IV 

 THE LIGHTING OF A TORCH 



The initial successes of the International brought 

 forward many problems pressing for solution. Among 

 others this : How were the men who must be relied 

 upon to make the Exposition, and how were the 

 distinguished guests which such an institution was 

 beginning to attract from all over the world, to be 

 properly entertained and welcomed ? The antiquated 

 hostlery, the Transit House, dingy and out of date, 

 was impossible in that connection. Still it was there. 

 It had served for a full generation, and must still be 

 utilized. Then came the beginning of a solution. 



It all happened one afternoon in June, 1903. 

 Mr. LEONARD, Mr. OGILVIE and the writer of these 

 rambling notes were passengers aboard a Chicago & 

 Northwestern Railway train bound for the most 

 beautiful of our inland capitals the city of Madison, 

 Wis. To be more explicit, we were on our way to 

 pay a visit to the agricultural college of the great 

 university, which from its semi -Venetian throne of 

 beauty dominates a panorama of surpassing loveli- 

 ness. Dean HENRY was to be our host, and as the train 

 raced northward through pastures green and fer- 

 tile fields, we fell a-talking on a subject ever near 



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