The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-11

tlroAy at her home in Rochester. recently,
and from this interview, published IN
the indianapolis News, the following
extracts are taken:
IS When asked if she did not regret CIV
ing up the presidency, she said, MOI a
bit I want my name to stand there
with Mrs Stantons for a while as homo
rary president And yet those who
know her best understand that At is not
without q Isang that she rclinqulsnes
the enhancement of an organization;
which she has controlled for nearly htty
wears. When, thirty years ago, she
gave into other hands her paper, Inc
Revolution, into which she had put hers
toll and her ambition, her very soul,
she wrote to a friend: Il feel q great,
,talm sadness, like that OF mother
binding out a dear child. and fthss aeei-
ing is in her heart to-day. She has
said that the younger women must learn
to bear the burdens and accept the re-
sponsibilities, but DIT is not to get Tlu
of these that she retires from Office she
comes of a 1ong-lived race and expects
TO live and work for many years, put
nevertheless, she realizes that a1ter5one
has passed four-score, the tenure IS pre-
ca rious. There are several important
things which she is determined YET "
accomplish, and which she cannot 90 IN
addition ITO the arduous duties OF her
office One of these. as has been ire.
soueatly stated, is to raise a half-nlillaon-
dollar fund, to be placed in the hands OF
trustees, for the purpose of CARRYING on
the work of the Suffrage Assocla ton
and. otter this has Been finished, to be
used for the education of women in the
duties of citizenship
- 4,ut This woman, who has not known q
days leisure for more than sixty years,
has set for herself a still more dlhacuit
task. Almost from the very beginning
of what is known as the woman move
ne1,t'' Miss Anthony carefully collected
and preserved letters, newspaper Clip
nings, Statistics convention and congress
sionals reports and other documents re-
latinr to it, with the intention OF some
lay preparing an authentic history I'M
mediately after the Philadelphia centen-
Mail. Mrs Stanton and herself set to
work and devoted every hour or spare
time for the next ten years TO the VIII
ing of the three suffrage volumes.
1t is the only record an exist
ence to which the student can
turn in order to trace the progress
sive steps of this movement. It closed
with the year 1854 During the last
sixteen years there has been more prac-
teal advance in dhe status OF woman
than in all which preceded. Miss An
tlony has preserved the necessary ma
tcrials, and now, at eighty, will begin
AT once the stupendous task Of prepar-
ing the fourth volume of the history,
which will include 1900. Then, she
says, st will leave TO other women the
sacred duty of finishing the work in the
years to come
There is not in all the world such a
collection of literature on the Woman
question: las that in Miss Anthony's pos
session. Shortly before his death, John
Russell Young. Librarian OF Congress,
rendered to her an alcove in the Nation
al Library for this literature. to be cata-
logued as the "Susan B. Anthony Coliec-
ton, and left the matter in the hands
of Mr.. Spofford After this history is
completed, she will transfer all of this
valuable material ito the Library of Con-
gress as part of her legacy TO future
generations.