The Days of a Man 1:1892 



Adolph Barkan, Joseph O. Hirschfelder, and William 

 P. Gibbons, Jr. 



Many others of the medical fraternity stood in 

 close and friendly relations to Stanford in its form- 

 ative years, among them one of our Menlo Park 

 ^laiiard neighbors. Dr. James H. Stallard, a decidedly 

 original and capable English physician who spent 

 his surplus energies in the enjoyment of fine music 

 and a zealous advocacy of the single tax. In many 

 ways Stallard's point of view remained distinctly 

 British, and he recalled with pride the fact that he 

 had been physician to Lady Byron. 



Sutro Among the notable citizens of San Francisco 



was Adolph Sutro, a wealthy Jewish mine-owner 

 — originally from Aix-la-Chapelle — who had risen 

 to prominence in California through his own en- 

 ergy and foresight. I met him first in the spring 

 of 1892, while Andrew D. White was giving his 

 course of lectures on European History at Stanford. 

 White had traveled from the East with Mr. and 

 Mrs. Andrew Carnegie in their private car, and 

 Mr. Sutro invited him, the Carnegies, and ourselves 

 to "breakfast" at his home on Sutro Heights. I 

 remember well the keen play of wit that there took 

 place among those three brainy men, so very dif- 

 ferent in personality. But we all agreed with our 

 host in his main contentions — that is, as to the 

 value of scientific knowledge in all its branches and 

 the importance of libraries for its increase and dif- 

 fusion. Mr. Sutro was also deeply interested in 

 the beginnings of science and of the art of printing, 



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