New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-02
WOMEN HONOR
MRS. BOISSEVATN
Personal Note Sounded at
Memorial Services for
Dead Leader

The women who loved Incz Milhol-
land Boissevain would not allow the
holiday season TO pass with merry
making and celebrations without a
pause somewhere 70 pay tribute to her
memory.
That pause came yesterday after
noon, when sufrsgists and peace
workers and laborers for industrial
welfare stopped in their New Years
happiness to honor the memory OF
their leader at the Church Of the As
ccnsion, Fifth Avenue and Tenth
Street The Christmas greens still
hung in tho church, and standing
against them we're the yellow banners
of the Congressional Union, In whose
cause she made her last campaign.
In all the memorial meetings which
have been held in Mrs. Boissevsin's
honor the speakers have touched the
personal note. 81 remember" they all
said. and followed with a picture Of
the young. beautiful woman. talking
TO a meeting Of East Side strikers,
playing baseball a. Sing Sing with the
members Of the Mutual Welfare
League, or floating in a gondola IN
Venice with her husband, writing
pacifst letters with her pad on her
knee.
Or. Grant Makes Address
Or. Percy Stickney Grant in his adj
dress Yesterday. Welded TO the same
impulse.
ball. She was ROBBED all In white, IN
almost Greek simplicity, with lau-
rel wreath in her dark hair. The
MUSES. might have claimed her for
their own, or hailed her as a goddess,
appointed to free the personal and do
nestle love in wHmsu's breast, so that
it could be used for the good OF the
whole race.
"A very rare and precious gift to
the world has been taken away he
continued, "a woman who combined
beauty with intelligence, sympathy
with courage, senstiveness with dis
patch. She sSmed 20 understand that
such a number OF possessions in one
human form was TO merit that envy
of the higher powers which made the
Roman poet Plautus declare that those
whom the gods favored die young
At the end DR.. Grant surprised his
hearers with a reference TO the recent
political campaign.
Champions President
~ note Of personal regret will al
ways attend my thought Of Ine1 Mil
holland Boissevain. which, perhaps,
some others will share" he said 81 re-
greet that in the end hor instinct for
sock her or that she was overpersuad-
ed and threw in her lot against the
President to whom we arc about 10 ap-
neal to-day | regret she did not recog-
nize in him a new champion OF every
form Of expanding democratic free
dom-a new master, skilled to fuse the
aims and methods of old polltica par
ties, starkly standing for Capitalization
or local initiative, into a new blending
Of these methods for the unliylng and
populariziug OF great causes
Mrs. John Rogers and Mrs. Clarence
Smith will 20 to Washington on the
carly train to-day 10 carry 20 President
Wilson a copy o. the resolution drawn
I'd bv the Congressional Union, m
which they implore him TO use his IN,
fuence to have the suffrage Dill passed
Miss Lucy Burns, vice-chairman OF
Tho union. made a short address, and
the remainder Of the service was mu-
sical Al the last moment a breathless
messenger arrived with a poetic tribute
from the members OF the Mutual Vel
fare League Of Sing Sing. 100
Mrs. John Milholland, Miss Vida Nil
holland and Eugene Roisseyain attend
cd tho service, as well rs many promi-
rent sufragists among whom were
Miss Alice Carpenter, Mrs. Harriet
stanton Batch. Mrs. Philip Lydig, Mrs.
Ernest Thompson Seton, Mrs. John
Winters Brannan. Mrs. Lewis L. Della
field, Miss Resale Jones Miss Ellis
betb Freeman. Miss Anna Constable,
Mrs Walston Hill Brown, Mrs. Herbert
Cerpenter, Mrs. Robert Adamson, JUS
tice Charles Guy, Dudley Field Malone