. 1869, - - - - Saratoga. 1870-'78, - - - - New York. 1879, - - - - Poughkeepsie. 1880, - - - - (No Convention). 1881, - - - - Troy. 1882, - - - - New York. 1883, - - - - Troy. 1884, - - - - - Albany. 1885-'89, - - - - New York. 1890, - - - - Rochester. 1891, - - - - Auburn. 1892, - - - - - Syracuse. 1893, - - - - Brooklyn. 1894, - - - - - Ithaca. 1895, - - - - Newburgh. 1896, - - - - - Rochester. 1897, - - - - Geneva. 1898, - - - - - Hudson. [ *Burh core Later Hodden 16 + 77*] ANNUAL REPORT OF THE New York State Woman Suffrage Association FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION HOTEL ASTOR NEW YORK CITY Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, 1915 REORGANIZATION CONVENTION ANNUAL REPORT NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 1915 Forty-Seventh Annual Convention HOTEL ASTOR, NEW YORK CITY NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 2 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY Main Headquarters: 303 Fifth Avenue, New York OFFICERS 1915-1916 Chairman—MRS. NORMAN DER. WHITEHOUSE Recording Secretary—MISS ALICE MORGAN WRIGHT Corresponiding Secretary—MRS. M. M. VAN BEUREN Treasurer—MRS. OGDEN MILLS REID Vice-Chairmen MRS. JAMES LEES LAIDLAW MRS. RAYMOND BROWN MRS. HENRY WHITE CANNON Board of Directors MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, New York City MRS. ARTHUR L. LIVERMORE, Yonkers MISS HARRIET MAY MILLS, Syracuse MRS. DEXTER P. RUMSEY, Buffalo 5 COMPONENT ORGANIZATIONS OF THE EMPIRE STATE COMPAIGN COMMITTEE (1914-1915) Main Headquarters: 303 Fifth Avenue, New York Chairman––Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Secretary––Mrs. Charles P. Howland Treasurer––Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany New York State Woman Suffrage Association President––Mrs. Raymond Brown Woman Suffrage Party Chariman––Miss Mary G. Hay Equal Franchise Society President––Mrs. Howard Mansfield Collegiate League President––Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany Men's League for Woman Suffrage President––James Lees Laidlaw Chairmen of Sections Organization––Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Finance––Mrs. Warner M. Leeds Publicity––Mrs. Norman deR. Whitehouse Art––Mrs. John W. Alexander Literature––Mrs. Howard Mansfield Press––Miss Rose Young Chairmen of Campaign Districts 2nd. Mrs Raymond Brown Bellport 3rd. Miss Leila Stott Albany 4th. Mrs. F. G. Paddock Malone 5th. Miss Harriet May Mills Syracuse 6th.Mrs. Helen B. Owens Ithaca 7th. Mrs. A. C. Clement Rochester 8th. Mrs. F. J. Shuler Buffalo 9th. Mrs. Carl Osterheld Yonkers 10th. Mrs. Gordon Norrie Staatsburg 11th. Mrs. George Notman Keene Valley 12th. Miss Lucy C. Watson Utica 6 ASSEMBLY DISTRICT LEADERS OF THE NEW YORK WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY FOR 1916 Manhattan Borough A. D. 1. Miss Irene L. Grace 2. Mrs. R. Spivacke 3. Miss. Elizabeth L. Koues 4. Mrs. S. L. Newman 5. Mrs. V. C. Simkhovitch 6. Mrs. Esther Lerner 7. Mrs. H. W. Corbett 8. Mrs. Alice S. Petluck 9. Mrs. John Zimmerman 10. Miss Minnie Voloshen 11. Mrs. W. H. Wilson 12. Mrs. Edward S. Van Zile 13. Mrs. Mary Parisen 14. Miss Maud Haas 15. Miss E. M. Hooper 16. Mrs. Marie Johnsone A. D. 17. Miss Aimee Hutchinson 18. Mrs. James Gear 19. Mrs. Robert T. Oliver 20. Mrs. Clara Buchhold 21. Miss Annie Matthews 22. Mrs. G. Oestreicher 23. Mrs. M. L. Wilkie 24. Mrs. Paul Becker 25. Miss Ethel Stebbins 26. Miss Bertha Sandberg 27. Miss Katherine Leonard (acting leader) 28. Mrs. Mondelli 29. Dr. Mary Halton 30. Mrs. W. F. Mc Cusker 31. Mrs. Emily Weisberg Brooklyn Borough A. D. 1. Mrs. George Notman 2. Mrs. George Rae 3. Mrs. Joseph C. Hale 4. Mrs. Rose Brunner 5. Mrs. Joseph Whelen 6. Mrs. Mark Rudich 7. Mrs. John Hebeler 8. Mrs. Bessie Crafer 9. Mrs. Earl F. Whitaker 10. Mrs. Wm. A. Prendergast 11. Mrs. Julia W. Perkins 12. Miss Ida L. Woolworth A. D. 13. Miss Mae Florence 14. Miss Mary Raferty 15. Mrs. R. E. Van Gieson 16. Mrs. Earl H. Mayne 17. Mrs. E. D. Bush 18. Mrs. W. C. Maclin 19. Mrs. N. Blank 20. Mrs. Wm. C. Dean 21. Mrs. Maxwell Joffee 22. Mrs. W. H. Reeveland 23. Mrs. A. A. Shlickerman Borough of the Bronx A. D. 32. Ida M. Stadie 33. Mrs. Harry Chester Arthur 34. Mrs. Olive Pierce 35. Mrs. William Swan 7 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY Queens Borough A. D. A. D. 1. Mrs. J. A. McLoughlin 3. Mrs. Elsa Milles 2. Miss Josephine Hewins 4. Mrs. Edward L. Taylor Borough of Richmond A. D. 1. Mrs. Frances E. Brewer Second Campaign District Nassau--Mrs. Frederick S. Greene, Port Washington. Suffolk–– A. D. 1. Miss Grace Homan, Patchogue. 2. Mrs. Edgar A. Sammis, Huntington. Third District Albany–– A. D. 1. Mrs. Charles S. Leavitt, 354 Western Avenue, Albany. 2. Mrs. Edward V. Colbert, 4 Kenmore Place, Albany. 3. Miss Grace A. Reavy, 125 Ontario Street, Cohoes. Montgomery--Mrs. Elmer Finehout, Canajoharie. Schenectady--Mrs. E. M. Kinney, 212 Parkwood Boulevard, Schenectady. Schoharie--Mrs. Stanley Schaeffer, North Blenheim. Fourth District Clinton--Mrs. Lillian Pike Everest, Plattsburgh. Franklin--Mrs. F. G. Paddock, Malone. St. Lawrence-- A. D. 1. Mrs. J. O. Hyde, Massena. 2. Mrs. Julius Frank, Ogdensburg. Fifth District Cayuga--Miss Isabel Howland, Sherwood. 8 ASSEMBLY DISTRICT LEADERS Jefferson-- A. D. 1. Miss Elizabeth Babcock, Watertown. 2. Miss Jeanette Moffett, 325 Washington Street, Watertown. Madison--Mrs. George F. Mills, Oneida. Onondaga-- A. D. 1. Miss Marjorie Trump, 1912 Genesee Street, Syracuse. 2. Mrs. Morris W. Chase, Summit Avenue, Syracuse. 3. Mrs. W. F. Canough, 151 Clark Street, Syracuse. Oswego--Mrs. Luther W. Mott, 73 W. Schuyler Street, Oswego. Mrs. J. S. Stevenson (vice-leader), Hannibal. Sixth District Broome--Miss Lillian Huffcut, 63 St. John Avenue, Binghamton. Chemung--Mrs. Nelson A. Welles, 861 College Avenue, Elmira. Chenango--Mrs. J. F. Denison, Greene. Cortland--Miss Caroline P. Oakley, Madison Street, Cortland. Delaware--Mrs. H. W. Cannon (288 Madison Avenue, New York City), Delhi. Otsego--Mrs. H. W. Lee, 19 Watkins Avenue, Oneconta. Schuyler--Miss Jessie Norton, 214 Madison Avenue, Watkins. Tioga--Mrs. C. O. Seabring, Spencer. Tompkins--Mrs. F. E. Bates, 310 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca. Seventh District Livingston--Mrs. Samuel Fraser, Genesee. Monroe-- A. D. 1. Mrs. Emma B. Sweet, 645 Averill Avenue, Rochester. 2. Mrs. Aims Coney, 941 Harvard Street, Rochester. 3. Mrs. Adelyn Bullis, 234 University Avenue, Rochester. 4. Mrs. Horace G. Pierce, 58 Albemarle Street, Rochester. 5. Mrs. W. S. Perry, 136 Woodbine Avenue, Rochester. Ontario--Mrs. Alfred G. Lewis, White Springs Farm, Geneva. Seneca--Mrs. Benjamin Franklin, Ovid. Steuben--Miss Evelyn Fay, 8 E. Washington Street, Bath. Wayne--Mrs. Alex. Ostrander, Rice Street, Lyons. Yates--Mrs. Frankie G. Merson, Keuka Park. 9 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY Eighth District Allegany - Mrs. R. B. Barrows, Andover. Cattaraugus - Mrs. W. Howard Ramsey, Olean. Chautauqua - A. D. 1. Mrs. Hetty Sherwin, R. F. D. 75, Jamestown 2. Mrs. Gertrude Nelson Andrews, Lily Dale. Erie - A.D. 1. Mrs. George J. Cadwell, 210 Summer Street, Buffalo. 2. Mrs. James Van Inwagen, Jr., 669 Potomac Street, Buffalo. 3. Mrs. Jacob Hiller, 354 Pratt Street, Buffalo. 4. Mrs. H. Garlock, 198 Franklin Street, Buffalo. 5. Mrs. I. S. Binder, 472 Auburn Avenue, Buffalo. 6. Mrs. B. A. Napiecek, 367 Gibson Street, Buffalo. 7. Mrs. Armbrust, Genesee near Walden, Buffalo. 8. Mrs. L. Orr, 266 Glenwood Avenue, Buffalo. 9. Mrs. Frederick W. Kendall, Hamburg. Mrs. Grace Parker, North Collins. Genesee - Mrs. Ada Sherwin, Batavia. Niagara - Mrs. F. J. Tone, 328 Buffalo Avenue, Niagra Falls. Orleans - Mrs. James Swart, West Avenue, Medina. Wyoming - Mrs. Carrie Ballantine, Warsaw. Ninth District Orange - A. D. 1. Mrs. Edward Thompson, Grand Street, Newburgh. Mrs. Wm. Vanamee, 158 Grand Street, Newburgh. 2. Mrs. Frederick Seward, Jr., Goshen. Rockland - Mrs. Robert Leber, Blauvelt. Sullivan - Mrs. Luther S. Payne, 301 S. Main Street, Liberty. Westchester - A. D. 1. Mrs. A. L. Livermore, 144 Park Avenue, Yonkers. 2. Mrs. J. H. Bethell, Scarsdale. 2. Mrs. Marshal L. Bacon, Glencille Road, Tarrytown. 4. Mrs. John Humphrey Watkins, Jonathan Farm, Mt. Kisco. 10 ASSEMBLY DISTRICT LEADERS Tenth District Columbia - Mrs. Daniel V. McNamee, 326 Allen Street, Hudson. Dutchess - A. D. 1. Mrs. J. E. Spingarn, Amenia. 2. Mrs. Richard Aldrich, Barrytown. Greene - Mrs. Charles Wardle, 35 Division Street, Catskill. Putnam - Miss Helena Fish, Garrison. Ulster - A. D. 1. Mrs. Walter Weyl, Woodstock. 2. Mrs. Andrew Lent, Highland. Eleventh District Essex - Mrs. Geo. Notman (136 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn), Keene Valley Rensselaer - A. D. 1. Miss Evanetta Hare, 29 Eighth Street, Troy. 2. Mrs. Sidney Morse, Petersburgh. Saratoga Miss Kathryn Starbuck, 11 Fifth Avenue, Saratoga Spr. Washington (North) - Mrs. Harold Hutchinson, 24 Maple Street, Hudson Falls. Washington (South) - Mrs. Anna Gay Lake, Cambridge. Warren - Mrs. C. J. Nordstrom, Diamond Pt. Twelfth District Fulton-Hamilton - Mrs. W. H. Alexander, Johnstown. Herkimer - Mrs. G. H. Dawson, Ilion. Lewis (North) - Mrs. T. A. Jones, Deer River. Lewis (South) - Mrs. Lyman Merriam, Lyons Falls. Oneida - A. D. 1. Miss Grace Kernan, 3 Rutgers Park, Utica. 2. Mrs. James L. Jacobs, 1621 Oneida Street, Utica. 3. Mrs. J. A. Spargo, Rome 11 PROGRAM OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1915 At Suffrage Headquarters, 303 Fifth Avenue 10.00 A.M. Meeting of the State Executive Committee, including all Officers, Board of Directors, and Assembly District Leaders and Campaign District Chairmen. At the Hotel Astor 2.00 P.M. Convention called to order by the President. Preliminary report of the Credentials Committee. Report of the Chairman of the Empire State Campaign Committee. MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. Report of the Treasurer of N.Y. State Woman Suffrage Association. MRS. EDWARD M. CHILDS. Report of the Treasurer of the Campaign Committee. MRS. CHARLES L. TIFFANY. Report of the Executive Board, presenting the plan of reorganization. President's Address. MRS RAYMOND BROWN. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1 10.00 A.M. Executive Session. Discussion and adoption of plans for reorganization as recommended by the Executive Committee. Amendments to the Constitution. Final Report of Credentials Committee. 12 PROGRAM OF FORTH-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 12.00 P.M. Primary for election of officers. 2.00 P.M. The Lessons of the Campaign. PRESENTED BY THE CAMPAIGN DISTRICT CHAIRMEN. 4.00 P.M. Pledges and money-raising. 4.30 P.M. Auction of choice articles from the Melting Pot. MISS GRACE FILKINS, Auctioneer. 7.30 P.M. Banquet--Hotel Astor-- Testimonial to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 10.00 A.M. Executive Session. Press and Publicity--Past and Future. CONFERENCE LED BY MISS ROSE YOUNG. 12.00 M. Election of Officers. 2.00 P.M. Executive Session. Our New Campaign. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3 10.00 A.M. Meeting of Executive Committee. Unfinished business. CONVENTION COMMITTEES Local Arrangements. Chairman Mrs. Martha Wentworth Suffren Credentials ........ " Mrs. Edward M. Childs Registration ....... " Mrs. J. L. McCutcheon Information ........ " Mrs. William Valet Pages ............. " Mrs. F. Lewis Slade Election ........... " Mrs. Helen Hoy Greeley Banquet ........... " Mrs. John Blair Decorations ........ " Mrs. Norman deR Whitehouse Seating ............ " Mrs. J. R. Faircild Supplies & Literature " National Suffrage Publishing Co. 13 MINUTES OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Hotel Astor, November 30 to December 2, 1915 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2 P. M. The first meeting of the Forty-seventh Annual Convention of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association was held in the ballroom of the Hotel Astor, New York City, at two o'clock, Tuesday, November 30, 1915, the President, Mrs. Raymond Brown, in the chair. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Chairman of the Empire State Campaign Committee, made her report, which was received with prolonged applause and a rising salute. The President announced the appointment of the following committees: Credentials: Mrs. E. M. Childs, ex-officio Chairman. Miss Jane Olcott, Mrs. Katherine Gray, Miss Fannie Lawson, Mrs. Helen Brewster Owens. Elections: Mrs. Helen Hoy Greeley, Mrs. Robert Oliver, Mrs. Frances Brewer, Miss Mary D. Hopkins, Mrs. Catherine Peck Wylde. The Treasurer, Mrs. E. M. Childs, made her report, which, on motion of Miss Mills, was adopted. The President, Mrs. Brown, made her address, which was received with applause and a rising salute. Mrs. Tiffany gave her report as Treasurer of the Empire State Campaign Committee, and on motion of Miss Willis it was adopted, with thanks. Mrs. Childs, Chairman, made a preliminary report of the Credentials Committee. The meeting adjourned. 14 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONVENTION Wednesday, December 1, 10:00 A. M The second meeting of the convention was called to order by the President at 10 o'clock, Wednesday morning, December 1, 1915. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. The Secretary read the following recommendation for the convention from the Executive Committee: That all existing suffrage organizations that united in the Empire State Campaign Committee be consolidated into one organization. That a new constitution be submitted for the old. The recommendations were adopted. The constitution recommended by the Executive Committee was considered seriatim: Consideration of Article I was postponed until after the remainder of the constitution was disposed of. Articles II, III, IV, V, VI, VII were adopted. On motion of Mrs. Aldrich it was voted to change the words "annual meeting" to the words "annual convention" wherever they occur in the constitution. It was voted to amend By-law II by inserting after the word "at" the words "the business meetings of the State Convention." A motion was made to amend By-law III by submitting the words "State Convention" for the words "State Committee." It was moved to amend the amendment by omitting the words "or appoint." The amendment to the amendment was lost. The amendment was then put to vote and lost. The By-laws were adopted as amended. On motion of Miss Lawson, it was voted to reconsider action on Section 11 of Article V. A motion was made to amend Section 11 of Article V by submitting for the word "appointed" the word "elected," and by omitting the words "officers of." The amendment was lost. Mrs. Aldrich moved, and the motion was seconded, that Article I of the constitution be adopted. It was voted that debate on this question be limited to one minute. The Secretary read the following telegram from Mrs. George Howard Lewis of Buffalo: 15 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. MRS. RAYMOND BROWN, President New York state Woman Suffrage Association, Hotel Astor, New York City. I earnestly protest against dropping the name "New York State Woman Suffrage Association." This organization has been in existence forty-seven years, and its membership has borne the early days of the suffrage cause. Let us keep the name in memory of those pioneer women and of all who have worked for our cause in our State. KATHERINE BELL LEWIS. (Answered by day letter, December 2, 1915, Marion May.) After discussion Article I was adopted. On motion of Mrs. Aldrich, the recommended constitution as amended was adopted. On motion of Mrs. Aldrich, it was voted that the status of life members be considered by the incoming officers. On motion of Mrs. Catt, it was voted that the chair appoint a committee of three to review the constitution and make verbal changes to render it uniform. The President appointed as such committee Mrs. Mansfield, Mrs. Livermore and Miss Mills. Mrs. Childs, Chairman, made the report of the Credentials Committee. The meeting adjourned. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2 P.M. The third meeting of the convention was called to order by the President at two o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, December 1. The topic "Lessons of the Campaign" was discussed by the Campaign District Chairmen, assisted in some cases by their Assembly District Leaders. The President called for pledges, with the following result: Mrs. Norrie, for the 10th Campaign District............$1,000.00 Mrs. Topliff, $5.00 per month to A. D...................... 60.00 Mrs. Topliff, year's pledge........................................ 75.00 Mrs. Percy Jackson, per year................................... 100.00 Miss Mary Hinckley ................................................. 37.50 Rebecca C. Rockford, Rochester............................. 10.00 Mrs. William G. Willcox, Staten Island.................... 50.00 Mrs. Katharine C. Gray, Albany, per year................. 100.00 16 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONVENTION Mrs. Emily B. Nordstrom, Warren County.................... $100.00 Miss Helena Fish, per year............................................ 10.00 Mrs. Oliver J. Wells........................................................ 10.00 Miss Mary Gray Peck, to Ontario County...................... 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Lewis, for Assembly District, Ontario 200.00 Mrs. E. E. Lindsley......................................................... 10.00 Mrs. G. S. Baxter, Jr., per year...................................... 5.00 Miss Babcock, per year................................................. 100.00 Helen M. Stott............................................................... 10.00 Mrs. Edward N. Trump, per year................................... 25.00 Mary E. Ketcham, per year............................................ 25.00 Mary E. Bugbee (paid)................................................... 10.00 Mrs. Clarence M. Smith, to 19th Assembly District....... 5.00 E. W. Barstow.................................................................. 2.00 Mrs. A. E. Miller............................................................... 5.00 Saratoga County, by Miss Starbuck............................... 200.00 Robert Underwood Johnson, at least........................... 10.00 ___________ $2,169.50 $365.00 in yearly pledges, to be paid until women are enfranchised, was promised. Miss Grace Filkins auctioned articles from the Melting Pot, resulting in a total of $74.30. The meeting adjourned. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 10 A.M. The convention met in executive session Thursday morning, December 2, at 10 o'clock, the President presiding. The minutes of the two previous meetings were read and approved. On motion of Miss Mills, it was voted that telegrams of greeting be sent to our formed President, Mrs. Jean Brooks Greenleaf, and to Mrs. George Howard Lewis, and Miss Emily Howland. At the Press and Publicity Conference, presided over by Miss Rose Young, Director of the Press Department, the following Press Chairmen spoke: Second Campaign District--Mrs. Edna Buckman Kearns. Ninth Campaign District--Miss Katherine Fuller Walker. Eighth Campaign District--Miss Marjorier Shuler. 17. NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. Fourth Campaign District--Mrs. Frank Paddock and Mrs. Julius Frank. Mrs. Greeley, Chairman of the Elections Committee, asked for the use of rooms for voting places. On motion of Mrs. Aldrich, it was voted to conduct the election in several rooms. Mrs. Jeanne Marion Doane rose to a point of order and asked for a few minutes to talk on publicity. Three minutes were granted. An open discussion on the plate and bulletin service followed. The question of Publicity was presented by Mrs. Norman deR. Whitehouse. The report of the Credentials Committee was made by the Chairman, Mrs. Childs. The question of the status of life members was raised and the President called upon the Secretary for a statement on this point. The Secretary stated that for a few years previous to 1911 life members were permitted to vote, but that at the 1911 convention the constitution was amended, taking away their vote, and on two occasions since that time the question had arisen in convention, and it had been voted that such action could not be retroactive and that no person who was a life member in 1911 could be deprived of her vote. Mrs. Greeley, Chairman, made the report of the Elections Committee on the result of the primary, declaring the following persons to be nominees for their respective offices: Chairman: Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt First Vice-Chairman: Mrs. Norman deR. Whitehouse Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw Second Vice-Chairman: Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw Mrs. Normal deR. Whitehouse Third Vice-Chairman: Mrs. Henry White Cannon Mrs. Alfred G. Lewis Recording Secretary: Miss Alice Morgan Wright Mrs. Edgerton Parsons Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. Michael Van Beuren Miss Fannie Lawson Treasurer: Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid 18 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONVENTION Directors: Mrs. Dexter P. Rumsey Mrs. Raymond Brown Mrs. Henry W. Cannon Miss Harriet May Mills Miss Mary Hun Mrs. Alfred G. Lewis Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore Mrs. F. J. Tone The President appointed the following to serve on the Elections Committee in place of the present members, Mrs. Greeley continuing as Chairman: Mrs. Edward Fairchild Mrs. Mark Ruddick Mrs. Nieser Mrs. Frederick Gillette Mrs. Lillian Griffin Mrs. Childs announced that 321 were entitled to vote at the election. The reports of the Credentials Committee and of the Elections Committee were adopted. The meeting adjourned. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2 P.M. The closing meeting of the convention was held Thursday afternoon, December 2, at 2 P.M. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. An additional half hour was given to the Press and Publicity Conference, during which Mrs. O. Haskell reported for the Woman Suffrage Party of New York City, and a discussion on the advisability of answering anti-suffrage statements in the newspapers followed. On motion of Mrs. Catt, it was voted that the Campaign District Chairmen be continued in office until the incoming Board, under the constitution, makes the appointments. The Secretary stated that at a joint meeting of the Campaign District Chairmen and the official Board it was voted to recommend that steps be taken at once to secure a resubmission of the Woman Suffrage Amendment. Mrs. Brown submitted the following financial plan: 19 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. General Rules of Conduct and Finance for the Year Nov. 20, 1915, to Nov. 2, 1916 Voting members in each Assembly District shall be those who have paid 25 cents into the Assembly District treasury. Members of Assembly District or Campaign Clubs shall not be considered members of the Assembly District organization unless 25 cents for each member has been paid into the Assembly District treasury. Supporting Membership. - Those who pay from $1.00 to $5.00 into the Assembly District treasury or any branch or departmental treasury of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party, shall be called supporting members, All names and addresses of such mem- bers shall be sent to the State headquarters. When such member- ships are paid into the Assembly District treasury, 25 per cent. shall be retained for local expenses and 75 per cent. shall go to the Campaign District treasury ; 50 percent of the original amount shall be put into the district campaign fund and 25 per cent. shall be paid into the State treasury. When such memberships are paid into the Campaign District treasury 75 per cent shall be retained for the District Campaign Fund and 25 per cent. be forwarded to the State treasury. When such memberships are paid into the State treasury the entire amount shall be retained. The division of these memberships in New York City between The Assembly District, the Borough, the City Committee and the State Committee shall be determined by the local organizations. Contributing Memberships. - Those who pay over $ into the Assembly District treasury, or any branch or departmental treas- ury, shall be called contributing members. Money shall not ne paid out of the Assembly District treasury except upon the majority vote of the Assembly District officers. For the Campaign District A headquarters shall be maintained in each large city to serve local and Campaign District needs. The cost of maintenance shall be borne by the suffragists pf the city in which the headquarters is established. To cover this expense a careful estimate shall be made of rent, heat, light, telephone, janitor and clerk service, and a fund be raised for the purpose by supporting memberships to meet the necessary amount. 