ParTimeline 9/05 1909 1910 Eliot resigns Harvard Residency - Jesupplennal tbbang Contraction (1869-1909) IMPT Athletic Field acquisition - -HCTPR land expansion under Eagle Lake Watershed + G, Stebbins securing finstate Trustee -DOR Jr. purchase Eyree - Dres Tait insits BH (7/20) power of Eminent domain Eliot to 600 re HCTPR land CBD become V.P. of Soud for Psychical Research (U.R.) 1 Elist acquirition publishis (9/16) "Five Fort Shelf" - a Eaglehake DP, B2F6 - Prychual Research etlrs. Piper Chebacco XIV (2013) : 86-106. From Horses to Horsepower: Mount Desert Island's Ten-Year War for the Automobile Bill Horner, M.D. This year's Chebacco marks the centennial of one of Mount Desert Island's most famous controversies: the admission of the automobile to the island's picturesque roads. As background, it should be remembered that during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an American urban elite created an extensive "pleasure periphery," with seasonal resorts that dramatically reshaped local economies and landscapes. Mount Desert Island and, in particular, Bar Harbor, exemplified this type of resort with the arrival of such familiar American surnames as Vanderbilt, Kennedy, Dorrance, Stotesbury, Ford, Kent, Rockefeller, and Eliot. Affluent summer cottagers developed an exclusive, picturesque retreat, with a local service economy almost completely dependent on tourism. The resulting civic discourse gave rise to many instances of differing opinions as local residents confronted an unprecedented wave of change brought about by a class of people who were often paternalistic and expected deference in return. Most of the townspeople were used to a fairly independent life. Deference did not come naturally, and tension was never far from the surface.¹ The years 1903 to 1913 constituted a decade of disobedience, division, and debate on Mount Desert Island. The local and national press of that time vividly displays the divergent thinking and attitudes that informed the emerging relationship between these very different societal sets as they engaged in the so-called Automobile War. On April 27, 1909 the Bangor Daily Commercial published an editorial entitled "Motor Mania," which commented on the first Eastern Maine Automobile and Motor Show held one week earlier at the Bangor Auditorium: "The gasoline motor car is no longer an experiment. It has demonstrated its usefulness not only as a racing machine for millionaires and cranks to play with, but as a useful vehicle of travel, or for the delivery of packages and mail, for the carrying of passengers for pay, for the transportation of physicians and for so many purposes that in a very wide sense it is now indispensible to civilization.". Rec The Leading County Paper and the Society Journal of Mt. Desert Island BAR HARBOR, MAINE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1909. AS SEARLS, Cashier EDWARD E F.CARTER Asst. Cashi BANK NO AUTOMOBILES CCOUNTS CTORS Mount Desert Towns Can Shut Them R E worth, R. H. Kittre'ge C. erts, A. S. Rodick, J.A. C.H. Wood. Out OFFICES D MAN, When the reports from committees tion, and on second and every subse- HOUSE L came into the house last Thursday quent conviction shall be punished by morning the commtitee on judiciary a fine of fifty dollars and costs of surance without dissenting voice, reported prosecution or by imprisonment for "ought to pass" on the bill to refer not exceeding sixty days or by both to the voters of Mount Desert island fine and imprisonment. On Led New York the question as to whether or not the Section 3. The words motor vehi- On Gler use of automobiles shall be restricted cle, as herein used, shall not be con- on the island. The report of the structed to include steam road rollers committee. was accepted and in the used by authority of the Town offi- usual manner of procedure was tabled cers. for printing. Section 4. In such of the said Apply 1 The whole matter now is un to the Towns as shall accept this act at any pring citizens o fthe towns on this island. legal meeting called by a warrant Both sides will be busy trying to in- containing an article for that purpose fluence voters, and while the vote may this act shall. subject to the provis- later For the be a matter of doubt elsewhere on the ions of the State Constitution thereto island (so some think) there is no applicable, take effect ten days after doubt of the result in Bar Harbor. By it shall be so accepted. a overwhelming majority the town is L certain to vote for the exclusion of Bishop Lawrence Among Those in A. for RITY the motor cars. The matter will Boston That Worked for is a come up just as soon as the legisla Bar Harbor Bill ARK. lature passes the reenabling act, in all 15 14 17 "Up the Island"-that is to say, Among the Boston people who as- 16 15 18 S.A. anywhere away from the shore, the sisted in securing a favorable report 17 13 20 from the legislative committee on ju- people of Mt. Desert are mighty an- 18 15 S xious concerning the exclusion of diclary on the bill excluding automo- 19 10 a biles from Bar Harbor, which went to autos. They feci very strongly that 20 44 34 Co senate Monday last, are Mrs: J. Mont- their summer business depends upon 21 25 22 gemery Sears, who pays a Bar Har- keeping the machines out, and as Include rain, hail. bor tax of $1041; Sarah Lawrence, Fre ESS maximum their bread and butt 1" depends upon $335, Mary E. Leeds, $375. Rt. Rev. the exclusion of motor cars they will William Lawrence $335, Mrs. C. L. who vote against them. and are working Carr $608, Charles Fry, $810. Charles to secure other voters of their way T. How. $1775. George B. Dorr. $2337. ter at of tlinking. Dr. Robert Amory, $833. the Misses The Euabling Act Morrill, $1017. and the heirs of Al- pheus Hardy $992. Section 1. No automobile or motof Bishop Lawrence wrote:-"In con- vehicle shall be set up, used. driven nection with the ordinance this point or operated in or on any highway, should be kept in mind, that a horse mpany townway, or public street within any accustomed to automobiles will pass of the towns of Eden, Mount Desert. 30 or 50 In an afternoon and not look Tremont and oSuthwest Harbor, on at one. but If that Name horse pass an the Island of Mount Desert, In the automobile only once or twice in a County of Hancock. State of Maine. week he will shy I have no horses Section 2. Whoever sets up. UNOS, and use an automobile entirely er drives or operates any automobile or cept at Bar Harbor. for 1 am 90 clear vehicle controry to the provisions of that the conditions at Bar Harbor Section 1 hereof shell on the first are unfavorable to automobiles that conviction be punished by a fine of I am ready. at some added expense to twenty dollars and costs of promeen hire horses for the summer it cannot be said that the classifica- township that 13 assessed MINEL tion is not a reasonable one." So non-residents. The year-round peo- will do ple, therefore. would seem to-be, even volved much for the law. more generally than the summer peo- fendant Letter From Dr. S. Weir Michell ple are, in favor of keeping years in "Let me diverge one second from the biles oue. ganized subject and read a letter from Dr. "I may add that one of the most don't pat Mitchell that I have heretofore refer- eminent automobile officials in the names of red to. country has just reaffirmed his con- fused to u 'Mys on and I have sent here in viction. first expressed more than not treated the past few years patients who are three years ago, that the island of serves. T1 suffering from nervous maladies and Mt. Desert is 'entirely unsuited for court forba motor traffic. Its roads are the name in every case it is a question of es- cape from noise, confusion and reck- winding, annd dangerous for fast Range Com lessness the automobile brings. At going. Comfortable touring upon contended present there are three who would them would be impossible. Few had excee autos would visit the island, but those such an O not have been sent here had the auto- few would destroy its pleasant an attack mobile been free to come and go. It for nearly all who now enjoy it. the view is a necessity in towns, has come to who delib stay, but these places which secure tion; thus themselves against this modern con- venient nuisance are sure to get resi- COMMUNICATION prosecutio The sente dents permanent and others who find To the Editor