YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
OBITUARY.
[Continued from 3d page.]
the time of its joining the West End
Company, Mr. Child was counsel for
the Middlesex Horse Railroad. He
was also counsel for the City of Boston
in the many damage suits growing out
of the appropriation of Sudbury river
by the Water Board twelve years ago.
Mr. Child was a member of the law
firm of Child & Powers.
Mr. Child was twice married. His
second wife and three children by his
first wife survive him.
Linus Child was one of the most
genial and popular men in the Class
of Fifty-Five, a class remarkable for
the amount of useful work its members
have accomplished. Of unfailing good
humor; of cheerful and kindly bear-
ing; of ready sympathies and a free
hand; a faithful friend and a generous
opponent; an industrious and able
lawyer and an honest public servant;
he has maintained throughout his life
the measure of reputation with which
he went forth from his Class, and has
left-an honorable name. His life has
not been strikingly eventful, perhaps;
aside from the loss of his wife and his
only son, it has been singularly even
in its tenor. But he has well served
his ‘generation, and will be: sincerely
mourned by his classmates and by a
multitude of friends,» not the least by
many whom in various ways. he has
befriended in their adversity, and
assisted in their perplexities.
He has filled places of trust and
served large interests, with fidelity and
integrity. In the City Council of Bos-
ton, in the Legislature of Massachu-
setts and in the front rank of his
honorable profession, he won public
confidence and esteem. _
BURR KELLOGG FIELD, 777 S.
The following more complete record
of the life of Burr Kellogg Field,
whose sudden death on Jan. 13th was
noted in the last issue of the WEEKLY,
has come to hand:
Mr. Field was born at Auburn, Ind.,
on May sth, 1856, and entered the
Sheffield Scientific School in 1874,
graduating in 1877. From March ,1878,
to the latter part of the year he was
connected with the Department of
Tracks, Bridges and Buildings of the
St. Louis & South Eastern R. R. In
January, 1879, he entered the employ
of the Denver & Rio Grande R. R.,
being engaged in surveying through
New Mexico and Colorado. The same
year he was also engaged in the con-
struction of the Omaha extension of
the Old Northern Missouri R. R.
Afterwards he entered the Engineering
Corps of the St. Louis & San Fran-
cisco R. R., where he was engaged on
the construction of the Wichita exten-
sion until March, 1880, at which time
he was appointed Assistant Engineer.
He remained with the St. Louis &
San Francisco R. R. until the early
part of 1882, when he was appointed
Assistant Engineer of the Northern
Pacific R. R., having charge of the con-
struction of the Yellowstone Division,
and later in charge of tracks and
bridges on the National Park Branch.
In January, 1884, he was appointed
Superintendent of bridges in the High-
way Department of the City of Phila-
delphia, which position he held for two
years, when he accepted an appoint-
ment as Assistant Engineer of the Ber-
lin Iron Bridge Company of East Ber-
lin, Conn. His advancement with The
Berlin Iron Bridge Company was very
rapid, and at the time of his death he
occupied the position of Vice-Presi-
dent, having the general charge of all
sales. Since his connection with The
Berlin Iron Bridge Company, its’ busi-
ness has been much extended, and its
product introduced in all parts of the
world, the business increasing very
rapidly each year. Mr. Field had no
small part in the making of the en-
viable reputation which The Berlin
Iron Bridge Company now enjoys,
and his death will be a severe loss to
his associates. In the flush of. man-
hood he was taken away without an
instant warning. . Mr.. Field was an
indefatigable worker, not only for the
Company which he so faithfully served,
but in every walk of life; he was a
friend of his fellow men, a devoted and
earnest worker in the Church, a
staunch friend.to the cause of temper-
ance, and active and energetic in every
public position. that engaged his atten-
tion. He was a Mason of high stand-
ig. s 7
A FOOTBALL FORECAST.
The Wale-Harvard Game of 1902—A
Laboratory Trick.
[From Harper’s Weekly. Copyright, 1898, by
Harper & Brothers.]
I.
“This is no ordinary crisis,” said the
president. “The university is being
swamped. Students from all parts of
the country have crowded in on us
year after year in numbers so rapidly
increasing that, already greatly em-
barrassed, we are threatened with the
gravest complications. No student, as
you know, pays the university more
than half the cost of his training. Our
resources, strained five years ago to the
extreme limit of their capacity, have
each year since fallen more and more
short of the demands made on them.