20 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONVENTION Each Campaign District shall have a working fund from which shall be borne all the expenses and salaries of organizers, except hospitality, which shall be borne by the County or Assembly Dis- trict, literature for non-supporting counties, etc. For the State A State headquarters shall be maintained in New York City, the cost of rent, telephone, furniture and ordinary maintenance to be borne by New York City. A Field Director, Executive Secretary, Headquarters Secretary, Stenographers, and press Bureau shall be maintained by a Cam- paign Fund to be raised by contributions from all parts of the State. The Field Director shall conduct the organization and the campaign work for the State, visit weak counties, hold conferences of workers, inspire assist, direct. The plan as amended was adopted. Mrs. Crossett moved that the constitution be amended by adding a section providing for life members without a vote. The motion was lost. On motion of Mrs. Lewis, it was voted to work for an immediate referendum in New York State. On motion of Mrs. Aldrich, it was voted that we work for the Federal Amendment with all our strength. On motion of Mrs. Livermore, a vote of thanks was extended to Dr. Anna Howard Shaw for help in the campaign, and with it a pledge of loyalty to the National American Woman Suffrage Asso- ciation through all its branches. On motion of Mrs. Clement a vote of thanks was extended to the paid organizers fr all their hard work and sacrifices and efficiency in the campaign. The organizers present were introduced to the convention. It was voted that telegrams of greeting be sent to Miss Alice Pierson, Miss Florence Roberts, Miss Helen Ecker, Mrs. Elsie Benedict, Mrs. Katherine Maule, Miss M. Yeomans, Miss Martha Klatschken, Miss Helen Bristol, Miss Stevens, Miss C. Mann. It was voted that a telegram or letter of greeting be sent to Mr. and Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, who were in California. It was voted that a vote of thanks be extended to the Men's League for work in the campaign. 21 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. On motion of Mrs. Shuler, the following resolution was adopted: "That the New York State Woman Suffrage Association, in convention assembled, the second day of December, 1915, thanks most heartily Miss Hay, as Chairman, and the Woman Suffrage Party of the City of New York, our hostess, for their generous hospitality and for the splendid arrangements which have made our stay in this city so delightful." Mrs. Greeley, the Chairman of the Elections Committee, made her report of the result of the election of officers for the coming year: Chairman: Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt First Vice-Chairman: Mrs. Norman deR. Whitehouse Second Vice-Chairman: Mrs. James Lee Laidlaw Third Vice-Chairman: Mrs. Henry W. Cannon Recording Secretary: Miss Alice Morgan Wright Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. Michael M. Van Beuren Treasurer: Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid Directors: Mrs. Raymond Brown Mrs. D. P. Rumsey Miss H. M. Mills Mrs. A. L. Livermore The report of the Elections Committee was adopted with thanks. On motion of Miss Hay, a vote of thanks was extended to Mrs. Brown as presiding officer. The incoming officers were introduced to the convention. On motion of Mrs. Shuler, the following resolution was passed: "Whereas the press of New York State has proved a powerful ally in furthering the cause of suffrage in the campaign of 1915, be it "Resolved that a vote of thanks be and hereby is tendered said press for its valiant service." A vote of thanks was tendered to Mrs. John Blair, Chairman of the Committee on Banquet Arrangements, and to the Recording Secretary. The Secretary read telegrams of greeting from our former President, Mrs. Jean Brooks Greenleaf, and Miss Emily Howland, and a letter of thanks from James. U. Norris, Superintendent of Polyclinic Hospital, for a gift of flowers from the banquet. The minutes of this meeting were read and approved. 22 REPORT OF MRS. RAYMOND BROWN On motion of Miss Mills it was voted that all unfinished business be left to the State Committee. It was voted to adjourn, and the President declared the Forty- seventh Annual Convention closed. Respectfully submitted, NICOLAS SHAW FRASER, Recording Secretary. REPORT OF MRS. RAYMOND BROWN President of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association The year 1915 has seen the hardest battle ever fought by a peaceful army in the cause of human freedom. After 64 years of continuous efforts on the part of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association the bill to confer suffrage on the women of New York State came to a vote on November 2. The total vote for suffrage was 553,348, against 748,3j32; majority against suffrage, 194,984. While New York State was not won in the first campaign, it gave the largest vote ever polled for suffrage at any election. The majority against the proposed new constitution, which cost the State over a million dollars, was 504,669, while the majority against suffrage was only 194,984. Suffrage also polled a larger vote than did the Republic Party at the last Presidential election (Republican vote, 455,428). During the two years of the campaign the New York State Woman Suffrage Association did not work as a separate association but combined its forces with the Woman Suffrage party of New York City and other suffrage organizations in the Empire State Campaign Committee. Its President and entire Board of Officers put themselves and all their efforts under the leadership of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Chairman of the Campaign Committee. The Empire State Campaign Committee conducted probably the most spectacular campaign ever waged for suffrage; it came through with money in its treasury, and two nights after election it started a new campaign at a mass meeting in Cooper Union at which $100,000 was pledged among boundless enthusiasm. The following is a résumé of the work of the campaign conducted by Mrs. Catt: Organization has gone on on the lines begun last year. The twelve Campaign Districts have continued under the same chair- 23 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. men, with the exception of the eleventh, of which Mrs. George Notman, of Keene Valley, became chairman. The leaders of a few of the counties have been changed and every Assembly District in the State has been organized. In addition to the Assembly Dis- trict organizations there were 565 clubs and 183 campaign com- mittees working in the State. About 2,500 women held official positions in our organization, sometimes giving much and some- times all of their time without pay. Forty organizers were in the field during the year, most of whom had been specially trained for the work, and all of whom gave devoted service. County conventions were held in the spring in every county, when Assembly District officers were elected. The Woman Suffrage Party of New York City carried on the work in Greater New York in constant and intimate co-operation with the Campaign Committee. The Equal Franchise Society, while it maintained its own head- quarters, put its entire resources into the work of the Campaign Committee. Its President, Mrs. Howard Mansfield, was Chairman of the Committee's Literature Section. The Collegiate League and the Men's League also put all their work under the direction of the Campaign Committee Chairman. the Men's League furnished many experienced speakers who gave invaluable help. The Teacher's Branch. - Twelve thousand teachers formed a teachers' branch under Katherine Devereux Blake as Chairman. They paid fifty cents dues each and gave not only a good sum of money, but many of them spent much of their vacation working for the cause. Press and Publicity Council. - A volunteer committee of 100 women was organized by Mrs. Norman deR. Whitehouse, Chairman, for the purpose of stimulating newspaper and other publicity. They were the originators of many new publicity "stunts." About 200,000 women did work of varying quantity and char- acter in the campaign. Literature. - 7,230,000 leaflets, taking 20 tons of paper, were printed and distributed. Bought in such large quantities, they were printed for as little as 22 cents a thousand. 657,200 booklets were sent out, one set to every political leader in the State. 592,000 24 REPORT OF MRS. RAYMOND BROWN Congressional leaflets were mailed to voters and 149,533 posters were placed. 1,000,000 suffrage buttons were used ; 200,000 cards of matches with 'Vote Yes on the Suffrage Amendment," and 35,000 fans carrying the suffrage map and inscribed "Keep Cool! There will be nothing to worry about after we get Votes for Women." Sets of slides giving suffrage argument, with a suffrage lecture typewritten, other sets showing pictures of prominent men who were going to vote yes, and others showing suffrage cartoons were widely used. Meetings. - During the six months preceding election 10,325 meetings were recorded. Many more were held of which no record was kept. The month preceding election mass meetings (indoors) were arranged in 124 different cities ; 16 in New York City with speakers of such national prominence as Lieutenant-Governor Mor- gan of Kansas, Congressman Keating of Colorado, Hon. A. M. Harvey of Kansas, Ex-Congressman Falconer of Washington, Con- gressman Mondell of Wyoming, Senator Borah of Idaho. Congress- man Dill of Washington, Treasurer Akers of Kansas, and others. The week before election in New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, and other places, Marathon speeches were held, lasting throughout 24 hours. During even the small hours of the night, crowds listened. Moving picture and vaudeville theatres were a frequent medium for suffrage speeches, speakers of prominence even being occasion- ally billed as special attractions. A moving picture play called "The Ruling Power," giving good suffrage arguments, was pro- duced. Headquarters were maintained by the Campaign Committee for their executive work in New York City and a suffrage lunch room was opened in Wall Street. Campaign Districts had headquarters in Yonkers, Poughkeepsie, Albany, Troy, Utica, Ithaca, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo. Besides these, 24 cities and towns main- tained headquarters the past year, while the number of temporary quarters and shop windows used for advertising and propaganda is beyond counting. Flying squadrons of organizers nd speakers were a feature pf the campaign. A group of trained workers would go into a city, make an intensive canvass, hold street meetings several times a day, and through their unusual activities attract public interest, and 25 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. especially stimulate newspaper publicity. The school teachers were a great help in this work. Election Day 6,330 women served as watchers and workers at the polls, many being on duty from 5 or 5.30 A.M. till midnight. Fairs.--The county fairs were again made a medium for suffrage propaganda. Every county fair in the State (101) had a suffrage booth or tent. THE FUTURE--A PLAN OF REORGANIZATION Our experience in the suffrage campaign of the past two years proved that the close co-operation of all the suffrage forces such as existed in the Empire State Campaign Committee is a big factor in the effectiveness of a campaign; that it is economical of both money and effort and should be permanent. We need now to reorganize our State Association so as to include all the elements of the Campaign Committee, and to use the experience gained during the past two years to strengthen and improve it. The State is so huge and the problems of city and country so diverse that the division into Campaign Districts according to natural centers, putting the responsibility of each division on one woman as Chairman, is logical and practical. Through these Campaign District Chairmen to the Assembly District Leaders, and through them to the Election District Captains, our Campaign Chairman, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, like the brains of the body, sent her instructions out to the tiniest nerves. There was strength, too, in the fact that the whole State was often doing the same thing at the same time, so that no one felt lonesome and each was encouraged to do her utmost. We want to keep this division of the State into Campaign Districts. The Assembly District should also remain as the basis of organization and enrollments should still continue to be taken. Under the Campaign District Chairmen, the Assembly District Leader passes the word on to her Election District Captain and stimulated the work in every corner of her district. She plans for meetings and organizes the weak spots, and is not content until every Election District has its Captain and its own band of workers. The Election District Captain is a most important person if canvassing is to be properly done. I am convinced, from our experience, that canvassing, down to the last man in the district, especially getting acquainted with and consulting local political leaders, 26 REPORT OF MRS. RAYMOND BROWN is the keynote of success. Open-air meetings and other educational propaganda are not made properly effective unless followed up by the personal canvass. New Form of Membership Since, however, enrollments of names in the Assembly Districts soon become inaccurate, we propose to adopt a new form of membership as a basis for representation in the new State organization. While enrollments shall still be taken, we propose to institute a twenty-five-cent voting membership, this money to go to the Assembly District treasury. From this fund Assembly District dues shall be paid to the State Treasurer and delegates to the State Convention shall be appointed on this basis. Our State Constitution at present proposes no financial plan, and our recent campaign was weak in that there was no definite plan either for raising money or for supplying a clear division of the money raised. With a treasury for the Assembly District or County work, another for the needs of the Campaign District, which often has a headquarters to maintain, and another for the great needs of the central treasury, which had to bear the enormous expense of additional field workers and propaganda for weak counties, it was always a delicate and difficult matter to divide contributions. Sections for Special Work We propose also to create sections for special work like the Teachers' Branch. There have been many suffragists among New York teachers for years, but they were a lukewarm group, counting for very little in the suffrage work, until Miss Blake organized them into the Teachers' Branch of the Campaign Committee and galvanized them into an active, vital force for suffrage. Other sections for educational work, political work, labor unions, church work and work among foreign-born citizens, are proposed. These sections will each have a Chairman to represent it on the Executive Board. Since the Woman Suffrage Part of New York City and the State Association have been working together for two years on exactly the same lines, and since we propose to continue the Assembly District as a unit of organization, it seems a natural and simple thing to consolidate them. The case of the Equal Franchise Society, the Collegiate League and the Men's League is somewhat different. 27 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. The two latter are parts of national organizations. We propose that all three shall join as "Sections," the Equal Franchise Society, with its libraries, to become the section for educational work. The Executive Board, then. of our new consolidated organization shall consist of the elected officers, the Chairmen of Campaign Districts, and the Chairmen of Sections, including the Equal Franchise Society, the Collegiate League, and the Men's League. This will be practically the same as constituted the Empire State Campaign Committee. For years it was the policy of the State Association to have on its Board women from different parts of the State. These members of the Board usually had other definite, important, engrossing suffrage work to do, and so they were able to give but little time to work on the State Board, and often were not able to come to Board meetings more than once or twice a year. Under the reorganization I urge that the working officers of the Executive Board shall live in New York City. The work such a board of officers has to do in the present condition of the movement is so engrossing that they ought to be able to five all their time to do it. The advantages of having a working force who live in the same city and can get together constantly for consultation, and be on the spot to do the work, are obvious. Under the plan of division of the State into Campaign Districts, each center, like Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, etc., should have its own working board or "City Committee," and that district be represented on the Executive Board by its Campaign District Chairman. This plan has worked admirably in the Empire State Campaign Committee and should be continued. It is also proposed to elect four directors to represent up-state on the Board of Officers. The regular Assembly District organization may be assisted in a city or village of any size by a club, organized among groups of people who like to work together for some special purpose, as in Rochester, where the Political Equality Club raised many of the funds for the Campaign District work. We have seen the value of our non-partisan policy. Since we must ask men of all shades of belief to vote for us, we must not tie ourselves up with any one party or creed, or against any party or creed. This is as true of work for the Federal Amendment as for our State work. The cardinal principle of the National American Women Suffrage Association, and of the State associations comprising 28 REPORTS FROM COMMITTEE'S TWELVE DISTRICTS it, has been this non-partisanship. If we are to win the vote in New York State we must continue not to fight any movement or party. There are some who say that State work ought to be dropped and all our attention and work concentrated on the national amendment. That would be a most short-sighted policy. A federal amendment must be ratified by 36 States. To get such an amendment ratified we need the strongest possible State organization. Such a State organization cannot be built up by work for a federal amendment along. It is evident, then, that we can best push our federal amendment by backing it up by State work, and that the two must go hand-in-hand. Through our Congressional District Chairmen we have sent delegations to our national congressmen and shall continue to aid the national work of pushing the Susan B. Anthony Amendment in every way possible. New York is the pivotal spot in the suffrage movement to-day. When we win New York the battle for the nation is won. Our dream of "Victory in 1915" did not come true, but it came so near to being true that we have every incentive to put up a little harder fight, and get more women into our ranks as active workers and convert the one man in nine necessary. We can do this. We will do it. Let us set ourselves to do it. Let us learn from experience, add to our enthusiasm a little more canny political sense and win in 1917! REPORTS FROM THE EMPIRE STATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE'S TWELVE DISTRICTS FOREWARD New York suffragists, and even the New York public, had been made familiar by the beginning of 1915 with the new geography of New York State as defined by the Empire State Campaign Committee. Time was when Buffalo, for Instance, had more diversified claims to fame, but to suffragists in 1915 it was merely the centre of "the Eighth." Time was when Syracuse was not unknown as a primer little city of western New York, but 1915 stripped it, for suffragists at least, of all identity save as headquarters of "the Fifth." Before 1915, Westchester County meant various things, and the term carried various up-the-Hudson suggestions. By 1915 it didn't mean a thing - to suffrage campaigners, any- 29 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. way - except that it was headquarters county for "the Ninth." From "the First" to "the Twelfth" these arbitrary subdivisions have had a vivid reality for New York women during the last two years. They have been about the vividest and realest things in life for some of us. Around them and in them and through them have swirled our hopes and our doubts, our fears and our reassurances. In each of them the suffrage campaign has had points of individual history. No one of them has had just the same local experience as any of the others. All have had points of intimate contact in general suffrage activity. From each is presented below a summary of the work done and the lessons learned that should, in the aggregate, be of special value in the campaign next ahead of us. First Campaign District Report of Mary G. Hay, Chairman This district was under the leadership of the city chairman of the Woman Suffrage Party. It comprised the five boroughs of Greater New York and its program and scope of activities were identical with those of the party. During the year 1914 the Woman Suffrage Party made a good record in regard to meetings, distribution of literature, the raising of money and canvassing of voters, but we realized that it was only the beginning, and that the work in 1915 would be far greater. Membership. - On January 1, 1915, the Woman Suffrage Party had an enrolled membership of 151,668. Between January 1, 1915, and October 1, 1915, this number was increased to 212,181. Finance. - For 10 months, beginning January 1, 1915, to November 1, 1915, we raised and expended $25,579.33. This amount does not include the money raised and expended in the 63 Assembly Districts, or in the five boroughs through the borough officers, but only the amount that went through the City Committee's treasury. It is impossible to give a complete report before the end of our fiscal year, which closes January 20th, according to our constitution. At that time each Assembly District and borough renders to our bookkeeper the amount raised and expended during the year, and it is then included in our total