responded with about $24,000. The business committee of the
association elected as its six members Dr. Shaw, Mrs. Avery, Mrs.
Upton, Miss Blackwell, Miss Gordon and Miss Clay. Mrs. Henry Villard
of New York; Mrs. Pauline Agassiz Shaw of Boston and Miss Jane Addams
of Chicago were the only others selected.[51]

According to the custom for a number of years Miss Lucy E. Anthony was
requested to present in the name of the association framed portraits
of Miss Anthony to various institutions--in this instance to Hull
House and the Chicago Political Equality League. Telegrams were
received from the Mayor of Des Moines, Ia.; from the Utah Council of
Suffrage Women; from the Interurban Woman Suffrage Council of Greater
New York, saying they had observed the day by opening headquarters,
and from a number of other sources telling that the birthday was being
celebrated in ways that would have been pleasing to Miss Anthony.

The evening memorial services were beautiful and impressive. Mason
Slade at the organ rendered the great chorus--Guilmant;
Cantilene--Wheeldon; Marche Militaire--Schubert. The Rev. Mecca Marie
Varney of Chicago offered prayer. During the evening Miss Marie Ludwig
gave an exquisite harp solo and Mrs. Jennie F. W. Johnson sang with
deep feeling Tennyson's Crossing the Bar, a favorite poem of Miss
Anthony's. A telegram of greeting from the International Woman
Suffrage Alliance was sent through its president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Catt. A tribute of an intimate and loving nature was paid by Miss
Emily Howland of Sherwood, a friend of half a century, in which she
said: "The first time I ever met Miss Anthony was at an anti-slavery
meeting in my own shire town of Auburn, N. Y., which was broken up by
a mob and we took refuge with Mrs. Martha Wright, a sister of Lucretia
Mott." She spoke of Miss Anthony's "genius for friendship" and quoted
the lines: "The bravest are the tenderest, the loving are the daring."
Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery gave a number of instances during their
travel in Europe which showed Miss Anthony's strong humanitarianism.

Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams of Chicago paid touching tribute in
behalf of the colored people, in which she said: "My presence on this
platform shows that the gracious spirit of Miss Anthony still survives
in her followers.... When Miss Anthony took up the cause of women she
did not know them by their color, nationality, creed or birth, she
stood only for the emancipation of wom