/ 890 for Tineline 1891 $105 1892 Charle Elist's letter to -TOR established Garderstrest re TOR. Rayce -Winter on the Mile. Bear Brook Luarry See 1890 GBD C. 1990's Acquisition -Glaucomain (see aerform Files Mary Darr + later GBD - GBO & mother bg in affiliation c Soc for - centry Janes Ressell forced Psychocol Research (U.K.) (1891) 6BO opens Bear Brook Quarry I Mrs Dunham first visity Sealttator (8/12) Notes Notes 30.15 "Nous] Edmond Scherer, Études sur la littérature contemporaine, new ed., III (Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1885), 16-17. The "idylles gastronomiques" are found in two tales, written in collaboration, by Émile Erckmann (1822-1899) and Louis Gratien Charles Alexandre Chatrian (1826-1890), French writers. 31.5 James] James was appointed Professor of Psychology on November 11, 2/7/19 1889. He had served as Professor of Philosophy from 1885. 31.7 laboratory] The reorganization of the teaching of psychology called for extensive fund raising on ames's part, an activity reflected in various letters of the period, for example, in his letter to George B. Dorr of August 12, 1890 (bMS Am 1092.1). The size of the Harvard Laboratory a few years later can be estimated from the illustrated pamphlet, The Psychological Laboratory of Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.: Published by the University, 1893). Kssaya The pamphlet lists 240 pieces of equipment of various kinds, including several models of the human brain. In response to published remarks by Granville Cabrigo Stanley Hall, James claimed that he himself established the first psychological laboratory in the United States. His letter on the controversy is reprinted in the present volume. 31.12 James] The Annual Report of the President of Harvard College for 1889-1890, indicates that James taught a course titled "Logic and Psychology" to 128 students, and Royce, "Psychology and General Introduction to Philo- sophical Study" to 69 students. Ladd's Elements of Physiological Psychology is listed among the texts for both courses. 31.20 graduate] The Annual Report lists as a course for special research "Questions in Psychology.-Lectures (two hours a week).-Laboratory work. Theses on special subjects prepared by the students," with 6 graduate stu- dents and one senior. 31.29 Delabarre] Edmund Burke Delabarre (1863-1945), American psycholo- gist. "On the Seat of Optical After-Images," American Journal of Psychology, 11 (February 1889), 326-328; "Colored Shadows," 2 (August 1889), 636-643. Delabarre was a graduate student in 1888-1890. 12.3 Harvard] (#4565) Five years of academic disputation-in the end to no purpose-lie behind James's essay. On June 24, 1886, the Harvard Medical School argued before the Academic Council, the body in charge of graduate instruction, that American medical school graduates begin their careers on the average at too old an age It was proposed that students be encouraged to enter college at an earlier age, that the college course take only three years, and that it Department of Philosophy be formed-coordinate with the professional schools-an placed in charge of graduate instruction. In effect, the proposal H. P was to move the fourth year of college to the graduate level. The Academic Council Tormed a committee, chaired by Henry Pickering Bowditch of the Medical School, to consider the proposals. James was a member. On December 11. 1887. following the recommendations of the committee, the Academic Coun- (il asked the faculty of Harvard College to consider the proposals. On January 40. 188g. a College committee was appointed, but James was not a member. On June 11, 1889 the faculty decided to postpone the issue until the next academic year. President Eliot's memorandum dated November 16. 188g and embodying the proposals WHIN placed belove the faculty at its meeting of No Notes 45.13 Schmourlo] Evgenii Frantsevich Shmurlo (Eugenio Schmourlo) (1853- 1934), historian, representing the University of Dorpat (Tartu) in Estonia. 45.23 rolls] Rotulus et Matricula D. D. Iuristarum et Artistarum Gymnasii Patavani, ed. Biagio Brugi and Joseph Aloys Andrich (Padua: Gallina, 1892). The entry for Galileo is on p. 26. 46.9 It] Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss-born naturalist, in 1847 was ap- 1987. 2/7/04 pointed to teach zoology and geology at Harvard where he remained until his death. The cornerstone of the Museum of Comparative Zoology was laid in 1859, but the work was completed by his son, Alexander Agassiz, who in 1874 was appointed curator of the Museum. illower HUP, 47.12 twenty] At that time Agassiz was a student at Munich. 17.18 "Poissons] Louis Agassiz, Recherches sur les poissons fossiles (1833- 1844). Agassiz himself published many of his earlier works, but the expense of extensively illustrated volumes drove him into debt. 47.21 Neuchâtel] From 1832 to the time he left for Boston, Agassiz occupied a special chair of natural history at Neuchâtel in Switzerland. 17.30-31 Linnaus] Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778), Swedish naturalist. 17.33 biographer] Perhaps Jules Marcou, Life, Letters, and Works of Louis Agassiz, 2 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1896). 17.39 Lowell] Agassiz's first course of Lowell Institute lectures dealt with the plan of creation in the animal kingdom and was delivered in Boston in December 1846 and January 1847. 18.7 Byron's] Byron, "Ode from the French," The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1905), p. 188 (line 66). 49.11 Thayer] Nathaniel Thayer (1808-1883), American financier, financed nearly Agassiz's expedition to the Amazon in 1865-1866. James, who served as an as- sistant, sailed with the expedition from New York on April 1 and returned by himself the following March. Numerous letters from this period appear in Letters and in Perry. The expedition is described in Louis Agassiz and Eliza- year beth Cary Agassiz, A Journey in Brazil (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868), with infrequent references to James. Excerpts from James's letters and diaries appear in Carleton Sprague Smith, "William James in Brazil," Four Papers Presented 111 the Institute for Brazilian Studies, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1951), and in Louise Hall Tharp, Adventurous Alliance: The Story of the Agassiz Family of Boston (Boston: Little, Brown, KILL 1959). 50.13 "Grau] Goethe, Faust, p. 66 (11. 2038-2039). 50.22 X.] Supposedly James himself; see Letters, I, 56. 51.16 James Lecture delivered before the New York Neurological Society at the New York Academy of Medicine on February 2, 1897. It is closely related to the Exceptional Mental States lectures of 1896 (see note to 55.2). In a letter to Henry W. Rankin, February 1, 1897. James explains his view of possession: Dorr details - Inbox - Verizon Yahoo! Mail Page 1 of 1 Verizon Yahoo Mail Venzon Central Yahoo! Search: Web Search Welcome, eppster2@verizon. Mail Home All-New Mail Tutorials Help YAHOO! 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Copyright/IP Policy I Terms of Service Help NOTICE We collect personal information on this site To learn more about how we use your information see our Privacy Policy verizon YAHOO! http://us.mc842.mail.yahoo.com/mc/showMessage;_ylt=AsXKFuzr_ETd4SrRGMqvC4uD2... 1/3/2009 Von. #1C4 C. 3: HCTPR FEBRUARY 19, 1890.] Garden and Forest. 85 GARDEN AND FOREST. society for that year the other short account of the trees which has appeared coupled with a timely suggestion for PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY their preservation. This suggestion we desire to repeat and enforce; and THE GARDEN AND FOREST PUBLISHING CO. that the public may know the beauty of these trees OFFICE: TRIBUNE BUILDING, NEW YORK. and of the spot where they grow, we reproduce on page Conducted by Professor C. S. SARGENT. 91 a view taken by Dr. W. H. Rollins, of Boston, showing a portion of the group. ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE AT NEW YORK, N. Y. The age which these trees have attained and the vicissi- tudes they have survived entitle them to respect, and the NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 18go. people of Massachusetts might wisely secure their preser- vation through the purchase and dedication to public use TABLE OF CONTENTS. of the land on which they stand. PAGE. The age of these old Oaks can only be surmised. One EDITORIAL ARTICLES -The Waverly Oaks. (Illustrated.)-Forest Fires 8 famous naturalist is said to have declared that the smallest The Coast of Maine Charles Fliot. 86 ENTOMOLOGICAL:- Enemy to the Egyptian Lotus. (Illustrated) of them had existed through more than a thousand years. Professor John B. Smith. 88 It is probable that this statement is greatly exaggerated. NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN PLANTS -Gladiolus Turicensis. (Illustrated.) 88 The largest tree in the group girths seventeen feet three FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE:-Berlin Letter Dr. Udo Dammer. 88 CULTURAL DEPARTMENT :-Fern Notes W. H. Taplin. 9° inches at three and a half feet from the ground. The Protection Against the Striped Cucumber Beetle. (Illustrated.) principal tree in our illustration is smaller, with a girth of Professor E S. Goff. go Orchid Notes F. Goldring: W. 92 only thirteen feet four inches, measured at the same dis- Brussels Sprouts W. H. Bull. 92 tance from the ground. An actual examination of the wood Doronícum Harper Crewe.-Seed-Sowing John Thorpe. 92 Lachenalia Nelsoni. E. O. Orpet. 93 of this tree shows that it has increased three inches in Christmas Roses T.D.H. 93 diameter during the last twenty-four years. Had it made THE FOREST :-The Need of a Forest Policy in Pennsylvania, Professor W. A. Buckhoust. the same rate of growth during the whole period of its exist- 93 ORRHAPONDENCE:-Australian Trees in California W. S. Lyon. 94 ence, it would have been 408 years old, and the largest Action of Root-hairs Professor F. T. Rothrock. 94 tree in the group would be, with the same rate of increase, Kalanchoe carnea John Thorpe. 94 RECENT PUBLICATIONS 94 508 years old. It is probable that they are both younger EXHIBITIONS 95 than these estimates make them. They may have MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES 95 grown less rapidly for several years at the beginning of NOTES 96 their life, but there must have been a number of years, [LLUSTRATIONS --Botis nelumbialis; larva, Fig. 18 88 Botis nelumbialis: moth, Fig. 19 88 probably several hundred, when they increased more rap- Gladiolus Turicensis, Fig. 20. 8g The Waverly Oaks idly in diameter than they have during the last quarter of 91 A Simple Plant Protector, Fig. 92 a century. The appearance of the trees justifies this sup- position. They are still healthy, and are growing with con- The Waverly Oaks. siderable vigor; but there can be no doubt that their period of most rapid development has passed, or T' HERE is in Belmont, one of the suburbs of Boston, that, while they may continue, with proper care, to live and formerly a part of the ancient town of Water- and increase slowly for centuries perhaps, they will grow town, a group of Oaks which has come to be known in less rapidly now than they did one or two hundred years recent years as the Waverly Oaks, from the village near ago. But after making all due allowance for differences which they stand. These Waverly Oaks are, all things in the rate of growth at different periods in the existence considered, the most interesting trees in eastern Massachu- of these trees, it is safe to surmise that the youngest of setts, and although there are larger Oaks in New England them had attained to some size before the Pilgrims landed and in the Middle States, a group containing so many large on the shores of Massachusetts Bay, and that the oldest trees is not often seen now anywhere in eastern America. was at that time a tree of some size, There are in this group twenty-three large Oaks and one The ponderous lateral branches of these trees, reaching large Elm growing on an area of two or three acres. The out in every direction, shows that they grew up in the Oaks are all White Oaks, with the exception of a single open ground, which must have been cleared four or five Swamp White Oak. They occupy mainly the slopes of a hundred years ago, if, indeed, the dry and gravelly soil terminal moraine, along the base of which flows Beaver ever produced any other forest growth contemporaneously Brook, the "Sweet Beaver, child of forest still," sung by with these Oaks. Lowell. The Waverly Oaks are well known to all Boston- The Waverly Oaks grow within a few hundred yards of ians interested in nature, and strangers not infrequently the station at Waverly, on the Boston & Fitchburg Railroad, make the pilgrimage to Belmont to look upon these ven- on a piece of ground directly opposite the property of the erable products of Massachusetts soil. It is strange, there- trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital, occupied fore, that so little has ever been printed about these trees. by the country home of that institution. The whole region Emerson, the historian of the trees of Massachusetts, makes no reference to them. Piper, who wrote of the trees of Messrs. L. L. Dame and Henry Brooks, of West Medford, who are engaged in pre- paring for publication an account of some of the most remarkable Elms and other America, and who lived not very far away, in Malden, trees of Massachusetts, obligingly send the following measurement of the largest seems to have overlooked them, and traveled all the way of the Wayerly Oaks, which stands on a steep slope: At five feet from the lower side, twenty-one feet six inches ; at five feet from the upper side, sixteen feet six to Stowe to find his typical New England White Oak. Brown, inches. There is a difference of several feet in the height of the ground at the upper and at the lower sides of this tree, and our measurement of sev- another Massachusetts man who published books about enteen feet three inches, taken at three feet and a half from the ground on the trees, passed them by without a word. The poets and lower side, is perhaps as correct as any measurement can be made. Other meas. urements of Massachusetts White Oaks sent us by Messrs. Dame and Brooks are philosophers of Cambridge and Concord, who doubtless seventeen feet eight inches for the Oakai Bernardston; twenty-four feet five inches often passed by Beaver Brook, make no mention of its for the Oak at Boyleston; fifteen feet ten and: half inchesi the Avery Oak at Ded. ham; fourteen feet one inch for the Elliott Oak at Natick; and thirteen feet seven great trees, which first appear in print, apparently, in 1881, inches for the Topsfield Oak. These measurements are all made at five feet from in Harper's Magazine, where Mr. F. H. Underwood, writing the ground. A White Oak recently cut on the estate of Peter C. Brooks, Esq., of West Medford, Massachusetts. measured at eight feet from the ground eight feet of James Russell Lowell, speaks of them on page 262 as ten inches, and had approximately 200 layers of annual growth, as counted by 1)ame and Brooks. the only group of aboriginal trees standing on the Mas- Mr. John Robinson, in his account of the Woodv Plants of Essex County, Mas. sachusetts coast' statement to which some exceptions sachusetts," gives the following measurement of White Oaks: The Topsfield Oak, in 1875, had a circumference one foot from the ground of nineteen feet seven might be taken. The Committee on Grounds of the Mas- inches the same trunk measured sixteen feet eleven inches at three feet from the sachusetts Horticultural Society visited the Waverly Oaks ground, and twelve feet eleven inches at five feet from the ground. Two White Oaks on the Burleigh Farm, In Danvers, measured respectively nineteen feet and on the 28th of June, 1884, and the chairman, Mr. J. G. Bar- seventeen feet ten inches, both measurements being made at the ground, the first measuring thirteen feet six inches at six feet from the ground and the second ker, joined to its report printed in the transactions of the twelve feet at five feet from the ground. 