1903 darrthelmi 4/99/05 1904 George street publish -Tryp West (10/6/39) History AMOI 40 pp of Ms. aug/Sept:04. 1 Schiff in begins B.t. to -Edith Wharton (9/3) to GBD in thanks for Bandscape Enerson Centurary H. Minsterberg gardening help. Path finished on Emerson Hall, Haward - Tercentenary (300th) of Dellocts Settlemt, St.Croix -Eliot completes (12/25/ Essay -Royce (ettal7(31/04) introduct Right Development offlout Desert CBD to Pres of U.F Cala, -Herry Eno builds Songger B.I. Wheeler (see Royce file). -Right - Developt of mouthesent Elist afferm importance of higher Standards, apposed liberal tendence - Champlain Memoral for 300th Anniversary OFFICERS FOR 1903-1904. President : PARK GODWIN. Vice-Presidents: L. B. DEASY. JOHN S. KENNEDY. RIGHT REV. WM. LAWRENCE. Treasurer: F. C. LYNAM. Secretary: A. H. LYNAM. Board of Managers: Dr. Robert Amory, Mrs. Robert Amory, Mrs. Longstreth, Mrs. A. C. Barney, Mrs. Lea Mcllvaine Luquer, HERMAN, Waldron Bates, F.C. Lynam, Edward Coles, A.H. Lynam, Mrs. John Markoe, B. Deasy, E. B. Mears, George B. Dorr, Mrs. E. B. Mears, Miss Draper, Miss L. S. Minot, Mrs. H. E. Drayton. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, W. Butler Duncan, Dr. E. J. Morrison, Mrs. Frank Ellis, Mrs. Clara Norris, John J. Emery, David B. Ogden, Wm. Fennelly, Mrs. R. B, Potter, Mrs. DeGrasse Fox, Mrs. Wm. B. Rice, Charles Fry, Wm. M. Roberts, Mrs. Charles Fry, Dr. Wm. Rogers, Parke Godwin, Edgar Scott, Herbert Jaques, J. M. Sears, Morri: K. Jesup. Mrs. J. M. Sears, Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, Gardiner Sherman, Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Dr. John B. Shober, Miss Beatrix Jones, Dr. F. Fremont-Smith, John S. Kennedy, Dr. J. Madison Taylor, Rt. Rev. Wm. Lawrence, George Vanderbilt. Dr. Morris Longstreth, C. ii. Holmes Jr. April 6, 1901 Eugo Mumberbery April 28, 1901. Learned Hand June 19, 1901 Josenb Lee November 15 Thos. W/ Higginson February 13, 1902 C. W. Holmes February 14, 1902 Wm. R. Thayer February 14, 1902 Henry S. 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No other Country has produced in one century a Emerson and a Luiceles. Very try gums, I.G.B.Dom En W.R Theres , President Charles W. Eliot Prof. E. S. Dana President Second Vice-President Mr. George B. Dorr Mr. George L. Stebbins First Vice-President Treasurer Mr. Lea MCI. Luquer Secretary. PRIVATE ACTS OF 1903, CHAPTER 369. An Act to grant certain powers to the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservatiions. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:- Section 1:- The incorporation of the Hancock County Trustees of public reservations, a corporation organized at Bar Harbor, Maine under the revised statutes of Maine, chapter fifty- five, is hereby ratified and confirmed. Section 2:- Said corporation shall have power to acquire, by devise, gift or purchase, and to own, arrange, hold, maintain and improve for free public use, lands in Hancock County, Maine, which by reason 01 scenic beauty, historical interest, sanitary advantages, or for other reasons, may be available for the purpose. Section 3:- Lands and improvements thereon, held by said corporation, for free public use, shall be exempt from state, county or town taxation. Section 4:- This act shall take effect when approved. Executive Committee - the officer and mum deary a means approved march 28.1903 Maske. Amount 25, 1303. Dann VY. 1 MY + 049-77 card the charter new " Cases precured fee the County T Lateer of Public Fesernationa, as 1 do 2.45 zoc. whetner thans : any- thing in that document which requires a police of the Executive Connittee. Unlem thats ia. I hereby think that 5 meating of that Centifiee is exiled for. The dataging of the jalend reads by the electric high company. and the bad man- agent of the :com affairs by she jeferent board of selectron is the present the 1 hard uyar or be elected in rut term : has discour age the surver residents of fex: Perber and Wer:beast Marber with regard to vel- state active leeking to the beautification of the instead. If the term muther! the 41.4 the majerity of the vetere are incapable et Secretac that the ( alamy of Heart Depart should he trusted es e park. there SMOKE little use 19 the susmer residents trying to presente the asterni Specifies of a in opotin. : must confest that I ahara this fooling of and yet : deuts if 11 in reservable. Have the agree people Sm But Surber never assemptes * prevant or ready the defacing of the roads and streets of the Marber visis druble lines of poles bater for views . The of the electric Has company. speaking be several Iron Merchaest Perbor and Real Harber . far daya use at Fishep Donne's, sald that the 2gr Marber people had name completed at all of pelee en here sides of tax with cestrar seaned 1< Like that 1/a alleged character, that his eccount red no reasos to suppore that anyled would object to desigle TOTAL of jeles on any of the ligend mere Yesty truly years, 12- Lee Ret. Lesper. Cambridge, 26 November, 1902. Doar Mr. Deasy: The draft of a petition to the Legislature of Maino, which you sent me under date of November 22nd, secmit to DB rather inadequate for our pur- pose. For instance, it omits the statement that the lands, to be hold by the trustees open to the public, shall be except from taxation. I enclose a copy of the act of the Massachusetts Legislature in regard to the Trustees of Public deservations. That act was easily procured, and has worked well; and the Trustees now hold several valuable properties open to the public, including Monument Mountain in Borkshire. I shall be glad to send you later a letter which you could lay before the Legislativo Committee. Very truly yours, Can build april 2, 1903 Dear Ziri 7 have wanted to reply to your dayful letter until J could have from Rogstor the details of fund mosting. The problect makes me my high indud the can handly now fail of laying the store on Emmons birth day, / but I hope we shall also obtain itn full $200 : or originally / amand N waydmsars sprony Sp31-1037 wydmisons meH wrong if everyoff 40H FROM EDWARD E. HALE 39 HIGHLAND S: ROXBURY MASS., April 8, 1903 near Mr. Dorr:- I had really meant to relieve you of the annoyance of writing. I have gone over two or three lists of the people who help the world forward, and I think it might be well to address the gentlemen and ladies who are included. Kidder who was one of the public spiri- ted people told me once that in England, a tenth part of the rich people subscribed their fair share to public enterprises; that a tenth part gave to them occasionally, and that eight-tenths of the rich people never did anything about the public service which they could help. I am still hoping that your grandfath- er's Log or Journal will turn up. Always yours, Elward E Hale I Correspondence of William James, vol.c (2002) 220 March 1903 March 1903 221 U-of Va.Press Eds. KSkrupstelisis Berkeley. lutionary method as applied to morality. I have been at work with my TLS: MH bms Am 1092.9 (133) classes more or less on the metaphysical-o logical side as I prefer to 'A slip for 'of'. call -for some years, but I never felt until this year that I had anything Alfred Henry Lloyd, "The Organic Theory of Society," American Journal of Sociology 6 in shape to publish. I think you will find the Dynamic Idealism of (March 1901): 577-601; "The Social Will," 8 (November 1902): 336-59. Lloyd's freer from obscurity than his other writings-with the exception John Dewey, review of The World and the Individual in Philosophical Review g (May 1900): 311-24; 11 (July 1902): 392-407. of a couple of things which he has printed in the Journal of Sociology Apparently, Karl Pearson (1857-1936), English scientist, but Dewey had very little on the Social Organism and the Social Will. ² interest in Pearson's work and the name could well be an error. Thank you very much for your syllabus which I have read with very The typist's error for "Peirce" here, and below. great interest. I hope that you are going to put the thing out in such objective shape that we can all get the benefit of a completed exposition. To Alice Howe Gibbens James Your reference to Monism's doubling up of the world into two editions emboldens me to refer to my review of Royce in the Philosophical Re- KENILWORTH INN, BILTMORE, N.C., Mch 28 1903 P.M. view, 1900, May, and 1902, July, where I have made some remarks on Darling Alice, the same reduplication. I am told the mail leaves to morrow AM., SO I get this in to night. You It may be the continued working of the Hegelian bacillus of reconcili- had better retain all mail after getting this until you hear from me again, ation of contradictories in me that makes me feel as if the conception of by wire or otherwise. I shan't stay at this house which costs $5.00 a day process gives a basis for uniting the truths of pluralism and monism, and [Prices at A. have gone up!] but move down, and maybe move on. Be- also of necessity and spontaneity. Pearson leaves his co-evolution of the sides the hotel is of an ugly type. perceptual world and the conceptual, a blank unmediated thing, which I have spent the afternoon until 7 o'clock in trolly rides and walking. accordingly suffers from the defects of any theory of parallelism and of The day is overcast and windless, SO that there are no shadows, and the pre-established harmony.4 Yet I cannot help feeling that an adequate distance is smothered in haze, but the country is simply lovely, and the analysis of activity would exhibit the world of fact and the world of ideas air delicious. The roads are better, and everything developed & more as two correspondent objective statements of the active process itself- civilized than when I was here before, and I imagine that it has advan- correspondent because each has a work to do, in the doing of which it tages over any other winter resort except California. I wish that you needs to be helped out by the other. The active process itself tran- were here to enjoy it with me. After those years of undivided sympathy scends any possible objective statement (whether in terms of facts or in travel in Europe, it seems rather bitter to be cut off from your society of ideas) simply for the reason that these objective statements are ulti- as much as I am now. The thing that appears to break me up more mately incidental to its own ongoing-are for the sake of it. It is this than anything else is too much society. Do I ever act queer when you trandscendence of any objectified form, whether perceptual or concep- & I are alone? I venture to say never! The rift within the lute only tual, that seems to me to give the clue to freedom, spontaneity, etc., appears when social responsibilities to others pour in. This is a deli- and to make it /unnecessary to have recourse to such a hypostatizing of cious place; and it is rum to see how quickly my poisonous sense of fa- chance as Pierce5 seems to me to indulge in. I always feel as if he were tigue has melted away, now that the extreme pressure, intellectual and engaging (as respects his chance) in just the same sort of conceptual social, of the past 10 days has yielded to this sweet tranquility & peace.- construction he is protesting against. I must say, however, that I can I have been reading a really great book Merejkowsky's "Tolstoi & Dos- see how far I have moved along when I find how much I get out of Pierce tojewski." A wonderfully profound study of the two men-a little this year and how easily I understand him, when a few years ago he was unfair, doubtless, to T., in order to drive his points of classification mostly a sealed book to me, aside from occasional inspirations. It is an home, but really instructive, as it makes me understand T., as I never did awful pity that he cannot be got to go ahead consecutively. before.3 You must read it. All other literatures, especially the English, We are hoping very much that you are going to be in the mountains seem SO superficial, humanly, compared with this glorious Russian stuff. during June and July. It moves (this book of criticism as well as the author's criticized) on a Yours sincerely, John Dewey level SO incomparable deeper. How thin it makes Emerson seem! I 2 222 March 1903 March 1903 223 hope that "Mary" waxes stronger & stronger. I am writing to Vander- [Wind NE., slight rain, temperature 40°. 11 o'clock AM. I had no bilt for a permission to enter his grounds-I hear that he is back. barometer.] Endless love, W.J. I heard several beautiful songs in the woods that I could n't remember ALS: MH bms Am 1092.9 (2205) having heard before, but I unfortunately couldn't see the songsters. I WJ is referring to Asheville, N.C. wish now that I had bro't my Zeiss glass with me! 2 From Tennyson's "Merlin and Vivien," line 391. 3 Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovskii, Tolstoi as Man and Artist; With an Essay on Dostoievski Lots of negroes here. In the town some of the most primitive ragga- (1902). muffins you ever saw out of Africa. In the hotel, very respectable dar- kies. They have amusing minds. I says to the one who was blacking my shoes this A.M., says I, "Which direction is North from here?" Says To Alice Howe Gibbens James, Alexander Robertson James, he "I don't seem 'zackly to know." Says I: "Where does the sun set?" and Margaret Mary James Says he, after looking rather puzzled: ["]I don't seem zackly to know. I haven't got them things straightened out yet, I've only bean hyer this KENILWORTH INN, BILTMORE, N.C. Sunday, 29. 1903 I 8.30 P. hotel season." I said "you ought to learn those things." He replied: Darling Alice, "Thats just what the head waiter's been telling me. He says 'you'd Here I am still. A mighty east wind started last night &, blowing into ought to learyn the points of the compass'. But I don't seem to catch my window, woke me up. It began to spatter rain this forenoon, and on to them things. I was working two years in the hotel at Pittsburgh, during the afternoon a regular North Easter has raged, leaving snow on befo' I could get hold onto dati East and West." the hills and probably making bad mud on the roads. I slept splen- I wish I could understand the insides of these niggers. Dey's suthin didly, took a walk this A.M. ending at the village of Biltmore where I went good about them. But I'm too old now. Every human being you grow into Mr. Vanderbilt's little episcopal church, and sawhim pass round the intimate with now, is SO much stored up for yo' old age. So keep grow- plate, into which, I beg you to remark, I put only a quarter. He passed ing intimate. I'm right smart glad you've got intimate with that fine the plate on the church's opposite side. I came up in the Hotel stage, fellow Earle Stafford. & after lunch slept two hours, and finished the book about Tolstoi & Yo' loving Dad, W.J. Dostojewski, which tapers off fearfully towards the end, but it has taught Darling Peg, me somewhat about Tolstoy.-I think of you with your sweet mother and Having written to yo' Mar and to Aleck, I come next to yo' turyn. sweet Peggy, and sweet Aleck, enjoying the calm and solitude. I hope But I have exhausted my stock of ideas, and haven't much left to say. I you'll get a good rest. I shall go to morrow to a cheaper Hotel, the think that, if you were with me, the change of air would do you good, Victoria Inn, meeting Warner at the train & taking him there. I am in spite of the bad weather to day which seems to keep everyone in feeling extraordinarily well, considering the condition I was in before I the house. In the dining room I sit at a table with a couple of very left. The altitude has something to do with There is a band playing well bred and intelligent N.Y. women with whom I talk. They come at the other end of the house, and its strains come to me softly. Last from Aiken where they represent everything as very fashionable and night it played my old favorite "The heart bowed down by weight of sportive. Only one hotel, small, but very exquisite. I wonder if Mrs. woe,' which we had on the deck of the Hudson River steamer, 28 years Townsend has profited at all by the change in the value of land. I ago.¹ It almost melted me to tears! hope so. I hope that your strength is coming back all right. I am Your loving W.J. afraid you will be leaving for Montreal these days.2 Mille baisers. It 1903 only remains that I write to your Grandmother-but all these letters are Dearest Aleck, Child of my entrails, to her. I saw a bird! Your loving Father. Have you seen one since I left? ALS: Private This morning I saw a whole flock of delightful gray buntings, in a Address: Mrs. Wm. James I 95 Irving Street Cambridge Mass wood off a beautiful road looking over a valley. The postmark is illegible. 3 224 March 1903 March 1903 225 Twenty-eight years would place the episode in 1875, before AGJ and WJ had met. conscience this time!-and bring Mr. Ladd by himself another time. I More likely, he is referring to an event while on their honeymoon in 1878. tho't you told me he was in Phil. 3, but I couldn't remember his name The Gregors were then living in Montreal. on the list. I have seen him at the lectures, however. Charles Peirce seems to me to have rather wofully "gone off" in the To Alice Howe Gibbens James past 5 years. His lecture was a great disappointment. I doubt whether he has any very distinct idea of where he is coming out with his pragma- VICTORIA INN, ASHEVILLE, N.C. Tuesday night tism, himself. The discussion degenerated into an interminable dialog [March 31, 19031 11 o'clock between him and Schmidt as to the nature of mathematic reasoning, Darling Wifelein, each replying to the last sentences of the other and SO drifting along Just in from dinner at the Vanderbilt's-a really superb palace but so without a plan. I fear that the audiences will fall off a good deal. Nev- solid and beautiful that one would like to live there. They are both ertheless I have done my duty! very nice simple friendly people. The sun came out at 12' oclock and Damn your half-successes, your imperfect geniuses. I'm tired of mak- we had our drive. In the afternoon Joe & I came to this place which ing allowances for them and propping them up. As Alice says, Peirce has a lovely view. The air agrees with the social racket is has never constrained himself in his life. Selfish, conceited, affected, a queer. The V's have invited us to lunch and for another drive on monster of desultory intellect, he has become now a seedy, almost sor- Thursday. They wan't us to buy land, or at least settle here. did, old man, without even any intellectual residuum from his work that Your big envelope full came this AM. I'm glad that Peggy enjoyed can be called a finished construction, only "suggestions," and a begging McGrew's party, and hope that now she will soon emerge from her old age. You may thank heaven that you are of a different type, of the grippe poison. I think that this air would do her great good, but I don't diametrically opposite type, in fact, and that your ultimate destiny will know that the mode of life otherwise would. I asked the darkey just be the opposite pole of his. Only don't let on to any one all that I have now who drove us home whether the hotel was as full in summer as in said about Peirce! The sight of him must make his excellent brother winter. He said, "fuller! De Southern people dey pack clöster dan de feel rather sad. Nothern people." I think we shall probably stay here a week longer. I have been in a cold N. Easter with much rain ever since Saturday You seem to me, my own darling girl, very pathetic in your aloofness. night, although the car-ride hither was delicious. The distance from Good night, and may heaven bless you. my library and front door has wonderfully soothed my brain, but the jig Your Wm. recommences, for Vanderbilt invites Joe Warner (who turned up yester- ALS: MH bms Am 1092.9 (2207) day) and me to drive through Biltmore (in the rain) this morning, and to dine tonight. The country is really beautiful-noble!-I hope that To Dickinson Sergeant Miller your bodily condition keeps improving. You are "carrying" a deal of work. Don't be SO foolish again about any other lad except G.T.Superscript(3 You Kenilworth Inn, Biltmore, N.C., 31. 3., 1903. may apologize if ever you bring him to our house! Dear Miller, Affectionately, W.J. Alice forwards me your letter of apology-Heaven help us!-for TC: MH bms Am 1092.1 bringing Mr. Ladd to our house. Suggestions of drunkenness or in- 1 William Palmer Ladd was then a student in Miller's Philosophy 20g: Seminary in the sanity fleet through my mind, but I recall some remarks of mine about History of Modern Philosophy. that young Thurman joining the procession propria sponte and I see how Probably the discussion concerns the walk on 26 March 1903 from Peirce's lecture in geniuses like you can fly to conclusions.2 Don't you know me better, Sever Hall to the reception in WJ's house. Samuel Thurman (b. 1882), in later years a though? Can any acquaintance of yours ever not be welcome? I wish rabbi, was taking a number of philosophy courses, including Philosophy 20g, but "young that you had bro't all your seminary! In the case of this Ladd, I knew Thurman" was more likely Israel Noah Thurman (b. 1884), in later years a lawyer, who was enrolled in merely an introductory philosophy course. him already, and he was doubly welcome. So choke off your damnable 3 George Trumbull Ladd. 4 226 April 1903 April 1903 227 To Alice Howe Gibbens James down straight, we went to the Vanderbilts, and stayed from 1.30 till 6, 2 1/2 hours of it being driving over the lovely place. They are a truly VICTORIA INN, I ASHEVILLE, N.C. April 1. [1903] 9. P.M. remarkable couple, smooth faced, smiling and genuinely friendly and Darling Alice, simple, in spite of their almost absurd possessions, of which I had rather I have had a good day to day, the weather being too warm for under- tell you than write you, so let it be on my return. The country, as one shirts and the country beautifully misty and full of colour. I [am] feel- lives into it developes its charms. Its atmosphere, being SO misty, gives ing very lazy in the south wind. I haven't read a line all day except the it a wonderful amount of sentiment. I shall stay till Tuesday unless newspaper. All the AM. J.BW & I loafed in the woods not far from driven out by the sociability sooner. This house is very clean & well the house. Returned to lunch & nap, and then took a carriage from kept, and its surroundings are exquisite. I don't read a single line, and the Square at 75 cents an hour and had a beautiful two hours drive, to a in the mood in which I now am, should like to go up to Chocorua im- place called Strawbery hill where there was a house for sale on a high mediately, on my return. bank looking down on the curve of the "french broad" river, across Kiss dear Peggy who will, I hope, now get well straightway. How jolly which Biltmore lay, whilst the mountains filled the background. The to hear of Aleck with the birds, especially the woodcock which are so rare. colours of every thing were inexpressibly rich, and the shading delicate, Your loving W.J. and it was then and there that I wished more devoutly that you were by ALS: MH bms Am 1092.9 (2209) my side. I know you would have enjoyed the scene. This house is well Miss Keyes was not identified. WJ knew several people of that name associated with kept, with beautiful surroundings. We have 2 good adjacent rooms, Concord; see Correspondence, 5:5099. very clean & fresh, with a private bath room attached, & fine view from windows, secluded & quiet for 35 dollars a week for both. Good night. Inexpressible love to you all. W.J. To George Herbert Palmer We shall certainly stay out our week, SO you may write until next Sun- day, addressing me here. The episcopal pastor Rev. D: Swope(!) has VICTORIA INN, ASHEVILLE, N.C. April 3. 