len Powell Thompson, 1899; Mrs. Carrie E. Kent, 1900; Mrs. Tindall,
1901; Mrs. Kent, 1902-3; Mrs. Mary L. Talbott, 1904-5; Mrs. Jessie
Waite Wright, 1906-7-8; Miss Harriette J. J. Hifton, 1909-10; Mrs. Le
Droit Barber, 1911; Miss Florence Etheridge, 1912; Mrs. Nina E.
Allender, 1913; Mrs. Kent, 1914; Miss Mary O'Toole, 1915 to 1920.[31]

A number of prominent women in the District were officers of the local
suffrage clubs and worked under their auspices, being connected
through them with the D. C. State Association. A part of the program
of the latter in 1904-5 was a study of Fisk's Civil Government of the
United States, Laws affecting Women and Children, taxation and other
subjects of public interest. There was also discussion of bills before
Congress of special interest to women and the association supported
those for the protection of neglected and delinquent children,
compulsory education and restriction of child labor. A bill to raise
the salaries of public school teachers was strongly pressed. Among
those especially active were Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, Dr. Emily
Young O'Brien and Mrs. Alice Stern Gitterman. Through their efforts
two truant officers were appointed, one white and one colored. During
this period the work was being done which led to the establishment of
a Juvenile Court with one probation officer, Mrs. Charles Darwin. In
1906 and 1907 the suffragists were active in agitating for women on
the Board of Education and succeeded in having two white women and one
colored woman appointed, as well as thirty women supervisors of the
public playgrounds. In 1908, also as a direct result of the efforts of
Mrs. Helen Rand Tindall and other members of the association, two
public comfort stations were built at a cost of $35,000, with bath,
rest rooms and all sanitary conveniences, the first in the city. The
association and the College Equal Suffrage League sent representatives
to a hearing before the Commissioners to ask that if a referendum on
the excise question should be taken women should have a vote as well
as men. In 1909 the association assisted in the petition work of the
national organization and paid the secretary who was in charge of
their headquarters in Washington for keeping them open evenings. Under
the auspices of the association lectures were given by Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst and Mrs. Ethel Snowdon of England.

In 1910 at a hearing granted to the National Association by the
Judiciary Committee of