86 Garden and Forest. [FEBRUARY 19, 1890. is undergoing rapid development, and houses are spring- is 61°. No such coolness is to be found along the thousand ing up on every side. The establishment of a small public miles of monotonous sand beach which front the Atlantic park at this place, which need not exceed three or four south of the Gulf of Maine; and though the coolness of the acres in extent to accomplish this object, would protect the waters of the gulf precludes most persons from sea bathing, this freshness of the air will always.be an irresistible attraction trees from the dangers which now threaten them, and to many thousands of dwellers in hot cities. Again, in con- would make a valuable and interesting public resort within trast with the southern sea-beaches, the scenery of the Maine walking or driving distance of the homes of a very large coast is exceedingly interesting and refreshing. The mere number of people. map of it is most attractive. Beginning at Piscataqua River, a deep estuary whose swift tides flow through an archipelago Mr. J. G. Lemmon, the accomplished botanist of the of rocks and small islands, the shore is at first made up of low California State Board of Forestry, discusses the problem ledges forming ragged points, connected by sand or pebble of forest fires in the seventh bulletin issued by that board. beaches, where farmers gather rock-weed after storms. Sea- ward lies a group of dangerous rocks, the Isles of Shoals. he says, "a common observation that forests are Beyond the tortuous outlet of York River and the Short and usually bordered by a fringe of saplings and these by Long Sands of York, Cape Neddick and Bald Head lift high points and patches of seedlings all apparently flourishing rocks toward the sea, and behind them rises Agamenticus finely and promising a material enlargement of the forest Hill, a conspicuous blue landmark sometimes visible from area ; and scarce an instance is known where an edge of Cape Ann, in Massachusetts. Low and sandy coasts succeed, a forest is dying off by the natural course of events. The fronting the old towns of Wells and Kennebunk. Cape Por- question arises, is this a normal attribute of forest-growth, poise follows, a confused mass of rocky islets, salt marshes or of forest-development? Did they always thus try to and tidal flats; then more long and short beaches, a lagoon called Biddeford Pool, the mouth of Saco River barred by its expand, or has some change occurred to them or their en- washings from the White Hills, more beaches, and so to Cape vironment that now enables them to increase their peri- Elizabeth, a broad wedge of rock pushed out to sea as if to phery? The answer to the problem is contained in the mark the entrance to the land-locked harbor of Portland. two English words-Indian fires. The Indian desired Thus far the coast is sufficiently rich in varied scenery-in open prairies and intervals for his game, that elatter might shores now high, now low, now wooded and now bare, now find better forage thereon, and also that he might the bet- gentle and now rough first thrust seaward in rocky capes, ter mark them for his arrows. With the retirement of the then swept inland in curving beaches, and now and again Indian and the suspension of the annual forest and prairie- broken by the outlets of small rivers. Cape Elizabeth ends this scenery, and introduces the voyager to a type still more fires, the forests freely expand, and it is well known that intricate, picturesque and distinctive. Casco Bay, with its young forests are covering large areas of the eastern many branches running inland and its peninsulas and islands United States, and it is believed that the great diluvian stretching seaward, is the first of a succession of bays, thor- plains of the central west and of the Pacific slope might in oughfares" and reaches which line the coast almost all time be covered with trees, if the practice of modern agri- the rest of the way to Quoddy. The ragged edge of the main- culturists did not serve to prevent their growth, desirable land becomes lost behind a maze of rock-bound islands, and or otherwise. More than all the destructive processes of appears but seldom where the surf can strike it. The salt water penetrates in deep and narrow channels into the very the lumbermen, and the close grazing of the flocks and woods, ebbs and flows in hundreds of frequented and untre- herds of the stock raiser, is the ruin of the fire fiend; and quented harbors, and enters into countless hidden nooks and against him the blazing forests, the menaced settlements coves and narrows. Sand beaches become rare, and great and the ruined inhabitants of California appeal to citizens and small sea walls' of worn stones or pebbles take their generally and legislatures especially for instant and ade- place. Islands, islets, and ledges both dry and sunken, are quate protection." It is by fires, as Mr. Lemmon points strewn on every hand. The tides flow among them with in- out, that young seedlings are destroyed utterly, and usu- creasing force, and the fog wraps them from sight more and ally the saplings are killed off, not consumed, while on a more frequently as the Bay of Fundy is approached. Great cliffs are rare until Grand Manan is reached, and high hills section of country from which the whole tree-growths come down to the sea only by Penobscot Bay and at Mount have been removed after a fire, weeds and brambles will Desert; but, on the other hand, the variety of lesser topo- not come in until many years after. And how shall the cry- graphic forms is very great. In Casco Bay, for instance, the ing evil of forest fires be stopped, where is the remedy, rocks trend north-east and south-west, and all the crowded and who shall apply islands run out into reefs in these directions. Penobscot Mr. Lemmon is not the first thoughtful observer to Bay presents wide stretches of open water divided by well ask these questions. The answer, perhaps, is wise legis- massed islands, but still preserves a fine breadth of effect : and these islands differ greatly in form and character, accord- lation, but legislation will be usèless unless it rests on ing as they are built of hard and glaciated granite or public sentiment; and public sentiment in this country will of altered stratified rocks. The border bay of Passama- not save the forests until the popular mind is more highly quoddy is distinguished by fine headlands, which terminate educated than it is to-day upon all subjects relating to the islands, generally lower than the heads. In like manner the forests and their value to the nation. sounds and fiord-like rivers differ much from each other. For instance, the Kennebec River is extremely narrow, and The Coast of Maine. many bold knobs of rock turn it this way and that: but the neighboring Sheepscot is fully three miles broad at its mouth, F ROM Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, and this noble width contracts but slowly while the Penobscot the broad entrance of the Gulf of Maine is two hundred above the Narrows takes on such a gentle appearance as to be miles wide, and it is one hundred miles from each of these hardly recognizable as a river of eastern Maine, the general as- capes to the corresponding ends of the coast of Maine at Kit- pect of this part of the coast being distinctly wild and untamable. tery and Quoddy. Thus Maine squarely faces the wide open- Doubtless the raggedness of the rocky shore is the first ing between the capes, while to the east and west, beyond cause of the almost forbidding aspect of the region, but the her limits, stretch two great offshoots of the gulf, the bays changed character of the sea-coast woods is a second cause. of Fundy and of Massachusetts. The latter and lesser bay Beyond Cape Elizabeth, if capes and islands are wooded at all, presents a south shore built mostly of sands and gravels in it is with the dark, stiff cresting of Spruce, Fir or Pine, fringed beaches and bluffs, and a north shore of bold and enduring perhaps with Birch and Mountain Ash. Near Kittery fine rocks, both already overgrown with seaside hotels and cot- Elms and even Hickories may be seen on the open shore, but tages. The Bay of Fundy, on the other hand, is little resorted there is a gradual dying out of many familiar species as the for pleasure. Its shores in many parts are grandly high and coast is traversed eastward. Thus Holly and Inkberry, bold; but its waters are moved by such rushing tides, and its together with Prickly Ash, Flowering Dogwood and Sassafras, coasts are so frequently wrapt in cold fogs, that it will doubt- are not seen near the sea north of Massachusetts Bay. White less remain comparatively an unfrequented region. Cedar, after following the coast all the way from the Gulf of Along the coast of Maine, stretched for two hundred miles Mexico, dies out near Kittery. York River is said to see the last from bay to bay, scenery and climate change from the Massa- Buttonwoods, Saco River the last Chestnuts, and the Kenne- chusetts to the Fundy type. At Boston the average tempera- bec the last Tupelos and Hickories. Conversely, this coast ture of July is 70° at Eastport, at the farther end of Maine, it has its many forerunners of the flora of the far north. While FEBRUARY 19, 1890.] Garden and Forest. 87 the White Pine is met with all along shore north of New Jersey, booming land company has hastily divided and sold its rough the Red Pine first appears by Massachusetts Bay and the Gray ledges in rectangular lots, whose lines bear no relation to the Pine by Mt. Desert. The Arbor-vitze is first met with near forms of the ground, so that houses cannot be well placed. the Kennebec. The Balsam Fir and the Black and White The squalid aspect of the public parts of these settlements, the Spruces show themselves on no coasts south of Cape Ann, and shabby plank walks and the unkempt roadways, are other do not abound until Cape Elizabeth is passed. It is the black- causes of reproach. The houses themselves, if cheap, are too ness of these dwarf coniferous woods which, with the desola- often vulgarly ornamented, and if costly, are generally absurdly tion of the surf-beaten ledges and the frequent coming of the pretentious. Even the government, which has lately been re- fog, impresses the traveler with the fact that this is a really building many of the light-house keepers' dwellings, has sub- wild and sub-arctic shore, where strange red-men's names stituted for the simple, low and entirely fitting structures of a for islands, capes and rivers-names such as Medomak, Mus- former generation, a thin-walled and small-chimneyed type of congus, Pemaquid, Megunticook, Eggemoggin, Moosabec and house, such as is common in the suburbs of our cities. One Schoodic-seem altogether fitting. of these perched on a sea cliff is an abomination, and might The human story of the coast of Maine is almost as pictur- well have illustrated the mournful remark of a recent writer in esque and varied as its scenery. This coast was first fre- the Atlantic Monthly, who pointed out that American indiffer- quented by stray French fishing vessels, and first scientifically ence to beauty cannot be caused by the newness of our civ- explored by Samuel de Champlain, whose narrative of his ilization, for when this was still newer we built both more adventures is still delightful reading. Fruitless attempts at appropriately and picturesquely than we commonly do now. settlement followed, led by French knights at Saint Croix, by Again, in the treatment of the ground about their houses, English cavaliers at Sagadahock and by French Jesuits at Mt. the millionaires of Bar Harbor are quite as apt to err as are the Desert: ail of them years in advance of the English Colony of humbler cottagers of Squirrel Island. Smooth lawns, made of New Plymouth. Then followed a long period of fishing and imported soil, and kept green only by continual watering; fur- fur trading, during which Maine belonged to neither New nish a means of displaying wealth, but they cannot be fit- France nor New England, and a genuine border warfare was tingly united with scenery which is characterized by rough the result. Two rival Frenchmen also fought and besieged ledges and scrubby woods. On this rough coast level grass each other in truly feudal fashion at Penobscot and Saint John. will please when it is joined to a house and enclosed by walls. Again, while the long French and Indian wars lasted, this In the open ground it can hardly ever be in keeping. Similarly coast saw more fighting. The older settlements west of Cape incongruous are flower-beds scattered over rocky and uneven Elizabeth were sacked several times, and even the English ground, set between the trunks of Pitch Pines, or perched on stronghold at Pemaquid was captured; but the forest allies of the tops of whaleback ledges; and yet such things are com- the French Baron Saint Castin were beaten in the end. The mon sights at Bar Harbor. numerous French names for points on the eastern coast bear The real danger of the present situation is that this annual witness to the long French occupation; as for instance, Grand flood of humanity, with its permanent structures for shelter, and Petit Manan, Bois Bubert, Monts Déserts and Isle au may so completely overflow and occupy the limited stretch Hault, and Burnt Coat, apparently English, but really a mis- of coast which it invades, as to rob it of that flavor of wildness translation of the French Cote Brule. and remoteness which hitherto has hung about it, and which No Englishmen settled beyond Penobscot until after the in great measure constitutes its refreshing charm. A surf- capture of Quebec; and when they did, they, as Yankees, had beaten headland may be crowned by a lighthouse tower with- to take part in still more fighting in the wars of the Revolution out losing its dignity and impressiveness, but it cannot be and of 1812. The settlers first fished and hunted, then cut hay dotted with frail cottages without suffering a woeful fall. A on the salt marshes and timber in the great woods, and in lonely fiord shut in by dark woods, where the fog lingers in later years took to ship building, and later still to stone quarry- wreaths, as it comes and goes, loses its charm whenever even ing and ice harvesting, and, near Rockland, to lime burning. one bank is stripped naked, and streets of buildings are sub- These works are still the business of the coast. Even hunt- stituted for the Spruces and Pines. A few rich men, realizing ing is carried on at certain seasons in the eastern counties, this danger, have surrounded themselves with considerable where deer are still numerous. All the large Spruce tracts of land solely with the intention of preserving the of the shore woods have been cut but Bangor still sends natural aspect; and at least one hotel company, by buying down Penobscot Bay a fleet of lumber schooners every time almost the whole of the wild island of Campobello, has saved the wind blows from the north ; and as for fishing, fleets for the patrons of its houses a large region of unspoiled of more than two hundred graceful vessels may often be seen scenery. The readers GARDEN AND FOREST stand in need of in port together waiting the end of a storm. no argument to prove the importance to human happiness of It was about 1860 that what may be called the discovery of that refreshing antidote to city life which fine natural scenery the picturesqueness and the summer-time healthfulness of the supplies, nor is it necessary to remind them that of beauty coast of Maine took place. Only the beaches of the western and of art must surely die if it be cut at its roots by destroying quarter of the shore were at first occupied by hotels: but when or vulgarizing the beauty of nature. Men cannot love art well the poor hamlet of Bar Harbor leaped into fame through the until they love what she mirrors better," says Mr. Ruskin. resort to it of a