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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
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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.
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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
Our First .:.Uto::obile, ;·,e buy a Ford, Automobiling in
641
1904; Those Eorrid Autos; Our First Ride.
Alterations at Rosemont (1906); ImproTements at
647
Rosemont; Furnishings at Rosemont
~elson Joins the Fs.mily, July 22, l90ti
650
.business Life; li:.aking of Buds, Wilbur Buds; Trying
651
to .!:'rctect Euds
Factory Superintendent
654
Joseph Eaker ~pears; The ~lk Condenser
655
Coeoa and Cocoa trokers
65ti
J.. "Y" Considered; Ardmore YMCA; Raising .Money; F5.ther's
658
Generous .Help, Father to the Rescue; F"e.ther's GenerositJr ·
An Unvdse · ExperimeLt; Union ~ith the City
Cur Second Auto- Maxwell, l9Jo, ~ore About the ~ell
667
I-.~y ~!.other's De£th.l901 A_Sa_d Journey; is. Lonely Wait;
titi9
S~iritual
Experier"~es;
fikfra Falls, lS07
;.:~· ttl~ther
1-tc&ers ar..d"Shoring;-Up" (Yills criticitlrr.)
676
Table crt Contents. page 9
Pa&e
169. 839 - 841 North Third Street - a new factory (For sn·eet packag~
677
ing manufacture, after seTeral years an addition was built on
the main factory); Katty Tripple, Forewoman
170. John H. Converse, Crxistian
17l._~alliam ~amilton Miller, D.D. {dies 3/10/'07? ); A Tribute to
681
Dr. Miller and His Eoys.
172. Lower Merion Board of Health; The Water Fight; Chester Springs;
684
the State Conference; More Trouble r~ith Doctors; Milk Control;
Conference on Milk; Milk Control Experiences; Progra~ of Milk
Control; Cemetary Abuses - An Innocent liold-up; The Commission-.
ers Letter ; Resignition as President {after over 25 years);
Nothing Happened; ~~blic Indiference
173. Lawrence H. Wilbur, Factory Hand, Hultman, Draftsman (designed
703
layout for over-head cars that fed different beans into thirteen
machines in "a long line, all alike and each holding five hundred
pounds of beans at a roast")
174. The Bud ~rapper, Hershey's Bud V~apper, Milton F. Hershey,
706
Factory Uniforms. Fore:mans' Meetings; Rad amaker and DeGraff
175. Lavallette 1908; the Garabaldi Cottage; C.N. Clayton's Skiff;
712
Happy Days on the Eay; the Crabbing Hole; Lavallette Again;
Lavallette Sunday School; Sunday School Picnics; Ca.u ght on
the Flats ;(Esther Anthony Wilbur, May 13. 1908)
17o. We Buy Real Estate, We Draw Plans, i',e Euild e.- Cottae;e; Folding
720
Beds; Inspection Trips
177. J. krcher Rulon
725
178. F'ather Determines to 1~arry (Anna Hutchin:
179. li.O. v;. & S. Incorporates; the Directors, Stockholders
727
130. Father's Y.edding, liotchkins
729
131. Earold Pierce and Dr. George A. llorillson Ross; the Ministry
730
of Dr. Ross
132. Ross Is Born, May 31, 1910
73;5
133. Letters to Dr. Ross; Addressing PresbJtery; Dr. Ross Leaves
733
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Bryn Mav.r; Dr 9 Ross Letter
134. Will Adopts the Ccmrr,ittee System (1908); Committee Fle.n Announ737
ed; Comments on tr~t plan; Theory and Practice; the Plan
Collapses
135. Father's Letter from North Cape (1909)
. 742
186. David Halstead, Business and Professional Club, -on Gamac ·street,
743
old Philadelphia.
187. My First Talk on Cocoa
744
188. First
Trip to the !':"est Indies {Jan. 14,1910); Cruise on the
. , 745
11
Avon 11 ; Jamaica; Cartagena
189. Cacao and the Microsco~e; Results of Study
753
190. Father i"\ri tes i'rore Lon~ Eeach, Ca.
755 .
191. Bergdoll's Airoplane
75ti
192. Family Doings
757
193. Tri~to Pepperell
758
194. A Jamaica Honeymoon, 1911
759
195. Building Number 7
780
l9o. Early Trips to Lavallette, Off for L.; Going to L.; On Our ',' ay
781
to L.; and Then Lavallette
197. Our Mother's Eelpers; Sarah Roberts and Earry Eackus, Sarah
787
Roberts; More About Sarah Roberts
198. The Boy Scouts
801
199. A Scout Troop Organized, June 1912; The Scout Troop; Early Days
802
in Scouting; Troop Programs; Troop Activities; Scout Doings;
Scout Hikes; Treasure Eunts; ~·:rernight Hikes; Darby v.roods; Scout
Camps: The County Camp Site; Camp Delmont; Scouts Raising Roney;
Scouts: Yre.r Activities, Liberty Bonds; Initiations; Conclusion
835
Forward to Digitalized Just About Me/Just About Us
Bertrand Kingsbury Wilbur (BKW) lived a long and fascinating life. Born into wealth and imbued
with faith and the idea of service, his autobiography Just About Me/Just About Us provides a valuable
window into the changing times of his life span, 1870-1945.
In 1898, BKW married Anna Dean (ADW), who lived from 1874 to 1952. He took his new bride to
Sitka, Alaska, where he was serving as doctor to a mission school. This autobiography provides a
priceless record of rapidly changing Alaska, 1894-1901.
BKW and ADW had ten children: Bertrand (Bert), Harry, Donald (Don), Elizabeth (Buddy), Nelson
(Nick) , Esther (Toni) , Ross, Anna (Deanie), Ruth (Helena), and Virginia (Ginno). Toward the end of
his life, BK’s children urged him to write his memoirs, which he did in Haverford, PA, and La Jolla,
CA, from 1933-1939, totaling nearly 900 typed pages. Copies were laboriously typed on onion skin
paper and distributed to his children. BK made an abbreviated Table of Contents covering the first 572
pages.
In the late 1970s, my father Ross Wilbur circulated excerpts from Just About Me, copied from his
xerox of onion skin pages. Early in the 1980s, Ross had his copy of JAM/JAU professionally bound.
For easier readability, he separated the autobiography into three volumes and prepared a more detailed
index for each volume. The index of the first volume overlaps with BK’s own index. Volume I covers
BK’s boyhood and education as a physician; Volume II covers his time in Sitka; Volume III covers his
life at the Wilbur Chocolate Factory, Lavalette, family servants, and scouting.
In May 2016, with my husband Roy Treadway, I visited Sitka to donate to the Sheldon Jackson
Museum a cabinet door carved by Rudolph Walton, BK’s best Tlingit friend. This door was a gift from
Rudolph to newlyweds BKW and ADW for their new home, Raven’s Nest, which was up the hill
directly above the Museum. This door, which had been in my family since my childhood, was thus
safely returned to its Tlingit home for perpetuity. While in Sitka, we were honored to meet some of
Rudolph’s descendants. Talking with them and with Museum curators made me realize how much
others wanted to read BKW’s autobiography also. Thus began my intense quest to make this valuable
historical document available “to the world.”
It has been quite a journey, through thick and thin, to complete this digitalized JAM/JAU. The end
result is three volumes, indexed, with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) added. Standard computer
tools such as Adobe Acrobat and Preview can be used for basic searches; more advanced tools can be
used for additional searches. This autobiography has been preserved in its original form as much as
possible.
I am grateful to my grandfather BKW who deeply shared his life with his children through the written
word, and to ADW and their children for encouraging him to keep on writing about his life. I am also
very grateful to my father Ross Wilbur who preserved this precious family history so carefully and
passed on to me not only the cherished volumes of BKW’s life story, but the love of learning family
history and preserving it for future generations as well.
Carolyn Wilbur Treadway
Lacey, Washington
January 2017
571.
J.A.U. pg 571.
against Father for sometice. He sew Dr. Van and I guess got little
eayisfaction but still urged me to ao into practice in the city. It
was not cny selfish motive that made hi~ try to keep me out of the
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business but it was his high ideal of the medical profession and his
di sli1<:e of the aordidne!ls of ·business in eenera.l and of the confeotionary business in particular.
'i"/111 had virtually bccvcarrying on
'the business for some year3' and naturally re~urded it as almost his
own and it Vlould. hu.ve been quite natural for him to rea ant anyone
entering it wbn wae likely to become a partner eventually. But I am
sure that was not hie controlling motive in s~ strongly urging me
to continue in my ~rofession.
I have wondered very often since that
time if he did not see the wiser snd better way.
cannot understend to this de.y how I could so easily think of
ins
junking all the train~ of nearly fifteen years, utterly dropping it
I
and at the age of thirty two begin to learn a new life work for which
any training I had had we.a worse than useless, exeept a certain
miX
amount of praotical knowledge I had a~ired in the saw mill and my
pioneer life. I say worse than useless for a doctor's approach to
his -pRtients is tar from the approach of a business 1:1an to hie oue-
to~ere while e.miseionarOf~ point ot vi~& is the sxaotreverse ot the
bnain_ese men' e. The fact is I did feel m:ccioua to junk all that pro-
fenoional experience and quite willing to go into the factory. I
told :Vill ·that ond then left it to Father o.nd '3111 to come to a deo1n1on.
At last it wan decided nnd we three met in Willa office to
mnke the final a.rraugements. It wa.o understood that l was to begin
at the bottom 1 11te any other hend with nq special priveleges exoept
g:
1 was allowed to be about fi\re minutes lato in gettif in as the
J.A.U. ~g.572.
!572.
first train in the morning did not reach Broad Street until quarter
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of seven. Then I was to be allowed to quit¢. work at 5.~0 in order
to catch the last txx express in the evening as otherwise I could
not get home much before eight. As to wages, Father wanted the firm
to pay me enough to live on· but Will thought that ae Father was bringing me in he ought to bear part of the price, which was fair enough,
and it was agreed that I would reoeiTe $20 per week. Father supplemented that with an allowance. Steve Oriole was brought in and I was
put in his charge'to be treated like any other.hand' with the exception as to hours and ae I turned to go
Will'~
eyes filled with tears
eo great was hie disappointment. In spite of that, it was many years
before he offered any opposition or was anything but kind and helpful, altho he held me to my bargin and in business hours was strictly my employer.
Mother had been house hunting before we arriTed in the East and
had located a house on Greenfied Ave., in Ardmore that came within
our means.
No one seems to have thought of the possibility of our
liTing in the oi ty or if they did Mother would not consider it. She
wanted us near her. She also gave up one of her maids to ser?e us,
.
~'~")~
an .I talien gitt, I-talia. ·11th the c.oney we had !rom the sale of
furnishings
in Sitka we bought furniture among which was the flat-
top desk that is at Lavallette now. Soon we were settled very comfortably in our little home and on the 20th. of J~uary I took the
6.15 train and reported to Steve and was turned over to Herm~~ Leon-
ard, foremen of the roasting room on the fifth floor of factory at
R 2~5-249 North Third Street, Philadelphia. Leonard soon found that
I had come to work and that I was not putting on any airs and he was
a good teaeherx and soon I
w~s
shoveling coal to the roasters.
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Thc-.t winter of 1902 was a rough one with lots of show a..<'ld it
waa no fun to got u~ in tho dark and after a hasty breakfast, huctle out in the early d~vn to take the 6.23 train for tho city.
cr.e
day was not so bad,but o.s a. re2,"Ular thing it seemed rather hard •.rr.. e
walks would not. bo sho·;el ed by th~a t time and it waa r~ good deal of
a task to walk to the station day after day. But I had cho~en it
and had been wc.rned that I "\7ould have to do it c....'1.d I :-:Iu.de no cm~l
pb.int.
The days seemed very long at first and very monotonous after
my varied life-at Si tkc. for I had in:} a large measure to be my orm
teacher e.nd I did not even kno·.v what I ahould 1 earn.
strictly the
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comp~ny ~anager.and
did not favor my
Jill ·,r::1s
co~ing
ta hie
office during businesn hours, exce-pt on business tho he \Vas the
brother and councilor
so~e
~;ora:xd:
the day ·.vo.s over. He went }!.o:lJ
hour or more before I took. that 6.11 train and a3 he
live~
ut
Devon I did not see him very often. I expect he thought I would -:~t
sick of it and give it up and, ho-ping that I wonld, he did not
show any favors. I
do~
not
bla~e htm
!or it was a sore
ment and one he never got over a.nd,ltoking back nou, I
dis~ppoint
m:1
not ou:x.·o
that he was not rieht.
Like the rest of the •help' I had a time card and I took
good care that I was seldom lete. I noticed tr...a.t Sa:nuel
l~.Vauc1e:.in,
who was general Gupt. of I!e.ld;vin Loconotive '.7orks, ';'Tao always o:~
that early train end 1 t was an ex.mnple end a. stimulus to me to see
htm there. surely,if a man as high up in such a big conpanny
fel~
he should be at work as early as that, I, a beginner,had no kick
comine.
And I did not kick.
But there was one tired man when 1
reached hone a. 11 ttle befo.re seven at nicht, so tired t!:'J..t I
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that I muot lmve been a very atupid ccrerpa.nion for
my d'eur wifo who
l!\i~UJ~ed r.1e nt lunch ~~d r.zy runninG in,no\V r..nd then,during the dn.y.
:nut ~b'ere wno never a t1ord of complaint, but a 't1orld of synpc.ti!Y
and love and intercot in my worJt.
theoretically \la worked until fivo .but,t'nore often the. ~. not .'/ill
would close the :plcnt n.'1;y'11hU.e.
and wo never know juot whu.t to::t
one to three of four or.clook
fro~
to o:>:;>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~
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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
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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]•
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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,
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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'
sorao otr;.mgo le-Yld to bo
~·c-w-ol·od
und shun-
thin~o
! never could ;:;ot nc2t:t to Jr.,l:e Cl1U I never could do
ror hii:l v.o I wiahcd to loot 1 -pln.Y
huVOC
with the facto:l.·y
end tho :ro.otory cliooi"pline. I uo.n no lonaor c.
!3:'/0tC".::l
~lio3ionc.ry.
1
~u.iJl.)OOC
that with nora ox-vericnoo, I could ho.vv found o. ·ucy to help. tho poy _
but I l:nEr.t no "'m.y cxccvt the oinple direot wc.y I :r.e.d been usinG for
eavon yenro r..nd much o.s I longed to do sorJcthinG £or t11io ro.i- tru·ul
!ul worker, i.7hooo \'lagon cmountcc.l to fi vo or oi:' dollc.:r-a u wcok l
eup-pooc, it oecncd. inl)onoiblo or,o.t lco.ot, un'i;io;,; to do oo. Loom::..l\1
wao o. kind 'boon, uo boonco co, but ho oxpcotou e full duyc
uOl'k
for
•
r ! ; :r
u. 4"' i oe /:.. ·Q......
a day's yuy und, in ct:.no or on
:n~""l'···1
'• :::ore-1~ •{,.:::e c-r1ory o tho:r
. fore::u.m-(und tho big booa toqfor tlw.t rJ.o.ttar, )end til.cy c.ll
tho.t they cO'Qt.it or ~-~~
-o6-~,""1-',.,........_._.....{,o
...,.
-o,.,r
......, ....
-..
n;__
+. tl..
... ,~ o;•.
t.;-,
interooted thu~ tho uvorar;e enployor in hia
DL"ll
-·;i
ll
WU:J
'l~:...w
to it
1.·c.r
UOl"'\:1
but Duoinoon is buo-
inesa, the lnbor nn.rkqt \J'as ~ell auppliod nnu lu.bor wo.s cheap.
An cll'On uo Hc::.~~on cot into tho Fo:intin:-: ,..oo·1 ~.,,,
~·... ':"/·..,.n"' .,~.v o~li"'O
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ono o:f o. nm:foer of
o'Qmtt:~
;,OJ
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1ooki11G 1 il::c o. at ave vi;:e
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~Cf bocr.n
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to l c
tllo ·oou.no)fron tho binha !:tbovc)i'lo-:1 into tlH; :~.-o~:.ato:::o, c.nd tho \1-..:.y::;
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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~
chocolate tru1t it 13 hard not
\.(
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to do that but tho.t is not just about me and it can be found in the
books a"ld '!)roballY will bs f'::>und with all the new and ·batter ways
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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.
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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.
ju
I
· " Are thed ruined, ~.it eYe?''
He tasted a few, ;pt:t:ti:
''1ell tltey aint exactly rui~t;}u, !:!r.TI.I:. 1~u~ ~hey is
pretty neur 1 t.
But dont wo1·ry, we kin uoe e!!l in chcn.p coatinc;s, a
little in a bl:'ltch. '1
Good old Steve!
A little l-olly, polly l.o':rencl::1nn
·.7:!::0
l:nC\7 choc-
olate 'tlaking of his dgy ~tfro!~ the 'boc...ll up'', t:.nd ·cxprt::~Biun which
always ment the highest kno\vletlga of th~J t::c.dc. 3t.::~,.~ hv.d bJ.ue eyes
..
and a pn.l e yellow gol.t.tee, \\'hen he got t:ng1.·y 1 ".'!hich \r~::-.~ selC:om, he
fe.irly snaked ·.vi th rc.ge. It
took one of the boy.s ·:rho
W:?.t.1J
wa~
a fu.cto:ry t::=:,Ji ti•Jl1 tL<'-~t he. once
skylu.r:dn;; c.cros:J his
~
end o.l1T~Y:J ~a.id thn.t. the spanking did hi!a a lot cf ~3ood.
and
wc.3
czar in. his o':'m domain.
He had very 1 it U
'3
,md g::..v'3
'3teYe
to '3£~:/
?;}1en
':1111 told him thu.t he was to be my boas bu·t no dou~t indulged in
I
:plenty of l?renoh oo.ths as he went h:nne thst night. Ile did 'nt -.vant
the bosa~s• a son ~moo-ping about the factory c:ny =nor::: tL::J:ct vny othar
foreman would. :But I was t!1e bossb son and c. foi·cig:ner never could
.T .A.U. pg. 581.
•
- 5"81.' ..
forget that Jand no matter how strictly W'ill charged him to- treat me- .1:ft
like any other 11 hand" I was always
L.~.E.K.
to· Steve.
Then ! first came
into the fe.ctory and Will put me in Steve's charge he kept at a J:tili
distanc.e, mentally, until he saw that I was in earnest, not afraid of
physical work, no snob and, above all,that I came to hin for infor.ma, tion and advice end then he almost fell on my neck
both cheeks.
·.ve
~nd
ki ased me on
were sincere and fast friends as long as he lived
even when I became the boss and Steve wes still the :?actory Fore::na.'1,
years later.
Steve had very little education encept in
C\ :practica~
wa¥,
and how he figured his requisitions was aJ.ways a mystery. He him-
•
self could never satisfactorily explain his method.
For each lot
ot chocolate, whether coatings, liquors {that ist plain unsweetened
chocolate, neither fluid, except when above 95 degrees, nor fermented or distilled but still "liquor" in the factory and tho trade.)
Or id XX£X gweet cake chocolate, buds or cocoa powder was to be
made, a formula. was issued by the manufacturing office, which at tha
time was ·,vill.
This formula was written on a standard form and
called for so much of this kind of cocoa, so much of that, maybe
as many as·five
~ifferent
l:inda; so much sugar, flavor and co-eoa-
butter, the total being something over a hundred pn'\}nds end not a
uniform amount for each ·lot.
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Later on I suggestGd that all fom.u:'
be figured for an even hundred pounds which greatly simplified
factory figuring and
co~t
j
accounting end lessened the chances of
error.
The namee of the cocoa were not written out but a code
was used to designate the kind of cocoa..
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~ve
lett~
u3ed twenty or more
~
different kinds end oft.en t:rrae grades of the Rarcte kind so it no
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I
easy matter to keep it all straight and not get the wrong kind ~in
the wrong place.
Thi~ code mothod was used to prevent the factory
men fro:-n knowing ho·P- -ee made our different :dnds of goods and only
\
one. foremf'n wan s'l.rppo!'lcd to kno':'T what kind of coco c. a certain letter
represented.
?or C'X:"~'!:!lnle, to knm1 th~.t 1~ wo.s or(Uno.ry Arriba or
Ariebia as the men oaJled it thinking it came from : .. r:;.bia. altho it
actually co!"les fro"ii -~quador, or thn n mec-ns A\f'rica."l , L, :Saheia
E;o.nd so on.
1'his code idea ws.a orir;ional with 11erry and rrao a '."lise
one but aa it was used year after year many of the ~en knew ho~ to
translate it. It ought to bhave been changed every ye:?..r or two but
the dnn~er of n mix up waa so great that it never was changad.
So ·,7111 wrote the fo:n"'lulo.s, v.e did not use the Latin for.:!l of
•
the pl1.ll'al, and after tc:tlking 1 t over with Sj:eve he tool~ it and
Viltku
. ~
figurt'ld out the number of pounds of cr:.ch l!ngredient~ wou~d be neeaed
IJ
to make the en tire vri\oun t, anywhere from a. few hundred pounds to
ten or more thotu'!Bnd o.s required on the formula. How steve arrived
e.t the proper a..'llount
".Te
ne~rer could tell b'.1t he \7as seldom wrong
and he could neither reultiply or divide. nut he got there
so~ehow
and issued his ordero to the Pun roo~ for so much ;:, or r. or L or
other
OQOOU
·aa was ne!lcled.
Hughey }!cDevi tt t the fore~nn thace
ordered P.f!:~ the rcquesi te "QOUnds plus 2o;·~ for shrinka.ge,moisture, ahell .:::c. to lcono.rd ,,vho in turn ordered from the man who haC.
charge of the
be~~ 3tores.
ordered by ne..'"Tle.
•
·~~hen
Hughey got the
foi~ula
in code but he
that cocoa cr...me to liughey to be cleo.ned of
the shelln .r.:o. he a en t 1 t on in code and so it continued thru the
rae tory until it ~crge(l to the store room as Erecilife.st cocoa,
Budn, :rrlxe Ycdnl Coo.tine, or Clirl~X J,iquor.
confessed that 1 t
71'9.3
prqtty much rule of thw.tb ~1d if r.:ir-ta::.:cs
,.·~~
DTSP:SCTION A1TD T';STTITG.
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. 583.
pg.683.
were made they were corrected or adjustments made before the fin-
1 shed product was eu'bmi tted. to 7 .lr. for final <.:.pprov~l before 1 t
went into stock. Yes, I nean exactly that.
~.nd coatins
W33
~~very lot of coating,
our la.rgeot -product, in nounds, every lot of li,;.oor,
S:Et~~ oweet chocolate or cocoa pO\vder was oub~i tted to hi:1 for final
approval.
Later on ! h[l.d that job and when
\70
were making forty or
fifty thousand J>OU.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
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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
eome yoaro later 1md the tf!JI'end ootwecm coBt unJ. sclJ:lins price wue
much wider, oo thet thr:? n1nut1u of
trol:t
of later
yer~.rs
CO'St
c.ccountin; a."ld factory con-
\"illn not so es:;entl<::.l.
I was kopt n long tiMe in tho r:on.atinr:; roo::::'l eo thut I vould
•
get
11
a thoroush knottledt;e of the
impo:rtenl. prooean, roa.ating.
r~\;v
ooco;3. unc! clao
'itOt'.ry
that t:1ost
Altho I t:rua z:nxiouo to r;et ahco.d and
mt:ct finish my fti.otary coursa, ! h:lve nc""J"cr baan
kept there eo mnny
or
oc'I·::.·~
tltc.t I vran
l
month:::; for I did 1 earn r:x:: cuco.:.:.
Tim
I
:SEA.~
.J.A.U.
BLBtTDBR •
585.
:pg.585~
I
could nnd did run the roasting room when a man wae -sick or-Hermon
went on a rare but jleriodic spree, or we were runni-ng night· shift •..
And, who.t'z more, I roasted to the.satisfaotion of J.I.I".i'ilbur and his
almost ue critical Steve Oriel!! anc. that required very uniform and
c~reful
roasting, indded.
Then there _was the bean blender, very effective· out never patenccd. '.rhat happened this way.
Of'ten different
wore roasted together where their shape
done successfully.
'i'his
~rm:tttad:
~nn
size
blend~
of beans
permitt~d
it to be
gave l:oDevi tt fewer kinds to keep
separate t:n
in the basement of t he factory and carried to the
~mtxtk
fifth floor
over our heads where they were run into bins from which they were
•
ce.ri ed by screw conve:;roEs to the rousters.
.:.1 tho they WGre dumped
a few bags of one kind and u few bagD nf another ond so on, Hermon
showed me that they
gener~ly C[>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
took 1111..,~ ct "fill's ""~u.... t~..w"t~"tt"',
nt
edce of ohocole.te.l~:J.dn,z, a diracto17 of tro.C.e, 3llp:;')lics e.nd men
tor alrto3t :j.ny 90ei ti ~n and auch a close friend that he would,vrhan
urgina tha 'Purcho.3e of an expensive na.chine, ns a special favor and
in greo.test confide:"lcc, tell aomc neoret
or
nome other factory .but
very ra.rely x~;r~a~ nal'l~ne; tho factory. :nut ! did'nt like him
I
!rom the first, I :t1cv-or liked any German, n::m or wottfu"l oince the
days of Straube, 1!1 tho old Central Hi.;h School, a"ld when, later on
I f'ound that tho 'Lehman nachinoo, nlnorst without exce~tion ei thar
did no·t
eive
else rcquirec1
the output ·:tn. Clo.i:mad fort'>.../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..'
to talk befora
reao.:h.ild home and "Ye di:sous~Hld r.ry return
'.79
fully and frM:
tha·t God call,3d na to r')·cu:rn hare as I did t~·t he eallad
to 3i t~(n.."
Eq t~tned hi r~ kind fn.ae toY/3-.l'd ~a and.,.:::!Ztti
a :-:)rophesy a.a
a·'f"!r
"B9rt, dont ever
b~x~ n'}"!~r
1<"!53
forg~t
that1
Often you aill be
forget that today you ~7J.OW it
/--- ,
I havg
I haves
tb~a
to go
with as tr.1e
i3
t~ytod
t::ue.''
tbarn. as, :!.n
r~e:n.b~red
tl"1.te.
\far~!
Yo3,
to doubt it
Thosu ·.1~r3 hi 3
dou1>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
would cotie but i ·11a.7e ~flYer lost tha c.o:rri.::tion that God l:;ad9 tls
-(
al.ho
'tbat
L
V'lr:t
.4-
r"lay not tmder3a"ld ho-,y 1 t can ba.
