Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-15
Celebration of Anniversary Of Miss
Anthony's Birthday.
WOMAN SUFPRAGISTS DO her HONOR
Greeting From Congress of Moth
ers and Othes Organizations.
PROGRAM LAST EVENING

In blaze of glory the National American
Woman Suffrage Association is today cele-
brating the eightieth anniversary Of the
birthday of its retiring president, Miss
Susan B. Anthony. The members could
give the queens jubilee cards and spades
and then win, in enthusiasm and interest.
Lafayette Opera House Is the scene Of the
function, and 1t Is filled as 1t never was be-
fore, with the wealth and the fashion, the
culture and the learning of every state in
the Union, many representatives having
travelled 1000 miles to attend the great re-
joicing Grouped on the platform at 2
O'Clock were all the past national officers.
who are the new ones, also. with the ex-
ception of the honored head-Miss Anthony.
retiring, and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait,
taking her place. The decorations were
palms and the four-starred flag of the suf-
fragists. and cut flowers, whose fragrance
filled the vast edifice.
The first number on the program was a
song by John Hutchinson. The venerable
gentleman is the only one remaining of the
great Hutchinson family of singers and bell
ringers, who toured the United States fifty
years ago taking their part in the anti
slavery agitation and all the crusades and
reforms of the time. He belongs to the
same day as Miss Anthony, and his song
was his tribute to the woman to whose
principles he has SO long subscribed
The Greetings Received.
There were greetings from the National
Congress of Mothers, presented through the
president, Mrs. Theodore Birney, from the
National Council of Women, through it's
president, Mrs. Fannie Humphreys Gaffney,
who is one of the brilliant Illinois women:
and the International Council of Women
through its president, Mrs May Wright
Sewall. who has just returned from Eu-
rope, where she was elected to succeed
Lady Aberdeen at the head of the greatest
organization of women in existence.
The professions were represented by Rev.
Ida c. Hultin of the ministry, Diana
Hirschier of the law, and DR.. Julia Holmes
Smith in medicine.
The vioinist of the afternoon was Jo-
seph H. Douglass. grandson of Frederick
Douglass. whose devotion to Miss Anthony
Is no less sincere than was that of his hon
ored grandfather Hausens Hungarian
Rhapsodies was his theme, and the exc
cution artistic.
Greetings were then received from the
business women, through Lillian NJ. Hoi-
lister: of the colored women, through Co
ralie Franklin Cook. and the District Equal
Suffrage Association, through Ellen Powell
Thompson, president The enfranchised
states extended their greetings through
Helen NJ. Warren for Wyoming, Virginia
Morrison Shafroth for Colorado, Emily S.
Richards for Utah, and Nell c. Woods for
Idaho.
Greetings Of the women of the world
were presented by Harriet Stanton Blatch
of England and from the National Ameri-
can Woman Suffrage Associon by Rev. An
IA Howard Shaw.
Feature of the Proceedings.
One of the most beautiful features of the
whole afternoon was the presentation of
eighty roses by four score little girls to
Miss Anthony following the original BIRTH
day poem, Loves Rosary" by Lydia
Avery Cooley Ward Miss Anthony was
much moved. and as The Star report closes
is responding to the many greetings with
all her old-time fire and inspiration.
Among the many tributes in prose and
poetry which have been received by Miss
Anthony IS the following from William
Lloyd Garrison, who has been one of Miss
Anthonys stanchest friends through all
her struggling years:
The gibe and ridicule and social frown.
That through long years her faithful life
assaied,
Are dead and vanished: as a queen now
hailed,
Upon her reverend brow rest Honors
crown.
faith that faced all adverse fortune down.
A courage that in trial never failed,
A scorn of self that grievous weight en-
tailed
Have blossomed into laurels of renown.
As. after days of bitter storm and blast,
The chilling wind becomes a breeze of BALM
Biilows subside. and sea-tossed vessels cast
Their anchors in the restful harbor CALM
So this brave life has gained it's haven
bleSt,
Bathed in the surset glories of the west.
Committee in Charge.