1903 called on me, also a Mr Woolsey. Dear Palmer, ALS: MH bms Am 1092.9 (2208) An item in the Tribune, announces a conditional 50,000 for Emerson Rodney Rush Swope, an Episcopalian priest, ordained in 1876, with philosophical Hall, which I suppose practically ensures the project, on which I con- interests. gratulate you. I never cared for it as much as you seem to have cared. ¹ What I confess I dread is becoming an accomplice in another archi- tectural crime. Must the building go on Quincy St.? Is n't the Holmes To Alice Howe Gibbens James field region, with "power" for the laboratory etc., accessible from out- side, better? I think this question ought to be thoroughly threshed out, VICTORIA INN, ASHEVILLE, N.C. April 2. [1903] 8.15 PM. before any irrevocable step is taken. The only way of saving the Quincy Darling Alice, St. site architecturally is by erecting an almost identical mate to Robin- Returning at 6.45 from the Vanderbilts I find your two letters of son Hall opposite it, where the two would form a frame for the abso- Wednesday, with Harry's note to you, and a lot of enclosures, Miss Keyes's lutely heterogeneous Sever Hall. ² To introduce a third heterogeneity capping the climax for fantasticality. What would our Henry think of and discord there, would, I think, be an absolutely unpardonable out- such an epistle? rage on the public eye. Our Harry's letter makes me wish that I were at Chocorua with him, Surely it isn't too late for both architect and site to be reconsidered. not that it isn't delicious here, but there is less sociability there. Longfellow is capable of any atrocity. I don't want to hurry back now After a forenoon on a hill above the town-very warm no under- to fight this, being completely "tuckered eaout," but I do hope that shirt-led up to by electric tram & beautiful view there, and scramble you won't, through the mere inertia of the movement already begun, 5 Corr. 228 February 1903 Vol.3 April 1903 229 had agreed to pay Peirce $600 for six lectures (bMS Am 1092.9 [3393]). Peirce and is doing every kind of work, forestry nursery, dairy, horticulture, replied on 16 March arguing that he could not cover the subject of logic in six lectures and proposed pragmatism as a topic (bMS Am 1092 [692]). The lectures were titled stock raising, road perfecting, and is a model to rich men all through "Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking" and were delivered on the country. In spite of his rather soft appearance, he must be a 26 March, 2, 9, 16, 30 April, and 7 May 1903. Peirce gave an additional lecture on strong character to carry SO much business and responsibility, and I pragmatism on 14 May and a lecture on "Conceptions of Mathematical Multitude like his young wife better & better every time I see her. Their house and Continuity" on 15 May. (of Richard Hunt's planning)2 is a true wonder of splendor and do- Sue letter of 22 December 1902. mesticity combined-a grand success, modeled on certain french cha- The centenary of Emerson's birth was celebrated at Concord on 25 May 1903. teaus, Blois especially, but modern in its convenience and comfort. WJ's address is reprinted in ERM. 8 For the Saturday Club see Correspondence, 2:17n. WJ became a member in 1881. Too "high studded"-fo my taste perhaps-the dining room roof is 66 feet from the floor. However, enough of this pleasing couple, and place! A certain Colonel Woolsey has shown us hospitality-his wife To Henry James who met you years ago at Mrs. Bronson's at Venice, wishes particu- larly to be remembered. - - I "retire" after next year from College VICTORIA INN, I ASHEVILLE, N.C. April 7. '03 and from Cambridge, it will certainly be well to spend one winter Beloved Henry here, to see how it goes.-Theodora writes of you that you seem in You see where I be. I have been here only ten days, having come excellent trim this winter. Apparently you have been working very down excessively fatigued, but no reading what ever and an open air hard, and your last books have started you on a new career of popu- life have already made me feel quite different. I ought, however, to larity or at least of praise. The "better Sort" came duly, and I meant have left home a month ago. I was SO well during the first half of after reading two of the stories to bring it down here to finish, but I the winter that a normal desire for travel, especially for the sea- accidentally left it at home. You certainly excel in stories of that size. voyage and (strange to say) for a few days in Paris, came over me. It is hard enamel finish. I suppose that you too will go to the coun- But at last I got the nervous tire on me, and then I was afraid of try about May 1st. getting into that lawful state of nerves which I was in at Edinburgh I have unluckily pledged myself to give a 20 minutes address at last June, SO I threw up my passage, very wisely as I think, for the Concord on Emerson's Centenary the 25th.5 Although I have been racket wd. probably not have agreed. Altho my present "tire" is bad, reading him lately consecutively with on the whole an enhanced my whole year has been much more energetic and normal than last opinion of his powers, my speech doesn't shape itself, & I wish to year, and my heart sensations and irregularities of action have practi- Heaven that I were out of it alltogether. My powers don't combine cally subsided altogether, though all my walking has to be slow. Yes- well with just that sort of thing-I only undertook it to please Alice. terday I had a half hour's scramble up a very steep and slippery "Emerson Hall" the home of our Philosophical department seems to mountain brook and essuyé-d no bad effects whatever. This is great, be financially secured, and work will probably begin Duveneck's compared with two years ago. We shall go to the country by May statue will probably look well in its vestibule.7 1st I hope and then all will be well. Jo Warner has been here for 5 Bill's year in Geneva seems to have been a splendid success. May days. It is a noble and beautiful region, with a great deal of colour his semester at Marburg prove no less so. He writes delightful letters and atmospheric perspective, and the vegetation just beginning to home. Young Aleck to whom I am conveying a brindled bull-terrier soften with the budding leaves. The drawback is the clay roads and 8 months old, bo't from a darkey here, is all right again, and passion- the mud, but under Geo. Vanderbilts example the town and country ately engrossed in bird-lore, less as a matter of delight in the birds have macadamized a great many miles, and driving can be enjoyed. themselves than of delight in the machinery of "bird-club" note There are two rivers, one big and rapid which meet close to the town, book, & all the rest of it. To day Joe, & to morrow I, return home. and the hill tops offer views in great variety. It is a Northerner's Your loving, W.J. resort in Summer, and a southerner's in Winter-a sort of cosmopoli- My Varieties still sell splendidly. The 12th thousand is not8 print- tan Place. Vanderbilt owns a strip of land 50 miles long by 15 broad, ing and binding. It is an immense financial help. 230 April 1903 April 1903 231 ALS: MH bms Am 1092.9 (2904) speak of! Billy & I exchanged flurries over your intimatedly prob- George Washington Vanderbilt built the Biltmore estate near Asheville, N.C. able arrival-& then, when you didn't arrive, wisely rejoiced that you 2 Richard Morris Hunt (1828-1895), American architect. hadn't partaken of so very qualified a joy. It would have been de- 3 Charles William Woolsey (d. 1907), American military officer and clubman. The name of his wife, who died before he did, was not discovered. Katherine De Kay lightful to see you-if one could have been sure of seeing you not Bronson (d. 1901) was a socialite and hostess. In the late 1850s she and her husband, finding yourself more the worse than the better. As the months go Arthur Bronson, owned a villa in Newport and, later, a home in Venice called Casa on I miss Bill the more-I mean as to the small prospect of my doing Alvisi. more than have a very mean little glimpse of him at the summer's HJ, The Better Sort (1903). end. He is excellent about writing, better than I, & I seem to get See letter of 28 February 1903. the sense that his "personal charm" smooths his path through life, & The original plan was to break ground for Emerson Hall on 25 May 1903 as part of the celebration of Emerson's centenary, but there were delays. Emerson Hall was that he incurs general good will. I took leave of Theodora S. 3 days formally opened on 27 December 1905 and was first used for a joint meeting of the since (how poor W - D. will miss her!)¹ & she will give you the latest American Philosophical Association and the American Psychological Association in about my appearance & conversation. She will tell you that the de- December 1905. sire to go "home" for 6 months (not less,) daily grows in me & that 7 See letter of 22 December 1902, note 5. I particularly wish it before senile decay sets in. But she will also tell A slip for 'now'. you that I don't see my way to anything of the sort within any calcula- ble number of months-or years. And my dilemma is rather tragic. From Henry James It is all economic. It is more & more important I should go, to look after my material (literary) interests in person, & quicken & improve LAMB HOUSE, I RYE, I SUSSEX. April 10th 1903 them, after SO endless an absence-of that I am authentically as- Dearest William. sured, & see it, above all, for myself. But the process itself is SO damna- I have all this winter most infamously treated you-at least since bly expensive-6 mos. of American hotels (for I can't stay with the New Year-or rather, no-much before it; being in receipt of 3 people-it's utterly impossible,) that I move, as it were, in a vicious or 4 admirable letters from you that have till this hour languished circle. I say 6 months because I want & need the material & impres- unanswered. The one small spark of decency that I have been cap- sions that only that time would give me. I should wish to write a able of was writing some month ago a poor stopgap letter to Peggy- book of "impressions{"] (for much money) & to that end get quite sending you a message trying to attenuate my silence or promising away from Boston & New York-really see the country at large.2 On you some better satisfaction. Yet even now I find it is 11 o clk. at the other hand I don't see myself prowling alone in western cities & night & the influences rather adverse! I rise tomorrow a.m.-Easter hotels, or finding my way about by myself, & it is all darksome & Saturday-to get over to Brighton & spend there, with some old tangled. Some light may break-but meanwhile next Wednesday friends, the 2 or 3 days of this (as ever) most East-windy (especially (awful fact,) is my 60th birthday.- have had here the last 6 weeks here) Eastertide. I came down here from London (where I have been (which doesn't make it any easier,) a tiresome little episode, one of since the mid-January,) 2 days ago, & I go back from Brighton to the sorrows of a proprietor. I have had to buy a large piece of the town again, till the 10th May (about.) It is not till then that the vernal Garden next my own from J. H. Gasson, the blatant tradesman & Rye is at all pleasant or that I desire ever to be here. It (This) is the scourge of Rye, in order to protect myself from his power to build most raw time of the year. London, on the other hand, has been this (at west end of mine) & overlook or otherwise annoy me. It had been winter very agreeable & salutary-the more that I had been there so for sale, unbeknown to me, & he had pounced on it & purchased- little for SO long. It has always its old faults-that if you go in for to threaten me, under the guise of offering it to me-considerately- any society you have, before you know it, inconveniently, fatiguingly at an of course excessive rate. The danger poisoned my rest, & wd. much. But I try to go in for as little as is rigidly inevitable, & I am have ruined my one view & all my little place, practically-so that happy to say rigid regularity of work hasn't in the least suffered. I've there was nothing to do but to buy- save the situation. I have seen a few old friends, but, thank God, I haven't made any new to done so, & the (this) property is proportionately improved & de- 17 Lurrey Sk 10 May 03 Dear Mr. Dor: I shall report to the Corporation tomorrow that the Emerson Hall subscription is sure to he completed and that it is for them To fix the site, engage the architech, and go ahead. Please tell me what you have in hand as evidence of that neee York anonymous 10,000 a I am glad the committee [ ] Gev. B Don 193 Fifty thousand dollars "RV- to the fund for building Emersen Fall the gift being made conditional upon the completion before Commencement of the from to insure the building of the Hall: i. name of the denor is withholder the special object of the gift is to encourage the work that is being done under 65k Professor Posbody's direction in Sixty-five thousand dol. 50K lare have been already raised by the Visiting Consistent on Philosophy and te: thousand more have been promised : if the fund car be completed in time to lay the corner atone of the memorial hall centernial day of Emerson S 150K birth - May 24th. One hundred fifty thousand dollars is the amount which it noted is essential to raise in order to insure the building of the hall and as one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars of this amount are now assured, if the remainder can be obtained in time to satisfy these gifts conditionally made, it is create, to be hoped that so rare as opportunity to coohire the needs of " department of the University with honor to a great American thinker an emphasis upon his past connection with the University and abiding influence upon its thought. 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LIST OF DONATIONS TO EMERSON HALL, HARVARD UNIVERSITY APRIL 14, 1903. Anonymous. Boston. $10,000. Mrs Henry Lee 10,000. Miss F. P. Mason 10,000. Mr Arthur T. Lyman 5,000. Mr Learned Hand. Albany, N. Y. 1,000. Anonymous. New York. 10,000. Mrs Wm S. Bullard and family 1,000. J. Elliot Cabot 2,500. Joseph Lee 10,000. R. C. Robbins 1,000. George B. Dorr 1,000. Dr Wm Sturgis Bigelow 1,000. Anonymous. Cambridge. 500. Mrs D. P. Kimball. 10,000. Anonymous 50,000. R. H. Dana 1,000. Charles Head. 500. H. H. Goodwin 100. Mrs Chas. P. Hemenway 200. Mr Geo. Putnam 250. Member of the Class of 1867 250. Mr Chas P. Curtis 500. James Storer 250. James J. Putnam 25. $ Henry Halt 100. 126975 Subscription promined by Indian r one or two achieve but amount, not yi's stated stated not 15bdarg 643 April 30 1903. Dear : Dorr - as the full list of subscribers to tix imeracy IT Hall Fund been published! When you sent President Eliot two weeks ago, he ex pressed the opinion that the publication of that list was much to be desired Very truly yours. grome Coorge B. Derr. Esqo RECEIVED ACKNOWLEDGED APR 16 1903 april 14-1903 ANSWERED FILE UNDER 18 Commonwealth Avenue. my dear Mr Green, I should like We have Prut Elist glance this letter through On his return, as be may have form suggration w make the r it will How him when au staull_ You they April 16, 1903. Dear "r Corr:- : have your letter of April 14, en- closing & copy of your letter to Professor Punsterberg I shall show the litter to the President on his return next week. Very truly yours Specific George B. Dorr, Esq. 642 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. March 26th, 1903. Mr Jerome D. Greena, President's Office, Harvard University, Cambridge. Dear Sir, The address given me by the President for Mr Holden Teaching hers do Hall. own to vas simply Cleveland, which mist, I take it, he Cleveland, Ohio. But I got an impression from what President Eliot said that Subren: known r Mr Holden was really a western man living in one of the mining states of the Rocky Mountain region. If Claveland, Ohio, is not right, please telephone me upon receipt of this; otherwise I will mail to that address. Yours truly, George B. Dorr. Per M.H. 643 Varch 27, 1903 Dear Mr. Dorr & You were right in Inferring that Mr. holden as address was Clovaland Ohio. Hia mining interests take his frequently into the Rocky Moun~ tain region, and his son has lived there, but his head quartere are in Cleveland, Ohio I am sorry that I have not yet get that newspaper material ready to submit to you. I have had a probe of day and evening work which had to be done this week in anticipation of a meeting of the Corporation next Monday I shall ba in time, however, for the publication which I have planned for next Tuesday or Wednesday. Very truly yours James George B, Dorr, Esq. 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. May 1st, 1903. President Eliot, Harvard University. My dear President Eliot, Mr Greene tells me that you did not see the ILL Transcript article of Wednesday before last which contained the list of the subscriptions then made to Emerson Hall and I am sending you out with this a copy of the paper with it in it. Since then I have received subscriptions of $1000. from J. M. Sears, 8100. from Mrs J. H. Hecht, $100. from Miss L. P. Loring, and $50. from my classmate Frank Lyman; Lee has received a subscription of $500. and Mr Ward three subscriptions amount- ing to $125. Besides this we had a subscription of $25., from J. J. Putnem, which we did not publish in our list, thinking it best at that time not to list so small a subscriy- tion. This brings the total amount today, including Mr Car- negie's gift. of $12000., up to $141,500. leaving $8500 still to bA raised before the 25th of May under penalty, if enforced, of losing Mrs Kimball's $10,000 and J. M. Sears' $1000. officiple We still have a few names left upon our list from whom subscriptions may he honed but 80 many people, first and last, upon whom I should have counted to actively interest themselves in the matter have failed to do so, upon one ground or another, when approached upon the subject that I feel much less confident 2 than I could wish of our getting even the relatively small amount that still remains to raise within these next two or three weeks. Moreover I have moved down to Bar Harbor now Bas Harbor myself, where I have a good deal of work going on and shall have to be the greater part of the time after this, though I shall keep my house open here all through the spring and come and go. I never got any reply from Mr Holden to whom I wrote some weeks ago, nor from any one of several other western people whose names I got from various sources as those of men who would be likely to at least interest themselves in the matter. Mr Ward and I also wrote, between us, tc a large number of people, whose addresses we obtained from Edward Emerson and others, who were known tc take an interest in Emerson, but with no other result than a number of letters expressing interest and a few small subscriptions. I thought it worth exploring but that line seems to be a barren one to follow any farther. For any suggestions that you can give me as to raising the balance which we need before the 25th I shall be grateful, and I remain. Sincerely yours, [Harvard Club, 27 W. 44th, N.Y., N.Y. 3. 1000 more from Mr. S.S. ward Mr. Dor's uncle and father of m want of w th listing Committee G.B.Dorr may 2. 1903 Juxtaposition: 1903 As I explored the overlap of timing two years earlier, might there be some relationships that can be teased out of events in May 1903? --see my "Theodore Roosevelt and the Mount Desert Triumvirate." Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Historic Site talk in Buffalo, NY., 9/27/2016 A. Theodore Roosevelt's 1903 train tour of the U.S. After leaving Yellowstone he arrived at the Grand Canyon where he delivered a public statement that has resonated down the ages. David Gessner's recent book captures the Rooseveltean spirit of his May 6th statement that nothing ought to be done to the Grand Canyon." Leave it as it is." The maxim (LEAVE IT AS IT IS) was the title of Gessner's 2020 monograph. B. Nine days later TR is in Yosemite with John Muir. See Gessner & Brinkley. Back East, G.B. Dorr is leading his fellow Harvard alums in raising funds for the construction of Emerson Hall. A. On May 11 he is joined by the Bowditch brothers in a trip to Virginia to experience its natural landscape features. Trip documented in park archives (May 11-27). B. The May 25th 1903 centennial celebration of Ralph Waldo Emerson's birth takes place in Concord and other sites nationwide. Dorr's absence from these Harvard related activities provoked no documented comment. Yet it remains in my mind unresolved. R.H. Epp Dorr 1903 Theodore Roosevelt - Influential People in the Life of John Muir - John Muir Exhibit Page 1 of 2 SIERRA Search the exhibit SEARCH CLUB FOUNDED 1892 About Biography Tributes Writings Media Education Get Involved the john muir exhibit people theodore roosevelt Share: C The John Muir Exhibit Home Theodore Roosevelt About John Muir 1858-1919 Biographical Information President of the United States, 1901 - 1909. Tributes In 1903, Roosevelt visited Muir in Yosemite. Guided Writings of John Muir into the Yosemite wilderness by naturalist John Muir, Media the president went on a three-day wilderness trip that started at the Mariposa Grove, and included Sentinel Educational Resources Dome, Glacier Point, and Yosemite Valley among other points of interest in Yosemite National Park. Muir Get Involved seized the opportunity "to do some forest good in talking freely around the campfire," and the President, referring to John Muir, is quoted as saying "Of course of all the people in the world, he was the one with whom it was best worth while thus to see the Yosemite." Roosevelt and Muir camped the first night, May 15, at the Mariposa Grove under the Grizzly Giant, with the President bedding down in a pile of about 40 wool blankets, and the second night was spent in the vicinity of Sentinel Dome during a snow storm that left five inches of new snow on top of the existing five feet of snow. The third night of camping was at the edge Bridalveil Meadow in Yosemite Valley, where President Roosevelt was Muir's captive audience to hear a convincing plea for Yosemite wilderness and for setting aside other areas in the United States for park purposes. That night, during the campfire discussion, Muir's main focus of conversation was not only the need for forest preservation but also his concern that the California State Grant of Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove, surrounded in 1892 by Yosemite National Park, be receded to the United States for inclusion in the park. Roosevelt agreed that two controls made for "triple troubles." Eventually, their discussion prompted the Presidential signature on the Yosemite Recession Bill in June, 1906. This Joint Resolution accepted the recession by the State of California of the Yosemite Valley Grant and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove, now the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, which withdrew them from state protection and put them under federal protection, making them part of Yosemite National Park. "There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their Children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred," said Theodore Roosevelt. During his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt signed into existence five national parks, 18 national monuments, 55 national bird sanctuaries and wildlife refuges, and 150 national forests (Source for forgoing: "100th Anniversary of President Theodore Roosevelt and Naturalist John Muir's Visit at Yosemite National Park" - National Park Service Press Release (May 15, 2003). A tribute to John Muir by Theodore Roosevelt. In this excerpt, and the next entry,. Roosevelt complained that Muir seemed to care little for birds or bird songs, and seemed to be "not interested in the small things of nature unless they were unusually conspicuous." Historian Donald Worster points out that "What he failed to realize was that Muir was mainly a botanist and geologist, not an ornithologist, although by no means indifferent to the smallest of plants or the faintest striations on rock." Indeed, Muir's writings are full of stories about small things, including bees, flies, and even grasshopper tracks. "In Yosemite with John Muir" by Theodore Roosevelt (From Roosevelt's Autobiography) Charlie Leidig's Report of President Roosevelt's Visit to Yosemite in May, 1903 - (PDF) (original typewritten manuscript by Charles Leidig, one of the civilian rangers to accompany Theodore Roosevelt during his 1903 visit. His recollections were recorded and filed in the Yosemite Research Library, which kindly supplied us a copy. A Year of for Yosemite Anniversaries (PDF) (offsite link) - Yosemite Association special issue of its journal Yosemite (Vol. 65., No.2, Spring 2003) - containing illustrated articles about the famous 1903 camping trip by Roosevelt and Muir: "Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir: 100 Years Ago and Today" by Gary Koy, and a reprint of "Charlie Leidig's Report of President Roosevelt's Visit to Yosemite in May 1903." A Camping Trip with Roosevelt and Muir by Hank Johnston (PDF) (offsite link) - Yosemite Association Vol. 56, No. 3 (Summer, 1994). https://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/people/roosevelt.aspx 2/5/2021 17 Juney Sk 10 stay 03 Dear Mr. Dorr: I shall report to the Corporation tomorrow that The Enserson Rall subscription is sure to he completed and that it is for them To fix the site, engage the architech, and go ahead. Please tell me what you have in a hand and evidence ofthat rill York enomymous $ 10,000. are glad the committee Charles w. Eliot. [May 1903] Geo B. Don by EMERSON HALL AT see HARVARD UNIVERSITY. The Visiting Committee of the Alumni in charge of raising funds for a memorial hall to Emerson at Harvard University desire to lay that project before all who value Emerson and all Harvard men, that all may have an opportunity to manifest their interest by contributions, large or small. As a memorial to Emerson, this building, devoted to philosophic and philanthropic teaching at the University where Emerson himself was successively student, lecturer and overseer, and taught in by men like Professors James, Royce, Palmer, Münsterberg, Peabody, and Santayana, seems singularly) (fitting. The hall itself is greatly needed at the University. For the further development of the rapidly growing philosophic work, it is indeed essential. The philosophical department has the greatest number of graduate students of any department of the University. Its courses are so well appreciated by undergraduates that the average student now takes an entire year of philosophy during his college course. A building devoted to one department gives to that department dignity, unity, and emphasis. Nearly $150,000 has now been subscribed for this hall, but more is needed to give the memorial permanence and distinction and to make the hall sufficient for the University's needs. Contributions or pledges of subscription may be sent to the Treasurer of the Committee, Richard H. Dana, Esq. 905 Exchange Building, 53 State Street, Boston, or to any other member of the committee for forwarding to him. GEORGE B. DORR, Chairman, 18 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. RICHARD H. DANA, Treasurer, 905 Exchange Bldg., Boston. COMMITTEE RICHARD CABOT, 190 marlboro st. Boston. JOSEPH LEE, 96 net verum it. Boston REGINALD W. C. ROBBINS, 44CC THOMAS WARD. 15wall st. New York Boston, Mass., May 1903. [May 1903] for Gw B. Don at EMERSON HALL at HARVARD UNIVERSITY. The Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College in charge of the raising of funds for a hall in memory of Emerson at Harvard University desire to lay that project before the reverse Harvard alumni and all who value Emerson, in order that all may have an opportunity to take part, by large contributions or small, in the establishment of this appropriate and permanently useful memorial. As a memorial to Emerson, this building, devoted to phil- greater osophic and philanthropic teaching at the University where he was Freeson. successively student, lecturer and Overseer, seems singularly fitting; and to the staff of teachers - Professors James, Palmer, Peabody, Royce, Munsterberg, Santayana, and their associates - who will inaug- urate its service to the University, that happy responsibility will be entrusted with the utmost confidence. The hall itself is greatly needed at the University: for the proper maintenance of the work of the philosophical department, not to speak of the normal growth of that work, it is indeed essential. The philosophical department has more graduate students than does any other department; and the resort to its courses by undergraduates is very large. A building devoted to one department gives to tho teaching in that department -2- unity and dignity; and to teachers and students alike it gives the inspiration which comes from closer association with each other and a common enjoyment of the intellectual resources centered in the building. Nearly $150,000 has now been subscribed for the erection of Emerson Hall, but more than that sum is needed to make the hall sufficient for the University's needs and to give the memorial the distinction appropriate to its abble object. Contributions or pledges of subscription may be sent to the Treasurer of the Conmittee, Richard H. Dana, Esq., 905 Exchange Building, 53 State Street, Boston, or To any other member of the Anniette Geroge B. Dorr, Chairman, 18 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Richard H. Dana, Treasurer, 905 Exchange Bldg., Boston. Richard C. Cabot, 190 Marlboro St., Boston. Committee: Joseph Lee, 96 Mt. Vernon St., Boston. Reginald C. Robbins, 44 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Thomas W. Ward, 15 Wall St., New York. Boston, Mass., May 1903. Eliot toward gives 8 200 Emuson Hall Ra Main 643 date 18 Commonwealth Avenue. 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Weekly Mu yistude, at au weekly can crem. meeting Miller Mute d decided wild a Circular, Signed by Children the almum efecht of Committee, 4th whole body Classes 8/6 any Euroven people teller 7. III 18 Commonwealth Avenue. Name raddrem are can get statiy the pla. Vobjicty the Memnial the Committee's desinct have it as widely representative ar hor. sible WWeecin as Well as age Subscription - Uroth a draft for this Cincular yisturing afternon I've Whiel Data ander K I Whis both leavi, the City le was to put logute Edit 9. Circular limit ym teleflem him, ON Unit abnN it's Uu May wet get much liming our of this Stel her we night ld get a Number of modual thus Subscription which 10. IV 18 Commonwealth Avenue. the wide spread interest le Emerson r the duf gooledge gaid then infor him I think it Would lu will als, that from Simila Circular Should be distributed, h Man fit way, Alung the people Comi Wth lictures rath attinding fallen the Clutenmel Uu Want how all th Small Subscriptions we can get 15 green the Memorial the Character it should have 12. Me has written him abnNit VI. think the affectivity is in the he should not lose - Hundry night I shall Come up again Rother Strength Giange R. Doss In fresh Charlottesville aa of 18 Commonwealth Avenue. Many 153/203 RECEIVED MAY 17 1903 3 q-9 across ACKNOWLEDGED 64 ANSWERED trp Blue Ridge My dear President-Elist. of circular which our Com. the I luclase printer from milter is sending net 15th Aleenin in ordu Is wide out the Sub- semplin list to Everson Hall give it a mm representation 10K copres of circular Charactu - Our 10000 cohin will be mailed writin The neft few days Richard Cabot has Charge of prepain, the list. etc. and I have also asked him Small subscriptions 15 public strategy to see is getting specially a few along unit any active that may Come, the latter part of neft week when out Circular (wh. I have also asked The Rulletin will be nt So that people may not hesilate W make Emall contribution though fear of being alone N conspicuous in doing to- - It ought not W 2. 3. Dr Meury Bow ditel, Charles Row ditel. rd au starty off from him Common for an light or hear days riding riding ml across etc Blue Ridge ruf the thenandoah bally I made anangement before I Can away for The receift, ac- Kunoledgement, r reporting of any Emerson Hall/letter or/subscribtion which may Come in my absence The last statement of its find was in the Transcribe - of May 135 I put it in just before I can any Sweet Form, 1903 At the time when the May 25th centennial of Ralph Waldo Emerson was being celebrated in Concord and elsewhere throughout New England and afar, Dorr and the Bowditch brothers leave for their Virginia trip. According to Ann Turrisi, ed. Pragmatism as a Principle and Method Right Thinking (SUNY, 1997, available at UHA), the impoverished C.S. Peirce was seeking income for lectures given at various institutions. He approached William James who arranged with C.W. Eliot for Peirce to deliver the 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism at weekly intervals, seven in number, between March 26 and May 15, 1903. James had to raise $600. honorarium from private sources. It appears that none of the Harvard faculty attended all lectures, some may have attended none, and many missed several. James was displeased with what he heard having taken pains to distinguish his pragmatism from that of Peirce. He appears to have missed most lectures even though faculty interacted with the speaker at social receptions given on several occasions. We do not know if Dorr had interest in Peirce or his philosophy. He is, however, chair of the Philosophy Department Visiting Committee and has at this time been responsible for raising funds to support the erection of Emerson Hall. Curious. she 9/18/18 BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT. SATURDA EMERSON CENTENNIAL ceased to be a prophet, and as preacher he ov took the whole world for his parish. Though or he left the pulpit he never left the minis- kr Addresses Commemorate the try. He had put on righteousness, and it 00 never ceased to cloothe him with spiritual hi Philosopher power. He may have produced no system, wi but in underlying unity of principle he had se no equal. Essentially Emerson was a th His Birthday 100 Years Ago Next mystic. From first to last he looked into re his own heart and trusted to what was di written there. He listened for the inward ga Monday voice, and once said that the trouble with of men was that they would not listen. He tr The Free Religious Association belleved that there was nothing in the m world so sacred as a man's own self; that m Meets a man should learn to detect that bar of sel inward light which now and then flashes to Chief Address across his consciousness, and to depend Tomorrow by President upon it. Emerson belonged to that great sp Eliot spiritual anti-slavery society among whose fri charter members are Buddha and Christ, he th believed that conscience was more to be a Centennial observances of the birth of trusted than conformity. Why should we tol Ralph Waldo Emerson May 25. 1893. began not have a religion of experience rather ab in this city today with the meeting of the than tradition. Emerson asked; and what for Free Religious Association in Parker Me- we did not have he proceeded to give H. morial Hall. Emerson was one of the us. 'Let men stand on their own feet," he ou founders of the association in 1867, and said, 'And God will speak to them.' Ah, an the addresses this morning, listened to in these days of revisions which only half in with notable interest and sympathy by an ov. revise, and revelations which do not re- audience which filled the floor and gallery, veal, we need once again to hear the trum- were partly historical and partly an esti- pet call of Emerson's truth! mate of the Concord philosopher's character "His early hearers did not understand his and influence. Edwin D. Mead presided. rhapsodies over the commonplace; they saw No and delivered the opening address, al- nothing in the daily things of nature. They though his remarks were preceded by an wanted miracles two thousand years ago to organ voluntary, and the singing of Men- give them revelations. Thank God, all this delssohn's "How Lovely Are the Messengers is changed. The lesson he has taught us is the of Peace," by the augmented choir of the that the divine is everywhere. Nature is ad Parker Memorial Church under the leader- the word of God to the heart of man, and of ship of F. W. Wodel, the choirmaster. when a man understands and hears it he Th Mrs. G. F. Cheney was organist. comes to himself and really lives. But that Ed EDWIN D. MEAD'S OPENING is not the only lesson he taught. His trust Scl Mr. Mead said in opening that one of the in democracy showed his faith in all men, su; most impressive and most cheering things because there is something of the divine up of the time were the arrangements from in all men that can betrusted. He exempli- Pr the Atlantic to the Pacific to observe the fied the religious truth on which our fathers Th centennial anniversary of the birth of built. Nobody has showed more clearly T Emerson. He thought that never in the than he the true foundations on which our '1 world's history had there been SO large an great republic is built. will observance of a purely intellectual anni- "It is a fascinating task to try to classi- Em fy Emerson. Lowell called him the Yan- H versary. It came as a special sacrament, and he loved to think that it represented a kee Plato and Holmes the Buddha of the add longing on the part of the American people West. More recently somebody compared Fra him to Channing, saying: 'Channing Ed for a different set of Ideals from those made a map of the sky, but Emerson mere- Dol which had obtained in this country since by traced the course of a comet." but Em- Eva the war spirit swept over it in 1896. "Ether- son stands for everything which Is highest erson's vision of the comet of the heaven- T and best in our life." Mr. Mead said. THe ly light within will endure until the end tion has spoken in his addresses on of conselousness As a religious force he ever dell' son stands for everything which is highest erson's vision of the comet of the heaven- and best In our life," Mr. Mead said. "He ly light within will endure until the end has spoken In his addresses on education of conselousness. AM a religious force he the most pregnant and most prophette Is active Hill to renew religious inspiration d. and quicken conselence. He has entered to word which has been spoken since John into the heart of the people." pa Milton. In his Harvard address of 1838 he m gave us the programme for our religion PERSONALITY IN HIS THOUGHT un for a thousand years, and it is with special Rev. Charles Francis Carter of Lexington qu fitness that we come here to consider his re- was next introduced to speak of "Person- 81 ligious Influence. He WALS one of the found- ality of Emerson's Religious Thought." an ers of this association, and he was present He touched upon the four cardinal points pr at that original meeting in Horticultural where his thought touches personality. ce Hall May 30, 1867. a meeting which attract- "The first." he said. "Is the principle of ha ed some attention and which had been ad- self-respect, which Emerson taught from he vertised in the newspapers for days before- first to last. He served a warrant on every hand. man to be himself. Each should be unique 80 *The call was issued by Octavius B. Froth- in the world; stand alone in his place. th Ingham, William J. Potter and Rowland Conventions he held of little account; tra- fo Connor, and the first speaker on a long list ditions, however venerable, he was ever gu was Ralph Waldo Emerson. The only three ready to east off, lest they should become or of the list living today are Henry anchors, keeping men from being them- In Blanchard, Francis Abbott and Colonel selves. He taught always the value of the be Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Some of individual man. His writings bristle with En them were there in representative char- trunts and challenges. But together with S. acter, speaking for the liberal Unitarians, this principle of self-reliance he counselled Cl for the progressive Universalists, for the men to be humble; to think very little of sp progressive Friends, but Mr. Emerson. in themselves; to get into large relations with ch the words of Mr. Frothingham, was chosen the universe. We are nothing; the sight to speak for those worthy men who have is everything. This is the abiding truth of an no sect, who are strictly Universal in char- all the mystles from Paul to Emerson- 6a acter. Others, like sturdy John Brown at that the things not seen are real. How sa- T) Harper's Ferry, were there to speak for cred is self-respect when so founded. It Is th themselves Such a one was Colonel Hig- only another name for faith; for, as he ho ginson. I like to think of his presence himself said, self-rellance Is reliance on there, and rejoice that he is to preside at God. Here we come to bedrock; to the the meeting this evening. very essence of religion. With self-reliance Tu "But I rejoice more at the long service of and perseverance, every man can go his th Colonel Higginson, who has always spoken way a representation of the divine. an the same word, the helpful human word. In Rev. Charles G. Ames made the next ad- tio his eightieth year let our hearts go out to dress, on "Emerson's Radical Conserva- him in greeting. Francis Abbott. will not tism." He spoke of the fine balance of be present tonight, for he is confined to his these two qualities in Emerson; his con- house in sickness and suffering. Let us re- servatism not of the kind that blocks the member that except for Emers n. who-e ad- wheels of progress; his radicalism never ten dresses have gaine world-wide currency, his reasonless 11e could see the possibility of ter words at the meeting when this association error in all systems of philosophy or belief, En was organized, phrased its highest motive: though he gave them honor and considera- "To hallow American civilization by a pro- tion. He called on everybody to hold seu- diously to the well-considered verdict of his ter founder consciousness of the divine. The president of the association then elected was Octavius Frothingham; Colonel Hy less Higginson was one of the officers of that Sel year; and of the six directors. one was Mrs : of Ednah Dean Cheney, who will be at th 3 festival tonight. In the first speech to the eyer onasson & Co 'S1 SS clation. Mr. Mead said that time son de- C ared that the churches of Boston of that 3 day had been outgrown, that the people in Tremont & Boylston Sts He them felt themselves cabined, cribbed. con- fined and pleaded for the union of men in good works. for pure beneficence. Two A years later he made a much more important speech 111 which he pleaded for the rolin- Beginning Monday Dar quishment of theological discussions and a lish greater attention to good works. That May 25th mee The 7 eared that the churches of Boston of that 3 day had been outgrown. that the people in Tremont & Boylston Sts If them felt themselves cabined, cribbed. con- fined and pleaded for the union of men in ly good works. for pure beneficence. Two years later he made a much more Important Beginning Monday Dr speech in which he pleaded for the rolin- He it- quishment of theological discussions and a May 25th m greater attention to good works That was T) Emerson's great message to the Free Re- Sensational an ligious Association. Mr. Mead pointed out to that the Unitarian Churches were far in rei ill advance of where they were in the time of those early addresses, and urged that Neckwear Sale they continue to follow Emerson's teach- ing. LONGFELLOW HYMN SUNG In 3 Special Lots of Summer Pr 1- Mr. Mead closed by asking the audience Wash Materials to sing Samuel Longfellow's hymn, "O Life es That Maketh Old Things New," remark- ing that this hymn was written for the Lot No. 1, of 150 dozen Wash fil convention of the Free Religious Association Stocks in plain white and an of 1874. when Emerson was vice president A: The hymn was sung. then Mr. Mead pre- with color combinations, th sented Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham regular value 50c. We as the second speaker. 