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634 Ohio Arch

634       Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications

 

During the year there has been a large number of visitors

at the Park. The custodian reports more than twenty-five thous-

and. While many of these, doubtless, have been the usual Sun-

day and holiday visitors, they have been orderly while at the Park

and, let us hope, have carried away with them some wholesome

impressions of the significance of the Great Serpent Effigy.

(Signed) W. H. COLE,

Chairman of Committee.

 

 

REPORT OF SPIEGEL GROVE COMMITTEE

A. E. CULBERT, Chairman

On the fourth of October, the birthday anniversary of Ruth-

erford B. Hayes, in accordance with our annual custom, a cele-

bration and observation of the day was held at the Hayes Home-

stead and the Hayes Memorial Library and Museum    in the

Spiegel Grove State Park. The twenty-five members of the

lately organized Hayes Historical Society had been invited by

Colonel and Mrs. Hayes to be their guests at a dinner on October

3rd in preparation for the annual meeting of the Society on the

morning of the fourth.

Notwithstanding the gloom that was cast over the assemblage

by the sudden death of Professor Azariah S. Root, who was the

distinguished Secretary, Librarian and Chairman of the Book-

Purchase Committee of the Spiegel Grove Committee of the Ohio

State Archaeological and Historical Society, and also Director of

Research at original sources in Spain, France, England and Can-

ada, relative to the State of Ohio, the Northwest Territory, the

United States of America and the Western Hemisphere, which

had recently been endowed by Mary Miller Hayes, in an amount

equal to the bequests of her husband, a most successful meeting

was held.

The Rev. Dr. Thompson had hurried home to attend the

celebration and here met former Secretary of War Newton D.

Baker, former Justice of the Supreme Court, John H. Clarke,

who, with Representative Theodore E. Burton--absent in Europe

--and the American Ambassador to France, Myron T. Herrick--

slowly recovering at his home in Cleveland--constituted, with

Colonel and Mrs. Webb C. Hayes, the Board of Trustees of the

Rutherford B. Hayes-Lucy Webb Hayes Foundation.