Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-13

and her death had been mGmentarily ex-
pected since Sunday night. Only her Won
derful constitution kept her alive.
DR.. NJ. S. Kicker. her attending physi-
clan. said Miss Anthony died of heart
failure, induced by double pneumonia. She
had had serious valvular heart trouble for
the last six or seven years. Her lungs were
practically clear, and the pneumonia had
Yielded to treatment. but weakness of her
heart prevented her recovery
Pneumonia Followed Neuralgia.
Miss Anthony was taken i'll while on her
way home from the national suffrage con-
vention in Baltimore. She stopped i'll New
York where a banquet was to be given
February 20 in honor Of her eighty-sixth
birthday but had attack of neuralgia
on the 18th and FASTENED home. Pneu-
monia developed after her arrival in
Rochester, and on March both lungs be-
came affected.
After that she became unable TO retain
nourishment and showed an alarming
weakness. Last week however, she
seemed to improve, and her friends hoped
she was out of danger. Then came the at
tack of heart failure Sunday afternoon fol-
lowing which she sank into unconscious
ness. From that time on almost the only
sign of life manifested was the feeble
pulse beat and the labored breathing:
Miss Anthony herself had believed that
told her friends that she expected to live
to be as old as her father, who was over
ninety when he died.
Greatly Beloved in Rochester.
Miss Anthony was greatly beloved in
Rochester, which had been her home since
1915 She lived to see decided change in
sentiment from the time IN the winter of
1861 when she was Kissed and hooted when
she attempted to give a lecture on aboli-
Ion in Corinthian Hall. That lecture tour.
which started in Buffalo, was a series or
riots but Miss Anthony never finched. The
insults heaped upon her eliminated In SYRIA
cuse, where she was egged and burned In
efhgy.
Her life for the past few years had been
in strong contrast to those stormy times.
She lived with her sister. Miss Mary An
thony, whose devotion TO susan b., as
che invariably called her, was touching.
The Anthony home the Mecca of all
suffragists The last important function
held there was last fall when the state suf-
frage convention met here.
Feeling that her life could not long con-
tinue Miss Anthonysevidently was disturbed
by desire to express some wish In regard
to her will. and on Wednesday last she
said to her sister:
Willed All to Suffrage Cause.
Write to Anna Shaw Immediately, and
tell her / desire that every cent I leave
when I pass out of this life shall be given
to the fund which Miss Thomas and Miss
Garrett are raising for the cause. i have
given my life and all / am to 1t. and now
I want my last act to be TO give II all
have--to the last cent. Tell Anna Shaw to
see that this is done"
In compliance with Miss Anthony's re-
queEt Miss Mary Anthony wrote immedi-
atoly, and within an hour after the letter
was sent, Miss Shaw Unexpectedly arrived
at Miss Anthonys home. On the following
day when she was permitted TO see Miss
Anthony for few moments, Miss Anthony
repeated her request, and, with evident
emotion, told of her great love and longing
for the success of ''the great cause that
underles all reforms. the greatest boon OF
all-freedom.'
see that her wish was carried out at once,
She had no thought but for her life's work
and the workers. declaring that both were
now, as ever. dearer to her than her life.
The Legacy Of Her Life.
Rev Anna Shaw said;
ION Sunday. about two hours before she
became unconscious, talked with Miss
Anthony, and she said: TO think l have
had more than sixty years OF hard struggle
for little liberty and then to die without
II seems so cruel
II replied. Your legacy will be freedom
for all womankind after you are gone. Your
splendid struggle has changed life for
women everywhere.
some purpose, and she begged me to prom
ise that and her niece. Miss Lucy An
thony, would stand together until the end
of our lives and work faithfully for the
cause, as she and her sister Mary had
done.
Miss Anthony said of all workers. Their