few well known landscape painters, it became The United States have but this one short stretch of Atlantic evident that the whole coast was destined to be a much fre- sea-coast where a pleasant summer climate and real pictur- quented summer resort. At present, York, Kennebunkport, esqueness of scenery are to be found together. Can nothing Biddeford Pool and Old Orchard Beach, together with the be done to preserve for the use and enjoyment of the great Casco Islands, Booth Bay, Camden, Mt. Desert and Campo unorganized body of the common people some fine parts, at bello, are a few of the more populous neighborhoods but least, of this sea-side wilderness of Maine It would seem as summer hotels are now scattered all along the shore, and if the mere self-interest of hotel proprietors and land-owners colonies of summer villas of all grades of costliness occupy would have accomplished much more in this direction than many of the more accessible capes and islands. Thus there it yet has. If, for instance, East Point near York, or Dice's are many cottages at York, and the islands near Portland are Head at Castine, or Great Head near Bar Harbor. should be fairly covered with cheap structures. Squirrel Island in Booth fenced off as private property, all the other property-owners Bay is another nest of small houses, and Bar Harbor sum- of the neighborhood would have to subtract something from mer city surrounded by a multitude of very costly and elabo- the value of their estates. And, conversely, if these or other rate wooden palaces. The finest parts of the coast are already like points of vantage, or any of the ancient border forts, were controlled by land companies and speculators, while the preserved to public uses by local associations or by the com- natives' minds are inflamed by the high prices which the once monwealth, every estate and every form of property in the worthless shore lands are now supposed to command. neighborhood would gain in value. Public-spirited men would The spectacle of thousands upon thousands of people able doubtless give to. such associations rights of way, and even to spend annually several weeks or months of summer in lands occasionally, and the raising of money for the purchase healthful life by the sea-shore is very American and very of favorite points might not prove to be so difficult as at pleasant, and the impartial observer can find but two points first it seems. The present year should see, all up and down about it which are in any considerable degree discouraging or the shore, the beginning of a movement in the direction here dangerous. The lamentable feature of the situation is the indicated. In many parts of the coast it is full time decisive small amount of thought and attention given to considerations action was taken, and if the State of Maine should by suitable of appropriateness and beauty by the builders and inhabitants legislation encourage the formation of associations for the of the summer cotonies of the coast. Indifference in these purpose of preserving chosen parts of her coast scenery, matters works ill results everywhere, but nowhere is lack of she would not only do herself honor, but would secure for the taste quite so conspicuous as on the sea-shore. Both corpora- future an important element in her material prosperity. tions and individuals are guilty on this head. More than one Boston. Charles Eliot. The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals Page 2 of 3 FEBRUARY 19, 1890.] Garden and Forest. GARDEN AND FOREST. society for that year the other short account of the which has appeared coupled with a timely suggestic PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY their preservation. This suggestion we desire to repeat and enforce THE GARDEN AND FOREST PUBLISHING CO. that the public may know the beauty of these OFFICE: TREAURE BUILDING, New YORK. and of the spot where they grow, we reproduce or Conducted by Professor C. S. SARGENT. 91 view taken by Dr. W. H. Rollins, of Boston, she a portion of the group. ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER KY THE FOST OFFICE AT NEW YORK, The age which these trees have attained and the V tudes they have survived entitle them to respect, al NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 18go. people of Massachusetts might, wisely secure their p vation through the purchase and dedication to publi TABLE OF CONTENTS. of the land on which they stand. PAGR. The age of these old Oaks can only be surmised. EDITORIAL ARTICLES -The Waverly Oaks. (Illustrated.)-Forest Fires 85 famous naturalist is said to have declared that the sn The Coast of Maine Charles Eliet. #5 ENTOMOLOGICAL Enemy to the Egyptian Lotus. (Illustrated) of them had existed through more than a thousand Professor John B. Smith. 88 It is probable that this statement is greatly exagge New OR LITTLE KNOWN PLANTS -Gladiolus Turicensis. (Illustrated.) 88 The largest tree in the group girlhs seventeen feet FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE:-Berl Letter Dr. Ude Dammer. 88 CULTURAL DEPARTHENT:-Fern Notes inches at three and a half feet from the ground. IV. H. Taplin. go Protection Against the Striped Cucumber Beetle, (Illustrated.) principal tree in our illustration is smaller, with a gi Professor E. 5. Goff go Orchid Notes Goldring: W. only thirteen feet four inches, measured at the sam 93 Brussels Sprouts W. H. Bull. ga tance from the ground. An actual examination of the Doronicum Harper CrowerSeed-Sowing John Thanks 92 Lachenalja Nationi R a Orget. 93 of this tree shows that it has increased three inch Christmas Roses T.D.H. 93 diameter during the last twenty-four years. Had it THE FOREST Need of a Forest Policy in Pennsylvania, Professor W. A. Buckkowt. the same rate of growth during the whole period of its 93 CORREXPONDENCE:-Australi Trees in California W. s Lyon. 94 ence, it would have been 408 years old, and the 1 Action of Root-hairs Professor 7. T. Rathrack. 94 Kalanchoe carnes John Thorpe. tree in the group would be, with the same rate of inc 94 RECENT PUBLICATIONS 94 508 years old. It is probable that they are both yo EXHIBITIONS 95 than these estimates make them. They may OF SOCIETIES 95 grown less rapidly for several years at the beginni Noras $6 their life, but there must have been a number of ILLUSTRATIONS nelumbialis; larva, Fig. 18 88 Botis nelumbialia; moth, Fig. 19 88 probably several hundred, when they increased mor Gladiolus Turiorasis, Fig. 20 89 idly in diameter than they have during the last quar The Waverly Oaks 91 A Simple Plant Protector, Fig. 98 a century. The appearance of the trees justifies thi position. They are still healthy, and are growing wit The Waverly Oaks. siderable vigor; but there can be no doubt their period of most rapid development has passe is in Belmont, one of the suburbs of Boston, that, while they may continue, with proper care, to a part of the ancient town of Water- and increase slowly for centuries perhaps, they will town, a group of Oaks which has come to be known in less rapidly now than they did one or two hundred recent years as the Waverly Oaks, from the village near ago. But after making all due allowance for differ which they stand. These Waverly Oaks are, all things in the rate of growth at different periods in the exis considered, the most interesting trees in eastern Massachu- of these trees, it is safe to surmise that the young setts, and although there are larger Oaks in New England them had attained to some size before the Pilgrims 1; and in the Middle States, a group containing so many large on the shores of Massachusetts Bay, and that the trees is not often seen now where in eastern America, was at that time a tree of some size. There are in this group twenty-three large Oaks and one The ponderous lateral branches of these trees, rea large Elm growing on an area of two or three acres. The out in every direction, shows that they grew up i Oaks are all White Oaks, with the exception of a single open ground, which must have been cleared four C Swamp White Oak. They occupy mainly the slopes of a hundred years ago, if, indeed, the dry and gravell; terminal moraine, along the base of which flows Beaver ever produced any other forest growth contemporane Brook, the "Sweet Beaver, child of forest still," sung by with these Oaks. Lowell. The Waverly Oaks are well known to all Boston- The Waverly Oaks grow within a few hundred yar ians interested in nature, and strangers not infrequently the station at Waverly, on the Boston & Fitchburg Rai make the pilgrimage to Belmont to look upon these ven- on a piece of ground directly opposite the property < erable products of Massachusetts soil. It is strange, there- trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital, OCC fore, that so little has ever been printed about these trees. by the country home of that institution. whole r Emerson, the historian of the trees of Massachusetts, makes no reference to them. Piper, who wrote of the trees of Measrs. L L Dame and Henry Brooks, of West Medford, who engage paring for publication an account of some of the most remarkable Elins III America, and who lived not very far away, in Malden, trees of Massachusetts, obligingly send the following measurement of the seems to have overlooked them, and traveled all the way of the Waverly Oaks, which stands on a sleep slope: At five feet from it side, twenty-on feet six inches at fire feet from the upper side, sixteen to Stowe to find his typical New England White Oak. Brown, taches. There is a difference of several feet in the height of the at the upper and at the lower sides of this Ence, and our measurement another Massachusetts man who published books about enteen feet three Inches, taken at three feet and a half from the ground trees, passed them by without a word. The poets and lower side, is perhaps as correct as any measurement can be made. Other urements of Massachusetts White Oaks sent us by Measrs. Dame and Bro philosophers of Cambridge and Concord, who doubtless seventeen feet eight inches for the Oak at Bernardston; twenty-fo feet fy often passed by Beaver Brook, make no mention of its for the Oak at Boyleston: fifteen feet ten and a half Inches for the Avery Oak ham; fourteen feet one inch for the Elliott Oak at Natick: and thirteen fer great trees, which first appear in print, apparently, in 1881, inches for the Topsfield Oak. These measurements are all made at five & the ground. A White Oak recently cut on the estate of Peter c. Brooks, in Harper's Magazine, where Mr. F. H. Underwood, writing West Medford, Massachusetts, measured at eight feet from the ground el; of Tames Russell Lowell, speaks of them on page 262 as ten Inches, and had approximately 200 layers of annual growth, as cou Damo and Brooks. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=gardfor&fileName=v0000003i0000104.db... 5/17/2007 TABLE GOSSIP. pg.13 Boston Daily Globe (1872-1960); Mar 16, 1890; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Boston Globe (1872-1901) TABLE GOSSIP. The dulness of these Lenten days has been pleasantly enlivened by the events of the past week. notably the three perform- anres of the "Antigone which inter- estad every society woman and young girl not absent from town. and proved a boon indeed to the novelty seekers as well as the charities to be benefited. It 18 rarely one 8009 three audiences of such quality and in- telligence as those assembled in Bumstead Hall last week and such another as will fill every seat again tomorrow afternoon. and the close attention to the presentation. during which the bonse was as still as at a hymphony concert, evinced an appreciation which must have delighted the hearts of the projectors and performers. Truly the public owes a deep gratitude to the Satur- laid Morning before else rare has treat broken it has day Club for the them. Little the monotony save a low smart and Dixey, luncheons parties dinners to see and theatre "All the Comforts of Home." and the ever-charming Gaiety company which keeps the iromont filled with a merry crowd of fashionable people night after night. Mr. Robson, at the Hollie. has received has share of attention from his old and new Boston friends. and this week his Bertio in The Henrietta" is sure of having the warmest kind of reception. At the 'Ire. mont and the Boston Museum the same bill 18 to continue through this week, and the same great houses, too, are to be repeated The short soason of Italian opera at Me. chanic's Hall will naturally be the para. mount attraction. and we shall hear little else talked of but the comparative and superiative merita of the leading artists whom we are all eagerness to hear. It WAS an odd sight, that long cne of well dressed, well bred women and girls, which formed three afternoons last week in the corridor of the Music Hall, patiently and merrily awaiting their turn to findseats in Buinstead Hall for the Greek play. or bustie, such as one so frequently sees on Therev no Dusling or crowding. no hurry similar occasion and the absence of all that element was due to the fact that the crowd was made up of ladies, fine in breeding as well as in appearance and position. It was delightful. too, to 60C the grace and courtesy with which the members of the club who served, as officials greeted every comer and made them feel welcome to the best seat, if it were to be had. The pleasant chatter of hundreds of voices as the hall filled up, before the performanco began, was very similar to a lively afternoon tea, and the bonnetless aspect of the audience, composed of women alone, had an unusual but very artistic effect. 1898 Among the great company of society women, young and old. assembled on Thursday afternoon, which made the most distin. guished audience of the three. were Mrs. Julia T. Gray Ward and Miss Dorr. Gardner, Mrs. F. Howe, Mrs. C. H. Gray. Mrs. J. 1. Mrs. Rollins Morse. Mrs. T. F."Edmands, Mrs. A. L. Mason, Mrs. William Appleton the younger, Mrs. U.D. Homans, Mrs. Dabney, Mrs. Walter Dabney, Mrs. J. M. Forbes, Mrs. Charles Farchild and Miss Lucia Fairchild. Mrs. Josiah Quincy, Mrs. R. H. Weld, Mrs. Waterston, Mrs. Moses Williams and daughter. Mrs. Henry Winsor, Mrs. John Lowell and daughters. Mrs. E. W. Codman and Miss Codman, Mrs. S. W. Bates, Mrs. Prescott Bigelow, Miss Slade. Mrs. Arthur Foote, Mrs. W. F. Adthorp. Misa Alice Russell, Miss Ruth Burnett. Mrs. E N. Fenno, Miss Emeline Ticknor, Mrs. R, M. Morse, Jr., and daughter. the Misses Bullard, Mrs. Darwin E. Ware, Miss S. II. Fonno Daniel Wainwright, Mrs. Sharp, Prince, Mrs. J. Gordon Mrs. Shard. Mrs. George B. and Mrs. John W. Wheelwright. -Mr. Clapp's Saturday afternoon lec- tures at Chickering Hall are quite as re- markable for the quality of the audiences, which completely fill the hall. as for the fineness of the attraction offered. Mr. Clapp may well feel gratified when men of such prominence in the legal profession as Judge Lowell, Mr. George O. Shattuck. Mr. Causton Browne, Mr. Francis Bartlett, Mr. 11. W. Putnam, Mr. Alfred Homenway, Mr. Suter. Mr. H. M. Rogers. Mr. Hyde, Mr. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission TADLE UNIVER Boston Daily Globe (1872-1960); Jun 1, 1890; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Boston Globe 1901) pg. 13 TABLE GOSSIP. TABLE GOSSIP. TABLE GOSSIP. funeral of Miss Sara Timmins. at C. II Joy who was to have had his performances of the Criterion Trinity church Avenuesday at noon, handsome coach "Piopeer" in line at the Clab Tuesday night at nion Hall for the very largely attended by Mr. and Mrs. New York Coaching Club parade was pre- Vincent fund 1524 an admirable one. and as Briminer's relatives and friends. to whom vented from participating at the last tracted a crowded house The work of this their niece was enceared. It way one of moment, so that Boston had no representa. lub considered by their efforts on that the sadaest of the many similar ocrasions tion this year as far as coache, ment. held within the 3 car in that church, and night. 