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SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. Lida Bacon of Cincinnati, 
who is spending the winter at her 
East Gloucester cottage, is render- 
ing great service to the St. John’s 
Episcopal church, Gloucester, by 
her active work in its behalf. Mrs. 
Bacon organized the orchestra of the 
ehurch, which has made such a suc- 
cessful debut. It has been entirely 
under her direction and the re- 
hearsals augur well for the future. 
It is fortunate for the church that 
they have such a thoroughly trained 
musician for such work. Mrs. Ba- 
con plans also to form a quartet and 
glee club at the church. Mrs. Ba- 
con is a _ widely traveled person, 
both at home and abroad and when 
she elects to spend a winter in 
Gloucester, is most generous with 
her purse, time and talents to fur- 
ther her adopted city’s interests. 
Mrs. Bacon is actively interested 
also in the proposed settlement work 
in Gloucester at which head is Miss 
Eugenie Heller, another summer 
resident from New York, who is 
spending the winter there. 
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Various contractors are still busy 
at the Edward L. Wood and G. E. 
Warren estates on Cobb avenue and 
Blossom lane, Manchester, where 
extensive improvements are in 
order. At the Warren cottage, an 
upper front veranda has been built, 
also several rooms to the rear of the 
house. Garden plots are being laid 
out also. At the Wood estate work- 
men are actively engaged on work 
about the grounds of the cottage 
which has been greatly enlarged 
by the changes there. The addition 
built to the rear of the house is 
completed. 
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The engagement of President 
Frederick -W. Hamilton of Tufts 
college and Mrs. Emma _ Tuttle 
James of Somerville, a former ac- 
tress, widow of an actor and now a 
teacher of elocution, is of much in- 
terest to Annisquam summer col- 
onists where President Hamilton 
spends his summers. The Hamilton 
cottage, ‘‘Green Gables,’’ is at the 
‘‘Riverview”’ section of Annisquam. 
President Hamilton is a widower, 
having lost his wife a year ago 
while at Annisquam. He became ac- 
quainted with Mrs. James in 1884, 
while serving as pastor of the 
First Unitarian church of Roxbury, 
President Hamilton married Miss 
Florence Q. Mead in 1884 and Miss 
Tuttle was later married to Harry 
James, a young English actor. Two 
years later James died, and in or- 
der that his daughter, Dorothy, 
might be given the benefit of home 
surroundings, his wife left the 
stage and devoted herself to the 
teaching of elocution and express- 
ion. Her daughter subsequently 
entered Jackson College where she 
is now a member ot the class ot 
1915. The wedding will take place 
in the spring. 
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Miss Amelia Forbes, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes 
(Rose Dabney) and a cousin of Miss 
Dorothy Forbes of Boston, is train- 
ing at the Waltham Hospital as a 
nurse. The report is current that 
Miss Forbes is to abandon her life 
of ease and pleasure in Milton and 
Boston and join Dr. Wilfred Gren- 
fell’s hospital in Labrador. Her in- 
tention to leave behind all the com- 
forts of a girl heiress to millions and 
aid this great philanthropy is ex- 
citing great interest among her 
friends in Boston society. Dr. Gren- 
fell is an Englishman, 44 years of 
age, educated at Marlborough, Ox- 
ford and the London Hospital. He 
fitted out the first hospital ship for 
the North Sea fisheries. He has 
published many works on deep 
sea fisheries and fishermen. Miss 
Forbes heard him speak in Boston 
and became deeply interested in his 
work. Dr. John Mason Little, Jr., 
of boston and his bride are also of 
the Grenfell hospital party at Lab- 
rador. 
Childs Frick to Head Scientific Ex- 
pedition to Abyssinia 
Childs Frick, the only son of 
Henry ©. Frick of Pittsburgh and 
Pride’s Crossing, will soon set sail 
from London at the head of an ex- 
pedition to Abyssinia for the pur- 
pose of making natural history col- 
lections for the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution. Young Frick is widely 
known about Boston, especially 
along the North Shore, and is con- 
sidered one of the finest polo play- 
ers in the country. 
When Col. Roosevelt made his ex- 
tensive hunting trip through Af- 
rica Frick followed close on_ his 
trail with a caravan, and is said to 
have bagged fully as much game as 
did the Roosevelt party. Most of 
the animals which he shot or cap- 
tured at that time he presented to 
the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh. 
On his present trip the young man 
will be accompanied by Lieut. Col. 
Edgar A. Mearns, U.S. A., retired, 
associate zoologist of the United 
States National Museum, Mr. Blick, 
a friend, and a physician. 
Mr. Frick plans to make as com- 
plete a collection as possible of the 
animals of the Abyssinian section. 
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bottle has a value 
He and Mr. Blick will devote their 
time to the big game, both having 
qualitied as fieid taxidermists alter 
much study in related subjects. Dr. 
Mearns wil prepare the birds tor 
the National Museum, it wil be 
remembered tuat he accompanied 
the Smithsonian expedition to At- 
rica which was headed by Col. 
svoosevelt. 
Many native soldiers and guides 
will be secured as soon as the party 
reaches the outskirts of Abyssinia, 
tor it is one or the most dangerous 
parts ot the Atrican continent, the 
scarcity of tood, lack of water, hos- 
tile tripes and rampant disease mak- 
ing the expedition a most hazardous 
undertaking. 
Both Mr. Frick and Mr. Blick 
have had experience in exploration, 
although not in that particular lo- 
eality. in British Hast Africa, 
where the party will also secure 
specimens, the experiences of Dr. 
Mearns with the Koosevelt expedi- 
tion will stand them in good stead, 
as the country is contiguous to that 
covered by the tamous “‘ Bwana 
Tumbo’’ trip of 1909-10. 
The region of Lake Rudolf, dis- 
covered as late as 1888 by Count 
Teleki, and one of the wildest and 
most dangerous sections otf the 
Dark Continent, is to be covered by 
the expedition. It is inhabited by 
the Hamatic people, wholly unciv- 
ilized, yet intellectually superior to 
the average tribes of Africa. The 
Samali, Gallas and Boranna tribes 
will also be encountered. The 
principal exploration of this coun- 
try was made in 1897 by an expedi- 
tion headed by A. Donalson Smith, 
who sent a collection of excellent 
specimens of the fauna of the coun- 
try to the British museum, where it 
is now on exhibition. 
The actual work of the expedition 
will be begun about December Ist, 
and will cover a period of about 
seven months. The party will sail 
from London to. Aden, Arabia, on 
the Gulf of Aden. After securing 
euides and an outfit the party will 
cross the gulf and enter the wilder- 
ness. 
Arranging for barter is one of the 
interesting preliminaries. Gold and 
silver have little value with the un- 
civilized tribes of Africa. An empty 
far above its 
weight in gold. 
Mirrors, cheap jewelry, copper 
wire, mechanical toys, and cloth 
printed in lurid colors will be much 
in demand. Small sized bottles and 
flasks will be taken along in great 
quantities as they are used as ear 
ornaments by the savages whom 
they will encounter, . 