•:Tr,~.n
o'f God' of ny
bali~.f
'J.'he instsn&
that God y;.aa
dirac+.in~
a.~C~:?·;u:."lc~
me and. h.i:1
vision of tha futura with. ita insistant question; ·:rhy? :7hy? ·'!hy?
faith of ny l\1Ved -friend, :ao
in hi3
g~nuine
absoluta aasuranca o£ God'a loY9
~"ld c~re
s~irituality, his~·
aom£orted
~e tr~ al~
thes-e years ~,d., in no small measur-3 thay hava hel;_,ed
the fms-:re:rring oonclttaiont GOD :JOsS
But th'
ti~!!
odd
nam~
me
to r~ach
C~\..U.
had oonHJ whoo I wa3 to be 'prOMI.)ted a.nd in due·
coursa I wa3 wo~king under Hughey
anot?:ler
~cDevitt
fo:r;<-:!l't in-ports.nt department.
in the 2an-room, an
It wat:s here that the roast-
ed beans that had been cooled by air bein;J sucked thru the-:n, were
I
by
broken
~"t%
'cracked' tcohnioa.ll7, and the
~hell a
t:r.d
bro~en
kor-
:tt!')ls called 'ni"'.Js' were !leparated fro:rrJ. tha shells as.theyx;cr-..a
593 •.
•
or
ao hhat hhe air currents would blow out tAe ~all~s~ amount
nibs
n:ractically
~JJ:t:§kw 11ith the she~ls and ytlt allo"i'f no-13l:ells to go over with the
<\
nibs.
Judgement based on
e~erisnce ~aa
.
the only guide for. the regu-
1 at ion of the dampers· and the tendency was always to. sacrifice good
cocoa to keep the shalls out of
tnto t:u.cks and the
was in for a
w
::~hall
ba~ling
th~ibs. Tha nibs ~ere discharged
ootlld esaily be saen in then and Eughe:r
out if Steve came along and saw them therg. So
Hughey played sa.fa and lost tile com1Jany thousands
or
dollars worth
/
of cocoa that went out in the shells. Yaars later, at !!J.Y' suggestion
one of the men devised a machine to reclean the ahells and we round
1 t saved us many dollars a. day in thu usable cocoa we recovered.
•
;J_
•"'
.~-
.... -
he
Hughey was not 71illful about tho at ti::1es he "Nas careless :for
~1a3
It-
//
sort of' a lackada.is,._a.l chap a:tJyway, but it was a dif£1cul t.
job at b~st. The nature of tha beans, the degrse
or
//
roasting and
factors
/.
the amount of crushing were all variable 13b.t::nu-t:a il{ the process.
71th every new lot. the dampers were set and the shells caught in
a pan and examined to. see how man7 particlas 7! cocoa were coming
5
ower and then the damper readjusted as
se~ed
necessarJ. ·After
machines ran along with little attention, 'While Hughey
that thexx
ran a truclc along beneath ·the bins where
the nibs were stored by
conveyours and weighed of! the required amounts
or
the different .
kinds according to orders he had recieved from Steve.· The miAture
was then dropped thru :the floor to the 111ills below.
l!cDevi tt was no teacher and never had much to say. The ·proe
~
cess was sinrple enough and I had a harder time finding Q!.tgZt what
I ought to l11a.rn th2-"l a.."lY'W'her3 $lse in the f'a.ctory.
the ahells
~are
acc~ulated
At that time
blown into a. big room bach of the fans "ahara they
in great
hea~s ~~d
from time to time men shoveled
th~
into ernyt.y
ba.~s
that the ooeoa. bsan3 had come in a..'>J.d t:hay :rert!l !3old
for a fraction of of-o:!nt a ~ound.
3o!!ls '.V9nt. to snr.lf:f' -17n.:.~.-t~ ::1aker3,
soma to 3?ice grinders, for adul ~era.''lts, n...1d 30;zt$ ·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
ubo!!l-
r1any year3 '.1alter :Da...'
11ut shells in pa!)ar bags of a few 1 bs aa.oh nnd dold t.he:n
to ,grocers
to be 11sed in the home.
and ev9r,y one avoided it
~hen ~osaible.
The
hustler5~
our
n~~e ~or
our day la.borela's who stored beans and aup-plles and did lifting
,,
e.'1d b~ndline.xk
always growled about going thers to bag baans. Tha
s.ir was ful.l of gmaJ.l shell a and fine dust a.nd one had to wad.:J about
eles went down one's neck and up his trowse!.'11 lega
and in one's
iJleevt:t:J. There waa hardly a nook or c:ranny!l' including nose and ea:cs
thnt they did not search out. Ho,-eve:rpc
th~t
~oon
wa.a ·the
plac~
'.v.e lw.d to.
tha~~~~1i1li:x
go to test t·he shell :1 and aa it was
c:)lear t•l !'lle
~
1:11ght be very 3Teat from careless !letting ~f' hhe de:npe:rg, I 1?rent
'!1'3
the:re otten to see for myaelf just how much usable cocoa.
practically
g~ving
Wdrfl
away, nueh to ths w-sll-sa..;-iaf1.ad Rug.."-leys' dis-
gust.
It was in the Pan Roont where I :first made aoquain tanae with
the cypher
.,
or
oode and I had to get Steve to tall Hughey it was all
:right bcto~he iTould
re-vih
:kXa secte:f:s even to ·me. So I began to
try tD :reme:nber t ha.t 3 was caracas and 3:ot wa.:s Porto Cabello, tllat
2 was tlolttmbim and
;;:z
n~t
:Dn.'~uda.
.2.."'{
was Maracaibo
and Px, Domingo whil.a J? wao
It was il'l?orta"lt that I uilould remember for 7111 did
".7ant me to 71rita it C.o'V:'t.leat I lose it and eo
giY~ a-;r:~_y ~
i
'I
\Vas prayaring for: t.he !:till~- ll~ghey ~as about thi rt:r und l'l):clU.ined
in tlle.t d!;f9al't':n.eni: a long ti'r!le. /~oa hbar~ ·:ras no check U:;> 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
"the.t fo.r, u."ld tt.ere
\'lC
3u.~, olu Jo!m unrl. I side 'hy n~.de, ::-.11 day
but crc.cky, Oh! Dlt..l.'nt it mci'::e Ol!~ts fJ.rl~.\U ac'··:.e until one e;ot acouatc~ed
to the n cr.T
:But the ache
!:l.OY~ant.
\70S
not the o~ly thi:1.~ tha.t
and nou.regt thil stor..o, wo.s
I
he.d not boon n.t work
u.."l
:?..
·.1ns
I
uj1confortablc.~
grey 'bl1lc'k all o-ver the ~ack and I
hour befcr~ I felt 1 i ttle stc.bs
or
no.in
in the bo.c1~ of ~' left h:::!.."ld and t":Hm tiny drO"f'S of 't:lood n-p:9e:1red.
:J.A.U. pg. 600
600.
ond there wu:J o. r.1crry twinkle in hia little oyeo, tor ho loved hie
dry 1 i ttlo j okco, ''Loo1~ at r.1c ho.ndo'' und ho hold the~ toward no
Tiny blo.o1: or durk r:rny
\
p~rticloo
werl3 emboddcd in tho oJ::in, so
olosa tocothcr .t:t {Il:::::rum: z.a to be EJ.:mot oolid in plv. . coa.
'
r~Th<..>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
for the regular progresn of the goods in the cpouse
of manufacture on tha.t floor but aJ so on the floor above l:'..r.d the one
lte-low.
All tl:ings connidereri, 1 t!k is quite rer.1erke.ble
th~.t }UO%
pro.ctica.lly all the ·machine:J so planned O)Jerated eff'ecientlly for
:ree.rs. 'Jill and
c.nd George Lennig, our
~ltevc
!~nstor
KcchWlic, ond I
wen"':. over the pl nn ~ before final npprove.l an
th~t
greatly improved the usc of the availo.-
'bl e light.
7he lmildinG had been planned to
u~e
a vertical shaft drive to
all noors, u plan qui to in vogue at that time. 3omc\7here I had
heurd of the el eotri c drive nyat
~haft
five
storie~
to T"!Y getting :rrof.
.
long a.nd nuoh henvy bel tine. ·.1111 ooncentcd
:~dwin
J. Houaton, oneri of my former Jaeh School
teachera and a noted electrical engineer,
Ee fnvorcd the
&dVi3e us.
consideration it was
cal ehnfts
~-rere
~o
look over the plan and
electric~l ~len very
ap~roved.
otronely and after
Lntor on we learned that the verti-
found to be very unsatisfactory, by those who had
tri cd them and I waa
nhv~ys
thankful ,.,e ho.d eaoaped them.
.11th the
change to the electrical layout,..,,e needed o..'1 :nootrica.l oneineer.
that
!'ror. Houston •.Tll3 hardly available for :tr...e detailed work and auper·vision
nccest~ury
and :Jill selected a. young enginoer, David Halstead,
who proved no3t satisfactory..
Halsted w:ls e. plee..as.nt fello\9' who
knew his bumblesn but was -para.otiou1 and not carried o:wa.y by his
e
e
thooriea.
~1o
worked together for a long til!le and grew to be good
friend a.
The
~ctu<:ll
movinG of r.mchinot
fro~
the oln rectory
the new one ood the oelcction · :md -purchase o"f ne-\'
'!.l:Xtt
~aohincs ~
to
\
•
604.
mado o. busy tine. :nth tha ;>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 t
day t:.s the placinG nf the no'.v·machiner.5 l:cgn!'l vnd tLe old wones \Tere
moved ;'ncl the1·e a
Lennig hc.d o.
nUl""'lbt:r
of' outoice ·.... e.,,!"li11 wrio;htr:, :r'lo.nhinif'lta
e.nC! cl eotrioir:.ll a to s-:..rporvi .,e, !1ir,r;ers t>nd 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
.... ~·
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:;o::~owhorc
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G06 •
60G
~'!
"T}3
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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 w
ior to linton to fino mut•_:, or other ro= of
It
wv~
to Urin:; the neigh-
cntc::-t~l.nr1cnt.
The meet-
a deli :;!.tiul ero•.t9 o l p eop1 o lncl udin;; suc!l me.• a.nd wo!ll•
>10-G
;.us tin , .1ilfred P o1vell, }'o• all • if you >'l c u so, hritislt
•.
rew ·
~rei 1!• en
~ t•n nul
at
o thcr s who, u ith th9 1 r .,. i '-' os :.md aome of tho older
sons end dO.UI!hters were the crCU.'"!l Of the )iio.in ]..inC oaci.>t.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 •
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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
•
~cason introduced }f.r. Is<-:.uc G.Clothicr to 1·o~ond to the too.st, "Rc-
inisconce~ nYld ::::-reri·.::nccs. > .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
•
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Tt"!...:!.._];t
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,.,.,..J
;J,
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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 h
:Jr.Gur:tnery g;;.vo "tho Irioh toaut_ to his nothor-
in-lo.;v, "c;od blco her .nut I Ylill not insist upon it."
3x-u.ov. Put-
ti ~on told, in u :t.~P.9Y -;u:..y, variotu: expcriencos unu atol·i ea. 'l'he
r.:.e=J...
bers tr.e!'l c.r·osc a."l.ci ::w.ng 'J..uld LG:.ng Synct and. po.z·tod r.iti.~. kinkly:!
toel in~ nnd :r.wny good wi £:Le~ ~.s it \Vna tho luot mea tine; ot: the season~:
I h~ve ~rittcn these minutes,ulmJst co~~letc, bco~uac they
show the 1dnclly h:-1ppy a'iri. t c.i" th·~ 1·: eighboro,:w-:1 they could play
•
and/Jo'Peci ully, the ci~pl er, -r:1ore naturul .::.nd I think
rc.u
btJt.ter soc-
ial c,trao a:?~ei·e of t)!o ao dc.ys. 'I'r.:.e Club c•)n tinuod tm til 1012, when
1 t o~er1cd to have !~D. filled. i t3 :purpose u.a puoplc tu:ned :mu1·o end .,. •, :_
to city entel:t::lin.":l.ent c..nd interesto. :.;h.arloo .Jililon
nnd. I c.s secretc.ry uore directe•.l by o. a:ac.ll
gi"C1Up
[I.Z
I'l'ea.ident ~
of the old go.urd,
all who uttendcd that last meetinG, the liJCih, to perforn t~:c necessary ob~eq,uie::J and the :ITei.ghbora' Club 'vv.s dinb:J.nded •.i'.nnu and 1
felt very sorry to sea the end of it for 1 t hod meunt c. iot to us •
Lil:c r!lOSt r1en 11ho wor~cd hard I waa glad to drop in to c. crJl.!.ir aft~r
·tho evening dinncr'·":md just re2t 'but t11c .regular c~.11 to Bot tend the
club necting,while often kal:d:x:tLL..,~
t~'!ple:.\eunt in 11rospcot alwa.ya
brought refreshment ~l'ld 7ilea.sure when we c;ot into our cJ.ud ro.ga,
alw&ys evening dress end t~il cou:~s !o:r 1~hc :.."J:en, and v:ore at the m
•
meeting. 1:uoh later, when we had :c.oved to P..:1berten- a."ld tl:a ~oose
hung hir;h. I planned with .:mnn to revive it in n kiodified way, i::'t
invi tin3 fl'icnde to our hour.:sa to hear a tulk by
:o~c ,proii':J:::J~or
frd1
:Br~Zawr o( Ro.verford.a. noted clere:nn~:.n or othcl' wortl:;-rhile spe:il:er
I
609.
nnd not to rotate tho r.rmatines at different hor.'ll3 but hn.ve them all
a.t Anberton where we ">7onid 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
,
n
factory wan O'Pera.ting it se.,od best for me
'?rnctic~.l
work ":fhich ho.d been interrupted by the
plnnnin[l enel inotallin;; of the !'lochinery. cur f'irot thour;ht was to
hc.ve o:n. a nc-puro..tcd
-probl~
dr_iv~p
led
~10
~otor
to the
for e3ch nanhine but further 3tudy of' tho.t.
'~r_ou-p
drivo' whero e. nutlber of r:H.1.ChinetJ
al'O
bY One motor n."ld we found i t ,oat satiofo.ctory. A few ot't'bhe
lcrcest r.1o.chincs were dri vcn by oinr;lc motol"s. :.1 terne.ting :::otors
~tere junt coninG in but
~t we thoucht they vtcrc too uuch of a.'1 ex-peri•
ment to risk then.
Tho n ~ factory was a joy inx
~any
-.vo.ys, ao full of l ieht e.nd
so well ventilated. The long hoavy belts of tha old syaten of belt
'
\
and shaft dri vc were gone with thei. t conot.unt bother end the it
h!!llZ
continued noioo ond dustiness. There
krit were belts and
ing, to be sure, but they were
"
.
The ·'Old pln..."lt, ":'lhtm I firat
~
mo~tly
ca.':l.C
sJ~ttaX
short drivco ond li,>ht >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
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fill c.l . llo llc <:ao tl'c 1 act
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to b oUeve
J'
•e
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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~
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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
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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 XYJC
see·
_,
thins yu eottu w~tch,
with that friGhtful •see' almost yelled ot you
was very
for~aoo
fond of Coin;; aun his pupil understood perfectlY as he went alon&•
-:;ell, after thais rather painful couroe in theory t:nss t11rned
mo over to one of his men, a yount: Je-,v, for prv.cticul a.»plication
of what I had learned. can't
r~erober
his
n~•
but I'll almost ouro
tt.e first namo we.n Abe, but thoro was no theory in hiD aysten of
tca.chin£1• no ss or no boss, son of "Ur. JIQO. or not, you go to it .end
I
•
run the presaea and I'll tell you if' youre-wronZ•
J.nd 1 did. J\}lo
would •nt lHt a finger. ne was close to mo, every minute watching
like a hfl\Yk
rutl
then~ Jlot
tor helping a bit now and
u·
I made a miotnko but as
ror Abe.
~ut
it woo good train-
ing if it was r11ther startling to be told in no uncertain toms
just where 1 got
orr.
mfror run nor was
nut ho was n good sort,ho was•nt u just riding
h~ or disagreeable. l!o,
ho """ nice and
friendlY and ul tho he al.l the othe:6nen on tho floor
w~Y he was driving me,
their nlecvas at the
we parted sood friends.
Some
year~ I
net
atill 1
l~>a;;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 ';
dlc throu[.;h. ore l::ept at 1 t getting a li ttlc nearer to tho aolution
of the riddle each tine, until with n ooro concentrutcd milk vrhich
we rnn in a hot melange ~~d in that way evupoxatad more
or
ita
noiuturc, we mnde a oilk ohocolu.tc which Will e.cco.ptcd a11d put on
tho Market. '"/hile :\. t
'
\7U3
not neo.rly o..n r;ood nn the ~wioo ::m.nple
7111 bro~lp;ht, that was Peter'~, it 'ltao l)Ulu.tnblc unC. different
and the flrat domcatic mill: chocolo.to oold. in A:.:1c:ric6. and, for u
timo had a larGe sale.
Before long o. amoll compt!.."lY ihe !d.cnl Chocolate Go:':lpany o.t
Lititz brought out o. milk chocolate much nore like ths Swiss e.nd
nu-perior to ourso.nd our oaleo begn."l to fall
orr.
7111 ke'?t inoiat-
ing thnt I make oo~e like the ~wise nnd it was a to~gh anai~~ont.
Then F.erohey r;ot a hold of a. fomule. v.nd
soon
swam~ed the country
ret~il deal ern
'Jlere
"Prett~r
by
~ethod in sene way und
cutting ~rices und getting boats of
to tt:ke n box on connign:·ncnt, no oale no 'PtlY a.'ld
well elbo·wed out of that tro.da.
:7111 '.7an pevish
\t.;t:..
end~
co~plaincd that.he had'nt a nun in tho factory who knew nnyth~ng
about nrikine chooolate.Of coursa 3tov~ and ovcry one wns trying and
'
ond >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
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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 h
passing interest, even as n matter of courtesy.
So it was inevitable th~t ! gradually drifted a~ay fro~ those
associations, and an increasing sense of separation from all
~~
~k~ things medical grew stronger and stronger. There was no
'Y'
or similar association atthe College thru which
the livea
~
or the
I could touch
students e.nd I had not:it:ldm time to start such an
aseociation end push it. ·rt see~ed that the door was shut, and shut
very ti sht. !.nC. oo r!!.Y dreo:::;,s- of still hclpine the :.:issionr:.ry C!<1use
evaporated very slow·ly,- not
)cauae I lost interest in the Gause
i:Jut !;ec:::..'!.Ise there see:::1ed to ' ~ no ponsible wo.y to ~~:w.ke them Q-OCe-
J.A.~r.pg.
\
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realities. But other
.:md I
'\7rt!l
op~ortunitien
624.
624.
of service
ca~e before~
gl ud to tn~-:e o.dvo.n ta~e of the:l.
It was
cu~tonury to clo~e
or longor to Mn}:e
tc~o.iro,.
tho factory durinG July for two woeka
0cnero..l olcanin;; ::md paintinG•
men wore gi von hclf' lJD.Y for the luy;.6ff bnt tlu(o:rdii.;a:r;/
no thine;.
co·n~1on
such t:hinc;n ·;1crc qni tc
for the men with ot\t :·n;.:r
becannc
long
11e
The fore-
hol~
were paid
u.nd we felt no obl1cat1on
but felt ruther l)lcuood '\tith ouroclvos
-p!lid our forO':!lcn. In vo..rt thia cu::;ton wun
du~
to the dif-
ficul ty of mo.:!.:ing chocolo.to in hot -?Tcc.ther for air ooncli tioninc and
refrigeration of la.ree areas
or
wor3dng space _wo.s not thought
prn.cticublc a.Tl.d it certainly wan expenaivc.
~u
.
Bnsidc that no exteno-
ive painting could be done >Tith 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
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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
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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 h
•
bre.Ufo.ot or lfhlltever it ·.vs.s, the l.rtport.mt thine 11o.s thc.t it wc.a
a meal, chase the boys a minute or tU!llblo ths:n u.bout :tl;..u.s they
shrieke~ith
glee
~~d ~
a good byo kiaa, not juot a hurried
c.t her cheek, end awcy to the train e.nd tomorro...r
l)OOk
nut a.t the tc.otory thero norc none
ds.y.
or
'ftU.G. anothor
tho day-tir10 inturrupt-
1onG, ""could study: road I;tvlco experimm1ts in betveGn my rroquont
;..
,
I
triprs thru tho inotory. 'I'ne night forom~, ;;enero.llY John :iur-pby,
younc;
a. mighty nice Irisl:tno.n, t;.nd the acme o~o -whor.1 stove hu:d a~unkod in
. hio boyhood C.¥pc.rently to Jolm' s
lnsGobd,
would come to tho
cubby -politely culled the ~Janutc.cturing 6ffico, with a oa:n:ple or
nal ted cor-tins from one of the big chasers in tho bD-t.Hr.n.ont. It
vra.s my job to see if it
on
fi~c
ii'O.S
t
up to the an.tandard whichvro.s o.J.wuya
in the office. Ita color, finm1cas, tbinncsa nll had to be
~~d if not ricl1t adjuo~ento h~d to be made. If. ok. then
5000 1 bo in tho T."lO.Chino could be ~oir;rtad off in ten -pound r.·:-:
judged
the
oaken \Jhiah vsro Wl'n:pped in :.na or trio trd.ckncsoco of -p:.::.per o.ccord•
627.
J .A. U .- l>G• 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 th
alwnyo been oy exporianco that the beat way to got tho beot vork from
tvr.-.u
mon ia to wo~i th thom. 'l'hc other ~ tallow& who \~ packinG mtttE'd
smil cd when 'th-ey" omv tho paoo I net I for e. na'i mo.n
who wonts to show
,
~
'
othors wha.t t s vha.t olwcys. starts that way and they excted to see me
slow doam D.fto/th9firat cuso or two. Then I did •nt ~J l.:>oked 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!
bec~~e
•
no run
do~
in an effort to provide her
~t:x
little girl with
the best bn.by-food ·on oart11, and why I cu.-:::e b.or1a from Cann.C.a. in a.
rush •
~o,
I TaB not absconding
n.nd mother a.n·d Rel en~· ct
~ut hc~inc
:.rather~
a lovely rest with
s.t. Father
salmon
River , n ea.1· Tad'O:"oac, Cc.no.d u. l?a t!lc i ll"d joined a :: r. !'.eel oud of
Boston in the ])Urchnse of tho fiohinr. rir;hts on thst beautiful little river and contl'rJlled a section of it
secure even nt the.t tir1e, und there
vr~.s
ontri~ht,
a ra1.·e thin&; to
n. vet·y vtell trppointed ca..'ilp
there nnd Father too1: me olon(l an we "'ere c.l.wa::rs good chUms in tho
woods tho we did not have no
ma~Y
interesto in
co~en
about home.
1 went wl. th him to the 3t .::ergueri te " nt1mber of times and I'OWiH
}:EUC«t as i t i s as ao c 1 o. ted ;vi th manY han]) y
•
:n smo r i h
!lll d
W'i th a. ve cy l!Ell
sad one it deservea somo descri?tion.
The whol~ tri~ wao interasting, u~ ~long the Hudson River to
the Gt.Lawrence ~
~~ o,uebec, arossing~Y rercy fro-n T'oint levis for there "'e.e
no brFe e the.-., :11c quaint n1 d town , t.hc l'.<::tn hotel , ed 1 cd Cllll.teau,
l?rontine.o, close by tho iiei;:-:.tc cf tJ::::-r·.:".or! rrith meno1·1co d ..7olf
e.nd "ontcalm,
c1~ 1>:;
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:o
there'? Yes for thin tri-p seemed a. duty to Fo.ther o.nd Hother v.nd· 1 t
rras too ldmg for our yqung fa."!l.ily, too
~any
changes and wni ta. ;:.>o
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
/
wish that that she were going too. She ra.aY have :rel t lonely oi' that
married life
~as
not all she had expected it wou1d be but 1! she did
there was never any indication of it in !ace or Yoice or act, and
•
her letters were full of ha~?iness and cheer •
Solman were no new treat to me. I had been with ffuther
on..h~on
fishing before a.nd it seemed to me a weary drudgol'Y• DttY after d&.Y,
hour after hour, stondine; in t. canoe c.nd casting alone; line itith a
nine foot rod.
~~an
tho the rod.wns nott so
hea~J
it
~~felt
as
tho it weighed a ton boforo many hours had -passed. The .guide or one
of them would relieve the fidher when ever he l{iahc
if~
a fish struck tho fly, the guide would heck him
if he could end then pase the rod to the sportmnan• Lut that was not
considered the best form tho manY did it. The sportmnan should lure
end attract
~is
own fie
o·~
fish. If there had been a strike
hour 1 t would not have been e.o weorJaome but often
~
there was not e.
strike oll forenoon or all afternoon·, s"\Y six hours finhing, end
I
that did not look 11)ke fun to me who had seen salmon eo thick I
co•lld catch the:o in mY hands, cf course, the fish \7ere large e.!td one
might strike at any no::lent
:m<'~
there was tl1e facination o£ tho
cha.se and they cel·tn.inlY did ·r · ght IYhen hoo1::ed, still I' U. rather
II
JI G'H'H0!
f loh for
G32,
J.A.U. -pg.G32.
trou·~
"irl t1.!. tho
co.tch one Pi1ltaon
pJ.·cc~H;!O t
o1 cu.tohing a dozen pr two thm1
d'LY' tf:;.u.t is I thought I ·.:~ould until I had ouught
li
my first saltlon •
.'lhen :Te first cu.":'le
to
went to try tho poolo un
tl~z;J
river .;.,u.thor took t'.Vo · guide3 c.nd
200!l U:J
poeeible. That ought to be the cream
of t}:pfi niling for t he ri 3h :::.1··~ qoin~ u )otrc::;:--J to o:>:;::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
lr:!. c(1 lmrd to
,,.v.ntcc to l::n 0\1 if
ax-~,.,1
....I.
c. in
~or1!C thine.
':!Ot:.l,d j i(; • ~i'hu.t
:u~inc.lly
I mu.do cut thut they
t(
fOl'~i
~hy
zalmon,,ocrtin~nt.
II
wo, sulnon, cure, yeo cel·tn1n. That scened to pluo.se them.
0.
i/e
lot and
to ny au:rpri~e, thcy1uJu.do:l for t ho nhoro. ll.t the Fools wo oaet
•
fro1:1 the boat. '!."ho:,r l1~dcd jnst bclo·,:r thut 6-:Jld brook o.nd tha.t wo.s
63::3.
h2~ boc~
often for the
t~crc
ccnoid~rnblc j~~bcrinc ~hich
t ; !) :.:
\
Oi)Ort, ·.-;;;;re
1--:·r
.1
v
~-1:;7\0:!{tJ
cr:;
t:Jc ''c".rc
a;-c:"Jcr~~lvc.
otre-.J.n,;cst
pcrfon::~:~nco
indec::
~:!.'..S
t
~
Joe
I
fl"/ aa
t~-~ -~
in
~ore
1 in. o
:-·v
net.'.nt n:->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 nn
the roel rmttld. hur..1, -the two
h~.1ndn~d
fc.'l.l'c.n
(11.'
oil~
llnu, ulao cxpen-
::d.:Vo 1 runnin'} out with otnrtlinr; spoed • .:Jo i·t went; l:ccling in t':ld
r:;,ccC.tn;; rut, n.l·.;o.y:::t cn.rcful not to lot llim Get uny nluclc. :;"iftaen
:::inute~;
Lour bcforu he oucmcd to tire c.r.ii tl-.:.)