of The Bar Harbor Rec- for this o pleasure in escaping the automobiles. ord:- sentences I wish that some of the people who Dear Sir: pers, nine favor it could have the experience of some of our residents who live at Will you allow me space in tour six month paper to express my opinion on a The boy times in other places and are deadly foes of the automobiles. This should question that is of great moment to don't patr the people of the towns of Eden Mt. attempted be a paradise of rest and peace where Desert and Southwest Harbor. against th we should he free from the smells, IS the tooting of horns, and carelessness I am not writinng at the instance by it, and of automobiles in the hands of so anybody, neither am I actuated by such a ca many. selfish motives. I have no interests the princi "This gentleman is but one of hun- at stake in Northeast Harbor not on sons may dreds of others who have sent similar the island that can be materially ef- from agr letters daily to Bar Harbor. Our is- fected by the introduction or the ex- over it is land is not adapted to them. It would clusion of the automobile. Per on- tion-shall be no pleasure for any one to go ally, for some reasons I would like there is there and see the island in an auto- to see the automobile, but for the party at mobile. as the typical automobiler best interest of the island, for the Buck Ste sees nothing; he never lingers in one welfare of the majority of the citi- sought re place, is always hieing on to the next zens I believe that the automobile against t should be excluded. either a C place, and when he gets there boasts are the t of his speed, or laments the accidents While no argument pro or com is on the CC that he had on the road, which makes conclusive or is so much one sided be passed speed impossible. The quiet, leisurly that the anti-automobilist or the afti- sented bei enjoyment of a place like Bar Harbor mobilist can indulge iin dogmatic Whethe and its vicinity is utterly foreign to sertions, will not a consideration of these two the automobile man whose object is the following argument prove a suf- is a quest not to see anything thoroughly, but ficient cause for barring out the au- tent tolea to pass over as much ground as pos- tomobile. layman n e sible. In many conversations with The introduction of the auto, while him for thesepeople on this most important it may rejuvenate the hotel life, will ion. Cou subject in the past few years, if you reduce the pressure of the cottage laborers, had heard the expressions of satis- life. Let this pressure be reduced 10,000,000 faction at not being tortured with and you create immovable conditions. terested these automobiles as I have you would Reduce the water pressure of the These hav agree with me. mill and you get a slow moving a1a- of distrus "Dr. Mitchell, whose letter I have chine. Has it been the hotel life that tone of hi just read, and who is one of the great has made Bar Harbor famous I tensify th est nerve specialists in the country think not. Rather has it been the terly who of and today, and whose treatment for ner- owner of the cottage and palatial the most vous afflictions are recognized the manor who has spent hundreds of this the world over by the medical profession thousands and perhaps millions of that he he as the Weir Mitchell treatments, and dollars who is the real builder of Bar class cons who spends his summers roaming Harbor and should receive the hig at a time over our hills and dales. viewing the est consideration. As I understand demanded scenery as an inspiration for some situation these men. for the most done to great story, told me that he had seen part, object to' the automobile, Herald. every place worth seeing in the world that they are not auto-faddist or re and that he had traveled the entire not owners of automobiles. but world over hunting for beautiful men who destre a diversion of P. scenery. that he had seen the great and wish to spend the summer Here is cliffs and waterfalls of Norway. h. rest period-away from the burn ture as had visited Switzerland and Been the nolsy life of the city with its hank on Kidney shoreless ocenas, whose forming bil- honk! away from its dust clouds lows seemed first white. then opales- and noxions gasoline odors cent. in the light of dawn, then one by The Incoming of the auto mesos the one the mountain tops appeared like the out going of the man who ishing He states Islands rising from the sea. and at given money, labor and talent tolde back. pal. work, to which of late years he has devoted himself, in June, 1878, pril 12, 1881 ; m. September 28, oardman, A.B. Harvard, 1903. by translating and editing Rambaud's "History of Russia," pub- lished in three volumes in 1880. Was engaged in newspaper work is b. August 2, 1908. for the Boston and San Francisco papers one year; assistant in Washington Mills at Lawrence, & Co., dry goods commission private classical school in Philadelphia, 1881; and during his resi- dence for some years in that city, did some writing and translating, r, 1881, and with their succes- and was literary, music, and art editor of the "Press," and later aber, 1885, after several months e Boston Stock Exchange, and managing editor of the "Epoch." Literary adviser to the publishing house of Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., in Boston, 1877-99. Con- brokerage business, now under nected editorially with the "Encyclopredia Americana" (16 vols. & Co., in Boston, with offices at on representative of the banking 1903-04), published under the auspices of the Scientific American." Paris and New York. Has been In charge of the advertising department of D. Appleton & Co., in New York, 1900. Has since resided in Boston, and continued his of Massachusetts since its forma- treasurer of the Somerset Club. literary activities, editorially and by writing and lecturing. Delivered at Club of Hamilton, Mass.' Is the Phi Beta Kappa poem at Tufts College, 1904, and wrote the [anchester, Mass. poem at the dedication of the monument in Provincetown, Mass., 1907. Read a poem also at the dedication of a monument in New- SON. bury, Mass., in honor of the founders of that town, of whom his er 11, 1852. Son of Oliver and ancestor, Richard Dole, was one. President of the Bibliophile Society and of the Omar Khayyâm Club of America since their nrietta Curtis Mixer. inception. One of the founders of the Twentieth Century Club of ber 20, 1878. Boston, and member of Boston Authors' Club. On visiting commit- V. Y., August 7, 1881. tee of Boston Public Library, and trustee of Fellowes Athensum. Report, 1899. Among his recent publications are : "The Pilgrims and Other Poems," 1907; A Teacher of Dante," 1907; and "Peace and OLE. Progress," 1904. His translations include "Anna Karénina" and 1, 1852. Son of Nathan and Caro- other works of Count TolstoI, and novels by Valdes, Verga, Von Scheffel, Daudet and Von Koch, and numerous works for music. h, Mass., to Helen James Bennett. His editorial work comprises about two hundred volumes, of which b. June 13, 1884; A.B. Harvard, the best known is the so-called multi-variorum edition of the Rubaiyât of Omar Khayyâm, in two volumes. Resides at "Hedge- March 14, 1886; A. B. Harvard, cote," Jamaica Plain (Boston), Mass., and has a summer home, The Moorings," at Ogunquit, Me. January 26, 1891. March 30, 1893. GEORGE BUCKNAM DORR. spension Bridge, N. Y., one year, BORN in Jamaica Plain (now Boston), Mass., December 29, 1853. School, one year, and at Derby Son of Charles H. and Mary Gray (Ward) Dörr. b years. Commenced his literary In Europe five years, spent in study and travel. Continued his ] [ 33 ] studies as a graduate student at Harvard and elsewhere several years. Travelled again in Europe and visited Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land. Has given much attention to the study of plant-life and to landscape-gardening work, and has established at his summer home in Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Me., nurseries for the growth and sale of northern trees and plants. Member of Somerset and Univer- sity Clubs of Boston. Resides at 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. JAMES DWIGHT. BORN in Paris,:France, July 14, 1852. Son of Thomas (Harvard, 1827) and Mary Collins (Warren) Dwight. MARRIED January 12, 1887, in Boston, Mass., to Elizabeth Iasigi. CHILDREN: Dorothy, b. July 