She dropped the pebble whose ripples To the shores of all time shall extend, She has spoken the word into ether Whose sound-waves never shall end. She has started a light on its journey Out into limitless space, She has written a thought for women Eternity cannot erase. A wonderful soul has journeyed Out from the Now into Then, Her voice echoes back to us, waiting, The sound of the great Amen. Resolutions and Tributes From Clubs [Illustration: Fac-simile of resolutions adopted by the Woman's Press Club of New York, January 11, 1902.] Resolutions of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs In Memoriam _Mrs. Jane Cunningham Croly_ We have tenderly laid away to rest our beloved honorary president, Jane Cunningham Croly, to sleep the blessed sleep that knows no waking in this toilsome, troublous world. Her gentle soul is at peace, her personal work is accomplished, her useful life is ended. She has been taken from further pain and further labor, to that existence where all is perfect peace, perfect rest, perfect rhythm. We wish to place upon our records, therefore, our appreciation of the fact, that this New York State Federation of Women's Clubs has suffered such a loss as can come but once to any, a loss like that of a loving mother to an affectionate child. We shall miss her at our meetings, at our larger gatherings, and at our conventions. We shall hold her, and the desires of her heart in relation to us, in loving and constant memory. And we purpose to take up her work, where she laid it down, and carry it on with the same unselfish aims, high ideals, and unremitting patience with which she labored, until we shall reach the goal upon which her farseeing eyes were fastened, and her great heart was set. FANNY HALLOCK CARPENTER. February 13, 1902. [Illustration: Resolutions adopted by The Society of American Women in London, March 24th, 1902.] The Croly Memorial Fund of the Pioneer Club of London _First Annual Report_ In July, 1900, a fund was raised by the exertions of Mrs. E.S. Willard, to present a life membership of the Pioneer Club to Mrs. Jane Cunningham Croly, known to all who are interested in woman's work as "Jenny June." Mrs. Croly had a special claim to this distinction, for she was the originator of women's clubs. The first woman's club was founded by her in New York, March, 1868, under the name of "Sorosis." The example was quickly followed elsewhere, and when, in 1889, Sorosis, to celebrate its majority, called a convention of women's clubs, ninety-seven were known to exist in the United States. This convention led to a Federation with biennial meetings. In 1896, the Federation included one thousand four hundred and twenty-five dubs. The Pioneer is the only English woman's club which belongs to the Federation.