CLARA BARTON FAMILY PAPERS Barton, Clarence W. Oct. 1901-Nov. 1903 & undated Twice=a=Week Enterprise SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR 8 Pages, 6 Columns Daily by Carrier - $6.00 Published in the very center of Daily by Mail - - 3.00 the Orange Section Sunday Edition - 1.50 Twice-a-Week - - 1.50 MORNING Riverside Enterprise MONROE & BARTON PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS The Oldest Daily in Riverside County Riverside, Calif., Oct 21 1901 My dear Aunt Clara: -- The ladies of the Riverside Red Cross have determined to present a picture of you to the High School to be hung in a prominent place in the auditorium of the new building, and they have asked me to write you and learn whether you have any favorite likeness which seems to you better than others and whether you can give directions [*(2)*] Twice-a-Week Enterprise 8 Pages, 6 Columns Published in the very center of the Orange Section SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR Daily by Carrier - $6.00 Daily by Mail - - 3.00 Sunday Edition - 1.50 Twice-a-Week - - 1.50 MORNING Riverside Enterprise MONROE & BARTON PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS The Oldest Daily in Riverside County Riverside, Calif., _______________190 ___ where the same can be obtained. It is my understanding that your picture is to hang with Frances Willards and should be either 20 x 26 or 22 x 28. I was cautioned against presenting the matter in a light that would have the impression that they were seeking a donation; they have simply promised the picture and now find themselves embarrassed to procure it. The ladies came to me for a photograph [*(3)*] Twice-a-Week Enterprise 8 Pages, 6 Columns Published in the very center of the Orange Section SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR Daily by Carrier - $6.00 Daily by Mail - - 3.00 Sunday Edition - 1.50 Twice-a-Week - - 1.50 MORNING Riverside Enterprise MONROE & BARTON PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS The Oldest Daily in Riverside County Riverside, Calif., _______________190 ___ to have enlarged but I was obliged to blushingly confess that I had not one. Quite independent of any desire to serve the excellent ladies of the local Red Cross, I feel that I am not doing proper honor to the Barton name where I have not in my possession a picture of my most distinguished relation. If you have a photograph to give away, I shall treasure it and if you can give information that will assist the Red Cross ladies, they will appreciate it. (4) Twice=a=Week Enterprise 8 Pages, 6 Columns Published in the very center of the Orange Section Subscription Per Year Daily by Carrier = $6.00 Daily by Mail = = 3.00 Sunday Edition = 1.50 Twice-a-Week = = 1.50 Riverside Morning Enterprise Monroe & Barton Publishers and Proprietors The Oldest Daily in Riverside County Riverside, Calif., 190 Sometimes I hear from you through Father but not nearly as often as I should be glad to. I am at the old business, as you see, and am glad to say we are meeting with satisfactory success. Herbert and [Lo??n] are now both in Los Angeles. They are both well and are doing well. I have thought it possible that I might go East within a f ew weeks to straighten out North Oxford affairs, and if I go I shall hope to go by way of Washington and see you. Always Affectionately Clarence W. Barton [*7*] [*Clarence Barton*] Twice=a=Week Enterprise 8 Pages, 6 Columns Published in the very center of the Orange Section Subscription Per Year Daily by Carrier = $6.00 Daily by Mail = = 3.00 Sunday Edition = 1.50 Twice-a-Week = = 1.50 Riverside Morning Enterprise Monroe & Barton Publishers and Proprietors The Oldest Daily in Riverside County Riverside, Calif., Dec 23 1901 My dear Aunt Clara: - Some time ago I wrote you that I had been importuned by the ladies of the Riverside "Red Cross" to seek information from you where [where] the best likeness could be obtained for enlarging with a picture to be presented to the new High School. I have received no reply and presume that my letter must have been lost or overlooked in the quantities of your other more important correspondence. As I have been freshly im- portuned by the ladies, I write & make the same request. Pictures of notable male personages have been purchased to adorn the walls of the assembly room and it is the purpose to balance these with the likenesses of women who have won prominent place for themselves in the world. You are of course one whose picture they must have, but they have been embarrassed to find a picture which has seemed to do you justice. It is your assistance in