• J. A. U. ( JUST ABOUT US ) by Dr o Bertrand Ke Wilbur Volume III of III Volumes Factory Hand, Superintendent and President of H.O. Wilbur and Sons • 1901- 1927 (?) ( Pages 570 - 780 ) Memories of Lavallette, Family Servants and Boy Scout Activities 1910 - 1938 Ardmore, Rosemont and Haverford, Pa. ( Pages 781 - 835 ) Haverford, Pa. & La Jolla, Ca. l93ti - 1939 Appendix of Corrections Just About Us Volume III 1901-1938 This appendix lists corrections to the scanned copy of BK Wilbur’s autobiography. Page numbers refer to pages as numbered in BKW’s text, not to the page number on the scan. p. 626: The last word on the page should be “didn’t” instead of “did.” “Sometimes tho it didn’t…” p. 741: The last line is: “ years of repression do not develop men or make them anything but routineists.” p. 830: Following p. 826 are two consecutive pages numbered 830. Re-number the second of these pages, which begins with “There were five issues of Liberty Bonds…”, to 830A. Carolyn Wilbur Treadway Daughter of Ross Taylor Wilbur January 24, 2017 Introduction to this Digital Edition Autobiography of Bertrand Kingsbury Wilbur Just About Me BKW began JAM in 1933 while still in Haverford, Pa, and wrote the final page in 1938 in San Diego, California as he notes at the top of p. 737 in Vol III: ....It is a long time since I wrote any of this, and I am still anxious to complete it. Having brought old letters and papers to do so with me in anticipation of having lots of time out here, which I have failed to find, I have at last gotten at it. It seems best to describe events as a series of pictures, rather than in anything like history. Its sad enough any way, but it seems to me that you children will want the whole picture..... As noted at the top of p. 278, Vol II BKW hand-typed five carbon copies of JAM. These three digitized volumes were scanned from a Xerox copy made from Teddy and Nelson's carbon, when I stayed with Teddy at her small frame house in Haverford during the summer of 1981 and helped paint her eaves from a long ladder. I'm forever indebted to Teddy for introducing me to JAM, and for her suggestion that I make this xerox for my family, particularly since all the original onion-skin copies are rapidly deteriorating. And none of them would have held up to the digitization process. Please note that in many places BKW apparently had later thoughts and memories he wanted to add after writing the main sequentially-numbered text. In such cases he summarized these added memories on pages which he numbered A, B, C...etc. I suggest that you read the main sequential text first. And then read these lettered addenda pages separately; the events they describe do not necessarily fit exactly where inserted in the text. TABLE OF CONTENTS Begins with BKW's original 3-page Table of Contents which covers Vol I and Vol II, and later supplemented by son Ross Wilbur's expanded Table covering Vol II and Vol III. FORWARD Written by sons Bert and Harry during the 1936 'Wilbur Welcomes Wilbur Reunion' in Lavallette, NJ (pictured on p.62 of 'Happy Days') when JAM was only partially completed PREFACE Written nine days later by BKW after a coronary event during the summer. He describes the genesis of JAM: .....this took form, and as it did, I pounded it out from my grey cells by the twofinger-and-thumb method... BKW speaks of spending many evenings with Anna Dean ('mother') writing, editing, laughing, and reliving their life together during the preparation of JAM/JAU. HAPPY DAYS & SPECIAL EVENTS The 900-page JAM/JAU story ends in 1912 when the family was still quite young and living in the big house with many servants, gardens and optimism for the future. It is unclear why BKW chose to end his story at this point, even tho he lived for many more years and died peacefully in 1945. But World War I was brewing in Europe, tastes and customs were changing, and the business climate was becoming more competitive. Perhaps these were the 'sad' years of which he speaks earlier in the text. And he might have had difficulty recounting those years in JAM. -- Page two -- Introduction to this Digital Edition So 65+ years later, after a wonderful Wilbur Reunion in Virginia in 1980, youngest son Ross Wilbur, then retired and living in Minnesota, was motivated to compile this heartfelt 190-page book of photos and personal memories, that fills-in this later period of the Wilbur Family history to some extent. To compile this work, Ross interviewed his brothers and sisters who were still alive, excerpted sections from the large trove of personal letters and memorabilia he had accumulated, and added his own unique and loving memories. I flew up from Chicago to visit Ross and his wife Helen during the preparation of this volume, and was honored to help Ross in the its production and distribution to every living Wilbur at the time. So it seems appropriate that Ross' later work be included now in this digital Wilbur archive. SUGGESTED JAM READINGS: To help readers 'get into' the story of the Wilbur Family, I would like to suggest a few episodes that I have particularly enjoyed: JAM page 1 13 170 240 249 296 370 486 558P 562 592 629 658 667 683 712 745 755 759 781 787 801 Early childhood beginning in 1870 in Camden, New Jersey Family trip to Europe by steamship, train and carriage in 1880 Arriving in Alaska for the first time Courtship of Miss Anna Dean Hike up Mt Edgecumb in the wilds of Alaska Summer in Gratiot, Michigan Return to Anna Dean and their wedding Cruise of the sailboat Bertha captained by BKW Meeting John D. Rockefeller in Alaska Leaving Alaska for the final time Beginning work at the chocolate factory, by 'God's direction' Summer at HO's 'salmon preserve' on the St Lawrence River BKW raises money on the Main Line for a YMCA Buying a 1906 2-cyl Maxwell - top speed 35mph BKW joins the first Board of Health; describes early sanitation standards Discovering Lavallette and the New Jersey shore for the first time in 1908 Steamship cruise in 1910 from New York to Caribbean & West Indies Early biplane flights from nearby cow pasture Honeymoon in Jamaica by steamship in 1911 Early trips to Lavallette in the new 1912 4-cyl Cadillac Harry Backus and the Family's black servants Starting a Scout Troop soon after scouting came to America Carolyn Treadway and I as BKW's grandchildren, enjoyed discovering, editing and digitizing this massive work. We hope that future Wilburs will also enjoy reading it and passing it on to their children. JAM represents our heritage. For we believe that within each of us dwells the ideals and spirit of the man who was Bertrand Kingsbury Wilbur. Clark Maxfield Son of Helena Ruth Wilbur Maxfield January 24, 2017 Table of Cont.ents. page 8 VolU!D.e III The F'amil;,r Grows, Years at the Chocolate Factory, Comn:unity Services, LaTalle~te, 128. 129. 130. 131. 132. 13:'>. 134. 135. 136. 137. 138. 139. 140. 141. 142. 143. 144. l4b. l4o. 147. 148. 149. 150. 151. 152. 15~. 154. 155. 15o. 157. 158. 159. loO. lcl. lo2. lti3. lt:i4. lob. • ~-:. '7 . ltid. Boy Scout activities. 1 See Dr. Van Lennep, I Decide on Business 570 Greenfield ATe., irdnore, Beginning Life -~ew 572 (Start at the chocolate factory, $20 per week,Jan.20,1902) Learning Cocoa, A Factory Hand 574 The Roasting Roo::n, The Mystery 'Of Good Eeans, Beans J.re 576 Burning s~eve Oriel, Factory Foreman , How Does Steve Figure? 580 The Code and Requisitions, Inspection and Testing, 582 Rule of Thumb vs. Factory Control Bean :Slender, ';:or king Out at Sol Ting Problems 585 Vieigant 1 : The Lahman Roaster, Roasting Temperatures 588 Home Life at ardmore 590 Dr. Miller ana Eis Pulpit, Dr. Miller's Prophsey 591 ~"•orking in the Fan Room, 3rd Floor 592 On to the Mill Roam, 2nd Floor, Augustus ~einer 595 Donald ArriTes - November 2, 1902 596 Dressing the Mills . 599 The ~ew Factory - ~ew and Broad Street, fhila., Planning 601 the Layout; The Electric Drive Approved; George Lenning; Busy Moving The Neighbors' Club 606 Gratiot Again, Eertie Goes Fishing 609 F's ctorie s, Old and fie..,. till The fress Roou, My Je~ish boss 612 Milk Chocolate, Something New; America's First Milk 614 Chocolate liumber 42 Rosemont ATenue 616 l'ihat Tom Muteh Wrote 620 Varied Duties, Estimating Losses ~edical Clubs - to retain some professional contacts 623 The night ShUt; Ni g;ht Shift Difficulties; tl"ight Shift 624 koutir.e Our First Girl - .t.uad::.e - October 5,1904 629 ~ the St~ _xar~erite, ~aUnon F~shing;, Jigging; A Tool 630 01 the Gu:utes 1.July l90o); TY.o ~nOne Pool; We Land The:::1; Walter Brackett, .Painter of Fish ..:.nna Is Ill; Eone;:.-:r..Jor.., i-oint fl:;>ect. It ull depended on the whim or the I:onc.c;cr. c..ltho he called it jud;:-;t'!!:'lcnt. It \"tc.o one thine I thought '\7an n:tie.xT:.bLe for e. nu-nber of ycnre. an~ • pleasure or ~:fcithcr outin~n but 1 t continued entirely without excuse I 1nor any of' tho r:.en could pln.n or nnythtng fol.~ else 3uturday aftornoon·m1d there was no crood ren.con for it. ·:.':Very one wn.a wondering ""hen wo would chut down v.nd every one was on e lot of cdeo,~~d loafed e:way as often tho word e.s to when we would a short tine before the f'inal whistle blew. planning tor any little pleaaurings '.1i th ti~c w~e stop only cw."!lo 3o there w:la 11 ttle r:ry fu::tily and \1hen I did get home Gnturdayn it we.n generally to lie down c..."ld then co to ted early and !Sleep late en possible Sunde.y mominc;, t1·yint; to get ed. I wae no weakling but lone hours and confinct:lcnt vtei·e ncoicle there ·~7'fls the nerve !\tress of redi,:1g ~· very wearing. that I wns beginning work; of' !::t~ ~ uc~in nfter r$vine knowing eo much le~o oll~bed ~o than these hieh in my ienor~.nt • or usefullneas in church o.nd ~.~odlcal fir~t non c.bout me end of beinG the under r.wn o.nd not the to]) .!'!an :.mymoro. l'!fY drevms l~uot­ A':J to college I bud no bit ot strength loft for anything but r:ry work. Arrivine nt the Fnotory I ~ot into working clothca end fotmd the f'irnt bntoh of 'tenn s nlrar.dy in the Pov.atoro or j '..ln t co inc in. l!emon hnd "' 1i ttlo Jew boy, H yeo.ro old, I cu;:l)cM, vl:a co!Oo "be]• ~------ ---~--- ~-----~-- w~~• \ • 575 • l'lote. Jcn.¢!J3C.. IntcntionalllY I huvo not tried. to ·;rritc c.11Y or thiD otory fartho lc.ot fC'.V ·coo:~n n.O 1 hU.VO j-..;j.d tho ~lU'iat:l!'.O -propa.re.• tions 'i1hich if noJb ej~tc!10i vo to.};:o tir.10 end ii" I U.o ~1ot c;ct ~'.lfi'ecient rent I ~ ~pt to bo leiu U? ~~tiroly. ~o, in c~itc of ~4 dcoiro to do noro 1 ctmnot do nucl1 r.:1d. it i o t1. tri;;.l. ::y hope wc.n to be ~.blo .. ... "'" thi!3 ,....... , .. to co.toh UlJ with of)rrc:~:-,ondci'Jco, ccco11n to -~;c. oaf oro 1 root::l.Cd but thu.t oceran inponoiblo i:o1.: rc~;.~onn v.bmtc t.:!1U c.o J. i.7;:l1u .,..o J.l.llJ.Oil thin, not oo much bccu.usc it i3 ·::ortil f'iniohinG but cccc.uno I uis.... lil:o to lcuve thin;;n u...-,finizhcd, 1 shull tr.r to write oono ccclm dey, "'("' 30 ho!g !u§urjo~ Hernon tihcn ho !hg Etg=l·- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ C::J!.'lO in just bcfol'C - - - - - - - - tho 'Jrtintlo bltr;r. roor li ttlc tel- lou for tho 1:3evcntoan, oo he olo.i::lod, ho uau a:.lUll end never aeov,:.cd t10 of o. ohcop' o eyco, toot looked o.t no 33 in c.;. :::by oo1·t oi' Wf;.Y c.s tho 1 tro.n a creature ned. £l'J ..... ~Cf bocr.n 'J ··., to l c tllo ·oou.no)fron tho binha !:tbovc)i'lo-:1 into tlH; :~.-o~:.ato:::o, c.nd tho \1-..:.y::; I ' J.A.U. wwrk he..d boeun. J>f~ 576. 570. I had nothing to do at !1rst but timo !Jeonard would bring eone cocoa be£~.nd tell me their n.s:..11o about then. l:i..t"'1d 711-'..n.t ho 1.·no~r x ti!lB to f:ro~ to the vJir..dc77 t:ill and Then v:o would cut them thru the rniddl a f:rom ond to end c.nd inspect c•Jlor of the th~ meat. ny tho color vnd up·t>Oal·unce of the :cut ourfnc.os t.l::o :t'i:;lanesa and vr1l.ne or tlus bean fol' chooolute nel:ing wus oati!:.atcd. of the rE.w bonn was also judgt3d but for quite n alike to no, juat bittcl~ e.nd d1cu.zrce!J.ble. very \Vell in a. "Pru.cticlc way and wun r.n It l'nl.B ~.:y J3ocs 1..-nc·.:r h!s coaou e:;ood. teacher. u!lcomo~ly hard for the rectory men to set the i•iec. tlw.t . that ' t~.s my nc.t:16 wo.o '1il bul· I was ~ taste they n.ll tested. ti~c wmted to do thineu nyzelf, to do !)art of their -.vorl:. . ~·he r e.ct.;uo.lly J.'hey thought to be put on a eort. of e. yedostru. a11d no·t nllo'71ed to eoil!t my lil~y-~7!11 til f1..and.s. ;I .}r~due-lly I wa.s a.1,le to show thG!'l thn.t ·those .hru1ds lw.d done ot1.t.ul{f.hingn thM dalica..tely ope~ a."l Beside I hf'..d noma eye ball or c~.lluseg • d~gsaat along a juMU).ar to -provo it. :Jo, after allowed to shovel aoul to tho fun1aoee, or t~y r.1- •Jllile~ vein. I was to, for the furnucc ~ door a wen:e very narrow Md the novice wt1.e 1 ikely to hit &id . the mnall size ooo.i '.-rould fly ovol' most of the ~ el.ige .~;·o!.:.~tin~3 room fioor. J,\~1..T1;? a time I ~howorod. it therG, while .TeJ<:ey had. to ,;ct oft in a da.:t·k corner ~om.ewhore until he co•.1l<.t eet hie fn.ce str~ight. IT would never do to lo.1tgh at the n1~ Boo a' R brother. needed t.., havo £'. enoug-h "'P'POl'tuni ty .for 1 t. ' to j?in in as I .And -poor .fake ofi'ered la.ue:h for ! 'n auro his 30-r.'ber life M.ar.l; 11 ttl e hu~tlad Eut I l~urr.hed nnd enooura;?.ed tho othere to get a, was it herd to do eo tor \'fi..Y bro~ cont~.ots and o~cep up the ~eso. nor -rd th ~f'...,Y cifi"ercnt 'kinda of .f.A.U. pg 577. TlC lfYST:.~RY: O.F GOOD B3AlT3. e~ 577. The weeks wore on, slowly enough, but one day I was given x oharge of a roaster tb roast those 400 lbs of beans all by myself. Even cheap beans eoet money and that 400 lbs. was worth about ~ $ 30 and 1 t was so very easy to utterly ru111 then by 'Vlrong roasting. It would be so easy to eo on and all tho other methods of ~~d tell how to roaot cocoa properly m~und with all the new and ·batter ways ( / j1 in books yet to be written. :But I was anxious about th\:1t 'ba.toh and nursed. it with '..U'loeaaing care, withdrawing e few beans at frequent intervals m1d tasting them to note how the flavor was developinG. A cocoa roaster was chewing beans almost all day swallow th~ it~ ~d while he does pretty hard on the teeth end mouxth. 1ell, that batoh,( batch is the universal factory tmi t, it aeens ) that batch came out ok. Of course my teacher had to oritioiDe for not only must the beans be well roasted but roasted in ~o hours or less· or the :five runs a day could not be gotten out and then t!le whole fact- ory routine would be upset. As I grew more experienced Leonard would co~e to ·me sometines , and say ''Mr. B.K.-,( ·,:rill would not have me oa.lled Docter in the f'aot- ory)·."!!..r B.K., this arabia is no good. llr • .7ilbur ought to :mow ubout 1 t. /You take it down and show 1 t to him." down to ~.7111' So I'd take a srun.ple a office, in my overall, shirt sleeves and all. Then steve Oriole would be called in, he was the factory superintendent, and he and ·v111 would out some beans. But the bea."'l.s they out looked nice and brown and had a good flavor. were not purrple color with a rr~k ~en I could see that. They astringent tastclike the ones Leonard and I had cut in t}le roasting room. I could not understand - e l.1e.tor~ he ·;7ould "ha pointi:!ig ou~ r:;o:ts defect~~re OO!.!Oti to to :1'31":o-.~ it a.t. ::.rr. 7il our. ~\galn I tC.:::e a Zl;:t"!:J'?l~ 'jf to th~ ::::n.n~ger only to be cl;.o~d tha. t it ~Ya.a baok fnll·:r con'"'rinced trUJ.t I ';la.S :.1 .:Li.d u:rzi:lg ~a d.if'fe:~nt cocoB. f10orl cocoa. :l!td 1. 'd go v-~r:J -:iu::tb L'ld.:}~d. 8 e I~ ·:t.a.s q~i ta ~ wt.ilcpbefo:-e J.,s.:ma.rn ~,;o.nd :r. c~ught. oa. , ~11..~3. Cne r:!Ust no-t t....,_i!L< frc~. ihls that ";'!ill C..!.d. not ·.1sr.c.t any crl-ticiZ:::ll. ma.da to llis o:ffics to conwlain about ~ome coaoa he would wri ts.J a. ·' ·...... J.A.u. pg.579. I 579. to admit to Leonard, or any factory man, that he was ~rong, underneath he was mighty glad to have a nan as criticnl as in the but, ~eonard ~ As a matter of fact, the lot was better Roa~ting roo~. the~ 'l the average for '.'lill was a sticlcl er on quo.l i ty, as I have said, and seldom could be s&~ple fo~led of beans wa3 random and cutting on good cocoa. judge~ th~ The aatual quality of any by thking twenty or thi~ty beans at all. From the average of the good a~d poor beans the valuex of the entire lot was astimated. The ~ fall rush was on and I wo.s put in chcr3e of the Roast- ing room for the night shift and my responsibility ~cighod heavily on my shoulders. Not only must· ;the beans be properly roaated but the right degree of heat must be applied at the right ti~e to do this. The heat was regulated by proper stoking, neither too much • or too 11 ttle ooal being used and c.lso by regulating tho drafts by proper adjustment of th€~ furnaoe doors. quite a trick. ~\!together, All was going well when I smelled ncroke and ~~e bluish steamy vapor from one of the roasters began to get denser and smoky. Eecns were beginning to scorch~ looked into the cylinder. Pr~ntioally I shut off the draft r . a~d k There wwns no buck and foth ootion in the beans which should be flowing easily as the long cylinder revolved. I had never seen that ho.p-pan c..nd I did not knoWtt just whc.t to do. In a few minutes the the entire lot would be utterly ruined 1! I did not cut down the heat end I bonked the firex with coal. About that time Steve Oriole, he was always crilled Steve, came in • • . . . _LW 31Jk&& One look end he released the catch o.nd allowed tho beans to flow out on the .floor. "You got your roaster too full" he aa'id, ua.nd they, swalled up on you." So that was it. As the beons cet hot the nc.t;::.r~l 580. mointurc in t~~ tu:mn to st·::an. o:c:~\J..Ildz tho l:crnel:l and scpar~teo the skin covering . the~, II e.lwo.ys oe.lled's1loll, f:ron. tho ~erncls. That fiOparation of the 3hell from the UtJ<:.ble purt 0f the1l bea!le, which are ree.lly nuto, you knov:, ie a most inp')rtc.nt part of tl:e roaoting. If tha. t i o not pro,erly carri cd on the shells o.re ~1ot se11nrEt ted but stick tight to the kernel and are very hurd to rC""1o7e fro~ 1 t, resulti~in loss a~d poor chocolate, and ut present, era very properly cla!Jsed ao em adulterant. 'rho nw~lltrn bean3 ta.k~ up more spn.ce,of co1.u·se and :;: had not allo\'Ted enou;sh ext:-a. so they jn.nmed ticht in the oyl inder a.Tld t.h.e outer layers v:e:-e scorched und t;ie center naso :pretty ar;okey. juOU.nds a do.y it wao no snap and played hob with our diBestion even tho, in later yearn we did not swallcw it. Beside tasting the finished product every lot of beans had to be roasted to a randon sample of o. hundred or more pounds. beinG tal< en rui represent the whole lot. Tl;le liquor fr_om thi2 srunple lot hG.d. to l)e graded both. by color &id to.ste end the store ke.e-per ~arked it th:;.t zra.de whe~ .i: • it was piled up in the store roo~s. ~ill alno did this for it was very iro:porta11t. If a lot was gre.ded too low ~.rhen :k!m: it -::lieht have been put in a. better 3rade XI'\ for 'IThich it \V~s purchused, then the co:mpo.ny loat noney while if a lot was s;r:.-3-de.d higher than it really ought to have h.een then que.li ty was sacrificed. It was so important that generally steve would lle called in 8nd consul ted and later on I was alec in the council, and still l~tc~ L~~ it beca.."!le part of 'fi.'I.Y routine work. It must .i1ave bce:1 evident, by now· the ·v.u ;7ilb'ur was pretty much the whole sho·:.r at u.o.·Yilbur a'!').d sons a"'ld he was. ~,ather came ·vhen I first entered the business in the forenoons for a fe'."Y hours, sometimes in the afternoons also, consulted with 'Vill about policy, finance, aa.lesmen • &C,,~:c, ?nd held veto power which he ueed as for instance when Will objected to my going into the business. nut Father w~s a.vray on hunting and fish±..~ ing trips· quite often, hacl a manic for. uttcnding euctions to the great n.nnoycnce of :Eo ther R.."ld Hel em'-• '::l:.o cUd not selection of 'old ~~sters''genuir.e I / u~~;1:rove of his oriental rugs, the older t~~ v~. ~1,'\.C:l0.~Y 584. 8~~·-~.,~~~,. thtf""'t>'mer ana espooitllly • nbj f)Ctz of hio home. !.~ore U."ld l'!torc tl:e a.nd, unfox·tunately for hi!!l nrt~' clas~iedflcd r)f' the bu!:lines3 'burdaT~·m:ts t~hiftcd to us TH.t..SJi by /"ill'..> ahouldc:ro for nn ull, b.c '.7as un.n.blc to sl!tlre u.~d the rosponoibili ty with O.."lyone cloe. nut I hnvo· gotten ahcud or my otory and ho.ve OlllY deacr1 bed the octo.ils of fonnuluo lJ.nd code 'bcc.:i.use I think that sce'tl very oructo to so~e Indeed, those methods future child ot o,~er.1 so~o day they m~.y g;.~n."ldci.lild who r"'.cy rctld t.hi c 6 vary Cl'ndo norr and bafore I ·.yaa forced out they hD.d been rc:pluccd by much more o.ocu1·r.tcd mct.bccis. ;;ut thooc 't'lore e.ccura.te me!thod3 required a lot • required a lot ~f ol cr~~o, und [l or figu1·ing and a lot of figu.rir lot of olorl(fl required a lot of printed forrn.s nnd conoiderablo -::1oney to 1m.y for then end tl1c wo.goa of the clorke, and I·~ not :s.o Duro it ycildad noro pro.fl t in the end. Certainly 1 t did not make ·better chocolnto al tl.1.0 tho clooor fuc I tory ccntrolX would have dono thU;t htLd not .Jill und I axcroiocd sac?; clooe snpe:rvicion ove!' per~one.l e~nily could not,...!'ind per:~ons ~a.rmfr~oturing ~ tt could and wo,J.ld kept such clo::::c rn:.tch on rs::.1 :r:ctericl. n.l"ld !ini shed product a. a well But w" muEt r~er.!ber processes und cno ~s in torr::.odia tu procesao!l. that -profits wel'e better in the .1 J+lC into the rouoters -s>?=etty much in separate kinds and not well mixed. They would go thru the cleaning machines in the F~-room about the scme way, in all proba.bili ty,and so to the nills und mixing room end th~t might be the reason why ~: there v1as sometimes so much variation in color of c8,_tings and liquors. How could they be thououghly mixed and blended with out too much labor and expense? studied the :problem. ~alking back and forth before the roasters I There a.ppeE;.red plenty of ways but none that were prectical or inexpensive. I saw that what wae needed was some simple way to get the beans in to the eleva tor mixed up at the start • and not a stream o! African followed by a stream of Domingo and then some Baheia or what not. ':'!.hen those beans were discharged into the bine they natual.ly fonned a layer of one kind on top of a lcyer_ of another kind, and, what. was.more strongc, I found t!lat those ae:pa.re.t· 536. I { ~rith nb:>~reln ~.-'ha 1"! ('. ::l £);::1 ~Tl t . but t,.=.a 1; i...,.nuld 'bll ..~.~ COltld d.~) on~1 1m.g J(.OO alo..r ;:,;nd. ax;P.msivu. of thiz r~nd ~~1-lQ :jen in ... tha; ::~ O.i. on~ U..'"ld one I r k:1o;:m t..J ns,a.t I le~ot. I :P?.1Zzl~d o ..rc-: "t~o p;-obl~t for someti::..''l.e. Then, Dns day, I :J"Jemed to oee a hola in tb.e floor a.."'ld nix or t11~t :ri:'1n :3t:.:.nding a.boutt..-:.:<-nd ~11 \!~pin:;; their b~sa si~ultantatounly it be done it. ;r~etically7 319wly the iue~ ~orkcd out. ?ut ~l bins J.t...u. I 587. pg. 587. ono of our etock boxos for our cocoa powder,· to hold the bino, a loxgo und four n:'lnllor bins ·.vere built in ed thr>.t ·r ~~ew bean~ a~d ar:•!'!O rioo the degree of .mixin3 could bo oeon s.t a glance. l\ elide opuncd all tho ~re1·e nnd tho men conolud- so!:lething ''bout tools ai't.or ull. 1.:ea.'1tinc resented four kinds of bins d. ~ s~ll bina ut onca. 'l'ho a-.:mll filled,en.ch ;dth :1 diffore~t oolor;the olid.EJ \.IUS pulled, r'.l~~-~:1t ~ere perfectly blended in ~10 lurBor bin. 0h1 jnyS tho oolorn ,.. J3ut I \Van not qui to antiofiod.• Anothe::- ::1odel Yt~s made, giving l!. 1 :t ttlc longer drop to the boo.ns nnd tho position of the s:nn.ll hoppore -rrnb Thin -.;;or~i:ed like I ru1d che.."l~eet., a. a. dro.';'fer !)Ut in to receiva the blended beuns. ohttl"m. Bo, ono niaht, X took the :moJ.ol c.nd ~Y colored :rico to .'!ill's houae ct ~vc:rb:rook, \"There ho wal3 livincr that winter &.nd gave a. demonatru.ti.on. The \)rooi was potd t.i Vt! . und ¥111 . wac ent'uniaotic r-.nd had a. blender built at once. i'h1·ee or more men conld dump the beuno into the sm<;.ll ho-ppers at o~1e t!;na almont as eo.:-sily u.s they could. by the old rncthod _:md when t11e slid~ was -pulled they mixed pt:rfoctl:r. So t:b..:~t difficHlty was oolvcd. . 0:::{ There :n1s ona ontoor.H! of" "i·rcr1: on thn.t 1)roblc~ th:;.t I did not like. 7111 w::~.a no -pleased ha shor.ed the blcnd~r to r:. ohuco1o.to m:r'G'111;ttu: machine st~lesmtm nn..T!led ·.vaygu.."'ldt, v. ·repre~entative eomt>u.ny tm1 one of tho wor:Jt gocoipn r..nd tale of ~ Ge~s.n c~.. rriar in the bus- iness. ·.11th all tho cu.re u.bout su.o.rdin~ our formula~ Dnd tlethods to give this, rJY very own • the h&ighth or :f'olliiY. id~cwn.y to that mnn oecmed to me to be :But ..1111 was hypnotized by V:eigo.nt end had every confidence in him o.nd thought .Vcicnnt coulcl do no wrong, and seve hin a.lnoat ttll our .buoinc~~ fTD ,·~ac}·~.ncn r.-:1d ~oulds. E'.lt from the firat, I thought he ··J..n c. blo·•: llf:rcl ~nd 1:o ~rooved to be juot that. ·put it wus n lone , i~c before I eould !:lu.kO ·.1111 bcli~e it. I 588. J.A.U.pg.583. It :might o.ppeo.r, from ·;7hot I ha.ve written that ! sized ·.veigont up o.s e. s:-d 11 ful sP~e~n~ with out a inccnvcnicnt reaard for the trarh ~ :!Tot nt all • :r.t took ti:ne, for he wus o.groec.ble, at fir3t'sl:sht. "•'interesting, n¥.woth C.:J butter and like the good sn.lcomun ho wao,he. I maclc special effort. to bo nice thio new· ~.7ilbur 'iTho night so;n.e day became tho Ilosa. 1le" to thO bu3i:'tesn, inexper1~~d~~ -~- v ~-....•~.;,...._st., • _ ns en enc1 ycope.../hen in tho catologue or nmc~1. more horse power than atnted 1n thooe sa.'na cat• alogues, nnJ. tU. ao so fluently a.asurOd by ·1ci ga"lt, Igr~w suacipious. 1 hc.d · So I told him about !'lj findings in ·./ill' a -presence. He "DJCta. florid which got still fae~ a.'1.ywa:f hut s:t:±xz redder when 1 t eee!!lod likely thn.t he would be.caught in some ox~gger~tion, to put it 9olitely. He alwaya had some explmu.tion xc:d: ;vl:ich ~1111 accepted, almost without question, altho it was generally h~rd to fool him, but when I pressed ~eigant about· hi a machines requiring more horse po\ver a."ld showed repeated,· • teats to :prove it, he actuallysnid "'·fell, the hornos is bigger in Germany l " ?hat in t...'"l actual f'act. It wa~ not muah of' a CO!tl:Plim- me'f'lt to my inte11iga::.ce t.o think thrt ! would s·.vallO';;' tho.t. J\nywo.y, I did 'nt. J .A. t;. pg. 589. RC',4~3TDTI} n'T'"S~A1"'!':~~1. -- 4lt , 4 589. One of the machines which ·:reigant sold 'Jill was a. roaster that he no doubt promised would roast beans so.quiokly and give them a flavor that no other roaater in the world could equalx. It was a nuisance for it burned coke a.l'ld not coal e.nd that '· it got out or \VC.s a bother, and order soon af):.or it wo.s firat used, so Eernon told ~e, io that its chief feature, that of being able to ahift the fire to one side n.."'ld ao modify the heat, could not be used because t he were- -;, rails andAgenrs;-?~-rped by the hcmt. But -;;e used it :::.."'ld it had one good feature that none of the othar machineo had, it was nrran.sad to take the tem,erature of the ben.no ,,,hile they were roa.ating n.nd wi tr.:.rm:t out opening the - e Soi d~. too1~ rondings of those te:mperutured every quarter or half hour for a. month or two and thus nccumulated iniro;na.tion that did not Eeem to be one file in a."'lything I could find .. Accustomed to refer to oy medical books frocquently when prao~ tieing medtlcine I wc.nted something tliat would gi"Ve me tho theory st and description of my new trade but the bibliography, 5o to speak, on chocolate making see!1ed very scarce. ·1111 hnd a. book :teigant hr:.d given him by one Paul Zipperer whom JCigcnt noted scientist, en authority whose facts it x~ was~ swore was thR a a sacrilege to even question • and whoae knowledge of Chocolate mv.king O::!lbraced every possible bit o£ possible~~ info~ation "from the bean Up 11 • That was exactly what I wanted but aDo.n, it was in Gerr:1an and my knowledee of thnt la~gttage was far too limited to even read the words under the illuatrations. But before long an ~nglish translation ~ appeared and I settle down to laarn all this wonderful man had to ' reveal. Alas, alas: It soon bec~:-'.me painfully evident that t he x renowned Zi'trperer must be a second rate scientist e!'lployed by the Lehnen 6onpn.ny to tell ubou~ cocon and chooole..to. in a pseud.o-cci- cntific manner and merely as a. vehlale t::> lJebman' s nachi:t•:Hs. oth"r words, it In ::3tu..,t. ··{.hen I accused \ -~laiga.nt Zip~arer, 'I.Tas a. clevsr advertising of that 'being ao that :Torthy and hon- est gentleman ";Va.a greatly 3hoo!!ed. from oa~ry 590. nu=.1erous reeo:m:mmdations of Still, I learned a zood deal for I had much to learn. Dear .Anna. was much alane,-ahils I S'Oent those long days in the factorJ and the '3Y~nings trying to get reated for the next daya work. Of course, as the w:!e:ta went on I srew accustomed to the chang~ o.nd ma.da friands among the men and found new interest:s and life ' became happier. As I have axplL"led, I neyar 1.:-ne., 1Vhat ti!lle I :1ould an hour or ~o extra get home Saturdays but if' wa .had :r; .f3X :rocn::t artxa. they were _golden !'!1omanta when we could enjoy li!'e togethar. Jior q'.li te a ti1:1e we did not try to go to t'ili.uroh eTery Sm1day morning but Anna amused the ,, boyr:s while I slap~ a. ':~hils. Almost every Sunday llother :;sent her car- riage to take us to the Bryn Mawr house for dinner and a visit. I auppo Sd Amta. went calling :vi th :!other now and then and occs.aionally we went to somd doings in the evening but the boys kept Dear i\nna tied pretty well ~ at home. But she was always happy and ounny and cheerful and the dearest pal. o-r Si tlta. and the 7e both m1s~ed those be~ti!ul Ti~s :Say and the :mountains, and the happy l"lli1X could_ make £rom tile lloa-pi taJ., and the companionship of :Bert ins I 17hile ~ Harry -;ra.s 'to young to join us 'but we had chosen and we were hap-py. Dr ~iller ~~d I were good friends but there was never quite the same naarness to ea.ch other as in the days before I went to Alaslta. • Perhaps I imagined that my- havmg given up the missionary wo:tk had ae~arated our heart lira to the dear old Do~inie's tr~a extent, perhaps it had in spits ot beat oftorts to ~revent it. There was oYsr.y raaaon -;Thy :1.a should ha'"Te !Jeen disappointed but he never aaid ao or • ~ 591 • J .A.U. l'S• 591. DR. '!!ILL !;F}i!TD HIS l'~JJ..:P IT. openly e.eknowledr;ed. 1 t. I ex:;>octed thv.t he .would nek me to spank sol'!le nunda.y morn in:; at Church and ! wo.::s longing to do it. I :rol t 'I had a reel mese~ga and I w~o anxious to help rny £hlincit !rinndo \ by tolling of their probl~a to tha wecl thy end influential f:r:::t:r:t rt~.en \fhO \Vere menbcra of our coneraen.ticn; 1!en like John P.:.Convcl·se, 'Jill18rn L.Auotin, Dr.'7illir=1:!s, sumuel P.ea a.nC. othel·a. :nut Sunday o.ftcr sundo.y pt1.oned Em d. no request CO!:li.l. 1 to.lked to ~,;other about it and she too won dared VlhY ha did not ns:~ ne to apeak. It wus so :1uoh the ueunl thing to insist that returned r:issiono.rios toll tho peo,1le of their exp3rienees and Dr.!~iller had no often aaid in the :fc5a~n- , ger t hat c.1 tho the church did not po.y !'lY aalo.ry I wo.o their "!ery own represento.tivo in J..laoka.. As timo puooed und it was evident tlw.t I was not to be called to ~~~ tP~t priv~leee I cotud not but !cul that 'bed l"been home on furlough I \'lould have baon u.okcd to opeck clmont immedio.tely but :tnzn now, tthaving put ey lwnd tokho pl0'-1 t'.lld lookinB bn<-.k'' I waa not worthy. It did hurt. !fot tho.t I wa."ltcd ,the, honor. It wa9 not th~tJbut I diQtvont th~ opport~nity to help thooe Al'.leka. peo-plo. :nut or oourso, I could not a.sk for that op?ortuni ty and it n over ocme. But hu:::·t as I· wo.n by ci ther the indifference or al":!lont certainly tho di~e.-ppro"Vnl or cett~r, the dion.ppoint:ncnt of my dear friend, my respect ond love for him vrua too ercat to o.llo·:t it to oupc.rt:.tG us. Altho it had been n long time ninoe I cliL'lbcd to lus otudy on the tttird ~loor o! the Uanl.'!c a."ld other boya had absorbed nuch of hi~-: • interest 5nd love,ho had adopted Fred Riatine, nltho ~rod lm:n't1t1 with hi a own -pn.rente, we vroro etill cl ouo friends. livod ~; Cne su:1do.y 1 went in hi~ qui ct :JhDtYtqn nnd old r:1n.rc to Ovor·trook y;;1er·J ;1e tn:.\3 to -prca.oh.:t Go;.'lingll- bnc~~J~ su11j:£l!t t;o eot to tc.J.kinc cb:mt ·~y DR. e e ?!ILL:-;~ 1 - 3 7~0?:C3?. . 592. 1 <:laving Als.a..'tc1d tha raali ty of that rt:.t:L~>t nom.eti~es Vt"Jiaa e.nd wonde:rad if i t:t -;1ords e !:19 Isaiah or Dar1ial utterad,:ha sa.id. 1_ -very oarnastly, a.xact ·:ro:t·ds a"ld :11any, :ma."l:r e q11i -;e oft~n i:m~r the J.d t:hay :rert!l !3old for a fraction of of-o:!nt a ~ound. 3o!!ls '.V9nt. to snr.lf:f' -17n.:.~.-t~ ::1aker3, soma to 3?ice grinders, for adul ~era.''lts, n...1d 30;zt$ ·l;o the p:ri::lOna d:rink for the poor tallO'il'3 confined t.hare. inal· decoetiona I never kn87, altho fll~ a. no:r on hia • -· nor friendly; n? nore p..Uate knltfa The nibs~ the floor ho-,-par~ E~nd fr~ • ::..ft:Jr P- non t.b..g ·tila.'l on the ?Thin-ing, noisy mills. either ntrnight kinda of' r:.i.:r:Qd, ce.m.e tr..ru chutes in 5ughey'a Dept~en~ L~ediat~ly ovar~ead~ into the of i:ee grindin:g r;tillo. ?hese we:::-e bnrr or pol-,hery stonea . . :f'lcwing dom-t to the ell inter~sted i~ !rltt o~.t:- ~ills lo~er .ha.d thnea to ba :;:-ound. o7er aga.ln. Later on almost pa.i:r~ of si)onfls nnd z()me four. Thl'l atone~ ' 59S. J .A. U. PC!• 59G. to otrike it. 7hnt wns so hot thnt it hurt the flavor of' the liquor but wo did not reulize tt then. Augustun ·yelner, or Gus e.n e-very one O:J.lled f',J,n 'ao.a o. bia; tellou \Vi th ~ grey ey•:::-s, so!!te7ho.t bt~~d and a good na turoii !aoax. J':..bout thirty years oll'!, tts \vero !':loctm: of our nat"..lrad ~s he looked but he mm tro<:!.d on his t.oco. fore~en,he was as good kne'Y his buz1ne33 f".n1 wl)uld not let ru:J.Y From the first we liked each other and e.l tho he wc.s not l1ko Hernon ~.n a teacher, row 'l'1'.'ml were, he vr£tO e.lwo.ys ready to ~:q;>lt.d!l tlJ:tnga o.nd oven to rtcl:a nU[;Geotions o.a to what 1 bcttl!;r watch or do. lie knew hiB job, tll tho l L:e moot of tha f'or~en he hf:l.d vor:t l '·ttl e book 1 earning, und Gua we.s on the job avery· !!lin- • Uttl of the d.(.•.y. All day l011C ho wru.lc.ed back c..."l.d for·th in front of the mill;a d.l-p-,ing the lon!! ~patult-l. t!w.t never left hia h.!lllde, into the stree:m of syr:rpy fluid thF.. t cone from tha nil.l!l. H•.:tbb:!.ng hiG :f.t:1 fing~r ov~r the blade he would hold it to the light mtd judge the f'inenoao, thst is tho r:moothneas of the ground nib:J. :No1.1 and aca.in he would tr.~.stQ the 11.quor to judg!l its flavor. '.i:'hat epatulo. never left his hand and if th!l.t good old A'allo,.v hn.s -p:::.sscd: on l ho~e they had a sputula for hin in tne batter l~~d. Viai !:.orB to cthe ·:fn.cto:ry never could qui to see what hap-pened in th6 Itiille. Ther~ r!ib~, V'JTY dry lcolcinr; bits fron ~OT!!O bro\m log. One could -;:oro the 1 iko 1 it tle pieoea out into the hole in th6 center or cee them going the mill;.stone while fron tho crack between the two atoneo oozed henvy brown • ohippy 5tu:f.'f, uab~tanco o.s thic~: e.s molcs- ca,w111oh ttA.s uoru;p"d off \)Y. n. eo:rt of kndl:f'e 'blad·e r'.nd flowed out or tho spout in to 3. ro~md. t!'Jl~<: {'):'\ wheel!!. "''~"re do you put the tt we. ter in to nru<:o 1 t a one ont 1 iqtlid?" I wc.s often ~ts~ed. Of couroe there wus no wo.ter or O.i'l:f othor fluid o.ddod. Gun ·.-rould have roc.rcd ' . - 597. - J,A.F. pg.597. I and had fourteen Riffcrent ~inds of coniption fit& if any one-came nea.r his beloved mills with a. teaspoonful ·or watern, much less put-. anY in them. A half gluss would have gummed them up instantly; made them smoke with frictional heat and perho.p13 brokena. shaft, for water \ and oil will not mix as we all know. And that wus the secret of this tra.."'lsform~.tiont !:rom d:ry chips to e. smooth oil~ ~nd he~t. Cocoa beand contain 50% o! netural apparently mysterious heavy liquid, on the average, sometimes as much as 54, or rarely 55:;~, :!3elow oil, the !e~ room the factory was kept ~~ heated to· acout ninety degrees so the mill stones ~ere not allo·::ed to get QOld w'"ld an they ran the fri c tiona.l heo.t rP..n the liquor up to avout 140 degrees. As the fat in the cocoa, cocoa butter as it ie.called, hardens a.t about ninety • lower room tc:n:per:ltures would harden not only it but chocolate in all stage a of manufacture a."ld a general 'freeze up' a.s the men called sueh e. hardening of the goods, was u serioun ca.ta.3tropby and one causing much loss of time end£ labor and much ill nutu1·e t.nd proa ranity. Not that our men were foul~ mout~ed curain& lot. They were exceptionelly free from oaths, at least when I we.e around tho I never re-primanded a. man for such things, not in those es.rly days at least. but they were !len with little back of thenl C.l'J.d there were times, c,well! - -there were times when if not justified it was mighty hard to avoid. A factory freeze u:p waa one of thcrn.. Gus was an expert mill man and a. good ::r.ill man must .s-.djust his mills ao that they will grind suff2cicntl' fine to meet the stand• • arda but at the same time he must produce the lurgest 8mount of liq· uor pooaible. Finees and put~ut are governed by the emount of the ni b3 fed, the kind. and degree of roasting and tl1~ aet of the mills· The set of the mills, tha.t.is, the dista!lce between the upper and the lower millstone, is regulated by a hand wheel, and ita nice X work DOl!AL!J i \ ' ·598. J.A.tT. i'S• 598. A~Rr8S. to set a mill j1:at rieht. Gua had to -rra.tch his poppera- thnt they did not to. see- en:pty for once the flow of nibs cnG.scd S..'"ld the ~et mill continued to run there ¥Yould bo a 'burn• E:nd a loU of extra work and trouble. With the hec.vy stone revolvin; on it:: fellow withthe lu.b.ri cat inc li.y~r of 1 i~nor -'J.:rld po.rtl~r gl'01..'.nc. heat increv.aed GO faet that everything w·as ni "be tl-:e !'ri ctional c:v:tn_~lly 'b1~rnt ~o a crisp and then the :millz: had to be to.ken a:pa.rt end the f.ltones redressed.. ~1e were expectine B:lcther oP..by flnd I felt fully cr:-:-1petcnt to to see Anno. th.ru th:::.t o:t:deru., lmo·,;;ing ance of' help wi thin 0 ensy co.ll. be a.wkwe.rd if the baby :'he ths.t t here was Dn abund- \V~ll onl~' trouble Wfl.s thnt it ni:::;ht on his j 0urney ":lhile I wn.s in the 1002 city. :But he was very con~iderntc Hnd oho~e ::.;unday, November 2nd for I starte~ his natal d£I.y. At se,ren thi!"ty 3:!n in the norning, in our horte on )~,1- Greenfield :wenue, Ardmore, a bouncing boy ::.r:-ivedt. hio head well clothed in da."d: htdr and soon to 'tccome a ro!~y-:p·:>J.ly, hc.p11Y little mi3chief •.\s with hio 'brothers he '\7au to 1:.u no. bottle l:Jaby but dJ;"ew hie nourishment in onple oup~;l;~ from hio own dear ::::other. 'Je were .4, getting qui e a fenily but my deur \rife continued cheerful u.'1d. ha.p:py 11 and -we n-ere still the devoted lo-vers vre nli"T:::--.ya had been. nut with three children deni' Anna h"q_d her hnndc full. ?hd It~;.uia!1 airl :.!other had trained for u.s got disngreeabJ.t: nncl \Te had to J.ot her go und J..nna was very busy. 'Tn 1md ·a trained nurse for e while ·out vre ho.d to count our money clo5ely nnd could not keep wore hap:py and th3.t wn.s dn~ to my ~ h•~r der~wife' very long. Still we s beD.'-1tift,_l oharactGl' end wonderful self con troll, in spite of fevr outings 8lld my being I sway all dS!' and the uncertain Saturd.uys. '.7hen those mills did happen to burn r1hich was 'Very XZ:l:.ll seldom or \1hen they wore 5r'loot}; ftlld . need.ed ahorpcnine the m.iJl dree:Jer Dlr~3GI1iG TIC J.A.U. :pg 599. !~ILL:J. John Jiannigc:.n by nm.1c, a ho..ireC. t.H~.""ldy . few ".7ordo, softly a-pokent but & rru~n 599. of fiftjo' or r.!oi·o, Moat unce'rtain temper th0.t flared in to white heat and di eC.. out just as sudc.enly, took cbc:ree. ·;71th a chcin block the atones were lifted and put en trucks r..nd Job1 v:ent \ at thc:o, iii th hi a picl:;:J, U.S the double f'.c::.d•~d tooln li::e h<1.111L1ers with both ends ohnrpcned, we called. ' of the liquol' ns it cane fror..! the !I!ills end,lmcler Gus:Jf!3 Cl~n.:ful auidance uet some of the ~i~.ls b'ut I did not no!'lY-ey 1:i th tl:.em yery 3 · ,.,,uch ..,....... .... d thE · -.J. n t c__,..t·cc"1 t o d o come d resc1H · J:t!'luer -· ' --;tA;,.~:.:-· ,..., .. ..... , ;{l l::.'.nrnet-:!16 .I?UL eyt"J. 1-...-n. outfit n.uot be fou.nd fer T"l.e to begin ui th, a Levvy apron to keo·p the cplintcrs cf steel fr0m eo:ng thrn my trowserst I o1· pick und a 'bo:-1: an "'.7h:!.ch to sit u~ 110 like u ho..--::mer h:md}.c :".nd tL1~ nove:-1ent 1e.tt1cd over tLe stone. wa1 ~ntireJ.y frDn the "'!rrists. Grooves and stro.igh~ l.l,n<}G ::u.d to be c'.lt in the f~1.ce of the ato:1e according to a ::;?1 c;.n 1 aid out 'by r'Jy bo so. - ne7G:r did cet ma DT:1"3L, fro. th :picko ''ho continued "Wfi th his rich burbl, Uorth Country Irioht'lc.n, "IIO\v'd yo like c J,10.ir of hand like th~ toto','" "Yu soe? orr, tho otoneh tho.t r..o..rd, tl:O':!l buhr otonoo ia,x::~ ny inter yer hn.ns. ''Ira=t };tn:trm ''0·, tto~l, ?lmt' 0 ull ?he :pik~orocl:s -/ and the bi to riGht, I dont I:lind''. I snid ·.1unting to ohow him or o.."ly other work· men tho.t I ooubd tv.ko 1 t. '' lio\1 lioten, "ra;>lied Cld John,hio cngor beginnii.ltt to rioo, 'tYu don't wc..'1t no hnndG liko that. If I let ~'U fill your hr;nds up with ~tool like nine :;or ~n.ddy would run I:lO out I end I ~ould 'nt lot yu nci thor. You brine; in nome heavy r;loven,sin yu aum temorrcr und you \lour too." Jolm ao.id it a"rld .John metmt ~ !!lonnt it V.."ld I wore glovoa but oven at that I felt tho prick the tiny bita of steel ~very dressing mill stonoa wua ver,y proud of my marka of sorvioe in ~ Qnoe in u vhilo or one o£ the oost difficult joba in the tvo t~ ~ ~ D. a~d ~uctory, when I wna thru ond I atill curry mill pick in tho J:.tgllt fore finger of my ¢;k:t left hand. I liked Hunnist>.n very 1:1uoh o.l tho he had tho reputation of 11 being cruoty, nnd we grew to bo ~ood friends as he taught me all he could or hio cro.rt, Under his direction I f'la.tterod my::u.llf _that I grew to bo n pretty fuir mill dro3oor tho I never ' dreos n atone all by my oel:f. plant could have ~oraunded nttcm~ted I don't believe any other t:1Ul1 to in the Ticnnigan to use pnounutic mill toolo J .. .A.U. pg.601. 601 .• Some of tha oldeot 1:ouses in l'hil::.dal:>hi:.l :vera razed to ,, roo!ll tor tha naw D.nd fintt f;;.ctorJ that :u.o. 7i1bur buildin.3 on the corner'of -r:ew a.!1d. :aroad Jt. t·.to storied house3 built. of from 3ngla~d. lu~~ry 7here were for that ~~s a brio~ !;.'.nd Sons ·.;t'3re Th~;r o:r:o:a amall nri":I!cx probab:d:.l:r !l:t..iJ:t bro~.;ht ·ove1.· other eYidenoas ~~ogony bani~ter3 ~~i fashionabl~ ::1:1Jr~ section of the ti~;r or city in Colon- model 3d it. ~. ·that oonsid.ared theplt.ms for the n-:nt buildi:!Z• I den • t l."'!low that it t'TO~.lld ha.ve :1ad.e ~;:/ di ft'erenc;J if I h~<.d b~t · there ·.:1aa som~ nonay ".'lasted by tha !lrc:hi tect3 o.dvice that :rrew Street 13 ot: ha."ldso~e 3. na.r::::-o-:7 o::1' and u'5ed by f":'.., or.1d.::la"lta1 l."oU!'ld windoC'T:J the roof lao!{ed fine on the ·."1'n.:3tec1 in that a~yway narro~ . ?C:>pl~ 'l qr ta~s. a lot of light ~'"ld t~at ther~ thoy shut out ai:- rra3 needed. ro•q elevation but :-;ere utterly wae no~od.y to lcok at them and if thare wera you could nat Get far enougc them and beside all i\. t:'la fi&h :J'to:-J j:~st below ~n '3 n.rti3t. s?.~tch street :tho:re easily l:a7e been eaYed. ::1igh~ ~~ch licht Still it wc.s ~nd o. ~~ay air to see ~hare good factory building9 "slow burning l:Ulloon.st:ruction" , that in hee.'TJ orick wa.lls and haa1rJ,solid joist nnd timbers and two inch plunk floors. It ,m.s not -: 1'i ~onsidor~d cpii te u;> to tl:a !:l:Liute for concret conat:"'..lction wan J .A.:· .pr;. 602. 602. on tha 5th floor, running on tha 4th, 1:1113 on tho third ood so on, tho actual plans for tho nrrang~ent of the mnchines on thoso floorc hEld not been nuda nor wus thoro c.nyona nuking them \ a9 th~ time dr~m ncar for actnr-..lly ::1oving over to the new 'Plvnt. George Lennig, our e-r l~o.et 1.1ochnni o was busy 711 th ropo.ir work for he wuo 'a 'uorking bona' ... '1111 had hi a hcncis full with menc.gl'.!':lent proble:1.!! o.nd ·oould not lo.y out machines by soulo uny vre.y tmd tho v.rchitoats \'/Cl"e bu11dcrz and not ncquo.intcd with chocolate i'actorjre3. just no~ just how it hap,cned, but r Somoh.o~v, it is ·not cleo.r ~crsuaded\,ill to let ~e make. prov1 oional seale drnwings for the factory l:i;,rout for r..i a o.:pprovw so1. a paper parti ticn ;vas put up on the second floor of 'the ne-:.7 building r-..nd on n rough tu.ble I went 'to work, with e. dr~~l1ing bourd very eiT:'11)lo 1natru...,ents end • ~ wrnp?ing at f'iret r:.nd lntcr we :had white prints p:::per for tho: plans, rrot:t the architects out- Int\dO line o! the ftoore. Tht\·t. saved drawing thl'lono floor outlines every tiT.!l& and they had been quite a bora. Then I soon learned tho.t 1 t · took a lot of tine to draw enoh machine in ocule to see hov; they would fit v.nd how they woul6 work in the gcnornl munu1"acturing plcn only to find o. 'better -r:ro.y them. ;:·.o. out of ~.n come other posl tion end hc.ve to redraw 1:-riehtly colored thin cardbourd I n1.1c!e floor plc..nG dro.wn to coale of the individual nachinca I w~.s pluoing on tr..ut floor, ronnters, rolls, !'!elnng-.J.ers or what not. These could ba luid on the outlino of the flooro, easily moved I thoua.."lt they • !'m:~ rr~ plcoe to plcce end when wera in the best location 1 t was eo.ay to run a -pencil around them nnd tha roueh -plan \1as reo.dy for ·7111. dr~.ughttf!nen c.e fn.r C.!! I su~pooe ho.d be on using such things for years but 1 t ws.a origiono.l I -:;c.s concerned 1tnt~ ·.'rhct o. lot of ti!"!e it my plans •,yora not true to the inch, theyo \YHS no so nuch vc.rietion -e J.A.U.pg.603. ~s 603. to mrure then impracticable. In the planning it was not only nee- essnry to ~lnn ruclioal eA?Jr1en''3 I :-J.'J.d r;ulned in the actu::t.l 11se of nachinos in the factory I '.W.3 gcncrc::.ly :e:1t for when purohuoea w·ore being considered an~1 \'HJ.::3 able tJ knaok :>ut would bnve been glad to l13.ye laid o>..tt tlJO w'!1olo Y· mc:Ae the pl.:1ns end Lehmann's German cnc;i:necrs machines to repluce U:e;:t by ;;l~nt, :J~~o t~:::!.t of i:J have :~cru"? ~:11 ?Ul' older those h;;flold :1nd. ;:rould ?rob:.:.bly h:1ve done and wei ghta und notual facto l'Y experience. mo:chine wore good, the on ',vorl~r-.nshi-p ro.cy o.nd finish, and 7eiGe.J1dt ~t thc~1 ~on~urful in ito snl!lO bit; or<.lcro. :!':':10 nmr ~ccu- ~nchinea wer·e to rcplc.ce the nom out onoa an•1 to :Jl tY7ide for n bic{-;cr out:;IUt • 1 • have [;Otten 0. served thoir like those 111erry hn purpo~~ or ~G. fro:.rn T':C.TlY they were not 7:'ta~tcr llOC}:Gnic~, a professional dra•tghts;.ton. :Sut coop~ra.tion r:a~ fortuna to to cct 71U'3 he~.ve very hn.rd for me, otherwise. Openly, he iioulc( hnvc make cvrything difficult. An inci!Jt ot tYIO they u::;cd them and I.e~!'lig of that strunge man for he would helping nll ho ·could· but under cover he ~711ile out crnG.e . . t:H~,...;.mfinishacl prett~r working together, things went l;.lone smoo tr.J.y. ! the for not sr.-1ntt !:lki.de things to.!lJ..'Ohi'CC:: enou~h Vt~:t·iations to be to ensily in :my !)la.ns, G:. small oversight llere or a li ttlc :-tnre roor:t nee,lod there uould have been the excuse for r.moh trouble and Cli.Sily a:lifted caut!le.. hnd But, instead of that, his l'eserve to me us thG end probably his suapi- cion gladually given way to whu.t a:ppoarcc! to be a real friendship e.nrl el tho I never fcl t !. understooC. hir::t or penetrr.tcd the nystery the of J:is. past ltt:t f~iends~i'? ~'1_a3_, ..,_utual. C'f, !':i~ 8 "r1:r 1_ 1::·13 ~:c ~e~'cr ~ ~ ~'~ ~'L ~ ~ ,.v.z_ /L-c-4f:r~ --{-<>-y a..--~4 ~­ SpOkO but there! i-cre rumors .about 1 f floaji:ts thru tl:c pl<.:.n t"' r.cn!liG we.s quite \7Cll oclucn.tod,perhn:pn better tb.:.n ic:'C r.e!:..Iizcrl,r~ !3J(illcd 605 • • pulleys a.Yld bsl to n~CGlJz:;.ry to carry c. ~ivcn loo:i, t!1eir o;Jced o.nd l'E'.tio s and. ot~1cr techn i cu.l detail n. 3ut :he wn.a self con tr:~ined, al: wns readj to bur"S"tin to u :n:.ging flmno at '~n)" ~nor.t'!nt. Yet, he :ro:::t:t controlled hie t·er:1per onri -r:uo reopected c.nd ·.-roll liked by his own men if not ecnert".lly. rerh:lps tharo is no b:;tter wu.y t0 s~ up his vie-;/ of lifo tha.."l then by o. little oi!_.'11 he hunr:: in hi:J n!:o-p one day. It wn.o not ori 0 ionr-J. bnt he P.t!i! i'tnmd it in !10!'"!C ~f>')r!} ;.L"ld it reu.d, ''':Jo live that ~rou?:"t cun look P.11Y .:::rn in the eye "SLntl t~ll hi:n to go to hcll. 11 ':'he firct tw.e: saw tt I orcid "Gcor;~e, I don't think I diG.nt thinl: yo11 ?fculd like it, mucll of ycu Jtotto:'. "No, • but whr-.. t'o ..,..,·ronc; \Vi th it? " ''Loo'crl to me, GeorGe, no tl:o it ho.d. got "Lo·.:' s thnt.? '' mixed up." 11 v-o thu t :,rpu CC!l t George crun ted bu J1~.dc nl) co~1cn t ru:c£. before dicnppcnr<~d. 1-!y \}rogreas thru. tho ne'if duties but I s~i<1, "it ouc;ht to reud, ~o look ti.ny r.;.P.n iri tl:e eye without r.:.:wiriG hi11 tell !2,!! to go to Hell. ·• lona the uign had ''~Y", \Vi th i'uctor~ hP.d pructictt.lly coascd \7i th these the ·plr-no finished 1 t vn~.s ex;;ectcd it would be resumed. There see'Jlcd to be u hundred <.flcations tf) he tnd t.c~;::1Rtors to "Josz a. a the • 'big C:?.fHH3 of l:lnohinery fr0m Gcm~!..ny or other plncc::t n.rrived end had to be rigt;ed l'.nd plc.ccd. ~!.'hen tn.ll:s with Hul rttcd nbout wirins, tee to 0 e .... ~· .. :;o::~owhorc .l. •• _j ~, _ G06 • 60G ~'! "T}3 iJ~;_· u.l:.out lf-G!J, u. ,,roup or ;.:o.in .:.1no l-"Cal.douts ort:a.nized c.n snso ci?.tion uni: named i t 'i'll~ J!ei(;hOollo' illu'o ... ?here "ere rul ea for it w10-G ;.us tin , .1ilfred P o1vell, }'o• all • if you >'l c u so, hritislt •. rew · ~rei 1!• ent.Yo • Jlathor end mother belonged to it and soon ef,tzr we r~tur3cd ne were also a benutiful figured silk dress in >hich ohc looked very h:.mdsome indeed and 1 wou vary J1l"o'>d of mY "ife, d th m.nnor and lte::.- friendlY !ltlile for eVar:r one. to ~:o thcr rutd :,'ether to huve '!lB 'lfi th It will be thL'tlo ll<~r -poize I~ wus UG \1Cll ond i;rnoe of e greet pleasure :>!! :iel L"l\a • intereztinfl to knoW nome o! the topics and th" names of sam• of t1le speakers at sol!le of tt.oGe nuetin{lB for i t will lee g1'tO an idea. of the peo;;>l e \Tho enj oyed than ao, hex'a they are 1 I -:Till i""' :r enn , tl::.e ::; t .:r o.u.l of the ll.ual< el"!l and the p ri no 1ill: he 1litro• ·~raininG r.."'ld Compulcor"J Educatioll• Uartin c;,]lnrr:bc.'!l:;;,,lc.ter o. !Jove'itor of ?cnns;rlv:min,~•orto ;nco' trom: -pcrson21 el';}eri en cos; "Jr. -~c ,y J!olc.noon, " ,.,.,be::.- ~f tl.c I ot'nnliM dueed :\oligious Toleration, ::;a..,ual 607. J .A.TJ .pg G07 • the •vo~·~u .-.. J. w ...~. • n.), ,...,,,,.., ~ v • .. , J I 1~el·ti 11, . . . . . . . .., ........ I • ,.._ :.. .:. '.~·~t ~. , ,..,r··· ·~ ~... :..~ ,,,, e, ... ~ # ...... '':""·c T,-..,.,.1et-:.;,. ··.,.'l;'ll·-!-;.J ..... -~,. u....- .L.. J .. ~.-· v-··.1.~ .,\...# o.nd !,<.Hl:l ~u7:1scy: and ~.any otb.<~.ro. It ir; v~r-:,r intercati~1£; to note t1wt on Ho7t!i:i.l)el· 19th, 190'J i':cll :.:..~ fl'01~ tLeol'Y t;,uid :t vii thout ~:!~lldn:.; ri\.sh conj ucLurot.~, I pluce no li:1it on t1le future of c.criul no.vi.:;t~tion. 11 tion and lH:e worth'.ii:ilc qucntions of th~ !.ley. Cn one occugion, ut leo.nt tl.ey net for t!:e Ann'~'::.l r1cetinc fro~ har ;.1t the ;.:erion :;r·ickct Club ~inutec. orche~trt~. furnished '!r..ua:c c.nd ::31X ::1-enbero of tha Ophe·t~J Clnu snne beautifully fron tin:e to tine. ::r. Jolm 11. Converoe, the TI)Et~t:u::.stor e.fter :trH:midng the co~nrni tttoa and cf'ficer .IcR~c 3!~t..l'·)le::;s L\.l/...:C of '' Cr,c !!eichClub, it!:~ environ!'!ent und inf,uence." Ee oaid he was like cntm • l''~ ..,.,,...,.~,,!'"~'"' !.II J •, I i1 ~~.) ~ Tt"!...:!.._];t "'TTIT; ,r-·rr•I"'Q ,.,.,..J ;J, ~J.J.. .J \... •:. I • unoostor of one or "" • 608. .) .A. U .pg. 608. the rnc::tcbcrs -,:ho bull t ~ horse sh~d with a r:tzxco: door at each end beoauce ha never likod to back out of a.nythinst ~~r. ·:n .::.rl~oon Clothiar :rcr~d a -po~!l t1ri ttan nany ,tears before and Prof. Ero't1n ao..l'lt; c. hut'lorou_l3 conpo2i tlon hr he h7onid be the hoots. .Before Anna. and I could carry out our pln.n tho collnp3e of buaineoa in the lv.ttor hal,f of !9?0 t!ladc it ho.rd cnouc.h to support our big house o.nd we hnd very littlo to spend on entertaining our neighbors. f~na with Bert end Harry nnd our muid,Itulic, were going to Gratiot for the of 1902 and I was to Join s~~er my two weeks vacation. I ~ct th~ _g~ th~ ~little in the aity and ~ut ..for them on n tro.in at the Rending terminal one evening. Thoy would travel o.ll . night, passing over the !Juspension .llridgo o.t Nia.gra Port • Hur~n about ten tho noxt mornincr. Tho cottage nt the beach vnd 11o.ry end aomc The trnin I took ~hen I ~ent or Dea~a ~ r~nll s ~ rouch still owned their the fnrn.!ly were there • to join thorn pnnsed tP~ a section of Canada and as it was n faa days before the Fourth of July I was takincr so~e large fireworks with me for the proper celebration. There were not mo.ny of them but they were good size end made e. some"::ho.t bulky ~aokagc. Forgetting that we were to pnsa the Conudian customs ! was startled to see an inspector coming thru the train and.examin- ing the bn~gage. That'a the end of my fircworka, I thought, and they had cost good money o.."ld the boys woul(l be oo dia.u.ppointed. :loll, there was no help for it. ce.suo.lly Along tion or two as he looked in a.ge fireworks. my c~~e the Inopector, asked n ques- bag and then he s~ottod the big paCk• "'.'!hat' a in that?" "Pirewor~s for the Fourth" I guilt- ily replied,eyoing him closely. ~ "'.there are you goin1" Port Huron,I'm taking them to t!1Y boys to celebrate." He lookedlx e.t me a • moment or t':ro and then his rcther stern f'noe relaxed n bit, "All apologized for the siccc of · n·}:town. In the ulbur::ts and the il'amily 610. J. ,\.D. PG. GlO .. I Hi a tory, you vrill see the shell o or some of tho~e firevrorks which Bert and Harry oollootod tho '!lornine after ~-"1d ho.d greo.t run in protending to fire off. It wna good to bo out in the open n;;;nin ...vi th dayD to spend with ey dear on ea. ?hero tr'ore picnico here o.nd there e.nd ro"$ boe:t- 1ng and· \'lnlko, and bz-..thing. 7ho Deans wore cordial· o.nd lovely r:,.,d Aunt Helen in the oottcea next to tho Dccnox-y delighted in the child... ren e.s nuch ~a :t!t if they had been her very oYm grt:...''Hlchildron. couroe, Anna F~d I slipped ~wey to look aenin nt our naidonhair bower, \Yhere,fiVO ye~rt3 'before, che l:t£.d ~aid tho.t made so much dif!crence tx in our liveo. cr "yOO!t th.o.t 1-'..z:~d. Jc loved euoh other t£cn ~I in) oy... of a nc";l•tound trear:r..tre but we loved evch other nm1 1:1 u be-tter, richer love bocuuaa thoac doubta of the earlier d~yo l~d v~- I ishod i~ nnderatnnding. 1Tot rar o.r1o.y in tho Lol:o thoro were nets like rr~c.ll pou.•"'ld ntltn nnd wo went there to f!oh for perch. It wu.o 3ortio' a first oxporience and he watched the proceedings with groat interest. :.:orrin c:.nd :: Unrion were in another boat not far c~uy and preocntly Unolo Bur. caught a. f'o.ir oizod fish. ;7e wcr::z using tiny ninno:va for be.i t U.''ld Bert's eyes w~re bie as he watched tho bait diao.ppeo.r bonea.th the water. ·:le a.ll sat very quietly waiting for c. bi tc v.nd nftcr sor:1o time had po.saod snd nothing had hnppcncd,::Sertie asked in a hushed little voice fot ho had boon cautioned to bo quiet ao as not to ecnre the f'iah, '"~or.xmo., Dont you think he' a ~mt Grown big ~nough • yet?" •Grown big enough'? ·','hnt do you mean, Doo.r?" big as Uncl c :Bur' a'? '1 "'c7hy, grown 1.1!3 Did 'nt you put the 11 ttlc :f'i3h in tha wnte:r so he'd gro;r big cnour,h to cc.tch'i'" '7e e.ll llB.d a gcod lnu13h nt .Jert•e ne~ wr~ of finhingc I 611 J .A, U. -pgGll. no" that tho to r;o on \lith the , nht >7ei;;ht. to ·:ror1c in it, \VU.S really a m03S• J.:e.chincs were crowded tozethor and the duylight could .not reach were meet of then. C:lectric lir(hts aa u:iall,=<=l: simplY unobv.ded bUlbs hanging from tho ceiling It was hard to find tho waste in the hi.avy shadowo bet;1een. the ::-.aohinoo and much of tho time 1 t. was not t'ound.Jlut the worot of o.J.l was allowinG the men to chew tobacco during working hours and spit tributed here and there. int~ boxes of sawdust that. were dis- Thinr,a like that when we moved into the no·a factory. ·.nll c~~e to en abrupt end hn.d never pemitd it bUt he• did not go ubout the plant very afton and did not realize just ' what wo..o gding on, exce'()t :k in a gonernl w~y. So ! bcgon to w-ork in the -press roon, under steve's brother ::crcilline Crinl, universallY celled ;.;aas. His head wan not as uaef'ul o.s i t ,,ir,ht htwe been fer it· cco'.'1ad to l""vc cor!e c::1pty plnces -::-':-" 1'. o ':;- o. r: cv or 1.'01 c .~·· ...,._, ... _~'W~~ .... :,_.,......, .............. _~ ~··"~""'-'""'~~ t~ -- fill c.l . llo llc <:ao tl'c 1 act !'Wl'l to b oUeve J' •e ··1·1.• THS :?P.3SS TICO!!. 6ll,. T n -.~,A.~_..pg.6 it. But he was a good men on the preasea and managed hie men well nltho he stuttered when exoieted. He had ideas \'dum about ~±atml improved methods, eome of ther.1 valuable. The trouble was that ha was apt to bo cross and surly if they were not all accoptod and put into operation at once. neoauso of his peculiarities his ides were ~era generSlly laughed at by Steve and Lennig but after I hud worked with him a. while I listened to him seriously c.nd thereby won his la:Jting friendship. Mass thoueht that the beat way to learn was by doing but a hydrokic press tha.t: ran a.t 300 abo spheres was no childs pl~ything and one ~ad to tempt £o. to know.~ pretty·thorouahly be fore it was wise to at- The chocolate liquor was put into pots, strong steel ..... cylinders with a. smug fitting movable bottom, each holding twenty or ~ ~~~ thirty pounds and camels r. .'lir canvass ,,pads carefully adjusted. Thoro ~ur were . or tive or these pots, and when all were filled and put in position the p~p was started and the ram rose slowly 1ncren3ing the pressure and forcing the oil, cocoa butter, out of the liquor. If those pota were not carefully adjusted the pots o~ -----· some other par~ ot the press was ruined or, if those falter pads bed not·been placed properly or had not been thoroughly cleaned, a stream of·hot chocolate liquo];' would squirt out with tremendous force Wld if it did not ... -· scold or injure anyone nec.rby 1 t would aplatter a1.1d cover more w~lls windows, belts or motors in a aeoond than could be cleaned up in n day or two. You certainly had to watch you Pa e.nd 1,a.whcn rll.llning a press. I Thare vra.s a e;auee on each preas to indicate the pressure . and a red line to indicate tho da.."!go~oint but imo.gina working with Md around machines opercting e.t fro!lJ. ~000 to 4~~3 pound.s per squa.rol inahl -· -- -· ·--·-·. I so~e instruction from uaso which ron about th~thio here, s:::::, is how\full yu fill it, S~· After like this! •Th-th If yu get it tu• ~ tu-tu-too full, it'll bust on yu. SZE· bnother XYJCa;;hing up li~ed him hi~ in Gimbals ond sportinG goods department where he was a oalesmnn and doing very well• The work on the ~ preosee was prettY livelY• Jhett the - .,roper time had elapse& ond the .,ressure being right, the pllllljl • was stopped end the preoa·al.lowed to •go down' that ia the rBm descended and tho .,ots could be Cl!!ptied. -:lith a large 'bia-ocr""' the cakeo were forced out o.nd lifted to a truck. t..s tho presses were heated theY lk~d ,.. ,'.l '''r91Y to.' e handled ~ct u withp~da ond be very careful ,rn, which, if not aeriouc is very 614. J.A.U.pg.614.. p cl nfl'l • Then with o. 1 o.rge cup-like vee nol the pots nre filled with ' hot liquor, the pads, which hn.ve.bcen carefully cleaned, are replaced the pots pushed into position and locked and another batch was under weigh. lhilc one press was goinc u~he next v1as ready to empty und eo on all day. Abo sat around on the trucks and boased·mc and I was a very weery .:ti:!2m ware pul v~ri zed 1~an P.-1-ld The press cukes when 5.45 pm finally ca!!le. sifted in the subba.oemon t, and thea poovdcr packed pl!:!.ce in cans • It rva.a a terribly dusty dovm under the firot celler,the fine powder worked into the clothing and onto the skin and for some time tho men working there had no o~~ce to bathe after the quittEK work. Later on I I bed shower bathes put in for we had more room. Will went to ~uropa alnost every sumaer and on nne trip he a_ brought .bu.cks"new kind of f!ho_~_olata,not on sale in the United S.tatca. was a secret as the method was also. responsible head t<' koep thinga going. ·.11th one of the men ;: I tried different combinations in a mclanguer. And what a time we had to make water and oil nix! 7e tried to work in some raw milk but tl~t only nade a crunbly mass from which one could squeeze the water with one's ho.nds,·.ve tried condenaed milk which proved to be ali~ little better but fur from ae.tisfnctory. Dilly Keen who was a.rul eXperienced batch mixer and I had all we could. do to keep theE I ohoeol te mass in the machine. As soon a.s we added the heavy ~ condensed milk to the liquor, it wr:r:r:ktt became a leathery or, better,, I a rubbery ~ucg that uould gather together in one ~lace and bounce out of the muchine. ·Je tried : ':1is way· and th.:'lt 'HUY but nothinG J.A.U • pg.t 615. 615. we could not rn:1.ke a. good mill: chocolu.tc. 'tvr~Ht '7c kncrr ~rur« tho tl:c troublu \1ao, too' ntich \1a.ter in the milk not n.1dcd ';'l~tcr but the nor.:1al B4 ::. ·;;o must t;ot rid cf that in no~e 'vn.y bofnrc wo co~.tld hl:alli: . blend tho ~ilk with tho chocolate, ·r.:ut ho··r to do it •;;as tha probla~'l. ?a-;ydorod nilk, if r:tC.de at all at t1w.t ti:1o ';Te \'7ero i'!!1provin~ our quoli ty rie;ht along but · which rir;htf,.tlly belonged to us loot the creo."'l of the buainf.ln~"and had to t2.::c oecond if net and ~1vi sintt l!hi rd "Pl ccc. .Je 1o at the fL nt pl ~;.oe boc12une our q'-w.l i ty Wt:.!l :fnx ~T0.42 ROS~.i01TT A\fillTU3. J. A.. U' .pg. 616. 61€. interior, not intentionally but becauae we still had too much moiatn1 I ure whi oh hurt tLhe f\.q.vor, and also, becP~uee wer-e were too conaervati ve in our sales cwnpa.ign and would not and consienment methods. to have ~ut cut price ~eet Herahe~rs It is easy to eee,now, that eomeone ought in all bis time in studying milk products, the Gwias m method end all other information possible. The. Idaa.l· e..'ld Herahey had found a way and so coUld we altho it is only fair to aay that there is little doubt thnt both these compnniea uned nothods to Get information which we would not use, auch ae puttinG Bl'~.eo ae rlork- men in other !a.ctorias, buying up com-petitors) '7orl.::nen to 3et :f:il:rn:u. formUlas end like methods. In all my 26~ y~ars in the never knew such a thing to be done by our House. Compc~y I !actor P~other hindered ue and t·hat was that we hl:td the re·;mtation all over the ' TTni ted 3tates, of making the finest qna.li ty chocolo.te in the .country. That made us to 0 well satisfied with ourselves, perha,s_~~d apt to think that enything that bore the nel'le of Wilbur criticism, that is outside criticism, there was always ~ we were "NCB above ~ore tr~ enough of thet helpful but a~pleasa.nt erticle coming from the Pront, aa *I had very good reo.sons to know. But we gradually inproved our quality and made and sold tons of milk ohocolct,for many ycars.On~ time, it was somewhere about l926,we sold a solid train o! nilk za coating, all the fri eght cars decorated with hugh signs '',Vil burs Chocolate.• It went to Chicago. DUring this tim'!f'Mother was looking for a house fo;r<.J.s which would be nearer to her home and in I a better neighborhood. l!other never did like the idea of our liTing behind a g11s tank a"'ld Eryn !JBWT considered Ardmore q111te a b1 t down 1n the social register. {'{ot that llothcr was snobbish or hiB;h hat. !:rot t•hc lee.::-: bit. :But 617. J .A. n. :?r.l. 617. ' I \ a.ll mother' a tustcs und ideals were essentially fine. Thera was not a trace of e.nything o~!mon or coarse in her • 3he loved fine, not ohowy,oloth~:~,fine thinga in he!' houoo, fine music nl tho aha wa.a not a ;n'1siciun, fino pain tin go, fine people, finett churo.cters ~ ~hat is equally tr~e of my dear wife and no doubt was a strong element in the love that these t·;1o fine women bore ee.ch other. U.y motl).er not only loved fine thinGs but ahe stove to instill ~ love for the highest and the bent in her children. After :nuch searching :.,:other found a house in Hos~ont, not exactly -;;hr.. t she night wish, one· seldom does, but ono that \7ould do very well o.nd one that ;\nna. end I thought wn.a very nice indeed. It waa 42 ' ~oz~ont ~treat ;'..venue, a. nice ftu::1ilY sort of running south from tiontgomery Avenues to the Railroad. just eaet of nosonont !t.t station. ·.1hile the aide yard was not gave room for o. mnall garden. THe pea.rscs lived between / '* a!lout us. 1 ~a.y ua it wo.e quite dco-p and Ae !. :-enc::1ber the lot waa '07 x 125 Jeo.• 42 house and two or three &crea ltU'~e or tU'ld t.:ontgomery Ave. in u. large lond so we had ylenty of air apace _/o-v/H:d.. ~ ~~~ /--~ for fo.ther boucht tile J)lllC'.3K11d gonel·ouJlY,...ie.V-e ~ .jf... ..Lc·nc--e- 4 a,~ ~ ·~~ L~. s. r «ould ~uoh have preferred ~o ~ave stood on mY o\7n feet a and not have been ttc recipient of auoh large giftx but ao Father had broue-,ht me ~ast and had done a good denl for his other children I nocepted it in tha n~irit in whi~h it was given und w~G very grate• ful indeed. It was a sort or a'gingerbread houseB outside, a type very com.."non in the IUghtics, but very comfortable within and w1 th unus• ' alby wide ~ondhce on ~~o front and part of the south aide. It was a fine pla.c~or the children to plny but it made the parlor dark. ; ,.-;• J".A.n. RO'J~Ont. p~.c1s. 618~ :?or there \Vas a pnrlor, no fair sized house in tho sa days was with\ out one altho the livincr room \73.S becinning to be heard of occu.sion- o.lly. r.nck of the -pu.rlor was the si ttint; room , connected by. aliding end VTi th a door into the d inin3 room vrhich \7o.o on the side ~oiJ".es to,nard was th~ t -pl~mted 1 urce yard of t h~eo.rceo. As a. ro•v of large maple trees along one of their drive\"tayo, just the otharside of the line fence.our dining roon wa.o always rather dark. l;JF-.n try and kitchen ;vas bc.cl:: of the dining room. Of course the / The second floor had three bed- rooms and one bath and the third ",_./ the oa":le number but no bath. ~EXW!X£ Vlnslmtando vrere placed in the bodroo:ns no the different members of the fa'Tlily were expected • to wash there end not expected to go to one bathroom,cn abomnible day present cuoto~, unless each bedrooM has 1 to O'iffi ba.th. The bath can be a.rrc.ngcd o.t otheJ;iim.ea during the doy than the norning, f'of{!loat membero ofi the r~~ily. Qf couroo ~ith was not so bad. Vary few houses hnd amall children one bathroom ~ore in the early nineteen hundreds. A lo.rge stable with roomy carriage houoe, hay loft and one foom .for the 'non • stood a. little way back of the i i tohen , the 'carriuge drive:running along Pearcdo property to a circle turn just back of the kitchen door. Th~ormer owner had raiaed fine poul- try and the yard back of and to one side wire pens ond ~nll houses. or the stable wa.a full of' There wo.a quite a grape arbor, a x± sec'kle and Bartlette -pair tt'ee a.n well as a tair sized apple tree I nnd a side yard toward the railroad,wlth a good sized stone and frrune house next to ua but -plenty or light and air apace between. "'fendovov- u.vcnue was on the otheJ/side of tr..at pro-perty , then another stone house trith e. la.rr.;o lo.t rmd the railr-oar/beyond t}"l..ut. There ..... .... -----·-·~---·-·-·-...-·-··-· T A "' eJ'-e '!l Cl9. -nror'.l9· • • t.""'C:>l; were pleasant" -people in tho five houses oppo e 1te, on the Juo t sido • of' T:ooC!"l0nt ;\venue, Includinr::;t he }'oroto.llo, ":c~rt;).llya,I ·i1cnt to school \. I hnvc dcr;cribed tlw.t becu:1nc ·.7e 1 i vcd there plt~..co, 4~~ Hocenont :~ve in some deto.il ~i:docn ycc.rc· u...""l.d it wuo in th.D.t houoe thut nll you children woro born with the exception of. };e:rt, liu.1·ry a"ld J)onald -v~ altho it vra.o very extensively ul tcred in HI05. ~lucc uo I 1 waa fond of doing odd jobn and workinG about the hc.d • ti~G to do 1 t. <~! vrua tcl:inG a tro.in about and hour later in th~norning o.t lcunt oo~e o~ the time. urdo.y o.ftornoon s more frcqucn tly. ~o Then we wera catting uAt- it vma not 1 onG bel' oro wo Hs.d ~ro·.:r borders those ohic1!'cn houooa cle::.rcd out end a C£t1.rden st:::.rtod. were pl<:":.ntcd, COl)aoitU.ly ono along the oidc to"N'urd tho ruilroa.d where welt -plcntod small trees end shrubs to !!H3.1{e a. and give acracn. ~us us more J;>ri vucy. ::ot that the ku.ilroa.d bothered ua for 1 t h~ve a. block EJ:iwcy but we 1 iked to effect of l:;Z:;x-a-ss tho tullY troes nbou t and ohrubber:t and we 1 ikcd pri vuoy too. It wo.a about thl. o timo thut 1 took a. cluss of boys to teach in our sunday 3chool, boya just grnduuting fro~thiprimary class or Y!lore properly tho Infen~~ it, !!o.rry then or lutor, class na it -~d '.70.9 then Cllllod • Bert wo.o in 1-'ornto..ll, /illio...""l A~Intin, ~ Dennie Hobarts mdtt John En!rd, ond others, some joining the cla.os later u.."n.ong • them being Tom Y-utch, l7.1t t11at ~mtil bro~ra oldo~t son of the ne-:t minister, 1\ndrcw· :rutch • wus cftcr some ·yeo.ra hn.d -pn::~t. 1 ho.d thone boys for years t}·.cy r~ Ytcl·o old c~1G·1r;:~1 to ;:;o to collet,e nnd tJ:c u-p. }'.onG yeura ufter:n . ·d, ·~');~ :~utch, no·:1 a mini uta:· af the 620. J .A. U .- -pg. 626. ' he wrote as follows, aftci' mentioning hi n 1'<1rents first o.mong the people for whor:1 he is thankful. the Gund.ny school. 11 Then there \Vere the teachers in All, no doubt, made their contribution, but one of them ata."lds out. He took a class of boys, who were at the difficult at;e of twelve, (11:cn Tom. joined the clans,) and became to those boyo narc thun e. tencher, he 'bec~r1e a friend and a. counoelor. He orgc..."1i zed 'hi c clans in to ~. club •:~hi ch held business o.nd eocio.l meet- ings er.ch -rr:.onth und lEter bcca'"'lo the nucJoun of a ne\7 1\oy scout troop. Our sunday School progra,-n. ;vo.a life centered. He tried to face wi thk4.. the ~roble~s that were giving ua concern, or that would be troubling us in the near future. He gave us valuable information :tr.:.rt and a point of. viov that·vras helpfulk then and still is helpful today.n I As Tom wrote that many years after those days in the class I ~ thought conceited in recording it here. value it and I hope ,._not be our How little we can estimate the effects of possible influence on others. Tom liutch was a sort of ha.rum-scarum boy for whom I often felt I was doing very little that was hel-pful. In the factory I bccnme a sort of trouble man on the manufact' uring processes and on eXl)eri!1lenter for numerous ideas of ·.71lls T.'{)TI KXX for improving our own products, trying new methods or making new kinds of chocolate on formulas he or1gionated or ~ saw in books or magazines. As he read both French and German easily as well as s-poke them he wae continuallY finding some neW' su};Sestion. In &mt addition to that I su~ervised tests on the loss in roasting, fanning and so on. In figuring our costs the loss by evaporation,in shells I end dust and other possible losses was a most important factor. 1!:3' J..othgr Jlnrry had mude tests and we "'ere using his fignres but they, needed to be confirncd or C'~rected.and a great manY tests nust be J • V /'.RI"SD D1TT!"S3. made. ·re e.re testing the lone in Perhn~~ they have to be nativen' too allowed so~e 621 • J.A.U. pg.621. pri~itive ~oughlY roa~ting. The rc.\f beans c.re weighed. cleaned becuune thgone 'nimple to be dishonest or% grnval and a lot ~ote to cheat, have somehow - clny to get ~ixed with the beans when they were "clo.yinG''thEr.n a.a a. ye.rt of the curing on the plo.nta• tionn. It ao he:ppenn that clay ia hco.vy ond nuch, very much cheaper than cocoo. betms m1d so the presence of extro. clay in the bc.ga ho.s a. tendency to '!"ln}~e· us stronr;lY sturpicious. :jo the weicht of clu.Y · tmd -pebbles !!lUnt be deducted from the weight of the ru·.1 boo.nn and the first ito~ of loss is ascertained. Then the baana must be weigh- ed e.rter they c.re roaoted end llermom must be • earo~l to make ruul average roast for he can eusilY lecvo a halt pound of water in the batch by ~oasting n trifle low or pri~o off &hat much by a hi~1er rmast. one ronst will not cive a fair estimate eo a number made and the wei e;hts averaged, be lT or will the average 1 o sa of one l< kind do ror another kind· of cocon. we noon fo•md i t out too, ~ust l!o doubt Harry knew that end so a nu.'llber::t of raosts of each kind must be mode and the average loae ascertained. ~x It was·interesting but 1 t took time, 1 did not actually do the work as the men in ee.cb deportment were likely to be more uniform in their methods . and hm . beside we wanted to knoW what tho.usual factory mothodo ond results would sho7t. ~ri th !:Iu~ey, in tho Ptmning roo!:l there were more chance• for error fro there wore more factors of possible loss to be con ai dared , ~ere were the nibs, tailings, dust, very fino parti cl ea ·of both nibs ond ahello, shells and in acme canes the •eyes' ns the • non called the genn• of the beans, to be weighed eepnrtltely. we com:;~arod ·Jhen our ren'-'1 ta ;rl th Farry'" fi!'-'lreo 1 t was astonishing and very gratifying to see l,o;i ·;early alike theY ;Tere, .,ratifyinc;, not • 622 • J .J...,{T .pg. e22 • · only.ao a proof of Eurr;t'o accuracy but also beouuoe these testa \ showed that our coot fig-uring wo.a nu± correct, at lec.st-ibo.t there was no serious error in our figures for those losses. is It inter- esting to note thut., ultho the results showed a vo.riation of a.bout ::; ~;& between thodiffere!'lt kind46f bcvns fe\7 VIC figured the average losa o.t 2~:"'~ on all kindo excerpt the clc.ycd vurioties at 25:·~. such a free a."ld eo.:Jy wny of f,irrurins loco i tc:-:s wo11ld ~i vc our ~.tnat !!lodern cost accountnnt:J u s~vcra chill v.nd ri~htly oo. ·"- di.ffcro!'lce of 3;~ 1 in the in the losa between ra·:r beo.."ln c.:nd the liquor would a~ount to ncar a half cont in the cost of that liquor, either way, u big difference when you are figuring tono of outp".lt. • But profits were larger in tho early de-yo o.nd one could ta.'ke oo:':!le 1 i berties. nut my work en the tests did not take me into t he myoterisa of coat accounting at that. ·.till wo.s the coat accountant as I have mentioned before, He actually personally figured nll the coats for all our product a with the help of a. clerk to get d:-ttta. on such things as labela, boxes &c. He did this drudgery becauoe h~ did not want the office to kno-:1 the formu1o.a. Harry did ibi figuring up to the ti!:le of his death and '.Vill would gladly hccvo turned it over to oe bu~ until late~ arit~etio w ao nlmoat as odious tone as Garman and I had forgotten ~uoh of oven th~ simple processes I had lerned. 'But I had to reloam them again later on tor I ho.d many provioionel costa to fisurez on t'rial lots and aa mples. It may seem strungc that one as truly devoted to the altruiDtic e. as I was Dild as sure of Di.vine guidance in life and a desire t 0 \f1 th aa sincere serve llim in good deeds to otherz, should seam to hnve oo quickly and r'!C~t 30 of en.oi:by hn-vc nlou0hcd off xl:.k thor.e :tlt:k::to~ princi- pl co. It doeG ace:-t oo · fro:-1 ·t; is ztory but it ·:m.s not oo. ''i:'henitieo ncces- I 623. J .A. U. pg. 623. of :lY >7ork, lone houra and the der.m.nds of family lifo left me little time for anything else. 1~Y dreans of being« a helpful influence in the student life of Ha.h.'"le'!:1ann \Vere rapidly vamllshing l~~iJ.er 1'\. drea.-no. I attended the rteetings of the medical cluue, the A.n.Thomas Club rotd: Xm quite often and the 1.J3.Vru"'JJennep Club occasionally. In 'the forner I md most of ~Y old medical friends, ?)ien like :Jhl;l.lloross Jessup, I.~Ylc, u cla.s:::r:1ute 9 Horthrup, Spee.lcman, the incur&ble joker, ·•fea.ver,ond others, good friends t\ll and in t!le Vrm l.ennp club, younger men like Gus.VanJ,ennep. In -fclct r.toat of the members were men m:from • his colleee class. I carted for very few of them and a number ~ I months I found, e.s the y...e:uxa: ~"t passed, an increasing actively disliked. o¢oss sense of a oo~~on interest between these medical men and myself. rz:;f:_ ~-rfIt was notA hbe olcl friendship but the divergine interests, they in their rrofescion, I in the buoineen and manufacturin6 problems. !.':.ore and more I begun to feel as an outaidar, not because they intentionally left me out of their ts.lk but because they wanted to.talk about this case and that oasa, this new theory aYld that new remedy of uhich I knew nothing x:m \Vfhile t'h-eir -!R-tex eet in co coo. beans and t. he l' the -proble:n of sn.vin{J the waste cocoa in the shells hardly hTith chocol,o.tc exposed to the odor for it ' would abnorb odors quicklY tmd the flavor bo rui11ed. In Augu!lt '\7or1: \70U1d begin full blcnt tho tho het1t -:nade us s shut do'wm 1'o.rt of the da.y quite often. 'l'here wc.a the heo.viest do.ti.end tor coatings during the eo.rly ·lall of any tir:1e during the yeox for by manufacturing confectiencra, bV who~ the coutinga wero used, ~ere busying moldng up their Christmas cc.ndies. /,s a result we frequentlY ran two shifts in tho 1i'c.11 v.nd I was put in general charge e.t night, ~ with one of steve's ~dcrstudys ~ Factory Foreman. It \Vas interesting wc.rk and ! enj oyecl the reel in; or be ina boss. I soon found, ho':Tever, tnr;.t being boso hB.d serious dre.·.vbaoka for I was held responsible for -cverytl1ing that v;en t wrong, especiallY ~the • shightest variation in the color or flavor of coutingo or the flavor of the aweot goods if w·era making them. I e.loo ho.d to see that we mo.de our quota and that things went right and the machines and stock roons were left in proper sl~~pa ell the co thing'3 vrera not do.· a e:;co.ctly ao 3. blue pencil ncr:1o the next ir;~1t rorthe day ehift. And if the~ ahould l;\! I recci ·.reG. in •;fhir.:h thinr.:o were \1ri tten ' NIGHT: SHIFT DI?-:<'IC~TLTI~S. J.A.U. pg.625. tersely, vigorously, leaving ~e t:ana:;cr• s mind. 625. in no doubt as to the state of the 'lill al\'TO.Ys ueod a blue -pencil and hovr I grew to hate the sieht of those blue venoilcd notes! I dislike the sight of a. blue pencil murk even to this day. Criticism was all right,a.nd tho it is hard to to.ke ~ill l kno·.7 it i a hcl -pful if 1 t constructive but hud a peculiarly irritatincr way of writine criticism aa I could not explain my side at t he tine ond as I thought it was destructive and not helpful it becar.1e hard to bear. As he grew older it beca.:n.e more hursh a~d was a sore trial. Of course, some of it was justi- fied and when Saturday ca:ne I had a chance to to.lk it over with Jill. \1e worked fro-:n seven in the evening to five in the morning with a half hour at midnight for lunch, but I lay able couch in the office, I Xxt~ Saturday ~ ~ on a very uncomfort- ~crning when we shut do\7n and dozed until seven, got some breo.l:fnst, \7ent to marke~ and :t:.E'X returned to the office to get orders, go over the mistakes of the week, comp2re coatings that wore not the right color ond so forth, not a -pa.rticularl:;r: pleasant for.enoon after being up most of the night before. n·nt I discovered one thing that \Tao a great help thru all the following years. sure were all right ns ~ found that the colors that I had been vie·~t4n the electric light at night had quite a different cast in daylight. Then I found that the eloctric light made the coating loo}c redder that thcrt. daylight. Anyone well up in the qual! tics of light would have know'!1 that but it was ne\v to me. ~1en we had a licht with nore of the daylight qualitJ put in,much of that trouble disn?peared. I Still thoae Saturday forenoons were often trying nnd sonetimcs it vas three oclock or later when I got hcme,not good co'"'lpn...,y for a.ny one. But. "!'n.Y tear wife \Vaa ·rull of sympo.thy nnd tender care a"ld loving solicitude. But, all in all I • 1HGE'T ~H.!i?T 626 • TIOU7:P.E!. liked tho night worlc u.1 tho I would not tio.nt 1 t over too long u time for I hardly oo.w v.nythine of my frunily. Tho G.l5 wro.o th9firot train out in the r:1orninG l~"lcl aom.otiuco I would atop v. t o. nico h::.k bokery o.t t·.v3l th ond !~roh u."'ld buy oo!!lo l"'oll o tho. t fror71 th~ ovono, D.rid trJ·:e the:-, hono for brctl.'kfe.at. \70ro still \1o.r.w l.l!:loat c.J.weyo I vnmt t0 sleei.) on the trr.:.in but nevor wo.~ cur1·iod 1)':..st :::ocet"lont tho tho "crn.ko=s:1 hn..d to w::2o r:1e u-p onco or twice. TIY the tit1e l lu...d bracJd'u.st I we.s wid.c t:wO.:::e but the ovenins tru.in time .•• auld oouo nmezingly soon and if I was to keep on tho job thut nitAt I muot get sleep. ~o I soon bundled in and ge~crnllY bud no trouble olooping until four or ~iva in tho gften'loon und 'ProbablY could hG• C27 • I huppcn often, oono t'lM \tould ft:.il to come to work ond I would oub- -r: stiTuto for him if tha rcsJlar faotoljf routine nadc it wioo to do no. I rGr:ler:lbcr one nicht whon tha hoo.d non or tho pc.ol:ins rooD, whoro thooo· ton pound cr::..1:co ~7oro po.o1:od in tho or.oo~, did not como to vorl:. If' ell tho coo.ti11g that wo.s \7rupped wnu not pcckod our outl)ut :roitho 1 1 I nicht ".7ould bo short o.nd ua there \VUO no one elno to toko tho pluco I wo':lt o.t ito :.:urplJY could lw.v~donc it but I thou3ht he bettor koop e. t hi z rc.;nl a.r work of loo:dng n.ftor"'c.ho n:.mui"u.ct"..lrinG dotu.il. 1'hc1·c wo.o no apeclw akill needed in tho packing room except ekill enough r~ to hit o. na.il on the head onc,i drive 1 t into the .:tm1 rather thin bourd~ of the aide of tho case without oplitting than. lmt :plenty of atrength ' •tU3 noeded to lift the ohooolo.ta :rrora tho truck onto the ocel e:J, cheol: the weight nnd then fror.:1 tho oouleo into tho oaao and nail on the cover. f~ l~cn lift the oaoe,ubout ono hundred 7~z: und fourteen 't)ounds, on·~o :tnothar truck • One cuoe wo.s . L/0 c nothinG atoll to do but whan it o~~e ·to bandling ~ to~O cuoeo u ~ . night tha.t wo.s u. different tlo.tter :ror it mount lifting ~ ~ to tho ....,... timca not cocnting oaaea. or oouroc I wented to at Jooo lbo throe leaat equtu tho output of tha regulur forcuo.n und I pushed myael:f' as ho.rd az I could 0..11d I:lY work in Alo.ska hud. hn.rdened my muocles end the fc.otory work since had kept thoked rathor -L- aurprizod ~~d when ~e wero otill going strong nbout three a.n. ~ look bognn to 1n:1 c.buood. I think wo tude a. record ror t llo -p:;;:.okinc; rocn tho.t ni;ht for I ren~tbc::t~U1c fc :o.:.1en was quite aisc;ustod vhcn ho ao::J.e 628. mm I 'J.A.H. PS• £28. FIRS7 cnnr.• ~ back found we had done better when ha was away thw~ when he was pres- " Of couroe, it wus hardly fair to him ao the men worked bet~~ ent. tar tor me thun they would for him ~nd naturally I worked herder under u.. the cirounota~ces that one could e~aot of any e~ployce,~ith very few exceptions, doubtloso herder t· han ~ t.._ could,_ expect,,as a. rct;ultl.r pace for I waa one tired tmd lct'le man the next day n.."ld thankful enough that the.!- t:t fo re::.::m 7TC.~ on lwnd thtt" follovrine n~.eht. l! I welcomed experi cnces 1 ike thn.t for they hoJ ·p the bo so to uncleretrrnd the diffioul tios of the job as no r'...'1lount of innpection or \1o.tching cc.n ever do and often a few hours of such experience will ahow a way to n&ke the work easier ond ranter end to do c.wc.y with dif!icul ties that mr;.y ho.ve hindered it for years. I I fullY believe th~t in the Boss could only ·be the workman a..'l'ld the wor1..-::nan the :Boss for a few daya ehch would be ~ own job but with u far better understand~ the tr~uble3 of the other fello~, and x far more synDathy for glad to get back to ing of ea.oh other. 7/e ran the night t!hift about a. month eo.oh year but there ly was one time when I wo.s at· it neo.r twice o.s long, ao long tha.t 1 t seemed strance to go to work in the daytime. our first dauGhter joined the f~ily in October, 1904 and maybe we were not 4elighted to have her. UoVthat we did not love the boys and welvo::1e the:n \Then they come a.~d delight in their growth and devel~ opment but ~e felt that we need~a girl to mako our family complete and add her gentle and re!ining influence to our home life and the ~ or characters of her brothers, maybe, just maybe, .her father as welll. " • ''fell, tho.t girl end her siatero have done that and !!lUOh more in a wea.l>th of love and helpfulness but our first de.ughter ne_nrly cost her mother her li:f'e. Hy old prece-ptor w"1d lifcl lone; friend, :ur. 7illiam c.:rowell, wcs ou:r ftu:lr' y -phytJicio..'l'l und I ho.d enc;aeed hit:1 to attend J\nnu. I \las getting a 1, ttl e toe fo..r away frmf'!ledicul ·.vork 629. J .A.U .p:; G~~'J. • to tp.?.e oare o.f Mna, ag&in. .Tc had not called tho naroe when Anna 'becnne ill a.l>out rnidnie;ht c.."1C. u N)rry phone call brought Aunt nc!cna, my siotcr, 'but for so':'lc r:3<1oon ~;r. -ro-:tall had not u.rrived when the bo.by was 1)orn c.bout two a.m. ;:.y experience stood me in good etend bnt it soon heoorrha~e \/U.S evident tb::.t r. ae"lcre interncl wo.3 ta.l:ing ill ace requirinG tention which I iWS rcrho:;1s tt~~1t aur0i cn.l :ruxs1 a. t- r~!1d l)eforc long t:11 wus well. J\..nn2.'~ reco•rory ·.1ao sooowha.t delayth:'lt sha co:1ld not nur::~e tlie b~by able to render But it rrn.s u clo:::;c call c..ncl' dear ed. i~'l;lcdiu. tc ~..!'...r.d i::Jm,En:JI. y;u:> til(J roaoon girl ao lone; c.o she nursed the .ct!uu::tc!:; 1 C.."'ld i '" below r-uch of the o1< . rn!lch oi ty e e 6~0. ..-11th thfi st.La'3rcnce und the hilll:!l boyotmd. I a.:.J enjoy~d every m~nute "tTOll aa the trip dovm the river to ~ac.l'JUOU.•J on u. co"'.l:Lortable atca~boc.t tha.t \Vent to 11 ttl e ·:illc.~~O:J firnt on ono sid.c of the:r ri vor u.nd then on the other, one of thc::1 be inc the ..n~1·y ftt!Jhiono.bl a ~.:ur1·y Ba.y, tho ·;,-o could see very 1 i ttlc of c·..,clldo:n. rro'l tho dcoko .'l!ld did not stop except lon~ e~1ou:3h to go nsbre. "' tho touriato end :. t aUC'!"1C:l ln;:; t:..."ld \7ent to the r1ot.el for nc "to ~ 6n!lih £2. .~voryt~!.in~ .vt:.:l .b,rcilch alnost n;:) if y;e nn::a:! wero in X tec.~o ohort Dtop c..nd net tho to tt:.ke ond Tndousaa ip, o.t t·hc junction of the St.Lu.wronca the Jc.gone.y and there io sm:1o of tho finest oconc17 on thic ni!lllllor river up w:tich our stea.-nor rune, :Sut I ·tho often '\1G ere o.l·•ia:ra going !inhins t..nd -promi aing oursel vco or each othc1· tho.-t we ~rc')uld tcl::a the "Sngenv.y "eri-p 11 we never did. 3ightse-rt mil eo tlu·u hillY country without npccin.l in.tcroot brought us to our nivcr, but the quaer, long, no..:cro\7 fl.elc;.a of the ra.m \fore interesting. Canoe!! Yii th onr guidco took uo u o.crooo the narrow rapirl atrcom und a. fl1fi7 otspd brouGht ug to cr.up, c long car~entoro ttt;~.s o. t·~pido ju::t narrow :building only one roo'!'!. dcc'P end "t:uil t trt like square to follo'<"t the o.'bo\k the cul'VC of thtr'::i vcr. Th.crc 'belo~ (with v. lool:i!lg t;Ulmo~ pool oc;.mp md a."'lother juot othor sidG and a liJccly & Breo.t high bluff on the juot. in front. l\o.Ck Of the csm:p thero were some rookY hill3 and tlmm nt1·eu:a tho houses of sm!le of the guides who famed when tho onop3. ta;J:.U 'iiU.a unoccllpicd. While there were not a. grant nH-.nY' treoo, nothing lH:e c. forest and ' that great bluff nhut of tho vi~Y oxoopt up nnd I delighted to bo in· at 1 ee.st t!'.e good! the cool m-roet nir, t1-:c .:r.mot<;.~t atroa~ s~i-·.1 ildo it w&o pretty again. Oh! 1 t wc..o hun of the rD-::d...~: .: :; 2nd whc~1 ,xki!S th~ 631. wind ~.van right, the heavier, ,uftled roo.r of the fa.llz, e. mile up stream. :/hat sleep\; vtha.t an a"?-peti te; whut :!J. huskY reeling; Could "11 theoe thine• be when t..nna w.. s not wh::>t jo:rous ·o:oo hn.ving arsreed that 1 t wus bcot for me to go ''e ·.vere ha!)PY in the deci sian and each :n;:;.do the bein.~ niserable 1)~c~:us~ b~st. of it. ~To thing was to be ca.ined by we were sepc.rn.+.ed and altho i~~nu. had by far. the 1r1orat end of it there never was a sa:;::m and they for u -.11-'.ilo lie in the doup p<:Jt:la r:.lon_;; tlto rive.::.: usAtla:y t,;o. If 'L.lH'!:::lO pool:s lta.ve not "bee;• dic~~=:1)CG 1'or ~:o::to ti~o tho firot .i:l"-"1 to fi:::h the.:1 / pools lool:::d deep o.nd -enticing und juot the place for s~l:non but they -:.7oul·'l net rioo if thoy • ;/ol'O tho1·o. ':'i1a nocond duy ..-urs not much better ~d th~ third dc.y fa".:ller told me to try r:;r:; luc1:. if I wuntod to o.a I ho.d oc.rcfully rcfro.incd fror:t fishing until .:l~t thor h~d ol:ir:ncd .to:. :::::::c::.:.:-.:;.:;x=..~x.t-....::J):"X.:::tlwl:.;;:rS;t.:..;.,r.1.£iiD~~t'z:~ th:....t cr<.n.:.:1. J.~oor D~d '.7C.6 ruther dioccl~r~t.:;cd.~ ins, not to It. s;>e~ no fun to pv.y 1~ of guid~n, .~;10000 fo1· the priYolose at• fish- provia1ono, ·t;o.:cco e.nd all thut, e.nd t!lcn find thD.t you night have e.lmoot a.c good luck b!'.e~ your doo!' :.l.t :-:.o'r!o. !Jo I tack the two 'bout!llon, ::.oule u.nd. .Too o.nd. ntartod ju!=>.t c~~!ll ~\p vl"~OV'l !'i ver. Thor3 '.7::!.3 o. bit; 'bl~ok ~ool ~. o. h:.1lf nlle u.-.·rey per- it l:.n ioy li ttlc ":,)r_oc:t: cnptiod into thu rivor. The mon' 3 I th:tnc; to "'Il'l• ~ -..~., •.o "'Y .... · : •.• J.! or rr>x. . :: t :r 1 )_;_Je~t }l'Jo~::.J:-lmon lift:. Them .cor O.!. t' ~.!1\J I~ !L, th- flii.!s, liko 3Veryt1:tn:.; about t!:at Joe let tee !'.ook d1.wn in the ·.tator only u rmd 1 ht;.d'nt t1'Le least idea whtt they ·.na·e try- scnc::ea than one. for another yank u.:-id I l:ookod into uo:;lctfdntJ that ::otio~1cd I :.new -;-:r.c neither n log orr. rock for ":!7:'./ lir. . o cf 'the 1·ccl c..nd tho mo!'l t'.lmout throw :1c ertcr thct flyina thing ut the end of ~y line. t:. out \7iU:. c. :rr..t.'l ii"ltc!vho belOit. Altho I bu~ ncvex· ct~UDht ~ m:-.lr:1on on f:-r.,:-~ ycu~1G C:.ll'lOC dc~n ~:li.ir t:.nd l"ao.::C. to tho pool J.:i.rie J l...'1lc·.