The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-03

100 speeches in as many days in the
hottest of the summer weather.
In the span OF her lifetime DR.. Shaw
saw great changes In the suffrage map,
saw the great West change from the
black of Observation-Disclosures to the white
OF full suffrage. Colorado, Idaho, Utah,
Washington, California, Arizona, Kansas,
Oregon. Alaska, Nevada and Montana
and her own State OF New York-they
were notable victories she helped TO win.
1t was the irony OF fate that after
toiling through the summer and fall in
the campaign of 1917 that enfranchised
the women of New York--marching In
the great parade, travelling from end to
end of the State, contributing speeches
the fire Of whose oratory will BIO re-
membered long by those who heard her
she was prevented by an attack Of In
iluenza In Washington from voting in the
next election. She had taken her resi-
dence In New York and was counting on
| casting her first ballot-"and to think"
she complained. that an influenza bug
should keep me from casting that vote
had struggled for so long"
Saw Suffrage Become News.
But great were DR.. Shaw's rewards.
though she was deprived OF this one.
She saw Presidential suffrage come to
the women of Illinois, Rhode Island and
| Ohio, besides many victories in foreign
lands. She saw suffrage grow TO be an
important news feature, whereas In
Susan b. Anthony's time, as she often
said. a paragraph about votes for women
was a thing to rejoice over.
DR.. Shaw's later years we're made
much easier by the thoughtfulness OF
President NJ Cary Thomas OF Bryn
Mawr. who with Miss Garrett Of Bal
tlmore raised fund Of $4,000 so that
salaries could be paid the officers of
| the National" Miss Anthony always
served without pay. An unnamed friend
made Dr. Shaw several gifts OF money
to be used for suffrage, 90 she had not
to depend entirely on her earnings as a
lecturer for her expenses In attending
the numerous suffrage conventions But
1t was not till she approached old age
that she was able to build her home in
the hills near Moylan. where at week
ends, on a flying trip from suffrage
headquarters in New York. she could
don her rough blue garden suit and work
outdoors to her hearts content Here,
too, she would gather her four nieces. TO
whom she had been a second mother
since the death Of their parents years
ago.
DR.. Shaw was unfiinchins in her oppo.
| sitioh " MISS AuCc tdul o congressman
Union, which, splitting of from the Ma
tional Womans Suffrage Association al
the exciting Washington convention OF
1sl3-it was their congressional CON-
mttee up to then-began the aggressive
tactics which eliminated In the picket
Ing of the White House In 1917. DR.
Shaw always maintained that the Ma.
tional Woman's Party, as the Congres-
sional Union later called itself, by these
methods kept Congress from passing
the Susan B. Anthony amendment 10 en-
franchise women. She was an admlreI
OF President Wilson. and did not agree
with the Woman's Party that he could
push the amendment through II he
would.
DR.. Shaw's friends can never think
OF her as having grown old. for she
never did grow old. Her fresh. bithe
hopeful spirit persisted to the end, and
her face always kept It's youthful ak
preston. She was never too worn
never too tired to do a gracious act, &c
bestow a kindness. and for these nc
less than for her great services to the
cause OF woman and the cause OF hu.
manity will very many of her fellow
beings remember her for years to come