ge newspaper in the country had a description of what might
be properly considered an event of national interest. The Washington
_Post_ said: "The program, though a long one, was replete throughout
with stirring tributes to Miss Anthony's great career. Eloquent women
who ascribed the opportunities which they had been allowed to enjoy to
the tremendous effort to which their beloved leader had devoted her
whole life, stood before the audience and voiced their sentiments.
Tears and applause mingled swiftly as the voices of the speakers rang
through the theater, recounting the hardships, the struggles, and at
last the crowning achievements of the woman whose eightieth birthday
was being celebrated."

The _Woman's Tribune_ thus began its report:

There never has been before and, in the nature of things, there
can never be again, a personal celebration having the significant
relation to the woman suffrage movement which marked that of Miss
Anthony's eightieth birthday. When Mrs. Stanton's eightieth
birthday was celebrated five years ago she had already retired
from the active leadership of the organization; the program was
in charge of the National Council of Women and was largely in the
nature of a jubilee for the whole woman movement, although
rallying around Mrs. Stanton as a center. Lucretia Mott's
eightieth birthday came before the movement had gained the
impetus necessary for such a celebration. Lucy Stone passed on in
1893 before reaching this ripe age, and now there is no one left
in the lead who represents the earliest stage of the work but
Miss Anthony.

It was the fairest and sunniest day of all the good convention
weather, and Lafayette Opera House was full to the remotest part
of its fourth gallery with invited guests when Mrs. Chapman Catt
opened the program at 3 o'clock. On the stage were the Birthday
Committee, a large number of persons who had been thirty years or
more in the work, relatives of Miss Anthony and the national
officers. Miss Anthony's entrance while the Ladies' Mandolin Club
were playing was greeted with long-continued applause.

John W. Hutchinson was first introduced. After stating that he
had known Miss Anthony for fifty-five years, had attended in Ohio
in 1850 the second suffrage convention ever held, and had always
sympathized with the cause, he sang with a c