amount. The report herewith submitted is for only ten months and gives amount raised and expended through the City Committee's treasury only. 30 CAMPAIGN DISTRICT REPORTS Canvassing of Voters. - The registration for 1915 for New York City was 667,366. There was a gain of voting population in Brooklyn of 10,116 and a loss in Manhattan. About 60 per cent. of the registered voters were canvassed. By that I mean called on individually. This work is hard to do in the city, especially in the residential part, for it is impossible to reach the residents of apartment houses, as no one is allowed to enter an apartment house unless announced by hall boy, and canvassers and book agents are generally refused admittance. We do not consider that the canvassing in New York City was perfectly done. In another campaign it must be, if we are to win. Organizers. - We had at different times during the ten months 50 organizers working in the five boroughs or counties of New York City; these organizers were also speakers and did work of all kinds, but not office work. Church Work. - On the Sunday before election more than one hundred churches had suffrage sermons, preached by their ministers, or had special suffrage meetings where some of our speakers occupied the pulpit. Also on that day literature was distributed by members of the Catholic Committee at the Catholic churches, and by members of the Protestant Committee at the Protestant churches. A great deal of work was done by personally calling on the ministers during the last month of the campaign, and special work was done by the Catholic Committee with the Catholic clergy in the same way. Literature. - We printed or purchased or had given us 2,883,264 pieces of literature, which was distributed during the ten months, the greater portion of it during the last three months. We had posters put up in various parts of the city in all of the five boroughs. Letters to Voters. - Assembly district leaders report that one or two letters were sent to every voter in many of their Election Districts, but it is impossible to make an accurate estimate. Without doubt more than 850,000 personal letters, telegrams and circulars were sent to the voters of the city. Meetings. - Six hundred and sixty indoor meetings were held in the ten months, and 93 large mass meetings with prominent speakers. We found that the best way to reach the voter was on the street corner, so we held more street meetings than indoor meetings. The number I can give will not be accurate, because many 31 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. leaders held street meetings in their districts, doing the speaking themselves, or having some workers in the district speak. I can give only the estimate of street meetings that were reported to our various headquarters, and speakers furnished from the headquarters, these amounting to 5,225. During the last two weeks of this campaign our speakers' bureau at headquarters had more than 500 speakers listed and speaking day and night. Headquarters. - We had a few temporary headquarters in Assembly Districts, besides regular headquarters in the five boroughs, and the city headquarters, making a total of six permanent headquarters and twenty temporary ones, or twenty-six headquarters. Watchers at the Polls. - We realized in the early spring that we must have many schools to drill watchers for the polls on Election Day, and held between April 1 and November 1 ninety-two schools. Election Day. - There are 2,023 polling places in New York City. We had on that day 1,851 watchers at the polls and 1,294 pickets working 100 feet from the polls. We consider that we did not have half enough watchers and pickets, especially pickets, and while our vote in New York City was very encouraging, we believe it would have been much larger had we had more women to work outside the polling places reminding voters not to forget the women suffrage amendment. I feel that we lost because we did not have enough women doing active work. The politicians or political machines of New York City were true to their work to us and kept faith with us. None of the county machines gave any orders to their workers to knife the suffrage amendment. They did say to the leaders of the Assembly Districts that they could do as they pleased. This I know to be true, no matter what some individual may say to the contrary. If a political party leader of a district was in favor of the suffrage amendment, he used his influence to help us poll a big vote; if he was opposed to suffrage, then he used his influence against it, because he had received orders to do as he pleased in the matter. Where did we fail? By not converting the political leaders of the various assembly and election districts, thus making them our friends and ready to work with us. A future campaign can be won only by doing this, and by calling to arms more, many more, women as active workers. 32 CAMPAIGN DISTRICT REPORTS VOTE ON THE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT BY BOROUGHS For Suffrage Against Lost By Manhattan ........ 88,886 117,610 28,724 Brooklyn ............ 87,402 121,679 34,277 Bronx ................. 34,307 40,991 6,684 Richmond ........... 6,108 7,469 1,361 Queens ............... 21,395 33,104 11,709 Of the five boroughs, Manhattan made the best showing, carrying three assembly districts, the 6th, the 8th, and the 26th. In the Bronze on district carried, the 34th. SECOND CAMPAIGN DISTRICT Report of Gertrude Foster Brown, Chairman This district comprises two counties, Nassau and Suffolk, which include all of Long Island outside of Greater New York. Nassau County, under Mrs. Frederick Greene's leadership, became one of the best organized counties in the State. There was a deputy-leader in charge of each township and a captain for every one of its 72 election districts, besides 11 clubs. During the last six months 210 meetings were held, 40 in October; 70 of the 72 polling places were covered on election day. Three townships of Suffolk County were organized by the Women's Political Union, and though they did not work along the political lines of our organization there was a fine spirit of co-operation. Our organization had 21 clubs and 57 captains in that county. Brookhaven, the largest township, and Patchogue, the largest village, carried for suffrage. Every voter had literature mailed to him, most of them twice. Two hundred and seventy-eight thousand five hundred pieces of literature were distributed during the year. The week before the election a whirlwind motor-car campaign covered the Island and 82 meetings were held. Practically every village on the Island heard suffrage that week. RESULT OF VOTE BY COUNTIES For Suffrage Against Lost By Nassau .............. 7,097 8,295 1,198 Suffolk ............... 7,219 8,962 1,743 33 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. THIRD CAMPAIGN DISTRICT Report of Leila V. Stott, Chairman (Albany, Schoharie, Schenectady, and Montgomery Counties) The most effective work done in this district was the individual visiting of voters, especially local political leaders, followed up by literature, and meetings, preferably outdoors, arranged with the help of people prominent in ward or village. Indoor mass meetings in small places proved usually wasteful of effort and money, since they could not be properly arranged, with the time and workers available. In general, we learned that in going into new or weak territory an organizer must stay long enough to show local women how to work, and return often to help and encourage them. For this reason frequent changes of organizers proved wasteful. Good local press work everywhere stands out as all-important, and we found that much valuable propaganda could be secured if we could have advance copies of speeches to give to editors as our opponents did. The principal opposition in the smaller places was the feeling that suffragists are "a few notoriety-seeking women, discontented with their natural duties and looking for political excitement." This we found also in Albany, especially in political circles and church organizations. In its crudest form it became an openly expressed determination to "keep a woman in her place," but among more thoughtful conservatives this was replaced by a dread of any increased democratic power. Here we feel is the real strength of the future opposition, and examination of our vote seems to bear out this fear, since the rural districts, where the primitive type of opposition prevailed, nowhere equalled the adverse vote of Albany city, the stronghold of conservatism. The more democratic industrial cities of Schenectady and Amsterdam swept us into victory on a strong labor vote and a generally progressive public sentiment. Evidently our great need for the future is to become everywhere messengers of democracy and human liberty. 34 CAMPAIGN DISTRICT REPORTS VOTE BY COUNTIES For Suffrage Against Lost By Won By Albany ............... 12,263 23,604 11,341 Schenectady ...... 7,351 6,006 1,345 Schoharie ........... 2,061 3,540 1,479 Montgomery ........ 3,661 4,642 981 FOURTH CAMPAIGN DISTRICT Report of Mrs. Frank Paddock, Chairman (Franklin, Clinton, and St. Lawrence Counties) The old clubs started the organization work, the Canton, Gouverneur and Malone presidents carrying on the work until the first series of county conventions, after which a Plattsburg club joined. The Malone club began organizing Franklin County and by June, 1914, that county had its organization complete. The Ogdensburg club was organized in May, 1914. An organizer from Headquarters was almost continually in the field, both in St. Lawrence and Clinton Counties, from May, 1914, until the close of the campaign. Every township, hamlet, and village, throughout the district, had suffrage meetings, both in halls and on the street, which were well attended. The granges were generous in contributing their halls, and the W. C. T. U. women were a help in getting meetings arranged. Timidity seemed to be the keynote of difficulty in organizing. Apathy was the chief obstacle. Ours was practically all pioneer work. I feel sure that if Mrs. Catt's instructions regarding the holding of meetings and giving short speeches in school houses, just before election, could have been carried out, the result would have been more satisfactory. Speeches were made in one township, Westville, in every school house, on Friday before election ; the children were appealed to and given literature to take home. This district had a majority of only three against. It is not fair to make any sweeping statement of what forces worked to defeat us in this district, for, upon a careful study of the vote, aided by a detailed report of the workers in each township, 35 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. it is evident that such widely different factors influenced the result that, to make an accurate report, each district should have a separate report in full. For instance, towns where prohibition had been in force for some time as a rule voted favorably. One such town, Burke, had but four as a majority against. In other towns, the Roman Catholic priest, when against, wielded great influence, as in the town of Franklin, and throughout the rural districts of Clinton County. In some localities sentiment tended to shift back and forth. After a thorough canvass by suffragists, an anti canvass sometimes changed the enrolled vote. In Franklin County the clergy neither registered nor voted for suffrage. The explanation of their apathy may lie in the fact that the most active suffrage workers being the best church workers, the clergy dreaded a falling off in church work and financial aid, if their women took an active interest in suffrage. This is a holdover problem for the next campaign. In regard to the canvass and enrollment, the results of election point clearly to the necessity of personal canvassing. In only few exceptions were the enrollments at variance with the vote, Where there was a decided difference it was due to the liquor interests. Much has been said by outsiders and politicians to the effect that in districts where little work was done a larger vote was polled than where there was much propaganda work. This is a fallacy, so far as my district is concerned. In Winthrop, St. Lawrence County, the work was thorough, there was much publicity, many meetings were held, and a thorough canvass was made. Winthrop was anti at the start. Winthrop carried for suffrage at the finish. Lack of sufficient funds was a serious handicap, as was lack of workers. People must be clearly shown the reasons why suffrage is needful. Men and women must be entreated to stand courageously by their convictions. To do this, in a future campaign we need, most of all, trained workers. VOTE BY COUNTIES For Suffrage Against Lost By St. Lawrence... 5,599 7,300 1,701 Clinton... 2,657 4,126 1,469 Franklin... 2,113 3,136 1,023 CAMPAIGN DISTRIC REPORTS FIFTH CAMPAIGN DISTRIC Report of Harriet May Mills, Chairman (Cayuga, Jefferson, Madison, Onondaga and Oswego Counties) The officers of this district for the past year were: Chairman, Harriet May Mills, Syracuse; 1st vice-chairman, Mrs. William F. Canough, Syracuse; 2d vice-chairman, Mrs. Morris W. Chase, Syracuse; secretary, Mrs. John Garnett, Syracuse; treasurer, Mrs. Geo. G. Cotton, Camillus, R. F. D. Mrs. L. O. Macdaniel served as chair man the first year of the campaign. After her resignation, the present incumbent was chosen to succeed her. But, fortunately, the Fifth District retained, until the end of the battle, the active co-operation and counsel of Mrs. Macdaniel and profited by her generous financial support. Cayuga County, with Miss Isabel Howland as its leader, did Herculean work. Attractive and commodious headquarters were opened in the heart of the city of Auburn. This was the center of ceaseless activity. From it scores of organizers and speakers were sent to every town and hamlet, open air meetings were planned and political propaganda carried on. Cayuga presented suffrage at every one of its local granges. Undoubtedly its vote would have been larger if the ballot, instead of the voting machine, had been used for our amendment. The districts of Jefferson were under Mrs. Virgil Kellogg and Miss Jeannette Todd Moffett as leaders. Mrs. Kellogg resigned in the summer of 1915 and her place was not filled. Jefferson drew largely on it own resources and developed a number of strong speakers, notably, Miss Moffett, Mrs. Francis H. Lamon and Miss Edith S. Smith. The West Side Suffrage League was formed in September, with Miss Elizabeth Babcock as president. Its members were chiefly new converts, women who added weight and dignity to the cause in Watertown. Temporary headquarters were maintained by the older club and heroic work was done in canvassing, in outdoor meetings, in visiting political conventions and by flying squadrons throughout the county. Madison County lost its leader in the fall of 1914 and it was not until March, 1915, that an able head was found in Mrs. Paul B. Herrick of Kenwood. In the brief months after Mrs. Herricks's 37 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. appointment many novel methods were employed to reach the voters and to arouse the enthusiasm of the workers. The city of Oneida showed much suffrage zeal that the opposition organized - and so helped increase it. Onondaga County, with its three districts and the largest city in the district, needed more organizers and a greater outlay than the other counties. During the last year there were ten organizers in this county. A "Made-In-Syracuse" dinner, given on Washington's birthday, yielded converts and funds in goodly numbers. Syracuse headquarters, maintained by the local club for the whole district, were near the center of the city and supplies with phenomenal window space. During "display week" the windows won a prize from the inspection committee and were always the magnet for a curious or admiring crowd. The special edition or supplement of the Post-Standard was one of the most ambitious newspaper enterprises in the up-state campaign. Every county but Oswego joined in the project. Advertisements were solicited to cover the cost and an edition of 100,000 was issued on March the 27th. We sold copies on the streets that morning and had a rally luncheon at one of the hotels that noon in honor of the Post-Standard staff who had put through our edition. Four mass meetings were held in Syracuse at the Wieting Opera House and addressed by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Dr. Anna H. Shaw, Mrs. Ethel Snowden, and Hon. Edward Keating. We made a goodly sum at these meetings by selling peppermints marked "Votes-for-Women," and giving them to those who dropped any sort of coin into our outstretched cups. In Onondaga County alone during the last six months of the campaign 457 street and 143 inside meetings were held (600 in all). Among the greatest of these was the all-day series held in front of our headquarters the Saturday before election. It lasted from noon until nearly midnight and was addressed by 14 prominent men and 10 women. Shortly before election we issued some yellow buttons lablelled "Vote Yes Nov. 2d." So popular did these prove that 19,000 were used in our own counties and in outside districts. All the leaders of the fifth district co-operated in the work of the State Fair week as far as possible. The Empire State Campaign Committee in New York paid the expenses of the tent and the State Association 38 CAMPAIGN DISTRICT REPORTS furnished us free 5,000 Votes-for-Women fans which proved most popular on those hot days. They were much in evidence at the anti-suffrage meetings and even in the streets of the city, as well as all over the grounds. Oswego County, with Mrs. Mott as leader, had the benefit of her Ford car, which she ran herself, through the summer months of the campaign. Her work was finished by Mrs. Stevenson, who took the leadership in the last weeks after Mrs. Mott's removal to Washington. Mrs. Stevenson had the help of Mr. Mott and his secretary. The State Grange met in Oswego in February and Mrs. Mott, with the assistance of Miss Portia Willis, kept headquarters open in a store near the hall during the entire week. Daily speaking and refreshments brought a large number of delegates to the place. Literature. - Over a million leaflets sent from Headquarters were distributed during the campaign. Every voter on the official lists was circularized in most of the counties. Special literature in Italian, Polish, and German was distributed. Watchers. - We were fortunate in securing large numbers of watchers. In several of the counties nearly every polling place was covered. In Syracuse, all were provided with watchers or workers outside the polls, or both. There is no doubt that this added largely to our vote. We know that our measure of success is chiefly due to our great leader whose wonderful organizing power and whose faculty to inspire others with zeal for the work made the campaign possible. But we also feel grateful to every woman and every man who helped in the smallest way in the most obscure corner to win votes for the amendment. VOTE BY COUNTIES For Suffrage Against Lost By Cayuga .............. 4,467 5,870 1,403 Jefferson ........... 5,648 9,476 3,828 Madison ............ 3,776 5,188 1,412 Onondaga .......... 19,190 21,901 2,711 Oswego .............. 5,915 6,358 443 The per cent. in favor in the 5th district was 47.7 of the total vote on the question. The per cent. in favor in the largest city, Syracuse, was 45. 39 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. SIXTH CAMPAIGN DISTRICT Report of Helen B. Owens, Chairman This, the largest of all the districts, comprised nine counties. They were officered as follows: Broome, leader, Miss Lillian Huffcutt; Chemung, Mrs. N. A. Welles; Chenango, Mrs. J. F. Denison; Cortland, Mrs. H. M. Collins; Delaware, Mrs. H. W. Cannon; Otsego, Mrs. H. W. Lee; Schuyler, Mrs. Mary L. Ingalls; Tioga, Mrs. C. O. Seabring; Tompkins, Mrs. F. E. Bates. Of these counties Broome, Chemung, and Tompkins carried for suffrage. The District is an essentially rural district, there being only six cities in it. The most successful work done in the District was the personal canvassing of men and women. Well advertised mass meetings, judicious publicity stunts, watchers at the polls, thoroughly distributed literature and generally excellent newspaper support also aided in securing the large vote polled in the Sixth. Education, directed toward a thorough knowledge of the suffrage question for each and every adult, is a sufficient prerequisite for victory in any community! VOTE BY COUNTIES For Suffrage Against Lost By Won By Broome .......... 8,022 7,607 415 Chemung ....... 6,371 5,910 461 Chenango ...... 3,358 3,802 444 Cortland ........ 2,822 2,848 46 Delaware ........ 4,242 5,701 1,459 Otsego ........... 4,205 5,925 1,720 Schuyler ......... 1,413 1,918 505 Tioga .............. 1,945 2,573 628 Tompkins ....... 