Dr. Laura Hawkins, Washington, D. C. George Dikeman Wing, Duluth, Minn. George Wing Sisson, Jr., Potsdam, New York.

Frederick A. Wing, Seattle, Wash. ial to Mary Gertrude Wing, officers, life members, and others of The Wing Family of America, Inc., who have gone on. Frank E. Wing, 25 Benedict Street, Boston, Mass.

Daniel V. Raymond, 115 Broadway. New York City.

Helen B. Weston, Portland, Maine.
Honorary Directors for Life

Wilson D. Wing, Bangor, Me.
Jefferson T. Wing, Detroit, Mich.
Asahel B. Wing, Fort Edward, N. Y.
Asa D. Wing, Sandwich, Mass.

The Owl

The Owl will be continued. Never before were such careful preparations made for the upkeep of the Owl as at this meeting. The following were elected to arrange for the publication with full power to act:

Mrs. Emma Wing Thompson
Rufus L. Sisson

Daniel V. Raymond.

Policy Continue the genealogy commenced by Col. Wing as soon as possible. To publish the Owl quarterly.

To relieve the Editor in every reason able manner.

The December Owl is to be a Memor-
Francis L. Wing, Tampa, Fla.

The Secretary has been asked to take

charge of this number.

Any communications that would help here in its preparations, particularly notes about Mary Gertrude Wing, or the others of our dead would be gladly welcomed.

After Colonel George Wing's death two years ago the duties of the presidency fell upon our First Vice-President, Rufus L. Sisson, of Potsdam. Although a man, already carrying heavy responsibilities in business, Mr. Sisson, with on the Mary Gertrude Wing carried

work, and made plans for the 1926 reunion. This reunion will go down in history as a most successful meeting..

Throughout the meetings, much pleasure was afforded to all by the vocal music given by Lewis H. Sisson, ably accompanied by his wife, Margery Parker Sisson. Mr. Sisson also gave many selections on his musical saw. Lewis H. Sisson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus L. Sisson.

At the banquet, a most pleasing number was the humorous monologues given by Harold Thompson, son of Dr. Emma Wing Thompson.

Mr. Rufus L. Sisson felt that he could not carry the duties of the presidency farther, and Herbert Wing, Jr., persuaded to take up the work.

was

It is remembered that Colonel Wing had often said: "Friends, remember there is a boy who some day will make you a strong leader". We pledge to our new president our unfailing support and sympathy.

In the Dec. 1913 Owl was published the account of an eccentric Bachelor, who died in Tring, England. A newspaper clipping from Charles A. Wing of Hull, England, who sent the above to Col. George Wing, gives further proof that Bachelors are still living, if not in the Manor of Wing, yet in the sister village of Tring-always associated in the following, "Tring, Wing and Ivanhoe". The clipping makes note of a prize of 100 pounds won in a Word Contest by Mrs. G. H. Batchelor, 29 Akeman St., Tring, Herts.

Dedication of the Charles W. Morgan

The estate of Colonel E. H. R. Green at Round Hills is one of the show places of South Dartmouth, and is visited by thousands of automobiles during the summer months-sometimes by thousands on a particular day. In Radio-land it is known as WMAF, for here is the broadcasting station, where visitors are

welcome.

On the afternoon of Wednesday, July

21, automobile after automobile turned into the broad entrance on the left, on the Salter's Point road-but for another purpose than to hear the radio.

Slowly the procession of cars descended the long hill, on one side of which is a high wire fence solid with rambler roses, red, white and pink, and on the other side, low, ornamental evergreen trees, lately set out. At the foot of the hill they turned to the right and crossed big whaleship was the objective, and an open stretch to the wharf where a

the

where a large crowd had assembled. The occasion was thus proclaimed in New Bedford Standard. "Eternally home from the seas, the whaleship Charles W. Morgan, moored in a sea of cement at a wharf on the estate of Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, at Round Hills, was formally dedicated as New Bedford's whaling shrine."

