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YALE ALUMNI NOTES. Every alumnus is invited to contribute to this column, news concerning himself or concerning any other alumnus. The column is intended to keep Yale men informed about each other. Anyone who contributes to it helps a good Yale object and pleases and interests other Yale men. ’57—Augustus F. Beard, Secretary of the A. M. A., returned last week from Porto Rico, whither he had gone in company with Dr. William H. Ward of the Independent to make a study of educational and religious conditions. General Henry and the post comman- ders gave him every possible facility, and, although he was there only during January, he is able to make what is per- haps, the most exhaustive study of affairs yet made by a secretary of a missionary organization. ‘A two-col- umn account of Dr. Beard’s observa- tions and conclusions is to be found in the Congregationalist of February 16. °68—Governor Roosevelt announced on February 15 the appointment to the ofice of Surrogate of New York County of General James M. Varnum. The New York Tribune says of the ap- pointee: “Governor Roosevelt’s choice of a successor to Surrogate Arnold was particularly satisfactory to acquaint- ances of General Varnum, whose esti- mate of his character and ability made them feel sure that he would correct abuses in the Surrogate’s office. : “General Varnum is fifty years old and a New Yorker by birth. He was educated partly in this city and was graduated from Yale and from the Columbia Law School before he was admitted to the bar in 1871. He is the senior member of the law firm of Var- num & Harrison, at 62 William st. He was elected to the Legislature in 1870, and he was the Republican candidate for Attorney-General of the State in 1880. He also was.a candidate for Judge of the Superior Court in 1890. From 1880 to 1883 he was a colonel in the National Guard on the staff of Governor Cornell. In 18904 he was commissioned by Gover- nor Morton as Paymaster-General of the State, with the rank of Brigadier- General. In 1891 he was Chairman of the Republican State Convention at Rochester. He is a director of the Lawyers’ Title Insurance Company and a trustee and counsel of the Real Estate Trust Company. He is a member of the Bar Association. Union, Metropoli- tan and Century Clubs, and has been one of the Governing Committee of the University Club and also a member of the Union League, Republican, Players’ and other clubs.” *71—Edward Cramer is U. S. Consul at Florence, Italy. *71—Cortland Wood’s new address is Exchange Building, Boston, Mass. *71—Edward A. Wilson and wife, after making a tour of Europe, have taken | a house at Monterey, Mexico, where they expect to remain for a year, at least. "78 S.—Mr. and Mrs. Granger Farwell sailed for Europe on the “Lucania,” Saturday, February 11. *80—The engagement of Miss Eliza- beth Watt. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Watt of Oakland, Cal.. to Donald Y. Campbell has recently been announced. Mr. Campbell is a member of the law firm of Campbell & Fowler. ’°81—Major Isaac Bromley, who has been connected with the management of the New York. New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company ever since he abandoned the reportorial staff of the New York Tribune, has been made the advertising manager of the system. which includes a score or more of rail and water routes in New England. It is a position that does not give him much scope for the exercise of that graceful flippancy and pretty humor that were as characteristic of his writing as they were of the penwork of his sincerely mourned father, Isaac H. Bromley, when at his best.» It will be hard to inject into the dry statistics of time- tables such wholesome fun as made Major Bromley’s “Fence Oration” of his Freshman year at Yale—1877—one of the humorous classics of that staid old University. That was a bit of spark- ling wit that will live long in College traditions.—N. VY. Times. "87—William"T 9 Pieioss fas. heen elected an honorary member of the “Pundit Club,” a literary club recently reorganized in the Class of Nineteen Hundred and One at Yale College. WY AAG 88 S—Selden Y. Osborn, who for several years has been with the E. S. Wheeler Co., has accepted a position as Secretary with the Vacuum Oil Com- “pany of Rochester, where he went last week to assume his new duties. ’890—William Clifford Moore arrived home from his trip abroad on the Furst Bismarck, Saturday, February 1. © ’791—Vertner Kenerson, M.D. _ has _been stationed at Fort Myer near Wash- ington, D. C. since the outbreak of the late war. He has been appointed head surgeon at the fort, where there have been fewer cases of typhoid fever re- ported than at any other army post. ’92—The sexennial record ot the Class of Ninety-Two is completed and will be published shortly. ’93—G. B. Spalding, Jr., is completing his course in Theology at Andover Theological Seminary. 