The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-10-23
PREHISTORIC SOUTHWEST
4 MOST INTERESTING LECTURE DE-
LIVERED BY MRS. C. M'CLURG.

Spoke OF the SllH DWeiers ana Aneir
Customs-The First explorer of the CHI
Dwellings of the Southwestern Vivid
Picture of the Ancient Raoe-A Fine Col
lection of Pottery and Other Relies From
the Cliff Houses.
The first in the series Of lectures on
"The Prehistoric Southwest" was deliv-
cred at United church chapel yesterday
afternoon by Mrs. Gilbert McClurg of
Colorado, who is well known as a writer
for Century, the Cosmopolitan and 9TH
err leading magazines. She also has a
high reputation as a poetess, having
published a volume under the title Of
Seven Sonnets of Sculpture" She has
also written picturesque Utah" and
picturesque Colorado" Mrs. McClurg
stands pre-eminent for her researches
in the archaeology of prehistoric Amer
lea. She has spent ten years in person.
al exploration of the wonders of the
southwest, and her party was the first
organized one, except the government
expedition, to explore among the ruins
of the cliff dwellings of that section.
The subdivision of the main topic
treated yesterday was "a Picture of the
Past"
Mrs. McClurg considered in detail the
environment food clothing and shelter
of the Pueblo race, pointing out its spe-
ciaI development along the lines of pot
terry making and building, and
drew, in conclusion, a vivid picture of
the life of those harassed people of the
cliffs, chased by the nomad Indians and
ending in their determination in their
rock fortresses by the ruthless enemy.
Mrs. McCIurg said in introduction
'In Americas present, with its magniii-
cent possibilities, we are apt to forget
that the new world had its ancient past
"a history of the ages. Two hundred
and fifty-eight years ago Thomas STAN
ton, the interpreter general of the unit
ed colonies, my grandfather of many
generations back, stood in Quinnipiac
as mediator between the Indians and
| the Yorkshire colonists, and to the deed
and treaty then and there established
| he added his solemn affirmation of its
truth and equity. Through him | feel
I may claim kinship with New Haven's
| furthest past And when the baby col
ony, nurtured among the hills which
| dimple the banks of the Quinnipiac
grew into center of education, it could
! also claim an interest in that university
| of Yale-that light of learning which
shone undimmed in the dark pioneer
days of wars and perpleXities, as in the
glorious sunshine of its present. Near
| ~ two centuries ago another forefathel
the Rev. James Moves, the minister
who never had one but one parish an6
that for fifty-five years-who "live6
much desired and died much lamented
as the quaint chronicles of the FRS
church of Stonington say-was selected
to be one of the first trustees and foun
/ ders of Yale college; for as DIR. Leonard
Bacon said of him: Though he was al
/ old man and in a remote corner of tht
| colony, his influence was deemed essen
tial to the success of the undertaking.
"There is extant the will of an ances
tor of mine, dated 100, providing thai
/
write, read and cypher well, and m,
son John to be brought up to be a scol
ar and to commence at We colledge-
| Yale, the college par excellence.
"And so on, from the Yale diploma
dated and stamped 1747, of Amos Hal
lam, still in possession of his descend
| ants, from DR. Ezra Stiles, a great
granduncle, to those near and dear t,
me, who claimed grand old Yale as thei
alma mater, and who lie sleeping il
your City of the Dead in Grove street.
feel the sense of kinship which TIL
humblest unit may possess in the grea
scheme of the whole. In a new land
| under strange, bright blue skies, an,
face to face with Redeemed rock masses
| have looked back to these elm-shadet
streets and peopled them with the brav
and wise men and the fair women o
the past. But beyond the thrilling his
tory of this Atlantic slope lies the Span
ish past of America, aglitter with 20
nance and gold and dark with blood
stains; and beyond that were mariner
whose junks were dust ages before tn
Genoese sailed forth upon the Sea O
Darkness. There was a semi-civiIiza
ton which arose, eliminated and wa
swept away long before Columbus me
the artless red man face to face In tn
Azores
She then drew an imaginary pictur
of these onslaughts Of the nomads an
described it as follows: "Then suddenly
terrific din is hear below; guards ar
signalling, wildly agitated; men scurr
up ladders, which they draw after then
slabs of stone are placed across windo7
openings, and secured by cross pole
and wicker staples; all crowd within
an affrighted hush broods over the elf
Suddenly a band of nomadic an
marauding Indians, ancestors of til
present Utes or Navajoes, charges dow
the valley, trampelling the maize. The
cannot reach the guards safe in thej
high towers. Useless arrows pate
against the closed apertures and til
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