28 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 
His greatest service to livestock men in general, however, is his 
founding of the portrait gallery in the SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB. 
While at Blairgowrie he had made the beginnings of such a gal- 
lery by securing mezzotints, etchings, engravings and oil paint- 
ings of the principal contributors to the art of breeding in 
Britain throughout the early part of the last century, and the oils 
were loaned to the CLusp as a nucleus from which the present 
gallery has grown. The idea has been copied since by the Uni- 
versity of Illinois in its Hall of Fame, in which portraits of 
notable contributors to the agriculture of the state are hung, but 
as yet there is no real rival to the gallery of this Cius, both 
because of the extent of the interests affected and the breadth of 
appeal in the achievements of the different men honored. Nowhere 
in America does there exist any rival for inspirational value to 
rural youth, to the portraits hung here. 
Mr. OGciLviE is an inspiration himself to every young lover of 
purebred livestock. He possesses a wealth of memories and asso- 
ciations with the men of the last generation rivalled only by 
Witiiam MILLER (116), and RicHarp Greson (113). This kin- 
ship was felt strongly by the three, and resulted in an intimate 
relationship whose sentiment and charm has been rarely equalled. 
Each possessed a love for high thoughts well expressed, and each 
was a master in his own way of this art. So it came that in the 
fall of 1905 there was an almost prophetic quality in the words 
of Mr. MILLER, as he sat on the veranda of the old Transit House 
in the cool of the evening, during his last return to his Iowa 
home after visiting in Canada: 
“RoBERrT, I shall never see you again. This is my last trip. I 
must say goodbye. I feel sorry for you. All of us whom you 
have loved are passing on and you will be left here alone, the 
solitary oak in the tilled field, whose leaves drop one by one, and 
lonely waits the day when he too shall fall beside them.” 
