urer's report for
the year showed an expenditure of only $21.75. The report of the
president and secretary said: "The work of the association is confined
to the annual fall convention and the legislative hearing."

A convention for the revision of the State constitution was to meet in
Hartford at the opening of 1902, whose delegates from the towns and
cities were chosen in the fall of 1901. Little was done to secure
pledges from the candidates but the association obtained the
concession of a room at the Capitol for its use. The National American
Woman Suffrage Association sent an organizer--Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell
of New York--into the State and paid her salary for four weeks and she
spent seven weeks in Hartford, living with Mrs. Hooker and giving her
time to the convention. Mrs. Hooker prepared a Memorial that was
presented and referred to a committee, which refused not only to grant
a hearing to the suffragists but even to receive for distribution in
the convention the copies of the Memorial which had been printed.
Charles Hopkins Clark, editor of the _Courant_, was chairman. Two
suffrage resolutions were presented in the convention at the request
of the State association, by Daniel Davenport of Bridgeport and
Colonel Norris Osborn of New Haven, and were defeated without debate.

In 1902 the State convention was held at Collinsville, in spite of
some unwillingness of local suffragists to "shock the town" by having
such a meeting there. By this time Mrs. Hooker, though still
president, had largely relinquished the work to Mrs. Elizabeth D.
Bacon, the faithful vice-president. A general feeling of
discouragement was perceptible in the reports to the convention of
1903, which was held at Mrs. Hooker's home in Hartford with only 21
delegates present; also to the convention of 1904 in New Haven.
Nevertheless it was voted to ask the Legislature for Municipal
suffrage for women.

During these years the annual expenditures never amounted to $200. In
1905 at the convention in Hartford on November 1 the treasurer
reported that $137 had been spent. In 1906, when the convention was
held at Meriden, November 2, the disbursements were reported as $162.
There were only nine delegates and Mrs. Hooker, who had not attended
the meetings for two years, was made honorary president, and Mrs.
Bacon was elected to the presidency. Mrs. Hooker died in January,
1907, at the age of 85, thus taking from the movement one of the most
brillian