20c sp EMERSON A RELIGIOUS FORCE Sale price wl :d Mr. Frothingham took for his topic, ch "Emerson as a Religious Force," and Pe- Lot No. 2, of 100 dozen re- op W marked that Theodore Parker, in whose fined Wash Stocks all white int g memory the building in which the meeting 2. was held was erected. "was accustomed to and in color combinations, sp Pr thank God for three things-for the sun, for the moon and for Ralph Waldo Emer- with fagoted bands, double Pr son. and triple tab effect, regu- vir of 1d "One of the amazing things to my lar value 75c. Sale Re il mind." he went on, "is the progress of 35c ta: h Emerson's religious thought in the suc- y ceeding years. The man who left the pul- price. ing re pit for octselentious reasons has done more. except perhaps William Ellery Lot No. 3, of 75 dozen, in of L- soft linen, fagoted and with be Channing, for those who still find In the bo 1. pulpit an opportunity for service and the exercise of spiritual influence. Though the French knots, also with lace sea the d dean of the Harvard Divinity School, after medallions, Irish crochet, p'k ha Emerson's famous address there. was heard to say that what was not folly in it with dimity tie, cheviot and wt I. was atheism. the present dean of the DI- 1. vinity School is now planning to place a madras, regular value S. tablet In the little chapel where those $1.00. Sale price 50c wonderful words were spoken. :- "Emerson is only to be properly under- d stood from the religious point of view. IF Though a philosopher and poet. he never Tailored Suits :- Is AT ef e :- ie Furnishings Half Price CO ca 1b FOR MEN Consisting of Voile, Etamine, ne 0. e Broadcloth, Cheviot and Nov- In variety of exclusive styles, our stock of sum- elty Cloths offered at the fol- de e. in mer novelties is the finest bane, dos it dos. cabitolet and wagenette Tusty and interesting colection was upon exhibi- Ink and rain cants. top and no top road wagons, be ad-: tion, consisting of manuscripts, auto- and frish jaunting car. all the new carriages belot graph letters. first editions and old and have been supplemented by consignments from Mr! of rare portraits of Emerson: and during the Boston; the sale will take place In the show 11 con- evening the college. public and many Brimmer St.,at the corner of Byron St. and w the guests gathered in Goddard Chapel to 11s. mer Sts. THURSDAY the 28th day of May. Hegli ever ten to readings by Professor Thomas Whit- regardless of any condition of the weather all in of temore from both the prose and verse of be made at the office of the auctioneers, where eat lief, Emerson. Among his selections in verse also be obtained; all vehicles will be on exhibition ra- were "The Problem." "Each and All," day of sale stu- "Voluntaries." "Forbearance." "Charac- his ter," "The Fable." "Terminus," "Days," **The Snow Storm," and "The Concord the dignity and emphasis which are rightly Hymn." For the prose readings the pro- their due. and then will follow the co- fessor made selections from "The American operation of all denominations, when with- Scholar," "Saf-Rellance," "Books," "Usey out jealousy all shall unite in the love of of Great Men," "Work and Days," and truth and the spirit of Jesus Christ. for the "Speech on Burns." worship of God and the service of man." 0 President Pritchett announced as his sub- Frank Sanborn's Reminiscences jeet **The Attitude of Educated Young Man Toward Religion." and said: **There have t He Was the Speaker Announced for been two notes constantly struck this week Normal School English Club's Emer- which have appealed in me most strongly. 1 son Meeting one has been what seemed to me the At the Boston Normal School, corner wholesome optimism of the Unitarian faith Dartmouth and Appleton streets, the Eng- toward life itself The wholesome both lish Club of that school held its annual open that life. as we have it, is a good thing. meeting this afternoon at three o'clock. The other note. which has been struck The work for the year has been upon Lowell again and again. has been the note of in- and Emerson: and Mr. Frank Sanborn way dividual spiritual Freedom to address the meeting. giving personal There is a feeling that a constantly di- reminiscences of Emerson. minishing number of young men from the student bodies are being trained into the SPEECHES AT THE FESTIVAL religious life or for the ministry I believe there never was it time when the young President Pritchett, Professor Moore, men in Institutions of learning were more President Southworth and Rev. F. V. ready to stand in direct relation to truth Hawley of Milwankee Spoke for itself than the men in colleges today. Last Unitarians year. at the Institute of Technology, T ob- : Nearly twenty-five hundred Unitarians talked statistics from the students as to I filled Tremont Temple last evening for the their religious relations I found that about annual festival. which marks the close of 41) per cent of them were actual members 1 Anniversary Week. Half of them Were on of religious bodies." the floor at the tables. and half of them Professor Moore who was next called S were in the balconies above to hear the upon. said: The Harvard Dividity School speaking. At the head table were Dr. Hale, earlier. If I am right. than any other die 1. who asked the blessing; Courtenay Guild, clared that it bound its students and teach- chairman of the festival commi tee. who ers to no formula. and 11 is endeavoring to- of opened the after-dinner exercises: George day. on a larger scale than any other ( ) Wigglesworth, president of the evening who school.. through the representation in good " introduced the speakers: and the four fifth of many determisations, truly to sarve I' speakers themselves: President Henry S. that great Church which 1- larger than any or Pritchett of the Institute of Technology, decomination Professor George F. Moore of Harvard DI- "It was sald here Wednesday night that vinity School, President F. C. Southworth men had had the great work of missions of Meadville Theological Seminary, and and the vast problems of charity and phi- Rev. F. V. Hawley of Milwaukee, secre- Linthrone within Main thearts a generation tary of the Western Conference. earlier than there did. a certain great thism Mr. Wigglesworth in opening the even- mirht never have taken place. One some. ing's speak. touched on the growing spirit times thinks that had the men been a gen- of liberality in all denominations It is to oration earlier master of some of these be desired," sald he, "that all religious thoughts of which I am speaking that bodies shall maintain a free and fearless schism might not have taken place. Both search for truth. The time will come when sides is the controversy operated from the nonessentials in religious matters will premises which are now abandoned by have little importance attached to m. both." URDAY, MAY 23. 1903 he own faculty, and to hold even more studi- ugh ously to those beliefs that come to us, we nis- know not how, outside our faculties. The d it conservatism of his radicalism is shown by tual his pleture of God walking with men as em, with his children; the radicalism of his con- had servatism is shown by his throwing off all 3 a the pretences of men's authority. Though into reverently affectionate in regard to old tra- was ditions, he is not bound by them. He re- and garded each personality as a manifestation with of one universal life. His interest was con- He tred in the divine incarnation that made the men's personalities possible. Where did hat men get their personalities? They were not of self-derived, and that was evidence of God hes to him. end Mrs. Anna Garland Spencer, the last eat speaker, considered Emerson as the use friend of those who would live in he the spirit. He has given to such be a faith in the eternal order: has we told them that they need not be concerned her about justifying the ways of the Almighty, hat for the way and the end are alike secure ive He has taught that our concern is with he our own contribution to life. and not with Ah, another's He has shown us that our alf in the world is not anything unless 1: is our re- own, for that is the only real thing. m- Meetings of Tonight and Tomorrow his A Source 01 LW Notable Emersonian Figures at the ey Festival Tonight - President Eliot Speaks Sunday IN to his The afternoon session will be devoted to is the subject of "Religious Education with is addresses by Professor George F. Moure The Summ nd of the Harvard Divinity School. upon **The he Theological School of the Future: Rev. at Edward Cummings, upon "The Sunday 1st School of the Future:" George 11. Martin, We offer at this tin in, supervisor of the Boston public schools used PIANOLAS at ne upon "Religion In the Public Schools and 11- Professor Henry S. Nash of the Episcoped rs Theological School at Cambridge, These instruments are especially ly "The Rational Use of the Bible ur The evening festival at the Qamey House being in first-class condition and subjec will be in the main a continuation of 1- Emerson commemoration Colored T. When away from the musical cen n H gginson will preside. and there will and thrown on our own resources for my ne addresses by Mrs. Ednah D. Cheney d Francis E. Abbot, Frank B. Sanborni ng Edward W. Emerson. Rev. Charles V What is more we e- Dole. Rev. C. W. Wendte, Rev. Daniel n- Evans and others. 11 The special event of the whole celebra- d tion will be held In Symphony Hall Sunday PIANO he evening. President Eliot THE CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF Ralph Waldo Emerson AS OBSERVED IN CONCORD MAY 25 1903 UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SOCIAL CIRCLE IN CONCORD Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. Printed at The Riverside Press FOR THE SOCIAL CIRCLE IN CONCORD JUNE 1903 R.Waldo in ; 2 112 THE EMERSON CENTENARY SPEECH OF HUGO MÜNSTERBERG 113 Miss AGNES C. MAITLAND, Somerville College, Oxford. bridge, at an expense of $150,000, which sum he has Professor HENRY GOUDY, D. C. L., Oxford. already raised, is with us to-night, and we desire to Professor J. G. McKENDRICK, Glasgow University. thank him in this manner for the great service he Professor S. ALEXANDER, Owen's College, Manchester. Professor GEORGE SAINTSBURY, Edinburgh University. has done for the memory of Emerson. I have plea- Professor GEORGE ADAM SMITH, Glasgow. sure in introducing to you Professor Miinsterberg, of PATRICK W. CAMPBELL, W. S., Edinburgh. Harvard University. Sir LESLIE STEPHEN. Sir WILLIAM TURNER, Edinburgh University. SPEECH OF HUGO MÜNSTERBERG Professor MARCUS DoDs, Edinburgh. Professor LATTA, University, Glasgow. MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - The Professor A. V. DICEY, All Souls, Oxford. overwhelming kindness of your generous words, Professor ALEXANDER LAWSON, University, St. An- Mr. Chairman, adds much to the embarrassment with drews. which I stand before you. I am deeply embarrassed I Professor C. H. HERFORD, Manchester. indeed, - how can I, a foreigner, an outsider, rise at Professor A. S. PRINGLE PATTISON. this occasion to speak to a circle of women and men, : EDMUND GOSSE, LL. D., London. inspired from childhood by the atmosphere of Emer- son's New England? I have been brought up near THE CHAIRMAN - Rudyard Kipling declined his the Baltic Sea, and in my childhood the waves of invitation, but we have his Recessional here to- the ocean seldom brought greetings from these New night and we hope to have the pleasure of hearing England shores to the shores of Germany. And yet Mr. Parker sing it. my youth was not untouched by Emerson's genius. I am glad to mention this Emersonian influence Kipling's "Recessional" was sung by Mr. George abroad, because in the rich chord of the joyful enthu- J. Parker, accompanied on the piano by Mrs. siasm of this day I missed only one overtone: a tone Charles Edward Brown. bringing out the grateful appreciation which Emer- son found in the not-English speaking foreign coun- THE CHAIRMAN - The gentleman who has per- tries. As far as I remember, I had only three Amer- haps honored the memory of Emerson by the grandest ican books, in German translation, in my little and most lasting memorial, and who proposed the schoolday library. At ten I got a boys' edition of plan for the Emerson Hall of Philosophy at Cam- Cooper's Leatherstocking; at twelve I enjoyed Sterr. 3 114 THE EMERSON CENTENARY SPEECH OF HUGO MÜNSTERBERG 115 Longfellow's poems, but at fourteen I had Emerson's Essays. And they accompanied me through my stu- man, the Philosophy Department of Harvard has dent days I read and reread them, and he became not to report any new facts to-night. The Emerson thus the star to which I hitched my little wagon story is very simple, very short, and completely known when it was to carry me to the new world from the to you. We saw a year ago that the time had come fatherland. This was not without effect on my own to place an Emerson Hall for Philosophy on the American experiences. Emerson's work had so often Harvard Yard, and that it was necessary for that represented to me the spirit of the new world which purpose to collect $150,000 before the 25th of May, I entered that my mental eye became so sensitive as 1903 we began thus to collect, and when we counted to recognize the Emersonian lines and curves and the contents of our purse, on the 23d of May, 1903, forms everywhere in the background of American we found there $150,250. That is the whole simple life. Most Europeans, and especially Germans, who story indeed, and yet some connotations to it may come over, see everywhere the features of commer- be in order, and I am most happy to make them cialism and practical utilitarianism. I was impressed in this company. by the idealism of this young, healthful community, First, do not misunderstand the report of our treasurer; the sum I mentioned was meant from the and in the first essay which I published on America, in a German paper, only a few months after my first beginning merely as a fund sufficient to secure a visit, I wrote with most sincere conviction If building,- not at all sufficient to secure the building you really want to understand the deepest energies for which we were hoping from the start. We want a spacious, noble, monumental hall - the architec- of this glorious country, do not consult the editorials of the yellow press of New York, but read the tural plans are drawn. To build it as the plans sug- golden books of the wise man of Concord." gest it we need $100,000 more; and while we But, Mr. Chairman, I feel that I have no right to highly appreciate any small gifts toward this addi- speak here as a German, since you have assured us tional sum we are firmly determined not to reject that the foreign scholars have been invited for to- even the largest contributions. night, with the understanding that they are not But all this refers to the externals, to the news- allowed to come - if a cover has been laid for me, paper side of our memorial work let me speak in nevertheless, I take it that I was expected not to this narrower circle of some more internal points. forget that I am here as the representative of the Seen from such an exoteric point of view, it may Harvard Philosophy Department. But, Mr. Chair- look as though we Harvard philosophers had said through all the year "Happy public, you are fortu- I 116 THE EMERSON CENTENARY SPEECH OF HUGO MÜNSTERBERG 117 nate in being allowed to build a fine building for our assure you that it is exactly the opposite feeling with splendid philosophy instruction, and now that the which we look into the future, and this conviction checks are written, the public may kindly remove that we must fulfil our duty better, much better, itself and the students may fill their fountain pens than heretofore, is common to all of us in the whole to write down in the new building our glorious effu- large Department of Philosophy. A lucky chance sion of wisdom." Well, over there in Cambridge, brought to me this morning, when I left for Concord, we must impose on the freshmen and sophomores, a letter from our colleague, Professor Royce, who is but here let me say at once, we know exactly that spending his sabbatical year in the country of his the generous contributions of the community were childhood, in California. He finds the fit word bet- not given to us but to Emerson. And if we ever ter than I could hope to do let me read from his forgot it, our benefactors reminded us of it. I asked, letter. I had written to him that the success seems for instance, the help of Andrew Carnegie, and he near, and he replies gave generously, but when I replied that there would feel very deeply how great are the responsi- be rejoicing in Harvard that at last he had given to bilities which the new gift places upon the shoulders Royce Harvard University, saw in the far background of each teacher of the department which is thus the big Harvard Library building we need so badly,- endowed. I do not know how much I shall be able he left me not the slightest doubt that his pledge to do to live up to these new responsibilities. I only was for the Emerson Memorial, but not for Harvard know that the news of the success of the Emerson as Harvard. Yes, it is thoroughly an Emerson build- Hall endowment fills me with a desire not only to ing, a late expression of Harvard's gratitude for her improve here and there, but quite to make over greatest son. afresh, and to change throughout for the better, my But we know also that the value of this memorial methods of work as a teacher of philosophy and gift lies not in its walls and roof, but in the kind of with a determination to devote myself as never be- work which will develop within those walls. It will fore to the task of offering to philosophy and to be a true Emerson memorial only if the words and Harvard my best services. That the founding of this work in that hall become help and guidance, wisdom new building may mean the beginning of a new life and inspiration for new and new generations of Har- for philosophical study in our country, and the dawn- vard men. There would be no hope of such influence ing of a new day for the interests of higher thought if we instructors really entered into it with an air in our national affairs, is the earnest wish of your of self-satisfaction and self-complacency. Let me absent colleague." Emerson Hall Endorsment 5 118 THE EMERSON CENTENARY SPEECH OF EDWARD WALDO EMERSON 119 This is the feeling of our common department's soul. We shall not enter the new Philosophy Hall SPEECH OF EDWARD WALDO EMERSON with the feeling that we can sit there on our laurels, but with the firm promise that we will live up to the MR. CHAIRMAN, My Honored Friend, - My duties which the single word above its door demands Friends and Neighbors: - The Social Circle, as from us. We all are united by the ideal to make stated in its book of chronicles, was not merely our work in Emerson IIall worthy of the name that founded for the diffusion of useful communica- honors it. tions" by the twenty-five members who composed it, Mr. Chairman, I see from your pretty menu-card some of which might be shared by their wives and that Emerson once said, "Harvard University is some not, - but for the promotion of the social affec- thin like a wafer compared with the solid land of tions, that they should not die. I am glad to see our Social Circle in Concord." That was sixty years how liberally the Circle has gone to work to promote ago, and there has not been much change since that them by such a thoroughly social and affectionate time, indeed. But now the change will come, believe and catholic occasion as this. us. Emerson Hall in Harvard University will be Now, it makes me smile a little when, after the built on solid land, too, on the solid land of our best exercises that I have had the privilege of attending will and effort, and we will work that it may prove here and elsewhere, I think of a remark that I have perhaps even not less solid than the Social Circle,- SO often heard my father make. My mother was solid land on which to stand to-night gave me the constantly remembering that "Ten years ago to-day greatest possible pleasure. such a thing occurred," and other members of the family would remember other anniversaries. When THE CHAIRMAN: - Dr. Emerson needs no intro- at table such remarks were made, my father would duction from me to you. He will occupy the few often laugh and say, "Oh, it is always a hundred remaining moments before the time to leave for years from something." But he was SO good a towns- the train, and the exercises will then close with man and he had such an affectionate regard for his singing the "Battle Hymn" to the tune of "Old neighbors - and he construed that term very largely Hundred." that if we can conceive of him being present and receiving such a tribute as has been given to him to-day, it is very clear how it would have affected him. Some of you are too young - or too young 20 B men be EMERSON THE PHILOSOPHER doubt are me and gether it to th all scle A Plea for a Revival of Idealism nection to acce ist wou Nature where By PROF. HUGO MUNSTERBERG mys sesthetic Can su osophy? T the hundredth anniversary of There are, it seems, three principles of a Emerson's birthday, Harvard philosophical character without which But t University is to take a Emerson's life work cannot be concelved. are not -noble share in the celebra- To bring them to the shortest expression and tha tion. For years it has been we might say, Nature speaks to us; Free- terday. one of the deepest desires dom speaks in us: the Oversoul speaks the per of the Harvard community to erect in through us. There is no word in Emerson's each o the college yard a building devoted to twelve volumes which is Inconsistent with scientifi philosophy only. Today this building is this threefold conviction, and everything ing; an secured. To be sure, the good will of else in his system either follows immediately than th the community must still do much before from this belief or is a non-essential sup- The po the funds allow the erection of a building piement. But that threefold faith is a has ebb spacious enough to fulfil our hopes; but courageous creed Indeed. The first, we istic on whether the hall shall be small or large, said, refers to Nature; he knew Nature in in Har we know today that It will soon stand its intimacy, he knew Nature In its glory; when 1 under the Harvard elms and that over its "Give me health and a day and I will make priests, door will be Inscribed the name: Ralph the pomp of emperors ridiculous." And this Ices an Waldo Emerson. No worthier memorial Nature, that is the assertion, is not what the chu could have been selected. Orations may natural sciences teach it to be. The Na- for kno be helpful, but the Hvl g was flows away: ture of the physicist, the dead world of fifty ye a statue may be lasting. but It does not atoms controlled by the laws of a dead Helmho awaken new thought We shall have the orations and we shall have a statue, but causality, is not really the Nature we live energy we shall have now, above all. a memorial In: the reality of Nature cannot be ex- one nat pressed by the record of Its phenomena, golden which will last longer than a monument and speak louder than an oration: Em- but merely by the understanding of its working meaning. Natural science leads us away awkwar erson Hall will be a fountain of Inspira- tion forever. The philosophical work of from Nature as it really is. We must try science to understand the thoughts of Nature. urious I Harvard have been too long meattered in SCOTTS of places: there was no unity. phil- 'Nature stretches out her arms to embrace wooden nappy had to real home. But Emer- man; only let his thoughts be of equal time ar son Hall will be not only the workshop greatness, and again Emerson says, "All val, are the facts of natural history taken by them- of the of the professional students of philosophy, selves have no value, but are barren like a that la: will be not only the background for all that manford activity in ethles and pay- single sex: but marry It to human history which I chology. in logle and metaphysics in and it is full of life:" and finally, "The the last these succology. it will a philosopher postpones the apparent order his perio new centre for the whole university, em- of things