Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-27
Miss Anthony to Raise Fund for
Suffrage Association.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES INCORPORATED
Views Of Leader in the Enfran-
chisement Of Women.
FUTURE WORK DISCUSSED

morning, having completed the work for
which she came. She goes to Philadelphia
for a few days TO visit friends and relatives,
then will go to New York city, where she
has many friends, and in about week
hopes to be in Rochester, N. Y, where she
will again take up the grind of suffrage
Work-only she does not think it grind
Miss Anthony thinks the late national
suffrage convention was the greatest in
history of the organization. and that the
horizon is brighter with hope than ever
before. She is as pleased with the election
OF Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait to the presi-
dency of the national organization as though
a state had adopted a universal suffrage
amendment, and she is confident the suf-
frage cause will boom now as never be-
fore.
1T is time that young blood. new wo-
men. college-bred women, should take hold
of the work. she said to The Star reporter.
1T is a delight to hear Carrie Gait talk
she asserted. She uses such finished Ian
guage her voice is SO musical she is so
pre-eminently we'll fitted for the work. But
why shouldn't she be? Any college-brcd
woman ought to be ahead of woman like
myself, who was never inside a college.
What is a college education for if it is not
to advance women in thought and in judg-
| ment? l can't possibly live more than
twenty OF thirty years longer, and these
SouISti "piIlcll IIIuSl get DTOkcn 10 the
harness before l am off the scene for
ever
Miss AnthOny's Scheme.
As has been stated number of times,
Miss Anthony has had pet scheme, that
of leaving an endowment fund to the Ma
tional Suffrage Association, and her last
work IN Washington has been to provide
for the proper care of such a fund, which
she will now devote the rest of her ener-
gies to raising.
Il have heard that 1 would raise a mil
lion." she said yesterday. and from an
other source that it was to be a million
and half. ] am perfectly willing to make
l shall be fairly well satisfied if l can
make the endowment fund reach the $500
600 mark. We could worry along with that
sum if it was carefully invested"
There is in hand for this fund at the
present time about $4,000 AS a nest egg
IL friend of Miss Anthony's in New York
gave her $500, and two other women gave
her 500 each. In varying sums of one
dollar, five dollars and on up, Miss Anthony
has now about $4,000 to deposit. A friend
OF the cause, who recently died. left a por-
ton of her estate to the suffragists. Just
how much this will be cannot be stated, as
certain matters have to be settled first, but
it is thought the sum will reach $50 OOn
Another friend has made her will and in it
is $4,000. which is to go to Miss Anthony
fund.
thony, as she was at work on her plan of
Incorporating the body designed to handle
the funds of the society which Miss An
thOny will now devote her life to getting
together In speaking of this she said:
The phenomenal success that has come
to many trust fund corporations has en-
cnuraged me to believe that similar fund
would greatly aid in securing the elective
franchise for women of the United States
To this end it is proposed to raise not less
than S0So, TO be placed in the hands of a
board of twenty-One trustees. who shall
b. women selected for buNneSS ability md
sustained interest and effort in behalf of
equal political rights for women. to be held
i'll trust by them and their successors the
income thereof to be used at their discre-
ton; the organization and the details of
management to be left with the trustees
who shall have power to make all neces-
sary bylaws and regulations to provide
| for the expenses of their meetings and to
perform the acts necessary for carrying
out the provisions of this trust.
THE board of trustees shall serve with
| out pay and shall be self-perpetuating All
vacancies occurring by death, resignation or
otherwise are to be filed by them.
Furthermore, after the elective franchise
shall have been gained for women in all
| the states and territories of the Union the
trustees shall be empowered to use the in
come for the education of women in pc
| lltical economy, either by the establishment
| of chairs in various universities or in such
other manner as shall seem to them advis-
able
| Body Incorporated.
| To the ends explained, the suffrage trust
| fund body was incorporated yesterday in
| the District of Columbia. The incoroorat-
| ors are Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Julia
| LangdOn Barber and Mrs. Mary Foote Hen
| derson. There are twenty-one trustees, as
| follows: Susan B. Anthony, Eliza beth Cady
Stanton. Rev. Anna Howard Shaw Rachel
Foster Avery. Alice Stone Blackwell, IIar-
| riet Taylor Upton. Laura Clay, Catharine
Waugh McCulloch, Carrie Chapman Gait
| Mary S. Anthony, Emily Holland, Mary
| Wood Swift. Ellen C. Sargent, Lydia Cool
| ey Ward, Emily NJ. Gross, Rev. Anna Gar
| land Spencer, Lucy f. Anthony. Lucretia
| l. Blankenburg, Mary Foote Henderson,
Julia Langdon Barber, Emma NJ. Gillett.
! The incorporators will at once proceed to
| formulate constitution and bylaws and
seek Investment for the money now on
| hand. Miss Anthony is to be the president
| of the trust fund company as long as she
| lives. land retains her mind she adds
| parenthetically.. The fund is to be called
| thony.
| After a brief rest at home Miss ANTHONY
| will begin systematic effort at raising the
100000 and feels sanguine that she will be
| able to do much more than that before
! her days of usefulness are over.
| Another work that Miss Anthony will
begin at once is the fourth volume of the
| History of Woman Suffrage. Elizabeth
| Cady Stanton and Miss Anthony brought
out in 1885 three volumes, which is said
| to be the most compete record of any
| movement ever made in the worlds history
| Mrs. Ida Hustled Parker, Miss Anthony
| biographer, will be Miss Anthony's assist
ant in this last labor. which is to bring
the history of suffrage up to the twentieth
| century.
Leaves Work to Others.
| There l shall leave this literary work ~
Miss Anthony said yesterday. land younger
| heads and stronger hands must take up the
| work l shall lay down. In my garnet a,
home I have all the newspaper files. the
letters and every scrap almost that Las
ever been written the subject of wo
man suffrage. 1t would be an eye-opener n
cavilers If they could read these. and note
the gradually changing tone as the wears
have gone on. 1t is marvellous The
changes in ten years just passed haze beer
almost great as the changes in all the
century before. Working men are nov
begging that women be enfranchised where
once they scoffed and jeered.the idea They
see that their savation as wage-earners
lies that way. Once women worked bestd
| them, getting half as much wages Then
| because women worked for less, men were
gradually forced out and women substi