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District No. 9-Wing District The Prudential committee man in this district is certainly liable to an indictment; for we presume there is not a single man in the district, that will say that they now hold their school as a suitable one. The school-house, (we must use the term school house though it deserves not so high an appelation), is sixteen feet square outside, from the roof to ground just eight feet outside; it is clapboarded outside, but in such a manner as to be but a slight barrier to the winds and wintry storms of snow and sleet.

There is no yard room at all, but the road, no spot that the children can call their own, not a tree or a shrub about the house; in fine, in this respect it is about like all our school-houses, not one cent seems to have been spent to make it pleasing or attractive to the children, around which their affections should cling as to a loving mother, but every thing is repulsive.

The school-room is about fourteen and a half by eleven and a half feet, and it is nine feet three inches high, ceiled over head and sides with unpainted boards. Who can say that such a room is a suitable place to confine twenty or thirty children, six hours every day. No wood house or other out buildings, no ventilator, no curtains, no black board, seats bad, childrens toes can't touch the floor; but they had a library which formed the only oasis in the desert of neglect.

Never-the-less strong men and women grew up in this school, have gone into the world and taken their places with others who had more favorable conditions for development.

Adjoining the Wing school was the Wing Cider Mill, owned and operated by Eben Wing. All of the original houses built by these three men have been burned. It has been my pleasure to acquire the older one of these three places, the one formerly owned by Cornish Wing.

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Professor Wilson of of Yale says:"Creatures of our own day and a dull day. All hurry, all bustle, and no refreshments, a day of cold steel and hard facts, no time to sit down and dream dreams. No people make any advance unless they do dream dreams."

-DR. J. P. BRADFORD,
The Acushnet Sanitarium,
Acushnet, Mass.

Dear Kinsfolk:

When your committee asked me to speak on the subject of "Wings on the Wing", with our own family in view, I accepted "in absentia" for with deep regret we can not be present, but I asked to change the title to the more exact one of "Wings in Other Bird's Nests.'

Our winter migrations began after the war with trips to Jamaica and South America, where we lived in hotels, as do most tourists, but on our way to Honolulu in 1922 on "Our Golden Wedding Journey" (for on this unique trips parents invited their daughters) my father was taken critically ill enroute: and when we finally reached Honolulu, after a few days at the "Moana" we decided that we all would be much more comfortable in a house of our own. With Wing luck we were able to lease a most picturesque bungalow at Kaalawei, just under Diamond Head. With it went two old retainers, a Chinese yard boy "Ah Ki" aged sixty, and a Japanese maid "Matsu", who had been most wonderfully trained by her mistress. To these we added a cook (we had two before the winter was over, one Japanese and the other Chinese), a Hawaiian chauffeur and an Australian nurse. Quite a cosmopolitan household! It was a most interesting experience in spite of my father's grave illness, and unforgettable are the moonlight nights under our marvelous "hau tree" (said to be the largest on the island), the booming surf, and the tropical showers day or night with rainbows and moonbows everywhere. "The Moorings" was famous for its fernhouses filled with wonderful orchids and ferns, as well as for the Hau tree which covered an area of some three hundred square feet, the floor paved for dancing and the tree hung with dozens of colored lights in the form

of flowers. To the house flowed the hospitality for which Honolulu is famous, and in spite of our great anxiety we enjoyed greatly our first experience in keeping house in another's home.

The next winter we went to Porto Rico (we specialize on Islands!), and again tiring of hotel life we decided to repeat the experiment of the year before. Again Wing luck held, and a charming new house, filled with wonderful old Spanish furniture, and even more important, staffed by competent native servants, was ours. The house was set in the midst of an old cocoanut grove, and the trades kept the branches swish ing overhead, which, with the pounding surf near by, gave a feeling of coolness not always justified by the thermomet

er.

This time we had taken our own chauffeur and car with us, and the marvelous drives on far better roads than we were accustomed to, added to our pleasure.

So successful had been these two winters that we grew bolder, and the next year crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and landing in Genoa, went directly to the French Riviera where we were on familiar ground, having spent a winter in Menton many years ago. Again tiring of even the best hotels, we went house-hunting, and many were the villas and chateaux offered for our inspection. By the greatest good fortune, again again Wing luck! we succeeded in leasing for seven weeks only, quite the loveliest villa in all Menton. "Casa Paraisa" was built by a famous English general whose duty kept him in Cologne until March, but he was willing for us to take his house with all its servants, gardners, etc., for the short period mentioned. Again we really lived in a home, a perfect Italian type of house, filled with lovely old Italian and French furniture and English books. The servants were perfect, managed everything for us, and we had a blissful seven weeks memorizing the wonderful view, for we felt such an opportunity would never be ours again.