~-- enough trout fiohinr:r, to hr...ndle and plt-.y hir1 for I rco.lized I hc.d a ca.J.:mon on the hooJ: nnd v bir; one. :ihcn he r.:mchcd thu J!OC>J. ho went clcrm nnC• frorl. i,lw.t b:cooi:c ~Ul.'::v.:d t.o lie l.l-'1d there tho CW.ltlOn c:.~U.cl·t:.d,not x~::ny, probd)ly b!lt oo c1cnL tocothc:.· th:-t it L1to the m iiTS ou.oy to j~b a hoc~ <-L~} 1 :w.d. It ~no a grc~t tc::2ptt•tion to ~o th~t "but it is little dC",U1)t U:r:t o1.a· o.m g~tidco did it u.t nL.:Lt b:..c ].J.thor never· but th~Jt worn pl uoe in the c.:rasn s~o'.red aomcbody wao often c.t the place ,..o,,,.l ot•t t'lo:···t 1· l.;d ....L.LJ.\...,.._~ ,....,"~ "ut.~-.1 ... ,.. o·1c o4"~ t.,..,. '"'lea he 1 '·' v ..,.__ .... •1~inr: -. .. .. ... "'""" ...... 1 L~-..; :..-' , , . 4 tl·"' .,.._.., -·..;,J.~ J.li.ot t~ ~d aor:1~ po~. .Lcl.inG on tLc c;,uict, :t clunnish v.nd c;.nc would not tell en the otln.:r. S l• I t·~~u... ~ r. ~-.1 o .·1• f o l' ~. 4 ......,,.,,... 1'.;;;....: r f -.:.- r -:::: •• YTt:.o t. C:ifflcult ;:cl·u poor :::.r.:.' no ·t t o e ·.;·c J:Oor ::me..1 t·l~CJ 'I.. nco o.lmoat beyond l ..tu:u::n IHl.tu:.:o, ec:_)l.:ciu.lly uLon ~;hey ·,·rc=c only thoro that oo!!le l1 lci'~ t::.an mu.gl:t lw·:c oorJ.e fun t't . iow u~cl:.o ,.., ~~-~:-r. JJtd that huve so:.1c to tlat und no doa1:t tal:o :JOrnc to thoi.r fu:,d.ll~Hl. kcop ili-:1 co~pany. If lJc l::.c:.d ta':rcn a-:1ot:'::ar !:.:.!n, no:--:c 'frio:1d ~~e would have ho..l: to ehal·e t: . o fishi11g \'Tl th r.i~ w!;.il..: I did not c:::r:J a. ;rca.t One tir.lt>, p1·oi.a~bl.Y t~o y~ .... r· s.fter_ I jicgcd. t.l;.at fioh, ::;.:.th.::.r had no luck u t ull o.rHl thu tilJJ.l" ,,c;.G £..1)?I'Oc..chinL:; !or us to 1·cturn :-.ome. One night, like SO!!l~ (,:;Uilty con:,;~)iritol·, he neld, "I.;crt, l(;tt !'"~go to dold liL·ook to::no1·row t::nC.:. a ..J.tcL. juot t·r.o !'inh. • 11 I r:. t,;recd. r was not so strong for the code, a.~:1~'1Tny. If it wu.o &.11 ri cht to kicl~ salmon out of the ·uu.tor l:)nd on to :the bonl: un I !u:~~ done in l-.lc.skc· wliy not + jlr; tl.c~.'l o1· cc.tch tLc:::. r:~:lY ole 7tt'.Y• So, nox i-~ornin.-::-, wo ,.-:ot vn extra 1 ool:in;:; rc.thcr s!:cnel!lfe.ocd , 1d like o. gail ty child soor1 hooked a rrm'f . . 636. · J .A .. U. :pG. · 6:36. I \ fi sl:. r,_ni! w~n r:.t'l'n.y, do·.rn ::::trer-n, to that pool just bel ow. In a few minntes I b:J.(1 1·~oked into arlothor c;.na was a::Cter hio e..nd there we were, ecc:!-1. ·.vi th a very lively and obstre'?erouo salmon at the ends L-:n t: t i~'l e s of our 1 in co. :.::r.;;a-."";.: u. so.l~110n r;ill go :tigl;.t thru a pool, down the l'ayidc a'1d into 3c!'lc pool beiow ·uut both ou:c 1hsh see'Jlcd to like the sccncr:r i:-1 thr.Lt -p<:,.rticnlo.rXjC pool End b.l tho it rran neE-.rly round, as c.~d was for I r.~ave n!'itten~ :i:t ~=::z lu.r~:;o ::::z the peels on tree st. ~a:rguerite in rend for b~t') ~almon t:1.:d \;r'..ntod to "\"isit ouch other and find out what t her:. anyhor:. I i~c..Ginc the tnuJ l)i t:i.n:; k)OOl wc::.s not u.s deep a.ll over as nerer one ban}: for the fis~ insi:J~ed in otc:rine fo.irly close toce+.?>er, grc·_t.tly to r.':.,.ther' s ~~-iac,mfort. Of course he had the prefer- ' ence <~1li every thinG ~ossiblc nust be dcne not to interfere with his srort and I tried to keep r:ty fish m1c..y. T\ut cnyonc who l::.o.s had a lc.rge oalr.on on his linu kno-r:a just how much he cn..."l do in naking t.ho.t i'ioh go wht3re the fiohGrrrlr ;L..~at the base of t~e dorsal fin as mine / was. That made it so much harder to control the fish for a fish }1oc:<:~d ~ore in the mo:.tth can be far mor3 quickly tr2n just for t he fun of i t • fello·<~s es.si~y Cv:ltr,llocl and is killed -e :r.A.n. pg. 637. 637. K~--;~p 'l.'HAT FISH A'-'IAY!! K"'S~ TEA'f l<,ISU ~\.'.fAY] Father ahouta Ye~, fro.ntically. I '.vill. nut ho.,·r? It!:! up to no to keep hi:1 a.wo.y oven if I bl'eak my tackle to do it for once thooe fish s·,1in around each other and tangle the linea soodbye to both of them. So I put on the strong arm and aa everything holds 1 check and cot hi~ hi~ over to the other aide. But the r.!lnnte I rt'J.D.x u b1 t J!H:le-e-e-oe, he' o cff u:;r.in to oee his frl . . ,.nd ... • "'l'>~ r..: ..... \.i . -~~+" er ....'"-~.,;J-1 ... li'·e "'"d ,.1 ..... J:. f ._ J.".....•, ...J,J.: ~·el1 ~,_, :J -·.Ll:.(J l ..... he:::.vy pressure and or.!d aga.in we retreat. Father's fish does not neer1 a.s interested in his friend on line n~ riy r::ine 1.!1 ln tho ctner for he Juat sulks most of the time, J1X probc'bl;r beor..use he. 10 hooked in the tail and cant s;tir::: o.s well_, but ' no·,., '!:<.nf!.a.p;n.in he to ~e.,t him etartrs visiting and if mine happen a to be anxioua to~ rmy or better there are somo lively times in that h~f' p:ttk ~o~Jl, the .like of which had nevor been ooen before. Now 1 t' e tJy tt'l.rn to ohont, Keep thv.t fiah away, for by no•v tho f-:.mny aid.e of it bc~c~ to st~ike us but all the owne ?ather wan keen to the all1Y1on ol;i timers dny, 'kill their oa.lrn.on.' l~~d,~r a& ·;:o had been at it nea.rly :.m hour a."'ld ny fish had very kindly ~otten the nulks fol' I , collapsed before wc.n ted. c. r~st ru tho I d. ~C!}j;tc-ctj_3XH:.::.'K~-~ I'd usked a guide to take my rocy.-J:,en one of the man ougt;eated that we try to get my fish to go down the ru.:pid.o him d.o;rn to tl:e tb.e pool below·. ::nowly and carefully we worked t~ ~ wnter and we thought wel'\get hitl down;but the ..1· "hind<)n poo18 he o·;med dorm :1. the fu.!1. They certainly were biG fin}: <.;.r,.G. hooked Y'e.tc::~d lrndin-- r.:. ::;::;]-,-:on for ull the • nrac~ett t!!.n.t :;Jn.inted. the ;lict~.tre of fish ·,1e 1l~ve 170.:3 on the L?vnllette, for be 'Nas probably the !:lost noted pc::.,inter of . 4 I o-cJ>..o fish in A.-:tcrica :::.nd !/.au-ppose ?ather paid f~ d0lJ.ors or r.to re for thnt Di cturc, pai?t ted there don't think it's a a young o~1;'lo-:1Jtt.'"l.d 011 the st .Yart_,'tleri te. If yo:1. r~ne picture of u a full nalmon, a:1d I don't, '\'tell - -we G!'O'.m brool~trcmt, (n gr:!.lsc, that is -are not all good judges of real art. I U.';l u.otonished to fln.d. in a 1905 letter ":7ritt8"1 toM: A..'''\na. J''-tly 21st 1905, the stateme:1t that that I c~}lght Jt.,iVa sal~on thnt ye:'J.r ·.1hose 3~ ~ounds, • ~ weights were 13, 17, 19·1·, 23 and the last 'being the one ! have ju:'lt. written abtJut and they were not all jigeed or ~oat of th~,only two I'n sure. ~xceyt in Ala.eka, I ".vould have bel!n -positi-ve that I never cought that many sr.>lmnn in nyilife but here'-; -the record, rather in 1•18ck and sl i ght~.y in black nnd. ~71 ~ite, or yell 0\7 ,_ 1vri t -:en c>.:hr•to :J~ thirty one A1TITA IS !!.L. • yee.rn ngo. On on~ tri~v w-nnt o·l cr:,3tt1.J., lH:ely L:. lool:~r:,; ol,~ca for~ trv a 01~st ' for t~-··1 e rcH'!. .. ,.,.er~ not -;.-:.~,.or: :··~'"'1 +·~>•.:··,.··,iy,,· +}·i"'' t.h ... ~.. ooda • .,; .., . -1-.~> ~. . ... '-'• :.~-'-·-~- ... ~ ...... ·-"""' "' '"' " hcd made such lo.,.; "ft~::.tcr tl:o.t ull this dob:-ia, um.:.r-1ly hidden tt."ldor • water \"fC.s no•-r tiry and tho trout, lf r~ny, he.,! no 1 o,ss tv ci L on and we could not get u singla riao. It u&:::; tha ever satr, anywey. ·yh:; -:;~la o~t:-:.or lu!~Q mcru1e;o~ plu~o to ~ish 1 ·w-a.g 11ot in eiDilur cond1 tion we could not· tell, i,"ll'(')bo.l·o/::fcd by 3~:rin._:3. Another tina we t-rent \1"? :river ubova the falln to fi ~h .fol· t1·out, tor Ji'~.thar tl1lcl it ~aa still enjoyod that .for s There eh~n~~. 1)eautifu1, o.ll heavy second w .~;roth. ";7El3 a t;.ood trail . ·fe d t1 not fi ::~h very h:a.rd ·for "':'le en.jt'>yed the h:tks avon more t hu~ the fiorN.:md· ~l•oro fish- ing in not ao much ftr::1 a:r.r;rny. :Du.t <3d ; \70 c~:Pl(!r.t ull 't713 7nnto:i. in tho swift wo.ter forfther3 oaa'":t to ce no "POols ot a'1y rsb~:J.:Lt ·;7!=1rJ & l.Wt Hll del t nhtf'nl tri n o.nd ! \"frote tmoh nn tr:1 ~::,.unt "ta:Jtia 1 at tar t}la. t he ~ . . said m"llt mr.n u}1o could • ~ fe~l and ...,ri to li1~o that onr;ht not to be in tho chooola.te or any othe:r bucinezo. But word ca.-ne that l..nna. rJ.Y ttear -.,yffe looldnrc tve..n ~md WP.a sick and I hurriod. hor.1e tn tind ...,ca.k E:mt u. M.OGt ,l!luaun-1 oocuronce and HON~OOX, POI:lT PL:iA3A:rr. ( e ' e ·.vaa a.lNaya genarou3 about that, &"ld :Jo.:m .:'.:ln::. :;.nd I ware n.t the Car- :rol ton, near t21e beach. It burn~C.: do':m SIJ:'!e yee.::·e a,go. "Je ~referred it to th~ :Jore styli3h hott7l a-ti:ll 3ta!1di!l:.;t ancl <.~oin;; busin3:7H3 on the b~ac~ anu be3.i.da it >'las ::nuch cheeper c!1d that we..3 ~nl=-.::;J')l"ta.."lt con- aidaration. bathing and rel ia:f f::ra;n narsing our l i ttl3 C:i'.1 l,3h't~l' all seemed to 1Ja bit also. 7/e bot?1 loved sailing c.J1d S'Very day >re took a. box boat :r~nted dii'farent lu~ch !l ·trolly oa:::- ~:an from :b.y .H4ad. and. ·,7:3nt to ::;19.!'1:::3 ·:there '71e :::a.d a nail and then hare and there a.s we plao~l -pl~ased,. jt.o_o:;>ing ?.t. 3ome for lunch euc:h day. I-; was a ha.:;>.?Y ht!e.l-t~ tl:::o.e a'ld seemed to b.e just what. iJme needed and bef0re long she ".'la'3 l'eac.ly to go hom.a. She neYe:· waa the kind of' a ::::tothe:r to f!)el exe.ctly he:ppy unless ~tidOt her children were no i~ far e.\'fay. . '?:'(y work in the .?ac tory con tin1~ed tn oe naking :.w.m-pl est experi- ment3 a."ld troublil !!l.a..1.. ·I wa.a of'teJ: ;:p:m·~ f·:Jr to jud.gtl rp.1ali ty oi" eith!!r m.anu.fac!;ured ahoool3.ta or soa:J ::a--;; 3U-:;;>-plie2. l-Iot in frequent- t'ound to be good ;;md I had read. f.:rverJthing I could fi:lti on ra"iT eocoa and chocolata making. Zi::;n)erer. r.sd ap-peared in 3ngli::sh and later a largar and. to my rrlnd a nr..lch ' in 3n~)and. mor~ s.~cura.ta book :published. I was deeply _interested in 7:1.-:J "ork and '.r'hil3 I sometbes 1 onged to be back in the medical -worl: especially if S·~~thing or \ ' CTTR FITI!JT - 641. J.A.TJ. rG.641. AT·To~.:onn,~. ·11th the excoption of my friend, Dr.:t::othJo.nc;er, u.s.N. \71th ·.vhon I had had a n'.l.!:1bcr of cases in Si t!ca, :Jra. Scn:1 1 you re:!lo:::nber, every mcdicul man I lme':f con.:;ratulo.ted ~o on beinc; able to cot out of :! Y' Medicine and into bunineso. I_ ho~d nothi!1J fror.1 Vn.."l l.annop dirootly but 'Jill D~'.V hi":'! occo.sionully and ao.id that Von always enquired about ,me a.nd ~a.id it wns a. ah<~Lne that I had 1 eft the profea:lion, e.l tho he i'..ad done mi,zhty little to cnco'.tru.:;c fine chnnce to do :Jo. one nic;ht, ::::tfJ to stc:.y in it when he had o. :nno. and I hud. been to hiQ ho•.toe to dinner, J··.. but I :f'ol t there \7~ox somethtnc lack inc, the old cor-.: diality was lacking and even Ann~ felt some iil d0:f'incd restraint. A widening bulf sc~ed to be o~enin3 batween my ol~ • oelf nnd there sccned to be no w~y friend and my- to ·otop it. On one of her v1o1ta to Sitka Helena. had told u~ thooe horseless co..rric.r.;es called cuto'-mo-bileo, w:.hth tho accent on the first syl- le.bl e, tmd tho dri'var cs.ll ed sho- fer not cho.vr-fer end the plo.ce where they were kept ga- rach' not gnrige, with broad a a and the last syllable accented nnd drmin out. She snid they onw them oooas-t with ionally but more often at the side of t'ho rond "\ some one trying to rnctka them go. T!i.o 11 very ~'ln..n 1-:r. ~:oore hnd a epnn of horses on the hill on ~~on tgomery Avenue in front of our 'ho~e to tow the oars up on 3undayo ~nd holidnyo as vary few indeed could go up it on their o~ power, and lloore wa3 making a 3aod thing of it. Of course wo had read about/ th~ but, like noot people we thourrht they were just a mechanical novelty that would soon be forgotten. llany horses were being frightened and thore wno talk of la~s to keep them off the I road. Speeds of. sixteen to twenty miles were S?oken of with awe but such :;-;1ecd -:n-1o very de. ngerous . nnd t'lhould not be nllmred. ·7her. wo reached tho. ·~n.ot one cylinder cars loo1:inG :.1'.!0 · 17e \7ere rmch intcrented in tha:J.• all like ~ bar:rrY t~;~t ho.d ho.d a bad droo.."n.. • J.A.U.-pg.G42. Alraady there a wore co~apctinr: 642 • !!12-kcs the OldtJnobil c easily the most ' popul o.r with the 6o.diJ.ln.o seoond und probably othnrs altho I cannot reoe.ll n :?ord. 'rho~ were r..ll one nnd Oldc slo5un \7aa, o~rlindor ''You occ theJ'l 'r7hcra c~re:· you go Anle to cxaoino it c.ll .ommrt.e;t.ound, ohiny in alttr.linum paint. for r1achinery 1 t wao intennely intarceting with its heavy t-.ro 1 argo o;,rl inders n.boihr; one side and a large f'ly~vheol in rront of ·nth ny love 1\. I thec,tho shaft extondinl acroas the car, one end notched and protruding thru the oide to receive the starting cra~k and and a oprocket oh3.1n running fro!tl the ahu:f't to e. sr:1o.ll differenti&l on the roar • o.:--..lo. e.nd. rL.li;ri'2i!?Oii i" i i!i·'~; ; "·-i .li " 8' The radiator wonder~ ~-· i i i i ili i i i !i_., i i i r~ iiO!t:iiiiO.t:nioiilqsa-..iiiii·... ..,.,-...... WQ.:!.! u bo;:•like affair telo·.v of \7onders tha tJ neau ----------sst...,.,..,.,., .......,. c~uld bo 11 low· 1 __ (!;,,_.. da.oh so thnt the car rc·~.oved w-...·....=-..,.,.______ c~1rved -----··-JFt'\t',_if'ii".· ·~ llllllllll{;fllli."'liii}•· e e --- '"ffi BtTY A POTID. ~w J.A.'iT. "'"•t43. 64-x v• J:'l) converted into n. runabout by simply unfastening two a-:nall wins nuts, lifting off the tonneau end coverinG the be.ck of tl:e body with a. po.nel ed boa,rd about f'out· r'bet square. That tonneau had tw·o rn'lull oeats, one in/each com or "lith a door bet·.·reen them in the back e.mi .\TCiG}ted ao little thtlt I could lift it o!'l or off \7ith 'Veq little trouble. The vholo ear o, but, -po.inted crinson, hicrllly varnished and very shiney, \Vas a very big PTJT:f the price wao ~;eoo: I he.d'nt or half that ~:coo and when I sucgeeted to :•'nthert.ho.t it \'lOUld be lota or run to ho.ve . ·' one he ~cch poohed the ideo, RO he ulwnya did at firut but it vas / not long before he bought it, doubtleao tl!':gcd on by -r.:otllcr's gentle presoure. It was hi~ car but I could kaC'p it a.tmy hou~e. Thm1 I must be tausht to drive end care for it. The e e ion wa.s a.baurdly ~im!lle conatt~ct­ bnt the most importo.nt thing, o:fter oiling we.s to keep the breo..ker l)ointo O!'l the S:Ja.rk ooils,which i-7crc in a covered box on the buck of the low dash, '!)ropez·ly adjusted and filed clean. Only a."l tod~y, ~ore~ ,, 18, 1936• I s~w nn ad with the old tool kit .and o. finger nail file ,,~ith ,, er points clean! They were then nade of plutinun, sticking together and the nutoioto ,,of the nto.tonentA;mt, t\7enty years ago, every auto kit contained a nail file to ti~es ~icture ~keep ~clting c~3ily,oone- eternally ~ore the break- o~oothing them or adjusting tha cro.-p bet,veen them, nut before I could trive the thin; had to have a license and I hnd to e.:pply in -person a.t the :nurea.u of :Boiler !n~nection ! ! ! In City Ho.ll, Pr.i1adel!)hia.. That first liconoe or more exactly i certif- icate of inspection is in tr..e 'box of mld papers ?.co. It had a number tit and I must get a ~ certci~ ~ize ~~d on ion nli~. piec~ or leather, ?Tefornbly ·~atent leather' o! a it fasten metnl nu~bere 1~ko those on the ins~oct Tha fee, I believe. waa fifty ccntn. Tbat one tnc \'::..:.s hun:; on the cc.r any-,vhere en( I was ror;.dy to be;;in to drive, whether ' . • -.t ........,.... 41.& uc; eaovq.& 41 ,4 , -e \ AtTTOlTOEILr.TG IU 1904. J.A.U.pg.644. 644. I lme·n how or not. But part oft he EJalcs bo.r&n hcd bean to teach one peroon eaat to drive ru1d so ho~ sbie of the to the \tnre house juat tKts: "/o.lnut 3trect bridgo und a r.1an drove out t o the "-'ark a oecludod road end put a~d found II out I~nt ~e at it. lly auiling experience helped ne to steer r:ithaat trouble g ; h i a latest otyle in autos had o. whcei inntcd.t{ of c. ntcering 1 ever ,as r.1ost or t he first cars hnd. ·1'hcrc wv.o a foot pcdu.l for brc~Jrs and t~nothcr for reyerse with a ahor·t littlo l:cndlo ut the ri(;1:t end of the front sev.t which engaged plw1etary gears for slow of full speed. There was no emergency brake, I think. or three losaona, and ny instructQr ae.id I could drive T\~o all right a.?td it waa arranged that we uould take tho car home the following Saturday,one of the ehop men.to I ~o with uo. Accordingly, 1?c.ther, ·.'/illc.nd I appeared at the \tarehouoc o.nd were soon on our first automobile ride, the shop ma~ driving until we were beyond Lle.na.rch. Tho I took the wheel, and no doubt .I!':.;. thor end Jill thought tho world looked very fair and hated to think leaving it ~s or they felt sura the were likely to do any ninute, I felt confidant, the firing \7as even and regular. Thora was no difficulty in kno~ing that for id there was any muffler it was very small ond the chug-e.-chug, chug-u-chu.g was plainly, even po.inf'ully w- evident. There •:rao no trouble steering and we bolod 1\ ~ong easily \" and it seer.1ed vcr.J fc.!Jt. I \7o:o exilerated and put on more gas and we \Vent faster. A hand reo.ched out o.nd shoved lt"ather's I exct~ted ~f-6 miles Dn hour,and that was a hiGhly dengerous speed on an open road \1G.S ' in the back" and voice culled loudly "Don't go oo ra.st1" He \:tas right, we must have been going t ~e frJ..,. in 1904! .Beoide that, here a he roe t r.l..9.t oto.ncling on his hind legs and thrc~tenin~ to turn ~ around ond upset the co.r:ric'-30 .or ~.rick thi:.front c;:Hl out. :Jo '.7C -pulled ~,.,_, ............ "•\' ,~ ... 645. J .A.U .pg. 645. over to tLo nidc of the rom\ and otopped the engine &nd the ~ led ~ e the very nervoun horne by the machine. The 1tid1el3 had gotton out the carr-iage ot ro1d aa they walked by, loo~ing dagcora and with evi- dent deEJire to u~nihilutc us wa heurd o.s rre doubtless ware intended \ . ' to hoar, '1 Ua-~ty thines! Think they o·.m the road! no right ,,on tho ronde! onght to bo lrJ.',va; so fa::;t; people hav~nt v.ny rightst &c,~c. 'One cnn hardly roulize hoV" bi ttcrly the pernons who drove horaoa feJ. t r-.bo".lt the au to 2 1 and there ·.ve..a rouson for i tJ for often the drivo:-a of cars ware o::.troleoB s.nd indifferent to tha I'ig."'tts of othera tlnd more tho.."l one horne ran away o.o a reault. :~vcn toda,y,I t cannot but fool that tile other fcllowo oar is an a.wfnl nusia...··'lC~el I re::J.e!'!lber one ti:-:Ie, eome yenrs later "ifhen I aa.tr that n horae ~ -e a:pproucl1ing was skittish and I drett over to one side and stOJ;>"?Od the engine, tho men driving the tcDr.l, there ~1cre le.dios "rli th hi!!l, a topped ns he COl!lO abreast ua, uThank you! "very clearly und distinctly, and bowed graciously as he drove on. It really did mean ao~ething to stov a~ engine in thooe days, for you had to get out, find the atnrting crank, insert it &n the end of the slmft, under the front aea.t and wind it around. 'that heavy flywheel was no toy tm:t the duat n a; .4 * ;a ' J.A.U. pg.646. from blowing up hi~ 646. sleevea, dovm his back and avery ~here \ possible for dnst to go. A long visored cap \7aa the only a man to \lear, nnd often a 3ilk handkerchief tight P~bont else it thin~for hie clo:sely buttoned duster to keep the dust out of hi3 neck. The ladiee wore pr·efero.bly eo.ilor hn.t:1 pletol:r -qovcr~hc \Ti th hat, the tightly around her neck. wide br!ma over ..vhich e. lP.reo vail com- ~veare1~ 'J?AC~~ ~~ven at that •;;1e J\l:ID lOAD Bnd tho endB tied nevor thought of coming back from o. long rido, eo.y ten or twelve miles, \Vi thcmt tnking a. ; batE. before we nppen.red in -polite osociety or even MY\'fhere el ao. lfe.ny of the cars had long bo.akete to hold canes or ur.ib~rollo.e hun~ on the s1de3 of the tonneau end the horn, e necesaary ubomination, ~ from. that day to this, was hund bulb e.ff::l.ir fastened to the steering ' colunn just below the )1heol, fini ohod in brass c.:1 were c.ll the noto.l parts except the radiator. t come home ~iversary early from buoincaa the afternoon of our wedding that year to take f~a f~ tide. ~e did not children, it was too risky and dnngorouo. It wa3 a dny a~d where. ta~e be~utiful the June we wandered on, believing our trusty auto could take us· any- J~ot knowing tho roar.ltl very well I headed end bei?rc we renlizo~l f~the Schuykill 1 t v;e were going down a hill no steop that today it munt be negotinted with oe.re~ a.."'td we had only c:. root brcl~o! '1veryth1ng hold, however, a..11d we to1.1nd oureelves on the bo.nlcs of the River. ! kne-rr wo oould never elbb that hill so we \vent on alone; the •• riTe~ road and it wnz a !right, full of holeo and rutn. But we chug- a-ohucted along • _\bout tbat tL"7te we ea1:1e to a. crock Md I tl1ought I better soc ho;r tho water s:i'pply ;vas holding out. So vo atoppod, etopped the en gino, not 'l.ti th C'..tt fear cnd tre:t:1bl ing leat it would not start e.gain end ho;7 eo1.1ld· re ever {!et hone if 1 t did 'n t'l fished \ • J.A.H.G47. 647 • out a canvo.t~ bucket after finding tho c;.uxili&ry watar tank holding o.bou t o. K!lll on wa3 ru.!'lo ot dr:;. So some crce~ water rra.a di ~pod up a.Yld put in ::.."ld aft!lr a frJ".7 :::1ighty pull3 on the orn.'l'lk, nhe atu.rted c.nd off -..re chu;:;r;ed, reucl1ine hono ;rithout :-li311ap, quite the heroes ride of the hottr. Then the ~u~ll boys had a little J£xrm around the drive to th~ir intense excitcf;ent I ho.ve J')Ut a.."ld ho.ppineo:J. thst trip to roint rl(;!as<.:.nt a little oJu:w.d of its ptopcr nl<:cc for in 1905, the year before, tre cnlc.rc;cd. our house by fill inr. in tr-;o opposite corncro and puttin0 a that e~vc ua ~uch fl.ttiCf· ,T~at vrhct ~iffcrcnt atylc roof more ronn on the third floor as well as a good \7e v.coonpliohed in appearance is best shotm by tho photoes in our history bnt t·};.e inoree.se in confort inzide was even I t'1orc !"ntinfuctory. :But. C'h! the trials we ~uffcred, CS!"JCCio.lly my dear wifc,whilc those chc.ncco \Vere goinG on \7cre-lmrd to enduro, for we '- ivcd in the house throurr,h it all. Altho we did not tr.cr e \V&'J ch~ngod CA.'1JOCt it not c. roor:1 in the house thut was not broken onto a.nd to sone extent and ~ortur and Dlaster were Then ovor~7hcre. there were the uenal del e.ys, csyeciully for the finishing Ttood work tmc}~tnir.·rcy. Fi.nally, a2 ,·lolf, tht: cc.l';)cntcr anti his beat roe.n, Dili1orU: could ;;.et no nation Anne. and I went over to liorristorm to seo if we could not get aome action-by tho mill men. I seer1 hir: o:r hed he seen ::'!'lc but ao I nec.rcd his mill I the side ";;"l\lk !md eome ~trange r~d never nwr c nan on occult influence told me that was the msn. I ntop-pcd bceic1o hiM and looked at him ns he turned to oee whet it • ~e.n. hi !3 f:l u !}hcc:. \7hen co ·;•c nte.ired at et1.ah other, neither aaying n. word. Then f:~ co, c. rink I nu-:1no oe, bcca:'le _a dec-per red end . I get the.t nill ',:orl: "'l>'ol--.,.__..., "-"'"'"""":.-•;.-:;:: ---v~------ ••---- ~ >U prc.:-::1iscd three \reeks E;.f3·J'i ./ell, you \VC 'both '':lcxt pro~iDcd 648. J.A.Uo pg.648. before, a lot of ti:neo." ''I'll send it sure." "Jot any finiahad'i2 "'7ell, I'll ta::;:a what yo'.l hn.ve''• for by that t1!11e \7e had our more second auto, a. 1:~a1.xrcll, of \thich :m:iZ\i later. no tlO loaded on all "So;ne. '' he he.d, which tho not ~r:.uch enubled the co.rpzmtcro to go on with the insirle finish in the lo\ver hall. Then, aVer a friendly tulk with the !"1i11 mu."'l ·.:rhom I v;::-_n nure \V::H1 qui tc unreliable beoo.usc evidontl,y a; hoavy drlnker, t:-'1d ::.ftcr explaini!13 to ~11::~ our dineo:"!fort, ·::a ·:;ltent bv.ck to :\, nei:'!.ont in tril.t~)h. It was o. queer experience far I v;as so mad ·.1hc'1 I atr.·.rted out I ·,u:ts c.ll set to give that man on awful bawling. To ou1· aurpri ae and clel i gl1t, the reat of the mill work did come e e ~Yo he.d even tho in sel cctinG ne':l pe.per for tho house ro-ut 1}1 cc.GUl'C . to vothcr the money that cu:na i'x·o;n settling part of tho Deo.n estate wu.s sorely !nUCh 1\ crowdod to ~ay nll the bills, und how we ~~d enjoy tho extra ro~~s tho added bo.throo~ with a. eort of emergency tub in the sowine room, end n nice hettd of t!:.~ roo:r~, t\'10 L o.t one comer, which we oe..lled the '!~evoric' ~e.l iroo':!l with nn after !!luch thought. I r.ay have OX?luined bofore that we did not want n Den, in fact were much oppooed to a. O..cn in OU!". home, c. ~tudy ':fa:l e. little to heavy s(), ~everie it h~s been ever &inca. 3nall as that on a \7as it was 1 arge enough for tlY desk, co!!lf'orta.blY t and a chair or two, while in the ell a lurr,e door opened into t7o closets, the oddest ones you ever saw f~ the floor ,.,ns the to:p of tho stair;'ray 7 e e and sp sloped from the door right up to the top, a. -partition \7ith a 5;ru1ller door me.do the seoond olooet 'bac!: of the firot. Thoy reallY ·:rcre ~' t I ! f story porch e.t the rear of the house. J..j the stairs on the nccond floor there was why not a Reverie and I I n~t of u lot of nf!e "bnt •;c to!d 1olf ·,7e did not wn.-:tt etnY roo!!l r.r..stcd v.nc. r.c did not ..-ro.nte nn .• i~e H~ed el."cm 1\!rriti neote n~n.co "bnc,c: of !.· f ~ ' I I 649. J.A.U. 649. J!TTR!1ISH1;TG3 AT ROSZi ..CJ!iT. . / bath room. That was e. fine olosot 1f rather the bath tub in the new end o.-:rkward to get at kr.t:t 1 t ~eld our medical su:pplies and fnnily remedies, fir~t aid dregsinga , toilet su~plies , &c, &c, BY buying drugs and such thingn thru H.O ;-r&8 we saved a lot of r.l.oney end later we bought oo;rr staple r:roceries the same -..vay. Thn.t houxge, 48 Rosemont Avenue, was our home for ~,any more a..."'l~r other years t'l18.n wr: e·rer lived in and we wre very comfortable there very hap-py forl the r.1ost part. All of our dear children ex- ce~t Rert, Harry and Donald were born there and it wan within i~s walls that some of the frunilY narrowly esoe:pcd death, dear Anna . the nmon3 them. 77e took great -pride in 1 t and. continued to im:orove grounds from year to year. In our 11a.rlor, I had some blttck walnut \YO :rurni ture that was ·:/itll' s first J)arlor rurn1 ture when he had a house of hie own, I think we had it recovered with a ~ohair,I ~lain red think that waa the material. All that set was sold or given away when we moved to Prurrmure Road but there is a umall piece covera ing the foot stool in the Reverie here in this room. ting room we -placed very oo~fortable a brown ~mm wicker and stylish. In the ~it- couch and emirs with brown cushions They are norr in the Living room at Drowsy Dunea. new Brass beds adorned J[l!:dxXB: our bed room. and they were so comfortable. Nearly all you children first greeted tbis world from them and it was on one of tham that you first saw the most beautiful sight in this world, the love-light in your mother's eyes a.s she cuddled you to her and welcomed you each in turn with r • just as· much love s.s she had welcomed each of' you brothers and sis- ters. ~e had hardly eotten settled in the anotbcrbaby boy lml!!.B r~odelled cn. . . u' to join the fa..."!lilY. a ; <;a iA¥ e M:mJI!'I! .:;;;; •::ws; ;;; +PYP' house before Hanes ,,.ere some- xwo".r.--·•-•r-- 650. J.A.U.pg.6~0. hc.rd to choo oc but when I told ~'/ill of our n e\r baby he said h13 • would leavo him a thousand dollars in hie will if we would n~e him tiel son. So Uel son ho '.vas ne,:,cd und '.fill faithfully c:::.rried out his pn.rt of the bur['d.;r.;ot. Hel so n rtqs tho nt:..":'le of one of m~' mother's Xl::f'J brothoro ·,7ho died in hi '3 youth and of v;ho;:1 1:othel' vms ve'r"J fond l 1 eca'..toe of his fine character. :!!,or eome reason ·.1111 l:ad. not named ei thor of hi~ boys ~Tel son • .!)onald hac! been nn.~ed after the :tucdonald ~orancn ' o f .~na ~ ' s ·a~ f il y w1tn . ' t h c G1 liott married nunc fro~ ' my sisters Y~GU\X ·;;hile "3lizubeth was from Anna's mother'::; nume and the Dean fro-:n Anna' n fonily. The Cc.rter, in :N olson' o na..'Ile -..1ae from Aunt Adelia C<'-rter. nelson i1as born July 22, lJn be- sore di oa:gpointmen t to fail to hal}) somellna sue!!. fn.ilurs is due to sDr.le fault Lennig tha.t in~t.~t~ti :md built nome s:nall part in ::n:t,-;;;:,e3tin6 'J:l" \"tho g:::ea·tl:r ntv~ds help l:'!.C~ of --;?atiance. t::..s ::tael-llne to dro-p ~art of t:::e It ·.vas thi3 3Ud.3.,C.!'lJi d:::vi~e/ up r I :"J.ad to tl'>....at /ti=ta the 2Ud:s he.d been drop!) ad, i. '3. tho chocolate r.2U. been :to;:ecd th..-ru (' ' operated by the other, tna ohocol~t~ dro?~ing into sballo~ tin trays da.int:r bits of good."less. Ste-7e Oriole e.!td 'Jill had Ol.'igiona.t.ad the formula 'before I c8:Ue into the "o1usinsas and uona but tild verJ fine3t ra.w I!\a.terials were a-rer u~ed -ift- tor the :Duds, fro'::'l that day until all the '.1ilbur3 bad ?a.ssed out of the oom,a.ny end -,erl::.aps not after ~bat, ~ nor ~a.s the fonnula av:.o~r cha."lged, except toc:'lo.ngo the -prop~rtions of the cocoa. ba{~d according to th~ f~..i7or or th~ beans. For a long t~e stev~ pergonall7 ouperintended the roastin~ of tha ooeoas for Buds, 3iving a. very low roast v.nd then covering t-he • hot bean3 '\Ti th bags to allo'W' them to cools vary gradually and da- valop9 flavor ~s they oooled. ! raally could not aee that it cade uuch if e.ny dii"t'•,renaa b,.1t· I could not ,ert"Suada not. Eo-;v could yo~l ? e:r::n1o..d.a ;J. ~ of 3tev~ that it did :J..nytbi:1,-; w:'lo suld of u n ,;·;r . ·-·· ..... ' ;r.A.U. 652. rg.G52. muchin e -,ve were trying, "I.:r .B .E., I kno·.v dey is better, but I don't believe itt~t The chocolate that was ~ade for the Dud~atock, wus uade with the grc:~Gpi~U: anythinr:; of t;:c ::ir.,' of equil qm:l i t:r th~ there were plenty • 653 • S.A.U.pg.55:3. io.i tations a.s timo went on. The Co::lp~"lj:' bo.d registcrud tha trade ., " nn.r.tc 3uds \7hen they fil'3't adopted it and J:>..ad exclusive ri3hta to uoe it for ohocola.te bntiTH3 sh~;)e could not be po.tented und nnyone one coulrl use it o.nd !:mny did.. Hocb1ood of ~ie':T Yor}; nuda t he nearest imi tat:!. on im quul i ty· and Hershey hn.d n..'1 1ni ta.t!o::-1 of tho nho.pe called Ei soc3. There ·.vere others, a lot of them with nll sorto of nomea, I re::1.~ber o~e cr.:.llod ··:n~:~·.'~TT:.>: '}:rn.:1uu.lly nll t:10sc imi t;::.tiono were creaentcd to be '"lilburs nake. ·:ro ,roneouted o.nd 0.... thrc~tened. Our attorney's , l!org<::tt Le·."li s at1r/nockiua, -..·rare consul ted and bu3y; we tried so!:le distinctive colored • or that \i!lS foil but could r;ot none that wo.s thin enough not too expensive. Gold, tho.t is gilt foil, \1U.5 tried but 1 t 1 s as toni shi:1g how cheap Buds looked in it. Je tried to get a. di stlneti ve end attractive way to \1ri te or -print the but &11 to no purpoaa. \70rd Dude Then, one of our aalccrnunagero thought ho had eolvei'the problem for all time by calling ther.l''Jilburbudo' and '7ilbur-budo they were for aorne·time o.nd then our attorneys ,.,arned us that we woUld loose the control of the word Buds if Up with '.7ilbur. ;7e tied it ',1e had long put Dt ±. a little square of \vhite tis- sue -po;per printed with our trude ~o.rk, with onch Bud nut while these hel-ped· they did not protect and other raachinos had been invented to make chocolate shapes thet were very much like bud~n appea.ranao. or course~ the initations were being sold at lower prices ~for we tried to maintain a. retail price of a. dollar a. pound. Cut price • jobbers as well as a rew ret~ilors sold below and we trid to stop that but somehow thocs cut rate fellows would get them and ~ake us tranbl o. A :mrJ.n nmned Jco.rlctt ;raa one of the worot of!' enders. Ec ad'7erti~ed them -pro:minantly- i . his windo·.·; u.nd sold mo..1y r..nd still fa e 654. does in hin l!•.rgc cut-re.te ntorc on Chentnt!t St.a.uove 15th. J11 ina.lly we acopted a fixed vra:y to print the 'i':orfr nud'r, and h""C: it l'et:;iatarod which in connection with a certnin otyle ~ackeze, gave us the protecti rm we desired, at 1 ea at all \TC &leo rcsis~cred, could cecure under existing 1 mvs. Ry this time,I v:as virtuc.lly,itnot in nD:::e,t!:e facto:-y Duper- in tend en t, tho st 111 'ITer}: in r:: or!. the cl e<:mest :nen, cl eaneat ~hese ~rizes ~ere ~~ardcd CX9~ri.men tn :and spec iv.l t;ri rJ. lots. utensils, and cl canerit ccncral oondi tiona. on the ncores for the ~onth for ~s my inspectinna eac11 mornincr or other times dul'inc the do.y, I I made ~:l.X awarded the points for csch dc"Durtment. The t:1ffect wv.n ere.tifying e e beyond our hone~. :ttir ~!bile tr.e ne·H f~. . c.~tory had never been dirty the ectual co.3h pc-.y:H:nt et:!.ch r.tonth to the forc::w.n ~d to each of the workmen in the winning depert!7ten t, ·.Yc.s a stro:1g inc en ti ve a.Yld soon 'l[lf factory inspectors told. us 'Te were the clesncst fryod plq.nt tlhey ever sew. Often it \'Tao sn.id."why, you cou.ld eat your dinner from the eo floor::~. lhen one con oiders t.o\"1 much r.1el ted ohocolo.tc 1 ooks like mud that was eonatr. .tnG to be 'Proud of. ','fill backed ne heartily in all auch plnne. Ano'ther -plan did not worl:: so well. ~/e offered a libert'l cash pa~~ent to tmy e~ployce who made a eu£gestion for vny improve~ent in m.ethod, new device or method for m:J.Y nanufa.ctu.ring :procesa, mn::th that wo.s accepted and uccd. met nod of hPndl ing ?cc The value o.r the euc:gestion 1Hls to be deo.ided • e e by a coa~ittoe,~f Steve OliolK George Lennig ~~d myaelf, subject to the e:pproval of "7 .lT. come 5.n :~nt ;;he~ ''ffC c 8.Y'1 c in the ~ensoOi1 The plan di.d >70.8 nat ncce·pt fine and suggestions began to c~d p~.y' for every propoe:11 that lo3t 11'1ter .:Jt. They thought every idea they •:"-\.·:J;\ J l"\"'-:'"?1: Jl"v"""'"':'D ~!·· 1 655. An-:r:o.~t'\,... JU .J. _;,'·\...:.2• 3u.,:;;_;cstcd ·.t~s ~7or"th a hund:·cd doJ.J.ars, a.t lcv..st, u~d if it ·;n~;:; not uG.optc ~ :nac:-:ino o:::- t·.7o ·.1hich \":c:te ell he repros en ted. the:-u to 'be an•.: he told me a 'bout the 3n,:;lis}1 book .on c?!o col ate r.1uldng 1)y one '.J!:;ra.per th.-'1. t :pro'7cd no r..uch !~et ter tha"l the Gor.uan book, altho it v;an not \7it'hout tl:..e evident influence of the u pu..'1, l)tan:~.l and outfit for conllcnsing nill: for r:1ill~ chocolate. a ·vacu;n _.-That ·,rl:\.o what we wun ted. e.l tho if :'fe }·~d put a !!!.~!1 at it l1e could right ha:ve fotmd 1 ilea ou.tTi ts Jnul.le "t/l..arc in ?.hilu.del'Qhi~t and. we bought one. './hen it ca.:.te in ~d 'tm.s set up I we.s p!I± i;iircn l!illy Keen aa a. hel-per and told to run it. How we str.lgGled ~vith faulty vacn::uu.rn, It wao sup-posed to carry nearly Z)fl inches. Then the degree of conden c<: tion, if too thin it t:ou1·, not t~.'ry in t.l:e cuh~equcn t ~)roceoo t•,.. 6 JC. :r.A.rJ. 'Q.:;6:36. ·,· 't'1hi 1 ~ if it wa.s too thl ck it would a tick i.:1 only -part of it could anc! X!!a::e 8. lot of oa -':;roll'";:;l e t~1o mi:>.c:Oil19 ~'d gotten .Jut. 7he re3t -:;ta.s a-;>t t<> bu::-n before i ~ -.ya:; finally s.:!l'3-pad Zrom tha a. co::1dena~d rlilk .,;;.bout like -~u_be3. ':;_'b1t outfi-t -..,a.s dasl_zned to ~"5°~e ·~agla 'brrmd ~~.tt ~---3c.wiar e.nd t:1icker and as I had never '.Yor}{ed on of t~'1at. Cn'3 t:l..ue tl:ru ooma erron of over3it;~"'; th:!entire tcJ.tch, about -.·:e conld sto:> \ t and YO'l can i.m.ag!.ne the me:Js s.s ·;;ell as t::a loss. 2inally I learned ho11 to :-~a.ne;qe the haa. t ::md t~a vacuu.:n u:::! :r,:A.a.;~ tro:1bl c for tl:e nil:k po7tdo:: ~;·:3 produced • process or nne rtuoh like it for ::1nn:r ycB.:-3. 1 Ynually the 1:cl:ers of' or his nen ho11 t-J run a ne-.,y r::aohine 1:.u~ ::a.'r:er h::~d no r:wn on tl'...is nide at the,t tl::le so 7r6 had to wo:-k it out for oursel-ves t:..nd a that our }.::indly r~ualcer :friend had assured us >taai\ ve-.:y simple matter :!:: . • .... .... ! .... ..t ldl indee~.• 7ell, our good· quaker w-a.o oversan~r•.unc:t ..,o pu~- ... "' ::1.!.. Y• One cannot 1Jllt woncler no...., why vre did not do tho obvious in ta.okl"eing that new· kind of woi·k, 'NITy 7re did not arra.'1ga wi t:1. so-;te n:a:l ~~. l!ora ::;.rld. more, as tL-::l2 t!'l.GJ..'"t po.o.t Jill 1 ::J cri ·ti !li sms o.nd oa.roe.u::ns hurt me and far "";Yorsa .:;;:.~ t.."w.t th~y b~gB~.'l to roprea!l :::1a :::...~d ~o-~h~Jr n.y in i ta.ti ---re. It wan al to3catha.r Till had too bud for undem~u.th 'k.'1.al:!l ~ a :r>Ja.l nff~otion for ::le a.nd a. --·---- I It ~u;;st hn""fs been ooon aftar Chri at ian Aa:Jr.>~Jiation '.'Te in tha.t to":Jll. there was not e-ven a reading roont Wdl'~ oettlud nollo'tfing our Thars ·.vas need enough !or ·.vher~ young fallo>;Ts could go !or ~~d ~rob~bly g~Dling places altho the latt~r ~e~~ kept ver7 Eorn~io Yocum ~au the oth"~:r'3 vr~n:a enthu3iaRtic quiet. the p..:nd oinoere. only nan ! kn~ at the conference but aoout the ?!'Oj aot end ":fer3 ea.:nest and I w~s elaated ?rssident. 3o an as:soaiation ~a:s fo:r:r!ed.r\~"t ~he u-pper floor or· o. building !or::1erly ttnad by Tha Derigo r.a·i'b1 a eooia.l organization { I that had gone on the rook3, ~a3 rented nnd opened aa a readinz 659. aecure,ddonal:i1on3 and i7a.t·a c"'Jl~ to acq!li.!'e the pro_:)arty ai''ld fo-r H3.r:ry E:trri;,on ;:~~~tad th9 firs-t floo.r ~ a r:1an' :'3 f'..lrniJlli~'lg atoro. ';1\:1~ ".79 mo"'T~tm ~ :n:o ~;;>al"'t!d. ;'..Zt:J: ~Or.l:l y:Ja::o~::ll t 1\ that r.'lol._, but up .end down tna :Jain Line about tile ~tisdoJ;\ of putting up a build.:.n3 ;fit~ ~n:~:.nJ to::.-!.t:}O.. tT.'t-4r-ling '}?OOl, bowling a2..leyslt pool tables s.nd doti~­ ::r • .Jobn H.C:~r,rer:n~ ~tnd 'J.!r •.i\l":1a :o1rn3on were ~cl~t"ul :.ti An th~ Directorn hn.d claotfJd ma :praaident, year uft\Jr year tha :respon;csibility •• of ;:lUs!1in3 that onnvs.oa rested largely on no. A \raa a. good oolioi tor. ·:'loodr:.tff', ·.1'f3 !!3d some good men -on tho 3oa.rd too, Yocum· Reinhold~ Loyd ::md ot1:era but as is al~vza.y!l the caae the --- '"' •:_·-----........_:..:,.,.,··. ---------------------============-=---------~~~- • - --.r ;:; 'P"-!•.; • · ·r .~- .. r".,.,.J-.4.1 ""r (l}T?..,. ~·· ..'1-j ... • 660. - l"ine, e. .1 ob I hated and one I naTer felt well fi tt3d to do •. I hava ~p ~an say ths.t enjoyad nothing bettar than to t~ey · in a corner and ' s~~eeze h~ ~ g~t 30m~ tight-~ad for a subacription for Somai1o-;v I n eYer could find the corner a."ld :ny worthy aau39. so~e ability i/as aquet~zing -very lini ~ad. I :t~.ow· one church trustae :rb.o was asking mdll for money for addi ·tion s to a church and app:roachad a larc;.Se donation. 11 ·'.!ell, ''saitd th8 :nan, Like h ••• you ;:vill," thousand or you \/O!lt ~aid a r~eal t:J,:r I will man for ::tD a giv~ tan tiloasa.nd. 1• the trustee,. uyou'll give t'7ent7 five gi "1a a cent! 11 The trustee tra .m~bling a.'td the t:1-Trd. tba~ "7.Jll~ 7ho 1:~ it., w~o is it'?!' 7he tcne :..c:~ed :::..."lgr.{ and i:·ri~at•'d ,, o)..ld 'Jlvid.c;a a."ld I loo~ad at eacil other a."'ld whl:.~ered T :;ue. ss ·;re'!'~in for i~ thin ti!Ad or el:1.a ';'ftl , get th=o7m out! .Juat then fi1e butl~r a.-ppaa.rtlci and \Tar~ W".l unhured into a fni= oized living roo~, rather ordinary in app~aranc~ • • .i\.3 soon a.~e entered, a Gl'"erl ?al'rot in a oaga uhoutacl i it 7 u ?.7e nea.rl:r explodud with laightar 'but ;7~ l:ad to g:rea~ our 3 "':lsl~, ".:tho Y,:!.C.A. and 'how much he w~uld like to contrib~1te. :ro, q,uita i:n"9os- sible,could'nt possl1>l:;r n.!'ford it; ua. 30 ooJ.•r"J, did not vra..···rt· to detai:l 'Zlvidge aould'nt ~ave hl.!:1. -:-:re ~-.,ew he wns rS?u.ted to be rich, liv~d in a big nousa on ~bout a Aundr?d aor~a or VQr-J' valua~le land 'but not a cent aould -:ru gl!t. A ·.te~ or so la.t:Jr ! oatt in the hi a c an:ro a.t :pap~:r tha·t he lw.d gone to nt.?.ogil or ?aul J::rl.ths, in :h!s?RIVAT3 aa1t 1\ CAR, on the railroad, not ~to, ~ith a rl3tinue o! f'ii'~ean or twenty oarrants! 1Tow, a n;m has an unq"'.l.estioned ri3ht to give or not to g1 ve sa he thinks best, but I do dti'oyiae a. nnn who pleads· • ~ovsrty Gnd yet csn travel in a 9ri7at3 E.R. car ~ith a tloc~ of oenants end who can place a. nu~ i:"l ~ liv~:-Y behind each,I fP.la3t ~~ a. fo~~ dinner. 7s vi ~i tc.d/a..':'1y rioh honos and :vi th -.rer;{ f;:r.; '~:tC$?tion3 .,..,~rs roo~i vod with t:ta ubo;:tt co~.:.rtasy. Cnly once • e :,.,,, '";"·; ,•:{ 1'":10 ,., •.,._, ~.·-- ............. '- .. :...:.. .,..,~....,n ....., .J • o63. "'T • .. i..u,.~g563. ~·~J..><,u...... eithar in tnat o~ai~ or 1~ l~~er onaa(tor t~0~o had to be a onnvaa aa\)h yosr to rai!Jo money fsJr ca.rrJing on ti:\) work) ·:taa I trsa:ed di :1a;;rsably, :;ra.oticu.ll:r insulted. 7b.at was by a rich man in one of those big places on Rob~rta road. i ..:J 3oon as a. oubscl'i;1- tion ":tas men-:ioned tlla~ z:lon,'A:ho ~~~ainad 3tv.nJ..!.ur~ ·11.hon :DO U&llil in and o~ eourga we did too, ?uSl$d ~unty fi7~ dollar3 or£ ~ ~oll of insul tad ";fi th tir-mty :ti-ra dollars ms;y sa~ at~'13$;:fa}~t "itaa wlnt it loo:ksd nnd !"al ~ naver aize and ":that 1 t wa3 intsnd<3d to bd, I o::n .All. i:1 ~l i~ ~3.8 inter"lsti!'l~t, i:ioetini~ nice ~eo:,Jla, Clo you our1l. I l!~e; a:peat~d S..'"ld them to :r3oo;;nisQ you ~33-in" ~ ful':liohi:tg:J and the almost con9tant oou.rtesy a.."ld kindlint.tsa. I hud plsnt:r of ox;>crt•.mce for for t1nti3ring no~ o~:r 3UM a oi"'t~n did I oolicit the Y but later on .!"ort:!le :!3oy Sooutrs al:so_, a.l t:ho not ~3 nuoh. Isaac sutton and! call~d on a~eultby ~oc~r ~or aol7 to~~ S~outz "'ZIB '3oy Soouta, the ~Y' Scouts, ~r..o:t. are tho Eoy Jcout:.1~ ~• ::e Scouts had earnsd a national raputation. "'Js contractGervision. W3l'Et • Jos~h Dyson built. it and gnvG us a good jo.b. :Sut w.e ohort of the rJJqui:red oi.v.lount to oover ~a :turniahings, 8J.!t nA>-pa:a.tus and aome or ths building coa-t. Some oft· he men fall. do"m on their solioiting. 3oma ~ever grmr t73a....~..~ ol tho ~ tJ:lay started atta: volunteering, aome r..a.d ':t~ don-3 :JO ';fall clt.:lar. A1W2-:f!;l 1;1 h 'T' cr>' "Q t - ~·---......~...... ( 'Xc '3 ~ f~.:7''f""''ri0 .J.. CO'!lld not get;A r:1en to- do well!: :t~d the mon ay p~cta I' up .,.,1 th ";!X P'J..664. J-~A.U .. .::) T - ""T J.- 0 a."'lj.llO r I ll~d :J:ai3ed the l aXge::- -part- of that 'ilad lH:t,'!n aub3ori bed. Pro·oably l~:rge 664 • e solioi ting and I waa pretty !UX- it for ?-::lvidga and on our liat. The . . . . a:t1ount atill -:t-':t had b'ittter :pros- nead~o:rri·3d ::1a ,~end 1 }1 ather ana ::roth~r 1.~e"X it as I was at .,heir house :freq_':lently and they were mueh interes·ted in all I did. Fathsr had given a genarous auo'l.lJllt a early in ths cs.m:;>a.ig:t a.nd I naver thoujJ!l·~ of asking him for more. The out of a cl3a.r s:S..y, a.s dat:'lar and I ~.Tera ta.l:!.\:i-::1; over the situation on the po~ch~ one aftarnoon, Fathsr 9aid "How nuah do yo~ need to finish :payments and ou:r your g:r.n 3tuff and and. :t I replied. u ·.vell~ :Bert,. I'LL gi1e y~u that as a ~9"Jloria,l to your mother and Ea.rrJ. been lifted • furni2hin3s·~ ''3ig!lt~iouu~ a 'Jell. I ±"91 t as if an im:n5nse load ha.d frc~ my shoulder3 as indeed it nad 7and 1 could n ~ot thana h:i'!!. enough. so it O?-'!le a"bout that today you will find a. ma!Ilorial tablet in the Y. e.:l; .l~.rfunore in lo"'Tlng m~mory o! Eurriet L!:1wrenc~ Wilbur and Harry Lawrence J'ilbur. And ::U;;;o you wl.ll see bra.as plate the 17!?X'd 'equipped' i is not a mistake :Bor at the g tim~ agitation £or reformed spelling tr..a:'~ spelLld with \>nlY on a 'J?' • the tablet ';las made there ~~d ~~ on that ao tha extra p was T:hat W9.a much dro~ped but I fear that q(great many ?eople 3ince that day have thought that someone did not kno7 how to 3pell. I continued 33 the head 6~ the association ~or many yaara and it served a useful :pu:r:poae; w~ll re:Paying in helpfulness all the ~ time a.nd la."'oor SJJent on it. It i:ras hard to :fina.nas the cu.rrettt ex- pen~e~ each year and the ann~ canvas~ !ortha difference gr~ to "" b d .,. ! ...... ~ .... d I ould bet1o~e. a. nuisance to the n$igh·~ b e a. ~. ..eavy ur en. .~- ""o..o.,.. bor:-:ood ":li t~'l '(:.y fr~quen t oa.;l.l:!: 'for money. Once 'Nhan I call 3d on 1Y. J • .~\. rr- . 665. fine richlY i" :en i nhed ao b '""'"'" a :,rord n ei>tma:nher of t ha Soc i et:r of ;tr:i ~len<'.•J , \Yi th · '!-: '. o a~ oi al \ d au;;:, ~er nat "o n.t the i\ o or and took :ua to her father, z t:l-"'di" g M 7re ~i •l•n t. o t tho Y our t.rouble s ex;Je,.o:>s ·.yo'-ll.d b~ over, no~ fro"'- his gl.f'ta eo much a3 "t~ t'h aurren t ~ from the Deter a1'td ,.ot the Ard,.ore organization, using every arrort to oall its ' l<:n~·,1 just'tne :~un o.nd ~,J.lked hL"":\ i'~tto ::y !Ooard oi Directors ·,Nre not no kc<>n l thought I tr.• l)'>Si tlon. about. the troubla of angel ..,... ~ I g~tting c~rrent a~}tn.saR, •.?.cceytin3 about l"tting refused to -,laY put up a lot of cashl scolded the Doard ror not gattin~ re posl tivel:r ref'.laed to elect hilll and I could not blame thea in thol>r retu~321.1. Conditions were rf1:gidlY changing alimg th., Mainline, 1 t was building up a-.id peo)>le fro:1 the 61 tY 3til1. retained mnn:r · el tysocial i:l t e rests art ••r they ·moved out 0 har3. J-.s a or their natural result, lllD re 666. a\W' .Tio.rbert'h, ~mid. a great f1ar.e of ~ntr'-1- CitY fo-:: t'!1.e:!.r ;_'1_..-.:lUsemonta.. si~an, decid3d to on a, ~i th a have a. Y. of i t3 o·.n s.nd .raiJ3d 11~;~1.VY :!!ort3a,.;e. C:1t3 ~o;1ey and built of our :>ir3ctor3 ,.,a,s··.:.:;mro"'TL"l3 it and \ ~a.tions so ncar togethar. J3ryn :.:o::Jr ·;w.3 agi t::J.ting f.' or ~..l.tlotner build- the en·tir~ di3t::ict an\1 ~ ?hila.d~l uhia. Y ..:1. G...\ .. l!fa.S the logieal -po:var to tio that. Bu"i t:y a.s I ·-:7oulJ I could :1ot gdt tham to 3ee it, for a long ti~e. oPrasaet3 • ~nd liaoili ti~s and ~ae ffinallY tcey ~gre~~ to ta!