to the empire of Thought." came to bodying in outer form the And In the midst of Nature, of the living began, osophy to connect the scattered special- Nature, we breathe In freedom; man Is free. specting late knowledge of the Harvard Take that way and Emerson is not. Man land is t could not have office. a more glorious 18 free He does not mean the freedom of since th kift to Emerson's memorial the Declaration of Independence, a docu- more th But the kpirit of such memorial hour ment NO anti-1mersonian In Its conception great to demands. more than all, sincerity Cin of man: and he does not mean the liberty each oth we sincerely may that the choice was after which. as he pays, the s'aves are crow- of deve wise, when we look nt It from the point Ing while most men are slaves. No. we are must go of view of the philosophical Intereste? free as responsible agents of our morality. thus des It was beautiful to devote the building to We are free with that freedom which an- other. w Emerson. Was It wise. yes, was it mor- nuis fate; and If there is fate, then freedom to win. t ally right to devote Emerson's name to 1s its most necessary part, "Forever wells Glorio the philosophy building? Again and again up the Impulse of choosing and act'ng in itivism has such a doubt found expression. Your the soul." "So far as man thinks he is century building. we have heard from some of the free." "Before the revelations of the soul, were at heat. belongs to scientific nature shrink away.' decrees cransmit Last Edition SIXTEEN PAGES 5/25/1903 PRICE THREE CENTS RACE IS ABANDONED Bonneval. nineteen miles from Char- tres, where the machine driven EMERSON CELEBRATION by M. Porter was overturned at Death and Disaster Follow railroad crossing, and took fire. The chauffeur was caught underneath the Concord Pays Homage on Automobiles automobile and burned to-death. while two soldiers and a child were killed. A chauf- Anniversary feur was badly injured by an accident to Six Killed and Ten Seriously his motor car near Angouleme. A woman crossing the road in the neighborhood of Throngs at Morning and Afternoon Injured Ablis was run over by one of the com- Observance peting cars and killed. Mr. Stead and his chauffeur were thrown out, and were at Awful Results of Paris-Madrid first reported to have been killed, but they The School Children Recite His are still alive. Mr. Stead was caught un- Contest der the machine, while his chauffeur was Writings tled to a distance of thirty feet and had his head and body badly cut. Further Details of Yesterday's Shocking It is estimated that one hundred thou- Address by Professor LeB. R. Briggs of Tragedies sand persons crowded into the little town Harvard to witness the start of the race. A bomb was exploded at 3.35 A. M. as a signal to French and Spanish Authorities Stop the get ready, and Immediately Charles Jar- Tributes by Col. Higginson and Senator rott's car drew into place. Another bomb Affair was fired at 3.45 for the start. and then the Hear enormous machine shot forward amid the Government Action Backed by Public shouts of the thousands of spectators. The Samuel Hoar, Professors Norton and James Opinion ) other cars followed in quick succession. Mme. DeGast, the sole female competitor Speak In last year's Paris-Berlin race, was again Stringent Legislation May Follow in the only woman to participate in the pres- Gathering in First Parish Meeting France ent contest. Her machine was decked with House flowers. and her departure was the signal for a great ovation. She made a splendid Paris, May 25-The latest in regard to the run, passing five of her competitors before Special to the Transcript accidents during the Paris-Madrid automo- reaching Chartres. The crowd around Mr. bile race is that half a dozen persons were Vanderbilt's machine prevented him from Concord, May 25-Emerson's centennial killed and that ten persons were seriously reaching the starting line In time, and he birthday anniversary was celebrated in his injured, including Marcel Renault, Lorraine was further delayed by a controversy with old home town of Concord today with exer- Barrow and Stead. Louis Renault with- the judges, finally starting two minutes clses which began with an interesting gath. drew all his racers. Henry Farman late. The last departure was at 6.45 yes- ering of school children In the forenoon. smashed his car, but escaped uninjured. terday morning. and will end this evening with a banquet. The trail of death and disaster following The reports along the route soon showed The celebration was planned by the Social the start Sunday morning from Verealiles that Louis Renault was making a great Circle, the local society of which the great has caused a profound sensation. Reports race, and before Chartres he had overtak- philosopher was a member for forty-two from along the route of the first stage, to en and passed Charles Jarrott. M. Rene years. and n committe consisting of Samuel Bordeaux, continue to give details of the de Knyff, and gained a lead which he never Hoar, Rev. 1. B. Macdonald, Edward J. various accidents, and these are causing lost. Dispatches from Vendome, Tours and Bartlett, William I. Eaton and Thomas far greater attention than the race, which Poletiers told of his passing through ahead, Hollis had the day in charge. Mr. Katon, a has practically been abandoned, owing to and Bordeaux sent the announcement of member of the Social Circle, Is superinten- the Interdiction of the Government. his arrival first, nt 12.14. He had beaten dent of schools in Concord, and he con- A despatch from Pottlers this morning Henri Fournier's record of 8 hours 44 min- ducted the observance by the schools. This said Marcel Renault's condition was grave, utes. Charles Jarrott finished second at meeting took place at 10.30 A. M. In the but not desperate. Among the accidents not 12.30, having covered the course In 8 hours town'hall, where in seats forming two great reported yesterday was that of George 44 minutes. M. Gabriel arrived third at banks on the platform and also occupying Richard, whose machine was overturned. 12.38, his time being 8 hours 7 minutes. most of the floor space. were pupils of the Richard had several ribs broken. The other contestants who made fast time three private schools of Concord-the Mid- At Bordeaux the news of the suppression were J. Saldron, 8 hours 40 minutes: Baron diesex. the Concord Home School and Miss White's-and the High. Emerson and West of the race caused disappointment among De Crawher, 8 hours 53 minutes: J. B. the racers. Public opinion, outside the Warden, 8 hours 50 minutes, and M. Volgt. Concord public schools. Teachers and automobilists. strongly approves of the step 8 hours 55 minutes. friends occupied the remaining floor seats taken by the Government. The result of the first stage of the race and places in the balcony Rev. G. A. Tewksbury of the Trinitarian A despatch from Poltiers during the day appears to be a draw between the merits of the light and heavy vehicles. Louis Congregational Church, Rev. 1. B. Mac- announced that "M. Werner," which was donald of the Unitarian Church. Rev. the name C. Gray Dinsmore (the only Amer- Renault drove a light machine, weighing 650 pounds and of 30 horse-power. while Henry K. Hannah of the Trinity Episcopal Ican left In the race) had entered under, Church, Rev. Walter W. Campbell of the broke down and withdrew at a small place Gabriel drove A heavy machine of 70 horse- Union Church, Concord Junction: Rev. E outside of that town. power, weighing 1000 pounds. The time and The Automobile Club. during the after- position of the winners of the first stage. J. Morlarty and Rev. M. J. Scanlon of St. noon, was Informed that Marcel Renault deducting the time allowance for slowing Bernard's Church, and Rev. William J. down inside the cities, are as follows: Batt. chaplain or the Cancord Reformatory, was slightly better, and that there was some hope of saving his life. M. Renault's Gabriel 5 hrs. 13 min., Louis Renault occupied seats on the platform with school wife was prostrated by receiving a false hrs. 82 min., Salderon 5 hrs. 46 min., Jar- committeement of Concord and surrounding despatch announcing his death. His aged rott 3 hrs. 51 min., Warden 5 hrs. 56 min., towns and members of the Social Circle. Baron De Crawher 6 hrs. 1 min., Voigt Miss Ellen Emerson, Mrs. Edith Forben mother has gone to his bedside. 6 hrs. 2 min., Barras 6 hrs. 12 min., Bou- and Dr. Edward W. Emerson represented Advices from Chartres give details of the accident to Mr. Porter and Nixon, his gler 6 hrs. 16 min., and Mouter 6 hrs. 17 the Emerson family. The only decorations companion (both of Belfast, Ireland). The min. Only 111 arrivals at Bordeaux are for the hall were the great American flags automobile struck the guards' nut at a reported. which draped the front of the platform. and sprays and bouquets of wild flowers. railroad crossing near Chartres, Mr. Por- ter shot forward and his car was over- BARROW STILL ALIVE The programme opened with singing of turned. Nixon was t brown underneath Pulgrim Fathers" by all the schools, under the car. which caught are and exploded. Physicians Hope to Save Life of One the leadership of F. W. Archibald. Then of the Contentants Mr. Eaton made n brief Introductory ad- The guard tried to rescue Nixon, but found his body burned to a cinder. Porter 1e- Borderer May 25-A despatch dress. Mr Faton maid that the people who knew Emerson as a friend and townsman noon, WAR Informed that Marcel Renault down inside the cities, are as follows: Batt, chaplain of the Concord Reformatory, was slightly better, and that there was Gabriel 5 Kre. 18 min., Louis Renault 5 occupied sents on the platform with school some hope of saving his life. M. Renault's committeemen of Concord and surrounding wife was prostrated by receiving a false 82 min., Salderon 5 hrs. 40 min., Jar- towns and members of the Social Circle. despatch announcing his death. His aged rott 5 hrs. 51 min., Warden 5 hrs. 56 min., Miam Ellen Emerson, Mrs. Edith Forbea mother has gone to his bedside. Baron De Crawher 6 hrs. 1 min., Voigt and Dr. Edward W. Emerson represented Advices from Chartres give details of 6 hrs. 2 min., Barras 6 hrs. 12 min., Bou- the Emerson family. The only decorations the accident to Mr. Porter and Nixon, his gier 6 hrs. 16 min., and Mouter 6 hrs. 17 for the hall were the great American flags companion (both of Belfast, Ireland). The min. Only 111 arrivals at Bordeaux are which draped the front of the platform. automobile struck the guards' hut at a reported. and sprays and bouquets of wild flowers. rallroad crossing near Chartres, Mr. Por- BARROW STILL ALIVE The programme opened with singing of ter shot forward and his car was over- Pilgrim Fathers" by all the schools, under turned. Nixon was t brown underneath Physicians Hope to Save Life of One the leadership of F. W. Archibald. Then the car. which caught are and exploded. of the Contentants Mr. Eaton made n brief Introductory Ad- The guard tried to rescue Nixon, but found dress. Mr Faton said that the people who S his body burned to a cinder. Porter 1e- Bordeaux, France, May 25-A despatch knew Emerson as a friend and townsman mained unconscious for two hours, when received here from Libourne (twenty miles thought the school pupils should have a he recovered sufficiently to return to from Bordeaux), says that at two o'clock meeting In special commemoration for the of Paris. A post-mortem examination of the Lorraine Barrow. the automobilist who was Concord philosopher, and remarked that the remains showed that Nixon was killed be- severely injured in the Paris-Madrid race, town hall In which It was held had often fore he was burned. is no worse and that the doctors hope to resounded with Emerson's voice. The pro- Senator Prevost has announced his in- save his life. moters of the gathering hoped, he said. that tention to Interpellate the Government on the feeling of respect and regard for Emer- the necessity for a stringent regulation PORTER NOT AN AMERICAN son felt by the elders would descends the of automobile racing. He intends also to young people, and they wished to impress introduce n stringent law fixing n maxi- One of Injured Contentants a Native on the younger generation that. the duty mum speed and forbidding racers to elr- of Belfant-Is Still Alive, but Com- of cherishing the memories and ideals of culate in the streets or on public roads. panion Was Killed Emerson as a resident of Concord would London, May 25-A private telegram from DEATH IN THEIR TRAIN fall to them. "What is It that makes a man Belfast says that Porter, who was at first great?" he asked, In adding eulogiatic re- Six Fatalities in Paris-Madrid Auto- reported to have been burned to death at marks, and he answered his question by mobile Content Bonneval during the Paris-Madrid race and saying. "It is he who more clearly than all Paris, May 25-Six persons were killed who was thought to be an American, is n others expresses the Ideals and aspirations and six others probably fatally injured yes- native of Belfast. He is still alive, although of the time." Mr. Eaton urged the young terday in the automobile race from Ver- badly burned. Hls companion, Nixon, also people to think of Emerson as a great man, sailles to Bordeaux, the first stage in the of Belfast, was killed. He WAS A well- to acquaint themselves with his writings. Paris-Madrid speed contest. The two first known North of Ireland cyclist who had to follow him to the woods and fields. and to finish In the race averaged sixty-two recently taken to motoring. to remember that he was one who as a man miles an hour on the road outside the cities. rose above his work. and one of these machines. driven by Louis SPANISH GOVERNMENT ACTS Mr. Eaton spoke of a town tradition that Renault. attained at Beourdimere, between Emerson, when he first came to Concord, Chartres and Boneval, a maximum speed of Prohibits Continuance of Race In more than once could be seen standing in 88% miles an hour. Because of the many Spain the town grocery, where a druggist now fatalities the premier has forbidden the Madrid. May 25-The Spanish Govern- has his shop, reciting poetry; and recalled continuation of the contest on French terri- ment has prohibited the continuance of the Emerson's work on the school committee, tory, and it is reported that the Spanish Paris-Madrid auto race in Spain. The saying that he took a great Interest in Government has issued a similar order. It automobilists may cross the frontler, but visiting the schools, and llked particularly is. therefore, extremely doubtful If the they are to be considered simple excur- to hear the boys and girls recite. Mr. race will be finished. Louis Renault was stonists. and must travel at reduced speed. Eaton closed by presenting pupils of the the first to reach Bordeaux at noon. having The news of the accidents to the contes- high school to recite selections from Emer- covered the 343 miles of the first stage In tants made a deep impression here The son's own peems. Those included: "Hama. the record time of 8h 27m. An hour later Royal Automobile Club is exhibiting but- traya." by Hermon Temple Wheeler; M. Gabriel arrived with a still better rec- letins on a large transparency, which the "Fable," by Agnes Louise Garvy; "Jlum- ord of 8h 7m. These speed records, how- public is anxious y watching. The comp-11. bie-Bee." by James Joseph Loughlin: Mo. ever, were clouded by a series of fatal ac- tors in the tourist section of the race who nadnock," by Kenneth Thompson Blood: cidents. At least four cars were wrecked "Burns," by Edward Bailey Calger; "The are arriving here are received with great and Marcel Renault. the winner of the Titmouse," by Mildred Browne; "Let Me sympathy. Paris-Vienna race last year: Lorraine Go," by Lucy Tolman Hormer; "Forbear- The action of the French Government in Barrows. a well-known automobilist, and ance," by Warren Kendall Blodgett: "Wead stopping the speed contest is generally ap- Renault's chauffeur, were probably fatally Notes.' by Roland Worthley Butters; proved. The Imparcial blames the Span- injured, while Barrows' chauffeur was "Wood Notes," by Richard Francis Pow. ish Government for not takin steps to ob- killed. erm: "Rhodora," by Margaret Louise Eaton. tain official bulleting of the accidents, and The most terrible accident occurred near The song which followed was the ode describes the men killed as martyrs In which was first sung at the completion of the cause of commercial enterprise the Battle monument at Concord, April 19, 1836. BIGELOW. ACCIDENTS WERE PREDICTED Then came the principal address of the Racers Started at Intervals of Only morning, by Professor Le Baron Russell One Minute Briggs, for some years dean of Harvard College, in introducing whom Mr. Eaton KENNARD Predictions of accidents in the Paris- spoke of hearing Emerson speak in the Madrid race have been made ever since the Town Hall at a meeting of teachers thirty- large number of entries-314-was an- six years ago and said he well remembered nounced. On account of these numerous Emerson's marvelloux elocution and the &CO. entries it was necessary to start the racers carrying power of his voice, and the part at intervals of only one minute, and conse- of his address In which the philosopher quently all but the first starters were com- spoke of his love for boys. Mr. Eaton said pelled to start in and ride through a cloud the committee naturally turned to one who O fdust. This fact. together with the high was well known and well loved as having rate of speed of the enormously powerful Importers machines of sixty to one hundred horse. a knowledge of boys and young men. Dean Briggs said that now and then we power or more, caused even French racing meet a man who affects us like the first of authorities to fear trouble. The total length of the course of the view of the ocean. Nothing on earth affects race from Parts to Madrid is 712 miles, dl- us Mke the soul of a great man, and when FINE this soul was good It shone out in his face. vided into three stages. as follows: First, Such a great man was Emerson, a lover of Paris to Bordeaux, 243 miles: second. Bor- deaux to Vittoria. 208 miles: third. Vittoria beauty and truth. He was a poet who loved FRENCH to Madrid, 201 miles. It was expected that what he saw and told what he saw as CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO CLOCKS al 5IIWASHINGTON-ST BOSTON ACENTS * Charles P. Bowditch. (1842-1921) eyes Page 1-F2 Henry P. Bourditor(1840-1911) EXPENSES OF TRIP TO VIRGINIA, May 11-27. Paid by C.P.B. G.B.D. H.P.B. & C.P.B. Washington: dinner and fees, 2.40 1.20 1.20 to station, 1.- .25 .75 to Arlington, 3.-- 1.50 1.50 Drawing-room car to Charlottesville, 1.50 .50 .50 .50 Tillman, 16th, dinner, 2:-- .66 .67 .67 ? 17th, 2.-- .67 .66 .67 Oranges, .50 Rope, .22 Fees through 17th, 1.60 2.32 .77 .77 .78 Greenville, 8.50 Fairfield, 2.50 Fees, .50 11.50 3.84 3.83 3.83 Lexington; hotel, 10.-- horses and driver, 6.75 oranges and fees, .55 17.30 5.76 5.77 5.77 Natural Bridge: hotel, 27.25 shoeing, 1.30 fees, 1.10 29.65 9.89 9.88 9.88 Daggers Springs; 9. Clifton Forge, 4.50 Fees, .45 13.95 4.65 4.65 4.65 Healing Springs, 10. " " fees, .50 10.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 Hot Springs, H.& C. 8. : 4.-- 4. horses and boys & 14. 4.66 4.67 4.67 Bath Alum, H.& C. 2. 1.-- 1. horses, etc. 3. 1. 1. 1. Millboro Springs, 4.-- 2. 2. horses, etc. 4.-- 1.34 1.33 1.33 Sawtelle Archives. A.N.P. B.1.t. 33. Page 2.02 Wilsons, H. & C. 1.-- horses, etc. .50 .50 2.25 .75 Presents to boys, .75 .75 6.-- Fairfield, H.26 C., 2.-- 2.-- 2.-- 2.75 horses, etc. 1.37 1.38 4.-- 1.33 Stanton; hotel, 1.33 1.34 fees,etc.,...7 4.70 2.35 2.35 152.82 Paid by H.P.B. 42.77 54.03 56.02 Charlottesville: hotel, (13.50 Afton, 4.50 4.50 27.75 9.50 4.50 Fare to Stanton, 3.17 3.16 1.50 3.17 Stanton drive, .75 3.25 .75 1.65 180.57 1.62 Pd. " to C.P.B. by G.B.D.cash, 50.44 64.07 66.06 20. " " H.P.B.as above, 11 C.P.B. 27.75 as above, 152.82 less fr.G.B.D. . 20. 132.82 Due C. P. B. 1/3 C.H. moors Gree 30.44 + 36.32 = 127.50 66.76 1/3 express has have 7.70 135.20 45.06 45.07 75 50 81.39 Acct for Virginia Trep Pd by club CPB 6/3/1903 Mileage between cities MORI CHARLOTTESVILLE 252 261 126 138 80 167 59 63 95 168 74 114 180 122 126 125 182 Total mileage through Virginia MAP SYM EMPORIA 341 138 180 113 119 235 195 127 156 74 64 178 88 170 106 198 271 298 miles 69 miles NORFOLK 418 168 105 186 74 145 261 225 194 182 93 280 17 196 46 224 348 325 miles 179 miles RICHMOND 324 74 186 149 64 55 171 131 118 92 93 186 105 106 51 134 254 Distance scale ROANOKE 146 114 373 82 178 194 217 109 54 209 280 186 292 236 238 175 76 One inch represents approximate WASHINGTON DC 374 122 161 250 170 54 75 129 185 37 196 106 236 208 154 77 304 0 5 10 15 WINCHESTER 313 125 242 220 198 82 42 68 157 53 224 134 175 236 77 182 243 PG 138 MORE MILEAGES WYTHEVILLE 69 182 441 120 271 262 285 177 132 277 348 254 76 360 304 306 243 0 5 10 15 20 25 49 Brenton Meyersdale Hyndman 78 ma 655 80 97 928 10 220 523 160 484 168 23 194 Davis 3213 119 219 460 Phelps 52 56 82 PENNSYLVANIA 546 ElHancock 40 194 50 Pikeville 632 MARYLAND 29 807 36 4Z 979 44 Roderfield 16 40 144 La Vale 40 68 72 Welch 14 19 Hurley Frostburg Cumberland 219 645 52 495 33 PG.112 CHESAPEAKE Berkeley 122 (460) 80 103 Gary 39 Big Dresaptown 51 & OHIO CANAL Springs Rock Roseann W. 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CAROLINA town Crest NAT'L Bergton Flint Hill 19 394 34 16 PG. 74 Mount Cliffon 273 23 194 93 Mt. Jackson Mountain N.C. 32 Washington 57w Forestville (67) 269 675 City 259 Quicksburg 3 Fulks Amissy 33 GEORGE Run 264 Hamburg Sperryville WASHINGTON Timberville NATIONAL 28 FOREST Cootes Store- New Market Surios Woodville Lake 15 20 Broadway Alma my Diana (220) 613 522 (92)(250) Tenth 231 Singers Glen Lacey: Stanle 15 721 Spring Legion Boston Mount Edom 257 Etlan (340) Norman 28 Blue Grass 642 Rawley Springs Clinton 42 92 SHENAK 82 C Harrisonburg Shenandoak N EY NATIONAL Culpepe MONONGAHELA 640 924 Hintone PARK Haywpod 609 Knob Clover NATL FOR. Doe Hill Hill 251 Brightwood Leon Hightown 247 Elkton News Briery 257 Monterez Keezle 66 Branch Dayton Madison 4378 245 town 33 Toddland Bridgewater, 243 Regn 654 LA Mipittown Locust "Vanderpoot and 240 McGaheysville Pratts Mount Dale McDowell Mount Solon Crawford Aroda 534 84 276 659 15 Mustoe Head Moscow 11 231 219 55 646 Weyers Radiant 84 Waters 607 Port Republic Cave Rochelle. 28 250 Sidney 256 678 West 42 Grottoes Dyke Montpelier Orang 150 (220) 235 Marlinton P Augusta Fort Défiance Station Churchville Harristog Norta Richwood 39 New Williamsville (20) Somerse 39 Deerfield Verona 55 23 Buffalo Gap. 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A 159 Massies Ronceverte Glen Longdale Collierstown Roseland Oronoco Lovingston Columb Mill' Alleghany 616 Alderson Wilton Lowesville, Shipman 722 Howardsville 612 Crows 188 Buena Colleen 690 220 251 Vista Piney River 626 Centena 311 43 Arrington / NewCanton 18 Jordan Gala Sugarloat Mtn. 501 602 180 655 (219) A 3626 ft 778 151 655 Mines 615 175 Forks of Glenmore takeside 615 Eagle Rock Norwood Glasgov Buffalo, 647 670 Village Clifford James Wingina Oriskany Saltpetre Union The 60 New Glasgow Paint Pines 168 617 Bridge 635 Bank 107 Amhers! 