15 of an unusually high order for Mr. T J. Homer. Mr. Gronse L. Clark, hay awakened the deepest sympathy in all Mr Mean, and Mr. F. Codia started amatours, and is deserving of front rank in TABLE GOSSIP. organizations like nature in and around hearts for the bereaved family. The chan. Thursday on a lew days' cano ing trip in the Hoston. In "A Woman's Wout." the cel rail was eautifully draped with trailing TIVUTS around Burlington and Montpelier, programme. Miss Beal and Mr Weston With the advent today of that most vines and crusters of white lilies. The Vt They sent their canoes ahead by ex- were especially tine, and in Miss beautiful month of the ,ear sprinz gives broad ste sleading in the chancel were com. press. All this party are OTHOSLA at this Grace I urniss' farce comedy, American say to summer and the social life pietely covered with lowers sent by rela. fascinating sport. Fascination.' Mi.s Clara Swart. easily boro incident to that delightful season may tives and friends. and on the pure white -Hon. John C. Wyman gave a hand. off the honors in a really rilliant imper low be considered as fairly begun for rasket. which rested on a white cloth. were some stag dinner at the Algonquin Club ,enation of Sierra Nevada. a prairie 1030 he pleasure-lovia. world. So cool and laid the choicest blossoms of the spring. Thursday night Her versatility here had fu'l scope. includ- injoyable have been the last weeks in Rev. Phillips Brooks read the impressive Dr. and Mrs. J P. Reynolds sailed THE the dancing, which was remarkably many who usually close their service. Mr. and Mrs. John Chapman of Wednesday in the City of Berlin for Liver- Tone for an ainateur. Mr. Walter Dugan, houses the first June are planninz to Now ork and Mr. and Mrs. Horbert Tim- New York. who has ranked for several years as one of Lay where they are until the tir-t of July. mins were alnong the immediate family Mrs. I. F. Ieland of Mt Vernon st., the leading ainateurs in his line. played the pecially if that place be within sight of the circle with Mr. and Mrs Brimmer at the author of "John Ward, Preacher," emiled busy American half-ow of the gold mine, Public Garden and the parks, which service. Others in the Jarks compa y Wednesday with her husband for Europe with the fine skill one IS accustomed to ox. through this month are at their very best. assembled were Mis PL C. Winthrop and in the Teutonic, for R summer abroad. pect from his work. Miss Gettrude ong as theremark made by one of the wealthiest her daughter Miss Thayer, R. C. Winthrop, -Miss Lily Schlesinger the elder adv Gmnese.e was picturein hand- esidents of Commonwealth av. Thursday Jr. Dr. O. W. Holme. Mr. and Mrs. Roger daughter of Mr. Sebastian Schlosinger. :our gowns noticeably a beautiful yellow he stood watching the Cadets at parade, Wolcott. Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Lothrop Mr. formelly of Boston, was presented at court and black creation built evidently by a with the beautiful follaze of the Gargen and Mrs. Abbott Lawrence. Mrs. John last week by her aunt, Mrs. Schlesingcr. Parisian modiste. for A background. that "Boston was good Lowell. Mr. and Mrs John Lawrence, Mr. who, niter the drawing room. gave her a re- death of Miss Sara Timmins.niece enough for him for another month" doubt and Mrs. Edward Bangs, Mr and Mis. ception at her residence. 70 Ennismore of Mrs. Martin Brimmet.which occurred no found ready responsefrom anyaround, G. B. Chase. Mrs. R is. Fay. Mr. Gardens. Miss Schlesinger wore a gown of Monday, at the Brimmer mansion on Bea- for surely with this great green 0,1818 in the and Mrs. W. Prescott, Mrs. Henry Whit- white faillo over white dotted lisse, and con is a terrible blow to the aunt and intest, and 118 refreshing east winds, our man, Miss Alice Russell, Mrx Charles her bouquet W13 of margueritos. Her tullo ancle, who loved her as if she had loen CITY is an ideal one for the CR pyment of the Whitney. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Dixey, Miss veil was held up with plumes en regle. their own child. She was a great favorite early summer. For the delectation of louisa Cushing, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. lasigi, Miss Schlesinger IS a beautiful girl, tall, a in society. and being blessed with 8 pecu- society the past week 1/10 Paine-Cabot wed- Mrs. Sigourney Otis, Miss Ruth Burnett, brunette, and wears her hair combed Harly suppy, oven temperament, ding on Wednesday. Country Club Mr. and Mrs. Barrett Wendell, Mrs. T. E. straight back a la pompadour, a style which warm-hearted, gay. debonnaire, clever Friday and yesterday. with the Cadet re- Chickering, Mrs. C. H. Dorr, Mrs. Howland so few people attempt. in speech, and quick to catch view, made the more prominent events, Shaw. Mrs. W. F. Apthorp. Miss Enzabeth -Mrs. John Sberwood. in one of her rc. the humorous side of life, she made with theatre parties almost every night Brooks. Mr. Edward Brooks, Mr. Joseph cent clever l'aris letters. says. apropos of a most delightini companion for young and Saturday at the Hollis Street. din- Peabody. Mr. T. J. Coolidge, Mr. George society women: "A good woman of the old. Her talent for amateur acting was re- ners the Someract and Algonquin clubs Amory. Mr. Grafton Cushing. Mr. F. Gordon world 18 a radiant reality; she can help to markable. 11er untimely death leaves Mr. The audiences which the Daly company's Dexter Mr. Arthur Dexter, Mr. Ilarry make or mar a nation." and Mrs. Brimmer entirely nlone, as the spiendid production of "As You Like It" Burnett, Mr. Pierson Beebe, Mr. Russell Mr. Fraucis Hunnewell is to build an elder sister married Mr. "Jack" Chapman attracted were of oven liner quality. if Sullivan, Mr. Harcourt Amory and Mr. addition to the church of the Advent ILS a of New York last summer and makes her possible, than those of the previous week. Henry Sayles. memorial to his young wite (born Stargis'. home in that city. This bersavement will and ended the season of this favorite alie The 1st Corps of Cadets had a one who died seven months after their mar- make a sad hiatus in the social life in Bev. tre most brilliantly. afternoon for their parade on the Common riage, which took place last August. erly this season, where the Brimmers and the advent of the month of roses Thursday. and a distinguished company of The new Now York midday express Miss Timmins have always been leaders in comes a week of weddings, and let us hope spectators enjoyed the exercises, which the New York & New England railood IS an abounding and elegant hospitality.- a week of summine, too, to bless the brides. were admirable. Their well preserved meeting with great favor with the many L'ostonian. On Tuesday Miss Mabel I othiop and Mr. aliznements, good distances, timely and patrons of the road-Jadies travelling alone A pleasant and healthful drink for hot Ballautine are to be married at the church well rendered salutey called forth hearty specially. By leaving Boston at noon they weather is "Montserrat" Lune-Fruit Juico, of 1/10 Advent, at 12.30. On Tuesday also applause. The guard mounting, with Capt. arrive in New York at 0.30, early enough to diluted and sweetened to the taste. Kev. George A. Gordon and Miss Manning Robeson as officer of the day, was the reach their hotel or other destinations in -The Country Club spring races, the will be wed at Mrs. Manning's house on feature of the parade, however, and a broad daylight, dine, and have the evening last of which took place yesterday after- Gloucester Ht. Trinity church will bebright beautiful sight it was. Among those who free for the theatre or other engagements. noon, have had unusual good fortune this and gay with flowers and youthful faces on occupied the seats in the inclosure and on This new train leaves cities at the samo season regarding weather. Three more Wednesday, when. nt high nood, Miss Kath- the hill overlooking the parade ground time. superb days for such sport could not have erine Clarke, daughter of Mr. Henry M. were Gen. Devens, Col. Henry Lee, Mr. Nat Childs, the business manager been imagined and consequently the riding Clarke, will he married to Mr. Paul Barron Col. John Jeffries. Mr. and Mrs. of the Tremont Theatro, will spend the has never been botter or the crowd of spec. Watson of London. On the same day Miss J. Lewis Stackpole and Miss Virginia Stack. greater part of the summer in Nova Scotia tators greater. Yesterday it seemed as it Alice Richards and Mr. Minot Weld Walter pole, Mrs. Moses Williams and daughter, and at the Maine lakes, where he means to all the 100 and as many more were assem- will be wed in Brookline, and OH Thursday, Mrs. Edmands, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. devole some of his time to literary work. bled in the grand stand. or watched the amid the beautiful surroundings of her Weld, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. lasigi, Mr. and Mrs. His hosts of friends. to whom his courtesies racing from their carriages. It was a beau. father's country home nt Southboro, Miss F. A. Whitwell, Miss Natalie Whitwell, are alwaysso cordially extended. wish him a tiful and exhilarating sight. Choate will be married to Mr. Bowditch. Miss Lulu Williams, Miss Gertrudo Rice, most pleasant and profitable summer. Foxhall Keone has made the Ven- T. F. Cushing and his daughter. Miss A. C. Ward, Mrs. Thatcher Goddard, Iierbeit Naylor-Letand of Lon- dome his headquarters during the last part Miss Edith Cushing. went to New York Mrs. R. M. Merso, Jr., and daughters, Mrs. don-better known as the far-fained Ameri- of the week, when the Country Club races last week Friday to participate in the an- S. G. Langmaia and Miss Langmaid, Mr. can beauty, ChamLerlain-gave claimed his attention. Mr. Keone has done naual parade of the New York Coaching and Mrs. J. J. Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. dinner May 13, for the Prince of Wales. some of his best riding this season. Club on Saturday afternoon. Miss Cushing F. II. Clark, Miss Poor. Mr. S. H. Mrs. Ronalds, another beauty (formerly "Trailing Arbutus" of the Lady Grey was a quest on Mr. I'rescott Lawrence's Whitwoll. Mr. Edward Codman, Mr. Ed. Fanny Carter of Boston), Sir Arthur Sulli- Perfumely Co. is one of their most exquisite very English pink and primrose yellow ward Grav. Mr. It. D. Burnham, van and Lady Randolph Churchill were and charming odors. coach. Miss Any Bond. the New York Heaton. Mr. Harry Wainwright, Mr. George among thosenskod to meet the royal guest summer season at the Beston Mu. society beauty. was on the awrence coach Amory. Mr. C. F. Sprague, Mr. H. C. Leeds, of honor. Mrs. Naylor-Leland was pre- seum will oven tomorrow night with Mr. also, looking exquisitely pretty in a chic M1. George Dabney. Mr. Arthur Donner, sented at court last week. and looked ex- Edward Harrigan's great New York success. little bonn.et covered with pink flowers Mr. Young and Mr. Lawrence Curtis. quisitely pretty in her wedding gown of "Squatter Sovereignty," with n great cast,in which was protected from the sun by a Dr. Walter Channing and family of whitesatin, made after the Empire style, which Mr. Harrigan. who IS always sure of fetching hunshade of lace and rose colored Brookline will move into their cottage at embroidered with silver and fino pearls, the warmost welcome in Boston, Mrs. Annie ribbons. Mr. Cushing was Mr. Perry Bol- Manchester the middle of June. with a ruching in garlands alternating with Yeamans, Miss Aria Lewis. Miss Hattie mont's guest, who had for his chief attrac- Mr. S. Horatio Whitwell and sister, garlands in pearl and silver embroidery. Moore, and other old favorites will be con- tion, Mrs. Cleveland, jadiant in a smart Miss Whitwell of Commonwealth 2V., will The long court train was of heavy white spicuous. Mr. Braham, who will conduct, heliotrope gown with a close bonnet cov- not open their Newport cottage until the satin, with a pattern of silver biocade. She will introduce original songs and music, ered with pansies. Miss Charlotte Huma- first of July this season. wore some magniticent Jewels, including a Friday night. at the Hollis, the well who, with Miss Cushing represented and Mrs. Benjamin H. Ticknor crown of diamonds, of necklaco of diamonds Dalys' last appearance, the receipts were the younger Boston society element, was on have sent out cards for an at home on Mon- and pearls and a large sun of diamonds the largest in the history of that house. Mr. Frederick Bronson's coach. which, in day afternood, June it. from 4 to 7. at their Her bouquet was of white o:cluds. She saving the opening night of the theatre. It 1, Jay's absence, led the parade. house on Harris av. in Jainaica Plain, to small tea after the drawing room. excelled by over $100 the hoaviest Kendal Whiton Stone has issued cards celebrate the 25th anniversary of their --Ethel and Jesse Todd held a fair at night for an at home on Tuesday. from 4 to 6.30, wedding. their home, Cobden st. on Memorial day, Louise Chandler Moulton has ro- at her house on City Point, South Boston. Samuel A. Eliot, elder son of and will have the gratification of adding turned to Paris from her visit in Rome, and and Mrs. John*L. Gardner arrived President Eliot of Harvard. the young pas- $305 to the fund of the Charity Club 1109- is at the Hotel Bellevno. last week Saturday at the Westminster in tor of the Unitarirn church in Denver, Col., pital on Chester sq. The little missos are Alice May Bates Rice, who made Paris. comes home for class day and com- rightfully pleased with the success of their a charming Marie in the "Daughter of the T. B. Frothingham family, mencement, with Mrs. Eliot (the daugh- efforts. and desire to thank every one who Regiment," given at the Dudley Street who have passed the winter in town, at 210 ter of Mr. J. P. Hopkinson of Cambridge), kindly assisted them in the good work. Opora llouse last Monday evening, WOD the Beacon st., went out last week to their who went to her new Western home a bride George W. Morso is counsel for admiration of the audience by her beauti- home on Prince Jamaica Plain. early in the autumn. This is their Boston stockholders and creditors of the ful vocalization. Among the many well- Dorr of Commonwealth av. East since their marriage. Work-Macfarlane syndicate of Philadel- known musicians and other people present was in town from Bar Harbor, last week, T. J. Coolidge. who 19 so identified phia and the defunct Bank of America, were: Mr. Charles Pv. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. THE LAST TRIBUTE PAID New York Times (1857-Current file); Aug 15, 1891; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. 5 THE LAST TRIBUTE PAID JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL LAID AT REST. BURIED UNDER HORNBEAM TREES IN THE SPOT HE HAD HIMSELF SE- LECTED AND NEAR THE GRAVE OF LONGFELLOW AT MOUNT AUBURN. BOSTON, Aug. 14.