Note:
The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert
Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998.
Subject numbers are HAP's originals.
HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete
document page numbers in brackets and issue dates.
The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation
numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject
are "1/--".

                           Subject 1. P1 (6/22/52)

                    HERBERT ARMSTRONG POOLE.

        I was born on October 15/1877, at 3731 Forest Avenue, Chicago,
Ill., in a house built by my father, a double brick two storied house
with basement: the other half was my Aunt Nettie's, father's sister,
and occupied by her until her marriage in 1882. The house faced south;
on the first floor were a drawing room, dining room, and study, besides
the kitchen and pantry: three bedrooms on the second floor with bath:
gas-lighting and a hot air furnace in the basement: the house stood
about 15 ft from the road: a backyard abutting on an alley: there was a
two storied house in the back yard in which father kept chickens for
for a year. Having left Chicago so young, I remember but little of it,
except that it was one of the few houses on the block, the sidewalk of
wood and the street not paved, though this was done while we lived
there, and the block entirely built up. Michigan Avenue, two blocks
East was a sight on Sunday afternoons, with sleighs streaming past in
winter. Father went to the city every day by the old horse car on
Indiana Avenue and when the cable cars were installed, he took us
riding on the front seat on Sundays: the cars were open: the surge of
the car as the cable was picked up, was thrilling. When I was five, I
started at the Cottage Grove Avenue School, to which I was led on the
first day by a little girl neighbor, Pearl Gilsen. I attended that
school for nearly five years, but remember nothing of it but the fire
drills and the excitement of the Bleine-Cleveland election. I remember
spending one summer at Grandfather John Armstrong's farm at Arcola, 158
miles south of Chicago, a pleasure much diluted by mother insisting on
teaching us French. I also remember mother taking me to the Theodore
Thomas orchestral concerts in Chicago, which made a lasting impression
on me. Mother taught me the piano: having been blessed with "absolute
pitch", it came easily, and has helped me all my life. I went back to
see our old house in 1915, and found it occupied by negroes, as was
most of the neighbor-hood, but it still had the same kitchen range and
gas fixtures: I also hunted up Pearl Gilsen: how did I ever think her
beautiful.
        Six months before I was ten years old, father decided to make
his future life in Japan: for two previous years, he had been in China
and Japan for seven months of the year, the other five months spent in
travelling around the U.S.A. taking orders for tea, leaving him with
only two weeks to spend with us at Christmas. For this reason, he moved
us all out to Yokohama, sold his Chicago house, and with our
possessions, we went to Yokohama in April 1888. I often wonder how we
children would have turned out had we remained in Chicago. We travelled
out via Omaha and the Santa Fe Railway to San Francisco. As I look
back, it seems that the trains, sleeping and dining cars have been
changed but little, except in speed and lighting, the latter then
Pintsch Gas.  All went well until we arrived at San Francisco and put
up at the old Palace Hotel, built around an inner courtyard, into which
the carriages drove. Five days before we sailed, Chester came down with
scarlet fever so he and mother had to stay behind, and followed us a
month later per "Gaelic", father, Elinor and I sailed per "Oceanic",
Captain Metcalf, a four masted single screw steel boat of some 3000
tons, chartered by the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., from the White Star
Line: she carried about 90 passengers, had oil lamps: the only lounge
was an oval narrow passage around the open well of the dining saloon
below. With favorable winds, square sails were set on all four masts,
which kept her heeled over alarmingly. She went to Yokohama direct, in
16 days: in those days only one in every four stopped at Honolulu,
which then did not belong to the U.S.A. These steamers had no
refrigeration apparatus: cattle, pigs,

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sheep and chickens, were slaughtered on the foredeck, which we watched
in fascinated horror. Each table in the dining saloon was presided over
by a ship's officer, who served us from platters in front of them.  We
were lucky to have crossed on the "Oceanic" instead of some of the
other boats, which had only paddle wheels instead of propellers. On
rough voyages, these small steamers could not carry enough coal to get
them across, and sometimes arrived in Yokohama, having had to burn a
lot of the cabins and woodwork, or even to stop at the Bonin Islands to
get coal. There were no docks or piers at Yokohama: passengers were
landed by sampans. We stayed at the Grand Hotel for some weeks, and
then moved into 89 Bluff, where we lived for thirty years: this house
was destroyed by the great earthquake in 1923. It was a wood bungalow,
with drawing, dining and four bedrooms: one bathroom but no running
water: waterworks had been installed in the Settlement but not extended
to the Bluff until ten years later. Father built a double bath house
outside, all the water having to be hauled up from our 100 ft deep
well. Drinking water was carried up in buckets from the settlement
waterworks. We had kerosene oil lamps: gas was brought in about l900,
and electric light some years later.  The wall paper in the corners of
the rooms was always cracked by the frequent earthquakes. All the rooms
but two had fireplaces, warm enough for the mild winters in Yokohama,
where it seldom went below freezing. The Bluff road wound along the top
of range of hills forming the bluff for about two miles, on which the
foreign houses were built - no Japanese houses.  Some residents had
carriages, but rickshas were the usual mode of transportation: there
were ricksha stands at all roads leading up from the settlement, which
were steep, necessitating "atoshi", (pushers) at 5 sen per push:
rickshas to any place along the bluff cost only ten sen a ride: they
used to tear down the hills at an alarming pace and spills were
frequent but nobody was ever hurt. Yokohama was a lovely city, the
peerless Fuji-yama, 12365 ft high, 75 miles away, dominated every view:
the eastern bluff overlooked the bay. We had over a hundred small
earthquakes every year, sometime doing considerable damage. In 1891,
the whole of our tile roof was shaken into the garden: chimneys often
fell, but no serious disaster until 1923, when the whole city was
destroyed and great pieces of the bluff sloughed off into the bay. The
roads were macadamized: gravel spread on once or twice a year, and left
to wear down by traffic: streets were watered by hand cart. Servants
were good and cheap: cook Y15, boys Y12 and amahs Y8 per month, and
they fed themselves. Kitchen and the servants quarters were always
outside the house. Yokohama was then a city of about 800,000, the
foreigners of all nations except the Chinese numbering about 2000. The
wealthier Japanese never lived on the Bluff, but on the hills to the
northwest of the city, and there was but little association with them
in a social way, on account of the barrier of language and different
customs. The English predominated and formed the character of the city.
The English garrison had been withdrawn before our arrival and all
foreigners at that time enjoyed extra-territoriality, under the laws of
their respective countries, operating through their consulates: Consuls
had judicial powers. This made things complicated, for any national
could only be sued in his own Consular Court. The city was policed by
Japanese who had to present their cases in the Consular Courts. About
1900, extra-territoriality was abolished, and all foreigners came under
Japanese law. All foreign owned property was held under Perpetual
Lease, granted by the Japanese Government when the port was opened in
1860-70: property tax was ridiculously low.

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Foreigners paid no other taxes to the Japanese Government, nor to their
own either. The Japanese resented this relic of the old Treaty Port
days, though when the agreement was made, it was very profitable to the
Japanese, who in that way, segregated the foreigners into small
hitherto useless sections outside their cities, thus avoiding the
sanguinary clashes with truculent Daimyo parties passing through who
used to cut down any foreigner in their path, a thing that happened
several times, after the unwilling opening of Japan by Commodore Perry.
In 1904 the Japanese Government tried unsuccessfully to have these
early treaties cancelled, by submitting the question to the Hague
Court. It was not until 1936 that these treaties were finally
cancelled, to take effect in 1942, but the second World Was cancelled
them automatically.
         Our third summer of 1891 was spent at the Tsuiya Hotel at Lake
Hakone: the Dodds and James families occupied the rest of the hotel. In
those days we went there by train to Kodzu, thence 8 miles by horse car
to Yumoto, and were carried up over the Sata Pass by kago, to the lake.
A more delightful place in Japan would be hard to find: the view over
the lake to Fujiyama was superb. Hakone was very popular then for the
reason that it was within the short radius of Yokohama to which
foreigners were allowed to go. My first ten years in Yokohama were very
pleasant: the numberless trips to Japan's loveliest cities, temples,
mountain resorts etc, and the social life, sports such as rowing
swimming, sailing, bicycle riding, tennis, athletic meets, dances con-
certs, amateur theatricals, etc, at a time when the foreign community
of Yokohama and Tokyo were at their zenith, made life very full. I
remember the first murder trial in the British Consular Court: Mrs.
Cerew, an English woman, poisoned her husband with arsenic: he was
secretary of the Yokohama United Club. It was a thrilling experience
when the Judge put on the black cap and condemned her "to be hung by
the neck until she was dead, and may God have mercy on your soul". Her
sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment in Holloway Jail in
England: she was released after serving 18 years. The case involved a
lot of scandal and several important men in town had to leave the
country. The Carews lived near us, and I had violin lessons for her for
a few months: she was a prize pupil of Ysaye.
       Yokohama harbor in those days was filled with British, American,
French, German and Russian warships and even one Turkish warship, most
of them wooden ships, full rigged, though the British had some new
steel ships. We American boys felt bitterly that our men of war were
all old wooden ships, the flagship being the "Monocacy", with side
paddle wheels: how she ever got across the Pacific Ocean was a mystery
- she was anchored in Yokohama for many years, seldom going out of port
for a short run: she was finally sold and broken up at Shanghai. These
warships used to give frequent parties on board for the foreign
children of Yokohama.  They were the "Marion", "Trenton", "Susquehanna"
and others: when they were all sunk in the great Samoa typhoon of May
1899 we felt it very much. The first American steel wardship to come to
Japan was the "Olympia" of Manila battle fame: and later the "Oregon",
which looked so queer after 16 ft had been added to her funnels.  Our
house was always the center of the 4th July fireworks celebration, in
which the British boys could not resist joining, somewhat shamefacedly,
until one bright English boy discovered the British had won the Battle
of Ulundi in South Africa on that date.  Another thrill for Yokohama
children, was to go down to the Chinatown section of the settlement,
when sailors of the men of war in port would get drunk at the grog
shops and have the

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the most lovely and gory battles. Another thrill was to go to the
immense fires which swept the native city, burning from one to three
hundred flimsy wooden houses at one time.
        Then we arrived at Yokahama in 1888, Chester and I were sent to
the Victoria Public School at 179 Bluff, an institution founded in 1887
on the occasion of the Queen's Jubilee, with a grant from the British
Government. It was carried on in the regular English Public School
tradition, under Professor C.H.H. Hinton, a man far too good for such
youngsters of all nationalities: we were frequent caned. Hinton was
a famous mathematician, noted for his studies of the "Fourth Dimension"
who accepted the post merely to see the world: when the school was
closed, he became professor of mathematics at Princeton University and
later was with the Patent Office at Washington, D.C. The second master
was Mr. H.L. Fardel, an Alsatian: he was killed in the 1923 earthquake.
This school lasted long enough to educate Chester and myself; I
remember mother having to ask him to teach some American history: we
had been drowned in William the Conqueror 1066 &c, but in mathematics
we had lessons up to college grades, far beyond public school grades.
       After arriving in Yokohama, mother had me change over from the
piano to the violin: I started under Professor Sauvalet, a German, head
of the Tokyo Academy of Music: he returned to Germany in about a year,
and from then on I was taught by Hans Ramseger, a young amateur from
Hamburg, who taught me most of what I know - a life long- friend until
he died in Kobe in 1930. Later I had lessons from Professor August
Junker, of the Tokyo Academy of Music, a former first violin of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra: then a year's teaching by Max Schluter, a
Dane, fresh from studying with Joachim. I was fortunate in taking part
in many of the concerts these men gave at the Tokyo Academy, and in
string quartet concerts. This brought me into intimate acquaintance
with so many of the world famous musicians of the day who came through
Yokohama on their concert tours. At one of these concerts, Ovide Musin,
the Belgian violinist, played the Beethoven Concerto, with piano and
our string quartet.
        After the Victoria School closed father could not afford to
send Chester and I home to college, so he had us tutored in French and
Japanese, and taught shorthand and typewriting: we had of course picked
up Japanese as children, and I eventually learned to speak it almost as
well as English: I learned only 1000 characters, so cannot read and
write the language. In August 1893, when I was almost 17 years old, I
got my first position with the American Trading Co., 28 Main St.,
Yokohama, as stenographer, at Y15 per month! This was one of the great
American import and export concerns of Japan and China: four years with
them were invaluable training. During those years, in vacation tine, I
bicycled to Kobe via Nara and Kyoto, some 325 miles and from there
visited Himeji, Hiroshima then the terminus of the Sanyo Railway, and
down to Moji by steamer thence to Nagasaki and back home.
        In 1898, while mother was in America, Chester and I thought
we'd like to set up housekeeping on our on, and rented a Japanese base
on Nakamura Bluff, some two miles away; we both got sick and when
mother got back she promptly brought us back home. Chester and I also
took our first trip away from home on October 10/1899, by the "Sakura
Maru" to Otaru, (via Oginohama (Matsushima) and Hakodate) thence by
rail to Sapporo, thence to Guban (? handwritten) coal mines to see the
strange Ainu at Piratori, and finally to Mucoren (?) and back to
Hakodate by fast jervy.
       After four years with the American Trading Co. I had been.

