SOCIETY

REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS.

BY THE EDITOR.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY

The annual meeting of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society will be held in the Museum and Library Building Saturday, September 9, 1922.

The forenoon session, which opens at nine o'clock, will be devoted chiefly to reports of officers and the various committees of the Society. Matters of more than ordinary importance will be considered at this session in view of the contemplated addition of a wing to the Museum and Library Building and other matters not heretofore considered.

The afternoon session, to which not only the members of the Society but the public is cordially invited, promises also to be of unusual interest. It opens at two o'clock. Dr. Edwin E. Sparks will deliver the annual address. The Society has been most fortunate in his expressed willingness to be present on this occasion. Dr. Sparks was for a number of years president of Pennsylvania State College. He is a historian of national reputation, an Ohioan, a graduate of our State University and a gifted speaker.

Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, the veteran educator and present Trustee of the Ohio State University, has been invited and is expected to contribute to the program. (337)

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General J. Warren Keifer, recently appointed Trustee of the Society and the only living Major General of the Civil War, will favor the Society with some very interesting and unrecorded historv in an address at this meeting.

A detailed program will be mailed to the members of the Society.

THE HAYES CENTENARY

The tentative program for the Centenary celebration of the birth of Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893), the nineteenth President of the United States (1877-1881), to be held October 4, 1922, has been about completed. The Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society, under whose auspices the event will be celebrated, has appointed the following Committee on Arrangements to conduct the affair: Former Governor James E. Campbell, President of the Society, Chairman; Colonel Edward Orton, Jr., Beman G. Dawes, F. W. Treadway, Arthur C. Johnson, Dr. W. O. Thompson and Daniel J. Ryan. The ceremonies will take place at Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio upon which is the old Hayes homestead and the Hayes Library and Museum, now the property of the Society, through the generosity and patriotism of Colonel Webb C. Hayes.

The city of Fremont has in contemplation cooperating arrangements for a combined military and historical pageant parade, leaving old Fort Stephenson at 1 P. M., the military feature of which may consist possibly of cavalry, infantry and artillery of Ohio National Guard, composed of the units Troop A of Cleveland, the Toledo Battery, and the provisional regiment of infantry, a

duplication of the troops which attended the funeral of President Hayes thirty years ago. Troop A of Cleveland was President Hayes's escort also from the White House to the Capitol on the inauguration of President Garfield, who rode with him in the Hayes family presidential carriage, now in the Hayes Museum. Troop A, after the parade back from the inauguration of President Garfield, then escorted President Hayes on his return to Ohio, and has since acted as escort at the inauguration of the Ohio presidents Harrison, McKinley and Taft, and has been in the funeral escorts of the Ohio presidents Hayes, Garfield and McKinley, and had been accepted as President-elect Harding's escort prior to the elimination of the presidential parade in the interests of public economy.

The Commander-in-Chief and the State Commander of the G. A. R., in automobiles will head the procession, followed by the Commander-in-Chief and State Commander of the Spanish War Veterans and of the World War Veterans. On arriving at the recently erected beautiful split boulder gateway in which the White House gates are to be erected, and named in honor of Major George Croghan, the defender of Fort Stephenson, in the War of 1812, at the northern entrance of the old Sandusky-Scioto Trail, known later as the Harrison Trail of the War of 1812, the Campfire Girls and other juvenile organizations will head the procession and lead them over the old Trail, under the General Sherman Elm and the Grover Cleveland Hickory, and pass the Presidential Oaks named in honor of McKinley, Garfield, Taft and Harding, past the burial plot on the Knoll, and then down through the Harrison Gateway

with its historic tablets of the Indian and French and British expeditions which marched over this Trail prior to the Revolutionary War and as far back as records of the Indian show.

The Soldiers' Memorial Parkway of Sandusky County, conceived by Colonel Hayes and tendered to the County in a cablegram from France on the day following the signing of the armistice, was laid out in the form of a cross through property presented by him to the Society. This Parkway, constructed jointly by the Society and the Commissioners of Sandusky County, consists of a strip 100 feet wide in which two rows of buckeye trees (the insignia of the 37th or Ohio Division) have been planted. To each tree is attached a a memorial plate containing the name, organization, and place and date of death of one of the 83 soldiers of Sandusky County who gave his life in the World War or the War with Spain. The latter is in the form of the transept of the cross, in the center of which is a buckeye tree bearing the inscription of William McKinley, President of the United States, who died of his wounds September 14, 1901, while Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the United States, which was then engaged in suppressing the Boxer uprising in China.

The Campfire Girls will kneel and drape the memorial trees when at the signal from the top of the Overseas Soldiers' Memorial Sunroom, erected by Colonel Hayes, the military procession will enter the Parkway after passing through the Harrison Gateway and march past the oval containing the flower insignias of the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare and the Salvation Army, and pass in

review before President Harding and Cabinet, the Governor of Ohio, Generals of the Army and Admirals of the Navy, and turn sharply to the East over the McKinley Memorial Parkway and enter Spiegel Grove through the split boulder gateway recently erected in honor of Grover Cleveland, a former President of the United States, and William McKinley, Governor of Ohio, and later President of the United States, who were mourners at the funeral of their predecessor and personal friend, Rutherford B. Hayes, and who made the long trip in the dead of winter in January, 1893.

The parade will be dismissed on entering Spiegel Grove, following which dedicatory exercises of the Croghan Gate, the Harrison Gate, the McPherson Gateway, in memory of the soldiers in the War with Mexico and the War for the Union; and the memorial gateway in memory of the soldiers in the War with Spain and the World War, will be held; after which President Harding, Secretary of State Hughes and the distinguished guests of the Society will be escorted through the Hayes Memorial into the new library addition now in process of erection by the Society, through funds given by Colonel Hayes, to the portico on the south side of the new building facing the residence on its south.

The proposed engraved invitation to the Centenary ceremonies will contain a cut of the north entrance of the Hayes Memorial, and a large photogravure of Spiegel Grove showing the residence, the Hayes Memorial, the original old Sandusky-Scioto Trail, through the Grove, and is in the words following: