Votume VI. No. 29
NEW HAVEN, CONN.,
THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1897.
Price Tren Cents.
MR. JOHN W. HENDRIE.
Something About the Law Sehool’s
Generous Friend.
The completion of the Yale Law
School building seems nearer than its
friends dared to hope that at this time
it would be, when the project was un-
dertaken a few years ago. This fact is
due to the generosity of a graduate of
Yale, whose contributions to the Fund
have already been, noted in the Week- .
ly and whose generosity towards Yale
has also been shown by his handsome
contributions to the Woolsey Statue.
Up to January 21, the gifts of Mr.
John W. Hendrie, °51, to the Building
Fund of the School, had been $25,000.
Two or three weeks ago, the friends of
the School were both surprised and de-
lighted to hear from the Treasurer
that a check for $10,000, in addition to
previous donations, had been received
from Mr. Hendrie. It was estimated,
when the building was completed up
to the present point, that the addition
of the front would cost about $70,000 or
$80,000. Through the gifts of Mr. Hen-
drie, one third of this sum has been
realized already.
Mr. Hendrie, whose most recent por-
trait is given elewhere in this paper,
_ lives at Sound Beach, Conn., on a
farm which has been in his family for
several generations, and on which he
himself was born, in November, 1821.
In early life he worked there and says
in his autobiography, in the last class
record of °51, that the exercise he re-
ceived there in blasting rocks, build-
ing stone walls and doing ordinary
farm work, laid the foundation for the
excellent health which he has always
enjoyed.
When he was twenty-two years old
he launched out for himself, by se-
curing a position as teacher in the ola
Greenwich schoolhouse, receiving the
compensation of seventeen dollars a
month. This income he was ahle to
augment very considerably by engag-
ing in the lobster industry, and net
fishing. He found time to knit his own
gill net in his spare moments, be-
tween, as he expressed it in this same
sketch, the duties of ‘‘school teaching,
sharpening pens, making fires and
sweeping out.” He also built his own
lobster pots. The income from his
fisheries would sometimes go as high
as sixty dollars a month. Some time
after this he improved his position as
teacher by taking a position in the
Steep Hollow School, three miles away,
where he received eighteen dollars a
month and board. Later he went to
the Miannus District, where his in-
come was twenty-five dollars a month.
After his teaching at Miannus, he
went to the Hopkins Grammar School
of this city, and from there he entered
Yale. He refers in his autobiography
most enthusiastically to his pleasant
college days and particularly to the
kindness of President Woolsey and
the members of the College Faculty.
For three years after graduation, he
took charge of the Stamford Academy
and succeeded in building it up on a
successful basis. Then the desire to
try his fortunes in California took
possession of him. It was the time
when the fever was running high ana
the reports were so exciting from the
gold fields “that students in Yale, even -
well along towards graduation, were
prompted to sell all they had ana
start for the Pacific Coast.”
Mr. Hendrie had succeeded in collect-
ing about a thousand dollars with which
to start on his quest for a fortune in
California. With this beginning and
with his own industry and zeal and
business ability for his principal cap-
ital, he succeeded so well that in nine
years he was able to permanently re-
tire with no small fortune. He made
the reputation there of not only being
an excellent business man, but one of
such reliability that his word was al-
ways as good as his bond. He never
engaged in mining, but was in mercan-
tile pursuits in San Francisco and in
branch stores in other parts of the
State. He formed a partnership with
Mr. H, M. Lockwood, a merchant of
New York, and their business soon
grew so well that Mr. Lockwood went
back to New York to pay entire atten-
tion to the manufacturing of the goods
which they sold there. Mr. Hendrie
says that in the early part of his ‘busi-
ness career, his capital was so small
and his obligations were so large, that
he taught school at night in order to
make sure of making enough to meet
his notes.
Mr. Hendrie has for a number of
years spent his summers at Sound
Beach, and his winters. in California. A
short time ago he visited New Haven.
In closing his autobiographical sketch
in the Class Book he says: “I may say,
again reverting: to my personal career,
that I have in all the years that have
gone since graduating day, remembered
the benefits bestowed upon me by Yale
University. As the Class appeared on
that day, as the valedictorian delivered
his address, and finally as the diplomas
were given to us, one by one the whole
seene has been before me many and
many a time. On| the sea, on the des-
ert, in the woods, and amidst oranges
and palms, the experiences at Yale have
furnished pleasing reminiscences. I oft-
en revert to the benefits received from
our Alma Mater and in those thoughts
there has never been any lingering feel-
ing but pleasure.”’
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The Juniors Testify in Court.
