Joe:
It wasn't easy but I managed to read that entire article.
Given particularly its date and even carefully considering the meaning and ramifications of its very first paragraph that particular article just might say a whole lot more than most all of us ever knew, particularly about C.B. Macdonald's NGLA and what really led up to it and who were the major players in the way that course (NGLA, not GCGC) played out in the beginning.
Macdonald wrote some things in 1906 about Travis that he might've wanted to discount later and in his biography, but what was he going to do----they were already written in 1906?
In my opinion, that particular article, and given its particular date in relation to the NGLA project just might indicate that the stock of Emmet and particularly Travis ought to rise and perhaps significantly.
By the way, after Macdonald moved from Chicago to NY in 1900 and before he did his NGLA do you know what club he belonged to in New York?