making the selection which the "Red Cross" ladies ask. Twice=a=Week Enterprise 8 Pages, 6 Columns Published in the very center of the Orange Section Subscription Per Year Daily by Carrier = $6.00 Daily by Mail = = 3.00 Sunday Edition = 1.50 Twice-a-Week = = 1.50 Riverside Morning Enterprise Monroe & Barton Publishers and Proprietors The Oldest Daily in Riverside County Riverside, Calif., Father writes me that you were down in New England this fall and that he saw you for a little while. Oxford has been having some improvements of late but it seems to me to be growing more forlorn all the time. I am afraid that electric cars can never regenerate the old place. I have never had occasion to regret my selection of the West or the field in which to make my fight in the world. With best wishes for a Happy New Year I am Affectionately yours Clarence N. Barton [*25 76*] [*C. W B*] Glen Echo, Md. January 3rd, 1902. Clarence W. Barton, Riverside, Cal. My dear Clarence:- What a shame that I am just now dealing with a letter bearing date Oct. 20th: I would'nt blame you for cutting my acquaintance. Such neglect! especially, when you remember me every day by a paper as large as I can possibly read; I say a hearty " Good Morning Clarence " every time it comes in. I have now a bit of news to tell you, that being what you deal in, if your confreres of the Press have not got the start of me and told you before, which is: that the American Red Cross has unmoored itself from Washington and gone to New York. It is located near Central Park, 49 East 58th St.where I am also located and shall spend much of my time You will observe by the late proceedings that instead of a release at the last annual meeting I was made President for life, by which I trust my good friends did not mean more work for me, but to stand by and help them do theirs. Believing that they can do better work in New York than Washington we have made this removal. nothing of any importance can be done without somebody making a C.W.B -2- [*25 annual m*] blunder, I notice this " somebody " has started the report through the Press, that I have been made Honorary President, succeeded by Mrs. John A. Logan, as active President. While the error would not be worth mentioning simply to a friend, to a man who hold a Journal in his hands, like yourself, it is more necessary that he has the facts, and not allow dear Mrs. Logan to be burdened with the correspondence that it may bring to her to correct it Mrs. Logan who was second Vice-President last year, was made first and only Vice-President, at the same annual meeting that made me President for life. Mrs. Logan received this appointment most gracefully, saying, that there is no one else in the world for whom she would accept it. Our removal does not mean that we desert Glen Echo: this will be always the beloved country home, and both Dr. Hubbell and myself will divide our occupancy of it as is most agreeable or necessary. I had a charming letter from Herbert and a photograph of his beautiful boy. I feel that we have a Barton Colony in California, and I can not tell you how I long to see your father. I am so glad that he is there with his boys and that in dear Mrs Hunt you will find the mother that you best remember. I know she is happy with her boys. Please give best love to all, and reckon along with them the Auntie in the East, Glen Echo, Maryland. January 17, 1902. Clarence M. Barton, Esq., Editor The Enterprise, Riverside, California. My dear Clarence: It is a great shame that you have no pictures of me, when they are indeed of so little worth, and that you should have asked me twice, at the importunities of other person, to send you one. It is because any pictures that I have are so indifferent and I am so dissatisfied with them myself that I dread to send (an) anything out, but I will ask Dr. Hubbell today to put up something that can go to you, and you may use your own best judgment in selecting what you think is the better. I would always be glad to use the earlier pictures, for they are more like myself, more like what one would choose to be remembered by, but there is a great craze in the world today for the latest picture. I have none very late, and do not intend to have, but such as there are we will try to send you. Now let me thank you for that clear, well defined editorial which appeared in your paper a week or two ago. I am at a loss to know how you gathered up between the lines so much that was really there and not stated. Under the circumstances, it is probably best that I say nothing; a muddy stream sometimes runs itself clear. I have not heard recently