MELVIN ADAMS CABIN FAST NEARING COMPLETION
Work will soon be completed on the new cabin to be presented to the Dartmouth Outing Club by the class of 1871 in honor of Melvin O. Adams. The cabin is situated about a mile and a half from the campus to the north, on an abandoned section of the old Wolfeboro road laid out to permit Governor Wentworth to come to the second commencement of the College in August, 1772.
The cabin will stand beside the road in the shade of an enormous hemlock tree and beside a spring which rises beneath the tree. It is designed on old Colonial lines with white shingles and chimneys. It will have a porch at the front and another larger one at the west which can be used for outdoor meals in favorable weather. On the east end toward the tree will be the kitchen ell balancing the porch on the west. The main room of the cabin will be 27x18 feet, with the unusual attraction in an Outing Club cabin of a fire-place at each end of the room.
The cabin will be ready for use the beginning of next week, but the formal opening of the cabin will not take place until Commencement, when a number of the graduates of '7l are in Hanover.
