f illness and Mrs. Marie Jenney Howe
was unanimously elected. After the death of Mrs. Osborne, Mrs. Rumsey
of Buffalo was appointed second auditor. Mrs. Katharine Gavit of
Albany succeeded Mrs. Burrows and served to 1913. Mrs. Ivins resigned
in the winter of 1913 and Mrs. Maud Ingersoll Probasco of New York was
chosen for the remainder of the year.

[126] From New York: Misses Jones, Craft, Klatschken, Constance Leupp,
Phoebe Hawn, Minerva Crowell, Amalie Doetsch, Elizabeth Aldrich, Mrs.
George Wend and her son, Milton Wend, Mrs. George Boldt, Master Norman
Spreer, Ernest Stevens and A. C. Lemmon. From Philadelphia: Miss
Virginia Patache and Mrs. George Williams.

[127] Mrs. Ella Hawley Crossett, president of the State Suffrage
Association, sent a complete resume of the legislative action from
1900 to 1913, comprising many thousand words, but the exigencies of
space compelled condensation to the bare details.

[128] The Legislative Committee was composed of Mrs. George Howard
Lewis, Miss Miller, Mrs. L. Cuyler, Mrs. Villard, Mrs. Harry S.
Hastings, Mrs. Craigie, Mrs. Rodgers, Miss Jenney. A Cooperating
Committee representing the entire State was of great assistance. Among
its members were Mrs. Catt, Mrs. Blatch, Mrs. Graham and Mrs. Shuler,
each president of a large organization of women; the Rev. Josiah
Strong, president American Institute of Social Science; Oswald
Garrison Villard, proprietor of the New York Evening Post; Dr.
Stewardson, president Hobart College; Professor Schmidt, of Cornell
University; Colonel A. S. Bacon, treasurer of the American Sabbath
Union; Edwin Markham, William G. Van Plank, Dr. John D. Peters, D.D.;
Florence Kelley, Elizabeth Burrill Curtis, Caroline Lexow, president
College Women's League; Mrs. Osborne and others.

[129] Among those added to the Cooperating Suffrage Committee during
this and the preceding year were Mrs. Belmont, president of the
Political Equality Suffrage Association; Mrs. Mackay, president of the
Equal Franchise Society; Jessie Ashley, president of the College Equal
Suffrage League; Mary E. Dreier, president of the Women's Trade Union
League; Anna Mercy, president of the East Side Equal Rights League;
Ella A. Boole, president State W. C. T. U.; George Foster Peabody,
president, and Max Eastman, secretary of the Men's League for Woman
Suffrage; Ida Husted Harper, chairman National Press Bureau; Mrs.
William C. Story, president State Federation of Women's Clubs; Lucy P