-Simple but impressive funeral services over the body of the late James Russell Lowell were held in Appleton Chapel, Cambridge, st noon to-day. The chapel was crowded to overflowing, and many who desired to be present were unable to do so. Eeldom has there been seen such a gathering of those dis- tinguished in the literary and other professions as met to pay the last tribute of love and respect to the deceased author, oritic. poet, and diplo- matist, to whom the words of his own tribute to another's greatness might well be applied: "Placid completeness, life without a fall From faith our highest aims, truths' breachless wall, Surely if any fame can bear the touch His will say Here' at the last trumpet's call." A very noticeable feature was the attendance of 8 large throng of citizens of Cambridge, Mr. Lowell's native city. There were no services at Elmwood, the poet's late home. Soon after 12 o'clock the faneral procession wasled into the church by the officiating elergy, followed by the pall bearers and the body, and, behind all, the relatives and family. Mrs. Burnett, in deepest mourning, was escorted by her eldest son. Mr. Burnett and the rest of the children came next, followed by the nurses and servants. Bishop Phillips Brooks and the Rev. William Lawrence, Dean of the Episcopal Theological School of Cambridge, met tne body in the vestibule, and the Rev. Mr. Lawrence read, am the resurrection and the life," as they preceded the coffin down the church. The honorary pall bearers were Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Christopher P. Cranch. John Holmes, brother of Dr. Holmes; Prof. Charles Eliot Nor- ton, Prof. Child, C. F. Choate, George William Curtis, William Dean Howells, Prof. John Bartlett, and President C. W. Eliot of Harvard College. The ooffin was covered with black brondoloth and bore a silver plate. on which was inscribed: Died, Aug. 12, 1891, James Russell Lowell, aged 72 years, 5 months. The floral tributes were very few in number and modest in character. An ivy wreath picked at Eimwood rested on the head of the casket, another wreath of ivy from Mrs. Field hung over one corner of the reading desk. and a wreath of roses from Mrs. Putnam lay upon the floor at the base of the pulpit The services in the church were very simple, as befitted the nature of the man, consisting sole- ly of the Episcopal service for the dead. War- ren A. Locke, organist of the college chapel, presided at the organ, and the following vocal selections were rendered by the Temple Quar- tet of Boston: Chant. Lord. Let Me Know My End." Buck: " Beati Mortui." Mendelssohn: Heard & Voice from Heaven." J. C. Parker: Libera Me," Kalliwon. The ushers were Ed- ward Jackson, Lawrence Lowell, George Gar- diner. Ercest Jackson, Arthur Lyman, Francis L. Coolidge, and Moorefield Story. Among those in attendance were the follow- ing survivors of the class of 183S of Harvard, of which Mr. Lowell was a member: George B. Loring, ex-United States Minister to Portugal; William Aspinwall, Dr. Abbott, William Bowditch, and J. T. Coolidge. The Order of the Loyal Legion. of which Mr. Lowell was a third degree member, was represented by John L Otis. Col Stephen M. Crosby. Gen. Francis A. Walker, Col. Augustus P. Martin: Col. Charles R Codman, Col. T. W. Higginson, Frederick W. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission Lincoln, Col. Henry Stone. William Eudicott. Jr., Col. Henry Lee, Major Russell Sturgis, Capt. Nathan Appleton, Gen. Edward W. Hincks, CoL Arnold A. Ran, and Capt. Hiram 8. Shurt- leff. Among the other people present were Miss Ellen T. Emerson, daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson; R B. Anderson of Madison, Wis., United States Minister to Denmark under Prest- dent Cleveland; Dr. Peabody. the Rev. Dr. N. Beach, Cambridge; Prof George Mendall Tay- lor, State Librarian W. H. Tillinghast, Rector A. a Hitchcock of Somerville, John Livermore of Cambridge, Prof. Wight of Harvard Univer- sity, Charles Theodore Russell, father of Gov. Russell; the Rev. Dr. Alexander of Cambridge, Edwin D. Mead, E. C. Heath, Justin Winsor, Librarian of Harvard: Houghton O. Houghton, Jr., Joseph Bennett of Southborough, the Rev. Edward 1 Rand of Watertown, G. W. Putnam of Cambridge, Frank B. Sanborn, Col. Henry L. Higginson, Richard H. Dana, Prof. L. R. Wiliston. the Rev. Edward G. Porter of Lex- ington. W. Palmer of Watertown. Leverett Sal- tonstall, Mayor Alger, Cambridge; Joseph G. Thorpe, Jr., A. P. Martin, the Rev. H. P. Wal- cott of Cambridge, Dr. Williams of Boston, James J. Meyers, the Rev. P. T. Prudden of Chicago, the Rev. A. B B.uzzey of Cambridge, James J. Fox of Cambridge, William D. de Lascassa of Malden. The Hon. E. A. Alger, father of Mayor Alger, who was present The body was not exposed to the view of any one, and was taken to Mount Auburn immedi- ately after the services at the chapel, followed by about fifteen carriages. While the body was being conveyed to its last resting place in Mount Auburn the church bells throughout the city were tolled, and the flags displayed at half mast by order of Mayor Alger. The grave is in the centre of the family lot, on the right of Fountain Avenue. the first avenue on the left of the entrance. The lot is & double one, con- taining the remains of generations of Lowells and Putnams, the latter being Mr. Lowell's only living sister's family. It 16 conspicuous on ao- count of its extreme plainness and simplicity. It is uninclosed, being without granite curbing, hedge, or even location blooks. No monument marks the spot, and onlysmall plain tombstones are at the head of each grave. The spot selected for the poet's grave, which it is understood was of his own choosing, is TO- mantically situated under two large hornbeam trees. These trees are never trimmed, and their chief charm is their natural and weird growth. The lot is in a valley in the rear of the cemetery and directly in the shadow of the Longfellow lot, on Indian Ridge Avenue, where rest the remains of America's famous bard. In the cemetery there was a great crowd. and when the cortége entered the cemetery through the granite archway the police cleared the space about the grave, and only the near mourn- era were allowed in close proximity to it. The fresh, upturned earth was covered with newly- cut fir and goldenrod was thickly strewn about The wide-spreading, tangled follage of the horn- beam trees was held within bounds by garlands of tir. The people clambered upon the hill and sat about the grassy slope as the casket was lifted out by the pall bearers, and with uncovered heads the mourners stood beneath the waving trees. Bishop Brooks pronounced the last prayer, which was from the full Episcopal service; for although Dr. Lowell was & Uni- tarian, it was his wish that the funeral service should be from the Episcopal ritual. Dean William Lawrence assisted at the grave, and with the pronouncing of the words, Dust to dust," by Dr.i Brooks, the young grandsons of the dead poet. James Burnett Lowell and Joseph Burnett, Jr., came forward and took part in the final service. The relatives and mourners then returned to their carriages and were driven away. The grave was filled and mounded, and the limbs of the hornbeam were released and swayed back into their natural position over the last resting place of the poet. Reproduced with permission of the copynght owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission Pureedings of the Society for Psychical Research Baedoin College 3 I Dorr is VP of C. / Soc for Rayde at fes 1909- VJ/21 Pur Fth Soc For Single Res. 1939. 1909 Vol. 23 Price the Soc 2 Wm Jan Report M Mrs Hodge sm-Control. Pp 38-47 015Faru 4 jot 3 1939 Finallistin for Worr. Still lists 18 Senes address. Commonwealth Ave Dorr list as UP I 1891/400 (not earlier 1910,1911 1913, 1115 Bainmit America V01.6 (Proc) Branch I 1918, 1920 1923, 1939 x of Dorr Listed as Member, Mrs CDorr, 1890- - 1896 1897 ,1900, 1903, - Chech again vol. 25 (Proc) Index to Dorr/Door (1411) 5 last puh list of offer util 1946. 6 No obit for Dorr. Common Pub in 1945, vol 47 TNo. IN - (46306053) [CHAPTER 352.] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-one. AN ACT to Incorporate the Trustees of Public Reservations. 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Jankes x A Charming North Carolina Resort William Community Jone Grasping as run in from at such objects offered to the baby at a certain Wilton stinctive or semi-reflex seems most to have observed. performance It is which Pro- fessor Baldwin objects was the sort of distance off. etc. directly by act; and I should much obviously an in- Korays, of The line, ries I must plus choice, connate after paths Professor alone, than Baldwin's by connate paths rather plus explain memo- it fail, question of opinion, whether throw any positive light at all on observations in my therefore conclude to that Professor fashion. Baldwin's very interesting our In themselves, however, these currents as they pass out of brain. we feel our motor-nerve the vexed Scries Eds. Conduity. F.H. HUP, definitely localized as showing how strong stimuli observations seem at bright colors with re-actions the right than hand weaker almost ones. exclusively. may The produce baby grasped more Harvard University, Nov. 5. WILLIAM JAMES. 39 A Charming North Carolina Resort (1891) To THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST: spirited of thing and Tennessee, and it in the mountain Sir: North I am Carolina just back from a fortnight's tour landscape and to to say to those of your readers seems who to are me a public are a twice told whom the White Mountains and fond of fin reward. Nothing tale, that if they do likewise they will Adirondack 2/7/19 Nothing thirty dollars; and from New York and return can be any kind Tickets to Asheville can be easier or freer from hardships of have thei comparable peak east of the from Asheville, Mount Mitchell, the bought fc iT need be), and Rockies, can be reached, ascended highe II ell's peak is the most the return made, in two days. The walk (on horsebac witcheld Farther west on Asheville, the or still better Hot Springs, hours) a I ev made. From beautiful forest walk (only five up Mitc only disagreeable a day by rail, via Morristown and Johnson can T 1 reached in same road, the foot of Roan Mountain only few mil part of the whole journey is a stupid wait City. of thr 133 Comments: Letters to the Editor Abbot against Royce nours in the second rate Tennessee town of Morristown. The fam- and with views that are simply magnificent opening out at every ous Johnson City and Cranberry Railroad brings one in a couple turn of hours to Roan Mountain Station. This railroad is perhaps the If one just wants to see the quality of the North Carolina moun- wildest and most romantic little narrow-gauge concern that the tain country, let him take a ticket to Hickory on the Richmond and world contains, being hewn for the most part in the solid vertical Danville Railroad, and proceed up to Blowing Rock the next morn- walls of a gorge down which a mountain torrent flows. One can ing, and thereafter to Linville the Ideal. But if one have twelve get to the top of Roan Mountain either by stage, by horse, or on days at one's disposal, the whole trip, as I have described it, can be loot; and there one finds magnificent views, and a large and fairly easily made. It leaves on the mind an impression of simplicity and good hotel. Coming down, and proceeding some eight miles to richness combined. multitudinous ocean of lofty hills, a virgin Granberry (an iron mine, with an exquisite little sylvan hotel), one forest of surpassing beauty, and an atmosphere of intensely colored takes the stage for Linville. light. Two weeks of "heaven-up-histedness," to use the expression All your readers have heard of Asheville; perhaps not twenty of an old Adirondack guide. We Northern tourists make a great have heard either of Linville or of Blowing Rock. Linville is simply mistake in not going farther away from home. September must be the most high-toned and gentlemanly "land enterprise" to be found an admirable month for the trip. But late June or early July will on the continent Some twenty-five square miles of beautiful wilder- show the woods all ablaze with the rhododendrons and azaleas. ness have been bought; between thirty and forty miles of road have W.J: been already built, and as many more staked out for building, and CHOCORUA, N.H., August 31. harming modern hotel has been put up. This, with nine Queen Anne cottages, an ice-house, a stable, a small store and post-office, and some macadamized avenues in the square clearing, which forms the centre of the hoped-for town, are all that the visitor finds. Around them the primeval forest waves, and the eternal moun- tainsstand 11 is Eden before the advent of the serpent. Not a loafer, 4° not a discordant touch or tone. The level is about 4,000 feet above the sea, and the air, perfumed as it is with the forest-breath, is de- licious. The roads are wonderfully laid out. The planner of the Abbot against Royce (1891) scheme, Mr. S. T. Kelsey, seems to have a genius for this work, and the result is mile upon mile of evenly graded zigzags in various di- rections, opening out at every turn views of extraordinary beauty. These are the only roads I have seen in America which resemble To THE EDITOR OF THE NATION: the great Swiss roads. Alas, that they must as yet be of clay instead SIR: Mr. Peirce's letter on this subject in your last week's is- of macadam! If the twenty miles of drive from Cranberry to Lin- sue unfortunately brings it before the larger public; and, since ville are delightful, what shall be said of those from Linville to Mr. Peirce professes to be a neutral judge, it may leave on your Blowing Rock? They run through the forest over the mountain readers an impression unfair to Prof. Royce if nothing more gets sides, all the way by one of those wonderful roads, and must be said. May I take a little of your space to record my opinion of the seen to be appreciated Blowing Rock is a sort of inland Mount merits of the case? Desert in its early ante-fashionable days. Somewhat chaotic, a lit- First, the facts. Professor Royce, one of the editors of the In- The rough and crowded in its accommodations, with 600 visitors ternational Journal of Ethics, wrote, in its first number, a review, there when I passed through, mostly young people having a "good seventeen pages long, of Dr. Abbot's 'Way Out of Agnosticism. time," it bids fair to be a great summer resort ere long. l'en years This review was altogether technical in character, but hostile in ago il was wholly unknown to the outer world. It is a broad ridge content, impuguing both the value and the originality of Dr. Ab- over 1,000 feet above sea level, with good roads in many directions, bot's philosophy. Reviews of philosophical books in technical 4 of.94 New section, Cyl 2-- 1. On our return from our winter on the Nile with our 189192 spring in Palestine and Syria, we opened the house at Bar Harbor again, at midsummer, as we had closed it at nearly that same time, though earlier, the season before to go guests abroad, and entertained our friends as usual, at Oldfarm till fall. Then we went to Boston where soon after Davis my mother developed what proved to be acute glaucoma in one eye in an agonizing More than ever before I realized the utter helplessness of man, much as he has learned and learned to overcome in the presence of such suffering. An operation became immediately necessary and was successfully erformed but it cost her the absolute and entire, of one at eye. The other eye was unaffected and breamax retained its former vision. Coloma Somewhat later than she, I developed the same disease,glaucoma, but in non-acute form which caused no suffering but great- which, after attempts to arrest it with some drug, made operation necessary to save my sight at all, glaucoma being present both eyes. The operation was successful, so far as the glaucoma was concerned, but it led to that which if my oculist, two-- consulting and operating did not realize though it would have been necessary injust the same had they done so, that it would immediately result in 5 after 90- Cylinder No 2 page 2 obscuring the vision of a prtion of the eye But, affected in glaucoma operation in cataracts which have made all vision obscure to me and stopped at once all reading and clear vision of any kind, near or distant. But before this happened Iw as able to use my eyes 1878-12 with a freedom from muscular adjustment difficulties I had not had before since early college days on certain Eye problem reading I had long tished to do, recalling the greek - Stops I had given up during my second year at college, because of ready the development of this muscular trouble, my study of the Greek old Italian, of Dante, whom untouched till then, I read through, with many notes and comments on it, but without other aid, with greatest interest and full appreciation. ian in Kansas City has lawn which make a vast improvement. Jonesport, in the interest of his granite W. A. Kimball, business The Sunday Globe contains a cut of the business. the Nettie Morris' Paradox Harvard crew who are to pull against Miss Sadie Hamor and Miss Einma T at he has formed a party to Yale this year in which Mr. Frank Higgins arrived home yesterday from con his summer, their objective Lynam's stalwart form is recognizable. pie Franklin, Mass., where they have passed se being Bar Harbor. The Malvern will be opened July 1, the winter. is becoming the one great and will be under the-management of Mr. Charles Payne and Mr. Alonzo 1. A dozen or fifteen wheels Mr. Carter, who has acted in that capac- Higgins accompanied by Mr. Eben F along Main street and on ity so long and who is so popular with wit Hamor were in Boston last week with a tar Mount Desert streets every the, guests. view to purchasing implements for road qui d early evening. Our roads 21 T. F. Moran announces in ourladvertis- building. ape now for the vehicles. ing columns this week, that he has a tine Mr. A. G. Curtis went to Boston, Tues- sley Kimball, ex-Mayor of new line of clothing and furnishin day. He will return on Saturday, ac- A SS., and a member of the goods, also increased facilities in his Inq companied by his daughter, Miss Faustina Mo Bay Company, recently ad- custom department. Curtis, who has been studying music SS meeting of the Newton Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Dorr] and son of in Boston. to made some sound, sensible Commonwealth avenue, will spend the Miss M. L. Balch of the Louisburg, T talk to the men which if winter in the east. They have chartered con arrived Monday morning for a few days. wit fail its influence the new steel Dahabeah "Hathor" of She will come again in a week with her tramp was arrested here Messrs. Thomas Cook & Son.