-!:! h~lf
t:w cv.ncc slo-:tly tc'\7ard
I
ly one
.1-
'
.,.J
·'
• •
., ,
1
~t
'.'/Drl
tht. Eil·. . ort:.
-~';low-
I cot out, 'i"tatching -m:y 1·od und rool ,u.nd vullked
ca:·-~fully
_,_ "~' .,.. • ., ' ... •1 '-.~" ··..!. ·· ·n,..
~
~
•
! a sloping art:.vol b::.:nl:
r:1Cn
•
•
4
,..~ \.I
"" {.,;" 1· ~
otl •·\.I
,.. _ _.,,• ( '•..,"'...,
._~
.1 -•• .., (.;
heel: on
·u·. o
or
end
.,1
i.¥1¢$4-w-
•
.T.A.TT.pe 634.
634 •
1.'1 un ae t'!'l:\t· hoo}: thru. the fi ohcs 'br:.ck nnd (lr,2.,!"~
_ _ 1~ i !1. r::. n} J.O re, ...,r:'lo.ee-e-e
.a
the reels yells en~ the
after
hi~
3!llt1cn
1 o c~·n:1y to deep '.Inter '-~G=-i~ ~d we
in the boat.
t~t le.nt, it l'!:".W 1-w ..re been 'Jf-l:er o.n '-·our, Joe r_:~.ffeC. ,_,i~1 and he
P.
lil tins T:-,renc h r;onf~ they ahvays :.anf!. •,vhen they had ~.:.c.de ~' c&tch
1
br·~
.......
e:"ld. were
the
•
e"::t~.B
bend
'it1 ather heard it before we ho.d rounded
s!ll'!!on home.
~!ld
wc.o wo.i ting to ;rreet me, not wi t.hout n bit of dia-
a-"rpoin~e"lt 'beca·H~c a greenhorn he.d cnur:ht a cclmon •;;i:4cn the Old
Ti!'l.cr
!l~.d
failed. :But he
l;l unc•.?sJ!'IJ thnt !
violnted one of the
I
h~.d
~n(i.
con't'1i ttod th(.l
~ro c'.d
c~tch
cri~
rule3 of oalmon
heinou~
.
nn t?l.s1 r fnnoo
rne!1,
!H~
which
1Jl'O,t0.1y·
h1..-, cf my
t0,.•~
llOOl~
~o
heo.rt-
for I had. -I-had
fisher~, b~okcn
~~n
the
a true oporta-
stn of ...~ ig~inr;-:''.
inntonc1 of ntunding
thny
u~nally
hn.·:'. just kind of faded. mvay. and when
-vn.rtic'..t1.n.r~,
:.1nd conr-rntul2-.tcd
utterly di s[;raoed eysnlf.
T hn.d noticed that the
a
a~ort
bm~ r.1y !ttand in oha:JG
stron~e3t
1 ~lT:J of fly-fi zheT~:um
r.~:
tn
ou.~ht
a good
U'~s
u~ound
with
did o.fter u oucceanful
~;-ather
bego.n to a.ok the
where dicl I hook him and o.ll that nnd I
~~i11
the horrid t¥..!'Uth ca:.1o out, I illill
. scolded a."tc ctriot orders give!'\ thnt there i"a.n to be no nore j1gg4.q.
i::-:.e but the fj.nn
":T:l!i ::1
;·alcn:"lr! ar~·H+;ion to onr lnrider·~ one thv.t
... 1 ,.
-.i •
•
" · .} •
635.-
I>C•
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 fiohGrrrl
The ':l'~olc rig is
compn.rativcly lir}nt, the lead~r ±n..--m :mv..r.:la of a single strend o~
silk "orm r,~1t i
s nine feet long and will onl~r E'.ta.nd so much and
when your fish stu.rts to t;o he generally goes,e....,..,.d if you try to hold
him too hard y~ur 1 eadcr gcner[l.lly snaTJG or thE: tip of your rod
breaks or you li!fe, if you have failed to dry it carefully or tried
.
)
to economi2e ~md ,.xsed it too long, snaps a.i"td tho..t:J the end of that
sa.lnon. Beside all t1w..t, in jiggi.ng a fish is seldom if ever hacked
in the mouth but in 3one J?art l')f the body, even :z ::ta in the tail as
•
.
61 a.ther' a uroved to be ..:>r ;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·
"
I
long
r~p!c
.,
lo~t f"ri~nd cnd
7
bnek he went with tho npeed of e. falling star.
-:.;idle •n1<:t:J mare thot ;m,suished
After rll.cro than
u~1 llO'.lr
~!lpeal
smote the quiet nir; lG.sF THAT
if very .stronqo,ls worl: but lotn of fun
t,)Wp
...
t
I
':VALTCR
157,J.CK~~TT,PAIUT3R
I -·~ot
fl" sh in
''nr_l,
- ~
~"i.-y
O:b, FISH.
J...._., ..,
~
f.o~
..T • ••
u •
Tl"'
.rt::t• 6~8
\)
-""-f"e" t4- 1.
b.u~. . no t b c f
u~,
,..,
"~~~
638 •
•.
~re
:t.
~hat
s a.l~o11 had· ·
us out ana 1~1 t!le b:Jut a nunbcr of tine:J ~:~.nd each ti:"lc ho tCJo}: t.nother
run he 0tarted :-'other shouting. s11ortly e.:fter "'e :had our fish safe
in the
c~.noo
tlle ,uay a:ld
1)ro•_lgnt his fish to 2;nff while '.'re 1::-.y o~f
~'<'.t.hcr
caution:::d
7c1c
~:!:-,.·}
t1~c
not to tell r.:..'"'!yc:me eopccialJ.y his friend, ..rr.~l-~el· z:c::
or let'..t:;ed, a little ·-may
r ivcr. Of· cournc t}le gnidco told t!leir
thr:ir fricn
50
friend~
~1C.
on f.l!ld coubtlcsa :_-;-r.Draclret.t heo.rd ull
they told
~~bout
·it but if he did he wa.s too g0od a. ::rports::1.cn ~o nentinn it. It
thnt OP-:"'1.0
wo~.1
t:~t
11 t-
ht.• felt gnilty uiJo·-tt jiccing und
nrc.c~:ett, ·.-rhn was fir>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
.._
¥-ie
l'··c~:.., .... _ "
.........
"
C!l;-:!p, t,.,
~-1"'.1
the forest to f1 sh fnr t.rnut in a f.:rlall luke th.i t tl.c :;ui G.uo ou.id
wns so full of t.r:..,nt th;-:-..t -t~}]ay s<;..t m1 the·:.r trJ.ls O!l !,\.:..,:::on loG:J
und usjed to1J0 a~·-w;~l'!~
:10
as to
1::•1t o•.tt of' tho
Ol' worc/sto thnt
O:L""owd~
effect. I cU~(not. nndc:cr;tn."l,) Yl"onch var:; 'ilO~.~-. :.·to cc.r.".c .fii·nt to
'bcf:l.ntifu1
lak<:~, cl~nr
r~ m.o~Jt
r·!'> 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
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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
An
It wan indeed so;:
a good part of the tir1o a!1d yet one of our oalesnen,
to Cincinnati from. I'hllCi.deluhi:..,
a one
i~
\'ient
./.~.Adana,
Uadillnc and took
cylint:.~er
his wife and ~ alont:r. ; .. 3 I re::r1onb~r, it took the:"l Li.bont five dcys
and witht:r.e exception of :h.::.tvi~g to be towed out of c. mudh,le now und
aorious
then thc::y ho.cl no'\ troutl e. Adt-~a went to a.ttend the Con!"eotioncra
national Convention E.:nd he hc.d n lot
•
or
free advertising tmd
'\'IUS
quite a. hero Md, beside ho cold tho cc.r for about ;700 ·.rhon he Xll:Ulhlld
reached hone tihich wns only c hundred lees tho.n he
for
p~ld
'Jhen Jobn ·.vuno.r:w.ke1· r;.nnounced· thnt tha cha.ocit! of t·he
it~
ne~:r
.llord
automobile which actually ht.d T·:m cylinders \7ould be on dioplay in
his store in the BOOK D::rA11T.1I.:HT near the 'I!hirtcenth
(of ell placc:J,) there
:jtrect door
considerable cxci·~t.r.ent. Tho two cylinder
\7f:l.S
t'caturc 1ra.s revolutionary. and people f:'locked to see it • .Father and
and I a.."7long thc::n.
He
·~;~a
not 1:1uoh interacted but I
There 1 t
\70.3.
was, oasily finding nbundant roo::n in tho aisle of the store with
1q1
/~
fDO"
pco;>le 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
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e
e
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'"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
'
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•
-.t
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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
~,.,_,
............
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,~
...
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
would buck fire and buck a~d often. tho orenk would fly aro~~d and
breru: yo~r "Wri3t.
·.vo
It tta.s qu-ite a ao-::rnon accident.
rco.oh.ed ho:oe "'111 thout mi oho.p rutd l!ot.hor V..'ld Helena
and Uo.d-
aline TUshed out to see the wonderful contraption and wanted to
take a ride. but I wn not eo sure about llother. Of course everybody
e
m~st he:ve a driving cost'W!le, lon;.; con.ta called duntera,goggles to
e
•rt; es;u;;s:; ·
~ri~•!lf"P.
protect the. oyez fr~~ dU3t t'Jld tnm for there wa.a no wind sh1old or
'
.
tc-p, f:lovea with big r.:c:::.ntle·~.~ for tbo driver to kce:>: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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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•::ws; ;;; +PYP'
house before
Hanes ,,.ere some-
xwo".r.--·•-•r--
650.
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hc.rd to choo oc but when I told ~'/ill of our n e\r baby he said h13
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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~
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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, l
11e
were with
four 'boy:: and one ,s.irl oo~~i tted to our care und kecpina, I was 36
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end. Anna just paot 02. She nus tho dearest nether, devoted to her
cro..ildren D.!ld juat az devoted to her huobs.:..nd. Hever
y;ss
there a. word
of com-plaint or even an admission of weariness. 'Jo were all blest
with good health ond we were hcppy, ho.ppy,principally becG.use
blessed influence of
~~n&'s
life
a~ong
or
the
ua.
There seems to be very little to write of my factory lifo at
thin period for it ·,van eo largely routine factory \vor!<:, varied at
times v;hen 77111 would send me with George r.ennig to see tloo.e new
mo.chine or improved device. :ct. mm :.t±!i~
These trips ond ro;r associa-
tion with Lennig in factory probl~e brought us nearer a~d nearer
together and ·,ve beca~e clooe friends. He a.ud hi.s \Vif~ come to a.pend
one Saturdoy afternoon at our Rosemont l~use for a ride in the ~ord
and to
~
t~tay
to oup-per and George was always loyal and hel:pful
ara! I
believe was less moody as out friendship grew. One of the great
rt"'[;ret!":l of r::.y 1 ife i ~ t{lr-.t yc~_l1s later ~0~c r.t!l'3unde!'~tcnding came
between us, the details I hnv•, entirely foreotte:-1, b1..:t ! t hurt
G5l.
G~orge 3-111 shook hi:J .t'al th in n.a and rrhat was 7Tors;;;, !li3 ·tlone too
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strops faith in hi3 fellow :.!tm, ~"ld. I,r~ar,wha.t llttla £aitl;6a had
in God.. I bl.ve
aJ:I~ays ~..1}' that
I
ought to have
3<3-Ved
hi:!t f:rom t£l.at
n.nd I ha·n~ some 1w.unti::lg ~fear tbat I wa3 in ao:na nc~~.sure to blat1e, but
!
oanno ~ recall
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of the d-etail3 of th~ trouble t.}~() I .:Cava ~e>Jn 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
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\"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
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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
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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
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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
usual clean inc;, were all hcnd picked to take out tmY t1ny bits of
rhak
shell had gotten by the funs. T1:c finished pasta was either moulded
..,
in bloc~£ D-"rld co.rrie(';. in cold storage or in the hot roo:u. u!1d then
I'eground and put in the hot room for twenty four hou.lil' oore • ./hen
it was finally ready to mould, or be dropped from those funnelo,1t
put in the refrigerator
was like jelly and had to be k::mcn:z.d:. by hand a::s a."'l.Y other conveyor
wpould h::;.ve shaken the for:n down and nn.de the Buds loose thei:t
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pleasing cmd
chari-e-t~c
c:u:..pe.
There 1rere 20 ?laces for a bucl on eaoh tin mould, niclle steel
later, a...-,d Lennigs na.chino filled :the~. all at once by :::1~ing 20
plungers pres"s the cllocoll:ite th.....-u 20 holes in the botto!:l plnte
a large hopper.
or
A slight movement of the device that fed-the tloulds
to the machine, made thc'jug handles'perfectly. It 3avcd a Lot of
labor but
-.re
\Tere never able to tif.~t! find uny ·.va:y to convey t•.he
filled moulds to the'ice box'.
All refrigerators in the factory,
were alwD.ys !'ice boxes'' to the men. The formula. of buds was never
and ':!ill, of course,
written out, except. in tho cost book, and only one man beside steve.A
wa.s supposed to knm7 the for.nula. So carefully was the secret guarded
to
but ix just shows how impogsible it ic to keep such.things secret
one of our men who
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disgruntled by being discharged for bad con-
duct, ( thu.t se..r1.e Billy Keen vho worlced with me on the milk chocolate,)
au-vertiocd in o. ?hilo.delphia pa-prer, ""Jiili:/ sell the !omula and m
rrtethod of nakinG :iilcur ::ud3 .. .Eo:( so!.: ~o." 'but no one ever made
tm:.>:~Gpi~U: anythinr:; of t;:c ::ir.,' of equil qm:l i t:r th~ there were plenty
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S.A.U.pg.55:3.
io.i tations a.s timo went on. The Co::lp~"lj:' bo.d registcrud tha trade
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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
c
und sold aa auch r:wn:r re:>reaentcd
to be '"lilburs nake. ·:ro ,roneouted o.nd
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thrc~tened. Our attorney's
, l!org<::tt Le·."li s at1r/nockiua, -..·rare consul ted and bu3y; we tried so!:le
distinctive colored
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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
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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
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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
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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
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3u.,:;;_;cstcd ·.t~s ~7or"th a hund:·cd doJ.J.ars, a.t lcv..st, u~d if it ·;n~;:; not
uG.optc
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tl:o rrcno roo:n fore·,,_o.~1 -.-ran c=:;pcciall:/ t::o1(:::l ~rFi;::c in thio -.-;uy ~..nd
I could lnrcllf t;o :'le;::i..l" hi-:'1
yu 5ot
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I 3cnt
th~t ide~
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n 1. t.r. It ce:rtninly
e7cry
n~c
ho ouggostad.
Jo ocph :2a.l:cr !;Co, of -:fill esc:e:'1 Junction, :1ear J,rnd.o·::t c::L-nc to us
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in;; at thu.t gentlemen ha.cl co::.1cthinG to
co
with it. :lhe hcc.cl of the
l"Jlglish finn, Joseph :3.:..1:er 1 c~::..e to ~cc u: c:n~ pro~:cd. to b~ a gen-
ial elderly '~u~Jl~cr. He sold '.t:> ~ :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
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'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
~t
al'lOn..
:.:.n~ t:.::rned~-n;~ ~ocn J~o
to keep in the cylinder
:ru."'l.,.
:resul tt'4 -::--r9re wo1·th all t,;,e
:nut tl1e ~"0.1-J>:::! :r,:A.a.;~ tro:1bl c for tl:e nil:k po7tdo:: ~;·:3 produced
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process or nne rtuoh like it for ::1nn:r ycB.:-3.
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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 :!:: .
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indee~.• 7ell, our good· quaker w-a.o oversan~r•.unc:t ..,o pu~- ... "' ::1.!..
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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:
of condensed
·to 1 e~ ne work in their factory and see how 1 t
was done. I ~ sure it could ha7"e b.ee:1 arranged but no one 3eer.:1s
to ha7e thought of it. Ona of tha greatest r~ults of all the ~T~{X
vtilburn, except possible 1:a1·ry, -;;ra.s that of' stayL"'l
new
in their own four ";'lalla a.nd not naking contacts.
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Thercs was soma
excuse for "fill '.::ecause of 1113 deafnass altho he ~-~id g:)
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~mt opinion at least, snid •,tith entllu3i3.lrn1, "!To11' that is tine :::::a~\
eneoal
'7fp..y did you not ona:'l r:1e that o.t first'?
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a."ld ha boug..."J.t tna
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::1a.:.<~ .ni3tU:·<:::~3J "iJut not often !::rr he· ·;iaa i.~ a .tina judge of
uoc~a. ~).nd a 3::-1:re·,,-d lmy~r. :rl~'3ide tl:.at it 7tas ris~Y 11:.usinana tr'Jing
he diu
!
fear
inor~a;.Ji!1:;1Y
.30
in our :pri:1ci:;>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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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 t
-'
so I can "'!ouch !·or i +, 7 ;:md he got the twenty five but I never aeemad
•vO b e a bl e· ·(#o
·~ ctu.
., trra~JUS
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-rJ..CGr:t nannar or~ s.pproach •
:Jut it had ·to be done end like a cold. bath it
••
~.
~vas
not ao hard
after yon actually :Jtarted. '1'he work had to be done at night for I
nev3r tho\lght it
~:raa
right to see men e.t their business oi'ficas
a.'"ld besida, I could not be away during office
hou~a.
:Jlvid:ss did.
see aone during the dayt:L"ne ui th letter3 of int:oductip.
:But the funny e:xpe:r:ienaes.
';/e.
mmJced to
~\
~1e_, ~~~
who had. built an enormous place near the river .. I had been by it
but never
~ctually
posed uas
th~
in t!1.e grotmda a.nd so I d:t·ova- into what. I su!)-
antranoe drive:• It ended abru:gtly
a..~d
impressive enoug...'l for the nain entrance a."1y;tay.
se~tha
houae not far away
to it and startad acro3s
~e
~~at
ita
did
:~ot
3eent
As we could
decided we would get out and walk over
we
thou~~t
was the lawn. It was night
·
· low
and we could not see nnder the tree3 and blundered into. a val1
£
but we \7ere almo3t at the house so we climed over ithe wall and
'\
diocover~d 'ile
nust. be in a. flower garden. But we crossed it and
clln~d
t::a :'Tall on .tb.a o-:her side and car:le upon o. terra.oe run!'ling
..,
2-ll t~e way
ac::-o33
the
.::.:.o"-l.::HJ.
:Selio:::vi.ng -;;e i7~re n;:}ar the front doo:r
~1i;h
Groat ·:rindo'i1::s od-Ond·!d f:r'):t t'!:~ c~ili:n3 to
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a. ~ t.a."b1-a in
·i;htl
o.sni;u:r of t~a ::c:o&n :30.~ u. man i:l ::;;:o7.
~:::'leek ::n:1ol
ITL: :,a,J1...:
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:1U.3
J.;~.,-::ard us
2.3
J::a .r~~.tl
o.nd ila looked o.l:nost li:ke a. d:s9.-rf., cll o.lond in tila: V,.l!l~ O.?a.l'tzl~nt,.
l\.})j)a:ren·~ly, he r..ad
l'lOt
"J:.lea...-dus and r~alizing
Vl'l ·,79ra
<)n tAc.t ~'fl'On,s;
<.
I
7rovsd. nut ~---d.-headed iron-mas~er t11a.t. lla was, YO'l oould not
'b,..1dg~ him if' he
did. not.
':Jhen
Wtl
":tare uho-m out. by
tne butler ~
or ws oa;r-:-ll:r1s aot of"! a. bur,3).ar ~a...~ ~d e~on~d tne poliao.
J.ny;ro.y, 1 t. was· qui ta
•
;;-_n
adve."ltu:ra and
about it after.va.rd •
!.nothsr night we call ad at the
-:r!l
!:Zul :any
b.aa.rt:r la.ugil3
r~si.dence o~ another -weal tcy
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-y.._,.. 1.1
butl~r:n r~tu=n,
':J:J
':tai "; ing for the
ht~lil.rd aloud, :r;:..::.cot::l voice :3a:,t '1 :i.co io it•( 'Jho
ia i t•i :t · Ther~ s~=ru~d to be a l•)a 70ic~ i..4....t.:r;11'~r a.'ld aga.i!l, WJell, ·.7ho
ia it? 7".!10 is it .. •t ::o.'>ra .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~ •
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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.
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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
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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 contractG
nu:;>ervision.
W3l'Et
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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
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f~.:7''f""''ri0
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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 ..
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- ""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
.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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~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 •.
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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,
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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 ~
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And that is not such a crazy idea fOif \7hile the eQccd.a ra1·elY
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got ;ta.bove
mr:;.' 1
f
t~~irty
driver's scat
a.?ld
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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
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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 !)
jack, tire 'P'.l!!!p, tire
irons,ov~ralls,LI;loves
of !!Crena, nuts, bolts end cotterpins, even a
and a
hi:~ J..~sorto.ent
~;rnr:tll
vice and all
sorts of repair stuff.
The two cylinders of tl::.e engine were placed
acl';):33
the car a.."'ld
as the s-parkpluga had to be inspected frequently hin2ed caps were
providec1. on the side of the hood eo they could 'be reached easily.
That wf',s a wonderful car and crave us good
~crvice e..nC..
wo.s vastly
more reliable tha..."l-the old ::="ord. It doc~ not seen pocciblc but
one of
the Mllttrocxk:t arm
on the distributor
Another time a s-pring broke near Bryn 1.!.<=..\Vr station ;-;here I was going
to meet some one O..'ld a rubber band in its place brought us home
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without trouble •
Anna. and the children had t.;one to
Gr~ tiot
the rm:l"':ler of 1907
c..."'ld! TI'as '}!J.nnnin:;.to joi.n then later :rl:e:1 ·:1ord. cc::!c .t!r~:t :"or :.1c to
go to t!le st .J;~ar~eri te as mother -ao.s not well. '3hc
trl!li!iJ\iliQ¥A.&4XO*'"AA ,@ilk t~.,£Q.JC£,"4.W
·:;<:..3
a
t~ere
tri t:1
:r .~·-.. '!J.
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O""ter 1 aft her oo -,ro~nbl:r ohe 'taa tha:r-a .nl~o, :?or some :;ear3 !!other
:n ..;1r
113.d t.:>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
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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
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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
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>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
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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
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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
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r...:'1.d had anot.h9r attaO.:.C which !'..ad bean oa·/el"a. 'J.-~ Thr.l ~o!:le one on
the boat w~ lc.a...""':1ed that one of' th9 be3t '. mdG;otU.:(er3
in ~uabao ','faa
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Ii:Jlena. nnJ. I ka-pt pretty clo3aly to our roor:1a
but i:l the
tura a3 a rat~~r g~~so~a jo~3. Of oour3e ha did not know we were
near o...: ~ em deck but hio co::1panion did and. :rs could s~~ her
had the dacancy for that bu·t it juat ahcws ho·,v care:f'ul a :person
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could }lave murda:-ed him o:nd r·a,joicad in doing 1 t1
:ie:r1cs
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There wu.3 a ::-athc;r s1-..o;rJ looking hoarsa on the dock as we:cs
drew no;?..r r;,uebec and ;_-;o?..ther waiting thdra, 1•.alf ,-;uassing the truth.·
lla ca"n.e to our room and there W:l.s a. vary sad tim~. after :n~a~hing
the hot.ll a.nd tal:dng togst.her it \'Tas decided that i·t would be
better for :?ather snd lialGna to go on that day there buing onlY
t::ru
one Q:i" ·ti'tn train a
tk
day und I v:ould folloc._,. ;vi th :.!otbert s body
~ha
~sxt day ~3 neae5sarj ~reparations couln not be ~ade until then.
It 'vas n. ;rer.; sad end lonely man that tried to kill ti.::1e those
twenty four hours. I thought bast t'"o go to see what progre5b wa.3
being made and· trJ.G\.t all
l had not
~or
thingg
~onld
w~re
be ready for the train and I wlah
yretty dreadful there,
disor~Y
and
ev(m t::e ;fifl-l rmd s'rn'1e -e'hildren in the roo!ll where the body lay.
to
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of the Uew Yorlq{ office 1:1at ma
at
t :;_3- station 2.11 n~c~a3-a.ry
arra.l"lg~ants h:1~rin3 been_r.1a.de in advance a'!'ld. :non- I \'Ta~ hor.1e,very
tired snd nervo:..t'JlY :rorn ..
bringing
";fy
dear :rife had co:n~3 fr-:>m '}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.
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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
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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
.
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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
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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
"&>..~
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, ,, .r-.1 ;v
stop1)inry
c da.v
a+.- "'.~.:l· "'=.r-·r"'
"'-b
hi ell
' "Ne :;>as sM.· i, n going to
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"'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
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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
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tho old nan put the bottle on the fJ.oor under the taole and then
soon forgot it a:td :!
11a
fol t ·.1a "'""" otost un-,eJ.eone guests.
intarast ;re took tha
tr~lla~
J
:~oints
!'Jlon,;
o;;>.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
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eo~sniauous
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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•
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'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.lke
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rut as I
±~~ember no~, tr~ e~uays
~ould sea~
that
~a
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did not do things his
things it
It ne.e:1ed to-ne that no :r::atter which way I didZ
wa3 ne-v-er the tr3.Y ·::ill ':1:3.ntt.Jd t
goryd qu3.l i ties "fill
s..11d rnm:r
".'79.3
h~ don~
ecolded
for, .in s-;~ite of iUs a.bilit:r
lon.; on cri ticiam and a.b.o:;:t on
a 7il 1)•1r t::;;1.it, I fear.
durinJ
!>ra.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
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.
";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
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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
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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
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small boy grow up n.nd beco~a :her bo33 I n?ver h.:::ld a bettar frigrtd
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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
in s~it~ oi 3lnost ztarvation dl8t for long periods.
ha9(soma oparation or
oth~r,
oha had tha sur3eon
ramoY~
she oaz!le bac:k to work ahe looked. quita thin 'bu~ she
Kate continued -:tith
•
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Later
U3
until
h3r
~e would onlY let her come !or a ~~~t of tha
fine.ll;r
Kata. 3he nner grl!'tflad
Department nor
the pl:ant
~e
t7a3
~~ ;7han
puu.""J.d3
o:=t of
ona unhappy
'ile.!¥
health failad often contin3 to
rest more ond -:;a':"'f:t J.lenaioned he;;: until i1er daath.
or
Cnce ~han she
day no nlia could
I -r.hou;;;ht
·~
lot
when I a3ked r.or 0'79rtime ";/Ol'k for har
I- wanted nora
nolt1l loyal to the -7irourst
continued to operate the plant
ou~..,·~t. Md :1ot n. 3oul in
~~~OL"l...~c~·•prrJ:~.:~:i'::J~
n~~oer
up Third street fora
of
years, u.•·1t.il ·i'fs lmil t a. large addition ·t.o at _the :nain factory and
could
b~ing the
rrHeet
som.a
goods
de~art~ent b~ck to theat n~ building.