Completely spoiled for hotel life, we had to move into one again, after standing it as long as we could, once more went house-hunting, and actually found

one which we could sublet for the remaining five weeks of our Riviera stay. This time we moved a few kilometers west, and stopped at the Villa Trianon, St. Jean-Cap Ferrat, near Nice. Like its namesake at Versailles this belonged to Royalty. Its owner was no less a person than H. R. H. Princess Helena of Serbia, the widow of Prince Jean of Russia, (a murdered son of Grand Duke Constantine) and a sister of the present king of Serbia. The villa matched its title and was in charge of a most impressive butler, who with his wife acted as two of our servants. To him we left the engaging of the rest of the staff, and were amused to be introduced to a regular Campbell Soup individual, as "The Chef". Delmonico in its palmy days never had his equal, and right royally did we dine off crested china and silver, with embossed crowns and crests of arms on everything. Here we celebrated father's eightieth birthday in sumptuous style, a five tiered birthday cake with eighty candles and real champagne for the toasts! And wound up at Monte Carlo where the Goddess of Chance gave father a present of a few hundred francs. Shades of our Quaker ancestors!

Before we returned home we were offered our first villa, Casa Paraisa, for another season, so back we went last November for four months, staying until March. It was delightful to be welcomed by the same servants, and even the French poodle remembered us. The villa had grown, appropriately, a wing containing a library and a cloister down stairs with a suite of rooms overhead. Unfortunately in France (as chez nous !) workmen never finish in contract time, and we had them with us until Christmas time. This we celebrated by giving a Christmas Tree party to some twenty American friends, and it is hard to say who enjoyed it most, guests or hosts.

March first found us again "On the Wing", and I blush to confess where these American Wings next roosted. Not content with mere royalty "we hopped high" and rashly landed at the Chateau de Fabron in Nice, the property of her Majesty, Queen Marie of Roumania and her Grand ducal sisters. It sounds much

grander than the Villa Trianon, but it was, be it confessed, much more shabby! Our stay was not a restful one, for the responsibility of such priceless treasures and heirlooms as it contained made us very nervous. There, too, we had our first domestic trials, too long a story to tell, but you must hear about our "Ancestors". They ranged from Catherine the Great of Russia and Russia and Grandmamma Queen Victoria, to Queen Marie herself. We sat opposite the Empress Frederick, Czar Alexander and the Emperor Frederick in the diningroom. The large drawing room contained, besides two grand pianos, priceless Russian lapiz lazuli desk sets etc., all monogrammed with the Imperial Russian monograms for our landlady's mother was the daughter of Czar Alexander and her father the son of Queen Victoria. Our bed linen (in rags be it said!) bore the familiar crest and motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" and y pense" and everything the date 1874! We could sympathize with the restless sleep of royalty although we did not wear crowns and were so anxious to leave all the treasures intact and get away without anything broken, that we gave up two weeks of our lease and thankfully departed, laden with armfulls of flowers from our own gardens where we had thousands and thousands of roses, to motor across France to Paris and sail for home from Cherbourg.

No more Royalty for us, and next winter think of us in the more humble and American-sounding villa of Navahoe, near Beaulieu, where we extend a welcome to other adventurous Wings.

-CAROLINE R. WING.
August, 1926.

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FRIDAY MORNING

Rufus L. Sisson of Potsdam, N. Y., presiding.

Report of the nominating committee, George Wing Sisson, Jr., Potsdam, N. Y., Fred A. Wing, Seattle, Washington, Mrs. Blanche L. Weston, Portland, Maine; was read and accepted. One ballot was cast and the officers were declared elected for the ensuing year. See September Owl 1926.

Daniel V. Raymond of N. Y. reported for the committee on Memorial Resolutions.

Memorial Resolutions

Whereas, during the five years which have elapsed, since its last reunion, the Wing Family of America has suffered irreparable loss through the death of him who was from the time of the first reunion its president, genealogist and editor of the family magazine, Col. George W. Wing, and the deaths of his successor as editor, Mary Gertrude Wing, of two other members of the Board of Directors, Barrett B. Russell and Howard Burgess Wing, and of a large number of other faithful and valued members, now therefore

Be it Resolved, that we the members of the Wing Family of America, assembled in our eleventh reunion, record our grief over the loss of these dear friends and kinsmen, together with our thanks for the freely given but arduous labors of those who brought the family together in its present organization, who guided its destinies for many years, who contributed an incalculable amount of time, patience and ability, to the unraveling of the knotty problems of early family history, and to the ways and means of carrying on our work.

Be it further Resolved, that we extend our deepest sympathy to the families of these kinspeople, and that the secretary be directed to spread these resolutions on the minutes, and to publish a copy in the Owl.

Respectfully submitted by your committee on Memorial Resolutions. August 27, 1926.

DANIEL V. RAYMOND,
GRACE S. SISSON,

EMMA WING THOMPSON,
FREDERIC A. WING.

The resolutions were accepted by a rising vote of thanks.

George Homer Wing of Springfield, Mass., reported on the General Resolu

tions.

Telegrams were sent to Wilson D. Wing, Bangor, Me., and Mrs. Belle Dikeman Wing, Kewaunee, Wis., tendering the love and best wishes of the family.

