YALE ALUMNI NOTES.
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'45—An obituary sketch a few weeks
ago referred to the late Dr. Isaac Lewis
Peet as having graduated from Yale
with the Phi Beta Kappa scholarship
stand. A member of the family writes
to call the WEEKLy’s attention to the
iact that this was an error, and to sug-
gest, in order to keep the record within
the facts, that the error be pointed out,
the point being made that Dr. Peet him-
self would have been the first to have
such a mistake corrected, as he would
not wish to have attributed to him any
honor he did not secure. The obituary
sketch referred to did not mention Dr.
Peet’s society connections, which would
have been appropriate in the case of a
man of Dr. Peet’s long and enthusiastic
connection with Yale affairs. He was a
member of the Junior Society of Psi
Upsilon and the Senior Society of Scroll
and Key. :
’49—President Timothy Dwight has
an article in the February number of
the Intercollegian, entitled “Formative
Influences in College Life Apart from
the Curriculum.”
°31—The death of Bishop Williams of
Connecticut Monday last, makes the
Rev. Thomas March Clark the presid-
ing bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in America... He was conse-
crated Dec. 6, 1854, three years later
than the consecration of Bishop
Williams.
*62—Rev. Prof. John Phelps Taylor
has resigned his position as Professor
of Languages at the Andover Theologi-
cal Seminary.
'78—Rev. Royal C. Moodie, lately of
North Craftsbury, Vt., has accepted a
call to Tisbury, Mass.
"80—At the regular monthly meeting
oi the New Haven Physical Education
Society which was held in the trophy
room of the Yale Gymnasium Thurs-
day evening, February 9, Dr. J. W.
Seaver spoke on his recent trip to the
gymnasiums of Germany, Sweden and
France.
’80—The house occupied by Walter
Camp on Beach street, West Haven,
was totally destroyed by fire between
one and two o’clock in the afternoon
last Thursday, February 9. Mr. Camp,
who had come home for lunch, dis-
covered the fire between the floors on
the second story and attempted to extin-
guish it, but it had already spread too
far. After a few minutes work, it was
seen that the house was doomed and
every effort was made to save what
could be saved of the contents. This
effort was only partially successful.
There was time to take part of the
things from the first and second stories,
including some of the furniture. Nearly
everything in the way of clothing was
destroyed. The large cottage, which
was of wood, burned very quickly, and
before the local department could do
anything, was practically destroyed.
Mrs. Camp, one cf the children and
Mrs. Sumner were in the house at the
time. No one was injured. The
Camps are living for the present at
Prof. Sumner’s on Edwards street in
this city. The fire is supposed to have
been caused by a defective flue.
*81 S—Jeme Tien Yow has recently
been made a resident engineer of the
Imperial Chinese Railway, and is now
taking charge of a section of construc-
tion in the Chinchow extension in
Manchuria.
"83H. H. Palmer is now Editor of
the Hartford Post, which has recently
changed hands. Hon. Addison Porter,
"78, has sold his interest in the paper.
The present proprietors are two busi-
ness men, Messrs. Clark. Some time
before the change of scholarship Mr.
Palmer was in charge of the editorial
room. ;
85 T.S.— The Rev. Jeremiah C.
Cromer, late of Owosso, Mich., has re-
ceived a call to The Fountain Park
Church, St. Louis, Mo. :
"*88—A. A. Stagg has written an ar-
ticle for the February number of the
Intercollegian, called a “Yale Reminis-
cence.” os
°88—William Howard Fitzgerald has
been appointed an Assistant Corpora-
tion Counsel of Chicago by Mayor Car-
ter H. Harrison, Yale ’83 LS.
YATE ALUMNI
’88. Bernard C: Steiner has written
a book on “The Institutions and Civil
Government of Maryland,’ which has
been adopted by the State Board of
Education as a text-book in the schools
of the State.
’*89—A son was born to Rev. and Mrs.
Lester Bradner, Jr., January 14.
’89—Dr. Horace S. Stokes has re-
moved from 18 East 31st st., New York,
to 32 East 53d st. :
’897—Robert 1. Luce has removed his
law office to 31 Nassau street. En-
trance from Room 814.
