The President appointed Mr. Arthur C. Johnson, Mr. E. F. Wood and Mr. George F. Bareis as the committee to draft the suggested plan.

Mr. E. F. Wood was elected Treasurer, on motion of Mr. Johnson.

Col. Hayes asked that Mr. Alfred Goring be elected caretaker at Spiegel Grove. Mr. Goring was duly elected.

MR. RYAN: "Mr. Williams, at Princeton, has been paying out his own money for proofreading. The manuscript of the Hayes diaries reached him from this point in such bad shape that he had to hire an accurate proofreader. Here are bills for that work, amounting to $493.15, paid by Charles Richard Williams up to September 30, 1921. We should not permit him to pay this from his own means. I move that these bills be approved and ordered paid out of the general funds of the Society." Seconded by Mr. Bareis. Carried.

MR. WOOD: "The employes of the Society have not been elected. Shall we have the understanding that that will be taken up at the adjourned meeting, and salaries fixed?" By common consent it was so understood.

COL. HAYES: "I came here very anxious, Mr. President, to have a resolution considered by the Trustees, and if they favor it, adopted. This is in reference to a Memorial to the American Soldiers in France. Our kindred society, The American Science and Historical Society, has prepared a resolution, in general terms, requesting the President to appoint a commission to see that the American soldiers in France are properly memorialized, the committee to consist of prominent citizens of the United States. I would like to have the President, Vice Presidents and Secretary, if you will authorize them to do so, prepare such a letter and send it. This is the resolution:

"Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to appoint an American Memorial Highway Commission to include the American Ambassador to France and the American Ambassador to Belgium, together with nine American citizens distinguished in civil or public life to co-operate with the appropriate authorities in France and Belgium in laying out a memorial highway leading from Paris over the existing French and Belgium highways nearest to the positions held by American divisions in the different sectors during the World War and passing the American military cemeteries in France and Belgium, one on the French highways nearest to the battle fronts between Paris, ChateauThierry, and Montfaucon, with an extension around the San Mihiel salient, and thence through Luxemburg on the route pursued to the

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Coblenz bridgehead by the American Army of Occupation under the terms of the armistice, and the other from Paris to Chateau-Thierry and thence northerly on the French and Belgium highways nearest to the positions held by the Twenty-seventh and Thirtieth American Divisions in the British sectors, and thence northerly past the American Cemetery at Boni to the positions held by the Thirty-seventh and Ninety-first American Divisions in Belgium, and thence on the line of advance with the Belgium Army under King Albert into Brussels after the armistice. Along these memorial highways simple roster and historical tablets to be erected giving the names of American and allied divisions engaged at the designated points and other simple memorial tablets indicative of the sacrifices and triumphs of the allied forces in the World War, to make the memorial highway interesting and instructive to the 2,000,000 American soldiers and their relatives and descendants who will visit the battlefields in increasing numbers annually to the end of time.'""

On motion of Mr. Bareis the matter was referred to the President, Mr. Ryan and Mr. Wood, with power to act.

Mr. Hayes introduced the following resolution, which was duly adopted:

"Resolved, That immediate steps be taken with the funds now in possession of the Society to begin the erection of a World War Memorial Annex to the society building in memory of the soldiers of Ohio who served in the World War, for the purpose of preserving all records and references, muster rolls, maps, news clippings and papers relating to the World War, particularly Ohio's part therein, in such manner as to make them immediately available to the soldiers of Ohio and for the exhibition of the numerous relics and memorials of that great combat in which Ohio soldiers so worthily participated.

"Be it further resolved, That the trustees of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society respectfully invite attention to the n.anner in which Sandusky county, Ohio, has memorialized her heroic dead of the World War by the construction, through the property of the trustee for Spiegel Grove, of the Soldiers' Memorial Parkway of Sandusky county, consisting of a boulevard 100 feet in width with two rows of buckeye trees, the insignia of the 37th or Ohio Division placed thirtyfive feet apart, to which are affixed enameled metallic tree labels, four by eight inches, containing the name, organization, place of death and date of death of each soldier. On either side of the 50-foot lots two 14-foot paved drives have been constructed, while in the center of the parkway an ellipse 60 by 110 feet in diameter has been constructed in which has been planted a mammoth Red Cross in flowers while flower insignias of the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Salvation Army and the Jewish Welfare have been placed in the four sections of

the Red Cross while a beautiful flagpole occupies the center. In addition to the Soldiers' Memorial Parkway there has been placed on the Hayes' Memorial building in the Spiegel Grove State Park a beautiful tablet containing the names of each soldier of Sandusky county who died in the service of his country. This mode of memorializing Ohio's dead at the county seat of each county is respectfully recommended to each county in Ohio."

After some discussion, without action, in regard to a bill for coal used at Spiegel Grove the Board of Trustees adjourned.

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INDEX TO VOLUME XXX.

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Antioch College, 498.
Anti-Slavery Bugle, established, 371; "No
Union with Slaveholders," at
head of. 371; publishing committee of,
371; editors of, 371-372; introductory
editorial, 372-373; appeal to local pa-
of
triotism, 373-374; defends rescue
slave girl at Salem, 387.

Anti-slavery speakers, have difficulty in
finding rooms for meetings, 375.
Arago, Etienne, joins Victor Hugo and
associates in letter to widow of John
Brown, 278.

Archaeological History of Ohio, quoted
on primitive method of quarrying flint,
112-113.