Minutes of Forty-second Annual
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us to give the names of the members of
most of the households.
The first log cabin is nearly completed
and is attracting a large
number of visitors. Most of the logs have been hewn for
the
Schoolhouse and the hand-split shingles
are ready.
Through the personal interest of Mr. C.
B. Galbreath we
have secured from Dr. W. N. Schwarze,
Archivist of the Mora-
vian Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,
over 100 pages of
translation of the Zeisberger Diary.
This is of intense interest,
not only to us, but the record deals
with many important matters
bearing on the relations of the Colonial
Government and the
Indian tribes in this section. We
greatly appreciate the personal
interest in the whole project taken by
Dr. W. C. Mills and Mr.
C. B. Galbreath. We hope to have further
items of interest to
report next year.
(Signed) JOSEPH E. WEINLAND, Chairman
SERPENT MOUND
The general conditions of Serpent Mound
Park during the
past year have been good.
In addition to the usual upkeep, the
following improvements
have been made: A substantial guard-rail
has been constructed
at the head of the serpent-effigy
overlooking a dangerous point
of the cliff side. This was done at a
cost of $105.00.
A highway guard fence has also been
provided at a danger-
ous point on the driveway along the road
up to the plateau, where
the road approaches dangerously near a
precipitous cliff. This
will cost, when completed, about $170.00.
To provide for the greatly increased
number of visitors at
the Park, a new toilet for men has been
erected at a cost of
$145.00.
An additional well has been drilled at a
point on the plateau,
midway between the residence of the
custodian and the Putnam
Memorial, at a cost of $268.98. The well
at the house was also
drilled deeper and a new pump provided
at a cost of $14.00.
A garage has been built for use of the
custodian at a cost
to the Society of $155.00.
The road up to the plateau from the
entrance to the Park is
being resurfaced with a heavy coating of
gravel and marl. This
road is quite steep but the grade cannot
well be changed without
re-locating the road. This would require
the services of a skilled
road engineer and a cost of several
thousand dollars. It would
seem to be an enterprise to be
undertaken by the Highway De-
partment of the State.
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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.