-[Globe. servants to get the house in readiness for to the Ells- Mr. B. H. Warder, of -Washing ton, the summer. Policeman Clark. He gave who with hisfamily occupied Mizzentop Miss Helen Hodgkins returned home Lewis Cass Dickinson and E last season, has rented Teviot on Kebo to Sullivan. Harbor, Saturday. She has gra e impression that he was street, for this summer. Mrs. G. P. vie been with Miss M. A. Perry through the ing about the state of Pennsyl- Bowler will occupy Tallyrand, and Mr. illness and death of her mother, Mrs. A. says he began this vagrant McMillan, of Chicago, !Boulder B. Perry, formerly of Sullivan. tage. Mrs. W. T. Sawyer, of Portland, is the arbor (Me.) RECORD is a The item that appeared in the Ells- guest of Miss Jessie Foster, for a few ournal. Besides a consider- worth Advertiser yesterday, that the days. Mrs. Sawyer has been in Harring- of well-selected reading Sullivan granite quarries had suspended WO ton to attend the wedding of her sister, Ap rse editorials, the paper has business is entirely wrong. The quarries Miss Fannie Rumball, to Mr. Ed. Coffin. cted society column that are in full operation, and several hun- ch of interest to those Mr. H. M. Woodruff, a jeweler, from dred men are employed. A few paving ith the people of Bar Har- New York, is staying at the Hamilton. cutters were discharged recently, which 1 Budget.] He intends opening up a business here roc many have given rise to the report. this summer. Mr. Woodruff has been col rs. Henry Lawrence Burnett Lucier's-Minstrels-entertained a large- with Tiffany, New York, several years. SS Agnes Suffern Tailer), of audience on Monday evening, with the Twelfth street, will close Capt. and Mrs. Hollis I. Higgins were usual varied program of minstrel per- ise in about two weeks and in town last week on their way home formers. Many of the jokes were new farm down in western from New York, where they have passed and good. The acrobatic tumbling was After remaining there a the winter. They are to spend the sum- good. best features was ey will go to Newport, and mer at Camden, where Capt. Higgins is the marvelous performance of the young join a coaching party for having vessel built. contortionist. The last scene sent -[Mail and Express.] every one home good natured. It was ir- Mr. A. E. Davis. secretary of the Maine and New Brunswick Insurance nt which appeared in our resistibly funny. The program though, could have been weeded. Company, was in town yesterday for ula two weeks ago. in regard S. Emery, of Boston, re- the purpose of settling. the claim of There were quite exciting scenes about usiness and erecting a cot- Clarence Brewer, late deceased, with the breakwater last week. One of the van Harbor, we regret to E. S. Clark, Attorney. steam barges which are bringing stone rror. Mr. Emery does not from Deer Isle, struck on the breakwater Mrs. F. G. Peabody of Cambridge, re from business and instead and discharged her own load, filled and came Monday to put the cottage in order roo house at Sullivan Harbor, for its new tenants. Dr. and Mrs. Pea- went to bottom. She was towed in to boi a few additions to the one Roberts' wharf the next day. She is body will spend the summer and perhaps pre. Mr. Emery, we quite seriously injured. The Catherine the winter in Europe as Dr. Peabody has cept the excuse on the part a year's vacation from his work. James, a new barge loaded with inimense who circulated the bit of blocks of granite from Devil's Island. wish was father to the at the wharf Thursday. Some of the Births BH Record blocks in her load weighed six tons. 5/28/91,13.30 Chilcott of Ellsworth, had They had to be split before they could be Bar Harbor, May 24. in MT. unloaded. and the lighter appeared like a Franklin, a daughter. pe from drowning yester- Atlantic, May 12. in Mr. and Mrs Albert Sta 6. File date: at 1892, of The houses were obtained, the tickets sold, Royce Am. wrote his lectures and the whole went off with much eclat. Another course was organized for the following autumn, followed by yet another in New York. The lectures were put into book form and published, and the book was dedicated gratefully to my mother, she had solved his problem. After that he used to come down and stay with us at Oldfarm with other friends each summer that he could get away, having long talks with my mother and widening his horizon. Professor Royce, a born philosopher, was a remarkable man. Born in a mining town among the mountains of California, he worked his way along through the University of California, were Prof. LaConte befriended him and thence went out to Germany to study philosophy, getting a place as instructor at Harvard on his retunn, had a quaint and homely personality. He had a head like Socrates, a slow, drawling speech, and a gift of humor all his own. His memory was remarkable. I remember one night when we were returning home after dining out in my little open buckboard and were passing a meadow lit by a misty, waning moon, he started in his slow drawling utterance quoting what I had 5. what I had never chanced to have read or heard before, Edgar Allen Poe's poem Walime which just fitted the hour and the scene and which he quoted from beginning to end without the loss of a word f-- (find the poem) Mr. Dorr make quotation. I rember his once telling me speaking of the limitation to the imagination to things one has seen or experienced, that born as he was in the little mining town among the mountains of California and knowing no other scene he had read of the ocean and longed to see it. He dreamed of it but never in his dreams could he picture it as other than a big miner's pond. Big he could make it but it had to be no other than what he knew. He loved music of the symphonic type, understanding how it was built up, and he loved Browning who combined poetry with religion and philosophic speculation. One morning, when our house was full at Oldfarm, he came down to breakfast from the cottage on the hill where we kept rooms open always to overflow into, complained bitterly that Dr. Hodgdon, in a 6: boisterous and mood, and had made themselves so disagreeable about -- I forget precisely what now -- some favorite poem of poet of his that he was going home. He would not stand it! But breakfast over he was feeling better and by noon had forgotten it -- which shows philosophers too are but human after all. He had a very interesting group of younger people -- friends of my own -- who came to stay with us every summer in those days, climbing the mountains and going off on all-day tramps, with older people mingled and ever enchanging group, bringing new thought and interests. And we kept open house without no dinner parties, but teas and suppers only and no dress suit, no telephone as yet, nor electric lights, my mother still the center of it all until the last, interested in the younger generation, interested in people. with her face was turned always to the sunrise, hot to the setting. My father had passed on the winter following our return from Egypt, along with Bishop Brooks, the greatest preacher I have ever heard who left all doctrine behind to go to the heart of things, And our friend and neighbor, Col. John Markoe of Philadelphia, 7. a very gallant gentleman and soldier of the Civil Wtr. Those were the closing years of a period that went back with little outward change to the end of the Civil mar the water was flowing fast the while beneath the bridge and a new world was in the making. In 1897 or thereabouts he got a pamphlet from a younger friend of mine at Harvard, Theodore William Richards, a chemist of the new school which mingled experimental higher 6xx1 older/chemistry with/mathematics, outlining a new idea of his, a continuously pulsating Atom,which I read, so far as I could following/ it with interest and went to talk it over with him. It had won him fame, I learned, and the offer of a chair one of the famous old Universities of Germany which he was at that time considering the acceptance of though Harvard held him, but the offer of a full professorship 24th the atom of the older schoolof chemists had always been a mystery to me and I was interested. His atom I found was a certain portion of space defined by the possesssion of certain characteristic energy -- for this was still the time when men conceived the world as made of of distinct, indestructible elements. What makes your atom expand?, I said, 'The self- repulsion of the space within it', he answered. 8. "And what makes it contract?", I asked. !The kick-back of external space, he answered, resisting the expansion. Then somewhere in space, I said, there must be a point of resistance equal to the force of expansion 'Yes, I he said, 'but that you can place as far off as you will. 8 "It means however, that a stream of energy, incaluably straight, is always going out into space and never returning. " 'It does, 1 he said, I but that dows not enter into my calculation. For them all I need is mathematical space, space that I can deal with after the method of geometry Frankly, I have no use for matter. . 1 I cannot imagine it in itself but only by its action upon other similar source-points of energy. Give me a point to work from, lines for measurement and an equation and I have all I want. . 8 This, cradely stated, was the substance of his theory and it was a theory that worked so well that it brought him honor and advancement but it was not long afterward that the new roantgen rays were discovered and step by step the old atomic theory gave way before new theories of matter, equally incom- prehensible redueced all to motion but cannot tell what it is that moves, or why or how. This is now nearly forty years ago and the mystery only deepens. More 9. than ever it is wise to not to dosmutize . Our knowledge is founded on our senses and our senses tell us only about things that have been useful to man, his preservation and development to the point he has now obtained. We are in the presence of forces that we cannot estimate, and of bath others which doubtless we are yet unconscious of of / Nonetheless make part of ourselves and our environment. Faith, the evidence of things unseen, tells us nothing surely about facts; about principals I feel it does tell of us of eternal truth and that on it we can surely build. Address of that colorand S. Dana To Hug her / 2. 1931 SAVIS Our honored friend, who has been our resident for the past year, has asked some of us to tell what we know of the history of our Summer Colony in Seal Harbor -- or Seal Cove as it was called on the early steamboat maps. It is a gratification to have a share in this work for one who alone can claim that this Earthly Paradige has been his home for thirty- seven consecutive summers. In years, however, he takes off his hat to our esteemed citizen, Captain Charles Clemont, now approaching eighty- nine. It was his ancestor, John Clement, who established the first home here in 1809. This notable fact was commemorated by our Society when the Village Fountain was dedicated one hundred years after. My part in this historical ensemble is much of it personal and has to do chiefly with the development which we owe to Mr. George B. Cooksey who first came hero in 1891. He was attracted to Seal Harbor by what he then miss many own had heard of itg charms from his sister-in-law, Mrs. Edward Dunham who spent the Summer here in 1890. Mr. Cooksey's appreciation of the beauty of Seal Hurbor and the ossibilities of its future was immediate. His first step was to buy from the Clements, art then hotel he was stopping the rocky point and adjacent land at the opening of the harbor. This point had till then been called Clements Point and a line of rock cairns, along the hillside now dotted with cottages, guided the occasional summer visitor to it. On this land Mr. Cooksey soon built a charming cottage which stood there till the property was bought by Mr. Dans in 1910. It is worthwhile adding that the money paid by Mr. Cooksey was wisely expended by the Clement brothers, Amos and James, in building the attractive hotel which we now enjoy. My coming with my family to Seal Harbor dates from July 1895. I had long known that this Island was the only place where it was possible to escape from the oppressively humid heat of the southern Now England summer Then, as a College boy, in the 1860's, 1 was rishing for tro in the Rangeley Lakes of wegtern Haine, Cousins were at Bar Harbor and they brough home enticing tales of the beauty, intense and invigorating air of Mt. Dene also of the saleratus bread and cod or haddock they daily enjoyed. A collage professor at Yale, Professor Summer, who, with others, the Glencove Hotel the reputation of being the home of the intellectuals, urged me in 1895 to take a cottage. To my reply that the expense on Mt. Desert Island was too great for a College Professor, he replied that an enterprising gentleman, Mr. Griswold, had acquired some small lots of land the taxes of which had unpaid, and had built simple cottages on them. I promptly obtained the list and chose the most expensive , the Asq u 3450 for the season and in this cottage we lived through the summer of 189 5. Here I must digress, for the benefit of those who know Seal Harbor only in very recent years, by explaning that the Glencove Hotel stood in what is now our Village Green. The hotel was not beautiful, without or wit h- in, consisting of two square wooden buildings connected across the present ravine by a long high bridge. This led to its being called the hyper - Mr. Rockefeller, whose many and important gifts to our Community are too well known to need mention, bought the Glencove in 1920, he had it pul ed down and gave the land to the town for a Village Green. It has receive constant care ever since the beginning, trees and shrubs have been added, and this development, which makes it our joy and pride today we largely ow to Mrs. Dunham. Across the road to the south is also the beautiful terrace enclosed by rose bushes. As a matter of history it may be added that in 1895 there was a small building in this spot where soft drinks were served. 