MARYLAND 265 development of the Children's Playground Association under her leadership is well known throughout the State. 1 The Woman Suffrage League of Maryland was formed in February, 1917, and the Baltimore City Committee took the active place of the Equal Suffrage League, which became a funding body to carry out the bequest of Mrs. Ellicott, with Miss Caroline Roberts as president, whose unwearying and ceaseless service had been for years an inspiration to her fellow workers. Mrs. Nettie Rogers Shuler, chairman of Campaigns and Surveys for the National Association, went to Baltimore this month, meeting there Miss Emma MacAlarney and Miss Eleanor Furman, two of the national organizers, and planning a speaking and organiza- tion route. The organizers remained in Maryland two months and were very successful in interesting new groups of people all over the State, who joined the new Woman Suffrage League. Later Miss Alice Hunt, a national organizer, took up this work for four weeks. The total cost to the National Association was over $600. In the spring of 1917 a Suffrage School was held in Baltimore by the league to which all were invited. The National Associa- tion sent some of its best teachers, among them Mrs. Arthur L. rmore, Mrs. Halsey W. Wilson and Mrs. Shuler, members of its official board. The climax of the week was a parade, street and a mass meeting, * at which Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, national president, was the principal speaker. An outcome of tin- school was the printing in Maryland newspapers of the suffrage literature supplied by the National Association. When the United States entered the World War Mrs. Ellicott, lent of the league, was appointed by the Governor a State mi-nil XT nf tin* Woman's Council of National Defense and the ic cooperated in all of the departments of war work created ly the National Suffrage Association. A Red Cross Circle was islu-d in its headquarters and it entered actively into the sale
- of women who held office or were prominent in work of the Equal
^^^HK League of Baltimore r tin- State mchise League of Maryland are Lillian VYMi. Mary Sherwood. Florence Snhin. Clarinet ' -. George Lamb, S. Johnson Poe. J. William* II Vii K lit. .1 II VM. 1'eploe. Jacob Nf. Mary N. Parry and W. W. I Misses Mary Bartlett Dixon tta Morris, Romaine Mcllvaine and Emma Weber. VOL. VI
