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Nantucket Historical Association

Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting July Twenty-five, Nineteen Twenty-three.

The Inquirer and Mirror Press Nantucket Island, Mass.

OFFICERS President Emeritus, ALEXANDER STARBUCK President, ARTHUR H. GARDNER Vice-Presidents, WILLIAM F. MACY, MILLARD F. FREEBORN MRS. SARAH C. RAYMOND WILLIAM F. CODD MRS. SETH MITCHELL ACKLEY ARTHUR M. COFFIN Secretary, MARY E. STARBUCK Treasurer, MRS. MARY MACY BROWN GARDNER Curator and Librarian, MISS SUSAN E. BROCK Auditors, MISS ANNIE W. BODFISH MISS EMMA COOK ALBERT G. BROCK

Councilors, MISS HARRIET A. ELKINS FREDERICK V. FULLER LAURISTON BUNKER MISS ELIZA M. HUSSEY MRS. VIRGINIA MAY SHARP SIDNEY CHASE MAURICE W. BOYER MISS PHEBE BEADLE Committees—1923-24, Finance—William F. Codd, Millard F. Freeborn, Miss Susan E. Brock.

Publication—Miss Susan E. Brock, Arthur H. Gardner, H. B. Turner.

Building—William F. Codd, Miss Susan E. Brock, William F. Macy, Millard F. Freeborn.

Annual Meeting—Mrs. Eleanor Morgan, Mrs. Sarah C. Raymond, Miss May H. Congdon, Miss Eliza M. Hussey, William F. Macy, Frederick V. Fuller, Miss Gulielma Folger.

New Work—Mrs. Sarah C. Raymond, Mrs. Elea­ nor Morgan, Miss Annie B. Folger, Mrs. Arthur H. Gardner.

Siasconset House—Millard F. Freeborn, Miss An­ nie B. Folger, Mrs. R. C. Small, Mrs. Frederick Hill.

Purchasing Committee—Miss Susan E. Brock, Millard F. Freeborn, William F. Codd.

Old Mill—Millard F. Freeborn, Arthur H. Gard­ ner, Harry B. Turner, Frederick V. Fuller.

Nominating Committee 1923-24—Miss Annie Bar­ ker Folger, Mrs. John Ditmars, Albert G. Brock, Miss Gulielma Folger, G. Lister Carlisle, Jr.

ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the Nantucket Historical Association for 1923 was held on Wednesday morn­ ing, July 25th, in the Old North Vestry, and in spite of the fact that a heavy rain-storm was in progress, there was a large attendance. Owing to insufficient room in the old Friends' meeting-house on Fair street it was last year decided to hold the annual gathering of 1923 in the old vestry, where the first meeting of the association was held. It proved to be a wise de­ cision, for even with the inclement weather the gath­ ering was far too large to have been accommodated in the meeting-house—an evidence of increasing interest in these annual historic meetings.

President Arthur H. Gardner presided and in wel­ coming the members he requested Alexander Starbuck, the president emeritus, to take a seat on the platform, where he might see the audience and where the audi­ ence might see him. Mr. Starbuck occupied the seat of honor during the session.

Mr. Gardner then stated that since the report of the last Annual Meeting had been printed in the "Pr o­ ceedings" the reading unless especially desired, would be omitted. This suggestion seemed to meet the ap­ proval of the large number present who were quite ready to hear what had happened in the past year.

The reports of the Secretary and Treasurer were called for, read and approved and ordered printed in the "Proceedings."

The Curator's report, for which everyone wa;ts with pleasant anticipations, came next. She did not fail us, our most satisfactory Curator. This report also was ordered to be printed with those preceding.

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Mr. Gardner then spoke of the welcome presence of our esteemed first President Emeritus, Mr. Alexander Starbuck, and called on him for his report as our Dele­ gate to the Bay State League. This report was brief as Mr. Starbuck's state of health during the past win­ ter had prevented his usual faithful attendance at the meetings of the various Societies of the League. The report will be printed in the "Proceedings."

Mr. Gardner then gave his first address as Presi­ dent of the Historical Association.

Interesting, ac­ curate, and with a wide knowledge of the history of the Island, he was listened to with absorbed attention both by those who came from "Off" and those who live "On." After the strictly historical matter of his paper, came the account of the aims and achievements of the Association during the nearly thirty years of its ex­ istence. This story was full of inspiration for the few workers yet left who were in at the modest beginning of this now not unimportant organization.

As there was no unfinished business, nor new business to be considered, the President called upon the Secretary to read the report of the Nominating Committee. This was done, and after a short inter­ val of discussion and comment, it was voted that the Secretary cast one vote for the ballot as read.

The following-named officers wlere unanimously elected.

President—Arthur H. Gardner.

Vice-Presidents—William F. Macy, Millard F. Freeborn, Sarah C. Raymond, William F. Codd, Edith Ackley, Arthur M. Coffin.

Secretary—Mary E. Starbuck.

Treasurer—Mary M. Brown.

Curator and Librarian—Susan E. Brock.

Auditors—Annie W. Bodfish, Emma Cook, Albert G. Brock.

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Councilors for four years—Sidney Chase, Maurice W. Boyer.

Councilor for three years—Phebe Beadle.

(To fill out unexpired term of the late R. B. Hussey.)

The Nominating Committee for 1924 were then chosen as follows:—Annie Barker Folger, Mary Worth Ditmars, Albert G. Brock, Gulielma Folger, G. Lister Carlisle, Jr. Mr. Starbuck read a most appreciative tribute to the memory of our late Life Councilor, Mr. Henry Bar­ nard Worth.

Mr. Starbuck knowing whereof he spoke, assured us of the great value of Mr. Worth's historical work, wholly a labor of love, and quite apart from the work demanded by his profession.

The Meeting was then turned over to the able Chairman of the Annual Meeting Committee, Mrs. Eleanor Morgan, who after a reference to our great loss in the death of Mr. Roland B. Hussey, asked Mrs. Frederick Fuller to read Mr. Hussey's poem, which it had been hoped would be read by Mr. Hussey himself.

Mrs. Fuller read wiith sympathetic understanding "The Bell Above the Door." Many who were present had been familiar in the years gone by with the sound of that "Bell Above the Door," and once again they seemed to hear that fascinating crescendo and dimin­ uendo of the jingling notes as the door was pushed open and closed by the little hand that held the copper cent with its varied possibilities of delight.

Next, the Rev. J. C. Kent spoke of the essays sub­ mitted by the pupils of the High School. These were 12 in number, almost uniformly good and worthy of recognition.

Paul Killen won the Alexander Starbuck prize of Five Dollars with his essay entitled "Nantucket's Systems of Communication with the Outside World."

Constance Miller took the second

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prize ($3.00). Her essay told "How I Became Inter­ ested in United States History," and the third ($2.00) prize went to Catherine Sylvia for her account of "The Red Men of the Island."

The two latter prizes were given by the Historical Association. Three other essays were thought worthy of Honorable Mention:—"Nantucket Thoughts" by James Norcross and "Nantucket's Charm for a Little Holland Girl" by Trina Lamens. "The Four Winds" of rather a different character from the rest, was ex­ ceptionally original and poetically imaginative.

It was written by Margaret Dunham.

Paul Killen was then called for, and read his es­ say from the platform.

He was followed by Mrs. Madeleine Severance with a paper "Streets Broad and Gay." These memories were recalled from the im­ pressions of a little girl as she trudged from home to the school on the hill. It was a vivid and familiar lit­ tle panorama that passed before us there. Mrs. Mor­ gan then spoke of the never-failing love and interest of the Islanders however distant they may be from the old home. In this connection she called upon Miss Bodfish to read a poem "The Captains," written and sent by W. Frederick Brown of Armidale, N. S. W., Australia.

With a few words about Maria Mitchell, Mrs. Mor­ gan introduced Miss Mitchell's "First Cousin once re­ moved" Miss Alice Albertson, who read an interesting and comprehensive account of the life of her famous cousin.

Mr. W. F. Macy came next with a most entertain­ ing account of the "Sherburne Lyceum." It is need­ less to say that this paper was greatly enjoyed by those present; and also President Gardner's explanations

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afterwards of several allusions to himself and his stand on certain questions at that time, which had been glee­ fully made by Mr. Macy.

The programme as prepared by the Committee being ended, Mr. Echlin Gayer, a collateral descendant of "Our one gentleman" William Gayer, spoke briefly of the Gayer family, about whom Mr. Worth told us last year. As the 12 o'clock bell had already sound­ ed the knell that brings a guilty feeling to any true Nantucketer, and is warranted to break up any meet­ ing for any purpose except a fire, a motion to adjourn was offered and the 29th Annual Meeting was over.

Many persons stayed however, to examine the inter­ esting specimens of scrim-shont work collected and carefully marked by Miss Annie Alden Folger, and which we hope will soon become the property of the Historical Association.

Dr. Murphy's lecture "South Georgia" given in the Unitarian Church in the evening was well attend­ ed. It was as expected, entertaining and instructive, and the lantern slides were of great interest. And so the day's doings become material for the "Proceedings."

Mary E. Starbuck, Secretary.

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SECRETARY'S REPORT Mr. President, President Emeritus, Members and Friends of the Nantucket Historical Association: It is many years since the Annual Meeting of our Association has been held in this historic building which becomes ever more precious to us as the years slip away.

And now again after the long interval, through the courtesy of the Pastor and Trustees of this Society, we meet in the place which is next to the Meeting House in our affections, and far before it in historic importance and general interest.

It should never be forgotten that it is to the un­ tiring efforts of a former Pastor of this Church that our Association owes its very existence.

It is true that the work was begun twenty years too late, but ex­ cept for the zeal of the late Rev. Myron S. Dudley, it would never have been undertaken at all.

Since our last meeting in this place many events have occurred in our history about which it would be interesting to speak.

Even a list of the names of the wise and great who gladly came at our call to tell us what they knew, and incidentally, according to their own confession, to add somewhat to that store, would not be without sig­ nificance. Today however, we are concerned primar­ ily at least, with the story of thg past year.

Since the Annual Meeting of 1922 there have been one meeting of the Association and seven of the Coun­ cil.

At the Council meeting held soon after that of

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the Association it was found to our great regret, that no provision had been made in the Constitution for any action of the Association on the occasion of the retirement of its President. So we were, at the out­ set, balked in our desire to show the highest possible honor to our esteemed retiring President. It is true that Mr. Starbuck might have been made a Life Coun­ cilor, but according to the Constitution, an Honorary Life Councilor has no vote at the meetings of the Council.

Mr. Starbuek's vote was too valuable to lose. But his able successor found a way out of the difficulty. At President Gardner's suggestion, a Gen­ eral Meeting was called to consider a recommendation of the Council that Mr. Starbuck be made President Emeritus and Life Councilor with power to vote at the Council meetings. It is needless to say that on the occasion of the well-attended meeting called for this purpose, the recommendation was unanimously and en­ thusiastically adopted.

For the rest, our work of the year, though not constructive, may perhaps best be described as preven­ tive and preservative. For instance, when the rath­ er enfeebled existence of the old 'Sconset Pump was endangered by the threatened and destructive advance of what is popularly known as progress, the N. H. A. Council promptly took action, and inserted in the Town Warrant an Article asking that the care of this an­ cient landmark be given over to the Historical Associ­ ation. This Article was retained by the Committee of Ten, and accepted by the voters at the Town Meet­ ing in February. The Pump is now in the care of the 'Sconset Committee.

Again when a summer visitor generously offered to Siasconset a shell road on Broadway, and the sur-

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vey was made taking in a large portion of the muchprized turf sidewalks on both sides of the street, a pro­ test was made by the Council before the Board of Se­ lectmen, with the result that the roadway was reduced to a reasonable width, obliterating only the old rutted road.

It is also a matter of congratulation that when the property at 'Sconset which includes Hop Cottage and the land adjoining, in whose preservation our Associ­ ation has long been interested, changed hands during the winter, it was with the proviso that this one of the most distinctive of the historic buildings in 'Sconset should remain untouched except for necessary repairs or minor alterations. And these repairs were to be un­ dertaken only by an experienced and appreciative arch­ itect who is an Islander by adoption, Mr. F. P. Hill.

And Islanders by adoption as well as local under­ studies this Association must have if its work is to go on.

Few persons are living who ever knew Nan­ tucket in its prosperous days, and our task is to pro­ cure whenever possible, records, personal letters and diaries, and whatever else we may that shows us any­ thing of that noble period of the Island's history when her name was one to conjure with.

But if her powers and prestige have vanished it is gratifying to know that the charm of her personal­ ity is still to be felt.

In his "Maritime History of Massachusetts" Morison says "Hardly a spot on the New England coast lacks passionate devotees; but the worshipers of Nantucket form a cult of positive fan­ atics."

Our membership list slowly lengthens in spite of our losses. This year the toll is heavy.

