C. Raspe, Ethel C. Crosby; Harford, Annie H. Hoskins,
Lydia Reckord, Eliza Edell; Carroll, Maggie Mehring; Cecil, Alice
Coale Simpers; Somerset, Florence Hoge; Caroline, Miss Eliza
Messenger; Anne Arundel, Mrs. Wilhelmina Nichols; Howard, Miss
Elizabeth B. Wilson.
BALTIMORE CITY CLUB. For more than twenty years this club averaged
from four to twenty public meetings annually in theaters, churches and
suffrage headquarters. Scores of business and executive meetings were
held and sociables, suppers, lawn fetes, banquets, excursions and
bazars were given. The club opened the first headquarters in 1902 at
107 West Franklin Street, one of the city's noted thoroughfares. In
1908 they were established on North Gilmore Street, West Baltimore,
and in 1912 on the corner of Baltimore and Carey Streets. At both
localities the plate glass windows were decorated with pictures of
suffrage leaders, cartoons, platforms of political parties and
literature; afternoon tea was served and public meetings held at
night. It also inaugurated Sunday afternoon meetings which became very
popular and it was responsible for bringing to Baltimore many men and
women of national and international distinction. The first English
"militant" to speak in Baltimore was Mrs. Annie Cobden Sanderson, on
My Experience in an English Jail, in January, 1908, in the Christian
Temple, the Rev. Peter Ainslie, the pastor, introducing the speaker,
who made a profound impression. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst came next,
speaking in Osler Hall on Ideal Democracy, followed by Sylvia
Pankhurst and Mrs. Philip Snowden, the latter speaking at the Seventh
Baptist Church, the pastor presiding.
In 1909 at a mass meeting one Sunday afternoon in the Lyric Theater
an audience of over 2,000 was present, more than half of them men,
with Dr. Shaw and Mrs. Florence Kelley the speakers; Judge Jacob M.
Moses of the Juvenile Court presided and a number of men of
distinction were seated on the platform. Mrs. Catt spoke at a mass
meeting in the Academy of Music in March, 1913, at which Miss Eliza H.
Lord of Washington, D. C., presided and Senator William E. Borah of
Idaho was a guest. Other Sunday afternoon meetings were held in
Ford's, Albaugh's, the Garden and the New Theaters with well known
speakers. Baltimore clergymen assisting at these meetings, besides
those already mentioned, were the Rev. Dr. Frank M. Ellis and the Rev.
Dr. J. W. Wills; the Reverends Kingman Handy, Henry Wharton and
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