~~ ova~ :;·J'.f e!' : ~·~: .c i •)n 'beoa..'1la t:he ;t::.tn.::t:.UL :ara."lch of the Bt1tthey 7fere not, for our old J3,Ja.rn antl war~ axpect~Hl a.aaociat.ion. 'Ye. as tl1.e -:::Jana:;ing boai'd to :ra.i sa our o·m budget y;i thou t k>9"?'~ it f~.t.ll 3oing s:nld nany t L-ne ma.:ru\ ta.in ed s. -::>9.iti a~creta:ry - conti:uu.~d " ~'l'~l? fro:::t th·3 ci +..y di:Jcouragen~at3 tor -aa had s.nd ")~aical d.ir-eotor f S)tJ" ~an:J years •. - I had -pe:rsuadeJd on-e of the men -gho had been on our :Eor.i.rd f~'r yea.rs , 7.7."'foodruff to acef31)t ths :presidency for I could not gi7e th8 time to the work any longer a."ld I knew tha :?llila. Y •JTould not a ink. La.ter on I 'iii t'hd:r:~w !=om the 'Board en ti::-<31Y for I l~t ~auld lt not agree ·.yi th t ha -policy of ths ci-ty :.1ana.ge.:!lent. So the a.ssocia..t1on continues to ths ?r~sent tim~ e·raa.tly cu.ttailad. but the activities t~ve One tr.J.ng I ne"'Ter have forgiven besn th~ 1erJ City for doing was s-poiling our "uuilding the wa:y they e.id. Reinhold, w:nth • e:teellent foresight had rte.de tho !rot:\t t;)f colonial b:rick with the i."lac!<: hel'J.der3 hers s..'"ld thsra beoa.use the styla r''nd t~1.at t:J:?:~ diu tho3a .:;b,;.?a3 in buildi-:~z w·a.s '4olonia.l in oric...~ -;:;ould ne'"n~~ l:a-"7'3 to b~ ;?a.inted. ·.v:'lat ~!le :Ji'CY. uo but semi l-:L~n O'.lt ~1~re ;:Uli ?:.:dnt ·:;:n.e of J.A.''•'PB•667. e e entire front an ugly '.red, and thio without consulting us in an;/v:a:y. some idiot, I su-p1)ose thought those black bricl,suere ~i~~s of decay and needed paint! ::~t content \7:ith that,they p13inted :tka u.ll the woodwork down etcirs tha.t horrible ye11o·,7 grain finish, once so po;Juls.r but even then, exceptional in its hideousncno. "lhen v:e finif:h~~: the woodvrork in our build ins we he.d it stained e. ecft l:;x·owYl b reatful and \TaT:"! looking and attractive. vrJry Our city experts, hov:ever, aaic 1 t looked cloor!l.Y, 7Then we found fl'.ul t •td th the:-',, •::h.--'1. t we r..eeded wcifoomethinr; cheerful, hence that F.wful yello·:: ..:t:r.ininr;. The build inc still stands and the work goes on in a li:Ini te-d sort of we.y uno.er ~_ye !!!t'.na.eemen t of the C1 ty Y 8-nd I em· glo.d to r.aYl' hadsome share in its uaefulneae. It hardlY ' aecm~ possible tr~t such ra.narkable ch~~gcs could have be en me.de in o.n to:'!lobil es in tr:o years ao took;lplz.ce betvreer.. 1904 and 1906. re.rhr:ps :the difference is not -photoes tH3 r~s notic'able in ou~ it actunlly ~c.s for the improvc"'1cn ts were very erea t. In that year we bour;ht a. 1:e.x-.1ell ca.r fro!:! Carl i(cl~ey e. friend of my friend Dr.Jessup. It ie astonishinG ho\T" me.ny of the new feu.ture~ thet vrere brought out in that car are still the ur·provecl _r:et:tod 3 of auto building today. For -example th.c.t ca.r lw.d a multi-ple di3k clutch inste~d -of the cumbersome internal ex-pension clutch in the flYwheel with ita leather X±n~3 !~cine; three ~oi~t engine suspension, engine under hood in front of body, dash board and honeycomb radio.tor with fen to cool it. The tonneau was of !JOCd size with aide doors and a aent in th~ back clee.ra across the body, ' while in front there were two barrel seats. I belie~c thn.t car hac: the.m, if not then in the next we hed ~r~they were thoughtto be ~ ..... ,... ,.-.-:--.. ~ ~ .....~ ~,.6). And that is not such a crazy idea fOif \7hile the eQccd.a ra1·elY - UOR~ --- I \ · ABOUT got ;ta.bove mr:;.' 1 f t~~irty driver's scat a.?ld 668 J .A. U .pg668. A ~--'"'·'LT .i...·1:. •• d~A. -1 ... ..... five mile:~ an hour there -:vere no doors by the \Vi th the rough roado o~ .those duys one miuht be thrown out by ao!'le rut or 'tho.nk-u-narn'. :Batter road liehtine wus lights on the fir3t cars ~d n~cckdthat the beur.w of the oil ~~~le big acetele110 le.mpo were fastened in front, low down by the sides of the radiator. 3ach one hud a self- contained generator, a oontinuocl nut::>aYice, th.at had to be filled with wo.ter and cu.rbido after c. fc·,,, .hours nervi c..:. ··:hile c~.lcia:11 t!1ey e;ave GOOd 1 i ght tl:cy were nus ty thin,:;::J to cl cnn on d. wore always get tine of} rof order a11d cl oe;ging up. Cn~ of tho ncr: feu turcs was the running board along each aide of t1te body unrl tL.•; front end wa.s generally cluttered storn~e I i:7i th a tool box a.'"ld other j:.~n:~ ·.'lhile ~:.m::1ple roo.!!l under both seato held spu.1·e tuuen and !)ld us nf 1>n!n abov~ out on3 ;1as not to complain of her on~ been )Xf'...:llnad oy =-~dical 1-:oart &J.."'ld at !!::1as dow!: hor left arm, !:len but thay ;-;ron;. Still =>Jcurren t n.tta.ok:J of :.:other ';7ou1d tell did not tl.."ld thin.~ no on a :::t~ ~a.in ao~es or troubl~a. i"c~"ld nothin~ She hud ort;e.nica.ll;r per::sis·ted .a.nd, l!l confidence, about them. S;;>ecial !sta ':rere aonsu! t.ed but tha condition ~eriou3. I took their ~y~ion 3S final to realize hcnt aerio'J.B it ":Tas. She had had anothe:- seenad attack at t!le G~Pt '!!lOre ne"T~rf! t:'lM'\ tht:t othsrn and .?ather ;:tan ted ne to come ej{once. 'Vhen I :re3.ched t:hs hig.lt bluf'f • abov~ the caM}) I gave a wild tner$ ·.1as anot.he~tta.e-1<: und we hastil!f started to return. en the w~ to Tadouaaac I rode wit~ ~~e mother while th0 othar 8 o~e in otn3r A3 we drove along I carriag~s. Uother clo3~ly and I never aa~ ~other loo~ of thi:Igidee-?1:7 -,eraona.l and inti:nato and :.Iothar waa ~onoerned !!12llY aboat A..--ma. and h~r nearer together a bla3sad so well, !O ~atohed fi~e and olpendid. larga f3::tily. It seemed V-~"'ld ~a talked to me we were never that I had never adnirsd he:r so . ~uch. ! t is m~or,r. ~!other sto~d the long ride ri thout a.p!)arent fatigue end slept welb ths.t nig..,_t and seemed so bright in the !!loming that I wen t tor a w3J.k cbout the little to71Tl :raturning a. little while before r ' • MJH . . 6"t0. { ' e. whil!l and thm1 Ealena brought lfother'o clothing ao early 1u.-1oh. A!::.o3t :::t onoe :!Jlena cnllod ::1e und I room adj o ini;1g to find\ def'lr r:J.pidly. 1:~1 en a :.~otbn· n~ 'ilen~ to ha.va t.1ll to the "aad in :-Jevere pain,. -;-;hL:h increa.aad ;Tent t.., .ti:7-ld a. doctor and , P-1 tho tho::e 7/o.a no hou:H~ pl:'.y3ici:.ln a _:r.la'9t -:1hc> ~Ta.a :-1. :;hyalclan cct,""!2 cl:.too! i:r..1odis.tely a.r=ts. e.~ !.fotlnu: se~::mad so b:rdlght. 'eha boat 'ml.a dua very ::;oon, Tl':e town • >7a3 onl-qy a tiny group or l:.ouges 7ti th nona or t!:ll nece:u:arJ fe.oil1 itieu e.nd ":1ha.t "i7are \ita t-o do. '£o -.vait tw·enty four houro f:Jr thet ( waa kind· und :JJ:!:pathetio nost naturnlly he ·:rould ":le g1ad to ba re .... -pan;r, a plain board cof!'ln 7Hl.3 hastil:r na.da u."ld carried on a :rude wagon b3:for$ u.s as w.~ f'o1lowed in a carriat:;~,a.ll that \las mortal of our ~other was •everently con7eyad to tha nt~amer, ~out a~il~ away. of eour3e, tha rgu.aon :ror the dala:r had ro.achod tha -pa::saeugsrs on the beat and a. gaping c:r:r.7d lined U.a r!til a.a ws wont n'boar!A. nothing \7as said. but heads ~.vars bared a.s the coff'i:lf wa.s borne_on board and tka car(tf'ully pls.oed on atools i!l t:b.e e\r.ltG:r of the lower deo):, while tile :,:a.tes with hi.o mm ha.."'lds, covered it. with tha :-mgli:U.1. flag. ;:..1ld there. 1 t _:-6r:ulined u.~til we reached Q,uebec. It I n..'1.dnco.,~:rpli~h nothin.~ but -W.4%U£ 122.. ;,; £! ..$ .4Nf -.224! ,JJW.UI I Qt tW ;a:;ez '\Te t§iii4i4fMWD:;:;i:W# ..... 14JiiQ:4.49f¥QiMX if 1 . R*i'F clid aend word that :Jotl:er iWW17&JPW4iiWfifl.,fljiic.Sm '}ra.tiot 3each baby !Tel3on :rho:rt :Jhe wa.a a till nur3ing, wi.. th her. ·.nia:c a bl esai11g abe ".7a3 then and a.lway3 has been. Dr. ~filler was away, !):J.Obably in the vmod3 in :.:a ina and anotllsr friend,.a ~Ir .. qui!nby ~ho :had been the !finister n.t t!-1e 21ethod.i3t Churoh in Bryn llg:,srr and ~ho-n l!other !lad li:!!:ed -ver~r nuch conduct-ad the services. Soon after he began the sol~ ~ord3 of the service iJly ner"'1'e reaa:rve gave ".vay, if 1 still had :my ~and I bro:ke down end had to be taken into another roomp for a few ~inutes .. I wa3 greatly ashamad of myself and as greatly surp~ized, but t:hef3 had been a long drain on rn:y emotions. And. so Mother-• s mortal body ";1a.s laic. nway- to rest. ( • In the sa.dne:.=;a o! the eepa::.-a.tion a11d the losa of co~rpani.O!lship that followed I rea.lizad a3 I never had befor~- 1'That mt a Yi tal blessing the Chri·stian faith 13 O.t such tines. Through tl::.e days when the physical remains of the one so da~r and 1ta necessary care, there hadalways been a clear I realization a~d gladne!s that ~ dear n&her was not thera but happy in an infinitely better~ 11!~. There was never any doubt abou~hat, notthe slightest, and what a blessing that wa.a and what peace it ;,rought .. The a.s::~urano~ of the certainty or· that belief se~ed t~ring Go~ and Heaven very ~ear, to maks them very rea.l and tll.st too was a vita~ spirt tual experience, bringing strength a.nd new -peace. · 'llother and I had been very. ne.s.r to each ·other for many years end I think she was never happier than shtt was in those few yeer:s after Anna. a.""ld I ca:1e back from Alaska.. As I have indioated before she was a wom2l'l of "tl1e f'in'est instinct~, (mtiroly free fra~ C'~arse­ ness . r ~'1"1.J.,.. •.h~ .TU . . yg.\,; t.:l. before -:heut, of nturdy Christian In early yaarg ah~ cl:aract~r had D3l,ed ~ather . 673. a..."ld :poaeased o. natural sav3 and econo~i~e,I bx b~lieve they only l18-d )500 or a little norc n. j'ear ·when the7 7re:r~ ~~u !narried in 1338 =md waa nJ.:ray::s a trua halpar to har 1r.lsband. necessary ~"ld d~~r ~other naver really learn~d toenjoyf th~ ~one7 that later :,... 3ar3 brought them. :rei thsr could sl1a ye_ild ::w::1y of the hou!3ehold service:s to the ser-'Vants who 'ttere a::.t-ply able to do them ~=l11 d h'tired for that. ve:::y purpose. Try us we :::1i6}lt we ooubd not par- auada hett o turn o~ar her house~old n~,age~ent to Helena ~ho was . \,._) continu~d to do a ho3t of tr~n33 about tbe t-ou3a that were -paid to do tor her, a..."ld aa c. natural rasul t, ~he .. ~~=~ h~r maid3 of-tan· was ., too tired In a~ita of this ohe fou~d ti~e tor ~any activiti~s in church and ci-via life. Nor years ohe taug!lt a .ele.ss of young :nen 3o~e of whom 'almost worohiped her and some ~ho called her mother. :TAen they ~~ had r~~ilies of their own and went ela~hera aha had a clasg of.maids or servant girls as they ~ere called and continued that service until har death. I have already told of how she ~d atarted a bre.neh of her close friend, 1!rs.Jose1?h Richards :&n:md:z(t the 'Jonen' s Christ- ian Tenparance "Cnion and secured fundffor a. reading room and build- ,. ing in l3ryn :Ja7Tr a"'ld wl::a.t a ci7ic cante:::- it b~ca.me .. 3h3 wa.s active in a oociety t:C3t ·.-ras tho fo::hrunner of th<:.: 0iYio . .'.. s:Jocio.tion D.nd 674. ooul~ be tak~n n~.;.~~corhood. car3 of t~,o~arily Ki1::3nny 1733 for thdy t~at aeo"';irm w~re a pest to the of La."loaster !',.venua from the 13uc~ Inn to :Buck La..""la. :,rother al3o organized a branch of' the :trational I:1dian ;\.ssociation ~...'1d was its presid-ent for 1:1.any years,.. n.nd Wit!: all these a~tiVi ties she tvaS ?!lOSt ragula.r in her attende.nce o.t Chur;:h ser71ces,Su..~duy :o.orning and evening and Sunday Sohool ~nd pr.::o::ze~eating 7ed.."'lesday night, I lo-ved '!:lY !:!other devotadl:r and we were more truly pals tna.n noat ~others D~d t~~ir sons.As I grew older ~a fotmd a deep soul :a:r.n"?o.tcy in ou..r· cfr::!:lon reli;;ioua f~'.i t::t and interests and~ altho. my d~cision to enter medical ~lssionary ~or~ nade her heart acha att.he thottght of tl1.e oe13a.ration t'r1st must f'ollowt still, likli "tha lian~a.id of the Lord'' of' old she rsjoiced that she had. been round \7orthy to fP.ve a son to lila service. If she felt any regret when. I :r<3tu~ad from the misaion. field she never said 30 but !9o::a!i·TJ-':'!it believed~ as I did• that it \vas be3t, s.nd. rshe "£ras ha.P?Y in the rene-;vad OO!!x:;>anionship. to Uother there was Thile Helma waa always devoted and close not~ I believe tnat soul companionship that 1~other craved so st~ongly and ~hioh sb.e. seemed to :f'ind in me. l!ot'her was indeed a. fine ...-roma..'l,dae-,ly r~ligious, strong in her ahri etien fa.i:tb., ver.r af£eotionate,; a.. davoted mother and a loyal a'!'ld h~lpful wifo. As I kne-~v=...•·'ldreme-:nber her. she -;;aa never vor,r vell,,ne7er ve~ happy ~or n~~Y diaappaintnents caoe aa the years passed by. Yet in spl ta of !111, she wa.a. chssrful, often sunny thnl the c:ceroisa of ber 3trong will .uJ.d the he).p of her unf:::1ilin.g ~ai th. I ~l.."'ll thankful for such a notl1a:r and re7ara her ~T ,.;•• "!J. ::?3• 67 5. !TINJ.?A 7ALLS,l90'7. a :...I.L"ler:3..1. .:-.nna. a.."ld I return~d to GI·a.tiot "&>..~ "', ~ -o • ~,_ ~ ?"'..t.""l" - ~ , ,, .r-.1 ;v stop1)inry c da.v a+.- "'.~.:l· "'=.r-·r"' "'-b hi ell ' "Ne :;>as sM.· i, n going to " u "'Jei·~r .... oon r-.f·'"".. er ... A. and fro. ·'Ta :had th otte~ !:1 tended to sea tr..e !3-lla &..;f!.!.n out he.d gen- erallY t(1) -::>uch of a. r=ilY wi t::t u3 or were in too mach of a hu::ry, a~J thi :::> ;::;e umed to be tha o-pportu."l.i ty to d.:l it. X ":~as still on va.ou.r cation o.nd ·.ve caul C. ::et"rn to t!:e ::a3t of the f""'-iJ.Y. As \ c~elo.:r ~ll I had b<>en there " yes.r or t;vo previousJ.:r property for a f~ctor:r, for ~e wi lli ::?atr.er looking at were thinking of wovi~g !rom Phil~ delphia, I 1:ne-lot a quiet little Mtal where"'" could go '.'lith our . baby. t.J.l mm t ,;ell until dl.n>:t er t he next day ,,hen N eJ. a on in a <~ho-.-ed too :much htterest ill a old ~cama."l had on the ta7le. t.J.l hir;h a. 1-,0if-; ct&ir tall bottll\l'br wine -;s1'.ich sn the guests sat at ona lon;; tabl<>. Cf cou:r3e ;;cJ.son could not reach tha bottle :O."l:t ( • tho old nan put the bottle on the fJ.oor under the taole and then soon forgot it a:td :!.er bluff!l above tiD: of rid" alonr ""'1\ one ::lide of river and bY the wlUrlpool, crossing tha riv-er end returning along t:O.e other sida al:nos'o at the water level.. It "'"'" nost intereatL'lg but about bali' way poor '!la.by got -:;ired or JrmgrJ and how he did ho"'J. al1 the u~'" b3Ck• 1 felt ve,Y esrJ.ier d3Y3 ':Then • ( eo~sniauous - 3omeon~>'" ~ild people ouZ:'lt. to h,..,e oesss 'i/all, e:~ou;;h and r~~ber~d ho"' l taJ.t in aried and cried, a..'ld ho;t ! ~Jvt ~(,. to J.eav" their ohildretl bo:ne. ·.Te h3d to bring hiot or not go o~ that trip and I had :nor• • 675 'Jill went to ::.'ul"ope alno3t o..rery summer and l:'a.th.er end I gen- (' erally c".id tr..ingf3 -..vh:m .he over b~fore ~ill nhen ha returned W:J.y. 8~iled ~o it Wa.3 &"::D."J. ! :mp:>ose we ts.lkera.i~~,rather It was one of ~ t~o~e abaencen tore out t~~t ~e of the old :?actocy and I"e:Jle.ced then ";Ti th n!!'tf 7hen I :first ( e . ";for!~ ad fll His chief duty 99~-ed overl-"?.o.d~d .'''-, tho he bad nothing to d.o iTi th by ,, n-,. That tl~a ::la."'lufo.cturing .. to 'he to wa."!der nro•.md ?-"ld see if ~a.ohiner-.f, and if they 1Vere in dan;Jer of seens, as ntrongar onen. t!lere a cousin of ?ather's, Till Rogers, 71as the su-,erin tended t were ~-ul ~a i~oors 'bean3 or ~np:pl!os, oo~la::;>sing floors th~ C3peoiall;r eu;:-;,"ar, to ':.1hore the_m upu. It II it teat RogarR waa continually scor3ing !·r~em~er th~ ' ~eant putting wood beams· undern;3ath tha 7/0M -place and so :pro-ping u-p one floor rri th tne help of thG f'loor below. Sometbesthe -pro:ps had to ba continued until they reached. aolid earth in the whose :t'loor was sub-cell~r,a oellq= ~elo~ the regular cel~r,probably ~J&nty teet below the otreet lc-rel. ~\t times so-oe of our floori3 looked li.ks a. re'lall t!.oreet of oa..;m vests a..."'ld there ;,a.s a continual rrra.ngle betireen Rogero, S:t\l7~ Bnd the foremen o.s to uhere he could puthis ahoras and not intertr~re too nuuh ~ith the ~or~ of that.do,art~ent~ and those es~~ents often were in da~ser of ~elting the iron work or setting fire to the timber~,they got so hot. a'{)"fHHU to ~1.1T. for if thay did they~ scorching soolding for bringing th'3m to him. n~t ~either both ran man·wanted to the·r~sk of a ~~ n.ettling auoh t:ri"Tial thing:;; and not I) • 677. c-r sourza, :1uoh condi ti~n:-t ·.y~rs :1ot oati3f:l.otorJ 30 o:r.-, t.,ok out all of th,.-'.,ld b3s.":'1~ n.nd ra:;>l3.ced t!le~ and when tts did wa marval ed t:!-:::1. t t:tey !"!ad ~el:i '3.:> much and so long a.'ld Jogers had d.:->~e c.1. \7tl realized th~r very good job i!'ldeed... 7e r.aedsd t"'lora room and after !:tU~h 'l~"ln i:1g a.."l.d :f'igu:ring daoid.ed to buy a small faotorJ about f'ivs 'bloC!{3 north on Third stre$t and mo"'f3 3.11 our sweet pac:~age -:na.."lursoturi:'l;~ u-, ther~. I'M sure :lather o.nd I did. no~ ~ak3 teat deoi.sion out-tha moYing and ri tting up was lefttt'-o !:19 wi·th :Sat.b.ar's !}:p"9rOY3.l~ 7'3 decided to build o. w:ra:pp.ing room ~ndar tha dri7e ~ay aa ther~ zeamed to be no o~her ~lace for x it • Of cour3a, 1 t h.sd to be e.bsolutal:;r 7a.te_r tight and it proyed to be ex,~nsive ~nd did'nt ~e gst ~lenty ~o thin~ about ~hen ?ill got Th3.t faQtorJ 7a.a quite ::todern, in construction, 'l'ell lizhted, ho".lla? ~ and ~iry but it had 30~a quaer 9laces. Thera was a cell~ ~~~ under only part of the older building aoroas the drive way and it had nothing but a d.irt floor. J3ut connecting t~1.e li ttl a cell~ in ~he rear a. narrow tunnal slopsC. down to a. much deeper w.all eelle.t;r: undertha front of the building ~hioh an that nida ~as only en old dwelling house, There \vere no window:J or doors in eith3r celltQ:" and I often ~onder3d uny they wera connected by tnat t~~~el and wha~ t:"l~Y ':'ters usa¢-!or in the ea=l:r Colonial de.y3. ! ue.s too busy to tru~e t~e to study it up. That was at 339 No. 7hird street, I think. '7e ~ade Stev~, who '-1'3..3 gro-ving old, tha head o! t!:ta.t factory and !(ate Tril':>le,\Ta.~ in eharse of the twenty or ::1ore gi:rl3 who w-ra.p- • ~ed Bud~ and other p~ckages. Xata ttas one o! tha girls ~loyed by Croft '"filb~r :-1.nd son3 !.).nd vtl1en I was ju3t a little boy she looked I I ~ I -I I l small boy grow up n.nd beco~a :her bo33 I n?ver h.:::ld a bettar frigrtd ( - \ ' than Y.ata Tri-p-;>lo. :r~t Old Xate, nind y~u, for on occa;Jion sha t:nd sa.y thern hard. tentionally, ~ut n~e 1nsi3ted on faithful ~~d eff~ciant ~ervioa. Katy gre'tt' quit~ rotund 9.3 she ;;:r1'rll older., ::~.uch to har di agu.3t a:-a.ta buildin;;s but !or a. busines3 like ours becail'\a a,. ther~ ars ~any ~oroin one co~pact "Plant. graat bore to ::le to travel u:p to tha It o~ner ra.ctorj every tae t da.y altho the a treat cars tha.t. passed -:ax fron door of ona plant • ( \ passed the front door of the other ·long. It ing :.:md ~as nors the thought of getting out of ovaralls and dressout _;:.. t cl. tho we h~Y:) los t/Cltru dec:.th m<;..nY .:nen~~i·s of the sesaion since tha.ttima ;,~r.:.:cclintock &nd I {).j.·e otill r:J.t.un"oel·s altho neit~e:: ~. ~~~ acti7e uccau3a of ill ~eblth. c.i.'fici:ll l'elatlon ~en~atcd in aone neas~re for his disappoint~ent in ny giv~n~ u~ !!'liso:ton rmrl:, ./~::ember of' Session ti.t tl-:::1.t tino -;,;aa Joh..'1 vcr3e, I'ro:Jidant of :Bald•fin Lococnotive C3t Wo~·ks nen of the carl:T days of t 'he l:ain L:!...'1.e. without one trace of wOl'k3., active ~n sno1/oiG:-~st, he wns vw--· d:u:::ch, c:i tl:{ e.nd. a. ~m . '\ . I le~der :r.csn- c.n.d one of t he i'ich- ;:::: • Convers~ t:~.·uly >iti.B z.aaloua in good in the ·:ton.era.l i .. :::;st.-mbly • Ee ~aa founder or instrumental in founding t~e Church ~issionary Society tha.t supponted. two :Foreign niasione.riea, a. plan a.fterv;a.rd to be adopted nationally ·a:.."ld kno"'ll as the :Bryn l~a:ar :Plan. :::.r.r,Con- verse planned i tal in India ',71:!-:r~ our :ni:J~donal7 J>1-zy3lc;ounU 3:: ~:..nJ. ln."\ Dr. ·.1::-..nlesa, lo.ter 3I"R •.Jillie.:n 7::.l.nlo33s, Ytfl-3 Chio:rni:J.;, it ·::a:l ~o.r:7h tlie lOth.,· asking if I could oo1!1e. to the :.ranat3 a.t on~a a.s Dr.:iille= :ora;s ~ll and they had not bteen able to get u. doctor. I dld not ha.ve an 1 inge:rs in n.y memory. Roaching the ;Ion!.'!e ~et ~e to tell 'm9 j\ nieoo .Jessie and a napha'i( that Tincle '7illie had j~st past away, 7rikK and they had gotten a doctor who ~a~ witJlh~ be!~re he died. I could not believe them and when I reasoned that of oour~Ht thoy would .... _. 081. •• !')'I (; ··111en ;;, rt1tumad frnr1 zha · 7oodl:unh• Ce!lNter'J wharli tb.a liill,.~:r lot ·~va9 loc:::lt~d, I f0l t 1 !:1U3t do aor:"tdt::ting to a.""'q)re::Js -;:;.y n..Iftect- ion fe>r-:.'lY frl•.md and ~1at d::rwn a.Yld :1rota what I !ltylad e. 1':-i'bute vri th no !)artie\\lar though": about what I ..-rould do with to sand it. to J.1i 'l Iamil.Y. !or the TrueJtaes of t~e Cb.uroil -p:ri:n tad it in a 1 i ~ tle :::;1emo:-:i!l.l Vol- ~...ave h~rrJ by ~ne while e. l)i!ltu:re of ual f3t:her, i::J but a ta-11 f'~e-t n'KS.'./• • pastor of e. chur~h. cor:nnu:1i ty. '' r".;/ dea.r friend, tr.ll:/ a. n?iri t- :!hat lit:l~ vol-...:ml iS fll~ad ·.ro a. lu:rga. extant, he ....-ra.a tJu~ pa;Jtor l ... s I e,..mnot axpra33 or the ~ da~Jp loY';) a.nd admiration for tha.t nan :t in MY biltt"r 7Tny t.~an t~ when I wrote t!J.a.t pa:pur, "On 7ladneada.:T afternoon Ua.rch the ~::C:.X thlrt.em~ tha 3e.d. rites of the Christia..."l f'a:r~ell wa:r~ -pati'o:r:n~d over the bii3r of one, "':1ho 1 for a. g'Jl'lern.tion., ~rent quiatl:r about :ar:m :.:a.wr vaoini ty, in th$ ·toot-sta-gs of' .resua Chri:Jt, do ins good. and ita 'Jileru• ever thin -:nan "':16nt a sense of the reality of God stole in; when·· • lighted ·rtth a nora hopeful m'lile when he ca.....:te; hos.rts grip~:Htd I enew the betterlhing:s I ot lif~ . TTl th mor~ faith in God and in n1an lo~ie ' I of hi3 chtrch but nf the oom::n:mity, ~res tr.;dy, of t.r.~ c.:rhole.world. s~ecia.l m:-id.'t t)'la..t his love ·.-rent in tcr.d.erness. Ire i:!rota to boy3 in lee.rned to call hi!!\ ''::'rtt:her•• ::r:1d it 'frr.c the boys ':rr,o crept ~ear~st • • • • • There wen mtt on a thing better than thone northe:rn roj cum- to l1i!3 ce~.rt. ingz : (referring to the ct':r.tping trips :..n '!.':nl:r.e} it -rrcs ti:e aanotlll:!t of hi~J study .. There, :tn the qnict of ti:.c cvcninf;, the c!ear Pastor wo·r:.lc" tf,l:e us rA!lt! ~he:-e eJ..on e '"'i th h:.=t we would pour ot::.t o•...rr heo....-ts; often+,() hia aur?rizc, :1onetir.:'.es to r..in crief, 1:-ut ever to our hel:p· z;.nd ccr:"fort. .I :v,...,·led ~oo.;:.,.u '· 1·~ ' I -? ... _,.,.,,... .,. :o,J.-\.JJ. ._ ieo• .. 03 ...... -1~en on·. . c~th nearer llea.ven tbzn tha.t .i' ~· 'Ill' 1 ·m -a~>:::.oo.;.. ~~ ........" he roo.p ... L....,n.~.-~• . :-r.'.'.'!"' . _ • ......•e A-'1o"~ . ... o~ ..,.. '-'·~ bo"'!'" • .; .., do nof':~ k-oll " , _. .......... .,, Tho :res. :-r; 31 ip by, but .., .• :L~-·- hin ~.:p-y.::r :roo!!l for ~. . e:1t and b3l-;) {..~;1d c~~:rort. 11 bo:rs •t ~-~f',~~l 30Ug..i-}.t, }·:~~:t :r~s that. ti CJ.re Y,"tith the I ,....,n .J.J ~- ~·-r:--,.. ~..,,., ........ ....;...,~ ~-- l~..r-rt ·-··- ·r7 ~ -:---.1-i,r·: ~ .. - · J - J .... _.,. 683 • ('1,"'~ .... ...,"'1 J···-~ --· but ~till tha boya \ • • • • ' :,r=::;~:n for -::,.~~01-_l ~:;.-.--~~~ fel:~J~,·tsl.:i:>; eJe;J :."::~; l~n~ l '::r·ted 7:!/JZlj .... -r •..;.t!) - {:.1 - .,.,..,1.,... c;.;.. .;..I, • ~-·:.,~,·r •··~~~r ~·J , ....".J +.l..'l"-"'3. .., ·'- ..., •·till ' .... "h-i" _ ....... J ;J'ho·-ra:l •... ,.;,J,. ........... .,.-.. tJ ,., ~ ti:'Jc 3 'Jill t:~e 1 oul i::.1 'la:l l'ctuzn • • hit:t at luacheon • • :.·,;:;~~!::..r.J".in.; t::r:-vn3l:ii)9 o:· the i'ir:Jt cl:.;.ss to ors:.l.l'liZ3 3oarcis o'f liaal th :r .. A.U. • ident. T'.c.ere \70'J.ld be Of v.-~ry -yg .. 584. 1-!.ttle t;:, do, ine:c::>3rience, lack Ql tbe a-!Vt'30 I ;:m tl-:.~,7 "t~3;'/ .634. :mid i:-1 :;·,;e_?: t~t D.3id~ ::me!. li.;ht- ~l:.a~sd ~e for ncoe:;>ting, which I had not~ clone. :co-;.t Doard • c ! d:!rln~ the f'irnt t-.vent:r zJa: fiV'$ of which I 7as president. 1,or when I went to th¢'ftrst ~eeti'13 c~.lL~d b}~ t:1e :1ec::·e-tar-.f of George C.A.nderaon who is still secretary of t.ha Board, the toW!! ship~ I wa~ prnm:9tly na:-,i:n~t":!d for::;t Z.:13 pr~sidant and us promptly elected. "Ye hardly ~e1ew five :mero.ber3 ware new to t he rnle!f and tha.t we health. nu~t rrha.t wor:~ W'3 were to d.o but ·ve a3 re3.li:2;~d -:r~ all of the muct ha·re hive re,'Pllations :tor p:-ot;;c";ing t:J.e pt:blio :'f'ortunately D:- .Dc.-:rid ':'Til bu= ;.rorn ~ ?hd. Y:as el ectad to d.o our ana.lytioa.l trork o.nd rre.5 aole to advise us s..s to neoesser7 regulation:s. :?or nona nont:t-....1 -.ve ~at ta7ery -.veek -,7o..:·king on those health :rules, often worx:!.!lg until after r....i.dnight, but 'Hhen tJ-,ay ·,ve:r·e .finally boards even a.s far west as • ( th~ !1:~ ::.•:iosinsi-p:;>i. T:'lis is not the plnce for a hi. story of th~t Board of 1'ae.l th especially as there ,/al) are co':)i es o:r{t1.-ri' a.nnu~l re-,orts since the begin~ing but it did become .:-"ll.'"l org-anization of. real . creas1ng no, 'one aea d ~ V8.l ue=t to tha c::Yt'F11mi ty and is in- \ • ,, BOA3D 0? lBALTH, oon'td. Your Eo:.trd of hsa.lt"h ir; a !"lOst val•. Bd Led3er'' fort .Ce ~ntlte !!lOd~l ~ to our >r::>ak "'3as tribut~3 ?~!la.C.el;:>:h.i3.' a."l State.n One II 7ra.!:! :hi;~hly ~rt he editori:ll in thtl "Publio z be!s't paper, cnti tlad one :poor•• in \Vhich our Board ~o::ta."l 685. la~ tor Rich and commended for bringing a. rich to C0 1 lr~ Z..""ld b.a"'fin,; a. very hear.r fine in"'Josed for violation ~ . of the qua!'antinr~ :r~~..tlations. I the Ledger noted it. Wtl:J .• very oi th:l.t e.otion and that 11 ).. -::realthy elderly 7tonan l!l:vinttbn n great a3tato in Br,.r.:1 :J..a:ar 3ent a arandc;:.ild e.wny 7ho ~:ro.s suffering with measles whila har hou:Je \1as under qua..r~. ntine. 7a learned of it and· promptly issued • liY'!d in the ocn"l:".lnit:r for :reo.rs-:'3.lt·ld paid it,too. One o! o;J.r eo.=l;r ii:t':!ie'.ll ties ~as in toachinc the doeto:ra C.i;s~ases, in fa.o,ith~.t the:r ~ to. The medical. yroi"easion were ~~t~gonistia at £1r3t. ~oo!fed at laymen being.able to know or do nnythi:t;; about· !lea.l th 'l:lntter:s. There was another doctor on the l3oard • but an old man a.11d not vscy active I gue!'Js. As for me, vms I a doctor1 They ·.;n:mtod to .Jrnow, and even sent a que~~ to the pres- iC.en t of .~'1e Co~i snion ~::Jki:!l g r:r:.r ~ualffice:ti.:m:J. I gludly su~i ttee t1:.~ end in::! the lJ, ct of'· qual if lee. tions '>~i th "Surzzon Gcne=-nl 686. ot Alas~a9 :t~oJ.,~o. ?h:1.t :floored ther.t. They n'l'7er ~;,h'!et'9ed. Of cour::so, tha.t did •n t. :'1.1)8.1''1 :1 t~ing and I ~71S':'f 1-: but 1 t ';lO-mded. :1o~t b7r~sa- - nr.:rorn :rho hna al·.vay~ ~)aan an lnv~lnable hal:> and 3 warm ~er­ oomal friend.,wa~ c.ttntinually finding t!-le condition ,r the SJ.>ringpi 1. J. t! rpta...,ar -:rnJ.on 7/as U3+Jd b7 the whole t')o"'!lmuni ~Y ,. to be unsatis.. f , _. .... f:l.ctor,;! and at tbas he c~nsider~d it dan~erl')t.Us. 7e i3sued notices ~ in !:he local :p~ers to EO!!. Tl:G -.JN'I3?.., ~-md stirred U? a hornataa nest. 'l'he real estate '!:len said we drova ?ros'!)cCt3 &"';1ay, soma oit- izena co~plained 7C ~ere nurting the value of pro,erty,tha Co~ss­ ioner of Eeu tll of -the Sts:ta cekad tile ~own ship Co::nr:1isaioners to U3 down c~l nurdar. ::ra...,y was n+,taclcod ing b~1.okin~ lastin~ 7e 1nf1-:.Itmt!al ei tiz on foot along a. part. ot Cr~ Creek ~bien ~as on~ and 1lu.d found visible ~.fier.;lr aourco ot tha ~Yidanoa wa~ar for ol fecal polution. ~~13 di~tric~~ '!.hen our Health had !lada an au~o trip along Pickerins areal~) the othor oou:~.·oe of our watar ::SUJ'Pl:l) and had taken 11hoto!~::-a:pb Sof chic:nun onoys,. !Jig pens and ~i !h tb.e i~Tml privies on ba.~a Health O:ff'ioo:r >:1mt over t.!le tl1.e tlade in a aon tmd low bluff"s L...-o.adiate- s~a tri:;> :he had ~ a general nu...-vey a."'ld lator I took Dr.Eorn and o~ our wi7!ts in n mora lbasu.rly eune:r of t:he condi tiona. Ve otop-pvd at the v~ing station near Pboeni:.rlilla to look • whil9 Born. was talki.."'lg // not look at t:b.air :'zl~~ methods f:lr ·t;etJting t.htl puJ:i ty of tho <:~atar. and to 'their. chemi3t ".1ho wo.a li t~l.u :i:lo:re t:hen a. boy, a. cork blew out of' a large Jut!C og liver broth aho'.1L"'lg that t:ne tlU-ppozad statils :=:tedla was al::-eady £a::mc:nting ro.yid.ly. reliable. t:~.s It did tho the reports hom that laborator.r could be ':'lar,r F'artber on. at tJheats.r Spring:) -:;a :found a larga baild- inz housing twa hundred or more orphans. DR.liorn's trained eyes opotted a. terracotta. pil)e discbatging. into t-~e lit.tlo ztre~ ·1me11 wa9 one or t_)le f'eedors of ?iokering C1·oak and we so that he could e;et n blao'!! strinSI,~T wa sto~:,?ed aample of the wzt:fl::: dischargs. Thora was· stut'r hanging !'rom tha pipe which e-~idently waa tile off'luent o£ a uewage dim>oseJ. plant. As we stood loo)cing things over, a. msn came out o"f n 11 ttle building not tar mva7 and asked • tthat u-e ~ted. 7a 3aid we thought. thin vas a sm:~ngo diapoaal :plant ::md ~ve Llere inter~~tod .in t!1em. rtCh, :tea,." ha no.id it in 688, .but it i3 ovsrloadad, Ain't bi~ enough ror all they got in the "Put I'n doin~ the best I lci:J., with !t." home now." \ )) the creek go? '-'~" ~sked, ''Oh. tr.nt1 Yu l.'"'!.IO"f they '.)1.1!!'1'0 the w1.her~ doe 3 That r..ma i!'lto Pic~';!ri!lg Creek. \.7~~.+:er ~ ...0_ ~i nr,._~e.k . _ _ ...... y ... ......~ .,. ....... ........ in,.. _ .~;, •.., ""nd ... ,..end '-"-. ~.a. _.., d O'im to:the-o rich feller~ al..,n~ the i.iai!'l Li~e, tt <"'.:td he eddod -rr:!. th n. .. I (_Ee ·had no idea ...,,~ ca."':la t::-om that :Jain Line). chuckle, lt'f'hey seem to like thg flavor!~ o-r aoltraef 7re found the ~am~laa ~e took loRded with bacteria. All the ovirtence tre had accumulatedT7ith the ~hoto~~ and a r~ort of' th4t trip vrs made was put before tha state Dept.: and wa received a fie~ Secretary of !1eal th, letter from the t~Jlling now called us that we did not know what we ;rere talkinE~ about. The rrater was all • Co~isaionar. right and al~ays had been. '."is did !!ot think ~o i!l :ypi te or the assurance of this high author- i ty. ·.7e kept ordering the citizens to boil. the water nnd ncnding additienal lottar3 to the State Dspt and finally tho doctors decided to ha:ve a ahow down and -put thi3 Eoard in its place, once for all. So they a.a."J in our l!ea.J.t.h. Off'ior.). It 7ta.s not lone; . bafo:re.ktne Chast.er ~3v:rin.:;:J !:orne ~ater'ba,r~ aeour~d a to alo3od o..'"ld tl'le aai'aty or tho ':.7a:J i~~xova ci1d the ~~rov~ftent continued unt~l ua 3afo water supply. ~9asonao1J It should nfJt bil ln.f."erred that there ;-ra.s o.ny grai't L"l the po9ition aacumed ~y tho Co~ionioner oluded ·~ ~uch or liaalth. liis char~er ., pre- ?Ossibillty, but he had hald that office ao long and ""Kith such notabl!! UUCC~UB tr..u.t he Di:J.ply could no)benr to ba.ve J1is. opinion queutionad by tL o-r l1t.Zle 'Soard hardly bOJen WJJs.ned :t"ron entire ignorance.. I heal~ tha~ Then,. too. ha iJac1 :ma~ hava betm mial tl;xd by report a CO!'!li.ng fro:1 auah =ten as the ono vhona • broth '7tas fomonting- und :t;at belicv-Jd to be 9~t:.rila and~ still a.no";.hor :;oa.sun, no doubt the rre.tc:r aon;>any .fnlsi:'iod l''-1-;>ort:s !or · a.t that tL"Ue I do not bcli~.re polution. It #as a good and Wimling ;U tho i: ¥r!J nt Fl.l~ythinG tl:oy would !lto:g"\ :Jhort of" 'tfillf:.U ~tift £1ght~extending u.ddod greatly to our ilad -won some ot ~h~ au~orit;,r o7er ~oma ye~s und prcatigo. doctors to our ouppo::rt m.an:r ot them were f'alling to :report cao.es o:f contagioua disease and \78 1.-new ":7G MUst do s®lothing about it. Tho ::equire=tQnt t!:o so raporif;as a 3ta.ta ls.tt and not one of our retr.Uationu so we decided to ciall the ne=tt offender bel'ora Utl and {;iVe hb a o.!m.~oe '3hy he should ilo·t be proscc':lted and tined. ~1a thought did that to a re-11 o~ than :txa;;t -:r$ to tell that it we would net. :.;_" o te not have to· actually brin.g the.n into court. It f'oBll to me as chair.na.n of tho · :Board .~0 question and if' they had no rea.l excuse to repr~and S.."'ld old :p:r!lc~l.Ytor ·.7a::t ·brl)ll;;2T~ be.to:-rot·ea~ion bueinesa and had tha ?07er when we that d1~~ not make tham es9eciall7 but it won their ras~act a~d finally their loyal eoopern- tion. To day t"b.ejheve a at::mding- co~i ttee -to confer -:d th tb.a Board or Real. th on. an:r J)ro"blen and the medical ::ton us in a fP'ea.t r.-um.y wa.ys. 'l'hore is no doubt that especially the work of Dr.Percy Nicholson and • ha.VG ~'le hi~ hel;>cd !>Ublia intar- vicious attaaks on the :Board of Tiaalth, made :possible tha splendid work in controll- 1ng the quality of~e milk supply tnat 7rgm the yery first the Board ~ bega.~ reali~ad in that yeu:r • the necessity of supar- Tising tlle milk suppl:r and :!)r.IIo:rn inspected the dairies in the townshi'P and !:lade analyses of the min. The :'forst ofi"cnders wera· ~ere corrected. Then, in 1921 there was a outbreak of tY?hoid !over traced to the :mil:k sU1)ply and tho medieaJ. soci~ty held a public ~eating and cd!icia~d the llealth ~ard for inef~ieicncy. 7a of " oourse defended ourselves by atating wr~t had buon dona ~ and axplaining that we h3d given all :easonable yroteation and all I possible "iTi th ~j1e !noney apyroprla.tad for health wo:rk, The :t·es'!.ll t 1 was tha.t Lower "!.!ericn, • Ea.ve~ord and Narberth :Boards or liea.l th united in a :9lan I suggested !or joint control of the m.il.k sup-ply in tht!tir dintl"ict~, They :romed ~Ulk Control District No.l 691 J,A.U.pg. 691. on the basis of the l)OpUlc.ltion -of each municipc:Uity, Lo7Ter 1:erion ' a.ctinz as treasurer :md supplying office spaoe. That did not- cost ua the ~~ything a~ ;1i th offices in Co~ia5ionera co~neotion had always sup~lied tha Board with their o"l7n, a decided saYing to the ta:qayers. Dr. Horn was paid for his analyses and was not a full sr!.ployee and q.l tho he had spent his in our work .he =t:a::t.!et'· 07ffi tir:1e and energy f'reely ;vi thout pa.y.?he bad hie O":'Jn :pox·t with his la'boratory work as well a.a regular city schools ations of a a~d colleges. rynder the new plan of ~en, f:!..."nily to su.pteac~ing ':lith in the e~d~larg~r e~propri- tne public we sought and after con3ideration no~ demanded by !l'.t.'>!lbar~ t~e· secursd Dr.George 'J.Grim a.s executive of the district milk. vor!<. '.!.'he tern mil!r ins:9ector was somewha.~ I thread bare a.nd on my suggestion we dscided to aa.ll '' trol 6fficer 1 a ter.n ~hi~h ~aa leter been hut!.ii~~ ad~~t~d ~X oy €on- the State Our choice has proven ~o be most wiae as a better ~an ~hould be hard to find .. One of the l'lana in ths cooperative acnew..e_7{as uniform rules :reg-J.l::t.tlng the production rmd sa.la of milk thro~gh/ the Diatrict ~ . ::y{t~ ~'hen the!3e. !ll3.d been fol'r:lulatsd, but before adoption, we held two conferences, one with the miU< producers, :1ostly fa.r.:t- era ~~d the seeond ~ith the nilk dea.lerg, including re~resentatives of pastuerizing -plants. Both conferences \~$:re wvell attended and it was my job to preside. A.3 was to ba e:;x:>ected, practically al~ -, the argument w~.s for making our regulations less stringent a."ld there was some sharp cri ticiam of the l'"J.les a..""l~f' t.'l.e Board. At times it was dif!icul t to 3.'Glooth do"ml some bel{igera.nt. farmer ;rhose nnd sru.ndfa t::er father had ra.i3ed cows rotd oold mil2c .:.\nd ne~;er had ;:;..ny txou'ble and he waa doing the s~s way and he did'nt see the need of all /JkiA~~ thia fusa. Good mil~ ~aa good and nil~ hlm n..'1d hi3 familY wo.3 GOOd onou~~ f:lr DD~i tion / wer~ aour3C::t they uent to the ata.te dapal"t:nent on the quiet n11d tried to l:u1:va the state l"ill(UJ but, by that timu nQW' de.u,lo.t·s ~ilk OO!l!pa:tioB our De:p~t­ :But tho did not. end there. As the ,joining "i'Yith us their op'!)osition al:Jo grft' stronger, one co::.tpany a.. th:rs&':tenmg in o;>en court to break U1) the o:rg"a.niz~tion yanr. It 13 !3till zoin.g on n. eti'eciently as ever. wo:rk there wa.s ompl.e O??ortuni ty taken. by ony ed I I!lig.~t or j our employe~~ be a:p-proached I ~or ~ within a. !n nll thin g:ratt. There wa.::s nO"'ter a oent sura. I nors than bnlr sus~eot- m:1d when tvo .high officials of one of tho lo.rzest companies in the oity inTited mtl to lunch at the tl>'lion League I thought the time had oome. A3 a.n- Board • ~e~ Just -;::ior to the date o:t t ha lunohoon I took the J)recaut1on to report th& a.p-poin~ent to tilarct. I 3till ·think thons tlC!l intended to "buy me the:rg and tll~. I. ra-;her hopad thay -:rould for a friend of' mine, 1Io•:ta.rd ?!.!':'!., 1J:::":33idon~ of the Sun Oil C•J:::l;any '7/as di::ting near by and· it was ::zy in ten ticn to ask him to 3trol1 by our' table just as . . money ~ight be offered. nut th~ ri~nt opan!n~ for actually ?eaning ~x(L.''UHJ.X ax l:'lonay did no~ :Jl'!em to occur and no t!lLii-.t i:=l"?Ottan t dowel- aald t·~ him 1'tllli.t Dr.Jilbur wan a nice-little f\)llow b~t l:s did'nt )) say much. I thought that ~aa a great co~pliment as a wise publia official 13 tl:e one 7tho hears ::1uah ~d :3aya li ttl~. neY-!r seetn to :;:!ind :J. lli.3 en~ios L.~ plana to attack 1lb~ a.'1d I r...ad ene-."!li-a:J -n'ho i wanted to ::na..l-~ to ~;;et other nnmi~l-palitieu control area and s~raly to join the !nilk until we r~ a circled Philadelphia ~itaunlf~l~ regulations. ?hiludalphia was not ~~tagonistic to ua but tney ~era or teared to try to bring them into line.· .t..o ene of' the Oi ty ·:i:. inspectors said at a meeting of the Penna.Pu~lio ~~alth. ~o~o. e.rter I had denori.bad our millt control -pla.~ in detail,. "'-1a0the City HeW. th Dent. ) cannot oxtlreige such olo:Je ~cntrol because wa have nei tht.rtbe r1oncy nor the "!:tan a."ld cannot go~ Cou.."lail to pro- vid~Jlem.'' :rror ~ two yatt.rs or more ~ it looked as tho m:l -plan was to bo aeali.zed tor Ne nad Abington,Chel tenlls:n, Jcnkingtown, Springfield, Lower merion, !!averlord, LansdOi!m- Ye~.don and z.x Aldan all in tho ;~il~ Control .i\rea +.hird~ of tha enti:-e cirol e. :ro.L which ~a.s about. I t'-.IO Altho Abin;z:ton and t.."la uni ~s to tho nothenst had inv:~sti.gatcd the pl~n 7ary carefully ::'.l'ld Gri!!l S.:.'ld I I i ! I f I j I 69. had gone over t~ a joint ~euting of tbose 3oard3 to talk it oYer 't7i th them a."ld al. -l:ro t.."la health boards ·;-rore !;!ea.rtily in !avor of the I)lan ,and joined t~e ooo-pe::-ati"7'9 ::noYC!:mt tbl:r oould not get th~lr 1 . \ Co~insione:rg to ap,rov~ all tha ~ilk r46Ulationa nor able to get convictions under the r~as the7 did get wero residents in those districts ~ho ~ere of!ioer~ ~dre tnay a?~royad. Thera or lars3 3tock- holders in 36~e oftha latge milk eompsniea and tcey~e.re abla to block the f'.lll ojlera.tion of t ha ?ls:n. Af~cr ~tr.1g~ling with tb.em hel "J and t~Jin~o ~~ the~ to r~asonable anf~rco~snt ±: ~ithout success it b-ec-a:1e neceBsar:r to ask them to ";11th d:aw from me::J.bo-rahi-p. r 'bell evsd tbon as I belioYe now that <:rs ::tu.de ·u. minta.Jca in 0.3~1n:; t!l.~ .....x. them t)hri thdr~., as further of:f'ort on our :;>axt nay ne:vs won ln. the • of tha entire Dintriat. :But I !J.a.d o.=runged to :w.-nl one ox tJUr :meober!l relitrla :::113 ~~!-:-~::, n.s cn\r:mn of t· he :.!ilk Control ::!ommi ttea and " the action waa tru.::en before I lrntr:r n.nything nbout it and I was too unwell ·~o o.ake a. fight abou-t it. !·!T.Tever, the -ylun has in a steady i!:!Provoment in tna safety of the milk, that ia tr..tl:r astonishing. Lower :!erion has :::t .. a~\ res~.ll ted i.r~rproVt;.."!!l~nt a. !!til~ au~:>l:r today that is aeknowledg~d to be second to ~onqdn the State ~~d /robably in tha ~hole eo~nt~7. Cur vlan of !or ~ other states ~~d it ia nn:dous ~ow the big com~anias are to obay orders. ~ 3tgnd~~d . • " control has boao~a ~ost ~athotia to sea ooo~erative . There have been muny L"lteresting and some a."'::'..t:aing incidents in the long years oft:"lia health service. 'Very ~arly in our vo:rk our liaal th Cff'icer, a.t that tmo Robley 7arner, round that the:ro · were groas vtolation!J going on constantly aitho the :.Ier1on Cemete.I"'J \., J .A.U.pg.605. There were nany o:hallow graves, especially whare the Chinese from the city were buried. One day ! .....'lila and I drove do71!1 there ao that I rtiv.,llt aee condi tiona fir:Jt :hand and met '.1arner there. '.7hile we were lcokinr-; arcur..d c Chinese fu..'1.eral party came in a.."ld ':'lamer . . found tha grave prepared was not as de~-p us the la'lf required. ·mlile it waa being deepened the mourners? Chinese ~en and evil looki~g . inoludin~ :vhole ooo::.Ccd c.,U wlute girls sat on the coffin a~u ~oked and laughed. Food ~a3 "' plaaed on the ooffin befora the earth was thrown in. ~or a t~a it was the ousto~ to place the food on top of the mound or oarth but the da-parted seemed to have such food disappsa:r~d enol'!:'l.OU3e ao quickly that the friends ap9etiten and tlla suspicious of bec~e the oemetar,r attendants and decided that the spirits I ~~st have had guest3 i-11 th n1ore tl'lan etheral bodies at their feasts. we fmmd that it 1Tas austomary to sell a grave and ;vhen the family and triends had gone the body was taken out of.it in a hngh hole with others~ a little earth thrown over ~~d ~~d plaoed the gra.Ye sold to another party. a-:mty o:r mora 'bodil'ls rrere !"otcd in 30!l\s of t:.heae huge holes. I:! the friend3 and r~latives to place flow9rs on the grava they 3o~e ~ere told cane back story as to why it had to be moved to another location and shown some Unmarked mound. Some le~-l question arose in one !a~ly and the7w~~ted ~o dissenter :hhe· body of a amall aon. 'farner 7tas psesent -when the_ gra:ve was opened and had a car.1era. with him. Not only wa.s tb.e grave t"ound to be shsllo-. but the eof"!"in of the •• s~:m was f"ound to have been jarmned. down into the coftin o-r the father with sO!:le of' the bones of the pa.rsnt scatterd about in the ear-th outside both cof- fins. The fines we im9osed and the cost of dse?oning grav~s nearr 17 put the oe:!leterJ company out of. business 7 and cauzad a gll!leral 696. -reorg~~ization o~ the company a~d ~ith a reliable ~an in aharga It do~s neen to be about as daatardly th~g to do as can be ~ \ x i~agi:"led to ta", one ti:r:ta or .mother. Somati!nes I 't'tent with Dr .. G:ri=l and aomoti."nes with :Ur. Reynolds, ':7ho ::~ucceeded Jamar as liaal th ct·ricer. As th& milk plants began to o:pera.ta elU·ly in the morning wa often ~ started still tr.ti t& :;~.bout dar1c~ en dri.ybreak. G:rb aa.w a. mil.X sue.~ morning while it was delive~J ;-1a.3on standing along m1e the Pi!ts. :'!rind sto;rping a. minute? 11 he asked. "I want to see if ' that f·lllow has his nil!c iced. It was wann weather and we required . that tho boxes or !ail~ . bes.well iced before l3a.Ving tho plant. 7Ta ru.owed Up w"'ld ato'P})Gd opposite t!le wagon a."ld Grin ju:o.ped ou-t his side o:r th-a auto at the sa:1e moment I jUI:Iped. out o! tho other. Ee atar~d acroaa the ~treat while I :a st.ood by ·the. car end by the light of the street lamp I could :sea the wagon driver &ta:dd- • ing stock still at the back of his wagon. In a. !e11 moments Grim. came back laug-hlng. ''That ~allov wan scared stUf! Then v& both j'~.U:'lped out a.t t~he ~a..·;u~ hi::n t'tp. You nevor saw a tL"'!la hs thoug'lt .. f~llow 30 V9 relieved were going to hold ~1hen he sa."7 ovho-it wa.s.t' 69~ It da.mtad on us afta:rwW:d that we ~ from injury or death. Th»ro had been a or bread - drivGr~ >7o'Uld and had ~ur ~an been a had had a :1arror.t n~ber ~r ~1Ghter O!lan~a hold u,s o! ~ilk and had a reyol7sr ha doubtless 1\ hayo • 3hot t'i:r:;t ond l.l.Uked q~e·~tiona urtar-.;ard. t Those earJ no:ming trl:>s not all .:J:c:::-1-!"!::I:tl;Gr.n::t 7/o:rk !or -;~era o:f'ten there wor!!· beauti~.ll driv~s tl:lr.l tha oount~J i"al":! or orsa!'1elJ, :vhcm tha peou.liar obaxn or ·to !JOr.t~ di~tant thi~ tilarl;.r nonln~ :vi t!l its lovaly ligh-: snd unum.tal shudaJ~!l; its soft ~ir a.nd the onchunt- work 'but there a.:re the ra:portn on !ilo nnd ao:na wri ttan about . t.~e . work. Thr.1 all. the year::~ fights botweon the !;le:::tbars or the :Board ~• twenty:fif'th annual :report \To.a oovi~~ there trTTe nover was 0!" ;:s;~r"';..oj: or cny sent tot he Towns:hip . M4 (the wri tin,~ o:f those Mnual re;>or:s o! a:rtioltHl ~as one of di!!ortrao~a Co~insione:rs, +, h~dutias of ofZioi.U the president of the .Board.,) I recai..ted the £ollowing" lott~r from them, dated ?ab. 17, 19~3. Dear Dr.~.tilburp Tha Cowdaslone:r:s o.t thair last meetin;;.~ook cognizance ottha :faot that t:ha :Soard o:r !loul ~~ of :.o"Wilr :tarion To,.mohip will calobrata i t3 ·t;wmlty-fift..'-1 a.'1nive::-ot:>.r..{ du:-ing the co;clng !l1onth, ood -GJ12.t you ha.va sened contin:uousl;r as ii;s Cl:ui::;';;!u:l durinf/~1-'...a.t tinue ~horefo:r~~, I i'f().S d!,:;aatod. to CO'!l'Vey to :f0U thu · :Board t s C.llp:recio.tion !"or t ha valuv.blo se:r1ic;ja ;::r~ar.lorcd U:lu CO!l- munity through your untirL~g ot~orto and able loado~ship. It is their !lincors ":ri~h that yo~l may ba blaascd with Good health and will con~inue to aerve :ror nan:r yeara ~o c:.no. • signod V&rJ truly your~, T:!van L • .;-a."':lea, . Township SecretarJ• It is a ;attcr of groat. regret tl:.at I could not -c~ly vi th tneir request a."'ld oontinu~ to servd~3 :pr!lsident ' or tho :3ocu-d but failing :ho:ll th and incroa::dng dee.f'nouo ::tD.da 1 t ooa."