Of those who have died, four—Mr. Roland B. Hussey, Mr. Henry

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B. Worth, Life Councilor, Mr. Richard G. Elkins, and Miss Gertrude King—were Charter Members of the Association. Sadly to these names we add those of Mrs. Laura Kimball, Life Member, Judge Job Barnard, Mrs. Elizabeth Starbuck Boone, Mr. William Coffin Briggs, Mrs. Ann Worth Chase, Miss. Mary Jane Chase, Professor Edward Allen Fay, Mrs. Mary Swift Haggerty, Mrs. Ann Eliza Hodge, Mrs. Charlotte Hamblen Huxford, Mrs. Hannah W. Jackson, Mr. William Pren­ tiss Parker, Mrs. Ella Robinson, Mrs. Amelia Barnard White—all of whom were Annual Members.

Respectfully submitted, Mary E. Starbuck, Secretary,

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TREASURER'S REPORT For the Year Ending June 30, 1923 RECEIPTS. Balance on hand, June 15, 1922 Life Membership fees Annual dues Admission fees, Historical Rooms Admission fees, Old Mill Rent of Old Mill lot Interest on bonds Sale of publications Proceeds from lecture on whaling Rent of 'Sconset house Drew from Savings Bank

$ 277.81 30.00 330.00 756.85 83.41 15.00 85.00 14.20 206.70 35.00 300.00 $2,133.47

PAYMENTS. Cleaning building, Fair St., (1922) $ Cleaning building, Fair St., (1923) Postage Inquirer and Mirror, subscription Cook & Turner, Annual Reports Cook & Turner, Advertising and Printing Bay State Historical League, Annual dues Wannacomet Water Co. W. B. Marden, 'Sconset Water Millard F. Freeborn, Painting building, Fair St. Millard F. Freeborn, Stock and labor May Flood, prize for Essay Lucille Barrett, prize for Essay

48.54 52.90 24.50 2.50 194.80 17.65 2.00 10.00 12.00 173.92 3.84 3.00 2.00

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J. Killen & Son, coal Gas and Electric Co. J. N. Bosworth, labor and stock A. L. B. Fisher, labor and stock John C. Ring, labor and stock, George M. Lake, labor and stock Willard B. Marden, labor and stock George S. Davis, labor and stock James A. Garland, removing tree stumps Maurice W. Boyer, photograph of ship Albert G. Brock, Insurance Marian H. Allen, typewriting Transferred to Permanent fund Deposited in Savings Bank Salaries of Attendants, Historical Rooms Salary of Janitor Salary of Curator Salary of Secretary Salary of Treasurer Balance to new account

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4.25 4.00 17.85 69.09 7.05 15.64 5.50 5.10 80.00 2.50 46.41 8.40 31.08 600.00 280.00 100.00 100.00 50.00 75.00 138.95 $2,133.47

SUMMARY. Assets.

Fireproof Building Meeting House Collection (Insurance) Siasconset House Collection Old Mill

$ 8,500.00 1,500.00 1,000.00 1,500.00 300.00 1,000.00 $13,800.00

Susan W. Folger Fund: Bond (Liberty Loan)

1,000.00

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Nantucket Institution for Savings Permanent Fund, (Life Membership fees): Bond (Liberty Loan) Nantucket Institution for Savings

1,560.58 1,000.00 462.21

On deposit subject to check Cash on hand

4,022.79 126.78 12.17 $4,161.74 13,800.00

Liabilities—None.

$17,961.74

Examined and approved, Annie W. Bodfish, Emma Cook, Albert G. Brock, Auditing Committee.

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Membership, July 25, 1923.

Total Membership, last Annual Meeting New Life Councilor New Life Members New Annual Members Lost by death Life Councilor Lost by death Life Members Lost by death Annual Members Changed from Life Member to Life Councilor Changed from Annual to Life Member Withdrawn Present total membership Life Councilors!

Life Members Annual Members

429 1 5 63 498 1 2 15 1 1 3 — 23 475 2 70 403 475

Respectfully submitted, Mary M. Gardner, Treasurer.

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CURATOR'S REPORT Mr. President and Friends: It is with mingled feelings of sadness and pleasure that we greet you here today. Eighteen years have sped away since w)e met last in this place, and during those years we have taken much joy and pride in gath­ ering in our beloved Friends' Meeting House, and it was with regret that we were compelled to abandon this cherished plan. The reason for this, however, being that the growth of our Association has finally made more space necessary for its Annual Meeting, is certainly a cause for congratulation, and we now have again gladly accepted the hospitality of this historic building, which is also replete with hallowed associ­ ations of the past.

The record of our twenty-ninth year tells a story very similar to that of years immediately preceding, with little of new or specially absorbing interest, but that our Association is alive and still growing is evi­ denced by the facts that many new names are con­ stantly added to our membership lists, that the attend­ ance at our Rooms keeps well up to the average and that about the usual number of accessions to our col­ lections have been received during the current year.

The list of these is as follows: One of the life-size portraits so dear to the hearts of our ancestors, has been added to our collection of pictures:—that of Capt. Reuben Chase, son of the Reu­ ben Chase who was immortalized by Fenimore Cooper as "Long Tom Coffin." This portrait was bequeathed to us by the Captain's daughter, Mary Jane Chase, one of our oldest and most devoted members.

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Several pastels of typical old Nantucket houses, that are rapidly vanishing from our streets; also in the same line some fine photographs of other old houses, mainly situated in Mill street, and several views of the old Paddack house, Ash street.

Then, most attractive of all, a miniature of "A Quakeress" has been presented. This was painted from a daguerreotype and is said to be a portrait, with slight alterations, of a Nantucket beauty of the middle of the last century, and some of us feel very sure that we recognize the original, in spite of hazel eyes for well-remembered brown ones. This is a most exquis­ ite work of art and is brought here today, that you may all have the pleasure of seeing it.

Last year I spoke of the regularity with which every year brings us some new picture of our revered Lucretia Mott, and this year proves no ex­ ception to the rule. The one lately received shows her in middle age, seated beside her husband, James Mott. The latter has a fine face, marked with strong and amiable characteristics, and we are glad to feel that while he may share the usual fate of men with world famous wives, he was evidently worthy of honor and recognition for himself as well as for the husband of Lucretia Mott.

In manuscripts, a great many have come to us, consisting of letters, Friends' marriage certificates, memoirs and lists of donors to numerous objects. The most notable of these being the names of the original subscribers for the well where the pump now stands at Siasconset, and a census of Nantucket in 1800, in copper-plate handwriting with the ink as bright as if written yesterday.

A few valuable books have been added to our li-

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brary.

One large volume, copiously illustrated and beautifully bound, entitled "Our Ancestors, the Stantons," containing very interesting records of the mem­ bers of the Nantucket colony which settled in New Garden, North Carolina, with many pictures of the scenery of that region, showing the sites of some of the original farms and the meeting houses where so many of our ancestors worshipped.

This book was generously donated by its compiler, William Stanton, with whom I dare say many of us might claim kinship.

In 1856 a book entitled "Hough's Letters Relating to the Island of Nantucket" was published for private distribution and as there were but 150 copies printed, we consider ourselves much favored in receiving a finely preserved copy of this work from Mr. James Ford of Albany, N. Y. It has now become very rare and we sincerely appreciate its great interest and last­ ing value to our Association.

We have been able to purchase a rare pamphlet entitled "The Builders of Milford," published in Eng­ land and hard to procure now, but of much interest to the descendants of our first settlers, especially those of Edward Starbuck.

The fore-word says "It is a story of adventure and stirring events from which stand out two striking figures, those of Charles Fran­ cis Greville and his friend Samuel Starbuck, the Qua­ ker whale-fisher from Nantucket.

Nine generations back, Edward Starbuck sailed from England to find an unprejudiced new land in which he could think and act according to his conscience. Today the streets of a town in the old country perpetuate by their names the memory of a descendant equally enterprising, whose mortal remains lie in the green and quiet Qua­ kers' yard on the hill above the sea. The old whaler from Nantucket came into port here for all time."

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Another log-book has been donated this year, that of Ship Lexington, Capt. Peter C. Brock.

This is unique in our collection, being the only one written by a woman. It presents the unusual point of view of a captain's wife, and is very well written, giving a vivid picture of the vicissitudes of a three years' whal­ ing voyage, with its alternations of stormy arctic seas and broiling equatorial suns and its pathetic undercur­ rent of sadness at the lack of news of dear ones left at home, in those days before the wonderful secrets of the air were unlocked by electricity.

The old models made by sailors, are especially prized in these years, when they are becoming scarce, and we are gratified that another good specimen has come to us lately. This is a model called the "Sloop Scotland" and was constructed from a timber of the full-rigged ship of that name, commanded by Capt.

Prince William Robinson, a native of Nantucket, who was lost overboard in 1842. Capt. Robinson and the ship's carpenter combined their knowledge and skill in the production of this little sloop, which is nearly one hundred years old and of the type of vessels of her day which were employed about Nantucket as packets and probably in the whaling business after the use of whale boats was discontinued and before long voyages were made in schooners or square-riggers. She possesses surprisingly good sailing qualities either to windward or off the wind, and provided much pleasure and amusement for three generations of children.

A few small articles donated are—a piece of one of the first carpets brought to Nantucket from England, an iron for branding sheep with initials F. L., a piece of charred wood found five feet below the surface in Fed­ eral street and evidently a relic of the great fire and a

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proof of the amazing change of the street level during the years following that event; and a piece of shingle from the Tristram Starbuck house, corner of Gardner and Main, and familiar to us all as the residence of Benjamin G. Tobey. This wfood is worn into peculiar deep grooves by the action of the rain of two centuries.

Many of you must remember how, during the first decade of our Association's life, all our energies were bent to the accumulation of the requisite funds for the erection of our fire-proof building, and if we desired to purchase any special object, it became my duty to ask donations when our members met together. So every year I begged and begged for something, and it is pleas­ ant to remember the never-failing response to our call.

Now for some time this has been unnecessary, but it happens that this year our treasury contains little more than enough to pay our modest running expenses and leave a little margin for repairs and unexpected demands.

A rare opportunity is offered us to pur­ chase a fine collection of scrim-shont work, every piece made on Nantucket ships. We must realize that these articles are becoming scarce and if we lose this chance, such another is not likely to occur.

So I make an earnest appeal for funds for this ob­ ject and while realizing that the old friends who al­ ways helped us, have mostly passed on, I feel that amongst our newly interested members there must be some who will be glad to assist us in our effort to prevent the most characteristic relics of Nantucket's past from being scattered and lost.

This unusually fine collection may be seen here today and I am sure that the beauty of the pieces and the painstaking work­ manship of our ancestors will appeal to you strongly.

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Our plans for the coming year are many and va­ ried. One of the most important is the restoration of the old village pump at Siasconset. Several parties have interested themselves in this matter, the select­ men have turned the property over to the care of our Association and we expect to begin the work before long, that it may be completed before another season.

We have also repairs to make on the old mill, which must not be allowed to deteriorate, and we hope to im­ prove our Fair street property by planting new trees in place of the much lamented large and beautiful ones which the march of time has taken away from us.

While thus planning for future work, we do not forget the one thing that is most important and everpresent with us, the pressing need of more space to dis­ play our ever-growing collections. As yet no feasible plan to meet this necessity has been formulated, but we hope and believe that the way will be opened ere many years have passed, that those who come after us may raise a finer edifice on the firm foundation we have es­ tablished.

Respectfully submitted, Susan E. Brock, Curator.

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DELEGATE'S REPORT The League held its customary meetings during the year. For the first time since I was delegated by you to attend its meetings I was not present at either of them.

When I can attend and bring away some idea or suggestion that will be helpful to you I shall take pleasure in attending, but without my attend­ ance is to be beneficial to the Association it is useless for me to take the time to go.

The Fall meeting was with the Worcester Histori­ cal Society, September 30, last. The papers read Were on "Points of Historic Interest in and about Worces­ ter" and "Early Visitors to Worcester and What They Saw." An excursion was made around the city and the rooms of the American Antiquarian Society were visited.

The Winter meeting was held on January 6, with the Bay House Association in Chelsea.

The topic treated was "How to teach our Aliens our local His­ tory and Traditions." This came the nearest of any meeting of the year to developing anything of value to report, but unfortunately at that time I was under the doctor's care and forbidden to leave my house.

Also on the day of the meeting there was a violent storm.

The Spring meeting was held April 21, in Christ Church, Salem Street, Boston.

This is the church from the spire of which the lanterns were hung that signalled to Paul Revere the course the British were to take.

From a purely personal standpoint this would have been a pleasing meeting but I was still con-

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fined to my piazza for out-of-door exercise. The His­ tory of the church as told by the Rector and the ad­ dress of an Architect on Sir Christopher Wren did not seem however to be in the line of aiding local Histori­ cal Societies in solving their problems.

The Annual Meeting was held with the Wakefield Society on June 30.