’890—Hillhouse Buel was ordained to
the priesthood of the Roman Catholic
Church by Cardinal Gibbons, June 28,
1898. He has joined the Society of
Jesus and is now studying at Wood-
stock College, Md. After finishing his
studies there in May, he will be as-
signed to work in one of the Jesuit
Colleges. 3
’942-The wedding of Miss Alexina
Smith of Baltimore, and Hamilton
Holt took place at Baltimore Wednes-
day, February 8. :
’94—James A. Hawes, who has been
recently practicing law in the ottice of
Evarts, Choate & Beamen in New York
City, sailed for Europe about a week
ago on the Paris to spend a month or
five weeks in London on business.
’95—James H. Richards was admitted
to the Bar in New York in June, 1898,
and is practicing law at 170 Broadway,
New York. :
795 T.S.—The Rev. Lathrop C. Grant,
who has had charge of the church at
Hamilton, N. Y., has accepted a call
to the First Presbyterian Church at
Eau Claire, Wis.
’95—John MacGregor has completely
recovered from typhoid fever, which he
contracted in the army. He expects to
spend about a month in the South and
will then resume work.
°95—The marriage of the Rev. George
Herbert Thomas, Assistant Rector of
St. Mark’s Church, Minneapolis, to
Miss Margaret Codrington Foster,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. P. €. Fos-
ter of New Haven, took place February
G, at obe i nemas Cimrch: fohn Mae-
Gregor, ’95, was best man. Among
the ushers were: Anson Phelps Stokes,
96; Roger Sherman Baldwin, ’95; Dr.
Edward Reed, ’94, and A. A. Thomas,
1901, the bridegroom’s brother.
795 S—Col. Theodore Roosevelt, in
his article on the Rough Riders’ cam-
paign, speaking of his lieutenants, says:
“Two of the men made Second Lieuten-
ants by promotion from the ranks while
in San Antonio, were John Greenway,
a noted Yale foot-ball player and
catcher on her base-ball nine, and David
Goodrich, for two years captain of the
Harvard crew. They were young men,
Goodrich having only just graduated;
while Greenway, whose father had
served with honor in fhe Confederate
Army, had been out of Yale three or
four years. They were natural soldiers,
and it would be well-nigh impossible
to overestimate the amount of good
they did the regiment. They were
strapping fellows, entirely fearless,
modest, and quiet. Their only thought
was how to perfect themselves in their
own duties, and how to take care of the
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men under them, so as to bring them to
the highest point of soldierly perfection.
I grew steadily to rely upon them, as
men who could be counted upon with
absolute certainty, not only in every
emergency, but in all routine work.
They were never so tired as not to
respond with eagerness to the slightest
suggestion of doing something new,
whether it was dangerous or merely
dificult and laborious. They not
merely did their duty, but were always
on the watch to find out some new duty
which they could construe to be theirs.
Whether it was policing camp, or keep-
ing guard, or preventing straggling on
the march, or procuring food for the
men, or seeing that they took care of
themselves in camp, or performing
some feat of unusual hazard in the
fight—no call was ever made upon them
to which they did not respond with
eager thankfulness for being given the
chance to answer it. Later on I worked
them as hard as I knew how, and the
regiment will always be their debtor.”
’97—Shelton Bissell is City Editor of
the Montclair (N. J.) Times and Mont-
clair correspondent of the New York
Sun.
97 S.— F. S. North has gone on a
two-months’ cruise on board a Ward
Line Steamer, as naval cadet engineer.
’98—Pierre R. Porter is studying law
in the office of Lathrop, Morrow, Fox
& Moore, Kansas City, Mo.
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NOTICES.
[Alumni Association and Class Secretaries are in-
vited to contribute to this column.]
Hudson County Club,
The second annual banquet of the
University Club of Hudson County,
N. J., will be held at the Union League
Club House, 295 York street, Jersey
City, N. J., Feb. 23, at 7 p. m.. These
have promised to speak: President
Francis L. Patton of Princeton; Presi- .
dent Austin Scott, Yale ’69, of Rutgers
College; President Henrv Morton of
the Stevens Institute of Technology, and
Flavel McGee, retiring President of the
Club. It is hoped that the President of
Seton Hall will address the Club. The
tickets are $2.00 and the committee urge
prompt application to Manning F.
stires, Jr., 18 Lexington ave., Jersey
City, N. J.. The committee having the
supper in charge are: John A. Blair,
Princeton ’66; Flavel McGee, Prince-
ton 765; Philip M. Brett, Rutgers ’92;
Pierre F. Cook, Princeton ’92, and
Manning F. Stires, Jr., Yale ’97.
