Rochester, Monroe, NY
Democrat & Chronicle
Mar. 7, 1906
NATHANIEL ROCHESTER
Nathaniel Rochester, president of the Third National Bank of Buffalo, died at his home, No. 333 Elmwood avenue,
Buffalo, early yesterday morning. He was born on March 26, 1856, was educated in a private school in Buffalo and
in St. Paul's, Concord, and spent the rest of his life in the banking business in Buffalo. He was a member of the
family that gave Rochester its name. He leaves his wife, who was Miss Ottilie HAUENSTEIN: a son, Thomas F. ROCHESTER;
a daughter, Madeline; a brother, Dr. De Lancey ROCHESTER, and four sisters, Mrs. Charles B. WHEELER, Miss Elizabeth
ROCHESTER, Miss Margaret ROCHESTER and Miss Emily ROCHESTER.
Mr. SCOTT, of Norwich, N. Y., father of Mrs. Edward Bailey Olmstead, formerly of this city, died suddenly in Bermuda,
where he had gone in the hope of regaining his health. While en route to Bermuda Mr. SCOTT fell on the deck of
the ship, breaking his collar bone and receiving other injuries, while undoubtedly hastened his death. Dr. and
Mrs. OLMSTEAD, whose home is now in Knoxville, Tenn., hurried to New York, and yesterday met the steamer bearing
the remains. The funeral services are to be held to-day in Norwich. Mr. SCOTT was well known in Rochester, because
of visiting his daughter here, when her husband was pastor of Asbury Methodist Church.
James H. MONROE died suddenly in New York on February 19th, aged 65 years. Mr. MONROE left Rochester about thirty-seven
years ago. When here he was employed by A. S. MANN, and was known as a fine singer. It was because of his ability
as a singer that he went to New York city. The body was taken to Phelps, where the brothers and sisters of the
decedent attended the funeral. They are John Grieg MONROE, Oliver C. MONROE and Stephen B. MONROE, of Hillsdale,
Mich.; Michael C. MONROE, of Jonesville, Mich.; Mrs. Frances MONROE WHITTEN, of Jonesville, Mich., and Mrs. Lydia
MONROE MANN, of Buffalo.
Mrs. Elizabeth LUSCOMB, wife of Fred E. LUSCOMB, of No. 52 Clinton avenue north, died yesterday afternoon, aged
40 years. Mrs. LUSCOMB had lived in Rochester for about fifteen years. She leaves beside her husband, two brothers,
Jacob I. SIGNOR, of Wellsboro, Pa., and George SIGNOR, of Philadelphia; two sisters, Mrs. Charles H. RANDALL, of
Newark Valley, and Mrs. Joseph PURCELL, of Buffalo. The remains have been taken to No. 253 North street.
Margaret A., wife of Rev. R. M. AINSWORTH, died yesterday afternoon at the home of her niece, Mrs. B. H. OTIS,
No. 348 Troup street, aged 61 years. She leaves her husband, and four sons, B. C., F. H. F., T. H. and L. C. AINSWORTH.
Peter M. BATZ, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter BATZ, died last night at the family home, No. 60 Casper street, aged 16
years and nine months. He leaves his parents, two brothers, George M. and William G. BATZ, and a sister, Catherine.
Miss Mary KUHN died yesterday at the City Hospital, aged 18 years. She leaves two brothers, Joseph and William,
of this city, and one sister, Mrs. William WABLE, of Webster.
Elsie, daughter of Charles and Elphina LAACK, died yesterday evening at the home of her parents, No. 17 Wadworth
street, aged 17 months.
Peter F. RICE died last evening at his home, No. 500 Clinton avenue south, aged 60 years. He leaves a wife, four
sons and three daughters.
Vedo Antonio FLOW, son of John and Carmelo FLOW, died early yesterday morning at No. 90 Lyndhurst street, aged
two weeks.
Zernia Anna, wife of Harvey PERRY, died in this city on Monday, aged 65 years.
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DEATH OF GEORGE STEINAUER
For Twenty-Six Years a Pressman of the Democrat and Chronicle
George STEINAUER, for twenty-six years a pressman of the Democrat & Chronicle, died yesterday afternoon at
his home, No. 370 Gregory street, aged 47 years. Mr. STEINAUER had been ill for about three years, but the acute
attack of Bright's disease, complicated with a stomach trouble, which resulted in his death, dated only from last
Friday. Mr. STEINAUER was compelled to give up his work four years ago. At that time rheumatism held him helpless,
and later this was complicated with Bright's disease.
Mr. STEINAUER held but one place of employment in his life, more than half of which was passed in the employ of
the Democrat and Chronicle. For more than fifteen years he was in charge of one press. His long service caused
him to be regarded by his younger associates as a fixture in his department. He was a companionable man who made
and held many friends, and was always popular with his associates. He was a member of St. Boniface Church, St.
Boniface Benevolent Society, the Order of the Knights of St. John and Tecumseh Tribe, I. O. R. M. He leaves his
wife, two brothers, John of Oneida, and Philip of Rochester; two sisters, and his mother.
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MRS. HELENA HUBACHEK
Helena HUBACHEK, widow of Joseph HUBACHEK, a former well-known resident of Rochester, died yesterday morning at
her home, No. 858 Jay street, in the 87th year of her age. Mrs. HUBACHEK was one of the oldest of the German-American
residents of Rochester, having been a resident of Rochester since 1845 and a member of the First German Baptist
Church for forty-nine years. At the time of her death she was the oldest member of the church. On May 17, 1897
she and her husband celebrated their golden wedding. Mr. HUBACHEK died in 1898. She leaves three children, Joseph
H. HUBACHEK, of San Francisco, Charles HUBACHEK and Mrs. Helena A. LANGER, of this city.
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FOR COURT HOUSE EMPLOYEES
Employees of the Court House gave a party in the dining room in the basement of the building last night in honor
of the birthday of two of their number, Mrs. Ross WERNER and Mrs. Carrie BARDO. Plans for the entertainment had
been under way for a fortnight, and practically everyone in the Court house from the judges down had shown a friendly
interest in the proceedings. Supper was served, and following there was a social-hour.
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ALLEGED BAD BOY PAROLED
When arraigned in police court yesterday on a charge of petit larceny, Raymond PEARL pleaded not guilty. He had
been accused of having a gold watch from Mrs. Mary PAGELSON, of No. 274 Central avenue. The watch has not been
recovered. Owing to the fact that PEARL'S record was not good, the Court turned him over to Parole Agent MASTERS
for three months.
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REYNOLDS VS. REYNOLDS
Frederick J. REYNOLDS, of Rochester, has begun an action in the courts of Onondaga county for a divorce from his
wife, Viola B. REYNOLDS. Mrs. REYNOLDS, makes her home with her mother, Mrs. Ella BROWN, at No. 703 East Fayette
street, Syracuse. REYNOLDS is a traveling salesman.
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LARCENY CHARGE DISMISSED
In police court yesterday Judge CHADSEY dismissed the charge of grand larceny that stood against Frank KIEK, who
had been arrested on complaint of Thomas POLE, who alleged that KIEK had retained $58 belonging to him that he
had entrusted to him for safe keeping. In court yesterday POLE told another story, to the effect that he had given
the money to KIEK to keep until he had added $2 more, when it was to have been deposited in a bank. KIEK said he
had merely gone to Scranton, Pa., on a business trip.
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UNKNOWN'S DEATH A REAL MYSTERY
In his verdict, announced yesterday, Coroner KLEINDIENST says he is unable to ascertain in what manner the unidentified
man received fatal injury in Dewey avenue on Tuesday morning of last week. Death was due to hemorrhage of the brain,
induced by a blow. Whether the man was struck a glancing blow by a car or an automobile, the coroner says he is
unable to say. The remains were interred in potter's field yesterday afternoon.
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MISS ANTHONY BETTER;
TEMPERATURE IS NORMAL
Latest Reports from Her Home Are to Effect That There is More Reason to Hope for Recovery
Although Susan B. ANTHONY is still very ill, there is more reason to hope for her recovery than there seemed to
be Monday night and yesterday morning. At 10 o'clock last night her physician said her temperature was normal.
She could retain a little nourishment and was comfortable. Altogether her symptoms were better than they had been
in twenty-four hours.
The doctor said last night the most serious thing about Miss ANTHONY'S condition had been the prostration caused
by not being able to digest nourishment, and by the second rise in temperature. The physician did not leave the
ANTHONY home in Madison street after going there on Monday night, until 8 o'clock yesterday morning. At 1 o'clock
Miss ANTHONY was improving, and at night she was still better.
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COURT NEWS IN BRIEF
The Court of Appeals calendar for to-day is: Nos. 295 1/2, 345, 346, 491, 7, 60, 185, 191
Judge BENTON has put over the term the action brought by Henry C. FISHER against George W. HARTZELL.
The calendar for to-day in the Trial Term of Supreme Court, Justice DUNWELL presiding, is Nos. 242, 193, 239, 258;
to be added, No. 217
Clerk J. H. GILMORE, of the County Court, announces that the calendar for Monday will be the law cases, issue of
fact and appeals from lower courts. Judge BENTON will preside.
Justice LAMBERT, sitting at buffalo, has granted an order of discontinuance in the action brought by the Stecher
Lithograph Company against the Pennsylvania Soap Company.
Bert C. HINDS, tax collector for the town of Henrietta, was the first collector to make his report this year to
the county Treasurer, he having reported yesterday that his work was complete.
Justice SUTHERLAND has granted a stay of sixty days before entering judgment in the action of Joseph SHAUGHNESSY,
who lost his suit for $15,000 against the Rochester Railway Company for damages alleged to have been received in
being knocked down by a car.
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DR. C. A. BARBOUR IN BROOKLYN
Rev. Dr. Clarence A. BARBOUR, of the Lake Avenue Church, is conducting a series of meetings this week in Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn Standard Union says: Rev. Clarence A. BARBOUR, D. D., of Rochester, who is well known to the young
men of Brooklyn as a preacher of power, he having addressed the meetings of the Young Men's Christian Association
several times, will preach at 8 o'clock every night this week, but Saturday, in the Emmanuel Baptist Church, corner
of Lafayette avenue and St. James place.
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MICE BRING ABOUT A FIRE
Carried Matches to Nest in a Wall and There Ignited Them
Mice are believed to have caused a fire in the house of George J. SEAGER No. 47 Richmond street, yesterday afternoon.
No other solution can be advanced by the fire chiefs. The fire was discovered promptly and the loss did not exceed
$100.
The fire started in a partition in the rear of the dwelling. Before the firemen could be summoned the flames had
eaten their way upward and burned a considerable portion of the roof. Battalion Chief ATKINSON directed a stream
on the roof and one into the partition, and in a few minutes it was all over.
A careful examination did not reveal the origin of the fire, as there was nothing of an inflammable nature near
the partition that could communicate with it. The fire was therefore charged to mice, which are believed to have
carried matches into the partition.
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DIED
NUNN - The funeral of Charles NUNN took place Tuesday, March 6, 1906, at 9 o'clock from the house, No. 349 ½
Brown street, and 9:30 o'clock at SS. Peter and Paul's Church. Requiem high Mass was celebrated by Rev. F. X. SINCLAIR,
assisted by Rev. Ferdinand SCHEID as deacon and Rev. Joseph GEFELL as sub-deacon. The floral offerings were many
and beautiful. Interment was made in the family lot at Holy Sepulchre cemetery. The following acted as bearers:
Jacob FOX, George BECKTOLD, Frank MEHLE, George DENGLER, Martin BERNA and George KLUEBER.
SKUSE - In this city, on Monday, March 5, 1906, Elizabeth, daughter of James and Martha SKUSE, aged 24 years and
11 months.
-The funeral will take place from the family residence, No. 61 Ontario street, on Thursday at 2:30 P. M.
WESTON - The funeral of W. G. WESTON will take place Thursday morning, March 8, 1906, from his residence, No. 319
wilder street, at 8:30, and 9 o'clock from Lady Chapel, of the Cathedral.
VALLANCE - Entered into rest, Monday March 5, 1906, Christie TAYLOR, wife of J. A. VALLANCE, of Social Circle,
Ga., and daughter of the late Donald and Mary TAYLOR, of this city. Deceased is survived by her husband; one brother,
Duncan TAYLOR, of Iowa, and two sisters, Mary and Elizabeth TAYLOR, of this city.
-Burial at Social Circle, Ga.
CAMERON - Entered into rest after a short illness, at the Reformed Presbyterian Church Home in Allegheny, Pa.,
on Sunday evening, March 4, 1906, Rebecca CAMERON, wife of the late Simon CAMERON, aged 90 years.
-Interment in Allegheny, Pa.
KUHN - Tuesday, March 6, 1906, at the City Hospital, Mary KUHN, aged 48 years.
-Funeral from the residence of her uncle, James BENEDICT, No. 64 William street, Friday morning at 8:30 o'clock,
and from St. Mary's Church at 9 o'clock.
KUHNERT - At her residence, No. 3 Schwartz street, Mrs. Caroline KUHNERT, wife of T. W. KUHNERT, aged 66 years
and 7 months. She is survived by her husband, two sons, Julius E. and Fred A. KUHNERT, and two daughters, Mrs.
Bertha RICKART and Mrs. Caroline PROTZ, and seventeen grandchildren.
-Burial Friday at 2:30 P. M., from her late residence, No. 3 Schwartz street.
NIGGLI - In this city, Monday, March 5, 1906, at the family residence, No. 290 Central park, Edward Frederick NIGGLI,
aged 38 years. Deceased is survved by his wife, Cora Kidney NIGGLI, and three sons, Edward Frederick, Edmond and
Clayton NIGGLI; his father, John G.; Three sisters, Mrs. E. JELENSPERGER, Mrs. Charles GREENHAGEN and Rose NIGGLI;
also one brother, Frank J. NIGGLI.
-Funeral service will be held at the late residence at 3 P. M. Thursday. Interment at Mount Hope cemetery.
DE NISE - At the City Hospital, Tuesday evening, March 6, 1906, Jessie CROFT, wife of Dell DE NISE, of Charlotte,
aged 31 years. The deceased is survived by her husband, one son; also her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James CROFT, of
Charlotte, N.Y.
-Notice of funeral hereafter.
BALKE - In this city, Tuesday evening, March 6, 1906, Ernestina Alloide BALKE, widow of Christian BALKE, aged 81
years and 5 months. She is survived by five sons, Christian, Herman, Gustave, Otto and Ernest BALKE, and one daughter,
Anna BALKE.