One would have thought that in the old home of the founder of the League there might properly have been some reversion in the exercise to the principles for which the League was founded, out of respect to his memory at least, but the topic was purely local, "The History of the First Parish."

The officers of last year were re-elected with the exception of the Treasurer. Mr. Frederick W. Park­ er, the efficient and faithful Treasurer who had served 12 years, died early in the year. Mr. Charles A. Har­ dy, of Arlington, was chosen to replace him.

Alexander Starbuck.

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PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS Fellow Members of Nantucket Historical Association: One year ago you called me to the vacancy then confronting the Association by the much-regretted resignation of our long-time and highly esteemed President.

I do not say to fill the vacancy.

That would be egotism, extreme and inexcusable.

Fully appreciating the honor tendered as one not lightly to be considered or declined, it w'as an office to which I honestly protested I did not aspire, and accept­ ed with reluctance only after all my objections were overruled or brushed aside.

As year by year the Association has grown, inter­ est in its annual proceedings has developed until its home accommodations have proved inadequate for the occasion, and this year we have been tendered the use of the most historic building on the island—the spa­ cious Old North Vestry, whose construction dates back over two centuries of our island's history.

To hundreds of Nantucketers, at home and abroad, including myself, this building is fraught with hal­ lowed memories and cherished associations.

Here during the tender years of childhood have the juvenile feet of succeeding generations been started in the "straight and narrow path" and if perchance some of us have occasionally strayed therefrom, no one can ever get beyond the memory and influence of that early training.

Here on this platform, at a very tender age, I made my first bow to the public as an incipient orator and declaimed with juvenile eloquence a four-line stanza from the Catechism reciting in substance that

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notwithstanding I was young and little, if I could talk and walk it was time my religious education was begun.

The seats comprising oblong box pews then ex­ tended backward in rising tiers, the floor sloping up­ ward in ascending grade from front to rear, from which a short stairway led to the "infant department" above. How high it seemed—that long wooden hill up which we trudged.

Not more than three or four feet rise in fact, but to my immature imagination of untold height. In the words of the poet Hood, whose youthful fancy pictured the slender fir tree tops as reaching to the sky: "It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from Heaven Than when I was a boy."

Looking backward in retrospection two centuries and more, we may imagine how the simple-minded, copper-colored natives, accustomed to scan the clouds and listen to the winds when seeking communion with their Great Spirit, regarded with awe and wonderment the erection of this huge wigwam for worship of the white man's God by their pale-faced neighbors lately come among them.

Later on wfhen the latter migrated eastward to the shores of the greater harbor and formed a new settlement there, they transported their temple of worship thither and set it upon the most commanding hill overlooking the waters of the bay and the undula­ ting moorlands, where it was for many years the most conspicuous as well as most commodious building on the island.

Herein was held the trial of the Indian Quibby

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convicted of murder on shipboard and hanged on a gal­ lows erected not far from the 1st milestone at the junction of Orange street and 'Sconset road. The fa­ mous Governor Hutchinson presided at the trial and all the high colonial dignitaries were present. His ex­ ecution took place, according to an old record, on a dis­ mal April day in 1769— "the wind northeast and the weather drisky."

Who filled the pulpit of this first church for sev­ eral years after its erection—in fact prior to 1725, history and tradition alike are silent.

Of the first four pastors of whom we have record the Revs. Timo­ thy White, Bezaleel Shaw and James Gurney held forth for 25, 28 and 20 years respectively. The firstnamed officiated as schoolmaster, presumably to eke out a subsistence, for Thomas Chalkley, Quaker preacher, who visited Nantucket during Mr. White's incumbency, bore testimony that "The Priests who have money for preaching, the Lawyers who have it for pleading and the Pysicians who have money for giving receipts for health are poor Trades here on this island." Mr. White, by the way, had taken to wife Susanna Gardner, daughter of John, soon after set­ tling here and during his sojourn begat thirteen chil­ dren, hence it is fair to presume the family exchecquer had to be replenished from other sources in addition to the ministerial salary.

Mr. Shaw is spoken of in the church manual as a good man and a mild preacher. He too eked out his salary by teaching or tutoring. He literally "died in the harness," his pastorate of nearly 80 years being terminated by his death in 1796. His sepulchre still conspicuous but dilapidated, in the Old North burying ground is surmounted by a huge marble slab appropri-

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ately inscribed. He was uncle to the late Chief Jus­ tice Shaw and left one daughter.

The Rev. James Gurney was an able and eloquent preacher. Like his predecessors he too found it ex­ pedient or necessary to resort to teaching to augment his income from preaching. He was installed as pas­ tor for life in 1799, but 20 years later, owing to sundry disagreements, the covenant between parish and pas­ tor was dissolved and he moved away.

A few years later—1834—the new church edifice was erected, but the old sanctuary of our forefathers has ever been retained as a house of worship, and for more than a century has been the continuous home of the Sunday School begun with the advent of Mr. Gurney's successor, the Rev. Abner Morse, in December, 1819.

All this may seem irrelevant to the purpose for which we are assembled here today, and yet it oc­ curred to me that this brief retrospect might not be in­ appropriate as recognition of the historic lustre and hahowed memories which hover around and about us, and are inseparably linked with and a part of our isl­ and history which it is our province as a society to pre­ serve.

We meet to-day, in accordance with the annual customs of organizations and associations in general, to take counsel together, review the work of the year that has passed, outline plans for the coming one, and name the officers to whom shall be entrusted the car­ rying out of the same as well as the conduct of the af­ fairs of our association for the ensuing year.

Looking backward the success of an organization is not to be measured by its financial or numerical growth, but by the development and expansion of

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those ideals or purposes to which it is dedicated. So our association, devoted to the preservation of historic relics and the collection and dissemination of informa­ tion, historic, genealogical, domestic, commercial and political regarding our island and its people, is to be judged by results other than the size of its treasury or the length of its membership roll, notwithstanding both are very gratifying and essentially contributing factors.

The co-operation extended the work of this asso­ ciation since its organization is attested by the magnif­ icent collection stored within our fire-proof building which already taxes its capacity to such an extent that the problem of enlargement has for some time been an engrossing topic.

Unfortunately we are so circumscribed and hedged about on either hand that the only apparent opportunity for expansion is sky­ ward, and the addition of another story has for some time been in contemplation.

It is furthermore a source of regret that architec­ tural and economic conditions are such as preclude heating our building and opening it the year round.

That so interesting an exhibit and valuable reference library should be practically closed to the public eight months of the year and open only during those four which are to our island population the busiest period of the year, is a condition much to be deplored. The situation has been somewhat relieved of late through the courtesy of the Trustees of the Atheneum, where­ by some of our records most in demand have been transferred to the fire-proof safe of that institution under the custody of its librarian upon the closing of the Historical rooms in the fall, and thus made access­ ible during the ensuing months of winter and spring —an arrangement highly appreciated by ail wlio have

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benefitted thereby. We look forward in hopeful an­ ticipation, however, to the time when the rooms of the Nantucket Historical Association may be open at all seasons, periodically at least, every week in the year.

To be successful in the broadest sense and attract new members our association must satisfy the public that the benefit conferred by joining is upon the indi­ vidual rather than the society. To demonstrate this we must not hide our literary treasures in a fireproof vault nor our museum of rare antique and unique rel­ ics behind closed doors two-thirds of the year. Throw open our library to the student of local history and isl­ and genealogy—at stated periods if need be "out of season"—continuously "in season,"—likewise our mu­ seum of interesting and wonderful exhibits gathered from land and sea in every clime.

Open our doors from time to time to the classes in the public schools under proper restriction and supervision. Arouse the interest of the young and you may count on enlisting their future co-operation. The end and aim of our society is educational, and every exhibit within the rooms of the Nantucket Historical Association carries with it a story of interest and instruction along some line.

To me the idea of soliciting membership never ap­ pealed. Extend the most cordial and widespread in­ vitation, but don't urge. Many only need to have the object and work of the association called to their at­ tention. If there are those to whom it does not ap­ peal their acquisition as members would be no bene­ fit to the society beyond the contingent fee, and we are not soliciting charity.

And now, just a brief tribute in closing to the mem­ ory of those who have left us during the year just past. How often to those of you present at our last

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annual meeting, as to me, as we noted another vacan­ cy in our ranks, must have recurred that touching quo­ tation by our retiring President from one of our isl­ and poets—"Sit closer, friends."

In the routine of business and official life varied and conflicting interests may breed temporary discord and estrangement, but within the confines of our asso­ ciation community of interest and singleness of pur­ pose knit us together in one common bond of friend­ ship, the severance of which brings universal sadness.

So during the year just closed have our hearts been chastened from time to time by the passing of eighteen of our fellow members and associates, the majority identified with our organization either as charter members or very soon after its formation, and several especially prominent in its work and meetings.

No eulogy of mine can add to the esteem in which they were held nor deepen the sense of irreparable loss sustained by our association in the passing of Henry Barnard Worth, Life Councilor and 1st Vice-President, Roland Bunker Hussey, also of the Council, Ger­ trude Mitchell King whose cheery personality and ac­ tive interest was ever an inspiration, and W. Prentiss Parker, as well as the other fourteen members, resi­ dent and non-resident, whose loss we mourn but whose memory we cherish.

And finally, in grateful appreciation I beg to ac­ knowledge the co-operation and assistance so gener­ ously extended by members of the association which has aided to lighten the duties of an office reluctantly assumed which calls for the maintenance of traditions and high ideals established by a line of able and hon­ ored predecessors.

Arthur H. Gardner.

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IN MEMORIAM HENRY BARNARD WORTH.

With those of us who have passed the four score mark, when we pass over the Great Divide that sep­ arates the tangible present from the intangible future, when we are called to cast off the moorings that bind us to this life and sail away over the uncharted seas of that undiscovered country whence no traveler re­ turns, it seems quite appropriate to say he has come to the end "in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season," but it seems to me that such a de­ scription cannot be applied to the passing away of Mr. Worth. Whether it is from the point of my perspec­ tive or as a matter of fact, he seemed to me like a man in the full vigor of his powers, mental and physical.

I was not aware that he was ill until I read the re­ port of his death in a newspaper, and the tidings came to me as a sad surprise. Instinctively there came to my mind a stanza in the memorial poem written by Oliver Wendell Holmes in honor of his classmate Arnold— "You reckon it in days since he Strode up that foot-worn aisle, His dark eyes flashing gloriously His lips wreathed with a smile; Oh, had it been but left you then To mark whose lamp was dim, From out yon rank of fresh lipped men Would you have singled him?"

To our Historical Association Mr. Worth gave much of his time and effort, and to him the work was indeed a labor of love. No miner for gold felt keener delight in upturning a sizable nugget than he felt in

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upturning an important or interesting historical fact.

Probably no man living is so thoroughly conversant with the locations and divisions of the old Nantucket estates as he was.

Nor were his historical activities wholly confined to Nantucket, for the Old Dartmouth Society recognized him as an indefatigable worker, and when Sutton Commandery, Knights Templar, of New Bedford, observed its Fiftieth Anniversary, to him was delegated the duty of writing the Comman­ dery history.

One branch of his activities I have not seen men­ tioned in any tribute to his memory, and yet in it he attained the highest honors possible in the State. He was an active member of the Order of the Eastern Star, and in 1901 he was chosen Grand Patron of the Grand Chapter of Massachusetts, the highest rank at­ tainable in the Commonwealth.

We have honored ourselves in honoring him in those ways that were open to us. In 1904 the Associ­ ation paid tribute to his indefatigable work by mak­ ing him an Honorary Life Councilor, and the following year he was chosen one of the Vice Presidents of the Association, an office which he held continuously until death deprived us of his valuable services.

We shall miss him. The harvests are plenteous, but the laborers are far too few, and it will be a long, long time ere we find one to take his place.

We tender to his family our profoundest sym­ pathy.

Alexander Starbuck.

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The Store With the Bell Above the Door.

By ROLAND BUNKER HUSSEY. I sauntered 'round the dear old town, in the sunset's afterglow— About the "Square," Federal street, and peaceful "Petticoat Row;" I looked in all the windows, dressed to catch the eye, Saw the plate glass fronts, with electric lights up high.

Then this thought flashed o'er me: Would there ever, as of yore, Be a shop, like dear Aunt Nye's, with a bell above the door?

Can't you hear it ting-a-ling?

And didn't it sound right good As you entered with your penny In the town of young childhood?

That shop was once the "fore room" in that old-fashioned dwelling.

Reverses came; daily bread must be had; so the room they took for selling.

Back of it, through a narrow pass, in a fireplace, kettles swung, But o'er the door of the little store, a jingle-bell was hung On a flat, steel spring it swayed and swayed Jangling the time for which 'twas made.

Can't you hear it ringing, Rocking to and fro, As you opened the door of the little store In the days of Long Ago? And at Christmas the store windows were a world of pretty things— Noah's Arks, toy Sloops and Barks, and gifts that Santa brings.