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promoted to their shipping department, and was setting Yen 90 per
month: father didn't think this was enough. Mr. K.W. Frazar of Frazar &
Co., offered me a position at Yen 150 per month for the same kind of
work which I promptly accepted. A year or so after, John Lindsley, the
senior partner, came out to Yokohama and under his high moral and busi-
ness principles, I had my character formed in a way that has been of
inestimable benefit to me all my life. In 1902 he closed out his
interest in the firm, and E.W. Fraser merged it with Sale & Co., an
English firm, whose policies did not seem to as to be honorable: in
fact they were sued for sinking the "Agenor" to obtain the insurance on
a cargo of unsaleable wheat; one of their employees, Lewis, shipped as
supercargo had bored holes in her sides, but she didn't sink and
drifted ashore near Kobe: Lewis was jailed for barratry. Sale
compensated him later, and got off scot free himself.
        Just at that time I had an offer to Join the German firm of
Moele & Co. in Tokyo, at a salary of Yen 400 per month, a considerable
advance on the Yen 225 I was then getting at Frazar & Co. Mosle & Co,
was a one man show, owned by Alexander George Mosle of Bremen, Germany,
who had a profitable business with the Japanese government, supplying
war materials and machinery from Krupp and from John Cockerill & Co.,
of Liege, Belgina, and other continental factories. Mosle offered me as
extra inducements, a three month trip to Shanghai, Chefoo, Tientsin,
Peking, Newchwang, Mukden, Dalny, Port Arthur and Harbin, the last five
cities then being under Russian control. He also promised me, after two
years service, a trip around the world, with full salary and travelling
expenses for 12 months, and also the post of Belgian Consul, a post
which I held for two years. Mosle's business was not one for which I
had any training, and I knew it was one of his personal friendships
with the Japanese government officials of those days, and would not
outlast the death of those officials, for the government was gradually
turning their orders over to the large and growing Japanese firms.
Besides, I didn't know enough French and German to conduct the
necessary correspondence in those languages but it was arranged that I
should write in English, add they would reply in their own languages,
which I could read well enough. After consultation with father and Mr.
Lindsley it was decided that I was still young enough to risk some
years in this business, besides which, the travel inducements were more
than I could resist. I finally left Frazar & Co., and next day joined
Mosle & Co. in May 1902 at his Tokyo office, Sanjikken-bori, with a
staff of four Japanese and a young German book keeper, Mr. Schmausser.
Mosle and I sailed from Yokohama in May 1902 per "Princess Irene", for
Shanghai, thence per "Tungchow' to Chefoo and Tientsin. Then by train
to Peking, Newchwang and Mukden. During the trip between Newchwang and
Mukden I had the thrill of riding on the locomotive for four hours, the
engine driver drinking steadily out of the spout of a tea kettle - pure
whiskey. Then to Harbin, back to Dairen, across to Chefoo again, and
back to Kobe per "Sagami Maru"', a two month trip.
        While I was with Mosle & Co., I lived part of the time at his
fine estate of 13,000 tsubo in Sandageya, about five miles from the
office. His house was a Japanese style house with certain foreign
conveniences, and a large garden with a lake laid out in formal
Japanese style: I never liked it very much and didn't like living
alone. So I often commuted between Tokyo and Yokohama: I figure I rode
90,000 miles this way. My being Belgian Consul didn't involve much work
- mostly writing reports for the Foreign Office in Brussels about Japan
trade possibilities. It gave me the entree to all Court functions and I
made many friends with the Japanese Ministers of Stats and the
Diplomatic Corps

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I was presented to the Empress and to several of the Princes and
Princesses before whom I played in the concerts of the Uyeno Academy of
Music. I remember one concert at which the Empress was present, in the
middle of which, word came from the Central Observatory that a big
earthquake was expected imminently. The Empress was taken home
promptly, and the concert was not completed, nor did the earthquake
happen. Mrs. Payne, Maya's aunt, who was that day to sing the beautiful
aria "Penelope's Trauer" from Max Bruch's "Odysseus", with orchestra
never got her chance, a bitter disappointment to her. We stood for
hours out in the grounds of the Academy waiting for that earthquake. I
remember another concert there during the Russo-Japanese war, when we
were giving a couple of scenes from "Faust": the Minister of Foreign
Affairs suddenly got up on the stage and announced in French, the
drastic news of the fell of Port Arthur to the Japanese: the enthusiasm
almost broke up the concert. The soloists were members of the
Diplomatic Corps, the Japanese students of the Academy making the
chorus. I attended the opening of the Osaka Exhibition as
representative of Belgium, with the Minister, Baron D'Anethan and his
wife, who was a sister of Rider Haggard. In lieu of uniform which
Americans of the diplomatic service were not allowed to wear, I had to
wear a full dress suit at 9.30 in the morning, in the broiling sun.
        A few months after I took charge of Mosle & Co., Mr Mosle left
for Germany for a furlough of two years. We got some very fine orders
and did a good business. Mosle returned in October 1904, and shortly
after my 27th birthday, I sailed on my world tour per "China", on
December 15/1904, via Honolulu for San Francisco. You can imagine my
thrill at seeing my own country for the first time since I grew up: the
first thrill was at Honolulu where I had my first ice cream soda, and
rode in my first electric trolley car. At San Francisco, my first shock
was to see white men doing coolie work, and white servants at the
hotels and restaurants, and especially white women doing servants work.
The Pacific steamers had Chinese servants and Hawaiian crews. I stayed
at the new St. Francis Hotel, and attended my first theater and the
Orpheum. After visiting Los Angeles, then a straggling town with muddy
streets, I left San Francisco for Salt Lake City by the Union Pacific
Railway, and made a side trip to Lake Tahoe. There I changed to the
Denver & Rio Grande and went to Telluride to visit Halstead Lindsley
who had just started his first mining venture. Then via Colorado
Springs to Denver and on to Chicago, where I met many of my relatives,
hitherto just names to me. My Aunt Nettie (father's sister) was the
only one I knew, she having come out to Yokohama for six months in 1901
with father. I visited her and my great aunt Molly Winslow in Beloit.
Father, who had left Yokohama two months before I did, wired me from
New York to come on while he was there and could show me around. It was
the most wonderful experience of my life: he took me to all the operas
and concerts and theaters, and to see my only Poole cousins in
Brooklyn, Marion, Harold and his wife and two children, and Walter. We
stayed in New York at the Argonaut Hotel on Madison and 23rd St: the
rooms had folding beds which I had never seen before (or since). Father
certainly knew where everything interesting was in New York, and I
hardly got any sleep. I remember the approach to Grand Central was an
open cutting with tenement houses on both sides of the track: work on
the new station had already started. I had my first ride on the new
Lexington Avenue subway and have loved it ever since. Brooklyn Bridge
was amazing to me. I heard Caruso, Scotti, De Hetzky, Sembrich, Ysaye,
De Pachman and other stars. In February, father had to start back to
Japan, and I accompanied him to Chicago for a longer visit. from there,
I came East again, via Pittsburgh, Buffalo,

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where I saw my cousin Anna Maude Hoxsie and Niagara Falls, and on to
Boston. I stayed at the new Touraine Hotel: I saw the Lindsleys at
Milton. From there I went to Washington and stayed three days at the
New Willard Hotel, during the inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt. The
Union Station was not yet built: we were dumped out of the train on
some mud flats and had to walk across the flats on boards for a long
distance.  Then back to New York: I stayed at the new Astor Hotel on
Times Square, I didn't stay long in New York that time as it was too
expensive without father to pay my bills. I sailed for Liverpool on
April 10/1905, per "Baltic", the largest steamer I could pick out, the
voyage taking eight days: the ship was very modestly fixed up compared
to present day steamers. The voyage was very pleasant, as there were
several Japan and China friends among the passengers. From Liverpool to
London by the boat train, the lovely park like scenery different from
anything I had seen. I put up at the Victoria Hotel on Northumberland
Avenue. I had a wonderful time in London, on and off for more than
three months, seeing old retired Japan friends. I bought a 29 inch
Humber bicycle and rode it all around the south of England, in Belgium
and in France: I rode that bicycle for fifteen years after in Japan. I
went to the Cowes Regatta at the time of the Entente Cordiale
festivities, and went aboard the three masted schooner "Atlantic" which
had just won the trans-atlantic race. Then I made a trip to Edinburgh,
Inverness, down the Caledonian Canal to Oban, across Loch Lomond to the
Trossachs, and down to Glasgow and Ayr where I visited mother's
relatives, the Shaws. Then across to Belfast from Ardrossen by the fast
ferryboat "Adder", and visited the home of mother's ancestors at Cherry
Valley, Antrim, see my report under subject 12.  Then down to Cavan,
Dublin and Leitrim, where I stayed with mother's cousins the Littles:
they showed the empty field where mother's house formerly stood on the
banks of the river Shannon. Then back to London, via Liverpool. I went
back and forth across the English Channel seven times, to Belgium,
France and Germany, visiting many of the factories with whom we did
business, and visited Antwerp, Ostend, Calais, Brussels, Liege, Namur,
Aix La Chapelle &c. I bicycled from Liege to Luxembourg, and down into
France as far as Pont-a-Mousson, where I inspected a large order for
Water Pipes we had sold to the Tokyo Water Works. Ten years later I was
able to visualise many of the battles of the first World War in these
sections. I visited Waterloo, and then from Cologne, took one of those
palatial steamers up the Rhine, via Coblenz, where I saw Beethoven's
house, and made a side trip up the Moselle to Trarbach, and then on to
Mainz where I left the steamer and went to Wiesbaden, finding several
Yokohama friends there. Then to Leipsig, Augsburg, Dresden and Berlin
where I saw the festivities of the wedding of Crown Princess Cecile
Then to Kiel, crossed to Copenhagen, back to Lubeck, thence to Bremen
and across the Zuidersee to Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp, and back
to London. Late in July, I started back home stopping at Paris, where I
saw Faust with the marvellous ballet, a much better performance than in
Mew York, except for the high priced stars which New York was more able
to afford than Paris. Then for a month in Switzerland I bought a season
railway ticket good anywhere in Switzerland and visited every famous
resort, including a trip up the Jungfrau by the new electric railway.
Then down to Italy via the St. Gotthard Pass, stopping off at Como,
Genoa, Milan, Venice, and a side trip to Monte Carlo, where I won 20
francs at the Casino. Then to Rome, Naples, and across to Brindisi,
where I boarded the P & O steamer "Osiris" for Port Said. I transferred
there to the P & 0 steamer "China" and in September 1905 sailed for
Colombo, with regret that I had no more money or time to go to Cairo

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to see the Pyramids: however I saw them thirty years later. As soon as
I got on the "China", I felt near home again, as there were many old
Japan friends on the steamer. At Colombo, as the "China" was going on
to Australia, I transferred to the "Arcadia", via Penang and Singapore
to Hong Kong. I took side trips to Canton and Macao. from Hong Kong
I sailed per "Doric" for Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama, landing just
eleven months from the time I had left. The trip had cost me all of the
7000 Yen I had been saving up for years, and had nothing to show for it
but a bicycle and a London dress suit: the actual round trip first
class was Yen 1080, including rail across the U.S.A., and from London
to Brindisi by rail.
          Shortly after returning to Yokohama, I imported my first
motor bicycle, an Ariel, single cylinder, and rode it all around the
country for years, even using it when going to parties at the embassies
in Tokyo with my swallow tails tucked into my pockets. Thanks to this
experience with this moto-byke, I had many chances to drive other
people`s new motor cars, which were just beginning to come in; the
owners seldom could drive and there were no chauffers in those days.
          In 1906 Mosle wished to retire from business and live in
Germany. He sold his business to Dodwell & Co., who sent up their
employee E.J. Libeaud to work with me. Just as I had warned Dodwell
when this proposal was talked over, the business began to fall off: the
shifting of orders from the foreign firms to the Japanese companies,
increased rapidly. Many of the old English and American firms began
closing out their branches, and as I saw the handwriting on the wall,
decided to change to one of the more stable American companies, whose
business could not be absorbed by the Japanese. My preference was for
the Standard Oil Co. which had opened its own branches in the Orient
about 1900, but it was some time before I could accomplish this.
          Meanwhile I had met in Tokyo, through our common interest in
music, a beautiful and charming American girl, a fine pianist who had
recently returned from studying the piano for three years. she was
Rebecca (Bessie) Nielson Ballagh, daughter of the Reverend James
Ballagh, treasurer of the Meiji Gakuin, Shirokane, Shiba, Tokyo, a
missionary school for Japanese boys and girls: her mother was from
Baltimore. Bessie was born at Tokyo on October 27/1888. We were married
at Trinity Cathedral, Tsukiji, Tokyo, on December 18/1908, by the
Reverend Bishop MoKim. For our honeymoon we went to Miyanoshita, Kyoto,
Nara and Kobe, returning per "Chiyo Maru", and set up housekeeping at
22 Bluff: in a few months we moved to 84 Bluff, across the street from
father's house.  We spent that summer at Koshiba, some 8 miles down the
bay between Tomioka and Kanazawa, high on the hill overlooking Tokyo
Bay and Yakosuka. Here Bess contracted spinal meningitis and ten days
after returning home, she died on September 9/1909, less than nine
months after we were married: she was buried in the Yokohama Foreign
Cemetery. Bessie's elder sister Edna had married a few months
previously, Dr. Andrew Macfarlane of Albany N.Y., who had met her in
Berlin: she had one daughter Bessie who married young Lehman of the
Standard Oil Co., Manila branch: in 1943 both of them and their baby
were prisoners of war of the Japanese in a Manila prison camp.  Edna
divorced Macfarlane in 1920 and married, 2nd, Yameni Haden, an English
engineer in New York: they had no children and as he drank she divorced
him, and still lived in New York. Bessie's two brothers, Hamilton and
Jack have both died, the former insane and the latter of some
paralysis, neither of them married.
          Shortly after Bessie's death, I was transferred to the Kobe
office of Dodwell & Co., Chester also having been transferred there
about
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the same time. We lived at the Melhuishes (Dodwell's manager) for six
months while Mrs. Melhuish was in England, and then sought bachelor
quarters, separately. Late in 1910, I finally accomplished my desire to
join the Standard Oil Co. of New York, at Kobe, and in December that
year, was appointed manager of their Nagasaki office. I left Kobe on
December 1/1910 per "Empress of Japan" for Nagasaki, after a month's
training at Kobe. I replaced Sam Hepburn who then retired: he was the
son of the Reverend Dr. Hepburn who compiled the first Japanese-English
dictionary. I lived alone in batchelor quarters above the office at No
9 Bund, our staff consisting of nine Japanese, my territory being the
whole of Kyushiu and the Loochoo Islands (Okinawa). Nagasaki is the
most beautiful port in Japan, and though the foreign community was
small, the foreign settlement was separated from the Japanese city. The
presence of American men of war and transports, which like the regular
nail steamers always coaled at Nagasaki, and British, Russian and
German war ships, made life very gay, besides the wives and families of
many American Army and naval officers, came up from the Philippines to
spend the summers in the resorts around Nagasaki, Unzen, Obama &c. I
became intimate friends of General Pershing and his family, and his
aide, Major Hines, the Nagasaki quartermaster.
        A month after I arrived at Nagasaki, I contracted typhoid
fever, and had to spend six weeks in the International Hospital in
Kobe, but had no complications. For travelling around Kyushiu, the
company provided me with a Buick two seated open motor car, my first
car: I drove it over 5000 miles. On one occasion, at Usuki, I was asked
by the Chief of Police to take his old mother out for a drive. She was
100 years old and was lifted into the car as she could neither stand up
or walk: this secured me all kinds of favors in the island: more than
once I was asked to drive around school playgrounds to show the pupils
what a motor oar looked like. I spent the next two years travelling
around Kyushiu, looking after the almost exclusive business of the
Standard Oil Co., for Kyushiu was rich in being the principal rice
growing part of Japan, the inhabitants remaining loyal to our Jyomatsu
(Atlantic Refining Co) brand of kerosene - the mainstay of the
business: Gasoline was merely a trickle in those days. I was fortunate
in making a good record with the company, my knowledge of the language
helped a lot, and I could live on Japanese chow. In December 1911, I
spent Christmas with Eleanor in Shanghai and enjoyed it immensely: the
Russian captain of our boat, the "Santa Maria" was roaring drunk all
the way over and we narrowly missed sinking in going up the Whang-poa
river by colliding with another steamer: the life boats on the other
ship were torn off, and our boat lost its bridge.
        In January 1912, I had the most startling experience of my
life. I happened to be in Kagoshima when the long dormant volcano of
Sakura-jima erupted suddenly, with barely enough time to get the
inhabitants to the mainland. Sakura-jima was an island about 4 miles in
diameter, situated in the middle of Kagoshima Bay, a mile or so from
the mainland on the Kagoshima side and less than a mile on the other.
The cone rises in a beautiful sweep to a height of 4400 ft. The
eruption started at 2 P.M. on a lovely sunny day (there is never snow
in Kagoshima), with a burst of steam and smoke, from a new crater some
500 ft below the summit. At 7 P.M. came the big earthquake which
levelled most of the city. It broke the inlet pipe of our 35 ft tank,
the kerosene ran out, sank into the sand, not 500 ft from the shore:
many months later our New York office instructed us to dig a well under
the tank: most of the kerosene was floating on the subsoil water
seeping in from the bay, and we recovered most of it, good enough to
use in motor fishing boat engines. I ran

