Hebron Academy - Spectator Yearbook (Hebron, ME)

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H, trials murgammtltuuwf E must stop He could not endu1e the cl1mate of Massachusetts He was gn en h1s cholce of F101 1da 01 Cololado He chose the lattel place and leslgned hlmself vxhollx to h1s phx SICIHH s care somethlng he had newel done IH h1s hfe befoxe He soon commenced to mend and then began to cast about fox some thlng to do The automobile lJU91Il9SS seemed to Offel the best openlng and he stalted a galage fox the Stanles Steamel maklng a speclaltx ot the Stanles Passengel T1 uck Fstes Palk nas ln Its mfancg and he commenced cauung passengels flom Denvel to thls place a lllSll3IlC9 of sex entw m1l6Q Becomlng lntelested thele he pulchased xeal estate 1n lalge quan tltl9S and almost vslthout knovslng It la1d the foundat1on of an 1mmense fortune whlch has kept hlm busy QYQI slnce He bullt a large hotel ln Estes Palk and stlpulated that It should alvtays be 1un as a temperance house The WISE ones sa1d that th1s could not be done that no hotel IH Cololado could succeed unless 1t furnlshed llquor to 1tS guests but thx nouse stands the1e as a lastlng monument that 1t can be done He stlll spends h1s summel months 1n Folorado attendlng to h1s buslness thele and h1s wlnters at h1s home 1n Massachusetts carr51ng out vshat he started 1n h1s box hood a love fo1 the w1ol1n He has been p1 actlslng on the manufactule of these lnstruments evel slnce and has a xlolln factorS m opelatlon there He has exploded mam of the old theolles that tht vxood of xx hlch the x1ol1n IS made must be old He bellex es that new vs ood and a new lnstrument hlghlx finlshed IS the p1ope1 thlng and he lu tu1 nlng out some wonderful mstruments on that theolv Slmple as a chlld IH h1s tastes caung nothmg for publ1c1ts he has of no socletw or o1gan17at1on Whlle h1S buslness called fo1 most of h1s tlme duung h1s few hours of le1sure he found enjoy ment 1n the compan 1onsh1p of h1s fam1ls and the appreclatlon of the beauties of natule The Koran saw that a mona1 ch s word IS sacred but none the less sacred 1s the vsold of a Stanlex F O would as soon cut off h1S 11ght hand as deuate flom am plomlse xx hlch he has made ln the slightest degl ee It was a red lette1 dax when 'NI1 Stanlex came to Hebron as a student Retalmng h1s loxe fO1 the 1nst1tut1on where both he and h1s xute gladuated he has become ldentlhed mth It 1n mam waxs Fox sexexal XGHIS he has been Pxesldent of the boaxd of T1 ustees and he has helped the school mn mam uaxs especlallx financ1allx Hls last glft of the xxondelful Alena an edlfice such as no other ln tltutlon of lealnxng ln the countlx can boast IS onlx IH keeplng xutn h1s 1nte1est ln Heblon Academx 15 ES V V . .. - .. U QQ ' L 1 7 9 Q S l l l .Y lv ' l .Y A -V, gn T 4 . Jn n 1 v ' ' i V, iotv' LL 1k 1 1 .ku , l ' ' 1 L 1 V 1 A 1 ' . , .- Y Y Y 9 l ' , ' Y v . o A Q ' . y 1 'I V. . . . ' 9 . . V . . V. V 7 .Y v 4 Y ' i if l V . A V L. V V. . V V V . V. . . S V . V V, V DV . V . V V . V repeatedly refused offices which have been tendered hlm. He is a member V V. . V . . VV . N yy V 1 7 1 ' 'w L ' 7 V. V V V .K V . . .V V V v ' 1 v v A 1. tv , 1 L1 . v' - 0 v I K 1 ' . - Y. I . I 'V V1 -YA1. v v 1 1 1 1 1' 7 1 1 'T . v ' . , l L 4 s . 5 . v . lo' f' 1-rt 1 If ' 4' .,,, X ' F1-9 X we xt1 ,

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E wma muergmmmuunr E the othel students who wele yyalloyylng deeply IH the mlre Thls of course yyas when the Professor yyas not looklng After leaylng college he taught for a short tlme but h1S lnyentlye gen1us cropped out and he stalted a factory for the manufacture of school drawing sets He w as bulldlng up qulte a business yvhen the factory took fire and he and h1S yylfe barely escaped yvlth their llves Every thlng was a total loss and a f11end asklng h1m the next mornlng when vlewlng thc rulns what he would no next he made the characterlstlc reply What I shall try to do next yv1ll be to pay mv debts He w as then employed as a superlntendent at the Damon Safe Works but h1s brother haymg bu1lt up a large buslness 1n the manufacture of dry plates at Leyvlston Malne wanted h1m to come and engage wxth h1m and he d1d so Here the lnventlve gen1us agaln showed ltself and they soon had machlnes for dolng work Wh1ch had before laborlously been accompl1shed by hand At a meetmg of the manufacturers of photo graphlc supplles there was an attempt to raise the prlce of dry plates anal the Stanleys opposed 1t As an outcome they were boycotted by the trade and the next month where they had been dolng buslness worth S35 000 00 a month they dld not do over S500 00 Undaunted they kept thexr help busy 1ssu1ng clrculars to every photographer ln the country offerlng the trade As a result the other end of the see saw Went up Their buslness amounted to 375 000 00 for the next month and their competltors were asklng where they were at Then to get rld of the Stanleys a syndlcate was formed and bought them out and they left the dry plate buslness foreyer They had a meetlng to declde hoyv the money derived from the sale of then buslness should be used They d1d not care to spend the money for personal emovment but they wanted somethlng to do so they turned then attentlon to the manufacture of automob1les Xvlth the help of a machlnlst 1n a short t1me they had the first Stanley Steamer that was ever bu1lt Wh1ch IS now 1n the store room of the Stanley factory at Newton Massachusetts Then othen makers wanted to buy them out and they sold the buslness Thelr competltors bought them out to get r1d of them but the pulchasers made no restrlctxons and the Stanleys soon had anothel car under constructlon 1n whxch they had made many lmprovements They contlnued 1n th1s buslness for a serles of years but lntense apphca t1on had begun to tell and F O ayyoke to the reallzatlon that hls health yyas 1mpa1red and he was reduced to almost a skeleton A consultatlon of phys1c1ans yyas held and the yerldct yvas that he IXX XX XX 15 ,,A ES 7 - . - .. .. U Q - 9 v Y K . - in ut Q - Y 1 ya 1 7 I 1 v Y . . 1 is V ! 1 7 V , ' sy Y . L Al, 7 v U Y 7 7 v 7 . . , . . ' , . , Y V 7 ' , . . Y . . . . y . to sell the dry plates to them at the same rates as they had before sold to 1 , ' ' Y 0 . , . A' Y 7 . ' , 5 , y Y . 1 . A 1 7 . r . Y Y . . v 7 7 . . , . . 7 7 ' Y 7 . ' . , my . . . . . U, , . . - 7 . . , I . lf! fl ll K lf ll 14- A xy xx Q lff ll ll 1 1 -A X xl w 1

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