terature to the
Aviation Meet. A fall campaign of open-air speaking followed. Mrs.
Park came home from a tour around the world and lectured on the women
of different countries. Mrs. A. Watson-Lister of Australia and Mrs.
Dora B. Montefiore of England addressed a number of meetings.

A week of meetings took place in Springfield, State speakers
cooperating with the local suffragists, among them Mrs. Henry
Phillips, president of the suffrage league; Mrs. McDuffie and Mr.
Myrick, publisher of the "Farm and Home" and "Good Housekeeping."
Headquarters were opened in a vacant store with daily meetings and
teas; addresses were given before the Board of Trade, the teachers,
the Woman's, the Mothers', the Socialist and the College Clubs, the Y.
M. C. A. training school and other groups; colored slides of suffrage
events were shown and prominent local women opened their homes for
social affairs. Much interest was aroused and permanent Springfield
headquarters were opened soon afterwards. Boston started to organize
by wards and invitations were printed in various languages. The first
meeting, in Ward 8, arranged by Mrs. Leonard, was attended by nearly
1,000 women and there were speeches in English and Yiddish. A class to
train suffrage speakers was started. A suffrage club was organized in
the College of Liberal Arts of Boston University. The suffragists sent
Alfred H. Brown to help the campaign in the State of Washington.

The general sorrow for the death of Julia Ward Howe on October 17
brought support to the suffrage movement. In her later years people
had revered her as they revered the flag and all her great influence
had been placed unreservedly at the service of this cause. A large
memorial meeting was held in Faneuil Hall on December 16.

1911. The State convention was held in Boston October 27, 28, the
evening meeting at Tremont Temple addressed by Dr. Shaw and Professor
Edward Howard Griggs. The Boston association raised $1,100 for the
campaigns in Oregon, Kansas, Wisconsin and Michigan and gave Mrs.
Park's services to Ohio and Michigan. A Men's League for Woman
Suffrage was organized at Harvard University under the presidency of
A. S. Olmstead. At the meeting of the New England Association Miss
Blackwell was elected president. Mrs. Howe had held the office
twenty-six years.

Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, one of the few surviving pioneers,
passed away this year. He had been a champion of women's rights for
more