iel Schmidt of Cornell University.

The 40th State convention was held in 1908 in Buffalo, whose suffrage
club invited the National American Association to hold its convention
there the same week, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first
Woman's Rights Convention. For eight years Mrs. Richard Williams,
president of the club, had carried on the work in this city and had
built up an excellent organization. Mrs. George Howard Lewis and Mrs.
Dexter P. Rumsey were valuable members. Mrs. Lewis gave $10,000 to Dr.
Shaw for suffrage work. The State convention, which met two days
before the National, voted to have headquarters at Albany during the
legislative session. It also voted to continue the State headquarters
in Syracuse. Dr. Shaw had presented the suffrage question at the State
Federation of Women's Clubs; Miss Mills had addressed the World's
Temperance Congress; members had spoken before the resolution
committees of the political State conventions and before many
different organizations, institutions, etc. On May 26, 27, Mrs.
Stanton Blatch had arranged a meeting in Seneca Falls to commemorate
the 60th Anniversary of the first Women's Rights Convention, called by
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and that noble band of women in 1848. Addresses
were made by their descendants and a number of the pioneer suffragists
and a bronze tablet was placed on the Wesleyan Methodist Church, where
the convention was held.

This year Mrs. Clarence Mackay became interested in the work for woman
suffrage and organized in New York an Equal Franchise League of which
she was president, with headquarters in the Metropolitan Tower. She
opened her house for lectures, interested a great many prominent and
influential people and also arranged a course of public lectures in
one of the theaters, which attracted large audiences. The papers gave
columns of space to her efforts and the movement received a great
impetus.

It had always been Miss Anthony's strong desire to have headquarters
in this large center from which news of all kinds was sent to the four
quarters of the globe. She realized the vast numbers of people who
could be reached and the great prestige which would be given to the
movement but even with her wonderful ability for getting money she
never could secure anywhere near enough to carry out this plan in the
city where everything must be done on a large scale to be successful.
The longed-for opportunity did not come in her lifetime but