common
council--20. _Nays_--James W. Sayre, Joseph B. Ridge, Samuel
Caldwell, Dr. Charles Hooker, John E. Lane, Lewis Bogy, John
Mansfield. Daniel Rieff, William Githens, Thomas Evans, George
Schimpf and F. Theodore Walton--12. So the resolution was carried
by 20 yeas to 12 nays.

[270] Their modest home at 114 North Eleventh street has long been
a hospitable retreat for reformers, where many of us identified
with the suffrage movement have been most courteously entertained.
Anna and Adeline Thomson after long lives of industry have been,
too, the steadfast representatives of great principles in religious
and political freedom, always giving freely of their means to the
unpopular reforms of their day and generation.--[E. C. S.

[271] The Executive Board of the New Century Club for 1879-1880,
was: _President_, Mrs. Eliza S. Turner; _Vice-Presidents_, Mrs.
Emily W. Taylor, Mrs. S. C. F. Hallowell; Mrs. Henry C. Townsend,
Mrs. Aubrey H. Smith; _Corresponding Secretary_, Miss Louise
Stockton; _Recording Secretary_, Miss Anna C. Bliss; _Treasurer_,
Mrs. Charlotte L. Pierce; _Directors_, Mrs. Susan I. Lesley, Mrs.
Henry Cohen, Mrs. Huldah Justice, Miss Emily Sartain, Miss Mary
Grew, Mrs. S. B. F. Greble, Mrs. M. W. Coggins, Miss Mary A.
Burnham, Mrs. Ellison L. Perot, Mrs. Thomas Roberts. Others names
found in its annual report as contributing to the efficiency of the
club are: Mrs. Fannie B. Ames, Miss Grace Anna Lewis, Mrs. Emma J.
Bartol, Mrs. E. L. Head, Miss Mary C. Coxe, Mrs. Charlotte L.
Pierce, Madam Emma Seiler, Miss Amanda L. Dods, Miss Lelia
Patridge, Miss Lily Ray, Miss Ella Cole, Mrs. Susan I. Lesley, Mrs.
E. C. Mayer, Miss Bennett, Mlle. Frasson. The work of the club has
its divisions of science, literature, art, music, entertainment,
cooking, hospitalities, charities, employment for women, legal
protection for working women, prisons and reformatory institutions.

[272] See Chapter 30 for an account of this Philadelphia
convention.

[273] The _yeas_ were as follows: Messrs. Ayers, Barnes, Blackford,
Boyer, Boyle, Brooks, W. C. Brown, I. B. Brown, J. L. Brown,
Brosius, Burnite, Burchfield, Chadwick, Coburn, E. L. Davis,
Deveney, Duggan, Eckels, Ellsworth, Emery, Fetters, Gahan, Gardner,
Gavitt, Gentner, Glenn, Grier, G. W. Hall, F. Hall, A. W. Hayes,
Hines, Higgins, Hoofnagle, Hulings, Hughes, Jenkins, Klein,
Kavanaugh, Landis, Lafferty, Merry, B. B. Mitchell, S. N. Mitchell,
Millor, Molineaux, A. H. Morga