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accompanied him on all his travels and he died the

father of grown-up children. He is described as "a wisp

of a man, lank, red-haired, with a reddish mustache."

His hobby was a large peach orchard which his busy

life gave him little time to enjoy.

Not only was he a great correspondent but he was a

voluminous writer of books. Here is a list said to be

approximately complete:

Carpenter's Geographical Readers -- Asia, 1897,

North America, 1898, South America, 1899; Europe,

1902; Australia, Our Colonies and Other Islands of the

Seas, 1904; Africa, 1905; Through Asia with the Chil-

dren, 1898; Through North American With the Chil-

dren, 1898; Carpenter's Readers of Commerce and In-

dustry; South America -- Social, Industrial and Politi-

cal, 1900; How the World is Fed, 1907; How the World

Is Clothed, 1909; How the World Is Housed, 1911;

Around the World with the Children, 1917; Carpenter's

New Geographical Readers -- South America, 1921;

Europe, 1922, North America, 1922, Asia, 1923, Africa,

1923; Carpenter's World Travels -- The Holy Land

and Syria, 1922, From Tangier to Tripoli, Alaska, Our

Northern Wonderland, The Tail of the Hemisphere --

Chile and Argentina, Cairo to Kisumu, Java and the

East Indies, France to Scandinavia -- all 1923.

 

 

OHIO HISTORY DAY AT LOGAN ELM PARK.

The largest number of people ever assembled in Lo-

gan Elm Park attended the exercises of the fourth an-

nual celebration of Ohio History Day on October 5. A

conservative estimate places the number at between five

and six thousand people.

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The fact that Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance was

to deliver an address in his native costume had been

widely advertised and was chiefly responsible for the

large attendance. It is to be noted, however, that these

meetings have been steadily  growing in  popularity.

One year ago a large audience assembled to greet speak-

ers from Circleville and Columbus. The day itself, its

historic suggestions and the interesting associations of

the park and its ancient elm are sufficiently attractive

to bring together with each passing year a large and in-

teresting assembly of Ohioans.

The   local papers gave extended accounts of the

meeting and generous praise to those who had planned

it. We quote briefly from the account published in the

Watchman:

Sunday, October 5, was a red-letter day at Logan Elm Park

and lest we forget, let it be remembered that one person above all

others in attendance, had a right to be proud of the occasion as

well as the manifest interest of the thousands present to see and

hear -- that person being none other than our highly esteemed

townswoman, Mrs. Howard Jones of Park Place, the originator

and founder of "Ohio History Day;" except for her vision and

her efforts, there would be no such an event as Ohio History Day

and certainly no such occasion and no such. unusual addresses as

were listened to on Sunday afternoon. And that she did not occupy

a permanent place upon the stage during the exercises, was an over-

sight on the part of somebody or bodies almost, if not wholly

inexcusable. Honorable John F. Carlisle directed the program

and following the introductory numbers explained that Ex-gover-

nor Campbell could not be present owing to physical indisposition.

He then introduced Chief Buffalo Long Lance, a full blood Indian

from a reservation in northwestern Canada who had traveled some

four thousand miles to be present upon this memorial day. When

he rose to speak, clad in native costume, it was called to mind that

he stood upon almost the identical spot where 150 years ago an-

other Indian stood and rebuked in language immortal the whites

for their indifference and ingratitude. *  *  *  Other speakers

1 Mrs. Jones was invited to the speaker's stand but modestly declined.

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of the occasion at the park were Mrs. O. D. Dryer of the Daugh-

ters of the American Revolution and Mr. A. W. Geisinger of the

Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. C. B. Shook of Columbus,

formerly of this city, read a selection from the McGuffey Readers

entitled "North American Indians."

The Circleville Union Herald of October 6 contains a

full account of the meeting and a number of paragraphs

from the speech of Buffalo Child Long Lance. Fol-

lowing are a few brief excerpts:

The fourth annual celebration of Ohio History Day at Logan

Elm Park Sunday was a wonderful success in every way and ex-

ceeded the most sanguine expectations of those who were responsi-

ble for the meeting.

A great crowd of six or seven thousand people was present

to participate in the exercises, to listen to the recital of the stirring

events in the early history of the state and to visit the giant Logan

Elm, the most famous tree in the United States, and near which

the great chief of the Mingoes, dictated his classical address to

Lord Dunmore.

The day was perfect and delegations came from all over the

country to assist in the celebration of Ohio History Day. All

day long the people kept coming and going and while the program

was being rendered automobiles lined both sides of the road from

the Chillicothe Pike past the park and for a long distance toward

Elmwood. The road running south from the park for a long dis-

tance was used for parking machines and fields adjacent were

thrown open for the accommodation of the vast number of motor

vehicles.

License tags showed that vehicles were at the park from New

Mexico, Arkansas, California, Nebraska, Indiana, Florida, Illinois,

New York and a number of other states and from Ontario,

Canada. *  *  *

In introducing Chief Long Lance, Mr. Carlisle said that he is

one hundred per cent American in its true sense, that his ancestors

were here thousands of years before any white man trod this

ground. He had refused an appointment to West Point by the

late President Wilson and enlisted as a private in the Canadian

Army, served two years and was mustered out with the rank of

captain. He is a graduate of the Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Indian

School, took a course in the Conway-Dickinson and Manley Mili-

tary Academy and is a writer and journalist. He is now writing

a history of the Indian in the Northwest and Alaska, speaks three

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Indian dialects and is a man of high character and gentlemanly

attainments.

At the conclusion of the exercises a remarkable dem-

onstration occurred. The vast crowd, charmed by the

address and manly bearing of Buffalo Child Long

Lance, surged forward eager to grasp him by the hand.

The timbers under the speaker's stand began to snap.

The Chief and those about him, however, succeeded in

getting to the ground and the threatened collapse of

the platform did not occur. Mr. Carlisle aided the

Chief in his effort to reach an automobile but found it

almost impossible to work their way through the

crowd, which was orderly and respectful but eager to

shake the Chief by the hand before he left the park.

He succeeded in getting to the log cabin about half way

to the road, behind the door of which he and Mr. Car-

lisle disappeared for a time. An appeal was made to

the crowd and he was permitted to return to the old

Elm to have some pictures taken under its branches.

He was evidently pleased at the manifestations of ap-

preciation and tried, as he said afterward, as far as pos-

sible to shake hands with the children. "I realize," said

he, "that this means more to them than it would to older

persons."

In the evening the Chief and a number of friends

were entertained at the hospitable home of Dr. Howard

Jones in Circleville.

 

HONORS TO THE MEMORY OF JONATHAN ALDER

A most interesting program was rendered at Alder

Chapel about four miles north of West Jefferson on the

afternoon of September 19, on the occasion of the un-

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