from your Father, but presume he is still in North Oxford. I know you would like to have him with you, and especially would you like Mrs. Hunt. It would be like a mother coming to you, I know, and I wish she could be there. I know the old Eastern States grow to seem forlorn, so far as agriculture is concerned, but they still grind out some mechanics and manufactures and hold to a little wealth and some stability. They were, in reality, the foundation of the great growing west, do not let us forget that, and give credit where it is due. -2- I congratulate you most abundantly on the success of your paper. I think you had better make me a subscriber and send me your bill, it would be my best way of continuing acquaintance with you. Please remember me to Herbert and Loren when you see them, and keep a warm place in your heary for, Yours affectionately, Clara Barton [*Clarence- Ansd Feb. 2[?] 1902*] Twice=a=Week Enterprise SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR 8 Pages, 6 Columns Daily by Carrier - $6.00 Published in the very center of Daily by Mail - - 3.00 the Orange Section Sunday Edition - 1.50 Twice-a-Week - - 1.50 MORNING Riverside Enterprise MONROE & BARTON [*34*] PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS The Oldest Daily in Riverside County Riverside, Calif., Feb. 9, 1902. My dear Aunt Clara:- I received your good letter on time and have since then safely received the pictures kindly sent by you. It is my only claim to distinction that I have an aunt who has done so much good in the world and so I was very glad to be the agent for placing in the the hands of the local Red Cross ladies the likeness of you which they have been trying to get hold of for such a long time. You see,Aunt Clara,that among the world's people of prominence in the present day you occupy a class by yourself. All the others devote a regular portion of their time to posing before a camera so that their photographs are everywhere hawked about the streets,whereas no one out here either knew of a good picture of you or where to get information about one. The smaller picture I have on my bureau with the family photographs and the larger one has been enlarged into a splendid picture for the high school of which I inclose a little cut. I have wanted very much to have father and Mrs Hunt out here with me but it is very hard for them to leave the old home where they been so many years. I believe that its attractions have so far vanished now that I may be able to get them out here before another winter. Anyway I shall make an especial effort. I had hoped to go East last spring and again last fall but a daily newspaper is as confining as a family of youngsters- that is,I suppose it is,for I have heard that youngsters are very confining. I have only Twice=a=Week Enterprise SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR 8 Pages, 6 Columns Daily by Carrier - $6.00 Published in the very center of Daily by Mail - - 3.00 the Orange Section Sunday Edition - 1.50 Twice-a-Week - - 1.50 MORNING Riverside Enterprise MONROE & BARTON [*34*] PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS The Oldest Daily in Riverside County Riverside, Calif., _____190__ C. B. # 2. had experience with a newspaper. If everything goes well I hope to get to the Atlantic coast this summer and shall then see you and try to get father and Mrs Hunt packed off for California. I shall very gladly send you the Enterprise but cannot let you be a paid subscriber. I should have sent you the paper long ago but I couldn't hope that you would be interested in my small accomplishments. Comparatively, of course,the Enterprise occupies only a small field of usefulness but it is a success,and the main thing in this world is to be a success in what one does even though his effort be small. Herbert and Loren are both living in Los Angeles. I do not see them very often because I am so busy,but they often speak of you and I am sure they would wish to be kindly remembered. Affectionately, Clarence W. Barton Washington, D. C., February 24, 1902. Mr. Clarence W. Barton, Riverside, California. My dear Clarence: I was very glad of your letter received a few days ago, glad the pictures went through safely and, if they are any satisfaction to anybody, I am glad of that too. There is a reason for the difference between me and other people of whom you speak. The people who pose for photographs are good-looking and get pictures that please them and please their friends. I get neither and naturally keep in the background. We have been habing a famous couple of weeks here, all the woman world have been with us, home