Faneuil Hall.

At the State annual meeting Jan. 23, 1901, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, who
had been president since 1893, presided and among the speakers were
Mrs. Helen Campbell, the Rev. Charles W. Wendte, Dr. Emily B. Ryder
and the Rev. Ida C. Hultin. Mrs. Livermore was re-elected and Mrs.
Maud Wood Park succeeded Miss Alice Stone Blackwell as chairman of the
State Board of Directors. The office of president had always been
mainly honorary and the actual work was done by the chairman of this
board. The other officers chosen were Henry B. Blackwell,
corresponding secretary; William Lloyd Garrison, treasurer; Miss Eva
Channing, clerk; Miss Amanda M. Lougee, Richard P. Hallowell,
auditors; Mrs. Judith W. Smith, member National Executive Committee.
There was a long list of distinguished vice-presidents. Mr. Blackwell
had been secretary for over twenty years and was re-elected.

At the Festival on May 22, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe presided, Miss Sarah
Cone Bryant was toastmistress and there were addresses by William M.
Salter, the Hon. William Dudley Foulke and others of note. On May 23
at the annual meeting of the New England Association, organized in
November, 1868, reports were made from the New England States, and
addresses by the Rev. Florence Kollock Crooker, Mrs. Isabel C.
Barrows, Mrs. Inez Haynes Gillmore and others. Mrs. Howe, who had been
its president since 1893, was re-elected, with a board composed of
eminent men and women.

During the year the State association sent out 1,246 press articles,
circulated many thousand pages of literature and printed several
leaflets. It held well-attended fortnightly meetings at its
headquarters, No. 3 Park Street, and gave a brilliant reception in
honor of Mrs. Livermore's 80th birthday. It compiled a list of about
forty persons ready to give addresses on suffrage and sent a speaker
free to every woman's club or other organization willing to hear the
subject presented. It held ten public meetings and sent out 11,000
circulars to increase the women's registration and school vote in
Boston. Many addresses under its auspices were given by Mrs. Abby
Morton Diaz, Professor Anna May Soule of Mt. Holyoke and Senorita
Carolina Holman Huidobro of Chile. Massachusetts contributed
four-fifths of the money given to the Oregon campaign of 1900 from
outside that State, and the Massachusetts booth (named the Lucy Stone
booth) at the National Suffrage Bazar that year took in more money
than that