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out of the city that night with most of the other 70,000 inhabitants,
and slept in a straw hut at a distant railway switch, put up to keep
switchmen dry in rainy weather. The wind, during the eruption, was away
from the city, but next morning I was covered with three inches of fine
dust. All night the sky was brilliant with flames from the volcano, and
all next day I sat on the sea wall and watched enormous rocks hurled up
into the sky and falling in a wide arc into the sea, marking splendid
bursts of steam and noise. The country was covered with ashes for 20
miles around, the railways blocked, no electric light, the water flumes
having been choked with ashes. Several nights I had to go back to my
straw hut, for most of the houses had been destroyed and those still
standing were too shaky to be safe in the recurring small shakes.  The
lava from the crater ran down the mountain very slowly, in two streams,
as I saw later, about 150 ft wide and about 100 ft thick. It took three
weeks for the lava to reach the sea, and it eventually completely
filled the channel between the island and the east shore of the bay,
and made a spur of the mountain 100 ft above sea level!! The channel
before the eruption had been 200 ft deep. Everything on the island was
destroyed, the tree tops just showing above the ashes.  Several months
later, when the lava had cooled, I crossed to the island to see the
destruction. Being the one of the only two foreigners who had seen the
eruption, my description of 1000 words was cabled by the Associated
Press to London and New York papers: I had many letters from friends in
America who had read my account.
         It was about this time that the news of the sinking of the
"Titanic" was received in Japan, and I remember the shook it gave
everyone to hear of the great loss of life, including several Japan
people. In June 1912 I made an interesting trip to the Loochoo Islands,
(Okinawa) sailing from Kagoshima per "Keijo Mara", a two day trip, and
back by the "Satsuma Maru", an alarming old crock, built in Stettin,
Germany in 1871! The Loochoos are a fairy like set of islands, much
coral, the natives speaking a Polynesian dialect. These islands had
long been in disputed possession of both the Chinese and Japanese, the
King's palace had two entrances, the north one for the Japanese, and
the south for the Chinese who came from Formosa. There was only one
lone America missionary there.
         In January 1912, shortly after the Kagoshima volcano
experience, I made a trip to Miyajima in the Inland sea to meet Mrs.
Lindsley and Maya, who were on the way back from a trip to Seoul: we
had a lovely three days together. In the autumn of 1912, mother spent
several months with me at Nagasaki on her return from a visit to
Eleanor at Shanghai.
         In 1915 I was transferred from Nagasaki to Kobe, as assistant
manager, and covered that territory as well as Kyushiu. I lived in
rooms above Cabeldu & Co., at 16 Naniwa-dori, and messed at the Club or
the Oriental Hotel. We started a fine amateur orchestra and gave many
concerts and oratorios, Hugh Horne, the British Consul, conducting.
During the summer of 1913 vacation, I took my small yacht by steamer to
Moji and sailed back through the Inland Sea to Kobe, a fairy land for
sailing, some 300 miles, staying ashore at tea houses unless becalmed
far from shore. In February 1914, I made a trip from Kobe to Manila,
via Shanghai and back via Hong Kong, going down on the "Korea" and back
by the "Empress of Asia". I had saved up my summer vacation for this
trip, as February was the time of the Manila carnival and the Hong Kong
races. It was a splendid trip. In 1914, at the outbreak of the first
World-War, I happened to be at Nagasaki, and will never forget the
Sunday we spent at Sanbonmatsu, where the Great Northern Telegraph Co's
cables came ashore from Shanghai and Vladivostok - all cables at this
time were in

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the hands of this Danish monopoly. As the fateful messages came
through, those which were in plain English, German or French were read
off to us by the operators. Aage Jordan was the head of this cable
company, two of his sons being employed by the Standard Oil Co. During
my three years at Nagasaki, I made a great friend, Mr. Rospopoff, the
Russian Consul, a marvellous pianist, pupil of Anton Rubenstein, with
whom I had many delightful musical evenings: a fierce looking black
bearded man from Yalta who had brought out a "niece": be afterwards
married her. She was forty years younger than him and later ran away
with a dashing young Russian naval officer.
         In 1915, after five years service with the company I got my
first leave, and on June 15/1915, sailed from Yokohama per "Korea", for
San-Francisco via Honolulu: Chester got his leave at the same time, and
we went together as far as San Francisco, where he left me as he had to
go straight through to London. We saw the San Francisco Exhibition
together. On the way east, I stopped off at Ogden, and made a three day
trip through the Yellowstone Park - a marvellous sight. Then on to
Chicago for a few days, seeing my relatives again after a lapse of ten
years. Then to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, also a wonderful sight.
Then on to Weston, were Maya and I were married at their home 240 Adams
St., Milton, on September 25/1915 by the Reverend Stebbins on a lovely
autumn afternoon, with crowds of friends around us. Maya was born at
118-A Bluff, Yokohama, on December 25/1884. (For her life, see the
Lindsley Genealogy). For our honeymoon, we left that afternoon by train
for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the next day going on to Mount
Washington, Bretton Woods, returning to Milton a week later. We had
planned to go to the Thousand Islands, but it was closed for the
winter. After a few weeks at the Belmont Hotel in New York, we left for
Japan via Chicago, where my aunts Mollie and Nettie came down from
Beloit to see us at the Auditorium Hotel. Then by the Santa Fe railway
to the Grand Canyon for a couple of days, and to Yosemite Park for
another couple of days. We sailed from San Francisco, per "Shinyo-Maru"
on November 20th, via Honolulu, arriving at Kobe December 9/1915. After
a few days at the Tor Hotel, we rented "Holydike", a new house high on
the hill at Kitano-cho 4 chome, but after a few months, moved next door
above to the Zublin house at Sanbonmatsu, while the owners were in
Switzerland on six months leave. After that we moved to Mrs.
Lightfoot's house on the hill behind the Tor Hotel, 60 Kitano-cho, 4
chome, "Inari-no-shita", a Japanese style foreign house, nestling under
the Inari shrine with a magnificent view over Kobe harbor. Both our
children John and Eleanor were born here. Maya accompanied me on many
business trips before John was born in a small 2 cylinder, two seated
"Swift" English car which the company bought for me. I also had a 25 ft
motor boat which I named the "Maya-san", but motor boating didn't suit
Maya so I sold it.  Mrs. Lindsley had given us a Buick for a wedding
present but due to the high freights during the war we couldn't afford
to bring it to Japan and only used it for a few trips between Boston
and New York.  Mrs. Lindsley came out to visit us just before John was
born, and stayed until Eleanor was born. In January 1916, Maya
accompanied me to Moji on the "Atsuta-Maru", and we had the excitement
of grounding in Moji harbor at high tide.  As the tide ran out, the
steamer heeled alarmingly and some Catholic nuns on board made a
harrowing scene praying and wailing: it wasn't the least dangerous for
the boat was resting safely on the bottom.
         In September 1917, another mile stone occurred in my life.
Mr. Howard E. Cole, our New York director, while in Shanghai, wired me

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to go to Shanghai: he instructed me to make an inspection trip through
Manchuria. I sailed from Kobe for Shanghai per "Yamashiro Maru", thence
to Dairen per "Sakaki Maru", thence to Newchwang, which was then our
head office in Manchuria. I had a most interesting trip for two months,
visiting Mukden, Antung, Changchun, Kirin, and Harbin, just fifteen
years since I had been there with Mr. Mosle, but now the country was
under the Japanese, with the Russians holding only the part north of
Changchun. Manchuria had developed enormously under the Japanese:
Newchwang had given place to Dairen as the principal export place, and
Mukden the central administrative city. I returned to Kobe through
Korea in time for Christmas. In my report to Mr. Cole, I recommended
shifting our Newchwang office to Mukden, but for almost a year, heard
nothing further and we continued to live in Kobe. In October 1916, I
was notified of my transfer to the North China Division and was
appointed manager for Manchuria in Mukden. Leaving Maya and the
ohildren in Kobe, I sailed for Shanghai per "Takeshinia Maru", and
after a month's training there, went up to Dairen per "Kobe Maru",
opened the office at Mukden and found a house for us to live in. I
returned to Kobe through Korea, and after packing up our things, we all
spent Christmas in Yokohama at Everett Frazar's house, 118 Bluff. In
January 1919 we went to Mukden, sailing from Kobe per "Harbin Maru" for
Dairen. We were soon installed in our new home, a new two storied brick
house belonging to the Scotch-Presbyterian Mission at Wen-wha-shu-yen,
just outside the outer mud wall of the Chinese city, and half way
between that and the Japanese railway town, in the so-called
International Settlement. It was 30 F. below zero, but the house had
steam heat, the winter days always sunny and bright with very little
snow. The house had just been built for the Port Doctor, but never
occupied, as he had gone back to England to serve in the war. It had
only one bath room, entirely empty and no sanitary conveniences. No
waterworks in this section, but I installed a couple of zinc sheet
tanks, one with a small coal oven in it, and with a bathtub from
Shanghai, everything was soon comfortable. Water had to be carried
in buckets from a native well nearby, and the bath water spouted out
from the second story into the yard where it made a big glacier until
warm weather melted it. We had to bring drinking water from the
Japanese city (they had waterworks) in 5 gallon demijohns. The sudden
change in our lives from modern Japan to the primitive facilities in
North China was something to tax one's capabilities, besides wrestling
with a new language and Chinese servants. The children took to the
Chinese easily, promptly forgot what Japanese they knew, and learned
Chinese equally rapidly, especially John, who spoke with the full gamut
of Chinese tones. We brought up from Shanghai, a half Chinese-half
Portugese nurse for the children, Amy Rozario, who spoke both Mandarin
and Shanghai dialects.  Mukden was in the center of a vast plain
through which ran the Liao River, 25 miles to the west of Mukden: the
climate was bracing. The dust storms in the winter months were a great
trial, everything being covered with fine brown dust, except when the
wind was from the Gobe Desert, 1000 miles to the west of us: the dust
would then be white and the sun blotted out. Molly was born that year
in July in this mission house: within twelve months we moved into the
new company compound, containing our office, our house, and four others
for the foreign staff, all of red brick and steam heated, and with our
own 360 ft deep well and electric pumping installation. I had a staff
of ten foreigners, mostly American, and some 100 Chinese and two
Japanese.  There were five branch offices, at Dairen, Antung,
Changchun, Kirin and Harbin. The business went very well, in spite of
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currencies, Taels, Silver Dollars, Roubles, Gold and Silver Yen, Kirin
Gighei notes, and Mukden dollars of 100 copper cents, the latter worth
anywhere from 150 to 250 copper cents per Chinese Silver Dollar.
Maya became an exchange expert too, buying our supplies in three
currencies, according to which was cheapest at the day's exchange rate.
My salary increased rapidly, and with a free house, free motor, and
other perquisites, we saved a lot of money in those wonderful years.
The native walled city, the beautiful Ming tombs at Pehling, 10 miles
out of the city beyond the enormous centuries old grave yards, and the
numerous short trips we made with the children to the mountain temples,
made life very pleasant and novel. One temple with over 100 ferocious
idols, fascinated and scared the children. The community numbered some
200 foreigners of all nationalities, centring around the club which had
five tennis courts, flooded in winter for skating. We had an unique
Golf Course of nine holes, among the graves at Pehling, one of the
rules being that no penalty was exacted if one's ball fell into an open
grave. These graves were the breeding places of countless marmots, the
source of some of the mink fur coats sold in the U.S.A. These marmots,
all covered with fleas, were the cause of the great Bubonic Plague
which killed over 40,000 Chinese in 1911. Our house had a lovely garden
and a bathing pool for the children to play in, and ten servants. I
imported an Oakland car in which we drove all around the country over
plain mud roads, not further than ten miles from the city: the roads
didn't go any where. The local famous Chinese Governor, Cheng Tso Lin
and his son Chang Hsueh Liang were very hospitable and often gave
dinners at his Yamen. On his 50th birthday, Chang gave a week's
celebration. We foreigners entertained Chang at the Club on the
occasion of the visit of the American Ambassador at Peking, Dr.
Schurman, when I was president of the American Association. During
those years we entertained many visitors, among them Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt, Jane Addams, the whole John D. Rockefeller Jr, and his wife
and daughter Abby.
          In December 1920, five years after my last furlough, I was
granted five months leave, and we all left for Shanghai by rail, via
Tientsin, Peking, Nanking &c, and sailed from Shanghai per "Korea
Maru", via Honolulu for San Francisco, a 27 day voyage. Molly learned
to walk on this steamer. We brought along Molly's Chinese amah, Li Bai
Feng, and went east by the Southern Pacific route, stopping off a week
at Carmel, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. We arrived at
Boston on January 25/1921, and after a few days at the Bellevue Hotel,
went into a house at 11 Gloucester Street, Boston, which Mrs. Lindsley
had rented for us, as she was then living in Peterboro, N.H. In
February I started back on a fine trip through Washington, Richmond,
Norfolk, Belhaven, N.C., Palm Beach, Miami and Key West, crossing by
steamer to Havana, thence by United Fruit steamer "Metapan" to Port
Limon in Costa Rica, up to San Jose by rail, then to Bocas del Toro,
and to Christobal, Panama. I took the train alongside the canal to
Panama City on the Pacific side, and back to Colon. Then per "Sixacla"
to Cartagena, Puerto Columbia, Baraquilla, Santa Marta (in Columbia),
Kingston, Jamaica, and back to New York - a three weeks trip. Two
months later, David was born at 11 Gloucester St. Ten days before his
birth, our Chinese amah astounded us by saying she was going to have a
baby immediately: with her Chinese clothes it was not noticeable. We
had to hustle around to find a place for her, and luckily located a
Chinese doctor practising in Boston among the Chinese students at the
various colleges. Dr. Cheng not only looked after her but also arranged
to dispose of her baby girl to a Chinaman in Boston with an Irish wife
but no children. The amah

