Show Historian Ends Useful Career Alfred Allred L. L Donaldson who wrote rote a loving and a unique History of the Adirondacks In two to fat tat volumes volumes- the only complete te history of oC the thc re region region re- re gion Ion there Is died Is-died died a f few tew w da daj days s 's s ago RIO at Saranac His was is-as not the brilliance of ot a Steenson Stevenson Ste Ste- venson enson yet he fought the same sam foe and with the tIle same weapons weapon of courage and w work T rk a 1 and the work work he undertook J f has the singular charm that belongs belons on only to labors of love Mr Donaldson was WiS a genuine old New ew Yorker born In iii Elo Eleventh street though circumstances conspired as ashe ashe ashe he himself once said so that he lie be bean began began be- be gan an and finished hi his education E abroad with only a short diversion at a school at Coon fonn when he supposed he ha was preparing for fot Yale But he had taken up violin one summer summer summer sum sum- mer while abroad and was more and more aUra attracted to music In the end he studied d music instead of ot going to On Oi his final linal turn return to America he ha hew w went nt tub into banking with Ith music as an avocation His Ilis f were largely largel musical folk foIl arid and the seriousness of the amAt amateur ur studies of or his group was such that combined with rather strenuous strenuous confinement by day in office I work his lIs health broke broe lIe He was sent at once to Saranac from which he ho was never afterwards able to be lon long hong away r He lie nd loved ed the tho Adirondacks re region re- re glen gion when a bo boy its traditions and ancl history It its wild life every life every aspect I of it bo So 0 In instead tad of oC making his limitations limitations limitations limita limita- a jail to his spirit he lie renewed his old Interest studying old deeds and letters corresponding with natives na tives etc One day lay a friend of ot his reported tl to him thuit there was not In existence an n ad adequate book on the Adirondacks lI A little inquiry proved this true Mr 11 Donaldson then determined to make the production or of a com complete lete book on ott the history topography wild life liCe tradition tradition tra tra- tra- tra etc etc his vork Jork lIe He labored t years ears upon It and in 1921 two handsome handsom mapped documented illus illus- rated trat volumes appeared |