3,266 3,157 109 SEVENTH CAMPAIGN DISTRICT Report of Alice C. Clement, Chairman (Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne and Yates Counties) When the campaign opened there were but nine suffrage organizations in the district. This number was increased to seventy-two campaign clubs, or committees, and one hundred and fifteen active 40 CAMPAIGN DISTRICT REPORTS captains. All but four of one hundred and twenty townships had one or more meetings during the campaign and no village of over two hundred inhabitants had been without a suffrage meeting. Altogether we had four hundred and thirty indoor and four hundred and twenty-five open air meetings. Sixty of the former were addresses in church on Sunday. Partial canvasses were made in nearly every village and city election district and thirty-six had almost complete canvasses. The total enrollment on suffrage slips was 47,000. Ontario County had registered one out of every three and one-third voters, Yates County and one in every five and one-fifth, Rochester one in five and three-fourths. Press sentiment in the district was on the whole professedly neutral or openly antagonistic and wrought great district to suffrage in public opinion. More than any other one influence it was probably the cause of our failure to secure a majority. Also, the capitalist class in the district generally worked against us. Many different voices were heard for suffrage during the campaign, as forty-one organizers and seventy speakers visited the district during the two years. Much could have been saved to the suffrage treasury had local suffragists opened their homes more generally to entertain them and saved us hotel bills. During the last month, noted speakers and experienced workers came from Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Michigan and California to donate assistance at the close of the campaign. Thirty mass meetings, twelve of them during October, helped enlighten the public, but we feel the open air meetings reached larger audiences with less exertion and expense. Two hundred of these were held on fifty-five different corners in Rochester alone and were advertised in the neighborhood the same day by posters, circulars, house-to-house invitation and literature distribution. Saturday evening was regarded in the small towns as the best time to reach the rural voters; open air meetings then were always largely attended. We could not furnish enough speakers to fill the numerous calls for this kind of meeting. At forty-two fairs there was suffrage work done in booths, tents, autos, with literature, speeches and enrollments. At least 630,000 pieces of literature were distributed in the 7th district. In publicity methods, this district followed all requests and suggestions from New York headquarters, and in turn initiated 41 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. several new "stunts," which were later adopted in New York City. Among the latter were the "Silent Protest" in the naturalization court, Jane Thomson's cooking challenge to the "antis," and Alice Pierson's "all-day speech." Among the former were auto and foot parades, decorated floats, window exhibits, sandwich boards, bill posting parties, Woman Journal "newsy" days, photo-plays. Though we followed the policy of the Empire State Campaign Committee in having as much novel and picturesque publicity as possible, we felt, in reviewing the campaign, that while these tactics interested many indifferent ones in the subject of suffrage, they alienated many even of our friends, and there is in this district a pretty general feeling that for a year or so we should confine ourselves to quiet, inconspicuous organization work. The most remarkable features of our campaign were the continued notable sacrifices of a score of our women, the press work of Mrs. Frances Wile and the generous contribution of the Rochester Political Equality Club. Under Mrs. Helen Abbott, president, this club confined its activities to raising and presenting to the campaign district nearly $7,000.00, with absolute freedom to spend it as the district committee thought best. The results of the vote were surprising and generally disappointing. Rochester, from which we expected little, gave us 42 2-5 per cent of the total vote cast on the question, while Ontario County, from which we expected the largest majority in the state, gave only 38 1-5 per cent. Yates County, with its large percentage of native-born American vote and its no-license territory, should have given a good majority, yet returned only 34 per cent of the vote cast on the question. The difficulty here was the failure of the women to realize their responsibility and the need for work. Consequently the men felt women did not want suffrage. Other towns and counties gave wholly unexpected returns for which we could not account. In general, where the most work had been done, for the longest time, plus the best organization, there we received the best vote. Length of time in which to grow accustomed to this new suffrage idea is an important factor, particularly in rural districts. We carried the 19th ward in Rochester, the largest and most representative American residence ward in the city, and we carried scattering election districts; twenty-one altogether in Monroe County, including Brockport and Fairport. The largest cities carried were Corning and Hornell, places of 13,000. The 42 CAMPAIGN DISTRICT REPORTS entire district cast 38, 932 for and 57,837 against (38 per cent. in favor). The many workers at the polls reported uniform courtesy and were told that the effect of their presence was noticeably beneficial in preventing cheating and disorderly conduct; and that it was the quietest, most orderly election held in many a year. Our recommendations for this coming year are: Get more suffragists on boards of women's organizations, where they will have suffrage introduced on the programs; interest and enlist more women workers; do quiet, educational work among women; discover and circularize regularly all unconverted women, with a series of brief simple leaflets; omit publicity methods; canvass every farm home (since it was the rural vote which defeated us worst); have all the speeches possible Saturday nights in country towns. VOTE BY COUNTIES For Suffrage Against Lost By Livingston .................................... 2,320 3,934 1,614 Monroe ........................................ 18,297 24,843 6,546 Ontario ........................................ 4,032 6,603 2,571 Seneca ......................................... 2,139 3,346 1,207 Steuben ....................................... 7,226 9,740 2,514 Wayne .......................................... 3,508 6,700 3,192 Yates ............................................ 1,410 2,671 1,261 EIGHTH CAMPAIGN DISTRICT Report of Nettie R. Shuler, Chairman The Eighth Campaign District women emerged from the polls with 46 2-3 per cent. of the vote cast on the suffrage amendment. In this district we have eight counties and eighteen assembly districts. Chautauqua County was carried by a majority of 1,777, of which over 1,400 came from the first district; Genesee led the other counties with 46 1-5 per cent; Allegany 46 1-2 per cent; Cattaraugus, 45 3-5 per cent; Orleans, 43 1-5 per cent; Niagara, 42 1-2 per cent.; Erie, 42, and Wyoming, 39 5-6 per cent. The city of Niagara Falls carried with a majority of 520. In Genesee 248 and in Allegany 290 votes would have given us the counties. In Erie, seven towns carried; the vote was tied in one and lost by one, by two, by three, by five, by seven, eleven, twelve, and thirteen votes in eight others. In eleven towns in Erie there were wet and dry 43 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. campaigns which, of course, affected the vote on suffrage. Most of the residence wards in Buffalo were carried, but we were defeated in the Polish, Italian, the German and red light districts. It is interesting in analyzing the vote in the Eighth District to find that many of the districts which were announced as sure were the places where the smallest percentage of the vote was secured and in like manner the towns announced as impossible were the ones which carried. Over-confidence on the part of the women in some of these districts, a certainty that we could not carry openly expressed in others, and the concentration of the opposition on these strongholds were responsible for the failures. The central headquarters at Buffalo financed the counties of Erie, Chautauqua (in part), Cattaraugus, Genesee, and Orleans, spending during the two years $26,311.74 and distributing over one and a half million pieces of literature. Every device that ingenuity could suggest was used and every available opening was seized upon. Most of the credit for results is laid to the attempt to reach all kinds of persons. The most valuable means to this end were street meetings. These were held in every part of Buffalo, residence, foreign, and even red light district, and through the towns as well. In all, 900 meetings were held in Erie County alone during the last six months - reaching the granges, town picnics, business men's associations and all fraternal organizations. For each meeting hand-bills were distributed to the neighboring houses. Men, women and children came down from their verandas and often followed the speakers from meeting to meeting. This created a family spirit and a neighborhood interest entirely lacking in the down-town meetings. On Saturday evenings in the business districts all over the city speakers were stationed a block apart. Trucking parties were held on the main street with meetings at every block and a miniature parade of decorated automobiles. So conspicuous was the success of the women that the politicians dispensed with hall meetings and adopted the street corner idea. The women promptly trailed the men, in many instances securing an introduction from the men before they left. Nothing was more discussed than the suffrage Marathon, the day before election from ten o' clock in the morning until ten o' clock at night. Thousands of pieces of literature were distributed, the public was much impressed and there were crowds all day. 44 CAMPAIGN DISTRICT REPORTS Through the district the plan was in force to forestall opposition wherever possible; otherwise to ignore it. This dignified attitude won many friends. Even those not directly interested were reached in some way, so that there was little sympathy for any work of the anti-suffragists. One men's club announced an anti speaker. Copies of his record were circulated by friends at the meeting and a judicious use of the information made the gentlemen decide not to appear. Groups of women in the gallery flung suffrage boutonnieres among the men as they adjourned without their speech. Two big parades had been held by the district in Buffalo, so it was decided to substitute for an independent effort participation in the Labor Day parade and the Industrial parade. Wherever possible, suffrage was allied to other interests in the effort to get the masses of the people to think of suffrage in connection with their normal everyday affairs. Just preceding election, pictures of one of the saloons bearing anti-suffrage posters were sent to all ministers in the city with the request that they preach suffrage sermons. The suffragists also sent copies of anti-suffrage leaflets to ministers and saloon keepers. To ministers there went the anti-suffrage propaganda designed for saloon men, saying that suffragists would wipe out liquor selling. To the saloon men went the anti-suffrage circulars declaring that suffrage in the West has never done anything to check the saloon evil. The press in the district was in the main favorable. We have learned that one of the things which our organization needs most is the development of its women to recognize responsibility; to be willing to assume responsibility; to fulfill the obligation in a responsible manner. VOTE BY COUNTIES For Suffrage Against Lost By Won By Chautauqua ............ 9,887 7,086 2,801 Genesee .................. 3,027 3,453 426 Allegany .................. 3,851 4,372 521 Cattaraugus ............ 5, 319 6,338 1,109 Erie .......................... 25,669 36,491 10,822 Orleans ................... 2,301 3,201 900 Niagara ................... 6,832 9,214 2,382 Wyoming ................ 2,622 3,981 1,359 45 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. NINTH CAMPAIGN DISTRICT Report of Hettie Faber Osterheld, Chairman (Westchester, Rockland, Orange and Sullivan Counties.) A spirit of camaraderie, self-sacrifice and co-operation was the keynote in the recent suffrage campaign in the Ninth District. Unexpected qualities were revealed in the workers. Timid women developed into eloquent speakers; in some a political sense lay dormant, to be awakened at the propitious time; others became proficient newspaper women. Women with a genius for organization came to the front, while countless devoted suffragists were willing to do the inglorious drudgery which forms the bulwark of a campaign. How true the sense of co-operation was in the District is illustrated by the fact that when, through the serious illness of her son, the leader of Rockland County was obliged to drop her work, a club president from the eastern part of Westchester took complete charge of Rockland, and, regardless of the geographical inconvenience, crossed the Hudson almost daily to superintend the work. In Yonkers, Mt. Vernon, New Rochelle, White Plains, Newburg, the organization was facilitated by a City Committee, which threw much of the work upon the ward chairmen and made them responsible for the work of the election district captains. These captains were thoroughly familiar with conditions in their districts; and it was not infrequent that an election district captain was the wife of a political leader. The latter was a distinct gain, as it brought in intimate factional news of the political parties to our workers with, in many cases, a consequent advantage. The greatest results with the least expense of energy were obtained through hearings before political and benevolent organizations. Street meetings were of inestimable value in reaching the proletariat, though they may have alienated others. Mass meetings in halls consumed endless time, energy and money, and gave meagre results in semi-rural towns; while in the larger towns, as in the First Assembly District of Westchester, the mass meetings proved to be culminating point of years of faithful labor, as shown by an audience that packed the hall, with many turned away for lack of room. The opposition encountered came through the liquor interests 46 CAMPAIGN DISTRICT REPORTS and the political parties. The former carried anti-suffrage buttons and literature in the rear of a saloon. This statement is vouched for by an affidavit from an eye-witness. Some political leaders openly espoused suffrage, while instructing their henchmen to work against us; while others were our firm and honest friends. The campaign district was several times circularized with anti- suffrage literature; one leaflet marked "For men only" being of an obscene nature. This bore no union label and while not to be obtained directly from the headquarters of the Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, yet an address would be furnished where such leaflets might secured. A summary of the actual work of the District as far as recorded during the year 1915 is as follows: Hearings .................................................................................... 878 Street meetings ........................................................................ 1,440 House meetings ....................................................................... 569 Business and Committee meetings ...................................... 400 Grange meetings ..................................................................... 26 Money-raising activities (balls, bridge parties, melting pots, food sales, etc) .................................................................. 128 Papers printing suffrage news .............................................. 91 Literature distributed (leaflets) ............................................. 620,000 (Much more was distributed but the Chairman only has the record as above.) A twelve-hour out-door meeting, from noon to midnight on the Saturday before election, with 26 speakers. All voters in District circularized in two counties three times. Large banners strung across the streets. One in each Assembly District. Polls covered on Registration and Election days. VOTE BY COUNTIES For Suffrage Against Lost By Westchester .......................... 20,165 23,930 3,765 Orange .................................. 9,433 11,838 2,405 Rockland ............................... 3,810 4,559 749 Sullivan ................................. 2,415 4,992 2,577 47 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. TENTH CAMPAIGN DISTRICT Report of Margaret Norrie, Chairman (Dutchess, Ulster, Columbia, Greene and Putnam Counties.) It seems to me an encouraging fact that, as the election figures show, we did best where we got out the largest vote on the amendment. Putnam County, with only 3,000 votes, is the exception. During the last six weeks of the campaign, we held at least one meeting in every village or town of over 200 inhabitants. We distributed nearly 300,000 leaflets. The press, with a few marked exceptions, was very kind to us. Our strength lay in the type of men and women who were for us; our weakness in the inaction of many of our sympathizers. The opposition included a group of reactionaries, all the saloons, a certain number of local political leaders and all the illiterates. On our side, we had Vassar College almost as a unit, the larger number of the churches and the enormous majority of what is generally known as the better element. I should say that we had with us 90 per cent of those people, both men and women, who, whether in politics, business, the professions, the home or the many forms of social service, are recognized as standing for intelligence and efficiency, for justice and mercy, for courage and kindness. The number of these people is constantly being increased by a campaign of moral and political education of which our work is only a part. But our part is a large one, for the question of suffrage includes all the principles of democracy on which this republic is founded. With this support, on which we can so confidently and gratefully depend, we need only to do our duty bravely. VOTE BY COUNTIES For Suffrage Against Lost By Dutchess ................................ 6,839 10,220 3,381 Ulster ...................................... 5,035 10,099 5,064 Columbia ............................... 2,030 5,610 3,580 Greene ................................... 2,264 3,999 1,735 Putnam .................................. 1,062 1,441 379 48 CAMPAIGN DISTRICT REPORTS ELEVENTH CAMPAIGN DISTRICT Report of Katherine H. Notman, Chairman Five counties form the Eleventh Campaign District: Essex, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Warren and Washington counties. In all these counties, by act of the Legislature of New York in 1901, taxpaying women were given the right to vote on special taxation, and in 1910 this act was amended to include the issuing of bonds. Women also who have children of school age, or are assessed for over $50, can vote at district school meetings. Some charters of third class cities have given the taxpaying franchise to their women, but whether any of these towns are included in the Eleventh Campaign District or not has not been ascertained at this date. There are thirty-two or more incorporated towns, but the articles of incorporation are not as hand, nor the charters under which they are governed. The city of Troy is the only spot in the Eleventh Campaign District where women have nothing to say about their local government. The men who have stood for clean government are well pleased with the vote of the women, but where it has interfered with some special privileged class, there the men are against extending the franchise to the women on equal terms with men. It seems wise to urge the women to use their present privilege of voting to the fullest extent in order that they may learn their power, and also that they may prove to their men friends their determination to help in clean government, if the voters will extend to them the right of the ballot. All these women who are voters are surprised when they learn that women in first and second class cities have not their privilege of voting, and are quickly convinced that justice requires them to help their sisters to get what they already have, and readily realize that while helping these disfranchised sisters they will be securing a better vote for themselves. This points to the need of more women to be interested in clean politics in their home towns, and the necessity of converting their 49 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. neighbor woman, so that they may prove to their men that it will be to the advantage of the government for the voters to give the women of New York State the franchise in 1917. To appreciate the interest of the voters of the Eleventh Campaign District in the subject of Woman Suffrage it is only necessary to compare the Gubernatorial vote of 1914 with the vote on the Woman Suffrage Amendment of the year following. 1914 Vote 1915 Vote Difference Gubernatorial Woman Suffrage More Less Essex Co. ............. 5,672 6,286 614 1,312 Rensselaer Co. .... 27,933 18,505 9,428 Saratoga Co. ....... 13,310 12,369 941 Warren Co. .......... 6,974 6,666 308 Washington Co. .. 10,906 9,594 1,312 Totals ............. 64,795 53,420 11,312 The vote for Governor is always considered a large vote, and yet Essex Co. polled 614 more votes on the Suffrage Amendment than was polled for Governor in the previous year. The registered list of voters in the Eleventh Campaign District of 1915 and 15,123 more names than was polled for Governor in 1914, and of this larger list 67 per cent. was polled on woman suffrage; 40 per cent. of this larger vote was "FOR" the Suffrage Amendment. The election districts which carried for suffrage, having polled a small vote in the Election of 1915, might easily be defeated by the opposition in a later election by successfully bringing out a larger percentage of the registered vote. In the last six months of the Campaign the Leader of the Eleventh Campaign District added this amount of work in person to the work of the Leaders of the five counties: Held 79 meetings, canvassed 44 towns, visited 19 towns (extra); 40 women helped to canvass 300 days in their own district, leader canvassed 30 days; distributed in District - 90,000 flyers, 1,000 card calendars, 4,000 postals to voters, 300 booklets to politicians, 500 return postals to Grangers and 50 special sets of flyers. Probably 100,000 pieces of literature were handled by the Leader. 50 CAMPAIGN DISTRICT REPORTS VOTE BY COUNTIES For Suffrage Against Lost By Essex ............................................. 2,853 3,433 580 Rensselaer ................................... 6,875 11,630 4,755 Saratoga ....................................... 5,020 7,349 2,329 Warren ......................................... 2,297 4,369 2,072 Washington ................................. 4,138 5,456 1,318 TWELFTH CAMPAIGN DISTRICT Report of Lucy Carlie Watson, Chairman The Twelfth Campaign District comprises the counties of Oneida, Lewis, Hamilton, Herkimer and Fulton. Part of the district is industrial and the remainder agricultural and sparsely settled. This made it difficult to carry on the work as a whole. The result of the election had been anticipated, and the workers, while disappointed, were not surprised. The work done at fairs throughout the District was thorough and effective. The publicity given through the newspapers had a distinctly educational value and wherever a paper was editorially favorable the effect upon the community was noticeable. In the city of Utica the wards which had been well canvassed produced the best results. The effective work of the numerous organizers was a potent factor, and the large number of street meetings addressed by them made the work of canvassing easier. The opposition carried on a well-organized campaign with headquarters in Utica. As for the methods to be adopted for the future, it would seem that they must be practically the same, but more methodically carried out, and with an effort to increase the sense of responsibility among suffragists to support the cause, both by working, and giving more widely and systematically than ever before. This should not be difficulty in a second campaign with the experience gained in the splendid campaign just ended. VOTE BY COUNTIES For Suffrage Against Lost By Oneida ....................................... 8,891 15,562 6,671 Lewis .......................................... 1,604 3,768 2,164 Hamilton ................................... 464 663 199 Herkimer ................................... 3,819 5,182 1,363 Fulton ........................................ 