There a:re -p:roba.blY adve..."'ttagea in s-a-;>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
•
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passed the front door of the other
·long. It
ing :.:md
~as nors the thought of getting out of ovaralls and dressout
't11Af 1~' ~ ~ ~
. . £0!{441 .Hi $PC::! If. &L
~~d it really did not take ver.r
o7~ra.ll!3
,11..//-
nsain. :;Jut that
~as
.--c~ci.---.;. /:.-;1.o A-~
IMP~P£21#!)4;&42 q,W.£14liUt iti£ M?iiu#X ... &Uii!A.iiQJ:U:. ;u 4 , hiht !!'111JI~Q4iQIIOiAA t
A
-pa.rt of
&ii¥J¥tt.4444QLS4$i444 3
t" ,.,....
. 679,
.r.A.7J .. yg 679.
~7hil:l it
i7B-3
to ba expected tl:.a.t with many i!lte:rs~ta c.~.."ld cares
t!-1elt::t -:-m~ cJ.osa rel~tim13
frinds.
of 5?3-the:: an·i you.1g s0n ;JouLi not con-
In 10) 5, in Coto'l.1er I W~:l'.3 ina tall :!d ~J. ~21 <.l.el- in the churcb.
a coriou3 faot tl>_;:.. 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
•
Ct\t·ricd on
d:trin~
the s1.11Zlsr months ar..d which ·al;:;o beca.r:.e widely
follo";Ted and. he wan
~cti va · in
many/other lin a~ of Christia.n and
i tion or zlo7J for hi.::l39.1f. ·.ri th all t~i3 :;o=k 8-nd. lcada;""3:'l:t9 ha
of adul tn
taught o. clas3 in our llttle Sunday nohool a..."'l.d even in i1i:'lter ;rhen
"
680.
ho li7ed i~ th~ City, ~a1do~ f~ll3d to CO~d
OUt
to 3ryn ~uwr to
I
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ohara.ct~r.
s:-wnlJ. 1w.-:re !'l.en·tioned'\1!-:-:::-a :1r,Gonut!r3e was o. most. liber...U.
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g17ar ta tha :r:irag•.t ;To3}>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 Chi
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entire win6 to t:;.a cat~..-~liol:ment •
Dr.?:7iller had been fuiling for so~9 tir2e n.ltho ;'la ·~apt at
condi·tlon ~Ra.s eri tical- Cna sunday :>o: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.
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··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··
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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
'
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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
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:o,J.-\.JJ. ._
ieo• ..
03
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-1~en
on·. . c~th nearer llea.ven tbzn tha.t
.i'
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'Ill'
1
·m -a~>:::.oo.;..
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... L....,n.~.-~• . :-r.'.'.'!"'
. _ • ......•e A-'1o"~
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... o~
..,.. '-'·~ bo"'!'"
• .; .., do nof':~ k-oll "
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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
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but
~till
tha boya
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:,r=::;~:n for -::,.~~01-_l
~:;.-.--~~~ fel:~J~,·tsl.:i:>; eJe;J :."::~; l~n~
l '::r·ted
7:!/JZlj
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ti:'Jc 3 'Jill t:~e 1 oul i::.1 'la:l l'ctuzn •
•
hit:t at luacheon •
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:.·,;:;~~!::..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
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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-;
i
~,-
) I
could hardly say no to t:To rlt!Ch influenti~:.l. ci tizena
seven year3 of servica on thc>.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
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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-
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,, 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
~
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of the qua!'antinr~ :r~~..tlations. I
the Ledger noted it.
Wtl:J
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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
.:mx
A ~on-in-1~"';7'
':VB-3 :l
leader in the Scout 't'(ork and a '?i;rzon-
ne-Yer e.,-en a.s~ed ne to let her off. In !aa·t in o.ll tho yea.:rs I
have been in th~ ~ealth ~ork I have never bean a?proac~ed in that
••••••
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appoar in court.
-penonally 7 her l~~nr re'!)resented her n."ld ahe was tined two hun-
dred dollar:.:r the upper "PO::Jsibls
li.."lit~ a>·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
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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
~o~
a.ll anr;las and
ot." the Board would
honor of
!ere wi tn
':lS
?rinted proteat3 and yelled
~~d ~he ~ater oom~~~Y
b:~d
ha.v~
it not bam1 :torthe u."lye:\.ld-
had to rcHsip;n. Be it said to
t~e To~shi~ Co~issioners,~~ey
did not inter-
altho sone of them were very bitter about D:r.,:Uorn.
~ottlld
!3'et no hel-,
f'r~
the S ta ta Dept. of Ileal th. Rathe:
ve 71ere troated as naughty boyn who
ough~
to be SlHlliked. For year3
the S-prinztiald 'liHl.ter 7/a.s r:egardad as al..moat sacred, ·it was pre.,~nterous foythi3
noithe
t~~t
~he
little ttpnta:t. :Board to dare to question.
all-w-ise
Dr.....
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head o:f the State. da:pt.who had held
~
o£t!ce y9ar a£ter yaP.r, thru admistration.arter
administration
·'7
.
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.
ReallY" a. ver;- e.ble men ot
(
Ead
~ational
reputation in -public health
work, ·but a czar "hose ~1ord or opinion muat never be questioned,
.
h
II
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)'W.d t1"!!9 men no gaid the water in ok. Tl1e Lo'7er :.rerion Doa.rd
E~a.l ~11
ind9ed!
3't't we had the
3U1)'1JO:rt
o!' '!:Jl3.tlY of
t..~o
be:;st
or
pao~lo
u.nd ·,vo bel.ld'7ed. i:-1 Dr. 11om :::.nd hia ability, and ota "itera dDtor:::lin-t",;
687.
»Otto
~·be squelehed and not to give u~ tha fight ~~til we ~ere
oure •:1e ware 7t:rong. Dr.llorn had !ne.ds a tri;> 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."
\
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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."
of the state o.nd
The confersnoe
re~ult~d
thra~h
:rn~et
v1i th thm!l and repreaent-
the thing ou1:. Gla.dl:y. we naid •.
in nothing verJ helpful but
d~relo~ed
a
lot o:f ill f'aeling a."1d ::ntoh heat. One or tw-o of the dootor3 at-
tacked us a."ld Ba.id gome T'3ry disagreeabla things about u.s and as.
the head o! our :Board the brunt
of~~e cr! tic! am
f'ell on me, nnd I rather enjoyed it.
diaen~sion,
•
and tha de:f'ense-
One happy result of the
ho'\'V'ever, was that !na."lY o£ the doctor::J and most of-
the older and !!lore inn uentiol '!!!en swung over to support. us., and
finally wa had thf3 a.stoni~hlng statement :tro1:'1 ths State Commis-
"" them, olaan9d up.'' I
rizht but he ";71')Uld r.:Va
a.r1
sure that bJtter
•
(
~r 13 still 0:1 i"il>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:-
tile law it ':fan ho.rd to tall
V,;t
~hethor
i':-~;ucnt
ho o: it
au and unooofortable. ! nugt contcs tha
'l:rn.:J
-viola.t.ion::a; of
nost e::J.~s3J
'ft)
(i<\9 -:~··
nnd
~tnoomortable
and.I
ooni'ass, ! dealt vorJ leniently ·;rith !'tiet
~uat
hi:n. 'l'hese hea.ring!S did oring in 11UfOro reports but ":'1~ bad to bring
n
\
-rf'¥'11
men
befor~
a
}fagistr~·ee
wero convinced that wa
Chose to use it.
~iendl7
mea~t
~at~rally~
and f'ine the:n before the
;>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
cny political
r~isa
\
sraf~er co~ing roun~
!:tilk. Ao
~
his
ra1~ ~o
tall
to
hi~ h~2
:nattcr of fact, it waa not nany yeara ago t.bat a.
far.ner n-aar caad7r.f1l chased Dr. Gri1:1 off r..is i"a~ with a. shotgu.'"l
and su.id he would shoot hi=l i£ he ever cm:J.e back. ot course Grim.
went back but ':li -:b. a
polic~J
oi"f1c3r ond t!le fa1':!1er submitted to
having hia cattle tostcd.Jor tubtlroulosi3 rtJ.thar ~"wn go to Jai~.
..:U:J~~
We did not ht.l.ve au nuny objections rro::t the
nltho acme of' tile largos pnst~~zers t:riod -to oon·tinoe us
"
or
too otrict but 711 tho':.lt succsss.
•
n~t
of the big
-;te
uen "Jtilro
a:~
~odity
t ha head of tb.o
and we ·.;rere .in high f·o.-ror nnd thoir o.ffortu .railed.
O;>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-
11
th~ ~6at
hated man on the ~.{ain Line. 11 I G!I-l!l:J~ he yullf,d tho long baN tor
whila we wort~: t:nl}iuding in wha~ we believed to biJ tho :ri.;b.t 1
nl--.va.ys tried to ~t.Ht the otherf3lloY• s point o£
nevertt;.t1·o~unt_
vie-"N
wn.3
or :::liauaed my -power.
lt was r:ry ho1>~ 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"
folks aiths ti=te of their sorro':l a."ld loss. "Jell, that is stop:ped.
1 triad ~0 haV"l the I'lertbdl"3 of the :Soard
every siA montna, at least, ·
Viai t
their distriot~
~""t."eto::t~h for to each o~ us a di:~trict was asaigned for whieh W!S
were res';)onnibl3 :Oetrit;H3n tha ::tteetings of
tile :Board. J!ost of th.S!:l
did so and as president I had to set a good e=aple. By vi~tua
or
the of!ioe I i"al t I could go any:rhere in the townshi:i) but generally asked 1r the member3 had ariy objection before I
was only: courteous and it did not look
a3
~ent.
That
tho I was checking
u~
on them on the al:r. In that way I went over pretty mucil tha whole
TOmt3.l'.i-;>, 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 o
nunt be known9not a. little indignant, and I ';'l'a.s reminded
e
e
often repeated statement that no
goel5 on.
~a~
is
ind2s~ensible;
or
the
the world
But 1 t did seem to !!!e that twenty..five years of effective
service,helping to bring the heelth
~ork o~ ~~e
Township from zero
to a high degree of eff~cienoy ".Tas out of the ordinary. And then
I reminded myself o~ ~ ~Y belief that, in the long run~ a ~an is
valued tor about 77hat he i3 worth,and am st.iJ.l trying to digest that
'bt.tter dose.
Subsequent events proved the wisdom.-.,o:r
m:r
givirig up the
lea.dershi-y !or .gnJ.y -:- ~'!PF n.lsa';~a:r later I had a. severe a~taok
or
hea:it:rouble M ;t:J ...1tni;:d;" and could not even attend the meeting3
for a. number or months. llr.LBndis
andT eontinus
on the best
or .
terms nnd he is always ready to accept suggestions and is carrying
on ·the work wisely and ef'feciently.
Never the less,raa1s1nations, beeau~e of' ybysiaal ltmitations
are
are never happy events nor u the regretstthey engender very q:d!!X
quickly
forzo~te~.
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1.
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All t'hesa 3.Ctivttles were outsids
\
or
7C
'businas3 und oa.rr:i.ed on at
I
•tas ne~l'3oting ~?'J.sine:l5. It i3 strange that \Vill, '.11 t.h hiZ3 a~:proaiati::l::l
tion offtheoretical k~offl~d3e did not advi~e a~d ~~~a it·~~ f~ me to
go to :1one ni;;ht bu:Ji:::les3 30:'lool o.od st-..tdy tnat Jida of
would.
itb;;:m ~:-
~u~L'less.
:;::ant :he1'".J later O!l b'.lt ! sn:ppo3a 7111. could naver
think 1 uaa oapn..bla of !:'lanar;ing tho buziness and '.Vha.t waa :::lUch
serio'~9p
naver !:lade ;J.llY'
of taking some
•
..
~
It
ni~~t
:pr~paration
:for m::1 do!";J,; so.
courneo but not untU I va:s
!
:nor~
C.id think
pre~t;.r bu~;.r
with
thosa othe~ctivities and I thought I ~ould l1ave ~ora tine l~ter.
JJut:!: the' con-venient seaaon• nover ca..":le. Bc3ido tr...a.t, I ddid. :-a!.o.'-!cr
dree.d going to '3ehool with man muoh youngar tbs.."l I a.1.d. "::bo would
3reat~tll ~ore about busin~ss procea~ea
mnow a
and
~raotices than
I did. I 1lad already eaten a. la:rga diS-&~ or a:ro71 a..>1d 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$! systeo, a."1.d
.-c
:i:;:t
::~aid
ll
out down and t:hera
~n-.1.3
no appeal.
still is fo!.lo:Te•i in :mo3t factories •
Someti::ne '3.fter He vras discha.rsed I so.w the poor :man in the
city, 1 oo~
old nen. I QUght to have done so~ething for hio but I did nothing
more than stop and te.lk with him and tell hi!!! tn come to see 1na i:f
r
r
could help lib~
never
sa~
him
rather
a."'l
indefinite and steraoty·ped :phre.se snd
~gain.
Lawrence and I r;--:e-,7 to be :really ;pod pals for u. ;;ood many
years.
••
w£ cour3e I coald not criticise his father to his face as
I often \Vantsd to ~ but he 1me7r I understood l1im and sy~n?athized
with his troubl as.
r-re had good mec'ha!'lica.l id.eaa as he grew- older
and we enjoyed tal:-dng things over..
of t!:e factory D.nd
::.:e ·Kor~ed in vario~~J parts
S0::18
4
4
k#JJ
, taaw•~
•
705 •
wars 108 buda to taa :pou..~d a.."ld
pound3 a day
1~ -:;oo~
t1fJ
vere "'"'a:;ing ovar ono thouoa:nd
a lot of zi:la to do the 'iror":::.. A w.achlno
'\1ould aave a lot of labor but it :rna no ca!'ly :r;>roblo:Jm to ool7e.
Up to that tioe
the~a
tnera
~TaS
nothin; on the
mark~t
that
w-ould do that :tind o~ work 30 it was start i"z-om the 'biJ!;!.:lni.."lc~ u."td
work it. out. A3 L.:rr. ;:n1.a not
=na('iliini.'l t sn ~d~:rly 3eotch
a."l ~~·,n:~
'tlt}Oha.1ic 7aa found ":lhoaa nD.·::hl W!l.S :Ja:l :1~\a?et.tor::r,. ou.t o~ a Job
beaeu3a ot. age and tr..a.t avo:r prosant Otlr$~:! 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-
\
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j.A.TJ. ?G.70B.
.:>v
if -they· ht:t.d u_ racticed fair bustne"'
708 •
_:.JJ
.,
•
.~t~""d"'
in
.....__,,...oollJ.' ....·•'~.,.
....
__ -~
t~eir
goods
there ci.:P.lld ha:•re been no cri tici::!O bu.-t they cut prices, save rsbat3s
a.'"'ld did m2.ny. things ·.vhich ·.1llile ·,7i tnin the law were not so f'ar within thet they co:.tld :~ot be "liew·ed with conaider~-t;;,le suspicion.
-~~ile later ~n I la~~ed toknow t~e heeds of the other choco~
at one time when he was i'!l the car.nel bu3ines3 in Lanca.stsr. I
b~li~ye he failed later ~~d then,after ao~e ti~e,went into the
~".Th~!l I ~et l'li::l
6hocols.te bu3ine~3.1\'lier~hey wa.s ha.rdl:t
'I
c.'J
tall ?.s the a.verag'!}3
about 45, dar~ hair ~ix~a ~it~ grey, blue eyes I tni~, quick nervous, not easy in hi3 'beari~Z n..~d I t'!'lov.ght a. -poor ~i:cer. !!.e "'Yas
then ·attending a meeting of tb.s ~!ationaJ. Conf~otioners As so. and
h-e.d no l)a.."'"t on the progrs:1 nor ':las ~e i~ evide~ce about t~e ::neetings.
3ven when his
busine:s~"l:l ;ro'.V!l oo l~.ge he 'ff~ls not a. leading :f'ig-
ure in tb.e associations but a :tr.~urrie re-prese!lted hi~ o'! lvhom
more :;c::cc:n later. ::urrie becane pre3iC.ent
b'lt Tiershey retained, veto power I
or
the Hershey com:;>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
na 9.nd tho only door
.r
i!ound if I st.ood up nnd
1ng s. bit u3].y h-a gener...J.l:r
not ':l1Y' line.
oasas,lab~ s
~ada
:1111 did all the
:sugar., eoooa.
tar him.
l~ok-
a hasty ro·t:::-ont. JS..lt :3U;Ting -:ta.s
1..-•;~porlnnt
butt.~r
~ta:tcd
buying v:;r:;way,
bennd~
boxes
and "Tanille, and r soon -;rent 'bnak
to the i"actor.r wo:r:S:. I cannot r&rltdmoer i:lo}fl!! GOt 1ntotha.t ouyi:lg
job U.."l",J7ts.y.
·~-·
'.T.aen
~hi ta
to
r.f.
ssta.-tGd th
t:mi:foms .. -:ra
gi79
ap:rmul.
~rlad
i'Urni::Jhing
~m that. trp 0.3 t...~c
:lhita
unito~s
th~
!!lart ':'!e:tt
to t·he men but soon had
~'r'-;J ;ri ~.lier:t when t.___,-he,7
'for a Qhooolnte :ra.ctorJ was cla.bed to be
n.'bout es idiotic s.s giving wbite overalla to st:reot laborora. ItSs
a.t-t(lnltion to claanlinoas and a un1!'o:rm :maka1l a man more sell' xu
rs.-pecting._and car~.
Tlle uniforms wsro stook overalls and ·ohirl
or jumper but in the rilsting and
ran
rotms we :required brown denil!l •
. ~~en n. nell' :sn waa hir'3d he was given a veGk to get his unif'orm. and.
•
. 710 •
were requir~d to have them ·.m3hed and :::-edy~y
to put on ol C!M !.!on day
morning~.
they
3uch ·!;!lings
:t ~-.ra
may sean Uili:n:po.t.ta."lt and .:ll)"'1-r:ton :;:>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
'.,
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.T .A. U .pg. '/12.-
I was feeling run dom1 and
me~.n ~n-
. -.
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. . -. - -
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.~~
men living with other men'·s wi-v-es and all that kind
or
thing." I
713.
·e
e
tht>.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
~--
verrJ la:rge
cottage::J n.t,kha)lt.i:':'le o>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
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;; .A.U .pg7l4.
CA 'iT C.!LA1r
The weet half of the double house was the one she of:rsred.- asxhe lived in the other side. It all was noat and cleall· :cue
as sl
wa.s herself. After I had agreei~o ren-t it :t asked f or,i
to drink and then as sb.e
se~ed
some wat
I asked if I ;night
kL'ldly dis-poaedA~:;c:. ~.:~'Ul
... :t::! wash
my hands a.nd face for it we.s hot and the rail roe.d dusty.
{_that~
w:ash
~
G'r
friendship seemed to be sealed for ever aft
ward she seamed to take a kindly
~otherly
hxterest in my neal th.
vith great rejoicing I returned to tell Anna
tha good
ne~s;
afford it !or
especially that it
':VS
~ould
children
cost so little we could
f~K
7ould
·,ye dacided that condi tiona, morally, could not be
•
andt~e
had 'been fearful t!:a.t we could not get a cottage
for less than a hundred dollars as very
(
~1i tl1
rent
30
by
t~e wee~
very bad 'for
I had time to walk;A up to the beach and stroll along t:he boardwal!t and saw only a. ff!i'n people all very ordarly but oa.ra free, it
As
aemned. and happy. I sat on ono · betlches a motherly -;;or.~.an with a 11·
-f tle
gir~ c~a along and sat down and we tal.ked a bit an4 3he said
it was such a nice place for children, the Bay was so safe and theJ
could go 811Y'Rhera with no f~ar o-r harm.
That did not aouild li!te
such a. tough town nor did I se1.m anything that looked that 7tay.
"( '?he people I 3aw looked like those or moderate L'lee.ns and as x:a
rescectable as any.
So we entere.d Lavallette tor two joyous waeka, I sa:neho"i7' made
a contact with Cap'n Dan'l Clayton of Sizverton across the ~ay
and that quiet old pirate consented to rent me his flatbottomsd
twenty toot skifr ror the moderate sum pf fifty dollars, You :
could have built the boat for almos~hat, but-we got our money's
worth in fun.
went to bed almost with the· sun and got
U3)
·..:ith it also. Almost
(
•
J .A.U. pg. 715 ..
e~erJ
norning with the
in from
obild:an we went to
~lder
?ound3. Tharo were no gas
t~~
713
en~ines
~ee
the boat
c~s
than in tho3e bont$
a"'ld the Captai::: '.Tea a. big lanrJ .t'ollow who !ltaered the boat with a.
t:....'t'\ ~~es:Jiv~ und oomm~ding fizure~
log oar ru1d [r..tidad 1 ~hrtt th~ 3Ul"~;,_a."ld it :vas al:vaya :intaresting ~d
conati!'la~
exci tin·g.
n:>pr~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.
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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$11 ;ys hl1 d :had :cor3 oxoe:rianuo ond
!C'l~Z'.t
:'be
at luast.
::tU3t
Wt)
ba con-
':fould not
his wlli::ls bottor,
greu.tl7 t.Dj~tirJt;rost:J o~ !.!:::'t~. Gt::·ru·i~ridgrJn -:.1ho l;ml baoo 'brou,;ht
up on that u:hotl th.-u hu:r
:>Uu tbea to
airl~oA.
W.~ap. ~o ale~:r
keep our aytls open nol) did
let~tt zl0~
o.tta:r
3ll?!JiiZ'"
Y/e ~ ve~J len~.;.
to pol) wida U".lruce With the zun
b&gi~ ~~th~~
gloriou3
wo oould lw.:rd.l;.r
Such deep awti!et dres.t:t-
rl~e
next mo:ning ond
d~.
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There -;tl)rey but t-rto .· :rtores- the J"citnsons' end Garibs.ldi '11 ood.
~~a..,_...e._
tcf;;an aon o~ our londloo:r wo wen~ the:a und ao~n ttot. to
1t:now the:n. C1lo:lio, that 1 s tJlo tUdor as wu know tha:rt. now, told ma
o~
n place to ea.tcll ::;:a.bs which was much na?..rer tlwn tl!a places
veoplo g'eilerally 7ten't so we tried it.. !:t •,;nl.!.l a. wonder £or wa could
catch a basket of
e
e
~raba
there anyti.I:le in
D;l .
ple ::ulemed to ·know about 1 t.. Located Just
yards
f~nt
hour end very
·~:Test Point~
f01t
-peo-
f'i:f'ty
shore it was n rmw.ll hols in the flat not mora than
six or seven raet. de9p. o.nd the crabs wore all good siza. Year
o.fttJ: yo~ >:HJ :-1sn'7ch(!ro u.'"l-;il t.~e 3~otis ont.l 't7int.cr :filled it. U?
auU
~rJ ~d
t,o
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Cur .firtJt. ttip ·~o Lavallette was so plaa.aant.that wo retu..""'tlad
the noxt ~t:r and tonk t."le !lama oottag-s, only thi3 tl::la tho 1thols
housa and fo:r a ::nonth.
'Jin.~~e 'Yoolard,. a. niotl• gentle
was ~till our :tother' s. !J.al~er
Geogia GJ.:rlt
~d we 1lad a. I:UJJ.d. J'ohn and :!.ar;,·
i!acdonald atayed a. while bei:'ore thuy 7tent to :::;urope and 101:~ 1ialen
!rae t~i~th us
tllay were away.
whi~>l.
:f'.o.."rll:r above th6 oto:.->1
a.o.ros~
baby 3ather wlwn •.4e ';lent
shuddered at
t:lO:"$
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$5
~
about tlla :i~"':UJ.y.
our l i
tt~ou:Ped a:s we learned
A
Dlt. ~eodors J. G:r~ who imd gradua;tod !:rom. Iralmcr'...ann only a
f~
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yonrrs ·oefors I did and a au:::zmer rouident waa conducting tho
onl;r chlll'oll
n~rrine
llald in to":m
exc.ap~
emo:rning nf:rvloe held 'by
the Lettioll yoopltJ almost ovary Sunday.
in the 'Village md our
Cohool but
'ther~
ahUdr~
Tbe:rtt uor$ nfllly children
rtere acoustoned to goL,g to Sundcy
ttas no. ~-cch ooNico the:e. Attu talking it over
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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.
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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
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LAVALL~~ ~:T.DAY
3CECCL.
717,
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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
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~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-
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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
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::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
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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
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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
k!nd. IIearly cve~J nan in town w.ho M.d. a. boat
turned up pro~rptly a1th~ dock and cl::.et)rf'ull;r_ did his share, one o!
thea !:la.::.;:ing a..~d extra tri? to bring the icecrea!3 oYer later in the
day.
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t"-u"'lna ';·;ent o7er ar!long the first ~.s::td: to keep an eye on things
ones
::rtra~3lers •
It uaa our purpose :?rom the first to plan for some aativi tie.:J
every noment of the day und for ~ a cou~l~ of ~eeka be~ore the .
cle.y -..ve -.rilburs were doing the planninet. Th~ were sports in the
a~ternoo~, raoea
and all sorts of queer stunts. Thera were sraded
by size so that all the childran 7ould haTe a share and we had to
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-provide -urizes -.ville~ bad to be marked fo:rtl-.he event. according to the
.
nro~am. 1e e7en ha~ for the older woman in whiah ;.!other -;ras
A
c-. conni stcnt -:vlnner a.'ld there rrere wood. i3awing and. nail driving
con testa for women..
There were gmnel! fort - he tiny tots 71th mother
~..nd the l'ri::tary taacher, :.Hb3s :rargeret Parke, whose faithful. t;:servioe
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with t~e little peo1'le ror many yea.rs cannot be too highly pra.i3ed.
So the hayilY day sped by n t.."l icecrea.m cones after the S1JOX't3, even
'.!:'~en ho':!le in the lata afternoon :t;X:!:.::~l:
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tired by happy into the boats again and acro3s t:h,1lay, the wearJ
?:;JeZ"in+.er.d::mt trying to be sure tl'1.a.t no one -was left behind. It .
hc.d. :required a lot of' wor::C s.nd the ex::::>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
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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
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~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
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"e s
l)y ";70~te:J.s' J.c:•c}: of clot."""'-·ing as ":'''d are ~
on .a.n
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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
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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
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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
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~11e
o~ur~ pao? e a~ ~r~s~ee3.