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had never said anything to us about her condition, and didn't intend
keep the baby as she said her husband in Newchwang would kill her on
her return, as the baby wasn't his, but by our Chinese cook in Mukden.
My furlough was up shortly after so I had to return to China. I left
five days after David was born on May 15th, via Chicago, and sailed
from San Francisco per "Golden State", later renamed "President
Cleveland", via Honolulu to Shanghai, thence per "Sakaki Maru" to
Dairen and Mukden.  After I left, Maya and the children moved up to
Mrs. Lindsley's place at Peterboro and stayed all summer, returning to
Mukden in October, sailing from San Francisco to Dairen per "Siberia
Maru", via Honolulu and Japan ports. Maya brought out with her a
Governess for the children, Miss Molly Proctor, who stayed for nearly
three years with us in Mukden.  We lived there the next three years,
and took many interesting trips to Peking, Shanhaikwan, Peitaiho and
Hoshi-ga-ura near Dairen, and a couple of trips to Shanghai. The
children were always good travellers: they spent one of those summers
in Karuizawa.
         In September 1924, I again got furlough, and we all left
Mukden for the last time, by rail through Korea, stopping off at Seoul,
and sailed from Kobe per "President Cleveland" on October 2/1924 for
San Francisco, via Honolulu: father also made this voyage with us, but
we left him in San Francisco, and went on to Boston by the Union
Pacific railway, via Salt Lake City and Chicago, and went straight up
to Mrs. Lindsley's place in Peterboro, where we spent the winter. We
left Peterboro in February, via New York and New Orleans, through the
Imperial Valley to San Diago where we stayed a week: then sailed from
San Francisco per "President Taft" for Shanghai. On both the way home
and out, we were able to see the terrible devastation in Yokohama of
the great earthquake of September 1/1923: all the Lindsley houses on
The Bluff and in the settlement were entirely destroyed.
         The company had notified me that after returning from Boston,
I was to be stationed at Shanghai on the Marketing Board. We stayed for
week or two at the Astor Hotel and then moved to N.G. Maitland's house
at 25 Ferry Road, while my sister Eleanor was in England. After her
return we moved into a splendid house on Edinburgh Road, while the
owner was in England on six months furlough: we then moved to a house
on Yu Yuen Road for two years. The children attended the Shanghai
American School, established by American businessmen and missionaries,
of which I acted as treasurer for two years. The family spent the
summer of 1925 in Karuizawa, going over by the "Korea Maru", and
returning by the "Nagasaki Maru": I went over to fetch than and had ten
days with them. During my years in Shanghai I made many interesting
business trips up country: the first was by rail to Chinkiang on the
Yangtze river, and thence in the comfortable motor launch of the
company, up the Grand Canal to Tsingpiangpu, stopping at Yangchow,
where Marco Polo lived for three years in the year 1280, at that time
on the bank of the Yangtze, but now 40 miles inland. The Grand Canal is
not more than 100 ft wide except where it passes through several lakes,
and is a remarkable waterway 600 miles long, carrying an enormous junk
traffic, towed along the banks by coolies. I travelled through Nanking,
Wuhu, and Kiukiang territories, going up to the mountain resort of
Kuling from Kiukiang. The many fine pagodas along the Yangtze are very
beautiful, 7 to 11 stories high. Also through Hankow territory and in
to the Poyang Lake as far as Nanchang. The finest trip of all, was from
Hangchow to Ichang by steamer, 4 days, and thence through the Gorges
per "King Wo" to Chungking, taking four days, as the steamers only run
in the day time. This remarkable Upper Yangtze river has terrific
variations in level at different seasons.

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At Kweichowfu, not quite half way through the gorges, the high water is
135 ft; above the winter low water level. It is interesting to see the
cargo junks towed up the river from different levels cut out of the
face of the cliffs, according to the different levels of the river, by
one or two hundred collies, always naked, chanting curious songs. It
takes the high powered steamers, limited in length to 105 ft to get
around sharp corners, and capable of 16 knots, over half an hour to go
through some of the worst gorges, not more than a quarter of a mile
long, running under forced draft, flames streaming from their funnels.
We had a lot of Chinese baggage piled around the funnels on deck, and
it caught fire from the red hot metal. When I landed at the gate of our
Chungking installation in June, I stepped off the boat at the front
gate of our compound, but by the time I started back home, I had to
walk down a flight of 150 steps to the boat. Chungking is high on the
north bank of the river, the streets narrow and hilly, without wheel
traffic, transportation being by sedan chairs with long poles,
delightfully springy to ride in. Our company residences were high up on
the second range of hills on the south bank of the river, and twice
daily we were carried in chairs for the 45 minute trip, through miles
of graves and around terrifying precipices, from Chungking I took
another steamer for four more days up the river to Suifu, where
navigation on the Yangtze ceases, over 1600 miles from Shanghai. People
going on to Cheng-tu, ascend the Min river by motor boat or junk, which
puts one not far from the border of Thibet. The greet monastery of O-
mai-shan is there, but I did not get a chance to go to it. One sees
many corpses and dead animals floating in the Yangtze, and our water
supply was scooped up out of the river, settled in big earthen jars,
cleared by stirring alum in it, and then boiled: it takes a little time
to get used to this, but never seems to hurt anyone. The fields along
the upper river are beautiful in poppy time, from which opium is made.
The upper river steamers all have armored wheel houses, into which we
scurried when the siren signalled soldiers on the shore, who shoot at
the steamers for fun: I picked several bullets out of the woodwork in
my cabin to send Maya. Steamers, though carrying armed guards, are not
allowed by treaty to return the fire. They stop for the night at safe
places out of the swift current. In March 1927 we had just moved into a
house on Avenue Foch, when the Shanghai riots occurred, with many
killed in the attack on the Lao-za Police Station. Most of the Shanghai
residents moved their families away and I thought it best to send Maya
and the children to Kobe for a time, where they stayed at the Tor
Hotel. Fortunately, the company, in April, transferred me back to
Japan, our head office then being in Kobe, since the destruction of our
Yokohama office in the earthquake.
         I therefore sailed for Kobe on the "President Taft" I was
appointed Assistant General Manager at Kobe, and we lived at the Tor
Hotel until June, when we moved to Shioya, a suburb at the entrance of
the Inland sea, 15 miles west of Kobe, in a house built by a Frenchman
Mr. Saliege, high up on the hill, with a magnificent view of the
Straits of Awaji. We moved back to Kobe in December 1927, to our old
house at Inari no shita: meanwhile the children had been attending the
Canadian Academy, commuting daily by train all by themselves. In June
1928, the new company offices and residences had been completed in
Yokohama, all built of reinforced cement concrete. Our new house was at
Negishi, 3 miles from the city, on a 200 ft cliff overlooking that part
of Tokyo Bay named Mississippi Bay by Commodore Perry in 1854, near the
Race course The company built our house to my design.
         My next furlough was then granted, and after packing our
furniture to be shipped to Yokohama, we booked passage by the P & 0
steamer

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"Ranpura" from Kobe for Marseilles, to sail in June 1928. Just a few
days before sailing, our New York office wired me to await the arrival
of our director, Howard E. Cole, so Maya and the children had to go off
alone on the "Ranpura": This was very disturbing to our plans but it
couldn't be helped. It was an educational trip for the children: they
visited Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Columbo and Bombay, where they
saw the "Towers of Silence", the Parsee Cemetery, in which the bodies
are laid on stone slabs to be eaten by the vultures: the via Port Said,
Naples, Marseilles, Paris, and thence to Flims, Switzerland where they
spent the summer at the Waldhaus Hotel. After Mr. Cole's business had
been completed in Yokohama, I left on August 8th to join the family at
Flims. I went by train through Korea and Manchuria to Harbin, changing
there into the Siberian Railway train for Moscow, an eight day trip,
passing through Manchouli, Chita, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk,
Sverdlovsk &c. I spent three days in Moscow, seeing the Kremlin and
other sights, then on to Warsaw and Berlin, where I took the train for
Munich and Chur in Switzerland. I arrived at Flims not many days after
the family had reached there, as their voyage took 45 days. We spent
the whole summer there, making several trips to the Engadine, St.
Moritz, &c. I had to start back to Yokohama, so in September, Maya
accompanied me to London, leaving the children with Mrs. Lindsley at
Flims. We stopped at Villars-sur-Bex above Lake Geneva to look at the
place where the family intended to stay till December, to give the
children the benefit of the pure Swiss mountain air. Maya and I had a
pleasant time at Paris and visited my sister Eleanor and her family at
West Byfleet.  Maya then went back to Flims, while I sailed in
September per "Leviathan" for New York, then per "President Cleveland"
from San Francisco, arriving at Yokohama late in November. I unpacked
furniture and fired up the new house for Maya's arrival. The children
attended the Alpine College at Villars, and then they all left for
London, spending Christmas at Fleming's Hotel on Half-Moon Street.
While they were at Villars, Mrs.  Lindsley's faithful Japanese servant,
Tomi-san, died of a heart attack: he was cremated and his ashes posted
to me in Yokohama to turn over to his family: he had been with the
Lindsleys for fifty years. The family came on to New York by the
"Berengaria", and went to stay at Halstead's house in Lenox, Mass. for
four months: the children studied at the Lenox Academy. In April 1929
they all came out to Yokohama, sailing from San Francisco per
"President Pierce". For the next year or so the children attended the
Tokyo American School commuting daily from Yokohama to Meguro. In July
1929 we brought out from Milton, Mr. William L. Cobb, to tutor John for
the Milton Academy: he stayed a year with us. They spent that summer at
Karuizawa, and took many trips up country, to Miyanoshita and Kusatsu,
the leper colony: the hot springs there were a favorite cure for
lepers, both rich and poor. John was fascinated in talking with people
whose fingers had dropped off and whose noses had fallen in.  When I
was stationed in Nagasaki, our agents were a very rich family, all
lepers, (not very far advanced as yet) and I used to squirm when they
called: it is not a very contagious disease: lepers are not segregated
in Japan though there are sanatoriums if they wish to go there. In
1930, we decided to send the children home to Milton, so that John and
Eleanor could enter Milton Academy in the September term: I hoped to
join them in a year or so if the company would allow me to retire. Maya
and the children sailed from Yokohama in August 1930 on the maiden
voyage of the "Empress of Japan", via Vancouver, and on arrival at
Milton, lived

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with Mrs. Lindsley at 302 Adams St., John entering the Academy in Sept-
ember. They spent Thanksgiving with Halstead at Lenor, and Christmas in
Peterboro. In June 1931, the company was still refusing to let me
retire, so Maya brought the whole family out again to Yokohama, via
Vancouver per "Empress of Asia": the children again attended the Tokyo
American School,
         In 1932 I received notice that I would be allowed to retire in
January 1933: the company allowed their foreign staff to retire at the
age of 55, instead of 65 as was the case with employees in the U.S.A.
On this account, Maya and the children started back to Milton in August
1932: they sailed via Suez, per "President Pierce" and had another
chance to visit Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Columbo,
Bombay: they left the steamer at Suez, and motored to Cairo to see the
Pyramids, reembarking at Alexandria for Italian and French
Mediterranean ports and via Gibraltar to New York. On arrival at Milton
they again lived with Mrs. Lindsley at 302 Adams St. I finally left
Japan for good on January 12/1933, 44 years after I had first arrived
there. I sailed from Kobe per "President Garfield", via Suez: I took
this route in order to bring our 105 cases of furniture and effects,
direct to Boston without transhipment, and also our two fox terriers. I
stopped off at Cairo to see the Pyramids which I had missed in 1905.
Then by the same boat to Naples. Maya had come over to meet me there on
the Italian line steamer "Augustus", via Tangiers, Madeira Islands and
Gibraltar. Her steamer had arrived at Naples just two hours before
mine. I left the fox terriers on board and cabled Chester to meet them
and keep them till we returned. Maya and I had a wonderful trip
together, visiting Rome, Peruggia, to Genoa. Here the 1932-3 depression
struck us, and we had the alarming experience of being unable to cash
our travellers cheques, nor could I draw on my letter of credit.
Fortunately I had enough cash to get to Paris, where Maya and I spent
three days trying to get the branches of the National City Bank and the
Bankers Trust, to cash their cheques: eventually they gave me enough to
get to London and the storm blew itself out. We stayed at the Langham
Hotel for a happy two weeks, seeing Eleanor and her family at West
Byfleet. Maya and I sailed from Liverpool per "Scythia" to Boston
direct - a very rough voyage: John was at the pier to meet us. We lived
at 302 Adams Street until September 1st, when we rented the beautiful
estate of Ernest Howditch at 366 Adams St., Milton, the house having
been designed and built by Stanford White in grounds of 16 acres. We
lived there eight years. I found it very pleasant to be retired and had
lots of time to garden, and to work on the Poole and Lindsley
genealogies: this was a hobby which I had been interested in since I
was 19 years old, at which tine father showed me what data he had of
the Poole family. The summers of 1934 and 1935, were spent at Mrs.
Armstrong's Camp Deephaven at Lake Squam, the children enjoying the
boating and swimming vary much. Chester's family spent the latter
summer with us there. In March 1936, the whole family sailed from New
York per "Queen of Bermuda", and came back on the same boat: this gave
the children a lift over the Easter Holidays at the Princess Hotel. We
went there again the next three years, the last time spending the whole
summer at Walden Gate, across from Hamilton, in Mr. Holbrook's house,
         Father being a Republican, I cast my first vote for London as
President - the second time for Wilkie: both were defeated. Maya being
a staunch Democrat like her father, always voted opposite to me.
In 1935 John graduated from Milton and entered Harvard University where
he graduated in 1940.

                               Subject 1.                    P.18.