!l ad.vi:w.bla for J .A. 'U. pg. 700.· (April 22, 1936.} 700. with Dr Horn, ~hos~ advice I al~ay3 sou3ht before ~aking any ~­ deoi3ion in the health ~ortant ne ~nd forxx the ~ork ~o havs a work~ I felt cartain it ~as bast young~r ~an for for our leader, but Horn was verJ urgent for -:1a to continua as a :1er.1bt:tr of th~ .:Joa.rd. A.f'ter explaining the situation to tthe -,residant. of the .Board of eor.t~ xtni3aioners I ';'7~to .7illia..-ll P Landis who vice-president of our Board and persuaded h~ to accept ~e presidency if' ha was aleuted. Hs had oerved ':'fi th :ne fror:t the beginning o.r our 71ork and was a. loyal personal friand. On l;'eb.r1.1a!J fif'th,l934 1 offered the fol/ lowing resignation; After careful consideration during t:hc:t past months I :'lave decided that tbe best intcrest3 of 011r 'i.'ownshi-o n...'1d of our :Joard will be neoure ~Y ~laein~ at our head one ~ho is not hundicu9p~d by the diaabilitias or your president .. 11 I LoNer :.~eri-,n de-,enea and nhould l1ave the best protactlon ot its heal t:h it is :po ssi ole to neoure. Ou;: wor:~ L> fnr too :.::.portn.nd to be handicapyed in O..'lY r:ray. That it. i!l !10 handie~ppod :;;ro·.'l3 increasing avid en t to all whi know it. !,therefore, offer ~Y r$signation as president of this Board to take effect a~ once· end ! ask t~at .:!.ction be t::Lken at one a ond my successor be elected without delay. lrothing \Till be Gained by delay but ratnar tbo contr~ and the avid3nt advantage of a change shot~.ld be :::ro. de available as prom-ptly as possibla. For nearly twentysix years the Eoa.rd ha.s elected me its -president. I dee~ly a~preciate that eYid~ea or confidence ~'ld uo gratefu1 for it. Through a.ll these years the :i3oa.rd.. has 11or:!~ed as a. single unit, undivided by oross pu=;>ose~ or di3asntions und through all these years its ~emberz have ~i~on their president unfailing 2upport and hearty cooperation. • ~o~~e em~loyad ofr1eern of the Eoard ~ I have the bi&~est 'Praise f'or their loyalty and effecti7e fai th:talnass, es-peciall.y for those who have :>erved ua for so =tany years. To .Vr.~io:rn is dU\3 ~'I d the ored.i t tdr much o:f our -progress, especie.lly !:1 the early years or our work. I ~ gr3terul for bis ad7ice and const3nt he!?!ulness. rna sarvice to the cotnnuni ty is fully appre:diated only by those· of itude US ".:1hO bn.:ve served With hb::J. t!!roug'l. ... I:l&ny years a :.!y goe~ to ~r. &~derson·L~ large weasure ~or his constant grat- watoh- £ulnassand aocu:raay ond hi3 unfailing courtesy and help; and to !Jr Ropo1ds 7ho continues. to -ver:t:'orm his 7a..:ried duties ":fi th such courtesy and t~ct. t}!.at, not only iJ.a:3 hi;;h e:r'f"-aciano.:r been cccurad but unneoe3sary fri~tion hag o~G~ a7oid~d. •rnos~ officers ~~o haYe 701. Joined ua in l~~ar years haye be~ ~o lass loyal und efteci3nt. That ny aucee::Jaor ·will !1.a~e tile SU..'lh') loyal U.'ld offcoiont c~o"")t.Jl"~"t tion :1'3 asaursd; it is !lo·~ cy;m necfl~oa:.:r ~o o.sA:: fo:- 1-r.. \ Of OOU!":lO, I ra:;rot tlle 11B0033i ty fo:: -!;hiu :~uti on 'bat tr.a.t fl..Ueh aa~i")n i 3 -;·fiaa :.:.nd b·Jat i2 ~~,i~an t. ::..:':Jova z....ll olse ·.1-J :.lU3t na.i!"ltai:'l tb..a ai~-:;h n'ta."lilurda ~~ ~~tu.d.:l~J. :1nd go on ~o sz:t.:~·;~.l· .%U o:f!aaiano;r. 11 Yrt.)..~ 'Jhen fine but I find ~ ':7ro -:a "tl:at m1d ;;:,:::assn ted l t I thought ~~ara tie hava of :praYious o~lata not~ing 30 d~tus~ati~g :'ITi tins;:.~ tbe l:1tar. :loll.- - there Yras is l~o..f~or 'itas to the good really d~inion t.llat to copy t~il'"..'l on ·a maahtna :Joua tha...~ is on raao::d und !olltriling ita read- ::dlanca. The evident faa-ling :-~ua hlgh for I of '.11Y ·to ice :.:La I read. "b u a;ry o i:n ta fow w.omonts, :;.);:: Shur."tHU;t, th.i! last. nl!.ln to j:r1;':.:c:.,~-c: could not 'kaop t.1::J own .feel L""l33 enti::aly ~~ it ou~ oil tho prataident ol the :Bou::d b~ o.cae;Jtud. 11 • ~l:wth.ur ha aaid 'ui th r$gret or not! dontt ~o7' I au~~ose ~~did as it ~aa cunt~y. The mot!don ship ila3 aeaondod.I buildL,~.did not =o~< :;>Uil the q,_H~ation ;.md ! ·..vas:~. no longar on ita foundaticn3 and tbo roportar for the loca.l pap or trho waa ·7ro3ent did not ~w a."'ly ertde::tca of" J:l..opelouznoss nor dis:pa.ir. t:'le motion yeil.ding the Cnair to hin o.nd ha nominated me for· viaa"" nn d I wa.a d··.., _., ... d • -pres id an" "...w.Y ~ee~,e •-=---- ....:ir.J...un . , -· di !3 1:::!±:3 ""'' .::~..:......z_~"'<':'!:J'l'i~ .... .,a.& e:c>ranaed hi3 :r~grat v"'lo.t I oould not continue as the head o~ tho •- . 702. and nany e.JC'9re!!lsiono of regret '?fhile tears we1·e dangerously near the of the .~1der ., _ e!:.lp 1 oye d o ~·1 ... :t: c ers • ey~s i'To doubt 1 t i ·3 a com.-nom. fsl!.a.oy to ma3I1i':fy our ~ inr~>orta..Yloe ~1d to value fsr toe considerable ~rass ~1d a ~ace n~Der hi~~Y what ~e do in public servica. I expected in the local papers, aome notice in the city of letters of regret and appr~ciation !rom res- idents. 7ell it did 'nt ha.p-,en. All the local papers referred to my rosign~tion in their no True the Home 2Te;vs did have a. briar editorial of apJire- bo~1uets, ~~ accounts of the meeting but ther& ciation but not a""Ten Dr. :rutch wrote !:1e about it. ~ere Not. a aingla l3tter o1d did not care fo:r """"" any more. /J..-1.. ~d. ~~ ~ ~ -£...-1.4::=-~ ""Till t n oldest !lon,. La.·.rrance, had been. to 3chool with Dr. Yan t l.ennops brother in Grea! J3n.:rrington ~ I1ansachu3etts, ~ and so:aa ot:-!er ?lace3 i:mt did. not lika to study a."ld fL"14Uly his £ather took hi~ out of sahool and placed hia in tha 7aa a great disappointment to ~ill for he w~s factor~. It ready to givs hawrencc the very oast education end no doubt train him ror _:filling his place • in the bneiness. Ttlo can blame e.ny !ather tor· such m!lbi tion;f :But La."renoe 1 s tasteg and a.bili ties were all !necl1anical.. It is queer aoneidsrabla that !lleehanictu ability is evident in no many of the Wil1:mr :uales , i n.l tho n ai ther my :f'o:ther nor ·"!'1Y brother ::•fill had eJ.nY. ~ 704. Jill had -put r:le :.t:r.i"=r"'" i:1 cr..u.rze oi" SteV3 :o!t Or!ol -;;han I onte:r. od the bu;Jinesa und co :-rhan abollt :Lu·.v:rcno~ CU;":lu L'-1, ~o :rea=:1 later, ' control· over hi3 oon. 7hila j.!itting that son under ':!tY direction wa:s a com~l~ent to ~~, no doubt, ny ~athod of control ~as aloo~t tho doing t he ";lrmlg thing, ei -;her too aave:ro or too lenient und both at '' ;· ioua to do all I oould £or ~ h..fl.Te nn;rthing nors to do with I ±z ~ould ~xta::-~ .b.. verJ unroason&.ble !?lost aooldin~ ..; o~ tho ti:no. VO'r'J un.ju:Jt to lli::t. s.nd Jo """ lt<>rrialon;;,J1ll and ori ticising and I hurt anC. reat.mtine; tllu unfairne:m of 1 t but r.cenero.ll,y hnving ey with :JOr.:lil i'L~a hi3 training • .3utrio!lore wol·er trai ta fun the bo:r a:ui I f.:ll t lms .t"a't."'lvr was ' havu docllnod to bu~linezs "N~ ls.rgey :1a.tt.ers to follow up -:,~c~115e ~ar.at '.7111 wao too .';.)us:r. he ao.id or tllought. roast. I ~as proud o~ th~t l~ out tor I bud devizad a zyst~ of beans • ~ to a~rse one roantnr. TD.ia did C.if&Y "f'1'i th co:nveyorn· which cut up the bemo oo badly t4"ld aa the di~cherga into t..'1o roant~r car:~ a half' dozon wera just high enough to ~enp 1£ neoe3ea..7 coulC. be -. 70 5. it rranld Bn llav~ t~ken hm.tr or nore to cD.a.rga oo many and that. '>1ould ha""re cut down t11e 0 1..tt·;m.t considdra."'vly. f~J. o.ld Ger-.nan-by.-tlla-na.'ll.~ of ?.'tl ~an 7/orked o"J.t/cb..e dat':lils and d.ti.x.t (lr~·n the plans for tt!le \ sugge3ted poiuta here and t:hsre t::!:.at wera helu.fuJ.. ::;_y ~nti:;>ithy for Ge~ans did not prevent m.y liJ.d!lg Eultriw..., . lis was an e;cpert in his line~ accurate, tt.orou3h a.'"ld o~illtul, :::1.ore of :m en3inee.r matters and hl)W ::;trong thinl\s nau3t. be to sta.1"1d certain loads. ~'t'hy n:x:x reme.:nbar, ha was standad I don't ~e s~:raL'"'ls and had.hi3 stor;r but I h"'"llow it never i::npre3sed me for I ±..u ·.v9.3 prat >;.y cartaL"l that ,.._. drink \78.3 at; the bottom of ..... :::-~e ·,vas with us D. m.l!:lb~r 13 t:roubl3. 5l of year3 and we gre7 to be good friends, and was sor::::-y to see hi:n eo '\ ,f.r hut order3 from the' Tvp' ~ The.t cruel$! systeo, a."1.d .-c :i:;:t ::~aid ll out down and t:hera ~n-.1.3 no appeal. still is fo!.lo:Te•i in :mo3t factories • Someti::ne '3.fter He vras discha.rsed I so.w the poor :man in the city, 1 oo~roblo:Jm to ool7e. Up to that tioe the~a tnera ~TaS nothin; on the mark~t that w-ould do that :tind o~ work 30 it was start i"z-om the 'biJ!;!.:lni.."lc~ u."td work it. out. A3 L.:rr. ;:n1.a not =na('iliini.'l t sn ~d~:rly 3eotch a."l ~~·,n:~ 'tlt}Oha.1ic 7aa found ":lhoaa nD.·::hl W!l.S :Ja:l :1~\a?et.tor::r,. ou.t o~ a Job beaeu3a ot. age and tr..a.t avo:r prosant Otlr$~:! drink, '!Jut pro~ably a. nrtl:!wt und wall up on me®anical !'.1otion3. .•'hila I do okill~d not 't7l~h to olabt a.ny o::-3di ~ for tha areati:).n 0an2e to no tlla~ thEa !i:ro~ that maohlno 1 t o~ thin:? to accomplish uaa to ;>uoil the bud do'Ntl on a pia"e of tin toil tlu--..1 u. hola !JO tna-~ tb.a toil :Joulu bu cupped nbput it but ilo7t tha-t. could b9 dona maoha.nicully I tL.~ :1ot :havv'tlle nllghtc.l3t idan•. That idao. o.pp~al'3d to I..ll.- and he u.nd Dan .worked it out, not so oaail7 :nontha of progras~ ~ld not ull o.~ ::moe. Then f'ollowod m-1d da,ys of di:acoura.:;e:um.t. ?oor L.R. would sot oo di:a,;ournged at de1ay3 and failures of this or that he often . ~~ . vowed t:a givs the whola thing up and SOI:lath:tas ho oould not. keep tho tears :r:rom hics O"J9s. ·:r.aat I did do ~s to com.fort. snd encour- age him and bog him to go on and I verily b6lioT9 hs would havfl given it tQ more th:m onca without that :,it help. lie did. go .em af'tor :1ora tbon a year as I .-~emb..:tr it, ond e.t laot, with old Dan, ths nw.china uas :finished and wo:-1(ud like a char.n, and 'Nill who o:f'tt.m thre5htaned to stop thG whole thing 'because oft he continued expense, was the proudaat em you ~• control of maa..~ino:~ oft hat tna &"ld there aould bo no otha:::.-a to ::r.:....TJ.pg.707. to -do this or ~ork ahaned ~r~ s~~ilar widely imi. tated. 70 ~eiaes for being ~uds w~re t 'J<> 1 was for 30mB yea.rg and then ..-tl wero \ awa.ken~d fro~ our "?l~af'!a.,.,.t dreans of :ha.'Ving ?Ut our oom-pe;-1- ru(lely s"\nd tors in a holc,by a o~l from a firm of buildars ~ohi~e in-t~e x· northest 9a:rt of ;he ci t:r, a firm of q,uokers '=lnitt:heref"or,-honorablG thou~ht it infringed. in~ any 'iT1l~ on our ~a. tent. 7e11, wa :!mew t t would before we oaw it and went to their factory to blook shey instanter! nut alas! The thing work~d on a prote~t and be3ide tnat it ~~d the se~ a:t ' -;yortr'(.'rhile im~~denoc Xi see,.; as Hershey called his imi tetion of ..Buds, ,.- / di~ferent ~rinoi- pl.t f'r:tm. ours, oo di:f'ferent that it did not &Ten to file a ~r. ~er~ to wrap!!!£ a. ti::la 71-.ile ours wr;;.pped bu-t one. It e.lso had an e.uto~a.tia feed:; fhe kie!lO:l were just f.hrmJ)ed into a. pieces w~r~ :rini abed ae badly L~ la.rg~ 3crateh~d L.I-!..' 3 ho?per :md ce.:ne out in the :n~ohine. as proc~ss ~~d ~ero So whil ~ tl'l~ia never was a que~ity I had gotten to .:'l!l'!l~ !Ile~gar :!urrie," 1)resident of t Eerehey n l:e Rearsh!lj c01:1- . ~ J:.~wr-ences ~rappe!"D. Long years aftenard }louse anyway! 'kn07 not es neatly big b:ruts etc! a lot · more York 1 t did not do 1 t :t:t trt\11 and ":'Ti th that f'ort ;ve returned !rod built anl)ther of :EU'r the ·~,.ra.:P:;:ed & when· CO~C'.ny• ... he said, b~.;_,"~allp; half' moul:nt"ully, ttThe.re is only man who: .} J ever made any-~ on t:hose things celled :Buds, Kisses,:Bloaaorus, Sprouts and all tee rest ~nd that id r!':J' bewhiskered friend o-ver • here~,- ~t.)inting bad ~e. tons of his ~old anjTII'~y, to I'Jlever b,lt I / It ~s 3~e c~ort 1-m.tt~-tion. . to hags it tor Hershey Th"l-t :t"tl'73 wa.s a. pirate in busines9 un~e:r~;.-pnlous. . :'hey stole t~e ,...., - idli..af milk cl:oc- \ •• j.A.TJ. ?G.70B. .:>v if -they· ht:t.d u_ racticed fair bustne"' 708 • _:.JJ ., • .~t~""d"' in .....__,,...oollJ.' ....·•'~.,. .... __ -~ a."l:r ~ sura a.'1d probably still :re- tains it. For n~ny years after ~rs.Rershey'a death ao~e years ago r:a-::c:.:..'"1c, the vrido;1er s-pent -pr:lcticn.lly all hi3X tine in...:_cuoa. and mn:r do so still. I ~ use so =uch space o-=t thin mn.."l n.bout whom I knoll very little that is .-rorthy a."ld a 90::12 ~"'I± of' ;tmU that is not beca.uaa he made such a trenendoun success ~ his bu;:;ine3S 9 beea.-.ne h"llo;vn internationally Md all. this under tho verJ noses of !!.0.7ilbur 7:\C'l'O?Y 1'~t!:?OR?JS .. J .A. "G. pg. 709. 709. ! t is diffiaul ~ J?~ d7):f'ine just what ey :;:;')oai tion waa a.·t the !'aot.- o:y at.~thi3 time. ~da:r ,'i .lr ~ho ':7as head of evo:.:rthin;;,not no::d.'lally \ only but. actuatl;r, I t7~s hea.d of t___he f:1ctor.r • .;"'or a while I !Ina au~posed ~o be buyur had. a a~d tL~ office on tho fir3t floor . ~t barely held a d~sk and ~o ehairu. '1hen a selling agent. or lace !lOii' :v~en ~ ~~ ~~ routine practice but it ;.rns revolutionary thtm, ~sTJecia.l- ly 1-r! tl1 a mud colored pradu:lt li~e our3. I shudder -::'/hen I thinA:: o:f tha old, dirty clothes tha men wore whe!l I began a.t t .. he pl~t • .Dirty to begin with and soon caked ·.vith chocolate ~nd &nd worse, worn week a.fter week until they could hold together no longer. The wtifor.ns aocow.t>li3hed more than exterior cleanliness. Tbey 1mprovsd the t-.heir moreJ. e of all the vvorkera and ins-pired a gro7ing pride in .t.u -;:rork thdir Wld .t..~» output. • 7ill approved o~ ~ idea or foremen together ones gct~in5 the a month for a meal end a confarenc& and ttz I ~as to act.as host. I thought it vo:uJ.d ba .fine to give the men a good :feed ot corn baai and cabbage and lt'.r1day night see:Gled to b'l the be3t ni;ht in tha weel( to have the mae-bing. 0£ eouraa ~ary men ~s svm some dissa.tis:f'action beaause I did not studiea as f'orem.en. was cla3sii'y .some Ul'lder- I cou.ld neet. ~be xncm easily and naturi:Uly as I had ;:ror:kad with thsm aJ.l but they wsra not ease. However thera a.nd ther-e Jo~aa ~,d-conTersation quits so much avtb.eir loosened things up to some extent but to. m7 wonder all the men did not 13eem to eat ve:ry- .freely I could not undergtand that as we had· come !rom the factory a.s soon· aa the days wor1t wa.s over. Then 1 t- dawned on me that it was Friday and most of my gueata ';Tere Catholics and would not eat mea.t on that day. {- Bein~ in a rastuarant I wa.a a.ble to get other things, i'iah i'ie.fnnd n. 1 augh a.t rtrJ and .ror~etf'uln e'3!J. · After the meal I asked the ::!len f'or sug~esi;iona inr im:provi:1g •• 'I \ ·, . J.A.tr. :YS'• 711. their d~partments but that sa~ed 711 • a little ·too ~uch li~e an after dinner :rpeech nad no one bad th6 narre to start so I called on sO!:la of t..'le older !!len ai"t.ar I madi'J a 11 ttl e talk about "hat I hoped to \ do in thi!ae su-p-pers that would b.}. held avsry :nonth. :su-;, -.;nile t.."lere '.Val."e pl '3n ty of tbing!.l thay wanted to say etlmehow about all wa could of va:r:!.oua styl-aa used in tha dii'"f'o:-ent,i derpar+..:-aents to ~o?e the "Oate:rial !ro!!l pla.ee to ;>lacs. The::-e no.-ver;zl see-oed to be enough of ·them to aa.tisf'y the fore!:'!en. from it all and we winter. to be ~en contL~ued However there l!ere to hold the au-pper gleaned su~;;estiona. for one me~tingn I triad having tho metltings at noon hour at 12 .. ~0 ~ore aftectiv~. :From thle to ti!;la ao::te Z!1ail from ::uro:9e would come 1n :11th .;. :tew msthod of making :Jome pa...-tioular chocolate o:.: cocoa a.nd one or t":1o or J,)rioe. thffm we- err:gloyad to demin:strate "":rhat he could do at nn o.grccd Cn6 ?:f' the-st.:t ":;TaS a. Belgian ne.med Rode:"'~-9r ?rhO said he D tandEnt chocolate could ma..'!ce a fondant chooolata. ·,rill :knew or ::n~:tx cii!3I%3"::3:hl :f':.·om his tri-ps to ZUropa '1fhere he went nearly avery yea:t, ~d I worked wi~~ this !Itan while he dem.onstra.ted vh2.t he could do. P.ia method was to make a. erean :fondant, .d:-7 1 t out in a vacuum ovon end then grind ,that nth liquor. We nts.de ne..ny different kinds but. could. not u . - find tnat it was dif':rarant from our o"lln make and the cla.iut. that ·1.t ~ee.;._..- • "meiltea. in them.outAlf ":las neTor proven th.o- Rode:1a.ker continuednit was vastl;r su.-,erior. There wore otheru, one by tl:s na=:tc or DeGraff" f'::~!it Eolla.¥td 9 a ~911 educated mu.n bu·~ qui -t;e tem;Jei'!"tenta.l who would tV ~~<~ tho~c fine Th1tch cocoa~. us quitu '., •• .T .A. U .pg. '/12.- I was feeling run dom1 and me~.n ~n- . -. . .... - . . -. - - 712. September- of !908 a.l thll,- I think I had had twop-weeks vaoa.tion. for so.:ne time 1ha.d had at--\ tacks of entero-colitis and a good deal of digestive trouble. evertne reason ~ill noticed I was not well and told me to ·go for a. cou;>le of . .-reeks. . ~t ~w~ Ee was certainly ki!l.d and brotherly in such. things. If only he could have been that way a.l""Nays or eevn .:ti1J! most. of;the ti::ne thing-s wo~ld have been ao di.f'ferent. :Sut always there -:1a.s that disa:gpoi::tt:n~nt a't!out my ::o::ht~ :t leaving med.eeine end. a f-oregone co!lclu31on t)::tat I 7tas not :tli tt'3d/tor 'b'leiness and !lever· / could be. In that I a.m. inclined to thi:nk ha was about right, but we had littl~ in co~~n outside of His b~siness. fri~nds were.not the kind of peo-pla I li'Xed.,. quite the op:;)o!'Ji te and of course he • did not think ey friends were ha:rdl7 #orthy of notic~. I tried to 'be ChU::::L":l.Y, went to a 'ball ga:::le with hi:n as he was very fond of pro- fassionable ball but I did not know the players e..nd it wa.a not very chumr~, in fact I. 7/as ill at ea~e. I had so ;'!!any interests out side of business it did not see= possible to study up the players especially e.s "Jill did not :3eem over anxious .for my co~pany any;ra.y. ve just were miles apart in our interests and tecreations an~ gre~ farther a,d ~arther a~art as time went ~~ Gra.tio'tl :Seach ·xaa a long a-r.d expensive trip and a good deal u trouble "i'Ti th ao man:r children and as Alina. and I enjoyed the seashors I went to Point Pleasa~t to see if I could find a cottage. , r.~ Af+.er ahowing me a fe~~ none ~f ~hich were at all attractive, it was too early fort-he :peo::>le to have gone ~ ~ after their aU!1I.'ler, I :pdd: told the real estate ~en I would look at SO!:lS other to'lm 3. Re sa.id ttaJ.l right b:1t tT:b..at ever you do don't take your fa~ily to Lavallette. It'~ a tough to~ 7 ~ lots of dr.~~.n:Ced him utd took tho train tor La..ra.llatta. TIO'N' don't '3'fl~ ?la-ha. t!.."'ld Iio -ho beoa.u-sl!) that was •nt tho r.,ason at all. I had al-.va.y 3 the Iwould rather live at tnoug..~t a.lang tn:l shore but i·t .t ~7aa :!antolokbt~ thu."'l :1.'1j"';fherc al;:Ja :nost a;tcluniva, onl:r a ~--med 'by wttal thy paopla t:\."ld t..."'-lera :Ja..:J no ci'..a.:tooc! e~ \ tor -there. Lavullatta aa· V~'d':,. fron ·the train, 'f?r I U3 b~ck I and ~orth Lrom ?oint ?lanaant a the o aenn on tha. other '"3as sailing a.."'ld=t Go t..."IJ.CJ or{r sot ~ost n~b~r of tL~~s. h~ bean looked to ba attract.17a to -:1~ with r::r:1 l079 for ·;rntc::. expee-ti:ng to n.ae~ mobs o-f drmk3 an~ I don t t. kno·;, \7hat a.ll. A3 ! waJJcti)d up Reese Ave. I sm-r no nobs. ilvery thing p e \ e aat;tm.ad quiet. 72:er9 wer~ no i'Jhouta of' d:r~cn rs..,el:ry or pl.nted Tha:re waa !lot evan a !'\a.loo11 in ~vi.•j6!'iC~ .. women 011 t~1a Gcreui;s~ r.n :Zao·'- tha oul:r pac?lo I ua::~ ':J·c::3 t-.10 ::::.en. eviden~lj 3ober ~~d'with a good natured g~in on their aaunbarnod They tt\ld m~ or one just a. -few ataye 'beyond w:b..ioh they thou;.;ht I mig.~t g~t~out,"tnoy ~d~d,7ith a3~~ed ~er!ou3ne3s, he~o, don't ~~ar a nta:cb~d ~rr you oome collar, eapecially in the afternoon, for if" you do the boya ":Vill ti:lrow you in the ooe-..m .. Jf I laughed a3 P...nd I hn.vo ::U:.vays felt ~indl;r I re?~yed, ''"Good! Suits m.e to a T."' Cne OI' thone !:len was tir • .Bnnis At the aotta;:;s 7rhich 1ras a large double house with 'l!lighty ra:ra at t~·ha aeashorsp I :f'o1md an lfrs.Ga:ribaldi, mother or !.!ll. roof, elderly Italian wo~ • ChRrles. Yas she would. rent, How mucl'.l1 Ton Dollc.1rs a w'9ek'. I al!!toat fell on her nook end kissed ber. IIad I hnd a. -pi9cep of ch~lk no I could have mark~d how tar around I "· - - --- -·. ·-- - . ,_ ;; .A.U .pg7l4. CA 'iT C.!LA1rpr~aohing on the Tb..a aarly !:!lOrning light~ the rollbtg '1ta.ve::s, tho boat U..."ld tJle 3ands as floCks ·te~ o~ of hor:sas "Nai ting to 11ull the. boat u;> gulls ~heel.ad and et&lled overhead had. a Ohal'm for 115 nJ.i ~nd 7~ neTer tt~emed to tire of it. 'Jhcn th~I boat tta3 ha~ ed rush~d :tj) on t.'le sand we and a. f ~~ others ":Tho ·:had go.thcrad thera ~ to 1 t and &rrn.b"bed ths fiah we wanted and often quita a nc:ramble • roithe caught. The tta.ptnin trao our dinner in our hands. t.her~ was !3ingle blue or king flah tho;;r '!n~ have ~Htid thmt and the:-tt 9 Thera >ras no ':fe1Ghint;• ~ It ·3as great tun. ------------ ~~ ·-- 715. fill :.ad t~e qujtet air o.a tht:r,/ vtora t.hreghta."lud. wi til a. ducl:ing. or :pursuad by a mud arnaared nonnter f:rom ~llong 'hllnd d~gled. clouta of o.;l-:.;::2-:Js ·;thila of cud 3't.::"Q"S.."-;3 ::a;n down 1113 horri3d .face oonto::tcd in nome blood ou.rUling z:ri=moa,. u.od hw:tcli~s o~ :;r.ui end n-oed:.1 hur-;1ed thr.:t the uir. :'here weri\J ffnl bou.t3 about and -::rer:r olellr ':19 7Sre ~1ui to alone. . day th"'re was the oodo..., bath a.l tho· it 'Wns aui ta a. ollOrt! to go to·t.i!a baa® for the to·ifn • 3 only ceuoo t 7~al!{ ~a.a on Roe so t.:ve. and ther13 traG verJ little oijt1'lst lo:!t. 7/a:Udng thr.l tha d..7 .uox-; ma:nd wag ntJt so muah ~ :f;;J tha olda:::~ter:J ohild.rmt :::toutly took to 'Otn.ter like young duclca and it !ossed t llat •- 71$ -took "Ocn;r ohsnoaa wi t.h old Coi3a:t 't:lu.t take l'fh$11 ;ys hl1 d :had :cor3 oxoe:rianuo ond !C'l~Z'.t :'be at luast. ::tU3t Wt) ba con- ':fould not his wlli::ls bottor, greu.tl7 t.Dj~tirJt;rost:J o~ !.!:::'t~. Gt::·ru·i~ridgrJn -:.1ho l;ml baoo 'brou,;ht up on that u:hotl th.-u hu:r :>Uu tbea to airl~oA. W.~ap. ~o ale~:r keep our aytls open nol) did let~tt zl0~ o.tta:r 3ll?!JiiZ'" Y/e ~ ve~J len~.;. to pol) wida U".lruce With the zun b&gi~ ~~th~~ gloriou3 wo oould lw.:rd.l;.r Such deep awti!et dres.t:t- rl~e next mo:ning ond d~. ~ There -;tl)rey but t-rto .· :rtores- the J"citnsons' end Garibs.ldi '11 ood. ~~a..,_...e._ tcf;;an aon o~ our londloo:r wo wen~ the:a und ao~n ttot. to 1t:now the:n. C1lo:lio, that 1 s tJlo tUdor as wu know tha:rt. now, told ma o~ n place to ea.tcll ::;:a.bs which was much na?..rer tlwn tl!a places veoplo g'eilerally 7ten't so we tried it.. !:t •,;nl.!.l a. wonder £or wa could catch a basket of e e ~raba there anyti.I:le in D;l . ple ::ulemed to ·know about 1 t.. Located Just yards f~nt hour end very ·~:Test Point~ f01t -peo- f'i:f'ty shore it was n rmw.ll hols in the flat not mora than six or seven raet. de9p. o.nd the crabs wore all good siza. Year o.fttJ: yo~ >:HJ :-1sn'7ch(!ro u.'"l-;il t.~e 3~otis ont.l 't7int.cr :filled it. U? auU ~rJ ~d t,o lr~-:.~; a :1071 ~lv..o~ ~ ,. I'T1' ~ 7"""' .;- I........ v •Po• ..~oo • Cur .firtJt. ttip ·~o Lavallette was so plaa.aant.that wo retu..""'tlad the noxt ~t:r and tonk t."le !lama oottag-s, only thi3 tl::la tho 1thols housa and fo:r a ::nonth. 'Jin.~~e 'Yoolard,. a. niotl• gentle was ~till our :tother' s. !J.al~er Geogia GJ.:rlt ~d we 1lad a. I:UJJ.d. J'ohn and :!.ar;,· i!acdonald atayed a. while bei:'ore thuy 7tent to :::;urope and 101:~ 1ialen !rae t~i~th us tllay were away. whi~>l. :f'.o.."rll:r above th6 oto:.->1 a.o.ros~ baby 3ather wlwn •.4e ';lent shuddered at t:lO:"$ we: !!other Osborn who lived ".71th hor or st.roet. vory !d.ndly took c.a.ro to tho bt1D.c.."-l. t.o ".:m.th0 ;.md -we havo sinaa -t!l~ ~os3i1>ili ti$5 ~ about tlla :i~"':UJ.y. our l i tt~ou:Ped a:s we learned A Dlt. ~eodors J. G:r~ who imd gradua;tod !:rom. Iralmcr'...ann only a f~ • yonrrs ·oefors I did and a au:::zmer rouident waa conducting tho onl;r chlll'oll n~rrine llald in to":m exc.ap~ emo:rning nf:rvloe held 'by the Lettioll yoopltJ almost ovary Sunday. in the 'Village md our Cohool but 'ther~ ahUdr~ Tbe:rtt uor$ nfllly children rtere acoustoned to goL,g to Sundcy ttas no. ~-cch ooNico the:e. Attu talking it over . . f/trlth 1Inl. lfc')leen vOO li~.red just back of US and ho ~GUghtor :!1:'3 .. !!Jlna and I Strawbridge and her husb~d who wqs a Y.~.C.A seorut~J,~~ioaided to start a. Sunday 3cho~l. iumounoez:wn~ lli ss ?arx, :!other and I t1ere W'D;/e It ~w l"flad;'/ was mad&, 1.trs. ntr~bridg~ to teach a.."ld tha aollool was undrar ::avidly, wo had o. pionic at ortley where tho. the f'ish pounds too!t tho 11 ttle tota, in :rno~ all or te~ .from. ua and. we hnd a ~ino tinle. I wrote a. ao:rt of' a. hintoX'j tJt ee.~ sohoolCvhich s'tUl· goes o~tof...he !!li.."'lutas o~ the Chu-rch there and i~ was la.tsr published. • in the Tomts RiTer Courrier~Ooesn County Co~er) ~or ysura I was rseloatad SU?erintendo."'lt md it YBS one ott he IllOs.t dol13}lt.f'ul o~ r:t:1 lif'e. in l ::d; or :ren.rs n-piri t.ual e:xpl3riencas The nc:~ool ,-p:tJ;r ont. :. .t ona t.i::1s 7JO t:ntil'\-;.rc o:ltcn wara :30 1-t~l.d 1 one hu:ld:red a."ld fo:t.·ty prez- or0i7dsd wa llnd n t~t. pu"' Uj> in the \ •• LAVALL~~ ~:T.DAY 3CECCL. 717, . It relieved the ion but the no3quitoes wore not oondunive either to ~entul con.g~st• arfort or rfJ"Terenea and the pl'nn l'lnd to be gi7an U"?• Still au!tering frcc:u lack of roo~ for t~exe cbirob wus only the Qr8ional buildL~g, ab~ut by t~enty foet, w~ aecur~d ~erm13aion from the 1~ Yacht club to meet the large ass~bly rornn ~n the second floor of the club house 9 which ":'ra.s then locs.ted on tr..e beach at a,oout Whl. ts. Ave. ~as twelve no b~ll to n~ti~J the childrsn it was ti~a to As there to ~o servico~e ho:lsted the Church fla~ on our tall flagpole :1hioh could be :Jean pretty '!!lueh aJ.l over tom1. If that was not the only su..~day School that oat in a. Yacht Club it certainly -n..a one of a v~rJ fe"N., but nearly nll o-r the oft! cera o£. the Club • ( ~a.ilin~} }'ltl.;..-ty . member of the enurch we~-e and thers were no activities at the alub nn oooaaional 3 hous~ on 3undU7 and only at tile looker house on the :Day • ·;1a tvar!J inde'btod to ·tho Yacht alub for other !avors also cr to its nembers. ?.hera w~r~ ~ no to-:m meetL'"lg3 ~r• cet together'.af"fair:J except an ocoaaion&L church sociablo. t~t th~init of those I e.ttend- ed after the•opening exereiaes' the chair.=an fiX$d :program but :sn soc:r.Ank::, B3 30CL\J3L::n" admonition at".-:f'requent intervals. The rosul.~ said,~ow 1 and he 70 have no repa.e~ed his ;vas not all t;:at could. be desir:ted. l.:bnder such condi tiona 1 t ia not stra."13e that when tha scholara ware i':c± told they could in:vite their frianda a.."ld. ~e.r­ ents to t.he sunday School picnic there was quite a turn out of adults. and as a trl-p acro'.!s the :Ba3' brought us to t·Jle :nost attract- • • ive places the :rnchtsne.'"1 we:re called on to taka the crowd over and bring th~ "ba.ck and they rs8ponded r l th a with a right good will • 3ven the grou1> ot £ollow3 who were pretty fond ot drin~ snd had the ---·---·--·-·-----"""··--"""""'~""'""'~~"""'"._M_ - tte·--·"- ~ .- -- ,~·----..~·~::;;;;::::'::',;;;:"""'·"''' i I Il I i j li TIC ::n.~rD.\Y S~:::DO!"' ?I~TICS. J .A. TJ. P3• 718. 718l:. e.nd they had nost of t hs. boats, all of t he:n aail boats at first and • l~ter the motorbo.:_,~ts ::up~l~ted t:'le:J.. There -.rers me.n;r to .;o often a hundred r-;.lld twenty fi Ye or more <1nd 1 t uaa an m011 tm;d.ous day !or t.~1e \ Guperintendent and hl3 over hel-pful t-rii"e. Th;)y had to aee that a teacher or soma e.dul t was ·in every boat and thz.t tl:.ey rrere not oYerlo.~ded. It was no bring them all hom~ Sl."lall 3n!3 job to take so :nany across tl::e buy and ·a and sotmd and its fine tri~ute to those L3-Valletta Yacht~en tha.tlt!-5 did it tor r:1any yaar6 wi t:b.out a aingle ~ccident o:r endi tare of :much nervous :;me,,_ crgy but it was ~Qrth i~ ~ fGr ~7 children h~d been so rea,onsive ~d had entered into it all ~ith suoh en~~usiasm, and had eo enjoyea it. 7e never had any trouble with the thoro~ghl7 not even 1-'i"i th chi~dren, t·ne older boys t1.nd the :9lanned day ~as the explana- tion_, but wit!lout :.rothe:!' e.nd :tXt: later thP. hel"? of our Qldsr chlldron it -:ro,lld ::1"t heve 'been possible. P..oss 1·a11. In later yea:t3 liarry and then the event entirely to -::J.Y great reliaf' and the satisfaction of all t!:e p1cnicsr~3. ·xr.a.~~~~"C"~~~~"!Y~~L~ '.'!"3 r..ad such a funny time in the again Gl~yton Ski~f ~hich I had rented, this t~e,as a specinl favor, for ~85 and a boat b~i! -d.c:r ln to'N!'l eaid he ':Tould build m~ one !or YZJ.ry ::.~~Cd!>na.ld, ..:\.""lna and I think Bees :Dean a."ld I had gone sailing a-ad aa i did not !mo;rflats be lo':7 6rtlay le.nd. Ar; -;;e eot we all ~,.ere tllat, t~1!. a.~« watGr well I :f'ound we had run over the the falling tide laf"t us neary on dry- al,l i.n bathing sui ta, see our a1bu:ma out nnd ~or pulled and pushed until ".Te got enough sail then ::::1ors flatu and mora :push and J;>Ull. As ".V& styles. V~a.ter to got t'arther toward t!1c channel t'he boat sailed aore and the girls had a hrad time b J.,. 1-:aen ttn fo-r OF COURS3, I -h.-:td to sail, a:1d there '..!:' • f'rn.ntic yells for tTere He..ry's ba.thin·g suit -:ran almont and long stoo:king3 o. dr3~s, ui tr(t"::l.e skirt :fully to the ~rneea.Abut what with r..mning I ~e to oome ~ bac~r. G.:':'ld aplasni':Ig thrn the water and the rind she :tel t she was terribly Lr:-.ad.c3t. ·1.b.o •:-r0u.ld hn:ve guessed that we everwo1ud·be so insulted I .1.. .. . c ac.:.1 "e s l)y ";70~te:J.s' J.c:•c}: of clot."""'-·ing as ":'''d are ~ on .a.n ~.~....,a . o / .· f.aiZII'IIIIBII---------------------------------------- ------J .A. U .!'G. 720. I think have had ~e ~ust the~~;x 720. Garibaldi oottage the whole summer that :.rear but a.t alb events we gre1f' quite friendly with our \ landlady's son, Charles senior and hi a ..,.,ife, even tho they did kee3;1 a saloon and -;va 7:ere not generally was not really a saloon as liguor store for t ',7'3 . 7i th saloon keepers. It know the "'ord but rather a. whole3ale here were no tables C2c. and _no- carousi::1g the-re. Ca.rlie, 'Jn. told ne of brfJ beach down during the chu.~y ~i:nter, lota where a ootta.ge had been burnt said he thought they could be bought bheap and they were already graded. Inoidenta.lly, that big cn!;)ta.in /o:r the fish ooa.t lad lived there. :!other and I ~. had grown to l~c;, the town a..""ld felt he:ony there. It was a.s quiet and o:rdarly as one c,ou1d expeet ~Jnd rar :oore so than many places not !as avay. was o. sooial club True, there Road to RUDT 11 , and while there was a. call9dlf~he good deal of drinking there and doubtless some gambling tr.are wns no I as fa..:r v..s we knew nnd those very. !ello':'Ts were tho most ready to help with transporting the ehildren aorosa tne bay on pioca.rou~ing nio days, as I have al.rea.dy written, and when the church ·.vas incorporated a few years later two of thexme~bers ~ere elacted by the ,., _,.. 1 ~ .._ ~11e o~ur~ pao? e a~ ~r~s~ee3. -·~~ _ the Ro~d . ~ to Ruin C1ub can· ha.rrJly be considered a :crora.l agency most· or: the ruin was in the name • .A.t onl3 ti:!le they ,jr;st ~bout ran t~e town and ran it :pretty well,too. . . The ?resident of .t!le club was also Mayo7 o r ... ~:1.0 \the better people did not have much respec ~ert~inlv elected to tnat office and • ~ v ~ "" Borough end. 'VThile . · ,·- t ! ,.. him stil~ o.. U3ed his in!luen_c_e.. to he was kee~_. JZtost ham:rul influences away. . . . h '!T- -~"" odore of t e ~a~~ . ...•. ~tad o. 1-::r.vyer who was also Cot%1 . .· sn we oonlans and had decided on size and· . main d.etail:l .. S"Teryone said have J"oseph Stilwell build it and he came do-;m 'from ...... ~.fantoloking one ~ternoon to see about it. 7a.king a small business caxd :f'rom his pocket hs put down aizc over all; a f·IIW detail.s, did a little figuring and said r•It ">till cost .;3200. 11 'tThai!! a rough estimate, subject to revision after you get J;>lans and specificationst:tr Ot!id. "No, n the way you outlined it here." ,... 11' kno~ to be I'll build it -ror that • .just about Q-~l right. go ahead." I a~riotly honest and ha surely eX?erience. I ne~er eA.- enter into :t,! kn~K he was nrovedt to be so in my ~~Y ba~g~n ~ith lesa talk or deta.il :.md I never :had a 'nora satisf'scto:ry result in al~oat le~z e7,,ry 722. • ( ' respect. If I had kno"?rn a 1 i ttl a :nvre about seashore would have requir-ed oopper flaahin~s our house a I · d Bllcn thing:s as gal vrutiz.e(f na.ils.:t throu~out omd S':\tter3 lea. but ·>tHJ. !or ~'money and a moat comfortable oertainly cot !ull and ~ell Dla~ed ~~X~ler r~me. lmd we did all the pl a"lnin,g cxco:;>t the stn.irNay friend worked in very cleverly "'lalu~ ~1hlch a.."l the chinney. bahi~d J~a a.rohl teat nugzostad wa haTfl a ''Lazy Su9an tt on our dining room table 30nd 11a W9ntad a big round table ns our dining r~om ~as to be aq~ars. So ~e ~l~~ed how much apa.ce thsra would be neetled around the table o.nd. tilled the rest ~ith the'~a3tive I board• which proved to be eight f3et in dlel!letar. 3uch a table wa.3 to be found in the large furniture :?la.cag if' you hunted ha....-d snongh but it '\Yould coat a • \ - to do? ~-mall :fortun~. ·~i.na.t One o£ t he esr:>on:ter3 o.t t·he factory -;1as a ror:ner ca:b!n<:!t r:taker and said hi3 oould ~a':te one und h~ and Lennig o-:1tcred heartily into the !}lan, with th3 l.a.zy Su3an,a. vcritabla giant . half' feet diameter, r~volving ~he part. with ~all or mn.oothly in the centar. carpenter reinforce the U irons we fl7Und that fivj} n.'1d a Altho Lennig 1;tb_ und~rside of~re7olving Suaa.-·1 ~~a'bn would warp ao I r 1gged t:he tru.ss aboTe/ the center brasa post being tu.nJ.ed in our 1 machine shop. I auppose moat o~ you hav3 seen the 3lide opening in the dining rooms of older eountrJ hotels and also some pri"vate houses ..,-here dishen from the table are slid thru to the nald in th$ kitchen and food dishes puahed tra"tt the other way. It always· seemed to ma such • ( -. a. sensible idea that we planned something of a sideboard o~ the kind. no, instead and se:rving table we had that c~board built e.t ·the a design and sho-p by old Jaks Castle on ,m_ea.suremcnts Anna. and I worked out snd tha table - i ~-:\<;T~sont to L~"7a11ett~ " 'b:r t•rc:t-;;:ht and b'lil t in to"'; ~a -:78.11. a.~d 723. That a hal:;> and labor o~ver it has "been o:ran t:'lo we ha.ve not had neide to do tne d.oubla pass f:rD !nB..YlY ::t'larn. '?hd table -es?acia.ll7 t>-o.Ac._ :t;tade of hea-vy ~iccea of' solid hlse?;=:rm~~, is a fine cvidance of \ ~~ Ja-(es skill for it io so well a.nd joi!'led that it 1:1 hard to !Joe the . ~~ A ~ loin~3p and I find ,ecul~eoausa o~~o i~t~r, ast and ~ ?leasur~ worl~1en foel that a ,er3onal job !or the a .Jn.ko took in the job, G.nd 1.cnnig too. Go often get grouchy abut it but those m~n ~oss i9 an could nardly. hava and i~posltion bo~n mora in·~er- ested or W"ork!;!d harder to do the best pos3ibls had they boen "::or1::_ing on tr.ings for tb.sir omt homes. I remel'!lber;f i'lt)ll ona Saturday after- noon when I stained tha ta.bl e in t'!le -e.aX'";}en -:ter3h09 after t ha :1en \e ruin the effect a1 tho I b.ad been told you oould not ntain oak ~vi thout it. 'Jell the r~Jsul t::. shm.,- for t'het.'!.selves ro'ld th~ Chicago Ve;::niah compan:r pre.,aratlin, "';thatevar it ·.van, did the tric~< Yfi thout a.ny fil- le:r .. 7e were endebted to .Ja.."er to sit or stand tor doing it, and to this _day those §hore oa..ryenters 'Kill do a hcl.f" more work if not ·t;rtcs a.s much as the average city work::u.lxh The trip to r.aT~~lette in winter was not a plee.se.nt excur3ion. the trairi· took sonathing over three bDurs snd sto~,ed a~ everJ • to tha main -ro ~tl. ·r a.otltally ~o.,., t~e e"nductor sttmdi!lg on :r .A.rmr.cr. 725. f4>nally the great :nan !Ja.id tG bis are'\7 9 ":7ell• com+) on boy3. LetBs ~o. '' .And he alo~vl:r cli:::1bed to t!le -,la.ttom oft:he car and pulled the bell cord. It alway3 o£ that ntorf told ~ada ~a tni~ ~ a~out a rail 1.·oad in the South. "A trav~ller aaked a station agent when· the train, long oyer duo,:vould 1!.2 The agent rs:9ly9d. :'Kain' t urriv~. jest I se:y, but I seen the condueto:'z dog ha all S3 ta.X' e coming do-..m the tre.a so I rac~on it 'Von • t be long.'* 7i tb. hl:n J3t.lt -..7'by :hurrJ on the 7eat :Tersay end 3ee.nhore :t.3. Ther., was only one passenger c::z-cL train each way a d~ maybe a freigh~ tr~in ones a ~~ek. I cannot ~ad all J~at -when ·.1111 brou.gilt J .A.Tiulon in to t.he bus- iness but it was socteti::te -prior to tire building at was Rulon that suggested having the "deck'• on the second floor po:reh. o~en ~old bv.loony :-rhich ve call the 7ill :had l=lo?tn Rulon for ygars. He had been in the bporting bu!dnens, India. Tie.had for it Lavall~tta ~rinoipally merch8ndise !rom us different lota of Ceylon cocoa and I had often met him oven a.s o. youth and I had ntr!Jer li~ud him. But here ha -:r~s, brou.lht in as a.. buyer, I 'believe, but as it proved long att.e:r.rard, '1111's purpooo was to ma.~e hint his successor as T:lSZlager of the business. ·?erl'~s that 7fas not hit~ intention a.t i'i:rst but Rulon had not ma.de his business a success after his father's death and no doubt Will thought he '!ronld do Rulon a kindness and ayt...,_e 3am.e tim-a :& ::dc:tmg:trucc get :r:-eliet !rom some o! his duties by bringing his :f"riend in to the busines~. 7ell I \"'as not hap-py about it_ and €fa.t1!er was· not pleased for he did not lika ~.llon very 7ell either.,but 7111 rode over Father'S" obj ectiona and,!iat;xxxa:xl+ I was not consul ted ' rso bero he was and I decided the best thing to do was to :mue the bnst of it. ! w~s nothing but an ~lcyse an'Y7fa.y. Ho<1 - tlloro'.lg..."Uy ~y I made thft beat of it nay be judged by the .fa.ot tn?'t nc..ny ye~:s 726. J'.A.U.pg.726. ( • I was more closely associated "Wi t.h J • .tJchel" ~ulon in businea3 than any other p~rson a.nu counted hi::i ey friend bu~ at tr..a.t, a3 -- later events proved, I did not 1:1!Ue the bdst of ~ ol hi:s ,\ en taring the employ of ITo o. 7lil bu:r and ::ions. Jlat.he.r r:mnounocd hi3 intantion of ru:~.r:r;ri.ng a.~a..in greatly to our disa.p-pointm.ant. a."'ld sorrow. ;fa a.:rgtied anI'ovcJced 71th me because I would: not take the sa=ne stand. Father's dete~inntion to marry t~ preci~itated a 3ituation that seemed. only pos!lible to be l:l.et. by incorpor.ating the business_ as he said he ":!anted to arrD.ttge a. -;>ranuptial c.sreC!llent by whieh Helena: a:nd I could have a. fixed i..."'ltercat and ~~l o'E the businesn ~ould paas to his children when his new wi~e died. 7111 was op~osed to the whole- !Jla..,~· mar.:i~e end all) naw no reason '>ihy Helena. and I 727 should oh:tl"~ !:1 the "buai~eaa in 7lhlail ha 11a.d put motd; ol hla lii~3 ~~d which ~as ~o lar~el7 the rasultx of ~!~ ~ork. Eut 7~thur'a ~- eapi ta.l :·u\.0. ~tc...--tetl it tmd hi tt credit 11ad. ;:;avod it L"'l ti~'!!i:Hl of hi a atresa and ~.:bad 'bam't the S'..tiding n~.nd f~r !.1.anY ysttrs. Jhile \ Jiat'htu• was inclined to br.s -aild and yl)eldin~ in :=:1oat t!rl.ng::s "Ult!re ~ ~times 1:1hen :::ta aa.id l!o and would not chang~ :-J.."ld this yas one ot: t'hm. ~ .:?.i1.ilnt G.Loomi3, of :noston ':Jho httd ma==i3d Ee!l- uie ·.111bur' 3 oldest :dater ;tnd. 71'l3 prn.oticall:;r ,;ill • ~ le:.vy')r o~~ on and thfl:re -;rna much eonf'er::rin~ nnd ar~.nnunt. in '.1111' a of!iaa tion!P oonf'3:tmae3 to tthiah I was not ::l.d.!:li tted. I h,';1.d no :f'btanciu intarost 1.'!'1 the lm3inaas !lO why :Jhould I. :;'ather wa.n not rc:Jr!lsent- a. !,)al"tner~hi:p ':'?':!:'!.~ n-,yeaally agr!!l3d on, it '::'t'ae d.ecidad tha:t ~?8.t'har and ~ill nhould ~ach have ~ ~al! tho 3toek, ~ather, of oour~e, could do '<'That he cho4so with his 'but what r:rrer wau gi"'ten end me was to eO'r'1a out o"! :Ii'a:ther' a sh~:~s w·ell amoun~ to be put in trust ~or the ~~tura ~ra. to Helena.· as an agr5ed H.o.u. 1ifa.ny conferences with tha la:w lir.rt o:r ?!organ, LmTia ,~o<;kius rol.lo"lfed,J!r.:lorria ·R.:&>e1ciua being our eonta..:1t :na.n, and at la3t g=anted to H.O. :iilb'l.lr ,:?; Sons, !nc. was grant~d. · ByL:.tws c.do-gted bT the ~Jtate,du..-nny diraators elected"and- ';he stock issued all the charter 7fMJ under the watehtu.1. eye or oi :rr. :sockiua~ ao tba.t all would be legal to the last, c~, semi-colon and yoriod. • Then, one day in Father's o£fice, he gigned ~~e stock cor- tif"ic~tes a.11d LotrMi!J pir.kad thent up ~~d said it gave hio. gren.t I -- '1.28. ~100 000. I .fear I did not a.ccapt it ·711 th very ~ood Jrace for. -I- did-?~ t'lli!U o. whole lot o£ Loomis and I could not se3 t:1a.·t he r_ad ~ythlng 11 \ to do "3ith it. :But I 7fas d~eply great1:"-ll to :J'a.ther for it ~vas a handso:ne thing to do eYen under the later :Uele?:la received. cil~Cu.."'!lsta.."lce::;. the se!!le am.ount and. I was vnade Traatee for a t2:ous.s.!ld :Jha1·e3 to be ~ 4i_/ .I 7:;t__._ helri: for Fath~' s, incof'i to go _to her a..'ld the :principle to ba s-plit eque~ly between ilelena, -:¥ill I::Uld stool"'.; for t.h.:-:.t :mE:n for he permitted :nrs.Rutcbinson a.nd I fear Fatl1sr too to sit in a."'l ~r.;l J .A.TJ. PG. 729. _adjoining room and hear .. - .729.• that we said. Of couroe, ·I knew. nothing a ~1 abolJ.t it at the ti~e out it. 1 eaked otl.t after;mrd. Tile :!lin! ster; like the ~lder, seamea very oareful what he said. So .!!"'a.ther \fa.3 :na.rri ed at t:Ce ~"'- a..-A-' ~Torth Ea:ro.ad Street Presoyteria."l Church, I think. Helena. andA I were there and no-:~.~· o! ~ro. 'Jilb-:.1r' a rela.tivea and friends, it "2XX b•1t not ~any :!.n all.. . '1.3.Ibtc!'lki!ls played tha wedding ma.rcb on the or3a."1 for altho 7ill -rraa e~ert ~n v.~ tha orga.'l he refused to ,a-;te.mr and I doubt if l1e •,vas :p::-esan t. It uas a sad and tryi:::t6 ceremony for ne and for dear Helen bTt .w9 / could only endu=~ I hardly it be a~ d~aent as pos3ible to the relativ3a. a~d :~~ow ~hat to say about that strange man who had been. brou3ht into and w!::o 1T3.S t~e 7.E.Ho~in3 business bj Father or dill or both to be an a.asociate of mine in buainess fo!' :many years. ·;r.asnca he ca."D.e or why he '.ras broug!J.t in to our business I do not know to this day but he aee:lled to have so!!le hold on Father and :perha.pa .Yill which I ne-.,er could get eX9lained. ·.vell educated~ vated, suave, tactful, he had travelled extensively. tainingly and was ~ell in!or.ned es~ecially - on tal~ed culti- enter- fin~~~ial matters~ - He sat Op'?OSi te 'Yill in the main office, at 'Jill's large double desk~ ~as of!ic~ manager and later Treag~rer and. exercised a good deal of influence in directing the policies of the long time. com~any .o\nd yet, it gradually developed that he was for a ~l7ays in .-··· debt, ~.nd u_TJrelia.ble,lived. under an assumed n~e watched. Still he and trJ as I would both before and after aonti~ued ~ill's as an e~'loyee a."ld r..ad to be ) and Fathers deaths I could not dislodge him. ~e had his value to the business ba beyond q:~1estion in s~i te or t:Cese hmdie:;r,ys e..."ld later evants will explain why I did not dis- rn.i ss him e.fter :?ather h9d passed e,wa.y. Eotc'bkil'lZ see::1ed loyal to J.A.U.?-:50. 19!1~ . 730. our f3ln1ly and I believe he had a real aftecti'on 1"or m.e in the l3ter daya of our association. There was something attract- v~ \ i ve a.bout hi 3 personality in 91>i te of all I 1.""!1e'"' against him so that it was hard to deal. him as he often deserved. I a:n oo!l- \Vi th fident tllat he never L"ljured us altho vra were not in!roquentl:r · asked who he wa.a and 11here ha ca!:te !:rom and while 71e had to be as frank aa possible in our r~lies the true answer tc{t:hone ~uestion3 perished 111 th him when he didd not ma.n:r months ago. At our church in E~ J!-!a':ll", we had been having di!f'ere.'"'l~· men preach for us. ~e or the memb1!r3 and a. Trustee, Harold :?ierce. hnd n. most unusual acquaintance with people here and abroad ll!ld !m~ man:r ministers in Sco-:J.and and, :!ngl.and and often entertained thS!n. at his ~ larga and luxurious home near Black Rock• Glad-.rjrl~,Ee first brought Dr. Grenfell of I.abllradore to J3ryn :Iawr a.."ld invited ~J( us 3nd a numbe~or other friends to see hi3 lantern slidea,Ahear about his. work and ~eet ·hi=t personally. That was a long tb:1e be:fore the good Doctor bee~e the world famous Sir ~iltred tor at that time his work '1fa_s Just dcv~lopi:lg and Dr .. Grenrell wna carrying ~ ott almost al.one, making long sled journeys in the winter and going trom lla.rbor to harbor in h13 11 ttle hos:pi t:U stemer, the •strathcon a.. " JZr. Pierce brought a number or :~;zD4t. :Engl.ish or Scotch mHisters to our pulpit and one evening, at }Jre:Paratory Service , he asked tha Session to hava an Srtglia~an n~ed G.A.Jobnson Ross conduct the eel""Tica. The people vore greatly improssed and in3pired ?:r wl:la.t he uaid and after the usual rormalities Dr. Ross was installed as our niniat.er,the to serv~ seoond_one~~~~ · our church• sincG its or~~ixation. I I !! -n-q J:' ng. 7~1. 731 • Dr. George A.