The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-13
MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY
 PASSES PEACEFULLY AWAY
NOTED WOMANSUFFRAGIST SUC- CLIMBED THIS MORNING IN
 ROCHESTER.

Had Been Unconscious Practically All
 the Time for More Than Twenty
 four Hours---Death MOmentarily Ex-
 pected Since Sunday Night-Only Her
 Wonderful Constitution Had Kept
 Her Aiiye--Heart Failure Induced by
 Pneumonia of Both Lungs-Her Last
 Public Appearance.
 Rochester, March 13.-The long and eventful life of Susan B. Anthony closed. at 12:40 o'clock this morning. The end came peacefully. Miss Anthony had been unconscious practically all of the time for more than twehty-four hours, and her death had been almost momentarily expected since Sunday night, Only her wonderful constitution kept her alive.
 Dr. M s. Kicker, her attending physi- clan, said Miss Anthony died of heart failure induced by pneumonia of both lungs. 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 the weakness of her heart prevented her recovery.
 Miss Anthony's last public appear ance, which was at the national wom- ans suffrage convention in Baltimore a few weeks ago, was really the begin ming of the end of the great suffragists s career. Under the weight of her eighty six years, and worn by the almost con- stant pains of neuralgia, she was i'll when she left her home in Rochester for the convention city. At Baltimore her health was very little better, and cold which she contracted there brought on the complications which ultimately resulted in her death. It was with the greatest difficulty, however, despite her illness, that her friends kept her away from the daily sessions of the Balti- more convention. She chafed under the enforced retirement of her room and was only half content with the minute reports which reached her from the convention hall. But even in her ab- sence 1t was her mind which dominated the convention. Every piece of busi- ness transacted there was considered by her before action was taken, and 1t was her advice which cleared away many tangles. When the work of raising money for the work of the coming year was reached Miss Anthony insisted on going to the meeting. She sat on the platform and was the first to respond to the treasurer's appeal. She stood up and held out a fat purse. T want to begin by giving you my purse" she said. "Just before left Rochester they gave me a birthday party and present of $S6. I suppose they wanted me to do what l liked with the money, and I'd like to send it to Oregon"
 It was at this convention that she publicly gave her last word to the cause to which her life was devoted. That she recognized her approaching end was apparent. It was near the close of the convention when she took the place of Julia Ward Howe who was prevented by Illness from taking her part on the programme. As she came forward to speak the house rose to her and applause and cheers contin- ued for fully ten minutes.
 
 Up until her last illness overcame her Miss Anthony looked to be scarcely seventy, and excepting the days when she was tormented with neuralgia from which she suffered intensely during her latter years, she possessed the en- ergy of woman of fifty. In her later wears, too, her liking for dainty raj ment increased to a remarkable degree. She wore soft black gowns of modish cut and had bondness for pliable sat ins and soft silk fabrics, At the Bal tinore convention she wore a satin eown with white point lace on the bod lee and sleeves Her hands were ring less. but she wore jeweled brooch and shell combs in her white hair. Her long coat was lined with white satin and her bonnet was made by clever milliner.