93 S—Huson T. Jackson has been obliged to go to the Adirondacks on account of ill-health. : ’93—Derby Rogers returned to his home in New York last week from the West, where he has been for several years for his health. ’94—William Todd is associated with the James River Construction Co., Richmond, Va., who are engaged in developing the water power of the James River. *94—J. C. Sawyer is conducting a European Traveling Agency through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France in connection with H. W. Dunning, instructor in Scientific Lan- guages at Yale. ’94—F. S. Chapman for the last 11 months has been employed as civil engi- neer at the Plum Island fortifications. His work was the 10-inch emplacements, which have been finished. He is still in the employ of the Government. ’95—G. S. Sumner has just returned from Australia. ’95—J. H. Brown is taking a year’s trip through the Orient. ’95—The address of Louis Hewlett is asked for by the class secretary. ’95—The address of George A. Lewis is asked for by the class secretary. ’95—The address of William K. Fow- ler is asked for by the class secretary. ’°95—W. N. Whitelaw is studying law at the State University of Missouri, Mo. ’95—The address of William A. Moore is asked for by the class secre- tary. 795—Burton J. Hendrick is on the editorial staff of the New York Evening Post. ’9s—F. L. Lee has recently been ad- Be to the bar of the State of New York. ’95—-George FE. Batcheller has re- signed his position in the State Trust Company of New York City and has gone on a trip to California with De Witt. Sage, ’97. ’"95—William H. Scoville is Business Manager of the “Southern Workman and Hampton. School Record,” a monthly published at the Hampton Institute in Virginia. WHEN YOU LAID OUT YOUR COURSE FOR JUNIOR YEAR..... Perhaps you were looking for a snap. Perchance you sought the most satis- factory results. If by any chance you or your golf club anticipate laying out a course, or tacking a few more holes onto your present course, this spring, you can secure both the snap and the satisfactory results by enlisting the ser- vices of the | Bridgeport Gun Implement Co., 818 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. They not only make a specialty of plan- ning and laying out courses under the most competent supervision, but have every possible equipment in the shape of hole rims, markers, direction flags, etc., etc. As for clubs, balls, and caddy- bags, you can find every. varicty and style at the N. Y. office, HARTLEY & GRAHAM, 313 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. and at sporting goods stores throughout the country—By the way, the B.G. I. Golf Calendar for ’99 is a work of art—wrrite for one. ALUMNI WEEKLY » ’95—Charles A. Kimball is teaching in the Fitchburg High School, Fitchburg, Mass. Flis address*is “35 .Mt..Ver- non street. The note which appeared in the issue of Dec. 8 stating that Mr. Kimball wa§ teaching in Littleton, Mass. was incorrect, his home address only being there. 96 and ’98 L.S.—Clement A. Fuller is with the law firm of Fessenden, Carter & Cummings, Stamford, Conn. ’96—The marriage of Miss Marie Louise Mott and Edgar S. Auchincloss took place in New York at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church on Tues- day aiternoon, February 14. H. Auch- incloss, I90I, was the best man and Wendell P. Colton, ’96, was one of the ushers. ’97—Graham Sumner was recently elected an editor of the Harvard Law Review. ’907—S. F. Johnson was married on June 29, 1898 to Miss Curtiss of Meriden. ’°97—G. B. Cutten was married on July 7, 1898 to Miss Winnie W. Brown of Westfield, Mass. ’97—W. D. Baldwin pursued the study of Medicine in Germany during the Summer of 1808. ’97—-A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Brubacher of East Hampton, Mass., on October 18, 1808. ’97—G. W. Samson has been made an assistant superintendent in the Pope Manufacturing Co. of Hartford, Conn. ’97—E. E. Garrison has gone to Texas to purchase horses for General Wood’s mounted police force at San- tiago. ’97—J. H. Thompson, Jr. is in the office of Stuart F. Randolph, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, 31 Nassau st., New York City. ’o7—B. B. Kauffman is at present taking a special course in medicine at St. Louis, but will rejoin his class in the Johns Hopkins Medical School in | April. : ’97—R. D. Mills has left the banking firm of Kountze Brothers, and is now with the Stock Exchange house of W. H. Goadby & Co., 24 Broad street, New York. ore: *98—F. W. Tenney may be reached by letter