ation of the centennial of William Lloyd
Garrison on December 10. He had been a life-long champion of equal
rights for women and his last public speech was made at a suffrage
hearing in the State House. There was a noteworthy memorial meeting
for Mrs. Edna D. Cheney, long a pillar of the suffrage association and
of the New England Hospital for Women and Children. Catherine
Breshkovsky, "the little grandmother of the Russian revolution,"
visited Massachusetts this year and addressed a number of meetings
arranged by the suffragists, including a large one in Faneuil Hall.

The convention was held in October, 1906, at Lowell in the Trinitarian
Congregational Church. Harriet A. Eager gave a stone from the pavement
of the little church at Delft Haven in Holland, where the Pilgrims
attended their last religious service before sailing for America and
the association presented it to the Cape Cod Memorial Association to
be placed in the monument. The World's W. C. T. U. convention in
Boston this month aroused much interest and enthusiasm. At the opening
banquet Miss Blackwell gave the address of welcome in behalf of the
women's organizations.

1907. The annual meeting took place in Worcester at Trinity Church.
Letters were read from Colonel Thomas W. Higginson and Mrs. Elizabeth
Smith Miller, the only two survivors of the 89 men and women who
signed the Call for the first National Woman's Rights Convention, held
in Worcester in 1850; and a poem from the Rev. Antoinette L. Brown
Blackwell, D. D., the only survivor of the speakers on that occasion.
Dr. Shaw gave an address and conducted a question box and there was a
symposium on Why I am a Suffragist by five young women, one a
grandniece and namesake of Margaret Fuller.

A noteworthy meeting was held on March 23, 1907, by the Boston Equal
Suffrage Association to consider "the indebtedness of women of
collegiate and professional training to the leaders of the suffrage
movement." Every woman's college in the State was represented, as well
as law and medicine. Mrs. Fanny B. Ames presided and college girls in
cap and gown acted as ushers. The speakers were Mrs. Howe, Miss
Georgia L. White, Assistant Professor of Economics at Smith College;
Professor Helen M. Searles of Mt. Holyoke; Dr. Emma Culbertson of the
New England Hospital for Women and Children; Miss Emily Greene Balch,
Associate Professor of Economics and Sociology at Wellesley; Miss
Caroline J. Cooke, instructor in Commerc