3,145 3,561 416 51 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. PRESS WORK By Rose Young, Director of the Press Department of the Empire State Campaign Committee In the Empire State Campaign Committee's scheme of things press work was a term of state-wide application to cover not only the suffrage activities of the five component organizations of the Committee but the diffusion of the suffrage education into every nook and cranny that was reached by the daily and weekly papers and the other periodicals of the state. For the best part of a century there has been organized, constructive, enthusiastic suffrage work in New York State. For nine- tenths of that time it was carried on under a pelting, merciless dire of criticism from the state press. For the last five years that same press has lined up for the suffrage cause with unparalleled rapidity and vivid sympathy. During the great campaign year just ended and press was prime reliance of the suffragists. Because of its attitude, the smallest suffrage activity got its full face value as news, and the propaganda attendant upon the more comprehensive suffrage activities worked in naturally and inevitably. The short-sighted often condemn or applaud getting suffrage into the newspaper as if it were an unrelated act. Publicity is blood relation, twin sister to propaganda. The purpose of publicity is to put its object forward for the attention and decision of the public. The purpose of propaganda nor publicity means anything unless together they mean education. It is for the larger aspect of press and publicity as a vast educational agency that I bespeak special consideration. As I get it, the concern of suffragists with organization, with publicity, and with propaganda is one and the same -- to insure the education of the voter on the question of suffrage, make him see what is means of principle, how it works in practice, correlate the impending political enfranchisement of woman with her other already achieved enfranchisements, make him see that suffrage is not a sidestep that stands out with a sinister detachment from the world's progress, but is part of that progress. Organization, Publicity, Propaganda: They should never be separated in the suffrage scheme of work. They are the great triple alliance. Think of press and publicity as being in the relation to 52 PRESS WORK the public of the school to the child. Modern methods of injecting knowledge into the systems of school children may be copied in the effort to inject suffrage into the systems of men and women. Those of you who have children -- and those of you who teach -- know that lessons are dramatized to-day in the school room. The child does not merely read in a book that Columbus discovered America. He gets up and acts it in the classroom. The matter is made alive and vivid in his consciousness. In much publicity and press effort you need but copy a leaf from the school book. Dramatize your argument, stage it, act it out so that it will be as obvious as the dawn Women are often impatient of the news element, the spectacular, the sensational, that must be used to carry the propaganda. The newspaper is impatient of propaganda and keen for news and sensations. It takes wide vision and firm grip to hold the objective -- votes for women -- intact through the welter of spectacle and personality and sensational news and misinformation that we find in the papers. If you concede that you want to keep suffrage before the public as a live issue, as the livest issue of the times, you must concede that you've got to keep it in the newspaper. To keep it in the newspaper you must relate it acceptably to the news of the day. Take up a newspaper and note how much of the news of the day is about men. There's your path blazed for you -- relate suffrage to the things men are interested in. Men are tremendously interested in themselves -- in the big outside work of the world for which they have constituted themselves the driving force. Relate suffrage to that work -- to industrial crises, to international complications, to current political history at home. In our ambition to relate suffrage to the day's news for the New York State press, we were confronted by the fact that press includes 2,155 publications. That's more than all the publications in all the New England States put together ; it's more than all publications in all the Pacific Slopes States, and it's equal to all the publications in all the Middle Atlantic States put together. There are in New York 211 dailies. There are 1,117 weeklies. There are 628 monthlies. There are 504 different places of publication. The publication cover every classification -- trade, professional, fashion, religious, literary, general. They are published in 26 different languages -- if you include English. In all there are 180 53 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. foreign publications in 25 different languages. The languages start with Arabic and end with Yiddish. The foreign dailies alone total 38, published in 14 different languages. Suffrage Sentiment of the Press These foreign papers vary by nationality in their attitude toward suffrage. The Scandinavian papers and the radical Jewish press are with us. The others are, on the whole, hostile, though I struck suffrage faith among Greek and Hungarian editors. The German press and the Italian are hostile for the most part. One Italian paper, in the Bronx, Sicilia, was, however, strongly pro-suffrage. The orthodox Jewish press is anti. New York city has fifteen papers that belong on the list of the great metropolitan dailies. Of these, ten were editorially pro-suffrage in the 1915 campaign. The evening papers made even a better showing than the morning papers in the matter of pro-suffrage sentiment. Of the seven evening papers all but two were editorially in favor. The press of the larger cities up-state was perhaps preponderantly anti in editorial persuasion, though some papers, i. e., the Buffalo Courier and the Rochester Times, stand out as notable exceptions. On the other hand, the papers that get closest to the heart of community and home life, the so-called "rural press," was overwhelmingly pro-suffrage. From the completest data obtainable, district by district, I figure that the proportion is three to one. How the Work Was Handled The work of the press section was carried on through a much larger force that was organized for the work of any of the other sections. There were 214 press chairmen and sub-chairmen on the volunteer force, and late in January, 1915, that force was further augmented by the 100 women of the Publicity Council, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Norman deR. Whitehouse. Toward the end of the campaign the Woman Suffrage Party's program became so comprehensive that a local press chairman was appointed to handle its publicity. Main headquarters undertook to be the source of chief supply and the distributing center of suffrage news and propaganda applicable for the use of all the chairmen. But it left to the local chairmen all over the state the handling of local news and local 54 PRESS WORK situations. It left to them the task of getting, and keeping, in touch with local editors. Main headquarters was to keep hands off and let its output reach the up-state press in the manner and to the extent dictated by the local press women. Such a plan has its advantages and disadvantages. Its chief advantage lies in securing the personal touch with local newspaper offices through the local women. And its chief disadvantage lies in putting the press work rather inextricably at the mercy of the local women. Wherever there is an efficient local woman, the results are good. If the local woman is insufficient, the work is in a bad way. Because of the policy of autonomy, headquarters' facilities are not applied, and she can't or won't apply the local facilities. Attention, all over the State, focussed mainly on the weeklies and dailies. For the weeklies, headquarters established a bulletin service and a plate service, carrying news and propaganda. For the dailies, a daily news service was established. In the guise of those services the Empire State Campaign Committee published some big books during the last ten months of 1915. Output on Bulletin Service On our bulletin service we issues a book of 144,000 words. The copy for it was farmed out weekly to the up-state papers by the local chairmen and grew into, literally, millions of words through newspaper reproduction. Inclusive of the chairmen, the bulletin list covered 750 names. It was a combined propaganda service and news service and it was expected that the local press women would use ingenuity in adapting its weekly content to the needs of their papers. Some editors will make room for such material only in a suffrage column, edited by a local woman. Others will make room for a limited amount if the various items are given separate headlines and presented as available for the news columns. Still others will allow space to a good bit of propaganda if it flashed in along with the story of some local happening. The question of quality and quantity of bulletin material is a serious one. In the first stages of the campaign we put out a great deal of women's news that had no apparent connection with suffrage. We went all the way around the world to get to suffrage. We presented stories to show that Hindu women were getting impatient of Purdah—the curtain; stories to show that Servian women 55 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. had become the industrial mainstay of their country; stories to show that in every country in the world women were in new occupations, rendering new social services, that in every country in the world the old sanctions and restrictions with regard to women were breaking down. Of course, it was all to show that the political exclusion imposed on women likewise had to go. And of course, as the campaign developed, we rounded home from foreign parts, stuck close to New York State, and closed everything with "Vote for the Woman Suffrage Amendment Nov. 2." But my experience with the gentle art of trying to make the modern woman an asset for newspapers and magazines inclines me to the conclusion that it is possible to induce a receptive attitude toward suffrage in particular by creating an interest in women's progress in general. Output on Plate Service The copy that went out on our bulletin service had to be set up in the different newspaper offices. Sometimes editors who were willing to give space to suffrage were not willing to go to the expense of setting up type for suffrage. To meet them we had a page of suffrage matter put into type by one of the press associations and then electrotyped and sent to the newspapers in metal sheets of six columns each. These sheets could be cut up into strips a column wide, and as each page was made up of a number of different stories or articles, as much or as little could be used as was wanted by the individual paper from week to week. All that was necessary in order to use this material was to slip it into place as the page forms were being made up in the office of the newspaper that was going to use it. The objection has been made to plate that newspapers that might set up suffrage news won't do it when they can get other suffrage matter without cost in the metal form. The objection is outweighed by the logic of the case and by our practical experience in working it out. If you want papers to use suffrage matter you must do two things. You must make it interesting and you must make it cheap. The cheaper, the more space at your command. I think there can be no question that we got more space for suffrage, and more regular space and space into which we could put what we wanted to put, through our plate service than through any other service. We made 3,036 shipments of plate of one page each. The first three services 56 PRESS WORK in 1914 went to an average list of 140 papers. The January service went to 170 papers. From that time forward, we climbed up until our last five services went to an average list of 430 papers. Through the Western Newspaper Union we sent out 1,235 shipments of one page each, and through the American Press Association we sent out 1,801 shipments, 3,036 in all. Output on News Service The news service was established in order to accelerate attention to suffrage in the metropolitan dailies. The copy put out on this service was equal to a book of 102,000 words. The department averaged a story and a half a day. The highest daily output was six separate stories. That is too much for any ordinary day, but it did not apply to ordinary days. It was in the heat of the campaign when almost any suffrage copy was acceptable, and propaganda, put forward in the guise of a statement from or an interview with a prominent personage, was as well received at city desks as news itself. Miscellaneous Features Miscellaneous features which the department had on its program included a two-column department which the Western Newspaper Union sent out on its ready-print service—the other name for the ready-print is the patent inside. This department was printed for ten weeks and was used by 50 or 60 newspapers weekly. The American Press Association introduced woman suffrage into four of its services. Its News Half Tones, serving 150 large papers all over the country, carried a number of illustrations of prominent suffrage workers, with some accompanying word for suffrage, in 16 weekly issues. Its Woman's World page carried suffrage stories in ten weekly issues, These last two services went to 350 papers. We paid nothing for these—merely furnished readable copy. Toward the end of the campaign interest in suffrage had been so accelerated through the suffrage stunt and the imminence of election day, that the month of October alone saw enough suffrage matter in the city newspapers to fill 45 solid pages. This was exclusive of the parade publicity, which ran to approximately 75 pages on its own account. Wall Street was betting on suffrage 57 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. by then. Every paper in town was running special features to show whether Broome or Chemung or Oneida or Albany would go pro or anti and why. According to my figures, in October alone we had one-third as much newspaper space as we had all the rest of the time put together. Research and Biographical Work of the Department This branch of the department concerns itself particularly with the modern developments of the suffrage movement. It has created a storehouse of facts concerning the growth of favorable sentiment in various organizations in non-suffrage States and also concerning the recent legislation in the States where women vote. Here can be found material for answers to all the latest suffrage attacks. About twenty sheets of 16,000 words have been prepared and widely circulate and a debate has been drawn up for elementary use. The department is used by research students seeking information among various lines. The department's range extends to international fields and there is a file of up-to-date information on recent developments in the European countries. Much of this material has gone out in the weekly feature service. Press Reaction to Suffrage Activity With as many organizations as there were in the Empire State Campaign Committee, as many points of view, as diversified abilities and as varied facilities, it was possible to project into city and State a very comprehensive program of suffrage activities. Each organization made contributions that stood out notably on the calendar of suffrage events. These events and the concomitant newspaper reaction serve as guide and suggestion to the kind of thing that secures favorable attention to suffrage in the city and in the State. One of the first evident needs in the work of the press department was a body of women volunteers who would make the manufacture of news their particular business. Such a body was needed, too, to help develop a follow-up system of the city press, the getting into direct touch with city editors, and the insuring of special consideration of the subject of suffrage wherever possible in monthly and weekly magazines. There was already in existence, in January, 1915, the nucleus 58 PRESS WORK of a volunteer press committee. Mrs. Simon Flexner had been its chairman. I called a meeting of this committee the middle of January and put before those present a plan for an advisory and executive body to act in conjunction with the press department. The members approved the plan for the organization of a large body of women under the title of "Publicity Council," to operate through various subcommittees and to be presided over by a permanent chairman. Choice for chairman fell unanimously on Mrs. Norman deR. Whitehouse and she and the Publicity Council connected late in January for their picturesque partnership in the manufacture of suffrage news. The press department's concern with the "suffrage stunt" thereafter was to see to it that there was adequate press reaction in each and every case. And the purpose of these immediate paragraphs is to present a summary suggestive of the press attention that followed in the wake of the important suffrage activities of the year. Certain kinds of suffrage activities write their own stories. And at certain stages nearly all kinds of suffrage activities write their own stories. All that was needed, for instance, to push many suffrage stunts into print was a notice to let city editors know that at a certain time and place there would be some likely activity. For other activities newspaper interest had to be accelerated constantly and discriminatingly. High-Water Marks of the Campaign The Carnegie Hall Mass Meeting, November 6, 1914: the sum of $115,000 was pledged to the campaign. The publicity end of this record-breaking event was in the hands of Florence Woolston, editor of the Woman Voter, and through her judicious management many columns of newspaper space were commandeered. It was before the reorganization of the Press Department of the Empire State Campaign Committee and the filing system instituted later to check up newspaper "come-backs" had not then been instituted, so that actual figures are not available. Under Mrs. Raymond Brown's direction the suffrage booth at the Made-in-U. S. A. Exposition was good for daily newspaper attention for the whole of one week in March. Suffrage baseball Game. - In April the Publicity Council linked up suffrage with the American classic - baseball - and thereby introduced the cause into the sports columns of the newspapers and 59 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. put it under eyes and noses of men who never would have paid any attention to it in any other columns. The baseball game was one of the suffrage stunts that took care of its own publicity, wrote its own stories. Only four originals were sent out by the press department and they were only by way of prompters. The imagination of the newspaper writers was easily stimulated by the novelty of the association of suffrage and baseball. They wrote 95 stories about it. May 1st celebration had good pictorial values and there were 30 news stories about it, carrying 11 big pictures, most of the display being on the front pages. May 6th Luncheon. - Attended by 1,400 people; $50,000 was pledged and a collection of $524 was taken up. It revealed Mrs. Catt in the capacity of money-raiser so vividly that the press was roused to a glow of admiration. Eighteen news stories were the net total. Our files show that the Hopperie, opened at Coney Island in June, was more or less "live stuff" for two months. Thirteen city papers featured it in 29 stories. The Boxing Match, less politely and more truthfully known as the prize fight, to which the suffragists were invited to send a speaker in July, was one of the cases where judgment divides against itself as to the course to pursue. From the 51 stories and editorials which were devoted to the situation, I gather that the immediate reaction of shocked nerves gave way to appreciation of the reasonableness of the contention of the suffragists that whenever "we are asked to address an audience gathered in lawful assembly we cannot refuse on the ground that the audience isn't 'nice' enough for us." Staging the Appeal for Liberty in July insured much admiring attention to suffragists and their cause. One hundred and two columns of city newspaper space were given over to it. Thirty photographic reproductions were presented in the papers and two special posters were drawn for it. One of these made a sort of frieze around the State through being reproduced in 400 papers through our plate service. The files show 92 stories in the city papers about our July Telephone Day. The One-Day strike publicity began the middle of August and it was October before the papers stopped airing it. One hundred 60 PRESS WORK and ninety-three stories were printed in all. Because Mrs. Whitehouse even dared to think of calling that One-Day Strike of Women, suffrage leaped to the front in 193 stories. They ranged from humorous appreciation of our alleged audacity to the threat of jail for our alleged criminality, but all, consciously or unconsciously, carried the point that we were trying to impress on the voter that the stereotyped argument that "woman's place is in the home" was long since rendered void by changed economic conditions. Through no other device were we able to spread upon the record so much straight, unadulterated propaganda. The inauguration of the Bureau of Laughter, with May Irwin in the chair, at the suggestion of Mrs. John Blair, meant 30 stories for suffrage. The Lunch Room at 70 Wall Street returned 25 stories in the different city papers. Upstate activities gave the department headquarters good material for stories in the city papers. The vacation work of the teachers, their receptions and stunts, made stories. The Men's League's most notable contribution to the press department was the number of statements secured by it from prominent men. Toward the end of the campaign these statements had almost as much value as news. For the Parade and its preliminary Yellow Rallies we sent out 44 stories, 20,000 words of copy. It took 600 columns of city newspaper space to carry all that editors, reporters, feature writers, and cartoonists were moved to say about woman's obvious demand for the vote as made manifest by the overwhelming numbers in that parade. That, of course, was the propaganda that the parade was meant to dramatize. Under the chairmanship of Ida Proper, the Art Committee of the Publicity Council was responsible for much desirable publicity. The poster work it did and the art exhibition it gave netted 26 columns of newspaper space to the cause - 24 different stories with 35 illustrations. Much favorable press attention accrued to us because of the Personality of the Leaders. It was my intention to give figures to show for what a large share of our publicity we were indebted to Mrs. Catt, how many times she was interviewed, of how many news stories she was the central figure, how many editorials she was called upon to write, but I promptly gave up. There was no limit to the proposition. She gave interviews to city papers, she gave 61 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. syndicate interviews, feature stories were written around her personality, and no symposium of women's views was complete without hers, whether the question was the prospect of victory on November 2nd, or how to make pie. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Whitehouse and Miss Hay and Mrs. Laidlaw were likewise heavy contributors to the press department along these same lines. Recommendations My main recommendation for the future can be summed up as more intensive local press work. To get it it will be necessary to put the highest type of woman into the local press chairmanships. She must be a woman of personality, for she will have to deal directly with editors and proprietors of newspapers. She must have some aptitude for writing, for she will have to turn and adapt the general material supplied her to the local situation. She will need news sense, for she must be able to see a story in the local happening. She should be a woman of special intelligence and special familiarity with suffrage argument and history, for it is her business to educate her community. She must study and modify its suffrage food for it as carefully as she would modify food for her new baby. One of the weaknesses of this year's work has been due to the fact that the local chairmen have been too remote from the director. More intensive work at home and greater centralization through the main office would, I think, be a great advantage. The person at the head of the press department should know every local situation like a book. Only so can she be really helpful to the local chairman. She can't know it unless she is in direct touch with the local woman. The two services already established for the upstate press should be kept up and the intelligence feature of its bulletin should be developed further. It might be well to have a separate intelligence service to go to organizers and speakers and campaign district chairmen. It could carry arguments and facts and answers to antis. I am in favor of cutting the bulletin service to two pages weekly. The material for them will have to be carefully compiled of vital stuff. The news service list I should be in favor of extending to take in the papers of the larger cities upstate. We confined that service this year to the city papers. Under a 36-hour release date the 62 REPORT OF THE PRESS AND PUBLICITY COUNCIL upstate papers would be as well protected as the city papers on news of more than local interest. Along the line of specialization a word with regard to the foreign newspapers. The papers of each nationality should be looked after by a woman of that nationality. A careful follow-up system should be enforced, so that the pro or anti leanings of each of these papers may be checked up monthly. One by one they should be won over. We generalized this year, instead of specializing. We didn't have time to specialize. We had this great virgin field almost untouched. We sowed broadcast. The corners were necessarily neglected. There are a lot of voters in the corners. We can't afford to neglect the voter in the corner any more than we can afford to neglect the voter on the broad highway. REPORT OF THE PRESS AND PUBLICITY COUNCIL By Vira Boarman Whitehouse, Chairman The first meeting of the Press and Publicity Council after I accepted its chairmanship was held in the middle of February. Fourteen ladies were then members. The committee was increased to a membership of 100, and divided into five subcommittees which met once a week. The Council met once a month, when the chairmen of subcommittees reported on their activities and new plans were made. Newspaper Committee Mrs. Seymour Cromwell, chairman; answered anti-suffrage letters published in newspapers; established personal relations with editors and owners of the 15 daily New York newspapers; compared amount of suffrage news published in the various newspapers; visited 683 trade journals, 52 with success, 21 religious papers, 126 foreign language papers and 15 local papers, 20 civil service papers, 18 agricultural, and 10 labor publications, and offered them for publication exclusive articles suitable for their readers; suggested special features and special editions of magazines and newspapers, and asked for suffrage covers on magazines; asked for and were given, in every daily paper, space for the suffrage calendar. 63 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. Theatrical Committee Agnes Morgenthau, chairman; visited moving picture houses, saw heads of circuits and placed suffrage slides; followed up to see if they were used; asked co-operation of assembly district leaders in this work; placed suffrage posters in lobbies of moving picture houses and theatres; secured space for a page advertisement of suffrage in every theatre program in the city. Comedians were written to and asked to make references to suffrage in their plays. Suffrage jokes were collected and appropriate lines suggested. They asked for speakers between the acts in theatres and got them in several cases; provided theatrical suffrage features for general entertainments - for instance, they got Marie Dressler to recite Marie Jenney Howe's anti-suffrage monologue at the Paul Jones Dance; saw managers and persuaded them to accept suffrage plays if any good ones were offered; read innumerable plays, few of which seemed even possible; read and approved the scenario of "The Ruling Power," now being produced. Contributing Editors Committee Mary Heaton Vorse, chairman; assembled material for special suffrage editions of Evening Sun, Harper's Weekly, and Evening World; submitted plans for special editions to many magazines. Many magazines had expressed a willingness to consider special editions, but when they found other magazines were to have them also, reconsidered and refused. The work of the committee, however, was not entirely wasted along this line, as many single features and suggestions made by them were used throughout the summer by these magazines. Among them were Munsey's, Harper's Bazar, Everybody's, New Republic, etc. They also suggested and wrote special features and articles for the newspapers, especially the Sunday papers; and suggested slogans for banners and transparencies and advertisements. News Committee An idea of a newspaper coupon was worked out, but abandoned on account of expense; an elaborate suffrage baseball fan had also to be abandoned. A suffrage advertisement on the back of street car transfers seemed at one moment achievable, but failed. News stands were 64 REPORT OF THE PRESS AND PUBLICITY COUNCIL approached and asked to sell buttons, banners, etc. An aviation stunt was attempted. One member of this committee, Miss Ethel Lloyd Patterson, suggested and put into operation "The Hopperie" at Luna Park, which was subsequently managed by the Council as a whole. Art Committee Miss Ida Proper, chairman; illustrated the Evening Sun Woman Suffrage edition; wrote to all magazine cover artists to provide suffrage covers for magazines; tried to line up every magazine for an October suffrage cover; were successful with many, although some had their covers during the summer; wrote to all cartoonists and asked them to have suffrage cartoons from time to time, and provided ideas for such cartoons when asked to do so. The suffrage news service was sent to cartoonists to remind them of what was happening in suffrage circles. A special poster for theatres was provided by Ethel Plummer. The committee offered a $50 prize for a competition for suffrage posters, 24-sheet size (9 feet by 21 feet); 136 designs were submitted and the prize was awarded by a committee of artists. An exhibition of the poster designs was held at the building of the Société des Beaux Arts. There was tea and a reception on the opening day. Miss Proper obtained permission from the poster artists to use their designs free of charge in our campaign. The committee held an exhibition and sale of works of art of women painters and sculptors at Macbeth's from September 27 to October 17, with a net profit to the Council of about $500. Expenses, $379.10. General Council Work Three sets of 24-sheet posters at about $1,500 each were provided for $60,000 worth of space given to us for six months before election throughout the State. Street-car posters were provided for spaces given free to us in the spring. Four hundred small electric signs were placed in shop windows the last week of the campaign at 15 cents a window per day; total about $120.70. The Street Railways Advertising Company gave us free, for the six weeks of campaigning, $8,000 worth of space in the street cars of the State. They also bought the designs from the Pennsylvania suffragists and donated the printing. 65 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. Thousands of small posters reading "Vote for Woman Suffrage Nov. 2nd" were ordered and placed in windows of houses, apartments and shops in the city and on trees and fences about the city and State. The Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Party helped with this work and the New York State Woman Suffrage Association took it in hand throughout the State. We tried to have yellow tin tags made for the backs of motors, somewhat similar to the license tag, but the attorney-general forbade its use. We provided and hung two large net campaign banners, one on Fifth Avenue at 31st Street, and one at Columbus Circle, the last two weeks of the campaign. The cost was $215. Miscellaneous Stunts Baseball game, May 18th; sold 3,000 tickets. Income, $5,714.90; gross profit, $2,733.30; net profit, $1,757.26. Hopperie, opened June 26th. It was a suffrage game established at Luna Park, the great amusement center of Coney Island. The space was given to us free. The game was to hop on one leg up an incline over non-suffrage states on to the suffrage states painted yellow, with the four campaign states featured at top and painted blue. As a game the Hopperie was unsuccessful. It was too much work, with no element of danger or excitement. As a suffrage sign and advertisement it could be counted a great success. On the overhead bridge, intended for the use of the hoppers in descending, speeches on suffrage were made from time to time. There was a large sign reading "Vote for Woman Suffrage Nov. 2nd," and although all advertising is excluded from Luna Park we were allowed to put up one of our posters. Leaflets were distributed each night. Many questions were answered and much information given. We incorporated as the Equal Suffrage Amusement Corporation in order to protect ourselves from damage suit or blackmail. The Hopperie cost us $628.88. Fourth of July Celebration. - The "Appeal for Liberty" was written by Mrs. Catt for the Fourth of July celebration. The Press and Publicity Council took the sight-seeing yacht Tourist and invited city and State officials. The Tourist went first to Bedloe's Island, where every one landed, and Margaret Wycherly read the "Appeal for Liberty" at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. Moving pictures were taken. The Tourist then sailed up the river and we formed in line at Grant's Tomb for a parade. The women carried 66 REPORT OF THE PRESS AND PUBLICITY COUNCIL lanterns. The chief feature of the parade was the float, lighted with electric torches and carrying 13 goddesses, representing the free States. The float was used as a platform from which to speak. The "Appeal" was read and the "Star-Spangled Banner" sung and speeches made at One Hundred and Third Street and Riverside Drive. The parade then proceeded to columbus Circle, where there were speeches from the float until one o'clock that night. Telephone and Telegraph Day, July 29th. - "Making the wires hum for suffrage." All politicians were interviewed over the telephone; as were judges, editors, clergymen and other classes of men. Governors and mayors of suffrage states and cities were asked to telegraph us interviews on suffrage in their states and cities. The publicity was most valuable because it got so much propaganda into the papers. Stay at Home Day Agitation. - Started August 19th. Many politicians who were interviewed by a newspaper said they were opposed to suffrage because "Woman's place is in the home." A letter was sent out to the presidents of women's clubs and organizations stating that the chief objection to woman suffrage was that "Woman's place is in the home," and asking the presidents of the clubs and organizations to come to a meeting to consider the difficulties involved in asking all women to stay at home for only one day. Copies of this letter were sent to the newspapers. The question of a "One-Day Strike," as it was called, was discussed by people of every class, everywhere. The only activity involved on our part was the sending out of the 300 copies of the letter and one small meeting where it was announced that a strike had never been seriously considered. I wanted to carry on the agitation for a week or ten days longer, but some of the leaders misunderstood and at Mrs. Catt's request it was called off. Cost, $1.50. Yellow Torchlight Rallies. - Five in September; three in crowded sections of Manhattan; two in crowded sections of Brooklyn. We aimed to have about 1,000 women in each, recruited principally from the neighborhood. There was a float used in these parades, and my experience with this float leads me to advise against them in future. It is exceedingly difficult to present an idea clearly enough to be understood by the onlookers. Simple yellow capes and caps or head bands were provided for the women to wear. Twenty-nine yellow transparences were pro- 67 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. vided. Yellow lanterns were for sale or given away. A band was furnished for each rally. (Never have a rally without plenty of music.) In Manhattan Mrs. Laidlaw had many picturesque features, such as large flags carried flat, wagons and coaches for the children of the neighborhood, etc. Meetings were held at the breaking-up points of the parades and much enthusiasm aroused, Cost, $825.13. They were so successful that an additional yellow rally was held the week before election on Eighth Avenue. Banner Woman Suffrage Parade (October 23. 1915). - Cost about $15,145.64. Bands, $4,600 ; P. P. C., $5.026. Marchers en- rolled, 39,723. Estimated number who marched, 33,783. Wagons, Sandwich Men and Lapboard Ladies. - The Press and Publicity Council provided ten wagons with suffrage signs to drive about the streets the last few days before the election. We sought chiefly to answer the advertisements of the anti-suffragists in the subways and elevated stations. We had attempted to make a con- tract with Ward & Gow for subway and elevated advertising, but found it impossible to do so. We came to the conclusion that we were being discriminated against, because of their well-known oppo- sition to suffrage. Mrs. John Blair and Mrs. Anne O'Hagan Sinn worked out the idea of the lapboards, which carried assertions answering the anti-suffrage advertisements in the subway and elevated cars and stations. One hundred women undertook to ride on the subway and elevated the Saturday and Monday before election, holding the cardboard posters in their laps. There were five cardboard posters in each set and they were shifted from time to time. The public treated the women with great interest and courtesy. The value of the publicity was, of course, not in the cars, but in the reports given in the papers and through moving picture photographs. In addition to the above activities and stunts, the chairman wrote to the governors of the suffrage States, to the editors and owners of the principal newspapers in the suffrage States, asking for statements favorable to woman suffrage in their States. Letters were also written to all politicians, especially those whose conver- sion was hoped for, or who were reported to have recently been converted to suffrage. For instance, a suffrage statement was 68 PRESS REPORT, NEW YORK CITY gotten from Senator Brackett. Statements were gotten from the editors and owners of the newspapers and magazines in New York, and all these statements were given to the press department for use. The magazine story writers and contributors were written to and suggestions made that stories or articles on suffrage would be acceptable to certain magazines. Lists were gotten of advertising business firms, dry goods shops, motor car manufacturers, especially manufacturers of women's clothing, and letters were sent to them, asking them to make some reference to woman suffrage in their advertisements. All letters that were sent out and that received no answer were followed up until some answer was brought forth. Of course, there were many stunts, and attempts at them, which I have no time or space to mention, but I have picked out those which aroused the greatest public interest or which might serve to suggest ideas for another campaign. PRESS REPORT OF THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY OF NEW YORK CITY By Oreola Haskell, Local Press Chairman During the last five months of the campaign, when the press work of the Woman Suffrage Party was given special attention, the local chairman, beginning with a list of thirty-two newspapers, gradually reached a maximum of fifty that were supplied regu- larly with suffrage news, Besides these, some magazines were supplied with monthly articles, and a large number of special stories were written for various periodicals, The suffrage calen- dar, covering the general activities of the Party, was also issued weekly and died a fat and bulging death just before election. The press work of the Woman Suffrage Party was divided into five parts: 1. Stories that were character sketches of the workers and speakers, or that described some phase of the work. 2. Articles written for newspapers and magazines upon re- quest from them, connecting suffrage with whatever subject was suggested by them, and articles to be featured in a suffrage page or suffrage edition, 3. Assistance given to reporters and special writers to work up some phase of woman suffrage. 69 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. 4. Miscellaneous articles, letters, or little fiction stories deal- ing with suffrage arguments. 5. Publicity stories about stunts planned by the Press and Publicity Committee in order to keep the papers supplied with suffrage news. The work of the Press and Publicity Committee also fell into two divisions--the publicity attendant on appealing to various classes of voters to support the amendment at the polls, and spec- tacular affairs to attract the public by their beauty, picturesqueness or oddity. Quite in a class by itself was Dollar Day--Save a dol- lar, Earn a dollar, Beg a dollar, Give a dollar, which got much public attention and netted the Party over $2,000. The men who were honored by being given Suffrage Days were the firemen, the barbers, the street cleaners, the bankers, the brokers, business men in general, clergymen, street-car men, factory work- ers, students, restaurant patrons, elevated railroad ticket sellers and choppers, lawyers, ditch diggers, longshoremen and others engaged in work on the docks, and the employees on Blackwell's Island. The work was planned so that each story had its distinguishing feature. The appeal to the firemen took the form of an automobile demonstration and open air speaking along the line of march of the firemen's parade and when a member of the School of Recruits rescued a yellow-sashed suffrage lady, Mrs. Patsy Mulligan, from the perils of imaginary flames in a demonstration of what firemen are capable of doing, the Party was quick to provide a follow-up story by presenting the rescuer the next day with a ten- dollar gold piece. If ten columns of newspaper space be any criterion, Barber's Day was a most successful stunt. Members of the Party called on the barbers in gaily decorated autos carrying real barbers' poles and asked permission to hang up maps and posters in the shops, and held meetings outside of them. They were received not with resignation but with beaming cordiality. Street Cleaners' Day took place on the date of the White Wings Parade. Four suffrage autos, gallantly flying flags and decorated with brooms tied with campaign colors, followed the watering carts that brought up the rear of the procession. At one end of the route, tiny brooms, button-hole size, and having lead pencils for handles, were distributed to the marchers. 70 PRESS REPORT, NEW YORK CITY Bankers were looked after on Bank and Trust Company Day when the suffragists made "a raid" on 45 banks and trust companies, devoting the morning to quiet work done by women depositers and the afternoon to open air rallies, the hanging up of posters within the money institutions and the distribution of literature to all employees. Brokers were reached by two days in Wall Street. At three P. M. on the first day the suffragists were fairly mobbed by well dressed men near the Stock Exchange who were rewarded for listening to several speakers by being made the recipients of 500 yellow suffrage fans bearing the unheeded advice of "Keep Cool," quantities of suffrage roses, blowers, whirlers, calendars and other souvenirs. This was the most successful visit of the Party to Wall Street from a newspaper and suffragist standpoint. The second descent upon the unprotected brokers was on Balloon Day when a similar program was carried out, except that the autos were decorated with hundred sized clusters of yellow and blue balloons. In the afternoon after much propaganda work had been done five hundred of these were released before a tremendous crowd and sent skyward to symbolize the suffragists' "rising hopes." While Balloon Day was featured as a city wide celebration, it was first of all a Wall Street festival. Enrollment Day, which was devoted in all the Boroughs to canvassing on a large scale, was saved from being a commonplace tale of drudgery by playing up the fact that workers would go down into the trenches with Irish banners and shamrock leaflets to talk to the sturdy sons of toil engaged in digging out subway and "El" excavations. The street-car men were given a week of suffrage appeal, there being 240,000 of them to appeal to, but one day on which 25,000 were to be paid off at various car barns was selected as the story day. This worked up nicely with a few good cartoons added to bring out the humorous side. In the Bronx there was an endless succession of good stories for the papers. Borough Week, with open air demonstrations every night, made good material for stories, as did Department Store Day, Transfer Day, and Bill Poster Day. The Long Island Suffrage Squad had their Polish Day, their Suffrage Match Day, and their Factory Days. Beside this Get-after-the-Voter series, suffrage festivities 71 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. ranked high as publicity winners. One of the most conspicuous of these was the "Night of the Interborough Council Fires," which was celebrated in Manhattan on a high bluff, in Brooklyn in a public park, in Staten Island on a high hill overlooking the Bay, and in the Bronx on a height near a bridge. The large bonfires, the fireworks, the balloon ascensions, the music of women cornetists, transparencies, symbolic figures, and good speeches combined to make the event conspicuous in the newspapers. Everywhere the idea was emphasized that the night celebrated the evolution of woman from the camp-fire of the savage to a position whence she could contemplate being called to a place in the councils of the State. On October 27th sixty theatres of New York City donated boxes to the Woman Suffrage Party. These boxes were decorated with woman suffrage colors and occupied by prominent suffragists of the city. In some instances five- or ten-minute suffrage speeches were permitted between the acts; in almost all cases suffrage leaflets and souvenirs were given out in the lobbies. Suffrage slides were displayed in hundreds of moving picture houses. This was all on the special day of October 27th. Previous to that we had had special suffrage weeks in the smaller theatres, and suffrage nights in many more. There were suffrage street dances on the lower East Side, at the last of which the dances were named after local political leaders, Irish, Polish and Syrian rallies, and there were outdoor concerts, a series of little ones culminating in a big one in Madison Square Park where a full orchestra played, opera singers sang and many distinguished orators spoke on a big platform erected for the purpose. Here too was held an open air religious suffrage service on a Sunday evening with hymn singing as a feature, the moral and religious aspect of woman suffrage being the subject discussed. Every month the Party furnished 45 or 50 columns of press matter that was used, sometimes running up to 60 columns or more. In conclusion, a word of appreciation must be spoken about the assistance given the campaign by both the reporters attached to the New York newspapers and by the editors of most of the newspapers. Through them, it seems to me, the people of Greater New York caught the romance of the suffrage movement. They knew all its phases, knew of the countless women toiling up tenement- 72 FINANCIAL STATEMENT house stairs, going from shop to shop, appealing to the voter at work and in his leisure hours, with a persistence and a devotion never equaled, and they caught the spirit of the suffragists on parade under the soft glow of yellow lanterns, or surging in great masses through the streets in daylight, or in their automobiles, with flags streaming, bugles playing, everything full of color and the poetry of motion. They caught, too, some idea of the potent forces they had to fight and of the humor that often amused them and the ignorance that often discouraged them. EMPIRE STATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE'S FINANCIAL STATEMENT On November 1, 1914, assignments of definite sums were made to the twelve Campaign Districts of New York as their respective shares in a proposed $150,000 campaign fund for the entire State. It was understood that each District would expend the sum assigned upon its own work. The total of the sums raised and expended by the various Districts, when added to the sum expended by the Empire State Campaign Committee, brings the total of money raised and expended in the campaign considerably above the $150,000 originally planned. Each District raised the amount assigned as follows: Campaign District 1st. .......................................... $50,000 2nd. ......................................... 