and largely foreign. I foresaw such an array of conventions and conference work that I felt compelled to leave my country home and take up my abode in a hotel in the city until the Jambaree should have passed. I do not know if the accounts were of sufficient importance to have reached so far as California, but our own papers have been crowded with the doings and sayings of the bright women of the conventions. There has really been a great deal of excellent speaking and a great deal of good thought. The Suffrage Convention was in reality the leader, but brought in a great deal of old-time, solid talent with Miss Anthony and Mrs. Catt at the head, and there were foreign delegates from eight different countries, all of whom spoke, and spoke well, and C.W.B.-2- lent great interest to the occasion. This was followed by the National Council of Women, which continued nearly as long, only finishing yesterday, with Mrs. May Wright Sewell as its head. Some of the addresses there would have done credit to any body of men speakers whom I am accustomed to hear. The Daughters of the American Revolution had an active, quick session, with much less than their usual amount of fighting, and have largely gone to Charleston, I think, to finish up at the fair. I had a kind of belonging to them all and have said a little here and there to the most of them. I thank you very much for letting The Enterprise come into my possession. I shall feel that i get a little call from you every time it comes, and I am just asproud of it as I can be. The Prince is here today. Neither Mr. Tillman nor I are invited to dine with him, but I have written him, do not know whether Mr. Tillman has or not, I should think he would. Please give love to the boys when you see or write them. Let me hear from you, and believe me, Affectionately yours, Clara Barton [*Ansd. March 15, 1902*] Twice=a=Week Enterprise SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR 8 Pages, 6 Columns Daily by Carrier - $6.00 Published in the very center of Daily by Mail - - 3.00 the Orange Section Sunday Edition - 1.50 Twice-a-Week - - 1.50 MORNING Riverside Enterprise MONROE & BARTON PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS The Oldest Daily in Riverside County Riverside, Calif., March 10, 1902.190__ My dear Aunt Clara:- Some time ago I received a letter from Mr Briggs calling my attention to the bill which had been introduced in the senate by Mr Mason or Illinois providing for an annuity for you in slight recognition of all the good that you have been doing these many years and I was glad at once to take up the matter with Senator Perkins who,I have reason to believe, is kindly disposed toward me and is,besides,a man of such broad justice that he could not fail to be impressed with the country's debt to you. I am glad to report that the matter has appealed to him as I had hoped and I have just received the inclosed letter pledging his support.If his deeds do not seem to be as good as his word,I wish I could know of it for I am sure that I know the way to keep him interested. The congressman from this district,Mr, Needham,and I have clashed rather unpleasantly on two or three occasions so that I am persona non grata with him but it happens that he is very deeply indebted to Capt.Daniels who has recently become interested in the newly organized "Enterprise Company" and I have asked the Captain to write Mr, Needham. Capt. Daniels also has it in his power to interest Mr. McLachlan from the Sixth District and also Senator Bard. California does not count for much in the councils of the nation but what little influence we have,I feel confident will be weighed on the side of doing justice by you. Yes,the account of the proceedings of the conventions of all the clever women assembled in Washington did reach to California and I read the reports with much interest. There is much activity among woman's organ- Twice=a=Week Enterprise SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR 8 Pages, 6 Columns Daily by Carrier - $6.00 Published in the very center of Daily by Mail - - 3.00 the Orange Section Sunday Edition - 1.50 Twice-a-Week - - 1.50 MORNING Riverside Enterprise MONROE & BARTON PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS The Oldest Daily in Riverside County Riverside, Calif.,_____19__ Clara Barton #2. izations here in Southern California and the Enterprise,being an up to date paper,had to give the news of what was going on at the nation's capital. I do not see the boys very often but they and their families are generally well and fairly prosperous. Everything is going very nicely with the Enterprise