Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-07
DAILY KENNEBEc JOURNAL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER T. 1914

land Of the great poet. The society
was organized In Illinois under the
laws of that state and Arthur c. Jack
son is president and he has been in
active charge of the doings of the cor
poration. The other officers are:
Treas, Mrs. Edward L. Murfy: Sec,
Mrs. Maud E; Jones, both of Chicago.
Mr.. Jackson stated Thursday at
Portland that upon the return CT
Adams p. leighton to that city all the
documents connected with the organ
fzation Of the society and the receipts
and expenditures of every kind would
be submitted to Supt. Smith.
In connection with the matter the
Portland Express of Nov. says:
What is the International Longfel-
low Society?
Who is Arthur c. Jackson?
The above questions are being ask
ed by the local committee and at the
present writing no answer has come
from Mr.. Jackson, and when inter-
viewed by an Express Advertiser rep
resentative today Mr.. Jackson said he
had no statement to make.
Two meetings have been held by the
local committee in the hope that Ar
thur c. Jackson, would assist in I'M
raveling the tangle which seems 10
haze come for because of lack of in
formation the committee feel that they
have right to know Mr.. Jackson's
backing as we'll as the standing of the
International Longfellow Society.
None of the committee would make
a statement today. but it is known
that tho cnrppoittan will koan OF "a
matter until some definite statement
is made.
Mr.. Jackson came to Portland last
Summer and Immediately began work
on the Longfellow birthplace which
was later purchased in the name Of
the International Longfellow Society.
The movement is looked upon by
many as one of the best things that
ever happened for Portland. The
building was duly dedicated and makes
a most attractive building, the rooms
having been remodeIed and freshened
with paint and paper.
In the meantime there has been a
hitch between the local committee and
Mr.. Jackson because OF certain meth
DDS of procedure to which they seem
to feel Mr.. Jackson carried out with
out their consent.
The aid of the teachers was solicited
and it Is to this movement that Pay
son Smith objects and he was in town
yesterday to attend meeting of the
local committee to discuss the mat
ter. Mr.. Jackson had no statement to
make but George Thornton Edwards
presented a statement of the moneys
received from the teachers, giving an
itemiZed account of the money which
had come in.
AS Mr.. Jackson does not see fit to
talk about himself the Express-Ad-
vertiser gives the only information in
its possession which is from the 1914
Who's Who in America and is as
follows:
Arthur Charles Jackson, lecturer
born at Waitsfield, Va. June 49, 1858,
son of Alvin n. and Elizabeth (Sca-
geD j.; educated at U. of Ill. studied
law under Gen. B. F. Butler and
taught in public schools of Boston for
some years; married Isabella c. Stet-
son of Boston, March IA, 1882. Traveller
and lecturer since 1880; has crossed
the Atlantic is times; represented Fla.
at various European expositiens and at
Worlds Fair, Chicago, 1893 tpresident
state eommission): represented Alaska
at five International expeditions: U. S.
Hon. Commr. Antwerp Internal. Expn.,
1894; delegate to the London Geograph-
ical Congress, Paris International
Railway Congress. Congress of Com
merce and Industry, International
Geog. Congress-; president of the Maine
Commission Lewis and Clarke and
jamestown Exposition; fellow Royal
Geog. Soc. of Arts, Imperial Institute
Of London; president of the Alaska
Geog Soc. in 1898; International Long
fellow Soc. in 1906, National Good
Roads Congress in 1908; president of
the National Good Roads Assn. in
1908, president of the Nat. Good Roads
Congress, 1911-13; Panama Pacific In
ternational Good Roads Congress in
1915; also president of the Illinois State
Good Roads Assn, International Good
Roads and Automobile Assn. Home,
$3.50 Calumet avenue, address I'LL Con-
gress Hotel Chicago.
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