15, 1888. Alfred Warren, b. July 28, 1889; d. May 4, 1893. Ruth, b. January 18, 1891. Philip Joseph, b. March 16, 1892. Elizabeth, b. February 24, 1894. Richard Warren, b. April 30, 1903. Harvard Medical School, receiving degree of M.D. June 25, 1879. House physician at Boston Lying-in Hospital one year. Practised medicine for a while in Boston, and in summer in Nahant, Mass. Relinquished the active practice of medicine some years ago. Prominent in lawn tennis matters as a player, and publisher of two books. Elected president of United States Lawn Tennis Associa- tion, 1901. Member of Scmerset Club of Boston. Resides at 225 Beacon Street, Boston, and has & summer home at Barnstable, Mass. *LOUIS DYER. LOUIS DYER was born in Chicago, III., September 30, 1851. His father, Charles Volney Dyer, born in Clarendor, Vermont, in 1808, was grad- usted with the degree of M.D. at Castleton Medical College in Vermont in 1829, and practised as & physician in Newark, New York, and Chicago. LOUIS DYER He was descended from William and Mary Dyer, who came from Somer- setshire to Boston in 1635, and who, being adherents of Mrs. Hutchinson, Born September 30 1851. were driven from Massachusetts Bay to Rhode Island, where they became Quakers. Dr. Dyer was prominent in the anti-slavery movement, and very active in the work of the "Underground Railroad." After giving up the practice of his profession, he was appointed in 1862, by President Lincoln, judge for the United States in the Anglo-American Mixed Court at Sierra Leone, which had been established by treaty for the suppression of the [ 34 ] MGLG CLIAGA D FLOW DAGL mue browning ID were driven from I DR) DO IMORO I Quakers. Dr. Dyer was prominent in the anti-slavery movement, and very active in the work of the "Underground Railroad." After giving up the practice of his profession, he was appointed in 1862, by President Lincoln, judge for the United States in the Anglo-American Mixed Court at Sierra Leone, which had been established by treaty for the suppression of the George B. Dorr to Charles W. Eliot 17 Quincy Street Cambridge 26 April 1909 Dear Mr. Dorr, I saw Mr. Alexander Cochrane (55 Kilby Street) today and found that he know all about that Kebo land and the present owners. If you will call on Mr. C. he will tell you how best to approach the owners. The estate is undivided, and there are, I think, four heirs of whom Mrs. Cochrane is one. Mr. C. seemed very well disposed. Wishing you prompt success, I am Sincerely yours, Charles W. Eliot. Elizabeth Hoyt & Gladys Rice, Landscape Gardeners | Landscape of a Washington Place Page 13 of 18 The Trees of Commonwealth Avenue Boston By laikar GRD. Charles Sprague Sargent this guna Printed for the Author 1909 The Saltonstall residence in Boston was at 181 Commonwealth Avenue. Biodiversity Heritage Library image from digitized Library of Congress copy There is a letter in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew written by C.S. Sargent to Sir David Prain on 12 April 1910 that is described in the Archives as he has given Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you his card to two you agree to their use. Close and accept friends of his Miss Hoyt To find oût more including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy and Miss Rice. They are https://washingtonembassygardens.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/elizabeth-hoyt-gladys-rice-l.... 9/24/2018 HARVARD GRADUATES ACCLAIM DR. ELIOT New York Times file): Jan 28, 1909; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg.4 HARVARDGRADUATES ACCLAIM DR. ELIOT 1/28/09 As He Tells Them That Ameri- cans Measure Success by Ser- vice, Not by Dollars. REVOLUTION IN TEACHING College Men Learn Nowadays by Doing the Actual Work of Their Choice, He Declares. The applause with which close to a thousand graduates of Harvard, old and young. greeted Dr. Ellot, the retiring President of the university, on his en- trance last night to the great dining room in the Harvard Club, where a reception was held in his honor. was regarded as a refutation of the criticism often made that Dr. Eliot's was a cold nature that had kept Harvard men strangers to him. His speech, which was listened to with the closest attention, the silence being interrupted only by occasional bursts of applause, also refuted this criticism. He spoke of himself more than has been his wont, of his gratification in having been for so many years intrusted with a position to render a service in a high degree, and, arguing from, the congratulations which, as he said, had poured in on him in the past few months, he said it was not ma- terial success that the American people worshipped. but serviceableness. It is just and accurate to say that we are develop.ng in this country a new re- ligion-the reigion of serviceableness," he declared. Dr. Eliot said that teaching methods had been revolutionized in the past forty years-that now men learned by doing. Forty years ago," he sald, the uni- versity trained men for the three tradi- tional professions, ministry, law, and med- reine. we now train them for every learned and scientific profession. Edu- cation is now got by doing the things themselves. We have at Harvard three instances of 'his great change In teaching methods. At Squam Lake. in New Hampshire, the Harvard Engineering Camp, men spend-two months in the Summer, living the lives of working engineers. We have a preserve at Petersham. N. H., where men studying to be foresters, instead of learning from books, take in hand the actual work. In Vermont, so that our mining students may perfect themselves, we have control of part of a copper mine, and there the men work as actual miners for eight weeks in the year. In our law school men now learn how to draw briefs. The lecture system is al- most abandoned. Every student is now taught to do the things his profession re- quires. We are on the trink of a vast ocean of undiscovered truth. We have just had a striking example of this in wireless telegraphy. Dr. Eliot then began to talk of himself, which, even to Harvard men, he has rare- ly done before. In the last three months," he said, Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission there has come to me a steady stream of praise, thanks. and gratitude. My ca- reer appears to strike a considerable num- ber of people as a successful one. People congratulate me on what they call my success. But my career has certainly not been successful in what IS considered to be the American Idea or success. It has not successful m a pecuniary way. SUCCESS terms or service to the community NOW. does not this re- fute the common opinion that the Ameri- can estimate of success is a pecuniary one? Dr., Eliot told how when traveling by boat recently mom BOSTON to Mount Des- the vessel's officers came to thin and said: officers want to ask you a question. We know you're a smart man. We want to know why, being a small man. you are not rich-? The real American estimate of success in the WORLD IS sPrriceableness and not wealth. continued Dr. Ellot. and it is a great satisfaction to me. that I have been privileged 10 give an instance to that effect. The reward the American people give to such success is remarkable in its impressiveness. The man who stands in my place cannot help under- going infinite processes of enlargement of his sympathies and mind from the con- tact he has with people of high education and standing. When he had finished his speech Dr. Eliot was again applauded vigorously. In the first part of his speech. after being introduced by Austen G. Fox. Pres- ident of the club. Dr. Ellot spoke of Living Harvard Force." and eulogized the late Edward King. the reliance of the American people in time of stress. and the architect. Charles McKlm, of whom he said: have just visited Mr. Morgan's library-the most perfect build- in't for 118 purpose in the world. and that came from the brain of Charles Mc- Kim." TOO FEW COLLEGE WOMEN.WED So Says Dr. Eliot, But He Hopes It Isn't Higher Education's Fault. Charles W. Eliot. the retiring President of Harvard University, addressed/ the Brearley League at its annual luncheon held in the Hotel Gotham vesterday The organization is composed of alumnae of the Brearley School. 