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Various investigating committees were now appointed, and finally a committee headed by Frederic P. Olcott of New York took charge and worked out a complete plan of reorganization. The scheme, however, met with strenuous opposition, and thus matters dragged on into the panic period of 1893, when the entire system went into bankruptcy and into the hands of receivers.
When Fred returned to the ranch he found the two girl visitors still with Evelyn, and learned from them that they were willing to stay out there just as long as Evelyn wished them to. "You haven't gotten tired of the ranch yet?" he asked. "No, indeed. We never enjoyed ourselves better away from home in our lives. Mr. Olcott and Evelyn are undoubtedly the finest musicians we ever heard.
Here also, as with them, a great outburst of phenomena in the earlier days; H.P.B. living in a cloud of phenomena and those who came in touch with her bathed in phenomena of all kinds. You can see the result of that early training in our late President, Colonel Olcott, to whom phenomena in connection with the Theosophical Society were the most natural things in the world.
Of those times at Point Pleasant I fear I can remember but a few of our elders. There were George Lambdin, Margaret Ruff, and Milne Ramsay, all painters of some note; a strange couple, Colonel Olcott and the afterward famous Madam Blavatsky, trying to start a Buddhist cult in this country; Mrs.
"Well," she said doubtfully, "if you ever want to come to see me, ask for Miss Lucy Olcott at Terrace Park. Good night, and a happy Christmas!" She was gone, and the doorway looked very black and lonesome in consequence. But there was the big basket to prove she was not merely an apparition, and it took both Jim and his mother to carry it in. Sitting on the floor, they unpacked it.
It's pretty hard on a man to have a girl do the Pocahontas act like that!" A peal of Roble laughter answered. "Pocahontas! O oh, that's a cute name for her!" His Uncle's Will. "It's a wise child that resembles its richest relative." Walter Olcott Haviland came to Stanford in September at the age of eighteen, and was rushed by the fraternities.
Fearnot and Olcott remained in Wall Street after the great excitement occasioned, by Fred's sudden change of front, when he turned from a bull to a bear in the market, quietly waiting for another chance to make a deal.
Gordon Brown's name will live in song and story. There were with him Yale men not less efficient in the football sense, as witnesses the following: A Yale Song verse from the Yale Daily News, November 16th, 1900: Jimmy Wear and Gordon Brown, Fincke and Stillman gaining ground; Olcott in the center stands With Perry Hale as a battering ram No hope for Princeton; James J. Hogan
Adams alone spoke against the bill for the temporary government of Louisiana, which passed on the ensuing 18th of February; and only four senators Messrs. Hillhouse, Olcott, Plummer, and Stone voted with him in the negative; Mr. Pickering absenting himself from the question. In August, 1805, the corporation of Harvard College elected Mr.
Cameron has a sweetheart up in New York, and she is waiting for him to build and furnish a big house, for her." "Well," said one of the ladies, "work on that house is going on fast; but, look here, Miss Olcott, are you going to stay down there on that ranch, or are you going to stop here at the hotel?" "Oh, she'll do both," put in Fred. "She is very fond of the actual life of a ranch.
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