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YALE ALUMNI NOTES. Please report concerning yourself, facts which should be recorded in this column. men you know, and on matters, proper for record here, concerning which you have definite record. This will make the page of the greatest possible value. Onrequest the Alumni Weekly will be glad to send postals to those who are in the way of getting, more or less often, Yale news and Yale per- sonals. Thereisa great deal of Sum- mer news, which would be of value for the September issue. ’67—The class secretary, William H. Morse, announces that the Class Book, Trigintennial of Sixty-Seven, is soon to be issued. ‘7o—G. W. Jenkins spends his leisure time this season at Norfolk, Conn., with his family. 72 L.S.—Henry G. Newton is senior partner in the recently formed firm of newton, Church & Hewitt, with rooms in the Phoenix Building, 818 Chapel st., New Haven. The other members of the firm are Ward Church, ’o9L.S., and Harrison Hewitt, ’97 and ’99L.S. '74—H. B. B. Stapler of New York delivered an address at the recent Com- mencement exerecises of Delaware Col- lege, Newark, Del. "75—Charles_ Forrest Cutter is in charge of the daily noon prayer meeting at 113 Fulton Street, N. Y. '83—Louis K. Hull of Minneapolis, Minn., sailed for Europe, July 27, on the S. S. Barbarossa. He will spend some weeks traveling on the continent. °83—A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Melbury Smith in Redlands, Cal., July to. ‘85—A recent issue of the quarterly, Medical Missions in India, contains this account of the new hospital erected within the last two years, in connection with the work of Dr. Frank Van Allen in Madura: “—Medical Mission work has been carried on by the American Mission at Madura for a number of years. The building in which this good work had been carried on gradually became dilap- idated and outgrown by the enlarging work, and another building became a necessity. The medical work had got- ten into the good graces of the Zemin- dars of the Madura and Tinnevelly Dis- tricts, and also of the Nattacotta Chet- ties, or merchants living in and around Madura. These, together with some other native gentlemen, have given to the Mission all the funds for the erection of the new hospital. The total cost has been Rs. 42,000. Two and a half years were taken in its erection. The build- ing was completed in October, 1897, and opened the same month by His Excel- lency the Governor of Madras. The opening was a very pleasant occasion. The building is 68 feet wide and 118 feet deep. A portico projects at the front, to protect from the morning sun. The foundations are entirely of stone, the superstructure of brick. On the first floor there is the office, compounding room, treatment room, dark room for eyes, and insane cell, also wards for patients. Upstairs is the operating room, store room, laboratory, and wards for in-patients. A veranda ten feet wide surrounds the hospital. Accom- modation for in-patients is arranged on the principle of small individual wards. Each ward is 13 feet square, and in- tended for a single patient. When the hospital is crowded, two patients are placed in a ward. To have a number of single wards instead of one or two large general wards increases the cost of construction, and also increases the work of nursing, but it is popular with the patients. There are 19 wards. The Christian religion is taught faithfully in the hospital every day, both to the out-patients and to the in-patients.” '87—George E. Hill recently made a brief trip to Colorado Springs. ’88—Prof. Irving Fisher whose tem- porary home is at Colorado Springs, is now at Maniton Park, a few miles from there. Prof. Fisher is reported as very much improved in health. "88—H. W. Boies has recently ac- cepted the position of Secretary and General Manager of the Cornel] Machine Co., Pratt, Sangamon & W. Superior Make report, also, about Yale, =a . Chicago, manufacturers of gas and eae eee and of coal, ore and gravel excavating and conveying machin- ery. | “98 S.