ne. Of the great leaders
in this movement she alone remains.... Spanning a distance of
forty years stood at her side Mrs. Catt, the younger woman who
has taken up the battle, and grouped around were earnest young
girls and middle-aged women fired with her enthusiasm and looking
up to her with a reverence that was very beautiful and a most
gracious tribute from youth to old age. When Miss Jean Gordon
advanced to present her with a great cluster of Marechal Neil
roses and took her so sweetly by the hand and in the name of the
young women of today and of the Era Club thanked her for the
battles she had fought, the scene was most touching, representing
as it did the two extremes of the suffrage workers, those of
half-a-century ago and those of today.

There was another there, a woman who has been very near to the
hearts of New Orleans people, who has never been aggressive in
her advocacy of the cause but whose quiet approval, whose
earnest sympathy, whose expenditure of time and money and whose
high social standing gave to it a strength even in those early
days that one of less ability and social position and more
pronounced opposition could not have secured. Mrs. Caroline E.
Merrick, the pioneer suffragist of Louisiana and the lifelong
friend of Miss Anthony, came in for her share of the honors of
the evening. With equal grace and tenderness Miss Gordon advanced
to her and offered her too the fragrant expressions of more
youthful workers. For a moment Miss Anthony and Mrs. Merrick
stood together, and the audience, rising to its feet in a great
wave of enthusiasm, waved handkerchiefs and fans in greeting.
Perhaps that precious hour of triumph, away down here in this old
southern State, as she stands nearing the border land of another
world, recompensed the great pioneer for much that she had borne
when life was young and audiences, as she said, less sympathetic.
Mrs. Merrick's remarks, also, touched a deep chord and roused the
audience to a state of earnest sympathy.

Miss Anthony told of her visit to New Orleans in 1884 during the
Centennial Exposition, when she was the guest of Mrs. Merrick, and
spoke of Mrs. Eliza J. Nicholson, owner and editor of the _Picayune_,
paying a tribute to her and to the gifted writer, "Catharine Cole," of
its editorial staff, both now