"The special trains carried groups of interesting people, including those who took part in the various programs dedicating the monuments. The addresses were all valuable historically… It is counted a privilege that the Washington Historical Quarterly is permitted to publish in this issue four of the addresses: 'The Gateway of the Oregon Country' by Judge Charles H. Carey; 'Early Followers of Captain Gray,' by Judge F.W. Howay; 'New York and Astoria' by Lawrence F. Abbott; and 'Notes on the Astors,' by Mrs. Richard Aldrich."
