d when headquarters in
New York City were given to the association she promised to make that
her home for one year but could not do so longer. Over 1,000 persons
had registered at the headquarters, she said, but these probably were
not over one-third of those who called. Most of them came for speakers
or help in some way; others came to volunteer assistance. Meetings had
been held in nearly every unorganized county and there were 37 county
societies. There were 155 clubs in the association, which had begun to
make the assembly district the unit in the State, as Mrs. Catt had
done in New York City. These clubs had held 695 public and 1,614 local
meetings. The State board had arranged for 241 public meetings making
2,550. The association had now a membership of 58,000.

Mrs. Belmont, who had rooms on the same floor with the State and
national associations, had formed eight clubs and given some of them
headquarters. The city had headquarters and altogether there were ten.
A Men's League had been organized. A Cooperative Service Club of over
100 business women was formed and met evenings at the State
headquarters. The association sponsored the work of securing names to
the National petition to Congress and they were tabulated at
headquarters. Greater New York women secured 24,114 names and there
were 72,086 signers in the State. A lecture bureau was established;
Miss Carolyn Crossett went over the State arranging meetings; Miss
Mills spoke in 28 counties. Dr. B. O. Aylesworth of Colorado
University was spending the summer in New York and gave over twenty
lectures for the association before clubs and public meetings. It
seemed as if every woman's club in New York City asked for speakers
and many of note were supplied. The association had published
thousands of pieces of literature and used thousands prepared by the
National.

It was in this flourishing condition that the State association passed
from the hands of Mrs. Crossett into those of her successor, Miss
Harriet May Mills, who had served with her as vice-president
throughout the preceding eight years. The other officers during this
period were Mrs. Shuler, Mary T. Sanford, Ada M. Hall, Ida A. Craft,
Isabel Howland, Alice Williams, Anna E. Merritt, Georgiana Potter,
Nicolas Shaw Fraser, Mrs. Ivins, Eliza Wright Osborne, Mariana W.
Chapman and Mrs. Villard. The lack of space prevents naming the
hundreds of women who gave unceasing service through these years when
fait