CHAPTER VI 



BALTIMORE ; NEW YORK ; MONTREAL ; OTTAWA 



On December i6, in response to an invitation from 

 Mr. Oilman, President of the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, Mr. Chamberlain, Bergne, and I made an ex- 

 pedition to Baltimore, '' the Monument City " as it 

 is called in the States. It contains many such 

 edifices, notably one imposing obelisk erected in 

 1830 in memory of Oeorge Washington, another to 

 Oeorge Peabody in recognition of his having en- 

 dowed the Peabody Institute, and another in memory 

 of those who fell in conflict with the British in 18 14. 

 President Oilman met us at the station, took us 

 round the town, showed us all the sights, lunched 

 us at the club, drove us round one of the large parks, 

 and finally came to anchor at the University. I was 

 impressed by a machine I saw there which could cut 

 48,000 lines on one inch of glass for solar spectrum 

 experiments. Maybe something has since been 

 invented which can even go better. We made an 



early dinner at the University, where we met several 



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