rectly from the home in Rochester
where we attended the funeral services of the dear sister Mary,
who was the first of the two to enter the movement and was always
the faithful co-worker and home-maker. Both have folded their
hands in rest since our last convention. Each gave her whole life
to the cause of woman and each in passing away left all she had
to this cause. The sorrow is ours, the peace and the triumphal
reward of loving service are theirs. I hope we shall spend no
time in mourning and turning to the past but with our faces
toward the future, strengthened by the inspiration we have
received from our great leader, go on fighting her battle and
God's battle until the complete victory is won.

With two exceptions this was the only national convention during the
thirty-nine years that had not been animated by the presence of Miss
Anthony and the second day--February 15, her 87th birthday--was
largely devoted to her.[50] There were three reports on Memorials. One
was presented by Mrs. May Wright Sewall (Ind.) for the Executive
Committee of the National Council of Women and contemplated a bust to
be executed in marble by the sculptor, Adelaide Johnson, who had made
the one in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. A second was presented
by Mrs. Mary T. Lewis Gannett of Rochester, N. Y., for an Anthony
Memorial Building for the women students of the university of that
city, who had been admitted largely through the effort of Miss
Anthony. [Life and Work, page 1221.] A third was for a $100,000
Memorial Fund for the work of the National American Association. The
report of the committee for this third fund, which was presented by
Mrs. Avery, stated that the nearness of success for woman suffrage now
depended on securing the money to do the necessary work of propaganda,
organization, publicity, etc., and that the most fitting memorial to
Miss Anthony would be a fund of not less than $100,000 to be used
exclusively for "the furtherance of the woman suffrage cause in the
United States in such amounts and for such purposes as the general
officers of the association shall from time to time deem best." It
also provided that the officers should be permitted to select eleven
women to act as trustees of this fund, six of whom should be from the
official board. This report was unanimously adopted. Mrs. Upton, the
national treasurer, at once appealed for pledges and the delegates