~ohnston Ross was the ~oat facinatiog preacher I j .. A.U. ·1h\,JOEN3TO::T R03S. church on Sunday to: .... ever. heard and he :soon· filled the ,e_ . I!lornings . the service that held Sunday afternoon wa3 well o~erflowing. Even dinner t~e 1 belonged to & little olul/called the Earria attendad. At that 14 Club locat~d on New· street near the factory/. Business nen in the . - ·~ district lunohe~ there and they were mostly men ~ith little or no interest in a..T!Y church. One day I overheard two of them. taJ.king neither of them knowing I was connected "':1i th the :Bryn )lawr church. "Playing any tennis now?"asked one. "Not so much lately." you and ~oe aJ.wa.ys :playsd Sunday morning." been going to church lately." 14 "Thought "',Vell - we· did but we Goin to church ? You two? 11 "Yes". Say did you ever hear that man -preach;6a.t the :Bryn lla";'f"r Presbyterian • Church? say,. He's a "Nonder! 71e've kinda. let tennis slide so as to hear him."'t ~Jell, I'll be d----d!" lie must be a wonder.lf NoY when a minister gets ~ao young worldly fallows to drop their outdoor sport in order to hear him prea~ and do it of their own volition he surely is a wonder !llld Dr. Ross was that. Looking strikinglY" like Rudyard Kipling,. even to the heayY iron b?und spectacles, he was a. genial man but not a. mixer. He told us,of the session, soon after he came that ws must not expect him.· to gQ1.nto minister civic work or devote much tim-s to social functions for"a. ;::x.,...;o:rn'"x must keap himsel-f from being rushed and cro-r.ded i i he is to. mediate the gospel to those in need." He had a charming Imglish woman aJ.tho both she a.nd her husband wife~a· tyPicallY wer~ a.. remarkable . tree from mglish accent or mannerisms. Mrs Ross· to a. lrge extent 3UPpl1ed the social side of their lives and was a true helpmeet laX 3~ ~ and be.la.ltce wheel to her somewhat temperamental- husband. Ther~ were three girls and t~o sons in the f~ilY· ..T .A.TI .p~. 732. { !!r.Ross, . W3 seldo!:'l called l:i'!Il Doctor ?.oss, a.n~ I gra·:rx to be very close friend3. Almost evary rn.e~Jting ·;rent I l10-:-lil or nors and had a. \ in that 732. with hi::n ~d ''cu:;s of taa!t. res~ect ~~d ~a g=~ Yednesd~y :a af·ter prayer- night ru we talked.:: together for an hour The fa'nily v1ere t}:ur!lu,;hly :Uri ti:Jh' to know each vary ot~er altho there ~ell w-ra.s ne"'Ter nny a:';)proac:1. to the close relations:hi:;:> trJ.Ut e:dsted between Dr~ :!iller ;;md -:1e. ~ .tU tho/. :!r. Rosa :7an a. profound aoholar he aeer.ted very fond of na a."ld his friendshl:;> ':las a gre&t blessi!lg. In a!)i te of the large attendance Sunday norning :t;>eopla would not co'l':le to haU him -:Ied.!lesda.y ev'3lliDG3 except a few nev~r faithfUl~ discontinue and after a time it t~esa ~as ~oro decided by tha than 3~ssion t~e-:- to servioe3 tho thi.3 action -;ras ta:;::m only ::rl"ter tho most careful consideration and -;fi th great hesitancy···and roegret. J:Iaturally there :7sre many calls for our :!iniotor to preach in other churches and es~ecially at ~en'3 coll~ges. thought a minister oTed it to his church a~d in other J?Ulpi ts one Sunday each month and so., to ~aid he to preach hi~self rath~r Tilis tvas a. good deal of e.n innovation a.t Ee insisted on doing t~hat tbe and while the Session assented the Trust"ees, who had to pa:r :Jom.eone else to preach ~or us, reBented these frequent absence3. Further .more, Dr P.oso was inclined to be insistant in having his ?fay and not \. always tactful in dealing vith oppositi~Jend dizsati3faction began to appear among a·ertain influential members of the Church, notably ~r ( .~ e ~r. .Ross a Alba. JObnson. After about t.o years Ur. JOhnson wrote ~ letter criticising certain things and pointing out. what he conaidered defioiencie~s im-pulse of the moment ~nd l. whic of~ended llr Ross .~ on the I think without consnl ting ::ro. Ross, he '71'rote and nailed ;·lis :-eaigna:t.ion. "::"!ere ·.7aa a of the Ges3ion and Trustees to consider it ' . ~ -' ~~ir..t :.n.eeting a~d ~filled . ·.......- · .. ~ with • 733 • -ROSS IG EO?::T. crit:i.ci:Jes ~:r.::o~-::!eon's la"';t~r that had. led to tl-:e resi~at.ion of our ninister ~'tmd 'IiY ·.1arn friend. I did n:>t r:~~!ltio'!'l ~r • .Tohnson8s ill con sidereu s.nd unwise a..'t"ld I opposed. s.ccaptl~g the :re;.;i.;nae,ion. but his bein:;; the '!)reside!lt of the TI"llstees pr~V·3!l~ed hi3 ori t!- sisrn of a fellow ~e·~ber, at least openly, for he asked ne to ride home with hl-:n in his li~o~ine, I thin:;r no..- action uas ta1;:en c:t that -';i~e and before another· :rn.eetlng was held ~1::::-. ~o :~3 had acoe:~tad a call to a cr..ai:r in :lCG:tll U'ni ver Jit::r in Toronto, Canada. Ther~ ':'iaa con!Jiderabl e talk of sta::-ting auotb.er u~ur·~'h at Ros~ont and as:dn6 Dr.:noss to serve it, ~arold ?eiroe being the leader in that and 1(r. Rea inclined to f:tV'Ot IIuah C3 it out nrr.Roas 1 "" decision to go to UcJ.ill ended that. I ad.::nired :?O • ... t•• -.) I J.l ?RC""~f :.. ... '.''•l. n~ .J ~. C'"'nn .. d Vl- 0~ ~o,..~ _., .J.Jt 733-B •. building. thanking :=1a for the advice I ~7:1S ing bim how ~P~Y h~:id of the officers felt about his gi"'1'en for tell- ~nd pre~c~in~ at other places during the brief' ti:-1a he ';Vas to re::1ai:1 i:--1 tne church. and \ immeded.iatel:r agreoin~to m~ suggestions .. I only mention thi3 to abo~ how near · A rather ~e ~ere to;ether .. :!arch 23.,.1911, .Tiryr.::a.vr. correspondance today; end I 1}.!"::! movod by I don't ~mow ··tl'1at 3"')irit oi.· ''1i'J•~ni~.:::· ""':o ~Hmd you .the cncloaed. to read aml to ~·oturn. (it ·>ta.a d.n in-ritado!l ·to .~o to 3nv,land to -yrea~.h ·r)rio !'3~:::-::non, o::c;>t!nsa~ rya.ict~ I h::.\.'"rt;. r~f~rr~d to thi:1 before) 3'1rst of all the re:.:pe3t to go to ::n~and fo1· one 3e~on illustra.tt)d the new idea tha.~ i3 upon un in i.nternat!on.ul exc~~~:n,-;~; next, :.r:t.Colli~r,(tbe 71rit-e1· of the latter) has thlj lc.r::.:est 3in1?;1a t'ri Sdion in tha world,- :.1i ;';h 17JC;:t l!i~<3 ~in,;3 t:1.l wuek, i;J a ::otb.odi3t a.nd t·he lette1· indicates the a.ti7r.L"1oe h1 Gn::.'iatian coouel·a~ion on ·t;ha other side; ::utd finally, tha lettar nhm1~ that tl1e ldea ':'Il1.ich one of ttr Church) e:q>ran~ed tJ-1e otbe.r nL~t t.."la t i ;.vould have diffieul ty in .:settL'lg a.d7!tinsion to -t:'la Jh!l;·ch of -..::n?,l<..:.nd -n eedn ·:modifi catio-:1.. :ro~T t:::;; to tnin.k of- ::u~ a::t not too ~n:;.in :·o:r endur~:.naehonestly I \l::l e.cnding you tl'w l3t t3r j'..l::rt. ooc;;.;.u;-;u oi your mm kind interegt in ":'!ld nnd your ;Joodnc:·Hs to ma in the ll ttle difficulty of lant ·aeck. (I Jo ~ot kn'Y~f tr> ':'lilat ha refers) I -~hou:.;ht - you '!!tight li'ke to 3ee ·.just- -for once ho'tt the la..'1d aotuo.lJ.y lias. Yours very cordially.:•, ~I unusual letter follows; have been rid of oomd ge~ting out!yi~g in Dr. rtoss ~as de~ly hurt by the criticirr.n t~at cam~ . from a very "fevr but inf'luemtia.l peo~le o.iiih-. c:::::.urch and sent me the above to or sho'if' what otherl3 thought to show th~ lette~~o hbn. · One oan just nee how he he3i tattlS even as near a friend as he counted ' _._. .. ·"'t· ·-· ,. • ··.~ :1 _ _._ ... ·' --- ·----- ..-... ..• ~ '- ~e to be. J .A.U. pg.'734. the s Eo sui tal in stead of Ea.lmC!:tann. "io~an' t;,.'''.., It J\ to r.1~etins \ 734. ~a to 0-a c:hoaen to royr:t:Jt!n-; the oongr~~u.tion ~ o..t tha of :'rssbyter--.r to taka aotion on the reaigna.tion of Dr • .Eoas - url.d I find ::1Y :.iddJJe:Js Z'.x at that ti:le: »"!tr. J..!od~rator and :Jer.foero of the ?renbytar.r of Chester; In oo~urring ~ith the request of the Pastor of the RrJn ~wr ~rc2- 1 ts dae:p l30rrorr tl:at ouch clction see!':ls be:st. 1)(.. -Coming from another lo.d whoso with ouro, variance ~t. cccle3~ijj,.dtical proceedur~ 1.A.John3ton ~o~s found unloo~~d di.i'fcr3 far obstacles and ::~ett.y hL~drancas in the -xor'k he fu.:1s no eiiJ.rD03tly atrlTen to uocompliah. Buch obstacl.;;a tmd ll.~dl·encf!s. aingl• i.."lsi~··/ nifica.nt, \Then mul tiplicd, fo:med 'burd.entJ of oa.re and lL-d.tution Ollr :raster found it bitter and tm.ju3t enough in hi3 criticism. day nor in an-y C()n:Jcientioua follo·wer or Bbl. lD:ely to fail to nu.f.f'flr !ron 1 t~ stL"l!J• dent o£ & ~astorate .l aile thi ~ is tr..1a/ 1 t iu 'bu.t a !!lino:r inci- ~ho3e blassin5u been unspeakably pree- ~ye toward Rin1 cannot 'be redtte~\ to a lizt or aace3slon:J of Ch•l:roh nembership. Forx a long ti=e 1-!r. Roes has tel t called to the !!rl.n13try o£ teaching tr~se ~ho are to be ~nisters call that ta:::as hi:::. fror:1 cur ·~hu:reh. or the Go3pel ~~d it is tbis Ti:ere i.:J thi g con:Jol~t.ion l. ,.__ -..... ADDP.ESSTIT G .J..:\..U pg.735. P:CSETI33~, 2.- -- . ' 72. -· i.nipart to his students much of hia own wide ~nowledge o·f the-· . Scriptures and. to i!:11)I'53S .\ t!le::::t ':Vi th the IliYi::t~ life a.s ~ediated in his teachings, and so, in some ·.neasure, to reproduce h.b:nself in those wi1o sit a.t his feet. !Ir.Ross is a. ma..--1 wi.th a. message,a nessa.ge essentially to ......... ~essage ..... ;~ ol~, ~ o ld s t ory, yev ~~e is t~e + won d er f u 11 y ne":f ing Ylith Divine power .. a.."l d !!ltm. qui7"er- It i3 vital and sw·eet \lith spirituality; but it gri~s deep by its reasonableness. c~~ we ,onder,than, t~-at Engl~"ld, keenly slive to her loss, sends an urgent invitatio~ to this man to tra.7el across the sea to prsaoh at le~st one:c:rs:L~ sermon, if it cannot be more, and i'3 glad to bear t by those ~h~~o~ hi~ long~st and bast~ the journey? he expense or So grea.·t is the value :placed"on his interpretation of God'a ~ord and nis mediation of the Divine. It is im?OSsible to l'econ what bhe loss of such a ma."l will be to the Bry:::l 11a"Nr Church,to this Presbytery ~"ld to our countrJ. J;ny attempt to state the many fine qua.:ti ties or to ex,ress truthfully the praise tnat is justly due Mr. ~oaa would so distasteful and painful to h~ tha~ it wottld be a real. unkindness. Btlt I cannot leave you igncrant, J;rethr'!m~ of the wonderful. g;veet- ness and simplicity of the man, himself. lie is a.l:ways a man but a.l.vs.ys a Christian ;nan; al~ays a. learned ma.n but always a 3im:pla n1an; al:ways :f'·::>'rceful but a.lwa.ys a gentleman, ·even under peculiarl;r trying cirett~stances. ' . Christ.ia."'l kindl.iness and sell control ha.7e always been evidenced to the fttll. • No Ean -oreached more ....clearly ~ how !:len ought to live nor lived more consistently the t-rul;:h:a::ta:::zc he -pr~ached. You will not· wonder tben that T1:e :Bryn na"llr Church, aa a. body, is sorrowing deeply at the ooming separ~tion, sorrowing as only 736. •• mature ·~an and wo~en co..."'l. and so be taught rr:t ·.'then a ':::la.T1 In tha ytJa.ra to com-J -H~ ;:!la.:f road his books by bbh ·,:;a -:::..,ay bea1· 1U.s woica, a.;:m~~tbss, and ta:.C~n :rou 'by tha 1'~":ld., tnrilling you wlth ills ,;euuine- with ·~od, yon oan:1ot li:;....~tl:r oey to such a ~an, • • • • ta:ro..,.ell. 11 / ~-e. So :Jr. :2oss :rent t:o ~~ and I loat a.'"lotht.:r dea.r !riend, • The d~ath ot U:a. ?.osa ·.van a g:rea.t lous to hlA!1 .:1nd. it appea.rud. Johnson ~as right aoou~ ~:s. Ross I.'lore &Tident than eve:- talk over ao:m.e 'Probl.e:ns in raligion tha.t "i'lera troubling i.4er,. end o! course I did so. ! think that possibly ~e di~ not <o&~tr.or ~13h after r~a ma:riaga ~r •. Ro33 for some r~a3on I na7ar coul~ find out eeemoe to roel • and th~Jt I did not ~e :.:.~r..W.ually drifto~1 a:pprove o.f it wJ.d. his !'nE&..."lnar ol':tMgad :..:9.a.rt• .He ca.~e to Bryn ~avrr College a..ltlost to "Orecc!l and aJ. tho wa e.l'i7ays invited hl::t to ato.Y with every year take a. mo.a.la: ~i th 113 !lo !3~c::ted digtan.-: 'l.iltl U'tillka ilio old :;elf. U3 ot still ctiiv~, livin:; in 1:::.:.v;nJ.ii ~d 1~0rt n~-,rer r:1a:rried :i.1i::> d:::.n-:1:lie is J J.A.U. pg.736-A. e, tJ'tar the noss f.--,.:.r:.ily had .:;one to C:J.."lada I he~rd. fro::1 ey fr!.~ .. qui ta often f.JJIJI itor 1 otter that 3J10':Y' e1 :. ho., '·': on:s ti=te and hE7re are :1 sa so~ :portions o.f hi...~ was our fri ~nd2hi;>. 414 ";L1CJ'3:otr::n:t:k Clar~c~ _\rJ• 'laotl':'lo'3ltt :~rontr~.al .. 3e?t. 29, 1911. :ly very d oar :.?r ~l . , ·:., It 1:3 goo -I to 3 e~J your ha"ld•-rr it in 3 ::'...< ·. :J'orgi"'fe ':'.17 trying the) ·-('?e':'trite:; it iJJ J::..t~t "bacau'J~ I au de:J?~l":\:. ly bu3y ;:..nd "_'f: a.r1 tl".Jlv~ !. to oea i t :r c.qn -.:;~t throu.;}I r.l.Y 7Tri ting a::: qllicksr 71i t.l:i'-....'1:11 3 thin~:. :.3ut I :fain ~'liOUld ID.:t."'Te you oasi(i~ !'.H} so t.;:. Without. the dii'ficul-~l r;f Wri tt!Jn OOrt::U:lication "IS ::Ii.;~~ freolly "exchange ::mul s ''. • • • • • !\.3 to ~y~alf, o1" l&"l, I can hardly t::-'.l!lt ::lY~eli" to :J?e~c. :;.~:: • lett.ha r.!isurld.erstundi''·~ OJ'9l"ead t1'...:.1t !':!Y ;;o:!..~~ :7?..:3 the r"aul~ oft.::,~ of'f'i cers and is due -:.·l r.ha faot that t!H"!y did :-:10~ r i :;::t hn::-d · sno~:. to kee:;> me. :.ry c;t1ing ,., ·: y,u rightly :.'l~Y ·.·r::;.s entir-'lly ;,.y f..oin.::,. :~.~ indeed I do not see hr•" the decision could nn:vtl '!:::ee!l diff~ren t. . . Blrt. quite f':-ank.l/ the :!)a:rting in the end -;-;a3 infini t~ly /w.:..· .'. · than last ±'all I coulr: •w. va drenr.1ed of; ru1d :ny faMil;:r' 3 attac:C::t~n:. to the vlace,. t!le "r)/1o,il. und the nation~ 9tron3cr ~1D.n I thou~~t pOtHli bl ~. ?.ver:r 3oul ;c ! r1 t'hi s 11ouse ·,:rould r.;.o back to:-:1o::-ro·.7 -ct> :J:r::~-:. !.~aw:r with a. che;Jr i:f +.~-•t -:~ay 77Sr!l op:~ in that direction • .:...,d further, '3inee I have 3 tr:,···i oft fron tho t,vhol::! stoT:; of -:ty coni:.tg :m,~ put alonr; ";Ti th :it tb.o .. q>eri•:mce3 I have had r1-t 'J'·:>rthtiel ::::~1d 11::~' nnd wi tb the s·::udent~ : cannot nn\1ape the ccnclu~icn t~at r:;y llfl.l ls ~.gain and f'in<.uly ·"'.·· ~e at tha service of th~-.::.:~:Jric~.n1 !)uo:,>l~. }~ut o.ll th.s tl."td not !'!lOrcly gi:::•-tn out love a.nd loY~ tr.at l<'Jn'. .i• I .verily "tru:.nk :-:r::r r1o ....,.,.. ..-• .... ..,,.'"' he oucibt to put i:1 ::;O::li! good wo=-k- .EOd :10"t l:i~1t1.:r l:::>? v.;;lo.:F·i-=-ro::t :;:·u! - ·::..avo ~eJ..,. ··-l-t' oei-..· ..J.c~.. .1. ·..:le pr~sTJur\J of t:hi::) id..;u.. : fo;Jl ::.."'l:l~r ~ L"lo:ral obl~:;n.tion ·::.o P'.lt; in. if ;;ou~ible, r;md ::J.t tho lo1:f~st~ t';J") co1'" e "',...,ss~ "' ·" c• ,..,.,., •co;ror.c ~ , ""' . . • ., •d ... • 1 ~~ .i. :Jou_c on<:ar"";a:..:l ~ ..~e 3. en. OI. Il CJ~G'J• ..:i::.e.t. ".::lor-:• o'bll;:;o.tion i:1 .all writt<.."!l on ::lY !.'rind e.!!d it is tht:l only' eontract' ~ ~'7~ hoa::.·d of in ccm..'lu<1~ion '.11 tb. -::r:J wor~ hor:3. :O:'b.tl Cl~:t:rch n •. n~..:~--. "'O''..,, ~ , d :::1 a t WJ.e .. . -· 7,, • (0 ., J. v~ ~~ il ~G. OU !C.UC.U o.:!lU3c J.U® O:t un:j"'"C.:le.l' .J:ind of cont:a.~t. • • • • I hopa t!'lli.t you und :ro;l:r -:::u:: :li.~t :!..::1 :J0d o;i tho ~~.otO'.tTldin!; idOri. t1~-: tl:~:c !:: :.:. :.ad :7.'ho ca::e:J :.'n:r 1.2s. I J.ont :,:no·)r -;.rno :1or~-.:od ou-;. t:o.a+ id.~ f1""·:J+ oi" .~ -1 t ~n,o ...V•L. ,..ou:--·~+ .; ""' ~-=-::.!..:::!.· ·•~-4 -.,.... ':-...-..,...., ...... ··•n.,..-. u·-:oJ.·n'.:)l" • :Y-W _. .J ~ '"E~"'* 4 .1.0 .......... -l- ........_. .., ..;. "" .......... ; .... ~0 3:~{..!.1-~> t, ......... +' ~ d ,... ' ~n . •.'j'.)'l...... ::1..L.o.2~ .!- i ,.~ in." -.~.,. ...... ~ ""-~" ~~'1 .... "" ... a. ~·..... oa.n. • •...:..-.ul mar.re~ o.t it~1il:!. dt.llr..l O..."l you. :i':.:.ko .rotn 3:1G,'':Jod. :JO lo~/ecl t..."'l.e world .:::crt :J-;y,;y i : ';"ter a.."ld 3 ea if :ro,.l t~o it i.-··:t. I t~i ed ~d. t..::ied and I cunt g:n.~;J t~e i1eu. :.:nd wholtl 3\.mtu.."lcll i~ u. ::U.r~cl;.l. T.c.c.:; elsa clo ''iO. ~'lucd.'l Its a. rali~ion ln. i -:oelf • ..::'o:.' if :• God lovo:J the world'' lo"le ia Ol..)!:l~t!:i!lg ·;;o ho=dl:r i.Jcgin to e:rv..s?• :a3 lovu :::.unt l1ave t.reu.;tutlo'\la _:!•.:on i:::1 1-t,. t.:::~ iro;1 of a l::..\.:;h -:;)U.QO~N which .:ra 13 dater.o.inod to c~J-7 out tl"tou~.h thoust:-"lda ge7. hurt 'JY t~h.;,-::ray. ~ ~-"ffl ~_............._,...,_~ w..J~ ...... _ ·..l..~.J ..1 1.., ~ ....; ~.J.~ _ ;.J-J-. _; ~ !.; • -.- 1 "f# wl .':> t•TnO,.."'""" .. "'" ..::-..,.;t-n•t ..I.U.:,. ,.. -'\tl~V \Jt.Ao . . .........._ ........ hua.rt i.J.nd hc:.1£! 5uldiel·s» I over. t• \\ • ) . j •• \ \ *:'1 ,,~ .... ~~.,.~·-:r~.,. ,_,....,~!» ~-~--Jt/1\J_.. ,..JJ. c.~rcrJ d.::.::~. "';·-.·r _.,.-;,.;.J 1-'->;. 1..1_.._...,. f',;;.;,.:., ot~ ~"u .~~,.,.......,. -A....., "''0'1..,.. vi \1- .:;~ .l.-4 G:Jd b1C33 s.ll tl:e- littl3 :'abo·-:~Jlo:t..-J a~;)ti:J~, You:.·3 :.·or uvcn..• i: cc::lin& do,-.u :for. ;;zy- ·::n.i.ds r.resbytariE-.'1 Collcr;e,::ont~'ecl., 41~1 Clc::1-:~ /.Tfe. 'Jt'!st::J.ont. J;J.n.:Sl• 1912. ~.":;/ x:a~tian t .friend, ~·ou ·.10'lld noed. not •.:ml7 a lar;;o 3U-p?l:r ot tha mi~ of r~~~ ~indn~ns bu~ of ~~0 choaol~tc ~f ro=~car~oe in cloaJ.in~ :-1itb. =n elu::tiv~ ,~n·son li:Co ycu .B.riti::h cousin, thu und~rsig:ed.. Eora a1·o tha fa.ct:;;--- ( Sb:·ll I put ~~ con,~:at­ ula·~ion i'irot? Yes b'!lt not in braO:::et~h} :s.y -:ri~a and I bot.h rc- . joice with you wi t.."-1 all our haarto in tllo nc-;~ gift to you ·of ~us bea.uti:t.'u.l. littl.!l da.ui;h-;;er {.;\nna. Denn}. It la eyr3dcnt t.hat all is well. wi til l:lot.l.e:t n:.1d. ;:;l;.ili nnd for t}l.P..t ~e :;i'"le G<1d th.nn:!3 711 th you. i.lld 7ilfl. rejoiCQ too t:ho.t jOU: C:b..ildrcn ha.7C CO~(J to :JOU not a._i,:::;=.·~:.J.t inter.;DJ. s, bocc:::ac one C.ay ycnt ":till :;J..c.V~J round you ~ ~er:fcet. ph:J.lanx of ;>ro tee tors r::..'"ld friends, ·uhe:n your boyz ~d girl:.l grow U;> almost ai.mul t~"leoi..!3ly. God ~ura rn:~ha.::- a..~d. not.b.er to tho. l i t.-l;la a:rmy hnd ';;ooy ha...-o f:J.r frO!:l that 00813;1" .han~ or :roura, no·;{ ::mugJ.;r Upholstored 7li t::l c.."-1"..1-;)"b:f 11 ttl '3 J innS C~lS...'lion 9" all :rount.i.. tt iJ;f f:icnd the:l ta:::es ti-..'le to tell ot hl3 avery ::love on a. hurried trip -;o P!l!l!!.delphla. ani J3J:'j'll :!::ur, of a prop•>::tn you, dour :;;"':ri{)ndt :for o.ll I 'b.:-.!:ve ::c.::trd for all ·]o•x:: loycl ~L~·ineSla to rJe tmd.. ·~o t~ the £ I.c.t un, :oore ~.tl.Xo.l enthus::~.ann - ;_~,-!r.dcrs ~'ld. to tho o1:.e -plucud in ::::. 1c1c rc!J,'J:l~i bili ty for :!.ll the !..l'::..:...:;ureJ .lllCl.ccnt to its conC.uct. 1:. ~"ou don 1t lH~c h;....., p ....... ..,.on·.. ,1y ' . . .1. t• l " '"' hi " .......... ...... ..., Q..l. '· j c,, ... t.O n ru1: Ol • · 1:.1 c.l.s a better fri Hl of yot.:.rs thu.n you cv;;r m.t:;Foct- i i ' ~ C!)!.1!... IT'!'TI ~ive him your 'PILI\'tT 4~!~:0~rr. J .A.TT. 'Pg • 7:18. 738. I unswerving su~~ort. Be prompt in obeying his orders • !Ielp the man or womam a.t the deak nextto yours to do better work than he or she could do with out your assistance. And if you choose to put the I'1l;atter on a -purei:v selr'ish pla.ne, reme~ber the 'saying, "He that does only that for uhich he is "Paid, is never ua.id for anything more t.han he doos." None' of us is ~ssential to t 'he welfare or the pro~peri ty of thi e firm, but united .effort and cheerf"..1l cooperation are absolutely essential tothe success of any larc;e undertaking. Don't be n knocker and don't critioise'the boast~ Remer1ber, if you can the anxious days nnd nights that have been his, while you draw your sa.la.r:v regularlY. and. never fear the next market day. Cover his faul ta with, the mant~t.... of charity and don't forgetthat h~ is human like yourself, makes mistakes ,just like you .do, but by· his judgement you must succeed if he succeeds·and that his failures cost him more than they can possibly cost you. · / • , And in conclusion, your manager finds· that the quarter centUry has brough/nim to the -point whvre further division of reapon5i bili ty is. necesAa:ey. His phvsioal condition ce.lls. for some relief from the strain of t hese long vears of care. He cannot, even if he \'1ould lee.ve you to carry on alone the c-:>ntinued upbuilding of thin ~reat business. ,\nd now that the fint-.ncial nkies look clearer and business conditions appear to be improving, if slowly, it is a fi ttin~ occasto.~enare the valedictorv. 7~ this end the followin~ a~~ointments are announced, as dating from .Tulylat and you are all urged for :vour own sakes to ou-pport t.o :vour ut.noet. abili t:v the ·de-oe.rtment heads who now undertake to relieve vourmanager ofthe details,leaving him to act as "counsellor and friend." . i, ~ ~sei stant Ka.na.Rer ,with P.enera.l strpervi sion. :or all purchases' J.Archer Rulon. · ' , _... Sales J.!'ana.'gers, J .A.O 'llonnel Confectionary, Samuel A.Ri~bel, Grocery. · '!.17 ain · 1 General Su-pt .in charge oi! t-he factory, B, 1\.. '~wi/61.1r; Asst. Su-pt. L.H.'.Vilbur, in charge of ~rb.5 Factorv. Sect. a,nd, Office Kanager, ~:v.':: .Hotchkins. Credit zan and Co~lllidential Bookkeep.er' John w.scott. Chlef),rechanic, .in charge of building and equi 'Pillent. George Lennig. . As~t.. · "Ruve~, '·'' .n .Pollock.: . . • l$$14Z:A :a .lA l.· ,- - Mes~rs· O'Donnell, 'Reible,Rulon, 'ftotchldns ant:'! Scott will :meet re"'~-t t.tla.rlv once weeklY. for discussions of matter a of general 1~terea ~ o their dena.rtments. '!'heir reports will be !'resented in writlnQ: to the ~enera.l ma.nap.:er. 1'"essr 9 • "B.Y'.7ilbur, L.;~r. 1 ~lilhur. Lenni~ a.nd the f~oremen of the two factories will also mnet once ~ ~eek at ·which time the subjects of better!nent and out. nut. wi 11 1)c d i scua sed. . UZ4Sl '~!+SS§ MAAJ $ h i i _ i . . . . . . . . 11!111\!U ... I \ 739. 'T'hci · ;'..~~d:·. ~"n.n;.T. Cenl. !:':11nt. a.nrl :1ecrotarv wi 11 meet m'lnthly a.t \7hioh · t.1"":'!C t 11.0"'' wt 11 ,Ji RCllf!fJ wi tlt t.11e Genernl i,~a:nager the ~enera.l conrluct oi' t. "lc b·winc~!-1. ":11 t'h '.'ti th due u~·'!T'ec!n.t inY1 of' ~he !.:nm."l.:Jrt that. b.an been given me and tl1o ~:n"Je 'f·hat t.1H.~ ft:d:11ro ~a.., 'be· 'bri ~~ht for eu.ch on a ·of vo,l, . _,::or t•no ~i ~ , -.. '.1 1 1our. r.;, ...•.•.. :..r~1ot. 'hmt thin n11nouncemont \Vas mn(Je, whothor it \70.9 dunlioated ,and ·r.intrinutod or rend to tho office and sm:1e oft he fuctory force I do not 1::-r.o-.v but it vras n to tl"..a1~o. :?lOfl'f:' ummual unnouncomont for --; .1; .~.7il'bur "::'hilc it nccwo clear to mo no>t thu.t it is a very !'athetio in its revelation of' a certain lonliness and diaan'9olntmont in 01hat he l'l..ad ach:l cvoda11d a longinrr for a ~lo3or and kindlier attitude on the ':'a!'t Of' hi a a.~soeiatos . ? at tho ee..!lC tiMe it is I moat re!:le.rkable in it3 !T..trcilitv ~nc! ~.ct-:2isnion n:r, t.ho -poosibllity o£ errob::md mio- . not tt~.'kea.Tha.t it. does come out \Tit~ \"llH>lo hoartod nraieo of' \'i'ha.t has ~ '\ been . l'.Cootc1nlishoc1,. of' t."hoso \V11o ~ave boo-n1ovu.l and its o.dmi osion. of any "Physical disabilit~, ia quito sstoni~hing. 7he rriotion bctw'oen ne-oarment heads' an·d di s;loval ty_ to the Mnnur.•ormuat.-·bave bean in the office ~or I ~ aure thoro vagtt none in the factory to ~ount to anYthi~~ nnf/ t 'he factory nen had groat reo,eot t"or .1.1;. and thought he w-as n fine nan'al\7a,ra intoroated in the Boys.' Of course I was not Q()l"J!l'Ultod before the o.nnounoer.lont. die~ ,not often talk ui th .,·;.. •H,. • - abQut an:vt'hing and it was nim'PlY a case rMl of ta:kc it.;or lao.vo it and_I fear, vmrded as it waa, it did not t'tr.; Obvioualv • there were one or two both factories i"ltnoa.afbie conditions. Ali· foremen were to m-eet once a week. 'Ho.5 a.rotl9e much cnt'husiasn ·· 1ll o~ loyal - o~ . . ' ':. . . 1\ was eix blockR ·awav from/the main factory and it was nractica.lly imposSible for ~he for~an there Co come to the muin faotorv or the Ct1~\.:!'n to r~ 't1WI"O t111"i'•'!~ ':':·::n~';~:tYJF ~'JUTS c..nc oi;·or ti"'1C~ ~i\::1'0 hp,..,:;d ~air to tho men. i1lt trrc 1)18 offered r.m.nv aovanta~oa ly on tho \1hole • J .A;!J .pg. 740. '140 • could fun1ion smoothlv in the ma.na~~r,s absence. " method for training understudies in It also offered a im~ortant ~ositions, something badly needed. It \"l'as dnl v natural that s.,me men felt that thev had not been treated fairlv by into the business ~nl~ a t.hefo~~xtrr~ au~ointitl~ fe~ men who had come years before over those who had serTed fa.i thfull:v for years. :-:ot.eh'dns was -placed over Scott, As au'PerintenO.ent I was placed over Steve w·ho had been ~w~erintendent in practice if not. in na:a1e for years e.nd :iulon as Asst.. '!.Ja.nager was nomina.ll:v over :me and eve~one else c:cce'Pt 7l.'N. alt.ho it is only fe.ir to writ.e that he never attempted to exerciae that uower over me, at least. • ~till the 'Plan offered much for a better .... ~\~ . • or~anization, ~iTin~ each a chance t.o exercise his init.1ve and for the development of [\ the voun~er men. '!'he -phrase, fn the announcement. '' leavintz him(71 ,li..) free t.o act as Couneellor and fri en.d" was particularly att.raeti Te. That wns just ·what so manv of us wanted him to be and we entered . into the -plan 11ith high ho-pes • I :Put., Ala.s! How often ~ith pra.eti~ fails t.o follow t.hecry! a sense of importance and in all seriousness the committees came together as ~er plan. If dsscussions were somewhat ragged snd ramblinp.: at fir0t still re-ports were prepared. some gestions or recommendations a~d o~ontaininp; sent to the Manager. It was not euglon~, however before those reports came bacb to the various chairmen blue- > • i penciled, paragraphs cancelled .by blue-pencil marks or . with caustic destructive criticisms on them. W.N. did not take the time to dictate exnlanations or his objections much less call the committee t&~et.he~ and talk it over and so ~e~t.ion. The ne.tura.l result. was that after a few of such results of their su~~estions develop~ all that. was ~ood and the hoxsh critiGism, antagonism was in a sug- arouse~ and +.ne nen kept. still rather than to be .1u.rn:ped on wi thou+. cause. -- • 741 • ~he meetinaa of 'Rulon, Hotchkin~ e.nd myself scheduled monthl:v to~isc,,sa the sz:enere.l conduct oft he business soon resolved them1 ' selves into critisms by the Uanager of everybody and everythi~g, ear- ca.stic comments ofa the silly reports and recomendationa of the com~~"~ mittees and ~ the oft • re~eated assertion that he could'nt get any- body that had any ideas or that was worth an:vthing. That soEt o6 thing was not condusive to constructive imnrovement and soon developed ill feelinR and a ~enera.l attitude of"wha.t 's the uaef' As I remember, thea:t cora,'1li ttee soon ceased to function even in theory and the 6thers did 'nt a..'i!ount to anything. The whole ~ystem broke down while ·.1.11. comvlaincd that we had our chance and we could not do anything, had • no ideas worth anything and yet we criticised the management. I~K was notthat ~ill did not sincerely desire to do just what he outlined in his announcement or that he did-not l~ong for help and a sincere devotion but he could n·ot y•f.ld any -part of the authori tv he had held. so long and was not able to work with his juniors on any such basis. Beside t-luit I fear t~here were drains on his ner- vous system that wo did not realize. It was truly l>ath'etio he had~he most astonishing ~ower to enthuse his men almost to the ~oint of fanatioimn_ as will b~~hown later l and yet by his irregular of. really ugly and mean comments and quicU:ly scold.ings all such enthusiasm was,.,lost and came to worse than nothing .. moo~s e.nd frequent be~a.use ~eriods Then, too men lost ho~e elaborate eommitte~x ~lan !or in the possibility of anyphange when the 'Proved such a failure. Only the ap- pointments made in that 'Plan remained. I Perha~s the committees met from time to time but nothing was gained by 1 t and 'before long we vvtrf' .iust a.bout where we :were before the -plan was announced. And vet.he mie;:ht hsr e been a Connsellor .nd friend. it. seemed irr?ossible for him to work that wav a11d, nat. nnllv, years of repression d" not r ! I J II FATHER'S LETTER FROM NORTH CAPE J.A.U. pg 742. develop men or make them anything but routineists. [final line on p. 741 cut off by scan] 742. I have written thus fully about my brother Will, not so much in the spirit of criticism as in an effort to show what conditions really were. Will wanted to be what that announcement stated he wished to be, but it seemed utterly impossible for him to actually make his theory a fact. In 1909 Father was 'doing the Fiords' and he and Mrs. W had reached North Cape and wrote us about it. "Have had a very pleasant and successful time, realizing what the 'land of the midnight sun' means. For we saw it and realize what it means when people say 'it does not get dark for several months.' The night before we reached Diggermullen, when on the sound or ocean, near latitude 69 was our last chance to see the sun near midnight. At ten thirty it was bright and dazzling as seen over the far distant mountains, low down. Wife and I went to our stateroom and found the sun shining directly into it, and so bright that I proposed we try the camera. We took each other's photo there and then, or rather snapped the shutter as we could see each other plainly in the finder, as plainly as tho we were out doors in day time. Then we watched the glorious orb decline behind the mountain tops in various phases, too beautiful to be described. On Sunday there was no service, nor has there been altho there is a young Presbyterian Clergyman aboard. He has tried to have some sort of Sunday observance but tells me it is against the Company's rules. Nor is there a Bible or hymn book. Better send a Missionary to Hamburg I think. (The ship was the Bleucher, Hamburg American Line). We are now sailing thru different fiords to Gudvangen, a little village at the end of a long fiord that extends far into the interior. It is all wonderfully beautiful. Expect to be at Bergen tomorrow where it rains 367 days a year, they say." Then follows some business [original text continued on p. 743] \ • . . In anothor let l~cr \"rritten about t.'he same time·, July t'his3.'!i-::mt hin vi.fe; '' ~oto l~:v . dcn~ouc'h us ti-ps., -...n.rr!.~t-tf <~:o. ~:rwno forcir:-r1 1~.nd~ ' ~ he wife en,iova evoryt.hing and docs every- thinh for :::rv comfort and relbef. evo:1 in J'•"-fhl.- 1909~ I~ rolicvca beooni np, a. good traveller and ::'iO r.w.:ny timen of un-plco.aa.nt 'bur- So we are \f"Orking and 11 vin~ ha-p-pily toccthcr anJdng the doar !.o;... d to lead us e.nd 1-,rinrr ua nll closer tor:c·c11cr. '.'/ o era not in t1:e le.cot honaoiok or tired of travel but ";!ou1<.1 li'kc to claap o.ll the dear ones in our anar:... ~s el;d· then start out ?a·i:'h;rwrote interesting lattcrn i-r1 n ·;1onderfullv olea.r, wtc h:md, ~;tea.dv \ l i thout a \TO.Ver in it. }ie wua t.hon 75 :voars old. /\ younu: cnr;ineor, :Javid Ho.lr;tcd hsd be on onr,agcd to laY out and • inat.all OUl' electric d:;.:ivo ly a.a he w.-1.n o. &.F. w I mn.de t'here in 1910 and a. few I even colored mveelf were made form fine ~hotoes Ix ~nd ~rofeaeionals -. were colored bv . lna:lv fine. ure .. altho I never became expert in that-art. ~ A few bought. in Thinidad Is.,Pt. of S~ain under mv direction and were exceed· 'Uuoh later on I -preuared a Aeries:; of ali~.e· and a lect- for ',1illi~s 2-ro";'rn ,". : ~arle, a fairlv lar;ze Scientific !ns+.rtt- ment. rmnnl v house who had a ·; J.ra:e ren.tal lant.ern-alide li brarv. Thin -.1a.s 'hefore the d ·avs oft he ~· ovie and nersiated for some t.ir;~e af+.cr ~ ! \ • ·:li11 vlanning to aond F.ulon tot.__ )1o· 7.~e!lt I neUe~ on a. so- ·;1a.13 called "btwiuons trin,to noo uhat tha possibilitien v.rero for acbling produ.cts t'hcro arid in tinent. I. bee au 110 Y1~MJ ~Ol"e ious to vioi t ~o~.lth ;\nw:!ioa, the northc;rn j>u.rt of that con- ~ulor. had be0n ohoae)\ ior I vm.s moat a:nx- t he tro-pioo and to aaa caca.o actually growing. The thl3-t cla9o of t·lurs altho runnin~ north fror.1 7he A.rguntine for years. Am1a anci I tJlked it. ovur 9 weigi1cd t'he cxpenat:, 6onsi<.te:.•cd my being a.•1a:r, fa a.va.:r, fo1j{hcro ;o:a.s no radio tr1en lea.ve •• oilildran. t'':-11.1 ~~;Tb:vn wa.o and ·¥)' tit of or in a.THl cou:rne, t.hOUf!h't ahe v.b~onoo f0r so lon~~ a tir~.c bt~t "T' ,_ t).j: 1-11easuro a"'ld ·profit and m.o.de hesitn.tod to aok .'ill ;-n~ra as it ~rica e~~1at I So~ on J!:i.n~a-r~r lctta:rs I lca.vo 'PUJ' my o·wn cxpcn:Jes, !{iiiOJtbo uui<.1 b\r t.ho ao;ima.ny. he ar.;reed to 1 t and we 300ured oingle rov:ms on the :i.'3".'\:von!t costing nblo re~r finallv went at it and after some heai tat ion and tho t·d·:l'l)Ulation that I ll?-! Tiulor!.. e s'ha ooul•.7 ·.!hl.c:t ho.t.d at,~~ho c!I')Ol' .. J.z! t1J.o quiet, one horse- \ 747 ' stormY and then had to leave about tvtenty behind whose trains were detained by· snow somewhere to t·he west, altho the ship waited several \ houro beyond her scheduled sailing tine. Just aa wo were moving out the Lugitania was nosed into the ndjoininr, slip, a tremendous ship, but with upper ~orks some bent and ~~istad by the storm she had juat tnru making her three days late, '.1e axpected fea.rf1tl wau.ther after :p:1soing Sa~dy Hook and it was roughl:t enough, but not as bad as I e:tiJ entirely peoted. I can't oay ~ was~coa~~l~ co~fortable all the afternoon· but a. ne:p braoedzne up a.nd I w~s not really sick." 11 !fe retired ea}."ly last night, the mot~on r~ving visibly increased. During tho night it grew much rougher and before long the the loose things began to go_ about and hunt soft spots in which to re~t. ' There waa considerable. banging about and we rolled in our berths. 7ne night did not ~roove -particularly restful tho not uncomfortable on the nhole. j3ut, !-Turra.h! This morning a. rough sea., a. rolling shi']i, pitching and twisting but I am still able to sit up nd in al:noat perfect coo.fo·rt and e1~joy I'!lY meals at regular intervals. It's· simply great! m1d I fully expected to be so sick." was delightfttl, The tri-p i~ a. ~CQt fro:a "beginning to end. 'Je •:rent to tne Bermuda. I slo.nds, Porto -:::ico, :-:ingstown, Janaicu, a. wonderful da.y there driving · A1-«. k 711-1 A ~· clear s.c_rosa the IGland anc}buo\::,..._ to Colon and a.oross the lsmblb.us, g« going down to the bottoo. of the Culebra Cut which was nearly completed and over to :Panama City, by train of course, to Cartagena., of which I wrote in :part, "Ga:rta.gens., the \Vondorful ~ The Fa.oinating oi ty, eons from modern life and horizons away from the cities of the Statest I new York ~ Is there such a. 'Place? .A:re there trolly cars anyo;rhere "! Our day has been faainatinrr for thia old Spanish 61ty h~s been untouched by oarthqua.'ie .Jr fir ')r tidal ;;a-ve • -:;:'hl'ee hundred. years have pas sod over i -'c e.nd, seer.1L.gly 'P~ssed it by. Three times it t'Ta.s \ • "~ "!J.,.r") ..·T • ,., . ,, ,.., I ;1• , . ' ,.... C')l () - ' T .~~,,. .•\ Tf"' ·' 4~ 1_..- ff\ •.J • 747-A • ~7ote.it ocemn to met ho.t this Q!rive o.crcirm Juoic:J. is of such ir1terczt th.o.t;/ it. our.ht to be recorded. ·•r-inr·nton, Jil:'!a.ica, :~.·:.r. Ju.n.~-,3, 1910. ~\nothcr long du.y; 10r1g only in t:he hournof cn.joyT.10nt. :\ no.": !30 full of nc\1 sights and nmt \7or0~ thn.t it. nec~o, as I look b:J.ck on it, an tho u.gcs would ~ ~+. r.:t.O, junt ·oeforesunr1!1e, we were entering t.re chunm!l and both ~ulon und I li>od t.o be on deck when -;1sf.•ere entering o. hu.rbar. ~.ere is even n. rre:::~.ter ch::n;:1 in 'the c u.rlv mox:ning in the tr•)picn than \Vhon f::-~rtlwr north,. J... o·;: lyinr.; islands towl),rd the Gt>..rri bean, tho • urccks of largo stca~orn 1n tho beuch ri-ve c7idenco of the hazards of tr.c nurro·w coral-girt TJr.l.Snago. trD.nce into nw inner h.J.r'bor U::'l \'!C A bc.::.~.utiful du::m cli>.. ddcned our ent pu::;30C :--ort noyo.l roint. L~n old nounced it ";Jert.rile" all in one r.touthful.) :'0rt 1"1oyul, now a very co~~rplcte n.nc" -pce.ccful <;.~1n.r2.ntine station, 1mt once,thc home of :.~orr:c.n a.nfl the 1mcccmecrs and IJiratea no end, the l'ichcst and the wickedast city of ""he worln! 7hu.t nc:noric2 of ·1rild rcveln hu.unt that nurrow ntri·~) of lanrl! :ruch ·:1f the ol(J city incltuHn£.:. 1~is 1.:u.je::~ty'n bir;cist · below cannon ho.vcsunk bei.:r~en the vn;.tel33 of the J::ay, where a:)~e oft he builclinf\S':':!n.Y still 'ha ~een. [)ut eart"r, q•w.}cc~ .tidal waves and fire have blotted out nearly ull oft he old cl ty and one can hardly ~o­ • liavc th~t so larr,c a to~ with all it~'pt~cies of eight' it~ costly stuffa and •,"i"ilo men nnd wilderx:::r.«:X nleusures were once really thore • 747-B .T.A.lT. 'Pg.747-TI. • ntcn:mcr because the building~ are oo largely bowered in 'fr"ces. After bre~2fast, at seven, we·hire a carriage, with a bright faced nnlatto driver, two omall lean horses and o. two seated phaeton onen all nr:nnd. ''le had -planned to -preoent a. letter of introduction to some business man but decided it was too early .and M s'i:- (!O on to the botanic gardens at Caotleton, 19 miles away and about the center of the island. There were no cocoa estateo near but were told that there was an acre under cul ti vat ion there. An we drove thru the city there were evidences of the severe earthquake of 1907, Jan.l6th. !filw buildings anid the ruins of old ones, cracke6 houses with their front walls fallen, the rooms -plainly seen. J:::any weird scenes in the native _quarter and the villas or 'pens' an they call them, some most beautiful ... with trees, flowering shrubs and cacti, all new and is everywhere and cocoanut with fruit. pal~s se~m stran~e. The mango to grow wild, and are loaded )Ur driver io.moat polite,hia languaGe io 3nglish but with a dialect and odd eXpressions is a little hard to understand tho his frequent, ''Reg paden, 3uh, "'!'es, ~>uh, the breadfruit t.ree, t suh' give a -pleasant sense of freiendliness. 'I'Itees Yli th many thin dry pods hanging down in clusters and their constant rustle and clatter ,, attracts our attention. "0, that tree Suh. "!'hat's called 'woman's tongue' • Its never still, suh. We have a. good laugh/ On -past Constant Springs Hotel, a.n attractive ?lace, 6 miles fran the city on a. fine hard road • \Vi th a. trolley lin.e at one side • soon we are in the ol:)en country and -pass na.tive Jamaicans, negros many with burdens on their heads, which a.re often tied up in gaY colored kerchiefs. Uilkmaids with bucket on their heads and measure in ti-:eir ho.nds; bao,':-cto of fr1+i t ,yems, bread and al1 sorts of stuff, .:r.~~AIC1\, Y47-C J.A.rr. -pg.747-C. 1910, con'd. yet not so many for it is Sunday and, like a good "'Sngliah city, Kingston is closed tir,ht. f" Fa.,ther on and u-p, for we are gradually ascending, we see bamboos, mont graceful and feathery and rrowinr, in clumps,man~oea, hreadfruit, \t ev1ard waul ri. not put it in the icechest because ofx the smell so· I kept it in my room until every body on that' side o~f t 'he shi 11 kicked about the odor. Age did or iron and \11 t1wut any gls.ss; :trched courts o p(;nine into fo\vercd and pah.:wd centrul ares-3; hugo cat'hedre.ls holding, hereand there the akeleton3 of patron in gl~sa eain~a, cofflna_ the fading vestments overlying the mouldering bones a.nd atra.,rr.e, often nnfrie~"ldly lattices oft' he houses. faces by scores, peering :.fr'...o: thru the ?his is Certa~cna yet electrically lighted. :::ulon could not slcc? bec3.uae of/the heu.t a.11d \70 ,were u-p early. Jto ·;rent on da.o1: about four a.nd I joined hin about u.n hour lator, juot o.3 the dawn be[;:.l.."l t·o ing gunned by and old brca1~. Spanin~ -:rc heuder. in to"'t1ard "' narrow open- fort on either aide. ?aosing very near tho shore we 3aw now ruined theforts ware and ~ aoon passed a large villa.ga of -plo.oe:rad 'louses, am:'le wh1 to washed taac~ed roofs ~hila coconut ,alms waved above them. ~ rr.oun'tain peak was ~hed high in cir on all with a.~d A monastery. by the sun Md the ~ city ca:'!le into view, its tilG::>, domes, tcwcru 9 mine, forts and oity walls, ~nd «ith the juot made one ~che inore~oing light, ita many colored to ace it all and it ~as pl~ster. It a mile aNay. after breakfast a little train with a littler engine took us along the long • brea~ater uith ita wharf a~h¥end, to the city where wa hired e. carriarce vTho::lC~ c'...ri var ana'."iered a hearty "yea" \Then we ask- \ • .\V01T 0"1~!~, C!\.~T:!AG':"TA, Cont'd • .T •.\.U. pg.749. Off ·t:e go thru croo~ad street~, a.ll"Co.dy b:tazing vti th hoat and i·t i3 only 8 • .(5 1?1 t!-!.c r::.orn!.nc. T.aru t.h.e groat wa.llo, l>U.3t plazas and the c l1l·_r ·•nd non· --·~_ -1-.o. .• _ ,_ ,.._ cle'"1 · ·1,-,; t1-..,.. ur.tt"d ____P-'-"• , "nt",;:; u.· .-.bout c.. • ...:,, ." '-.:r~ • ' \ e J .A.TT. page 751 CA.RTAGBHA, 1910. n 751. the bedrooms opening on an outside gallery that ·ran all the way around towa~d the steamer I bought a Tery fine Panama hat for ·)1100, Coltt."!lbian. It is quite the envy of the people on board who haTes·een it and certainly will be worth very muoh more then that in the States. Then as we walked the streets. shopping here and do~ there I :purchased a nere..po for ::fra t.md an odd gold chain for $1000 ~)100 some po:1ta.ge stamp3 and a present fro He.rry for $200l I now realized that I had spent the eno~ous num of $2300 and began to feel very poor indeed. Begide this Rulon had paid $375 for carriage hire and $100 a. piece I f or breakfast l ·.ve therefore felt we must return to the steamer at once before we were was excessively hot. I don't ruined. Beside that, the sun e~ntircly k~owwhere the mercury ~tood but it must haTe been over a hundred. We found the ship surrounded by Tenders of all kinds. On the wharf on one side and with bum-boats on the other there were corals sponges, melons, cocoanuts, pawpaws, parrots, little birds like JaTa sparrows. larger birds of bright pl~~age and a monkey sitting on the shoulders of a tall man that looked like en Indian. I do not know how many parrots were bought but quite a lot und the monkey c~~e abourd just before we sailed. I refrained from all li ~vstock. A launch took us for a spin about the harbor after Qur return and we sailed about 4, leaving Cartagena with regret. An hour later we passed it again altho at some distance. - Years ago the SpaQnarda blocked u~ the main entrance tofihe bay to keep the p-irateo out and it vras thru this gap in the hea~ forest o:'1':1re tho. t -ae could see the ci ~Y. ??lis blo ekinG of the :main channel . t J the court. TI1cy seemed bare but clean. As we returned I by sinking old hulks in it nece si t:ttes a. long s2.il do':m the na.rro">> t 752. • ba.Y to a much nore enaily defended entrance, not nuch uore than a. z :\nd :1 ~ile \ B'J it wu.a juot at :::mnsct we no:a the old city or t·.1o u.·.w.:r •.\ rainbo-.7 apo.nned the Buy with ita beautifUl arch c'!-ta!. . t 4.\fter t:h:J.ft of uunlicht broke thru the cloudo of the \lest, v.nd d'n:1co., roofs u.nd walls \7ere, one ufter tho other, co.uG}lt up u.nd :Jla.ced in chi nine relief t:!.CD.innt the durk clouds. Lact. of ull the ·:11:: tc 7u.re-.7cll, • on t!-:e mou:nt:..1.i11 ta-? r~::m:1::;ter;r dre~ city. "e p~s:J o~:o\m clear und brir;ht in the now our hand ucros3 our· eye a then gaze a.otonioh~d at t11in creat modern ohil:) o.nd then, back n1ft.hc 1:1i::sty hori- zon. hundred yeu.ro roll ~U"CH.o a'.Vri.~r a.Yld c.s one· hardly u:.1u.~~c vte fv.ce the bo'.7 a.VId - - - Th.inidud." ·It in o. te::rptatlon to write more of that trip but the juu.rno.l letters o.rc o.ll toeother, tha lnk unfuded and cleur a."'ld roudy for u.ny to read tho::1 tt if they care to. ?he trip otill llnc;ers in my t1ind a.a c::. delir;htful u.•"lde: enriching oemory. It \Tus :.ra.rc11 when I got home frr"m that trip u."ld ao tho ship po.oo- ed north u.lou~ the Jurney coast I could nake out u lttrt;c ycllo\7 p~tch on tho Be!..:.oh at J,o.vallctte v1hich I btcw must be our cottage tho we wcro too far off shore to can my joy in being ho~e m~:c out dotailo. Inugine 1r you ponoibly again a"ld having my o-:m dear wife in my arms again und the dear children about me. '!'hinge had • -pror;ro~ncd ·.tell u.tt'hc cottu.gc und u.a Anne. expected a baby in June I hu.d to select t 1Hl f'urni ture for:t the cottage. I including curtain unc1 tho m"'...all rucn bought it u.ll attha largo t'urniture and oupply houno in Camden near tho ru11road otation there and·:::o saved "froic;ht and handling. So ~.:.:;;.r ,\:1.:~-.:. n:;vor ou•.1 it until \':0 covcd in und ;rhen ohc ·•:c.n plc:.:.r.:cd I t ' I • J .A.U • -93:.75:5. G.'\.G:\.0 ,o._~m TC ·~IGlOSCO~. !'he books I :1a.d tlhout c~~ ?53. and cocoa. , -principally, Zip- -perer ,':7hich had n. ow n;p-peared in an 3ng1!3h translation, n.nd 'Jhy:nper, and 3~li3h ~ork, ~oseph Tia~er, and ':ihich I oua-yected h.ad been fostered and 1)romoted by ~ngllsh ri~ man firm, all stressed ,ola.te ~d ~he or machine makers and rival3 of the ger- use of the ~croscopd in e~ining both ~hoc­ cocoa. a.s \7ell as the beans. So I. brought 11JY old scope to the o f!ie$ and :Jtartad to investizate. Harry ·.7alton, a middle aged man had been brought in as an office man in the ~anufacturing soon beoama good fr&ends. Ee "':l'as ca.pa'bla, 71ell office and we educated~ had had busi- ness experi3nce and was fai thf'ul a.nd loyal, o.ltho I ';7a:fconsider9.bly his junior. '.Ye ';'fOrked together for many years a.."ld I li:Ced hbl and to •• hna D.l}kxtent oonfided in as we grew to· other better. 