-Funeral services will be held from her late residence, No. 80 Wilson street, on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Burial at Mount Hope cemetery.
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DIED
STEINHAUER - Tuesday evening, March 6, 1906, at the family residence, No. 370 Gregory street, George J. STEINHAUER,
aged 47 years. He is survived by his wife Anna, his mother, three brothers, August, John, of Oneida, and Philip,
of Rochester.
-Funeral Saturday morning at 8:30 from the family residence, and 9 o'clock at St. Boniface Church. Interment at
Holy Sepulchre cemetery.
HUBACHEK - In this city, on Tuesday, March 6, 1906, Helena HUBACHEK, widow of the late Joseph HUBACHEK, No. 848
Jay street, in her 87th year.
-Funeral will take place from the family residence, No. 848 Jay street, Friday afternoon at 1:45 and from the First
German Baptist Church on Andrew street at 2:30 o'clock.
RICE - In this city, at the family residence, No. 509 Clinton avenue south, Tuesday night, March 6, 1906, Peter
F. RICE, in his 61st year. He is survived by his wife, four sons, George, Arthur, Peter and Walter, and three daughters,
Ella, Mrs. Theodore ALTMAN and Ada RICE.
-Funeral Saturday morning from St. Joseph's Church.
REYNOLDS - Wednesday, March 7, 1906, at the family home, No.1?0 Edinburgh street, Miss Carrie A. REYNOLDS, aged
22 years. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Catharine REYNOLDS; one sister, Miss Mary A. REYNOLDS, and three
brothers, William G., Louis F. and Ferdinand J. REYNOLDS.
-Funeral Friday, March 9, 1906, from the residence at 8:30 o'clock and at the Immaculate Conception Church at 9
o'clock.
PRANK - Wednesday, March 7, 1906, at her residence, No. 894 North Goodman street, Helena PRANK, aged 83 years.
She leaves three daughters, Mrs. H. A. VIRKUS, Mrs. John GENRICH, Mrs. E. MOESCHLER, eighteen grandchildren and
six great-grandchildren.
TAIT - At his home, No. 407 Main street east, Wednesday, March 7, 1906, David L. TAIT, aged 76 years. He leaves,
besides his wife, three sons, Lamont D., Thomas W. and Andrew D. TAIT, all of this city; also one daughter, Mrs.
Julia A. WEBSTER, of Buffalo, N. Y.
-Funeral from his late residence Friday, March 9th, at 3 o'clock P. M. Interment at Mount Hope.
DE NISE - At the City Hospital, Tuesday evening, March 6, 1906, Jessie CROFT, wife of Dell DE NISE, of Charlotte,
aged 31 years. The deceased is survived by her husband, one son; also her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James CROFT, of
Charlotte, N.Y.
-Funeral Friday at 2:30 o'clock from the Presbyterian Church at Charlotte.
LUSCOMB - In this city, Tuesday afternoon, March 6, 1906, at Dr. LEE'S private hospital, Elizabeth LUSCOMB, wife
of Fred E. LUSCOMB, of No. 52 Clinton avenue north, aged 40 years. She leaves, besides her husband, two brothers,
Jacob L. SIGNOR, of Wellsboro, Pa., and George SIGNOR, of Philadelphia, Pa.; two sisters, Mrs. Charles H. RANDALL,
of Newark Valley, and Mrs. Joseph PURCELL, of Buffalo.
-The funeral will take place Friday morning, March 9, 1906, at 10 o'clock, from C. E. STRAUCHEN'S funeral parlors,
No. 253 North street. Interment at Mount Hope.
KUHN - At the City Hospital, Tuesday, March 6, 1906 Mary KUHN, aged 48 years. The deceased is survived by two brothers,
Joseph and William, of this city, and one sister, Mrs. William WAHLE, of Webster.
-The funeral will take place Friday morning from the residence of her uncle, James BENEDICT, No. 64 William street,
at 8:30 and 9 o'clock, from St. Mary's Church.
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FUNERAL OF MR. WESTFALL
Remarkable Tribute Paid to Avon Man. Business Suspended
Avon, March 7 - For a few hours to-day, business was suspended in Avon. The occasion was the funeral of the late
Lyman D. WESTFALL, trusted locomotive engineer, member of the Board of Education, churchman, fraternal man, and
the friend of every person in the entire community.
The procession started from the home at 1 o'clock, arriving at Central Church, of which he was a member of the
session, a few minutes later. The auditorium was crowded. For about three-quarters of an hour the body lay in state,
surrounded by the largest collection of floral offerings ever seen here.
At 2 o'clock, Rev. Samuel Wilson STEELE, pastor of the church, opened the services with a prayer, following which
Mrs. William J. WEED sang a solo. Rev. Emmett M. KELLEY, pastor of the Methodist episcopal Church at East Rush,
a former Avon pastor, who had often worked with the decedent in church work, followed with a prayer, after which
Mrs. REED again sang. Then Mr. STEELE, in his sermon, paid a beautiful tribute to the character and life of the
man and to his sterling worth. Another selection by Mrs. WEED, another prayer by Mr. STEELE, and the remains were
taken out of the church and conveyed to the Avon Cemetery.
Here the services were in charge of Avon Springs Lodge, No. 570, F. and A. M., of which Mr. WESTFALL was a past
master, and the beautiful burial service of the Masonic order was read by County Judge William CARTER. The Masonic
order attended the service in a body. A number of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers members from Buffalo, at
which place Mr. WESTFALL was a member, and also from the home division, were in attendance. Superintendent George
W. DOWE, chief train dispatcher, William H. BRACE, Master Mechanic J. C. MOORE, and other officials of the Rochester
Division, and Traveling Engineer C. ELLSWORTH BROWNE of the Pennsylvania, were among those present.
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MRS. ELIZA TOWN DANN DEAD IN HER 100TH YEAR
When a Resident of Rochester She Entertained Famous Statesmen, Including Clay and Webster - Burial Here
Mrs. Eliza TOWN DANN, who more than a half a century ago entertained in her home in Rochester Daniel WEBSTER, Henry
CLAY, Thurlow WEED and Stephen A. DOUGLAS, died at 6:30 o'clock Monday morning in the 100th year of her age, at
her home in Syracuse. On Memorial Day, 1904, Mrs. DANN suffered a stroke of paralysis and since then she had gradually
failed. Although far advanced in age, she took a keen interest in current events and read the newspapers every
day until the time of the stroke, when her sight was affected.
Cultured, well educated and possessed of remarkable memory, Mrs. DANN was an interesting character. She had always
enjoyed the best of health and never had even a headache until two years ago. Her mind was bright to the very last
and her hearing was not impaired. She was fond of telling of her acquaintance with famous statesmen and politicians
of the fifties, and recalled many interesting anecdotes of the life of WEBSTER and CLAY.
Mrs. DANN was born January 22, 1807, in Plainsfield, Mass. She was married to John DANN, who for a number of years
was proprietor of Congress Hall at Avon Springs. Her husband died in 1864. She had no children and far outlived
all the friends of her younger days and middle life. When in Rochester she made her home with the family of the
late W. H. H. BARTON, whose friendship dated back to his wedding trip in 1842, when he stopped at Congress Hall,
Avon.
Modest, unassuming to a fault, Mrs. DANN was faithful to her friends and to her church. She was a devoted member
in St. Andrew's parish, until her removal to her nephew's home in Syracuse, when she became active in St. John's
Episcopal Church work. She was a sister of the late Horace and Zenas TOWN and Mrs. J. J. BRADLEY, of Syracuse,
and leaves her nephew, Augustus R. BALDWIN, and a niece, Mrs. Jacob HOUCK. The funeral was held privately from
the home in Syracuse, because of the illness of her nephew, Mr. BALDWIN, and his three children, on Wednesday morning.
Upon the arrival of the afternoon train in Rochester, the interment was in the family lot at Mount Hope.
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RECORD OF DEATHS
Peter F. RICE, of 509 Clinton avenue south, died Tuesday night at his home, aged 61 years. He was born in Buffalo,
December 10, 1846, and came to Rochester when 13 years old. After completing his education he engaged as apprentice
as a mason with Henry GORSLINE, a contractor. He superintended the erection of the Granite building and the Powers
building. For several years he had been a member of the firm of GORSLINE, RICE & SWAN. He was a member of Branch
No. 81, C. M. B. A., of St. Joseph's Church. He leaves his wife, four sons, George, Arthur, Peter and Walter RICE;
three daughters, Ella and Ada RICE and Mrs. Theodore ALTMAN; seven brothers and three sisters. The funeral will
be held Saturday morning in St. Joseph's Church.
Mrs. Louis S. ANDERSON, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. CARTER, pioneer residence of this city, was buried yesterday in
Mount Hope cemetery. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Dr. J. W. A. STEWART in the First Baptist Church.
The audience included a large number of relatives and personal friends of the deceased. Among the flower pieces
were memorials from the Eleventh Ward W. C. T. U., of which Mrs. ANDERSON was a member, and from her class of young
women in the Sunday school of the First Baptist Church. Mrs. ANDERSON leaves her husband, Alvin W. ANDERSON, and
a brother, David CARTER, of Gates. Six nephews served as bearers.
Mrs. Ernestina Allorde BALKE of Christian BALKE, died Tuesday evening at her home, No. 80 Wilson street, aged 82
years. Mrs. BALKE had lived in Rochester since 1869. After the death of her husband she carried on his business
in West Main street until ten years ago, when she was stricken with paralysis. She was a member of Salem Church.
She leaves one daughter, Anna, five sons, Christian, Herman, Gustave, Otto and Ernest BALKE, two grandchildren
and one great-grandchild.
Jane M. CAMPBELL, widow of Cornelius CAMPBELL died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. May J. DUNN, No.
18 Fenwick street. She leaves two daughters, Mrs. DUNN and Mrs. Lizzie SHERIDAN, and two sons, James H. and William
A. CAMPBELL.
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS
The funeral of Erwin OTTO was held this afternoon from the family home, 6
Arlington street.
Frederick KNOP died yesterday in his home, 26 Gordon park, aged 73 years and 2
months. He leaves his wife, five sons and one daughter.
Maggie GRUNER, infant daughter of Fred and Mary GRUNER, died yesterday morning
at the family residence, 78 Ontario street, aged one month.
Peter HARTMAN died last evening at his home, 67 Stilson street, aged 80 (?)
years. He leaves his wie, one son, three daughters, ten grandchildren and
one great-grandchild.
Edward C., son of Joseph M. and Ella BUTLER died Saturday afternoon at St.
Mary's Hospital, aged 1 year. The remains were removed to 159 (?) Columbia
avenue, the parents residence.
Ellen M. MERRILL, wife of the late Phineas W. MERRILL, died in Pueblo, Colo. on
Wednesday. She leaves three sisters, her twin, Mrs. E. S. HIGBY of
Rochester, Mrs. C. H. FULLER of Evanston, Ill., and Mrs. C. F. WALKER of
Atlanta, Ga.
George EICHORS died yesterday at the Soldiers Home in Bath. He is survived
by his wife, two sons and two daughters. The funeral will be held from St.
Joseph's Church Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock.
Mary Ann, wife of Frank H. BEAN of West Henrietta died this morning. She
was 28 years of age and is survived by two children, her mother and father and
two sisters. The funeral will be held from the residence of her parents, 8
Rockingham street, on Wednesday at 9:30 o'clock and from St. Boniface Church at
10 o'clock.
Dennis H. ALLEN died Saturday at the City Hospital aged 45 (?) years. He
leaves four sisters, Mrs. Lulu MILLER, Mrs. _____ GREENAUER, Mrs. Andrew WEIDMAN
and Miss Nellie COLLINS, and one brother, Jos. ALLEN. He was in the employ
of the city water works department. The funeral will take place tomorrow
morning at 9:30 from the residence of his sister, Mrs. Andrew WIEDMAN, ____Smith
street and at 10 o'clock from Holy Apostles church.
AGED MAN HAD A HARD FALL
Leo Paul PLUM, 87 years of age, and living at 43 University avenue, sustained a
hard fall late Saturday afternoon while descending a stairway in the Cornwall
building, main street east. He tumbled the length of several steps and was
thought to be badly injured owing to his advanced age. He was removed to
the Homeopathic Hospital and later in the evening, however, was sufficiently
recovered from the force of the fall to be removed to his home.
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SUSAN B. ANTHONY DEAD;
HER LAST THOUGHT OF HER WORK
LAY UNCONSCIOUS MORE THAN A DAY
When Apparently Brightest and Strongest Since her Illness Had Taken Serious
Turn,
Famous Woman Was Stricken With the Fatal Seizure
Had Thought She Was To Recover
Believed She Would Live to Continue Work That She Had Carried On
for So Many Years and That Had Made Her Famous
Susan B. ANTHONY died at 12:40 o'clock this morning at her Madison street
home. She did not regain unconsciousness after the heart seizure Sunday afternoon.
At her bedside when end came were Mary S. ANTHONY, her sister; Rev. Anna HOWARD
SHAW, of Philadelphia; Miss Lucy ANTHONY, a niece, of Philadelphia; Dr. RICKER,
who attended her throughout her illness, and her two faithful nurses, Miss M.
A. SHANKS and Miss Mabel NICHOLS.
Dr. RICKER 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 recovery."
Rev. Anna SHAW said: "On Sunday, about two hours before she became unconscious,
I talked with Miss ANTHONY. She said: "To think I have had more than sixty-six
years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems
so cruel."
"I replied: ‘Your legacy will be freedom for all womankind after you
are gone. Your splendid struggle has changed life for woman everywhere.' She
replied: ‘If it has, I have lived to some purpose,' and she begged me to promise
that I and her niece, Miss Lucy ANTHONY would stand together until the end of
our lives and work faithfully for the cause, as she and her sister Mary had.
"Miss ANTHONY said of all workers: ‘Their faces pass before me one by
one. I cannot call their names, but they are a host of loyal, splendid women
and I love them every one. How good everybody has been to me! I wonder if we
shall know in the hereafter. If we do I shall be with you when you win Oregon
and in every campaign for victory. Then she added with a smile: ‘Perhaps I can
do more over yonder than I did here.' Her work was her one thought."
Until 8:30 o'clock on Sunday afternoon it was supposed that Miss ANTHONY
was out of danger and that recovery was a matter of only a few days. A sudden
pain in the cardiac region, followed almost immediately by a lapse into a comatose
state, at that hour gave warning that the end was not far distant. The strain
of her lingering illness had been too much for her. At 5 o'clock Sunday night
Dr. M. S. RICKER said that there was no hope.
