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students of the Ohio State University,
Mr. C. P. McClelland and Mr.
C. C. Huntington, working under the
direction of Professor J. E. Hagerty
of the Department of Political Science
and Economics, Ohio State Uni-
versity, and by whom the preface is
written. In an introductory note
by the Secretary of the Society it is
said: "This monograph does not
attempt, of course, to discuss in any
way the question of the policy of
the State as to the retention or
abandonment of the canals. The pur-
pose has simply been to put forth in
concise and accurate manner all
the data necessary for a thorough
understanding of the constructive,
financial and economic history of the
Ohio canals."
Probably no other single publication
presents in so concise and
complete a manner all the information
concerning the various features of
the history and construction and use of
the canals as does this volume.
It treats exhaustively of the cost to
the state, method of raising the
money, manner of building, extent of
traffic and travel upon the same;
the industrial and economic effect, both
direct and indirect, upon the state.
There are complete tables of the
financial features of the canals, rates
of toll and so on for each successive
year from 1827 to the present time.
An excellent map of the Ohio canals,
proposed, existing and abandoned,
drawn by Mr. A. H. Sawyer of the Canal
Commissioner's office accom-
panies the little volume. For many years
there has been a great demand
for the varied information which this
little volume supplies. It is sold
by the society at the prices of 50 cents
and $1.00 for paper and cloth
editions respectively.
ELECTRIC RAILROAD TO SERPENT MOUND.
We have received a prospectus setting
forth the proposed electric
railroad which is to be built from
Hillsboro, Highland County, through
Peebles and West Union, Adams County, to
Aberdeen, Brown County,
and touching at many intervening towns.
This project particularly in-
terests the members and friends of the
Ohio State Archaeological and His-
torical Society, as the road will pass
the entrance of the Serpent Mound
Park, thereby rendering Serpent Mound
accessible in a manner which
has never before existed. As it is now
it can be reached only by
vehicle travel from Peebles, the nearest
railway station some six miles
distant. Inconvenient as its location
now is, hundreds visit it each year
but with the proposed methods of
approach the number of visitors will
be vastly increased and the interest
taken in this wonderful pre-historic
monument will be greatly extended. Those
of a highly sentimental and
poetic temperament may be somewhat
"shocked" if indeed they do not
lament, that this curious earth
structure of a vanished race is to be a
side station of the electric currents of modern rapid transit.
But the
advance of modern conveniences is no
respecter of persons, existing or
extinct. It is a far cry from the
centuries ago when the Mound Builders
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erected their temple on the hilltop to
the day of the traction car. But
that car like the one of Juggernaut is
the irresistible chariot of the
present that ruthlessly rolls over the
veneration for the past.
The pamphlet prospectus in question
devotes several pages to the
history and description of the mound and
properly presents it as one of
the leading features which will make the
proposed traction line a valuable
and paying institution. The pamphlet is
published at Peebles, Ohio, by
the Hillsboro, Belfast and Peebles
Promoters' Company. It can be
secured for the asking by addressing Mr.
P. M. Hughes, president of the
Company, Lovett, Ohio, Mr. W. B.
Cochran, secretary of the company,
Hillsboro, Ohio, or Mr. S. M. Rucker,
one of the directors, Peebles, Ohio.
NYE FAMILY REUNION AT MARIETTA.
We have received through the courtesy of
Miss Minna Tupper Nye
of Brooklyn, New York, a handsomely
published pamphlet of 100 pages
or more giving the proceedings of the
third annual reunion of the Nye
Family of America, held at Marietta,
Ohio, August 16, 17 and 18, 1905.
Benjamin Nye of Bedlenden, Kent county,
England, was the first to come
to America as early as 1637. His
numerous descendants are now in every
state and territory of our country.
Among the first pioneers into the Ohio
valley after the Revolution were Ichabod
Nye of Tolland, Connecticut, a
soldier of the Revolution, with his
family. They settled in Marietta in
1788 where Mr. Nye resided until his
death in 1840. From the descend-
ants of this early settler a very
cordial invitation was extended to the
Nye Family Association to hold the third
annual reunion in Marietta.
The eight branches of the Ichabod family
are scattered from the Medi-
terranean Sea to the Pacific Ocean and
yet not one of these branches
failed in showing their loyalty and
devotion by contributing in some way
to the entertainment. Great interest was
sustained throughout all the
meetings. The leading citizens of
Marietta joined with the family in
extending hospitality to the visiting
guests. Mr. James W. Nye of
Marietta was the local chairman and a
most interesting and successful
program was carried out. Mr. James W.
Nye welcomed his family
guests with a most pleasing and
appropriate address in which he said:
"On the walls at the relic room,
hangs a banner bearing the following
inscription, taken from an address delivered
here in 1888: 'The paths
from the heights of Abraham led to
Independence Hall. Independence
Hall led finally to Yorktown, and
Yorktown guided the footsteps of your
fathers to Marietta. This, my
countrymen, then, is the lesson which I
read here.' This refers to the little
band of stalwart men and brave
women, who in 1788, left their New
England homes, and turning their
faces westward, journeyed by the crude
means then in use, in search of
new homes, in the then unknown wilds of
the territory northwest of the