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_ 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.
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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
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Borough end. 'VThile .
·
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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 oon
Club, Ch::;.rles 3areokson who
the titles s~a.rc!led and we bought·
t'he two 1 ~ t
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r
"51)0
anieoe. Titles .
cottage now sta...'"lds,if or ;; · ' ..
t b ina'.lred but a. sea.rch did not sho7
ld
-:r....,~re .+he
· ~.:....
had
uere no~ 3ood and cou
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a,~
!1erious cloud on t:!'!e title 1 t
W"a3
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considered o!, •. While. ·the-lots
wore nominally 100 feat deep and extended olea::.... out to almost tb.e :present "boardwalk
~hera
dept~ "Jas;5 only about 60 feet.
the kind
or
a
Tr..at was too little for us to build
wiahed ao we began to
r~use ~e
aotu~
·.vere bu:ildidf restriotions so the the
lot bac:k on ~aGee Ave. ( Tb.at nam.~ :r.:aGee
W9.S
negoti~te
for the next
the name of one of the
early settlers und':lothing ca.11 be done about it.)
Zal'2:ckson found
the let tra3 o-;med by a :::oman in Trenton who did not want to sell a,.?'],d
he
\~rote
and thsn
and fussed m1d :na1ie no progresa and he had to be jogged now
r~msel!.
sonally so
7inally he suggested that I see the lot owner per-
~ther a"ld
I went to 'frenton a."ld in a half hour had cleared
up everything and agreed to buy for
~~00
a high price then. That was
not{the end of our troubles with that l~t,~o71evar. ·~:;e had to have
another L::.'ffyer t' c look into it,. a :llr A:pgar 7Tho ~roveqtto be most
helpful, for it was found that :k.'n!x1nst- · Iilinor ehildren :had. an inter-
east in tila.t lotp the father being d.ead, a.."l.O: there had to be a lot
of agreements to be drawn and signed before we got posession. Maanwhile we had been ma.iting :rough :;>lans and had decided on size and·
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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."
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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.
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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
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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
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~-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
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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
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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~
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'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
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Ja-(es skill for it io so well a.nd joi!'led that it 1:1 hard to !Joe the
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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.."
came f:ror:t the lrission a.t 31 t.ka 'N:here
O:f
that· }:ind Which
b.3d
prOYSll
posely :plen..'led for ~all.
SO'rl.C
oi tht: teachers had bode
'_P:'Cl.OtitHl~l3 ~md xineX?EmSi79 ..
:'0?1:13
;/'!J.
pur-
in the cotta.gt.l as wo intcnd~d them
only to sleep in but sn ordinary bed would just ttbout fill all the
noor apace. Jake made the folding beds we used in every room
except one we broue;..-t" down from. Rosern.ont and the ttbunk" where tha
boys slept.
Of course thd3~ beds cost but 1ittle,for I paid Jake
111
or rather the OO!'!Pan,-, the :regular rntc f'~u .Takas ti!!le and :ror;fthe
J.A.U.
PG.~
724.
724.
;vo.rk ~.ras going on and w~s gr'.!?-.tly :olee.aad 77i ~h the :Ya::/ they -;rere
doing it, ~~rgeci<·.ll:r ·:~h~ big fire -plaoe. It 3-3en~C. it would be both
interc3tin6 ~~d ~ttractive if we built tr~t of old ?~il3dal?nia
nobble_ stones.
A3
I bave ~rittan,oany stre~t~ ~ere still paved
ui th them in r~'lY boyhood and '3e bought .!:~-...s~
ya.rd,.
::301ne
of ~J:.et1 in a.
Junk
Joe Stil~ell did o. good job 1!1 placing t~~:-1. a."r'lc! wa ha-va a
~se otonGtt aould tell ~her~ they came fro~ P~d ~hat notabla3
of Colonial day3 have bu~:Ped oYer then .. ?erilaps oven Ganeru.J.
Wa3hington, hL~self in his coach and four1 aa ~lth digniri~d bown
he greet t'he mlthuaial'ltie -po"?ulc.ca~ '.1ho boYs? It "!':l.i~t ~a.
On one trip I fmmd that t.'he build era n."J.d omi ttod. tha transoms ovsr the doors and when I s";)oke n.bout t"heir boing in tho brief
s~eoifieations I ~.d written tbey ~ilinslY ~ch~o~ledsed I was
right end al t-..'10 the doors ~ere al rev.dy fra"1'11~d in the :to'".lgh, they
put them in 11i tho1.tt a kick. Nice fellows, tboaa el1ore "Nork::len,.
selt rescecting a.""'ld f"riendlY, '?Forking ·ten houra a da..7 and raall:T
wor'king. "?;very nan did not have to ha.vfJ a. hal;>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 an
fishing trlps. Eelena. could not go as she had. ·to be with :.Sadeline,
so Father s~id and this ~o~an for nhe ~~a no youns thing, just lo~ed
euch things and delighted 111 the o';)en a..'"ld t'hero ·,yeru !!llllY o tiLer
reasons. Yes" en old :fri e.."td whom he !'u~d lrnooo;m o. long ti::H:-:. ! t was
no use. "'Je could not budge hi~.
(
•
Su, at .I!a.t!.:.cr' z :t·oquest, l ~7ent
r...au
to see the lady 'N£.o::n n.ei thar Eelena nor I
there ·Nhen I reached the houee and I
7/S.S.
I
ever :n.et. ~'ather was
nn;rthing but favora:,ly
impressed with the lady and i.Ven t to our old. ho:ne on :.Ion tgoi:lar:r Ava.
9~
to try to talk~ out of it.
y~ry -,ersonal one
W&$
...ile had a ver:r earnest t.a.l:!t a"ld a
but ~i thout heat or enger. Th& n~rvous tension
so high, ho'rtever 9 that I beee...-''le nauseated a~d the.."'l very sick
'Cor a. fmr minutas but :?a.the~ould not Yrl~ld. ·.1111 was very engt7,
~
wouldr-see the lady. 1!:-s. :Eutchinson, a ~id~;r sol!le-xhat younger than
Fa.ther,who was 'f5. at the tL"'tle and 1'tas l>I'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
at her death. So here 1 7las a
~e
with a substantial intel·est in the business,for -::!Y 9hare
represented one tenth of the total capitalization and later tee
actuc-..1 value of' the stoc:k was a. good
and 3ee:reta.:r:r
•
deo~
more tbnn its par value·
of $100.
I was also a director;L"'1?ather 'beinJpr~sident, \Hll Vi~e-
~resident
end I::ana;~er,and Loomia <;.nd :-:ulon baing tha ot:'.:ler n~mbers
of the I3oard, but und-er the :By-laws
th~ :.~anaser
r...o.d
:po~.ver
to do
almost anything. It -.7a3 qui t3 to be expected that t:he D~reotora
..~-·~.;:) n ~\If£
had little to say about the busina-3·/mder~ar:rangenent,.~hen .?3.ther
,J ...... ._
~as
away often
~7i1l
about as before.
did not
3'7(~m
1
.;.~r•
hold a. :meeting -and thin;3 ":tent on
:rill hated the meetings, hated to be reminded
that there were some things he could not do, hated to see a
of Directors
~oard
who actually had :power to do things if they had tha
nerve so he avoided t!leetings wheneve;:; "':JOS3ible.
~-#~
It was October, l think,-Nl:ait®r ·;ra.s ~axried.
ion I had gone to see one
a·r
At .hi3
sugges~
the lihders of t he church ·Nhere
~.
tfrs. Hutchinson. had taugltt in Sunday 3chool 11ho said he k.ad known
her for years a."ld while he did not
~
say anything
agai~st
.her
he seemed to be guarded in what he said end not exactl~ free 1~
I
his conversation. At a:1other tine h -:;ent to see her for.:J.er ·~astor
~
/
Dr.
~olfelt who~
_
sa~
in his
st~dy
at his church,
a~d
leeJned
notl:in[; but I al-:;orays hav~ ha.d a deep conter:r~>"'.; 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
my old church.
C!JUlC.
not .favor a e?lit i!l
Altho feeling was strong at the tioe ther~ was no
badfeeling and no serious results follod'ed.
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In ~ay 1910 Ross was born at Ros~ont on the 3lzt of the month,
ni!le oclock in tile ~'Vening, Dr.-7illian c.?o-.vell in att~ndance. 7!e
were deeply~grieyed because hi3 palate nad not clo3ed ~d the up~er
lip sho7ed a ga-p..
knoVfll as the
'~ld
.At an afternoon se:r-vi~e in t;:.!} c~:arch, now
Church,
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He ws.s ba:pti 5ed Ey Dr. Roes for whom. he
was nern.ed end according to ::1nglish custtrn '!.Irs. Roes was hi9 Goti-
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.e,a-l~other. It was a very beautiful service ~md t.he baby help by being
very goad.
:'hen Ross ':las old enough ?Te had his trouble corrected
by a ::mrgical a?e::-ation at the
7~1:1an' s H'J api tal -:;;rhich for some
rea3cn, the ~u:rgeo"!1, -:ny old· friend, Eer~~~rt iJortl'...rop 1 sel ectod
LETTERS FROM DR.ROSS.
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Dr. Ross wrote me some tew
let.;..;,;.:'~:~
and many more after ha had gone to
whila he waa in Bryn
Toronto~
thj show
and
~a·.v:z:
how close •
our f'riend::Jhi:? \Ta.s and how frealy wa tal~ed over churoh and persoTl~f
\
affairs,' as the :f'ollo'Ring ext:ra.ats shoiV •
In the early part of 1910 I had a paralyaia of one aide o£ my
.
face which I am
to say uaa the
so~ry
~
.
r~sult ~
a violent fit o!
rage at ':Vill. At least faoia.l pa:9:ra1;:rsia will hap:pen after gr:3a.t
emotional strain and that was great enough to have paralyzed :me com
As I beg:m to get around after the
pletely.
a.ttac~
11r. Ross cama
t;)
see me and se9!1led to think it was a hqe j oka, :much to my diagust.
I wan tad sympathy
not
:rtiiti~
ophy of life, perhaps
h~s
a j&ke but 1 t ':las "Oal"t of his ph11\)a-
religion to make light of sicknaas and
trouble and that \Taa true of his whole fa.--nily. He had a heart attack
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soon after he saw me and wrote in part aa follows; May 2, 1910.
Dear Janusl {He oalled me :anna while my fa.oe \Tas twisted after tha
two- faced god of mythology, highly appropriate, no doubt'but I never
liked the na."D:e. Of cour·se he did not mean to be unk:Id but only to
~elp
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me laugh it of!~ "l!any thanks for \_~e cheering flow~rs. I am
sorry to be such a broken read. I dont know what I've been doing but
I
Saturday!
gave in and I'll
.
.
l
somehow.
I
w~.s
though Mrs, Ross
~till
'~ump'
not working right
glad to :P,ear that you were in church Sunday
s~s
the face is not quite right yet.
health generally ia better,
!~11
flat, the
get better in a
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tho~gh~
I hope your
if that is the case the face
wee while." • • •
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Tba~
again and again for
you!_openhearted goodwill to the strange bird from
Euro~e.
Yours
ever."
March 16, 1911, when the clouds of misunderstanding that lad
to his resignation were gathering, he wrote from 'Iona' the name he
ga.ve to the rented house ';'There he lived, I suppose t.ha ne·;r :Manse
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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
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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 t
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.:•,
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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
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the
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r.1~etins
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to 0-a c:hoaen to royr:t:Jt!n-; the
oongr~~u.tion
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o..t tha
of :'rssbyter--.r to taka aotion on the reaigna.tion of Dr • .Eoas
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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.
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-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
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i.nipart to his students much of hia own wide ~nowledge o·f the-· .
Scriptures and. to
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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
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;~ 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.
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Christ.ia."'l kindl.iness and sell control ha.7e
always been evidenced to the fttll.
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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
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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.
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So :Jr. :2oss :rent t:o ~~ and I loat a.'"lotht.:r dea.r !riend,
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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
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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
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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'
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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 ''.
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!\.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.
nir;ht 1')y a, ';)a..."JQUet nf . :iver-.;ity :1.nn, ~2:,~ fir:Jt }U~lic dinner I ~-;,.
had giYen to :r:te, and ·'-,,.G e:t?erience 7ta!'J fitti!l; to :h:..•·r1bl~ ::!e. I;:.:-:~
to ba installod .md tn :i"7a a. :?llblic i:1::1.u~er:U lecture ne:~t 7uond.: .
I can oe~! a big :fi~ld ··)'Jnf.ng out c..'1rl ~Y~de'1tlj'" it :Us no~ -:o l)c ~;:
tir.,ly in Ca."'lada for i ., the month oil :To7::Z7:iber I :.1!.'1 to O'! in Penru:r· :va.nia t?riaa and in Kon '- ,._~·~~y once. ..".nd ::;.11 t!1e ti::te -:::.7 heart i:J t0
an all!lost absurd e.xtcnl, in Bryn 1!awr ;vhich I shall love :rhe:t ·roD:;'
hnT'-' f'or;;otten 7:1Y ne.~~. :~nd it in all d-:111 to your e~ni11n :.-\s a pel,_
ple ror di~tributing nn 1eri ted 1rin
love a.nd loY~ tr.at l<'Jn'. .i• I .verily "tru:.nk :-:r::r r1o
or y•.:na .. " Dont then su·~·;;l~ to the Session about my "?!"e:l.chin;s ,just :;.'
T::nhe.-,pily ther., i~ :n" ••
for that but t.hat ::,ill ooma la.-t:·:.
If you have not got a ,,:f!i:Jter by a!)rin~ 1 a~ goin;; to threaten t,"
ap}?ly for the ;?lace a~ 1 J ocmn tenens' f':Jr the :'!ee.:Jon,un soon ae I c.
get away 1·ro!ll the ColJ. :-_ ~'? hdre in Y.arc:h!! 7ould 'n t it be fu..'"l ? .
Remember ne nen.n..-rr.:li'J to W:ra •. -Jil1:mr and all tbe jolly littl~
buds. I hope liilda{ oro r.; of hi a duughter:J) io punctual in her letters t6 her little 9 ~oG~ne~rt. (Bert) She and her brothcrz are i~
-public school norr so -:r1'" have ~on one convert to the syste-::n.
Yo,.!rs eve~ n.:td for a lnn.; ·:rhil e ~fter that. G.A.J'ho:::u:;tcn .Ro3~,.
3a:rly In"Jcn'!la::-y, J './12 Dr.Ross wrote v.:nd explained his posi ti: ·
in reGP.rd to a.ny''con t::.-, •· t ''71! th t:!l~ Univ3r'3i ty. It seer:tn that a me·': ·
ing hac been held at ~~r. Convera~s ;nu;.r.: house to consider gatti:i l:r. '2o s3 to return and ·' r. Pierce 9tated tr-nt-::I Rons 7Taa under con+·
trn.ot.
":'he fact:J abr)•• ;: -:!Y ·present :?Dni tion aro theae: In Cunad
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read t~a:11!
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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
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ula·~ion i'irot?
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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•>
and wcy he could not. e7en call ~e on J'=O!lo. -::md oon.cluda3: :'hio is
not a lattar but
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£ollo~.
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fast here and I n~ve ~assad ~~ro~~h o~~ disturbing e~erienccs.
Lot ~o ~rite thes~ snort sent~cc3; 1 ! 7isno ur.~utah and the congreso.tion a 1'~??:1 and frui t.t":ll c.~soci~tion 2:1d I !lha:ll hal'? hi:::t all
l can. :i'..i3t us all tr:r do do t~"1t. ~. r do t>::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~
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san Diego, It io
~:one
time
~inee
!wrote
any or
this
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I am
::till anxious to· complete 1 t. Ha.vine brouc;ht Old letters and -po.t~ers
-~ 0 do so with ne !.rtd: unt!ci ~J~tion of havinG lots of ti:1e out here,
which I have fulled to find, I have at last eotten a.t it. It see=J.s_
best to describe event ~s a scricn of picturoo rather thun in u....'lything
li::c history. Its on.d enough any way but it seems to me that YQ\U
childron \".'"ill want,.ihe \7hole picture. l.:e.rch 16, 1~38.
It ua3 somewhat before the resignation of Dr. Ross, just referred to, that 'Jill becu.":le convinced of the wisdom of tho oommi ttee
syst~
of
nanage-~cnt,
~t le~st
in-theory
~~d
unnouncod it. Probably
Hotchkina talked him into it o.nd 1-une 12. 1:$ 1903, thttfolloitina
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wao pe~ned out.
'i'o thee:nployees of :r.o;~rilbur a.nd ~ons,
Tho preoant yesr \1ill nu.rk tho close of u. qu~ter OCJ:tury
since this firm i.VUa ostu.blinhed.. D~.l!!le of you h<;i.VC boon identified
with the business for the t;Tau.ter pt..rt of this J;Criod and it v;ould
be ungrateful not to ac!:nowletlc;e the firm's oblicu.tions to thoae fu.ithful helpers.
announc~ent
:nut 171 th the rupic.t .growth oft ho business t1i th which you aro
. connected, tnc ,,·:oense of pernoncl O\mcrshi p and rcs9onoi bili ty h'~J
become dullod and there has been made munife:~t in the lust few yours
a apiri t of indepondenco a."ld uec.~1 indifference which nw.y ~~uoot be
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called disloycl ty; whether bccauoo ofthc mul tiplicd actiVities of
ca.oh individual or the mistaken. feelinG that,ill¢'firm fails in appreciu.tion, is perhaps not easy to dcternine. .!Jut th::.:.t um-vorthy o:oirit :tia
fo~terod by anto.Goniom bctw·oen heads of dopurtm.ents cmd c pronounced
disregard of the outhori ty of the munager. !io realizes ofte;n that he
failed to enlist yotir :Jyt:!pathioo a.."ld thu.t; a.l thoueh you w·ill not adr:li t
it, aonc of you serve only fortho uagac you receive, entirely obliviou::s ofth9 pecuninry and n::.oral rt.--wa.rda which are ourc to follow unuelfiah and loyal service.
Your manager does not mean to rebuke: his present object ia to
point out the oy111ptons and ousgeat a. cure.
The position v-1c no\T occupy in tho ma.."lufu.cturine world is well
reooenized and our reputation as one or the loaders io scncJ... u.lly
acknowledged. It should be a matter of l'ride that H.O:lilbur & Cons
c.ro called the hir;h-alu.so mukers of chocolate - - the pioneers in
giving the ~~crica~ public the·beot chocolate and cocoa ever produced
by ;".mcricr.n 't"lorknlen.
~\ncl yet, herein lies our chicr du.nser:
we are
;rone to rcat on our laurela, und when busineaa reaches that state it
nas ce~aed to grow.
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th~, n~k tll~1nto
end of our qu~to!' century by rcool vine
our work, Wl. th nore loyalty t,"> the £
I.c.t un,
:oore
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enthus::~.ann
- ;_~,-!r.dcrs ~'ld. to tho o1:.e -plucud in ::::. 1c1c rc!J,'J:l~i bili ty for :!.ll the
!..l'::..:...:;ureJ
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'PILI\'tT 4~!~:0~rr. J .A.TT. 'Pg • 7:18.
738.
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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.
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, 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."
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~sei stant Ka.na.Rer ,with P.enera.l strpervi sion. :or all purchases'
J.Archer Rulon.
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Sales J.!'ana.'gers, J .A.O 'llonnel Confectionary, Samuel A.Ri~bel, Grocery.
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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.
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As~t.. · "Ruve~,
'·'' .n .Pollock.:
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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.
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'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
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:..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
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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
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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
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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
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could fun1ion smoothlv in the ma.na~~r,s absence.
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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.
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~till
the 'Plan offered much for a better
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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-
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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.
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~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
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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
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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
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In anothor let l~cr \"rritten about t.'he same time·, July
t'his3.'!i-::mt hin vi.fe; ''
~oto
l~:v
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dcn~ouc'h us ti-ps., -...n.rr!.~t-tf <~:o.
~:rwno
forcir:-r1
1~.nd~
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he
wife en,iova evoryt.hing and docs every-
thinh for :::rv comfort and relbef.
evo:1 in
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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
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OUl'
electric d:;.:ivo
ly a.a he w.-1.n o.
&.F. w
-pl0a.s~nt
t~'ll'U
the fnotorv o.nd ·ae
beo~e
vcrv i"riand-
fell0\7 Gl'ltirelv free from big-'hoad., One day
wero wal1dng thru the rollor roon,. he t.ook a
nim~h
or
ooatin:-:
from the scra:per of one of tha ncohines. !t un.a :·:orize Uodal, one of
our craol: s·pooial tiea 'but of a. decided nnd a.t .that stu.gc ro.ther rvnk
.
flavor.
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Tial3tond 9 how does that
com~.lre
-:tit1t'1:udo 01 'I o.sked.•r:7ell-
aeo much difi'cl·onoe. '' I \ro..a a.ntoniuhod ror here ·wo.s
&"1
unusallv
int.ellihcnt. nmn and o. n1:udont. If he eould not oee rruch difference
WhV nt.ra.in SO 'ho.rfi uf·t:er .Po:rticuln.r fla.V0%'9 and fino differentiations':'
T"flere wu.s t.c ua in the "buoineos, all t.'ho difforencs in the world 9 as
muoh dlffcl·cnco ao bet;;:acn strong ooffoe a.."!d ll!ild i:oa.
'ITo.ldntea.d nersnadod mo t.o .1oin a. luneh club Tha Business and
~ofess-
1on Club who had a. t.inv club house on C8l!la.c St.. tha.t unique little
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some of' the. oldest 'houses of the city st.ill etand •. nll
need for +he so 11 t.tle ellt1:s for +"ho 'houzea wero tiny th.msel ves. The
where~
vounger
lmsinos~
mom'! a-nd Ha.ltd:.ea.•.. ur;::::cd mhat it. 't7ould be a good
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and '7/o.lnut I 'kncvr I could not RO there for lurtch very often. l!y noon
nid not ~er~it me to be awav so long but now and then I could go and
ao no meals were served at. nir.;ht as a. rule it. mA.de a uleasa."lt -place
t.o loaf until time for some meet.in~ or until t.ime t.o meet Anna when
we went t .. o some left.ure or ulav t:og:et.her, occasione.11V. ::Jo I .ioined.
Once
Z'1t
.
a month t.he Club held a busines~ meeting e.nd ha.d dinner
served a.nd then a talk bv some mem1)er or ~nea-t. on their industry &c.
After a time I -waoasked.to,t'ell about cocoa and chocolate. Verv care£
fu1 prc-pg.rat.ion wna made, chart: a and diar,r~ns E'.nd o. creditable lecture wan prene.red, if I do aav eo mvaelf. I read all I could ~et mv
hands on a.bout the snb.1ect but. +.he li tera.ture a:va.ila.blc wae not very
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. extcnsi ve., I found o.n article ;;fill "hao -prc11ared veo.rs befo1.·e and he
was interested and gave m.a uoint.o.
by-tha-wa.v th 1.:E1i of t
too
1~v lecture had one 'harl fault and,
hat talk ia on file at. Lavallette, It \Tas far
lon~ and mv audience lost. in+.ere~t.' and one a~.n was mean enou$th to
heckle but was -prom-ptlv .itmrped on by the others. You alva:v:a find some
curs in everv
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exce-pt. Church -peo-ple e.nd once i ¢ while· even
there, has been mv experience.
That talk wae the first of a
quite a lot in fact., of leeturea and t.alke
ntlllllter
I was called on to make
and as time went on I graduallv acont!tulated a. fine lot of lantern
elides to
~o
with them. Some oftheslides were from
vie~s
I took in
the ':Vest. Indieo on a. t.ri1> 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
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altho I never became expert in that-art.
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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
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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
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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'
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t).j:
1-11easuro a"'ld ·profit and m.o.de
hesitn.tod to aok .'ill
;-n~ra
as it
~rica e~~1at
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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
wa..tJ a.e s·.-:eetly unselfish as aha
only of
for mo to leav·o her o.lono.
C·:',(';V
an~
~ent;to
1.~
inolud~d
ncals
t~~G()
each anda a very reo.uon-
~nd tra~a~artation
for a
14, 1910, I find I vrrote"'thefiret of the long
1\nno., in -pt:lrt as fol1 o-:1s: The la.stt'hingst. -::hy do we
not do the .fJrst""
c1evol.,-pine 1'cx in ono'n ha.nrls! (a c1~y..·elo-ping boxwa.s a. tight dork
boY.
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e.rr9..'rlreCI'!I')r t.re.nt.rfcl'rinr. ro. film fron a Koda.l: to a developing
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1Teurlv· e-.:roryone <1eva1o-pad t'heir cr.nt 'films in
one oft~1CP-'3 t.o.1)1~ cr le.t.cr on in a 1Jo1low ~eta! cvlindcr.) And
How
t.hc t.ine 'f1ien. thane las+. few d.ava! :Doard !'!imttes t.o be co-pied and
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'tho ?oyal llu.il Line -;;a 'rent astr:2.v not recozni zins th;;)
dock thay -:re:re
uoins.
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And uo we ·olo-.::ed around i:-1
P.oo=:to very com.rortable, '!.'runko :.md i)u.ndlo!J
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o.!~. ~IJuts
~ul'l:::..rd a::J
the
ano<:.7 ~.nto th~
u't t!.l.ble viewed
and sl.d!l tti von the once ovc"JI.·. :Tt1e i~ ~?1t:':1did. bi;; a'1d ~l)=~~~d. s.nd
stead.'\.. looking.
j:'rue,. t'he
doubtful if we oonld
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o.
~tocra1o!',
ca.:o 1rut
e-,vc:-ad
!"1)\,;nd
cno
12i th ::.'!1:>•.7
·.!hl.c:t ho.t.d
at,~~ho c!I')Ol' ..
J.z! t1J.o quiet,
one horse-
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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
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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."
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!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.
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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
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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
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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
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~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
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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
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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
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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 •
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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
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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
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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,
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yet not so many for it is Sunday and, like a good "'Sngliah city, Kingston is closed tir,ht.
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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,
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and ferns just like those at home , and
hosts of other flowers, lens notic.q,ble, line the roadside. 1\.lready we
. !
are 600 feet above the sea and now rco.lly bet~in to climb. There are
shar-p turns in the road an f. our dri vcr sonndc a bvo-tone bell a.s a
warning, sweet toned and very musical. It was \tell he ~i.d as the roads,
while smooth were rather narrow and the tea~s c0ming do~n hill were
going at a good cli-p, but their bells also giving warning.
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were not na.ny of them.