1,000 3rd. ......................................... 7,000 4th. .......................................... 1,000 5th. ......................................... 3,500 6th. ......................................... 4,500 7th. ......................................... 13,000 8th. ......................................... 13,000 9th. ......................................... 13,000 10th. ....................................... 3,000 11th. ....................................... 3,000 12th. ....................................... 3,000 The amount assigned to the Empire State Campaign Committee was ................................. 35,000 $150,000 73 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. The statement below covers the receipts and disbursements which passed through the treasury of the Empire State Campaign Committee for the two years of its existence. The Empire State Campaign Committee continued to occupy the Campaign Headquarters until January 1, defraying the cost of rent, telephone, postage, and office help as before. These expenses were borne from the balance in hand November 1- $2,172.05. On January 1, the balance on hand, $449.71, together with the furniture and equipment of the Empire State Campaign Committee, was formally turned over the New York State Woman Suffrage Party. FINANCIAL STATEMENT October 1, 1913, to November 1, 1915 Receipts Net contributions after charging off to various Campaign Districts sums paid in for their account, aggregating $7,262.50; and adding Press and Publicity Council contributions, $10,304.20* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $89,049.95 Interest on Bank Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253.23 $89,303.18 * The total receipts and disbursements of the Press and Publicity Council (as shown by their statement given elsewhere) do not agree with the amounts shown to have been received and disbursed by the Campaign Committee on behalf of the Council. The reason for the difference is that only $10,304.20 of the $18,356.87 raised by the Press and Publicity Council was paid into the Campaign Committee Treasury and paid back again to the Press and Publicity Council for the work of that department. The Council raised and expended its own money. But it was the intention to have the entire sum which was raised by it pass through the books of the Empire State Campaign Committee, in order to make it a part of the grand total of campaign funds raised and expended. Through a misunderstanding, the books of the Empire State Campaign Committee were closed before the Press and Publicity Council had an opportunity to account to the Campaign Committee for the full amount raised by it. The separate statement of the Press and Publicity Council, however, will show the full receipts and disbursements of that department. 74 FINANCIAL STATEMENT Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $89,303.18 Expenses Headquarters - Including equipment, office salaries, rent, office supplies, telephone service, telegrams, stationary, express, etc. (Office salaries $8,146.29.) (For "Postage see below) . . . $16,762.11 Field Work - Including Organizers' salaries and expenses, less field collections and returns from Campaign Districts for amounts advanced for their account for field work . . . . . . $22,428.92 Net Cost of various enterprises, including Wall St. Shop; maintenance of booths at various Fairs; maintenance of headquarters at the Republican and Democratic Conventions in Saratoga; Legislative work at Albany; Cort Theatre meetings; assisting Campaign Districts unable to bear the full burden of their expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,509.40 25,938.32 Sales Department - Net Cost of literature, posters, decorations, novelties, enrollment blanks, report blanks, etc., after deducting returns on sales . . . . . 5,463.28 Press Bureau - Including salaries of staff, cost of plate service, stationary, supplies, etc., and deducting returns on sales of plate service. (For "Postage" see below.) . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,163.54 Postage - Field Work . . . . . . . . . 1,159.99 Press Bureau . . . . . . . 1,035.00 2,194.99 $64,522.24 75 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. Brought forward . . . . . . . $64,522.34 $89,303.18 Mass Meetings-Net Cost "Voters' Squadron" Meetings . . $30.87 Final Rallies in October, 1915 6,275.82 6,304.69 Publicity and propaganda . . . . . . 6,000.00 Press and Publicity Council - See their separate statement of expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,304.20 $87,131.13 Balance on hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,172.05 $89,303.18 $89,303.18 FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE PRESS AND PUBLICITY COUNCIL RECEIPTS Total Receipts, including net profits from Baseball Game ($1,757.26), Art Exhibit ($600.00) and other benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $18,356.87 EXPENDITURES Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,781.21 Art Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,315.82 Theatre Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161.10 Fourth of July Celebration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545.83 Hopperie at Luna Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795.48 Torchlight Rallies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825.13 Parade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,026.53 Prizes for Home Runs by "Giants" . . . . . . . . 90.00 Lifesaving Prize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Telephone Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.87 Washington Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.55 Automobile Lantern Work in Streets . . . . . . . 14.90 Net Banners Across Streets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215.00 Street Vans and Wagons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231.50 Sandwich Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.00 $21,172.92 76 CONTRIBUTORS Brought forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,172.92 $18,356.87 Lap Boards for Subway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.00 Street Car Advertising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460.00 Electric Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.77 Newspaper Advertising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,310.20 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219.14 Total Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $18,315.03 Balance on Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $41.84 $18,356.87 CONTRIBUTORS To Campaign Fund of the Empire State Campaign Comittee, from December, 1913, to November, 1915, To Press and Publicity Council, from March, 1915, to November, 1915 . . . . . . . . . . . . Abbott, Mrs. Anna S. $25.00 Anderson, Mrs. A. A. 1,000.00 Acker, Mrs. . . . . . . . . 10.00 Anderson, F. H. . . . . 10.00 Ackerman, Mrs. F. T. 50.00 Anderson, Harriet A. 25.00 Adams, Mrs. M. W. . 25.00 Angell, Amy . . . . . . . . 2.00 Adamson, Mrs. Robt. 10.00 Anonymous . . . . . . . 20,000.00 A Friend . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Anonymous . . . . . . . . 1,000.00 A Friend . . . . . . . . . . . 200.00 Anonymous . . . . . . . . 500.00 A Friend . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Anthony, B. H. . . . . . . 5.00 Agostini, Mrs. V. D. . 1.00 Anthony, Mary, Aldrich, Mrs. Richard 700.00 Fund (A. H. Shaw) 100.00 Appo, Alice M. . . . . . 5.00 Aldrich, Mrs. Richard Armstrong, Margaret (Donations) . . . . . . . . 337.48 N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Alexander, Mrs. Armstrong, Mary Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.00 Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Alexander, Mrs. John Aronstein, Mrs. S. . . . 1.00 W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.00 Ashley, Anita . . . . . . . 25.00 Alexander, Mrs. Atwater, Jean H. . . . . 3.00 Morris. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Aus, Grunwald . . . . . 5.00 Allec, Laura C . . . . . . . 10.00 Austin, Mrs. Willis . . 5.00 Amityville Suffrage Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Babcock, Hanna A. . . 500.00 77 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. Babylon Suffrage Club 20.00 Bache, Mrs. Jules 25.00 Bacon, Mrs. George 10.00 Bailey, Dr. Pearce 100.00 Baird, Miss Jeanette F. 10.00 Balch, Mrs. Adelaide M. 5.00 Bancroft, J. F 2.00 Barnes, Miss Charlotte A. 25.00 Bartlett, Mrs. A C. 30.00 Bath Political Equality Club 12.50 Bayles, Rosa J. 3.50 Beach, Grace B. 15.00 Beaman, Mrs. M. 14.00 Bellport Equal Suffrage Club 125.00 Benedict, Laura W. 3.00 Bent, Helen M. 7.50 Berstein, Florence N. 1.00 Berry, Dr. Jane L. 5.00 Bingham, Miss Charlotte 5.00 Bingham, Millicent B. 1.00 Billings, Clay 5.00 Billings, Mrs. Richard 25.00 Black, Mrs. G. A. 5.00 Blair, Mrs. John 10.00 Blankenhorn, Mrs. Heber 3.00 Bliss, Mrs. Wm 10.00 Borg, Edith 500.00 Boyce, Addison S 10.00 Boynton, Jeannette 25.00 Bradford, Mary C. C. 40.00 Bradley, Mrs. J 10.00 Brainard, Emline W. 5.00 Brainerd, E. H. 2.50 Brainerd, Miss Bessie 10.00 Bramwell, William (Donations) 28.00 Bremer, Edith 5.00 Brewer, Mrs. Margaret D. 5.00 Brice, W. W. K. 10.00 Brown, Mrs. A. M. 50.00 Brown, Dora 1.00 Brown, Mrs. Haywood 3.00 Brown, Lucy B. 10.00 Brown, Mrs. Raymond 558.00 Bruce, H. V. 2.00 Bunker, Dumont M. 5.00 Burdick, Mrs. Wm. 5.00 Burnham, Mrs. W. A. 25.00 Burr, G. H. 25.00 Bush, Irving 110.00 Bush, Miss Mary 25.00 Bush, W. T. 100.00 Bush, Mrs. W. T. 50.00 Bush, Mrs. Wendell 1,600.00 Busick, Hilda 2.00 Butler, Emily O. 10.00 Byington, Majorie F. 2.00 Byrns, Miss Elinor (Donations) 15.00 Cameron, Miss A. E. 30.00 Cannon, Mrs. Henry White 945.00 Carey, Mrs. Melbart 10.00 Carhart, Mrs. Amory 100.00 Carhart, Mrs. B. L. 2.00 Carlston, Mrs. E. D. H. 1.00 Carpenter, Anna E. 5.00 Cary, J. M. 5.00 Cary, Mrs. M. B. 1.00 Catt, Carrie Chapman 8,166.85 78 CONTRIBUTORS Chaimowitz, A 2.00 Chamberlain, L. 10.00 Chapin, Miss M. B. 500.00 Chapman, Mary N. 15.00 Chaves, Ella May 10.00 Childs, Mrs. Jessie 10.00 Clark, Mary Vida 5.00 Clark, Mrs. Nathan 5.00 Clark, Mrs. J. F. A. 100.00 Clarke, Miss Madge S. 1.00 Clayburgh, A. 15.00 Clews, Mrs. Henry 50.00 Cleveland Woman Suffrage Party 50.00 Cochran, Mrs. Bourke 10.00 Coe, George A. 1.00 Collard, M. L. 6.00 Colestock, S. 12.00 Collections 3.00 Collegiate Equal Suffrage League 647.00 Comstock, Elizabeth 10.00 Cook, Mrs. Edward M. 5.00 Cooke, Miss Marjorie Benton 5.00 Cooley, W. H. 1.00 Corbin, Mrs. John 10.00 Cothren, Mrs. Frank 10.00 Craft, Miss Ida 75.00 Cranford, Mrs. Frederick L. 25.00 Crich, M. V. 1.00 Crittenton, C. Louise 2.00 Croly, Mrs. Herbert 20.00 Cromwell, Mrs. Seymour 60.00 Crosswell, Mrs. 5.00 Cruger, Bertram 10.00 Curtis, Julian 1.00 Daley, Mrs. Jos. 150.00 Dannenhauer, Ruth 100.00 Darrach, Florence B. 5.00 Davis, Mrs. Berhardt 5.00 Davis, Florence 1.00 Davis, Dr. Jane 1.00 Davis, Dr. Katherine B. 100.00 Davis, Hrs. M. A. 10.00 Davis, Mollie M. 25.00 Day, Catherine 50.00 Day, Clarence S. 50.00 Day, Miss K. S. 50.00 Dayton, Mrs. Helena Smith 15.00 Deady, Amelia B. 2.00 Deane, Mrs. Joseph 10.00 Delano, M. 100.00 Delano, W. A. 10.00 Delhi Suffrage Club 25.00 Devine, Edward T. 5.00 Dewey, Mrs. John 11.00 DeWitt Clinton High School 50.00 Dey, H. H. 23.00 Dickerman, Alice C. 10.00 Dickson, Mrs. J. B. 250.00 Dingnan, Mary A. 5.00 Diven, Jeannette M. 1.00 Dock, Miss Lavinia 25.00 Dodge, Mabel G. 25.00 Donation (No Name) 4.00 Dowe, Mariana 5.00 Draper, Martha L. 10.00 Dreier, Mrs. H. Edw. 10.00 Dreier, Miss Katherine 10.00 Dutchess County 1st Assembly District 25.00 Duveen, Joseph 25.00 79 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. Dwight, Mrs. Edward 50.00 Frick, Eleanor H. . . . . . 5.00 Dyatt, Sarah E. . . . . . . 10.00 Friedlander, Rebecca . 50.00 Fuller, Lucia . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Eacker, Helen . . . . . . . 10.00 Edgar, Mrs. Newbold Garden City Political Leroy . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00 Study Club . . . . . . . . 50.00 Edwards, George. . . . 1,000.00 Garrard, Margaret . . . 45.00 Elias, Helen . . . . . . . . 5.00 Garrett, L. B. . . . . . . . . 15.00 Emmet, Mrs. Grenville 5.00 Garrigues, Ellen E. . . . 25.00 Garrison, Eleanor . . . . 189.66 Emmet, Miss Lydia . . . 200.00 Garrison, Wm. Lloyd England, Mrs. George . 1.00 (Equal Rights Association) Erving, Eleanor . . . . . . . 25.00 . . . . . . . . . 85.00 Erving, John . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Gary, Mrs. E. H. . . . . . 1,000.00 Erving, Justine V. . . . . . . 10.00 Gatling, Mrs. Richard 10.00 Emerson, S. H. . . . . . . . . 8.00 Genovise, Nana . . . . 10.00 Evans, Mrs. Evan . . . . . . 25.00 Gilette, Mrs. H. S. . . . 3.00 Everett, Mrs. H. A. . . . . . 100.00 Girls' High School (Brooklyn) . . . . . . . . 100.00 Fain, Mrs. Wm. H. . . . . . 25.00 Glackens, Mrs. W. J. . 12.00 Farquhar, H. . . . . . . . . . . 2.00 Glass, Caroline P. . . . 10.00 Faversham, Julie Opp . . 50.00 Glanzer, Lucy . . . . . . 5.00 Faxon, Charlotte F. . . . . 120.00 Goldman, Agnes . . . 5.00 Fels, Mrs. Mary . . . . . . . 1,000.00 Goldsmith, Mrs. Elsie Ferris, Amy . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250.00 Ferguson, Mrs. H. T. . . . 20.00 Goodsell, Willistine . 5.00 Fineke, Mrs. Reginald . . 10.00 Gould, Mrs. C. J. . . . . 10.00 Gould, Miss Mary . . . 10.00 Finn, Margaret . . . . . . . . 5.00 Gouverneur Political Fitch, Mrs. Joseph . . . . . 25.00 Equality Club . . . . . 5.00 Fitzgerald, Mrs. Irene . . 51.00 Grace, Louise N . . . .1,000.00 Flanley, Rosina M. . . . . . 25.00 Greene County Assembly Flexner, Mrs. Simon . . . 55.00 District Floyd, Amy A. . . . . . . . . . 1.00 League . . . . . . . . . . 30.00 Fowler, Miss Susan . . . . 10.00 Gregg, Cornelia . . . . . 4.00 Fox, Mrs. Morris . . . . . . . 10.00 Gregory, Dr. Alice . . . 10.00 Freeport Suffrage Grimes, Bertha L. . . . 10.00 Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.00 Grossman, Mrs. . . . . 5.00 Freiss, Miss Charlotte Guggenheim, Mrs. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . 500.00 80 CONTRIBUTORS Guilford, Mrs. E. O. . . . . . 12.50 Hooker, Mrs. Elon H. . 100.00 Guy, Eliza M. . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Hooper, Miss Emily . . 1,500.00 Hone, Mrs. Augustus . 7.90 Hackett, Dr. E. . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Hopper, John J. . . . . . . 25.00 Hall, Esther W. . . . . . . . . . . 25.00 Hott, Margaret . . . . . . 5.00 Halsey, Mrs. Fred D. . . . . . 10.00 Housen, Sarah J. . . . . 11.41 Hammond, Mrs. J. H. . . . . 100.00 Howe, Marie Jenney . . 59.00 Hammond, Mrs. John Howe, I. P. . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.00 Howell, Alice W. . . . . . 25.00 Hand, Mrs. Learned . . . . 35.00 Howland, Mrs. Chas. P. 179.00 Hanks, Emily G. . . . . . . . . 2.00 Howland, Emily . . . . . . 300.00 Hartshorne, Mrs. J. M. . . 100.00 Howland, Isabelle . . . . 392.95 Hardy, Lamar . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Hoyt, Roselia L. . . . . . . 100.00 Harris, Mary B. . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Hubbard, Miss Grace . 2.00 Hart, Harriette . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Hudson River Equal Hart, Mrs. John S. . . . . . . . 10.00 Franchise League . . . 50.00 Hastings, Margaret G. . . . 3.00 Hughes, Gladys . . . . . . 1.00 Hayden, Estelle . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Hughes, Dr. Zane . . . . . 5.00 Hayes, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Hughes, Sidney W. . . . . 50.00 Hazard, Mr. and Mrs. Hull, Blanche M. . . . . . . 100.00 F. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.00 Huntington Political Henderson, Helen . . . . . . . 350.00 Equality Club . . . . . . . 50.00 Henderson, Edw. C. . . . . . 10.00 Huntington, Mrs. Henry Hendrickson, G. L. . . . . . . 10.00 E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.00 Hepburn, Mrs. A. Barton . 1,228.59 Hurd, Lucy G. . . . . . . . . 10.00 Hutchinson, Jennie T. . 5.00 Herrick, Mrs. M. . . . . . . . . 2.00 Hess, Mrs. Alfred . . . . . . . 50.00 Irwin, Miss May . . . . . . 500.95 Heydt, Helen . . . . . . . . . . . 35.00 Ithaca Political Hicks, Miss Amy M. . . . . . . 10.00 Equality Club . . . . . . . 100.00 Hill, Mrs. Fred'k. T. . . . . . . . 50.00 Jackson, Alice D. . . . . . . 50.00 Hinchey, Margaret . . . . . . . 5.00 Jackson, Mrs. Percy . . . 50.00 Hinchley, Alice H. . . . . . . . . 1.00 Jacobs, Mrs. D. B. . . . . . 5.00 Hinkle, Beatrice M. . . . . . . 10.00 Jay, Mrs. Pierre . . . . . . . 10.00 Hitchcock, Mrs. Ripley . . . . 5.00 Jefferson, Jane Democratic Hoag, Lillian M. . . . . . . . . . . 2.00 Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Hollis, Suffrage Club . . . . . 10.00 Jenner, Josephine C. . . 10.00 Holter, Mrs. E. O. . . . . . . . . 10.00 Johnes, Myrtle G. . . . . . 5.00 Holtzhauer, Henrietta . . . . 1.00 Johnson, Caroline S. . . 5.00 Hook, Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Johnson, Grace M. . . . . 1.00 81 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. Johnston, Mrs. Wm. A. 10.00 Le Boutillier, Mrs. . . . . 1.00 Jordan, Miss Elizabeth 10.00 LeBoutillier, Isabel . . . 30.00 Joslyn, Rosamond . . . . 5.00 Leckie, Miss Katherine 10.00 Leeds, Warner M. . . . . 100.00 Keating, Mary A. . . . . . 10.00 Leeds, Mrs. Warner M. 2,000.00 Keech, Frank . . . . . . . . 50.00 Leslie, Mrs. Frank . . . . 100.00 Kelley, Louise . . . . . . . . 1.00 Lewis, Mr. and A.G. . . . 200.00 Kelly, Edith . . . . . . . . . . 20.00 Lewis, Mrs. August . . . 100.00 Kellogg, Mrs. A. H. . . . . 2.00 Lewis, Mrs. George H. . 300.00 Kennedy, Mrs. Sarah. . 5.00 Lewis, W. E. . . . . . . . . . . 25.00 Kerneys, Emma B. . . . . 50.00 Lewisohn, Adolph . . . . . 600.00 Kerr, Sarah V. . . . . . . . . 1.00 Lewisohn, Alice and Kimball, Dr. S. N. . . . . . . 10.00 Irene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.00 King, Helen . . . . . . . . . . . 23.00 Lewisohn, Sam A. . . . . . 50.00 Kingston Political Lily Dale Club . . . . . . . . . 25.00 Equality Club . . . . . . . . 10.00 Lindsley, Emily E. . . . . . . 1.00 Kinne, Helen . . . . . . . . . . 15.00 Lines, Dr. Mary L. . . . . . . 1.00 Knache, Mrs. Gustav . . . 10.00 Linnell, Gertrude . . . . . . 6.00 Knight, Helen L. . . . . . . . 10.00 Littell, Mrs. Philip . . . . . . 10.00 Kobbe, I. M. . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Livermore, Mrs. A. L. . . . 50.00 Kraft, Mrs. Harry . . . . . . . 25.00 Livingston, Mrs. G. . . . . . 10.00 Kress, Agatha . . . . . . . . . . 25.00 Loeb, Mrs. J. . . . . . . . . . . . 3.00 Moines, Mary H. . . . . . . . 25.00 LaFollette, Miss Fola . . . . . 10.00 Lord, Mrs. F. W. . . . . . . . . 10.00 Laidlaw, Mr. and Mrs. Lord, Mrs. H. G. . . . . . . . . 10.00 James Lees . . . . . . . . . . .5,501.42 Louther, Chas. S. . . . . . . . 1.00 Lambie, Mrs. J. E. . . . . . . . 5.00 Lovejoy, Owen . . . . . . . . . 3.00 Lamont, Thomas W. . . . . 250.00 Lowenstein, Dr. Helena . . 2.00 Lathers, Ida . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.00 Lusk, Anna H. . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Lathers, Julia . . . . . . . . . . . 75.00 Lathrop, Julia . . . . . . . . . . . 25.00 McCormick, Mrs. Stanley Lawson, Mrs. J. Herbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 McCurdy, Caroline G. . . . . 2.00 Lawson, Mrs. J. Herbert McCutcheon, Louise T. . . . 5.00 (Donations) . . . . . . . . . . . 16.00 McDaniel, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.00 Lawrence Study Club McDougall, Mrs. W. . . . . . . 200.00 of Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.50 McDonald, Dr. Carlos . . . . 10.00 Lawson, Edith . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 McKinney, Mrs. J. W. . . . . . 50.00 Lawson, Fanny . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 McLean, Natalie . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Lawton, Alice . . . . . . . . . . . 13.00 McNett, Celia . . . . . . . . . . . 25.00 82 CONTRIBUTORS McNight, Dr. V. H. . . . . . . . 2.00 Morgenthau, M. . . . . . . . . 10.00 MacDonald, E. . . . . . . . . . . 25.00 Morgenthau, Mrs. M. L. . . 5.00 MacDonald, J. Katherine Morris, E. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Mount, Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Macy, Edith C. . . . . . . . . . . 50.00 Mount Vernon Political Macy, Mrs. V. Everitt . . . . . 275.00 Equality Club . . . . . . . . . . 60.00 Madeira, Frances P. . . . . . 2.00 Murphy, Mrs. Deas . . . . . . 5.00 Magazine Article Mulle, Miss Ida . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 (Proceeds of) . . . . . . . . . 15.00 Munsey, Frank A. . . . . . . . . 200.00 Malone, Dudley Field . . . 250.00 Manning, Miss Alice . . . . 10.00 Nassau County A. D. Mansfield, Howard . . . . . 50.00 League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00 Mansfield, Mrs. Howard Nassau Suffrage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558.00 Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00 Marshall, Anne . . . . . . . . 5.00 Nathan, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, W. H. . . . . . . . . 15.00 Frederick . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700.00 Martin, Miss Martha . . . 5.00 National American Martin, Mrs. Bardley . . . 100.00 Woman Suffrage Maryson, Dr. J. A. . . . . . . 5.00 Association . . . . . . . . . . 2,000.00 Mason, George G. . . . . . 200.00 Nazimova, Alla . . . . . . . . 50.00 Matson, Miss A. Nathalie Neal, Mrs. J. Erskine. . . . 25.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Neal, Dr. Josephine E. . . 10.00 Mattern, W. C. . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Neal, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.00 May, Miss Marion . . . . . . 210.00 Nebraska Woman Suffrage Mayer, Bell F. . . . . . . . . . . 25.00 Association . . . . . . . . . . 142.00 Maynard, Miss Mary . . . . 5.00 Nelson, Mrs. Kathleen . . 5.00 Mayne, Earl H. . . . . . . . . . 15.00 Newburgh Political Melting Pot Proceeds . . . 339.66 Equality Club . . . . . . . . 50.00 Michael, Mrs. Myron J. . . 14.00 Newburgh Political Miller, Gerritt . . . . . . . . . . 200.00 Study Club . . . . . . . . . . . 50.00 Miller, Alice Duer . . . . . . . 135.00 Newell, Miss Moyca . . . . . 25.00 Miller, Henry Wise . . . . . . 10.00 Norrie, Mrs. Gordon . . . . 460.00 Mitchell, John . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Norton, Grace F. . . . . . . . 1.00 Mitchell, Rhoda H. . . . . . . 2.00 Noyes, LaVerne . . . . . . . . 