—The class secretary, Professor Percy F/ Smith, is preparing a Decennial record, which has been delayed owing to his long illness. This is the first record of its kind for a Scientific School class, but will probably not be the last. Of the living graduates it has ate ane far impossible to get anv report from ve eee Gray, McCrea nd W. S. Mason. Assistance is desired from those who can reach these men. Data have been secured of nineteen non-graduates. Under this head Messrs. Francke, How- land, Montgomery and Wood are yet to be heard from. eae ’89—Elizabeth Clifford Butte, wife of Albert Myrick Freeman, died at Blairs- town, N. J., June 24. She was buried at Fairhaven, Mass., June 27. ’89—The Memphis Appeal and the Jewish Spectator of recent dates contain very flattering record of the, fact that Israel H. Peres of Memphis received from Yale on examination the degree of M.A. at the last Commencement. . The. Spectator congratulates Memphis on having Mr. Peres at the head of its Board of Education. ’*91—A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. James C. Richardson, in Kansas City, July 20. ’95—The papers have made much of the temporary suspension from the staff of the Bellevue Hospital of New York of Dr. William M. Richards. The action was taken on account of Dr. Richards’ absence from the hospital, which was at the time. unexplained. It was found later that Dr. Richards’ absence was due to the illness of his wife and he has been reinstated. ’92—Miss Juliana Catherine Shields of Norwich, Conn., and Henry S. Haskell of New York City, were married at the home of the bride’s parents in Norwich, July 1. ot L.S.—Henry G. Crocker is Princi- pal of the Coronado High School, at Coronado, Cal. 92 S.—The engagement is announced of Miss Edith Lawrence Speyers, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs..A. G. P. Speyers of New York, to Edward McVickar. 93 S.—Dr. E. A. Lawbaugh will be sured for the next year or year and a alf. ’94—Drs. Letchworth Smith and Thomas S$. Arbuthnot sailed July 15 on the Campania for Ireland to enter the Rotunda Hospital of Dublin for two months’ practice. _ ’95—The note in the Commencement issue in regard to E. W. Beattie, Jr., was an error. ’96—Addison S. Pratt has been ad- mitted to the New York Bar end was sworn in as attorney and counsellor- at-law, July 1. 96 and ’o9 L.S.—Walter H. Clark and William A. Arnold have opened a law office at Room 52, First National Bank Building, 50 State street, Hart- ford, Conn. B. G1, Golf Goods EE A ARE Highest... ... Grade. Made under personal Supervision of John D. Dunn. Write to us, or our agents for complete illustrated catalogue, containing “ Elemen- tary Instruction to = Beginners,’ by JOHN * D. DUNN, and the “Rules of Golf.’ THE BRIDGEPORT GUN. IMPLEMENT CO. RETAIL BRANCHES, NEW YORK—313 Broadway. BOSTON—408 Washington Street. PHILADELPHIA—1028 Chestnut Street. SAN FRANCISCO—425-427 Market Street. WASHINGTON—909 Pennsylvania Avenue. Cheney of the Fourth Infantry, U. S. A. describing the capture of Morong and the fight at Maraquina, have been printed in recent issues of the Hartford Courant. ’96—The engagement is announced of Miss Anne Mason, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William P. Mason of New York to Wendell P. Colton, _ ’o7—The Hartford Courant recen published the following regarding - attempted poisoning of Philip H. Bailey, who is with two or three friends con- ducting a ranch in Cuba, not far from Santiago: “The Hon. E, B. Bailey re- ceived yesterday a letter from his son, Captain Phil Bailey, who was recently poisoned in Cuba. The young man was able to write and apparently wished to make as little of the affair as possible. It appears that there had been more or less depredations on the plantations ; wire fences had been cut and various. things stolen and one of the offenders had been arrested and shut up. All the party had been in good health when this attack upon their inner selves be- gan. They were all taken sick except one man. He set off on horseback for the city (Santiago), but it was hours before he returned with a physician. When the doctor arrived he gave up one man as going to die. All the sufferers were stretched out on the ground and in immense distress. The physician took them in charge and they all recoy- ered. There is no clue as to who is guilty of the crime or what the poison was. The chief thing is that they all have escaped the close call and here- after will exercise more caution.” ‘97—Harrison Hewitt is a member of the newly formed firm of Newton, Church & Hewitt, referred to in this ¢olumn in the note on Mr. Newton, fy FPR ’97—The engagement is announced of Miss Leoti Fudge of Eaton, O. to i. Oscar Creager. 797 S.—F. C. Shipman has been work- ing for the B. & M. Ry. as Assistant Division Engineer on construction work in Nebraska. His address is Care 7-H. McShane & Co., Alliance, Neb. ’98—William R. Flint is with the Severy Process Company, 9 to 15 Mur- ray st., New York City. 98 S.