Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-16

Representative Ro
state was added to the suffrage constella-
ton a diamond should take the place of
the tiny gold ones that completed the field
until fcrty-five diamonds filled it, and she
hoped Miss Anthony would live to see the
flag so jewelcd. Then Mrs Shafroth came
to the front for Colorado. Mrs. Shafroth
IS not very big woman, but she can talk
so to be heard and she presented the
greetings of Colorado in most eloquent Ian
guage. At the close she gave Miss An
thony an reXquisitely fashioned loving cup
of solid silver, an expression of tender re-
gard and love from the Colorado women.
without n Precedent.
Taking it all in all. no woman in the ma
ton ever had such a tribute to her worth
and work Miss Anthony received yester-
day. As she rose to reply, she stood
speechless for full moment, words failing
to conquer the emotion that welled up from
her heart. Bowling she struggled for time
with her feelings, then throwing her head
back she said, impetuously: How can you
expect me to say word? And yet l must.
have reason to feel grateful, for l have
received letters and kilograms from all over
the world. But the one that has touched
me most is modest letter which came
from old home of slavery. 1t came
from person from whose hands and feet
the shackles Of slavery fell almost fifty
years ago. That letter, my friends, con-
tanned 50 cents one penny for every year.
1t all that this old person had. l am
grateful for the many expressions which
have listened to this afternoon. l have
heard the grandson of the great Frederick
Douglass speak to me through his violin.
l mention this because l remember well
Frederick Douglass when he rose at the
convention al which the first resolution
ever presented by a woman had his elo-
quence to help it pass.
II have passed as the leader of the as
ISOLATION of which l have been a member
for so long without a tear. But am not
through leading for | shall work to the end
of my time, and when | am called home, if
there exists such a thing as a spirit, that
spirit will still be with you and watching
you.
Miss Anthony concluded her address with
an eloquent account of the loyal assistance
which her whole family had accorded her
during all the years she has battled for
equal rights for women. They have lent
me every assistance and every encourage
ment possible and have stood with me one
and all of my long years of service"
Among those who sat on the stage with
the officers and speakers We're Olivia r.
Hall, Abigail Scott Duniway, Clara Barton,
Harriet H: Robinson, Charlotte Thomas.
Caroline II. Dali, Abigail MaXen Allen,
John Hutchinson, Louisa Southworth, DIR.
Rachel f. Gleason, Mary S. Anthony, Char
lotte b. Wilbour, DR.. Hannah Longshore,
Emma J. Bartol. Grace Greenwood, ex-
Gov John W Hoyt, Mary Seymour Howell,
Elizabeth B. Grannis and Ida H. Harper.
The Reception.
The reception rendered 10 Miss Anthony
last evening at the Corcoran Art Gallery
was one of the most brilliant ever held in
that beautiful palace of art. The hours
were from 9 to II O'Clock and when the
time was reached when the lights were to
be turned out the people We're Still pouring
in. four deep, shake the hand of the
evenings queen-for queen Miss Anthony
was for the evening. She was Worn with
the excitement and business of the day, and
ind Tn 81 xIrhi Gnlyt ,1,r
with the 1000 people who passed her: So
from somewhere in the gallery, big throne
chair, copied from that Of dead and gone
queen of people in bondage was brought
forth, and in it Miss Anthony was seated
in state. On the wall of the gallery hangs
portrait of the virgin queen of England
in her robes of state and her court jewels.
Painted in her hour of greatest power, and
in the day of her youthful ascendancy, it
yet does not in the estimation of the en-
thusiastic suffragists hold one 1.-THE of the
strength of character. one-tenth of the no.
bilty of true womanhood that was pre-
scented by Miss Anthony last night as she
sat in her robes of sable satin and point
lace, her only Jewel being the pretty
flag with Its four diamond stars given her
yesterday. Over and over again this thought
was presented by those who went to gaze
on the painted woman, and then came back
to see again the living embodiment of her
who has dared and conquered.
Those in Receiving Line.
Mr.. .. ii. kaunmann, president of the
board of trustees, who so graciously ten
dered the gallery for the occasion, stood
at the head Of the receiving line. Tho la
dies In line were Mrs. Francis Warren of
Wyoming, Mrs. ]. c. Burrows of Michigan
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait of New York.
Rev. Anna Howard Shaw Of PENNSYLVANIA
Mrs. s. E. Gross of Chicago and Miss An
thony.
For two hours, without a moments I'm.
Permission, Miss Anthony clasped hands
with those who were presented to her and
listened to congratulatory expressions. A
number of local organizations of women,
among them almost the entire membership
of the Washington College of Law attend
ed the reception in a body
In the second gallery hung the maenif1-
cent portrait of Miss Anthony which was
presented to the Corcoran Gallery of Art
last night by Mrs. John B. Henderson wife
of the former senator from Missouri The
portrait Is in Oil and represents Miss An
thony in full profile. attired in black, with
the red shawl which came to be regarded
as the emblem Of her Office as president of
the National American Woman Suffrage
Association.
During the two hours 1t seemed as IL
every one who greeted Miss Anthony had
met her at some time or at some place
long ago. Everybody wanted to stop and
converse with her. and in the brief min
ute they stood before her they piled her
with countless questions. In speaking of
the event after she had returned to the
Riggs House. Miss Anthony said: Wasn't
IT wonderful? 1t seemed as though every
other person IN that vast throng had met
me before, or that had, during my long
lie been q visitor At the home OF some Of