(From left to right are Baron Roman Romanovitch
Rosen, who served as the Russian ambassador to the United States and to Japan; Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet-philosopher and winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature; and Arthur Hamerschlag, first president of the Carnagie Mellon Institute of Technology.
Rabindranath found an opportunity of getting some relief from the disgraceful environment of New York to spend a week in X-Mas of 1920.
Mr. Frank Seaman, a friend of Prof. Dr. T. Ely of Wisconsin University, invited Rabindranath to spend a week in X-Mas,1920, in a Farm house in Catskill Hill, near New York.The place was very beautiful with its scenic beauty. Rabindra ath accepted the invitation and went there with Rathindranath and Kedarnath on 23rd Dec,1920. Pratima had gone with Mrs Moody in Chicago. The address of the place was Yama Farm/Napanoch.
Already 20/25 guests were there. Rathindranath wrote in his diary;
" That was the first time we have met with hospitality that might compare with that of our East."
Among the Guest present here, Russian ambassador Baron Rosen , The female Novelist Hamlin Garland and a Polish Vocal Musician were present.Rabindranath was much pleased to meet some Russian refugee there.They have drawn some of his picture. They came back to New York again 0n 1st jan, 1921.
Originally from Rochester, New York,
Frank Seaman (1858-1939) had attained early success in New York City, building an advertising firm that boasted such clients as Eastman Kodak, American Tobacco, Colgate Palmolive, Studebaker Automobiles and the Southern and Northern Pacific Railroads. According to Seaman’s unpublished memoir, the origins of Yama Farms date to 1903 when he purchased a property just outside of Napanoch, known as the Fish Ponds. The property had been developed as a commercial trout preserve. Seaman, who was in his fifties at the time and separated from his wife, purchased the place as a weekend getaway. The advertising business, he explained, had tired him out completely. Gradually he bought up neighboring parcels of land until his holdings in Napanoch totaled 1300 acres
Mr. Seaman, a friend of Prof. Dr. Richard T. Ely (
Richard Theodore Ely (1854–1943) was an American
economist, author, and leader of the
Progressive movement who called for more
government intervention in order to reform what they perceived as the injustices of
capitalism, especially regarding factory conditions, compulsory education,
child labor, and
labor unions. Ely is best remembered as a founder and the first Secretary of the
American Economic Association, as a founder and secretary of the
Christian Social Union, and as the author of a series of widely-read books on the
organized labor movement,
socialism, and other socia questions )