There
'I'he mountain \7e were ascendj.ng did not look
tropical a little bit. ~ho.t ia not our idea.R ofthe tropics. Instead
of aangled foliage there \Yere larr,e. area.o quite bare of trees but
always covered with grasses and low shrubs and ever~~hDre, the palms.
\/ere it not forthese we would f.oreet we were in the tropics and easilY
believe were travelling t.hru 1:-s·;r
~~WLA:TD.
Here and there a hillside
would be so absolutely li}l;e the '!Torth tho.t I muct turn my head to
catch a glimpse of a banana. or a. palm before I could realize vte
UJtlii
in the tropics. Thia 9 I think 1 in the greatest surprise I have had;
these
bean!
nort~hillsides
of Joma.ica, almost on the shores of the Carri-
Nowhere have I seen this mentioned in the books and yet it is
the oddest thing I have seen here. T~ ua, Porto Rico.a~pears far more
tropical than Ja!:l.aice., at lea.::Jt, the southern side
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~boulder
little ri~er~ I
does.
of~he
island li
sttewn stregn and gravel banks is just like a hundred
have seen in Canada and
in i\la.nkn, tool
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Uassachusetto and
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Up, up we go, passing, now, a Mission Church with well kept build-·
ings and tropical plants tnd a bright green lawn.
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Native huts made
'NI~
of wattle and covered~clay, often white washed andwith tha€heq roof
are here and there, often high up on the hill sides, in little clearings. A few babanas areclose by and,of course, the cocoa palms and
little patches of truck.
They stand in strong contrast to the fear-
ful,mud surrounded ho~els of Porto Rico. These Jamaicans are surely
very poor but I hardly
saw a dirty men, woman or child all day and
there were no naked children.
We saw a score oft hem in P.R.
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These
people, generally,responded to our good morning with a ~ile and a
~ornin, Suh" or rruornin, Marster~
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The children always looked strong
and healthy and many had exceedingly bright faces, -che girls, in
spotlEss white, on their way to Sunday School, no doubt.
cool and
The air is
balmy as the middle of May and actually spicy and,- - Oh1
but it's good to be alive!
I had read a lot about the cacao and was most ~een to see it
growing but there were no plantations on the south side 9 our driver
~
said but there was a•cocoa-tree' nearfth~oad a little •ay on ~nl I
.
could hardly wait until we"reached it.
·~p dere,Suh", pointing up a low bank.
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Here it am, Suh." ~Vhere?"
I hastily scrambled up and
looked over. A few feet away stook a ~easley little ~ trees only
about three feet high and looking like a siekly little peach tree
on it was a half withered pod that I recognized resembled a half
grown cocoa pod. Was that really
aa12a
cacao? If it was no wonder
we got such poor cocoa from Jamaica, at~tmes. I was awfully dis•
ap-pointed, especiallY as the driver seemed to t•hink this was a fair
s-pecimen.
Almost before we knew it we were a.t the Castleton Gardens.It
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11 a.m. and we were quite ready to eat, the main point of interest in
t.he lunch was was cut baba.nas, oranges and grated fresh cocoanut that
was sinrpJ.y delicious.
The gardens were beautiful and interesting but
th3 ca.co.o trees very -poor, and we felt out" trip as far as cacao was"
concerned had been lo.rgely in vain.
an estate
of
But our driver said there was
a thousand acres ten miles beyond, and lots of 'cocoa
chocolate trees' and as it was only a little after noon we made a bargin with him and off
~e
went. I shall always be thankful to that pleas-
ant colored man for, withoutt hat acded ten miles my ideas of Jamaica
would have been so very, very different.
There was a light rain but it did not interfere much with our
comfort and being down hill we clipped along, me.fily.
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The
s~enery
soom becanc much wilO.er as we followed a river gorge and the foliage
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mo:re denne and profuse. High
U})
on the hillsides we could see lit1ee
patches of 'proeuce' as the(call garden stuff here, when an opening in
the trees gave us a more distant vi"t:TW ~ As we stop to enquire the way.
the language the driver talks to some colored man is entirely unintelligable to us tho the call it English.
The voices, however,are soft
andthe intonation, courteous while 'Suh'.occurs frequently. These count.
ry
peopleeT~iden~ly
regarding the city man with respect.
Before long we begin to pass cacao trees that look healthy and
well frui t.ed. A group of rather imposing buildingS across a small
river appear as we learn it is part of the Pringle estate to which we
are going. The River, about thirty yards wide looks muddy and swollen
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but the driver -put his horses in without any question. It looks
risky to us but we think he knows more a. bout the country than we do
a misplaced confidence as we are soon to learn.
grow~
the water as we slowly
a~vance.
ders and then covers the floor Jf1:he
Deeper and deeper
Soon it reaches their shoulc~rriage
but the driver never
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sass
a \Vord a.s he "JUts his feet on the dash board but preoses on.
Indeed, it's n. question if he co,tld do anything else for it is quite
izpossiblc to turn around.
and we
cc:::-~ble
Yow tho water rises almost to the seats
to the top of the backs of them as the muddy current
literally rushes .e.nd
~wirls
t.hru the carriage itself a.nd every moment
it aee;r1.n we must turn over.
The
floor mats float a\"lay and we cling
to the ton as I hold r.y C?-mera high above t1J.e water.
-:.very I.:Jment
it seems we must see the horses snept away and the carriage sink.
Just as the crisis
we
se~s
inevitable the water shallows and dripping
reach the shore and arrain begin to breathe.
A beautiful a:venue of coco palms leads tot he buildingn and we
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~ass
some East India coolies in turbans and bare legs, most pict-
urea que.
Like many houses here the trim bungaloiV we are o.pproach·~
ine is built of stone below and
fr~e
the upper floors and the servants
above.
b~low,
The family
the donkey
~~d
li~cs
on
pigs and
chicken3 too, in the ~oorer o~es. One of. the always delightful me.mor!es of that cay will be the
The
sea. blue o.nd
~ecn l~y far
vie~
from the piazza of that house.
beyond with the ri vcr windind
be~we
between abrupt hills ";\"hile native houses bowered in cocoa trees,
ba.na.na. and palms mace a. foreground of interest and beauty.
We roused the suptrintendent·and foreman from their afternoon
siestas and after a
r~ther
frigid reception they grew quite cordial
b11t io waa impoanible to see the process of handling the cacao aa
it wa.s Sunday and after o. half hour they sent a boy to show· us a
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shallow ford and we crossed without difficulty.
a shilling ":¥e drive on th.ru the cocoa trees.
Giving our guide
They seemed smaller
than I expected but \Tere full of pods, growing from the lar;;er
branches and many from the
.l
·un1-: itself, bf'illiant in their :many
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colors. Some were red, others
~1 i
ve green or dar1r green,
gr~en
banded
..,"lith red, brown and orange yellow. Confessl::m being goo C. fort· he soul,
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I must confess that noon after our guide left ua I slipped into the
grove a.!1d took two or three of:4n:the pods, Yihich. mir,r.t
ha~re
been for-
given but in doing so I otripped off oome o:Vthe bark lerwing a wound
that could be
ea.~ily
that could never be
infected and the trees being subject to disease,
forgiven~
Time was pressing for we had a thirty mile drive before us and
the ponies ·were tired no they had good reason to be. ".;/e had to let
back
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then walk up the 1 eng hill"' to Castleton, butit is all very interesting. Being
tr~irsty,
we :pause adl at a native hnt to get a.nd old wooly
headed da.rky to clinb e. palm for a water-coconut. His wife stood in
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her doontay and steadily and fiercely berated us our dri "1'er, we could
not understand her, in one steady atream violent language while bhe
old man ncv~r said a \'lord at anytime. As ff.:'.T as we could cather from
our driver, who scenerfio be too ashamed to talk about it she was mad
'bedausewe ask so old e. man to climb the tree, tho of course we paid
him and he -;vent up like a monkey and. with n:Jt appt!.rent effort. As long
as we could hear the 'lady was still raving. '!'here wa.s about a quart
of 3\Vectish but cool and refre~hing fluid in each nu·:;. our driver
seemed to enpty his in one long gulp while ue h~d to l~bor condiderably
to drink a.ll of ours. :I!'ive coconuts cost o. shilltn0t r.i;ht fro:n t~e
tree. On a littlefurther we buy a 'j::l.Ck-fruit' b~r the roe.dsi0e. It
g::ows on trees, rig!'lt from the trunk and is la:.. g~ as a. good sized 'IUdt
watermelon and !).1Culiarl:? and ulea.santly r-;cented, anC. has a rough knobb~r skin.
Late~ we four.d t1ia t th~ ::>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 di
its fragrance altho it greatly inc!' eased its strength! ·.:e found the
pulp to be "7ery tough and s-trinrtr and sweet but not very pleaga.nt and
most of it went out of the port hole amid the rejoicing of my fellow
-pas:Jengers.
'!'he moon rose before we reached constant Springs Hotel where we
sto-pped for dinnc:r wh.i.ch was very good ending with half a large pawpaw, ice cold and covered '.1i th a. s-prinklin.g of t)!e small bag-like seeds
which a.re tender little sacks ann give aa aromatic tang to th(}'father
flat pulp. 'The hotel tho~ghly :~nglish, seemed rather spoiled by
the we3.lthy, Amcri~n.n tourists, no do11bt. The horses seem to know they
~.:r e not f(),r fro:on ho~e an~ trot along wi th~t;~t1 e urging. s:txty mi~es
1 ~ O:l.e cay is no mean tr1·p, e::rpecio.lly for so small a.mimals .And so we
reach the stea.--ner, tireC. b.1t so ~8-fl'f:Y. ·,·re 1-:::!d ·~,<,.ped to get be.ck in
tim~or ch:::.rcn but -.-:ould not - 1::;h our fai thf1.:l hor~cs. 'J"'he cs.v is ended
but it sh~l]- ~i ;c for yeQ:r~ ~ c~ come as::c a rich, full day, hap~oy and
crowded 111 tn · ln"terest, sa.t1 st<..;tion and joy.. {."Jld that propQ.ecy is
+,rue for no1:, ~8 :.rea::. s efter, ~t is a.ll vivid in my memory.}
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as.cked 'by 'Ru~eigh and twice by :Jc!'go.."'l- Ito .forts, mo.t~oive but riined
and 1 ts "'"tn.lls still a.p?o.rently perfect Gi vc ·witness of the
loncr ps.st.
ic~ted
~·cormy
dayo
The city, 1 tcclf, thouE;h tee:n.inc with life han been dea-
by the tro?1C nun and
'n:ll'ro·.7 streets are
bord~red
st~"'lds
today, a wondurland or a faoinat-
with plastered hous.e3 of nr'..!ly colors; bal-
aonie3 cnrcrY'.ihere; Wi?1dm7s bo.r:rod with vlo·::>d 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
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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-
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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 l1
ilieo, a ccJ 1 to a. fu.:.:ily 'hut no.ke:d 11o.bic3 no end. '.1.'hon to tlle bull~ing, a. :tJiscrable flir.::.sy u.ffcir of weed; out ul(Jng the ~ay to a. white
;\nd so bo.r~k t.o th~ city &nd o.round. that IHl~la.re ug~in. On the
third trip I neize the g"1..lide-card(s~.p:;.nir~h~;]nc;i1eh ~cntcncea) and
shout !Jp!!.."lish to the dri vcr, who, wcnc~er of wonucro, ccto a n€n·r idea
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and -rre arc off in a
!lC';\"
direction. Cut ·o·.;cr ::. brid:;e, :_Jaot villas,
in 1938 and recei voti only soowlo or were ha'ltily ienored. Too !.l~tny
a11ful tombs and. n~zlected cr:rpt3 no.do Ol1'=l for!l t:n.e horror Ol death.
Fron an opnn cr;,r:pt o. totting coffin io pulled ~J:r ~ ~-a.r1~ h?y, the lid
lifted revealing the el::olcton \Vithin, gone, forcottc-:1 u.bundoned.
Crt -pv.at t'he ·old !o:::t o-r incicr!t citudel 11hooe ca.vet•ns, we are
told connect with t~~athcdral by lons tunnclo =unninG thru tha quickoands and unoer an a.rn of the sea. :l tsal r. (~.::other ~.tent in·to tao3e
dungcons,no\7 electric:::.ll7 lighted, o;1 ou~ 1938 tri-p out nott he tun-
nel, if it ever e:d.sted)
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\lc cli::nb the belfrey of one of the l..u"i;eot
ce.theclra.la, f!..ir;h in the a.ir.
'Bell3 so old 11z:.nc; 3.'bout uz they look as
tho tha:t micht h.--1.ve been r~+n:_s on tho f'ir3t Chriot:no.o cia;;.
iz neon f:ro:n nere ,no 3trccts' .i'J.ot a
r.'.:.t\1!'1
lio city
of old tiles ".Jut t.hc wh1 tc
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surf on the cU otant shores, the long reefs against the blue sky l!lake
a "Jicture
well worth the clinb toi.t thebelfrev.
.
weenterthe :nulv.ce ofthe Inquisition, a -pri "'late dwelling no\Y
whose o·:mer
V!. ndly
tuJ.:en un thru a. part of it. He keeps a general
ncrchandise atoreand
~~cnks ~ngliah
room, now "his parlor, the old trial
dn.~h
at my foot,
':'h~
~e
see the old
court
where a scorpion makes a
ch~~ber
off, ho·;;evcr, juot
s~:earin;;
the roof 77i th n. yell.
brokenly.
U3
I prepare to split
in3tru::1ento of torture ·were all thrown
o,.7:ay c::-:cept a. ::rpiked bed-stead w'r1ich was heated red hot and the victim kindly a.llo 1:ted to
repo~ethereon.
'fhi:.'l i!'l no\7 used aa a era.ting
in one ofthe cathedral windoW3 but we did not see it. (Neither was
it pointed out when we -visited thin sane place in x8:5t 1937,tilo we
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saw sor.1e of;f.he cell:s at that t· ime. They do not seea to feature the
torturo of;{;he Protetd:ants to touri ~t~, at leu.ot.
The al tca;s are most
elaborate in all the churches but horrid in their evident idolatry.
~ost
of the churches are poor, dirty but much better than the great
cathedral in Panama.
An so we journey to ''?he American "!Iotel .. for lunch but o.lwo.ys :tl.'1:rx
thru those faoino.ting streets with their untold posoibilities. At
hotel Tie found
o~r hoste~n
was a New York woman, very
aeked us if ':fe wanted
mr:~:'\:Y"J?AST?
for lunch but thought
brea~fast
As it was then noon
courteous,who
\7e
were looking
would do and so we tried it on. Soup,
fish, tomato omelet, a salad of herbs, some lettuce and muchj onion
and a
meat
~eat
course which we did not eat having just come
stall~
food~
but what we had seemed \Vholeoom and not
di ffer~nt fro1:1 home cookinr,. The to.ble -·;;as neat and clea.11. but
(~i.:1inc: roo~:~
'.:~:icrl
the·
in the market! For dessert, paw-paw and oranges. We did
not try· all of these
V~'J:"i
p~st
bcin on the
: :; ccon- .floor,ovcrlooked the center co'.lrt
-..·r_'.';r",l'
r-:ordr>l·_r
·•nd non· --·~_ -1-.o.
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,_
,.._
cle'"1
· ·1,-,; t1-..,.. ur.tt"d
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, "nt",;:; u.·
.-.bout
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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ba.Y to a much nore enaily defended entrance, not nuch uore than a. z
:\nd
:1 ~ile
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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•
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
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·;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
--
.,
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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--------------------~------~
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•
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
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oi
and other
this.
ve~tables.
It was "Have another nla.te
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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
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"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
,.
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no,
no springs. no chairs, no
anything bttt a. wash bowl and pi tche.r on a.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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~~,
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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··:
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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
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for "-~""
~'J t~'.at ':ic could drink t,1.c coo·J juice '<7i thin, alir,htly ~-..-:co:. "-J•.tt
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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
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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
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longer wiohed to gather a big boquet.
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Lunch close tot·· he
ra~ls
delightful) even tho we only had native
bread, very white and much like beaten biscuits, sweet cake, custaEd
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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
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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:
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t!-~o
';To,~
rap~)
that eve-
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a cultivated lady.)
I<'eb. 22,
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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.
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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!
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'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 ••
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• • •. '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
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h'.'!en thinking of starting a -plantation in the tropics somewhere,cacao
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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
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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.
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~.,he
livery ...
asked a. fair price for tha tri-p so there \1a.ex no haggling. 1Iistah
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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
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than and if it did not tuJ:c so nucr. work to tear them
d?rm n~ doubt they w·Juld ho:lVe 'been c~ried o.vnrs long u.i;o,to gat t::c
ir..:.i ldlna l~:.tcrit'.l in t"lH!.'l.
.
:.11 the Sp:Jnioh ruin!J we h;.:.vc occn, whether
At T':l-y :ruxbor, a sr1ull fiohing villo.co with the ruino of cono
Our entire fu-...y was mont interczting. J.\':.· tino::s we could easily
bcliovo ;;c wero in
plt\ce~7e
b1.d seen pictured
u.3
beinG in Africo.,
uild -p;;ll"k li1::e country r.i th tall grazt: c.nd huts zr.ado mootly tlf 1 t.
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'Zhon ·;To YtJuld pas3 thru a fairly large to·.vn evidently very old aud
Again we como to u. village of
r~ally
wild looldnc blacks,
tho they wor¢'Ully clad,,·rhere we chanzed tcUJna \1'hile a. cro·.:.rd of thcr.:1
looked on, not with tho m:rlline;. fricnUly fo..ces we so:l" a.J.most every
'\7horo "but ocowling s.11d mean. ·.'Ie \1c:ro Glad when wo cot ax1uy from L'un•
nut our new teem a nd driver were
cD.nc(pronounced 9 lmn-CA~fSft~)
"'ui tinrf for
ua b-.r t.ha side of the road and so vre did not ha.-vc to :bt
t3..-ry lonr;.
':'he Spring irill Hotel at
~nd
:~ontego
fuy waa oleu11 and coofortu.ble
altho ,.ve ar1•ived in the afternoon we -aere off tor a. wu.lk right
o.·,vu.y. The 55 mil¢1"1 vc
~u.de
us ..rant a. 11 ttle exercise 1 A little off
the ron.d wo diooovcrcd largo ruins of a SlW:mish monastery with a.
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boautii\tl \1ell curb and a fla.t e.rch to rival the cz:::m fw:1oua one in
~-~. ~.rcalo
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·~;cl·e
trcro so!:la.vhat irre[.,ru.l!1r .attho hotel but aa bt1nches of
.
ul\~~ ~:ro
coilirlg
re~dy
for thono
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ni "1£:.
n~"'ter
need
crcly o. ::;tarter. :1wre wan
::-:3-n:r or::mc:on
en
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all the
fork ready t" cat.
"l,.hut
,'U~orico.ns
p~Ql
b~
al·~¥ays
a lu.rr;c 'bo\11 on the tu.ble ":lith
cut off dotm to the pulp and each mou.nted
Foul.. ,. one::.ftcl" uno thcr
oco::1ed to be tho uoual
1mil t
hunr.;ry. .At breo...":fu.st, one oro.ngs
o~tatom~
\'!3.:.:1
moderate bosin:n.ktt.'!
c.
in J::2::m.ica..
tl1o wo.tcr. ';.'he old tir.,cro knm: th:..:..t the hiGher up
~cur
the cooler
th~
there
ou:;u.r rc:!'incrioo on thccdc;c of town u...."'ld ,·;e wentt."'lru one, a
v•eo~.·e
air and.
t.~'le
1::.orc tho brcoze eo oc6an or bo.yfront cot-
sr.w.ll r;oy
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e.ttac'hin~ hiu:aclr to a.s onr cuido end reu.lly -proVing moot
·~ift~
r
hc:l-pi'ttl, ~·..;)'at first I hud tried to drivo hi::.l u:;:o.y. l~o1onlywcre they
ma..king sngur nt thnt refinery but rum a.n well, tho they did not give
un a tW.riplc bottle to remc:..nbcrthem by. Later we hired two colored
boys to row us out to t he 11130GiJE I zlands", mere a to 1 s
or
co~nl cro~-
eel with a dense gro\'tth of nunr.rovo. ?here were a lot of the:: ui th chel1··
nela runntrsg bet';lcen
the~
and onex could C:l.nily be lost in thc:n
the mangrove bushes complctel·y· hid the shore
covered
~crez.
'i'"ncy
~•era
0.11.d
Cl.S
the isla.nda must have
irror.-111e..r in shupa, no-t c.l'.ra.yn round
\1i th
a.
lagoon in their centers tho wo could not see thw until \"'e \vero 'bigh
on the 'hills the next day, so thic:.: ,.:-:ere the ma.ncroveu. It w:::.s our
tir3t ~ close vie~ of the3e terrible t~glca
growinn
I
do~
in the
a~lt
water
~nd%
of
branches and roota
the 3tovies of
ahi~
wrecked
no.iloro tr~ring to force their wa.:v tl'l...ru thet'l for miles come to mind
n.n we realized h0\1' hopclc·3s that was end how dreadful wa.s thoir
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b t.n
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rate
'i'hci::- roott; were covered with
Jamaica Hcneyt1oon,
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/.~1 fl.
soon found out as our boys gathered some for us. They were good flavored but really warm and not very pleasant.
croriing on
~stern
t~
frocty~
end that was something
to
but we had eaten
rem~ber
and talk
about!
One
aftcrnoo~
we walked about a nile to a bathing·beach called
"The Doctor' 3 Cave". The ohores o-y'thut side of the Island are rocky
sandy
and the beaches not so frcr1eut ao the nurf bathing is so:'!lewhe.t concentrated. Our oui t!:l cost 12d fort he t·.·io and a. like am.ount for e.d-
mission.
?his \las in 1911, you L""now· and ·.Yhile Annl:?.'s suit t;ould. be
considered extreuely modest todey our Journal so..vs "Anna may describe
her bathing auit cut I can only
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the cXpre3aions on the bathers
r~cmbcr
faces as she deoendod tho iron sta.irvw.y tot he Cave and appeared on
the beach. And thia a.11ong conservative Tinglish -people! Thlt the bath-
ing wa3 fine and the surroundings
novel as one could
~s
i~agine.
A
coral cave and a li ttlc curved white sand beach a.t ··the foot of coral
bluffs.
Delight~~l
clear water of a lovely blue and oo buoyant that
one floated without any effort whatever. 11
frdaom from song skirts and stockings •
ure and such a satisfying stroll
I guess Ann onjoyqd her
Anyw~y
~back
we had no end of pleas-
tothe hotel in glow of the
setting sun."
That Jamaica. Honeymoon oo~1:bac!:
so clearlv
as I '\"trite that ~
A
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it is a great
tem~tation to follow our.
it all if you care to altho we seen
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to
loe closely but you/ can read
have gotten
t~e tro~ic ~ro
crastinating habit and the la.,·rweek of our tri-p wo.s not recorded, !t
would
too long to more than tell of
of one or two unusual
hn~pen
ings.
I
·re had a lone train ride lmck to\-re..rd Yincstont
to the other side of the
:isl~
diagon~ly
across
d, stop-ping on our way to the much
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/)) 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
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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.
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very obligbumptad
on our
·::hat's a few · i.nutes,more or lesa with a. schedule
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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
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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
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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
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in Kingoton o.t,.that time and we planned
baen arranged befora
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<.:~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.;..
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. k 1.-:o
'.I... rll~..o.scoreo
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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
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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
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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
.
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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
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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."'l
wind is keen. 'l'he feature of the lunch is
cont tn?ence c;pcice. A picture of -perfect beauty
:~nd
is a.ll utout uo fort he roofo of tho l;arrac1=o are all below us, docend-
ine li;.:e ~0::10 aia.ntk~ flight of otepo plo.cc
they o.rs 'hail t.
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·.·ath
011
which
the -r,:eakc of the !>lue :.: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
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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
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been able to get very nen.r the treeo at the PrinGle ?lantation. A young
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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,
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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
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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 •
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(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
•
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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
J,.o.v::U.lett.e, and then vrc wanllered thru the aisles of t!le l:~ta: l:.lxX
large oqua.re. roofed over 'but ·ui th aicen o-pen all around. ·Such a.
strtmge E.'.~zortnent of w:.J.rea and peo-ple, from the rope tob;icco to the
guey n::.ti ve augur, half molE~.sseo and strmtge fruita, huge ya:::J.a 18 in.
long, breadn o.nd rotls e.ncl native hencliv:or~<: offered b~r every possible
13'hadc of bro1.·m and bl!.'.Ck and yelloi1.
!Iere two \1omen. in adjoining
epo.cen for l'ro.oticallY n.ll squat on the flt~.r :stones
\Vi th
their warca
nprcn.d out about thc::1, e.re ecreanine a wordy \var. Judginc by the tones
anti faces doa.th is likely to ooc'l.~r at. a~r minute. 7Tc c:onld not understa~tt1 a ".:orcl they o<:>.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! .,
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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 ~~
to do so.
Ar;ain l:orrors a.,d r.ore r..orrors! Thu.t very
to find ·ithc:l she would co.il.
afternoon1
1~d
we had
~a0e
no
~re,o.rations
to speak of.
TI-1e prooioe of an extra. tip cot ua back tithe r....otol which
•
some
\1e.3
dista,;"lco t:..Yro...v, in jiG tine and we enca.ced the su:::1c ma.""l to call to take
to tho stes;uer, for often ce-'>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."-
chap who nc.de the tUrd at our ta.ble :proved to be very interesting
being a 1ie'\7S reel hunter for what was then the o.ost popular, if not
the
or~:r
oervioe of that kind. ! cant remember the no.-ne but it was the
one that alvro.ys ended with a ero-:.'l'ing roonter. !!e ho.d been everywhere
•
~1.-nd
told ,.1s Ittn.Yly of his eXperiences a.nd ad'\·enturea.
In due time -::c lcmdcd in.:: .~:p.
~r.d
ju:Jt a.s ucre 't,·ore heedinr:
t~u
basket brol':e and oto.r a.pnl.~.ll,
here o.r:d there while I scf.D!cd
a.:.1d t!.1c J~~ica honeyr.1::>on \n:q
end co..
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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
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And I was very happy in it all.
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(Feb.2, 1939,San Biego,Gal.)
•T .A.TT •
?81 •
In 1912 we bought a. Cadillac, four ojrlinder car, quite up t
:::inut.o
with ££RPer jackets on the cylinders instead of cast iron ones
and a wind ~hi¢'d that was removable, braced from the front by long
crass adjustable tubes and other improvement3, We only used the windsl~ield
in cold ".vea.thcr and every Spring we would take it off the ca.r
as wvdid not want to have that gla3s or anything else in front of us
in driving.
We
\~anted
the breeze in our faces 1 But thirty five miles
an hour was abouVihe limit and at that we got plenty of dust in the
breeze
always wore goggles on
~~d
any
trip,a long duster, leather cap
and long gauntlet gloves. I think this was the first car we drove to
•
La'7allette.