17 West Forty- fourth Street, and numbers among its members many women prominent in New York society About 200 attended the luncheon. Miss Ethel Ward. 123 West Seventy-fourth Street. President of the magne. prosided. with Dr. Eliot at her right and Pro Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History and of the New York Zoological Society. at her left. Dr. Ellot responded in the loast. The Advantages of Higher Enucation for Wo- men. He said in part: have bec.n very much interested to hear Mr. Croswell. your Headmaster, say that you ladies were/his teachers and not his pupils. At Harvard I have had sev- eral groups whom , held In verv much the same regard. One of the chief joys of elderly teachers and parents is to see the young child's mind expand. It is a great joy to a father or mother to see in the mind of their child some quality that they themselves do not possess. A teach- er's greatest satisfaction is to learn to respect the attainment of his pupil's mind. I have/sec hundreds and thou- sands of cases where the growth of fac- ulties has come under the teacher's no- tice, which were not possible of acquisi- tion. and which he had not known to exist This is a constant joy to. the teacher. Twenty-five years ago there were many problems in women's education. One was: /Will prolonged education for girls injure_health? Another was: Are girls capable and competent to undertake higher education? And. lastly, and most important: Does a higher education im- pair a woman's chance of getting mar- ried? All these questions have now been satisfactorily settled. We have come to see that health is improved, if anything. by higher education. Further, It has been sown in thousands of cases that young women are as capable as young men to undertake men's studies. And are the prospects of marriage interfered with by college? Certainly not by going to college. Twenty-five years ago the sort of women who went to col- lege were not the most attractive phy- sically. however they may have been Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission 162 The report of the Viewe Green Committee was read and accepted. 7/13/09 Discussion was had in regard to expectoration in public places that the matter be referred the Board of It was suggested by Mr. John Health after ascertaining the law on the subject The President explained the reasons for amending the By Lows by substituting in Article 3 Thursday in place of Tuesday as the day for the meetings of it association on motion of Mr. Kennedy volid that the By- Laws be changed as aforesaid The President, reported that arrangements had been made for improving the Shore Path near the mount Desert Reading Room property The President explained that is had been proposed to transfer Tawn Pond Park to it. Hancock Country Rustees of Public Receivations in order to avoid all risk of toxation. Mr. John S. Kennedy also spoke to the same effect No action was taken but is was tacility agreed towars untie the arrival of wr. S. Trui mitchell used to confer with him on the matter. 163 r th President and Dr.S. Weir hitchell be appointed On memo of hr. Kennedy is was voted that the associations appreciation of the loli Sun. a committee leforefore resolutions expressing Waldron Bates legacy, and of his devoted services loth community his Hobson called is attention to the fact that here in the interests of Forestry, and on Mr. Gifford Prichot was to d dress a meeting motion of Rs. Rev. William Gaurence, it was voted that the President together with Mrs. Hobson and mr. George B. Doer aef in the matter. (Signed) L. A. tustin, Voted to adjourn Sec. pro tem. Society at Bar Harbor Engaged in its Usual Round of Pleasure. Small Dinner Pa Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1857-Current Aug 1, 1909; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2001) pg. X2 Society at Bar Harbor Engaged in its Usual Round of Pleasure. Small Dinner Parties Popular at Lenox. Special to The New York Times. by Mrs. Henry F. Dimock at her cottage AR HARBOR, Me., July 31.-The Tuesday evening after the Gifford Pinchot B week just drawing to a close has lecture at the Casino in honor of Mr. been a busy one for Bar Harbor. Pinchot and the other speakers. There The largest function of the week was was a large attendance of society leaders the annual Kennedy reception at Ken- at the lecture and at the reception, which arden Lodge, at which the Summer was a very pleasant affair. colony leaders were all present, and Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Wilkes will enjoyed a delightful afternoon on the spend the Summer at the Rockaway. Be-l spacious and extensive grounds, by fore her marriage Mrs. Wilkes was Miss far the finest at Bar Harbor. Then the Sylvla Green, daughter of Mrs. Hetty first tennis tournament of the Summer, Green, in mixed doubles, was held at the Kebo Valley Club, beginning Monday. with a Gifford Pinchot of Washington, head remarkably good list of entries. The Gif- the United States Department of For- ford Pinchot lecture at the Casino Tues- estry, has been the guest of Mrs. Morris day attracted many. The Malvern mid- K. Jesup at Stonecliffe during his stay week hops and the Swimming Club hop here. Saturday night proved delightful affairs. Mrs. Sidney W. Keith of Philadelphia Then there were a number of local events entertained at dinner at the Swimming and private dinners and luncheons by the Club Saturday evening before the hop. score. The floral decorations were sweet peas, The entry blanks and premium lists for and the favors American Beauty roses. the Horse Show were sent out Tuesday, Those present included Dr. and Mrs. S and there is already a general response Weir Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Scott, as to entries. The boxes are going fast, Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Barklie, Mr. and all the front rows being already taken. Mrs. Robert C. Drayton, Mrs. Drayton. The box holders# thus far include Gen. Mrs. Adams, Miss Julia Berwind, Miss Edward Morrell Clement B. Newbold, J. Anne Thompson. Mrs. Frank T. Howard, L. Ketterlinus, J. Pierpont Edwards, Miss Ellen Hopkins, Miss Linzee, Messrs. John I. Kane, Mrs. Warner M. Leeds, Reginald De Koven, Timothee Adamow- John T. Pratt. John C. Livingston, Mid- dleton S. Burrill, Philip Livingston. Mrs. ski, Charles Fry, Boardman, Johns, and Ridgway. Edgar Scott, Miss Christine W. Biddle, Frank B. Keech, Mrs. G. A. Draper, Mrs. Mrs. George A. Draper also entertained Alexander Mackay-Smith, Louis B. Mc- at dinner prior to the dancing, the dec- Cagg, Mr. R. L. Patterson, W. S. Gurnee, orations being American Beauty roses. F. H. Goodyear. Francis Burton Harrison, Her dinner was in honor of Miss Ger- Mrs. Emmett, Dave Hennen Morris, Mrs. trude Bradford, flancée of Mrs. Draper's nephew, Preston Davie. The guests in- cluded Miss Widener, Miss McCormick, Miss Hinckley, Miss Cartwright. Miss Bickford, Messrs. Harry Widener, A. Hudson, Henry D. Burnham, G. Draper, Davie, Gordon. and Pierce. Mrs. Henry F. Dimock held a largely at- tended reception Tuesday night at her cottage after the Gifford Pinchot lecture! in honor of Mr. Pinchot and the other speakers. Mrs. Nicholas Anderson of Washington entertained at the Miller cottage Tuesday, her guests including Mrs. D. T. Worden, Mrs. Drayton, Mrs. Steward, Mrs. Platt- Hunt, Mrs. Rush Shippen Huidekoper, Mrs. Hammond, and Mrs. R. Hall Mc- Cormick. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver J. Wells entertained Monday morning at Clovercroft at an enjoyable musicale, at which Perie Averill of New York, a guest at the cottage, was soloist. Mr. and Mrs. Wells also entertained Wednesday night with a small dinner and bridge party, the guests including Mr, and Mrs. J. I. Ketterlinus, Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, and Mrs. Haskell. Augustus Franzen entertained a few friends at dinner at the Newport on Tues- dav. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Newbold of Hyde Park. N. Y., are late additions to the cottage colony, and have the Carr cot- tage on Wayman Lane, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Bridgman of New York have returned from a trip abroad and are at their cottage, Rockhurst, on Mount Desert Street for the Summer Mrs. Mary R. H. Ghyn and Miss Doro- thy Glvn of New York are spending a fortnight at the Fox cottage, which Mrs. GWy purchased this Spring. William Rhinelander Stewart, Jr., who has been spending the early Summer with his father. William Rhinelander Stewart, at Greenlawn, has sailed for Europe to join his mother. Mrs. J. Henry Smith, and sister, Miss Anita Stewart, in London. Mr. and Mrs. James B. Clews, who have Sherman, Mrs. Charles T. Pellew, been spending the early Summer at El- Jacob H. Schiff, Merle Middleton, Mrs. beron. N. J.. will spend the month of Thomas Hamlin Hubbard, H. C. Fahne- August at Bar Harbor. Mr. and Mrs. stock, Mrs. Gifford A. Cochrane, Miss Clews have been entertaining Mrs. J. Mellon, Miss Gardiner, George S. Bow- Francis Sullivan of Philadelphia, who will doin. A. J. Barklle. C. Morton Smith, Mrs. spend August at Bar Harbor with her Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. c.1909 2 In point of faour legal difficulties OF 8 burely technical character rendered ft impossible to complete the details OF these purchases before that meeting, or to estimate the exact cost OF the works etc. involved the such completion, and the payment covering them undertaken by Mr Kennedy, had not then been made Whole COST however was stated to wound numbers, amounting fon the murchase of the land ftself the the case of the Newport and Ploket Mountain ReBet vations to $5,500. while the Teraz and Bundry expenses needs earily involved in the transaction which was alac stated the Meeting Kennedy had offered and apreed to beaze amounted to an estimated and now actual $2500 more. It W8B further announced at this meetine that these lifts of Mary Kennedy had enabled the Association to secure other carva of large amount dependent unon his, which comaleted the extension of Reservation when outlined. Thearine has now come for makine payment for the lands thus contracted for in accordance with Mr Kennedy's engagement with the Association In contracting for them. which R did as Executive officer of the Association, I acted in full consultation with MY Kennedy as their donor. who authorized me to make these contracts and incur such expenses upon his account moreover Mrs Kennedy who was conversant with Mr Kennedy's wishes in the matter as well as with the main items of expense involved, has told me that he in his last illness asked her to bear witness to his engagements in this matter as to an obligation which he had assumed and had not yet discharged Under these circumstances I respectfully request you to recognize this obligation as Mr Kennedy's executors, byadischanges 3 the indebtedness thus incurred. under his instruction, upon his de count and paying the above desoribed sums, together aggregating eight thousand dollars (88,000 Payment may be made to me as Executive Officez OF the Hancook County menetees of Public Reserve tions I having been authorized as Buok by Missing Kennedy to entor toto the contracts and engagement B herein described. The deeds for the lands are waiting now tombe delivered Lenu trully yours. the 1909 1909 Undeted Attendic The surveys and studies the Transit Company made during the summer of 1907 having shown con- clusively the impossibility of extending railroad connection to Mount Desert Island and operating it successfully by electricity as our plan -- undertaken solely to avoid the building of a trolley line over the Island roads had con- templated, the lands secured in anticipation for its terminus at Ellsworth, Southwest Harbor and elsewhere were sold as opportunity offered, with the exception of that at Bar Harbor, from which I had from the beginning other, alternative views. In the autumn of 1909 Mr. Kennedy, who had subscribed by far the greater sum toward the Tran- sit Company enterprise, died. He had approved, without commitment of the future, my plan for tem- porary use of our Bar Harbor lands for athletic purposes as had my fellow directors on the Board and authorized, with them, the putting the land in condition for it at our company's expense. 2. I now took up, the electric railway project at at end, making the use of the land for athletic pur- - poses permanent with Mr. Kennedy's nephews, the Tods, trustees of his estate, whom I found thoroughly in sympathy with me in the matter and who offered their cooperation. A word in explanation of what follows is needed here: Mrs. Kennedy, left alone after Mr. Kennedy's death, invited her sister and her sister's husband, the Rev'd Dr. Schauffler, Secretary of the Presby- terian Missionary Society in America, to make their home with her, with the result that she, already in- terested, presently became completely absorbed in the missionary undertakings of the Society, devoting to it her whole income, great as it still was, and even pledging it for years to come for the construction of buildings in China, Rome and elsewhere and their provision with endowments. With this in mind, Mr. Kennedy's nephews told me it would be wise to mark the value of the Athletic Field down in asking her to purchase it from the com- pany and give it to the Town, that she might not feel too great a sum was being taken for it from her missions. 3. So, in friendly conspiracy, we set the price of the Athletic Field at less than half what it, with its drainage and other improvements, had cost, and the following summer, that of 1910, I took up with Mrs. Kennedy making the gift of it to the Town. She agreed at once but presently wrote me to withdraw the gift on account of objections made by Dr. Schauffler. I let the matter rest for a while, biding my time, then took it up afresh, going first to Dr. Schauffler and diplomatically seeking his cooperation. A meeting with Mrs. Kennedy followed, at which he, too, was present. I outlined, at their request, the good work the Athletic Field, I felt, would do for the ever renewed younger generation at Bar Harbor, and the real need that existed for it as a playground. When I had done, Dr. Schauffler said: "The Athletic Field is yours!" and Mrs. Kennedy nodded her approval. It was arranged that for a period of twenty years, Date which I set as covering probably the duration of Mrs. Kennedy's life, the property should be held by a cor- poration which I undertook to form, insuring its right administration in accordance with Mrs. Kennedy's desire, 4. then be turned over to the Town under conditions that would safeguard and perpetuate such use for all future time. These twenty years came to an end but a year or two after Mrs. Kennedy died, and on November 14th, 1934 the holding corporation turned the Athletic Field over formally to the Town. [C.B.Dar]] Cofy At the annual meeting of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations held at Bar Harbor in September, 1909, a statement was made by Mr George B. Dorr as the executive officer of the Corporation regard- ing work accomplished during the preceding year and other work in process of accomplishment. The meeting was presided over by the president of the Corperation, ex-president Charles W. Eliot. Present among other Trustees at the meeting were Mr John S. Kennedy, the Rt Rev. William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, Mr L. E. Opdycke, president of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, State Senator L. B. Deasy of Bar Harbor, and Mr Lea McI. Luquer, the secretary of the Corperation. The statement made by Mr Dorr of work accomplished included the purchase of the summit of Green Mountain and the acquisition of the stock of the Green Mountain Road Corporation, and was accompanied by the fur- ther statement that the cost of these, together with that of the search into titles and other legal work involved and the employment of neces- sary agents in the matter, had been the gift of Mr Kennedy to the Associ- ation. The statement of work in process of completion described a contract entered into with the Rodick Reality Company and others for the purchase of the northern portion of Newport Mountain and the whole of Picket Mountain; a similar contract entered into for the purchase of a tract called the Dry Mountain Tract, connecting the Newport Mountain Reserva- tion with the Green Mountain Reservation first referred to; and studies made by lawyers and work done by others in regard to the ownership of other mountains and tracts of land important to the purposes of the Associ- ation. This statement was accompanied by the further statement that the Newport Mountain and Picket Mountain tracts themselves and the legal ex- penses, employment of agents, etc., involved in the acquisition of these 2. and of the adjoining Dry Mountain tract and which had made it possible to interest others in its purchase. like the Green Mountain Tract acquired the previous year the gift of Mr. Kennedy, who had authorized the action on the part of Mr. Dorr. Following the statement by Mr. Dorr, President Eliot moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Kennedy for his generosity and public spirited action. Seconded by Bishop Lawrence. Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. Bar Harbor, Maine. Oct. 13.1909 Hou L B. Denry My dear Sir:- I have the honor to inform you that President Charles W. Eliot has appointed the following Committee to consider and report at the next meeting, on "the whole matter reparding the protection of all water supply on the Island of Mt. Desert." President Charles W. Eliot, Chairman. Mr. John S. Kennedy Hon. L. B. Deasy Mr. James T. Gardiner Dr. Richard H. Harte Dr. C. C. Morrison Dr. George A. Phillips. This Committeechas the power to add to its number. Kindly signify your acceptance to the Secretary at 321 West 80 Street, New York. Very truly yours, Lea h== Lugue Secretary. Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. Bar Harbor, Maine. Oct. 13.1909 Hon. L. B. Desiry, My dear Sir:- I have the honor to inform you that President Charles W. Eliot has appointed the following Committee to present to the next annual meeting a proposed amendment to the Charter, whereby "net income of the Corporation may be used for the purposes of the Corporation without infringing upon its charter privileges." Hon. L. B. Deasy, Chairman. Mr. George B. Dorr. Mr. George L. Stebbins. Kindly signify your acceptance to the Secretary at 321 West 80 Street, New York. Very truly yours, Lea Secretary. Diotaphone - transcribed Ootober 15, 1941. I, happily, was not a member of the Bar Harbor Water Company's directors board, but stood apart as one interested from every angle in the better development of the Town. I could do what others could not without being open to the charge of acting for some special interest in seeking charge of the aoquisition of further lands for the protection of the Bar Harbor Water Company. The water sheds of the lake was large and its lands were held by local owners whose prices would go up beyond all limit as soon as purchasing by the Water Company for protection of the lake began. But the matter was one of broad public concern, State concern, and I thought that by dwelling on that aspect of it I might be able to get a law passed by the State Legislature, which happily met in its bionnial session the first of the ooming year, and I set to work upon it with a will. We happily had at Seal Harbor, as a summer resident, Professor William T. Sedgwick, author of the most authoritative work extant on public water supplies, and I at once enlisted his aid. Dr. Abbe, than whom no one in New York stood higher, I already had behind me and one by one I was able to present, when the January first meeting of the Legislature opened and hearing came upon my bill, a most impressive array of testimony of high authority in favor of granting our water supplies on the Island condemnation rights for the protection of their waters purity. I also got a number of leading summer residents on the Island to attend the meeting and speak in favor of the Bill. They represented a great new industry of the State, 2. summer residential life along its ocean-front, and they too carried weight. I sought the right for all the water supply companies upon the Island; I obtained it,in spite of local opposition, for Eagle Lake, Bar Harbor's water supply, and Jordan Pond, that of Seal Harbor, the two most important of them all. Local ownership around the others, less important from the summer residential point of view, was too strong to do more, but it was enough It put the idea of the necessity of purity for our water supplies across and no further trouble has ensued. Having got this right, I naturally was asked by the Water Company to take charge of seouring, so far as their reserve funds, which were considerable, would allow, their water sheds which I agreed to do upon the sole condition that the lands secured should pass into the Public Reservations hands, to be held by our Trustees association, and not go to the Water Company, thus insuring, as I thought forevert the purity of their supply. In this the Water Company secured a great advantage in its freedom from taxation which ownership under our Trustess of Public Reservations association gave, and it readily agreed. The same course was followed by the Seal Harbor Water Company so far as need was, and the two lakes lying baok to back as it were with the Bubbles mountain ridge [G.B.Darr] Pureedings of the Society for Psychical Research Baedain College I Dorr is VP of C.3 Soc for Priydant fes. 1909. - VJ / 21 Puc Filc Soc For Single Res. 1939. 1909 Vol. 23 Pice the Soc 2 Wm Jan Report M His Piper's Hodg sm-Control. Pp 38-47 OlF Faru 41 jot 3 1939 Final Listin for Worr.Still lists 18 Series Commonwealth Ave address. Dorr listed as UP I NOVICI 18901 1902 402 (not earlier ) 1910, 1911 1913, 1115 Payinn America march R Voi 6 (Proc:) 1918, 1920 1923, 1939 it Dorr Listed as Member, Mrs C.Dorr 1891- 1896 1897 ,1 900, 1903, - Check again vol. 25 (Proc) Index to Dorr/Door (1411) 5 last puh list of offer util 1946. 6 No obit for Dorr. EOOSIER01 Cound Pub in G45, vol 47 No. 9/5/2018 Xfinity Connect Inbox Sam clemens & william james RONALD 9/4/2018 10:15 PM To rwh051009@gmail.com, eppster2@comcast.net Following your. lead, I watched the final PBS installment on Mark Twain. Refreshed my memory from its original broadcast. Spent the day with William James. Was reminded that James asked Dorr to be one of his pallbearers at Harvard's Appleton Chapel. But what I had not uncovered earlier was that on the occasion of James's 68th birthday--eight months before his death--his family invited 1/11/10 to his Irving Street home 22 of what his biographer calls his "eminent colleagues and close friends" to mark his retirement. A moment of celebration for those seated around the dining room table: Charles William Eliot, A. Lawrence Lowell (Eliot's sucessor), Henry Higginson, George Dorr and the senior members of the philosophy department. And overlooking the gathering was the just completed Bay Emmet portrait of James to be presented to the university, its subject looking "kindly, wise, and benign." That Dorr was included in this gathering elevates his standing, don't you think? I have found anew more evidence of James and his first psychology grad student and PhD recipient, G. Stanley Hall. Need to look at my Clark U. Archival files tomorrow. Spent most of the afternoon reading James's 1898 letters to his wife for the two month trip to Stanford and Berkeley. What sensitivity! How did you spend the day recovering from my visit? I sent in nine new ILL requests. Sleep well. Ron PLACE FOR PINCHOT. Former Forester Made Head of Na- tional Conservation Association. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The election of Gifford Pinchot, former Government Forester. to succeed Dr. Charles W. Eliot as President of the National Conservation Association was announced to-night. Dr. Eliot, at whose suggestion Mr. Pinchot was elected, retains the honorary Presi- dency. Mr. Pinchot takes active charge of the association to-morrow, the head- quarters of which will be in Washington. Two weeks ago Dr. Eliot wrote to the Executive Committee of the association expressing his opinion that Mr. Pinchot, as the recognized head of the conserva- tion movement, should take the active leadership of the association. At Dr. Eliot's direction. a meeting of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the association was held, and Mr. Pinchot's election followed, The National Conservation Association was formed last July at a meeting with Dr. Eliot in Cambridge, Mass., with the purpose of helping. through a large indi- vidual membership, to put into practical effect the conservation principles de- clared by the conference of Governors'at the White House in May, 1908. It has secured a membership extending generally over the country. It is an- nounced that an active campaign to ex- tend that membership in every State and Territory will be carried on vigorously The New York Times Published: January 24, 1910 Copyright © The New York Times 5 