New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-02
POND ON LYCEUM STARS.
THE MAJORS EXPERIENCE WITH WOMAN
LECTURERS PAST AND PRESENT.
SAYS FRANKLY THAT MAUDB DARLINGTON BOOTH
is THE ONLY ONE PEOPLE WILL NOW PAY
TO HEAR-soME NOTABLE CAREERS

win undertake to crow like a cock at the Town
Wants to- hear that kind Of music will OF Course
attend.
The above announcement made by the
pastor of the CONGREGATIONAL Church in Maiden.
Mass. In the autumn OF 1S47. A woman was TO
address a meeting Of the Anti-Slavery Society
Of which William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phi-
lips and Theodore Parker were the presidihs
genirses. Everybody besieged Mr.. MONEY! 10
learn what kind OF u hen 1t was He told theim
II was Miss Lucy Stone young woman who
was graduated from college out west, IN an
Ohio town called Oberlin. where women were
allowed the same educational privileges as men,
This remarkable announcement was great ad-
vertisencnt, and brought together a large meet
ing.
1t was the first time In the lives Of the people
that a woman's voice was heard from the ros-
trurn in the cause of freedom. From that time
onward for many years Lucy Stone travelled
and lectured In behalf of woman suffrage and
the slave. suffering the same prosecutions as ala
Phillips and other lecturers
One night while speaking In New-England
pane OF glass was removed from window De-
hind the speaker. ard hose put through it.
The little girl lecturer was deluged with Ice
water. Wrapping her shawl closely about her'
ehe calmly finished her address. Again al cape
Cod the Anti-Slavery Society held meeting IN
q grove. The mob surrounded the speakers ana
rougly handled Mr.. Foster and Miss stone me
bravery OF the latter so won the admiration OF
the leader Of the mob that he defended her with
a club. and stood by her while from stump she
addressed the multitude. The listeners were so
moved by her speech that they subsided into
quiet and al it's conclusion collection OF S%o
was taken up TO pay Foster for his coat
When Lucy Stone died at Dorchester. Mass.
October. 1893. the entire press of America ana
the civilized world eulogized her. "The Boston
Herald said: ''She goes to her grave honored
beloved and mourned by the whole American
people" The New-York independents The
death Of Lucy Stone removes one or the worid
greatest benefactors" "lIarper's Weekly;
Her life was full of earnestness. goodness DIGS
sedncss and the world Is better that she lived
knew Lucy Stone only slightly during the last
decade OF her. lie. She was small IN stature
dainty in dress and possessed a voice of singular
sweetness. Hers sympathetic ana cha'Ih-
ING personality. Never again will there be
woman orator OF her type. Conditions are want
Ing she was product of the times
DELIVERED THE MOST LECTURES.
rba FRS, ,yon1ans name on the list of the Red
Path I.yceum Bureau IN 1859. was Mrs Mary
A. I>iyermore and it has remained there ever
Nvered more lectures than any other woman OF
whom We have any record. She wrote me mat
Notwithstanding she had averaged more than one
hundred lyceum lectures year since the war.
she had delivered more than one thousand lect-
ures on temperance and over one thousand IN
the cause OF woman suffrage. besides morning
lectures before schools and colleges.
Later she helped to organize the United states
Sanitary and Christian Commission. which
raised over SEQ 900 600 for the soldiers In our
hospitals.
What an ideal of womanhood! Mrs. Liver
more Is still living in her pretty home In Mehon'
Mass where she not long ago celebrated her
golden wedding She is still available Tor the
lyceum The interest and activity Of her event.
full life have kept her young.
ANOTHER BRILLIANT SPEAKER.
At the close OF the Civil War Anna Dickinson
. was the greatest woman on the American
lyceum platform. She made her first appear
ance at woman's rights convention held at
Philadelphia about the beginning of the war Az
that meeting a man made a bitter, sarcasuc
speech against woman's equal political rights.
After listening to his TRADE the young quaker
girl arose and walked down the aisle to where
he sat shook her fist in his face. and began 10
answer him. The brilliancy of her rhetoric and
heard her From that time until she retired
from the platform she was without rival She
WAS sought on every side. Only Beecher and
Cough SURPASSED her as a yceum favorite. MISS
Dickinson WAS not satisfied with being the
greatest actress, in true sense that her coun'
try had produced She had passion LOT the
mimic stage. and yearned to be great player.
she made the essay and failed, OF course. Not
even her most devoted friends could repudiatte
the fact that she was an utter failure. Despl,e
her great genius as an orator thesPian iauie''
snsar r. Anthony end Elizabeth Cady Stanton
are and have been for many years among the
foremost Of our women orators. They VIII oc-
c,Inv In history the same position in the cause
~ voran's rights as do Phillips and Garrison
on the ant.-slavery question. They are sincere
nionecrs IN their work Mrs. Stanton is the
most scholarly woman in the field The signs or
the time Indicate that these great women may
live to their cause triumph
HER PLEA HUMANITY.
Iuia Ward Howe is recognized as one of the
most refined. high bred noble women Of the age.
uer plea has been humanity She was one or
the first to edit an Abolition paper In Boston,
With her husband. DR.. Howe. she brought about
a meeting in the early sixties between Abolition
lists or one side and pro-slavery men on the other
In Music Hall. Boston. where Robert IoonDs OF
Georgia and Sam Houston. OF Texas. had lead
Those were lively times Mrs Howe has told
state OF the Union Not later than 1894 she
made a long Western and Southwestern tour
She has lectured In Paris in the French Ian
euaee; also In Athens and Vienna.
Mrs Howes place In history is probably fixed
nv her Battle Hymn OF the Republic" sung by
every soldier Of the Rebellion and not forgotten
during the late war, rather than by her achieVe-
nrents on the platform. For more than O quar-
ter of n century these women have given their
best efforts TO the lyceum. They have not only
made the platform historic. but symooncal OF
fff.t. cyay,fTn and
WHO WILL TAKE THEIR PLACES?
Where are the women TO take their places?
Are they browsing in preparatory schools? I
boya heen looking for their successors but to