There were Dollies, Candies, Beads and Gums, Masks and Sleds and Skates and Drums.

Recall the Sugar Barleys, and Peppermints (white and pink) ?

Do you remember how you longed for them?

Can you really, truly think?

Today's town shops are very fine With plate glass, electric light; But my love clings still to the little shop With its candles and sperm oil light.

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How you pinched your great big copper cent, carefully made your way, And eagerly stood thinking what the one who came would say.

Would it be thei dear old lady, in foretop and black lace cap, Or that snippy little clerk, (for whom you didn't care a rap) Who'd come flitting through the passway behind the counter in the store In answer to the ting-a-ling of the bell above the door?

And the bell goes jingling merrily As you walk across the floor Of that little shop of years agone— The bell above the door.

How your young eyes glistened, and heart beat faster, too, When you saw the dear old lady looking kindly down on you You knew she'd take down everything—yes, even the spring pop-gun— And let you touch or handle them—every blessed one.

Can't you in mind picture her—just a little bent— Talking and explaining how best to spend your cent ?

Wasn't she a dearie—dear old Auntie Nye? And oh! How much we missed her when she was called on high!

But still the bell goes jingling on, May it do so evermore As I stand in that store of childhood's days, With its Bell above the door!

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STREETS BROAD AND GAY. This title might suggest festive thoroughfares, thronged boardwalks, or far-famed Cliff paths, but it introduces merely a list of houses and their occupants, passed by a little girl, four decades or more ago, as she went to and from school on the street called Broad and the narrower ascent named Gay. She started from her home at the corner of Broad and North Water Streets—the house now stands oppo­ site the Yacht Club house—under the seemingly watchful eye of the figure-head placed across the way on a building in the carriage yard of Mr. F. C. Sanford.

The occasional summer visitor liked to think it was a bust of Benjamin Franklin, but the child's grandmother said that it was meant to represent Richard Mitchell, one-time owner of the estate as well as of ships, and that what looked like rust on the edges of his cravat was really yellow paint showing through. How splen­ did he must have been in his purple coat and blue hat!

Today, in gray garb, he sits, facing Federal Street, on a small summerhouse belonging to Captain Killen.

The little girl turned west, crossing North Water Street, high-crowned, hard, and pure white after a heavy rain had washed the finely crushed clam-shell surface. Then past the cottage, which was without a porch, and past a long, vacant stretch, for on the site of the Nesbitt Inn stood only a little hen-house belong­ ing to Capt. John Gardner, owner and sole occupant of the next mansion, then without veranda and dormer windows. Sometimes the child was sent far around to the west basement door for fresh eggs—a fearsome

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experience!—because that gaunt, non-communicative man had lived through a terrifying episode called a mutiny, when pounded glass had been secretly mixed with his food.

The disastrous effects on digestion had doomed him forevermore to a diet of crackers and milk. One wished he might occasionally enjoy one of his own fresh eggs.

Today there may be seen in the Historical Rooms a complete model of a whale ship, "cutting in," made by this same Capt. John Gardner.

After passing the little shop, then the office of a physician, one came to a dark-gray house which al­ ways attracted the child because it was "different."

Even the terraced lawn was a feature seldom seen about town, and the long windows and mansard roof presented phases of unusual architecture.

Only the east end now shows the former lines. It was the home of the Ocean House proprietor, Mr. Eben Allen, and his wife, known to her friends as "Clarissy"—a happy little lady, with cheeks like red-russet apples. A com­ panion in her latter years was a stately, keen-witted friend, Mrs. Louisa Stratton. The soft black silks in which she ever went swished delightfully as she slow­ ly swung up the street.

And then the Ocean House!—impressive even to grandeur in the days before covered piazzas had pushed upon the sidewalk, concealing the fine entrance which was flanked by square enclosures of greenery, the whole giving an air of space and hospitality.

Indeed at that time there was no crowding of porches and verandas—none of the choking effect one feels nowadays at the head of Broad Street. Where the brick-colored stories of the Hotel Annex shut out the sky stood the low gray home of the Pitmans—the be-

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loved doctor and his family, famous for witticisms and benevolent deeds.

Toward that low doorstep the child now headed, crossing the narrow curve of Centre Street, and then on past Gay Street fences, for the house of Mr. William Holland then stood on Quince Street. One liked to look over the next fence at the sunken vegetable garden, looking today much as it did then.

And next there was Capt. Charles Rule, now for a long time home from the sea, possibly measuring for the new locality of his stable about to be moved from the southwest corner to the east side of his house. It was such fun to meet him. Perhaps the word drollery best applies to his individual style of humor.

Looking up at the end window of the house which seemed very high in those days, the little girl waved to the gracious lady, seated there to watch the pass.

Today she returns the salute in even more sprightly fashion, being now fourscore and eight years young.

In the next house, called "The Hillside," lived Ed­ win Coffin whom, somehow, the child did not know.

And then she came to the double mansion, afterwards named "Waverly House." She liked to meet the oc­ cupants of the last half—a Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook, offislanders, a handsome and elderly couple who often drove about, smiling and elegant, in a victoria-like equipage. The west half of the house was made dis­ tinctive by a beautiful fir-tree at the northwest corner.

And so the school yard was reached, by way of the south side. When the session was over in the after­ noon the child, with other silly, little gigglers might elect to shop at "Shonthy's"—otherwise John Mitchell —who lived with his father in the white house at the corner of Westminster street on the north side of Gay.

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He was always trying to sell off his mother's stock of millinery—hats of the vintage of 1860, in bandboxes piled high to the ceiling of the upstairs middle room; but the only purchase would be a few yards of queer, old silk ribbon, narrow and brittle, admirable for hoopstick streamers.

Heading east, next the Mitchell's house, now as then, was the Methodist parsonage whose frequently changing occupants often added a considerable number to the school population.

The child knew only by sight and reputation the owner of the next house, William Chadwick, a typical, square-rigged captain, his chin outlined by a short gray beard. He had been to California during "gold fever" days, and he had been one of the founders of the Captain's Room and was altogether a distinguished personage—of whom youngsters were rather afraid.

The next two houses are unchanged.

Children liked to meet the dweller in the first one, Captain Obed Swain, for he was a genial old soul. Voyaging on his last trip on the whaler Catawba in 1852, he now set sail, daily, in the cat-boat "Sylph" for a voyage across the yet un-jettied bar.

At the gate of the next house where red geraniums ever bloomed in basement windows, little Julia Doyle would stand, her quaint Irish face wrinkled into smi­ ling lines, while the never idle hands smoothed an im­ maculate apron.

People who had known the child, Julia, when she came from the old country, added "Julia Enas, you know," thus apologizing for momen­ tary forgetfulness of her slow-moving, silent, Portu­ guese husband, Anthony.

Now the little maid met another ship-master com­ ing up from "down-long," Captain David Bunker,

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whose last voyages were in the Lexington in '48 and the Henry in '53, and who now cruised nearer home in the cat-boat "Zephyr." It was a pleasure to see his face light up as he spied his fine-looking wife watch­ ing for him from the attractive doorway which is un­ changed today.

The lawn at the side is the same, too, and so is the old house at the corner of Gay and Centre Streets, now the property of Mr. John B. Coffin. The child used often to visit the two occupants, the tiny Mrs. Russell and her daughter, rapid of speech, and called in the compounding fashion of her friends, Lizzie-Hen­ derson. A happy mother-and-daughter comradeship existed, and interest in local history was so great that they delighted to name a certain chimney-closet, half­ way up the stairs, the "smugglers' den," even though one's grandmother, in scornful amusement, declared it to be only a warm cranny formed by the union of two chimneys, where bread Was often set to rise.

Now the little one took a long diagonal to the south corner of Broad, and glancing along Centre street spied Joseph Clapp standing in front of his house, under the green drapery of the Napoleonic wil­ lows. Wag of the Captain's Room was Joe, concern­ ing whom it may truly be said, as was written of an adopted son of our island: "He was king in the kingdom of laughter, And a prince, hut never of wails."

On the south side of Broad Street, and heading east, there was the revered yet feared principal of the Coffin Schol, Mr. E. B. Fox, entering the large house of Mrs. Holway, his home for many years.

In the brown house next, under the splendid elms, lived Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gardner, representatives of Nantucket's highest culture.

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The little house which is now the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Benton, then sheltered the wee Catherine Fuller. Her gray hair was bobbed in a fashion all her own.

She was clumsy of foot and utterly homely of face, yet the heart of a child was in her and it was of pure gold, so that all small folk loved her.

On this homeward way part of the entertainment was to look through the big basement window of the next house where Lemuel Jones mended shoes in a shop as typically that of the old-time cobbler as ever an artist painted.

The corner where Mr. John Ring now lives was vacant, so one might cut across, and then across Fed­ eral Street, a deep, grassy valley on either side of the high dirt road, right on, and up into the shop of Wil­ liam Hosier, one of the last of the Society of Friends, called Mr. Hosier by the children, because they loved and respected him so highly.

A more kindly man never smiled at little people! A jar of striped pep­ permint-sticks, closely-covered, was a real ornament in its setting of hardware, and the scissors, with which a penny stick was carefully drawn out, were kept for that especial purpose.

The child might go out into the junk room at the rear to weigh herself, and then it was a short skip across the court into the Mr. Sanford's side yard. A turn to the east over the bricked walk and she was down in the garden where, in a box-bordered bed—the box is there today!—the owner himself was cutting a fresh sprig of lemon verbena for a buttonhole of his buff waistcoat.

At the end of the path she was al­ most under the broad brim of Richard Mitchell's white painted hat. A swift dash across the uneven cobble-

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stones of Broad Street and she was back at the start­ ing place—the school-day uneventfully over.

Perhaps a sentimental closing might now be in or­ der—a quotation—"Change and decay in all around we see,"—or "Still sits the schoolhouse by the road—."

But that same school house will again be filled with young life next September, and the children still go about the streets, unmindful of change, while in­ stead of decay, there is an increasing tendency to freshen up—with paint—and rambler roses.

Why, then, have these trivial reminiscences been collected, for they have little of historical value and record none of the moral influence of a passing Pippa ?

Let us say that they present merely a personal com­ ment about little things which a child daily knew, out­ side her home. In forty years from now some other Broad Street child—and there are others coming along—might make a similar commentary. Yet there is room for a few more piazzas, a few more vacant lots remain.

Though children coming home from school no longer meet five sea-captains, at least they have the honor of greeting sons of two. A Napoleon­ ic willow is springing from old roots.

Really, many new tales will need to be told, and, as has been re­ marked, this paper is only one of a possible collection of pleasant memories. That is, therefore, its only ex­ cuse for being.

Madeleine Fish Severance.

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The Captains, From out the mists of long-gone years you sail, Gray sea-kings old, whom once Nantucket knew, In distant climies you cruised the seas, our true And worthy sailor sires; the giant whale Pursued for many a year, nor waves nor gale You feared.

With trust in God, to dear ones who, Through anxious days had scanned the horizon, You, In life and time were leal. Though friendships fail And fade your memories can never die, But lead us on to high endeavor bold That we may help the State to sweep away The wrongs and age-long errors sad that lie So deep and firm.

Of strong, heroic mould You were, great captains of an elder day.

W. Frederick Brown.

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MARIA MITCHELL. From the topographer's point of view, "just a sandy, windswept island" is Nantucket, thirty miles at sea, and covering an area of about forty-five square miles, yet from the humanist's point of view: "A world as large and simple, As was first prepared for man, Cleared for the human drama, Before the play began."

These lines have immediate reference to the Commons, but they connote also the Town and its people. The dignified houses in the town, which date mostly from the whaling period, as well as the tidy picket fences are expressions of the poise and worthiness of the peo­ ple,—of those who are living there now, truly, but in a greater degree of those who lived there generations ago, when the community was at its zenith.

During the years 1831 to 1855, years that includ­ ed, it happened, the formative period of Maria Mit­ chell's life, the Nantucket community, commercially, intellectually and morally, was at an extraordinary height.

Among the typical Nantucketers of moderate means were William and Lydia (Coleman) Mitchell, the parents of Maria Mitchell. William Mitchell was a self-taught astronomer, who took his daughter, Maria, to be his assistant. When she was twelve and a half years old, in 1831, she counted the seconds, while her father observed an eclipse of the sun. The purpose of this observation was to obtain the exact lat-

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itude and longitude of his Vestal Street house, know­ ledge that was necessary to his work, rating and set­ ting to Greenwich time the chronometers of the whal­ ing captains. Later William Mitchell and his assist­ ant set all the chronometers for a fleet of ninety-two Whaling ships.

Observations were required on every fine day of the year, and these Maria often made, un­ assisted.

Their house in time ranked as an observing station of the first importance. Many instruments were loaned under obligations to supply data for state or govern­ ment surveys. Through her connection with the Nauti­ cal Almanac, for which Miss Mitchell was appointed computer, her relations with the leading astronomers and mathematicians of the country became intimate.

