NEW YORK 461 leadership of Miss Mary Garrett Hay, who since 1912 had served as chairman, the City Woman Suffrage Party plunged into strenuous work, holding conventions, sending out organizers, raising $50,000 as a campaign fund, setting a specific task for each month of 1915 up to Election Day, and forming its own committees with chairmen as follows : Industrial, Miss Leonora O'Reilly; The Woman Voter, Mrs. Thomas B. Wells; Speakers' Bureau, Mrs. Mabel Russell ; Congressional, Mrs. Lillian Griffin ; the French, Mrs. Anna Ross Weeks ; the German, Miss Catherine Dreier; the Press, Mrs. Oreola Williams Haskell; Ways and Means, Mrs. John B. McCutcheon. The City Party began the intensive work of the campaign in January, 1915, when a swift pace was set for the succeeding months by having 60 district conventions, 170 canvassing suppers, four mass meetings, 27 canvassing conferences and a convention in Carnegie Hall. It was decided to canvass all of the 661,164 registered voters and hundreds of women spent long hours toiling up and down tenement stairs, going from shop to shop, visiting innumerable factories, calling at hundreds of city and suburban homes, covering the rural districts, the big department stores and the immense office buildings with their thousands of occupants. It was estimated that 60 per cent of the enrolled voters received these personal appeals. The membership of the party was in- cd by 60,535 women secured as members by canvassers. The following is a brief summing up of the activities of the ten months' campaign. 1 Voters canvassed (60 per cent of those enrolled) 396,698 V< -men canvassed 60,535 Voters circularized 826,796 membership increased from 151,688 to 212,223 hers and pickets furnished for the polls 3J5 1 Xumbers of leaflets printed and distributed 2,883,264 y expended from the City treasury $ 2 5579 Xumber of outdoor meetings 5.225 Xumber of indoor meetings (district) 660 Xumlicr of mass meetings 93 eel by Congressmen, Assein blymen and Constitutional Convention delegates... 25
- al number of meetii 6,003
1 Extended space is given to the two New York campaigns because they were the largest ever made and were used as a model by a number of States in later years. ED.