and I think we are getting into a field of enlarged influence. I had hoped to go East for a little while this spring and still have hope that I shall be able to do so. If I do,of course I shall get out to Glen Echo to see you. Affectionately, Clarence W. Barton [*Clarence Barton*] [*34*] Washington, D. C., March 15, 1902. Mr. Clarence W. Barton, Riverside, California. My dear Clarence: Lest your letter should get laid aside, I hasten to tell you that it is here and I thank you for it and for the enclosure and the assurances that accompany it. That is a matter which I am supposed to know but little about and even Mr. Briggs and Doctor Hubbell are very reticent with me on that subject, are rather inclined to look wise, as if they know somthing that I did not, and, in fact, I expect they do. It is most thoughtfully kind of you to take the trouble to look after so many of the Congressional lights in your great State. You will understand that, from the little that I do know, and the much that I do not, in regard to this matter, I have no confidence in any action being taken that my friends would call favorable. Congress, as a body, feels that it must defend itself and the interests in which it is put in charge. Their own matter of defense is to escape establishing precedents, which it will vigorously endeavor to do, and they will feel it their duty to protect the public powers, so far as in their power. This little step they will recognize as being entirely in their power, with no counter influences, no vote to be lost on some other question, if they vote adversely on this, and thus the chances will be so very small that it pains me to see the interest and personal vigor that so many good friends are investing in it. I suppuse, with the outlook which I have and the views which I entertain, that, if it depended upon me, I should at once request the withdrawal of the whole movement, but it does not depend upon me, neither has it, therefore, it is not in my power to move on or off, I can only wait the moving of the waters, and hope that no one will be the worse for any efforts made. I am always interested in the coming of "The Enterprise", and the editorials are eagerly read. What worlds of reading and writing an editor must do. I hope it is congenial to you, and I have no doubt that your paper is getting a position and an influence that will make it felt. Always glad to hear from you, I remain, Affectionately yours, Clara Barton P. S. A letter from Ida yesterday tells me they are all well at Oxford. [*Ansd. Aug. 9- 1902- C. B.*] Published in the Very Center of the Orange Section Morning Enterprise ...Officers... 8 Pages, 7 Columns C. W. BARTON, President Twice=a=Week Enterprise H. H. MONROE, Vice President 8 Pages, 6 Columns P. S. CASTLEMAN, Sec. and Treas. MORNING Riverside Enterprise THE ENTERPRISE COMPANY (INCORPORATED) The Oldest Daily in Riverside County Riverside, Calif., July 29 1902. My dear Aunt Clara:- Since my last letter I have been on the Atlantic Coast and I was not a little disappointed to find you in Europe. I had hoped that we might have a nice little visit together; that I might learn something of what you are doing and tell you of the home which I have made for the folks out here in the West. Father and Mrs Hunt picked up and packed up and sold out in North Oxford and have made the trip safely across the continent, arriving in Riverside the ninth of this month. We have a very pleasant home and I think that they are fairly contented though sometimes I suspect I detect sighs for the old scenes in Massachusetts and some of the old associations. I cannot understand the attractiveness of North Oxford myself but I presume that you and I have not such pleasant memories of the old place as some others may possibly have. Here we have oranges, lemons and grape fruit growing in our own yard, beautiful roses and most delicious grapes, - all of which are lots more attractive to me than the dismal red gravel pits and tumbled down houses BOARD OF CONSULTATION : PRESIDENT OF THE U. S. AND MEMBERS OF THE CABINET. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS: CLARA BARTON, PRESIDENT. BRAINARD H. WARNER, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT. STEPHEN E. BARTON, SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT. ELLEN S. MUSSEY, THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT AND COUNSEL. WALTER P. PHILLIPS, GENERAL SECRETARY. WILLIAM J. FLATHER, TREASURER. THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS. INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, OCTOBER 1, 1881, APRIL 17, 1898, AND BY SPECIAL ACT OF CONGRESS, JUNE 6, 1900. FOR THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING BY WAR, PESTILENCE, FAMINE, FLOOD, FIRES, AND OTHER CALAMITIES OF SUFFICIENT MAGNITUDE TO BE DEEMED NATIONAL IN EXTENT. THE ORGANIZATION ACTS UNDER THE GENEVA TREATY, THE PROVISIONS FOR WHICH WERE MADE IN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION AT GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, AUGUST 22, 1864, AND SINCE SIGNED BY NEARLY ALL CIVILIZED NATIONS, INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES, WHICH GAVE ITS ADHESION MARCH 1, 1882. RATIFIED BY THE CONGRESS OF BERNE, JUNE 9, 1882. PROCLAIMED BY PRESIDENT ARTHUR, JULY 26, 1882. --------------------------------------------- HEADQUARTERS: WASHINGTON, D. C. MAKE ALL CHECKS PAYABLE TO AMERICAN RED CROSS AND SEND TO HEADQUARTERS, WASHINGTON, D. C. paper is now published under its own roof. I was sorry that nothing came of the annuity bill in your interest before the last Congress. I am yet very young in politics, still I am experienced enough at the game to know that the fate of legislative matters is not determined upon the merits of the case. Our statesmen have personal interests to look to which count quite [quite] as much in affairs of state as the more serious subjects of national weal. We must hope for a more pleasant outcome the next time. Father and Mrs Hunt wish to be kindly remembered and I am sure the boys would send the same kind message if they were here. With best love, affectionately Clarence W. Barton [*(2)*] Published in the Very Center of the Orange Section Morning Enterprise ...Officers... 8 Pages, 7 Columns C. W. BARTON, President Twice=a=Week Enterprise H. H. MONROE, Vice President 8 Pages, 6 Columns P. S. CASTLEMAN, Sec. and Treas. MORNING Riverside Enterprise THE ENTERPRISE COMPANY (INCORPORATED) The Oldest Daily in Riverside County Riverside, Calif.,_____1902. of North Oxford. I should like to hear of your trip to Russia and of the distinguished company who assembled there to review Red Cross affairs. Ida has written me something of it but of course gave only the most meagre account. I wish that my trip could have been two months later or that yours could have been set forward by that space. The Enterprise continues in a very flourishing condition. Recently we purchased the brick block which we are now occupying so that the [*Clarence Barton*] [*34*] Glen Echo, Md ., Aug. 9, 1902. Mr. Clarence W. Barton, Editor, "The Enterprise", Riverside, California. My dear Clarence: Your letter of July 29th awaited me on my return three days ago, and if you were disappointed in not meeting me, you will know how to sympathize with my disappointment in having missed you. I had thought to enjoy meeting you so much and had many things to talk with you about, and while I am glad that your father is really with you, packed and gone, I am sorry not to have seen him once more. There were things I wantedoto say to him and it was in my mind to go to Massachusetts as soon as I could leave here after my return and see him, but our plans are never carried out exactly as we lay them and on the whole it is probably best, although I cannot at all see why it was best that I should not have met you, that will require further development. I think I can understand a little what it is to you to have a home again, to feel that your father and Mrs. Hunt are with you, a little touch of the old-time life must come back to you and you must, at times, feel that you can lay aside a little C.W.B.-2- of the man and be a boy again, not too old for that either. With all you boys in California, it was the place for your father and Mrs. Hunt. I have long felt that and if in some way it became possible to do it without too much heartache, it is is all well. I can appreciate that fruit growing in your own yard, so strange to New England eyes, and I can hardly feel that the old grey rocks, the hard, gravelly fields, the heavy winters, cold winds and the cloudy days of New England will ever array themselves in rivalry in your father's mind against what he meets there. I want you to give to both himself and Mrs. Hunt my warmest congratulations for the change they have made, my regrests at not having seen them again, but my hope that it is not forever. Please give my love to the other brothers. I really feel that I am getting quite a family foundation out in California, and that whatever else there will not be a lack of the Barton blood there, for which I am very glad. Let me hear from you again, although this hasty letter is not worth a reply. Very affectionately, Your Always Clara Barton Published in the Very