Forty-First Annual Meeting 655
of the Museum and Library Building,
together with all the ad-
dresses and a number of illustrations.
To this has been added
a brief history of the Society by the
Secretary. It is intended to
use this material, in part, in an
intensive campaign for an increase
in the membership of the Society.
The fifth and final volume of the
"Diary and Letters of
Rutherford B. Hayes" is now in type
and will soon be ready for
distribution.
There is an increasing demand for the
publications of the
Society, and an unusually large number
of these have been dis-
tributed in the past year.
Mr. Galbreath read the following brief
report of
FORT AMANDA PARK
On September 19, in company with
Honorable Thomas E.
Bowsher, I visited Fort Amanda Park. The
monument and the
immediate surroundings were found to be
in good condition.
The grove, which is much frequented by
visitors and where a
number of family and other reunions are
held annually, showed
evidences of neglect. Papers were
littered about on the ground
and no adequate provision was made for
the comfort of visitors.
The grave of Captain Enoch Dawson, a
short distance from
the monument, has been neglected. The
grass has disappeared
from about it and some of the earth has
been washed away. The
headstone is still in good condition and
it would not be difficult
to put this tomb in respectable shape.
This is the grave of a
soldier who was killed by an Indian
while the Fort was in process
of erection.
The outstanding needs of the Park are:
1. A shelter house.
2. Repair of the grave above referred
to, by surrounding
it with concrete curbing surmounted by
low iron fence.
Fort Amanda Park is the only grove with
historic associa-
tions in this section of the State. There is adjacent
to it a wood
lot that might very properly be
purchased and made a part of the
Park. An improved highway now borders
the Park and it is
readily accessible. The roadway into the
Park needs repairs.
President Johnson: For the benefit of
those not
present at the morning session, I wish,
briefly, to ex-
plain that it is the adopted policy of
the Board of Trus-