elected president, after having served
four years as vice-president. Miss Mills was chosen for that office
and they served for the next eight years.

[Illustration: THE SUSAN B. ANTHONY MEMORIAL BUILDING

At Rochester (N. Y.) University.]

In 1903 the convention was held in the Presbyterial Church at
Hornellsville welcomed by Mayor C. F. Nelson and the Rev. Charles
Petty, pastor of the church. Mrs. Crossett responded and gave her
annual address, which showed much activity during the year. Miss
Mills, chairman of the State organization committee, said that she had
arranged for fifty-five meetings. Dr. Shaw had spoken in thirty
different counties, the president or vice-president accompanying her
and organizing clubs at many places. The chairmen of the standing
committees--Organization, Press, Legislative, Industries, Work Among
Children, Enrollment, School Suffrage--and also the county presidents
reported effective work. The addresses of Miss Anthony, Dr. Shaw and
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, national president, were highly appreciated
by large audiences. During the summer of 1903, as in many others, Miss
Anthony and Dr. Shaw attracted large gatherings at the Chautauqua and
Lily Dale Assemblies.

The convention of 1904 met at Auburn. Mrs. Eliza Wright Osborne,
daughter of Martha Wright and niece of Lucretia Mott, two of those who
had called the first Woman's Rights Convention, entertained the
officers and many chairmen in the annex of the hotel, a stenographer,
typewriter and every convenience being placed at their disposal. In
her own home she had as guests Miss Anthony, Dr. Shaw, Mrs. William
Lloyd Garrison (her sister), Emily Howland, Mrs. William C. Gannett,
Lucy E. Anthony and others. One evening her spacious house was thrown
open for the people of the city to meet the noted suffragists. The
convention was held in Music Hall, a gift of Mrs. Osborne to the city,
and her son, Thomas Mott Osborne, welcomed it as Mayor.

The old Political Equality Club of Rochester, of which Miss Mary S.
Anthony was president for many years, invited the convention for 1905.
To go to the home city of the Anthony sisters was indeed a pleasure.
They opened their house one afternoon for all who desired to take a
cup of tea with them. It was crowded and many expressed themselves as
feeling that they were on a sacred spot. A large number went to the
third story to see the rooms where Mrs. Ida Husted Harper spent
several years with Miss Anth