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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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188 Appendix B could use in what might seem to be the best way, but he said his firm had a professional reluctance to giving gratuitous advice and had always made it their practice to receive at least a nominal fee before undertaking work of this character. They are laying out several colleges in different parts of the country and are doing more work in their line than anybody else probably, in the world today. Mr. John Olmsted is now somewhere between Oregon and Illinois and will be in your vicinity sometime during June. If you think it advisable we could get word to him and have him stop off at Champaign and look over the grounds, consulting with you, and a scheme could be worked up which would be sufficiently comprehensive to provide for not only what is now on the grounds but for future buildings. Mr. Olmsted told me that he would do this very gladly and study the matter without reference to the size of his fee, but inquired if you could not feel justified in paying him, say, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) as a retainer. If you could do so I could telegraph at once to Mr. John Olmsted. In regard to the treatment of Green Street, after talking it over with Mr. Olmsted, I feel that that is purely a detail and it would be of questionable value to attempt a solution of that part of the problem without reference to the broader scheme of the whole grounds. I had made some further studies on the column treatment and I think it would work out very nicely, but I would suggest deferring this matter for the present so that the details can be worked out in harmony with the whole. There is a possibility of making a very dignified approach to the University, with what I believe would prove to be a comparatively slight outlay of money and with practically no interference with existing structures; but you will, I am pretty sure, agree with me that anything of this kind requires pretty careful preliminary study. I am very glad to hear that you won your appropriation from the legislature, even through it was not as generous as you at first hoped. May 25, 1903: Your letter is received and I have reported to Mr. Olmsted. Should it seem to you and your trustees advisable to consult with Mr. Olmsted I am sure you will not regret it August 18, 1903: I believe you see the "Outlook". Some time about June, I think it was, or July, there was a picture given in one of the numbers of some entrance gates, if they could be called such, for Bowdoin College, In this design two Doric columns were employed in a very successful way and the treatment is so similar to what I had in mind when I talked with you for the
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