At the annual meeting of the Club
held January 24, the following officers
were elected: President, John A. Blair,
Princeton 7°66; First Vice-President,
Cornelius Brett, New York University
"62: Second Vice-President, John J.
Nevin, St. Francis Xavier; Treasurer,
J. W. Hardenbergh, Yale ’80S.; Secre-
tary, Manning F. Stires, Yale ’97.
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_. Essex County Banquet.
The fifteenth annual dinner of the
Yale Alumni Association of Essex
County, New Jersey, will be held in
Upper Music Hall, Orange, N. J., Fri-
day, February 17, 1899, promptly at
seven o'clock.
Prof. John C. Schwab will be present
to speak for the University. Prof.
Walter A. Wyckoff will be the repre-
sentative of Princeton, and Chauncey
G. Parker, Harvard ’85, will speak for
Harvard. Captain William C. Wise,
U..S. N., Commander of the Cruiser
Yale, will also be present. A quintet
from the Yale University Glee Club
will lead the singing.
The Executive Committee hopes that
it may receive the cooperation of the en-
tire membership of the Association in
its effort to make this the largest and
most successful dinner that has yet been
given under our auspices. From re-
plies already received it is evident that
an unusually large number of Alumni
will be present.
The price of tickets is $5. Members
who have not already done so should
communicate at once with Mr. Sanford
E. Cobb, Treasurer, P. O. Box 402,
N.. Y... City.
Central Penna, Ass’n, |
At a meeting of the Yale Alumni of
Harrisburg, held December 2d, 1899,
was effected the organization of the
Yale Alumni Association of Central
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Pennsylvania, by the adoption of a Con-
stitution and By-Laws, naming a terri-
tory and the election of officers and an
executive committee. This action was
taken only after the proposed plan was
submitted to the alumni of the district
in a circular letter. The first annual
banquet of the Association will be held
at the Harrisburg Club, Friday, Feb+
ruary 24th, 1809, at 7.30 Pp. M. A busi-
ness meeting will be held at 7 Pp, um,
preceding the banquet. It is the
purpose of the committee to arrange
for such a banquet as will do honor
to the name of Yale and increase
the fame of our alma mater. It is
hoped to have President Dwight present
as the guest of the evening, also a
quartette from the Yale Glee Club.
The territory named embraces fol-
lowing counties: Lancaster, York,
Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford,
Lebanon, Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry,
Juniata, Mfflin, Huntington, Blair,
Northumberland, Snyder, Union, Cen-
tre, Lycoming and Clinton, 20 in all.
The new Association is the outgrowth
of the Harrisburg Alumni Association,
organized but a year before.
All Yale men in the vicinity are urged
to communicate with Donald C. Halde-
man, Secretary and Treasurer of the
Association.
Yale Club Receptiou.
The date of the reception tendered
to the Harvard Club, by the Yale Club
of New York, has been set for Friday,
Feb. 24,.at 9 P. M. at Sherrv’s.. Yale
graduates who are not members of the
Club, are invited to join in the recep-
tion. The price set .is $3.00 for each
Yale man, which will cover the cost of
entertainment for himself and one guest.
YALE OBITUARIES.
EDWARD DECOST MCKAY, ’60.°
Edward DeCost McKay, ’60, died on
Tuesday, January 31, at a sanitarium in
Southern Pines, N. C., from heart dis-
ease, from which he had been suffering
for some time. The funeral took place
on Saturday, February 4, from the home
of his daughter, Mrs. George B. Dowl-
ing of Flatbush, N. Y.
Mr. McKay was born in Warsaw,
N. Y., in January, 1836. He graduated
at Yale with the Class of Sixty.
For the next five years he engaged
in the wholesale boot and shoe business
at Hudson, N. Y., and then moving to
New York, he built up a successful in-
surance business as agent of the New
York Life Insurance Co. In 1870 he
went to Europe, spending two years in
France and Germany, with his family.
Not long after he retired from business.
Being anxious to keep himself abreast
of the times, he studied for two years
in the Law School of Columbia Col-
lege, taking his degree in 1882, and
spending the next year in the Columbia
School of Political Science.
Mr. McKay is survived by two child-
ren, Frederick Edward and Mrs. George
B. Dowling of Flatbush, N. Y. ,
ROBERT H. CHAPMAN, ’50.
Robert H. Chapman, ’50, died at San
Gabriel, Los Angeles County, Calif.,
Saturday, Feb. 4, at 10 Pp. M. of heart
disease. A more extended obituary
notice will appear next week.
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