uncil of Women. Mrs. Julia B. Nelson (Minn.) and Miss Amanda Way
(Ind.) were among the veteran writers who spoke. Miss Blackwell gave
experienced advice and a number of younger women made brief but clever
suggestions.

An interesting part of the convention was Woman's Day at the
Exposition on June 30 and this day had been chosen for the dedication
of the statue of Sacajawea, the Indian woman who led the Lewis and
Clark Expedition thousands of miles through the wilderness unknown to
white men. It was thus described: "The statue, a beautiful creation in
bronze, was the work of Miss Alice Cooper of Denver, a pupil of Lorado
Taft, the figure full of buoyancy and animation, a shapely arm
suggestive of strength pointing to the distant sea, the face radiant,
the head thrown back, the eyes full of daring." The exercises were in
charge of the Order of Red Men and the Women's Sacajawea Association,
Mrs. Eva Emery Dye, president, and on the platform facing the statue
prominent members of the convention sat with President Goode, of the
Exposition, Mayor Lane and other dignitaries. Miss Anthony and Mrs.
Duniway spoke during the unveiling and presentation ceremonies and Dr.
Shaw pronounced the benediction. [See Oregon chapter.]

The afternoon session of the convention was held in Festival Hall on
the grounds and greetings were offered for organizations, including
the Young Woman's Christian Association by Mrs. L. E. Rockwell and
Women's Medical Association by Dr. Esther C. Pohl. Dr. Sarah A.
Kendall of Washington responded. The Los Angeles Suffrage Club sent a
greeting and Mrs. Helen Secor Tonjes brought one from the New York
City Equal Suffrage League. Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman gave an
original poem. Mrs. Mabel Craft Deering, a graduate of California
State University and the Hastings Law School of San Francisco, read an
able paper on Coeducation. Its sentiments were strongly endorsed by
Professor William S. Giltner, president of Eminence College, Kentucky,
one of the earliest women's colleges, from its beginning in 1858 to
its close in 1894. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, under the title, Sowing
the Seed, gave an interesting account of the early trials of her
mother and two aunts, the pioneer doctors, Elizabeth and Emily
Blackwell. The Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, an aunt by marriage,
the pioneer woman minister, who was on the platform, said: "Ever since
I made my first suffrage speech in 1848 I have believed that the cause
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