For more than a year the project had been under way, sponsored by Colonel Green. This old New Bedford whaleship was purchased by a number of interested people, taken around to the wharf at Round Hills, where it was cemented into a basin by the side of the wharf, thoroughly repaired and outfitted, all the apparatus for catching whales and trying out the oil being preserved, as well as the casks in the bottom of the hold where the oil was storeed; and then donated to a corporation to be known as Whaling Enshrined, Inc. A bronze tablet on a large granite boulder on the wharf, having in relief at the top a whaleship, the Charles W. Morgan, was inscribed to show that it

was built by Jethro and Zachariah Hillman and was launched July 21, 1841; that it was deeded by gift to Whaling Enshrined, Inc., and that it was enshrined July 21, 1926, by Col. Edward Howland Robinson Green. The tablet also presented the list of the thirtythree donors, among them appearing the names of Clara Wing Hussey (daughter of William Ricketson Wing) and Charles F. Wing, jr.

The house flags of 157 whaleship owners or agents, all who ever did business at any time during the whaling era of New Bedford, fluttered gaily from the Morgan in a stiff breeze. Easily distinguished among these flags was the "W" which stood for the firm of J. & W. R. Wing & Co.

Col. Green, as president of Whaling Col. Green, as president of Whaling Enshrined, Inc., becomes permanent custodian of the vessel, which was formerly owned by his maternal grandfather, Edward Mott Robinson, and which the latter took with him into the whaling firm of Isaac Howland, Jr.

When Col. Green mounted the platform to formally open the dedication exercises he was greeted with great applause by the assembled company. He spoke as follows:

"Ladies and Gentlemen-I am very much pleased and feel highly honored to be able to call this large assemblage to order.

"We are about to make history in perpetuating the memory of one of our leading industries, through which all of our kinsfolk worked so hard to bring New Bedford and the surrounding country prominently before the world, at the same time furnishing oil for the world, and in this way helping to enlighten it.

"One of our duties today is to welcome home our good old ship Charles W. Morgan who, 85 years ago, started out on his career. As his early years of training as a whaler and as a Quaker had been quite severe, there was little, if any, scandal connected with his good name, but like other good Quakers have done in the past, he strayed slightly from the narrow path laid down in the

old days and, I regret to say, his name became associated with a certain 'Miss Petticoats'-in the movies! After that, so far as I know, his only variation from the narrow path seems to have been when he went 'Down to the Sea in Ships'. Since then, however, our old friend has returned to us, where he will remain for the balance of his time on earth, in our home at Round Hills.

"Charles W. Morgan, I welcome you home!" Then followed presentation and acceptance speeches, and the unveiling of the tablet, after which Captain George Fred Tilton, now in command of the ship, invited the guests on board and showed them all about.

An article on "The Wings in Whaling" appeared in the March, 1904 Owl, telling the story of the firm J. & W. R. Wing, (Joseph and William Ricketson). Later, this became J.&W.R. Wing & Co., by the admission of the younger brother John into the partnership. The old firm has gone out of existencebut its house flag with its prominent none of its members are now living—

"W" will wave at stated times from the mast of the Morgan, and the particular day on which it is flown will be known as "Wing Day."

Leaving the wharf, the road on the estate, outlined by a heavy chain, circles about the foot of the round hill, on the top of which is the radio station. A short distance from the shore is a small island upon which is a lighthouse, known as Dumpling Light. The road runs for a long distance by the shore, in front of the castle-like dwelling of Colonel Green, which stands far back of a broad lawn. Turning towards the west, it passes a number of attractive cottages, built for his employees, and the old house, kept with the most scrupulous care, of his mother, the noted financier, Mrs. Hetty Green. Gardens and greenhouses are on the left, a pond with a tiny island in the center, an old windmill which has been brought from a distance, then the road continues up the hill and out to the main road, having practically encircled the Round Hills estate.