The San Francisco call., 1896-03-01
THE SUFFRAGISTS BUSY.
Miss Anthony Will Arrive This
Week and Miss Shaw
Will Soon Follow.
MISS YATES THE NEW STAR.
Miss Mills and Miss Hay Will Act
as Managers of the County
Conventions.

The woman suffrage forces are fully or
ganized for the coming campaign. The
headquarters at the home of the president.
Mrs A. a. Sargent, are the scene of nu-
merous consultations, and the quantity of
mail received and sent out every day sig
nifies that much business is being trans
acted.
Miss Susan B. Anthony and her private
secretary, Mrs. Sweet, are en- route and
will arrive on Saturday. Miss Anthony
will give occasional addresses, but she will
also act. as one OF the ladies' put it, as an
advisory board of one." Mrs. Sweets
services are, in a sense, the gift of the
First Unitarian Church to Miss Anthony,
the ladies of that church having raised
the money to defray the secretary's e1-
penses OF her journey and during her So
iourn.
Rev. Anna II. Shaw will be here by the
middle OF the month. She will preach at
Stanford University on March Is, and on
the 10th will deliver her latest lecture,
The New Man." at the Native Sons
building. Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw
will both be the guests of Mrs. Sargent
while in the City.
Miss Elizabeth e. Yates OF Maine will
also come 10 the State during the month.
The young lady has been chosen as Miss
Shaw's associate in the work of the con-
ventions TO be held in the county seats and
some of the larger towns. Miss Yates is
one OF the youngest and most charming of
the suffrage leaders. ut is a common
remark that We are all ugly" writes an
enthusiastic officer of the new army OF
women voters in Utah; "but Miss Yates is
beautiful exception. She is bright and
witty and lovable." She has lectured in
the Middle and Southern States with
success.
Miss Harriet May Mills and Miss Mary
G. Hay viii soon CONNIE their work q
managers of the series of conventions.
They will precede the speakers and pre-
pare the way for them. Miss Mills home
is at Syracuse. She is a graduate of Cor
nell and close friend and co-worker of
Miss Shaw, to whom she applied the title
OF Sister Sunshine" Miss Mills and Miss
Hay were the joint managers of the sixty
conventions held in the Empire State DUR
ing the last suffrage campaign. They will
| begin their work in the southern part
of California, and make all neces-
sary arrangements for conventions at
San Diego, Santa Ana. San Bernardino,
Riverside, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa
Barbara, Bakersfield. Visalia, Hanford,
Cruz, Merced, Modesto, San Jose, Stock
ton, Gilroy, Santa Clara, Redwood
City. Sacramento and other points
not yet arranged for in the itinerary. The
conventions will be so arranged that one
of tie speakers will have charge of the
convention one day, in order that her asso-
ciate may be simultaneously pushing the
work at another convention.
Mrs. Sargent and Miss Anthony, upon
whom that duty devolves, are sending
suffrage items to the country press, and re-
port encourag cement along that line.
The distinguished speakers from the
East will all be in the City for oarticipa-
ton in the Woman's Congress in May,
after which they viii continue their work
of convention holding in the north until
fall