Jupiter and Saturn were her chief subjects of study.

However, searching for comets, she "discovered" sev­ eral, but in 1847 for the first time, her priority was proved. From the fact that Hon. Edward Everett, then President of Harvard University, and eminent as­ tronomers in the United States interested themselves in obtaining for her the medal which had been offered by the King of Denmark for the discovery of a tele­ scopic comet, she became recognized in Europe, also, as the first and leading Woman astronomer of America.

Her only instruction had been Nantucket schools, her father's teaching and her own reading.

"Our want of opportunity," she once wrote, "was our opportunity. Our privations were our privileges, our needs were stimulant.

We are what we are be­ cause we had little and wanted much; and it is hard to tell which was the more powerful factor."

Other events of her life are quickly told. Twice she traveled in Europe, where she was cordially wel-

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corned by astronomers and visited most of the observ­ atories then in existence. Among other honors con­ ferred upon her from time to time was the election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (the first woman's name to be on the roll) and the appointment to the Presidency of the American Association for the Advancement of Women.

"In this capacity she reached through circulars and letters women study­ ing science in all parts of our country." In 1859 an equitorial telescope was presented to her on behalf of the women of America. In 1865 she was appointed Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observa­ tory at Vassar College, a position which she held until within a year of her death. (She died in 1889.)

Hers was a simple life, and one which offered few early opportunities, yet Maria Mitchell, a pioneer wom­ an, won success and—what to her was infinitely more than the fame that accompanied the success—she made it possible for countless women to think, to study and to act. Her influence did not come primarily from her writings, for she wrote very little more than a diary and intimate letters; but, because she put her soul into her life's work, her influence was from the tremendous impact of her forceful mind and noble heart, expressed with true womanliness.

Born and taught on the Island of Nantucket, in its best whal­ ing and Quaker days, Maria Mitchell is an epitome of her native home.

Her character was open, like the Nantucket Commons,—so to speak,—• for she had prac­ tically no minor traits, and her strong characteristics were such as would be expected in one intimate with illimitability. She was genuine, she was broadminded, yet of a child-like simplicity; calm, yet buoyant and impulsive; exceptionally individualistic, yet too

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active-minded, apparently, to be a lonely person; aus­ tere, yet tender and sympathetic; she was born a re­ search student, yet she developed a genius for director­ ship of other women-students. In overcoming obsta­ cles, as long as her physical strength lasted, she was indomitable. The mainspring of all this activity was Love, a motive power, which forms the background of her philosophy and intellectual qualities, but comes to the front in her life with her students.

To Maria Mitchell's broad mind, search for truth was a gospel. In her search for truth, she was selfdependent. "Until women throw off reverence for authority," she wrote in her diary, "they will not de­ velop. When they do this, when they come to truth through their investigations, when doubts lead them to discovery, the truth which they get will be theirs and their minds will go on and on, unfettered. Is there anyone so forgetful of the sovereignty bestowed on her by God that she accepts a leader? We must at least question it (authority); we cannot accept any­ thing as granted, beyond the first mathematical for­ mulae. Question everything else."

However much she might doubt, she was always reverent, believing that "an undevout astronomer is mad." "Every formula which expresses a law of na­ ture is a hymn of praise to God." "There is a God and He is good," I say to myself. T try to increase my trust in this, my only article of creed.' " Humor was the mellowing trait of her character.

Although the other person never laughed at her, she often laughed at herself. This description of her pur­ chases was typical: (Oct. 22, 1860) "I have spent $100 on dress this year. I have a very pretty new felt bonnet of the

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fashionable shape, trimmed with velvet. If thou thinks after $100, it wouldn't be extravagant for me to have a waterproof cloak, please send me a descrip­ tion of waterproofs of various prices.

They are so ugly, and I am so ditto, that I feel if a few dollars, more or less, would make me look better, even in a storm, I must not mind it." Hawthorne's daughter said that "Miss Mitchell's wit was the merry spray of deep waves of thought."

Humor was the connecting link between Maria Mitchell's mind and that which she called the "biggest part of M. M.,"—her heart. Her devotion to her fam­ ily and to her friends, especially her women friends, reached to the depths of her nature. So magnetic was her love for her students that even in the class-room the atmosphere was that of fellowship.

Gratitude for such a quickening influence, per­ haps, as much as appreciation of Maria Mitchell's greatness and of Nantucket's opportunities, was the prompting motive of those who organized the Nan­ tucket Maria Mitchell Association. In 1903, a small group of people who had known Maria Mitchell and who understood how her life and character illustrated Nantucket, obtained a charter from the Massachusetts Legislature to form on Nantucket a Maria Mitchell As­ sociation.

Maria Mitchell's birthplace was bought, the house on Vestal Street, where she had started her astronomical work. The house was already furnished.

There were added articles connected with Maria Mit­ chell, some of her books, and very soon her own val­ uable manuscript. But such a Memorial was not vital in the eyes of the Founders, so they planned for ac­ tivity.

From the beginning, the Association assumed the policy of promoting Astronomy and the Natural Sci-

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ences on Nantucket in accordance with the spirit of the place as it is exemplified by Maria Mitchell. That spirit is: that even within fixed limits illimitable de­ velopment is possible, if the person or thing concerned is true to itself. A Natural Science Department may seem strange in a Memorial to an Astronomer. The justification is: that Maria Mitchell once remarked that chance had made her an astronomer, but her in­ terest in all the Sciences was keen.

For the Natural Scientist, Nantucket is a happy hunting ground, partly because it is a geographical limit for certain forms of fauna and flora and partly because, due to its isolation, in some instances forms have developed here that are not found elsewhere in the world.

The purpose of the Natural Science De­ partment is two-fold: to collect representatives of all Nantucket forms, and secondly to interest people in the out-of-doors on Nantucket. The thought of Ma­ ria Mitchell's approval came to mind last summer when a little girl was overheard to say: "I brought that butterfly. You know I just love this place."

The Association started in 1903 with the home­ stead, lifeless and somewhat bare; the Plant now in­ cludes, beside the House, a Library, an Observatory, and an Astronomical Study.

The growth has been quiet and steady, for the work has been honest. What Maria Mitchell said of herself, may be said also of the Association, which is a living Memorial to her and to Nantucket: "Our want of opportunity was our op­ portunity.

Our privations were our privileges, our needs were stimulant. We are what we are because we had little, and wanted much; and it is hard to tell which was the more powerful factor."

Alice Owen Albertson.

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THE SHERBURNE LYCEUM. Many members of this audience no doubt recall Nantucket's famous debating society of the late 1870's and early 1880's, known as the "Sherburne Lyceum;" but I doubt if any of you have quite such a vivid re­ membrance of it as I have. I think it is a well-nigh universal experience that our earliest impressions are the strongest and most lasting. So, when I tell you that I was ten years old when the Lyceum was organ­ ized and about sixteen when it disbanded, that I at­ tended nearly, if not quite, every one of its meetings, and that the ages of the others in attendance ranged from twenty to ninety, I think you will recognize my claim.

Just why I, a youngster of that tender age, hap­ pened to be so privileged will be remembered by many of you, but for the information of others I offer as my excuse, if any be needed, that my father was blind, that he took a rather active part in the proceedings, and that it was my duty (in this case a most agreeable one) to guide his footsteps whenever he went out in the evening.

I cannot tell you what those meetings meant to me! To my youthful imagination all the wit, wisdom and learning of all the ages was centered in that little group of Nantucket intellectuals, and I looked forward to "Debate Night," as we called it, with the keenest pleasure in the anticipation. I think I really learned more and that I derived more real benefit in an educa­ tional way from the Lyceum meetings than I did from my High School course—which was for much of the time, contemporaneous with the Lyceum's history.

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My father's shrewd comments on the discussions we had heard and the participants therein, after we got home, helped to clarify the issues, and I went to bed on those nights to argue the questions all out again in my own mind before I went to sleep. I think it must have been then that I first imbibed my ever­ lasting faith in the value of the fullest and freest dis­ cussion of all controversial questions of a political, so­ cial or religious nature, which has survived even the reactionary post-war psychology of the past few years, when some of my good friends—even some of the rather liberal, broad-minded ones—seemed to have lost their sense of proportion, along with their sense of humor, in assuming, apparently, that the pathway to truth must be hedged about with all sorts of inhibi­ tions and suppressions of all opposing points of view.

The temptation to enlarge upon this at this time is rather strong, but as I am offering you history and not argument, I'll refrain.

It was in the fall of 1877 that a little group of peo­ ple—and they were the "best people," in the best sense of that much-abused term—in this community, conceived the idea of a local debating society. An edi­ torial in the Inquirer and Mirror of November 24th, in that year, the authorship of which I could guess, start­ ed the ball rolling. No time was lost, for just a week later, on December 1st, a call was issued to a selected list of men and women likely to be interested, for a preliminary meeting on the 3d, at which a committee, comprising Allen Coffin, Moses Joy, Jr., Arthur H. Gardner, Rev. James B. Morrison, Dr. Arthur E. Jenks, Matthew Barney, Mrs. Eliza Barney and Mrs. Elizabeth C. Crosby, was appointed to nominate officers and sub­ mit a draft for a constitution and by-laws at a meet­ ing to be held on December 10th.

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One week seemed to be enough in those days to accomplish most anything, for on the 10th the organi­ zation was completed, with about twenty charter mem­ bers; a constitution was adopted—the object of the as­ sociation to be, as stated therein, "for the mutual im­ provement and culture of its members;" the name Sherburne Lyceum was agreed upon, and the follow­ ing board of officers was elected: President, Alex­ ander Macy, Jr., secretary, Miss Helen Marshall; treasurer, Moses Joy, Jr.; executive committee, Wil­ liam H. Macy, Mrs. Elizabeth Starbuck, Miss Eunice S. Barney, Moses Joy, Jr., William F. Codd and Miss Elizabeth G. Macy.

For about six years thereafter the society met fortnightly—usually on Monday evenings—from Octo­ ber to May; and many and spirited Were the discus­ sions on all sorts of questions of interest to its mem­ bers. During the first winter the meetings were held in a small room on the street floor of the ell, or "porch," as we call it, of the old Atlantic Hall building, which, as many of you will recall, then stood on Main street on the present site of the William T. Swain house, be­ tween Edward A. Lawrence's house and the Charles G. Coffin estate—now owned by Miss Beadle.

This famous building—originally a Friend's meet­ ing house; later, town hall, straw works, wood-work­ ing shop, dance hall and skating rink; still later, moved down onto Brant Point to become part of the Hotel Nantucket for several years; and finally moved back to its present site on South Water street, where it houses Red Men's Hall and "Dreamland," our popular "movie" theatre—has passed through many vicissi­ tudes and served our community in many ways, but in

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none more important, perhaps, or more worthy than as the birth-place and early meeting place of the Sher­ burne Lyceum.

By the end of the second winter the society had outgrown this room, having then reached a member­ ship of about a hundred, and a move was made, on March 10, 1879, to Wendell's Hall, over what is now Brown's hardware store, where it continued to flourish for several years longer, reaching a maximum mem­ bership of about a hundred and sixty at the height of its popularity and with an average attendance at the regular meetings ranging all the way from fifty to a hundred.

The meetings were called to order at the then fashionable hour of 7 p. m., and the 9 o'clock curfew was the signal for closing the discussion—except on special occasions, when the time was extended by unanimous consent to as late as 9.80. Subjects for debate were decided upon by vote from a list submit­ ted by members; leaders for each side were appointed, each of whom was allowed fifteen minutes for his (or, quite as often, her) opening argument, and ten min­ utes, as I recall it, in which to close. This left an hour or more for general debate, in which other mem­ bers could take part. And they rarely failed to avail themselves of the opportunity. There were few idle moments, and several would-be debaters were often clamoring at once for the privilege of the floor, neces­ sitating no little alertness and tact on the part of the chairman to recognize the right ones.

At the close of the debate a vote on the question at issue was always taken and recorded. Though, un­ fortunately, many of those present usually refrained from voting either way, it may perhaps be assumed

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that the verdicts as recorded represented a fairly ap­ proximate cross section of the prevailing sentiment, pro and con, of the audience.

If that assumption be a fair one, then, in the light of subsequent events and developments, some of the votes are, to say the least, amusing as we examine them to-day.

During the life of the Lyceum something over a hundred different questions were debated, so it would be quite impossible, in the time assigned me, even to enumerate them, but reference to a few, with the names of some of the disputants and some of the votes recorded, may be of interest. For example: Subject: "Resolved that women ought not to par­ ticipate ;in politics nor vote at municipal elections."

Arthur H. Gardner championed the affirmative, and though equal suffrage was a fairly live issue even then, and the female element predominated in the audience, I regret to say that the affirmative won on the vote and woman was denied the franchise.

A similar issue—"Resolved, that no woman who expects to follow one of the learned professions should marry," was decided in the negative by a large major­ ity; so they evidently believed that she could marry and still be a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, or a preacher, but that she couldn't vote.