This from Dr. RICKER, following so closely a few hopeful hours in which the
sufferer had talked cheerfully of the great movement in which she was interested,
came as a crushing blow to Miss Mary ANTHONY, Dr. Anna H. SHAW and others who
have maintained a vigil at the bedside. To Miss Lucy ANTHONY, of Philadelphia,
secretary to Dr. SHAW, was it a particularly severe blow. At about 2 o'clock
in the afternoon she had received a telegram in Philadelphia that her aunt was
gaining strength. The notification of the sudden sinking spell followed immediately.
Miss ANTHONY left at once for Rochester, joining others beloved by Miss Susan
in the Madison street home.
When Susan B. ANTHONY went to Baltimore to attend the national convention
of the Woman's Suffrage Association, she was in good health. On her homeward
trip it was planned that she should be entertained in new York at a dinner in
honor of her 86th birthday, February 20th. An attack of neuralgia came on suddenly
on the 18th, and instead of going to New York Miss ANTHONY came home.
ATTACK OF PNEUMONIA
Pneumonia developed and for days women and men the nation over watched for
bulletins from the bedside. On March 5th, a week ago yesterday, double pneumonia
set in. Miss ANTHONY showed remarkable vitality, surprising even those most
familiar with her physical strength. A collapse of the stomach unexpectedly
occurred. Miss ANTHONY was unable to retain nourishment. On Saturday there came
a return to the normal. Miss ANTHONY was strong in mind, but there were indications
of failing strength.
The gloom of doubt shadowed the hearts of those gathered at the bedside all
day Sunday until at 1 o'clock Miss SHAW entered the sick room before leaving
to keep a dinner engagement. Dr. SHAW found Miss ANTHONY eager to talk. She
told Dr. SHAW of plans she had for the suffrage work as soon as she became strong
enough to attend to her duties. She took nourishment and said she relished it.
Then it was that Miss SHAW telegraphed to Miss Lucy ANTHONY that her aunt was
improving.
After the attack of heart trouble Miss ANTHONY'S only sign of life was a
feeble pulse and labored breathing. Dr. SHAW and Miss Mary remained at the bedside
the greater part of the night, and Dr. M. S. RICKER did not leave the house
from the time Miss ANTHONY was stricken Sunday afternoon until yesterday afternoon,
when she went out to call on (two lines unreadable). Later she went out again,
to return at 8 o'clock.
Telegrams sent to relatives brought Margaret McLEAN BAKER, of Chicago; Miss
Lucy ANTHONY, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Helen Mosher JAMES, of Philadelphia,
to Rochester. They were all with Miss ANTHONY last night.
SPOKE ONCE INDISTINCTLY
The watch of Sunday night tried the souls of all in the house. Dr. RICKER
believed that each hour would see the end. Once Miss ANTHONY spoke indistinctly,
Dr. SHAW tried in vain to catch the words her lips formed. Holding the hand
of the delirious patient, Dr. SHAW told off the pulse beats, her heart wrapped
not in the suffragist cause, but in the being a life long friend.
Quietness followed the delirium. During the morning hours there was no change.
Hourly bulletins from the ANTHONY home were almost identical: "She is still
breathing; is very low." With the morning came a fresh hope. A wonderful
vitality fighting the advance of death inch by inch appeared to be gaining ground.
A sinking condition that made itself manifest at about 9 o'clock blasted this
faint hope. Those in the house were called to the bedside.
The pulse was almost imperceptible. The temperature was cooling and respiration was fainter. Dr. RICKER resorted to emergency aids. There came a lull. Again the magnificent vitality of the woman checked death as it seemed about to claim her. Dr. SHAW retired at 10 o'clock exhausted and Miss Lucy ANTHONY took up the watch. A telegram was sent to Daniel R. ANTHONY, a nephew, of Leavenworth, Kan. Based on the bulletin of Dr. RICKER, it read: "Little or no hope." In connection with this telegram, the Associated Press last night sent out the following from Leavenworth: "D. R. ANTHONY, Jr., editor of the Leavenworth Times, nephew of Miss ANTHONY, and his mother, Mrs. D. R. ANTHONY, Sr., left to-day for Rochester.
REMAINED UNCONSCIOUS
Miss ANTHONY did not regain consciousness during the day. At 8 o'clock last
night a reporter who called at the ANTHONY home was told by Miss Lucy ANTHONY
that there had been no change in the condition of her aunt. Miss ANTHONY said
she had just finished reading in the Woman's Journal the address given by Dr.
M. Carey THOMAS, president of Bryn Mawr, on college woman's night at the Baltimore
convention.
"There is a part of this address," said Miss Lucy, "referring
directly to Aunt Susan, which I think is the finest thing I have ever read concerning
her." Miss ANTHONY pointed out the paragraphs in question, which are appended:
"We who are guiding this movement to-day, owe the profoundest debt of
gratitude to those early pioneers, Elizabeth Cady STANTON, Lucy STONE, Julia
Ward HOWE, and, above all and beyond all, to Susan B. ANTHONY. Other women reformers,
like other men reformers, have given part of their time and energy. She has
given to the cause of women every year, every month, every day, every hour and
every moment of her whole life, and every dollar she could beg or earn, and
she has earned thousands and begged thousands more.
LOVE AND GRATITUDE HERS
"To most women it is given to have returned to them in double measure
the love of the children they have nurtured. To you, Miss ANTHONY, belongs by
right as to no other woman in the world's history, the love and gratitude of
all women in every country of the civilized globe. We, your daughters in the
spirit, rise up to-day and call you blessed.
"In those far-off days when our mothers' mothers sat contented in the
darkness, you, our champion, sprang forth, to battle for us, equipped and shining
inspired by (line unreadable) of the apostles and martyrs, and the heat of your
battle has lasted more than fifty years. Two generations of men be between the
time when, in the early fifties, you and Mrs. Cady STANTON sat together in New
York state, writing over the cradles of her babies those trumpet calls to freedom
that began and carried forward the emancipation of women, and the day, eighteen
months ago, when that great audience in berlin rose to do you honor, thousands
of women from every country, in the civilized world, silent, with full eyes
and lumps in their throats, because of what they owed you. Of such as you were
the lines of the poet KENTS written:
"They shall be remembered forever,
They shall be alive forever,
They shall be speaking forever.
The people shall bear them forever."
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Susan B. ANTHONY was born February 15, 1820, at the foot of "Old Graylock,"
a spur of the Green mountains, about a mile east of the village of Adams, Mass.
The home in which she first saw the light of day is a substantial two-story frame
dwelling, made from timber given her father by her grandfather, with the proviso
that he go up into the mountains and hew the timber himself. This he did, and
his father-in-law gave him the land on which the house was built.
This house still stands, remarkably well preserved, and was visited by Miss
ANTHONY in 1897, when she was the guest of the Historical and Scientific Society
of Berkshire.
Miss ANTHONY came of a rugged Yankee stock, her father, Daniel ANTHONY, belonging
to the strictest Quaker sect, and her mother, Lucy REED, being a Baptist. Miss
ANTHONY was a descendant of a long line of distinguished ancestry on both the
paternal and the maternal sides of the family. The genealogical tree of the
ANTHONYS dates back to "William, born in Cologne, Germany, who came to
England during the reign of Edward VI, and was made chief graver of the royal
mint and master of the scales, holding this office-through the reigns of Edward
and Mary, and part of that of Elizabeth," as stated by Miss ANTHONY'S biographer.
"His crest and coat of arms are entered in the royal enumeration."
There were many distinguished lineal descendants, among them being one Dr. Francis
ANTHONY, born in London in 1550, and a handsome monument erected to him in the
Church of St. Bartholomew the Great still stands. The American branch of the
family sprang from the son of Dr. FRANC?S, also a distinguished physician, whose
son, John sailed for America in the ship Hercules, April 16, 1634, settling
in Portsmouth, R. I., Miss ANTHONY is a direct descendant of this early pioneer,
whose descendants were all of the best, sturdy New England blood.
On the maternal side Miss ANTHONY is entitled to the coat of arms of Sir
Brianus de REDE, 1075, of whom her maternal grandfather was a lineal descendant.
Both her parents were of liberal religious tendencies, and remarkably broad
in their views of life and social amenities. Easily traceable in the life and
character of the daughter are those elements of Independence and progression
transmitted through the parents, and later strengthened and intensified by education
and environment.
ASPIRED TO "HIGH SEAT"
In her childish years, Susan belonged to the Quakers, and had an aspiration
to "high seat" dignity, but this tendency she later outgrew, owing
to the fact that her father was finally expelled from the order, as his worldliness
could no longer be endured. Previous to this final severance from the Quakers,
he had received a public reprimand for wearing a comfortable cloak with a long
cape.
Mr. ANTHONY was one of the wealthiest men in that section, being the owner of a large cotton mill, and it was here that Susan earned her first dollar, by taking the place of one of the "hands" who fell ill. Though a man of wealth, Mr. ANTHONY believed thoroughly in equal education and self-support for his sons and daughters.
As this ---- school teaching was about the only vocation open to girls, and for this Susan was thoroughly fitted by attending a select school at home and, later, a boarding school in the village of Hamilton, in the vicinity of Philadelphia. Before attending the school at Hamilton, she was teaching at the age of 17 years, in a Quaker family for $1 a week and board. Her experiences in the Quaker boarding school are graphically set forth in her biography. In 1826, her father removed to Washington county, New York, where he had a large business. His circumstances were such at this time that he was able to build a brick residence, the finest in that part of the country.The wisdom of Mr. ANTHONY'S training his girls to self-support was forcibly illustrated when the financial crash of 1837 caused his failure, and they were able by teaching not only to support themselves, but to assist their father to retrieve his fortunes. The same tireless energy, indomitable will and conscientious perseverance, combined with cheerful disposition and a rare sense of justice, which characterized her later years, made Susan a very successful teacher. At the same time she was paid but $8 a month, while the men received from $24 to $40 for the same work, not as well performed.
ADVOCATES WOMAN'S RIGHTS
This taught her the first lesson in woman's rights and during the fifteen
years which she devoted to teaching she made many eloquent pleas at the conventions
of the new York State Teachers' Association, of which she was an active member,
for the recognition of the principle of equal rights for women in all the honors
and responsibilities of the association, and for higher wages.
In 1845, Miss ANTHONY removed with her family to Rochester, N. Y. On the
day they arrived here, November 14th, her father had only $10, so it was out
of the question for the family to stay in the city over night. Taking the old
gray horse and wagon off the canal boat, with a few necessary articles, the
family went at once to the small farm of thirty-two acres that had been bought
three miles west of the city.
Among the families in the city the ANTHONYS found many who shared with them
their strong anti-slavery convictions. About this time, too, Miss ANTHONY began
to take an active part in the agitation for temperance.
Miss ANTHONY became a teacher in the Canajoharie Academy, Montgomery county,
in 1846, where she joined the Daughters of Temperance and was made secretary.
At a supper given by this society she made her first platform address, on the
temperance question, which in the minds of many villagers signalized her as
"the smartest woman who ever has been in Canajoharie.
PUBLIC LIFE BEGINS
Miss ANTHONY'S public life fairly began in 1852, when she was sent by the
Daughters of Temperance to a state mass meeting of the Sons of Temperance at
Albany. During the discussion among the men she rose to speak, but not allowed
to do it. To speak in public was unheard of in a woman, and her action caused
consternation among the men and horror and indignation against "the bold
thing" among the women present.
The presiding officer, with all the dignity at his command, in a voice that was meant to settle the question forever, then and there, informed Susan that women were not expected to "speak in meeting," but to be spectators only, a rebuke which only acted as a firebrand to one of her temperament.
She, with a dozen others, marched out of the hall and went to the residence of Lydia MOTT, a cousin of Lucretia MOTT, where an impromptu indignation meeting was held. It was then determined to call a woman's temperance meeting in one of the churches on the following evening. This was done, and a notice of it was published by Thurlow WEED, a life-long friend of Miss ANTHONY, in his paper.
During these years, when she was very active in the temperance movement,
Miss ANTHONY'S determination to work for greater freedom for women became the
great motive of her life, and her conviction became established that to secure
it, the privileges of the franchise must be gained for her sex. She allied herself
with the suffrage movement, to which she gave more or less of her time, leaving
the work of other reforms largely to others.
It was about that time that Miss ANTHONY met Elizabeth Cady STANTON. A warm
friendship was formed between them, which lasted during their entire lives,
and for many years they were co-operators in all movements for the advancement
of women. Their friendship was eulogized by Mrs. Harriet Stanton BLATCH, of
London, England, daughter of Mrs. STANTON, at Miss ANTHONY'S 80th birthday jubilee
in Washington.
SENECA FALLS CONVENTION
The first Woman's Rights Convention was held in Seneca Falls in July, 1848, and it was adjourned to meet in Rochester on August 2d. Miss ANTHONY'S father, mother and sister Mary attended it and signed the declaration demanding equal rights for women. On September 8, 1852, Miss ANTHONY went to her first Woman's Rights Convention, which was held in Syracuse. She was one of the leading spirits of the convention. The advanced position taken by it gave rise to discussions and controversies in press and pulpit for months after its close.
No little commotion was caused at a meeting of the State Teachers' Convention
in this city, in 1853 when Miss ANTHONY claimed the privilege of speaking. She
had abandoned teaching the year before, but had a seat in the convention by
paying the fee of $1. While many women teachers were in attendance none of them
had had any word to offer. The - - - - - "Why is the profession of teaching
not as much respected as that of lawyers, doctors and ministers?" was being
discussed near the close of the second day's meeting. A lively debate followed
Miss ANTHONY's request to be heard. After having gained the privilege, she said:
"Mr. President and Gentlemen. I have listened
with attention to your discussion, and I do not think you comprehend the cause
of this disrespect for teachers. So long as society says a woman has not brains
to be a lawyer, a preacher or a doctor, but has sufficient brains to be a teacher,
do you not see that every man of you who condescends to teach school virtually
acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?"
From this time till the year 1895, when the movement for equal wages for
women was checked by the Board of Education in this city, after advancing the
salaries of the men, the woman teachers always had a champion in Miss ANTHONY.
ADOPTS BLOOMER COSTUME
Miss ANTHONY was one of the last of the woman reformers of her time to adopt the bloomer costume. It was not till December of 1852, while on a visit to Mrs. STANTON, that she affected "short skirt and trousers," as she expressed it. At this time Miss ANTHONY also had her hair cut short, as did the other women reformers, and probably this one thing did more to antagonize and prejudice the world against woman suffrage or "woman's rights," as it was then known, than anything else. Miss ANTHONY (2 lines unreadable)of trying to launch two reforms at the same time. What she endured in spirit during the period of a little more than a year in which she clung to her "trousers" is best described in her own words.