626 56 10 Barbours Creek 43 Pediar Mills Buckingham 606 Spring Gladstone Rin Island Bent Creek 20 Dayton Dueson Horatio's Druv. America's Furil Road Trep N.Y. Alfud A. Knopt, 2002. Now, in 1903, in the altered In 1903, a cable was laid across 131 conditions, we must meet the the Pacific Ocean, the last link in a changed and changing problems web of wires that allowed Roosevelt with the spirit shown by the men LINCOLN to telegraph the first message sent who, in 1803, and in the subse- L around the world. The complete quent years gained, explored, con- HICH WAY circuit took twelve minutes. quered, and settled this vast In 1903, the Trans-Siberian rail- territory, then a desert, now filled THIS road was completed; and, with with thriving and populous States. ROAD TO the active encouragement of the -Theodore Roosevelt, speech GRANTSVILLE. United States, Panama declared at the dedication of the ELY, NEVADA GRANTSVILLE its independence from Colombia in Louisiana Purchase Exposi- SAN FRANCISCO. COMMERCIAL QLUB order to pave the way for a canal tion, St. Louis, Missouri to be built between the two great oceans. In 1903, as the nation began cele- In 1903, George A. Wyman brating one hundred years of growth made the first transcontinental and expansion since the Louisiana On the Lincoln Highway motorcycle trip, bumping along Purchase and Lewis and Clark's epic much of the route from San Fran- voyage across the continent, Americans sensed that their cisco to New York City by riding on the railroad bed. world had suddenly got much smaller. In 1903, two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio, In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt sent a New named Orville and Wilbur Wright, made the world's first Year's greeting to England's King Edward VII using Mar- airplane flight-soaring in their gasoline-powered machine coni's new wireless radio that could transmit signals across over the beaches at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. And far- the Atlantic. ther down the coast that same year, Alexander Winton Make way for a new century. JACOB H. SCHIFF His hite + Letters HIS LIFE AND LETTERS law, and their families-all the connections-assembled Cyrus Adler. to the young couple, and Mr. and Mrs. Schiff removed at his home. At a specific time before the dinner hour he read the Sabbath evening service, and thereafter the 2 vols. to 965 Fifth Avenue (in December, 1901). In 1891 he purchased a summer residence on the Rum- company, which grew in numbers as the grandchildren son Road, near Sea Bright, N. J., set in a park of about became older, dined together. The evening meal closed fifty acres. In 1898 the house was rebuilt and enlarged. with his grace, which however was not confined to the Sabbath. Doubleday Later he purchased a large piece of property on the The strength of his family feeling is expressed in Doran,6. other side of Rumson Road, a former golf club, which carried his estate down to the Shrewsbury River. He a letter dated November 10, 1890, in which, after ex- 1929 had an extensive farm, which was a great delight to him, plaining that he gave a large share of his time to the and he enjoyed showing the stock, the gardens, the community, he added: walks, the splendid alley of trees which he planted, to But there is a duty which I owe to my wife and children, Vd. 2 his guests. His hospitality was delightful; every indi- which I think is even above that to the community. I have vidual's tastes and peculiarities were studied and pro- made it a rule to spend Friday evening exclusively with my vided for. Early every morning he was in his gardens, family, and I can under no circumstances vary from this. and himself brought to each lady of the household a The next year he wrote to a friend: rose or some other flower of the season. I am giving about as little time to my family as I ought He zealously. guarded the neighborhood from in- to, and I frequently have to reproach myself that in trying trusion, and was an active member of the Rumson Road to be just to others, I am unjust to those who are nearest Association, which did a great deal toward making this to me. road one of the most beautiful in the country. For many No day passed without the welfare of every member years, he used to make the journey up and down between of the family being inquired into. New York and his country place, on the Sandy Hook boat, in which he had a cabin, and there he would meet With this strong feeling about the family there went with friends or sometimes make business appointments. a deep interest in the family habitations. They resided After 1903, he was accustomed to spend the month at 35 West Fifty-Seventh Street until 1884, when a new of August and early September at Bar Harbor, which house was built at 932 Fifth Avenue. Every detail of aside from his European trips represented his vacation construction and furnishing was gone into with absolute -for when at Rumson he went to the city five days a thoroughness-the heating apparatus, the chimneys, the week. He derived especial pleasure from the fact that carpets, the clocks were all the subject of minute direc- President Eliot's summer home was not far away, and tions. When his son married, this house was given over the two families often exchanged visits. His admiration 322 for the Maine Coast is expressed in the following letter: 323 EEGONOS Date: 1907 Location: Eden St. # Bar Harbor ( 6 estates north of the Ferry Terminal) Architect: Guy Lowell (also designed the Bldg. of the Arts in Bar Harbor) Style: Mediterranean Owners: Suilt for Mr. Walter G. Ladd. Mr. Ladd sold it to Mr. George Strawbridge, of Philadelphia. Given by Mr. Strawbridge to Dr. Richard Gott, Director of L'Ecole Arcadie. Bought by Richard A. Graham, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hallet, and Mr. and Mrs. Roger K. Lewis in 1975. "Bar Harbor Record" October 3. 1906 (page 1) LARGE REAL ESTATE DEAL "The Haight Property on Corniche Drive (now Eden St. ) sold through Cushman's Agency." One of the largest deals in real estate has recently been consumated through the agency of Victor N. Cushman, selling the Haight property on Corniche Drive. The purchaser is supposed to be Walter Ladd. The land consists of 51/2014 acres on the shore, the old house and the stable on the road opposite. It will be improved another season. Sonogee and Eegonos Mrs. Mary Ellen Haight built "Sonogee" on the site of the present "Eegonos." This building was burned soon after and when Mr. Henry Lane Eno built his house (1903) two estates away he named it "Sonogee." Later when Kr. Walter G. Ladd built "Eegonos" he wanted to name it "Sonogee," as that was the name of the house previously on his land. Since that name had already been taken by Mr. End he had to sattle for the backwards version of the name. No one seems to know why this name was so popular or even what it means, although, at one tine a Hindu couple vielted "Sonages" and reported that is Eindu "Seasgee" means "custo". 2. EBGOMOS Situated on the shore of Frenchman's Bay, this well-maintsinet Mediterrenean villa remains one of the relatively few turn-of-the- century summer cottages to escape the Bar Harbor Fire of 1947. The entrance facade is decorated with lovely plaster ornamen- tation which blends in beautifully with the sand-colored walls and red tile roof. The facade is simpley elegant and has remained in good condition over these 70 years. The cottage is H-shaped in plan with tiny balconies reached by French windows on the second floor wings. The entrance hall runs front to back with a clear vista to the ocean through a set of French windows which open onto a patio on the ocean side. Small sitting rooms flank the east end of the hall; the one on the north leading to the diningroom and the kitchen wing. and the one on the south leading to the living- room. On the entrance side of the livingroom is a large billiard room. Both the billard room and the livingroom open onto an immense porch, the roof of which is supported by massive Ionic columns. A grand staircase rises along the front wall to the second floor which contains 9 masters' bedrooms (most of which have fireplaces) and 7 masters' bathrooms. The third floor contains 9 servants' bedrooms and 4 servants' . bathrooms. There is no attic to speak of. NORTHEAST HARBOR DOINGS. Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1857-Current file); Jul 26, 1903; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. 20 Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Peloton, and George B. Spencer. W. W. Spence of Baltimore is at the Sea- ward cottage for the season. He has as NORTHEAST HARBOR DOINGS. guests Mrs. John Gill and Miss Agnes Gill. A't the Glencove Hotel, Seal Harbor, late arrivals are Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Stevenson, Special to The New York Times. Miss W. D. Stevenson. A. E. Stevenson of NORTHEAST HARBOR, Me., July 25.- New York, and S. C. Tobey of Providence, Dr. and Mrs. E. G. Janeway of New York R. I. have arrived for the season and are at the R. F. Gilchrist has arrived for the season and is staying at Sutton's Island. Kimball cottage, next to the hotel. Their Mrs. Charles H. Ludington, Miss Ruggles, daughter, Miss Frances, and Miss Du Blois Townsend Ludington, and Wright Luding- are with them. ton of Bryn Mawr, Penn.. are stopping at the Smith cottage, Seal Harbor. Col. and Mrs. E. B. Robbins and Edward Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Church of Boston, Blake Robbins, Jr., of Boston have arrived Mass., are recent arrivals at the Seaside for the Summer. Inn. Seal Harbor. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jackson Jeffries Mr. and Mrs. George S. Frazier of Phila- and Miss Florence Jeffries will also spend delphia have come for the season and are a part of the season here. occupying Colonial cottage. Mrs. T. H. Talmage of New York is at the Roberts cottage for the Summer. Miss Margaret Gardiner, granddaughter of Bishop Doane, was operated upon last week for appendicitis. The operation was performed by Dr. McCosh of New York, assisted by Dr. Stuart Hart. Miss Gardiner is at present doing well. / One of the most prominent Summer resi- dents here is President Daniel C. Gilman of Carnegie Institute, formerly President of Johns Hopkins University, who is an an- nual visitor. The venerable Bishop Doane is another yearly visitor. Northeast Har- bor has been noted as the home of college Presidents, and among the most famous are ex-President Low of Columbia Uni- versity, now Mayor of Greater New York, and President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University. A good-sized Baltimore colony is settled here, including Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Spence, who are at Gray cottage; Mrs. John Gill, and Miss Agnes Gill, who are at Seaward cottage; Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Schenck and family, who are at the Schenck cottage; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Randolph, at the Randolph cottage. Asticou, Northeast Harbor's suburb, so to speak, about a mile from the village, is in a prosperous condition, Among the cot- tagers here are Mr. and Mrs. Carroll S. Tyson and family of Philadelphia, Francis G. Peabody and family, Mr. and Mrs. James H. Piper of Baltimore, Miss Clara Williamson. Mrs. and Miss Lagurenne of Philadelphia, Robert Reutter and family of New York, Joseph H. Curtis and family of Boston, and Dr. Caspar Morris and family. The resorts around Mount Desert Island are getting in swing for a successful sea- son this year. The hotels are filling up well, the cottages are opening up well, and in every respect the Summer promises to be a very good one, Of course, as yet, en- tertaining has been carried on only in a desultory fashion, but with the coming of new cottagers and the advent of August the season will be as brisk as ever Some recent arrivals from New York are Mrs. F. H. Ballard, Miss Ballard, Mrs. F. H. Ballard. Jr., Mrs. George B. Phelps, Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. NORTHEAST HARBOR GOSSIP. Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1857-Current file); Aug 2. 1903; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg.22 NORTHEAST HARBOR GOSSIP. Special to The New York Times. NORTHEAST HARBOR, Aug. 1.-Just now athletic sports are much in evidence at this resort, and though the severe weather has been unfavorable links and courts have been occupied every possible moment. The Golf Club has sprung into great favor and the weekly tournaments began last Satur- day with an eighteen-hole match against bogie. Two fine clay tennis courts have been constructed near the Kimball House. Among the arrivals of the week at the Clifton House are Mrs. Joseph H. Rieman, Miss Charlotte Rieman, the Misses Thorn, Mrs. P. Lea Thorn, Henry C. Thacher of Baltimore, Mrs. Arthur Brooks. Miss Lane, Mrs. Joseph B. Warner, and Roger S. War- ner of Cambridge, Miss Huntington of Sa- lem, G. S. Benson. Jr., of Philadelphia, Charles D. McIver and Miss Clapp of New York, Mrs. Edwin Ashley Walker of New Haven, Daniel L. Kirby of St. Louis, Miss R. E. Forsyth of Lawrence, L. I.; Mrs. H. S. White of Syracuse, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Blake. Miss Blake. Miss Palfrey, Mrs. J. C. Hubbard, and Mrs. Richardson of Boston. The inhabitants of Northeast Harbor will not welcome the arrival of the fleet. if their coming is to be attended with so disastrous results as followed the visit of the torpedo destroyer Decatur early in the week. The waves left after her swift passage through the harbor caused havoc among the ship- ping and wharves, and at one slip consid- erable damage was done. President and Mrs. Charles W. Eliot of Cambridge are occupying their attractive cottage for the Summer. They stayed in town later this year than is their custom because of hospitable duties connected with the National Educational Association. Arrivals of the week at Rock End include Miss Slade. Mrs. George S. Fraser, Mrs. E. Le B. Gardiner. Langdon P. Marvin, Miss J. C. Delafield, Miss E. Delafield. Miss Effie V. R. Waddington. and Miss Eleanor Crosby of New York: Miss A. M. Converse, Arthur T. Hatch, Charles C. Payson, and Mr. and Mrs. Horace Basset of Boston, and R. W. Hawes of New York. Among the week's arrivals at the Kimball are Miss M. R. Prime, Dr. and Mrs. E. G. Janeway, Miss Mildred Dubois, Miss Aman- da Stock, Miss Frances W. Janeway, S. B. Lawrence. Mrs. F. W. Ballard. George B. Phelps, Miss Ballard, Master Phelps. the Misses Ballard, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Pelton, G. F. Spencer. F. H. Ballard. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Pyle. Miss Pyle, W. S. Pyle, Jr., Mrs. E. J. Hancy, Miss Jean Hancy, Mrs. E. J. Chapman, and Miss Hone of New York: Winthrop Sargent of Boston. Mrs. G. A. Pickett of Connecticut, M. C. Shoemaker of Cincinnati. and J. H. Van Buren of San Juan. Porto Rico. The swimming pool for several seasons past has been one of the principal places of recreation during the Summer. It is owned and operated by the Village Improvement Society. having been built five years ago. One of the latest improvements is the addi- tion of a large pump to supply the water during the low run of tides. A large court was added to the grounds at the end of last season. and it is being used for handball and similar games. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission 904 Visual Information Access Record Display Page 1 of 2 - Visual Information Access (3 of 3) 00 results Entire record selected Selected Work Title: Emerson Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States Work Type: university buildings Creator: Lowell, Guy (1870-1927), United States, architect Production: Cambridge, MA, United States Date: 1904 Notes: General: classrooms Classification: Loeb Library, Harvard Design School; KX419 Selected Surrogate Image: Title: view with surrounding buildings Work Type: Slide Topics: trees lawns towers Classification: KX419 b Repository: Loeb Library, Harvard Design School 119300 Selected Surrogate Title: ext., facade Work Type: Slide Topics: exterior views facades columns (architectural elements) pediments Classification: KX419 c3 Repository: Loeb Library, Harvard Design School 45347 olvsite18781 http://via.harvard.edu:748/WebZ/FETCH?sessionid=01-38874-106338594...0 entitycurrecno= 1/22/2004 Page 1 of 1 2 http://ids.harvard.edu:8080/ids/servlet/imgdelv?id=642795 1/22/2004 OFFICERS FOR 1904-1905. President: WALDRON BATES. Vice-Presidents: L..B. DEASY, JOHN S. KENNEDY, RIGHT REV. WM. LAWRENCE. Secretary: A. H. LYNAM. Treasurer: F. C. LYNAM. STANDING COMMITTEES. Finance Committee: F. C. Lynam, Chairman. Morris K. Jesup, J. S. Kennedy. Sanitary Committee: Dr. J. Madison Taylor, Chairman. Win. Fennelly, Dr. E. J. Morrison, Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Mrs. Clara Norris, J. S. Kennedy. 2 4 THE BAR HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 5 1904-05 STANDING COMMITTEES-Continued. Fifteenth Annual Report Roads and Paths Committee: OF THE Waldron Bates, Chairman. Mrs. Robert Amory, John J. Emery. Bar Harbor Village Improve- George B. Dorr, Charles Fry, Herbert Jaques, Miss Beatrix Jones. ment Association. Committee on Trees and Planting: George B. Dorr, Chairman. The fifteenth annual meeting of the Associa- Mrs. John Harrison, Mrs. John S. Kennedy, tion was duly called and held at the Young Men's Mrs. L. E. Opdycke, Mrs. W. B. Rice. Christian Association on September I3, 1904. L. E. Opdycke. The reports presented at this and previous meet- Village Committee: ings are printed in this report in full. Mrs. E. B. Mears. MEMBERSHIP. Glen Mary Park Committee: All visitors to Bar Harbor, as well as resi- Dr. Robert Amory. dents, are cordially invited to join the Associa- George B. Darr. tion. No formality is necessary to become a Charles Fry, member. The handing in of a name accom- panied by one dollar, to the Treasurer of the A ociation, Mr. F. C. Lynam, at his office, th: Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co., con- N: utes membership. Life membership, $25. RECEIVED FEP 1 : 1904 LACKNOWLING D ANSWERED 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. February 10th, 1904. President Eliot, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Dear President Eliot, I think decidedly that it would be expodient to find out whether the Forbes family will not increase their subscription to Emerson Hall before any change of plan is made to lessen the cost of the building. And I will see either Cameron or Edward Forbes Emerson Forbers about it within the next few days and let you know what the result is. Hall It is a step which certainly should be taken at this stage though I am doubtful of success. If the money cannot be obtained from them I will call a meeting of our board to discuss what other means we can take to raise the necessary sum. It seems a pity not to make the building all that we would like to have it, now that so much has been secured. I agree with you in thinking that we ought not to wait long to build the Hall if it can be avoided, though I do not think that any of the subscribers would wish to withdraw their gift if it should finally seem best to do so for a brief term. I feel quite confident, however, that no long postponement will be necessary and trusting that it may prove so, I remain Sincerely yours, Ginge B. Date Harvard University, Cambridge, February 9, 1904. Dear Mr. Dorr:- We have received bids for the construction of Emerson Hall from five different firms. The result is that the hall as planned cannot be built and made ready for use for less than $190,000. Now, the Corporation have in sight by the 1st of January, 1905, about $165,000. It will, of course, be possible to reduce the size of the building by 12% or 15% and then, by omitting some of the decorative features, to bring the cost of the hall within the money which the Corporation now have in hand. Do you think it would be expedient, before resolving on these reductions of the hall itself, to try to get $25,000 more from the Forbes family or from friends of Emerson? I sympathized with the feeling of the Forbes family that they did not wish to contribute so largely to the building as to make it a family memorial; but the public has now contributed largely, and the number of contributors is large, and it seems to me that the Forbes family or other friends might naturally say to themselves: "We prefer to have the hall built as it is de- signed rather than to have it reduced in any manner, and we will therefore contribute the moderate sum which is needed to secure that result". At any rate, if I were in their place, in all respects, I am sure that I should wish to be informed how the matter stood and given the chance to have the memorial building constructed just as it was designed as a mate for Robinson Hall. -2- If you agree with me, you will perhaps feel disposed to make the necessary inquiries as Chairman of the Committee. There is, of course, an alternative - namely, to wait four or five years until the money accumulates to the necessary amount. I must confess that this alternative seems 2. disagreeable one to me; because the subscribers were led to believe that the building could be put up for $150,000, and the subscription amounts to decidedly more than $150,000 already. A long delay was certainly not contemplated by the subscribers, and particularly was not expected by the largest subscriber. You who raised the subscription are better entitled to hold an opinion on this subject than I am. Very truly yours, Chariesh Elin George B. Dorr, Esq. Harvard's Finances. New York Times (1857-Current file) Mar 12, 1904; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg BR171 Harvard's Finances. 3/12/04 I The Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer of Harvard College for 1902- 03 " IS an octavo of 450 pages. issued as New Series No. 116 of the university publi- cations Appended to the report of President Charles W. Ellot are those of the various departments These include all the regular Facultier. such as that of arts and sciences, the college proper, the graduate school, divinity, law, medical, &C., schools; the various laboratories. the observatory. the museums, the library, and Radcliffe Col- lege. The President reports that the death rate at Harvard is remarkably low. In 1902-03 there were only thirteen deaths In a college population of nearly 4,000-about .25 per 1.000. or far less than half of Boston's rate. It is interesting to note the increase in the number of students who get the degree of Rachelor of Arts in three years; the advo- cates of a shorter course can find ammunt- tion in the figures here presented. In the matter of athletics, the President points out that the games which are most inter- esting to the public-football, baseball, and rowing-serve less than one-3ixth of the students The game which has been con- ducted at Cambridge with the least intelli- gence and success is football-except from a pecuniary point of view," he complains. The Treasurer's report shows what a huge corporation such a modern college is. Harvard 19 worth over $15,800,000. and its income available during 1903 was $775,000. But expenses were so heavy that there was a deficit of over $40.000. Gifts during the year reached the sum of nearly $2,000,000, JDR of which $500,000 came from John D. Rocke- feller. beneficiar Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission 3/21/04 HONOR ELIOT'S 70TH BIRTHDAY. Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1857-Current file): Mar 21, 1904: ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. 5 HONOR ELIOT'S 70TH BIRTHDAY. Loving Cup Presented by Harvard Fac- ulty-Event Observed by Students. Special 10 The New York Times. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 20.-Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University since 1868, celebrated his sev- entieth anniversary in happy mood to-day. In the afternoon he was invited to Univers- ity Hail, where he met the Faculty and was presented with a loving cup. In accepting the cup Dr. Eliot said: "I have received many tributes of affec- tion, but none so dear as those from the departments of the faculty. I owe to the university all that I have accomplished, and am myself a product of the university and the influence of the two governing boards. The cup, which is appropriately inscribed, is of Greek design, fifth century B. C., and was modeled after a vase in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Later President Eliot attended a family party at the home of his son, the Rev. Sam- uel A. Eliot, where he spent the evening. The anniversary was recognized by the stu- dent body in various ways. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission Explorer of Mongolia; Captain Robert A. Bartlett, Arctic December 12, 1911 - Col. Theodore Roosevelt speaks at Explorer (4); Hiram Bingham, Discoverer of Macchu Meeting 72 held at the Exchange Club, Boston. Picchu; Barry C. Bishop, Mountaineer (2); Carleton S. January 17, 1913 - President Charles W. Eiot speaks on The Coon, Anthropologist (9); Frederick E. Crockett, First Byrd Social and Political Condition of China. Antarctic Expedition (2); Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard; Anthony Fiala, Arctic Explorer, Edward E. November 28, 1913 - First meeting held at the newly Goodale, First Byrd Antarctic Expedition; Laurence M. opened Harvard Club. Professor Roland B. Dixon, Twelve Gould, First Byrd Antarctic Expedition; Brigadier-General Hundred Miles through the Northern Himalayas. Adolphus W. Greeley, Arctic Explorer, Sven Hedin, Explorer December 13, 1938 - First showing of color motion pictures of Central Asia; Heinrich Harrer, Mountaineer; Sir Harry at a Club meeting. December 13, 1938. Johnston, African Explorer; Owen Lattimore, Asian Explorer (5); Donald B. MacMillan, Arctic Explorer; George Leigh January 16, 1940 - First woman speaker. "She is the only Mallory, Lost on Everest; John P. Marquand, Novelist (2); woman to have addressed the Club in the thirty-eight years Robert Cushman Murphy, Naturalist (2); Otto Nordenskjold, of its existence, and signally deserves that honor." Mrs. Polar Explorer; Noel E. Odell, Mountaineer, Commander Laura Bolton, Africa in Sound and Film. This was also the Robert E. Peary, Arctic Explorer; S. Dillon Ripley, Orni- first showing of sound motion pictures at a Club meeting. thologist and Director of the Smithsonian (3); Kermit February 25, 1947 - 300th Meeting. Held at the Institute of Roosevelt (2); Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.; Jonathan Roosevelt; Geographical Exploration. Quentin Roosevelt; President Theodore Roosevelt; Tweed November 16, 1952 - 50th Anniversary Meeting. Roosevelt; Governor Sumner Sewall of Maine; Eric Shipton, Mountaineer (2); Joseph Linden Smith, Artist of Egypt (2); October 10, 1961 - First meeting to have the meeting Frank S. Smythe, Mountaineer, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, number on the meeting notice. Number 415. Arctic Explorer (4); Major-General Sir Percy Sykes, Ex- March 21, 1972 - 500th Meeting. plorer of Persia; Bertram Thomas, First to Cross Arabia's Empty Quarter, Alan J. Villiers, Author and Sailor, Sir February 20, 1973 - "A loud speaker public address Hubert Wilkins, Arctic and Antarctic Aviator, Frederick R. amplifier was used with considerable success." First such Wulsin, Anthropologist and Explorer (3); and Colonel Sir use. Francis Younghusband, Explorer of India and Central Asia. October 6, 1976 - Only known instance of a speaker not appearing. Eugenie Clark failed to show because of weather A Harvard Travellers Club Meeting Timeline and two members each of the Harvard Travellers Club and November 15, 1902 - First meeting of the Harvard Travel- the Women's Travel Club spoke without slides. Precursor to lers Club at the Harvard Union. Members Night. January 16, 1903 - First recorded instance of food being January 11, 1977 - First African-Americans to speak to Club, S. Allen Counter, Jr. and David L. Evans, Surinam's served. Second meeting of the Club. "A light supper will be served at 9.30." Ex-Slaves: African Settlements in America. January 11, 1977 - Nametags first instituted at meetings. January 29, 1904 - First dinner before a meeting. Harvard Union. Price $2. Attended by 23. November 13, 1984 - 600th Meeting. Kermit and Jonathan Roosevelt, East Africa: A Roosevelt Retrospective. March 25, 1904 - First meeting held in a private home, the house of George B. Dorr, 18 Commonwealth Avenue, January 15, 1991 - 650th Meeting. Robert F. Perkins, Jr. and Boston. Chris Knight, Kamchatka: The Unknown Land. May 18, 1905 - Probably the first Annual meeting as such; November 10, 1992 - 90th Anniversary Meeting. Tweed held at residence of Dr. John L. Bremer, 416 Beacon Street, Roosevelt, Return from the River of Doubt: The 1992 Rio Boston. Roosevelt Expedition. April 27, 1906 - First showing of motion pictures at a Club February 9, 1993 - Club (later Members) Night first held. meeting, at the house of Mr. Edwin H. Abbot, 1 Follen Meeting 667. Street, Cambridge. October 10, 1995 - Club starts using its own slide projector. February 14, 1908 - First Annual Dinner Meeting. Held at November 15, 2002 - 100th Anniversary Meeting. Jonathan the Hotel Brunswick, Boston. Shackleton, Shackleton Returns! The Antarctic, Ireland, the March 18, 1908 - Exhibition Meeting at Horticultural Hall. Shackletons and One Hundred Years of the Harvard First attendance of a Club event by women. Travellers Club. May 7, 1909 - Probably first Ladies' Night. Held at Horti- May 27, 2003 - 750th Meeting. Astronaut Story Musgrave, cultural Hall. 200 present. Earth as Art. Harvard Travellers' Club. The eleventh meeting of the club will be held, by invitation, at the house of Mr. George B. Dorr, 18 Com- monwealth Ave., Boston, Friday evening, March 25, at 8 o'clock. Professor I. N. Hollis will speak on "A Cruise in the Pacific." Members may invite their friends to accompany them to the meeting; please notify Mr. Dorr on the attached card. HENRY B. BIGELOW, Sec. 9/27/2018 Xfinity Connect re George Dorr and Harvard Travellers Club Printout Steven Holmes 9/26/2018 1:13 PM 2 re: George Dorr and Harvard Travellers Club To Ronald Epp Peter Dreher Ron and Peter - Hi! I hope you both are well. Following up on our past conversations, last week I was able to get into the Harvard Archives and look at early papers of the Harvard Travellers Club, looking for early involvement of George Dorr in the Club and possible indications of other early members relevant for our interests. Nothing earth-shattering, but some items of interest: 1 As Ron already indicated, Dorr was definitely involved in the Club from the very earliest stages. In an undated letter signed by Henry Bigelow, the first Secretary of the Club (1902-03), Dorr is included in a list of the initial candidates for fellows of the Club. Curiously, the second report (1904) lists Dorr as a "member" but not as a "fellow," the latter defined as those members who have "travelled somewhat off the beaten track" - it's not clear whether that definition of "fellows" appeared after that initial undated (1902-03) letter, or perhaps Dorr didn't immediately accept the role, or what. In any case, he was listed as a fellow in the 1905 annual report, and after. Additionally, as Ron already knows, Dorr hosted an early regular meeting of the Club at his home on March 25, 1904 - see attached photo of invitation card. 2. Other early members who may (or may not) be of interest to either of you: - Charles E. Fay does show up as member in 1904 annual report, becomes a fellow in 1906, and vice-president in 1908 - so clearly an active and prominent member. Peter - in your earlier email (8/9) giving a list of Christian Kaufmann's clients in 1903 Canada, you include a "Charles E Day" - is it possible that that name was mis-transcribed, and should be Charles E. Fay? If so, he might have been the connection between Kaufman and Dorr - The second secretary of the Club was J. C. Phillips (i.e. John C. Phillips III), a recent Harvard grad whose mother, Anna T. (Tucker) Phillips, was a very early supporter of groups like Mass Audubon and the Trustees of Reservations (of which Dorr too was a member); J. C. Phillips went on to be involved in conservation activities in various circles. Ron, do those names ring any bells? - On Feb 14, 1908, the Club held a special event for its 40th meeting. I found an event ticket of William R. Thayer of Cambridge (who became a club member that year) - see back of ticket in attached photo, where Thayer notes that he went with a man by the name of Hart, probably Albert Bushnell Hart, also of Cambridge and already a member. Thayer also clearly mentions Dorr, though I admit I can't definitely decipher the words! So again, do the names William 9/27/2018 Xfinity Connect re George Dorr and Harvard Travellers Club Printout - 3 Thayer or Albert Hart mean anything to either of you? I have no reason to thnk they would, just was struck by clear connection to Dorr. - Early presentations to the Club relating to the Canadian Rockies: 1907: Papers by Theodore Lyman, W. Rodman Peabody, and R. P. Blake 1911: Paper by George and Samuel Mixter So again, nothing really new, just confirmation of Dorr's connection to the Club and a few more names to bat around. (All of which comtributes also to my own sense of the social and organizational interconnections that constituted the context for early Boston conservation movements.) Following up on previous discussion, I hope next week to get into AMC archives and see if close inspection of those Gleason photos clears up anything as far as dates he was in Field, B.C. area. Cheers, Steve Steven Pavlos Holmes, Ph.D. Scholar-in-Residence at the Boston Nature Center, Mattapan, MA Home: 21 Eldridge Road, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 USA 617-285-2832 Email: stevenpavlosholmes@gmx.com Alternate: : stevenjholmes@post.harvard.edu https://facingthechangeanthology.wordpress.com/about-the-editor/ Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 11:54 AM From: Steve Holmes To: Steven Holmes Subject: IMG_1897.JPG (2 MB) IMG 1898.JPG (2 MB) 9/26/2018 IMG_1898.JPG(2448x3264) 4 heat with Heat- had George Door in upit Harvard Travellers - On Feb 14, 1908, the Club held a special event for its 40th meeting. I found an event ticket of William R. Thayer of Cambridge (who became a club member that year) - see back of ticket in attached photo, where Thayer notes that he went with a man by the name of Hart, probably Albert Bushnell Hart, also of Cambridge and already a member. Thayer also clearly mentions Dorr, though I admit I can't definitely decipher the words! Note: Comments above by Steven Pavlosttolmes (9/26/2018) Louisiana Purchase Exposition - Wikipedia Page 1 of 11 WIKIPEDIA Louisiana Purchase Exposition The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an international 1904 St. Louis exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local, state, and federal funds totaling $15 million were used to finance the event. More than 60 countries and 43 of the 45 American states V /EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE DE maintained exhibition spaces at the fair, which was attended by nearl y 19.7 million people. ******** 1004 Historians generally emphasize the prominence of themes of race and empire, and the fair's long-lasting impact on intellectuals in the fields of history, art history, architecture and anthropology. From the point of view of the memory of the average person who attended the fair, it primarily promoted entertainment, consumer goods and popular culture. [1] Contents Background IMPORTANCE DE LEXPOSITION 95. us 145 500 Postage stamps Architects Board of Commissioners Poster for the Exposition painted by Scientific contributions Alphonse Mucha Communication contributions Overview Medical contributions Transportation contributions BIE-class Universal exposition Legacy Category Historical Expo Buildings Name Louisiana Purchase Introduction of new foods Exposition Influence on popular music People on dis play Area 1,270 acres (510 Exhibits hectares) 1904 Summer Olympics Visitors 19,694,855 Bullfight riot Participant(s) Anglo-Boer War Concession Countries 62 Notable attenders Location See also Country United States Footnotes City St. Louis Further reading Primary sources Venue Forest Park External links Coordinates 38°38'18.6"N 90°17'9.2"W Background Timeline Opening April 30, 1904 In 1904, St. Louis hosted a World's Fair to celebrate the centenni al of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. The idea for such a Closure December 1, 1904 commemorative event seems to have emerged early in 1898, with Kansas City and St. Louis initially presented as potential hosts for a fair based on their central location within the territory encompassed by the 1803 land annexation. Universal expositions [4] Previous Exposition Universelle (1900) The exhibition was grand in scale and lengthy in preparation, with an initial $5 million committed by the city of St. in Paris Louis through the sale of city bonds was authorized by the Missouri state legislature in April 1899. [5] An additional $5 Next million was generated through private donations by interested citizens and businesses from around Missouri, a Liège International fundraising target reached in January 1901. The final installment of $5 million of the exposition's $15 million (1905) in Liège capitalization came in the form of earmarked funds that were part of a congressional appropriations bill passed at the end of May 1900. [7] The fundraising mission was aided by the active support of President of the United States William McKinley, which was won by or ganizers in a February 1899 White House visit. [8] While initially conceived as a centennial celebration to be held in 1903, the actual opening of the St. Louis exposition was delayed until April 30, 1904, to allow for full-scale participation by more states and foreign countries. The exposition remained in operation from its opening until December 1, 1904. During the year of the fair, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition supplanted the annual St. Louis Exposition of agricultural, trade, and scientific exhibitions which had been held in the city since the 188os. St. Louis World's Fair Map(2)(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase_Exposition 4/13/2019 MEMORIAL OF Samuel de Champlain WHO DISCOVERED THE ISLAND OF MT. DESERT MAINE September 5, 1604 PRIVATELY PRINTED 1906 - Ustz: Absence of GBO as subscriber. N.E.+ Sealtharbor endents dominate. Includes address by S.A. Eliot, D.D. 2 Introductory Note THE Three Hundredth Anniversary of the dis- covery of the Island of Mount Desert was cele- brated at North East Harbor September 5, 1904. Subscribers In the Champlain Memorial, 1904 Addresses were made in the Union Church by Presi- dent Eliot, of Harvard University, and by Hon. Seth MRS. EDWIN H. ABBOT MRS. G. G. HAYWARD Low, late President of Columbia University. MISSES BLANCHARD R. M. HOE Shortly afterwards a number of the summer visitors MISS BLODGETT MRS. ELIJAH HUBBARD at North East Harbor and Seal Harbor contributed MRS. E. W. CLARK PRESIDENT AND MRS. SETH Low MISS FRANCES CLARK COMMANDER M. A. MILLER, U.S.N a sum sufficient for placing a moss-covered stone Miss HARRIET CLARKE MR. AND MRS. HENRY PARKMAN tablet, with suitable inscriptions, on a point of land MRS. JOSIAH P. COOKE REV. DR. F. G. PEABODY east of Seal Harbor, which affords a fine view of the GEORGE B. COOKSEY MISS PRIME coast, from the Atlantic to the Western Way, the REV. DR. J. S. DENNIS JAMES FORD RHODES route followed by Champlain. RT. REV. W. C. DOANE MR. AND MRS. WINTHROP SARGENT On the 18th of July, 1906, the contributors to the EDWARD K. DUNHAM, M. D. REV. DR. CORNELIUS B. SMITH fund, and a few of their friends, assembled near the PRESIDENT C. W. ELIOT RT. REV. A. MACKAY-SMITH WILLIAM W. FRAZIER WILLIAM W. SPENCE Memorial Stone and listened to a brief recital of the JAMES T. GARDINER GEORGE L. STEBBINS events connected with Champlain's voyage, by Rev. DANIEL C. GILMAN MR. AND MRS. J. G. THORP Samuel A. Eliot, D. D. The tablets were then MRS. ZABRISKIE GRAY MR. AND MRS. A. C. WHEELWRIGHT unveiled by Wright Ludington, the youngest person MRS. ROGER WOLCOTT present. President Eliot read the inscriptions, and added a few remarks upon the characteristics of Champlain. The verses which are here printed were then recited by the author of them, Rev. Professor William Adams Brown, of New York. D. C. G. 3 Address by Rev. Samuel A. Elint, D.D. NEW ENGLAND was called New France for Inscriptions fifty years before Captain John Smith gave it its present name. Fifteen years before the Mayflower i OBVERSE. came to anchor in Plymouth Harbor its waters had IN HONOR OF been sounded and its outlines drawn by Champlain SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN and his comrades. The Pilgrims, had they known BORN IN FRANCE 1567 of it, might have bought, ere they sailed, at a little DIED AT QUEBEC 1635 shop in the Rue St. Jean de Beauvais in Paris, a A SOLDIER SAILOR EXPLORER chart of Plymouth Harbor remarkable for its AND ADMINISTRATOR WHO GAVE THIS ISLAND ITS NAME. accuracy and skill. Twenty-five years before John Winthrop and his company landed on the Peninsula REVERSE. where they planted Boston, these same Frenchmen THE SAME DAY WE PASSED ALSO NEAR had mapped the bay, described its features with sur- AN ISLAND ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE LEAGUES LONG. prising fidelity, and named its points and inlets. IT IS VERY HIGH, NOTCHED IN PLACES, The effort at French colonization in America found so AS TO APPEAR FROM THE SEA its impulse in the patriotic pride and chivalric spirit LIKE A RANGE OF SEVEN OR EIGHT MOUNTAINS of that many-sided monarch, Henry the Fourth. CLOSE TOGETHER. THE SUMMITS OF MOST OF THEM This landfall at Mount Desert, which we celebrate ARE BARE OF TREES FOR THEY ARE NOTHING BUT ROCK. I NAMED IT THE today, connects itself directly with the revocation of ISLAND OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS. the Edict of Nantes signed by Henry in 1598. That CHAMPLAIN'S JOURNAL 5 SEPT., 1604. decree meant nothing less than the speedy return of commercial prosperity to France and the possibility of carrying out the King's ambition to make France a power on the sea and to promote adventure and dis- 4 covery and trade in distant lands. Several attempts boats from boyhood, and the sea laid a strong hold at settlement in New France were made but nothing upon his imagination. In the dedication of one of permanent was accomplished and in 1604 Henry com- his books he says 'Among the most useful and missioned a Huguenot gentleman, Pierre Du Guast, excellent arts navigation has always seemed to me to Sieur de Monts to head a colony, granting to him a take the first place. In the measure that it is danger- monopoly of trade and vice-regal authority. De ous and accompanied by a thousand perils, by so much Monts associated with himself a number of merchants is it honorable and lifted above all other arts, being in and adventurers and among them was the pilot-general no wise suitable for those who lack courage and confi- of the French navy, Samuel de Champlain. dence. By this art we acquire knowledge of various This man, whose word and valor this stone com- lands, countries, and kingdoms. By it we bring home memorates, was a true hero. Throughout a long and all sorts of riches, by it the idolatry of Paganism is adventurous career he displayed a steadfast courage, overthrown and Christianity declared in all parts of a resourceful mind, a kindly heart, an indomitable the earth. It is this art that has from my childhood patience. Though a devout Catholic he was extraordi- lured me to love it, and has caused me to expose narily tolerant in religion. Though strict in discipline myself almost all my life to the rude waves of the he was considerate, just and merciful. Though his ocean." When he enlisted in De Monts' expedition opportunities for education must have been scanty, he was about thirty-seven years old. He had already yet he wrote and drew remarkably well, and there is a made an adventurous journey to Panama and the Span- blitheness of mood about him, a friendliness of spirit, ish main, and he had just returned from a voyage to a quaintness of speech that must have made him a New France and the River St. Lawrence. rarely good comrade and an inspiring leader. De Monts sailed with his company in March, 1604, Champlain was born in 1567, in the little town of and after coasting along the shores of Nova Scotia and Brouage, on the Bay of Biscay, some twenty miles up into the Bay of Fundy, he chose as the site of the south of La Rochelle. His father was a captain in colony an island in the river which now bears the the royal navy, and one of his uncles was a pilot name which he gave to his settlement, Saint Croix. in the king's service. Champlain was familiar with There the colonists passed the summer clearing the 5 ground, building their fort and setting up their houses, places so that from the sea it gives the appearance of and early in September, after the ship that brought a range of seven or eight mountains. The summits them had gone back to France to bring out reinforce- are all bare and rocky. The slopes are covered with ments in the succeeding spring, Champlain took twelve pines, firs, and birches. I named it Isle des Monts of the men, together with two Indians, and set out on Desert." a voyage of discovery along the coast to the westward. The next day the voyagers had a conference with They sailed in a big open boat which Champlain called some Indians who came out to meet them and who a " patache." As depicted in Champlain's drawing of agreed to guide them to the Penobscot. They sailed the St. Croix settlement this boat had a single lateen up that river to the point where Bangor now stands sail, but when the wind was ahead they used oars. and then passed out by Owl's Head, and continued Now let me quote Champlain's own narrative: west as far as the Kennebec. Then, as their provisions ' Setting out from the mouth of the St. Croix and were running low, they ran back before the wind and sailing westward along the coast, we made the same arrived at St. Croix on the third of October, or just day some twenty-five leagues and passed by many a month after they set out. When we consider what islands, reefs, and rocks, which sometimes extend watchfulness is required in these days of light-houses, more than four leagues out to sea. The islands charts, buoys and beacons, to navigate among the are covered with pines, firs, and other trees of an numberless islands and sunken ledges of this ragged inferior sort. Among the islands are many fine and fog-haunted coast, what shall we say of the seaman- harbors, but undesirable for permanent settlement. ship and adventurous courage of the first pioneers. 