2. A thirsty pedestrian today might request its disappearance as proving that the world sometimes progresses backwards. Connective digression takes us up Barr Hill to where Mr. Rockefeller' fine house now stands. Its predecessor was so homely that the gentleman Y who built it was grieved to have his brother-in-law, who lived on the hill directly opposite, say, "You may call it the kyrie, I call it the Eyesore" later abandoned by its owner it was damaged by lightning. Perhaps because of this condemnation a year or two later it W..S rented to Mr. Gherickee, the then Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A clever gentlemen, full of humor and loved by us all, exclaimed at once, "how fortunate to haves armod consuctor provided for so dangerous a spot". Apoligizing for these digressions --though you will grant the history is nothing if not complete. I resume my narrative: A few days after my arrival in early July 1895, I met Mr. Cooksey, a friend of fifteen years back. He asked me to take a walk with him and learn of his plans for the development of his property. Te walked along our eastern hillside, sat down on the rocks at one of the many view points and he told me of his larger purchases of land in Seal Harbor. The most important of these were the 800 acres extending from where we were along the ocean fromt to a point beyond Little Hunter's Beach. The place where we sat he said ne hoped to divide into saml1 lots, especially for the summ men- College Professors. His plan unfolded, he asked me "will you tak a lot now?" 1 replied, " I surely will"- this was after a residence of le SS than a week in Seal Harbor. Professor Rowland of Baltimore, who had already occupied a Griswold Cottage for a year OI two joined me; and a little later my brother-in-law Mr. Bristol, also Matters moved forward at first without delay. Expecting a rapid development, Cooksey had brought his architect here and in a few days 3. 4 weeks the plan of the three cottages on the land chosen were practically complete. Mr. Cooksey's health had been seriously impaired at the time of the silver panic OI 1893. His intense interest in the Seal Harbor development also taxed him. The climax, a tragic one not to be forgotten came with the formal meeting at the Seaside Casino in late August. The hall was crowded with those interested, Presidents Eliot and Gilmen and O others spoke warmly 01 the development plans, but dear Mr. Cooksey took no part, sitting on a front seat with his head bowed in his hands. A charmir luncheon followed a the Cooksey house, all were merry except those who knew the situation. That night Mr. and his. Cooksey left for new York and the next day, or the day after , a teleg am announced that Mr. Cooksey's health had completely broken down and the ne, Mrs. Cooksey, and a physician had left for a y ar's absence. 1 will only add that Mr. Cooksey finally recovered in great measure. He was able to occupy his cottage again in 1902 and later made occasional visits to Seal Harbor until he died in 1922 The break down of the one who had made plans so wise, broad, and generous was a critical event in the development of Seal Harbor and per ticularly for us three. However, the situation was promptly saved by the arrival from New York 01 Mr. Cooksey's business partner. He dropped every- thing, came here at once and then and for many subsequent summers devoted himself to the many problems involved in the carrying our of Mr. Cooksey's plans and ever with rare energy and good judgment as will be shown in part later. Rowland, Bristol, and myself had special reason for gratitude to Mr. Stebbins. Although the plans for our cottages were complete, we had no legal hold on the land selected when Mr. Cooksey left us so suddenly. This difficulty, however, was adjusted and the building of our cottages went forward and they were completed in the winter of 1895-96. 4. In june 1896, as the boat carriod me and my family along Suttons Island, we looked up to the hillside and saw our house finished. Also, all the furniture was in place 9 as directed, and the fire was burning in the kitchen stove. You smile at these details bu : they simply express the care and thoughtfulhessowhich from that time everyone who has settled here received from Mr. Stebbins as long as he was in charge, in fact, for know in how many ways he helps as even today. His official regponsibilities, however, ceased when Mr. Rockefeller, in 1926, bought all the property, land and houses, of the Cooksey Realty Company, One minor incident, connected with the building of our three cottages is worth recording as showing the instinctive bravery of the Maine sailor. On December 6, 1895 the vessel from the mills at Bangor, carrying the cypress trim for the three houses, arrived one evening in the harbor. That night a violent wind from the north sprang up, the vessel dragged, or slipped her anchor and started for the open ocean. The two sailora sleeping below were awakened with the scraping against the Cooksey rocks, and remembering that the first cuty of the sailor is to save life they sprang off to the shore and and were saved for their lamilies but the Sea Pigeon flew on and she and he T cargo were never heard from again. A duplicate order at Bangor was put here through at once and reached just before the river was closed by ice. A cherished plan of Mr. Cooksey's was also the building of the needed roads. The first ont to be grappled with was the Sea Cliff Drive, long call ed the Cooksey Drive. At a point near the beginning of this a tablet in the rock at the side tells today of Mr. Cocksey and his work for as. The com- pletion of this road was promised for August 1, 1895 and on that date Mr. Cooksey did in fact drive over it with a horse and a pair of wheels, an im- provised sulky. building MI. Stebbins carried on the read here and at other points, with the 5. 6 situation as it is today. Seal Harbor is justly proud of the fact that it alone of the settlement on the "Island of the Desert Mountains" has the open ocean and the ragged cliffs above close at hand. TO these cliffs access has been secured to the general public for all time and not to be disturbed even if future cottages perch on the heights above. The path which most of you know, or should know, leads u and down the rocks, and across bridges when called for. It starts into the woods from a pointopposite the end of the Rowland Road, reaches the ingraham rocks and goes on to Hunter's Beach, a distance of a mile and a half This priceless privilege was secured when Lir. Stebbins obtained from some number of the then property owners the payment of three hundred do lars cadh Mr. Stebbins was as active, wise. and considerate in his dealing with the permanent residents as with the summer visitors. This was shown in man cases. One important step accomplished was the grouping of their homes, early scattered, near the beginning of the Jordan Pond Road. The community also o es to him the present location of the village cemetry, retired and most attractive. Its existence is hardly suspected by the many who whirl by on the Jordan Pond Road. The cemetery has been well laid out, planted with shrubs and flowers, and is well cared for. The world has few spots of this kind SO satisfying to all, and especially to those who have a personal interest in it. I should like to enlarge on what has been done for Seal Harbor of Mr. Mc Intire, who asso began his work here in the notable year of 1895. Every- one knows what the Jordan Pond House is today and what it offers to the guest, but few have followed its wisely planned development year by year from the small building with a single scanty piazza on the west side to what it is t today. Mr. McIntire has shown from the start a rare appreciation of the needs of the summer visitors. He ministers their wants in more ways than with the ur society also 0.70 always excellent broiled lobsters. U owes much to him for the 6. 7 work he has done in laying out and keeping in order the paths and trails through the woods and up the hills. In conclusion, you will allow me to boast a little about Seal Harbor-- knowing fairly well the only other , existing nations that may be considered similar in character, namelyvthe coast of Norway and British Columbia, I feel justified in claiming that no where elso in the country can be found a home so beautiful and inspiring in the variety of its scenery, the ocean, forest, hills, and lakes, 30 invigorating and health giving in its air, and offering so many forms of personal enjoyment on land and sea, as Seal Harbor. The most beautiful single out look out upon the ocean on our Atlantic coast is that from the point where the Champlain Monument stands. 1 hope that each of you may from Seal Harbor the game degree of pleasure and health that it, nas given to one so-favored as I have been. 7. 3. Around the entire basin, marshland, pool and woods, I built, in the eighteen -nineties at the haight of the bicycling period, what was known as the Bicycle Path, Passing through the midst of one of the rare bits of primoval forest yet remaining and string given wood road breadth and character, it was widely used for years but did not, as I had hoped it would, lead on to similar construction elsewhere on the Island. Later, after the bicycling period ended, the path became, in its portion along the wooded mountain foot, a favorite walk with alkarx older people, and in the fall when the canoe and yellow birchea had taken on their golden autumn follage, my mother used to drávo through 1t in her light, one-horse open buckboard, taking great pleasure in its beauty, with the sunshine flickering through the leaves; and artists used it as a scene to paint. BAR HARBOR'S GUESTS. Boston Daily Globe 1872: May 31, 1891; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Boston Globe (1872 1901) pg. 10 BAR HARBOR'S GUESTS. man or Minneapolis, and family will take up their ahode at the Usher cottage soon. Mr and Mrs. Horaco Woodman of Wash. ington. D. C., are expected to arrive at their cottage about the last of June, to stay until late in the fall. They are Coming Now 01 E Smith and family of Dorchester, Massa have engaged the Dennett cottage Every Train. for the season. Dennison Dinsmore, a well-known citizen of Barre, Vt, will be numbered among tho cottagers this summer. New Yorkers and Philadelphians Form It is reported that the Boston & Maine officials have decided to run R short train between Biddeford and Old Orchard this a New Colony. summer. Old Orohard Hotel Managers Expect the Usual Influx Soon. BAR HARBOR, May 30.-The pioneers of summer are coming one by one and nows of others 19 heralded on each breeze Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dorr of Common- wealth av., Boston, were among the first to come, but their visit was brief. They usu- ally make several trips back and forth in the spring They have a fino place called Old Farm where they keep a gardoner all the year round Mrs. Dorr take great deal of interest in the dolugs of the Village Improvement Association Mr. and Mrs Dorr will be at Old Farm through June, and will sail for Europe the 1st of July for the romander of the summor The new cottage of Mrs. Nathan Matthews of Boston, Mayor Matthews' mother. is about completed. Mrs. Matthows (8 stay Ing at the Belmont. The cottage has an excel lent situation in Harris Park, commands extensiv o views, and 18 within easy walking distance of the village. De Grasse Fox and family of Philadelphia are occupying their cottage, Mr. Fox owns a great amount of property here, Including the Malv crn Hotel, which will be open July 1, under the management of Mr Carter, as usual. Mr Fox's cottages are rented for this season nH follows' Acadia, to Mrs F G Newlands of Washington. Mrs. Newlands who is a now comer to Bar Harbor, is a nicro of Ward McAllister. Nickerson cot- tage. to Mr. William Rhinelander Stewart of New York, who will bring a dozen horses and 20 servants Talloyrand, to Mrs George Pendicton Bowler. It will be remembered that Mrs. Bowler was en- gaged to marry Mr Astor when he died. Kebo cottage to Mrs Stewai and Miss Rhinelander, New York. Tanglewold, to Mr J. Bradleo of Martboro at, Boston Stan- ton cottage to Mrs. Woodwort of Now York Treviot, to the Warders of Washing- ton, who last year occupied Mizzen Top, Mrs. William Hunt's cottage. The Bowlder, to Mr McMillan of Detroit. His brother, the aenator, IS expected to visit him Grithn cottage to Mr. Davis, Worcester, Mass Richardson cottage to Mrs. C. C. Pomeroy, New York. King cottage to E. A. Wicks, New York. Thirlsdam tho elegant Scott cottage on the hill, which has not been occupted for several seasons, to Mr George Preston, Philadelphia. Hardy cot tago to Mr. R. Rosefelt, Now York. Mrs. Rosefelt was a Miss Astor. They are new people to Bar Harbor. Mi. and Mrs Edmund Pendloton and Miss Pendleton, who have been in Europe since the death of their mothor, have sailed for home, and will como directly to Bar Harbor They being in mourning this year will de. tract much from the social life Mr. Charles Howe, 100, of Boston, who is one of the social lions and 8 Keho Valley Club man- agor, is in mourning. Mr. Howe's health is very poor. too. and he has not yet come to Bar Harbor He usually comes in May Kebo Valley will open July 1 Mr. Fox promises that the amusement there will be very fine this year. Many complain of the but a tive minutes walk from the Malvern. distance to Kebo, but, in point of fact. it 19 over the hill. Mr. W. P. Walley's horses and servants camo Wodnesday on the Mt. Desert Mr. W S Gurnee and family will come Satur- day. Capt. George M. Wheeler will arrive Monday The little New York colony on West st composed of Mr. W B Rice and family and soveral of Mrs. Rice's sisters and their fami- lics, will be nettled next week Miss Edith Lombard of Boston is at the Belinont for a short stay. Miss Lombard has a cottage 171 the Field, which she will occupy in July Miss H S. Minot of Hoston has opened her cottagewhich 19 in the Field. Both of these are old and established cottagers who come early and stav late. Nearly all of the established cottagers have local matters in which they are especially interested, Miss Minot's is the village library. She is in. defatigable in her allegiance to it, while Mr9 Austin Pholps. who will come next work, makes the Congregational Sun- day school her especial care. Not only through the summer but during the winter sho remembers it. Last Enster she sent Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. TABLE GOSSIP.