LAST WISH EXPRESSED BY MISS ANTHONY
Feeling that her life could not long continue, on Tuesday and Wednesday of
last week Miss ANTHONY was evidently disturbed by a desire to express some wish
in regard to her will, and on Wednesday she said to her sister.
"Write to Anna SHAW immediately and tell her
I 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 I am to it, and I want my last act to be to give
it all I have — to the last cent. Tell Anna SHAW to see that this id done."
In compliance with Miss ANTHONY'S request, Miss Mary
ANTHONY wrote immediately and within an hour after the letter was sent Miss
SHAW unexpectedly arrived at Miss ANTHONY'S home. On the following day, when
she was permitted to see Miss ANTHONY for a 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 "underlies all reforms — the greatest
boon of all — freedom."
Miss ANTHONY urged Miss SHAW and her sister to 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, as ever, dearer to her than
her life.
GjS
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Union and Advertiser
Rochester, NY Monroe Co.
March 13, 1906 page 5
DIED
FLANAGAN--In this city, Saturday, March 10, 1906, Frank J. FLANAGAN, aged 37
years. The deceased is survived by his mother, one brother, John FLANAGAN and
one sister, Mrs. John SCHEUER, all of this city. The funeral will take placed
from the residence of his sister, Mrs. John SCHEUER, No. 15 Catharine street,
to-morrow Tuesday morning at 8:30 o'clock and at St. Bridget's church at 9
o'clock.
HENICKE--Sunday night, March 11, 1906 at the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
Louisa DRECHSHER, No. 21 Benton street, Margaret HENICKE, aged 82 years and 7
months. She is survived by one daughter and five grandchildren. Funeral
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 from the house. Rev. H. Clay PEEPEIS
officiating.
HARTMAN--Entered into rest, Sunday morning, March 11, 1906 at his home, No. 67
Stillson street, Peter HARTMAN, aged 80 years. He is survived by his wife, one
son and three daughters, ten grandchildren and on great-grandchild. Funeral
services will be held at Zion's Lutheran Church Wednesday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock.
JEFFREYS undertakers removed to 33 Chestnut Street, Rochester, NY. PSM
IN MEMORY OF MISS ANTHONY
Meeting Held By The Civic Club Of Lyons
Had Planned Celebration
Arrangements Had Been Made to Hold Exercises in Honor of Miss Anthony's Birthday
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Her Death Caused These to Be Abandoned.
Lyons, March 13 - The members of the Civic Club and many outsiders met in the rooms of the club in Memorial block, this afternoon and held a memorial service in honor of Miss ANTHONY. Extensive plans had been completed for holding a birthday celebration in honor of the famous suffragist, the event to be given in the same place at the same hour on which the memorial was held, but when yesterday the discouraging reports came from the bedside of Miss ANTHONY, all such plans were canceled and with the announcement of the death of their leader the club arranged to turn the fair into a meeting of mourning.
A certain few of the original plans were carried out. The beautiful picture of Miss ANTHONY, from her last portrait, framed in a wide black moulding and signed with her autograph, was presented to the club by its president, Mrs. Lisette C. PARSHALL. This picture stood on the speaker's table draped with an emblem of mourning, not black, but soft chiffon of pure white. The other picture of Miss ANTHONY, which has adorned the walls of the club's room for some time, was draped with purple. Also, as had been previously arranged, Mrs. PARSHALL made a gift to the club of the biography of Miss ANTHONY by Miss HARPER.
The meeting was opened by Mrs. PARSHALL, with a touching
and eloquent eulogy of Miss ANTHONY. Following this the quartette from the Presbyterian
Church, Mrs. PERRICK, and Mrs. R. P. OSTRANDER, Eugene WHITMAN and R. P. OSTRANDER,
sang, "Lead Kindly Light." A brief outline of Miss ANTHONY'S fifty
years of devotion to women was given by one of the club members. Rev. W. N.
WEBBE delivered a panegyric on the departed leader and the quartette sang "Nearer
My God to Thee."
Although not personally known to many of the members
of the Civic Club, Miss ANTHONY was looked upon by all as their guide, their
leader and their inspiring genius. At the close of the meeting badges of mourning
were given out, each surmounted by the picture, in miniature, of Miss ANTHONY.
In place of the messages of congratulation, which the club had planned should
go to the bedside of the great leader, telegrams of condolence on her death
were dispatched to Miss Mary ANTHONY and to Rev. Anna SHAW. The motion was made
and unanimously carried that as an expression of the devotion of the club to
the cause for which Miss ANTHONY had given over a half century of her life,
the club send a contribution to the Oregon cause in loving memory of its leader.
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REMAINS TO LIE IN STATE
Plans For the Funeral of Susan B. Anthony
Guard Of Honor
Young Women to Act as Honorary Bearers
Flood Of Telegrams
Many Expressions of Sorrow from all parts of Country - Services to be Held
To-Morrow at 2 P. M. in Central Church, The Body to Lie in State for Three
Hours
Expressions of sympathy poured into the Anthony home in Madison street, yesterday from nearly every city of the United States, and a great many friends called during the day to look upon the dead face of Susan B. ANTHONY and say a word of comfort to the sister. Relatives and friends completed the final arrangements for the funeral, which is to be held from Central Presbyterian Church to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, the body to lie in state three hours prior to the services. There were but few floral offerings received at the home yesterday, owing to the expressed wish of the family, but many friends instead made pledges to the suffrage work, knowing that these tributes would most acceptably follow out the wishes of Miss ANTHONY herself.
It was at first the wish of the family that the funeral be held in the Unitarian Church, where Miss ANTHONY had long been a worker, but owing to the fact that a great many persons would desire to attend the funeral, it was thought best to accept the offer of Rev. Dr. C. C. ALBERTSON of the use of the Central Church. An offer had also been received from Rev. Dr. W. R. TAYLOR, of Brick Church.
It has been decided to have the body lie in state from 11 A. M. to 2 P. M. to-morrow in Central Church. Persons will be admitted at the Plymouth avenue entrance to the large auditorium, will proceed down the west aisle, view the remains, and pass out the east aisle, using the Church street exit.
Acting as a guard of honor will be members of the Political Equality club and the ANTHONY league, as follow: From 11 A. M. to 12 M., Miss Helen RAYNSFORD and Miss Charlotte DANN; from 12 M. to 1 P.M., Miss Charlotte ANTHONY, Miss Ina KENNON, Miss Florence MOSHER and Miss Florence HOWARD: from 1 to 2 P.M., Miss Gertrude BLACKALL, Miss Gertrude ANTHONY, Mrs. Florence FISHER and Mrs. Florence ALEXANDER.
ORDER OF SERVICES
The funeral services were arranged yesterday by Dr. ALBERTSON, of the Central
Church, and Mr. GANNETT, of the Unitarian Church. They will open with selections
by Elbert NEWTON, organist of the church. The quartette of the church, composed
of J. W. SINGLETON, Miss May MARSH, Mrs. McINTOSH and Mr. KINGSBURY, under the
leadership of George W. WALTON, will sing a selection and lead in the congregational
singing. Three hymns have been selected and will printed for the use of the
congregation, so that all may sing, this, it is believed, being according to
the wish of Miss ANTHONY. They are "It Singeth Low in Every Heart,"
"All as God Wills, Who Wisely H??LS" and "Calmly; Calmly, Lay
her Down," all of a triumphant character. A solo will be sung by Miss May
MARSH, soprano of the church.
The Scripture lesson will be read by Dr. ALBERTSON.
Mr. GANNETT will make a brief address and offer prayer. The other addresses
will be by William Lloyd GARRISON, of Boston, son of the great emancipator of
the same name, and who was a close friend of Miss ANTHONY and an active worker
in her cause; Mrs. Carrie CHAPMAN CATT, who succeeded Miss ANTHONY as president
of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Rev. Anna HOWARD SHAW,
of Philadelphia, the present president of the national association. The interment
will be at the family plot in Mount Hope cemetery.
The trustees of Central Church will act as ushers for the funeral services.
They are J. S. BINGEMAN, I. H. DEWEY, P. V. CRITTENDEN, L. L. WILLIAMS, R. A.
HAMILTON, C. S. HASTINGS, W. H. WRAY, J. A. SEEL and Hiram R. WOOD.
YOUNG WOMEN BEARERS
The active bearers will be relatives of Miss ANTHONY and the trustees of the Unitarian Church and the honorary bearers will be young women students of the University of Rochester, whose names were not announced last night as acceptance had not been received from all.
At the request of the Mayor, flags will be at half mast in the city during
the funeral services, as a general tribute to Miss ANTHONY's memory.
Word was received at the home yesterday that Daniel
R. ANTHONY, Jr., nephew of Miss ANTHONY, and his mother, Mrs. D. R. ANTHONY,
both of Leavenworth Kan., would reach Rochester to-morrow morning. Other relatives
from out of the city who were at the home yesterday were Margaret McLEAN BAKER,
of Chicago; Miss Lucy ANTHONY and Mrs. Helen M. JAMES, of Philadelphia. Others
are expected to-day.
None of the men and women noted in the suffrage movement who are to attend
the funeral to-morrow arrived in the city yesterday. Many are expected to-day
and to-morrow, Mrs. Ella HAWLEY CROSSETT, of Warsaw, president of the New York
State Suffrage Association, Mr. CROSSETT and their daughters telegraphed that
they would be in Rochester to-day. Miss Ida HUSTED HARPER, Miss ANTHONY biographer
and close friend, is also expected.
Miss Mary ANTHONY received a great many callers yesterday,
all extending their sympathy. Dr. SHAW, Miss Lucy ANTHONY and Mrs. W. C. GANNETT
were also at the home with relatives of the family assisting in those details
that must be looked after at such a time.
SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS
Among the many expressions of condolence received by telegraph yesterday
was one from Mrs. May WRIGHT SEWALL, of Indianapolis, honorary president of
the National Council of Women, who inquired the time of the funeral, in order
that the council may hold a memorial meeting in Indianapolis at the same time.
It is probable that similar services will be held in other cities.
Among the scores of telegrams received the following
are of most public interest:
Laura GREGG and Ida PORTER BOYER, Portland, Oregon, suffrage workers in that
state — "Please convey to Miss ANTHONY our strong faith in Oregon's victory."
Mrs. E. D. INGALLS, prominent in W. C. T. U. work, St. Louis - "The
women of America are to be congratulated that the influence of the life of Aunt
Susan can never die."
D. R. ANTHONY, Jr., nephew of Miss ANTHONY, Leavenworth, Kan. - "All
join in love and sympathy. Mother and I start East to-day, arriving in Rochester
Thursday."
May WRIGHT SEWALL, Indianapolis - "My loving sympathy is with you. Please
telegraph time of funeral. Shall arrange memorial service here for same hour."
"YOUNGEST OF US ALL."
M. Carey THOMAS, president of Bryn Mawr College - "Miss GARRETT and
I send the sincerest sympathy to you (Dr. SHAW) and Miss Mary ANTHONY and Miss
Lucy ANTHONY. We rejoice she has been spared the suffering and weakness of old
age for she died the youngest of us all."
Caroline HUIDOBRON, Chilean teacher and lecturer, Boston --"Words fail
to express all I feel. My deepest sympathy to you all."
Kate M. GORDON, corresponding secretary, National American Woman Suffrage
Association, Fort Worth, Texas --"Just learned sad truth. Hard to do without
her splendid optimism. Love and sympathy."
American secretary — "The Council of Jewish Women mourn with you a friend,
a helper, one of the world's best and greatest."
Sarah A. BISSELL secretary, Toledo, O. --"The Toledo Woman Suffrage
Association mourns with you. Miss ANTHONY was our friend and sister and the
mother of our organization. Though dead, she still speaketh and her work also
shall follow her."
Pauline H. ROSENBERG, national president, Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburg
--"We Jewish women join the world in mourning with you the loss of woman's
champion and pioneer, a sister of rare womanly grace and worth. Our sympathy
is yours."
Jessie Coleman ROMAIN, president of Era Club, New Orleans --"The Era
Club sends you heartfelt sympathy. Your loss is our loss and the loss of the
nation."
TRIBUTE FROM THE MAYOR
Among the first to pay tribute to the memory of Miss ANTHONY was Mayor James
G. CUTLER, who said:
"In the death of Susan B. ANTHONY, Rochester loses a citizen who for
many years has commanded the respect and admiration of our people without regard
to belief in or dissent from the principle for which no sacrifice was too great,
no effort too hard for her to make. If she had not been so well and so widely
known as the champion of female suffrage as to overshadow every other interest
in her life, more people would think of her, as might well be done, as the unwearied
worker in every cause for the uplifting not only of her sex but of humanity.
As a mark of respect to her memory I shall request the display of flags of the
city at half mast on the day of her funeral."
Miss Mary ANTHONY received a letter from the Blackwell Medical Society with
a pledge of money for the suffrage work, in lieu of a floral offering. The letter
read:
Dear Miss ANTHONY; The Blackwell Medical Society of this
city have this morning collected ten dollars ($10) "for Oregon." As
soon as all members can be communicated with, the amount will be increased and
the full sum duly forwarded to you. This in your sister's memory, in place of
a floral offering.
Very truly yours,
Harriet M. TURNER
From another friend, whose name the family wishes witheld, this telegram
was received:
"I mourn her who gave me inspiration, courage, help, inspired ‘love
in me and all who knew her. I offer ten dollars toward a memorial fund for her
work."
The regular meeting of the striking printers of Typographical Union No. 15,
at Columbia Hall, yesterday, was adjourned out of respect to the memory of Miss
ANTHONY.
EQUALITY CLUB RESOLUTIONS.
A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Political Equality Club was held
yesterday afternoon to take action on the death of Miss ANTHONY. The following
resolutions were adopted:
Mourning that we shall no longer have the Inspiration of the presence and
personal example of our revered leader, we rejoice that she has been spared
the weakness and suffering of the old age of the body; her spirit knew not age
or weakness.
For more than sixty years she has given to the cause of women every moment,
every thought of her life. To her belongs as to no other woman in the world's
history the love and gratitude of all women. To her mother-heart all women were
her children.
Remembering her oft-expressed wish that the money spent for flowers in her
behalf might have been used to further the suffrage cause, and inasmuch as her
last thought was for the suffrage campaign now being carried on in Oregon.
