I have those Roycroft album sets as well. They are all madrigal songs because Hubbard was an Anglophile, and were produced years after his death. I have always been amazed that Hubbard never recorded since he was a famous orator in his time.
> From: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:57:46 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Lusitania > > there is also a record album and records for elbert hubbard also > i found the album with records in vermont > interesting but not exciting > > > > In a message dated 9/20/2011 6:25:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > And just to add to that........Elbert Hubbard was on his way to England, > on > the Lusitania, to speak out against World War I, when it was sunk by the > Germans......he didn't survive. Monday, August 08, 2011AN AMERICAN > multi-millionaire has moved a step closer to realising one of his life’s > great > ambitions — solving the enduring mystery of the sinking of the Lusitania. > Gregg Bemis, 83, who has owned the wreck since 1968, oversaw operations off > the south coast on Saturday as divers began cutting through the hull of the > wreck. It was 25 nautical miles south of the Old Head of Kinsale en > route from New York to Liverpool in May 1915 when it was hit under its > bridge > by a torpedo fired from a German U-boat. > > The explosion triggered a mystery secondary explosion which ripped the > hull of the 790ft (241m) vessel apart. > > It sank by the head in less than 18 minutes, killing 1,198 of the 1,959 > people on board, including 39 children and dozens of Americans. > > The sinking caused massive controversy because the vessel was carrying > civilian passengers, including eminent and wealthy politicians, artists, > the > art collector Hugh Lane, academics and businessmen. > > > Read more: > http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/kfgbmhojidcw/rss2/#ixzz1YX2wRsEr > > > http://www.archaeology.org/0901/trenches/lusitania.html The nearly > century-old debate about whether the passenger liner > Lusitania was transporting British war munitions when torpedoed by a > German U-boat is over. Physical evidence of just such a cargo has been > recovered > from the wreck, which rests 12 miles off the Irish coast in 300 feet of > murky, > turbulent water. > Bullets from the ship now confirm it was > carrying military cargo. Lusitania was sunk off County Cork on May 7, > 1915. The attack killed > 1,198 people, including 128 Americans, and helped push the United States > into > World War I. Ever since the ship went down, there have been suspicions > that > Lusitania was carrying live munitions. Under the rules of war, that would > have made the liner a legitimate target, as the Germans maintained at the > time. > > The British government has always been evasive about the presence of > munitions on Lusitania. Two cargo manifests were submitted; the second, > filed after the ship sailed, indicated there were light munitions on > board. Some > believe the ship was carrying much more, however, and that the British > Navy > attempted to destroy the wreck in the 1950s to conceal its military cargo. > Now a team led by County Waterford-based diver Eoin McGarry, on behalf of > Lusitania's American owner, Gregg Bemis, has recovered live ammunition > from the wreck. Bemis was granted a five-year license in 2007 by the Irish > government to conduct limited excavations at the site. He originally > bought the > vessel in 1968 for $2,400 from the Liverpool & London War Risks Insurance > Association. > This past September, Bemis's team used a remotely operated vehicle to > penetrate the wreck. They were able to clearly identify a vast amount of > ammunition in an area of Lusitania not believed to have carried cargo. > The Remington .303 caliber bullets the team discovered on the ship had > been used > by the British military during World War I. Ten of the bullets were > brought to > the surface. > "Further research needs to be conducted, but if the discovered ammunition > was > found in an area where cargo was not known to be stored on board, it > strongly > supports the argument that the Lusitania was functioning as more than a > passenger liner," says Fionnbar Moore, senior archaeologist with the > Underwater > Archaeology Unit of the Irish Department of Environment, which monitored > the > dive. > The bullets are in the hands of Irish authorities, who under maritime law > are > now responsible for establishing their owner. Further expeditions will > search > for additional evidence of munitions. > "The charge that the Lusitania was carrying war materiel is valid," > says Bemis. "She was a legitimate target for the German submarine." > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