'The same day (September 5, 1604) we passed The St. Croix colony did not endure, but the name near to an island some four or five leagues long, in of Champlain is writ large on this continent. For the neighborhood of which we just escaped being lost fortitude, devout serenity, and prudent zeal it would be on a rock that was just awash and which made a hole hard to match this pioneer of New France. Champlain in the bottom of our boat. From this island to the became the father of Canada and the bold explorer mainland on the north the distance is not more than of the western wilds. He planted the fleur-de-lis on a hundred paces. The island is high and notched in the rock of Quebec, and there on Christmas day of ( ed, striving to the last for the welfare of his Lines by Rev. William Adams Brown, D.D. : glad to draw his last breath in the wilder- , as he wrote, he had "always desired to To Champlain ly flourish and the true religion, Catholic, and Roman." We do well to commemo- If, from some eyrie in the distant sky, odest hero and his half-forgotten adventures Thine eagle eye, still sweeping o'er the main, Upon this rock-bound coast should chance again, asts. His heroic monument stands fitly at Which first thy searching vision did descry; it this stone will remind many a fortunate here of the dauntless Frenchman, who first Then shall this boulder, which to-day we raise, As messenger a silent greeting bring en, looked upon this favored island and From the new friends whose later voyaging the name it bears. Has found safe haven in these quiet bays. Many fair gifts, bold courser of the seas ! Thy laughing France with lavish hand has showered Upon this daughter of the West,-undowered When first she knelt and clasped her sister's knees. One gift France held, and lightly tossed aside,- A barren isle, sea-swept and tempest-driven ; Its lonely hills unscaled, its rocks unriven In that far day when thou didst pass in pride. Desert the name thou gavest, great Champlain ! Desert she seemed,-thi island of our love ; Yet in her dales the birches' silver grove Reared its white columns for her sylvan fane. By the bare rocks that buttress Sargent's crown The scarlet lily shamed the evening sky ; While on the bosom of the lake hard by Her snow-white sister nestled gently down. of From out these mossy glades, fern-canopied, The orchid raised his purple-fringed head, And the shy twin-flower softly carpeted The silent paths thou didst disdain to tread. Desert the isle, such joys as these doth hold ! Nay, dauntless traveller, return once more ! The scenes so quickly left again explore, And thou shalt see new graces still unfold. No longer now the silent spaces yield Such song alone as woodland minstrels raise ; Here Man with Nature joins his voice in praise For wounds bound up and ancient sorrows healed. Here shalt thou see in goodly fellowship Ripe age with youth go laughing side by side Down some long alley of the woods, where hide Sweet treasures waiting for the eye and lip. Across the bosom of this sparkling sea, Through which of old thy piercing prow did glide, Thou shalt behold white canvas swell in pride, And on the breeze that blows so merrily Shalt hear anon, if such thy happy chance, Quick wit so lightly flash in quip and jest Thou shalt transfer thine East unto our West, And think thyself again at home in France. chron 1904 OF De MONTS' SEVILEMENT AT ST. CROIX ISLAND Publication of the Maine Historical Society, 1905. On Saturday, June 25, 1904, occurred the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the landing of de Monts at St. Groix Island Anchored north of the ioland were the 0.888 Detroit, Captain Dillingham, the French cruiser Troude, Captain Aubry, the British cruiser Columbine, Captain Hill Hon. Charles B. Swan, of Calais, presided. Hio address was in part as follows: By invitation of the Maine Historical Society and a committee of the citizens of the St. Croi Velley, we have gathered here today to commemorate events which transpired upon this island three hundred years ago; events which, though futilo for the purpose for which they were designed and even disastrous to those engaged in them, had in the aftertime such a dominating influence in settling grave issues of boundary between England and the United States, as to render them of signal historic importance. The story of the ill-starred venture of the brave Sieur do Monts and his colony, and their stay upon this island, will be told to us to-day by gentlemen well versed in all its details, and it will be one of absorbing interest. of the Maine Historical Society, an organization now vener- able in years and which took the initiative in organizing this commemoration, permit me to say that it has so well performed the work of historic research, to which in its beginning it dedicated itself, as to entitle it to the gratitude of our State and all lovers of veritable history. By painstaking, personal effort it has culled the facts from tradition and gathered to its storehouse a mass of historic material which will be of priceless value to the future historian of Maine. Mr. Teed, Mayor of St. Stephens. 1 Three hundred years ago de Monts and his brave followers landed on the little island we now are on and planted the seeds of European civilization, from which sprang all the progress and advance of that splendid and wonderful civilization that has spread over this North American continent, which at that time was one vast and unbroken wilderness. To the French belongs the honor of planting that civilization on this continent Rev. Henry 8. Burrage, of Portland, responding for the Maine Historical Society: In behalf of the Maine Historical Society it is my privilege to respond to these most cordial greetings. We who are here as the representatives of the Society, and indeed its whole member- ship, take a very deep interest in the proceedings of this day which carry us back to the beginnings of colonisation within the limits of the State of Maine. We are in the opening years of a new century. So were de Monts and his associates when three hundred years ago they landed on this little island of St. Croix, and entered upon the begin- nings of a settlement in this almost unknown world. Is it now a new era with us! Do we feel its breath and are we filled with high and noble impulses as we enter upon the task which the twentieth century has for us! So was it a new era with de Monts and his followers. They had already been stirred by its inspirations, and they had seized the opportunity which the open- ing of the sixteenth century offered to them here. In religion they were Protestants and Roman Catholics. Not long had they thus stood side by side. What had happened in France that brought them together upon this little island inspired with a common hope of making a new France here in this western world? The history of the kingdom in the preceding century is written large, and the story is plain. There had been a long, fierce, at times uncertain struggle for religious liberty, and the victory - which in its largest sense was for Protéstant and Roman Catholic aliko - had at length been won. While the conflict was in pro- gress it had involved noblemen, scholars, statesmen, and the king on his throne, as well as peasants, artisans, tradesmen 0 in a word the whole nation. This struggle for religious liberty most heroically continued for many years and with varying for- tunes, had at length been brought to a happy issue, and in 1598, only six years before de Monts landed here, Henry IV, King of France, recognizing the "frightful troubles, confusion and dis- orders" to which on his accession to the throne he found his kingdom a prey, promulgated the famous Ediot of Nantes, which gave liberty of conscience to all the inhabitants of the land, granting to his subjects the right to dwell anywhere in the royal dominions, and to meet for religious purposes without being sub- jected to inquiry, vexed, molested or constrained to do anything contrary to the dictates of conscience. What this meant to many of the king's subjects, long harrassed, tormented, it is difficult for us now even to imagine Thus is was that in this French colony, led hither by de Monta three hundred years ago, Protestants and Roman Catholics were found sido by side - de Monts himself a Protestant - both minister and priest being included in the personnel of the expedition. Halcyon days were these indeed for those who had known only religious strife and contention; and for twelve years, or until -5- the close of the reign of Henry IV, the Edict of Nantes was in full operation In 1599, the very year in which the Edict of Nantes was con- firmed by Parliament, or it may be, as is now thought by some recent writers, in 1604, the year in which the de Monts and his little company of Protestants and Catholics landed here, the great apostle of soul liberty, Roger Willians, was born. Was religious liberty to suffer for a while disastrous overthrow in France? It was to have a new birth on this side of the sea, and to come ere long to a development of which men had only dreamed in earlier days. Now to us, religious liberty is BO common a thing that we fail oftentimes, Protestants and Roman Catholics alike, to esti- mate aright our indebtedness for a boon of such priceless value. But de Monts, three hundred years ago, could have said, "With a great price obtained I this freedom." Maj.-Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain: 3 There are things done in the world which by a certain estima- tion are accounted failure, but which belong to an eternal pro- cess turning to its appointed ends the discontinuities of baffled endeavor. The great action of the times we commemorate was not the result of shrewd calculations of economic advantage; it was largely the impulse of bold imagination and adventurous spirit stirred by the foreshadowing of untested possibilities, and knowing no limit but each one's daring or dream. While the motive of pecuniary gain was not absent from even noble minds, yet this was secondary and subordinate. A deeper thought was moving them, - to turn to human good such opening store of rich material and marvellous opportunity; to signalize the valor of their race, the glory of their country and their religion; to take a foremost step in the march of civilization, - the mastery of man over nature. It was akin to the chivalby which enjoys per- sonal hasard for a sake beyond self, What generous ambitions, what lofty hopes hovered in these early skies, and since have "faded into the light of common day!" We como here to recognize the worth of a remarkable man, Pierre do Guast, Sieur de Monts, - to commemorate in a material structure more lasting that any of his own the value of his work and the greatness of his ideas. Sir Walter Raleigh's vigorous efforts in Virginia in 1584 came to nought. And at the close of the 16th century there was not a European settlement north of Florida on the Atlantic shore. But the human ferment was going on, and the time appointed draw- ing near. The fierce persecution of the Huguenots was tearing asunder social bonds in France. Earnest minds were moved to -7- seek peaceful homes in the wilderness of the New World, where they might find at least freedom of thought and action, and possibly scope for their best energies At the accession of King Henry IV a notable company had been formed, the chief patron of which was Aylinar de Chastes, a gentleman of high standing, governor of Dieppe, to carry forward colonization on these shores "in the name of God and the King." At this juncture comes upon the scene one of the most remark- able characters of our New World history, - Samuel, Sieur de Champ- lain. Born on the shore of Btacay in a little seaport where de- parting and returning ships bringing stories of wide and wild ad- venture quickened into form that vague consciousness of power which stire in all brave spirits; by nature bold, chivalrous, romantic; by early experience soldier, sailor, observer and relater; tireless in labor, patient of suffering, large of vision, and generous of purpose, genial of spirit and firm of soul, he may well be regarded as providentially prepared to be called to the solution of great problems of enterprise. He and de Chastoo seem to have come to- gether by mutual attraction. To him the king gave special charge to observe carefully and report all he should see. This expedition explored the St. Lawrence, tarrying some time at Tadoussac, at the mouth of the myoterious Saguenay, and finally ascending to the site of Montreal. of this exploration there were wonderful things to tell to France; and told by Champlain roused an interest such as nothing had done before. He came back with high -8- hopes, but found that his generous patron had passed away, and with him the supporting hand, if not the animating spirit, of the enterprise. But he found also that the king had given a new charter to a gentleman of equally high character, an officer of the king's household, Pierre de Monts, Seigneur of the Commune of Guast in Santonge, a region of which La Rochelle was the natural center, and strongly Huguenot in its proclivities, as was the family of Behlond de Monts. This charter was given November 8, 1603. It conveyed to de Monts in elaborate terms trading and seignorial rights to the New World territory between the fortieth and forty-sixth parallels of latitude, - those of Philadelphia and Montreal to-day, - this territory being designated La Cadie, or Acadia. With this came the appointment of lieutenant general, and by inference vice admiral, of this vast and vaguely known domain of Acadia. With reciprocal personal respect and the aympathy of like pur- pose, these two men joined hands and hearts in an enterprise now more definitely thought out and practically organized than any before Thus was ordained and organized that famous adventure of Acadia, fraught with human hopes as high and fancies as wide as its sequel was to be bright with characters of courage and devo- tion and stormy with vicissitude and tragedy. -39- On the 7th on March, 1604, do Monts gathered his company for the brave adventure of establishing the little beginnings of a'large new life in a vast new world. It was a highly and deeply mixed company. With him were gentlemen of all schools of religion and politics. For de Monts, although a Huguenot, was wisely liberal. So passed to dust and ruin this little beginning on the Island of the Cross. So passed into broken lights the glory of de Monts', dawning dream. Contemplating this ruin and this baffled purpose, must we speak of failure? If so, for de Monts personally the case is not singular. All the first leaders had sad experiences. Gilbert, Raleigh, Gorges, de Monts, Poutrincourt, Champlain even, and we might also say Columbus himself, - jealousy, enmity, imprisonment, disgrace barred their sunset sky. But we judge the man more by the ideas he quickened into action than by the immediate material results he lived to see. One singular dignity this island "settlement" of de Monts has come to hold. After long lost identity and earnest searching, these ruins were discovered and admitted to be the proper mark and eastern origin of the boundary line between England and the United States of America. Such value had this broken enterprise in the minds of men and council of nations On Saturday, June 25, 1904, occurred the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the landing of de Monts and his fellow colonists at St. Croix Island. Anohored north of the island were the U. S., S. Detroit, Captain Dillingham, the French cruiser Troude, Captain Aubry, the British cruiser Columbine, Captain Hill. 103 IRVING STREET CAMBRIDGE Dr. July 31, 1904 Benj Tab Wheeler, President : : Dear Dr. Wheeler :- - The bearer of this letter, Mr. george Dars, of Boston, is a very dear friend S mine, and also, as Chairmany the Overseers' Committee of Vistors to the Philosphia Department, and as a benefactor of our undertakings, a man very near to all the interests of our department in Harvard. Mr. Dorr is making u brief trip to California. He is W: pecially intending to visit the Suerra. But he will probably pass through Berkeley, and may be desireres of seeing the 2, Mrs. Edith Wharton to George B. Dorr X September 3d, 1904. The Mount, Lenox, Mass. Dear Mr. Dorr, I found the book on the terrace just after you left, and it was sent to Boston in accordance with your direc- tions. I have been meaning to write and tell you this and also to say again how much I appreciated the trouble you took to help me in my gardening, or rather landscape gardening, problems. Your visit was SO helpful, and you left behind you SO many fruitful ideas that I often feel you are not really gone, and must be somewhere about, ready to answer the new questions which the solving of some of the old problems has already raised. Your path is finished, and the task of planting its borders now confronts me; and we are just about to attack the laying out of the path from the flower-garden to the little valley which is to be my future wild garden. I am in hopes you may really be able to spare us a day or two on your return, for though the autumn work Beinecke YCAL 42 Box 24 , Folder 753 September 3rd, 1904) 2. will be nearly over by that time, there will be many future plans to discuss. My only fear is that my pigmy planting will quite vanish from your mind among the giant boles of the redwoods! The Vanderbilts want us to spend October with them at Biltmore, but the season is one of far too much in- - terest here and I told them they must let us come in the spring instead. We have been off in the motor digging ferns for our rocky slopes, and now I have discovered a stony pasture near Great Barrington full of the "sweet fern" which is SO rarely found in this region, and am going to fetch a load of it tomorrow. It is all great fun, but I wish you were here to suggest and approve. Sincerely yours, Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton and the American garden. Lanox: The Mount Press, 2009. WILD GARDENS AND PATHWAYS AT THE MOUNT: GEORGE B. DORR AND THE MOUNT DESERT ISLAND INFLUENCE RONALD H. Epp T he Beinecke Library at Yale University contains a handful of Edith Wharton letters to pioneer conservationist and horticulturist George Bucknam Dorr (1853-1944). This correspondence is commonly passed over by scholars.2 The ten Wharton letters written between 1902 and 1907 are unremarkable when isolated from the richly diverse social context of the Gilded Age. They are remarkable if attention is given to previously unrecognized interactions between the Dorr and Jones families that began twenty years earlier in Bar Harbor, Maine, where Wharton's brother and sister-in- law Frederic and Mary Jones summered. Furthermore, the connection of the Dorr family with Lenox, Massachusetts-site of Wharton's own summer house-tracks back another fifty years to the era of Catharine Sedgwick and Fanny Kemble. 3 The Wharton correspondence to Dorr ranges in length from a few sentences to several hundred words. All but two letters were written during an eighteen-month period between September 1904 and February 1906. Some specialists might describe them as technical, narrowly focused on Wharton's solicitations of Dorr's horticultural expertise. Yet this is not inconsequential, for The Mount's garden historian, Betsy Anderson, indicated on a recent site inspection that there is little evidence of Wharton's use of expert landscaping advice outside her family. Unfortunately, no correspondence from Dorr to Wharton has survived. There has been no inquiry into the connection between the location and naming of gardens and paths at The Mount and Dorr's professional and cultural life on Mount Desert Island. What character traits did he bring to the table in relating to Wharton that encouraged her to invite him repeatedly to her home? What motivated her to involve this little-known Boston Brahmin in her wild gardening? Wharton's letters to Dorr refer frequently to a path at The Mount named for him. Why would she choose to honor him in this way? It is intriguing that Dorr left us no documentation of his relationship with her, especially since his advice to Wharton is the only recorded case of his engaging in a horticultural consultancy removed from Mount Desert Island. Many of these questions will never be resolved since, following his death in 1944, the National Park Service disposed of most of the contents of the Bar Harbor estate that he had gifted to the government. However, in 2006 new primary evidence for the Dorr-Jones family relationship came to light. Both families developed their Bar Harbor properties in the 1880s, and their social interactions are Pp -88 AI / Out West 1904 1. I had a very interesting trip out west, from first to last, for I had never been in any part of California before, and even the things that diappointed me interested me as well. I went straight out to San Francisco, stayed there for three or blooks four days, seeing some of the Berkeley College men to whom IA2/ refers I had letters, and then d own to Monterey, to see its cypresses. to September From there Iw ent on down the coast to Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. At Los Angeles I ran down for a day and night to See/A2/for Santa Batalina Island and then went straight up through the detail San Joaquin Valley to Visalia in the Keweah River country whence I went up by stage to Giant Forest in the National Sequoia Park where I outfitted for my mountain trip. LAquara I took a packer, a Maine man originally, and of my own name, and some mules and we went out together for a three weeks' trip across the high Sierras to Owen's Valley on their eastern side, going out through the Kern River country and returning by Kearsage Pass and King's River, then back to Giant Forest where I started from. Some of the men I met at Berkeley College, who had been out on geological and botanical expeditions through that region, laid this route out for me as the most interesting I could follow and it certainly opened up magnificent scenery a nd showed me the Sierra forests in a most interesting way. But Note: First page of several dozen pages recounting Dorr's 1904 trip to California and the Canadian Rockies. See TRAVEL files.