Always hate it if I am misrepresenting someone, as David claims in his Reply #1645 (David)
"Like when Brauer blatantly misrepresents my take on the quarry blasting"
It was spurred by this comment in Reply #1627 (Jeff)
If you read David's theory, they were out there blasting dyamite before they owned the property, to justify his theory on the timing of the Francis land swap. Kind of a really big, loud soil sample dig!
From David’s essay:
On November 14, 1910, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Merion had acquired “130 acres” of land for a new golf course…..
Given Francis’ description of the timing of the quarryman’s blasting, and given that he eventually served on the Construction Committee, it has long been assumed that the “swap” occurred while Construction Committee was in the process of building the course. But the supposed land exchange must have occurred much earlier, before Merion secured the land, which was before Merion appointed Wilson and his Construction Committee.The supposed land swap must have occurred prior to mid-November 1910, when Merion obtained an option from Haverford Development Company. This was six weeks before the purchase was finalized
Francis and Lloyd had been fine-tuning the layout plan before Merion secured the land…..The Francis land “swap” allowed them to complete the routing plan. All before November 10, 1910.
This is where I got my statement from, again, straight from the source. Not sure how I misrepresented David's position.
Also have a question, and that is if Francis was appointed to the same construction committee (maybe, or maybe not later, based on his word "added" no earlier than January 1911 why should we presume he was involved earlier, but we cannot presume Wilson was?
After all, there is no record of either being involved, so it seems a bit, uh, disingenous (sorry) to portray a lesser member of the committee as being involved pre committee, but the head wasn't?
Anyway, if someone can tell me what record there is to back up the Lloyd and Francis routing thoery, or how it was I misrepresented David's own words by nearly quoting them, then I am (like Ross Perot) all ears. I certainly didn't mean to misquote him, but if they were blasting before Nov 1910 as his essay suggests, I wonder how they would know that they were blasting the 16th green, given CBM wasn't approving the final routing until April of the next year.