...plans in regard to the Leif Erikson monument. The committee was a most brilliant one. In it were found James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas S. Appleton, Prof. EN Horsford, the Governor of Massachusetts, the Mayor of Boston and many other distinguished...

...may be seen from the membership of the committee. It was made up of such distinguished Americans as James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,...Governor of Massachusetts,, the Mayor of Boston and many others equally distinguished. With the nucleus raised by Ole Bull and Professor Anderson the committee...