ere
prepared of the lives and work of speakers and delegates and circulated
by a press committee of over ninety persons in many States; March 10,
the first edition (5,000) of the sixteen-page program was issued; this
was followed by five other editions of 5,000 each and a final seventh
edition of 7,000. About 4,000 letters were written. Including those
concerning railroad rates, not less than 10,000 more circulars of
various kinds were printed and distributed. A low estimate of the number
of pages thus issued gives 672,000. During the week of the council and
the week of the convention of the National W. S. A. the Woman's Tribune
was published by Mrs. Colby eight times (four days sixteen pages, four
days twelve pages), the daily edition averaging 12,500.

An international convention of men, held in Washington the same year,
cost in round numbers $50,000.--Official Report.

[40] One session each was given to Education, Philanthropy, Temperance,
Industries, Professions, Organizations, Legal Conditions, Social Purity,
Political Conditions, etc., which were discussed by the women most
prominent in the several departments. Fifty-three different national
organizations of women were represented by eighty speakers and
forty-nine delegates from England, France, Norway, Denmark, Finland,
India, Canada and the United States.

[41] The fine stenographic reports of this council were made by Mary F.
Seymour and a corps of women assistants. The official proceedings, with
speeches in full, may be obtained of the corresponding secretary of the
National-American W. S. A.

[42] National Council: _President_, Frances E. Willard;
_vice-president-at-large_, Susan B. Anthony; _corresponding secretary_,
May Wright Sewall; _recording secretary_, Mary F. Eastman; _treasurer_,
M. Louise Thomas.

[43] This meeting was arranged by Dr. Frances Dickinson, who had
persuaded Miss Anthony to make the journey to Chicago in order to
preside over it. On the way to the hall she was detained at a drawbridge
and Miss Willard kindly took her place.

[44] See Appendix for full text of letter.

[45] Mrs. Foster Avery has proved an exception to the rule and, during
the ten years since her marriage, has performed as much work, to say the
least, as any of the younger generation of women, besides contributing
thousands of dollars.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

CONVENTIONS FROM WASHINGTON TO SOUTH DAKOTA.

1889.

The eleventh of January, 1889, found Miss Ant