          In May 1936, I made a three months trip with Halstead, to
Europe, sailing from New York per "Normandie" for Le Havre, landing
there May 17th, and motored in Halstead's Lincoln car through Rouen,
Paris, Geneva, Basle, Interlaken, Chur, St. Moritz, Chiavenna,
Bellagio, Bergamo, Brescia and Padua to Venice. It was most interesting
to revisit these towns, most of which I had visited 50 years before.
Then on through Cortina, Innsbruck, Garmich, Oberammergau, Munich, and
Chur to Marienbad, where Halstead annually took a cure under Dr.
Porges: I, too, took a kind of cure and put on 10 lbs. Halstead and I
separated there, he going back to London, while I took the train to
Pilsen, Prague, Leipzig and Berlin to Hamburg, Brussels, Cologne to
London, where I stayed two weeks with my sister Eleanor at West
Byfleet, and returned to New York by the "Queen Mary", late in July.
          In January 1937 I made an interesting trip, sailing from
Boston per "Lady Drake", via Bermuda to St. Kitts, Montserrat, Antigua,
Dominica, Barbadoes, St. Lucia, Grenada, Trinidad and on to Demerara in
British Guiana. Back to Boston by the same boat, touching the same
ports, the whole trip taking 20 days. The family spent the summer 1938
in Bermuda, where they rented "Widrington", the home of George
Butterfield at Pitts Bay.
          In November 1938, I made another interesting trip to Porto
Rico, sailing from New York per "Borinquen" for San Juan, going on the
same night to Domingo where we landed next morning at Trujillo and
drove around the country: back to San Juan for two days, then took the
"Catherine" for the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix, which had
particular interest for me, for it was at St. Croix that mother's
Armstrong ancestors had lived for so many years in the 1700-1800s, see
full account of this trip under subject 24, page 14.  Returning to
Porto Rico I took a delightful motor trip through the island to Ponce
on the south coast. Then back to New York by the next trip of the
"Borinquan", arriving in Boston before Christmas.
          We made our first trip to Palm Beach at Easter 1937, with all
the children, and again at Christmas of that year, staying at the
Breakers about a week each time. No, I'm wrong: Easter 1937 we spent at
the Honey-Plaza Hotel, Miami. In February 1939, while the children at
were in school at Milton, Maya and I made a trip down the west coast of
Florida to Naples, and across the Tamiami Trail to Miami, and came to
the conclusion that Palm Beach was the ideal spot for winter vacations.
In November 1939 I made a trip to Washington, Chicago, Saginaw, Detroit
and Buffalo, renewing my acquaintance with my Armstrong cousins in
Chicago and with cousin Maude Hoxie in Buffalo. The winter of 1940-1,
we spent at Lotus Cottage, Palm Beach: 1941-2 at Sandrift Cottage, and
1942-3 again at Lotus Cottage. These winters we simply locked up our
Milton house, gave the keys to the Milton Police to keep an eye on it.
Maya, John and Eleanor drove our car down and back in two of those
winters, while I travelled by train with the luggage and the dogs. In
November 1941 my prostate was removed by Dr. Edward Young and spent
five pleasant weeks at the Faulkner Hospital in Boston.
             In the spring of 1941, the trustees of the Bowditch estate
at 366 Adams St., notified us that they had sold the estate to the
Catholics for a Parochial School: Mrs. Lindsley was 85 years old and
living with us. Maya bought our present house at 1250 Canton Avenue,
Milton, four miles west of Adams Street, and we moved in September 1st.
To avoid the confusion in getting settled, Mrs. Lindsley had gone up to
Peterboro with Thayer and her brother Clarence: she died there on
September 25th.
             The second World War soon broke out, and one by one, our

                         subject 1.      P.19.

servants left us to take other better paying war jobs, and we have
since done our own house work, something our training in the Orient did
not fit us for. In the winter of 1944-5, we rented the Stuyvesant
Pierpont house "Keywaydin" on Sunset Avenue, Palm Beach. The next few
years we made a few trips to New York, but mostly staying quietly at
home. In 1947 in November, we went to Bermuda and rented the Lightbourn
house "Overlook" in Paget for six months. Maya, Eleanor and her baby
George flew by plane while I followed by the "Amherst" with the luggage
and our dog Brownie. Bermuda is really too cold and windy in winter.
John flew up from Miami for Christmas, and Molly and George Lenci came
down in March for five weeks. I'm afraid we are a restless family,
and we all miss the former pleasant trips back and forth across the
Pacific to the Orient. My one regret is that I have never been south of
the Equator. We returned to Milton on May 24/1948, with Eleanor
and George, by the "Lady Nelson" and stayed at 1250 all summer. John
came up from Miami in July and had his tonsils out, and sinus enlarged,
and a difficult impacted wisdom tooth extracted. David and Jacqueline
were living at 309 Marlboro St, Boston, while he was studying for his
Master's degree at M.I.T. Molly was at Rochester. In September, Eleanor
took George back to Bermuda by a Lady Boat, and rented "Harbor View"
for us in Paget. Maya followed by plane, and I per "Fort Townshend", as
usual, with the luggage and the dog.  Early in February 1949, David
graduated from M.I.T. and decided to go to Paris for a couple of years,
- Jacqueline had gone ahead of him by plane, just before Christmas. To
see David before he sailed, Maya flew to New York by plane on February
12th, and I followed by the "Queen of Bermuda".  We stayed at Thayer's
969 Park Avenue apartment, saw David off on the "America", and we
stayed in New York until April 6th, when we went to Miami and stayed at
"Leafy Way" in Coconut Grove, in Mrs. Swetland's house which Maya had
taken for Thayer in November, flying down and back for three days to
fix the lease. We spent a pleasant month there, met John's prospective
bride, Doris Lorber, a very nice girl, a twin. We met David Fairchild
and reminded him of his trip to Japan in 1892 and of the Eldridges
there whom he knew. While there, Maya bought a house at 4197 Braganza
Avenue for John and put the title in his name, a bungalow of living
room, two bedrooms, bath, kitchen and garage, in half an acre of
beautifully planted garden. Meanwhile, after we had left Bermuda,
Eleanor married again, Tom Gerald David Bamford, a young Englishman
with the English Government Cable & Wireless Company.  When the lease
of Harbor View was up on March 15th, they moved to a little bungalow,
Harry Ann Cottage, Paget.
         In May 1949, Maya and I returned to Milton, and on June 6th,
Eleanor with George and his nurse Marion Pulley, flew in by plane for a
six week's visit, with the object of having a suspicious lump in her
breast examined. Dr. Young operated, and found it was not malignant, a
great relief to all of us. That summer we had our old coal heating
plant replaced by a General Electric Oil Furnace. On June 1st, George
Lenci completed his year's service with Dr. Pulsifer in Rochester, and
made a trip to various States to look over the possibilities: he chose
Roseburg, Oregon, and a few weeks later, took Molly and their son Bobby
out there. He has made a great success: Molly made us a short visit
while their furniture was being shipped out.
         On October 1/1949, Maya and I went to Bermuda by the "Queen of
Bermuda", and lived four months at Knollwood, Paget, a lovely little
place with a quaint garden. John was married at Miami on December 10th,
to Doris Katherine Lorber, but we couldn't be present. Shortage of rain
water forced us to leave Bermuda, Maya, George and Marion Pulley flew
by plane on January 22/1950, while Eleanor and I sailed per "Lady

                           Subject 1.        P.20.

Rodney", on January 26/1950. We found the new heating plant at 1250 was
working well. David and Jacqueline were still in Paris.
        In March 1950, Maya and Eleanor wanted to go to Miami to see
John, so they left the 12th, and rented the house of Mrs. Wainwright at
3601 Bay View Road, Coconut Grove, for $800 for a couple of months. On
April 12th, I joined then, and we returned to Milton on May 6th. While
there, Maya was persuaded by Eleanor to buy the house of Monte V.
Wiggins, 929 Tendilla Avenue, Coral Gables, in which to spend our
future winters, for $29,000. Maya was doubtful about it and though
Eleanor later changed her mind as her children were not well there, the
real estate agent buffaloed Maya unwillingly to sign the purchase
agreement. We moved into the house for a few weeks but Maya felt
strange in that locality, so sold it again, losing $641 on the deal.
In June 1950, Doris came up to visit us for a month, and we all
attended David Manchester Poole's wedding at Woonsocket, R.I. on the
23rd: we also made a short visit to Peterboro.
        Molly's second child, Susan, was born July 24th, and Eleanor's
second child Sheila, on the 31st. John's first child, Catherine was
born September 24th, thus adding three grandchildren within a month or
two. In October l950 I had to undergo an operation for fistula, Dr.
Young operating, and spent nine pleasant days at the Faulkner Hospital.
        On November 23/1950, we rented Lotus Cottage, Palm Beach, for
the winter, the rental being $4500. Maya bought a new Chevrolet in that
month but we didn't take it to Palm Beach: instead we took down
Eleanor's English Standard car which she had bought in Bermuda, and
which she sold when we left Palm Beach. We returned to Milton on May
3/1951.
        On June 14/1951, Maya went out to visit Molly at Roseburg for
two weeks. During the past winter, Eleanor and Gerald decided to make
another trial at living together and he arranged to come to this
country and make his career here, leaving his employ at the Imperial
Chemicals Co.  So Maya in June bought a house for Eleanor at 42,
Spafford Road, Milton, for $28,500.
        Early in August 1951, Maya complained of being tired, dizzy,
and unable to focus her eyes properly. She worried continuously over
the boys "drifting", as she called it, not working at any particular
job: she was also upset by the overcharge of Arthur King for renovating
our kitchen, and other trivial tribulations of our daily lives. She
made the remark that she felt as if she were going to have a stroke,
but was up and around, and gave a successful lunch party on the 8th.
On the 10th, I called Dr. Eugene McAuliffe to see what was wrong and he
promised to come in at four o'clock. All morning we had been wrapping
up parcels to send Molly and I took them to the Post Office at noon.
While I was away, Maya was resting on her bed after lunch, Eleanor
being in the garden below her window with the children. Shortly before
three o'clock, Eleanor heard her call out, rushed up to her room, and
found Maya all twisted up and partly unconscious. She phoned the doctor
who came in fifteen minutes: I returned shortly after, and found Maya
apparently all well again. The doctor advised her to stay in bed a few
days and to get a nurse to see that she did. Maya was entirely normal
up to midnight when we all turned in, but at 4 A.M. she called me, and
Eleanor and I found her unconscious. The doctor came at 7 next morning:
all that day, the 11th, she wade no improvement, in spite of an oxygen
tent the doctor brought in. By nightfall Dr. McAuliffe had been able to
bring in for consultation, Dr. Raymond Adams, head professor of the
Harvard Medical School and the Neurological department of the Mass
General Hospital.  He recommended moving Maya to the Milton Hospital
where there were proper

                            Subject 1.     P.21.

facilities, in spite of the danger of moving her at that time. Maya
had always hated the idea of going into a hospital, and though Eleanor
and I were reluctant to frighten her if she regained consciousness and
found herself there the nurse and I took her before midnight in an
ambulance to the Milton Hospital, without any bad effect. Dr. Adams
confirmed Dr. McAuliffe's diagnosis of a cerebral thrombosis, occuring
in the main artery at the base of the skull before the artery branched
into both sides of the brain. He told us it was very serious and held
out little hope of recovery, and warned us that if she did recover, she
would be completely paralysed. Her condition gradually waned and she
passed away the 15th at 8.20 P.M., with Thayer, John, David and I at
her bedside. Dr. Adams was of the opinion that she was conscious much
of the time but could not signify that she knew us. Maya was seldom if
ever ill, was in perfect health, no high blood pressure, nor gave any
sign of the approaching tragedy, entirely unsuspected and so sudden.
Dr. Adams was of the opinion that the degeneration of her arteries had
been coming on gradually for a long time, through worry and over
exertion. T had wired Thayer and the children the day after her stroke
they all except Molly came within 24 hours: Molly could not leave her
children.  We brought Maya home the next day and she was buried on the
18th at 4 P.M. in her parents' grave in the Milton Cemetery. She left
her estate of approximately $300,000 to her four children.
         Gerald arrived from England two days after Maya's stroke, and
we decided that he and Eleanor and children would live with me here
pending the probate of the estate, so Eleanor sold the Spafford Road
house. In September Gerald joined the United Carr Fastener Co, at
Cambridge. Georgie commenced school at the Milton Academy. My
appointment as Executor was approved the end of September, so with
all that attendant work, we stayed in Milton that winter. John's
second child, William Thayer Lindsley, was born January 5/1952. David
returned per "America" in April 1952, Jacqueline remaining in Paris:
she came over for the summer but returned to Paris alone in September:
David followed her in November, throwing up his job with Thayer again.
I visited Chester at Charlottesville in May 1952 for a week. Eleanor's
third child was born in July 1952 and John`s third child in March 1953.
Early in January 1953, Eleanor took her children and Mrs Swenson to
Palm Beach, and lived in a house Thayer rented for her at 247 Sea
Spray Avenue till April 12th. I stayed in Milton that winter, and Hope
Payne Dawson came to live with Gerald and I from January till Eleanor
returned. Molly moved into her new house in March, after being flooded
out again in their old house. Molly's third child was born May 18/1953,
and David's first son was born in Paris June 26/1953. Doris and her
children spent August and September at Peterboro. In September, David
again returned home alone per "Queen Elizabeth", but went back to Paris
in October, again refusing the job Thayer offered him. In September
1953, Dr Young sewed up my old hernia, (which I get cranking the Buick
at Kurume in 1911), - a pleasant ten days at the Faulkner Hospital.
Gerald meantime had left Carr Fastener, and joined Harris, Upham & Co.,
stock brokers in Boston, but left them and started work in Montreal
with Nesbit, Thompson & Co., for Thayer's work. Eleanor had meanwhile
bought out John, Molly's and David's share of 1250 Canton Ave, and had
the kitchen, bathrooms &c modernised.
          On December 6/1953, Eleanor, the children and I came down to
Palm Beach, El living at a house Thayer rented for her at 347,
Australian Avenue, and I living in Thayer`s house, 640 Crest Road, with
Mrs Hughes

                           Subject 1.  (7/1/55)  P21A

                    Herbert Armstrong Poole

cooking all our meals here. Gerald came down and worked for a couple of
months at Himes & Himes, accountants, but went back to Thayer's office
in New York early in April. John and Doris came up several times to see
us. Georgie attended the Palm Beach Private school, learned to read,
and to swim and dive. During this winter Eleanor bought a new house at
Bahama lane, intending to make Palm Beach her permanent home and sell
1250 Canton Avenue. David returned in February or March 1954, and
joined Thayer's office in Toronto: Jacqueline remained in Paris. David
went, back to Paris in May 1954, and Eleanor and I returned to Milton
on May 26th. In the latter part of June 1954, George and Molly and
their three children visited us in Milton for a month, very sorry to
miss David, and their visit was an unforgettable pleasure. Later David
returned, from Paris but we didn't see him - he went right through to
Toronto. In August Eleanor and I spent the month in Peterboro, and
experienced the first hurricane there - no damage as it passed east of
Peterboro. We returned to Milton and ran into the second hurricane,
were without light, or heat or phone for 10 days, Gerald cooking on the
outdoor grill he had invented for the kids pleasure - only a few of our
trees went down.
        On October 6th, Eleanor and Gerald drove the car down to Palm
Beach, while Mrs Swenson and I came by train, and lived this winter at
Mrs. Burkholtz's house 242 Sea Spray Avenue. Thayer came down for week
in April to 640 Crest Road. Georgia again attended the Palm Beach
Private School. Eleanor sold her Bahama Lane house and in March, bought
a house at 235 Sea Spray Avenue. She also sold 1250 Canton Avenue to
Mr. Wendell Jacques, who is selling off five or six lots to pay for it.
Early in March, Eleanor want up to Richardson House, Boston, to have
her fourth child, Thomas Lindsley Bamford, on March 26th, and during
her stay at there with Mrs. Hughes, she dismantled the house, shipped
some of the stuff to Molly, John, and some to Palm Beach, the rest
being stored at Thayer`s Beverly house, against the time when David
may need some. Eleanor returned to Palm Beach April 26th, and I left
there May 26th, and lived with Mrs. Guild at 251 Atherton St., Milton
while clearing my things out of 1250, and kept Brownie with me. Gerald
fortunately went down to stay with Eleanor the month of June. In March,
John had an attack of pneumonia and went up to Roosevelt Hospital in
New York for an operation to patch up two broken ribs, and to have his
lung scraped from some deposit. It was touch and go whether he would
pull through, but he got back to Miami late in May, apparently fully
recovered. He still has no regular job, but is making some money with a
few friends, buying undeveloped land and shaping it into building lots,
and selling them. In March David again went to Paris, and returned a
couple of months later, saying Jacqueline may come over in August,
1955.