Center of the Orange Section ...Officers... C. W. BARTON, President H. H. MONROE, Vice President P. S. CASTLEMAN, Sec. and Treas. MORNING [River]side Enterprise THE ENTERPRISE COMPANY (INCORPORATED) The Oldest Daily in Riverside County Riverside, Calif., Oct. 20, 1902. My dear Aunt Clara:- I am afraid that I have been a little tardy in replying to your last letter but it is not because that we do not think of you very often. I am a very poor correspondent because I have so much stuff to write for the public to read that my resources are exhausted before I get ready to write my friends. Ida writes us of you frequently and recently she sent us your letter telling of your visit to Russia. The descriptions were so good that I took the liberty to publish extracts from it. We have heard from it very often and people have remarked that they really learned more of Russia in those few lines than in all the rest of their reading. Father and Mrs. Hunt have got nicely settled and I think are becoming quite as much attached to California as all the rest of us. This is saying a good deal for them,for they had become well rooted to Massachusetts. Nearly everyone,I find,enjoys being comfortable and comforts are to be found here in so much greater abundance than in old New England that it is a pretty hopeless case who does not fall in love with California's Southland. The topic of greatest interest here now is politics. I think there will be no doubt but that California will be solidly Republican. There is no one to whom the protection doctrine comes home so closely as to us. With us protection is not a matter of theory but of personal interest and so it does require much campaigning to convince. Here in Riverside we expect to have a congressman all our own. The candidate of the Published in the Very Center of the Orange Section Morning Enterprise ...Officers... 8 Pages, 7 Columns C. W. BARTON, President Twice=a=Week Enterprise H. H. MONROE, Vice President 8 Pages, 6 Columns P. S. CASTLEMAN, Sec. and Treas. MORNING Riverside Enterprise THE ENTERPRISE COMPANY (INCORPORATED) The Oldest Daily in Riverside County Riverside, Calif., July 29 1902. C. B. #2. Republicans is Capt. Daniels who is a Riversider,and better still, is a stock-holder and director of the ENTERPRISE. Father will be disfranchised this year and will have to let an election pass without voting for the first time,I think,since he was twenty-one. I wish that we might hope to see you out here some time. I am sure that you would find California people very colorful and nice and would like our pretty sunshiny country. Every time we hear in any way from Steve we learn of his sighs for the West and some day we really expect to see him drop in on us. The dreary Atlantic coast is never good enough for any one after they have once got a taste of real life out here. I do not see Herbert and Loren very often because I am so busy that I cannot often get away. They must be well,however,else I should hear for I can talk with them at any time on the telephone. I inclose a little picture which I have lately had taken. It will give you an idea of the cowboy editor as he looks on his own stamping ground. All in reach do send love and I know the others would. Affectionately, Clarence [*Clarence Ansd Apr 25 1903*] Published in the Very Center of the Orange Section Morning Enterprise ...Officers... 8 Pages, 7 Columns C. W. BARTON, President THE OLDEST DAILY IN H. H. MONROE, Vice President RIVERSIDE COUNTY P. S. CASTLEMAN, Sec. and Treas. MORNING Riverside Enterprise [*33 Clarence*] THE ENTERPRISE COMPANY (INCORPORATED) Riverside, Calif., April 20, 1903. My dear Aunt Clara:- I have been dreadfully remiss in acknowledging photographs and papers which have been sent me, and in our correspondence I am afraid that the debt has been over long on my side. The reason is the simple one which you know very well from your own experience, namely, that when a person writes much for publication he becomes so tired of the products of his own quill that he hesitates to impose them upon those who stand nearer and dearer to him. Writing publicly and professionally is likely to spoil a good private correspondent. We were all much pleased with the pictures of you and think them very good your photograph has the most prominent place in our home and we speak very affectionately and very proudly of you, notwithstanding the fact that so distinguished a person as the President of the United States -- who had not yet learned to talk when you were already serving your county -- has found himself too busily occupied to lend countenance to the institution which you established and have kept alive. It is not strange that so strenuous a person with such a thirst for gore should not find time to lend a hand in propelling a mere vehicle of mercy. Cutting out the hearts of mountain lions is poor training for work in the Red Cross field. Yes, Aunt Clara, we who know you and know your work are still proud and still believe in you, and we have with us the millions who don't know [*2*] Published in the Very Center of the Orange Section Morning Enterprise ...Officers... 