100.00 Mitchell, Mrs. W. C. . . . . . 10.00 O'Brien, Mrs. Mary H. . . . 10.00 Moellen, Mrs. E. C. . . . . . . 10.00 Odell, Mrs. T. J. . . . . . . . . . 25.00 Morawetz, Mrs. Victor . . . 20.00 Ohio Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Morgan, Caroline L. . . . . . 50.00 Olcott, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Morganthau, Agnes . . . . . 37.00 Oliver, Mrs. R. T. Morgenthau, Louise H. . . 1.00 (Donations) . . . . . . . . . . 22.25 83 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. Ollesheimer, Mrs. H. . 25.00 Potter, Sarah L. . . . . . . 5.00 Olmstead, Miss . . . . . . 15.00 Pratt, Mrs. Herbert . . . 1,000.00 O'Neill, Miss Callista . . 12.00 Preston, May Wilson . . 10.00 O'Neill, Miss (Donations) Public School No. 90 . . 100.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.00 Public School No. 50 . . 100.00 Oppenheim, Mrs. Chas. 50.00 Public School No. 47 . . 55.00 Oppenheim, Mrs. Laurent Putman, Elizabeth D. . . 5.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.00 Pyle, Miss Sarah McA. . 5.00 Oppenheim, Mrs. Laurent (Donations) . . . . . . . . 250.00 Queens Village Woman Orange County 2nd. Suffrage Club . . . . . . . 5.00 Assembly District . . . 50.00 Osterheld, Mrs. Carl . . 50.00 Ralli, Mrs. P. C. . . . . . . . 5.00 Owens, Mrs. Helen B. . 45.00 Read, Mrs. Elizabeth . . 5.00 O'Haire, Mary G. . . . . . 5.00 Reed, Miss Nellie . . . . . 5.00 Reese, Dr. & Mrs. R. G. 5.00 Paddock, Mrs. F. G. . . . 57.87 Reicher, Hedwig . . . . . . 50.00 Park, Mrs. Hobart J. . . . 10.00 Reid, Ogden . . . . . . . . . 500.00 Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Reid, Mrs. Odgen . . . . . 600.00 Horace . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.00 Reynolds, Mrs. Eva M. . 10.00 Parshall, Mrs. DeWitt . . 5.00 Reynold, Mrs. Jas. B. . . 25.00 Parsons, Edgerton . . . . 10.00 Rhodes, M. H. . . . . . . . 5.00 Parsons, Mrs. Edgerton 10.00 Richard, Jeannette E. . 25.00 Parsons, Herbert . . . . . 501.00 Richmond, Agnes M. . 2.00 Parsons, Elsie Dodge . . 5.00 Richmond Hill High Paul Jones Club . . . . . . . 173.00 School . . . . . . . . . . . 25.00 Peabody, George Foster 50.00 Robert, Miss Edith S. 2.00 Peck, Mary Grey . . . . . . . 10.00 Robinson, Mrs. Henry 100.00 Peck, Cristinia M. . . . . . . 25.00 Robinson, Miss J. H. . . 5.00 Peck, Miss C. P. . . . . . . . 5.00 Robinson, Mrs. Jas. H. . 5.00 Percey, Mary C. . . . . . . . 35.00 Rochester Political Perkins, George W. . . . . 200.00 Equality Club . . . . . . 50.00 Perkins, James H. . . . . . 100.00 Rose, Mary Dunning . . 1.00 Perkins, Robert . . . . . . . 200.00 Rumsey, Mrs. Dexter P. 2,250.00 Peters, E. B. . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Ruutz-Rees, Miss C. . . . . 125.00 Phipps, Mrs. Henry . . . . 800.00 Pinchot, Mrs. Amos . . . . 10.00 Sahler, Helen G. . . . . . . . 25.00 Plummer, Mary W. . . . . 5.00 Satting, John H. . . . . . . . 10.00 Poole, Mrs. Ernest . . . . 15.00 Saunders, Dr. W. S. . . . . 35.00 Port Washington Equal Savage, Miss Clara . . . . 10.00 Suffrage League . . . . . 25.00 Sayville Suffrage Club . . 10.00 84 CONTRIBUTORS Schell, Mrs. Emily M. . . . 100.00 Smith, Mary E. . . . . . . . . 10.00 Schieffelin, Mrs. W. J. . . . 10.00 Smith, Mrs. Alexander . 2.50 Schiff, Mr. Jacob H. . . . . . 100.00 Smithtown Suffrage Club 5.00 Schmidt, Margaret . . . . . 1.00 Snow, Mary S. . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Schrader, Eliza P. . . . . . . 10.00 Sorchan, Mrs. Victor . . . 150.00 Schreiner, Minnie . . . . . . 15.00 Spafford, B. M. . . . . . . . . 12.00 Scribner, Mrs. Arthur . . . 205.00 Speery, Henriette . . . . . . 1.00 Scribner, Mrs. Chas. . . . . 25.00 Spingarn, A. . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Schweizer, Isabelle . . . . . 2.00 Splint, Miss Sarah F. . . . . 10.00 Scott, Miriam F. . . . . . . . . 5.00 Starett, Ruth M. . . . . . . . . 5.00 Scott, Miss Louise . . . . . . 20.00 Steinmetz, C. W. . . . . . . . . 3.00 Scudder, Miss Janet . . . . 25.00 Steuben County First Seager, Henry N. . . . . . . 10.00 Assembly District . . . . . 25.00 Seager, Mrs. H. R. . . . . . . 5.00 Stevens, Mrs. Jos. S. . . . . 50.00 Seattle Suffrage Club . . . 25.00 Stevenson, Beulah E. . . . 2.00 Seaver, Frances . . . . . . . . 25.00 Stewart, W. A. W. . . . . . . 50.00 Seidenberg, Mrs. . . . . . . . 5.00 Stillman, Clara G. . . . . . . 10.00 Seligman, Edwin R. A. . . . 10.00 Stillwell, Miss C. P. . . . . . 5.00 Seligman, Jefferson . . . . . 100.00 Stone, Annie . . . . . . . . . . 500.00 Selwyn, Mrs. Edgar . . . . . 10.00 Stone, Ellen J. . . . . . . . . . 500.00 Sewall, Katherine W. . . . . 5.00 Stokes, H. P. . . . . . . . . . . 25.00 Sewall, Mrs. Henry . . . . . . 1.00 Strachan, Miss Grace . . 200.00 Seymour, Harriette A. . . . 5.00 Straight, Mrs. Willard . . 500.00 Seymour, W. Gilbert . . . . 2.00 Strauss, Lucretia L. . . . . 25.00 Sharman, Mrs. Wm. . . . . 50.00 Strauss, Mrs. Samuel . . 50.00 Shaw, R. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Sullivan, Mrs. Algernon Shaw, Anna Howard . . . . 750.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Shearer, George L. . . . . . 25.00 Summer Club of Hamilton Sheldon, Carolyn . . . . . . . 2.00 Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.00 Sheldon, E. D. . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Sussmann, J. H. . . . . . . . . 50.00 Shinn, Mrs. Anne St. Gaudens, Mrs. A. . . . . 2.00 O'Hagan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.43 Showers, Emma W. . . . . . 10.00 Tannerhill, Sallie B. . . . . . 1.00 Sinclair, Eliza D. . . . . . . . . 25.00 Taphan, Edwin . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Skeel, Mrs. Rosewell Jr. . . 160.00 Tappan, Eliza G. . . . . . . . . 40.00 Skinner, Carolina . . . . . . . 50.00 Tarbox, Frances . . . . . . . . 3.00 Slade, Mrs. F. Louis . . . . . 500.00 Taylor, Carl . . . . . . . . . . . . 125.00 Slade, Mrs. Marshall P. . . 25.00 Teachers' Branch of Smith, Lulu O. . . . . . . . . . . 2.00 Empire State Campaign Smith, Mrs. Charles S. . . . 50.00 Committee . . . . . . . . .2,000.00 Smith, Mrs. M. . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Thaw, Miss A. G. . . . . . . . .100.00 85 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. Thayer, Mrs. J. A.... 9.00 Thomas, Mrs. Leonard 50.00 Thomas, Lloyd J..... 100.00 Thompson, Mary C... 50.00 Thompson, Myrtle.... 5.00 Thones, Mrs. D. T.... 5.00 Thorne, Mrs.......... 15.00 Thornton, A. M. P..... 5.00 Thorpe, Helen C..... 260.00 Tiffany, Mrs. Chas.... 1,715.00 Tillotson, Mrs. H. P.. 25.00 Titus, Dr. Emily..... 20.00 Tone, Mrs. F. J....... 155.00 Traphagen, Ethel H.. 1.00 Trimble, Louise......25.00 Turnure, Mrs. Percy.. 10.00 Tutt, Myra........... 10.00 Tuttle, Florence G.... 5.00 Tutwiler, Julia R..... 5.00 Unknown ............ 3.00 Untermeyer, Samuel.. 5,050.00 Valet, Mrs. Wm. (Collections) .......... 15.00 Vanderbeck, Mrs. G. W. 10.00 Vanderlip, Frank..... 1,000.00 Vanderlip, Mrs. Frank 550.00 Van Anda, Mrs. Car.. 15.00 Van Beuren, Mrs. F. T. 10.00 Van Beuren, Mrs. Michael ............. 1,050.00 Van Horne, Miss Katherine .............. 10.00 Van Voast, Dr. P..... 1.00 Vaughan, Mary Louise 5.00 Villard, Mrs. Henry.. 75.00 Von der Emde, E..... 60.00 Wadsworth, Mrs. W. R. 25.00 Wage Earners' League 359.00 Wagner, Anna G..... 2.00 86 Wagners, Mrs. W. F... 10.00 Wagstaff, Mrs. Alfred. 5.00 Waldo, Lillie......... 6.00 Walker, E. M........ 10.00 Ward, Eva ............. 10.00 Warner, Mrs. W. R... 25.00 Watkins, Mrs. John H. 100.00 Watts, Helen W...... 10.00 Webb, Mrs. Louis.... 2.50 Weeks, Anna Ross.... 50.00 Wehle, Anna.......... 5.00 Weinstein, Marion.... 2.00 Welch, Miss Alberta.. 5.00 Wells, Grace T........ 30.00 Wells, Mrs. Oliver J.. 25.00 Weyl, Mrs. Walter.... 5.00 Wheeler, Mary S..... 5.00 White, Florida M..... 5.00 White, Mary O....... 5.00 White, E. G.......... 2.00 Whitehouse, Mr. and Mrs. Norman deR... 685.00 Whitney, Mrs. Josepha 2.00 Wiche, Richard T.... 1.50 Wiley, Miss Carrie.... 10.00 Wiley, Miss Carrie (Donations) ....... 88.00 Wilcox, William G.... 900.00 Willcox, Mary O...... 25.00 Willis, Mrs. Sarah L.. 500.00 Wilson, Mrs. Edmund 10.00 Wilson, Mrs. Huntington ............... 500.00 Wilson, Mrs. Rose O'N. 100.00 Winch, Mrs. Chas. F.. 10.00 Wingate, Hannah S... 1.00 Winthrop, Mrs. Edgerton L., Jr.......... 50.00 Wittler, Miss Leila... 10.00 Wittler, Miss Leila (Donations) ....... 10.00 SEPARATE ACCOUNT Wolff, W. A......... 5.00 Wolff, Mrs. James.... 10.00 Woman Suffrage Study Club ............ 50.00 Woman's Century Club 50.00 Woman Suffrage Party (25th Assem. Dist.) 50.00 Women High School Teachers' Assoc. ... 71.20 Wood, Mrs. Arnold... 60.00 Wood, Margaret C.... 10.00 Working Girls (10) ... 8.00 Wright, Alice Morgan. 25.00 Wright, Alice Morgan (Donations) ....... 38.85 Wyoming Co. (1st Assembly District) ... 12.50 Yale, Louise M. C..... 5.00 Young, Minnie K..... 2.00 Young, Rose......... 17.00 SEPARATE ACCOUNT OF THE NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION From Oct. 1st, 1914, to Nov. 30, 1915 State Account Balance from 1914 account ..........................$1,843.43 Receipts Contributions .............................$ 418.74 Annual Members ..................... 5.00 1914 Convention .................... 471.37 Assembly District Dues ....................... 1,080.20 Bank Interest ...................... 12.21 Dramatic Fete ....................... 1,127.70 Two Expositions ........................ 462.47 Sales-Literature, Novelties, Magic Lantern .... 340.38 Sundries .............................. 123.83 4,041.90 -- Total ............................$5,885.33 Expenditures State Convention 1914 ..................$ 448.42 National Convention ................... 53.00 State Convention 1915 ................ 70.15 Dramatic Fete .......................... 548.25 Two Expositions .......................543.43 - $1,663.25 87 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. Brought forward .......................................... $1,663.25 $5,885.33 National dues .............................................. 500.00 Literature, Novelties, Magic Lantern .......... 508.75 Parade ......................................................... 83.27 Secretaries' Salaries ................................... 1,332.25 Postage ....................................................... 401.29 Office Supplies, Furnishings ....................... 310.92 Sundries ...................................................... 179.34 Annual Report ............................................. 36.00 5,015.07 Balance ............................................................. $870.26 Sales Department Receipts Literature, Novelties, Magic Lantern, and Suffrage March ........................................................................... $4,021.73 Expenditures Salary ........................................................ $430.00 Office Supplies ......................................... 51.84 Literature, Novelties, Magic Lantern, and Suf- frage March .............................................. 3,338.78 3,820.62 Balance .................................................................... $201.11 JESSIE H. CHILDS, Treasurer. 88 CONSTITUTION OF THE NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY AS ADOPTED AT CONVENTION OF 1915 ARTICLE I Name The name of this organization shall be the New York State Woman Suffrage Party, auxiliary to the National American Woman Suffrage Association. ARTICLE II Object The object of this organization shall be to secure to the women of the State of New York and of the United States their right to vote, by appropriate State and National Legislation. ARTICLE III Membership Section I. Every citizen of New York State over 21 years of age enrolled as a believer in Woman Suffrage, in the Assembly District in which he or she lives, shall be recognized as an enrolled member thereof. Section 2. Enrolled members who have paid 25 cents or more per year to their Assembly District organizations shall be the voting members therein. ARTICLE IV Officers Section 1. The officers of this organization shall be a Chairman, three Vice-Chairmen, Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer and four Directors. Section 2. The Executive Committee shall consist of the officers elected at the Annual Convention, the Chairmen of Campaign Districts, the Chairman of the City of New York, and the Chairman 89 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. of working Sections. The Executive Committee shall constitute the working Board in the interim of State meetings. (a) The Chairmen of Campaign Districts shall be appointed by the officers of the organization, subject to the approval of their respective Assembly District Leaders. (b) The Equal Franchise Society, the Men's League for Woman Suffrage and the Collegiate League may become Sections of this organization, and their elected presidents shall be chairmen of their respective sections. (c) Other sections may be created and their chairmen appointed by the elected officers. Section 3. (a) The State Committee, which shall meet annually in conjunction with the State Convention or in the interim at the call of the elected officers, shall consist of the Executive Committee and the elected Leaders of the Assembly District organizations. (b) The Leaders and Officers of the Assembly District Organizations shall be elected at an Annual District Convention, to which all voting members shall be summoned. ARTICLE V Annual Convention Section I. An Annual Convention of this organization shall be held for the transaction of business and the election of officers. Section 2. Every leader of an Assembly District shall be an ex-officio delegate to the Annual Convention, provided that her district has a paid-up membership of 100, and that $5 has been paid to the elected State Treasurer; for the same membership and payment, one additional delegate may be appointed by the officers of the Assembly District. For each additional 100 paid-up members for which an additional $5 shall be paid, one additional delegate may be appointed. ARTICLE VI Elections A primary for the nomination of officers shall be held on the second business day of the Annual Convention, the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes for each of the eleven offices 90 CONSTITUTION OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY to be the nominees for such offices respectively. The election of officers shall be held on the third business day of the Annual Convention. The primary and the election shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by an Election Committee of five members, appointed by the Chairman of the Association. ARTICLE VII Amendments This Constitution may be amended by a majority vote at the Annual Convention, at least one day's notice having been given. BY-LAWS I The State Committee shall hold one meeting preceding the opening of each Annual Convention and another meeting after the conclusion of such convention. At the State Convention and the State Committee meetings each member of the Executive Committee and each delegate shall have one vote. II Recommendations from the Executive Committee shall be presented to the State Committee. Recommendations from the State Committee shall be presented to the Convention at its first business meeting. III The State Committee shall elect or appoint delegates to the Annual Convention of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association. IV The necessary expenses of the four general officers-namely, the Chairman, the two Secretaries and the Treasurer-in connection with attendance upon the annual meetings and other meetings of the organization, may be met from the funds of the State organization. 91 NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. V The term of the newly elected officers shall commence with the session of the State Committee held after the conclusion of the Convention as provided for by By-Law II. VI These By-Laws may be amended by majority vote at any Annual Convention. "Robert's Rule of Order, copyright 1904, shall govern this Association in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the Constitution and By-Laws." Status of Life Members: All persons who became life members prior to 1911 retain their voting privilege. Those who have become life members since 1911 have no vote. Constitution was amended in 1911 to take away the vote of life members, but the amendment has been construed as not being retroactive. 92 ANNUAL CONVENTIONS 1869 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Saratoga 1870- '78 (9 successive conventions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .New York 1879 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Poughkeepsie 1880 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .No Convention 1881 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Troy 1882 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .New York 1883 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Troy 1884 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Albany 1885- '89 (5 successive conventions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .New York 1890 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rochester 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Auburn 1892 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Syracuse 1893 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brooklyn 1894 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ithaca 1895 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Newburgh 1896 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rochester 1897 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Geneva 1898 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hudson 1899 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dunkirk 1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Glens Falls 1901 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Oswego 1902 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Buffalo 1903 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hornell 1904 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Auburn 1905 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rochester 1906 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Syracuse 1907 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Geneva 1908 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Buffalo 1909 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Troy 1910 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Niagara Falls 1911 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ithaca 1912 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Utica 1913 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Binghamton 1914 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rochester 1915 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .New York 93 NEW YORK STATE'S VOTE ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE, NOV. 2, 1915 Vote Cast County Registered on Suffrage Yea Nay Majority Majority Suffrage Vote Question For Against Enrollment Albany.................... 48,413 35,867 12,263 23,604 ...... 11,341 4,518 Allegany.................. 12,371 8,223 3,851 4,372 ...... 521 5,869 Broome................... 21,671 15,629 8,022 7,607 415 ...... 6,560 Cattaraugus............... 18,220 11,657 5,319 6,338 ...... 1,019 2,000 Cayuga................... 17,517 10,337 5,467 5,870 ...... 1,403 1,699 Chautauqua............... 25,291 16,973 9,887 7,086 2,801 ...... 4,463 Chemung.................. 15,443 12,281 6,371 5,910 461 ...... 3,954 Chenango................. 10,974 7,160 3,358 3,802 ...... 444 2,916 Clinton................... 12,115 6,783 2,657 4,126 ...... 1,469 1,841 Columbia.................. 12,387 7,640 2,030 5,610 ...... 3,580 511 Cortland.................. 8,601 5,670 2,822 2,848 ...... 26 809 Delaware.................. 14,174 9,943 4,242 5,701 ...... 1,459 3,625 Dutchess.................. 22,647 17,059 6,839 10,220 ....... 3,381 3,000 Erie...................... 108,566 62,160 25,669 36,491 ....... 10,822 48,695 Essex..................... 9,492 6,286 2,853 3,433 ....... 580 1,421 Franklin................... 10,961 5,249 2,113 3,136 ....... 1,023 8,247 Fulton.................... 10,608 6,706 3,145 3,561 ....... 416 1,453 Genesee................... 9,873 6,480 3,027 3,453 ....... 426 658 Greene.................... 8,953 6,263 2,264 3,999 ....... 1,735 388 Hamilton.................. 1,624 1,127 464 663 ....... 199 49 Herkimer.................. 16,528 9,001 3,819 5,182 ....... 1,363 1,493 Jefferson.................. 21,384 15,124 5,648 9,476 ....... 3,828 3,871 Lewis.................... 8,048 5,372 1,604 3,768 ....... 2,164 1,290 Livingston .............. 10,798 6,254 2,320 3,934 ....... 1,614 5,487 Madison ................ 12,025 8,964 3,776 5,188 ....... 1,412 1,743 Monroe ................. 66,750 43,140 18,297 24,843 ....... 6,546 22,053 Montgomery ........ 14,610 8,303 3,661 4,642 ....... 981 259 Nassau .................. 25,243 15,392 7,097 8,295 ....... 1,198 9,471 Niagara ................. 22,105 16,046 6,832 9,214 ....... 2,382 5,104 Oneida .................. 37,398 24,453 8,891 15,562 ....... 6,671 10,829 Onondaga ............ 51,656 41,091 19,190 21,901 ....... 2,711 8,421 Ontario ................. 14,727 10,635 4,032 6,603 ....... 2,571 6,687 Orange ................. 26,658 21,271 9,433 11,838 ....... 2,405 3,520 Orleans ................. 8,751 5,502 2,301 3,201 ....... 900 2,198 Oswego ................. 18,532 12,273 5,915 6,358 ....... 443 2,632 94 Otsego .................. 18,532 10,130 4,205 5,925 ....... 1,720 1,100 Putnam ................. 3,867 2,503 1,062 1,441 ....... 379 1,112 Rensselaer ............ 30,407 18,505 6,875 11,630 ....... 4,755 2,593 Rockland ............... 11,384 8,369 3,810 4,559 ....... 749 1,062 Saratoga ................ 17,348 12,369 5,020 7,349 ....... 2,329 1,680 Schenectady ......... 21,210 13,357 7,351 6,006 1,345 ......... 90 Schoharie .............. 7,695 5,601 2,061 3,540 ....... 1,479 1,390 Schuyler ................. 4,476 3,331 1,413 1,918 ....... 505 1,777 Seneca .................... 7,378 5,485 2,139 3,346 ....... 1,207 1,126 St. Lawrence .......... 23,805 12,899 5,599 7,300 ....... 1,701 4,261 Steuben .................. 23,509 16,966 7,226 9,740 ....... 2,514 3,700 Suffolk .................... 25,105 16,181 7,219 8,962 ....... 1,743 8,483 Sullivan ................... 10,068 7,407 2,415 4,992 ....... 2,577 766 Tioga ....................... 7,809 4,518 1,945 2,573 ....... 628 1,095 Tompkins ............... 10,034 6,423 3,266 3,157 109 ......... 3,520 Ulster ...................... 23,055 15,134 5,035 10,099 ....... 5,064 859 Warren ................... 9,141 6,666 2,297 4,369 ....... 2,072 2,000 Washington ............ 13,462 9,564 4,138 5,456 ....... 1,318 900 Wayne .................... 15,031 10,208 3,508 6,700 ....... 3,192 3,523 Westchester ........... 57,855 44,095 20,165 23,930 ....... 3,765 33,438 Wyoming ................ 9,133 6,603 2,622 3,981 ....... 1,359 3,730 Yates ....................... 5,946 4,081 1,410 2,671 ....... 1,261 1,882 Totals for State Outside of New York City . . . . .1,211,364 742,729 315,250 427,479 5,131 112,229 248,421 Vote by Boro. in Greater N.Y. Bronx .................... 84,863 75,298 34,307 40,991 ....... 6,684 ....... Brooklyn ............... 242,689 209,081 87,402 121,679 ....... 34,277 ....... Manhattan ........... 255,865 206,496 88,886 117,610 ....... 28,724 ....... Queens ................. 61,848 54,499 21,395 33,104 ....... 11,709 ....... Richmond ............. 30,407 13,577 6,108 7,469 ....... 1,361 ....... Totals for N.Y. City . . .675,672 558,951 238,098 320,853 ....... 82,755 212,223 Totals for entire State.1,878,036 1,301,680 553,348 748,332 5,131 194,984 460,644 95 Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.