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Show JOHN BROYVN'8 FARM. Cato .Field's Desire to Provo That There la Poetic Justice In tlioXinctcenth Ccntttry. Tho mills of tho gods grind slowly, tS thoy grind. Tho time had come to carry out tho dream of my girlhood, when, through Air. Isaao H. Bailoy, S appealea io tho present owners of John Brown's farm to help me save it from auction. Owing to the generous rGsponsa of one woman and 18 men, tho farm of 240 acres was bought, a good tenant secured, se-cured, and when I visited the Adiron flacks in 1893 our property had trebled in'valua The house was in good repair, and John Brown's grave was the Mecca of tourists. The subscribers to tho John Brown (und wore Mrs. B. O. Watterson, Boston, and Messrs. Isaao H. Bailey, John E Williams, William H. Lee. George A, Bobbins, Georgo Cabot "Ward, llonry Clows, D. Randolph Martin, Le Grand B. Cannon, Charles S. Smith, S. B. Chittenden, isaao Sherman, Jackson S. Bchultz, Elliott C. Cowdin, Thomas Murphy, Charles O. Judsou, Salem H Wales, Sinclair Tousey and a B. Claf Jin, all of Now York oity. Of our 20 subscribers nine have nl ready joined John Brown in his march of eternity. The last to go was Jackson 8. Schultz, with wnom I had serious talks about tho disposition of the farm & few months before his death. Sinclail !Tousoy, long onr faithful secretary, ttrote letters or warning when ho felt tho angol of death approaching. Boia friends realized tho necessity of putting this historio farm in such condition legally le-gally as tofulfill tho original intention. Boing the first subscriber, I had a do-flnod do-flnod idea of what I wanted. My desiro was that tho farm sbonld be held as sacred ground, to prove that oven in tho nineteenth century there is poetio justice. jus-tice. I wanted it to be tho center of a great state park. Mature made tho Adi rondacks the sanitarium of New York ooless than tho storehouse of its waters. With more faith than ever in the ultimate ul-timate destiny of the north woods, I am mora anxious than ever that John Brown's farm should be given to the state, to be hold forever as a park f oi the people, every caro being takon to preserve tht house intact. I know that Mr. Sohults, Mr. Tousey, Mr. Chitten don and Mr. Cowdin would advocats Immediate aotion could they speak from beyond the tomb. Mrs. Watterson has assigned to me her interest in tho property. prop-erty. Mr. JJailey, Mr. Charles Stewart Smith, onr secretary, Mr. Salem H. Wales and Colonel Le Grand B. Cannoa oordially indorse the proposition of state ownership, the last named subscribez suggesting that u tablet bo placed near the grave of John Brown to bear tha namos of th3 purchasers of the farm and the donors ro tho state of New York. Mr. Henry Clews, who as trustee holds tho deed of the estate, is ready to do onr bidding. I therefore ask my colleagues col-leagues or their representatives to giv? him tho authority needed to accomplish tho purpose for which John Brown's farm was saved from auction Kata Field. |