8 Pages, 7 Columns C. W. BARTON, President THE OLDEST DAILY IN H. H. MONROE, Vice President RIVERSIDE COUNTY P. S. CASTLEMAN, Sec. and Treas. MORNING Riverside Enterprise THE ENTERPRISE COMPANY (INCORPORATED) Riverside, Calif., _____1903. you as well but who do know your work very well indeed. The Masseys and the Cowles and all the other "knockers" may have it in their power to cause you much annoyance and many heartaches but it is beyond their ability to undo a distinguished career or to cool the affection for you in the great American heart. If it is worth their while to cause a good woman pain, then they are welcome to the satisfaction which they may derive therefrom. I hope, however, that you have taken the measure of your persecutors and do not permit their vicious snarling to annoy you too much. We have been much interested in the Red Cross literature and marked papers which we have received from time to time. I have made use of some of the articles in the columns in the Enterprise and have other clippings set aside for future use. I can tell you there is no division of sentiment here in Riverside as to the merits of the Red Cross quarrel. I expect to see you for just a few minutes about the middle of next month. We have got into a little misunderstanding with the Associated Press and I am going to New York to be present at the meeting of the board of directors to be held in that city May 13. In a smaller way the Enterprise has been the victim of Associated Press persecution just as you have been in a more vital respect and I am going to New York to see if there is any decency in [*3*] Morning Enterprise 8 Pages, 7 Columns THE OLDEST DAILY IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY Published in the Very Center of the Orange Section ... Officers ... C. W. BARTON, President H. H. MONROE, Vice President P. S. CASTLEMAN, Sec. and Treas. Morning Riverside Enterprise THE ENTERPRISE COMPANY (INCORPORATED) Riverside, Calif., _______ 1903. the organization. I don't know how to spare the time or money to go to New York but affairs have reached a point where I can't move a hand here until there is some adjustment of the Associated Press matter. I shall go to New York and return in the shortest possible time, not even taking time to go down into New England, but you who are there at my destination, I shall surely see. I expect to arrive in New York May 11 or 12 and shall return immediately after the meeting. As to how the California Bartons are and all the other news, I shall reserve that to tell when I see you. All send love. Affectionately Clarence W. Barton ' Daily Enterprise' 8 Pages 7 Columns Published in the Very Centre of the Orange Section ...Officers... C. W. BARTON, President H. H. MONROE, Vice President P. S. CASTLEMAN, Sec.-Treas. Riverside Enterprise THE ENTERPRISE COMPANY (INCORPORATED) Riverside, Calif. Nov 11 1903 My dear Aunt Clara: - I'm close my proxy for the Red Cross annual meeting. I have not sent it to the secretary as directed to because I did not know whether he was a friend or a foe. You can fill in the name of whom you want to cast the votes of your friends. I hope you will meet with success in everything you wish and am sure such will be the case if those who wish you well will stand up to the rack. Everything here is the same. I am still struggling to wade out from under five times as much work as I have strength for. I have not been feeling as well as usual since my return from New York and for some reason cannot get up to the required speed to keep comfortably ahead of my tasks. Father and Mrs. Hunt are usually well. I hope to write you a good letter soon. With best love of Clarence Remember me Kindly to Mrs Hines and Dr Hubbell. POST CARD [*M. Rieder. Publ., Los Angeles, Cal. No. 8875. Made in Germany.*] This space for address only Miss Clara Barton Glen Echo Maryland A message may be written in this space Am up here in the mountains for a little rest. Received your book & think it fine. Shall review it for the Enterprise as soon as I can get time Love Clarence. [*Barton*] Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.