an suffrage was
unanimously voted. She spoke at a meeting of the Dominion Temperance
Alliance, where there were 600 delegates, many of them clergymen, and
a resolution by the chairman endorsing the woman suffrage bill then
before the Provincial Legislature was carried without a dissenting
vote. Reports were included of the good work accomplished by the
members of her committee in the various States.

The usual Sunday afternoon convention meeting was held in the
auditorium on the Exposition grounds, under the auspices of this
church committee, with a large audience who listened to an able
presentation of The Sacred Duties and Obligations of Citizenship. Dr.
Shaw presided and the speakers were the Rev. C. Lyng Hansen, Mrs.
Craigie, Professor Potter and Miss Janet Richards. Mrs. Kelley spoke
in the First Christian Church, Mrs. Eva Emery Dye in the Second Avenue
Congregational Church and the Rev. Mary G. Andrews preached for the
Universalists on The Freedom of Truth. At the First Methodist
Protestant Church, Miss Laura Clay talked on Christian Citizenship in
the morning and Dr. Shaw preached in the evening. Mrs. Charlotte
Perkins Gilman spoke at the Boylston Avenue Unitarian Church in the
morning and Mrs. Gilman and Mrs. Pauline Steinem at a patriotic
service in Plymouth Church in the evening. Mr. Blackwell and Mrs.
Steinem spoke in the Jewish synagogue.[63] In the evening the officers
of the association were "at home" to the members of the convention and
friends at the Lincoln Hotel.

The election of officers took place Monday morning. At Miss
Blackwell's request she was permitted to retire from the office of
recording secretary, which she had filled for twenty years, and the
convention gave her a rising vote of thanks for her most efficient
service. Her complete and satisfactory reports of the national
conventions in her paper, the _Woman's Journal_, had formed a standard
record that nowhere else could be found. She exchanged places with
Mrs. Ella S. Stewart, second auditor, and was thus retained on the
board. The remainder of the officers were re-elected but Miss Gordon,
the corresponding secretary, stated that with the removal of the
headquarters to New York and the increased work which would follow,
this officer should be there all the time, which was impossible for
her. Professor Potter was the unanimous choice of the convention, and,
after communicating with the university and securing a leave of
absense for two y