The case of Thomas Hylands against
the members of the Junior crew came
up in the Hamden court last Thursday
afternoon, April 29, before Justice of
Peace Clark, of the Centerville Web
Company, wtih Grand Juror Woodruff
of Hamden, representing: the prosecu-
tion. The same points were brought
up as in the City Court. Mr. Hylands
reiterated his charges that he had been
assaulted by the Yale men, and his
team taken from him. The Juniors tes-
tified that they hadn’t laid hands upon
Hylands, and only took his team be-
cause they had contracted for it, and
were obliged to take their clothes to the
boat house that day. H. W. Wilcox, ’98,
admitted that it was he who drove the
team, and he was fined $5 with $20
costs. The other members of the
crew were acquitted. H. W. Asher,
counsel for the Yale men, promptly
appealed the case to the Court of Com-
mon Pleas,
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Water Company’s Prerogative.
According to a recent act of the Con-
necticut Legislature the New Efaven
Water Company has received the right,
subject to the approval of the State
Board of Health, to prevent the use of
Lakes Whitney and Saltonstall for
boating and skating purposes. The Wa-
ter Company will not exercise this right
until the Board of Health deems it
necessary. That will not happen this
year, and probably not for several_years
to come, although the time will eventu-
ally arrive when the growth of the city
will make it necessary.
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Yale in New York Hospitals.
In the recent hospital appointments
in New York City Yale men made good
records. At the Presbyterian Hospital,
three out of the four places were award-
ed to Francis O. Dorsey, 793; Frederick
Rustin, ’95S.; and John Howland, ’94.
At Roosevelt Hospital, George M. Cree-
vey was tied for first place, and at the
New York Hospital, Sidney L. Lasell,
°92 took first place and A. V. S. Lam-
bert, 793, was reappointed. In all, nine-
teen men tried the examinations, and
only one Yale man out of the six who
tried, failed to secure an appointment.
- been announced. It reads:
JOH BE VW. HENDHIE, ’S1.
READY FOR PRINCETON,
The Men who Will Meet in Debate
Next Friday.
As the Weekly goes to press prepar-
ations are being completed for the an-
nual Yale-Princeton debate to be held
to-morrow evening, May 7, in the Col-
lege Street Hall at 8 o’clock. Imme-
diately following the debate a banquet
is to be held at the New Haven House,
where covers will be laid for fifty. All
Yale’s former representatives in inter-
collegiate debate have been invited to
be present. Prof. Arthur T. Hadley,
’°76, will respond to the toast, ‘Yale.’
It has not been possible to learn who
is to be the toastmaster or the Prince-
ton speaker on this occasion, and the
presiding officer at the debate has not
yet been announced.
The subject of the debate has already
) ‘Resolved,
That the power of the speaker of the
United States House of Representatives
is detrimental to the public interest.”
Yale will support the affirmative side
of the question. The judges of the de-
bate will be Hon. Carroll Wright, Com-
missioner of Labor; Hon. Joseph Quin-
cy, Mayor of Boston, and Mr. George
E. Waring, Commissioner of Street
Cleaning of New York City.
THE WORK OF THE YALE MEN,
The Yale debaters have been working
hard with the assistance in criticism of
their work, from Professor Arthur T.
Hadley, ’76, and Dr. E. V. Raynolds,
80 S., and have given special attention
to team work. Several test debates
have been held against other prominent
debaters of the Union, One change
has been made in the team since its
first selection. Arthur E. Fraser, ’98,
T. S., was originally chosen one of the
three speakers, but has been forced
to resign, his health being unable to
stand the strain of preparation. His
place has been taken by Edward L.
Smith, ’97, the first alternate. Two of
the Yale representatives, Messrs. Fish-
er and Smith, have never taken part in
an intercollegiate debate.
Hdward Hicks Hume comes from
Bombay, India, and is a member of
the Senior class. He prepared for Col-
lege at the Newton High School, and
had some practice in debating while
there. Last year he was alternate in
the Harvard and Princeton debates,
and again in the debate with Harvard
this year. He is an original speaker,
and his*manner is forcible. His great
fault is that he sometimes says more
than he means, thus opening himself
to his opponents’ attack.
Herbert Wescott Fisher is from New
Haven. . He fitted for college at the
Hillhouse High School, and entered
Yale with the class of Ninty-eight. He
has taken no active part in debating
until this year. He has keen discern-
ment, and is the most logical speaker
on the team. He has a clean method
of presentation, but his general form is
not aS good as it might he.
Edward Laurence Smith, the third
member of the team, comes from Hart-
ford, Conn. He prepared for college at
the Hartford High School. In College,
he has taken active interest in debat-
ing, and is at present Secretary of the
Union. Mr. Smith is forcible and a log-
ical thinker. He also uses very con-
vincing arguments. His form on the
whole is not very good.
‘THE PRINCETON REPRESENTATIVES.
The men who will represent Princeton
in the debate to-morrow evening have
had more experience than the Yale men
and also speak in slightly better form.
Two of their number were in the Har-
vard-Princeton debate last December.
A brief sketch of the men is given be-
low:
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