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK, 1st March, 1910. George B. Dorr Esq. 18 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. Dear Sir, Your letter of the 24th ultimo addressed to the Executors of my late Uncle's Estate has been referred to me, and as some time will elapse before it can be acted upon, I have decided to acknowledge it. At a Meeting of the Executors application was made to them to authorize the payment to you of $5,000 for the acquisition of Newport Mountain. The statement was made to the Executors that the Mountain had not been acquired, and that Mr. Kennedy had made no payment to account. On the presentation of the case as made to the Executors their duly appointed Counsel advised them that such payment would be illegal. The statement made by Mr. Kennedy during his last illness, and to which you refer, was conveyed to the Executors as a request by Mr. Kennedy to Mrs. Kennedy to "See that New- port Mountain is paid for" and appealed to some of them as susceptible of more than one construction. Your presentation of the case gives to it an entirely different aspe ct and I sincerely regret that a de- cision was arrived at without the present detail, without G.B.D -2- reference to "Picket Mountain" and the legal and other ex- penses connected with these purchases and the "Dry Mountain" Reservation purchase, and under a misapprehension as to the total cost, all of which indicates to me that Mrs. Kennedy's knowledge of the subject is not so extensive as you think. I will ask Counsel to the Executors to recon- sider the whole question and if he reverses himself and ad- vises them that the appropriation of $8,000 for this purpose can be legally made by the Executors, I will cheerfully vote to make it. If the decision is against you, and although I have not been asked to do so, I will see if some of Mr. Kennedy's relatives or legatees are not disposed to carry through what I believe he would have done had he lived. You have forgotten that I met you once more at General Hubbard's reception to Commander Peary on 28th Sep- tember last. Mr. Kennedy discussed with me during my visit the whole question of the Mountain tops, what he intended to do and what he expected others to do. Yours faithfully, ELIOT ON ROCKEFELLER PLAN. Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1857-Current file); Mar 5, 1910; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. 9 ELIOT ON ROCKEFELLER PLAN. Harvard's Ex-Head Doubtful of Wis- dom of Vast Charity Corporation. Special 10 The New Yerk Times. CAMBRIDGE Mass. March 4.-Presi- dent Emeritus Charles W. Eliot of Har- 3/5/10 vard was not very enthusiastic when asked to express his opinion of the re- cently announcedRockefeller Foundation. Whether this new plan of incorporat- ing all charities and educational gifts now supported by the Rockefeller millions will prove a beneficial advance over the pres- ent methods I cannot say," said Dr. Eliot. "A great deal depends on the per- son or persons who administer this vast fund. Those who have the actual han- dling of the money which is to be dis- pensed should have a wide and impartial experience in such work. It is just as possible to throw money away in this manner as in any other, and many undeserving charities may impose on Mr. Rockefeller's agents. I am not in favor of applying the principles of incor- poration to such an undertaking, for in my mind that is to commercialize the matter 100 much. There IS also another matter to be considered. It is possible for such a cor- poration to discriminate unconsciously against many deserving charities. Such a vast scheme of charities as proposed by Mr. Rockefeller may also have the effect of paralyzing gifts from other persons who may consider all charitable and edu- cational wants to be filled by the Rocke- feller Foundation. With these restrictions and comments I believe that the Rockefeller Foundation will be a great benefit to all humanity. The proposal of such a plan on Mr. Rockefeller's part certainly shows a wide and humane mind, but whether the work will be managed with the same public spirit and impartiality which has charac- terized Mr. Rockefeller in such matters remains to be seen." Do you expect Harvard to benefit greatly by this plan? Dr. Eliot was asked. I should want to see the articles of incorporation and know the men who will handle this fund before I can answer that," replied Dr. Eliot. ST. THOMAS'S NEW CHANCEL Church to Have a Carved Panel In- stead of a Window. St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Fifth Avenue and Fifty-third Street. has adopt- ed a new chancel plan for its $1,000,000 structure. Instead of a large chancel window the arcintects have now substi- tuted. and it has been accepted. a carved panneling. which will extend all the way to the lofty ceiling and contain many carved figures. In the upper part will be stained glass. The only other change is a reduction of 7 feet in the length of the church made necessary by the widening of Fifth Avenue. In the year book to be issued to-morrow a communican list. of 3,300 is shown of which 2,300 belong to the parish church. This is larger than ever before. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission Leading County Paper and the Society Journal of Mt. Desert Island THE BAR HARBOR RECORD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1910. Cashier BAR HARBOR WILL WELCOME EDWAI PRESIDENT WILLIAM TAFT The President and his party left for dinner. The party will be the OFF Beverly on his Maine cruise Monday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis at that afternoon and arrived at Eastport yes- famous Tea House and about twenty- nce terday afternoon, where he was en- five guests have been invited to ac- tertained by the people of that East- company them. HOU rk ern Maine Seaport city, during the Others who will entertain the party, afternoon and evening. He left there while they are at Bar Harbor are this morning and is expected to ar- Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dimock and Mr. rive at this resort at Three o'clock and Mrs. Nicholas Anderson, where today. He will in all probability land they will be dined. Moses will fur- On at the Mt. Desert reading room slip. nish the flower decoration for all of On He will then receive an official wel- these receptions and dinners and as come from the selectmen of the town, usual he will make everything look after which he is expected to take a its best. drive out to the Kebo links. The streets are being made ready He has had numerous invitations, for the occasion and when the party which he cannot accept during his arrives one will not be able to recog- Apply short stay here, but it has been offi- nize the beautiful town. A decorative cially stated that he will be the guest company from Boston is in town and of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ellis at the is busily engaged brightening things Kebo Valley Club between the hours up. of are and six on Thursday. About After the President's stay of three FA 200 hundred Invitations have been days at this resort a special car will sons out for this occasion and some take him to Bangor. where he will of most prominent members of give an address and then return to 11.0 colony will to there in Hilaworth. where he will spend the night with Senator Eugene Hale. Telep President Koto luncheon the Prost It is not definitelt known as vet Taff Miss Mahal whore the party will Be received by ISA Winthrope the selectment but It 10 expected that and ther ther will be memmer at the Mount Desert Reading Room 85 soon 8.9 the paiir lands MADIANA FITA MORTN FUSSY Th Charles W. Eliot to George B. Dorr Asticou, Maine September 16, 1910. Dear Mr. Dorr, Under the power given me by the new by-law adopted yesterday, I am ready to appoint any special committees that you will name. Is it not best to appoint them im- mediately? You spoke yesterday of two special committees, one on bridle paths, and the other on new roads. I hope you will soon be relieved from the necessity of taking quick, decisive action on purchases. That is a somewhat wearing business, which is an offset to the enjoyment which, on the whole, you ought to get from your admirable work for the Reservations. When the tran- sactions have been completed, SO that you have made sure of all the necessary or very desirable places, I hope the time