              From here on typed by O.M.P from H.A.P.'s rough set.
              (typescript changes)


         In July 1955, Eleanor left Our Palm Beach house in charge of
Emma Lou, and with Mrs. Swenson and the children travelled by train to
New York, driving thence to Peterboro in Thayer's beach-wagon, and
spent the Summer at Lake Nubanusit in a house Thayer had bought five
miles West of Hancock. Doris and her children spent August at Thayer's
house in Peterboro, coming up and back by plane. David spent a week
with us at Nubanusit. Gerald spent August driving Christopher Owen to
some of Thayer's mines in Canada. I had a complete examination of my
eyes at the Massachusetts Ear & Eye Infirmary by Dr. W. Morton Grant
who said I had "Open angle Glaucoma", vision much restricted, but
recommended no operation, just pilocarpine drops as usual. Eleanor,
Mrs. Swenson, the kids and I drove from Nubanusit to Penn Station, New
York, on Sept. 18, 1955, in Thayer's beach-wagon, and took the train
down to Palm Beach, where Eleanor's three children attended the Palm
Beach Private School.

Typed by Chester.            Subject 1               21-B.

                     HERBERT ARMSTRONG POOLE

         On November 29/1955, Molly had her fourth child, Virginia
Washburn Lenci.
        This Summer Thayer Lindsley turned over the Presidency of
Ventures, Ltd. to Robert Anderson, and set up a Trust at the Chemical
Bank New York, for my four children, consisting of 3900 Ventures and
8892 Eureka shares each, from which they will receive only the
dividends until January 1960; thereafter the shares will be turned over
to them. At present market values of Ventures $156,000 and Eurekas
$17,000, it will be a nice nest-egg for their future.
         On November 15/1955, Eleanor and Gerald left for London per
"Queen Mary" and returned December 15th by the "Queen Elizabeth".  John
and Doris started new additions to their house at Coconut Grove.  In
November, Jacqueline, Francis and nurse flew to Toronto and flew back
to Paris a couple of months later. In March 1956 David flew both ways
to Paris for a week. Again in May he went over the s.s."United States"
and after a few weeks returned by the "Queen Mary

         In May 1956, Eleanor divorced Gerald. On May 1st, Iris Payne,
some 40 years of age, divorced, no children, - came over from England
as nurse for Eleanor's children.

         On June 5/1956, I went by train to Richmond where Chester met
me and drove me to his home, "Missing Acres", 12 miles West of
Charlottesville, for a week's visit with him and Dorothy. Thence I went
on to Milton, Mass., where I stayed four months with Mrs.Guild, taking
"Brownie" along with me. I returned by train to Palm Beach, October
13th.  Meanwhile, in July, Georgie flew up with Jeffrey Gray to Milton
and Peterboro. Mrs.Swenson, Iris, the three younger kids and "Sparky"
flew to Boston, whence Charlie drove them to Peterboro.  Eleanor, with
Mrs.  Adair, drove our car up, stopping a day with Chester & Dorothy at
Charlottesville. September 5th, Iris, Bertie, Tommy and "Sparky" flew
back to Palm Beach by plane; Eleanor, Georgie and Sheila drove back in
our car, but when El reached Baltimore, exhausted, Thayer had to rescue
her, get a man to drive her car to Washington, where they stayed a
night at the hotel, going on by train next day, while Thayer arranged
for a man to drive her car down to Palm Beach. This Summer, Eleanor had
a swimming pool built in her garden at 235 Sea Spray Ave., and the
garage altered, with two bedrooms upstairs and living room downstairs;
2 baths. The three elder children again at the Palm Beach School

         On October 24/1956, David again sailed on the "Queen Mary" for
Paris. Thayer also flew over in October and saw Jacqueline. After
returning to Toronto, David came down to spend Christmas with us and
visited John in Miami. The additions to John's house are not finished
yet. In August 1956, their fifth child was born - Alexandra Manchester
Poole.
         In November 1 had to have a skin-cancer under my ear cut out.
Dr.Armstrong had cut one out of the same spot three years ago, but it
grew again.
         Gerald has been in England since July.

         Eleanor rented her house, 235 Sea Spray Ave., from Jan.15 to
April l5/1957, to Ellsworth Alvord of Washington; so we rented and
moved to Kaltenborn's house at 347 Sea View Avenue. Here George
unfortunately had his two upper front teeth knocked out by a baseball
bat, but the one second tooth was pressed back and I hope will stick.
The other was a first tooth.


                            Subject 1               21-C

                      HERBERT ARMSTRONG POOLE

         In March 1957, David and Thayer went over to Paris again
to see about David's divorce from Jacqueline. It was granted in May-
June.  David then made a trip out to California, - San Francisco and
Santa Barbara; and also visited Molly in Roseburg. Molly, George and
their children flew to Santa Barbara to visit the Lencis for two weeks
in July.

         John and Doris stayed through the Summer in Miami, where John
had a serious bout of illness from too many drugs. (medicinal).

         Eleanor and I, for the first time, remained through the Summer
at Palm Beach. With air conditioners in every room, and with the
Swimming Pool, it was not too uncomfortable. That Spring, Eleanor had
taken examinations at Orlando for a real-estate saleswoman's license,
and then joined the Robert Wilson Real Estate Co. She has earned
several commissions, one a good one for selling a $30,000 house. My old
fox-terrier "Brownie" died at the end of June, just a week short of 17
years of age; she had become deaf and almost blind. Georgie spent the
two months of July and August 1957 at Camp Yonahnoka in North Carolina.
         In July, Mrs. de Bosschere of Brussels spent two weeks with
us.  And in August Dick Poole visited us for three days on his way home
to Charlottesville from Bogota, via Nassau.
         In August, Thayer and David again went to Paris, where David
is looking for a possible job. He returned in the "Queen Mary" October
29th.

This brings Bert's chronicle up to end of 1957
(handwritten note by OM Poole?)



(this page in original typescript - by HAP?)

                      Subject 1.  P21-B 10/24/57

                      HERBERT ARMSTRONG POOLE.

(does not seem to follow any other pages, AM 1998)

only the dividends until January 1960: the shares will then be turned
over to them. Unfortunately in forming this trust, about one third of
the trust went to pay internal revenue taxes. On November 15/1955,
Eleanor and Gerald sailed for London on the "Queen Mary", and returned
December 15th by the "Queen Elizabeth". John and Doris started new
additions to their house at Coconut Grove. In November 1955 Jacqueline,
Francis and French nurse flew to Toronto, and stayed a month or so in a
rented house with David, then flew back to Paris.
       In March 1956, David flew to Paris and back for a week's visit.
In May 1956 he sailed by the "United States" for Paris for a few weeks,
and returned by the "Queen Mary". In May 1955 Eleanor divorced Gerald,
who kept on working for Thayer a month or so, then went to England and
gradually eased out. On June 1st, 1955, Iris Payne arrived by plane via
Nassau and Miami, to be the children's nurse, age fortyish, divorced,
no children. On June 5/1956 I went by train to Richmond where Chester
met and drove to Charlottesville for a week's visit, then train to
Milton, where I stayed four months with Mrs Guild at 231 Atherton St..
taking Brownie along with me: I returned by train to Palm Beach October
15/1956. The rest of the family spent three months in Peterboro from
July 1st, Georgie flying with Jeffrey Gray to Milton to Milton and then
Peterboro: Mrs. Swenson, Iris, the three smaller children and Sparky,
flew up by plane to Boston, Charlie Barrett driving them to Peterboro:
Eleanor, with Mrs. Adair drove our car up to Peterboro, stopping a day
with Chester at Charlottesville. On September 5/1956 Iris, Bertie,
Tommy and Sparky flew to Palm Beach, while Eleanor, George and Sheila
drove her car down, but on reaching Baltimore, was unable to drive
further.  She phoned Thayer in New York, who flew down at once, and who
got a Washington taxi man to drive her car to Washington, where they
stayed the night, and on to Palm Beach by train next day, while Thayer
had a taxi man drive her car to Palm Beach. During this summer, Eleanor
had a swimming pool built at 235 Sea Spray Avenue, and the garage
altered to a guest house with three rooms and two bathrooms. On August
14/1956 John's fifth child was born, Allessandra Manchester Poole. On
October 24/1956, David sailed on the "Queen Mary" for Paris, and
returned in six weeks. He came down from Toronto to spend Christmas
with us, and visited John in Miami for a day.  In 1957, Eleanor rented
235 Sea Spray from January 15th to April 15th, to the Ellsworth Alvords
of Washington, D.C. for $5500 and we rented the Kaltenborn house at 347
Sea View Ave.. In March 1957, Eleanor went to Orlando and passed the
examinations of the Florida Real Estate Board, and received her license
as a real estate saleswoman, and made over $1200 in commissions this
year, as saleswoman for the Robert Wilson Real Estate Co. of Palm
Beach. Also in March 1957 David and Thayer again went to Paris where
David started divorce proceedings - granted in May. Late in March
Georgia had his two upper front teeth knocked out by a mallet thrown by
a boy in play: one was a first tooth - the other a second tooth, was
pressed back into the gum and though dead, still sticks in 2 1/2 years
later. In May, David made a trip of investigation to San Francisco,
Santa Barbara, and stayed a few days with Molly in Roseburg. Brownie
died here in Palm Beach the last week of June, just a few days before
her 17th birthday: she was deaf and nearly blind. In July 1957, Molly,
George and their children flew to Santa Barbara for a two weeks visit.
John and Doris stayed the summer in Miami, and so did Eleanor and I, in
Palm Beach, not too uncomfortable with the air conditioners, and the
children enjoyed the 15 x 50 foot swimming pool. Georgia spent July and
August at Camp Yonchnaka, North Carolina. During his absence, Mrs. de
Bosschere of Brussels, spent two weeks with us, widow of my colleague
Jacques de

As for previous page 21B        Subject 1.  P21C  10/24/58

                         HERBERT ARMSTRONG POOLE.

Bosschere of Mosle & Co., Tokyo, days. Also in August, David and Thayer
went again to Paris, and David travelled through France, Belgium and
Switzerland re prospects for a job; he returned on the "Queen Mary", on
October 29/1957. On October 15/1958, I celebrated my eightieth birthday
at 235 Sea Spray Avenue, with Eleanor and the children. - quite a mile
stone. Late in October Dick Poole visited us a day on his flight from
Bogota to Charlottesville, via Nassau and Miami for his wedding on
November 2nd to Jillian Hanbury. In November 1957 David gave up his
Toronto job and went to Santa Barbara, Cal., where he joined the County
National Bank & Trust Co., as assistant to the manager of the Trust
Department.  After a short stay with the Lencis he rented an apartment
and bought a motor car and seemed to enjoy his position and work.
        Early in 1958, Thayer became much interested in Jacqueline's
clairvoyant powers, when he went to Paris to look into mining and oil
properties in The Middle East and Africa. To her advice with these
powers, he ascribes his success in parting with Robert Anderson, and
securing a twenty million dollar investment by Mcintyre in Ventures.
In the spring of 1958 he formed his new Paris firm, "Cogamines",
(Compagnie des Gites Mineraux) at 18 Place de la Madeleine, In November
1957, Eleanor rented 235 Sea Spray Ave., to Dr Lee Pollock of Toronto,
for five months for $7500, so we rented 115 Westminster Road, West Palm
Beech, from Mrs. Patricia Lord, a maniac of a woman who made our lives
miserable.  Georgie served the whole winter from 7 A.M. as conductor on
the school bus, driven by a teacher, to pick up students from the north
and of Palm Beach. George, Sheila and Bertie attended the Palm Beach
Private School. In April 1958, Thayer asked Eleanor to go to Paris to
help him fix up his new office there. He flew over April 26th, and
Eleanor and Georgie, followed by the French line "Liberte" sailing from
New York, May 22nd.  Thayer and Jacqueline met them at Le Havre and
drove them to Paris, where they all stayed at the Hotel Bristol on Rue
Faubourg St. Honore. Mrs.  Swenson came down to help with the children
while Eleanor was away.  Eleanor found Paris unpleasant with the riots
and disturbances at the assumption of power by De Gaulle, and she
returned on the "United States" in three weeks. Before Eleanor left for
Paris I had a heart check up and everything was found in good shape,
except my eye sight which is slowly getting worse and reading becoming
difficult - also shortage of breath on exertion - emphysema its called.
Molly had a hard time this spring, she and her children coming down
with measles and mumps, and her mother-in-law, Mrs Lenci died of cancer
at Santa Barbara.  On July 1/1958 Eleanor, the four children and Iris
went by train to New York, thence by motor to Peterboro and stayed till
September 8th, returning the same way.  I stayed here alone with Emma
Lou, keeping cool with the air conditioners.  John and Doris came up to
see me September 2nd - I hadn't seen John for 4 1/2 years - his last
visit was when we lived at Crest Road.  Early in July Thayer insisted
David re-join his New York-Paris firm, so David resigned his Santa
Barbara job and sailed July 10th (sixteenth) per "Queen Mary" for
Paris.  This summer of 1958, Molly built a 30 x 60 foot swimming pool
in their Roseburg garden. On September 12/1958 Thayer and Jacqueline
flew over from Paris far a 10 day visit, and flew back the 22nd.
Eleanor tried twice to go up and stay with Jacqueline at the St.
Moritz Hotel, but illness prevented her.


Continued on File HP1P22-E                       Subject 1.  P22 (4/22/52)

                    HERBERT ARMSTRONG POOLE.

         The following is the list of the steamers which I have
travelled on during my life, totalling some 360 days at sea, far below
father's record.  I have never been up in an aeroplane, my family
needing my pension as long as possible.