Those
to the scashore,in those early days
tri~s
incidents. They wero
sul ted as
to/~he
pla~ned
were~s~not
long in advance. Other autoists were con-
best routes chosen because "there were the best roads"
and the beet was none too good thenfor t'hey would surely rank as
third class, or less, on the auto maps of today. Still by careful
selection of newly surfaced roads, water- bound macadam was the
one could getJa
~retty
miles out of the
comfortable ride evon tho it took/ one eome
nhortest~
wearing into vicious
t~1P$
route. Already older
ehar~-sided
macad~
roads were
little orators and the best cars
were likely to dise ntegrate, iiterally, if driven
ma~y
miles over
them at at any s~eed. They used to tell all sorts of jokes about how
?ord
ccr~
shed
nut~
along the road so that junk men would follow.them
and do a. good business inaelling
I
hardw~
After five miles of those
holes any autoiat was ready to go fifteen to'escane th~. So it was
th3.t it took he.li! a day to do the 108 miles. to Lavallette Via Tren-
ton and Point!}leasant forthcre wae no bridge e:x.ce-ptthe railroad bridge
across the Bay and for a.
ti~1e,
~he
l')ennsylvania. raads were the best.
•
r:-nat co.r, a "Five
3
f;o.s~enger
l,
'fouring" cOat
1425 pluo :)40 for over
~
ize tires". One can but( a lot or auto forthu.t amount now and no extra.
((It'
tiren ei t~1er. And what a rH!ference in tires! Sor;le\vhere a.bou t this
tir!e,thoueh it
\Vas
probably a
~it
later, m:l!tufacturea beGan to guar
o.!ltee the mil:eage. It was "guaranteed for 1000 miles''• That :meantyf.ha.t
if your tire gave out within a thousand miles you could take it
ba~k
and if the dealer ,fonnd no evidence or misuse you were allowed the It
difference between the Inilcs run and 1000 at so
man~·
cents per mile.
7he rate waa fixed by dividing the coat offihe tire by 1000.
~your
a.llowaneo was not -paid in cnsh but could be uaed only as a credit "Jn
a ne\V t.ire. In this way the auto owner was kept coming back and back
to the swne dealer or for the same cake of tirc5 over and and over in
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n sort of endless chain effect. In spite of this these ~tarontees continued for years, grn.dually increasing the guaranteed mil2age. ·:vhcn
~500
miles
that the
~et
~ere
ma~ufaoturena ~ere pra~tically
now a daya
~urrah
guaranteed we thought the lioit had been reached and
20~000
giving away their
~roduota.·
miles ian matter of course with.no special
about it. In the winter of 1936-37 we drove a Dodge car,a sea'•'i;
-~·
ond hand une with tireo tha.t har4lt been run some mi lea, hov1 many we
did not; know ,yet or those five tire a, three
ran~
vulled a trailer 10;000 miles of that distance.
iet, life in growine
bette~ a~d
14J 000 and more and
Surely, for the auto-
better!
Uy Tacntions generally started on Saturday as was the general
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11rc.otice with our Company and the Auto uas ''packed" with the many i::k
things wo 't'tero to bring. Tho mother's holper had gone a. day or two
·.:-c!'nr9 by train leav_ing !.:other,. the three olf!ost boys with me for the
r_~rco.t. a:-lventure. ~very last tr.ins -poosi ble ':."l~s a towed in tho auto
~rido.y night, inoludi!1g u. nu::-r1 :r ~f s-pn:."c tubes fo;r'the tires, a tirepui:lp
783.
tire tools, patchtng out~it~vo.~veeinsidea" caps and wrenches, a vulcanizing outfit using rasoline, inside shoe patches(the outside casing
of a tire was always called "the shoe.) many tools and wrenches, nuts,
.
.
bolts a.nd c·otter -pins and even a portable vice that could be clamped
on the tunninr; board. ···e had room for all that and more in the large.
boxes below the the seats and besida those we generally had tool box
attached tcfth
them.
·::hen all that stuff uas laid. out for overhaul
i~side
..
and spre"-"around
it looked like the stock of a good sized junk shop!
r
.
So exci&red were we all 1 those Friday nights,that we could scarcely get to sleep .and h&.T long the boys talked after they were all tuel'=e:!
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in we never knew, but llother and I were generally pretty tired out
and four a.m. came dreadfully soon.
weather reports and
~canned
Yli th anxious ayes we watched the
the skies and first thing after strug-
gling out of bed while the alarm clock was still ringing was to look
at the skies tho our sleepy eves could hardly tell
~EXEuR
whether
it was raining or not.
A hurried bite to eat,breakfast and an energency lunch had been
packed tho night before, and it was always fried chicken and many
other things, Coffee and cocoa were poured into thermos bottles, sti)l
quite novelties, the doors looked, all gas or fires put out and reinc-peoted; the car was run out oft;he stable,(bot garage as ye~; the
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boys climbOdin the tonneau on top of the household stuff
~r
it was
already quite full; The lunoh basket fastened to t'he running board
a glance at the sky beginning to brighten in the
ise of a fine day, mother
~~~
~ast
with
~
the
~rom-
I clinb intothe front seat end it nas
7B4.
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as
when cars were built high with as much clDarance
~ossible
necas~ary
under the
ax~s
or the lowest part of the car. This was K
to clear ruts and ridees in the roads or other high placesa•.
Theengine had been'cranked' and had given no trouble in starting,
Oh! joyl and was running smoothly. All the spare time for a week I had
been otlinr; it and greasing it and cra:uling under the ca.r to tighten
bolts and fasten the duet pan a bit tighter. The vibrators had been
'
~rum
X!Zii adjusted o.nd the 'contact pointo' filed
o~ooth
and the
four a-park plugs, for we now had a'four cylinder', had been carefully·
cleaned. So - - - Hurrah, we're off: thoueh there is no loud hurrah for
the neighbors are still. asleep.
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Oh the thrill of those tr..i±Xr")dt mornings in the early dawn: 01\1
the
s~eotnesv
of morning air. Oh! the joy of it all!
There was enough
of uncertainty before us,
enou~h
of adventure and with it the keen antic-
of the delight of
~ovel
experience with the oottege and ocean
i~ation
and bay a."''d sailing o.nd crabbing and pionicirig and sea. bathing a.t the
end
or
the .1ourney. They all made those early oornine goings one o f
the delights of tho year.
lio·ther uaa qui ta aa happy as I wo.s_, perhaps
a mittle more so for I was just a little subdued by the
responsibil•~
1 ties before me and wondering if we really could find our way and make
the correct turns over all that great distance. Until cur first trip
to the:/shore I suppose we had never been fifty miles at one time in the
auto. Rack of
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my
happiness there was the lurking thought of engine
trouble with repair shops few an¢tar between and the ever haunting
dread of tire trouble, a blow-out, a very common oocurance indeed.(7e
ht.?.d to oh2.nr;e tires six tines on one
tar;e until :.'1i d-a.fternoon tho
\70
and did not rea.ch the
Q:)~~
r)ften went through with out trouble.
e..fter I 'had p'..lnped 6 tires to 5 ; or
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a~ 1 bs.
pressure with three small
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b·Jt
very ":1il1ing boys to help, in one forenoon autobiling looses all
it~ ohell"Ila
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!To one carried a spare tire a.nd you could not get it on
th, clincher
c~uae
ri~s,
inflated, if you did.) :re choose to go early be-
we all loved the
e~rly
morning. ?here is no part of the day
the air and light have such peculiar charm. It is
any other hour of the
a,nd 7te
dc:,.y.
~inating,
~hen
unlike
Then, toe, ue hn.d the roads to ourselves
liJ.:ed to get throug11 tl'le city before the :roxs::.t..tt streets ·were
crowded.
1Sothcr had the 2 Blue nook" with every turn marked. So many
:niles, turn right,so many :o.ore turn left vith some special object to
oar( tha corner, a aign, a store, a fountain or even a cemetery. X
There were no route signs and
cities.
fe~
street or road sign outside of the
Along about 6.30 Dc.d began to feel eopty and the boys had
been unusually quite for some time. no a shady place by a
o. high bank by the road side
out and
then~
\7ao
a breakfast!
stre~
or
chosen and the lunch basket brought
~That
fun it was and we were all such
good pals and so happy together.
"Euch refreshed and the boys happy ao could be,their hilarious
s;iri tn hardly kept from \7ild shouts of joy by Fathcz;b stern com:nands
not to be 'too noisy'. It they were not somewhat subdued I could not
tell whether one hod fallen out or the
Gar
had come a.-part and those
oucldon wild. shouts were ho.:rd on the nerven of the driver who was ever
liatening to the
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~cgulur
firing of
th~ngine
or for some more than
usue.l alarming lt:odl:hl::=t rattle or groan of a. hot bearing.
where we
cros~ed
the Delaware, was full of trucks and wagons and con·
fnn in~ o-t.reeta and uhon we
b~-rc.~
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h~d
-paosed it everyone fol t a. relief a"'ld
v e rv lo nc; wa b eco.n to
· aee
w
neared the Jer~oy barrens tho
s~n
d o.1ong t h.e roadrade
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c.s v;e
he country· rrau pretty well scttlod or:
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?asoine north of Lo.ketvood 9 after passing thro Adenia, Adelphia
c.r:d Alcir, 'the three Aa' that aotmrod un
\'tore on th,efright road as
that we uere'cetting near' we reached Point rleasant welcomed
~ell ~s
tha
\"ta
of the sea. DoYm the coaat,the road had been opened only a
~ell
little uhile
a~d
we took
unoo~on
care not to get near the shoulders
for if ue did, do•m would go a. r1heel clear to the
and nothing
a.:d.~
but d.igr,ing.and jacking and sona vlanks,if you could find any,-.vould
get you out. '?here was every indiotltion that the boys would jur.1p out
of the tcn.."lea.u ao r.reat was their exorti'·!.aent o.nd delignt o.."ld to keap
th~
from literally exploding we had to lot them Ghout and sing. !
.\ftor -pa.:Joing !!u.."'ltol:oking there \7erc no croos roa.da a.ny·Ray
n~d
11 t-
. tle treffio ao we could relax a"'ld tUke tho chances of letting the
~
engine
be~in
to miss.
And so, quite with the feeling of one who has
braved tile -perils ofihe ereat unknotm and returned after :any deya
we slowed d0\7n and rolled .into the lone
--:,re had
dre~cd
o! village by the sea.
t?.ade it! Yes Sirl Only·lli hours running time.
1:ope, not this trip 'but we had a slovr
leal~
My 'Punctures't
and had to stop arid pump
her up a time or two. luck"J yu did 'nt have to change tire c .• The way
they mo.kc
th~~t:
beads now the' r the very dickens to get on t And they
were, too.
But we did'nt stop long to greet the Garibaldio or Blooms or
JohnGons or even Joe ratterson but pushed on to the cottage to be
nwarmed upon by the rest ofthe family while thousands or quections
~er
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minuts were shouted at no one in particular. It was about lunch
tine and tho maids, tor we had naids then, had !ish, caught that
~ornincr
:l
in the nets in front of the ecttaGe,
C."Tn.tcful sieh of roliof I
c~ t'tlbed do·;m,
~~all
ready and with
noting t.he.t thg aibr:e was
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108 miles,
a
tr~endous
juurney!
for a lon[! nep but ::other took/
had not -piloted us all thane
After dinner or lunch I was ready
t1p
the family carer just ns though she
oroo1~ed m~lea
or arisen a.t four tho.t morn-
ing ..
":'Iinne ·;roola.rd, a. sweet southern eirl, was our mother • s helper and
. our first of quite a vuri~ty of them. Jj~ore devoted we never had for
she :7aa a. fine cho.ructer a."'ld very good to the children, very conaihben-
So the glad,hap~J days besan again and all
tious in her care o~ th~.
too soon
ny vacation was ovor and I returned to ~tork. Sometimes /I
lived with our neighbor, ·.1al ton J?oratnll \lho li vad across the street
on Rosemont Ave. at Haverford and whoce family was also avay>either 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
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csmo baok after many days as she was the means of saving Mothers
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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.
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~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,
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and later when he was no longer employed there we glad to
get him fol.. day work with us.
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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· coul
f~il~v
3UI' a
as to what he was telling me about his fm:1ily tho I W·;:>uld 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.
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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 an
"yes ur.t" and then do as nhe chose. This, ho-.vevcr was in minor matters
and so could be passed by for she wac intensely loyal, and really lov~d
the fa:mily 9 et~DE!Oia.lly the dear ~~i stress. One t.i.me tfl.e-btr.rs when the
boys had taken the clothes props a.~d let a v1hole wash d.oun to draggle
on the ground, narab was good
a~d
angry and chased them like
~~
aveng-
inr; angol. 7heytoo.k refuge under a doul.)le bed 'but Donny was too fat
to squeeze under and Sarah, puffing after her h<.:.rJ chase, pounced on
hin "?retrudinG legs o.nd pulled him forth and proceeded to "fan him
goon''. Tr.e 'bo~rs' re:teru +.o "S:arry, ?.ert and non, Harry \'Tata.lwa.ys the
leader and Don' being rudg-
('Nuthors' note. As t.he rsaul t off.hoce spanking3 aee what antt unoommonanl v fine :n.a.n he i
r;
to d£J..;~ ~)
Sarah cauld neither ren.d or. uri te and oo,:1 rJ not count very \7 ell
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·r1en she worked 'hy the day before living at, the Haverford house as
!101~
a.
~c\TI.\'!I
n0-rr-:RTg.
c~
aoo.
rrmid, shecUd not wo.nt.to be -paid each weel':: but once a month. To
keep count of her tine she tied 'knots in a strint; to rep:oesent days
and half clays a.nd would bring her ctring to /;.nna to be checked with
her accounts. 0he waa a good buaineoa Yrouu."1 and when her husband died
Sarah h-.td k{!pt all hiG lodt;e p~pero, reccitfb for dues ?:c. in auch per-
rcct order t.hu.t she
·:ra.~
o.ble to collect ull the Lodcc owed her. It
\-rats vcr.v difficult to get the better of Sura.h in trade or-- to fool her
v7i th false promisee.
Her hunband vtas a big laboring mu.."l and not very intellieent. ·:;e
thought wa could train him for a houne man at
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ono time
a~d
tried
-it bt.:.t it waa li1ce hn.ving u. Hubian git'l..vtt in a white coat pasaing a
tr:v.:t
cup of tea with ha.ndo t.iutt: rre:ald1n-:lti':d:;±."'tnxc.r.r-tJ in whia11 the £tqt wa.~
nearly lost to.
say nothing
oft he cu.p.
'•Ie expected to 3ee the dishes
bounce off the table each time John took a atep. I tried to teach hil!l
to drive the nuto but it was hopeleas and betide he could not let rum
alone.
Thio oddly assorted puir had a very nice looking duughtcr, a
senai ble ;toung wotla.."l who had been tl"t..rough the 3ryn l:a..,•r public ochools
and wa.s a vory su-perior type married to the higher type colored men
for her first husbandhad left her a wido\'f. This daughter, Alice,wao
very
~ood
to her mother and much too intel'ligent;t o share sor.1e of
Sarah' o 11eird notion:l, tor Sarah \'Tao not far fror.1 the junele in soc.e
of her beliefs altho a. member of church in good .standine.
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Por a long tiMe she had not been real well having a tumor in
her side, never mentioned to I:le, but confided to .-\nna. Altho advised
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o.nd urr:cd to consult a. "?h:rs.tcian or
1/
inc~:~nrren::; o.n<~
~o
to hoapi t~.J. sarah refused ao.r-
them people ir: for t1'ic w~lite J)eoplo but culled
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huz
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tnn cullued pea ple' 3 way. So she aaw her hoodoo
to be trcn.ted in
doctor ·,vho told hc.r to ouca the tonGUe of a frog and she '.7ould c;ct
;"Tell. It waa win tor and frogs could not be found. The 'Doctor' eo.id
a
to~d ~rou3:.d
·:f.al ter
do so Tackua and his fanily and our colored housemc.n,
~cnnington
for -;re ".'Tere at the
houuc at t'hnt time,
!~averford
'hunted foi· a toad for ;1are.1l w'hen-ever they had
none coul(.\ :)c fou:1(!. i:eam'fhile Annu and
~ura.h'
f'....."ly
s
rr:1c.re tir2e but
dc~nchtcr
tried to
talk her out of such foolis'hneoo until she got tho1rour;:'hly e.ngry and
walked out
~ithout ~arning
and
wen~o~
a
little
~lace
she had in Del-
a.'7re.re nco.r ''tilmineton where she thoucht froca were more nu."lleroua. If
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ahe found ono it did not effect a cure ond
reBoved a.Y'Id a.l tho she came back to uz
~ftc:r
she had the tumor
f'in~lly
a.
ti~e
she
.w·a.~
never very
well. She o.lso r>layed 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
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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-
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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
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thought
thc~t
rr :\·:r! Z7:D.
t·.to
lmt ani!! otunts t'he boys endured
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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 the
'..lnleos they
~'!D.d
nerve n:!d could nl:ond
blindfolcled, his urm bu.rcd, he'>
. hoarso
~o
.~\re
.you
ready~
ready, the aosist-
SHI'~"ll'?"
o.nd then a!'ter another
Peeling all right":' Aint Goin to faint"? a piece of
!££with a thin edge waa
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\7U.S
whisper, but plenty loud enoueh for the/ Scout
to he<..\1", ·•suro thut lmi'fe'a clean a,.'W'}d
11
'l'he victim
~ain!
alonG tho struecling ar.m. It'n funny
dr~~
how much that feels like a cut tor a. few seconds. The other ca.ndidatco
~oro
kopt in another roon ao only one passed the ordcul at a time and
\ti th
om well bD.ndaged in cloths smeared with red ink he \7cnt to coll
the ne£It and could stand .by a..'1.d sec tho fun. In the other stunt, a.lso
.
torture ·
a teat of courage, the bo~/s \"tcre to be put into the dungeon.Dlindand hands tied
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folded tho~t "ilere slid dO?m a. trouch,hea.d first through a. :txJ: caller
windo7 into a rather dee~ ccller to be l~~baoted with knotted.sto~~
ings as they went along. 'that stunt never a:ppealed to me. It seemed
.
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sort of brutal altho ito hard blows were struck u.nd the boys did 'nt
mind a bit.
r:.y
~ubdoy ~~ehool
Class of boys ·.verc juot tho age
tor Scouts
and sesmed interested. in the idea. I needed sooething to tio
a bettar
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~ractice
of the best?and to hold
thei~
up
th~
intornt and keep
1
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th~
tocothor. So ! hv.d then u.ttha 'Rosemont house one night to tclk it
over and they decided to fore a troop. It was the 12th of June, 191:2
we net ut the hoc.e of Gulvin 'cllo <::nd there formed ··roo-p ;;"l,l>r;')--n
7.::.x.Yr, ::oyo
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~cout9
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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
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~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
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: 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
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.
.
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, •
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804.
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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
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tl:ril:'.. ~d 'by tho thoucht that Y.rhnt ·.re ::1ore doine -."Tu::; thoroughly worth
while.
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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.
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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
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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
:.list in
~~r.
tnt in
'Fuguot a.nd
o·~med
t:;ltho ·.toods on 3c..tt~rch:.ys bt:cur1e quite frer.rt.R. ,,
,,
w:·.at ~:a.::; 1.--notr.ias t':1e Cm:1pc.ny' s V.:;ods to Al.
our boy hood,
t here we played mo.ny, mu."'ly du.ys as I
e~d
havo told. TI1cn it was open to anyone, sort of_ common property, but~
no•.v it wao surrounded by a high wire fonao a':'ld "Trespassing strictly
forbidden. ·•
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To m..v great joy
Austin, n:oet kindly offered to let
l.~r.
the Scouts uoo this if accom~anied by an adult, 9re~rably the 3cout
master, o.nd he gave me a key to one ofjvhc padlocked sates t It r.s.s a.
nroud moment when tho TroTp ma.rohod up to tho gate o.nd unlocked the
\1ay to that r;tblrdcd property. It ":;ao o. fine large stretch of' field ;r;
a.nd ~oadlund w{ith strea:na u.nd big trcca, r~arnheo and secluded vl~acs
well
a~ay
from roads nnd houocs and how ua did enjoy it.
~any
a Scout
panned hia cooking teat therc(or tried t~ cnu ~any a huce cacp dinner
disa;pj)On:t"ed within those '\"10odu.
~ach
Scout uool::ed his own meul s.nd it
b:txl1::;d: the fragrance of burnt moat e..."'ld aoorchcd cocou. \lere e.ll too often
on the breeze while 'club t7ist' welted
a little
~ool
a~d
rru1 off the stick to fore
of too soft dough on the ground, ull wus eaten and de-
clared tho boat ever.
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special
oco~ions
the 3Cout
~aater
cooked
f'la"P jacks for tho c··rowd and tho can of !.mea Golden Syru'P, a thick
heavy
m~so
of concentrntod sweotnesD with its ovnt peculiar flavor,
uaa pulled out fror.t the hollow
tree where it haci 'hcen 'cached• on
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coureet every Scout had to be given some of the batter or taught
hO':T
tc miX
i t•- E!O he COUld mo.ke hiS
OWil
rtap
jacks nnd more than one
'jack' lanned on the ground instead of the po.n to be hastily
u~lucky
r
..
snatched up and put ir.. the Dall or to be suru-ptictously hidden.
1.~y
roy nnd
own mco.l ·\vas rather sketchy for my job was to go from. boy to
3C~
now he
~1as doil'!~
1 r.r. coo~::J.n~ tont' it
thins:::: o:nd ei ve a,dvice. It" any were ttak-
bcca:"le l'!Y', s~:let~:-rH1::t -painful, duty to tu3te the
res<11 ts thoueh I must say r:r:r digestion never wu.s the worse from 1 t.
Certain articles had to be cooked in the Second class teet and more
and mora difficult viands rrepared
down in the Scout
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the First
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a :ooet wonderful collection of useful and
~!andbook,
~ractioal infornation as well of high ~rinoip~s.
would
~lay
ooma
g~~e,or
After dinnor «X we
0
follow a conpas courae,or have a treasure
I did not go in for ordinary
any dr.y they
test, all laid
cl~oa
ea~e3 th~t
hun~
boya could play unytime on
got together ?but rather· Scout ga."lles or those tti th aome
vur-posa or that developed acne trait as observation, quick thinking
or aot1.ne. The compa3a game wa.a one of theaa.
~ach
Scout wao given a.
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pa:par that read no.nethin11 like thia; 40 -paces nvr to an
oa.~
na.ces to a white rock green on the ao .side offit and
on until the
e
~
a
,,
)
s~
tree. 100
final course brought hit:1 back to oru."l:p. :Boys who did not have compasses
were given the north and had to work out the dlireotions fron that but
moat had them
'
~~d
I generally hud a
cou~le
.
tok lend the scouts whom I
knew did not have I:IU.Oh a.t home. There rnir.ht be. tr..ree or four grouns
•
each with different courses so all could not run in a bunch und there
wna rival
ca~y
thing to la:t
Ol.1t
?he treasure hunt has hec:•
that p:.·ogrm."l let
:!O
I
tt~tr-1
trv it.
very popul::>.: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
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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.
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shell-'barl: tree, or oak or beech or sone other,; or , find n oapling
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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
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south. rrere
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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
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f<:>:.irly dark there • o.fter the nr ... r;n
nunnhino and
tr~
did not see it.
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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~
wo.n carried down
coul
1. '·"' VID.n t
hav~
ha pTJe::1 ed.
ea. t.ha Seout.s
A.ft er tho.v
Clofler
~treu..'11.
againoty' the bridGe o.s 1 t
c~.u::bt
ob~ervation
would have oho·rn the.'ll that
for the bridge was too high, fJ..nd tho.t wa:J what
to rlo,
had hunted
u~e
0.
their eyes
and
uoe their henda.
\7hil c end before they
ber:t~~1
to tire of
search I ga-vethcnt a -pointer, "It's within five feet of Denny."
Great
exoi~~ent and rcn~ted intorent. ~veryone flocked to Denny ~~d se~ed
to expect him to brine out the tre&aure.
•
SoMe
called ou.t, "Hot or cold, who's t.he hottest? 11
chorous of pro tent, "A\1
use you:t:
tho
1H~uds,
brid~e':''they
~enod
!To~
'i'11c1t' s ba'by-atv.ff.
•nver water, under i7ood."
not over
h~~cful
boy
But tr...at brought a
rt
'!Ysc your hcs.do, Scouts
1
':lcll.;is it eo::n.ewhere around
asked. "Yes, about eicht inchea from Hu.rryt '' He 'hap-
to bo standing just above
~he
box with only the plunkinG
be~w
tween his feet and it. Thore \Vas n. nE:r."l ruah for Harry and even the
cracks in the vlankine were oxa~ined. One
to "PUll the
th~t
:pla.nJ~a
U?
or two enthu~aots etartod
but a \Vord ot two froM the Scout la•.y
ato-pped
and no h~~d feeling.
And then, at lust one 3cout, I think 1t vras He..rry, jtu:rped in the
oreek end
w~ded
under the bridne, the water coming
'knees. !t would be like
to tal-:e
orr
'his shoos
H~...rry
~..nd
h~lr
way to hia
to aot on an idea that wa.y, never stop-
gtockincs, A wild yell and I could barely
keep the rest of the troop out of the water end save my3elf from the
•
rtshteouz wrath of :rnrurr mothero, n:nd Harry
OX!le
forth
hol~.irte; the box
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·:-·Y-te golden .\utumn sunset colors ~. rarned us that it
wa~
time to
gc l·.ome. ::-::n:n::;' :.1othera e::q1ectec! their 1;oy!'! hc.ck '\7hen they so.id they
1--~~~~
t_ ._ey 'he
Scouts are fir at
and rir,htly .~too.
r-~one
s~ns
and "a scout is
obedient to ull duly eonati tuted e.uthori ty, to his -parents - - - "
I
careful to cU m1i as t.he boys -p:rom:ptlyJ ao theyaonl d get home on
vtu~
tit'lo. It cmnhnsized thcf.-::tportancc of the home and !"other's hnppineea
; but of being on tine ao well.
ln.t.e,or
~one
bov 1.rould dallY on his
co.llcd to t.hc -phone
were on the
~ometime
tm:tr
.an emergency would mru:e us
Y:u~r
home and then Anna w!tould be
to assure anxious mothers tha.t Dill or
Ton.~.
and t ha.t they hnd left Dr ;:1 at such e-. time or to ex-
w~r
'Plain the delnv.
