136 



Sierra Club Bulletin. 



so that the winds and the sea bar not man's progress nor stay his 

 passage round the world. The same processes that work in the 

 steam engine operate in the clouds, and looking up into the sky, 

 this "winged creature that would vanish to the uttermost isle" 

 and yet sprung from a family of engineers, hard, practical, but 

 who shall say unromantic men, must have seen in the clouds the 

 unharnessed forces of nature, and likened himself to the incon- 

 sequential mist driven and drifting before the wrathful winds. 

 Some suggestion of his own hum.an restlessness must have come 

 from these high wanderers. Ships of that greater sea, sailing 

 an unsounded, uncharted, boundless ocean of overhead blue, 

 like one of these he felt himself to be. At times scraping along 

 under a jury mast, again carrying topgallant sails. Driven by 

 favoring or adverse winds, he came at last to pleasant ports. 



"Ever these words written in the loneHness of his stay in that 

 crowded, gay and thoughtless city that we barely see from here, 

 far on the southern horizon, ring in our ears, and perhaps best 

 tell the purpose and ambition of his life: 'Can I make some one 

 happier this day before I lie down to sleep?' 



"We are grateful to the ladies of the united Ladies' Clubs of 

 Napa County that they have placed this stone to commemorate 

 the happy hours of the honeymoon spent here. I must also men- 

 tion the full measure of service given by Mr. Daniel Patten, 

 who gave the site and whose hands placed many of the stones 

 here set, and to his able helpmate, busy at this moment that 

 others may enjoy, and to Mr. Newman for the design, and Mr. 

 Miller for the work done in setting the stone. 



"Far in the West where lie the isles of the Pacific there he made 

 a home. And the islanders who looked up to him as clansmen do 

 to a chief, said, when the pen dropped from his hand and the 

 day's work was done, 'Tofa Tusitala' (Sleep, Tusitala). 



"We can say no more. Gladly he lived, he laid him down with 

 a will, he earned rest; and the memory of the man and his work 

 is as bright as the sunshine and as beautiful as the clouds." 



Suggestion for 191 i Outing. 



Professor Harold C. Bradley writes from Madison, Wisconsin: 

 "I am much interested in your trip for the summer [the Sierra 

 Club Outing], and cannot refrain from making one suggestion. 1 

 notice the itinerary leads from Tuolumne Meadows to Benson 

 Lake via Matterhorn Cafion. It passes near a peak which com- 

 mands one of the most comprehensive views of the entire region. 

 That is Doghead Peak just east of Tallulah Lake and but a short 

 distance oflf the main trail as it swings west from Wilson Creek. 

 The peak can almost be climbed on horseback by following up 



