Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-03-31
THE WoMANS JUBILEE.
The Pioneers in Conference.
AFTER FIFTY YEARS OF WORK.
Speeches ct the Opera House To-day.

that n was q conference OF pioneers. The opera
House, as usual, was crowded. On the mont OF
the platform WAS placed large life-sized crayon
portrait Of Lucretia Mott in her Quaker cap. TIE
frame o. the picture was adorned with everyrcens
rived some on the younger ones, the girls OF the
suffrage movement, Mrs May Wright Sewall, MS.
Johns and others distributed ofs, broad riboon
badges among them and pinned on each badge
with pretty little bouquet. As the hour for rap
ping the gavel arrived, the stage presented very
tasteful wss about the n stsSe w s,sS,Ss
stone At her night hand Miss Anthony sat at her
more Robert 1 PurS and Others m ana behind iSee
was semicifcular row OF good grandmotherly
Old ladies', many OF whom Were present when the
world.
TIE PIONEERS on rHr STAGE
were Elizabeth Cady stanton, Lucy stone Antoin-
cite Brown Blackwell, Mary Crew. Matilda Joslyn
nette Jackson, Rosa Miller Avery, Clara Barton.
Saran L bliss, Amy Post, Sarah II. Wills. Mary
=. Halloween Sarah Anthony Burtes, Mary s
Dinah Mendenhan, Sarah Il. Wall, Charlotte Joy
Mann, Grace Greenwood, Susan d. wattles,
Virginia L. Minor, DIR. Caroline B. winsiow,
Wilbur, Caroline A. y. Stebbens and Morella Hills
Frederick Douglass, Henry r. Blackwell, Robert
Of exquisite mowers were presented to susan b An
thony, Elizabeth 9. stanton, Lucy stone Matilda
Gage, Mary A. Uvermore and Julia Ward Howe
Wright Sewell, chairman; Clara b Colby, Rachel
y roster, Anna IL Shaw, Harriet X Shattuck and
Laura N. Johns,
SILENT TRIBUTE 10 LucRtTI, MOTT.
When Miss Anthony called the meeting to order,
she said. "In memory OF Lucretia Mott, who with
Mrs Stanton called the first suffrage convention,
and In accordance with the religious denomna-
ton OF which Mrs Mott was q member, we viii
now ooserve season OF silent Invocation. Miss
Anthony then bowed her head Every one IN the
audience did the same, and for minute silence
s sa TIT Then MISS Anthony raped her gayel
.The Reformers" was sung to the familiar old
Miss Anthony then presented Mrs. stanton, who
she said, with Lucretia Mott, called the first
womans convention ever held, 80 far as they
said they had promised TO have here the table on
which the first declaration was written at Seneca
possession thought IT little too precious 70 risk
sending IL by express Therefore they did not have
It here. Around that table forty years ago, were
Mary Ann McCnntock, and Mary Jane Hunt.
When Mrs. stanton rose the audience room OF
the opera House looked for a moment as II IL had
one rose and every one waved handkerchief, and
the waving handkerchiefs made The air look
white.
THE STORY or rae FIRST woMAN's CONTENTION.
Mrs stanton told, in an easy, conversational
way, the story OF the first Seneca Falls convention
as 1t has been published I'm The STAR. She told
how the women gathered there, unused to the
forms OF business followed ia conventions, were
bothered TO know what 70 do. and how they
finally adopted the Declaration OF Independence
as their model. She told how she herself had
written a resolution, going beyond the claims Of
the aid OF Fre6sriek peur I e,con en hsn
carried il through.
Mrs. stanton said they thought then that the
wn the srsc sae pa 90
IL ndiculed by every one. They met
rrKFEcr STORM or RrDrcrLE.