(4) Boston Daily Globe (1872-1960); Oct 18, 1891; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Boston Globe (1872 1901) pg.21 TABLE GOSSIP. The admirable rendering by the New York Casino orchestra and company of the reigning musical sensation. "Cavalleria Rusticana," the Tremon* Theatro. {adraw. ing deservedly large audiences. which test each night the full capacity of that spacious house. Paulino L'Allemand, as the homone of the melodrams. looks brilliantly hand. some in her peasant's dress and sings superbly, while Villa Knox (Miss Bates), has made n decided hit as "Lola" She is a handsomer blondooven than Lillian Rus. sell. whom she much resembles. Hor dark eyes and her smile, revealing her perfect teeth, light un a face which is exceedingly attractive Her singing and acting. Arc wonderful, considering the short time she has been on the stage, and certainly Mr. Webber has every cause to he proud of his pupil. The audiences have been distinctly fashionable all the wook. Monday night Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Aronson entertained Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Solinger andother friends In their box. Wednesday night Col. Maple- on and his handsome wife (Laura Schir. iner) occupied n stage box, the latter in black, with n pale blue and gold bonnet set upon her blondo head, looking exceedingly chic. In the orchestra soats on that night were noticed among the many woll-known people: Mr. and Mrs. Philip V. S. Ely, Mis. T. C. A. Linzce and Miss Linzro, Mrs. Ogden Codman and Ogdon Codinan, Jr., Mr. Richard Olney and party. Mrs. Henry Bigo. low Williams and party, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Denuy, Mr. Percival'Gassett Mr. C. F. Webbor and Mr. Russell Sullivan. There is but one week incre of this charming opera, and many are going to give them. selvos the pleasuro of hearing it again. -Thursday. also, WR9 the scone of one the prettiest out of-town woddings of the early autumn, when at 8 o'clock Miss Holen White and Mr. Goorge Putnam were married at the home of the brido's father, Mr.Joseph White on Boylstonst., Brookline. The night cleared off in time to make WAY for the moon which lighted the guests on their road to the mansion, which was all ablaro with Innummerable electric lights. The bride wasa fair picture, in heavy white silk and full tullo vell. The library where the coronony took place, was brights (ra. giant with agarden of bloom culled from the White conservatories. Indend the whole lower pare of the handsome mansion was abundantly and tastefully docorated. Chee- noy's fine orchostra, stationed in n small room leading from the parlor. played dur. Ing the reception. Mr. and Mrs. Putnam will live in Brookline. -The donth of Mr. Francis Ware has thrown n deep shadow over the neighbor- hood of his homo in Dorchester, where he was universally beloved and is sincerely mourned. He had a gift for making and keeping friends, and no one over know him who did not feel bottor and happier for his friendship and esteem. His business roln- tions were of the most honorable, and his home life all unusually united and happy one. Mr. Waro married the only daughter of the Into S. Parkman Dexter, the well. known Boston morchant, He leavesa widow and three childron, n son and two daugh. ters. The funoral services wore hold at his late residence on Trull st. Thursday, Rev. Jaines Do Normaudio. the family pastor, officiating. It was attended by a very large number of Mr. Waro's friends, many coming out from Boston, The burial was at Forest Hills. -Rov. Dr. E. E. Halo is to lecture on "California" nt Rev. Mr. Lyon's church, All Souls, on Elm hill In Roxbury tomorrow might at 7.46. What Mr. Hale has to say of his recent trip to California is told in his inimitably entertaining stylo and is well worth hearing. -One missed at the concert Saturday night, and will miss more and more through the winter at all the oholco musical occn. sions, those patrons who have always been prominent In their activo interest and co-operation. but who are abroad for the season. Mrs. Bell and Mrs. Pratt, the R. M. Cushings, Mr. and Mrs. If. (), Dixov, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Winsor, Mrs. Frank Hig. ginson, Mrs. C. H. Dorr, and Mr. Theodoro Chase being among the number. Ono Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. of.90 New section, Cyl 2-- 1. On our return from our winter on the Nile with our 189192 spring in Palestine and Syria, we opened the house at Bar Harbor again, at midsummer, as we had closed it at nearly that same time, though earlier, the season before to go guests abroad, and entertained our friends as usual, at Oldfarm till fall. Then we went to Boston where soon after My mother developed what proved to be acute glaucoma in one eye in an agonizing More than ever before I realized the utter helplessness of man, much as he has learned and learned to overcome in the presence of such suffering. An operation became immediately necessary and was successfully pe rformed but it cost her the sight, commission absolute and entire, of one it eye. The other eye was unaffected and bacomax retained its former vision. CBC's Somewhat later than she,I developed the same disease,glaucoma, but in non-acute form which caused no Green suffering but great- which, after attempts to arrest it with some drug, made operation necessary to save my sight at all, glaucoma being present both eyes. The operation was successful, so far as the glaucoma was concerned, but it led to that which if my oculist, two-- consulting and operating did not realize though it would have been necessary injust the same had they done so, that it would immediately result in 5 after 90- Cylinder No 2 page 2 obscuring the vision of a prtion of the eye But, affacted in glaucoma operation in cataracts which have made all vision obscure to me and stopped at once all reading and clear vision of any kind, near or distant. But before this happened Iw as able. to use my eyes 1870-73 with a freedom from muscular adjustment difficulties I had not had before since early college days on certain Eye press reading I had long tished to do, recalling the greek - Stops I had given up during my second year at college, because of reader the development of thi s miscular trouble, my study of the their old Italian, of Dante, whom untouched till then, I read through, with many notes and comments on it, but without other aid, with greatest interest and full appreciation. Christmas Day, December 25, 1938; Return ng from our winter on the Nile and our spring in Palestin , Syria and Greece, we spent some weeks in London bofo e we sailed for home. And they were weeks full of interest for the people who we saw Because of them and the cordial invitations they extended me to visit them in the count ty, their true homes, I would gladly have stayed on longer, at yet more I wanted to get back home and take up my life 8 rain in America. Among 1 nose whom we saw much of at that time were Lord and Lady Wat rford whom he had seen 80 much of and so pleas- antly as we amo down the Nile. They had a delightful home in London an a delightful circle of friends about them, drawn equall from the people of rank and fortune who formed their natural environment and the literarym musical and artistic group whom Lady Waterford's ready sympathy and delightful C aracter drew about her. (Inter upted here; to be fillod in later) MHS. T.W.Wardle.B. 3 .f.28. Page 1 missing from folder. 20 S. 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An will - anagoms arhase, Great myThology, and An Dankey jack, or or, or mm im much thing to Lee what we will / - More have come down for indicts hair frick "wonderful lift Rock town Ev n to m most mode and mm have Senso 66D day Phone a the Send Your for takenthe johnson old Egyha - Grand and failed accore to byanny I am mothing on importance the on the Media love expect to licent that there ace buy arrive at but wonderful transaction "an Gzzi all wonderful and the Ponlak new and change Beyond recent excaustion, words of Leem the Jone a which belons to - gradually my loving the every highest high water Income identify and to attemption we saw be chipping back into the Irand old Columby for for appares of to ay Camerall liped many Thomand ysus afc are excently and of And the holem when in whether I chall I was had Cam to lock be the Jame" morter when leam here I donto mice Ever appeared you Rm is all & m ii traille, Inder will there S no need the warms for me 15 lell %n anything, has a enalesty and COOK'S H then S Dahabeah "Hather Boyean Land ON THE not 7 mean on And in two book when very glad to secon be ou! a whole to Apple for letter Apply amount all m letter want to the Jackson for the Jemsalem Lorem back sunched and though through to mond light office confection to your letter All from which scaped that fate, to the - only the lew Insma time on one home the my # the If offer goging Ado incl the from gratiful In there I am thankful ma to Lomea Barbara Ecopic ALL the Love Elpsing will de abe to words make loves skelche by new do change Y hope one for me " to grand Ignit court for that my Land, Jean frained whice Inch. Activally trea and mne than her, her an Vemice and or lade not Banik all lipon the I Mile. Error y the Egrem Sould Thall be role s do G leeme d the one raze been work anything only thing E do. / but how, hay my age long dream- my in wonted I panting Schali best however by 1 in is Nile, and is others mm seems different beyond han have SOCIETY June 22, 1939. Dear Dr. Marlatt: While it is all fresh in my mind I want to tell you and Mrs. Marlatt how interested I was in what you told me yesterday of your winter's journey up the White Nile and into the lake and mountain region of Central Africa. It will be forty-eight (1891) years ago next November when my father, mother and I left Cairo for our,trip up the Nile in a newly- built, most comfortable sailing dahabeah which was our home for the next four months, when we left it to go to Jerusalem and through the Holy Land to Beyrouth, which made a most interesting climax to our winter on the Nile. As I said yesterday, we could then go no further in the dahabeah than Assuan, at the foot of the first cataract, no private boats being allowed beyond at that time on account of the war with the Mahdi, then at the height of his power at Khartoum; but once a week the Government mail usefull steamer went up to the second cataract, at Wadi Halfa, where there was stationed a garrison of some seven or eight thousand Nubian troops com- manded by a score or more of English officers, and, waiting our opportunity, we made the trip up and returned on her, with a few other passen- gers. Among these was a son of Professor Darwin with whom I became intimate on the way up, and who, having a letter to the commander of the garrison, was promptly invited, on our arrival, to dinner with the Mess, it being New Year's Eve, 1892. He wrote back asking that I be included in the invitation and we went together to an occasion, very gay and pleasant, I have always looked back to with peculiar pleasure -- all the more for its con- trast with the grim fighting under these same men which later followed. [G.B.Dorr] 892 R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Dept. New England Historic Genealogical Society 101 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 1871 - GBD & WWD go to London- then join parents at Baden-Baden (Good copy - to be read for typographical errors) Trace noute on map Italy. 1872-1874 - C.H.D. to Paris for winter, going to Riviera and &WWW to Rome; ChD. returned home in spring; GBD & WWD going again, the same spring to England, Scotland and Wales, with Mr. Dana as a companion on the trip; in the fall of 1873 WWD returned home, & CHD joined GBD for a winter in Paris and on Riviera, returning home in the spring of 1874. (Good copy, but change has to be made, as it is written incorrectly.) 1874 - 1878 -- Abroad - Rome, etc. (unfinished) 1878 - trip to Brittany ; trip to Spain, winter of 1877 to be added to the story. 1882 - Trip to Central Italy & Sicily - Rough Copy 1891-1892 - Trip to Palestine & Up Nile - Good Canoeing Trip to Moosehead Lake with Sam Warren - 1895 1902 - Trip with Geologists - Good 1903 - GBD & Vanderbilts - Good 1904 - To Sierras - Good 1907 - Last Trip Abroad Rough A trip through Virginia Staying at Biltmore Estes Park - (Col. Fordyce* THE SPIRIT OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY An Essap IN THE FORM OF LECTURES BY JOSIAH ROYCE, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY TOYT BIEN or BIEN INFORD LIBRARY BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY (the nibertite press Cambridge [1882] [1892] L.J.R. John Clendenning. Ed The Letters of 12ah Reyce U. Chicago, 1970. 286 PART III 1888-1900 PART III 1888-1900 287 plain specch, and constitutes no part of our motive in such cases. You see then, I don't conceal that I am willing to have the repu- tation of a man who fights hard with intellectual weapons, in a To MARY GRAY WARD DORR, MARCH 17, 189280 scholarly cause, 77 103 Irving St., Cambridge March 17, 1892. My dear Mrs. Dorr, To HORACE ELISHA SCUDDER, NOVEMBER 28, 18917 My little life has been much hurried of late. Please forgive me for not writing at the same time when I sent you my book. Two 103 Irving St. copies went, one in the cover that everybody sees, one in a poor Cambridge, Mass. little binding (though the best one I could plan) which I have Nov. 28, 1891 meant only for you. The dedication says the rest. I put it as well as My Dear Scudder:- I could, and studied a good deal over the form, which I hope that I enclose two notes from a friend of mine, a Catholic clergyman you will not find in any serious way inapt. The substance of it, at and teacher of some mark, and of a pretty strong litera-sense [sic]. all events, comes from the heart. He has written a number of good things (one book on the Philoso- ? I have heard about your journey from time to time a little. The phy of Literature)-, & I think that you'll recognize his name. He is, other day Barrett Wendell told me of his letter from you. I hope meanwhile, although a very good fellow, no man of the world, and that Mr. Dorr and George are well, and as deeply interested in it his timidity in approaching the firm with his present plans is not all as I easily believe them to be. I send them my warm love. I hope remarkable, in view of the receptions that he has doubtless met to hear the tale of some of the journey when you return. with elsewhere. I have marked passages in his two notes to me. My friends here, under Mrs. Whitman's very kind auspices, They will explain themselves. I have replied advising him to send were good enough to listen this winter to a course of nine lectures his MS to you, care of the firm, and have assured him that you on Ethics from my mouth, the conditions of the course being won't bite, whatever else you do. For the rest, I have only to say similar to those of your original plan. I suppose that another book that I have a very pleasant impression of Brother Azarias.-79 may result.81 Yrs. Truly This book starts off well. A second edition is to go to press at Josiah Royce once, and I am just sending to the printer a few errata for it Please return the notes. Please excuse my haste. Life flies SO fast, and carries me to the to next thing. Mrs. Royce, who is very well, joins me in loving 10/19/90 greetings. Yours very truly, Josiah Royce. 77 The rest of the letter is missing. 78 ALS. Scudder Papers. UCB. 79 Brother Azarias or Patrick Francis Mullany (1847-93) was the author of several works, including An Essay Contributing to a Philosophy of Literature (New York: P. O'Shca, 1890). The MS in question was Phases of Thought and Criticism (Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1892), for which Royce wrote a highly favorable review in the Atlantic 71 (January 1893) : 80 TLC. Royce Papers. HUA. 126-29. See John Talbot Smith, Brother Azarias: The Life Story of an 81 These lectures were never published together as a series; for a listing American Monk (New York: W. H. Young and Co., 1897). of six of the original nine, see Royce's letter to Davidson, April 3. [1892?]. Samuel it. ward to Mary G. W. worr Seabright, N. J. Sept. 8, 192 My dear Mary: I cannot let your kind letter wait for an answer, although there is only one thing I can tell you, and that is the secret of good gardening, which you raise the question lies about. In this climate of ours it all has (presuming that one has a good man & that one loves flowers) in an unfailing supply of water. Living here in the land of windmills (per- haps you have one?) I have quite overcome any objections I ever had to them on the score of the picturesque, - but from my remembrance of the water privileges of Bar Harbor I have an idea you will never have enough until the lake in the mountains is brought down. I am very proud that you think my one eye still so effectual & still more so that you wanted to see me so much, and it was certainly not the want of will that was in the way of my gratifying my desire to see you by coming to B. H. but the "instability" of my condition - & my exceeding sensitive- ness to changes of weather & fatigue, particularly since my illness. But I expect to get more vigour with the cool weather & get my legs into walking order or else I am very well & have nothing to complain of. We are too happy that you take pleasure in our Loulou & Betsy. It is very kind of you too, to renow your invitations to Ward. It has been 2 trial to me Samuel G. Ward to Mary G. W. Dorr -2- Sept. 8, 192 to have him so confined to his work as he has been, but it has not seemed to wear on him & I am proud of determination to make a man of himself & put his work through. We are beginning to think the summer is over-though the weather is perfect - but I think we shall leave shortly after the 1st Oct as Tom's family then will have left or be leaving for New York. With my love & Anna's to you all Affectionately S. G. W.