[The author of that re­ cently-popular novel, "This Freedom," was, by the way, as yet unborn.]

The resolution that "A protective tariff is for the best interests of the country" was lost by a large ma­ jority after a spirited debate—which is rather sur­ prising when we remember that our town was then, as now and always, a Republican stronghold.

"Resolved, that there is a standard of absolute truth" was upheld by Dr. Arthur E. Jenks and dispu-

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ted by Mr. W. A. Spinney, then principal of the High School. That the audience was in some doubt about it is indicated by a vote of 20 in the affirmative and 14 in the negative.

"Resolved, that capital punishment is wrong in principle and pernicious in practice." The ayes had it by a large majority.

"Resolved, that wars are always unjustifiable"— Alexander Macy, Jr., affirmative, William H. Macy, negative—was carried in the negative by a safe margin.

Though one of the articles of the constitution, as I recall it, or, at least, an unwritten understanding, barred the discussion of sectarian or denominational differences of opinion, curiously enough I find this question: "Resolved that the Roman Catholic Church is inimical to general education and to republican insti­ tutions," the audience supporting that contention by a large majority. If this would seem to indicate a rath­ er bigoted view-point, it is interesting to note that, at the very next meeting, a still larger majority voted "that church property ought to be assessed and taxed at the same rate as other property." This, notwith­ standing the fact that most of the voters were prob­ ably, if not actual church members, interested in and attendant at some one of the churches. At another meeting the same winter the claim "that Mahomet was an impostor and was actuated only by selfish mo­ tives" was sustained by a bare margin of one for the affirmative. So it would appear that they were fair­ ly open minded on such subjects after all.

"Are the pictures of vice presented from the pul­ pit by such preachers as Talmage and Morgan produc­ tive of good?" was supported by William H. Macy and denied by Rev. Levi S. Boyer.

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"Resolved, that marking systems and competitive examinations are unjust and injurious." Mrs. Eliza­ beth G. Barney took the affirmative, and her husband, Matthew Barney, the negative.

As Mrs. Barney was Miss Macy when the Lyceum was founded, this mid­ dle-aged romance had culminated in matrimony dur­ ing the two years which had elapsed, but whether the Lyceum may claim credit therefor deponent sayeth not.

The dictum that "parents derive as much benefit, morally and intellectually, from their children as chil­ dren do from their parents" was stoutly defended by a maiden lady and as firmly denied by a pater familias.

Both disputants shall be nameless herein, but as the lady afterward married and is now the mother of sev­ eral grown-up children, it would be interesting to get her reactions on the same question to-day.

"Resolved, that the pulpit is more powerful for good than the press" was decided in favor of the pul­ pit by a vote of 18 to 11.

That "oratory is more a gift of nature than the fruit of knowledge and culture" was maintained by Mrs. Mary W. Valentine and denied by Rev. John A. Savage, who, as many will recall, was himself an ora­ tor of considerable power, and might, therefore, have known.

W. A. Spinney thought "that honesty is on the in­ crease in this Country" and Arthur H. Gardner thought otherwise.

On another occasion Brother Gardner argued "that the theatre is not beneficial," but the audience failed to sustain his contention.

That "the biographies of great military men are injudicious reading for the young" was maintained by William H. Macy, who had been a soldier, as against Allen Coffin, who, I think, had had no military expe­ rience.

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That "an honest man cannot acquire riches" was repudiated by the audience, as was also the claim that "the hope of reward is a more powerful incentive to noble action than the fear of punishment."

Other subjects of interest which were debated were: cremation or burial, spelling reform, Chinese immigration, a third term for the president; is man a iree moral agent? Is novel reading injurious? Should legislators at all times obey the wishes of their consti­ tuents? Is the immortality of the soul substantiated by the evidence of nature?

In educating children, few studies are better than many; Have circumstan­ ces more to do with success in life than personal effort ?

These are only a few, chosen more or less at ran­ dom, of the many questions which were threshed out in these meetings forty to forty-five years ago. It was a little local forum, where any member with an idea could get it off his mind. And, by the way, I find only one strictly local question in the whole list—a very pertinent one at that time, and one which was much discussed: "Is Nantucket morally worse as a watering place than it was in the whaling days?"

Moses Joy, Jr., thought it was, and Allen Coffin denied the allegation.

Other participants in the discussions, not hereto­ fore mentioned, were: Rev. J. H. Temple, Benjamin C. Easton, Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett, Rev. L. H. Augier, Mrs. Malinda S. Barney, Mrs. Harriet Pierce, Mrs. Ju­ dith G. Fish, Rev. James E. Crawford, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Crosby, Miss Anna Gardner, Miss Stella L. Chase, Miss Emma Nickerson, Mrs. Elizabeth Starbuck, Mrs. Catherine Starbuck, Miss Minnie Smith, and doubtless many more whose names I have overlooked.

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Each year some special event was held, to which, the public was sometimes invited.

Some of these were great occasions. They included a "Literary Le­ vee," so called; a spelling match, a Mother Goose Rhyming Contest, held in the Atheneum, and other events. In the summer of 1879 an outing was held at Wauwinet.

The question naturally suggests itself: "Why not revive the old-time debating society ?" Would it suc­ ceed to-day? That Nantucketers are still interested in things of the mind is evidenced by its Reading Club, its Shakespeare Club, its Current Events class and the several foreign language study classes, but is there anything which quite takes the place of the old-time debating society—that interchange of opposing ideas on controverted questions, which sharpens the wits, broadens the mind, and furnishes the best possible training school, not only for public speaking and the ability to express one's thoughts, but for a better un­ derstanding of the duties and obligations of citizen­ ship in a democracy like ours? Is it not worth con­ sidering?

William F. Macy.

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LIST OF MEMBERS. LIFE COUNCILLORS. Folger, Annie Barker, Lily St., Nantucket, Mass.

Starbuck, Alexander, Waltham, Mass.

LIFE MEMBERS. Ackley, Mrs. Seth Mitchell, Nantucket, Mass.

Austin, May (Haberlin), Boston, Mass.

Bailey, William E., Harrisburg, Penn.

Barnard, Prof. Charles, 139 East 39th St., New York, N. Y. Barnard, Marianna (Sprague), 333 Chippewa Road, Tuckahoe, N. Y. Barrett, John Wendell, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Barrett, William M., 214 Ave. A, Bayonne, N. J. Beebe, Alice Geissler, 25 Grove St., Wellesley, Mass.

Bodfish, Annie Warren, Nantucket, Mass.

Brock, Susan Emma, Fair St., Nantucket, Mass.

• Brown, Julia D., 35 West 130th St., New York, N. Y. Brown, William Frederick, Armidale, N. S. W., Australia.

Capp, Seth Bunker, Box 2054, Philadelphia, Penn.

Carlisle, George Lister, Jr., 18 Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Carrington, Mrs. Mary F., Providence, R. I. Cartwright, Alexander Joy, 180 Twentieth Ave., San Francisco, Calif.

Cathcart, Wallace Hugh, President Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio.

Channing, Eva, Hemenway Chambers, Boston, Mass.

Coffin, Elizabeth Rebecca, Lily St., Nantucket, Mass.

Coleman, Emma, Fair St., Nantucket, Mass.

Colket, C. Howard, 2008 De Lancey St., Philadelphia, Penn.

Colket, Tristram Coffin, 2nd, Drexel Apartments, Philadelphia, Penn.

Davis, Charles Henry, 18 Old Slip, New York, N. Y. Dudley, Mary (Marrett), Standish, Maine.

Durfee, Mary Galushea (Hatch), Palmyra, N. Y. Elkins, Harriette Ann, Pearl St., Nantucket, Mass.

Elting, Irving, 729 Washington St., Brookline, Mass.

Elting, Susan (Green), 729 Washington St., Brookline, Mass.

Folger, Sarah Joy, Nantucket, Mass.

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LIST OF MEMBERS.

Folger, Gulielma, Nantucket, Mass.

Ford, James B., 1790 Broadway, N. Y. Frothingham, Ellen Folger, 9 Exeter St., Boston, Mass.

Fuller, Frederick Vincent, Milk St., Nantucket, Mass.

Fuller, Mary Louisa (Myrick), Nantucket, Mass.

Greene, Howard, First National Bank, Milwaukee, Wis. Gries, Ethel Goff (Folger), Rosewood, Ohio.

Gwinn, Mrs. Mary, 228 South 22nd St., Philadelphia, Penn.

Hartley, Frances Chester (White), 232 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. Hinchman^ Anne, 3635 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Penn.

Hinchman, Margaretta, 3635 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Penn.

Hussey, Martha, 303 East Ave., Rochester, N. Y. Hutaff, Grace (Elkins), 103 East 86th St., New York, N. Y. Johnson, Minnie Agnes (Jonah), Bath, Maine.

Joy, Moses, 176, Fulton St., New York, N. Y. Johnson, Pauline (Mackay), Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Kimball, Martha W., 13 Argyle St., Rochester, N. Y. Lang, Florence Osgood (Rand), Nantucket, Mass.

Lang, Henry, Nantucket, Mass.

Langlands, Helen (Coleman), Hotel Earle, 103-105 Waverly Place, N. Y. Larkin, Mrs. Ruth Williams, Larkin Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Laughlin, Mrs. Sidney Page, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Macy, Mary Eliza, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Macy, Nelson, 441 Pearl St., New York, N. Y. McCleary, Helen Cartwright, 3 Auburn Court, Brookline, Mass.

Mead, Edwin D., 20 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Middlebrook, Caroline Allen, 115 East 53rd St., New York, N. Y. Mitchell, Emily Burns, 1735 New Hampshire Ave., Washington, D. C. Mitchell, Helen (Leeds), Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Paine, Mary Elizabeth (Folger), 315 Thayer St., Providence, R. I. Raymond, Sarah Coffin (Codd), Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Rollins, Rev. Walter Huntington, President Fairmount College, Wichita, Kansas.

Smith, Pauline Starbuck Byron, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Starbuck, Charlotte Puffer (Baxter), 224 East Mission St., San­ ta Barbara, Calif.

Starbuck, John Austin, Balfour Bldg., San Francisco, Calif.

Starbuck, Mary Eliza, 8 Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

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Starbuck, Susan Amelia, Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Swain, Eunice Swain (Barney), 194 Clinton St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Swift, William Henry, Pittsfield, Mass.

Underwood, Margaret C., 100 Common St., Belmont, Mass.

Voorneveld, William, Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Wilson, Anne, Nantucket, Mass.

Worth, Frank, Amherstdale, W. Va.

ANNUAL MEMBERS. A Ackley, Rev. Joseph B., Portsmouth, R. I. Adams, Karl, Nantucket, Mass.

Affeld, Mrs. Bertha Bacon, 113 Willow St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Albertson, Alice Owen, The Gunther, 41st St. and Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia, Penn.

Allen, Marian Hallett, Nantucket, Mass.

Allen, Olive Marchant, Nantucket, Mass.

Allen, Mrs. Le Moyne Dillingham, Granville, N. Y. Allen, Lucy Ellis, West Newton, Mass.

Anderson, Prof. Louis F., 364 Boyer Ave., Walla Walla, Wash.

Anderson, Florence Mary (Bennett), 364 Boyer Ave., Walla Walla, Wash.

Appleton, William Sumner, 2 Lynde St., Boston, Mass.

Armstrong, John R., Cranston, Providence County, R. I. Atkins, Mrs. Katherine W., P. O. Box 1250, Boston, Mass.

Atkins, Edwin F., P. O. Box 1250, Boston, Mass.

Ayers, John Killen, Nantucket, Mass.

Ayers, Mary, Nantucket, Mass.

B Babcock, Edwina Stanton, Nyack-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. Baker, Chester A., 29 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Mass.

Baker, Maude, 67 Stimson Ave., Providence, R. I. Baldwin, Mrs. Annie Osgood, 158 Bay State Road, Boston, Barnard, Frank Redfield, 290 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Barnard, George E., Ipswich, Mass.

Barnard, Mrs. Mary V., Newcastle, Henry County, Ind. Barnard, William O., Newcastle, Henry County, Ind. Barnes, Elizabeth B. (Williams), R. D. 1, Box 347, Care Harry W. Williams, Campbell, Calif.

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LIST OF MEMBERS.

Barnes, Grace (Davis), Gardner Court, Nantucket, Mass.

Barney, Alanson Swain, Nantucket, Mass.

Barney, Charles Neal, 115 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Barney, Mrs. Maginel, 23 North Water St., Nantucket, Mass.

Barrett, Anna E. C., Siasconset, Nantucket, Bartlett, Mrs. Josiah, 28 Roland Ave., Roland Park, Baltimore, Md. Bassett, Mrs. George P. Jr., 5440 Northumberland St., Pitts­ burgh, Penn.

Bassett, George Pomeroy, 3rd, 5440 Northumberland St., Pitts­ burgh, Penn.

