Class of 1878

The Library Quarterly for January contains an interesting biographical sketch of John Cotton Dana, by Hazel A. Johnson, together with a 7-page bibliography of his multifarious literary output and a 3-page bibliography of works relating to him. "Art and the Machine," by Sheldon and Martha Cheney (1936), also contains an appreciative reference to him, from which is quoted the following: "The late JohnCotton Dana, librarian and museum director, must have begun as early as 1912to realize something of what today appearsas the central truth of the machine-ageaesthetic that the machine as instrumentdetermines the character of the project. Inthat year he imported a first exhibit of distinctive industrial products. That was thebeginning of activities which were wideand varied, but all with the one objectiveof bringing the designer back to the trueplace of importance he had in the days offine craftsmanship, as artist and worker."

THOUSAND ISLES PROJECT

B. A. Field's son, William T., who accompanied his father to our 55th, was then aggressively engaged in a campaign for an international bridge to open a way from northern New York to Ontario by way of the Thousand Isles. The project' was one of diplomacy as well as of engineering, involving concurrent action by county, state, federal, provincial, and dominion authorities, in the face of bitter opposition by partisans of two rival bridge projects. Mr. Field is now being congratulated by the newspapers of the vicinity upon the complete success of the persistent campaign he has conducted for the past five years, while the scheme was believed impossible by the majority of the people about him. Bonds to the amount of $2,500,000 have been sold, plans have been completed and accepted, and bids are to be opened on March 10 at the Court House in Watertown, where the enterprise originated; and by cooperation between the Thousand Islands Bridge Co. of Canada and the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority of New York, work is expected to begin at once on both sides of the boundary. It will be a toll bridge under private control until the bonds are liquidated, when it becomes public property. The project involves several bridges and several miles of highway, starting at Collins Landing, N. Y., crossing to and over Wells Island and Hill Island, thence beyond the boundary over several small islands to the Canadian mainland, and meeting the King's Highway apparently about midway between Montreal and Toronto. The bridge is said to be within one day's reach of 25% of the population of the United States and of 40% of that of Canada. Mr. Field is advisory engineer of the Bridge Authority.

Classmates bound for the Thousand Isles hereafter will be able to call on Field Pere and congratulate him upon the achievement of his son.

Incidentally Field says he expects his wife as well as his son to accompany him to our 60th.

Harlow is the only member of the class to confess to a memory of the Barnaby program of sixty years ago, and the only feature that made a lasting impression on him was a rendering of "Darius Green and His Flying Machine."

Gray has joined the ranks of the uneconomic royalists. Two of his granddaughters have ascended the throne as queens of carnival at Middlebury, Janet Gray '37, of Katonah, N. Y., was crowned at this year's carnival, as was her sister Dorothy '34 three years ago. And the Gray dynasty has two more heirs apparent for the carnivals of the '40s and '50s.

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