1mow~ach ';fill ·was on one of hi3 a.."lnua.l trips to 3uro,e so I felt free to use thetLi~e necesnary forthisworx which I felt Father could not see the sense in it and time. However, Father's critici~ ~as thoug~t necessary but is waa a waste of was very different from ·Jill's and wa.s more in the line of making fun of it. or course, if he had obj eoted seriou~ly ~d I would ila.ve sto-pped a.t once. '.1hen Will ~\vas a'J/tcy" Father a good deal more attention to what was going on. so ·1a1ton and I s~ent an hour or two each day preparing and slic- ing coooa beans and shel13 and making mounts, e:xaming various cocoa ~owdera and other pre~arations, com~etitora as ~ell as our own learn- a lot about it. '?la.l ton took to the work likcan old hand and I thou::r ough.ly enjoyed it·. 3efore long we spotted posi ti v)l'evidence of 'the of shells being used as an adulterant in a oom~etitors liquor and a c~r.rpeti tor v~ry of whom nothing oft ha.t kind :Jeem.ed 'Possible. Yet there it fine indeed and hu~g in ~y office for a lor.g ti~e. Later theJ •• 754. J'.A.U. -pg.754. taken to lavallette where they are at ?resent • The soo,e ohow~d yery clearly thepifferenee in thefineness of the 3Uga:r' in thedifferent kinds of coating and after \/111 returned I sug- gested that u~ ings in this get out a booklet showing res~eot. th~uperiority As usual he sco£fad atthe idea ~ of our coat- t first but later thought it Yould be a. good thing and a. 11 ttle boo:klet was prepared "Yi th pictures of+..he :nioro- photoes which :;howed t·hla dif:t"erence and 3~nt:tto;the tr~de and given to the sa.le3Inen. Then '.iill sent me to one of our big oustomer3 in Springfield, Uasa. with my sco~~~d slides to 3how them. how fine our coating ";fas ground and especially the coating they were buying from us. • I ha.d 1Tor}red out a simple ::n~thod by which a alide could·be quickly made whilet'he ~lstomer looked on so 'tr-at bia own coating could be used and no~ some special coating we had Those Springfield people were mighty fine peo- ple and verJ courteous but I ~st confess did not se~ greatly impressed by th~emonstration. However, One· o:t" our be&t salsSI!len, George 6utler, thought it was a fine idea and wanted a scope so he could show them up~ F-pr some y~ars he oarried a. compact outfit with him and used it. 7f~ bad bought the old 3agle Hota),A:hat was next to our factory and in 1910 built one o~he :first reinforced concretfj factories .in the oi ty. on tha.t property. 'I'harew~-as nothing particularly distinct! ve abou~he old hotel which dated back a1mos~o ooloni~ ttmes but had long out lived its usefulness altho still run as a cheap hotel. •• ~ Sheet oorkwas laid in the concrete noors to insulate part ot them so that th~ could be kept cool, rather an innovation. ~d the entire aeoondnaor was cover~d with imported Ger:nan tile, More of 7eyga."'ldt' 3 influanee. It cost over '':2500 but W3.s;inepnly floor that ";l'ould stand ! 1 (\ PATFL.;R '.7RIT3S ~(r.! LO~G hard trucking ~~d J".A.U. }_)g.755. the e!feets of the oil in cnocolate. Xotthat our fl,:>or3 ·:re:r'3 dirty or factory ins~eotor, llACTI, CAL. smear~d \fi th chocolate~ To the contra....7, a state not looking for a hand out either, aaid one could eat his dinner from our floors and we were oftsn co~plimented on the . cleanlindss of the plant. It wasaort of an obsession with ::n.e, perha:9s aha result of my surgical days. nut when the product looks like mud and aot3 much like it it~ hard to keep bits from falling from trucks 3nd trays ~hen in no time qnd tona of it ars handled each day. e~en cer~ent W9nt to peices American tiles did not last very long. Pather had been to 1ong Beach, California, in the Spring or that and had ya~ Hotc'hkins. r~ceived an unsatidfaotory report ofthe business from To this he replied'' April. 2:3, 1910, The falling salas of coatings, cocoa and liquor3 reflects on ,U,,,.nv~ so~eone and should be rami~d • I shall free my mind when I get home again. is a beautiful day -.vi th delicious breezes from old ocean. you were hare to enjoy them. 99 in Los 1\ngelea in the away • • • • There ren a ~ox ~ill ~Je s~~ds oi~in • •• This How I wish ca:ne here to get away from hot weather yesterday and yet it is only 21 miles ba or has been s9nt for eaca of my three child- of delicious oranges, selected and packed in his own grove • • • 7e long to aee our dear ones again. llay God bless and keey you and yours and may it be ours to meet soon by Sam Richard'.3 cousin. in 'Peace. health and happiness. r:..y little 7fife joins me in love to all." Air planes • and Grov~r ~d begun to fly a bit, tho that was some Bergdol, son af a wealthy brewer had o~of ye~s later, the earlier ones which he kept in a hanger in a flat pasture at Eagle, five OD skx :nile3 from ho:r:1e. 1,1ying over :Bryn 1fa>Yr Co.llege vas a favor1 te stunt, es~eoially on Saturdaya ~ft~rnoons and often the boys would call ua \ • J".A.lJ. pg.756. and ~e would all yila him corns do"r.l. int~ 756. the car and hurry ovar to ~agle to sea Anxiously f7e watche<}the skie~aa w.;e drove along last we ::s:J.ould be too lata or to 'Cry to judge whether tha \7onderful bird-:la.., would fly away aD!neNhere,Alse and not return until it sui ted r...im ...'\.1ways the paper, next day ~o~id tell about his fli~~t, where he went a~d/ ho•·long he Tias in the air~ tho never were the Ogontz or aboutthat distance being aboutthe afternoon, I ~ould li~itx. t~ights very long One Saturday not have been there any other day except some holi- day, the air-man was taking people up for just short fl1~~ta, a~parent­ ly fo;ftb.e_tt'un or: it and certainly not for pay .as the family ;vere im• mans ely weal thy. I wanted to ask mim to take me but looked at our boys ~d my balo~ed ~ifa and forebore. As I rem~ber Bergdoll ne7er had an accident, certainly nothing serious. Grover Bergdoll. was a neavy. young man about 21. I'd guess,dark hair and a small moustache,as I r~~ber h±m. He seemed good natured anqkasygoing/talking freely tothe people in the small crowd that gathered in the cow pastu~e ~ax% he used as a flying feild. His biplane had no fusilage but a skeleton frame projecting to the rear su~rt­ ing the rudder and nothing in front ofthe wings. I think these wingg were about 25 ft. chair on the lower the -..v'ing ~rom tip to tip and the aviator sat on a little ~ing ~ith 001d not~'ling but his feet in a sort of open rest below ~ a.ir bet7teen them and the earth. Another chair was beside him for one passenger whose feet also hung ovetthe tront edge ofthe wing ~hile wing facing aft. I a small motor. possibly two, rested on the top The whole machine rested on metal skids and seemed to come to earth aliurious a~eed and bouncedharribly before it finally c~e ' to rest altno it did not ·;ronderful and -psr!'la.1JS t11e hav~ ~ery.long ::::to-~t runway. It was all very .,onderful t:!:lir.g n:rl of all wa.a to be <:J.ble to 3i t t1'1er-~ and loo1< down b~t-:~ean one' a knee a a.."ld see nothing \ • ·;r:::sr.LY ::,n~ ~u:: ::::rr:rcs. :.:..;r:. -pg.?57. 757. c;:;t:veen you :-.md tile ground. so f'a.r a:way. 1Jothir.g but your feet and every :-:linute you "."tant to :?Ull them u-p a.nd tuck them a:aay in ! neYcr >)Xperlenced :l t on tha -:ring. dl"'~ft early in the Great -co:rt tor du~J. ?.a ~Jar. ~.1t com"?~i ti ve surely one r:uat feel to h~vs li~e th.at ':hat i3 ~ he wa.a dr!l.i:tsd and failed to re- disa-p-pea::-ed a."'ld f'lad from. place to place :followed Govel"l"l'nlent agents her-s and t'hers until he finally got on ~1sr~ safety hi:!:t pardoned but '!;'fi t'hout ~ ~J nteamer and a.vail and· I gusns be's in G~ still. Gu.aoline 7las chea.9 enouf!h in those days,. ®out 7 to 8¢ a gallon z.-:1d no'/ t:lX but by buying in barr1Jl~ :'113. A a~lling conside:r~bla con~nune::3 business in m.a::d.ng and had syrung up and I -put ona in could saYe 2¢ or mora a. gal. ~t gruJolintt tanka to ~l Rosemont. Actual barrels were dali -.,llred and it ..VJJ.s no tmlall bother to ny-pb.on the stuff' into the tank. llor'!) than one tWa.llow of the naaty tstuf:!" I took dovra before I CQuld atop the :no·u and it ke-,t erupting for howrs aftar;ard to my g:-~at di:sgust. I had (!!!tptied two barrels on arternoon :lnd gons into tha hOU38 to l"'"lst Wh:en Anna. called that :3omething was wrong with Harry who waa stag- gering a.-OO".lt the back yard. I ran back to ths back porch ju3t in time to see b.1m. ztooping hole. O"Ttlr a bai'Tal inhaling the £:"Umes i'l:'cmt tha "buUs- Dashing out and g9.thering him into my n:r::ns ~d gava him a. good -?h:rtrap1)i~g a."'ld -put. !lim to bed. '.li'o:rtunately, :~o ·cad e:ffeots followed but • I do not recommend th&t trent=ent tor tuture cases. Tho;, a.uto o;rns ata.nding 1rJ the front door. -::te did not call them '~h\rs' ~:md no ·one 71!\5 about altho A:•m was playi~g in the yard. There -- ., ( in :r .A .n. pg. 7 58. - .. - . - . - ... 7 5.3. front of Porstall'a house. its front wheels in the ~~tt~r and- the radiator against a. tree. 1ro one was in sig.lJ.t tho oome of the wer~ calli~g. Hurrying out I found no d&~ag~ 'bro>y 3 was done exce9t to the but the :'land b:!."aks was off, a-p-plied iJy a lever out3ide left the car, and it wa.s s-oon back in the yard. I !-:new I had !JIXX that radiator rotd:::l: le7sr on and a3 d~e~ latch held it it could hardly have cone out by i teelf. I·t develo~ed, that Ann thought it would be· fun to !_)lay start- ing it and r~nning it, tho she had no idea o~ aotually doing so. 9 Pull- ing this lever and taat button sae had unlatched the brake and the drive 3loping toward the atr~et ~~ off ahe had ~ gone,across the road a.nd !)lunk into the tree. Later on a ama.J.l girl,. not much bigger than the auto tire ohe was rolling around and around the drive • bs oeen, ter~ibly ti~ed and hot but ~ayt could not to bag or whimper deta~ined if it killed her. After Anna. had ask~d how long I was going to 'ltesp Ann at it, a time ort"vo I relemted. I .don't think any oft-he children ever~ched a ·1~ver in the car after that without permission. One th~er ti~e ~other, ~Y mother~ took us all to Pep~erell !or ~ost of renting a bouse there. 7e drove about the conntry,·had pic- nics and attendad a. 6hapnan Reunion. Anna and I took vie'R's or the places connected withMotherrs early life and later made an album of them for her Christmas nresent. ~ ~~a:a:t·xatzba:'t' One Sunday evening I told about our lif3 In Sitka at the Church service, held in the called larg~ Sunday School room left. stairs which was the'~e~try'. In later years I made two sad the do~n ~unerals journe~3 to Pepperell to attend of Aunt Adelia and Aunt Kate settle up what little they Aunt Kate, the invalid, outlived all her ~ill L~~~ence ~ho li7~d In S~n Diego, Calif. !~ily e%oept Uncle • A .TA:.Ll\.ICA 1911 .. J"A.U. :pg. 759. 'HmT3Y"~OO~, 759 Jamaica had so fa~inated me on that ~ast !ndia trip that I long~d "' to ha7e dear Anna see i~ too. I not only longed 1but sch~ed and planned to take just lea7~ Tne herj~ere. ~lan se~ed quite impossible !or we d!d not our children with servants and hike here and there. Nor did ~e ~a7e money to suend ao freely. But somehow it ~as arranged.! leava ot absence got T"r;,- from the ousiness, tho Fat~,r grumbled a bit in his half' jokeing wa.y, that I seemed to lea7~ my 7ork :mor~aaaily tl'la."l anyone he ever- in knew and '.1111 said :x::dC: that half' 3U'Castic, half' j~keing way/of his, " W'e 'l:h try to struggle along while you are away". .:ct&. As a :matter of factp it was a big favor I was asking, a momth'a absence,with but the bu3iness Will did not. ~as ~~ a purely a family affair and no one objected if Dear Aunt Elizabeth Dean agreed to come and look after the children and,the house. We did not quite like to leave ther.t with our nother's helper, llrs. Par~hurst, competant as she wa3. Ths devo- tion of;these -women, andeepeoia.lly Aunt E. who r...a~e authorit:;r, can be realized when hardly had our ship passed the Delaware Capes before one O'fthe seven amall fry oa:n~own with t'he measles and :tJnt probably six more aasas before them. Altho they oould have cabled us ·when we landed b~at at~d 'had instruotions to do so and we could have taken the same back and 7ould hav~on;Go)the(sent some e~vasive message and we had our nonths fUn in sweet assurance tha.t all was well at home. I. think that cooes pretty near to being & heroic service of love. Had they given us any inkling of thef true conditions at Rosemont we would h3"7e returned by first boat and been greatly worried all the way. :nut we knew nothing about it until we returned as p1lanned and by t:1.at tine th~hildrSn w~r3 all well .. •• J .A.U. pg. 760. 760. 71e ha'Vl a. journal of our trip except the last few days, when we !3aem to been too "b..1sy to write 1 t I and I !lave one of±tho se uncom. ha7~ fortable I feeli~ga ~a ~e~ember howf I soon as . ,..,a got hol:!le, o.nd never 'have. resolv~d to finish it just as But those other· daya are olear in my met!lory and I '11 tell something about the:n in this story, but it wo~Ld be boresome to copy the entire journal ~hich ~as written by both a..'"ld me .. A day or hfo, here and there '.Yill be interegting .. !.~otber Peb.l6, 1911. Philacelphia. Dewey• United Yruit 00. sailing from S.S.Admir~l This is ~little was one of/be crack ships craft, about 2500 tons, I beli0ve but o~the com~any. years ago but now succeeded by boats taken one ofthe:n out the :fare 71as sailing from t~ice ita size. Ne~ ~a York some could have higher besidethe extra expense of getting to and from IT.Y. a.nf the trip waa a little shorter thia way a.ndwe felt Yfe would be free from the c·onventions of a. larger ship. ',Ve were. hk... "No matter now much trie3 to. be ready or how long in advance "\ of departure one tries to do the be inevitabl~~aep~~o thefinal rush seems to 'l~svthings', a few placid souls like my dear companion on thin j-ourney. She seemed to be ready \Yithout strain or trouble in ampl~ time even tho a slight illness the last day or two was an added burden e To me thete"11'a.a the last rush. It was dif!icu). t to antic11)a.te the factory demands for a month ahead and the oonst~~t r~adjustment or ideas when one must plan for very, very hot weather while surrounded by sno·, cise. and io~cles is an unuaua.l a.nd r!\.t:ter d ifficul t mental exer- Eut after three or four long evenings and a we are ready. All telephone calls at% t~e la3t Satur~ ~oment .~rove afternoon harmless ~~d not causes to st~y home and we are away, Tielena going ~ith us the pi~r. ':lith little fus or ceremony our little ship ba.c~<:3 td out into the ice strewn river, Helena, alnoet alone in th~ big do~vbf the ware--------------------~------~ \ • 761. looktng very small and lonely • .A cold grey en our enthu~iasm but in its fr~edom fro~ sea. niokness! long tables ~~ee river C.oes not +.~e doea not ontirely damp- d~:7 ~ov~ "'!~ry :::J.ttraatl v~ except 11 rotating c~air3 fi~ly fixed to the one ::ol):-1y dining hall,. !k dec:'r: down. There are. ony four ~i+.h tho~e floor almost fill 3. other all I!ien .:1.nd ':Ti th t!la 'k7. Ca·:>ta.in Chief :Bngineer and 1)R.:.>J3en~-==r~, Ci]iaf Of'f!eer ~l.nd nur::1~1 "T~:-3 z;a-:hered at the !1. ead nf' one o:r -t!ls tal>es the hig MURt ~oom se~a ne a.fp:"aea.ble hardly ~nd we :f'~sti ve.. As there u.rc;.~o f~ o'f us each one to get acquainted. Anna,. being tha only ~egin \'tom~ aboD.rd itl -pJ.ac~d at the Ca.ptain\.3 rig.'lt; theseu.t of honor. Capt. 0'1Tiel iu 11-9.rdly <.'Tha-t:. ~f"")U. could call a poli3hed gentlcoen, mor a ready conv~ra~t.ior.aliat ~ho n~ecable cnou~~. ~r~Carlso~ , the Mate seemed to ) be a much better type, but an aa.d loo1:1ng und oecmingly ao trodden on (. by 0 '!iie-1 tha.t '?:'~ al7ta..Y3 fcl t. sorry 'for hi:n. 'i'he -passengers were agree- able, a. young doctor ,of whon \1e learned and :.:r ;:zddi e, a not upleas- little~ ant t.~r;Hl ~aleamc.n of in::mra.nce, an ~lderlyt kindly man by the;Dta:1e of· :Pier~on. recall The Chief' hi~ ~gineer see;ns to ba.ve been just that for I cannot nor does the journal our state ro~~, ~orerhan 2ention a~. ths best on bo~a, opened from onqknd dinin~ hall ane·wag c~~f~rtnble th~ only fairly :reuch wonder when rre saw our steward. If h~ \'18.3 or the clean. bnd we did not not one of the coal- h~~vers h~ wa~ ~ertainly a deck hand and the look o! almost horrified be~ilde~6nt on his face when we asked ~ to~ tell the bath steward to have out bath ·ready at so a..""!c)$o. still makes :mcfchuckle. ~was the •• ''bat'h 3tc-:rard.,, if any,. and •H'hsn-x we to~k out first bath tnc tub had tnlrely b~on used as a ~o:: sto'l"'aga bi~i for 1)otatoes i ! not !or t' he galley th? probshl7 no ''ther pa..asenger bothered to do 3so. nut we were hap;>.:! :·To one bothered us t'ho :.\ll ·,.,ere ag1·eeable ;we had the run of the a teamer • o.nd e"Ten could go on the bridg~ at tbe~. 7:flera was ample dec~ spaos and steamer chair3; the sda ~a rest3d ~~s oa~; delieiou3l~~ ~other twel Te "f'1..trnr3 th~il"3t night tha food tai: but tasted cldan and u records in our ~tr:e wer~ boa:rd, doze and tnan do it ovar j~rnal on board. a..r~ain w;'3 that ~e sla~t walk, read, shu:f'.t'le and settle do-wn !or a real nap.n Ona da.y the Ca-ptain e all~d ns to 3ee the Hattaras lig..'lt ohi:9 and . the Gul:t" Stream. "'!:as ·that is ri.&'lt to sacs it for the d17iding line be;i; tween it and the r~st otthe ocean ":fa.3 claa:rly vis:t.bl;3. lrot only ".las t~'lere a distinclt diff'~ranee in the color but :coiature rising :C-om the w~er ~ater of~he ~tre~ waa condensed by the colder air from the aea which waa blowing across it and ( - far a-s we ooe~~ sa~ed· to be ~teaming g~ntly could 3ee. :Defore long tte had entered it o.nd the \tisps of ~ vapor ::o!!e alll about th~hi7 n.J.:no:sVt;o the lo,.~r deck. It enough to as aho~ quit3 well in a '<1U3 at.ea.w ~hoto. sunday. tba 19th. we.paased San Sal~dor9, the first land si~~tad by Columbus and caught a gllm13se of t'h~ monu:n:!nt there· tho it 1:! seldo!!l visited ":.'fe:re told. The ~-un set clear and eo big on the horizon. U5tte'had}! t'he ~ater Just as it lCC(~ ~ with its lower rim a large f'ull rigged· ship sail\1'9 ed between us and thesun so that the whole ship o:ppeared s:l/touetted on the sun, a most uno..triual and oe·autifnl sight. ;rother wrotetha Journal forfthc fifth day -ahit:h I quote a.s f'ollows: ~ The dawn in the tro~icn is 30 enticing that ~ert rose at 4.~0 to sm the noutnern Cross and :watch the sun rise. eli"?!S (41t 'by on I!aiti, the misgoverned the horizon and the ?.!ate and Bert deaide to annex the ia- land a:f't!lr heading an i~surrection aa commanders of/the Arm:y and '!Tav:r1 Tiort had just (~.~ck 3li~~ed on a bath robe and 3lippers when he first went on no ·:rc dres3 anti go on deok a.bout si:t to 3ea Gubn. -:vhich pr~v~s to I• we atood on ths Dridge ae7~rsl hour~ as we neared Jamaica ~t- 763. ' ting wi thfthe officers· who 3eemed to enjoy our· different outlook on 1 I Ybing~, but ~e ~ere nearly in the outer harbor beiore w~~ould see the shore which had been hidden by tropical sho-wer~. !\ I ~ :r .A.U. to ua a out~r poin·t brou~'1.t 7 tro~ic fo~iage, 'little light Ridge after ridge of hille in fairyland~ hou~e is set in a charming garden of palms with At roof~, n pictures~~; frihged with blue sea and edged surf. A fortified cape a little farther on, there ~hita ; distinct in the slanting rays ofthe afternoon sun. The qul;l out buildings with ·lf.na;cched with Point Folly~ t~ I wer~ ren playing on the lawns with nureemaids near, and beyond that child- w~s ~he #J 11ew hotel,the famed ":::ita 11 Titchfield2,on the hills above the inner harbor. The ~harf scenes ~ith groat piles of gre~n bananas, dark~y women selling f'rui t and food, Wa:5en·tirely foreign and. most picturesque. our driYe peoyle and ~otha home~nd hotel tr~ rag town was almost terrifting, the shops were so ramshac~le, altho clean. A3 we clim~ftOtha hill tothe hotel we had a nearer vi~w of the many attract- ive cottag~s on the 3till higher levels o~he hill aa well as those lower down near the water. We resol ve:d to comet had retiredt ~~here to live when we The hotel was ffine and the dinner delicious, served mn an outdoor dining room, overlooking the Bay. Our room on the third of t'he bay flooD wa~ well furnished and . had beautifull views from the windows, ~ and altho the hotel wa.¢onsidered to be very expensiv-e Bert said that the total cos·t including tips was 2L, 7 shillings six, about $11.50 in our money for lodging and two meals." I had a funny exp~rience there about the time table oi the Gove~ent Railway, the only one on the • island. about Getting a time th.r~e years 1- tabl~om befor~. the clerk I saw it was dated 190fi Taking it back to t.'1.e desk I sa.id, ur guess ·- ... r IC ~~ ·' :JK-J.A uo~l"'!;"n.ro~ u .:..1..::.-- '-'.0:1 , !£, 6' J .A.tT. 764. ''yo~ 'ha""Te given me n.n old ti:ne card. This one is 1908.•• "Uo, that is the last one," :laid the serious faced '3nglishnlan at1:f.the desk. ".I3ut thia is th!"ee y~a.rs old" I persisted. ~~~.uite,The ti:ne i3 not changed very of'ten .. a And ao it was. !!other continues: "Oh, it was 'Wonder full that first nearness in the cocoanut palma, as the ing glilnps~s trai~ ~ound round the bay giving us ever change- o!the Carri"bea.n thru the trees. c.ue~r native Tillages, many neg:roe in clea..'1 ga.y ra.g3: 3a.st Indians; don:key carts on t;vo wheels passing and repassing. At Annato Bay we took a carriage to Dr. Prinz- las -plantation, a dri Te of wonder thr..1 strange scenes where I beca.Ule acquaint"d 711 th the banana, acke., a red fruit on beautiful shiny greenle~Yed tree: Mango~ pimento, logwood, brunboo and many others. After . fording a rivar,(the same one that nearly gave Rulon and ma a bath tha <~ year before) we came tot"he Pringle cocoa and the wond~rtul pods of many co1or3, so long anticipated. They were beautiful bu·t too hidden by bananas to assert their beauty. As we ascended the hill and reach- ed the charming out-door home of the owner, called Capr Claar~ many lovely vistas of i'Tell kept plantation with tha bay and C3r:d:."bean beyond were spread berore us. Everything was perfect~ the houae high on the hill to eaten all the breezes, tennis courts, golClinks,paths, tea houses, shrubbery, stables. kitchens etc. all detached. and house seems porches, ba.lcon~. The entire Bert had been exchangeing som.e letters with Dr .Pringle a about cocoa and the Doctor ha.d invited him to· break- · fast ~han he visited the Island. That~ lett~r wa.s oUr open ses~e tor tho the noctor ~as in Kingston on the other side offtne Island,Qbeing auhigh-man" and member of council, his son Charles who ha.d just ret:cttcL returned from the states b11t co~tinued reo~ived ua, just a bit form~Ty, Eart tho~ght I tne in7i ta.ti~n to f i "breakfast" about noon,x1d introduced u.s. 765. ( • . to hi'S 3i3ter, l!innie a."ld to ~ in India, C~!;;>t.a.nd 1!1'3. Teal, late o! tiis :.!ajestyea greeted us cordially • ~ho a Er~akfast ~as ~onder. \ Piles of plates ~~d 3ilver on the sftie- bna:rd and tt1-ble both of Maho~y and very :ma:J3i vo. T:'lere were, Sal:!ton ~ith onion eauce,agg3 lar local dish on sh3lls, 3alt cod and acka,a po1u- later found out, fricassee ~e br9ad, oat eake* acr~bled ~neeee, chicken~ toast, rolls, blackberry jelly, quava, fresh butter,tea, eoftett,bi!er, 7hia'key and soda, gra-pe :fruit eta. et(S. 7/e "A'ere given a fresh "late each ];i::ne we 'Yere 3etrred to some oft these things a.nd ·two or three colored ;nen, o'ne as black as jat, Z'.iXlX -aho passed yams, .:i)ota- toes, ' ~ice,~~kin and try some ( • even then! oi and other this. ve~tables. It was "Have another nla.te ~~ I 'l1ad tiv!J J)la.tes and tr-;1 everything "" - t~Jven ±:t After sitting outside in the shade a while and talking ~c droY9 th..""'tl the -plantation and ~aw some o~ the stages o£ curing the cocoa and'f!lo on to a small town, Port l!a.ria• llhar3 our dri var terrified us by d~dwing up to the only hotel,rar from pre~osessing fro~ the atreet with a shabby bar room down stairs. It was the Manning ) TI'ouae. The 'ba:rmaid t;:3l:1e to e3eort us and '.:'le ·.vent in e. aide alley where a door :was marked in chalk "~~· "her, i:s tha Barber • up a winding enclo3ed stair to a dirty, gaudy room where an untidy tmlatto in a. rad oalieo :!other hubbard wa.s introduced as the "Pro• l)rietresst• and the :maid ri'a.s a pri::et T:1!) ~a.s directed to give us "'Jumba. Se"Vlr.1". It :si!l:.;l~ ,~-~de beds, fa:r from clean,. one m.a.ttl-ess. broxen in the middle com1')letely in ,. ( ' no, no springs. no chairs, no anything bttt a. wash bowl and pi tche.r on a. '·• dre:~sing table vri tb. a. dirty lace curtain for a :;scarf. There see:aed to be no bugs and as it was toward dark and no other hotel tor 13 milaa we were obliged to stay. 76o J .A.U. -· I was ::.:-eally afraid for Uother• s sa.f'ety ~ ;ye 3a.t on tha baloo·1-; and watched the ctro'iYd pa.ss by Eln the str'eet below. They wer-3 necly all \ 7~6 t::o :1nd we had d~~~Y3 l3a..~ed that the nat17a constabul3.l"y were . most effboient~ they ~ere all colored ~en t~~out 7ery tr~ and busi- nasaliks ~~d t~era ~as ~carceiy any crime in ~~aica, still I did not to oome -;:r'i th us in that bad li1~a darlci-ess halmeted wbite loo~ing place. So s:9ying a. ooming, uhom I thought must oe a batter class my ·a i f .3 ~n lishman., I hurried do...-ro. a.nd asked b.i1n if it "Nas safs tor a ~ng­ 1-tid-~~­ f#'tL. a.n4 to stay there. He look-ed eonsidera.hly aatonisb.ed,and when I aa'H but ~ under his hel:met I ':·n:\s anything ~assured for he looked well infil tra.ted with alcohol ~~d none too trustworthy at all. .. ".1 HoweYer, he said yes and hur:ri ed on. A3 dar~ liahm'3n, and ca."'le 0:1 other a..."l educated g:le~ts ca.::n.e in, ni:e u.p;~eari:1g young Eng- colored man of some local importance and I felt at least safe. liother continues:" 1-row the propriet~r ap:yea.ra., a gr~a.t "b~lky oulatto with green eyes ( and as eveil a face aB I e7er saw)B.K.7.) 71th lin'!n suit, straw ha.t,. I:l.Oat i.m:uressi ve. '!:!..ay I never see the liko our llo5t, ?a.p-py .Tones again! After a. long wa.i t, dinner was ~of se~ved, !:3X a !:lisera'ble meal and we went early to bed 1 but not befora Bert !md a. talk with one of the young men who assured him it was all. . right, bu:c; TI.i"ou.,d out ffhere ·t11.e other ::na.."l! :-com "':'ta.s. not been ~da but after so~e effort they ~ere our 1>eds had ready, a sheet on e~=h a.nd a. piece of counterya.ne. (It was a miserable night,continual rack- et in ~·· , thes~oon Delo7 and heard a big fight ~ 3J1d ~other whoM I guess did not sleep at all . . concluded from what she heard that they were thoug.'lt ..,..,3.!lted to take ua on the nan day, but Pa:ppj Jones had ~ ,..,\•. ",\ .A • I ~, ... ,... n"··-:-.. ,...ror...,~ ··.). - ....... , ~""--' 9 1 11v11 • 7G7 •. ··ud 0 t:-;er -pl~no und mo.do l:mre that the poor fallo1;; v:ould hE not be • +" o... nin("f J.:tl .. :1e :fl;...... l~. ;;.1.·:}ou ~,. .1. ···"' ....1. • h. e 'c ""h ~,.. ou(:,;!... co t u. goo d b co.ti n:; or a b u. d ono, up\)oX·.311tl~r no con~ta.blo intcrf'orrcd. 7e did not oce thu.t dri vcr a..-ni c! :l~::.in i-;;;.t wc;c iiid see our waitl·o~o v;;;::. ohinr: diEhcs tu tho traoh that :;.!'lc cluttc:r·ed the bao'!·= yard. She had soco fire under a big .iron pot u..Vld :r"Gst~r tin cuns to rinnc in, if ohc;e_id rinse tha-:::1 bc"l;ore putting tha-:1 o;·: tho v~ound while cc.tn t\nd. niSG :>:nd chlc1:cns wu.ndorctl uc:.::.r. Gurbu.go Dear'? Pc.~DY Joncn wn.nted three prices to take u:J t::> st .;\..~nt: ;>1.y, 27 nile::; but. I ottccccdcd in mc.king him~spli t ti::.a diffel·encc und ·.:; :· v.grced on 2L, 10. Then thEio ld rascal huatlcd off, or r.1ore propcrl~~, • strolled a>Tay and after a time cm::1o baok with a -pair of old ".>ocn-,r•,U"d::. ·-rh3n I C·"ll-:-plained about them o.nd said ! \1ould look ao~n~whore olno ;':J..p"?"f lo~kcd hurt and au.id blandly ''Jhy thot?o arc n:>t the ones for yc~." ;\ft~r a lon~ wo.i tu. a.nd ,juat us 1\nno. o.nd I be;:~ to wonder if' t~is \t~o just a cch~c to kee-p uo there indefini toly, u. rou..lly good e~an of ~~o wero brought around ~ith a groat flourioh from ~nppy•o t1.!!:1hlc c'o\•-n o·:m ... ~to.ble and the scra.r;cr ones diso:ppea.red. ·;fi th t'hc.nkful heart:. c.'1d !.ll'.y eibhn of relief we turned the corner oft he bluff ·o.nd su.·,., :'ort ! >J.·i~\ no t:1ora. '' '!'he dri vo to St .Anns was along the sea much o! the "'{";.;.Y i.Ul~ C"':T c~1rvod n.rounir rocky headlands end paat aca£worn co.vcs l'li th u.lwa.:rs r>~o.utifnl vioo:;·ra thru tho ba.""lo.na. and cocoanut palma. Tho tl:c pco?lc trere 11 vinG in wattled huto under 'banana or coa.oo.nut t1·ecc t'::.ey necr:!e··: • ha'J)ey c.nd o.lwayn courtcouo. So we bought some star O.ll'Dlcs a co~tc1rd u n'::'llc and wator cocoanutn ·from a \7o~an wi t'h a large a:Joortm.;nt o · 1".C'r 1 cn.d ""~~·:~ a ~.nall soni1 l,y her cir:e. ':""he 'boy chi ';JTJCd the nut3 I for "-~"" ~'J t~'.at ':ic could drink t,1.c coo·J juice '<7i thin, alir,htly ~-..-:co:. "-J•.tt .I ! ',, i • J .A.rr • tr.~ 768 • The Ocho nios and many other little streams found their way into Blue sea from the mountains to the south, often forcing beautiful lit- t£e lagoon3 near the road,3urrounded with lun4riant tro~ical foliage • .\ t :1o:J.ring Tii ver ,whose ·turbulent water was almost milk white from the 1ir:1c dissolved iri it, we turned into a long ohady lane b.cneathe the ly to a wonderful ~Xi~e beautiful water- overhanging trees and oa~e fall, the '7ihi te tur."!.bling here n.nd there &mong projecting black w~ter roc1:s. A little rustic hut otood n~ar t·he :fall::; \7herc the best vic'I'T could bez seen and here 11e -ple.nned to take lunch. As I -put aome packon the ground my hand struck one of t·he tallish ferns that nearly there uas covered t'tc ground and as I withdrew it. a brovm lUI:lp on the back of e..~e • it. Surprizcd, that little mound, a half inch in diameter beGan to dieintc~Tate before my a3tonished eyes and little oddly shaDed creat- ures began to travel from it in all directions. I hold it toward our driver, a pleasant youth, who laughed and picking some other plant he wi-ped the creatures fron tl~ my hand. "Ticks" he aaid o.nd ticks th~y certn.inly and nany a. tickle we had. before ue got rid ofthem. ?We kept strictly to the path, after that and avoided the lovely ferns as little dea~~ns. Somehow they had lost their charm !or us and we ~ no " longer wiohed to gather a big boquet. ... Lunch close tot·· he ra~ls delightful) even tho we only had native bread, very white and much like beaten biscuits, sweet cake, custaEd ,, and star apples and some cookies that Helena had given us and that we still treasured. It was an unusual and delightful exverience, ly as we were quite alone. About four we reached a a -pension at st. ~erfect es~ecial­ jewel of Anne nay, a olean attractive town, and we lost no those tic'!rs. of ':Iith a solution of i·~othing bichlor~de else being available vre s-p01ged of mercury, r::;r favorite antiaectic I 769. J .A.tr • ~"; 'J that tioe, and ua soaJ:ed our underclotha in 1 t too. There plenty of r t.no ;r lit tlc hcuots am hoth thc~1 and us, altho none hud • dug in' yet. cournc we followed with a bath of clear water. The treutment.waa effective if a trifle dangerous. It was indeed most delightful contract to the horrors of .Tono::~ ru~otion t"a: of 1:ades and I find o. letter I wrote t.o c:-1t to •;·e;.f.uTI Junes'for :.:iss :!art. 1911: !'0::1 t!-~o ';To,~ rap~) that eve- ~·111 a cultivated lady.) I<'eb. 22, / vine covered balcony of this delicntful Inn I a.~ vri t- ins and wondering, a.s I write, why anyone who vm.nts to rest a... d enjoy life shou10 30 anyvrhere on earth but to cha.r:.1ing place on Bt.n.nn'D 7J~:r. I l~J' J'lf;t n:Jw, 3ix oclock, the sun ~ a.s you A i ·t does !)Co.ce and hn.s oet and the twilight fo.lla swift- in the trCipico. r'ea.uty. PlO.."!la not mas zed and ho!ny and Defore me ic a scone of wonderov~· near a.nd beyond a.nd out town.rd the soo., not o;~prcn::d ve but light and acparate and airy and charuing. Akeean, mnngoea, breadfruit arc all about with hedges crmtons and flares or ~Joincllttias ot uhile ma.anes or bougainvilla. festoo:t t'hc pillur::1. >retty well-1-:cpt villa.::s neatlo among them the scarlet flowered hibincua in every ~~ace. yu~d and thgbofteat air careseing one to 7r,.1ly, u :mun :cust breath praise to hia U.s.ker for a scene like thia and. mo::st devoutly I do.It really ·hurt3 me to think that you would go o.n~mhcre e::tquisetl·~. · b->J.t here: It :cakes me ache! ••••••• 'l'hi o is the rto st clean 11 ttl a rnn you ca.n imagine. It in absolutely like wax and yet with an air of comfort and simplicity that is delightfUl •• • • • •. 'J'omorrov \'l'e reach 1.ronter,o Bay, after the longest drive on our trip, 55 ~ile3 but ~e look rorm7ard to it with keen pleasure. /~na is c;~1itc a;; hn-pcy a.nd I think a little norcc::1t1'm3i~:~tic thc.n I :J..'TI. '.7c o.re rco.dy to ta1;:c charu;CJ of t. hat coc ) plal1tation at a..~y time! ( ·:a11 h:J.d -~~~~.Ql4J!AQ$U.$LQJ£gi4$.! 1 .JJ._ iJ.J!(, t&UiJQt ttC.'M'!%&4$C$¢ , ¥1£ I i.Q It 2 &.AJ CQL MQP\!k%!10\IMM_ J; 4%. 2#( 14¢3.'9# 4A ; ..q;zp.;;uqzw ..~,._..-"* ~-"'-"'~- . ' ·-~. ...... ,, ...... ,.ICA HO'f;;-... ;;. ''"'' ·: ._1 • '\... ~ • ~,.,.rot"\~~ 12 • 770. J .A.U • h'.'!en thinking of starting a -plantation in the tropics somewhere,cacao 0 r ly course.) 7c hs.d u dcliciouo dinner o.nd ooon were ro3tine, nay, o.:>und- in cool clean beds , such a blessed . ~leeping :-oro of the -previous nig~1t, relie~ after the hor- It should seem fanrly evident t hut wo liked :-:t.Ann'D Tay, And ao tl'e did 1;ut with 55 niles to r,o before the next night 11we rrcre a~tir er.'.rly the following :nornin3. ('7c t:crc not e:1:.o.ctly rushing but with the help of mup3 and ~~ides I had planned th9~tire month do.y by day, -:re ha.q,for our ve.co.tion, before we left RosEt:lont. and a.a we both \Vt>.ntod· to sec as :r.r.J.ch ns poaoi ble in the time \70 had vre followed that ached- ula pratty olo3oly, and enjoyed it, never feelinG pushed or tied to it too closely. I t navoCl. a. lot of lol;:t motion.) to ~rise six a.~. 11 :nut 1 t in never hard at dawn in this land. Dawn is not very early anTNay, ~bout and the air is the sweetest, the licht the softeat, and tho cz.rth more nca.utiful than at o.ny other ti!."lo oft 'he .day. ,, ~.,he livery ... asked a. fair price for tha tri-p so there \1a.ex no haggling. 1Iistah '' ~:in- clair, nar,' was our driver and while he aaid'yes'to everything, in true Ja.."!le.ico.n da.rkey otyle he wo.s cheerful if not hilarious." 1\.fter buying a. o~ll ••cutlass" really a big one blade jack .t~ knmf~,o.t a. ccnored. woman3 a tore for 9d. uc were away at 7 .45. Hot far from St 1\nn 1s we ftce a rich ~anscd Sevilla de Oro, little noret;ban a heap of stoues, Spanish town but ravaged und burned by ~iratee many years 0.00. :To passed many ftpanish ruins that day"a.l''ld tho they v1ere buil.t a century and a half ago and more and have of ~imea d ~robably they atill stan, at least the first story does, apparently :r:-:ch::-.nr.oc b;r ti:ne or thq.6le.:.~umtn. A l1CCuliar i::;.:tCc:J ,:.nd O.).id to cont:.::.i~ nola.;:£s.cs is believcC. ~-rnnclcrful been burnt a number . prc:Jcrv;..-:.tion. C:crtc.i:n 'Y little h~s c~ent used by the Span- to a.ccount for their been done in this islu.nd .7~-<.:. I 't' i ...... o 0 n , Ct~. I ... ..-.o. .._ •. f _,., , J .A.U. ~ - U J /)) t'vY:.b,rt,d,v nl~fi~ld in the interior, the bookn describing it as a gar- den spot of y;ondcrful beauty. ·:rc found it to be e. run-down health resort nnd ao we did not like the first hotel at which we stopped we picked s.r:.cther with a: very attract! ve outlook only to find tha.t a con- surnpti v9{1i th a. terri blo cough had the rool!'l just below us and the pa.rtitionc ,,;ere thin. :.-::ut we could not len:ve without a. long drive for no trQ.ins were run on :1urH.1o.y end ne had arri vcd Saturday night. But 4.30 am on :~ondu.y saw us on our wa:y to catch the firat trc:.in to leave even ris1dng all sortn ef terrors on the 11 mile drive in the blacke~t night and an even blacker driver! But we had one unusual experience there, seeing a mixed white • .. and nolorcd cong=eGo.tion in a Church of 3ngland service. 1ully hal! of tho~e present were Jamo.icuns, so~e in quite fine cloths u.nd ·all in white as clean as snow, even when ragged. part wa:J to see a colored church w;;:.r~en But the most remarkable taking up the collection on one side while a white man took tho other and then theyboth marched to the~ont, side byside. The truth was that tho colored nan had rathert·he be~t of it for. a Tiner looking colored man I never saw, ~ tho ltajor 1~oul ton of Tuskegee was a close second. P..ooker T .7lashington was not in the race. 'J'he choir boys were all colored people a.Yld the sexton or usher or whatever wore a. ·caeoock belter with a girdle and the gown ~as fr~ not blacker than the face of the wearer. As the train ~ started from 'Jilli~~sficld and had gone a hun- dred va.rd¢r so it bum-pted to a sudden atop. lbiking back for the cause way down the tracks was an old belated da.rkey with a carpet bag in ~ his hand hobbling along the tracks to catch the train! ingl:'l tl:<;knr:inecr backod up and got him aboard and ".'JO.Y rejoicing. \7C very obligbumptad on our ·::hat's a few · i.nutes,more or lesa with a. schedule I -~ TC .l~ ·~ 'tfQ"'.,.,.:'V·.!"""'·'I' J ..\":·.~ -...;...:....~\,.., .. i.~--•·',J'.,..Jt( ,..'!17 ' 774. J .A."U • thrao yearn old! Another interior town, !.:one::.guc and tho drive there wu.o very churr:l ing, enpcoio.lly around :.:T. Diabu.lc and the cominc \ do~:n into plcin of The hotol.w:::..s very cr.nnf"ortable, room having a pri- st.T'ncr.l.:l.~-Y~-Vu1c. vate bc.loony overlooking the gc..U"dens vhich vera quite extenai vo,\11'1 th many birds slw.pod and Qf tho sizo of our bluakbirds but of the moot vivid -.~"1d .g1ocsy blue, (iUito li;;ht in crJlo:t• v.nd c1ultc turcc tho they ~.'iOr0 \lild oirdo,. Gcn-tim.w. lly thelluttcrcd metallic-~: ball like note so I like '1~nllg,!-:ling' t'hat our genial hoot ccllcd thea by ~ thu.~ v~ nc:nc. AS we tl.l-.:rays lika to be on our o\1ll we hired c. horae and pl:u:l.eton to drive • ~o ~ the r~od Fern Gully not fur c~~. ravine or canyon or gorge or poonibly glen in the J£',.,'::la.ica it wu.o ''1ully'.. t.(;Q poneys but neither It would have been u.s. but in EnGlish I thought I could clrive until- I triad Jonu.oio. gidd~po nor ra.ttlinr; and slo.ppin~ lines or even a wall ap-plied whip could rcl:o thooo li ttlc be:8.3to nove fu.etcr than a Ytalk. so. after many vain o.ttcrnpta wo retm:·ned tothe liverJ man and got a. drivor. At once off thay nant o.t o. good trot. The secret scet1cd to be to C:)n'tinually jerk the reins and cluclc to;£-thcn but I think they knw I wuo a touriot. Eundredo of r;ron.t tree ferns lined the narrow road evrgc, a· docp olcft thru the mountains. uith nany,nany t1~~ tho others ben oath hair .. ':•'hen ue th~ while li ttl a l"ocl.-y caverns pa~sed th~ both rc:ncr:1bcrod Gratiot tl:.cre vraa Bc~ch cl.".'l.:,.y:;, ~ ~ere dra?ed vti th maiden- squeezing of ho.nds as we and the woo do nearby. 'Father a.nd himvifo vmro taking a trip on the"Avon" and were due • in Kingoton o.t,.that time and we planned baen arranged befora • r <.:~u~ \tO left horne. to meet them and 1t o.l.l had Instea.d o1: goinz to the fashion- ' .1...... e 1 vtl.° ~· C •.,,y.;.. -·...,..tl c:~.:n.'>rl· . k 1.-:o '.I... rll~..o.scoreo J or t ourista I ho.d chosen ::;,Jt."::.1l1·· .1':> on a }:..:;;~·t by a. colored r..J;,;.r~ !..!.r}d :t; cci vine colored o.s well a3 ..-rhi te • 775 • J.A.U. . It was on the outer edge of the city, not far from the military camp and i7as called South Ca.r:1p {{cad Hotel on that account. Cot1f'orte.ble and clean t1i th good food ·:rell nerved, the colored gueetn of whom there were some, w·ere quiet o.nd well }Jehaved and -preferable to many of the touriata from the 11 3tates". tvro thirdn oft he 0~, co:r:w·:;;,tho or><:~.cc touri~tz, we are thyb:xception1 About ayihqknd of our room i'UJ..n covered with alata in- stead of glaar> and tho nighto were alwt:.:rs cool. At aunrise, six o'clock, some bird 1ri th a beautiful]: generally ·\~e bell .. like note would aound his call tl.l'ld / rose in cmswer to it for t·hoearly mornings were ao lo·,.rcly. y;c had a day before tho Avon nhould arrive. I bad re.dio~d Ji'ather that we would meet thac and had engaeod an auto to take us to the other side of t"'he Island,:tttk seeing. ::io Anna and I w-ere so hard to make • to St .Ann's in fact as thoy;l hnd a day for night- &.'"1 t:.."[Ja."!! early with a hu-ge black Jehu who tried impression on the guests of/the hotel by his te&r.: and speed a.nd skillful driving that he struck the gata l)Ost and m:ta.ahcd his oingl etre~ and harness. We counted ourselves lucky tr. get 'away an hour later, forfthis is Jru::1aioa, and soon began to aaccnd tlle lllountain toward :!rmroastle, where the Eri tish troops are taken in the sU!iii!ler to escape)t~e heat of the plains. For sorda I!lileo on the rondoide th~ bush~a road \'Ta:l but as ~e .very dusty,n"'t:k the dust lying heavy began to get higher the dust wus left behind and ttmoat cho.:rming ridees and valleys of fertile tropical feilds appeared. :Back o.nfd forth the road wound,ever higher with new views . ~ • of tho plain, out yond Zingston,~ort Roy~. ~prcad~at o~r gradas of the · feot. Tao air ~plendid ~oad tho great harbor and the ocean be- bec~e fresher and cooler and the were so gradual that our horses troted s.l o~g casi 1y noa.rly a.ll ·the way. Alonp: one spur -rre ca.'l'l oce fi '7c turm:; or stretchco o£ the road abova ns nd 1Te-~·ca3tle a-ppears, only a mile I '176. a.":lay tho ·.1c 1::runt travel fi·;e mil eo to ren.ch it. ·,·:e loo.:va the te::1.1'J on o. tidy lcrotel spot of thin barrc.clco city,for there ir; nothincr else here no','1 an the 2oldiers do no co::1c t:.ntil r.1er 1 :lnd t:::.kins- our lunch we climb 5oo ft. th~ "a11 Hind fer thn.t thor.~ -pinen ~ountain hig~or sttr:l- a."'llue :.:ounts.ins on oi ther side tho r.w.ny colored ..rn.ltoyo, the ll.o.zy 'Purple heo.dlr.nc.:J, the bluo,limitle:1r> cceo.n ~e ~1nrolled o.t of feot lil~e aor.J.o lovcl:r picture of a (!ream • After a atroll in the queer J)laco wo ha-ve te::.\ nnC. bu~cuitn (creek• ers) at the art1:r co.nteen and. take the road hone, vlsi"ting u. now unused coffee -plo.nt;l.tion Tiho::Hl large oe-..::e11t drying plo.t:f'orn, cuo, is evfldcnce oifa onnce flourishine; industry. mountain do~m ~hioh we ,e. o~e often too fast for c~lled a ba.rba- At tr.o bo.se of the o~mfort for the road ofton s1drta preoi 'Peo and tho turno are ohc.rp and our horses sean ...... inclined to ~tumble, we visit the Hope :Sotanicu.l. Gardens. very lovely·, oven in thia the vry seaoon one o:r i t:J curioun aced -pods ~.s an~ arc a oa.nd-bo:t tree 3na:pa we st:z:..ncl bcnoath it cn.soo co·me rnttlint; down anong the great Tr~cy br~~ohoa a~ and the dry Md full o.bottt us. Groat century plm1·to oend their !lower cto.lks t·an foot in tbo .:l;i;, to1?ped b:'r brilliant :vcllo-:r blo:Jooms that :make us think of giant goldonron. Orchido, ~nnilla, bouRanvillia, the boio Inr.~tollc a tree • 777. J .A.U • been able to get very nen.r the treeo at the PrinGle ?lantation. A young \ colored r:1an cut a. pod o-pen and Anna. sa·.1 theS«anty Ylhlfepulp and the aeeds, cocoa bco.ns, pao1:::ed so neatly within and to see also tho varicolored podJ o.nd hl:c! tiny inaignificent blossoms on the:oe remarkable trees. To us it was a real ~'-''atJfer e.nd hio wife the,rlext~d after some persuasion a. Co:;lO blaokp ucdly headed, unifor!!l.ed a.z . tre~t. :policet'~n very a.llo·.1ed uo on the ·,vhar!' just r.w familiar 11 .Avon '' came :k::d: to 'the C.oc}:. It was well tho.t I had en- gaged a.n O.'-!to for the ahip was cro7rdod ;md every car in t.he oi ty had been engaged ahead. Our trip across the island to st.Ann' s v1a.s not what we had hoped it would be. The car, an English'Stox' weu net very comfortable, • Fathe~ and his wife had travelled so much they fo~d lit- tlo of interest, e::rpoci::.lly t:ro. ·:~. cmd worot of all, the Osborn House, where we o:cpeoted oo much. ".7as crowded a.nd. the meals were very -poor. Anna and I did manage to sli:p away Trhile tho others were resting after their 3ixty five :mile drive, to a. wonder:ful,aecludcd little'ba.thing boaah where all alone w~ had a. delightful bath in a. little CO"IO with p&lms and ferno llning the bluffs all about. Returning, on a narrow _h.-,~ road, a oonoiderabla he<}rd o; cattle blocked the way and were so fxk " . frightened by the o.u.to, even tho we had sto-pped, that it was ni 'P and tuck for a while ~hether we would be· pushed oven the oteep ban1: into the aca or whether the creatures would hc~ders rm.naj!ed • glad when ~e lea~ into the car. Finally the to got, them by with no de.m.a.ge done. ·:;e were really reached the stezmer and said goodbye. Father have enjoyed it in a·:!fully good to ~in ~ict ~ms ;.J. se~ed to way but I'm sure the state room looked Anna ru1d I took the ferry to ".flert Rile" as the r ~ p:J.!.icc:J.an c.:.-~lled it and the :~.van passed qui to cl~n~ to our boat on her wo.y out • • ............. T It Jt • \'l'!lr.t ~ TT Sa..."l Diego • (Aug. 5,1938) 778. the middle of the afternoon or later whan ';'te got back from Arm'~ but or tine vw.s ero~ing Ghort and ao -;re ,·;ent to :Port Royal .t l•eforc we returned t?'the hotel. Tho old fussy but eff<~cient ~oliceman ~urectcd U:5 to the "Ardnanoe ".'larf!t which w·e understood was the ehtd:k;::t;ox 1-:'rdinancc 7hurf and the trip acro~s th:l bc.y to that far:ous point just :.tt the r:1outh of tr..e entrance, a. nile or t·ao ~as delightful/ But there ~aa little left in t~at fortified ~lace to re~ind one of those wild • • J.t roo.r1nt: d~yn wnen tho Buccaneers and pirates ~atered here until it was " the wildest and richest cit:v of the Spanish :fa.in. !1ost of the old city in fo.c( h~.e ~unk beneath t11.o see. for a ~a.dual subsidence has been • eo- inc on for yoara and one c an see the old buildingG and soma nc~r ones · partly ::!..'1d fully subnerr;ed on t:he ;r,r~dually ahel vin~ l)Oint • '"fc ha.d been to one narkot ond -aero anxious to vioi t the lu.rger one) t:·.c Victoria ::ar~ret. ~:other went t9a nn.tiv~ store. 80;~ of the -poo-plc in .Tn::raicn. al·e colorc.i~~ o.nd doubtlcs3 we we!·c f'orturw.tc i.n tu"tt for I I nm muc'l1 inclined to beliCV(;! it. vro\.:ld 11ot. -;_,e ''fit t.o ?l'i:tt! ., I \ ~·"'A!CA " .. "'':fT1\n'OQ"'T ~,,.,,., J.!\-.·i~ .~\u'..i.'l;t_J;..• • .. 1.= J.""'*• 779. J .A..U • We were havinc a great time and thoroughly·cnjoying ourselves when I happened to look at the docks, just acroan the street from the market. To rty horror I oawa. bie white steax:1cr that a.lmoot pushed hor bow over cn:r:E our heads and on her aide We cl-early res.d those f"utal words "!Jc.nta ~atal On to our Which \>'TC ~~~ h~ppy ~arta.." and care free uanderings forthat was the boat hacl bookod our return paSSil[;C and there \'tao no \7UY to escapa the return to onr f.1utitH3 9 evan if., on sobor thought,we would ho.vo tried ','!c l~ad norexpected the boat so soon ~~1iaeeo were inc them. h.~~rd to eet with touri ots \Ya.""lt- !-!urried packinc, hurried lunch, una{u.nxioua ..-13-i t for the I cos.c'h:man u.nd we were on board, our big 1n:!.aketr;h f fruit und vet:totables for we had t~o of them we were taking totthe children, oafcly stored in tha shipa cold roor1 and. '.Te were leaving our beloved Ja:.:1.t.1.ica '.'11th keen recrct. Tiltere WHs quite a. a torr.~ on the \Vo.y north and our ota.te- room which wu.o the firet one forowe.rd and had windows fo.cinc the bow lca."-on \n:q end co.. I :r.A..T''. 780. ·.vill was in southern Italy for most of the winter of 1912 and Father and I were running things. He was very active and quite enj::>Y'c{ it. There had been some talk of bui~ding ann acdition en Xew street as we owned a number of lots there and had bought,then or later,all the property to Third st. and from our old factory to New. There were visions of a fine factory and office building on teat entire quarter block to rise sene day in thefuture. We had made careful studies of any saving that might be made with a country factory and had aecided that all things considered, the advantage was in ~~ staying in the city. It had proved to be unsatisfactory to have the factory divided and we were_ anxious to mocx~ ~~xx±X~ ~ combine them under one roof. So a fine concrete bulding was erected joining our other plant and all our manu- ' facturing was combined under one roof. The planning of the layout for that plant11ell to me tho ] l did not have to do the detailed work that was necessary in the other planning· .job. I had seen how big cakes of soap were drawn thru a drying oven on_ separate t~cks at the Ivory Soap plant in Cincinnati years before·and using the same idea I worked out a plan by which about two hundred pounds of coating per truchmight be drawn thru a. cooling tunnel continuously. t:any trucks could be put into the cooling tunnel at one time and dragged thru by a chain thus saving much time and a lot of hand labor. Lennig worked outthe detail and erected it and it was a complete success. Of course I was very busy for I changes in everypo::rx::rx ~ approved or ordered necessary twenty five hur,dred or five thousand lot of coat- ing, tested all cocoa powders before packing, and passed on the flavor ' of all sweet chocolate or bitter liquor as well as raw materials. finer lots of cocoa beans I selected and roa:::~ts c f all the cocoa before "'.toring. ~assed THE and graded on the samP,le I And I was very happy in it all. \ • (Feb.2, 1939,San Biego,Gal.) •T .A.TT • ?81 • In 1912 we bought a. Cadillac, four ojrlinder car, quite up teither in his house or in ours, and some summero I lived at tho City Club, one of tho ~allor clubs on Tiroad street. One summer Porstall and I boaaded with ~elena who was home all that s~er in her beautiful house and on ~ontgomery Ave. ~~Roberts ~oad. nut every Saturday afternoon I came back on the train, a apocial express on Saturd~s,to return, soon after six 1fonday r-torning. ~e had a variety of mother's helpers. as I have indicated but of them all them all l!rs. :Parkhurst and Mabel Gurdner ;1ere truly helper·a. llrs .:rarkJ hurst waa ~ith ua a long tina and was very eff~oient, pleasant and good to ·the children with a re~l affection for Anna. She left to hat take a course of tra.ing as a 1:rurae, vas graduated and is following that proteasion today. llother made it possible by lending her money to do it, which she repaid. That ~as bread cast on the waters that J> ' csmo baok after many days as she was the means of saving Mothers J life in the terrible Plu epidemic years later. Oft hat more later • .\nd Fc,bel Ga.rdnier also did heroic service at that time a.s we shall sec. I I' ! J .A.U. ~Vhile telling of our help~rs ?88. it would be a real injustice if no -oention was madtf~o:r ~farr'y Backt.te and Sarah Roberts, htmble but loyal eff'ecient helpers for many years, Backus still s-t.il:-1 hclping-lTelson at times, even now. t W'hen we li-ved on Rosemont Ave. vre "aaw a. colored mo.r1 ·aol'king in the Rruuaey'a yard and about~hetr -place w;feh adjoined ours. IIe was never idle for a minute and seemed to do ,just .~.:ooutthe work· of two ordin?..ry r.ten and surely three at t·he pace men work now-a-dayr:. (Out here in San Diego thay aea~ to work much faster and more / fait~fully) We learned the man was named Harry I3a.ckus altho his :f'irst nm:1e is Will~.am, • \/•r*".-. . and later when he was no longer employed there we glad to get him fol.. day work with us. " He is one of those'dark co:::aplected'col- ored men, and we s_oon found him to be one of those olC. ntyle aervitors,kindly, trustworthy as her became attached tothe family absolute- ly loyal. I verily believe het would have died !or Anna or ree if neeessa.ry. to save ua. When we went to the Haverford house there wa.a a s,parate little house forfihe man and I fixea it up fer him and his wife and ado-pted. daughter and they lived there in great content until we moved awe.y. Then he came on day work again a.11d served us fa.l th- f'ully until we gave up the rtanmure house. 7:e gave him work long afi:e.. n~l- ,, 1 could afford to employ him and was only sorry I could pension him but a3 he grew older he :,ece.ne a little unrea.sona1)le about his ado-pted affaire ,Hi a.., daughter . did not do very well and I ·ne-ve1· coululd trust him w~th -money e.ny time. His great fault '~a1S his inability to spend m.one~' wisel:v or ever save a."ly, even when I"was paying hiln nearly e. hundred C'~ui te a different type of negro was So.rah Roberts, for many years \ our 7as'her-woi7lan, but none the less faithful and helpful. Od much bet- tex mentn.J.i t~v· than R~rry altho not as \7Cl1 educated, she ha.d a store ot. knowledf;e about corr'.rnon affairs, a lot of common sense and a thtft ttnoo~-.on in her race. She wae e..tlight-compleoted' woman of middle age ;":i th/~1 enty of woight and very kind to the chi ldrcn, eEpeoially the the li +.tlo onc3. 'l"'he elders boys often bothered brrnr. olotns she was la.nder- f;;'anno-..r ing, not 1:~¢~ her ?for they ....·ere all fond of her 7 but just in their thoughtlas~ ~lay. If they wanted the clothes-props for tent poles .why they just took then even tho the wash on the line trailed &n the ground. • en occasions :Jarah did not hcsitc.te to "fan them" which meant a sound s"',Janking tho v:e diseouraged tho.t prr.otioo. but sarah hv.d a. mind and a Y{ill power too anlayed an inportant part in that fearful Flu epidemic na will be told later on. The Tioy Scout J!.ov~ent hu.d reached .\.TUerica. fro!l 7 :nglan~ -.vhere :Saden-T'o'\7ell, now Sir ::7ilfred hu.d ata.rted it, a.:.>1d \Vas spreadi11g rather ·rapidly •.:.n acquainta.."lce of mine, Isa.a.c ::utton had started a trool) in Ardmore a'1d as we to.lked intere3teci no in the toget~er pl~1. on the train going to the city he In 1911 I agreed to halp ~im and joined his t:-o;1p whi011 \1as mooting il1_ tho Y .;,~.C.A.buildinr.h 1\.t the initiation s~lt a~d .alcohol was burnt and in t~eqhastly light it caGt we took J the oath and read the ~}cout lo.ws, Ise:\a.C in a black college go'lm. I helped in the initlh.ation of new 3coutB, held a.t Isa.ac 1 s home in Ha.v- • erford, an orde~l forthe Scouts but great run forthe assisting o.dnl ts, \'1"ho ho.zod the co.."ldido.tes rat!lar unmercifully, entirely the ' -L\ s~ ~,-rr':" I co..'1 'T'R ·10'7' r)~ .rCl~~bcr thought thc~t rr :\·:r! Z7:D. t·.to lmt ani!! otunts t'he boys endured \ that night and tey . llerc ha.vinc c. greo.t tirnc,one \Tus to tell the boy hia , norve waa to be tcatcd und also to aoe -;then o. long cut v1as made in his a...~.,. ho~ uell ho could stund pain 7/o.o ~ They did not have to try 1 t if ther;')--n 7.::.x.Yr, ::oyo ·.•, ._ '~ .... ~ .• L ~cout9 ....... of .\ncrica... c.ncl there ~~·~. '~!')rc \:-:::n·e t. ·t ~:e a.ll signed our nur.eo to or ·L:clvc l:oyn., all u.·o·~t the o;;.:;.:c .....· ,•.......&. Z# libJJ¥MI' ..JAQ#IZJ..#J4@AAtN~~l:p,;:?~:'·;1C~;<;;;y~~~~~-!NMWiii£Wi!lii~JIQI!II111!1<4~~-j . i 'I - scorr7 'i.'TIOOT'. J .A.U. 803. ~oy scouts of atnerica., and there we all signed!i: our names to the oath • . a.nd the ~cout Laws. There were ten or twelve boys, all aboutthe same a~e, 12 'Ot 13 years. The Minutes of that first meeting a.re still among the 'Archi vea of the Troo-p "aa . .vell aa the sit1nature:s of the charter I" embers among whom are Denny';Roberts, Edward For stall, Calvin ~:fells, ·-:illie. . a. Auetin, and Pert. Harry w~.s just below the age limit, twelve years but he joined the next yee.r. Indeed, it was because the SCOUT 1 : echemc see~ed to ~e to bs such a fine plan that I wanted my boys to have it too. There was not much red tape in starting a troo:p in those days altho we did have to have a sponsor and the Church was that and a -rroo-p Co'm!li ttee,lfr .~.v .L .Austin, Charles Wilson and 'Jal ton For stall Sr. I think he was the third, acted as such)though they never ~et or · exercised any control, leaving it all to me. Still they were ready to give auvioe or hel~ if asked for it. The plan was all oo nev and so taw knew much Rbout it ,that I had to work it out and carry it on. It was neoeasar~r, ho';Vever, tor the scout Master to be approved a.nd to get a. oo:mmisaion from the c_entra.l office in New York and I was very proud to receive mine, the eecond Scout llaster on tho 1.1a.in Line and among the firat in the States. The Trooy soon began to t~ke up the ~rogr~ in earneat end to get uniforms. It was some time before 1 bought one and for quite a while I ~ere my .\laska National Guard uniform minus tho insignia. One night Ieaac Sutton, who had been a~~ointed scout Commissioner for the district, visited the ·Troo~ and was much surpri•ed to se¢.me ~ . . in that rig, and I que~a, not a little shocked. He laughingly said something about the troo-p being. in charge of a bell-hop • ..-;"'b.ich wa:J quite pat for most of the bell boys in tha hotels ware r-earing suits da.yg in Scoutinr, • ~rl v 804. J .A.lT. very I:tuch lil:a that dark blue, hit;h necked tunic, trirn~ned with wido \ black b=aid •vhich also ran dor1n the legs of the do.rk blue trowaers. But that did the trick. I could ato.nd for the na.'ke :Jhift uniform but to look like a. bell-ho-p ":1U.3 too ::n.uch. I l)ro!"!lptly got v. ocout uniforo. It was soon evident that tho boys liked the ncout work. Taay attended the n-aetint~n on I-"riday nir;hta :t•er::ularly re1d went at the teato fI with u ·;rill. I r::adc up a. 1'roop y·ell that r..:...., like thin, ZI!;l a zo.il a. Za.y! Zb1 a ll ZW!l n. Zay! 'Iir'fll 'Za">7r! Bryn lla.wr! R.G .A. Patrols were orr,a."'l• ized and ?atrol.leadera elected, neJ boyn were broucnt in, not neccaso.rily f::"om our clmrch or sunday School a.o it was intended to be a. cor1!'1llni ty troop, Dr 1Jutch, who ha.d of cmt.rsa troop ~~a st~ted, bc~n conoul ted before the und was creatly interested uas elected poai tion not provided fo:- in tho official 3cout ;;1lan but I tlas n. good ,.ray to reooenizo and tho work went ~crrily hi~ :h ' ~up~n1 a thouc;.~t 1t ot'fioit:.lly, in our Trooi>, o.t least n..'"ld su.cocoafully on. ::~errily for tlll oxoe.pt the Scout ;.:aster, for I found I ha.d to keep about three hops and a juz:tp ahead of the boys, not ouch nn~ eaay tu.ak ~.as a."l.Yone \Vill know I who bat! tried 1 t. I had to plan oaoh meet inc be foro hc.nd and ho.ve a progra=1 worked out or ~hines v1ent slt.\ck. Often I winhod I might juot snuggle d om1 in an cD.ay oha.ir a.t hoo.e and not have to eo to f'o.oe those boys on Friday night. It took Gtudy of the hnnd book end ncout papers to find. neu plana nnd uoo them but the 'boys ~;ere so enthuaiuotio and took it all so aerioualy I could not fail _them )end so I made it a point to be on time a.nd try to make those meetings full of life. Ua.ny n tio.ao I came homo refresnod by the contact with those youc livos and " tl:ril:'.. ~d 'by tho thoucht that Y.rhnt ·.re ::1ore doine -."Tu::; thoroughly worth while. J.A.;r:. 805. The rneotines were not a.ll alike-' but were ·pu:r-pooely varied. to increase the interest. Our little main chVIch now standa ! and there ch~.. pel \7::>.3 h~d still atv.nc.linc where the been built ~~ addition in the rear for the'Ini'unt Clo.3e' U:l t:H:: }",e.::;innero Dept. of toda_y was called. this made a nearly ideal cosy :meeting place fer our croup while the ch;:::.peltTih0.3C -pown ho.d been to.ken out lone bofore, :rr:ade a fine place for ~!'..:::les Scout e.nd drills and ~aster ~rcaided ~oup te~ts and t11c at the buainess ot~er &.cti viti cs. The which ~cctincz too~ tbe first part of the time, t\7enty l:linutes 1~- u half hour:s: and ?.s.rlli.:entary rules uere strictly ob~erved a~d the . ~coutr; ta,.lt;ht their " ~ itr~ort­ o.nf,s b1,t uoing them. i;!inutcs were reut\, the necrctary v;·a.a called the 6ori be, Dues colleo-God, a. !c·.7 ccnt:J a week and reports and plo.ns presen ted and discusaed. IJa.tor on -:ro ahro.:ra be~;;m vd th Inepection a.."ld while still in line ;~'1 th !'1'hc Ga.lute to the '7lo.e. '' the laree room was a ueriod of ton, Ada.'n Fergueson 1 \7ho night. ~ror gu.~ea, eX]?ec~ed ':'hen, -passing to much to t'he distresn of the Sex- everything to be ruined the· f1rat kaas he the only one who had r;re.ve misci vinRs. Some of tho earnest women uho had uorked hard to raise money to buy tho carpet years before were nure''thoae boys 11 would ruin it and :m. Prank Rob- erta, crr::u. of tho -property oomi t tee o1f';:1e Trustees_ v1aa never nora then half willing to have t11e boys· use tl:.e church property. It ia a tribute to the Scout :pla..'1 a..'l'ld :principles :tJtn and to the way the Troop followed .th~ ., that in all those years no damage was done mnre serious than a. brokGn chair of"' two and one or two small panes of glas:l broken and if' tho c:arvet did get extra wear ,a:a 1 t probably did, it ;ras never used for better -purpone. Even Ada::ot almost bcom:te a conVCl't t-:>t'he Scouts, at lcc.cit he could l~uch..,vith t1:e:n at ti:u~s. 'i"'R00T) 806 8~~- J .A..TT • AG"'IYITI~S. Following tho eamcs;'t,.\csts"Ylere studied and -practiced, first aid banc.ar.eing, o. fevr rollers o.nrl the handkerchir.f dresoines, signaling mostly ·,-r!g-~ua.c; u.+. f'irRt; but later the se!!'l.aphore bece...""le nora popular and after this vte returned to the small room where announcements for the next meeting o.r nike v.rere mn.de >a.nd the Scout 1\o.stcr gave a. nhort talk, often En"'lphu.sizinr; the importance of being true to the Scout oo.th but not ~l:hpr~achinef and as \Ye ·o.ll ntnod, 77i th hands raised in the ~3cout sign, we 1 repeated;f.he oath in unison a.nd t 'he meeting was over pro~ptly at nine. ~e had asn~~bled at seven thirty and the time never seemed to drag. There was little trouble w~th discipline, Balling attention to some of . the Scout l~~s or part of the oath was generally aufftcient. One boy from Haverford <1chool 'I I remember because he was the only one I ever sent back to his home or ber 1 t a.nd '7Ti th dor~ and I made a miatake there. So I remem- regret. 'Hot but that hedeserved it, for he was a fresh kid, probably a Dpoiled child from some wealthy home who was just the ono 1 abovq6ll othera who needed Scouting, out he was utterly unresponei va, had no notion of keeping the la'Ya and w2.e determi·ned to break up tho oecting b~ talkine, aide rertarks out loud,a.nd general disturbance that I loot :;>atience very quickly and sent him out. He never came back end I failed to make any effort to get htm back. Yet it was such lawle~s ones who needed to be ~on as good Scouts XhaX above the 'ninety and nine ,..,ho were safe in the fold." That was a c.lear oa.ae ot failure by the Scout Ua.stcr. ~very ~~ month there was at least one hike,ao called, though we often stayed in the large church yard to practice the outdoor tests. ':'l:ere wer9 ~any of these e.nd t hay a:pperutled to the boys very strongly. ·:rha.t could make o. stronr,er ~PP o.l to any boy tha."l to make a fire with not l:lore than t\vo rtatchcs, not using paper to start it? Or to use a I 807. J .A.TT • an ax properly,or to uoe a knifa,oook simplc·food, make di!"ferent kinds of fires, tl·o.cking, Indian signs, 0 what ;.J. wealth of things to a11pea.l to every boy~ ir1ut;inction and tho love of ~l.lko believe, still oherish~d in his h~c.rt tho h~ t1ie;ht fecit it was too babyish to 'pretend'. After the Scouts had panned the Tcndeffoot teBtn, all quite ellnY 9 and become S:;;cond .:r of l<.::.ts ~1d is carried on with el.::..bora.te variations a: :I a illy doincn aut it Yruo nc·.1 then and J.A.T1 • and the ~co1.1ts enjoyed t1'1em hucely. 809. It took time and thoucht tQ plan z~1dla:y \ t.•~l,~ out arJ we uoed them ,for aorne Scouting must be required to follow 7.he~n 1 if t_,~~e~r ware to a.."nount to anything mory'tha.n a. :ufcre scram,. ble. For instance, startin'lfrom ca.np the first note read, go to a large. "' ·,, shell-'barl: tree, or oak or beech or sone other,; or , find n oapling ,, near Ca.."Zlp with an J, 'bend oi:=r..feet v.bcve the ground. that 1 ti1ey would hu:e to hunt a1)out it for Tr~en ;when they found the note (;.nd the first one 'i':ould reaxi, the note and 'hid<.it quickly in the sa.ue place. J.'hat .second ,, r note might directthe Scout to go to a medium sized roc!-: that would i seem to be aharp pointed ~~ from the west but rounded fro~ the •' south. rrere I WP.s hidden the second note. ':."'he third micht quarterof a nile by Scout pace in the direction of the re~d •go a ~~~ Pres- byteria.n Church to a large beech tree" and so onJuntil n.ftcr finding a. half dozen or so direotinr, notes, the laot one \7ould tell that the treasure ~a3 attre next station. All aorta of dcvi6es ·.-icra used to hid.=. the treasure so that 1 t be. hard to find. One treasure, generally a box of candy bn.ra or small peicea, W'3.s tied high in the bru..'"'lches of a tree, a.notht~r the ca."1.dy TTas put in a fruit jar and TI"i th the cup screwed tight was sunk in :k bottom ort·he creek.but still ·easily seen if' one kne11' where to look. Tho directions forthe treasures were Generally a jingle and I remember on w'hich ran. "Over and it~~ good~'' ;r~ter, under 1.-rood, :ou '11 find the treasure 'T'hay.t'ooled the boys badly for quite a while. They had all gotten to a. little bridge over ona ' kne\Y ''Over t!lr~t the treasure w~ter, ~ust. nnder wood. tt ba near but bra..~ch v~here '? of t'h.e creek. They 1m: They 1-:ept repeating '!'hey looked under t'ho bridge but it was - ., ...,, f<:>:.irly dark there • o.fter the nr ... r;n nunnhino and tr~ did not see it. : ' '\ 810. yet it W:J.s t!.:o:rc >o.nd "iri thin eaa~t t.he string" -piece of the bridge, reach .I hu.d .,,vedged the box behind !:fr.~l.i: -.vlth a J)iccc of a fallen branch 'T'hat held it ti,::ht ar;ninrsttha -::>lnn:t:::ine but out. of oieht and tha old 'branch though l. t had· been loa~ wa~ in car.'lp there ".Ve decidu ed to at+.e~-pt a rather hen.vv peice of "i1orl:". 'I'~cre \Vere little channels thru on 't"':e tent side oft he creek \7hich t.'-1e overflow cr:f ~~ went i'll high ~vater and often a little trickle remained for some weeks. 7his made a muddy place an9Wa!! n nuisance as the 8couta wen1'to and from me.a.ls 1'hen on theother side there was a high bank with '}tprtifr rou,7h path to the top, eldrp...,er7-r in wet weather and never comfortablr,.'lt any time, use yet every ca~per had to ax~k it at least six times a day. ~~ planned to fix to that. ":'his made quite a vrogrW'l for 12 or fourteen boys accom~lish in their spare tine in two weeks. And there was not such a lot oft hat spare time altho one may think a. boy has nothing to do in carn"1 'bu+/ amuse himnelf. '~'hat. i3 true enough or the ·ordinar~ boys cn.!'!l"l or. was att hat timeJbut a Scout camp is different. '!?here was a nefini te -program an_d ui th the. Director I '\Torked t1ut a definite course of scouting activities, so that a Scout who com'?leted the first y~ar course received a service bar and had an inducemenjfto return aga.in fort he second, third and fourth year after which. he became a Vioneer h . scout w1tit a different set of activities. Sounds terribly like going to sohoo·l but the boys liked it for almost tJ.ll of it was doing things outnoor~nd took only an:f«X hour or two each forenoon. Then there \Vere nass rrames, nature hikes and hikes to points of inte~est with a crum, 820. fire every nicht und apaoial doings ·iii th tho ou....:Hl in -:~eN troop~ du.y uir:h~: wz.1s t '.-;cir iti eo, Ca;:L'J wa:1 a11 c~.:.re o:i.~ ...-.:a.n not no v.nd thooe who hu.d been in ~aturd~~,r lot.ed tina went heme t}~?.,.t h1.~t ::~. ·crcat day in 30 n Cm:Ip t11eir al- fur half o1· :::ore o fthe bo:ro thct ::.•riIn adui tlon to tho:Je cenero..l uoti v- c~-;;>. :JLJ.ce for ;'luuoinG :.:cri t ~uch ::~u.dr;e tests a.'1d that S1);;.\rett tii::!e forrt thoro wore ::.U.oo two cwil.'!s a c.luy that min~. ,, If '"':~)eciul ~;ervice ii/UO . thoae other thinC3 thu.t we:t... a not required/ o..nd the every i?riday. t hei:· o-:m. tents .. b:.mks, clothinG t-...ndso forth so that there no ono ·wanted t.;> :.:~r c~p ar;ardt3 L:U3t to bc,fdone t11en some of be c;i von ·llp. 'eroop ';lt.1ra splendid w.orzcr::J wi t!1 a fine apiri t uf holpfulneos Y~1\J. uuoal1lt~tm..~r thcr.r wont atjt·h:.lt ·aork to bridcc t hor.sc uuU.bolco und :r::1ake uv the ban;-: ws.s a C·:)l:lfort to c..'l'lyone worklnc \'lith boys. It wan nll v-:>ltmtar.r, 3~ou blow.· 'J'~1ore \tu.o no :::coldinr-; <.1.nd if any one held 1Jh~~aical compttl~ion, no rc.t.tir1eo his companions tlade him feel 1~acl: a' unc.J:"lforteblc b:: t.heir· jecro e.nd jlben o.n trcll u.3 by quiet tu.lka, tr..c.re wa:::t no one not v.cti ve in were sm~e ·:·roo? enterprise. •)f course, there la.zy boys and a·o:b.e who aoon tired or thought they did) and the r.ccut mu.oter andany t~:a ~co-:Jt ~cnll\~sor:H!time conic\ litti t if ho-.."."evnr ~+.hat tho le3a ho.vc to prod a bit but h~uit1 lnt·~rcsted it~ voluntary not wu.nt to work. I u=. free to u&ui t, one a did feel a decided pressure on them. fro:n the Scout ru.ater vthll worked an hard as any of the=1 and they l:no'i.T they would ourely- looo favor 1ft ':1ey did not go t:!long. 821. the lir-'1ter -poles :f'o.sten(\d tot he string pieces, o. \Vide cordoroy waik \Ta.s nade over the gullies and the mud. Our walk ro.n thrn a thicket of alders cutting off the breeze but giving no shade and ho•.1 hot 1 t was .down there in the hollmv can be judccd by a -photo in one of our albums showing the 'i'roop o.t work. But we finished that job and then a good tig-zac path up the bluff to;ihe dining-hall with a flight of rustic steps at the top for / the last steep pitch. Those ste"9s also had s. rustic balustrade. It was a fine job and I \Yas proud of the Scouts for finishing it. Tr.ose boyrfdid work hard and the Troop waa quite theen'V'J of the whole camp. 71hen tj ~.:other died she left me about ~2000 \'lhich I put aside anc! had never used, wa.ntine to use it in some way for a memorial to her, whom I loveqko ~uch. I had thought of putting a tablet in the little mmm: class room or the ~unday School builcl. ·:!len it rain there were hol t1 in tho 'JIG ;:ou £~C. ":"he htmdrcd or nor~ boyL in ec;)lJt n:1ifor::-te, GI"Ott 1ed in the Chapel ,_,_nd <.m the lo·.y rocko u.t one oide, '1it'1 their ~)right ea.;::er fnces, callect for ono'o ;:1oot earnest efforts. unri oinc"'re. Ir:::1.r~c :~utton was a real r:eniuo in dincovcring bits of lo.nd that co,lld 110 -purc'haned and one day "!1e aakect if I wa..'"l.tcd to join)/ hin in hnv·in~ ten aoreo ac1,1oininr; the ;:;cant land ;:.;.nd runninG from the main rond -.rhic'1 1-ras on the :lthe:- ni~c ~oth or H:e creek U? t'he hill and also up sidon of~1e creek for oo~e distance but only twenty feet vide there. ··cnvevar~ that en.vo na control ofthe creek ann r»revented other cnrn!)crs building neo.r un. 7~e '?rice wo.n leo a than a hundred dollars o.nd \'10 boup.:1it it. It is a. lovely -picca of wild land with cood crcc'.- fronta;;:o. I,ator 'he built a vcr:r attractive cabin there which he na"!led C:adn and e.l·;ra.ys a ~trons bo.eker for the ~:;couts, boucht b~enty or more a.cres up the hiJ.l back of the Cu.tn'.)US acr and gave it to the enuneil to be kno1rn at! tho 'Belfield 7ract, in honor of a retired ~cout ;."'::tater of the 1:erion Trooi> anc later ntill another farm u-p the erec'k, about fortv acroo '"~3 bou~ht b)" the Council, thus rounding out •. which colrern nearly hundrend aoroa, I think. Thus, tho ";'>l"O'l'.HlDty t:-v~ land Ior::1.c and I o·:m ir; ·41 1 i ttlc plot entirely o~H-rot:r:.dcr~ 'by •'l;o two A,._,.... .,... 'r'l-r:'T' 'OlT"" li n ~ j, '·'·'.I.~~· 825. J .A.'fT • scout land e::r.ce-pt where it border3 on the -pnblic roa.d but as we were both active in t:Jaouting we did not mind that but felt quite at home. It '·ias alwo.~rs been our intention to sell that land to the Scouts when we are reacy to dispose of it. a.t C:eo~r just by Our fa."nily has had many fine picnics J,odge and. .Anna. a.nd I, ei t.her with some of the children ourselve~ hav~~njoyed 011 many delichtful dayn living there txxoc tJ1rougn th.a courteny of ny good friend. 3~hop C»eek, or as the Pennsylvania Dutchmen who dwelt about there called it, Sch\V&3.m.p krik, altho the offi.oial name of the stream on t.he rn.a:pn, did not suit the Scouts veryj'vtell and I sae.o found that ahe ~~ Cnami tribe of the Delawares lived in that reeion in the early days so he nal!l.ed the creek nnani and the no..T..e has co~e into ~.:eneral use and a very -pretty one it is. l'oat of the time the T!nani in a. :pleasa.nt, well behaved atrea.-:t with rapid(3 and pools where the 1Jra.nches of the trees hang low over the \i'e.ter,. In -places there are little lakes behind old mill da~s and the scouts mtilt a fine concrete dam just o.bove t. 1-:e swirn:ming· pool. Isa.ac 's brother, Craig Sutton eneineeded and supervised that.. Seeing t.he streF.m tht1o -ane could soa.rcely believe how ra-p"idly it could bflcome a. rarting torrent, floodine the low lands and gna\ving vitcmoualy at ita banks. Such a flood caught the camp u~awarea not long after wa began uaing tn1site. There uere so many there t~~t tents ho.d been pitched along the creek on the lower part of the campus. We were uoing .lrmy tents there, eaoh i holdin~ eight cots. suddenly,' in the night some boy put his foot out of his cot and wr.en it landed in water instead of on the tent floor he gave a ~rell. Thev could harC.ly get their duf- fle to higr:er ground and saYe the tents before the we.tcr ";"las over -over cfl: IP" JTii2·:em'!? , ,r o •1 o• 826. J .A.U. their heads. 'Fortuno.tely it was only a little way to hig..,.:er .\ grou.nd e.nd t'he rest of the tents. The flood took out the logs that made tho bridGe and as day light came there was all the camp, ·except tr..e cooks, on one side oftt the stream and all t'!ie -provisions on the ~alf other with a turbulent torrent, almost a block wide between. And such hungry boys after their night of salvaging tents and duffle and the excitimentl But who ever saw. Scouts 3tumped by such a castrophy? An arro\7 td th a eri:ing was shot across after e:cr.1e trials ;e.. rope /pulled over and so cats were sent across the aerial ferry all was happy. !Jater a fine sus-pension bridge was built,high above the possible. flood but not before the first truss bridge on concrete piers had been cari ed awa:~r by another freshet, Tents were never very satisfactory and they needed oany repairs eae11 season and after much planning and thought we built frames of ceder poles of which we had great quantities on our land, which supported shingle roofs which projecte.d in front to form a sort of piazza. They were closed at one end and part way on the sides while the rest of the sides could be covered with canvas curtains in wet -weather. ~ach held eight bunks and proved very attractive outside and just the thing fort·· he boys inside. They have been copied in other camps. Anna and. I helped to shingle one of them a.s vve were at Ceder Lodge when they were being built. It would be wearisome to .tell of all the ~· additions and im-prove- menta that have been made to _that ideal camp since the forst twenty acres were purchased·but one ought to be mentioned because it is a memorial to the man who put Sco'lting on the Main Line on its feet and 827. I out in pl1 t '0 ... ,..v.,' ... "'') t,, ... ~n<'l. .;;e tl"'4h.u."'+ ~~ . ,.,o on t .,, ~' ~-...... refer to their tents or shacks and ~"et .. o.nd soon all their m: en:J 1 l{~'!-t. o:1 t>e ~c..:::p la:::1d :J.nd to e~po.I·e. ~utton hu.d bcoo.t.'1u aort of ~hief aut'· ori t.y on <:1.ll ti~ings Indian i:~nd ha dur-: tro vraa ~~n i.clC!\l [A plu.n oft. ~1c Delu:.\"aro r-Ji t.c en the er~cc oft he GE:.my_~~ wit~ u. big flut. rock for ti--:c torrG.cc in front an{! the hon~o wan hlil t b:r aome local cu.r-;.Jenters. It \7ar; d0cidcd t:~ nHJ!O 1 ~; t'h~ Sargent }!ig I~ousa a.nd to put up a. rustic ~iC:'!'• in side tell ins so1~1ething of :rr • .sarccnt' n hel pfulncs:.; ts/tl:e Scouts nn fortu.nu. t ~ly, t1:.i n was ;1ever done. o.nr: feiv now :rc.:na:tl~cr How much the D~18.•.varc ~nd >·JY'ltforJ.cry counti~o ''icouta oYre to hi.:1. As I was Chairman to sol vc oac:·, yG;.'l.r fr,r =::;l.n~r ac'-lsOn:> ·.1a.s the 3eleotion a."ld hiring of the . ana. i:"!,\:1'.., :Y::-;~~::r':. ~:o.l~. - as he hud a c.:.u:rp of hie ~<.hturd '~hu.:;, ~m in ::·n.ine to run. so. for our first '":cont -:-:xcouti Yeo, run 1 t. !:!~:.ny ycu.ra we /.a the succeso a! x the caL'l!'J depended. a1.>·1oot cntiroly on the Director 1 t \{as not until we found :h}"l."on J .?ickcrinc that we bac~~n to breathe :m.oro c aa1ly. r;:::; \'tao very oa.tiefo.otor:t a~1d chone ::ir.1rncnt Schultz an his assiotc11t who succea<.lcd hh1 und tho c~...np i"~~ for nu.:.ny eeusono. Aa both oft h\3se r:.on c'hoso treir ovn1 u.oaiotc.r.ts ::.:ucl1 oft 11e burdeit of the preparator~ work wan tc.kon U'P .by them t:.nd thincn ru.n tr.ore ~n.oothly. :;c were ajco for- ti nate in cettine good r:.1en for cooks who uarvod year <.l.fter yea:r. 6~the cerro ho.a r,ro-;m until o.t tines t11erc hu.ve been as twq hundred and C::.::rpu~ aovont~r l,1any o.a five 1Joyo there at o. time. /.n entirely ne·.v ha.d to be kti:.J:: r:;a(iri zec r·-r:r nuch thi "?r~::J as c;:;.mn cru.ft • tent keeping a.nd 829. J.A.P. ·,'/hila a few C"ents a week 'vere paid a.s dues ·by the bo~rs thef.t:mxtqxs: were asY.ed to build cabins or pay for them and otherwise help furnish I eq~1ipment 'for C!J..I'lp Delmont and hu.d the pri velege of nru:1ing anything they did t11ore. "'.7here was quite a ri va.lr:r between the:!l and the J3ryn 1f.o.wr 'i'roop we.s abvays a rival of the ;..:arion Troo-p in this respect. They had nany boys f'ro!!l ·.veal thy homes t:1ere Wr"!ile did. not have a.s Tte many so we had to find a way to 6 we ar~e.~eed for two ~.fternoons and two evenings .a.nr, the Scouts went att11e ticl:e:t sell inc with their a.ccuatomed energy. '.Vhen tr~e olean u·.9 c&le v;o found we had r..etted over . 0400! It hardly seems poaa·ible .but it was a fact. "'..'"ears later, when Harry was ~cout t:uelfatXL\ira lraater hu tried a tl:ree day n1;.owinc; of tho ':'Lree but, a.laa, it ho.d 1H)cn teo gen(:r&ll:r ahovm tmd the poor boy went into a. hole for a conaiderahlc Gtu:1. 7e got what we thought was a strait;ht ti-;> that !Jerion was going after the directors cabin and going harC. a.nd ·..rre decided th:::y -.vould bid four hundred dollars. 'Je felt very sare of it believed they felt sure t:aat no ot:1cr -t.ruop 1-.l the come near that bid. As we had the f3UT D:A~am c::nntiae~ and we could hundred and m,1re we bid ~401 and chuckled to think how we would fool the:n.. :!hen tr.e secret bids were o-pened by the Council it ·.w.s found that ::erion haG. not bid at at AJ,L! and the next bid was w, .., below· ours. But we paid up like good Scouts. It was a vrorth;r c .. '.tse. ""f' ·"'··•:""' ·;J · . '' .... ;' ~ .~.l.·· ~ ,"" 830 J .;-..:r • i'"TT."i'I_,,.. -· ,,,. :.o.v< ..... ' it'l) ··.1um t'hc Hni ted 3tates vrcnt to wu.r with Gorr!uny Scouting beca.r.1C very 110pnlnr. :.:uny 'hoyo ~ro-::1 wealthy ru.~ilies u9 o.nd down the :.~a.in li-:1e jr,inacouts. C e !.~a"lY of them came to meetinz in an auto with a chau·r~~-­ ori vin;:: so that we were called the Antobimilc Troov.l:r:t for a \Vhile by our lesn fortunate brotherD. Et.lt they were a fine reoZ'lonsi vc group,a -plcmsure to work with then and for them. After the ground wa.a thus prepo.red the 'rroop planted corn and the -plot rm" divided into sectionR each aaaiencd to a. patrol to hoe o.nd lo'l1r/'lftcr. !t r.mo .. be confea!Jcrl that nt first the young ahoota were like to llc hood u:p in tho entlmniasr.l b1tt e.a sm-mer curie on and the sun grew hot the Scout 1:u.oter had to do conaidera.ble urging e.nd ro- cal line of the ~cout !,au o.nd C7on to do considerable }Deing hi:maclf a~endidl~r aide<;.\bv his fino sons and often by ~c. Poratall, one of th~ b~Gt Scoutn in the Troop. But when Full came and it was time to ho.rvent t'ho gold em ear a all turned out with great. zeal and gathered a. fine crop, I •vo forgotten ho:>;v many bnahelo. :"11 in all -thoae boys did good 'ifork a.nd far more of 1 t that any other grou;> of like numbers r•::t oure. 7he dorn was sold to a r.cntleman farmer and we all 8~0. ~ere were fiye issues of r.ibert~r bondn du.rine the time t:~e ti.S. was in the ·-,,,rlns Ylar and the r.:overn!'"'.ent made n roviaion for the ocouts to 1:eln the t"~ale, consi(~era'hlc hv awardinG and 'ha.nners as -prizes as well as r.'le~als li teratnre t() dtimlla.te their interest. 1'.ut the ~ rrc::n- rnent die "10t want ·t"he "'couta to interfere \7i th their other accncien fort he nalc, 1>o.n1-:crs, brokcrn,individuals u.."1ri. so fort"1 and so the '":c'Jnt~ •.1crc only allowed to sell dlirinL~ the lust week of each ca.::>pa.iGn ana.1)hy trick utt the orea."'l had u.ll been skir.:.:ed off by that rat'her u/ tim)ia.nd not a whole lot of even sni~-~il!-': \Vas le:xft. The reoul ts. ar.u1zed even the nost ardently hopeful oftho 3cout l:eadcrs for the sales the bovs mane were astonishing. o.sk r:an and ~rand father not consider that It was only na.tura.l thu.t the Scout a would to wa.i t and aellin~ bu~ before the from la~t th~ even tho they did week. 7hc pressure o~ Dad and other F?Town una fror.l their men· friends a"ld bankers wa.a no -:reut and tnc ~o~ulnr fecline so strong them to hold a very larr:;e w~ount t~~t it waa almont imuossible for for their sons or Scont friendo. It is harofor ue to realize \"That the -prcaflure was for every kin-d of war service and was h0\'1 fe~veriahly {U"eat the. exci~ent. ~~very one with a few exceptions active, never content until they were doing something to hel-::> win t'lle war and the :1couts were no exce-ptions. the "Bohd. !>Cllinr, tr/:II. ~:;o they entered woak with great. energy and actually sold neo.rly a I!lillion dollars worth of bond~ in the five ca..·~paienn, that is in the laat week only, five weeka in all. 7hile it is true that there were .sons of a. n1mber of weal thy h~ss: fathers in mt:r troon and their sales did much to ma.,_...c so hur,e a total, sti 11 t'hat was not a11 !n/ orr1 er to tell wtl+.>--would--he ent, i t1 en- t.~) ~~ any r.'lCo.nf'. whn ·;nul<", be· entitled to ,.,J:t ,...,..~.,... ~ .1\.i'C. )1 ... rn~"11~" .. J .. ·' r· .. _ ~;:"'''IT~)"' , • ·•·'''! little chance far a _,,., . the 1)a;,~:J t. •· • TT 8:31. It minta1~e. lt '71 t~"'. euch co.~'7)ailf1 nth'l lessened o.nrl :r \ • bcca.!r.e harder u.nn harder to nell. "'~nthusi­ r:re'.7 scarcer. vven with war 1)rofits. ·of course, rnone~.r y:ere affected 1.,y the general c:mdi tions o.nd beca.n to loa:se interest as most hoya rrill after a has been thin~ e~ine a while. 3o the fifth cnmpair,n I fnund I har'! to assir:n quotu.s to each Scout wit~ 1)n.ned on hio sales in previoun C:J."'1pa.ic:ns. ~farry, who socr.Jed to l)c.a born sa.lcsnan and has proved him"Jelf to be one, had a hard time.• Ho / had gotten oor.te laree cl.>'nount~ fro~ Grandfather and his wife in pre·\l"i- onn campaigns and his quota wan larr:e. Gra~dfather wus not feel~ng as weal thv L"t Just then a..-1d extra pressure was ·broucht on him to buy from a friend of ~~ra. !r~:nu :r .1.:1' ao the very lant day oftJ1e last v1cek c~""!e and he was "iraY behind. On hio own initiative he dressed in hio Scout uniform and be. in~ :~otel :Jt\turda~r, in the city and ber;un to tle more t'han a bo~~ ·.vent down to the Dell evue- Stru.ttforCl tac~le people in the lobby~ .lre was 11 t- but he met 'vi th such good results that in a shott tiMe he attracted a.ttent ion of o. \70r:lan' s orr:nni zation who wad a table in the lobby to sell bonds and thoue'ht they had that excluoive territor:r. :Jo they asked the r.1anager to make s·-:·)rt he vtent u~ ~Tarry move oh .An he was still ot"tdrs to see his ttna.nd.fa.ther and tulked him into another snrJscri ption ~r telling him hir: tmoceas in the lobby, which pleased !<'ather mightily,and the hard luck story of being put out Wttst as 'he was fill in{;, his quota.. He ca.'"!'le home w·i th hio full required n;?1:Junt, a. mighty ha:pp:r. boy and to a nighty -proud father. 'l"he Scouts ~i~ ~ not take money but only got air,ncd orcers w'hich -.vent through the different hanks for ~eli ver::r. Gr.e oftJo fuvorito 'i:ar-··i~1e s'i:untn •)f mun:.r tr'J·)-:'lS Yl<.V1 the m-:>bil- izc.tl'r, • 832 • of tht~ ,..,rnop. 711c 6:-:t:·~'-toiaotio. ,, boy~ li~'7cd !rt fu.ct, I learned they o1,joctcd oo ntr:mc;lj.~ we could no ... do i. t vcr:-.' often. mc:nber or it a lot lmt tho pa.rcnt::1 were not ao ~ach "\.:!.tt•ol .leader h:.~.cl hio patrol. or ,.-t"herc there wus no ber: of a neighbor :~cout tho phone nu:nbcr of ouch ~hone in the ho~o, tho num-. or of a friend, ·;rho would. cu.ll him. ·.'!ithout Lcp.doro a.nd tell t1:u::i. to :riol',ilize t:1.cir 'Patroln ut o·nce, at -plo.ce,ccncrall:t v.t headquarters. 'i"hcn, noting the tir::e the h·1rry tot nc o:ppointod place uml ~co hovr ooon ro t\ ··~ •.:.:.,.would ~:.:.turcu.y / or 90 ' of the 7.roop were on 11and. 'T'he ,ror.rptnons with which the boyo asacnbled wan ishinc:, often ·.tithin 15 rninutcs. certain a::~to11- aftcrnoonn were about the only th1cs we could mobilize tho so:::.tctiuoo I ocnt the call out riGht after the eveninG neal. J3ut it. iiiaru·pte volimtury u.nC. not ov'cr-J Scout turned out but they hate to clca:11 up ot1:er -pcopleo 7 tr<;'l.sh and dirt oo ser-vice \l;J.. n all t'he llt:.Xder tel ·do o:-1 tbJ.t uccaunt. ':'he ~hi a community :.~vel is that t':--:e'/ did it nfor ·;t!:ilc it in true th..~t put tin~~ a ::;cout \mii'orc ~1111 not I ma}:c a fine 1)0~-· c!·:·.ructor. ':'he out of u. nl:..tc~-:cr :~ci..mt::; \I ere it will hol';> hL~ to bccone u. flne 'tlned ln..rc:ely during the v;.:.:,r t..J distri buto I uned the r:couto \'l·1ercever I could. ""hctmade inspccti ms fpr ' nui~­ nunccs, ru"obioh -pilco and 11ncovored r:.u.nurc pitn and oiuilur unsi.l.nitu.ry • oondi t ion~. •:-11c.•y diotri but eel' fly circuluro' to ~Jt·:~tcs and helped other or ::.1.nlzrttionn, .,.1ntting uv a --:cl)Ut cnr:1p and selling mu.tchca an well u.a oh:)winr~ how to make fire by friction, for u. price at ;a;r., conouni:ty fete a for;t11e 1)cmefi t of nryn :~uJir •tospi to.l ,and r~n~1ly were helpful • ..Ti t11 all the more oerioua a.cti vi ti~s, os p~,;ciully during war time vro had fun o.lao and ini tiati .1n nichts "\fore ti~·:e'J of hurmle3:.J {-~ol}.ics. \n :t wrote I never liked those otunto where older men maltreated the helplcn~ can1onc 8.''tful noints. ·nut when they did no harm Ca':le of it as t.~1 e tacks were made· of soft rnb'hcr tho thc:..r lao}~ell exactly like the real thine:! :\nother 2:oon one Wd.l3 the ride in ;.\.:1 uir plane. : .. :aL1 the :->cout waa blindfolded and told he ;ras r;cr.hr~ to 1)e tested f,::>r c~mrage, so importa.nt to every // E;OOd scout. ~rc was led about until he lo~t sense of direction a."'ld distance and then told to climb up while others held him He seemed to go o. long way 'but really only clh1bed on a board be·01cen • to chairs. 'i'hen two strone fellows lifted the c!lds of the board being careful not to throw the ~cout off wh.i lc ot:wrs \Vilirled eee beaters to sir.mlate Pte noioe of machinery· in rar>id uctlon and tho:r die".. it too. As the board swayed and t.rcT.blcd 1 t r:ovcd sJ)out and wo.o alnwlyxll::J'Xrotm lm-;ered to within a few inches oft he floor whan the 3cot.lt was yelled at and told to jur.l:pt .:\p;ain rnany hcsi ta.ted ~t:: not knowing how near the hirr,h roof oft he cha'Pel they might be but. at la::sttHey would plunge off to land on the floor only a fe~ inches away, all in -a heap! I txt«« tried that atnnt once, i)lindfolded, and a.l tho I ~::ne·:r W~!l.t was happening the sensation of beinr, U? in the air wes ve17 real. So I mir,ht go on but er.oug'-1 has been told to l3how what Scouting 'i'H\3 in those early years .11: After a even ye~U"s as ~cc"..lt 1:7:!l5ter I fol t I couln no longer spare the ti.me as businesn cE:~res increased and the • Council and Cor.ro \VerY: de""!a."1ded so much time. nert ~a.::s ren.d;r and competa.nt to ta~e .;vcrt'!-'~e no.nn.;:er~cnt of t '!:e rrtroop with "?.d.Forstall as a -r.1oet a1)lc ked: ansinta..l'lt. nr~rn l,~awr 'Troop 1 had been the honor troon in the tvro countien for 7rears ..,~nnir.r, ale highest '{)OinttJ in all contest~ ::;."'1~ n.t Cn.~1'· ·n..,~., ~'crt c:1:1l~ no lonGGr give the tiTie :Iu.rry took it :1::i~i -r,.J.do n. tre:~;cnd.)'.1S nt'.~C~f;~ -;f t t wor1~i,;r: re~:\11;.' tJo hurd at it ":'he 'hove all WOrahi ';1TJGd 1 :in. ··:···en 1/on, 7':elson a:ad fOGO a.ll followcc \ • J .A.U • in turn, each n:akine a worthwl:ile contribution to the service for boys. -:;'or year::; : ;: was chalrm.n.n oft he Ca.!!lp com:nittee and later of the inprove;:re?'lt :•cam·.: a:~:::t.i..!~etcr:ttcrrr cor.rnittee" a. nialeading na.T.e for it was really a planinc coru-·:i ttee tm1 iuea of mine to prevent hit or miss development of the camp. ~To im-prover:tent, new building,oa.,ior trail or orthcr change could be r.w.de at caup without the apnroval of t.hi s cor.t'Tii ttee. It wise a.rrange::1ent and prevented ~ w~s a some foolish things r1eing done that would have marred the ca'7lp very materially .Xst.tit ~dward Carlson was the :Jcout "Sxeouti ve for- year a and a most able and efficient one as \Vell a.3 being a man of churming personality. ·.1e were greayfrienda and we spent many hours talkinG Scouting and plo.nn6ng poli c~r. ~ 7 te ·nao goine here and there many nights each week visit- in~ troops and attending conferences so our talks most often had to be at at l~nch time in the city. ;re often drafted me to sneak a.t Scout gatherings in the counties, fatner and son dinners an~ such occasions a.nd more than once we went· t·o Deloont together to loolc over some pro- ?Osed cnange or re~air. Of course it took a lot of time but my time was practically outside of business hours, noon hours, evenings and Se.turda.ys. C:a.rlson was a. good co!!lpanion as well as a good friend and we were mutually fond of each other, altho he was consieerably younger than I. I missed hir1 when he went to hio re\vard some years ago. Bryn r:awr Troo-p !;ro .1 still c:.mrl::i::m:::lu: co.rriea on under t he very able leadership of ~.val ton ?or stall Jl:. It has had its ups a.."ld downs T!lY sons h since ~tr~ ~~had to do other tings, ~~d life became toocomplicated to carry on the Scout work but the Troop is now active and flourishXug ing unr.~ er the present Scout Faster. ""'he succesn of the 7roop alno st ent irel;r on that. ·fi t.h ~ry years of conti!'luous 1 i fc we old ~roop ever increasin~ succ5. s. ccpe·J~s ';;i sr. the