h and courage were required and there were no victories as a
reward. In all the cities of the State the local women arranged
courses of lectures with prominent speakers and kept suffrage
continually before the people through the press and in other ways. By
this quiet, persistent work of comparatively few women the foundation
was laid for the majorities in the many "up-State" counties when the
amendment came to a vote.

1910-1913.[124]

At the annual convention of the State Association held in Niagara
Falls, Oct. 18-21, 1910, the following officers were chosen:
President, Miss Mills; vice-president, Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore,
Yonkers; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Roxana B. Burrows, Andover;
recording secretary, Mrs. Nicolas Shaw Fraser, Geneseo; treasurer,
Mrs. Ivins, New York; auditors, Mrs. Osborne, Auburn, Mrs. Villard,
New York. During the three following years there were but few
changes.[125]

The convention of 1911 met in Ithaca; that of 1912 in Utica and that
of 1913 in Binghamton. This period was one of great activity, leading
to the submission of an amendment to the State constitution by the
Legislature in January, 1913, the object of the association for over
forty years. Its paying membership had steadily increased from 5,252
in October, 1910 to 8,139 in October, 1913, with over 50,000 enrolled
members in addition. New York was thus enabled to continue its record
of having the largest delegation each year in the national convention.
The receipts from membership were respectively $8,182, $11,836 and
$14,230, the gains in membership and money amounting to about 60 per
cent. The enrolled membership was finally adopted in place of the paid
individual membership through suffrage clubs. For fourteen years the
association maintained the _News Letter_, edited for ten years by Miss
Mills and afterwards by Mrs. Minnie Reynolds and Miss Cora E. Morlan
successively.

One part of the work which helped build up the association was the
great campaigns through the summers of 1911-12, covering the eastern,
northern and western counties and Long Island. Over 200 of these
open-air rallies were held and thousands of enrolled members as well
as new clubs and workers were secured. At the large Delhi meeting,
held as an exception in the opera house, Mrs. Henry White Cannon came
into the ranks, formed a strong organization and continued to be one
of the valued leaders. Mrs. Gertrude Nelson Andrews for two years
conducted class