New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-02
SIMPLE SERVICE
FOR MRS. BLAKE
DR.. Shaw PrOnOunCeS Eu-
logy at Funeral of Pioneer
in Suffrage Work.
TRUE HOME MAKER,
SPEAKERS TRIBUTE
Friends of "Carse" Join with the
Friends of "Cause" Join with the
Family at Gathering Plan
Memorial Meeting.

Almost AZ the very hour. Yesterday
morning. when Miss Resale Jones and her
band OF pilgrims were starting on their
suffrage mission to Albany. the funeral
Of Mrs. Lille DevereuS Blake. who did
so much OF the pioneer suffrage work be
fore the Legislature. so much That has
smoothed the way for those who ioilo"
her. were being held.
Very simple were these services, which
took place ~ the nome Of her daughter,
Miss Katherine DevereuX Blake. NO. lol
West S5th street. There vas no music
and the only flowers were some Easter
lilies and pink roses on the coffin. and
number OF wreaths that were sent by
friends. \ group OF the women and men
VINO had known Mrs. Blake and worked
with her in her various public activities
gathered with her two daughters and her
grandchildren TO hear the brief eulosy.
which was pronounced 10y Or. Anna How
ard shaw
DR. Shaw spoke first Of her memories
OF Mrs Blake when. as a young woman,
she came into the movement headed by
Miss Susan y. Anthony and Mrs. Eliza
beth Cady Stanton.
"She was Young. she was beautiful she
was Southern" said Or. Shaw, and
there were few women OF that type in
the work thon. And I well remember
the delight Of the older workers when
Mrs. Blake spoke ut a meeting. She
brought brightness into it. She was al
WAYS dressed in something hght anu
pretty. always good TO look upon. She
had the charm that comes from culti-
waited manners. the charm OF an lnNa-
riablv courteous approach. But that was
not an She had always something new
10 say. ] never heard Mrs. Blake SPEAK
that she did not give even The oider
sliffragists.. who had worked iar longer
than she had. some new thought.
Mrs Rlake was o student. thinker
o reformer but she was also a home
maker. Her two daughters are witnesses
Of the truth that she was true nome
maker. Had Mrs. Blake not been "ha'
She was, had she not cared Tor otheI
children. had she not had the impulses
which lei her into the work that resulted
i'm laws which have helped all women Oh
which even the women VINO are opposeu
10 equal franchise are glad TO take al
vantage. she could hardly have been the
,nother she was. New York City is. in
debted 10 Mrs. Blake for her daughter
Katherine. who has served its people so
well in their schools
The members of the family who were
present at the services were Miss Blake
Mrs. Blakes other daughter Mrs. John
Beverly Robinson. OF ST. Louis; the grand
children. Deyereux Duer Robinson oil
New York. and DR.. and Mrs. William NC
Kim Marriott. of St Louis; Mrs. Blake S
nephew. James s. II. Umsted, Of New
York: her cousins. j. Collins Pumpelly
and Mrs. Pumpelly. OF New York; her
brotber-in-Iaw. Dr. ID. G. English, of New
brunswick. and her sister-in-law, Miss
Isabel A. Blake, of the same place. More
than twenty teachers from Public SchooI
6 of which Miss Katherine Blake is prin-
cipal. were there.
Among the old friends who attended
were Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait MISS
Mary Garrett Hay, Miss Florence Guern-
sev. Mrs. Clarence Burns, Mrs. William
Grant Brown, Mrs. Ralph Trautman Mrs.
Frederick Nathan. Mrs. r. c. Talbot Per-
llins. Mrs. Belle de Rivera, William j.
O'shea. superintendent of schools; John
Holley Clark, president Of the Flushing
High School, and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred ID.
Lind.
The services were held al uS0 o'clock
in the morning. and soon afterward the
body was taken to Fresh Pond, Long ISL
and. where it was cremated. memorial
meeting in honor of Mrs. Blake will soon
hn nnln