will come when all the acquired reservations can be indicated in green on the path-map of Mt. Desert, as was done in 1909 for the acquisitions on Green Mountain, the Beehive, and Barr Hill. [You gave me great pleasure yesterday. To see the progress already make of the reservations, ad the promote lost the immediate future was a great Safis faction. Chale W. shoot] 1910- JDR Fr. purchase Seal Harber home. First step that A Degan land acquisition to preseur at lead partyfedad from expiritation donalia of nearly 10,000 are ANP. R.H.E 8/2004 5/18/12 Josiah Royce a 630 A Word of Greeting to William James. [June, 1910] A WORD OF GREETING TO WILLIAM JAMES SOCAH My word of greeting to our host ought to be delivered ex tempore. If I cannot meet the requirement of the occasion in this respect, one suffi- cient reason for my failure is the difficulty of separating out, in my mind, and in my speech, the things that it is possible to say from amidst the great mass of the things which flock to my mind at such a time. My relations to our host have lasted so long,-have been so manifold, that I can select 3/26/1980. only with difficulty. What he has meant to me has been of such intimate / importance in my own personal life that it is especially hard to judge what part of my own account of him will appeal to others with any of the deeper meaning that this account inevitably has for me. Yet there is one matter to which I may at once refer, a matter that has been indeed momentous for my own private fortunes, but that is also known and interesting to all of us alike. Nothing is more characteristic of Pro- fessor James's work as a teacher and as a thinker than is his chivalroas fondness for fair play in the warfare and in the cooperation of ideas and of ideals. We all of us profess to love truth. But one of James's especial offices in the service of truth has been the love and protection and en- couragement of the truth-seekers. He has done much more than this for the cause of truth; but this at least he has always done. He has lately warned us much against thinking of truth as a mere abstraction. And in- deed it has always been his especial gift to see truth incarnate, em- bodied in the truth-seekers, and to show his own love of truth by listening with appreciation, and by helping the cause of fair play, whenever he found somebody earnestly toiling or suffering or hoping in the pursuit of any genuine ideal of truth. How many eager seekers, neglected by the world, -men who fought on the side of unpopular causes, have come to him for sympathy, and have found it, - not in the form of any easy so ceptance of their own opinions, - but in the form of a sympathy that has 1 A dinner was held at the house of Prof. James on Jan. 18, to celebrate the com- pletion of his portrait, and the presentation of it to the University. The portrait was subscribed, on the occasion O James' retirement, by the members of the Divi- mon and the Visiting Committee on Philosophy as s symbol of the affection and esteem of his colleagues. The following were present at the dinner: Specially invited guests: Pres. Lowell, Pres. Eliot, Mr. H. L. Higginson. Members of the Visiting Committee : Mesars. R. C. Robbins, G. B. Dorr C. Cabot, R. H. Dana. W. R. Warren, J. Lee, and the Rev. G. A. Gordon. Members of the Division of Philosophy Professors James, Palmer, Münsterberg, Royce, Pasbody, Santayana, Holt, Yerkes, Woods, Perry, and Dr. Fuller. Informal remarks were made by Prof. Palmer, who represented the subscribers, by Pres. Eliot and Prof. Royce, who spoke as Prof. James's associates throughout his career, by Pres. Lowell, who repre- sented the University and received the portrait in its behalf, and by Prof. James. The portrait was painted by Miss Ellen Emmett, of New York, and is to hang in the Faculty Room, University Hall. Harvard graduates Magazine 18(1910) Google CALIFORNIA 1910.] A Word of Greeting to William James. 681 sustained them in the freedom of their faith and in the sincerity of their life, because he told them that if the spirit of earnest endeavor was in them, and if some real light had come to their souls, it was better to offer what they had, and to fight for their own best, than to accept tamely the re- straints of this or of that transient form of present-day orthodoxy. Other men talk of liberty of thought; but few men have done more to secure liberty of thought for men who were in need of fair play and of a reasonable hearing than James has done. Now I suppose that it is altogether, or almost altogether because of James's chivalry of soul that I myself first obtained that opportunity in life which results in my being here with you at all. In speaking of my personal relation to him, I therefore have to dwell upon a matter that in 1877- this respect does indeed tend to characteriza My real acquaintance with our host began one summer day in 1877 when I first visited him in the house on Quincy St., and was permitted to pour out my son to some- body who really seemed to believe that a young man might rightfully do- vote his life to philosophy if he chose. was then student at the Johns Hopkins University. The opportunities for a lifework in philosophy in this country were few. Most of my friends and advisers had long been telling me to let the subject alone. Perhaps, so far as I was concerned, their advice was sound; but in any case I was so far incapable of accepting that advice. Yet if somebody had not been ready to tell me that I had a right to work for truth in my own way, I should ere long have been quite dis- couraged. I do not know what I then could have James found me at once - -made out what my essential interests were at our first inter- view, accepted me, with all my imperfections, as one of those many souls who ought to be able to find themselves in their own way, gave a patient and willing ear to just my variety of philosophical experience, and used his influence from that time on, not to win me as a follower, but to give me my chance. It was upon his responsibility that I was later led to get my first opportunities here at Harvard Whatever I am is in that sense due to him. There are a great many people living who could give almost this very account of their own carcers. My own case is but one of a multitude. No other philosopher in our country compares with James, I think, in his effectiveness as a man who has helped active and restless minds not only to win their own spiritual freedom, but to express their ideals in their own way Sometimes critical people have expressed this by saying that James has always been too fond of cranks, and that the cranks have loved him. Well, I am one of James's cranks. He was good to me. and I love him. The result of my own early contact with James was to make me for years Gougle 632 A Word of Greeting to William James. [June, very much his disciple. I am still in large part under his spell. If I con- tend with him sometimes, I suppose that it is he also who through his own free spirit has in great measure taught me this liberty. I know that for years I used to tremble at the thought that James might perhaps some day find reason to put me in my place by some one of those wonderful, lightning-like epigrams wherewith he was and is always able to char- acterize those opponents whose worldly position is such as to make them no longer in danger of not getting a fair hearing, and whose self-assur- ance has relieved him of the duty to secure for them a sympathetic atten- tion. What, I used to say, would be my feeling if James were to wither me with such a word as he can use about Thomas Hill Green, or perhaps about some other so-called Hegelian - The time has passed, the light- ning in question has often descended, - never indeed on me as his friend, but often on my opinions, and has long since blasted, I hope, some at least of what is most combustible about my poor teachings. Yet I am 80 glad of the friendly words that still sustain me, that these occasional segnendo Blitze, when incidentally they are sown over the earth where my opinions chance to be growing, only make me love better the cause that James loves, and that he has 80 nobly served, the cause of fertilizing the human soil where our truth has to grow, - this cause, and the friend who through all these years has borne with me so kindly, and has in so many ways been my creator and my support