The President's friend, Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow, had been in Japan for most of 1907; on his return to his Boston home he heard about the Saint-Gaudens coinage from Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.
威廉·斯特吉斯·毕格罗博士（Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow）是罗斯福总统的朋友，1907年大部分时间他都待在日本，回到波士顿的家中后，他从联邦参议员亨利·卡伯特·洛奇（Henry Cabot Lodge）口中得知圣高登斯设计的硬币。