Resolved. That instead of a floral offering at this time, we appropriate
$86 for the Oregon Fund.
Resolved. That to her devoted sister and co-worker we extend our tender sympathy
and affection, sorrowing with her sorrow, and rejoicing in her joy of sisterhood
to one so noble and beloved.
At a meeting of the Principals' and Teachers' Association yesterday afternoon,
at the Board of Education rooms, the following resolutions were adopted, after
being presented by a committee composed of Mrs. A. M. GALBRAITH, Miss F. A.
REICHENBACH, Miss H. F. SAMAINE, George H. WALDEN, Mark W. WAY, and Herbert
S. WEET:
There passed away to another life this morning a
woman, a citizen of Rochester, who for more than two generations has been known
the world around as the champion of her sex in all questions relating to equal
opportunities.
Recognizing the great work she has done for women,
especially in the field of education, and more especially in the educational
work of Rochester. It seems fitting that the teachers of the public schools
of this city should give utterance to their appreciation of her worth, her work
and her achievements.
The life of Susan B. ANTHONY has not yet been written;
nor is this a fitting time to attempt a review of the noble work she has so
grandly carried on; but as a woman with noble ideas for her sex; as a wise counselor
looking toward the uplift of all womankind; as a citizen of our city and a friend
of teachers, we can say without fear of challenge that she had no equal.
Therefore, resolved, that we, the public school teachers
of Rochester assembled, hereby express our appreciation of the lofty motives
of Miss ANTHONY and her unselfish devotion to duty, and that we extend our heartfelt
sympathy to the loving and devoted sister in this her hour of bereavement.
At a meeting of the Socialist party last night the following resolutions
were adopted:
Whereas, The Inevitable fate which awaits all mankind
has at last overtaken our revered and venerable fellow citizen, Susan B. ANTHONY,
and,
Whereas, We consider that her life work stands second
only to that of Lewis H. MORGAN, among the citizens of Rochester.
Resolved. That Local Rochester Socialist Party extend
its deepest sympathy to her dearly beloved sister, Mary, relatives and co-workers
in the suffragist movement, and be it further.
Resolved. That the Socialist party reaffirms its
adherance to the principle of equal suffrage for all citizens, regardless of
sex.
At the request of Mrs. John H. JUDGE, the president, they rose and bowed
their heads in silent prayer. It was an impressive sight. For a movement, not
the rustle of a gown, disturbed the stillness. It was a spontaneous offering
of respect to a great woman.
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ACTION OF THE LEGISLATURE
Memorial to Miss ANTHONY Adopted at the Session of the Senate
Albany, March 13 - Susan B. ANTHONY's life and labors were recognized by the Legislature when the Senate to- day, upon motion of Senator W. W. ARMSTRONG, seconded by Senator M. E. LEWIS, adopted by a rising vote, the following tribute:
Whereas, At her residence in the city of Rochester at an early hour this morning, the career of Miss Susan B. ANTHONY came to a close, and.
Whereas, Because of the distinguished character of her services during the eighty-six years of her life, she had become one of the most famous and remarkable women of her time, and
Whereas, because of her unceasing labor, undaunted courage and unselfish devotion to many philanthropic purposes, and the cause of equal political rights for women, her death creates a loss which will be mourned not alone in this country, but throughout the world, therefore,
Resolved, if the Assembly concur, that the sympathy of the people of the state be extended to her family in their bereavement, and that a copy hereof be transmitted to her sister, Miss Mary S. ANTHONY, at Rochester, N. Y.
In offering the resolution Senator ARMSTRONG read the editorial on Miss ANTHONY in yesterday's Democrat and Chronicle, saying: "It recites some facts we may have forgotten."
When the resolution was presented, Senator GRADY said he wanted to do nothing indelicate, but he did not believe the Senate should place itself on record in relation to Miss ANTHONY'S work for woman suffrage.
Senator ARMSTRONG said the resolution was very carefully worded and suggested that it be read again for the Senator's benefit.
Senator GRADY said he mourned Miss ANTHONY'S death as a most estimable woman
who had undoubtedly performed excellent service in many fields.
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SILENT TRIBUTE TO DEAD LEADER
New York, March 13 - A tribute to the memory of the dead leader, Susan B.
ANTHONY, more eloquent than words was that by the 150 women assembled to-day
at the Hotel Astor at the twentieth birthday luncheon of the Society for Political
Study.
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ACCIDENT AT CAR BARNS
Newark, March 13 - Stanley WEAVER, a Newark laborer, nearly lost his leg
in an accident at the car barns of the Rochester, Syracuse & Eastern trolley
road this morning. He was standing on one of the trucks while the engine was
"chucking" cars into the car barns, when one of the stakes pulled
out and his right leg below the knee was caught between the engine and trucks.
Dr. W. F. JESSUP was summoned and he found it severely bruised and the bone
on the inside of the leg splintered. It was decided to send WEAVER to the Rochester
City Hospital where he went to-day and where it will be necessary for him to
remain about a month.
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WORKMAN INJURED WHEN FLOOR FELL
Accident at Medina - Part of Upper Floor of Warehouse Gave Way.
Medina, March 13 - John BOWEN was badly injured and three or four other workmen
more or less shaken up in an accident at the Robbins warehouse in Starr street
to-day. The upper floor of the rear portion of the building is leased to S.
A. Cook & Company for the storage of tow in bales. To-day BOWEN and a gang
of other workmen were engaged in tiering up the bales, when without a moment's
warning of the floor fell with its heavy load of many tons of tow.
There was nothing bulky stored on the main floor and there was nothing to
prevent the entire mass of tow, shattered girders, broken beams and twisted
steel rods from falling to the ground, a distance of about twenty feet. One
of the men succeeded in jumping to the front section of the flooring, but the
rest went down with the wreckage, the most of them escaping with bruises and
shaking up from being caught between the falling bales.
BOWEN, who is a heavy man, a former member of the Buffalo police force, was
not fortunate. He was struck by a broken beam and jammed between the bales,
resulting in broken ribs and various bruises and cuts. Dr. ROGAN, who was called,
did not think that he had any internal injuries, but could not, of course, be
certain until later. The escape of all of the workers is considered remarkable.
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OLDEST RESIDENT OF TOWN OF OGDEN
Death of Mrs. Theodocia Parmelee at the Age of Ninety-Three
Spencerport, March 13 - Mrs. Theodocia PARMELEE, the oldest resident of the
town, died this afternoon, at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. George BURNE,
about a mile east of Ogden Center. She was born in the town of Parma in 1813.
Her father, Augustus MATHER, came from New Hampshire. When she was twenty-nine
years old she married John B. PARMELEE, and they moved into the town of Ogden
on the farm from where she died. Her husband died in 1885. Since then she had
lived with her son, Levi PARMELEE, until the last two or three years. She was
a member of the Ogden Center Presbyterian church for sixty-four years. She taught
school in Spencerport before the village was settled. The business places were
then at Ogden Center.
She was the last survivor of her father's family.
She leaves one son, Levi PARMELEE, two granddaughters, Mrs. William MARTIN,
of Spencerport, and Mrs. George BURNE, and six great grandchildren.
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JULIA WHITBECK ANDERSON
Death of Estimable Woman, Daughter of Late J. B. Whitman
Mrs. Julia WHITBECK ANDERSON, daughter of the late J. B. WHITBECK, died at the Lee Hospital on Monday night, in the 64th year of her age. Mrs. ANDERSON had lived for the greater part of her life in and about Rochester, having been born at Avon and educated at Inghram University, Le Roy. She was widely known and highly esteemed, a woman of lovable character and gracious manner.
Mrs. ADERSON was a woman of culture and scholarly tastes, and until the hour when she was stricken with her last illness entered into study and research with all the ardor and zeal of the student. She was an accomplished musician, playing not less than seven instruments, among them the church organ, and had been heard with much pleasure upon the rare occasion when she played in this city.
In 1863, on her marriage to Albert ANDERSON, the deceased removed to new York city. Mr. ANDERSON died about five years ago, shortly after he and Mrs. ANDERSON returned to this city to live.
Mrs. ANDERSON was a teacher of a young woman's class in Brick Presbyterian
Sunday school, and, while not a member of Brick Church, was chosen as teacher
of the class by reason of her popularity and fitness, and tact and adaptability
for leadership. The class is one of the most progressive in the school. For
a year Mrs. ANDERSON was an officer of the Young Women's Christian Association,
and was at one time superintendent of the Woman's Home in Fitzhugh street. She
leaves one daughter, Miss Augusta S. ANDERSON and one sister, Mrs. A. A. WHITBECK.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon from Brick Church,
Rev. William R. TAYLOR, D. D., and Rev. G. B. F. HALLOCK, D. D., officiating.
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DEATH OF MOSES T. KNAPP
In Business of Painter Contractor in City for Twenty-five Years.
Moses Thomas KNAPP, a well known painter contractor of the city, died at 10 o'clock yesterday morning at his home, No. 168 Park avenue, aged 62 years. Mr. KNAPP was born in new York city on July 18, 1844, and when 14 years of age went to Stratford, Conn. When 37 years of age he came to Rochester, and lived here until his death.
Mr. KNAPP had been in the business of painter contractor since he came to
this city. He was a member of the Builders' Exchange, vice-president of the
Rochester Master Painters' Association, a member of the Industrial Association
of Master House Painters and Decorators of the United States and Canada, and
a member of Washington Lodge, I. O. G. T. He leaves his wife, two sons and two
daughters, Moses Thomas, Jr., Elmer B., Gertrude D. and Nellie B., and a sister,
Mrs. M. E. STOTT.
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The funeral of Dennis H. ALLEN, a farmer employee of the city waterworks
department, was held yesterday morning from the home of his sister, Mrs. Andrew
WEIDMAN, No. 261 Smith street, at 9:30 o'clock, and from Holy Apostles' Church
at 10 o'clock. Solemn requiem mass was celebrated by Rev. James A. HICKEY, pastor
of the church, assisted by the choir. Albert WAGNER, John FOGARTY, Stephen BOYLE,
Edward BADHORN, James CULLEN and Jeremiah CORCORAN, employees in the Waterworks
Department, acted as pall bearers. There were many beautiful floral offerings.
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Walter ELLIS, of No. 22 Elizabeth street, died at the Municipal Hospital
yesterday evening, aged 29 years. The body was removed to No. 253 North street.
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Georgiana, widow of Martin KRAUSNECK, died at her home, No. 7 Thorn street,
yesterday, aged 75 years. She leaves one son, Julius M. KRAUSNECK, and one daughter,
Christine KRAUSNECK.
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TO BUILD TRANSFORMER STATION
Vice-President Frank A. DUDLEY, of the Niagara Falls Electrical Transmission
Company, has announced that his company will erect a transformer station at
Niagara Falls. Exactly where the station will stand and when the work will be
begun, Mr. DUDLEY could not say. The company has an application for a franchise
pending in this city.
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DIED
ANTHONY - In this city, at her residence, No. 17 Madison street, on the morning
of Tuesday, March 13, 1906, Miss Susan B. ANTHONY, aged 86 years.
-The funeral will take place from the Central Presbyterian Church on Thursday
afternoon at 2 o'clock. The church will be open from 11 to 1 on Thursday, that
those who wish may look upon Miss ANTHONY'S face again. Burial private. Please
omit flowers.
KRAUSNECK - Tuesday, March 13, 1906, Georgiana KRAUSNECK, widow of the late
Martin KRAUSNECK, aged 75 years.
-Funeral Thursday at 2 P. M., from the house, No. 7 Thorn street.
KNAPP - At his home, No. 168 Park avenue, at 10 o'clock A. m., Monday, March
12, 1906, Moses Thomas KNAPP, aged 62 years. He leaves a wife and two sons and
two daughters, Moses Thomas, Jr., Elmer B., Gertrude D., and Nellie B., and
a sister, Mrs. M. E. STOTT.
-Funeral at the home at 2:30 P. M. Thursday. Friends are invited to attend.
CROUSE - Tuesday afternoon, March 13, 1906, at the residence of his mother,
Mrs. Hattie M. CROUSE, No. 383 Plymouth avenue, Ralph R. CROUSE, aged 6 years
and 9 months. He is survived by his mother, three brothers and one sister.
-The funeral services will be held Friday afternoon, March 16, 1906, at 2:30
o'clock from the house.
WHEELER - In this city, Monday evening, March 12, 1906, at the City Hospital,
Emma Mabel STROPEL WHEELER, of No. 247 North Union street, aged 23 years and
10 months. Deceased is survived by her husband, Louis C. WHEELER, and one son,
Elmer L., her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. STROBEL; two brothers, Joseph
C. and Herbert L. STROBEL, of this city.
-The remains have been removed to the home of her parents, No. 230 Scio street,
from which place the funeral will take place, Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock,
and 3 o'clock from the second Baptist Church. Interment in Mount Hope cemetery.
Batavia, March 14 - Mr. and Mrs E. Prentice ROGERS of Darien to-day quietly celebrated the 67th anniversary of their marriage. Mr. Rogers is 93 and Mrs. ROGERS 88. Both enjoying fairly good health and are able to attend to their daily household duties.
Mr. ROGERS is the oldest resident of Darien, having lived in the county for 91 years. He came to Covington, now Pavilion when he was two years old, coming from Lyme, Conn., with his parents. He was the oldest of ten children, seven of whom are living. his father lived to be 88 and his mother 101. His wife was Marion BECKWITH of Lyme, Conn. There has not been a death in his family or in the families of his children. Mr. ROGERS cast his first Presidential ballot for William Henry Harrison and his last, the 18th, for Theodore Roosevelt.
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HOUSE DAMAGED BY FIRE
Le Roy, March 14 - This afternoon, fire destroyed a house owned by Michael
O'SHEA, about two miles northwest of the village. The house was occupied by
Mrs. John CHRISKINS and employed in Buffalo. At the time the fire broke out,
Mrs. CHRISKINE and her children were at the house of a neighbor a short distance
away and the fire had gained such headway before it was discovered that nothing
could be done toward saving the property. (Didn't get the rest)
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DUMB MAN CHARGED BY WIFE WITH THE USE OF DISORDERLY LANGUAGE
Woman Tells Fifth Precinct Police He Threatened to Kill Her - Chased Her
With a Poker
John HOLLAND, said by the police of the Fifth precinct to be without the power of speech, was arrested last night on a charge of violating section 675 of the Penal Code, which section relates to good order. It is alleged that HOLLAND annoyed his wife by disorderly acts and language by chasing her around the house with a poker and telling her that he intended to kill her. While HOLLAND couldn't shout his threats, he is said to have used his fingers with terrifying effect.