Beadle, Phebe H., Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Benham, Lizzie Elliott (Thompson), 86 Howe St., New Haven.

Bennett, Mrs. Flora Moore, Bennett-Baker Lumber Co., Viola, Idaho.

Bennett, Harriet Stanton, 5 Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Bennett, Henry Hollis, Bennett-Baker Lumber Co., Viola, Idaho.

Benton, Amy Alice (Isom), Broad St., Nantucket, Mass.

Benton, William Josiah, Broad St., Nantucket, Mass.

Bigelow, Edmund, 25 School Street, Springfield, Mass.

Bigelow, Mary E., 25 Scotland Road, Elizabeth, N. J. Black, Alice L., 16 Whittier St., Cambridge, Mass.

Blackburn, Elizabeth M., 24 Littell Road, Brookline, Mass.

Boyer, Maurice Weimer, Vestal St., Nantucket, Mass.

Brackett, John F., Nantucket, Mass.

Bray, Mrs. Allen F., MacDougal Bungalow, Hurlbut Ave., Nan­ tucket, Mass.

Bray, Louise W., MacDougal Bungalow, Nantucket, Mass.

Brayton, Annie Sale (Chinery), Nantucket, Mass.

Brayton, Caroline E. (Slade), Fall River, Mass.

Briggs, Charlotte Puffer, 257 Steuben St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Brock, Albert Gardner, Nantucket, Mass.

Brock, Annie (Cartwright), Nantucket, Mass.

Brock, Joseph Chase, Step Lane, Nantucket, Mass.

Brooks, Anne Roberts, 24 North St., Greenwich, Conn.

Brooks, Charles S., 985 Charles River Road, Cambridge, Mass.

Brooks, Josephine (Sylvia), 326 Highland Ave., West Somerville, Mass.

Brooks, Nelson Merrill, 24 North St., Greenwich, Conn.

Brown, Eleanor E., Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Brown, Henry, Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Brown, Mrs. Robert B., 38 Babcock St., Brookline, Mass.

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Bunker, Alice Macy, State House, Boston, Mass.

Bunker, Alfred, 29 Juniper St., Roxbury, Mass.

Bunker, Emily (Winslow), 29 Juniper St., Roxbury, Mass.

Bunker, Lauriston, Nantucket, Mass.

Bunker, Hon. William Mitchell, Cloyne Court Hotel, Berkeley, Calif.

Bunker, William, Ridgefield, Conn.

Burgess, Ellen H. (Coffin), 109 Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Burnell, Barker, 1045 Sixth St., San Diego, Calif.

Butler, Harriet Parker (Winn), Nantucket, Mass.

Burrell, Caroline (Cayford), 993 Charles River Road, Cambridge, Mass.

C Carpenter, William D., Nantucket, Mass.

Carret, James W., 121 Griggs Road, Brookline, Mass.

Cash, Helen, Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Catlin, Sarah Affia, Warsaw, Ind. Chamberlin, Henry Harmon, 22 May St., Worcester, Mass.

Chamberlain, Polly, Nantucket, Mass.

Chase, Charlotte Bunker, 41 North St., New Bedford, Mass.

Chase, Edward Gardner, 4851 Kenwood Ave., Chicago, 111.

Chase, Estelle Lillian (Jenness), 4851 Kenwood Ave., Chicago, 111.

Chase, Sidney, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Chase, Susan Mabel (Johnston), 364 Ray St., Manchester, N. H. Clapp, Martha G. B., 10 Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Clark, Charles, S., 31 Nassau St., Room 1200, New York, N. Y. Clark, Elsie B„ Tenafly, N. J. Clark, Jacob Wendell, People's Gas Building, Chicago, 111.

Clark, Susan Tyler, 2050 Garden St., Santa Barbara, Calif.

Codd, Sarah E. (Marchant), Nantucket, Mass.

Codd, William Fitzgerald, Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Cody, Margaret A., Public School No. 1, 8 Henry St., New York, N. Y. Coffin, Adelaide B., 15 Fairview Heights, Rochester, N. Y. Coffin, Albert S., McGregor, N. Y. Coffin, Arthur M., Stone Alley, Nantucket, Mass.

Coffin, Mrs. Celia M„ 155 Nyack Ave., Pelham, N. Y. Coffin, Mrs. Cora Ann, 618 South Cushman Ave., Tacoma, Wash.

Coffin, Frank Mitchell, 155 Nyack Ave., Pelham, N. Y Coffin, John Bridger, 15 Fairview Heights, Rochester, N. Y.

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Coffin, Mrs. John Bridger, 15 Fairview Heights, Rochester, N. Y. Coffin, Louis, Summer St., Nantucket, Mass.

Coffin, Mrs. Margaret, Stone Alley, Nantucket, Mass.

Coffin, Mildred G., 15 Fairview Heights, Rochester, N. Y. Coffin, Tristram, The Ruremont, 2731 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Coffin, William H., 618 South Cushman Ave., Tacoma, Wash.

Coleman, Harriet Maude, 2 Potter Park, Cambridge, Mass.

Coleman, Hester Eudora, 2 Potter Park, Cambridge, Mass.

Coleman, Mary Myrick, Nantucket, Mass.

Colt, James D., 53 State St., Boston, Mass.

Colt, Mrs. Jeanne, 53 State St., Boston, Mass.

Conable, Florence (Easton), P. O. Box 406, Monrovia, Los Angeles County, Calif.

Conable, Mrs. Leska Littlefield, 356 North Primrose Ave., Mon­ rovia, Los Angeles County, Calif.

Conable, Captain Morris Easton, Quarters 15, B, Fort Amador, Panama Canal Zone.

Congdon, May Housatonnic, School St., Nantucket, Mass.

Cook, Emma, Nantucket, Mass.

Corn, John W., Oasis Ranch, Roswell, New Mexico.

Crosby, Mrs. Almira Esther, 1110 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Crosby, Mrs. Everett U., Mermaid House, West Mermaid Lane, St. Martins, Philadelphia, Penn.

Crosby, Everett U., Mermaid House, West Mermaid Lane, St. Martin's, Philadelphia, Penn.

Crosby, Uberto C., 1110 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Curtis, Bracey, 79 Park St., Brookline, Mass.

Cutler, Earle N., 15 Cliff Road, Nantucket, Mass.

D Dana, Bessie Andrews, 34 Church St., Englewood, N. J. Danforth, Isabelle, 106 West 58th St., New York, N. Y. Davis, Bertha S., Boston, Mass.

Davis, Leroy W., Boston, Mass.

Davis, Charles Henry, 18 Old Slip, New York, N. Y. Defriez, Sarah Elizabeth (Barron), 537 Washington St., Brookline, Mass.

Delano, Henry C., 879 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Delano, Mrs. Lydia M., 879 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Dibble, Annie (Hayt), 215 White Plains Road, Tuckahoe, N. Y. Dillingham, Mrs. Louise G., Beechcroft Farm, Millburn, N. J.

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Ditmars, Mary Coffin (Worth), Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Dodd, Mary (Dillingham), 16 Cedar Road, Belmont, Mass.

Doeltz, Clara Louise, 8109 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich.

Dunham, Harrison Gray Otis, 135 Front St., New York, N. Y. Dyer, Mrs. George, Milk St., Nantucket, Mass.

E Edwards, Phebe Coffin, Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Elliot, Dr. Herbert, Arlington, Mass.

Emery, Jennie Starbuck (Chadwick), Nantucket, Mass.

F Farnham, Joseph Ellis Coffee, Providence, R. I. Fish, Anna Gardner, Perkins Institution, Watertown, Mass.

Fisher, Leila Capen, 25 Richwood St., Boston, Mass.

Fitz-Randolph, Reginald T., Nantucket, Mass.

Folger, Annie Alden, Nantucket, Mass.

Folger, Clifford, Nantucket, Mass.

Folger, Arthur Hanaford, Nantucket, Mass.

Folger, George Howland, Medford, Mass.

Folger, John Brown, Gardner St., Nantucket, Mass.

Folger, Lizabeth Sarah (Lawrence), Gardner St., Nantucket, Mass.

Folger, Lydia Maria, Gardner St., Nantucket, Mass.

Folger, Rear Admiral William Mayhew, Cornish, N. H., P. O. Windsor, Vt. Francis, Eben Willis, Nantucket, Mass.

Fraser, Emma J., Nantucket, Mass.

Freeborn, Lydia Sanford, Liberty St., Nantucket, Mass.

Freeborn, Millard Fillmore, Liberty St., Nantucket, Mass.

Fuller, Mrs. Susan B., Nantucket, Mass.

Fuller, Walter N., 40 Cester Ave., Waltham, Mass.

G Gardiner, Alice C., Belmont, Mass.

Gardner, Arthur Hinton, Milk St., Nantucket, Mass.

Gardner, Grace Brown, Framingham Normal School, Framingham, Mass.

Gardner, Lucretia Macy, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Gardner, Mary Macy (Brown), Milk St., Nantucket, Mass.

Gardner, Whittemore, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Gayer, Echlin Philip, 240 West 72nd St., New York, N. Y.

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Giffin, Norman, Nantucket, Mass.

Giffin, Mary E., Hussey St., Nantucket, Mass.

Gill, Phebe Andrews (Luther), 46 Maple St., Englewood, N. J. Goodrich, Mrs. Annie S., Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Gray, Donald Cameron, 337 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass.

Greene, Mary Elizabeth (Coffin), Nantucket, Mass.

Grouard, Dr. John Shackford, Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Grouard, Lena (Weymouth), 223 Fuller St., Brookline, Mass.

Gummere, Amelia (Mott), Haverford, Pa. H Haggerty, Susan W., 16 Queensbury St., Suite 12 A., Boston.

Mass.

Hallowell, Thomas Jewett, 27 Pine St., New York, N. Y. Hallett, Frederick G., 243 West 74th St., New York, N. Y. Ham, Mrs. Charlotte (Woodman), Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Ham, Charlotte Woodman, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Hamilton, Dora Macy (Pearson), Avery, Idaho.

Hamilton, Dorothy Pearson, Avery, Idaho.

Harding, Isabel, Pittsfield, Mass.

Harding, Harriet, Pittsfield, Mass.

Hart, Mrs. B. R., 5332 Enright Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Harwood, Margaret, 23 Craigie St., Cambridge, Mass.

Hatch, Hannah Gifford, Union St., Nantucket, Mass.

Hildebrand, Arthur S., 50 Vanderbilt Ave., New York, N. Y. Hildreth, Susan W., 425 West 118th St., New York, N. Y. Hill, Murray Gardner, 20 Oak Knoll Gardens, Pasadena, Calif.

Hill, Florence (Merriam), Siasconset, Nantucket, Mass.

Hiller, Helen, Nantucket, Mass.

Hiller, Jane D., Nantucket, Mass.

Hinchman, Lydia Swain (Mitchell), 3635 Chestnut St., PhiladelHodge, Howard Douglass, 3002-3 Equitable Building. New York, N. Y. Holland, William, Gay St., Nantucket, Mass.

Holland, Annie, Gay St., Nantucket, Mass.

Hollister, Elizabeth (Watson), 987 East Ave., Rochester, N. Y. Hollister, Emily Weed (Barnes), 9 Granger Place, Rochester, N. Y. Hollister, Granger, 987 East Ave., Rochester, N. Y. Holt, Mary Exton, 66 Montague St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Hopkins, Samuel Milford Blatchford, 252 Henry St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Howard, Frank B., Rotary Club No. 461, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

LIST OF MEMBERS. Howes, Sarah Sprague (Sampson), Summer St., Nantucket, Mass.

Hubbard, Alma R., Wheeling, West Virginia.

Hussey, Arrietta (Cathcart), Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Hussey, Eliza Myrick, Gardner St., Nantucket, Mass.

Hussey, Elliott Benham, 134 Summit Cross, Rutherford, N. J. Hussey, John E. A., 45 Milk St., Boston, Mass.

I Ingall, Elizabeth C., Nantucket, Mass.

Ingall, Oswald D., Nantucket, Mass.

J Janes, Anna Louise (Brown), 1039 Massachusetts Ave., Cam­ bridge, Mass.

Jannotta, Stella S., 170 North Rigeland Ave., Oak Park, 111.

Jelliffe, Jane L., Plandome, Long Island, N. Y. Jenney, Edgar W., 17 Summit St., Glen Ridge, N. J. Johnson, Florence H., 6 Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Johnson, H. Linsly, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Jones, Arthur W., Nantucket, Mass.

K Kelley, Charlotte Rebecca (Macy), 478 County St., New Bed­ ford, Mass.

Kendall, William Mitchell, 101 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. Kent, Rev. Josiah Coleman, Fair St., Nantucket, Mass.

Killen, Captain John, 17 Federal St., Nantucket, Mass.

Kimball, Mrs. James P., Howard St., Nantucket, Mass.

