| Show SUSAN B ANTHONY ANTHOr Y HAS PASSED AWAY Gr Great at Suffragist t Succumbs succumb to A At Attack tack of Heart Beart Failure Follow I ing Pneumonia I END WAS NOT UNEXPECTED LEFT ALL SHE HAD TO TH THE E GREAT CAUSE Rochester N Y March long and eventful life of Susan B Anthony closed at 1240 thIs morning The end caple caine peacefully Miss An Anthony Anthony thony had been unconscIous practically for hours and her death had been momentarily expected since Sunda Sunday night Only her wonderful constitution kept her alive Dr M S Ricker her attending phy physician physician said sait Miss Mi s Anthony ony died ot of heart pneumonIa She had ad had serious heart trouble for the last six or seven years Her lungs were practically clear and the pneumonIa had yielded to treatment treat treatment ment but the weakness of her heart pr prevented v her recovery LAST PUBLIC APPEARANCE Miss Anthony Anthoy Spoke at Baltimore a Weeks Ago Rochester N Y March An Anthonys Anthonys last public appearance which was at the National Woman Suffrage convention In Baltimore a few weeks 4 ago was really the beginning of the end of the great suffragists career Un Under Under der the weIght of her years and worn by the almost constant pains of neuralgia she was ill when she left lefther lefther her home in Rochester for the conven convention convention tion city At Baltimore her health was lIttle I better but it was with the great st difficulty that her friends kept her hera a away r from the sessions of the Baltimore convention She chafed un under Un Under der the enforced retirement of her room and was only half content with the minute reports which reached her from the convention haIl But even in this absence it was her mind Wh the convention Every Ever pI busIness transacted there was c S1 cred by her before ac action action tion was taken and It w was s her advice which cleared away man many tangles Gave Her Purse When the discussion on raising money for the work of the coming year was reached Miss Anthony insisted on ongoIng ongoing goIng to the meeting She sat on the platform and was the first to respond to the treasurers appeal She stood up and held out a purse I want to begin by giving you my purse she said Just before I left Rochester they gave me a birthday party and a present of 86 I suppose they wanted me to do what r i liked with the money and Id like to send it to Oregon It was at this convention that she publicly gave her last word to the cause to whIch her was That sh she recognized her approaching end was It was near the close of the convention when she took the place of Julia Ward Howe who was prevented by Illness from taking her part on the As she came forward to speak peak the house Contin Continued ed on Page 8 SUSAN B ANTHONY HAS Continued from Page 1 rose and applause and cheers contin continued continued for fully ten minutes Her Last Speech This is a magnificent sIght before me she saId slowly when the ap applause ceas d and these have been wonderful addresses and speeches I have listened to during the past w week ek Yet I have looked on many such audi audiences and In my lifetime I have us lis listened toned to many magnificent speakers all testifying to the righteousness the justice and worthiness of the cause of woman suffrage I h have ve met and known most of the great women who have labored for the cause I have heard them speak saying in only slightly different phrases exactly what I have heard these newer advocates of the cause say this week Most of those who have w wOrked with me In the early years ears of the task have gone out outI T I am here for a little time only but my place must be filled as theirs w were re refilled filled The fight must not cease you must see that it does not Up until her last illness overcame her Miss Anthony looked to be scarce Iy 70 and except on the days which she was tormented with neuralgia from which she suffered intensely during her latter years she possessed the en energy erg ergy of a woman soman of 50 In her latter years too her liking for dainty ral rai raiment ment increased ased to a remarkable de degree degree gree She wore soft black gowns of modish cut and had a fondness for ph able satins and soft silk fabrics At the Baltimore convention she wore a satin gon with white point lace on the bodice and sleeves Her hands were but she wore a jeweled brooch and shell combs in her white hair Her long coat was lined with whIte satin and her bonnet was by a clever milliner Flags at Mayor or Tomes Jonies G Butler tonight an announced pounced that as a mark of respect to the memory of Miss Anthony the flags of the city will be displayed at half mast on the day of the funeral lIi Miss s Anthony was taken m ill on her Iler herway way home from the national suffrage convention in Baltimore She stopped in New York where a banquet was to be given February 20 in honor of her birthday but had an attack of neuralgia on the and hastened home Pneumonia developed after her arr arrival al here and on March 5 both lungs became affected After that she became unable to re retain tain tam nourishment and showed an alarm alarming alarming ing weakness s Last week however she seemed to improve and her friends hoped she was out of danger Then came th the attack of heart failure Sun Sunday Sunday day afternoon following which she sank into unconsciousness From that time on almost the only sign of life Hie manifested was the feeble pulse Dulse beat and the laboring breathing Miss Anthony herself had believed that she would recover Early in her illness she told her friends that she ex cx expected to live to be as old a an her father who was over 90 when he died When she realized that her life could no lon Ion longer ger continue Miss Anthony evidently was disturbed by a desire to express some wish with regard to her will and andon andon on Wednesday l last st she said to her sis sister sister ter Write to Anna Shaw immediately and ten tell her I desire desir that every cent I leave when I pass out of this life shall be given to the fund which Miss Thomas and Miss Garret are raising for forthe forthe the cause I have given my life and alt I am to it and now I want my last act to be to give It all I havethe last tent cent Ten Tell Anna Shaw to see that this is done In compliance with Miss Anthonys request Miss Mary Anthony wrote un im immediately mediately and within an hour after the letter was sent Miss Shaw unexpected unexpectedlY lY lv arrived at Miss Anthonys home On following day when she was per permitted 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 Uthe great cause that under underlies underlies lies all reforms the greatest boon of Sh She urged Miss Shaw and her ber sister to see that her wish ish was carried out at once She had no thought but for her ber lifes w arid the workers t that ha t both were now as ever dearer to her than her life Ufe Died Disappointed Rev Anna Shaw said spid On Sund Sunday about two hours before she b became nit I talked with Miss Anthony Anthon and site she said To think I have had more than sixt sixty years ars of hard struggle for a little hib erty and to die without it seems so uI r replied Your legacy will be free freedom dom for aU all after you Ire are gone Your splendid struggle has changed ife for women everywhere Sh She replied If it has hIlS I have lived to some purpose and she b begged me to promise that I and her niece Miss Lucy Anthony would stand r until th the end of ef our lives an and work for forthe forthe the cause as she and her sister Mary tary lied Miss Anthony said of hl 11 workers Their faces pass before tnt Inc one by y one I cannot even recall theIr names but th thare they are a host of loyal loal splendid wom women n an anI and andI I love loye them every very one How good every everybody body has been to me I wonder Inder if we sha shall l know In the hereafter If we do I be with you vou when you ou win O Ore g gen n and in every campaign for victory Then she added with a smile Per Perhaps I raps haps I can do more over than I did here er work was her one thought bought I I |