Mrs. HOLLAND, who has been threatened on at least one other occasion by her husband, is said to be in delicate health. She feared that her husband, who had been drinking, would carry out his threat, and went to the Fifth precinct station. Lieutenant O'GRADY was on duty. He sent Policeman John DWYER and Rector to HOLLAND'S home, No. 667 Emerson street. When the policemen reached the house, HOLLAND, they say, was chasing his wife with a poker. They detected the odor of liquor on his breath, though he was not intoxicated. They arrested him, and he was taken to the Fifth precinct station and later to the Exchange street station.
It is said by the police that HOLLAND has been arrested before. He was before
Judge CHADSEY in December, on a charge of assault in the third degree. His wife
was complainant at that time. Judge CHADSEY suspended sentence and HOLLAND was
paroled in charge of an agent for six months. In view of the other arrest, he
may be dealt with more harshly in police court this morning.
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MARRIED
GILBERT - BROWN - At the home of the bride's parents, Wednesday, March 14,
1906, by the Rev. Mr. McLEAN, J. Marsden GILBERT and Sybil Louise BROWN.
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DIED
KNAPP - At his home, No. 168 Park avenue, at 10 o'clock A. M., Monday, March
12 1906, Moses Thomas KNAPP, aged 62 years. He leaves a wife and two sons and
two daughters, Moses Thomas, Jr., Elmer B., Gertrude D., and Nellie B., and
a sister, Mrs. M. E. STOTT.
-The funeral service will be held Thursday afternoon, March 15, 1906, at
2:20 o'clock from the house.
CULVER - At the Homeopathic Hospital, Tuesday, March 13, 1906, Lansing Stewart,
infant son of Alice STEWART and Clarence Crouch CULVER.
-The interment took place Wednesday afternoon.
MABEE - Milton E., son of George and May MABEE.
-Burial from No. 317 Meigs street, Thursday, March 15, 1906, at 2:30 P. M.
WALKER - At her home, West Henrietta, Wednesday, March 14, 1906, Harriet
L., widow of Charles E. WALKER, M. D., aged 49 years. She is survived by two
sons, Allen Vincent and Leland WALKER; also one daughter, Ethel WALKER.
-Funeral at her home at 1:30 P. M., on Friday.
MILLER - Entered into rest, in this city, Wednesday, March 14, 1906, at 12:45
A. M., Mrs. Sophia MILLER, formerly of Penfield, N. Y., aged 82 years. She leaves
two sons, P. E. MILLER, of Macedon, N. Y., and A. W. MILLER, of Brighton, N.
Y.; two daughters, Mrs. M. KRAMER, of No. 68 Meng place, and Mrs. M. KUMMUNCH,
of Penfield Center.
-Funeral services Friday afternoon at the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
M. KRAMER, No. 68 Meng place, at 1:30 o'clock. Interment at Penfield cemetery.
LOVE, HONOR, RESPECT VOICED IN TRIBUTES TO SUSAN B. ANTHONY
Women and Men Who Knew the Leader and Her Work Heard in Eulogy at
Funeral Services Held in Central Church in Presence of Hundreds
Unbroken Line Passes Before Casket as the Body Lies in State for Three Hours
Preceding the Service - many Unable to Gain Admittance to Church - At the
Grave
Evidences of love for Susan B. ANTHONY were apparent throughout yesterday, before, during and after the funeral services of the leader of the woman's suffrage movement. It was a dreary day that brought no cheer to those who were taking final leave of a woman whose name and fame had reached the remote places of the earth. During part of the forenoon and until 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the body, in a steel-gray casket resting upon a sombre catafaique, lay in state and was viewed by thousands in Central Church. The funeral took place in the afternoon, and the day was far advanced and night was approaching when the relatives turned from the graveside.
Shortly before the time appointed for the removal of the body to the church, the family and immediate friends who were at the ANTHONY home in Madison street assembled in the room where the body lay. They passed before it one by one and paid their last homage of love. After a time the casket was placed in the hearse, various floral offerings that had been sent by friends and relatives were placed in a carriage, and four friends of the family entered another carriage. The cortege proceeded to the church, where the casket was placed upon the catafaique that had been prepared to receive it. Along the front of the rostrum was a row of palms, and in front of them were a sheaf of wheat and bouquets of white roses. On the casket was a bunch of violets, and an American flag covered a part of the lower end. At the head was a floral offering from the ANTHONY League.
Outside the church awaiting the arrival of the body was a throng, filled with the desire once more to see the face, though cold in death, of the woman who was esteemed by every person in Rochester who had heard her voice, and loved by all who had been admitted to the circle of her friends. In one of the anterooms of the church were the white gowned young women who were to guard the body as it lay in state. Rev. C. C. ALBERTSON, pastor of the church, and a detachment of ten policemen were also present.
GUARD OF YOUNG WOMEN
The young women who were to act as the bodyguard were chosen from among the members of the Political Equality Club and the ANTHONY League. All wore white. The bodyguard included Miss Charlotte GANNETT, Miss Charlotte DANN, Miss Helen BOWLBY, Miss Charlotte ANTHONY, Miss Helen RAYNSFORD, Miss Ina KENNON, Miss Florence MOSHER, Miss Florence HOWARD, Miss Gertrude BLACKALL, Miss Marion MOSHER, Mrs. Florence FISHER and Mrs. Florence ALEXANDER. Two of the guards stood at the head of the casket and two at the foot. They were relieved at intervals by other members of the bodyguard.
As soon as the casket arrived at the church and was placed upon the catafaique, four members of the bodyguard took their stations, policemen were stationed at the various entrances and in front of and a short distance from the casket, and then the doors of the church were opened. The people who came to look upon the face of Miss ANTHONY for the last time entered by way of the main entrance on Plymouth avenue north, proceeded down the main aisle and in single file passed before the casket and between the bodyguard and file of policemen, and out through the Church street exit. The stream was continuous, but was in greatest volume between 12 and 1 o'clock. The aggregate was estimated at between 8,000 and 10,000. The doors were closed at the latter hour and the preparations for the funeral services were then completed.
The doors were to be reopened at 1:30 o'clock. When the doors were closed
at the end of the period during which the body had lain in state, hundreds who
desired to remain during the services were already assembled at the four entrances
of the church. Friends who were to occupy reserved seats were admitted at the
south door on Plymouth avenue. They were admitted whenever they presented themselves
at the door, but they had come in such numbers that at 1:35 that door was also
closed. After that hour only those who had an appointed part in the services
were admitted at that entrance.
MULTITUDE IN THE STREET
Every minute the multitude in the street was augmented. The crowd overflowed the sidewalks into the streets. Many who did not wish to stand on the pavement and dodge cars, carriages and wagons, crossed to the opposite side and stood along the curb, waiting for the doors to be opened.
As the minutes passed the snow that had been falling continuously seemed to increase in quantity. Most of the waiting crowd were provided with umbrellas, and when these were raised the street appeared to be a mass of moving, heaving, rounded hillocks. Persons along the outskirts of the crowd at the various doors would walk first one way and then another, trying to gain a place nearer the doors. Despairing of success at one door they would go to another, but always the solid wall of backs of the people ahead proved an impassable barrier.
Within the church the policemen were on guard at all of the entrances, and as the time appointed for the opening of the doors approached the line of officers before the casket was reduced in order to strengthen the guard at the doors. Forming a second line behind the officers were the ushers.
At 1:30 o'clock the north door on the Plymouth avenue side and the door on the Church street side were opened, and immediately the crowd surged forward. There were four officers at the Plymouth avenue entrance and so great was the flood of people that for a moment it looked as if the guards would be swept aside. They were facing a surging, pushing, mass of humanity.
Not content with pushing from the rear women and men climbed upon the stone balustrades at the sides of the steps and pushed their way into the flanks of the crowd that was already congested before the entrance. At the Church street entrance conditions were the same. A women accompanied by a man approached. They surveyed the situation and he lifted her from the ground to the top of the balustrade. Four other women he assisted in the same way and then followed them. The entire party edged its way into the crowd and thus gained a few feet in space and a few seconds in time, over those who were endeavoring to enter in the conventional manner.
As soon as the doors were opened the multitude filled the vestibules, forced back the ushers and flowed down the aisles. At 1:30 o'clock the doors were opened and at 1:45 o'clock every seat in the church, except those reserved for the immediate family and friends, was filled, and perhaps 300 remained standing at the rear of the auditorium. The doors were again closed. Within the church practically every nationality, every plane of life and culture, every religious domination and shade of religious and political belief found in this city, was represented in the great audience. It was a visible demonstration and testimony of the love akin to veneration felt by the people of Rochester for Susan B. ANTHONY, a woman who battled for more than fifty years for a principle.
MANY SOCIETIES REPRESENTED
A large part of the great auditorium was filled by the representatives of various societies and bodies before the doors were thrown open to the general public. Among those officially represented were the Local Council of Women, the Political Equality Club, the Women's Educational and industrial Union, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Board of Education, the public school principals, the Normal School and others. Some time before the service began all of the seats on the floor, in the public galleries and in the choir galleries were taken, and the people began to take such seats as they could make for themselves on the gallery steps and to arrange themselves standing in the rear.
While the people were coming in some of those who had not viewed the remains came forward to the casket, but the suggestion was immediately acted upon by so many persons that the ushers had to refuse the privilege. Members of the College Women's Club took places in the choir gallery to the east of the pulpit, and ministers of the city occupied that to the west of the pulpit. Other clergymen, representing practically every denomination in Rochester, were seated in the audience.
Certain parts of the church were reserved for the members of the Political Equality Club, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the members of the Unitarian Church.
CHURCH TRUSTEES USHERS
The ushers were trustees of Central Church, J. S. BINGEMAN, I. H. DEWEY, P. V. CRITTENDEN, L. L. WILLIAMS, R. A. HAMILTON, C. S. HASTINGS, W. H. WRAY and Hiram R. WOOD, on the floor of the auditorium, and the members of the Men's Club in the galleries.
The coming of the honorary bearers, in their black gowns and black mortar boards, announced that the service would soon begin. The heads of three of the city departments came in together and took places reserved for them at the front of the church. They were Corporation Counsel W. W. WEBB, City Engineer Edwin A. FISHER and Commissioner of Public Safety George A. GILMAN.
Miss Anna A. GORDON, vice-president of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, came from the national headquarters at Evanston, Ill., that she might bring a floral greeting from the national organization. Among those who sat near the mourners were Harriet Taylor UPTON, treasurer of the National Woman Suffrage Association, of Warren, O., and her secretary, Miss HAWSER, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith MILLER, of Geneva; Mrs. Elizabeth Wright OSBORNE, of Auburn; Mrs. E. H. MERRELL, president of the Political Equality Club of Syracuse, a delegation from Buffalo, and delegations and representatives from various organizations in many villages and cities about Rochester attended the funeral exercises.
FLOWERS IN PROFUSION
"Consolation," one of Mendelssohn's beautiful "songs without words," the last organ number preceding the service, by Elbert NEWTON, was being played when the speakers took their places and the mourners came to the seats reserved for them in the front center part of the church. The casket and the platform and floor near it were by that time covered with jonquils, carnations, violets, roses and other flowers, which the ushers were bringing in wreaths and bouquets up to the beginning of the service.
It was some minutes after 2 o'clock when Miss Mary S. ANTHONY, accompanied by relatives, entered the church and took the seats reserved for them. Miss ANTHONY appeared worn almost to the point of collapse by the grief and stress of body and mind she had endured. Throughout the service, however, she maintained a remarkable command of herself. It was only at the close of the service, when, after hundreds of persons had come forward to see the dead, and she, too, had looked for the last time upon the face of her sister, that her grief seemed about to break through her self-control. She pressed her handkerchief hard to her lips, and, though her face was gray and drawn with anguish, kept back the sounds of grief that seemed struggling for utterance.
MEMBERS OF FAMILY PRESENT
Seated with Miss ANTHONY were the relatives whose names follow: Mrs. Hannah BOYLES, a cousin, and her daughter, of Chicago; Mrs. George BAKER, of Chicago, a niece; Mrs. Alvan T. JAMES, a niece, and her husband, of Philadelphia; Arthur A. MOSHER, a nephew, and Mrs MOSHER, of New York; Wendell P. MOSHER, of Minneapolis, a nephew; Miss Lucy E. ANTHONY, of Philadelphia, a niece; Joshua ANTHONY, of Stillwater, N. Y., a cousin; Mrs. Anna O. ANTHONY, of Leavenworth, a sister-in-law, and her son, Daniel D. ANTHONY, former mayor of Leavenworth; Leon Brooks BACON, of Cleveland, a nephew, and D. M. ANTHONY, a cousin, and his family, of this city.
Those who had places on the platform were: Rev. C. C. ALBERTSON, D. D., pastor of Central Church; Rev. William C. GANNETT, pastor of the Unitarian Church; James G. CUTLER, mayor of Rochester; Mrs. Carrie Chapman CATT, resident of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs. R. Jerome JEFFREY, representing colored women; Rev. Dr. Anna Howard SHAW, of Philadelphia, one of the leading suffragists and a personal friend of Miss ANTHONY; Dr. Rush RHEES, president of the University of Rochester, and Rev. William S. CARTER, assistant pastor of Central Church.
When the relatives were seated, the church quartette sang a hymn by John W. CHADWICK, "It Singeth Low in Every Heart." The members of the quartette were John W. SINGLETON, Miss May MARSH, Mrs. McINTOSH and Charles KINGSBURY, Dr. ALBERTSON then read from the Scriptures selections from the ninetieth Psalm, the fifth chapter of Job, the seventy-first Psalm, the fifth chapter of II. Corinthians, the first chapter of Phillippians and the fourth chapter of II. Timothy.
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
The prayer of Dr. GANNETT, which followed, seemed more of the nature of a song of Thanksgiving than of prayer. Almost a smile of exaltation was upon the face of the pastor who had had as a member of his church so long the great suffragist as he expressed exultant gratitude for the life that had been lived. The prayer follows, in part: "It is like the close of a day in which the winds have been high and there have been storm and stress, and the air has been clear because of the storm and stress. Now the day is done and the shadows are lengthening, and we sit in the first moment of the afterglo, and the skies are still bright with the sun that has set. Let us lift our prayer of trust and thanksgiving for the glory of the day.