Knevals, Jessie (Baxler), 15 Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

L Lake, George M., Nantucket, Mass.

Lally, George H., 1300 Cunard Building, Chicago, 111.

Lamson, Kate Glidden, 12 Remington St., Cambridge, Mass.

Latham, Ethel L., 9 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass.

Lawrence, Bertha, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Lawrence, Edward Abbott, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Lawrence, Sarah (Farrally), Pine St., Nantucket, Mass.

Leavett, Gertrude Mitchell (Goodsell), Smithtown, Long Island, N. Y.

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LeBus, Mrs. Clarence, Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Lewis, Annie Bartlett (Robinson) Rogers, School St., Nantucket, Mass.

Lewis, Mrs. S. H., 295 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Lewis, Mrs. Vivian M., Paterson, N. J. Lewis, Vivian M., Paterson, N. J. Littlefield, Harriet S., 120 West 92nd St., New York, N. Y. Long, Carrie James, Bloom St., Nantucket, Mass.

Loring, Clara S., 174 Belleview St., West Roxbury, Mass.

Lothrop, Mrs. Sarah Gorham, 101 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Lovell, Sarah Elizabeth, 31 Glenwood St., Brockton, Mass.

Lowden, Matthew Crosby, 146-148 West 22nd St., New York, N. Y. Lowell, Nathaniel, Nantucket, Mass.

Luther, Mary Gould, 886 Carroll St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Luther, Mary Hartness (Gould), 886 Carroll St., Brooklyn, N. Y. M MacDonald, Elizabeth H., Hotel Margaret, Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y. MacDougal, John A., Nantucket, Mass.

MacDougal, Robert Bruce, 137 West 12th St., New York, N. Y. MacGregor, John, Jr., Cornish, N. H. Mackay, George Henry, Nantucket, Mass.

Mackie, Mrs. David Ives, 128 East 39th St., New York, N. Y. Macy, Elizabeth Easton, Nantucket, Mass.

Macy, Isaac Augustus, Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Macy, Janet P., 214 Alexander Ave., Upper Montclair, N. J. Macy, Mary Ella, Nantucket, Mass.

Macy, Sarah LuCretia, Nantucket, Mass.

Macy, William Francis, 18 Oliver St., Boston, Mass.

Manter, Captain Harry, 386 Park Ave., Cliff Side, N. J. Manville, C. Rollin, Lawrence Park, Bronxville, N. Y. Manville, Edith, Lawrence Park, Bronxville, N. Y. Marden, Willard, Nantucket, Mass.

Marshall, Helen, 71 Williams St., Norwich, Conn.

Marvell, Mrs. Helen Gardner, 1119 De Victor Place, Pittsburgh, Penn.

McElwain, Harriet Aurelia, 1798 Riverdale St, West Springfield, Mass.

McElwain, Pauline Witherell, 1798 Riverdale St., West Spring­ field, Mass.

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McElwain, Rachel Doane, 1798 Riverdale St., West Springfield, Mass.

McElwain, Reuben Franklin, 1798 Riverdale St., West Spring­ field, Mass.

Mead, Mrs. Charles L., 103 East 86th St., New York, N. Y. Mead, Mabel, C., 103 East 86th St., New York, N. Y. Meyer, Fredrik Fischer, 413 Centre St., South Orange, N. J. Meyer, Mrs. Elizabeth H., 413 Centre St., South Orange, N. J. Miller, Mrs. Helene, Nantucket, Mass.

Milne, Helen (Ring), Nantucket, Mass.

Mills, Mrs. Henrietta, 11 Portsmouth Terrace, Rochester, N. Y. Minshall, Charles L., Nantucket, Mass.

Mitchell, Mrs. Mary K., Siasconset, Nantucket, Mass.

Mitchell, Richard, Webster, Mass.

Mitchell, Sidney, 200 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. Mitchell, William Rich, 15 Prospect St., Taunton, Mass.

Moore, Frederick Gardner, Hotel Savoy, Fifth Ave., New York Morgan, Eleanor (Williams), 1 Martins Lane, Nantucket, Mass.

Morris, Mary E., 34 Easton St., Nantucket, Mass.

Morton, J. Hatfield, 120 West 40th St., New York, N. Y. Murray, Evelyn F., Nantucket, Mass.

Myrick, Alexander M„ Nantucket, Mass.

Myrick, Lydia B. (Smith), Nantucket, Mass.

N Newell, Helen Hunt, 55 Linnean St., Cambridge, Mass.

Nicholson, Caroline Harriet (Bartlett), 27 G St., South Boston, Mass.

Norris, Emma F. (Marsh), 64 Hemenway St., Boston, Mass.

Norton, Clara A. (Winslow), 18 Pearl St., Nantucket, Mass.

Nunn, Stella (Chase), Nantucket, Mass.

P Parker, Clara, Nantucket, Mass.

Parker, Clinton, Nantucket, Mass.

Parker, Mary Scollay, Nantucket, Mass.

Pease, Ellen Gray (Parker), Nantucket, Mass.

Peelle, Reuben B., Wilmington, Ohio.

Perry, Mrs. Annie Mabel, 115 Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Perry, Edward H., 115 Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Phinney, Joseph W., 270 Congress St., Boston, Mass.

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Phinney, Priscilla (Morris), 270 Congress St., Boston, Mass.

Porte, Christine, Nantucket, Mass.

Pray, Nellie M. (Chamberlain), 29 Crowinshield Road, Brookline, Mass.

Prescott, Mabel E., 625 Hope St., Providence, R. I. R Ratcliffe, Rev. Charles A., Nantucket, Mass.

Ratcliffe, Mrs. Frances, Nantucket, Mass.

Ray, Annie Sheffield, 211 Summer St., New Bedford, Mass.

Reed, Elizabeth F., 51 South Clay St., Frankfort, Ind. Richmond, Dorothy (Sharp), Nantucket, Mass.

Richmond, Dr. George Danforth, 32 Water St., Yokohama, Japan.

Riddell, Benjamin Franklin, Fall River, Mass.

Riddell, Elizabeth Swain, Nantucket, Mass.

Ring, Anne, Nantucket, Mass.

Ring, John C., Nantucket, Mass.

Robb, Mrs. Ann, Nantucket, Mass.

Robertson, Mrs. William F., Gonzales, Texas.

Robinson, Annie D., 808 Aiken Ave., Pittsburgh, Penn.

Robinson, Celeste M., 67 Union St., Montclair, N. J. Robinson, John Henry, 1932 First St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Round, Ellen Miner (Thomas), Nantucket, Mass.

Russell, Mrs. Adelaide T., Monomoy, Nantucket, Mass.

S Sand, Henry A. L., 130 East 67th St., New York, N. Y. Sand, Alice L., 130 East 67th St., New York, N. Y. Sanderson, Rev. Edward F., Nantucket, Mass.

Schauffler, Rev. Henry P., Nantucket, Mass.

Sears, Mrs. Henrietta B., 517 Grand Ave., Keokuk, Iowa.

Selden, Lydia (Hodges), Liberty St., Nantucket, Mass.

Severance, Madeleine (Fish), 125 State St., Harrisburg, Penn.

Severance, Walter E., 125 State St., Harrisburg, Penn.

Sharp, Benjamin Karl, 49 West Castle Place, New Rochelle, N. Y. Sharp, Harold, 729 Washington St., Brookline, Mass.

Sharp, Virginia May (Guild), Gorham's Court, Nantucket, Mass.

Sheldon, Mrs. Clara P., Charlesgate Hbtel, 535 Beacon St, Bos­ ton, Mass.

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Sheldon, Mrs. Elizabeth F. D., 151 Cold Spring St., New Haven, Conn.

Sibley, Alice M., 3 Waverly St., Roxbury, Mass.

Simonds, Jennie (Smith) Allen, Nantucket, Mass.

Singleton, James, Pittsburgh, Penn.

Small, Phebe Hanaford (Coffin), Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Small, Reuben Cahoon, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Smith, Harrison, 18 Commerce St., New York, N. Y. Snelling, Eugenia (Meneely), Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Snelling, Rev. Samuel, Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Solly, Judge William Franklin, 908 De Kalb St., Norristown, Penn.

Soule, Mary Adelaide (Yeates), Baker City, Oregon.

Stanton, Eva T., 85 North Landowne Ave., Lansdowne, Penn.

Starbuck, Mrs. Annie Whitefield, The Blackstone, Chicago, 111.

Starbuck, Dr. C. Leonard, 400 West 153rd St., New York, N. Y. Starbuck, Frederick L., 355 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, N. Y. Starbuck, George Franklin, Waltham, Mass.

Starbuck, George W., Bournedale, Mass.

Starbuck, Walter Fisher, Waltham, Mass.

Stevens, Frank F., 34 Pelton St., West Roxbury, Mass.

Stevens, Mrs. Margaret Pearson, 34 Pelton St., West Roxbury, Mass.

Still, Mrs. Ella (Hussey), 50 Meade Ave., Passaic, N. J. Strong, Austin, 5 Quince St., Nantucket, Mass.

Strong, Mary (Wilson), 5 Quince St., Nantucket, Mass.

Sturdevant, Ethel H., 171 South Franklin St., Wilkesbarre, Penn.

Sturdevant, Lucy, Quince St., Nantucket, Mass.

Sullivan, Amelia L. (Owen), 180 Washington St., Albany, N. Y. Sutton, Virginia Cox, Pasadena, Calif.

Swain, Anna G., Nantucket, Mass.

Swain, Anna (Knevals), 1 West 85th St., New York, N. Y. Swain, David Whiton, 31 Nassau St., New York, N. Y. Swain, Maria Theresa (Swain), Nantucket, Mass.

Swain, Captain Richard, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Yoko­ hama, Japan.

Swain, Wilbert D., Aberdeen, S. D. Swain, William T., Nantucket, Mass.

Swift, Caroline Elizabeth, Winter St., Nantucket, Mass.

Swinburne, Charlotte (Gardner), 501 West Ave., Rochester, N. Y. Sylvia, Ella Frances, Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

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Terry, Mrs. Ernest, Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Terry, Ernest R., Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Thebaud, Captain, Paul Gibert, 324 West 103rd St., New York, N. Y. .

Thomas, Ellen W., Nantucket, Mass.

Thomas, Mrs. Florence Chase, Nantucket, Mass.

Tolman, Helen M., Canton, Mass.

Torrey, Mary Adams, 23 Winthrop St., Roxbury, Mass.

Tracy, Phebe Whippey, Nantucket, Mass.

Tucker, Agnes Ferguson, Pawhuska, Oklahoma.

Turner, Harry Baker, Nantucket, Mass.

Turner, Merle E., Nantucket, Mass.

Tuttle, Isabelle (Hollister), Groton School, Groton, Mass.

V Valentine, Anna, Bellefont, Centre Co., Penn.

Van Ommeren, Rev. Hendrik, Gardner, Mass.

Van Tuyl, Effie (Hiatt), 211 Elm St., Leavenworth, Kansas.

Veo, Harriette (Williams), North Water St., Nantucket, Mass.

Veo, Richard, North Water St., Nantucket, Mass.

Voss, William H. N., 850 Seventh Ave., New York, N. Y. Voss, Mrs William H. N., 850 Seventh Ave., New York, N. Y. W Wales, Lucy (Morse), 358 Elm St., Braintree, Mass.

Walker, Mary Elizabeth, Milk St., Nantucket, Mass.

Wallace, Mrs. Jouette Lee, Wallace Hall, Nantucket, Mass.

Wallace, William, Wallace Hall, Nantucket, Mass.

Wait, Annie (Spencer), Nantucket, Mass.

Washburn, Margaret (Hedges), Haverstraw-on-Hudson, N. Y. Whipple, Phila M., 27 East Housatonic St., Pittsfield, Mass.

Whitford, J. Mortimer, 1523 East 15th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Whittemore, Jennie R., 56 Cedar St., Fitchburg, Mass.

Willard, Henry K., 1333 K St., Washington, D. C. Willard, Mrs. Henry K., 1333 K St., Washington, D. C. Williams, Arthur, York St., Nantucket, Mass.

Williams, Mary Francis (Mitchell), 1 Martins Lane, Nantucket, Mass.

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Wilson, James, 32 Elizabeth St., Pittsfield, Mass.

Wilson, Mrs. Laura R., 5660 Darlington Road, Pittsburgh, Penn.

Wilson, Mrs. Mary A., Nantucket, Mass.

Wing, Clementina (Swain), 152 Clinton St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Winslow, Addison T., Nantucket, Mass.

Winslow, Bessie (Chadwick), Nantucket, Mass.

Wood, Albert E., North Easton, Mass.

Wood, Annie (Carter), Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Wood, Dr. George C., Hanover, N. H. Wood, Nannie R., Pearl St., Nantucket, Mass.

Wood, James H., The Cliff, Nantucket, Mass.

Woods, Phebe A. (Meader), Nantucket, Mass.

Worth, Herbert Gelston, Nantucket, Mass.

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