Hn.p-p:v· indeed are the nm:tories of thoRe tramps home with those
•
fine bo:on:t, .]ust strollin3 aloncr in confident comraderie. ?.vo or three
would be at o.y side tellinp, of t.hi!S or that and now a.nd then some
other would cone
u~
to ask me to
sene point on Scouting. ;:ai)py
settl~
nem~riea
a question in dispute or for
of things worth \Thile. I may
ho.ve been physically tired but the pleasure of their free companion1on3hi-p and the
refreshing.~
hikes but
contact~
or. their varied "Points of vim:: wer_e always
Often it took a lot of will-yower to start off on those
th~seldom
failed to untie the kinks mv business
?rObl~s
had tied so tightly in my thoughts.
Once or twice a. summer
\'10
took an "Overnight". Not so many of the
r.1othera were ililling their non1"1 ehould sleep out of doors all night
~o
e
froi!l home sc the gro1tp wan small. i.'le went toaona woods over
fa:r
narby Creek and I toc:tk the
02..'"1!;)
it
outfit.
ere~
dried
1)Ut
no tent.
boys over in our Auto.
'T'he
CC.""'!'P
firo and the stories
dark, gave quite a tr:ill ruld then on
~ra~:;s
~ach had his own
or leavea or nothin,· but
&
tlrOUnd
inprovis~d bed~
it as
of
poncho and blanket we luy
on
,
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slee-p.
Jl'ut it was no+ what one might call a. restful nieht. There vtero
\
too no.ny unusttP.l eler:1cnts for. thosa
was tho
h~d
youn~;
rascaln to olecp lone. There
ground,ncver very comfortable till one gets used to it,
, the strange sound a in tho
'700de,
first c:tpcri enca for reo at n:-ll'trZ't
,just sleeping out in the open, the
of t_)1e..n that
YCD.l", und
::roat o ffihem
were cold even tho it wa.a a. ou.""1!!1or night for one thin blc.nkct to
over and under, out of do:lro,
i~
In~'(
not
e~ouch.
eo
All thin oturr about
rollinG up in a blanket have hap-pened somewhere nome time, but I never
,
\ .
it dcne and tnooe boys, followincr that tradition, dbd not· aec.m to
)
aa~
)
11~-re
0.3
it either. Then there were cattle in the r.oodo ths.t
uoon
~:::;
nomine, so
fo~
~rozlod
arounc!
it bcgo..Vl to r:;ro·;t light and the unusual lic;ht in the early
brighter
~uch
·breakfa3t.
~o,
abo~t
th~
indoors, made t ham think it was time
three a,m. one after another got
u~
with
what he thought waa great caution and quiot,only to diaturb his tt
nei~hbor
and he the next until they vcre all ;x.Ya.ke and stirring at
about, Yery much to my diseust. I had an o.it matreso and wanted to
sleev,
e~d
I could if I
h~d
a chance. It was not ny first night in
the open by o.ny tleans.
Some one pro-boned a. \7alk- in a whis-per t hat could be heard a.
rod o.•7ay and I felt I ought to keep track oft he:: so turned out
with
not very ;ood grace,! gueos. ·te wandered ovcr hills there abouts,and
llri(
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the sunrise and ·the sorning light wa.s beautiful and wished it \'Vas
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time to eo.t, es-pecially me for I never did like to do much without
some food stowed
~fay,
still la'!lzod for 'bis
and then someone, maybe
'ti'c...""'t!l
bl_an}:ctsy. he had
the cown mir.:;ht be nosinr, aro1.:· d
C[';Z:.p
the gcout Master who
brougbttwo~' euc[;ostcd that
end mc::.y'bo tr::=1:pine on the crub
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which started a general stal'!l1Jede to ca1n'P, as I. ho'Ped it would. It •tras
'
ab0ut fiY!l n.m. then o.nd food seemed to be the nrder of the day and
very rmch of a neccsai ty.
After breo.kfa.st a.nd \,.i th the air "Janning up
and the poor slee-p the boya bego.n to get drm7sy but no one would think
of taking o. nap but :1cout garncq.b.nd tests went rather hard and
ptetty dull
ti~e
and noon after dinner started hone. I
tool~
\Ye
ho.d a
a.s many
boys as I could in my car and Denny Hoberts sat on t'hgi-unnint; boar1
with
hi~ b~1.ck
thin~
ae:..dnst tho front fender. After a. time, not hear inc any/
from Denny I looked over to sea him so1md. asleefo...--td vrhy he did
not :Call off io still a.
m~rstery,
One day we had gone out to Darby
~oods
for dinner and aften•ard
played hunting deer, !:other having hel pcd to no.(e a very life like
•
deer with a \'Tire fru."ne, stuffing and a burlap covering. :.rr .Clark, the
fnthcr of one of the Scouts, giving each boy a fine bo·,y and arrows. ·.1e
had such a good ti-r1e we
\lant~d
to stay for su-pper and telephoned Anna
who -phl)ned to the mothers. Eut what to eat?
for ono
me~l
but the
~cra~a,
on the cmbera for we \"1ere
":le
had brought· only food
some moat,some potatoes had been thrown
a.lwa~.rs
moat careful to leave no trash about.
Digging about the ashes v;c found enough for a hunters stew as the fire
had been low and it had not been
cons~ed.
of this and th:tt the boys had ::;o.ved !or a
So with that and a little
~maok
we :r.la.de out a sup~er
e.nd ho.d a grand camp fire and 1:1uch fun.
The ereat event
dhh year was the summer
Our first one was at White's
Isl~nd
ton. It was quite a amall
grou~
mittcc, in sc-,ut
CD.LlC
unif:=~r.m.n
c~~P of the Counties.
in the Delaware River near !ren-
and when the members of the CAllP Comto in::Jnect it I re!!'lember llo;v impressed
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sleeping in a tent in Scout Camp.
Different Troops put~on stunts at theevening caihp fire and. we decided to show how an Alaskan
~haman
treated a mid
sick man.
had no
W~
costumes but made cheat cover from burlap, bits of bone and sticks to
faoten on it, a mask of a piece of bok and charcoal and crayons someone had, a crown from heavy cloth with pieces of white willow sticks
shaped to form horns, a rattle from a half pound cocoa can and pebbles
while a cast of! snake skin to tie around the beck gave tho finishing
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bit of realism. The boys painte4their !acen witb .charcoal and crayons
and bodies ao well and after
The
-
(
~ick
rehe~rsals
all was ready.
man lay by the fire. groaning honribly, his friends,men
and wo~en crow~d around and finally decided to sand forthe witch doctor who soon
a~peared
having ereuled near the fire unobserved by the
intent cirele of Scouts. Incidentally, that erawl on my bare chest &
and partly bare tummy was :not so much fun and how I ever escaped poison ivy in the dark was just one
those lucky happenings. There was
,.
plenty of it about. ~t- a wild yell the 'Doctor' ~pr&ngsinto the fire
light, goes tot he patient,
~f
dem~~ds
1:1ore blankets,da.nces wildly after
putting on one ma3k after afother and shaking his rattle. More
ets and a wilder dance until he falls down
uncons~ious.
blank~
Slowly rising
he points his accusing finger here and there until it rests on one of
the Bryn Maur scouts. '.7i th wild ~ cries the other indians pounce
on him and tie him up and while the Tictim shrieks· and moans he
is
carried to t:he river and there is a big spla.e'he.nd silence. Two Scouts
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had slipped out of the circle,.as arranged, and thrown a big rock into
the nearby water at the proper time. I gave a little talk about
Sh~-
ma.nism emphasizing our freedom from fear of evfil S';:)iri ts but the
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scouts were all pretty youna1 -r.i1en !)as it. was early
815.
1n
scour.ing and they
I
still looked somewhat daze~and a little doubtful abou~ going off to
those dark tents.
It.. would fill a TolUlllrlC to try to tell aboul, tine many scoui.. camps.
Whites Island was found r.o be t.oo iar away and we went. ~o an~ island
north of CollegeTille on the Schuylkill, owned by one of the m~bers of
the Scout eam9 comnittee. I was chairman of the camp committee then and
for many years afterward, and worked hard getting the camp in order.
Walter \Vhetstone, Scout Commissioner for Delaware county whose Scouts
also used the eamp,brought some all(gled cowboys on their horses a
moTie studio, located atthat time down the river some miles, up to· camp
one afternoon. When those fellows saw they had to swim their horses
e
(
oTer _to the island they were the worst seared bunch one eTer saw. But
they did,tho the slippery and rather high bank gaTe t~ some of them
lots of ecz:ci~fkent for a time. They arrived wet and not Tery happy but
were dried out and supplied with blankets and put on quite a show for
the boys. After a few years there with trouble with high water at times,
there came a year when the scouts and camp staff had to.go into the
trees putting most offtheir stuff in boats tied tot~he branches, the
ri TerrlV'
"too turbulent t~o try to cross to t-':.he main land. That was the end
of that ·camp site and a new one had to be found.
Isaac sutton continued as Commissioner for a quarter century and
made a splendid contribut~on to scouting ~n the Delaware and Montgomery ·Qounties. He was Tery fond of hiking long journeys and had seen a
country in the Nw corner of Montgomery County that appealed strongly
to him and found there was chea.:p lan.d there tha.t could be bought, suitable !or cmnping. Winthrop Sargent, a man of means at HaTerf'ord, was
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president of the Dela·,ye.re-l:ontgomery Counties Council, the governing
Board of± the two counties and a real leader ,ltl: was taking personal
\
interest in all the work. 'Vhen he accepted the position the Council
was in
d~s~erate
atraitnts for money and it was
~r.Sareent
that pulled
ua out by hio percona.l appeal to his friends and he knew a lot of vcuk
wealthy men. He really did a fine work for
t~e
boys of the counties in
his long service to them as heail. of the Scout organization,
So with sutton acting as guide,
and I drove up
to~·the
~.
Sargent, sane other officials
Perkiomen valley to take a look-see.
Back in·
the country we found a tract that "would do'' but was not ideal by any
means and sutton kept exploring around _by himself or with others. I
was too much tied up in business to go very often. One day he phoned
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"he had foundnthe place"and as soon as possible we all went to look at
at it, and all fell in love with it on first sight, It was about forty
acres on the side of SWamp Creek which was not swampy around there or
at least did not appear to. be, with as fine a
swi~~ing
hole as any boy
could possibly even dream of. The price, as I remember, was about $600
very cheap but a terrible amn in the eyes of most of us, for the Scouts
to raise.
~.~r.
Sargent said little but asked us each if we liked it a:.
and thought it would be all right for a long
word
ti~o
to come. Defore long
And so Camp Delmont began.
take :x.
I was too busy those days to ~a a great part in the Council
c~~e
that he had bought it!
work or t o attend the first camp on that site. It seems as though none
of my '1'roop were there that summer either but it was a very wet season
and the groun~ between the road and the creek proved to be a eure
enough swamp .in wat weather and our enthusiasm as well as all the
qcouts who attended that
C8.mp
't;as very
tho~roughly
dampened.
l~o
other
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place f~r ten~t ~seemed available and all agreed that WOl!ld not do another
at~~ season. ~e were n badly discouraged bunch of Scout 9fficiala.
Just then Sutton, who was a.lue.ys driving up to that country,
every chance he
~ot,and
generally, found that
we
talking to natives and looking into things
could buy about 6o acres on the opposite
side ofthe dreek, for about ssoo. That would give us both sides of
the creek for nearly two miles, complete control of that wonderful
swimming hole, an ideal place
fo~~he
tents on a well dreine1 open
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pasture sloping gently· down tothe creek and beside all this, acres of
big oak trees, rocky hills and mossy dells. If some...,~:!Y1~lse bou~ht
that land and reaybe put a camp there or bungalows it would just about
ruin our site. !R 1[tTS7 have that additione.l land1 nut ho\V to get it'!
1
I
"JFJ.were far fror:. having the eieht hundred or any likelyhood of gets
ting it. So it 5eemed and Isaac sutton and I s-pent day.s of fear lest
some one gobble
U'P
our treasure while we talked and planned and Jtrlrk
schemed as to how we could get .it. ·.1e had grown close t-ogether in our
Scout work and Ike was a fine fellow and a. Scouter all the way though.
'1e had both hacyexporience in going about asking for contributions
forthc
•v•
or,£his O'rfihat and hated it so
hx~
heartily that we could
not bring ourselves to do]. it:. '!'he Council orgar1i za.tion was not very
strong and we knew we would have to do most offihe work. Even for that
marvelous camp site we could not face that torture again, and the
eight
hundr~d
seemed likeat a huge fortune.
Then, our Council president, r:::r Sargent, simply bought
it~
'
He talked little but did much and either on mortgage of by borrowinn: the money he got the land. He 'ii"as a man of affairs and :tsoo did
n~"'~t sce~1
such a hugh a.."!lount .l):v· any means. \ie could hardly believe
818.
the .ioyful neva ,o.nrl we went there to
,,..tt-
o.s ""){)Oei blc c.nf.ao trmti:d:
e~plorc
-
and trwnp about as often
wandered here_and t here our enthusiasm h"'lew no
bounds -for ·.ve had, indeed, becornel't the poeessors of a glorious
eem
of
nature's lovelineos.
'7ith my troop activities and business der.1o.nda I found very little
tiT"le to BO to :Delmont o.nc}tcmeone I aid out the cu::1p plan with two
I
2:V"tflt
i
ro\1s ()f tents for.!ling a stiff ntrect dorm the center of that open space.
i
~hi:f,7a::(e::'li'!1.ently -pro-per frm~ a. mili tury point of vicvjf.o:rri but Delmont was
aoilidiers~' canp !t was a.
not' a
SC0rT7 Cm:tp
ancwhen I aa-:1 the lJroposed
arrangement I did not lD::e it at o.t all. That open apa.ce waa an almost
i
1)erfect V with the la.:r:g9'end to·.vard the creek and the sides lined by woods
snall
on ony'aicp'and by a stream a bushes\71 th a. fe<3 low trec:J on the other.
That could be better than to "PUt the tents "=lhnr.:E alone the strce."1l ·and
the trees with the nireotor's tent a.t· the apex of the
v.
all and it was ideal. By that
enough in the
ti~e
I had
~dvancedfur
I could sea it
Scout Conncil:ot for my word to ha;vesome weight 1but -whether I was Chair-
man
o~he Cam~
fort"..al
6onpan~r
I \7anted
the~,
Committee or not, atthat time I do not
rer.~ber;But
that
Street never ·diafieured Delmont and the tents went where
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l
everyone agreeine that it wa.o the:fincst posei ble arrange\
ment. Later on, when 01>
all the later aevelo-pment of nelmont depended on that origional a:10:
~l~n
••
ann from it grew the beauty of
~n
The dining hall, an open sided
~avilion
ideal
c~~~.
large enough to aeat fifty
or '!!'lore boys at one time ·.vas on the other side of the creelc f'ron the
tenta, on a. high 'hank ovcrloo'lrinr: the
crce1~
and the Ca.."!l-;'JUa a.a the tent ,
site wa3 called. 'T'o cror,s the ct'1ck ±:':.::!: hto long logs .,,ere
founc~
and
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served as a narrow
bri(~ge
ideal- of service to do
across the stream. It was -part of the Scout
s~rnethine
to beautify cot ca.-rrp or ma.lce it more
attractive and each troop tried to outdo
t~e
others 'hen they were in
nreve!'lt all sorts of foolish and freak structures and changes
were
all such ~lans mrr~ ~ submitted tot'he Camp co~nittee and if approved
ca-:np.
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the troop went t' o work en them.
'I'he;f'irs1f6r second. year nr:rn 1:r:wrr '!'roor>
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
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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 buil
of older boys and later young men,and
~hen
they married or went here
and there she had a class of maids or-servant sirls as they were called then. So for more than twenty years she had been a 'faithful tea.oher a.nd
hj~;rd
worker in the :1chool. She richly deserved such a memorial
but it did not just. &'Plleal to: me. Then I th')ught what could be better
j;
than give the Scout 6mmcil the price they -paid for the cwn.p site and
place 1!othcr' s nar:1e on it. The !'tore I thought of it the more s trongly
it a'P-pealed to me and I asked Isaac Sutton if he .thouellt it would be
all right. He said. he would talk tot he other officials about it and
they ap-proved. In due time the nrrangements were made and Isaac, at
hio own expense,had a great granite boulder forming one side of a.
nnturnl '7..:X:q;r£tl: am11i theo.tre, r.e called t11e 6hanel, inacri bed with a
}. 1e 1ns1sted
. .
.
I s h onl 0 TII ·.te.
Cut into tl'!at grc.:.1i te a.rc the3e
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'!'7~ HA'R11I~'!' LA''7RSUC::~ ~!II,FiR
JGQTTTS 01?
'~'he
DSLA'~T A~?.
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UZ!.WT-UAL TRACT tEDICAT:-:D TO TI!E BOY
NrD r:01T'l'GO:.SRY CO\nTTI'S;:) FOR STRO!W LIVbS AND
last words, "by her con 'Jertra.nd it. _.Yil 'h'.tr" I aaac added on
his own o.uthori ty us t·hev w~re not in the orti•na.l oo-yy I gave him.
!
i
O~e
r~ined
bright
be~utiful
afternoon ':'Then ca'!lp wac open, the flag \Vas
on the flar; 1JOle on the Car!l}JUa with dnE core:nony e.nd the en-
t1rG conrpo.ny then went to the Chapel to fornally declioatc tho land
tot his high nurpose. After I made a short talk telling about mother's
love of the forest and all that~ that was heru1tiful in nature and her
:::Jis:1ov Garland,
love of boys Bishop-coadjutor of the Dioceae of ?ennsylvania, in a
simple but bnpressi ve ceremony dedicated the land. .. I had JmOW1l,Dr.
Garland in my work on the Chari tien Conmi ttee oft he
of Comr!l.ercc, of \Vhich I
~ras
~hila.
Chamber
a member, ·and had the grea.teat r.espeot
and li.kinz for him so it was sc rlelightfu.l to have him there. Isaac
had a great many friends and contacts end it wa~e who gotthe Bthop
to do this as a sryecial favor for the Bishop was a very busy nan.
That Chapel is one of
t~e
beauty
s~ots
of the camp. The memorial
roch forms onf}Side 7 while lower rocks :fci'I!l the other and bet;yeen is e.
sloping area rising gently from an open space below and all roofed
by towering trees whose trunks riae like the columns of a. cathedral.
From year to year
sim~le
additions have been made to add to its use-
fulness without maring ito natnral bea.'tty. One
cam~
aeo.son !Tel son and
I built a speakers bench with oak frame and red cedtr splints for seat
and back. 'T'he cut ends oft he omall oak -poles, with the black centers
surrounded by the white rinr; a.nd 'brown ba.rk and the red centers of
the
~roun;:
ce::rdo,_r cdr,ed with uhitr.· ,made it vronderfully 1;c9.utiful yet
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Above the back of
sa.nctu~r.y.
th.e benc11 we mude three inverted V s of
ti;:;:h±~
ar:'lall strair;ht b:Itzm
br<'.nohes the lart;er in the center a.bove which we -placed a. omall cross
\
ui th the gree:: initials
~
X
b~J.o"N
while on the others at either side
were the cam:p initials ,of \Vi tchazel. ,.,:-elnon and I were worJdng hardLt
,to fini s11 it on our last Saturday morning when a thunder atorm came up
and the light-:1ing ort\ckeloc1 over head anong those trees. It was not an
ideal placo t' o be juot then but I thought/l')f the .old sa::flty of sanctuary e.nd we worked on, 1Telson never r.1a.V'inr: n.
!;!.Ur!!ltlr.
I did not want to
leave it 'tnfiniahed yet I nust get the 'froop home that afternoon and I
did not know ~~en I could come back again. When we at lunt finished
C.
4lt
it all, dirty and '\Vet t'llrough, we went back to the campus. 'J'here were
many visitors there a.s the show·er was over und one oft he:n,Derha.'n,
the fine carriage builder of ~ose~ont whose son was in my troop, was
among them. He knew me o.nd as I ca..'!le by took one gle.nce at me and
turned away. But turned again to. look
"I '11 be
d----~
a.~d
stare. And then burst out,
It' a Dr .~:rilbur!" I wo.3'nt a bit embarxassed and k
la.ughedwi t~1 hin for I knew he -would only respect a
could an¢rould work
\Vi th
man the more who
hi a hands a.nd did 'nt mind. the necessary grime.
Another year a troop moved a. natur:J.l gra.ni te rock they found,
shaped
li~e
a square shaft
wi~h
a slo-ping aop and placed it in front
ofthe Sueaker's bench for a. readinG desk. 0ne yea:r when Harry had
becomo
~cout
lraster ofll:.he 'l!roo-p he and his boys built a half dozen or
more rustic benches on the sides ofj.he o-pen s-pace for visitors for
often there have been nearly a hundred at;{:he aervicez: on Sunday.
Often I have spoken aty{:hose services, '?or years I never failed to
snea}::
att 1 H~
first one each
c~.l'!I.JJ
season D.nd those services have been
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(.elir-:htful ~-piritu.:.1.l cr.~erlences for me. In u.ll tho::;a yc~ra rain acld::'l·: ;re~,ented
di
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tn c ~ervio\3 hehv: held out d:lora in tllc cha:t>cl. ·:!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:ad
uee it., cspcci!l.lly me, a.nd 'Very often Anna and I \70~tl d go there Satu.r~a.Y u.fternoon a.nd
·.'ao 1;e 11ca.rby for the Sunday o..::rvice.
Lat cr 0 ~:di7ard
Bok of :.~crh>n 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
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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
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their heads. 'Fortuno.tely it was only a little way to hig..,.:er
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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
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out in
pl1 t
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refer to
their tents or shacks and
~"et
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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
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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(i
·on tho 'higher ground surrounding 1 t. I ca'l"l hardly be too enthusiastic
about it and tuocm: a naturalist who lives not oo far
tl.WUY
und who had
travelled t'hr·t the lcnght and brco.dth oft he.t country said he did not
1fno\i' 1 te eqt!ul lmY'llhere..
::.o.y 1 t ever norve the boyo of our
not only for their cbjoyx!lant of thei:x
the high pur!)Ooe to. 'tlhich
~~r
C.
G~uncil
outdoors a.."ld c3::lp life but for
conoidcrablc p.v.l't of it
WfJ.5
dedico.tod.
own troop went t o cn.m:p for years and for most of tller:: I wont
vri t'h thm:t taldnl: !)art of uy vaca.ticn that wo.y. 'Funds ··•cl·e provided in
various \tayo to 1'0.Y the cxpentten of t
their
o~;n 1 bt~t
c.ould not
eo
ea.chY yco:r.
tha
M::d~r
'lrlj~
hot~e
boyo who could not meet
it was not poasible to sent% every boy and a number
for other reasons. Still about sixteen or twenty went
Tofore long the ·;"t;rn
:.:c.wr
troop were
c~rvinc
a\7ay t'he
-r>ri zec r·-r:r nuch thi "?r~::J as c;:;.mn cru.ft • tent keeping a.nd
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·,'/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
Direct~r's
Caoin was needed, or headquarters and it
~as
the troop bidding the highest sum for the privelege of
decided that
na~ing
it
would have thor ight to do so. ·.Ve decided to give a. movie benefit. At
tnat ti!!!e it was ttrl the 'JOlicy of the Scout authorities to let the
e
Scouts sell tickets when in uniform for such things. It later became
a nuisance and was forbi.dden. ::>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.
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··.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,ina
walm.tt trees spotted u.nd reported, the Govern·· .ent want the:n for air
~)lanr:
:-:ro nell ers, a half cere of lund '.i.·
for w ar ~aroen u:1d Goore:e ?acka.rd' o father ho.d it plo\ted und harro·.1cd
u.s well e..s fertilized. Georce was one of those wealthy men's sons and
with the ~inkler boys, nosencaten,Dill;r .\ohcra.ft and others were o.ll
fine ::>couts.
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
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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,
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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\
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•.:.:.,.would
~:.:.turcu.y
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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
such '\')ractlco would be useful in an
J3oya would rush their
c~.'lorconc:y.
fu.mily cho.ur&ra o.nd cars to c11urch fro~:1 u.s fu.r o.wuy as 'Eu.dnor and the
"7cstcheoter ?ike, very often to the di::::c,"Lwt of J;ad o.11d the protests
of ..Lhc i\unily not to
L~ention
the ch:..'.ufera.
The}r
Ot::r.•ta on biken with
lu.l.nCh1G on 9 t11o:,r boned rices, thev car.2e running 9 anything to
t\'IO
G:hi:r_t
~ot
the1·o. '':n.o not
~he
nution at •r:::a.r uncl -:.rho 1:ncw v.rhen a'.lch u. au.ll
might be for rec.l ocrvice. So they ·reasoned.
After v.~scmbly there
wa.o a a'hort drill o.nd then sone ca."nes -qi th th)l'exch~"l£:3 of cx;1eriences
in gettinG there and ·obatu.oles ovcrc:Jmc. It wu.s all vc1•:r reu.l.
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Hot all tho Scout u.ctivities were this aort of r.rucc-bcliovo tho
it wan far fror.t that toft he ·boya. "11ey a-:1cnt a So.turdu.y or two euoh
·.~oar in
clcantnr; u_.,., vu.ca.nt ·lotn, c•.'.therinc tocethcr t.hc ca.na and tra.s~~
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15.:-:c all Scout ·:;or::-,wut> 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
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nui~
nunccs, ru"obioh -pilco and 11ncovored r:.u.nurc pitn and oiuilur unsi.l.nitu.ry
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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~
can
princi-;1le soemed \vronc· anc' 1)coide the other ~cout;; could not enjoy tho
fun. As fo.r u.s -possil)lc the older
~c ~uts
that;Je o.lrO;..\dY in the 7roo-p to enjoy it.
our,ht to do the ini tiatinc and
~o
we
funny atunto the boya nuGgeotincr aomc of them.
worked~olit
u. nur.1bcr of
One favorite wu.s to
bring the candichltC into the lnrr.e :room and sho\-r him a board with a
lo+. of tucke9'otanding nn ·on it. It wus explained that this wao a test
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It was a t5ct of will and eouraee in very truth and little wonder that
so;;1e hcc i tn ted quite a bit 1m:rb:'c:r before they could wi 11 the:nscl vcs
to ,junp, on t>1onc 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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
J.A.M. (Just About Me) J.A.U. (Just About Us) Volume 3
The autobiography was written by Bertrand K. Wilbur from 1933 to 1939. His granddaughter, Carolyn Wilbur Treadway, wrote the forward and his grandson Clark Maxfield wrote the introduction to the digital edition in 2017. B.K. Wilbur created an extensive table of contents for the entire work, which is included at the beginning of each volume. Volume 3 documents Wilbur's growing family, his time working at the chocolate factory H.O. Wilbur and Sons, his volunteer activities such as scouting, and his life in Ardmore and Haverford, PA.
Wilbur, Bertrand Kingsbury, 1870-1945 (author)
Treadway, Carolyn Wilbur (contributor)
Maxfield, Clark (contributor)
1939 - 2017
275 pages
reformatted digital
Wilbur_Just_About_Me_vol_3