Another defeat in football will bring
down upon us further hordes of
youth hungry for culture. As you
know, two years ago I withdrew my
objections to legislative interference,
and suffered the Massachusetts General
Court to pass an anti-football bill.
When the Governor vetoed it on the
ground that there were too many en-
thusiasts in the world anyhow, and that
football didn’t dispose of half enough
of them, my last hope of legislative
relief was killed. Unless the eleven
can win the game with Yale this year,
and divert some part of our annual in-
crease to New Haven, measures will
have to be taken which it is most
repulsive to me to contemplate. Do
your best, Duval. Do a= great deal
better than your best. You must win
this year—you really must!’
“Dr. Eliot,” replied the football cap-
tain, shifting the bandage on his head
so that one eye was partly uncovered,
“you know the situation. You know
what sort of football material we are
getting. What good are all those
platoons of grinds to football? Since
the broken pieces of Keene’s spectacles
were driven into his eyes two years ago
the near-sighted men have refused to
play. Out of the remaining rump I
have gathered what I could. The re-
pairs on last year’s team have gone on
so slowly, and are still so far from
complete, that our reliance must be
almost wholly on raw players. Melledge
is left, but the eight ribs he broke last
year compel him to wear a steel jacket,
which is stiff and heavy, and handicaps
him. Still, the utmost has been done,
and the coachers have a new stratagem
that they seem to think well of, and
which is now being perfected in the
laboratory.”
“IT am sure, Duval, you will do your
best.”’
“Thank you, doctor.”
“And if you fall, your name shall go
on the new football tablet in Memorial
Hiall..
Hi.
It was a great spectacle. The Sol-
diers’ Field had never seen a throng
quite so mighty. On the seats around
the gridiron tumultuous myriads
ranged. Close by, the long rows of
waiting hearses and ambulances lent
intensity to the landscape. In the per-
manent field-hospital, lately given to
the college by Congressman Roosevelt,
the surgeons were arranging their
instruments and laying bandages out.
In the Carey Athletic House the eleven
were parting from friends and relatives,
not all of whom could keep back their
tears. The parents of Duval and his
aged grandmother had come from
Dubuque to bid him farewell. They
were a Spartan group. “Do your
duty, Harry,” cried the brave father.
His mother kissed him, but she could
not speak. The grandmother patted
his cheek with a wrinkled hand. Age
has few tears, but they are costly.
Yale was strong on the benches.
Her continuous athletic triumphs had
kept down her registration to a num-
ber well within her means. She was
very prosperous. Her professors’ sala-
ries had all been raised. Her students,
now drawn largely from the leisure and,
sporting classes, were for the most part
in easy circumstances, and had come
on in considerable force to back their
team. A great roar greeted the play-
ers as they came on the field and as
the ball rolled out upon the gridiron
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on the air, the drivers of the hearses
and ambulances stood all alert and
directed kick from Duval had caught
speeding,
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It was nearing the end of the second
half. In the first half neither side had
scored, but the execution had been
terrific. The Harvard group of sub-
stitutes, which had numbered thirty at
the start, had dwindled down to three.
Weeping players had been led off the
field by dozens, the ambulance horses
were dripping with sweat, and only
one of the hearses was left. Yale had
made one touchdown in the second
half, and the score was 4 to o in her
favor. A group of Harvard assistant
professors and instructors sat together
watching the game with pitiable anxi-
ety. Many sympathetic glances were
directed toward them, for it was well
known that if Yale won, the necessity
of increasing the teaching force at
Harvard would compel a_ sweeping
reduction in all salaries not provided
by specific funds. Of the eleven with
which Harvard had begun the game
only the veterans Duval and Melledge
were left. Three times the rest of the
team had been replaced with fresh men.
Ten fleeting minutes were left. Sud-
denly a signal by Duval was followed
by a quick and curious movement by
four players. In an instant a dark,
clinging vapor enveloped the referee
and his assistant spotters, obscuring
their view, and causing them to gasp
and cough. It lasted but the fraction
of a minute, but in that instant a well-
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