ciation's headquarters had been in Warren, Ohio, the
home of Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, then national treasurer, and it was
felt that their removal to a larger city would have a great influence
in developing the work. In 1909 Mrs. Belmont attended as a delegate
the meeting of the International Suffrage Alliance in London, and
her interest in the Cause deepened. She became convinced that the
headquarters of the association should be in New York City, and at
our Seattle convention that same year I presented to the delegates her
generous offer to pay the rent and maintain a press department for two
years, on condition that our national headquarters were established in
New York.

This proposition was most gratefully accepted, and we promptly secured
headquarters in one of the most desirable buildings on Fifth Avenue.
The wisdom of the change was demonstrated at once by the extraordinary
growth of the work. During our last year in Warren, for example, the
proceeds from the sale of our literature were between $1,200 and $1,300.
During the first year in New York our returns from such sales were
between $13,000 and $14,000, and an equal growth was evident in our
other departments.

At the end of two years Mrs. Belmont ceased to support the press
department or to pay the rent, but her timely aid had put us on our
feet, and we were able to continue our splendid progress and to meet our
expenses.

The special event of 1908 was the successful completion of the fund
President M. Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr and Miss Mary Garrett had
promised in 1906 to raise for the Cause. For some time after Miss
Anthony's death nothing more was said of this, but I knew those two
indefatigable friends were not idle, and "Aunt Susan" had died in the
blessed conviction that their success was certain. In 1907 I received a
letter from Miss Thomas telling me that the project was progressing; and
later she sent an outline of her plan, which was to ask a certain number
of wealthy persons to give five hundred dollars a year each for a term
of years. In all, a fund of $60,000 was to be raised, of which we were
to have $12,000 a year for five years; $4,500 of the $12,000 was to be
paid in salaries to three active officers, and the remaining $7,500
was to go toward the work of the association. The entire fund was to be
raised by May 1, 1908, she added, or the plan would be dropped.

I was on a lecture tour in Ohio in April, 1908, when one night, as I was
st