Chapman Catt, president of the National American Suffrage
Association, give one of her convincing lectures. Mrs. Cornelia C.
Hussey of East Orange held a meeting in her park to hear the reports
of the four delegates who attended the national convention at
Minneapolis. Dr. Hussey gave out suffrage leaflets to the farmers on
their "salt water day" at Sea Girt and to the Congress of Mothers at
Trenton. Mrs. Eliza Dutton Hutchinson, press superintendent, got some
of the plate matter from the National Association for the first time
into four newspapers. Letters were sent to 400 progressive women
telling them how the ballot would aid them in all good work and
inviting them to join the association and many did so. The annual
meeting was held in Newark and Mrs. Howe Hall was elected honorary
president.

In July, 1902, Mrs. Sexton in cooperation with the National
Association, held the first of the seashore meetings that were
continued every summer as long as she was president. They were held
for two days in the Tabernacle at Ocean Grove and welcomed by Bishop
Fitzgerald and Dr. A. E. Ballard, heads of the Camp Meeting
Association. The speakers were Mrs. Catt, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw,
vice-president of the National Association, Miss Kate Gordon, its
corresponding secretary, and Miss Mary Garrett Hay, a national
organizer. The Mayor and two editors became advocates of the cause. At
the Friends' conference at Asbury Park in September a day was devoted
to political equality and Mrs. Catt and Mrs. Mariana W. Chapman,
president of the New York State Association, spoke. The annual meeting
was held at Orange and a board of directors was elected: the Rev.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Elizabeth; Mrs. Katherine H. Browning,
West Orange; Mrs. Phebe C. Wright, Sea Girt; Mrs. Joanna Hartshorn,
Short Hills; Miss Susan W. Lippincott and Mrs. Elizabeth Vail, East
Orange. Memorials were read for Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mrs.
Cornelia C. Hussey and Mrs. Sexton told of the $10,000 Mrs. Hussey had
left the National Association and of her constant generosity to the
suffrage work in New Jersey for many years. Mrs. Howe Hall and Henry
B. Blackwell gave addresses. Women's clubs were urged to devote a
meeting to the discussion of woman suffrage and the Woman's Club of
Orange, the largest in the State, heard Mrs. Catt and the Outlook Club
of Montclair heard Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Mrs. Florence
Fenwick Miller of England addressed a number of le