of which the chief one was to keep ahve and vigorous the tradition of 

 these collecting trips. Having no endowment for the work, the only way 

 to finance it was to depend largely upon the students to supply the 

 funds, but their contributions had to be supplemented with outside aid. 



The task of raising the necessary funds had to be performed in the 

 face of every discouragement, except from the interested students. At 

 one time, when I was ready to give up hope of success, they came to 

 me with an offer to increase their own contributions very materially 

 rather than let the plan drop. Some people from whom I confidently 

 expected help, not only refused to give any, but even went to the length 

 of active opposition and tried to induce me to stay quietly at home, 

 where I belonged. Of one Trustee, who had made great promises of 

 help, I wrote: "All his promises and his bringing me four times to 

 New York have resulted in one note of introduction." However, bit by 

 bit, the necessary sum was got together. 



Railroad transportation was the least of my troubles, for I had all 

 the passes I could use and many more were offered to me. The New 

 York agent of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway came out to see 

 me and offered me transportation for the party over his company's 

 lines. As I had made no application for such a favour, I was much 

 puzzled by this spontaneous offer and asked the agent to explain it. 

 He said: "It's good advertising. You people go out into our territory 

 and write it up and excite the interest of a lot of other people, who 

 want to go and see for themselves." The freedom with which railroad 

 passes were given away in those days, until the Interstate Commerce 

 Act put an end to the practice, was a scandal. When I first travelled 

 over the Northern Pacific, in 1884, every passenger in the sleeping car 

 had a pass. 



Naturally, I wished to get from the Secretary of War permission to 

 purchase from the army at the military posts such suppHes and equip- 

 ment as we might need. This privilege had been granted to the pre- 

 ceding expeditions and would be so great a saving to us that it was a 

 matter of necessity to secure it. I hoped to do this through the mediation 

 of my Uncle David Hunter, a retired Major General. Accordingly, I 

 went to Washington and asked my uncle to present me to General 

 Sherman, then in command of the army. The old gentleman liked to 

 poke fun at me occasionally and so the introduction was made in mock 

 pomposity and in terms somewhat as follows: "General Sherman, I 

 would like to introduce to you my nephew, Mr. Scott; he is a professor 

 at Princeton and a doctor of philosophy of a German university!" 



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