Date.          Steamer.                Voyage          Duration
                                                       Days
May 1888. Oceanic.                San Francisco to Yokohama.    18
Oct 1895. Olympia.                Kobe to Yokohama.              1
May 1899. Laos.                   Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Oct 1899. Sakura Maru.            Yokohama to Otaru.             5
Oct 1899. Thuruga Maru.           Muroran to Hakodate.          1/2
Oct 1899. Taganoura Maru.         Hakodate to Aomori.           1/2
Aug 1900. Prinz Heinrich.         Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Aug 1900. Yoshidagawa Maru.       Kobe to Unija.                 2
Aug 1900, Baken Maru.             Ujina to Moji.                 1/2
Aug 1900. Empress of India.       Nagasaki to Kobe.              1
Aug 1901. Shinagawa Maru.         Yokkaichi to Yokohama          1
Jan 1902. Hong Kong Maru.         Kobe to Yokohama.              1
May 1902. Princess Irene.         Yokohama to Shanghai.          5
May 1902. Tungchow.               Shanghai to Tientsin.          3
May 1902. Yinkow.                 Port Arthur to Chefoo.        1/2
May 1902. Sagami Maru.            Chefoo to Kobe.                4
Aug 1902. Hamburg.                Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Aug 1902, Kobe Maru.              Kobe to Yokohama.              1
Apr 1903. Kiautschou.             Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Apr 1903. Siberia.                Kobe to Yokohama.              1
Spt 1903. Genkai Maru.            Aomori to Hakodate            1/2
Spt 1905. Miike Maru.             Hakodate-Otaru-Yokohama.       5
Feb 1904, Coptic.                 Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Jun 1904. Vindobona.              Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Jun 1904. Korea.                  Kobe to Yokohama.              1
Dec 1904. China.                  Yokohama to San Francisco     18
Mar 1905. Baltic                  New York to Liverpool.         8
Mar 1905. Maria Henrietta.        Dover to Ostend.              1/8
Apr 1905. Princess of Wales.      Bologne to Folkestone.        1/8
Apr 1905. Queen.                  Dover to Calais.              1/8
Jun 1905. Brussels.               Antwerp to Harwich.           1/8
Jul 1905. Adder.                  Ardrossan to Belfast.         1/8
Jul 1905. Earl of Antrim.         Dublin to Liverpool.          1/8
Aug 1905. Brighton.               Newhaven to Dieppe.           1/8
Spt 1905. Osiris,                 Brindisi to Port Said.         2
Spt 1905. China.                  Port Said to Colombo.         14
Spt 1905. Arcadia.                Colombo to HongKong.          11
Oct 1905. Doric.                  Hong Kong to Kobe.             9
Spt 1906. Osumi Maru.             Aomori to Hakodate.           1/2
Oct 1906. Higo Marn.              Murcran to Aomori.            1/2
Dec 1906. Korea.                  Yokohama to Kobe.              1.
Dec 1906. Prinz Eitel Frederick.  Kobe to Yokohama.              1.
Feb 1907. Kosai Maru.             Yokohama to Kobe,              1.
Mar 1907. Coptic.                 Kobe to Yokohama.              1.
Mar 1907. Zieten,                 Yokohama to Kobe.              1.
Apr 1907. Tamba Maru,             Kobe to Yokohama.              1.
Dec 1907. Prinz Regent Luitpold.  Yokohama to Kobe.              1.
Dec 1907. Yeiko Maru.             Kobe to Moji.                  1.
Dec 1907. Port Maru.              Nagasake to Shanghai.         1 1/2


                            Subject 1.     4/22/52           23.

Dec 1907. Mongolia.               Shanghai to Yokohama.          1
Feb 1908. Ernest Simons.          Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Feb 1908. Yanaguchi Maru.         Kobe to Moji.                  1
Mar 1908. Princess Alice.         Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Jul 1908. Chikuzen Maru.          Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Jan 1909. Chiyo Maru.             Kobe to Yokohama.              1
Dec 1909. Prinz Ludwig.           Yokohama to Kobe.              1
Dec 1909. Polynesian.             Kobe to Yokohama.              1
Jan 1910. Bulow.                  Yokohama to Kobe.              1.
Jul 1910. Chikuzen Yara.          Kobe to Moji.                  1
Aug 1910. Hakuai Maru.            Moji to Kobe.                  1
Aug 1910  Hitachi Maru.           Kobe to Moji.                  1
Dec 1910. Empress of Japan.       Kobe to Nagasaki.              1
Dec 1910. Hakuai Maru.            Moji to Kobe.                  1
Feb 19l0. Yamaguchi Maru.         Kobe to Nagasaki.              1
Jun 1910. Manchuria.              Nagasaki to Kobe.              1
Jul 1910. Miyazaki Maru.          Kobe to Moji.                  1
Aug 1911. Kosai Maru.             Nagasaki to Moji.              1.
Aug 1911. Taihoku Maru.           Moji to Nagasaki.              1.
Aug 1911. Sanuki Maru.            Moji to Kobe.                  1.
Aug 1911. Kosai Maru.             Kobe to Nagasaki.              2
Oct 1911. Kosai Maru.             Nagasaki to Moji.              1
Nov 1911. Shinyo Maru.            Nagasaki to Kobe.              1
Nov 1911. Hitachi Marc.           Kobe to Moji.                  1
Dec 1911. Chikugo Marc.           Nagasaki to Shanghai.          2
Jan 1912. Tenyo Maru.             Shanghai to Nagasaki.          2
Jun 1912. Keijo Maru,             Kagoshima to Maha (Okinawa)    2
Jul 1912. Satsuma Maru.           Maha to Oshima.                1
Jul 1912. Futami Maru.            Oshima to Kagoshima.           1
Jul 1912. Yamaguchi Maru.         Nagasaki to Kobe.              1
Jul 1912. Shinano Maru.           Moji to Kobe.                  1
Aug 1912. Daishin Maru.           Kobe to Moji.                  1
Aug 1912. Tategami Maru.          Moji to Nagasaki.              1
Aug 1912. Kasuga Maru.            Nagasaki to Moji.              1
Nov 1912. Kasuga Maru.            Nagasski to Kobe.              1
Jan 1913. Kasato Maru,            Kobe to Moji.                  1
Feb 1913. Shinano Maru.           Kobe to Moji.                  1
May 1913. Mopko Maru.             Kobe to Oita.                  1
May 1915. Chikuzen Maru.          Moji to Kobe.                  1
Jun 1913, Kurenai Maru.           Kobe to Takahama.              1/2
Aug 1913. Kasuga Maru.            Kobe to Moji.                  1
Aug 1913. Ohikugo Maru.           Nagasaki to Kobe,              2
Sep 1913. Yamashiro Maru.         Nagasaki to Kobe.              2
Nov 1913. Gishiu Maru.            Kobe to Beppu.                 1
Nov 1915. Kasuga Maru.            Nagasaki to Kobe.              2
Jan 1914. Shinano Marn.           Moji to Kobe,                  1
Feb 1914, Korea.                  Kobe to Manila.                8
Feb 1914. Korea.                  Manila to Hong Kong.           6
Feb 1914. Empress of Asia.        Hong Kong to Kobe.             6
Mar 1914. Nippon Maru.            Kobe to Nagasaki.              1
Mar 1914. Kasuga Maru.            Moji to Kobe.                  1
Apr 1914. Tacoma Maru.            Kobe to Nagasaki.              2
Jun 1914. Chikugo Maru,           Nagasaki to Kobe.              2
Jun 1914. Toyen Maru.             Kobe to Nagasaki.              2
Aug 1914. Kasuga Maru.            Nagasaki to Kobe.              2
Feb 1915. Hong Kong Maru.         Moji to Kobe.                  1

                            Subject 1.  P24   4/22/52


Jun 1915. Korea.                  Yokohama to San Francisco.   18.
Nov 1915. Shinyo Maru.            San Francisco to Yokohama.   18
Jan 1916. Atsuta Maru.            Kobe to Moji.                 1
Feb 1916. Bingo Maru.             Moji to Kobe,                 1
Spt 1917. Yamashiro Maru.         Kobe to Shanghai.             4
Spt 1917. Sakaki Maru.            Shanghai to Dairen.           2
Feb 1918. Yawata Maru.            Kobe to Moji.                 1
Apr 1918. Hong Kong Maru.         Kobe to Moji.                 1
Apr 1918. America Maru.           Moji to Kobe.                 1
Oct 1918. Takeshima Maru.         Kobe to Shanghai.             3
Dec 1918. Kobe Maru.              Shanghai to Dairen.           3
Jan 1919. Harbin Maru.            Kobe to Dairen.               4
Spt 1919. Sakaki Maru.            Dairen to Shanghai.           3
Oct 1920. Sakaki Maru.            Shanghai to Dairen.           3
Dec 1920. Korea Maru.             Shanghai to San Francisco.   27
Mar 1921. Metapan.                Havana to Christobal.         6
Apr 1921. Sixola.                 Christobal to New York.      14
Jan 1921. Golden State.           San Francisco to Shanghai    21
Jul 1921. Sakaki Maru.            Shanghai to Dairen.           5
Spt 1922. Sakaki Maru.            Dairen to Shanghai.           5
Jan 1924. Sakaki Maru.            Shanghai to Dairen.           5
Jan 1924. Sakaki Maru.            Dairen to Shanghai.           5
Spt 1924. President Cleveland.    Kobe to San Francisco,       17
Feb 1925. President Taft.         San Francisco to Shanghai.   20
Jan 1926. Dairen Maru.            Shanghai to Dairen.           3
Feb 1926. Sakaki Maru.            Dairen to Shanghai.           3
Jun 1926. Korea Maru.             Shanghai to Yokohama.         6
Jul 1926. Nagasaki Maru.          Kobe to Shanghai.             2
Apr 1927. President Taft.         Shanghai to Kobe.             2
Jun 1928. Katori Maruu            Kobe to Yokohama.             1
Spt 1920. Leviathan.              Southampton to New York.      5
Nov 1925. President Cleveland.    San Francisco to Yokohama.   18
Jan 1933. President Garfield.     Kobe to Naples.              43
Mar 1933. Saythia.                Liverpool to Boston.          9
Mar 1936. Queen of Bermuda.       New York to Bermuda.          2
Apr 1936. Queen of Bermuda.       Bermuda to New York.          2
May 1936. Normandie.              New York to Le Havre.         5
Jul 1936. Queen Mary.             Southampton to New York.      5
Jan 1937. Lady Drake.             Boston to Demerara & back.   30
Nov 1938. Borinquen.              New York to San Juan.         4
Nov 1938. Catherine.              San Juan, St Thomas, St Croix 2
Dec 1938. Borinquen.              San Juan to New York.         4
Jul 1939. Monarch of Bermuda.     New York to Bermuda.          2
Jul 1939. Monarch of Bermuda.     Bermuda to New York,          2
Nov 1947. Fort Amherst.           New York to Bermuda.          3
May 1945. Lady Nelson.            Bermuda to Boston.            2
Nov 1948. Fort Townshend.         New York to Bermuda.          3
Feb 1949. Queen of Bermuda.       Bermuda to New York.          2
Oct 1949. Queen of Bermuda.       New York to Bermuda.          2
Jan 1950. Lady Rodney.            Bermuda to Boston.            2

                           Subject 1. 4         P25.   (8/12/52)

Issue:-
1. John Lindsley Poole. Born at noon December 22/1916, at 60 Kitano-cho
  4 chome, Kobe, Japan, in a semi Japanese house we had rented from
  Mrs. Lightfoot, way up on the hill nestling under the Inari-no-shita
  shrine, near the Tor Hotel. Dr. Martin brought him into the world:
  his first nurse was Yamamuro-san: his first amah was a Catholic
  Chinese woman named Marie, who we had brought over from Shanghai, but
  who had to go back soon as she nearly died of diabetes. His next amah
  was Koizuni san who stayed with us until we went to Mukden in January
  1919. In May of that year, he and Eleanor had a mild case of typhoid
  fever for ten days. His first education was by Miss Molly Proctor, a
  governess who Maya had brought out from Boston in 1921 and stayed
  with us for three years. From February 1925 to April 1927, he
  attended the Shanghai American School: from April 1927 he attended
  the Canadian Academy in Kobe until June 1928. In the winter of 1928
  he attended the Lenox, Mass., Academy. From July 1929 he was tutored
  in Yokohama by William L. Cobb, a teacher in the Milton Academy who
  Maya had brought out for a year. After that he attended the Tokyo
  America School at Kami-Meguro for a year. From September 1930 to June
  1951, he attended the Milton Academy, and for the year after that,
  again the Tokyo American School, In September 1932 John again entered
  the Milton Academy and graduated in 1935 with the distinction of high
  scholarship. He entered Harvard University as a freshman at
  Wigglesworth Hall, rooming with Robert Phippin and David Lilly, who
  had also graduated from Milton at the same time as John. He attended
  the University of Chicago for one year between his junior and senior
  years at Harvard: he graduated from Harvard in 1940, B.S. He then
  took a course in advertising at Columbia University, New York. On the
  outbreak of the second World War, desiring to join the Air Force, he
  took and passed the Civilian Pilot Training Program at Warwick, N.Y.
  Shortly after, he was inducted into the Army, but on account of his
  small knowledge of the Japanese language he was transferred to the
  Navy and sent to Boulder, Colo., Navy Language Training School to
  study the Japanese language for one year, then two years at Columbia
  University, New York. He passed with high marks in both the spoken
  and written language, He was then sent to Ann Arbor, Mich,, for final
  assignment, but was rejected for asthma, and given his discharge. He
  then worked in several advertising agencies in New York but realising
  a warmer climate would mitigate the severity of his asthma, he left
  in December 1940 and joined the advertising department of Pan-
  American Airways, Miami. He remained with them for about a year, and
  resigned in February 1948 to work as a free lance writer. In May 1949
  his Mother bought him a house at 4197 Braganza Avenue, Coconut Grove,
  Miami, where he lived in 1952. He married at the Plymouth
  Congregational Church, Coconut Grove, on December 10/1949 Doris
  Katharine Lorber, born at Baltimore, Md., September 2/1923, twin
  daughter of Charles Adolph and Anna Hildegarde (Dengler) Lorber of
  Miami. Doris was educated at Baltimore and Miami schools, and
  attended Florida State University, Tallahassee, for two years.
  Charles Lorber was for many years a test pilot with Pan-American
  Airways, and was the one who plotted the routes from the U.S.A. to
  South America, Africa and Australia: he was killed a few years ago
  when his plane hit a sunken log in landing on a lake near New Orleans
  Issue:- (born at Coral Gables, Miami)
  1. Catherine Armstrong Poole, born September 24/1950.
  2. William Thayer Lindsley Poole, born January 5/1952
Handwritten insertion.
  3. Elizabeth Quintard Poole, born Coconut Grove Fla., March 9/1953.
  4. Charlotte Maya Lindsley Poole, born Miami, Fla., Jan  19/1955.
  5. Alessandra              Poole, born Miami, Fla.,   1956.

