Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-09-18

went TO the BOXWOOd Inn, u Qulet
little place kept by a woman. or
dered a CSC breakfast and got a little
pot OF jelly. 3 pieces OF toast and a
glass Of milk. Each piece OF toast
was as large as my thumbnail and
rs thick as my k%nife-blade. de.
te-mined to eschew Boxwcod Inns
h%enceforth If / intended to do much
chewing. AT a 'Child's" restaurant
enc can eat and at a reasonable price.
| got on the Third Ave. IL and
went up, up, up, to One Hundred aud
Fcrty-gracious yes. a whole lot far-
Their than that,-way up above 2OOth
Street. to visit the Botanical Museum
OF the New York Botanical Gardens.
On the way up one passes miles and
miles of fats ana flats and from those
flats one sees inuumerable women
looking out of innumerable windows
and looking. as a rule. unutterabiy
lonely. The streets are full OF child
ren aud no doubt they are happy, but
just the same | am not thinking OF
bringing my children here as a good
place TO bring them up.
After seeing the greenhouses Of the
Gardens, Il has to reconstruct MS
notions of what greenhouses may look
like. But of these more anon.
l found my good friend DR.. Saver at
the museum and he had many ques-
ticns to ask OF North Dakota, his n
time state. At the library Of the mus
cum | found the books for which l
had been locking. hoary old Latin,
and Dutch and Spanish tones. some
| OF them published near 400 years ago,
The museum has perhaps the best
botanical library TO- be found outside
Of Europe.
The main causes OF my visiting the
Gardens this day was the presence
OF the noted Dutch botanist. Prof.
Hugo de Vries. He was introduced to
the audience as a second Darwin and
| while there al never be another OAR
win, yet he is certainly the closest
| approach to the same. His lecture
contained but few points new to me,
yet certainly it is a great pleasure to
hear him after studying his books as
much as l had. He took up the prob
lem OF the population increasing more
rapidly than the food supply and in
dictated the part plant breeding might
play, now and in the future, in helping
TO solve the problem ,of food supply,
After the lecture | found myself a
lesser light among a distinguished
company OF scientists. vending Earth.
er yet. up the Bronx. we arrived final
" at L'Hermitage, a quaint. old fash.
toned building and what paint may
once have been is quite gone away.
The outside seats and tables in the
yard remind one OF the old country.
The hotel was old but the amount and
! quality OF grub was in some contrast
10 that affored at the BoNwood Inn.
They commenced with claret outside
and then We sat down inside. After
4 preliminary course of French del
icacies. unknown in their allure. we
tackled in turn. the sopy. the blue
fish course. the roast beef course. the
roast fowl course. the dessert course.
the rotten cheese and rolls course,
the black coffee course and finally the
fruit course. Aside from the claret
there was Santerne and Bosca Erut.
terms unknown in North Dakota.
Many toasss were pledged to the dis
tinsutshed guest aud he responded
we'll aud wittily. He said he worked
under difficulties in this country, He
,alke our language With some difficult
" and understood it in the same way.
He had difficulty not only in under
standing our English when talked by
us. but also in understanding us when
we talked to him in German. a siam
on our quality of Daltsch.
Prof. de Vries secured the auto
graph of those present and | had
nerve enough to request his, which
will cherish indeed. Ii in the past or
in the future. l have been or will be
OF value to the farmers of North Da-
kota. such value must be ascribed al
most entirely to the influence OF Prof:
de NTies. He it was who awoke me
from the deep sleep slept
At the dinner 1 met my Old friend
DR.. Raymond Osborn who at n time
had botany and zoology at Fargo col
lege. He wished to be remembered
10 his old time North Dakota friends.
Across the table sat Dr. Olive, rscent-
II from the South Dakcsa station, so
with DIR. Seaver. tine Dakatas were
well represented At the dinner
After I got back I % the city. il was