at the First National Bank Build- ing, Chicago. ; °98—The address of F. E. Williamson is 200 Park av., Albany. N. Y., and not as before stated in the WEEKLY. ’98—The marriage of Victor Morris Tyler to Miss Jessie B. Patterson, daughter of Mrs. Alfred Solona, took place Tuesday. February 14. at Los Angeles, Cal. Mr. and Mrs. Tyler will live at the New Haven House, New Haven. : ——_—__~+4—_____ NOTICES. [Alumni Association and Class Secretaries are in- vited to contribute to this column.] Yale and Harvard Dinner. The Kentucky Harvard and Yale Alumni Asosciations will dine together at the Galt House, at Louisville, Satur- day evening, Feb. 25 at 7.30 sharp. An attendance of about sixty to seventy- five is expected including visitors from the alumni of other cities. sees The annual meeting of the Yale Alumni Association for the election of officers and the transaction of business will be held just before the banquet. Long Island Dinner. The regular Midwinter Banquet of the Yale Alumni Association of Long Island will be held at the Oxford Club. Lafayette Avenue and South Oxford street, on Friday, March 3d, at seven Pp. M. sharp. The annual business meet- ing will be called at six-thirty. The Executive Committee are pleased to announce the following exceptional list of speakers: Governor Theodore Roosevelt; Lieutenant-Governor Tim- othy L. Woodruff; General Stewart L. Woodford arid Mr. James W. Alexan- der, President of the Princeton Club of New York. Lieutenant John C. Green- way of the Rough Riders, and right hand man of Governor Roosevelt at Santiago, will be present, at the request of the Governor, to act in the same capacity at the dinner. 189 Apropos of the above list, the Execu- tive Committee would remind the Association that the seating capacity of the Club is limited to one hundred and fifty, and that seats will be re- served in the order of application. Tickets for the dinner ($4.50) may be obtained from Mr. Wyllys Terry, 71 Wall street, New York City, at any time before 12 o’clock noon on Thurs- day, March 2d. | 3 Seats will be assigned according to classes, unless otherwise requested. Members in arrears for dues will kindly include $3 in their -remittances for ticket. All indications seem favorable to making this dinner memorable in the annals of the Long Island alumni. FRANK D. TUTTLE. Secretary. To Ninety-Seven. The Secretary is very anxious to re- vise his list of the occupations and ad- dresses of the members of the Class of Ninety-seven, and to this end postals have been sent out. There are many from whom no answers have, as yet, been received. These members are now earnestly requested to send at once their present address and occupation and also to state whatever knowledge they may have of engagements, mar- riages, deaths and births, or other events of Class interest. It is only through the codperation of the Class that the Secretary can keep a complete record of its affairs. YALE OBITUARIES. THE LATE ROBERT H. CHAPMAN, ’5o. Robert Hett Chapman, Yale 50, oldest child of William S. and C. A. Chapman, was born near Greensboro, Alabama, February 7th, 1828, and died at the home of his brother, Alfred B. Chapman, on the “Chapman Place,” near San Gabriel, California, February 4th, 1899. His boyhood was mostly spent in Talladega, Ala., where he was prepared for College by Rev. R. B. Cater, D.D., of the Presbyterian Church. He graduated from Yale, second in his Class, in the Summer of 1850. One year was spent in Tuska- loosa, Ala., where he taught a class of young men, fitting them to enter the University. Returning to Talladega he went into the law office of Hon. Wm. P. Chilton and John T, Morgan, now United States Senator Morgan of Ala- bama, where, with Chancellor Walker as instructor, he prepared himself for the practice of Law, which profession he followed with varying success till the last year of his life. r.Chapman was in the Confederate service throughout the Civil War. After the war he resumed the practice of Law in Camden, Ala., but with him the rights of conscience were always sacred, his spirit chafed under the new regime, and in Dec., 1867, he left his native state and went to Los Angeles, Cali- fornia. Here he found a home; an ardent lover of nature, California, with its sunshine, fruits and flowers satisfied him. - From early childhood, Mr. Chapman had a keen thirst for knowledge, added to a love of the beautiful and true, [Continued on r9tst page.| THEODORE B. STARR JEWELER AND SILVERSMITH, 206 FIFTH AVE., MADISON SQUARE, NEW YORK. Fine Stationery and Engraving, Die- cutting and Heraldic Work. Wed- ding Invitations, Reception Cards and Visiting Cards. The Designing and Engraving of Book-plates a specialty. Sample book of paper will be sent on application.