"Father, what have we to say when we stand in the presence of death? We have this to say, that Thou art never so much good God to us as at this moment. When the voice to which there is no echo comes to the home and says, ‘It is I, fear not; I am thy Father,' then something passes, and the quiet settles on the face, and the eyes close, and the hands are folded on the breast - and we call it death. Then in all the sadness that which trusts in us mounts in response to the voice, and in the wonder and mystery of death there comes the glory of assurance that it is but the shadow of the great white horses. Our hearts begin to rise in strains triumphant.
"Here we come in the mood of sadness to-day, to listen to what can be taught of deathlessness, to catch the supreme message. Father, we thank Thee. Sad ? Our hearts are aching, but still we come in gladness, Father; thanksgiving fills our hearts.
"For what do we thank Thee? First, for herself, her womanly self, the gentleness of her spirit, which loved the home enough to pledge herself to make the homes of earth more beautiful, as they are wherever work of hers has reached.
"We thank Thee for the way in which Thou didst commission her to a great service. We thank Thee for the star of a new justice that rose in the sky because of it. We thank Thee for the way in which she took her part in the work, saying: ‘I will go in the name of the unknown right, to make it real; I will go in the name of the forgotten justice, to make it known; I will go out to the many voiceless ones, that I may make their voices heard in the earth:
"We thank Thee for the heart of beauty in her, for her dauntless spirit, for her high courage. How she met contumely, but was not cast back by it! We thank Thee for her utter selflessness; all virtues within her made one cause to which she gave herself. She learned anew the way of Jesus, who said that they that would find their life should lose it."We thank Thee for the service of this life. We thank Thee for the world made whiter by it. We thank Thee for a justice made more just since she has lived among us and spoken. We thank Thee that she was tired, yet tireless. We thank Thee for the beauty of a new womanhood dawning in the skies above and about us, filling them with an excellence that was not there before. We thank Thee for the dream she dreamt of man and woman in a true togetherness, in a perfect equalness, so walking, two and two, through suffering and success, helping to make the world better.
"Father, we thank Thee for all these, and we thank Thee that there is something left for us to do. We thank Thee that the dream did not come real, that she dreamed a larger dream than could be fulfilled. We know that Thou didst say to her ‘I have caused thy eyes to look upon the land, but thou shalt not enter into it. So we take it as her request to us that we finish the unfinished work; that we fill the new land with her dream made real; that we establish the new justice and the new reign of righteousness.
"Rest for her is an impossible thought. Wherever her spirit is, God speed it in a larger errand — speed her on her way where angels walk. God bless her ! We fear nothing for her, for we hear her words,'Failure is impossible, for God is God. God bless her; take her in her brave gentleness; comfort and inspire those whom she leaves. With Him we leave her and ourselves."
After the prayer Miss May MARSH, of the Central Church choir, sang Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar." The first address was made by William Lloyd GARRISON, of Lawrence, Mass, son of the famous abolitionist with whom Miss ANTHONY labored. Mr. GARRISON'S address follows:
ADDRESS BY WM. LLOYD GARRISON"The world has long discerned and duly acknowledged the noble character and service of Susan B. ANTHONY. On each recurring birthday of her ripened years she has received the respectful homage of men and the passionate tribute of grateful women. Devoid of vanity and obvious of self, her constant thought was of the great movement to which her life was given.
"The change in woman's outlook and opportunity since her early days was full of cheer, but the self-evident justice of her cause made the delay in granting it a source of wonder and constant disappointment. No rest could come in that active mind and tireless body while a legal shackle resting upon her sisters. Star after star broke out in the darkened firmament to which her eyes unceasingly turned. Four states of the Union lifted from women all political disabilities; Great Britain and Scandinavia yielded a modified suffrage, and in New Zealand and Australia the battle was fully won. Yet how our friend longed for the complete triumph in her own land: She was willing to bear the ills of age if only the jubilee could be sounded while her living ears could receive the glad tidings.
"Remembering Miss ANTHONY'S indifference to personal eulogy, which she invariably turned to the credit of the cause, I shall not try to repeat in varying words the tribute of love and appreciation so often paid. Let me rather recur to half a century ago, when the fresh and earnest Quaker schoolmistress entered upon her consecration to the cause of the imbruted slave and to the uplifting of oppressed womanhood. Out of the first movement the second grew, and what is more natural than the impulse which led the new disciple to seek acquaintance with the abolition leaders?
BEGINNING OF MOVEMENT
"Into my father's crowded household she came a welcome guest, a helper and not a hindrance. Unassuming, earnest, sympathetic, attractive to children, she won easily and completely my mother's heart. It was a time of stress for the tired housekeeper, who, with scanty means, must furnish hospitality to all coming in the name of human liberty. Some were indeed burdens, but more were sources of delight and like ‘Susan,' which she became at once, even to infant tongues, melted into the family life like those of kin. Indeed, the ties of unpopular reformers are often closer than those of blood.
"At that time the struggle for woman's right was already launched. The London Anti-Slavery World's Convention, in 1840, where the American women delegates were refused admission on account of sex — with Elizabeth Cady STANTON, Lucretia MOTT and Mary GREW among the rejected — marks the inception of the organized woman's movement which later developed.
"The heroic GRIMKE sisters, of South Carolina, and Abby KELLY were the first to tread the bitterly hostile path of public speaking, forced to assert their rights as women to plead for black men in chains. Lucy STONE, in her charming youth, fresh from Oberlin, a curiosity as the product of a college, bad followed closely these elder pioneers. But ridicule and coarse invective, verging on the brutal, was still to be encountered, and Miss ANTHONY faced them with undaunted courage. Personal dangers were little feared, but to tender and sensitive woman the constant wounding of the spirit to which they were subjected, both from men and from unthinking and conventional women, was indeed a trial.
FRIENDSHIP WITH GREAT MEN
‘In retrospect, however, these indignities counted as naughty, a thousand times offset by the precious association into which such self-effacement for an ideal brought kindred souls. What were the sneers of subsidized editors, or the social slights of fashionable women, or even misunderstood motive, compared with the friendship of PARKER, GARRISON, WHITTIER, PHILLIPS, CURTIS, PILLSBURY, FOSTER, Gerrit SMITH, Frederick DOUGLASS and their compeers, occupying the stage where the real history of the times was making.
"Although a period of national darkness it was to actors in the momentous drama one of exaltation and joy. Faith in the supreme laws, fidelity to conviction, the larger life that blesses those who follow truth, brought a peace of mind past comprehension and dwarfed the every-day annoyances that shut out the sunlight. The periodical conventions were full of excitement, interest and refreshment. Harmonious in purpose, but with lively differences of opinion, they were fruitful in animated discussions. To reformers' children of those days no modern entertainments can compare to these."The felicitous conjunction of Miss ANTHONY and Mrs. STANTON will long remain a type of faithful friendship. Each brought separate offerings to the cause, the lack of one supplied by the abundance of the other. Both will be linked in the history of the struggle. One can imagine Mrs. STANTON, the magnet of a salon, a Madame de Stael, whose quick wit and gracious presence charmed and attracted.
EFFECTIVE AS A SPEAKER
"But there was no better place to view Miss ANTHONY than on the platform. There, with ease not to be exceeded by Mrs. STANTON in the social circle, she made the audience her guests and friends. She attempted no set speeches, pretended to no felicity of diction, caring nothing for periods, but everything for clarity and directness, reaching her point, ‘straight as a line of light.' Simple, practical and ingenious, her unpremeditated remarks carried that quality of nature that makes the whole world kin. To hear her for only five minutes was to dissipate for all time the prejudices of an opponent. Whatever might be the disagreement with her sentiments; the inlooker could never afterwards doubt the sincerity and lovable character of this remarkable woman, who inspired such enthusiasm and loyalty among her coworkers. It was impossible for her to escape being ‘Aunt Susan' to all the younger members of the faith.
"Dissensions are inevitable in all human organizations, those of reform included. The contrary points of view regarding methods and the personal equation which always enters cause lines of cleavage and make grievances that rankle. The wounds of the enemy are marks of honor, but those of fellow reformers pierce to the marrow.
"No one experienced these tribulations more than did this positive and self-reliant leader. Within or without the society she maintained a firm front against all antagonists, assured of the rectitude of her motives and the soundness of her judgment.
WAS AMENABLE TO REASON
"It was no pride of opinion, for she was ever amenable to reason. The interest of her cause was her first and final consideration. These breaches lessened, if they were not altogether healed, as the victory neared. Estranged comrades again united. It will be with the woman suffrage as it was with the anti-slavery movement when the goal is reached. The internal friction will be lost sight of in the grand result, as morning drinks the morning star.
"The familiar figure, that to some of us has seemed perennial as the seasons will be missed sorely when the anniversaries accentuate her absence. What has become of that indomitable spirit, the wisest know not. No realm can be wherein this gentle yet rugged reformer would not find something to improve. No primrose path of dalliance could bring happiness to her being. But we are grateful that in our time and sphere she spent her mortal life.
"What would not a man give," said Socrates, ‘if he might converse with Orpheus and Musacus, and Heslod and Homer ? Nay, if this be true, let me die again and again. I, too, shall have a wonderful interest in a place where I can converse with Palamedes, and Ajax, the son of Telamon, and other heroes of old.' And if the possibilities suggested by the ancient philosopher exist, what infinite delight awaits our friend, who carries with her the blessings of the downtrodden and the gratitude of her generation."
SPOKE FOR HER RACE
The next address was by Mrs. R. Jerome JEFFREY, representing the race for which Miss ANTHONY and the best man and woman of half a century ago gave the best efforts of many years of their lives. Mrs. JEFFREY'S address follows:
"We, the colored people of Rochester, join the world in mourning the loss of our true friend, Susan B. ANTHONY. Yes, a true friend of our race. Years ago, when it meant a great deal to be a friend to the poor, downtrodden race, Susan B. ANTHONY stood side by side with William Lloyd GARRISON, Wendell PHILLIPS, Lucy STONE, Abby Kelly FORSTER, Frederick DOUGLASS and others, fighting our battles and espousing the cause of an enslaved people.
"Well do we remember the 12th of December last, at the centennial of the birthday of William Lloyd GARRISON at the Zion Church, when she stood in the pulpit and told us of the struggles of William Lloyd GARRISON and the great trials of the noble women and men who were engaged in the anti-slavery movement. Then she spoke of her life's work, the suffrage movement, told us how for more than sixty years she had given our race every thought of her life. She bade us to look forward to better and brighter days that would surely come to us as a race, and as we looked up into her sweet face and listened to her words it seemed like a benediction."Little did we thing it would be her last address to us as a race, and with her dear sister, Mary, we sympathized in her great loss. The colored churches of this city, the National and State Federation of Colored Women, the federated clubs or the association: the little Girls of Busy Bee, who at their last meeting stated they would send with their offering of flowers money for Oregon, all extend to you their tender sympathy; your loss is our great loss.
"The members of the Susan B. ANTHONY Club of this city bow their heads in sorrow for the loss of their great leader. She was our friend for many years — our champion. Sleep on, dear heart, in peace, for we who have looked into thy face; we who have heard thy voice: we who have known something of thy great life work — we pledge ourselves to devote our time and energies to the work thou hast left us to do."
TRIBUTE BY MRS. CATT
A hymn by John G. WHITTIER, "All as God Wills," was sung by the
congregation, after which Mrs. Carrie CHAPMAN CATT made a strong, impressive
address.
Her address follows, in part:
"Every century has produced a few men and women whose names the world
has adjudged worthy of perpetuating. We stand in the presence of one who has
wrought changes in institutions. When she was born slavery was practiced in
every land, and every woman was under the ban of customs that were relics of
barbarism. For more than half a century she has been the friend and counselor
of the oppressed, whoever and wherever they have been.
"We are here to-day to do honor to the memory of the great woman of our century, to the greatest woman of our times, to the greatest woman of all time. She was greatest not because of her intellectual strength, not because of her power on the platform, not because of the result of her work, but because of the quality of her character.
"Well" do I remember the - - - pation in South Dakota sixteen years ago. She was then 70 years of age. We should marvel to-day should a man undertake a political campaign at that age. When we began to talk of the result, and of the possibility of failure, some began to say in whispers that if the fight should fail we might lose our leader, that the shock might kill her. Energized by that thought, we renewed our efforts. But when the work was over and we had gathered in our quarters, it was he who went among us, saying, ‘Never mind; cheer up; there will come another time; by and by we shall be the victors here. The little incident measures her. Hers was a hope that could hope on in defeat; she had a splendid optimism; her tenacity of purpose was amazing; she did not know what it was to become discouraged.
INSPIRED OTHER WORKERS
"It was because of these qualities that she is the greatest woman. She gave inspiration to those about her. Defeat she looked upon as a milestone in the progress to victory. So long had she been with us, so strong was she, that we had hoped she might be with us to lead us for many more years, until her work should see its full fruition. All over the world prayers went up that she might be spared until her work had been established.
"Yet I believe I speak for all enlightened women when I say that we may well forget our sadness, cease to regret, and to rejoice that the great soul was permitted to live and give such service to the world and to see such results. Few leaders have seen so much come from their efforts. Perhaps the world did not need her more. In the beginning there were few with her; now there is a vast army, standing together with one aim. We have a leader, a superb leader, and we pledge anew our loyalty to her.
"The movement will go on. We mourn her who is gone; every heart aches
that she has gone. If the poet, inspired by her life, had written, he could
not have written more justly than in the lines I shall repeat. You can pay no
higher tribute to the one who has gone than by writing this motto in your hearts
as you go away to-day:
"To the wrong that needs resistance,
To the right that needs assistance;
To the future in the distance -
Give your life."
INTIMATE FRIEND'S WORDS
Rev. Anna SHAW was the next speaker.
She had sat through the service with white face and tremulous lips, showing
more plainly than others how greatly she was bereaved. It was with difficulty
that she controlled herself at the beginning of her address, but she gained
self-possession as she proceeded. Her address was deeply eloquent, given with
feeling so intense that one fancied the words were watered with unshed tears.
When she spoke of Miss ANTHONY'S last words, placing her hands as the dying
suffragist had placed hers, her voice broke; and when she had finished she retired
to her seat as if wholly exhausted, bowing her head and pressing a trembling
hand to it. The address follows:
"Your flags at half-mast tell of a nation's loss, but there are no symbols and no words which can tell the love and sorrow which fill our hearts. And yet out of the depths of our grief arise feelings of truest gratitude for the beauty, the tenderness, the nobility f example, of our peerless leader's life. There is no death for such as she. There are no last words of love. The ages to come will revere her name. Unnumbered generations of the children of men shall rise up to call her blessed. Her words her work and her character will go on to brighten the pathway and bless the lives of all people. That which seems death to our unseeing eyes is to her translation. Her work will not be finished, nor will her last word be spoken while there remains a wrong to be righted or a fettered life to be freed in all the earth.
