at Faneuil
Hall and a reception was given by the College and Boston suffrage
associations. Another large suffrage meeting in Faneuil Hall was
addressed by Professor Charles Zueblin. Mrs. Park and Mrs. Eager held
a series of meetings in Berkshire county, arousing much interest. At
the suffrage booth in the Boston Food Fair, in charge of the Newton
League, 6,255 names were added to the enrollment. The association by
this time had more than 100 local branches. This year 145 labor unions
endorsed equal suffrage. The association carried on a "poster
campaign," putting up posters in towns and at county fairs. Mrs.
FitzGerald composed the inscriptions and Mrs. George F. Lowell with a
group of friends put them up. At the Biennial of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs held in Boston every mention of suffrage
was cheered and no one got such an ovation as Mrs. Howe, the fraternal
delegate from the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

1909. The College Equal Suffrage League of Massachusetts attained a
membership of 320 this year and a suffrage club was formed at
Radcliffe College. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology any
notices put up by the suffragists were at once torn down. The State
annual convention was held in Boston October 22, 23, with the evening
meeting in Tremont Temple, and Miss Blackwell was elected president.
For the first time the report of the Legislative Committee was given
by Mrs. Teresa A. Crowley, who continued to be its chairman for
years.

Ex-Governor Long presided at a memorial meeting for Henry B.
Blackwell, with addresses by Edwin D. Mead, Julia Ward Howe, the Rev.
Charles G. Ames, Professor Sumichrast, Moses H. Gulesian, Francis J.
Garrison, James H. Stark of the Victorian Club, Meyer Bloomfield and
Mrs. Isabel C. Barrows. Mr. Blackwell was called by Mrs. Catt "one of
the world's most heroic men." He was the only man of large abilities
who devoted his life to securing equal rights for women. In his youth
a reward of $10,000 was offered for his head at a public meeting in
the South because of his leading part in the rescue of a young slave
girl. He made his first speech for woman's rights at a suffrage
convention in Cleveland in 1853. Two years later he married Lucy
Stone. She had meant never to marry but to devote herself wholly to
the women's cause but he promised to devote himself to the same cause.
He was the unpaid secretary of the American Woman Suffrage Association
for twen