mber 15 her friends in
San Francisco tendered her a reception and banquet at the Grand Hotel.
All the newspapers in the city gave complimentary accounts, of which
the following from the Chronicle will serve as a specimen:

The friends of Miss Susan B. Anthony, to the number of about fifty,
comprising the more prominent leaders of the suffrage movement,
assembled in the parlors of the Grand Hotel last evening. After an
hour spent in social conversation and the interchange of
congratulations upon the bright prospects of the cause they
represent, the guests were ushered into the spacious dining-hall,
where a bountiful collation had been spread....

Miss Anthony said: "....I go from you freighted with a burden of
love and gratitude, and no greetings have been more precious than
those of working men and women. Tonight when the woman who earns
her livelihood by selling flowers through the hotel came to the
door of the parlor and, presenting me with the beautiful bouquet
which I hold in my hand, asked, 'Will you accept this because you
have spoken so nobly for us poor workingwomen?' it brought tears to
my eyes, unused to weeping. I felt a thrill of gratitude that I had
been permitted to prosecute this work. We who are seated around
this board may have all the rights we need; we are not working for
ourselves, but for those now suffering around us. For them, our
sisters, and for future generations must we labor...."

She took her seat amid warm applause. A number of brief, pithy
speeches were made and all dispersed with a hearty Godspeed to the
talented lady in whose behalf they had assembled.

Laura de Force Gordon had arranged a number of lectures for Miss
Anthony on the route eastward. At Nevada City she was the guest of A.
A. Sargent, the newly elected United States senator, and his wife, both
earnest friends of woman suffrage.[62] The rainy season had set in and
the diary says: "These storms which bring new life and hope to farmers
and miners, mean empty benches for me." The mud, snow and wind in
Nevada were terrible. At Virginia City, where she lectured, she was
snowed in for several days and finally left in a six-horse sleigh, in
the midst of a blinding storm, on Christmas Day.

[Autograph:

I wish you a successful
meeting, and encouraging
progress for your cause.
Resp'y
A. A. Sargent.]

She arrived at Reno to