The routine business being finished Rufus L. Sisson, of Potsdam, N. Y., read

a tribute in verse to our late president, Col. George W. Wing.

Our usual closing exercises completed the Eleventh Reunion of the Wing Family of America, Incorporated.

The eleventh reunion having passed into history, "When and where will the twelfth be held?", was the question that echoed through the church. The question was left for the Board of Directors to decide. They were unanimous in their reply, "Sometime in August 1927." The place of meeting has not been decided upon.

In the hurry and bustle of the twentieth century we sometimes wonder why people, carrying heavy burdens, take time from their many duties to participate in a family reunion. It is the family spirit of fratenity. "Blood is thicker than water." That we have been successful in advancing this spirit is shown by the members attending the meetings, and a desire for others.

The Owl has been the means of keeping the association in touch with the members. In fact it has kept us together. We were gratified by the number of new subscribers gained at Sandwich. Also, by the increase in the membership. In 1927 we expect to double our subscription and membership lists.

Recently a number of calls have been received for back copies of The Owl. These may be obtained for twenty cents each and the postage, by addressing: ALVIN P. WING,

East Sandwich, Mass.

ROSTER OF ELEVENTH REUNION SANDWICH, 1926

Florida (1)

Tampa-F. L. Wing.

Massachusetts (51) Acushnet-Joel P. Bradford, Mrs. Bradford, Mrs. Annie Wing White, Sally Nye White, Geo. T. Parker, Caroline E. Wing Parker.

Boston-Abner T. Wing, Frederick S. Goodwin, Mary C. Wing (Mrs. J. F.) Dr. John F. Wing.

Brookline-Grace Wing Merry (Mrs. H. S.), Harold S. Merry, Lillian Wing Northrop.

Dorchester-Henry D. Wing.

East Sandwich-Alvin P. Wing, Cora M. Wing.

Everett-Emerson Whitman.

Fairhaven-Mrs. A. B. Wing, Alfred B. Wing, Mrs. Samuel Wing, Mrs. Augustus Ruhmpohl.

Greenfield-Charlotte S. Wing, Howard S. Wing, Roscoe E. Wing. Medford-Clara T. Guild.

Middleboro-Justin H. Caswell, Mrs. Justin H. Caswell, Mrs. Laura F. Wing Caswell.

New Bedford-Mary E. Howland, Alice Macomber Howland, Chas. M. Hussey, Mrs. Chas. M. Hussey. Newton-Frank E. Wing.

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not, and never has been, self supporting. We need one hundred more subscribers to cover the expense of publication. Your committee can direct and advise. It rests with the cousins themselves to increase the subscription list and complete the work to the end. Could you pay a higher or more gratifying tribute, to Mary or Col. Wing, than to further this splendid undertaking? Your committee awaits your decision.

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912.

Of The Owl, published quarterly at Kewaunee, Wisconsin for October 1, 1926. State of New York,

County of St. Lawrence-ss.

Before me, a notary public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Rufus L. Sisson, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Business Manager of the Owl

When Geo. W. Wing, President of the Wing Family of America, Incorporated, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge

passed on in 1924 we felt as if we were drifting with the wind and tide. Unless assistance could be given the end was inevitable.

Mary Gertrude Wing keenly realized the situation from the first. With the passing of Col. Wing, "The Owl" which he had published quarterly would cease. Without its influence she felt the vital interest in the family would diminish. In time the organization itself would become disrupted. Her great love for the Wing Family, esteem for Col. Wing and a desire to complete his genealogy of The Wing Family prompted her to take up the work where Col. Wing had left it. How well and sympathetically Mary did this you readers of The Owl know.

Today, in 1926, we have to meet the same situation as in 1924. The Owl is without and editor. At Sandwich in Aug. 1926 Rufus L. Sisson, Potsdam, N. Y., Daniel V. Raymond, 115 Broadway, New York City, and Dr. Emma Wing Thompson, 1041 University Way, Seattle, Washington, were the committee appointed to arrange for the publication and upkeep of The Owl.

At present the greatest difficulty to be overcome is the upkeep. The Owl is

and belief, a true statement of the ownership, manage. ment (and if a daily paper the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to-wit:

1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher, Wing Family of America, Inc., c-o Algoma Printing Co., Algoma, Wis.

Editor, Caroline E. Wing Parker, Lunds Cor. Sta., New Bedford, Mass.

Business Manager, Rufus L. Sisson, Potsdam, N. Y. 2. That the owner is: (If the publication is owned by an individual his name and address, or if owned by more than one individual the name and address of each, should be given below: if the publication is owned by corporation the name of the corporation and the names and addresses of the stockholders owning holding one per cent or more of the total amount of stock should be given).

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Wing Family of America, Incorporated. No stockholders.

3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: (If there are none, so state). None.

4.

That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in case where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this afliant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him.

RUFUS L. SISSON, Business Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of anuary, 1927. GEORGE M. SHERHUTNE, Notary Public. My commission expires March 30, 1927.

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