Her good father IN New York rushed up 70
Seneca Fails to see IL she was insane After talk
ing with her father she was more than ever con-
WINGED that she was right. Ridicuie she said, was
the chief tone OF the press toward them They
were ridfculed and caricatured until really the
m ma o. the people supposed that women on
how different the present scene, when they met In
beautiful place in the capital city, ana the press
all over the land was fllled with complimentary
notices. In this long struggle she had never felt
that they stood alone, for She knew the lovers OF
liberty everywhere were with them, and God him
self also.
SPIRITS KvRRYwHERE.
Miss Anthony, referring to the picture OF Lucre-
tia Mott On the platform, said: "Her spirit is
with us this morning II spirits are anywhere, and
believe they are everywhere
Miss Anthony then introduced John ". Hutchfn-
SJ4te
MINISTRIES. Miss Anthony said they had hoped TO
have Abby Hutchinson here too. Mr. Hutchinson,
whose head is crowned with a luxurious growth
beard, then came forward. He made some re- re-.
marks in voice that occasionally was husky
with emotion.
NJ. Hutchinson then sang, in a grand ringing
voice,
A Correcting TO rHs pIoxERRs,n
composed by himself.
PRESENT Ar SENECA rAIJa
Miss Anthony then asked those ladies who were
present at the Seneca Falls meeting TO rise
Several ladies' stood up and Miss Anthony called
out their names. Mrs. Stanton, Catharine A. r.
Stebbins, Sarah Anthony Burtis Amy Post. Mary
H. Hallowell and Bessie Halloween.
rHR sPEEcREs
Miss Anthony then introduced the Various
speakers. All OF the speakers gave "reminiscences
OF the early days OF the suffrage movement and
spoke hopefully. almost triumphantly, as II the
battle were about won. Frederick Douglass paid
spoke in her calm, even, seif-poseessed way and
told Interesting "reminiscences Henry B. Black
well, Lucy stones husband, in his speech, re-
fering good-naturedly to Lucy stones refusal to
take his name, SAID that Eve was the first woman
who refused TO take her husbands name. No one
Mr.. BIackweil, in the course OF his remarks re.
ferred to the early abolition work OF Sarah H.
southwick of Wellesley Hills, Mass, who Joined
Mrs. southwicK was on the stage, and Mr. Black.
well led her Forward. Mrs Southwick looks 20
be hardly more than ffty-three years or age
"Woman suffrage, you see,n remarked Mr. Black
wen, sis favorable TO good looks and longevity
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell contributed In
teresting "reminiscences.
Mr.. Robert Purvis spoke OF the early movement
and was confident OF an early realization OF their
hopes.
Mrs Omission Chant Of Leeds, sang sunIvans
'fLost Chord" as hitting relieve in the narrative
strain the "reminiscences had taken. Miss MARY
Grew, OF Philadelphfa, who was Q delegate to the
worlds anti-siavery convention In London and
lace, spoke Of the advanced position woman &C.
cupes IN the activities Of the world in comparison
with forty years ago.
Mrs Matilda JosIyn Gage, with her brilliant red
fan, told that her fathers house was one OF the
stations on the Underground railway Of the anti
slavery times She was not at the Senaca Falls
but soon joined the ranks OF the sur
frag1stA MrA Cages emotions quite overcsme her
as She recounted the prosecutions to which her
70 principles subjected her.
next, and said that IL Miss Anthony would permit
him he would say that IN the early part OF this
century he was invited TO attend q suffrage meet
Ing one rainy sunday night and there ne heard
was night, and be believes so yet.
PLEASING EPISODE.
May Sewan Wright here broke into the program
carrying basket Of flowers and followed by i've
other young women carrying baskets OF flowers
ried with ribbons and made an address saying
that to the younger women belonged gratitude
Mrs Sewall then presented her BASKET OF lilies OF
s 'i Ss snss k ssns n Ma Anrs nsx
presented hers to Mary uvemore, and
Mra Joslyn Gage, MrA stanton and Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe were presented by Rachel
Foster, MIS- Johns, and Mrs. COLBY. Nies Rachel
9: Foster was Presented with 2 gold bsdge