n.Of those times at Point Pleasant I fear I can remember but a few of our elders.There were George Lambdin,Margaret Ruff,and Milne Ramsay,all painters of some note;a strange couple,Colonel Olcott and the afterward famous Madam Blavatsky,trying to start a Buddhist cult in this country;Mrs.Frances Hodgson Burnett,with her foot on the first rung of the ladder of fame,who at the time loved much millinery finery.One day my father took her out sailing and,much to the lady's discomfiture and greatly to Richard's and my delight,upset the famous authoress.At a later period the Joseph Jeffersons used to visit us;Horace Howard Furness,one of my father's oldest friends,built a summer home very near us on the river,and Mrs.John Drew and her daughter Georgie Barrymore spent their summers in a near-by hostelry.I can remember Mrs.

Barrymore at that time very well-wonderfully handsome and a marvellously cheery manner.Richard and I both loved her greatly,even though it were in secret.Her daughter Ethel Iremember best as she appeared on the beach,a sweet,long-legged child in a scarlet bathing-suit running toward the breakers and then dashing madly back to her mother's open arms.A pretty figure of a child,but much too young for Richard to notice at that time.In after-years the child in the scarlet bathing-suit and he became great pals.Indeed,during the latter half of his life,through the good days and the bad,there were very few friends who held so close a place in his sympathy and his a-->>

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