"You do well to strew her bier with palms of victory, and to crown her with unfading laurel, for never did more victorious hero enter into rest.
WELL POISED CHARACTER
"Her character was well poised; she did not emphasize one characteristic to the exclusion of others; she taught us that the real beauty of a true life is found in the harmonious blending of diverse elements, and her life was the epitome of her teaching. She merged a keen sense of justice with the deepest love; her masterful intellect never for one moment checked the tenderness of her emotions; her splendid self-assertion found its highest realization in perfect self-surrender; she demonstrated the divine principle that the truest self-development must go hand in hand with the greatest and most arduous service for others.
"Here was the most harmoniously developed character I have ever known- a living soul whose individuality was blended into oneness with all humanity. She lived, yet not she; humanity lived in her. Fighting the battle for individual freedom, she was so lost to the consciousness of her own personality that she was unconscious of existence apart from all mankind.
"Her quenchless passion for her cause was that it was yours and mine, the cause of the whole world. She knew that where freedom is there is the center of power. In it she saw potentially all that humanity might attain when possessed by its spirit. Hence her cause, perfect equality of rights, of opportunity, of privilege for all, civil and political, was to her the bed-rock upon which all true progress must rest. Therefore she was nothing, her cause was everything; she knew no existence apart from it; in it she lived and moved and had her being. It was the first and last thought of each day; it was the last word upon her faltering lips; to it her flitting soul responded when the silenced voice could no longer obey the will, and she could only answer our heartbroken questions with the clasp of her trembling hand.
GENEROSITY OF NATURE
"She was in the truest sense a reformer, unhindered in her service by the narrowness and negative destructiveness which often so sadly hampers the work of true reform. Possessed by an unfaltering conviction of the primary importance of her own cause, she nevertheless recognized that every effort by either one or many earnest souls toward what they believed to be a better or saner life should be met in a spirit of encouragement and helpfulness. She recognized that it was immeasurably more desirable to be honest and earnestly seeking that which in its attainment might not prove good than to be hypocritically subservient to the truth through a spirit of selfish fear or fawning at the beck of power. She instinctively grasped the truth underlying all great movements which have helped the progress of the ages, and did not wait for an individual nor a cause to win popularity before freely extending to its struggling life a hand of helpful comradeship. She was never found in the cheering crowd that follows an already victorious standard. She left that to the time-servers who divide the spoil after they have crucified their Savior. She was truly great; great in her humility and utter lack of pretension.
"On her eightieth birthday this noble soul could truthfully say in response to the words of loving appreciation from those who showered garlands all about her; ‘I am not accustomed to demonstrations of gratitude or of praise. I have ever been a hewer of wood and a drawer of water to this movement. I know nothing, I have known nothing of oratory or rhetoric. Whatever I have done has been done because I wanted to see better conditions, better surroundings, better circumstances for women.'
HAD TRUE SIGN OF GREATNESS
"Speaking of her Lady Henry SOMERSET said: ‘She has the true sign of greatness in that she is absolutely without pretension. No woman of fame has ever so thoroughly made this impression of modesty and unselfishness upon my mind.' This was the impression which she made upon all who knew her, and leaving her presence one would say. ‘How humble she is.' Viewing her life achievements, one exclaims, ‘How transcendently great she is." No wonder she has won a name and fame worldwide and that she has turned the entire current of human conviction. One indeed wrote truly who said of her: ‘She has lived a thousand years if achievements can measure the length of life."
"She whose name we honor, whose friendship we reverence, whose love we prize as a deathless treasure, would say this is not an hour for grief or despair - ‘If my life has achieved anything, if I have lived to any purpose, carry on the work I have to lay down.'
"In our last conversation, when her prophetic soul saw what we dared not even think, she said: ‘I leave my work to you and to the others who have been so faithful - promise that you will never let it go down or lessen our demands. There is so much to be done. Think of it ! I have struggled for sixty years for a little bit of justice and die without securing it.'
"Oh, the unutterable cruelty of it !
The time will come when at these words every American heart will feel the
unspeakable shame and wrong of such a martydom.
LED TO THE PROMISED LAND
"She did not gain the little bit of freedom for herself, but there is scarcely a civilized land, not even our own, in which she has not been instrumental in securing for some woman that to which our leader did not attain. She did not reach the goal, but all along the weary years what marvelous achievements, what countless victories! The whole progress has been a triumphal march, marked by sorrow and hardship, but never by despair. The heart sometimes longed for sympathy and the way was long and oh ! So lonely; but every step was marked by some evidence of progress, some wrong righted, some right established.
"We have followed her leadership until we stand upon the mount of vision
where she to-day leave us. The promised land lies just before us. It is for
us to go forward and take possession. Without faltering, without a desertion
from our ranks, without delaying even to mourn the loss of our departed leader,
the faithful host is marching on. Already the call to advance is heard along
the line, and one devoted young follower writes: "There are hundreds of
us now, her followers, who will try to keep up the work she so nobly began and
brought so nearly to completion. We will work the harder to try to compensate
the world for her loss.
Another writes: ‘I believe as you go forth to your labors you will find less
opposition and far more encouragement than heretofore. The world is profoundly
stirred by the loss of our great leader, and in consequence the lukewarm are
becoming zealous, the prejudiced are disarming and the suffragists are renewing
their vows of - - - - - to the cause for which Miss ANTHONY lived and died.
Her talismanic words, the last she ever uttered before a public audience, ‘Failure
is impossible,' should be inscribed on our banners and engraved on our hearts.'
ONE OF WORLD'S REAL HEROES
"She has not only blessed us in the legacy of her life and work, but she has left us the dearest legacy of her love. The world knew Miss ANTHONY as the courageous, earnest, unfaltering champion of a great principle and the friend of all reforms. Those of us who knew her best that she was all this and more; that she was one of the most home-making and home-loving of women. To her home her heart always turned with tenderest longing, and for the one who made home possible she felt the most devoted love and gratitude. She inscribed upon the first volume of her life history. ‘To my youngest sister Mary, without whose faithful and constant home-making there could have been no freedom for the out-going of her grateful and affectionate sister.'
"To this home-making sister the affection of every loyal heart will turn, and we, her coworkers, will love and honor her, not alone for this devotion to her sister, but for her loyal comradeship and faithful service in our great cause. She is our legacy of love, and it will be the joy of every younger sister to bestow upon her the homage of our affection.
"On the heights alone such souls meet God. In silent communion they
learn life's sublimest lessons. They are the world's real heroes. Hers was an
heroic life. By it she teaches us that the philosophy of the ancients is wrong:
that it is not true that men are made heroic by indifference to life and death,
but by learning to love something more than life. Her heroism was the heroism
of an all-absorbing love, a love which neither indifference, nor persecution,
nor misrepresentation, nor betrayal, nor hatred, nor flattery could quench;
a heroism which would suffer her to see and to know nothing but the power of
injustice and hatred to destroy, and the power of justice and love to develop,
all that is best and noblest in human character. To such ends the causes which
such souls espouse failure is impossible. Truly did Dean THOMAS say in her address
at our National Convention: Of such as you were the lines of the poet KEATS
written -
"They shall be remembered forever,
They shall be alive forever.
They shall be speaking forever,
The people shall hear them forever."
Before announcing the last hymn, which followed Dr. SHAW'S address, Dr. GANNETT
said:
"Our hearts are all toward one in this service, and I know that everyone who has contributed to it will remember it. The ANTHONY family wished me to thank all who have contributed to making the service what Miss ANTHONY would have desired it to be."
"Calmly, Calmly, Lay Her Down," by W. GASKELL, was sung by the congregation. The benediction was pronounced by Dr. SHAW.
BURIAL IN MOUNT HOPE
At the close of the service word was taken to Rev. Dr. ALBERTSON that in the storm outside some hundreds of persons were waiting, hoping for permission to pass before the casket. After the benediction had been pronounced, Dr. ALBERTSON rose and repeated to the audience what had been told him. He said that the people who had been waiting would be admitted at the Plymouth avenue entrance and would pass down the west aisle, before the casket and out by way of the Church street exit. He requested any in the audience who desired to see Miss ANTHONY'S face before the casket was closed to remain seated until after those who were outside had entered and departed, and then proceed to the west aisle and pass before the casket as had the others.
The doors were opened at 3:45, and those who had braved the storm for more than two hours, entered. After they had passed before the casket several hundred in the audience did likewise, and then the family and friends formed in line, preparatory to leaving the church. At the head was Rev. W. C. GANNETT. He was followed by Miss Mary ANTHONY, sister of Susan B. ANTHONY, who was escorted by one of her nieces. Behind them were the honorary bearers, Miss Ina COE, Miss Ethel KATES, Miss Evelyn O'CONNOR, Misses ADAMS, Emerson GIBBONS, MORRIS and SULLER, representing the Alumnae Association, the classes and various organizations of the University of Rochester. Immediately behind them were the bearers.
The burial was private. The funeral cortege proceeded from the church through Plymouth avenue to Clarissa street, to Mount Hope avenue, to the cemetery. It entered the cemetery at the main gate and crossed the hill northwest of the main gate. The grave was almost at the summit of the north slope of the hill, and over it a tent had been erected to shelter the relatives and immediate friends from the rigorous weather. The service at the grave was extremely simple. As the casket was lowered into the grave Rev. Anna Howard SHAW was escorted to the head of the grave to speak the parting words. She said.
"Dear friend: Thou hast tarried with us long; thou hast now gone to
thy well earned rest. We beseech the Infinite Spirit who has upheld us to make
us worthy to follow in thy steps and carry on thy work. Farewell."
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ORGANIZATIONS ACT ON MISS ANTHONY'S DEATH
A special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Woman's Educational and Industrial Union was called on Wednesday to take action on the death of Miss ANTHONY. Resolutions of respect and sorrow were adopted and the board decided to attend the funeral in a body. The resolutions follow:
Susan B. ANTHONY, the foremost citizen of our city, the most honored American
woman; has gone to her well earned rest.
The sorrow of her passing falls heavily upon the Woman's Union. Its organization
was due to her; all its efforts met her most cordial support; she was the warm
personal friend of its active workers, who were ever sure of her tender, womanly
sympathy. The union's last reception was honored by her presence; during that
entire afternoon and evening she added to the pleasure of each guest, who little
thought that most of them would see her face no more. Her death brings a deep
sense of personal bereavement and a renewed intention to live nearer the ideal
she ever held before us. Thirteen years ago, the day the Woman's Union was organized,
she said from the platform: "We want a solidarity of the women of Rochester.
When the women speak they can be heard through this club; then when one woman
speaks every woman in Rochester will be speaking and those who it is intended
shall hear will have to hear. It means all the women in Rochester united in
every good work." And the union is striving toward the goal she set before
it.
The debt the Woman's Union owes Miss ANTHONY but faintly typifies humanity's indebtedness to one of the greatest, most remarkable and most loving woman of her generation. We who have entered into her labors can scarcely appreciate how great the cost, can hardly realize the industrial, educational and legal conditions of woman's life as she found them. Every young woman in our university owes her opportunities there to Miss ANTHONY; every young woman seeking wide industrial opportunities owes much of their possibilities to Miss ANTHONY; every mother in our state owes her legal right to her own property, her own earnings and even to her own children to Miss ANTHONY.
With indomitable courage, with energy unsurpassed, with faith scarce equaled, with love almost divine, through evi: and through good report, through all the long years of her long life, Miss ANTHONY labored for the right as God gave her to see the right, and now with eye undimmed and natural force scarcely abated, she has passed from earth and into the presence chamber of the King, secure of her welcome, bearing the love of all who knew her and the honor and admiration of the world. The inspiration of her life is a benediction to all who would leave the world better than they found it.
The union extends most heartfelt and loving sympathy to the dear bereaved sister, whose tender, unselfish, devoted watch care prolonged Miss ANTHONY'S life and made the heroic endeavors of her later years possible. Until the going down of the sun hath she stayed her sister's hands; may He who gave her this inestimable privilege sustain and comfort her in the lonely hours of her great sorrow.
The young women students of the University of Rochester adopted this memorial:
To our beloved benefactor, Susan B. ANTHONY, is due in large part the privilege
of a college education. The nobility of her love and ambition shall always be
for the women students of the University of Rochester a sacred inspiration toward
lives of unselfish devotion and untiring zeal for service. While giving expression
to our deep sense of the blessing her life has been and in our gratitude for
the memory, we desire to extend sincerest sympathy to her bereaved sister.
Signed by Blanche E. KING, Florence RUSSELL, Helen PERSONS, Hilda FARRAR, Clara ABBOTT, committee of Students Association for Women, University of Rochester.
The Grand Jury now in session yesterday adopted this expression of sorrow
and sympathy;
The Grand Jury of Monroe county, in session, learns with the deepest regret
and sorrow of the death of Susan B. ANTHONY, which occurred on March 13, 1906.
She represented the highest type of womanhood in her unselfish devotion to
the cause of right and liberty, and equal justice for all, regardless of sex.
Her loss to the community, as well as to the world at large, will be keenly
felt. As a mark of respect to her, we, as a body, adjourn to view the remains
which lie in state at the Central Presbyterian Church.
We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the family and relatives in their bereavement.
It is resolved. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family and
printed in the public press.
It is further resolved. That these resolutions be
spread on our minutes and be made a part thereof.
At a special meeting of the Council of Jewish Women held Wednesday afternoon, to take action on the death of Susan B. ANTHONY, the following resolutions were approved:
We join the sorrowing multitude in mourning the death of Susan B. ANTHONY.
More than any other woman of her day, Miss ANTHONY embodied to us true love
for humanity. Her liberal mind knew no prejudice and her broad sympathy knew
no bounds.
While always loyal to the cause to which she pledged her life, she identified
herself with every movement that meant progress and uplift, regardless of distinctions
of class, race or color.
We acknowledge an enduring debt to the example of her noble life - a life that for more than sixty years devoted itself with untiring energy, with sublime courage, with an optimism that was prophetic to the cause of individual liberty.
This loyalty of purpose has been an inspiration to all who came in contact
with the great leader, and thought she has passed away, the result of her labor
will continue to bless mankind. We extend our loving sympathy to the bereaved
sister who through all these years has shared the burden of work, and whose
faithful companionship made possible much of its success.
GS