                            Subject 1.  P26 8/12/52

2. Eleanor Quintard Poole. Born at the same house as John at Kobe,
  Japan, January 25/1918, Dr. Martin attending. Her first amah was
  O'Tei-san who stayed with us until we went to Mukden in January 1919,
  Her early education was the same as John, with the exception that
  when John was tutored by Mr. Cobb, EIeanor and Molly were tutored by
  Miss Lise, a Canadian teacher who Maya brought out for a year.
  Eleanor graduated from Milton Academy in 1936, then attended
  Radcliffe for two years and the University of Chicago for one year.
  In the war years of 1943 and 1944 she worked at the Radio Research
  Laboratory of Harvard University. She married, 1st, at St. James
  (Spanish Place) Church London, England, on December 22/1945, Ernest
  Edward Hilton, born at Wigan Lancashire, England, March 30/1922 son
  of Thomas and Marie (Burton) Hilton of Wigan. She met him while he
  was training at Riddle Field, Okichobee, near Palm Beach with the
  British Royal Air Force: he got his wings there and returned to
  England too late to see service before the war ended. They lived at
  West Byfleet, near my sister, until February 1946, when Eleanor
  returned to Boston: he joined her after his discharge in June. He
  returned to England that year and they were divorced in June 1947.
  She married, 2nd, at Bermuda, on March 5/1949 Thomas Gerald David
  Bamford, born at Middleton, Lancashire, England, April 3/1926, eldest
  son of David Smithers and Mary (Taylor) Bamford of Middleton, an
  architect and building contractor, In 1949 Gerald was on the staff of
  the British Government Cable & Wireless Co, Bermuda, and they lived
  at Barry Ann Cottage, Paget, Bermuda. After a short service with
  Imperial Chemicals, Ltd, England he came to Boston on August 12/1951,
  and joined the United Carr Fastener Co., Cambridge, Mass.  Her mother
  had bought for Eleanor a house at 42 Spafford Road, Milton, in May
  1951, but they never occupied it: she sold it in September 1951
  and they lived at 1250 Canton Ave., Milton.
  Issue:-(by her first husband)
  1. George Quintard Hilton, born at Mass General Hospital, Boston,
     October 29/1946.
  Issue:- (by her second husband)
  2. Sheila Ann Bamford, born at Richardson House, Boston, July
     31/1950.
  3. Herbert Armstrong Bamford, born at Richardson House, Boston,
     July 28/1952.,
  4. Thomas Lindsley Bamford. Born at Boston, March 26/1955 (hand)
3. Molly Manchester Poole. Born at Wen-hua-shu-yen, Mukden, Manchuria,
  China, July 7/1919, Dr. Mole attending. This was one of the Scotch
  Presbyterian Mission residences, near the small west gate of the
  native city. Her first nurse was Yamakita-san and her first amah Li
  Bai Fang.  Molly's early education was the same as her sister's. In
  the winter of 1927-8 all our children attended the Alpine School at
  Villars-sur-Bex, Switzerland. Molly graduated from Milton Academy in
  1937, and from Leland Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal., in 1942.
  She then joined the Pacific Tel & Tel Co., San Francisco: on July
  1/1944 she joined the Public Welfare Department, San Francisco, as
  social worker, and in November 1945 was appointed Federal
  Representative in San Francisco, for the Government Civilian War
  Assistance Program for displaced persons. She resigned in April 1946
  and returned to Milton. She married at the Milton Academy Chapel, on
  August 30/1947, Dr. George Nathaniel Lenci, born at Englewood, N.J.,
  June 29 1918, son of George Nathaniel and Julia Washburn (See) Lenci
  of Rochester, N.Y. He was educated at Lance School, Summit, N.J., and
  at Pingree School, Elizabeth, N.J. He graduated from Hamilton
  College, N.J., in 1940, and

                           Subject 1. P27 (8/12/52)

  from the College of Medicine of the New York University in 1944.
  In July 1945 he joined the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army, served two
  months at the Waltham Regional Hospital, then at the Medical School,
  Carlisle, Pa., then at the Separation Camp, Alleghany, Ind., the in
  the Phillippines, Manila area hospitals: he returned to the U.S.A. in
  December 1945. After their marriage, he studied another eighteen
  months at Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N.Y.: then served a
  year as assistant to Dr. Pilsifer, at Rochester, N.Y. In July 1949
  they moved to Roseburg, Oregon, where he established himself as a
  medical doctor at 157 North Jackson St., and they lived in a bungalow
  they bought a few miles out of town.
  Issue:-
  1. Robert Livingston Lenci, born at Rochester, N.Y., February 4/1949.
  2. Susan Thayer Lenci, born at Roseburg, Ore., July 24/1950.
  3. Laura Lindsley Lenci, born at Roseburg, Ore., July 18/1953.
  4. Virginia Washburn Lenci, born at Roseburg, Ore., Nov. 29/1955.
4. David Armstrong Poole. Born at 11 Gloucester St, Boston, Mass.,
  May 15/1921, Dr. Arthur N. Broughton attending. David's name was
  first registered at Boston as Otis Armstrong, then changed to Otis
  Thayer, and finally to David Armstrong. His early education was the
  same as his brother and sisters. He graduated from Milton Academy in
  1939 and was in his senior year at Harvard when inducted into the
  Army Signal Corps, pfc, stationed at Camp Edwards until April 1943,
  then at M.I.T. Boston for Specialised Training until November of that
  year. He was then sent to Liverpool, France and Germany, serving
  mostly in the Vosges district, and into Germany as far as Baden, with
  the Sixth Army Group, consisting of the 7th U.S. Army and the First
  French Army. Shortly after V.E. day, the Army put him at the Univer-
  sity of Nancy for two months, then to Paris where he studied four
  months at the Ecole Superieur d'Electricite. He was mustered out on
  February 10/1946, as a T/5, after serving three years. He then joined
  M.I.T. Boston, and graduated February 27/1949, with a Master's degree
  in electrical engineering. He was given his Harvard B.S. degree in
  1945. In November 1946 he sailed per "Ile de France" for Paris, on
  leave of absence from M.I.T, and married at the Town Hall, 8th
  arrondisement, on July 12/1947, in the presence of the bride's father
  and Lorna Lindsley, Jacqueline Blanche, Angelina Choin, born at Paris
  February 14/1926, only daughter of Edouard and Marie Rose (Bonneau)
  Choin. She was educated at the Ursuline Convent, Paris, and at the
  Dames de Ste Chlotilde (La Tour), Paris, then studied the piano with
  Professor Santiago Riera of the Paris Conservatoire. They came to
  Boston the same month. In February 1949 they went back to Paris for
  eighteen months, and returned to Boston in the summer of 1950: he
  joined his uncle Thayer's firm and they lived in New York until June
  1951. Jacqueline had preceded him to Paris to resume study with
  Professor Riera, he following her in June, David flew back to Milton
  three days before his mother's death., returning to Paris ten days
  later. In May 1952 David decided he could not find a job in Paris and
  returned alone to New York, where he rejoined his uncle Thayer's
  firm, and rented an apartment at 710 Park Avenue: Jacqueline came
  over from Paris to rejoin him in August. Both returned to Paris Nov
  1952.
  Issue:
  1. Francis Armstrong Poole, born at Paris, France, June 26/1953.



                             Subject 1-A  8/12/52     P 01


                              MAYA LINDSLEY

        Was born at 118-A Bluff, Yokohama, December 25/1884, and died
at the Milton Hospital, August 15/1951, five days after a stroke,
cerebral thrombosis, buried in her parents' plot at the Milton
Cemetary. She was the daughter of John and Virginia Thayer (Payne)
Lindsley of Boston an Yokohama.
        Her early education was by governesses in Yokohama. In August
1895, she was taken to Milton with her parents and brothers, and lived
the first winter in a house on the corner of Hutchinson and Randolph
Avenues. She and her brothers entered Milton Academy in September of
that year, where she studied three years. In 1896 the family moved to
the Bancroft house on Adams St. On October 10/1898, Maya returned to
Yakohama with her parents, per "Empress of India", bringing with them
for one year, Miss Elizabeth Balch, a member of an old Boston family -
a teacher for many years at St. Agnes School, Albany, N.Y. After the
latter returned to America, Maya continued her studies in Yokohama with
American, English and German teachers, studying also the piano, violin
and singing. In 1902 the family returned to Milton, after completing in
Yokohama the building of 118-C Bluff and the Zemma Iron Works at
Negishi. They brought four Japanese servants with them and lived at 240
Adams St.  Maya, with her parents sailed on May 25/1905 per Cunard
"Slavonia" for Naples, accompanied by three of their Japanese servants
and spent a year and a half in Burope. They spent the summer in Italy
and Switzerland, then took a delightful apartment at 1 Rue de
Longchamps Paris. Maya spent the winter of 1905-6 studying the piano
with Professor Swan, a pupil of Leschetizky until the spring, and then
with Moskowski until August. She spent the summer in Dinard, Brittany:
then after spending a month in London, returned to Milton via Quebec,
per "Empress of Ireland", arriving in November 1906. She spent the
summer of 1907 at North East Harbor and Bretton Woods, and three months
of that winter at 191 Commonwealth Ave, Boston. The summer of 1908 Maya
spent at Telluride with Halstead, at an altitude of 9000 ft, taking
many glorious horseback rides in that neighborhood, sometimes as high
up as 12,500 ft. The winter of 1908 was spent at 386 Beacon St.,
Boston. Her father died in Milton on June 4/1909.  Maya and her mother
then spent six months in Europe, going over per Cunard "Carmania", and
visited London, Paris, the Black Forest, Germany, Oboramergau, Munich,
Vienna and Venice. She spent the winter of 1910 in Milton and the
sunmer of 1911 at North Hatley, Quebec. In December 1911, Maya and her
mother again went to Europe, per "Lapland", spending Christmas in
London, a month in Paris, thence to Berlin, Moscow, and by the Siberian
Railway to Vladivostok, thence via Tsuruga to Yokohama, arriving there
in March 1912, staying at first with her uncle W.T. Payne; they later
moved into their own house at 118-B Bluff. This trip to Japan was made
for the purpose of enabling Mrs.  Lindsley to look after their Japan
properties, after an absence of ten years. In the spring of that year
they made a trip to Korea, spent the summer in Karuizawa, and sailed in
January 1914 via Vancouver, per "Empress of Russia", for Milton where
they lived at 240 Adams St. Maya spent that summer in Idaho Springs
with Halstead and Lorna.
        Maya married at her home, 240 Adams St., Milton, on September
25/1915, Herbert Armstrong Poole, and shortly after left for Kobe,
Japan, via San Francisco, per "Shinyo Maru". For further particulars,
see the Lindsley genealogy.
Issue:-
1. John Lindsley Poole. Born at Kobe, Japan, December 22/1916.
2. Eleanor Quintard Poole.   do             January 25/1918.

                             Subject 1-A  P2

3. Molly Manchester Poole. Born at Mukden, Manchuria, July 7/1919.
4. David Armstrong Poole. Born at 11 Gloucester St. Boston, May
15/1921.
                                                          P 0?

Handwritten note:
Halstead Lindsley's family
Feb 11 1959

(seems a selection of extracts - AM 1998)

Was there - he said they all enjoyed it. Good to know each other.
The following will explain Joan's marriages etc:-

Halstead Lindsley.  Born at Yokohama Nov 29/1679, died at New York,
March 22/1945. He married 1st, at Boston, on March 30/1909, Margaret
Lorna Ashton Stimson, born at Boston Jan 2/1888, died July 12/1955.
They were divorced in 1921. He married, 2nd, at Denver, on July 4/1923,
Emily Low (Bacon) Benjamin, born at Lenox, Mass. Aug 17/1884, still
alive, Emily had married, 1st, at Lenox, on Jan 2/1909, Hamilton Fish
Benjamin: they were divorced in 1922 and had no children.
Children:- by his first wife Margaret Ashton Stimson) died 1955.
1. Joan Ashton Lindsley, born at Denver Oct 30/1913. She married, 1st,
  at New York, on Dec 28/1932, Clarence Moore, son of the sportsman
  Clarence Moore whom was lost on the Titanic. Young Clarence became a
  drunk and is still in an institution in Montana: were divorced, and
  had no children.  Joan married, 2nd, in New York, January 1936, Percy
  Owen: they were divorced in 1941. Joan married. 3rd, in Jersey City,
  on Christmas Eve, 1943, as his 2nd or 3rd wife, Austen Herbert Croom-
  Croom Johnson, an Englishman writing jingles for the N.B.C.
  commercials: they were divorced in 1947, no children. Joan married,
  4th, in Bermuda, on May 12/1948, as his second wifa, Major Ian
  Stewart Thompson, born 1908.  They were later divorced and had no
  children.
  Child:- (by her second husband Percy Owen)
  2/1. Christopher Lindsley Owen, born in N.Y. City, Nov 15/1937.
   Graduated from Milton Academy, couldn't pass Harvard entrance exams
   and now attending University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
2.Leonore Lindsley, Born at Boston March 13/1917, killed in May 1945 in
   a jeep accident while sight seeing at Bertschagarten, Germany,
   buried in the American Military Cemetery, Metz, France. She never
   married.
Child:- by his second wife Emily Bacon Benjamin:- (Still alive 1959)
3. Virginia Lindsley. Born in N.Y. City, Dec 8/l924. She married at
   Lenox, Mass., July 24/1943, Jacques Gignoux, born at Fontainbleu,
   Paris France, Jan 22/1922, They were divorced in 1958 (?).
   Children:- (all born in N.Y. City)
   1.Reginald Gignoux, born Jan 31/1945.
   2.Thomas Jacques Gignoux, born Nov 19/1946.
   3.Claudine Emily Gignoux, born March 17/1951.
   4.Thayer Lindaley Gignoux, born June  /1955.

          That will give you Joan's family: I hear her son Chris is
rather fond of drink (like both his parents - Joan can mop it up too).
Chris is a nice appearing and well spoken polite fellow, but not heavy
in brains.  His father married again and was again divorced. Yes, there
were a lot of divorces in the Lindsley family but you're wrong about
Mabel and Abby Austin. Neither were divorced but several of their
children were, but not Dorothy who has given her life to look after her
mother, still alive in Dedham, Mass - Mabel I mean, and of course Dot
too. Walter Austin, Mabel's husband died of D.Ts in Boston years ago,
but he left her 4 million dollars, held in trust by the Bishop Trust of
Honolulu, so the family can't squander the capital. Walter's father
made it in sugar. Walter Austin was a life chum of Jommy Wilder, and
the Castle boy who was later quite a big bug in the U.S. State Dpt.
Hugh Gunn was also a pal of theirs.