—The address of G. W. Dulany, Jr., is Care of the Western Grain Co., Winona, Minn. ’°99—Oswald Lockett, Jr., is at present the cashier of the Orr & Lockett Hard- ware Conipany, 71 Randolph street, Chicago. ’990—Frederick Martin Davies, who was ill for the last month of his Col- lege year, sailed for Europe July 22 for a month’s travel. ’99—Alfred G. Vanderbilt accompanied by his friends William P. Borden, Ernest Iselin and Douglass Cochran, sailed from Vancouver, B. C., July 31 on the S. S. Empress of India, on their way around the world. W. F. Whitehouse did not take the trip with Mr. Vander- bilt, having changed his plans to a European voyage. ’99—Announcement was made, shortly after the close of the College year, of the marriage of Miss Winnifred. Kelley, daughter of Mrs. Agnes Kelley of Thompsonville, Conn., to Charles Ed- ward Julin last September. ’99 L.S.—Ward Church is a member of the newly formed firm of Newton, Church & Hewitt, referred to in this column in the note on Henry G. Newton, yee Hon. J. W. Griggs, Yale LL.D. ’99, Attorney-General of the United States, is spending the Summer at Norfolk, Conn., where he finds his best sport on the admirable golf field. From here he was summoned by President McKinley to Washington in July, and to Lake Champlain in August. NOTICES. [Alumni Association and Class Secretaries are in- vited to contribute to this column.] Ninety-Six Resolutions. The following resolutions on the deaths of Wheeler Armstrong, Gerard M. Ives and Henry E. McDermott, were adopted by the Class of Ninety-Six at _ its triennial in June last: | MHEREAS, it hath pleased Almighty God to remove from our number since ‘ 3 ’90—Private letters from Lieut. Ward our graduation from Yale beloved classmates. Gerard M ates, Wheeler mott, and WHEREAS they are held ; i | : d in affection memory by us all for their many bk and gee eueines, as well as for the Promise and hope of their C . therefore be it ee: Resolved, that we, their cl : ’ oe assmates, at this, our first regular reunion as a Class express our deep sorrow at their loss ant as: Denne Sympathy with their ereave amilies and relati further : vee _ Resolved, that a copy of these resolu- tions be published in the ALUMNI WEEKLY, and that copies be sent to the families of these, our classmates, For the Class, CHAUNCEY W. WELLs, Tuomas F. ARCHBALD, WiLuiAm S. WooDHULL. Yale College, Triennial, June 27, 1890. Collexe our rmst Ives and Henry FE, MeDe®” YALE OBITUARIES, WILLIAM PRESTON JOHNSTON, ’s2, Col. William Preston Johnston, Presi- dent of Tulane University, New Orleans, La., died July 16, 1899, at the house of his son-in-law, Hon. Henry St. George Tucker, Lexington, Va. : William: Preston Johnston, eldest son of Gen. Albert Sidney and Henrietta Preston Johnston, was born at Louis- ville, Ky. Jam <3, 1831. He lost his mother when he was four years old, and his father soon after her death cast his foitunes with the young republic of Texas, hence he was reared by his maternal uncle, Gen. William Preston, and his wife. After attending Centre College, Danville, Ky., and the Western Military Institute, Georgetown, Ky., he entered Yale, May 1o, 1851, in the third term of Junior year of the Class of Fifty-Two. He took several prizes dur ing his college career of a little over. year, and graduated with an oratio: stand. He was graduated from the Law Department of the University of Louis- ville, in March, 1853, and after his marriage in New Haven, July 6, 1853, to Rosa Elizabeth Duncan, of New Or- leans, he settled in Louisville in the practice of the law, in which, except for a short interval in 1855, during which he resided in New York City, he con- tinued until the Civil War. He was among the first in his State to support the Southern cause, and in the Summer of 1861 he was appointed Major of the Second Kentucky Regiment, and soon transferred to the First Kentucky Regi- ment as Lieutenant-Colonel. In May, 1862, he accepted the invitation of Presi- dent Davis to join his personal staff as aide-de-camp, with the rank of Colonel of Cavalry, which pcsition he held until the close of the war. He was captured with Mr. Davis, near Irwinsville, Ga., May Io, 1865, was imprisoned for several months at Fort Delaware, and, after a year’s residence in Canada returned to Louisville and resumed the practice of law. . : | In 1867, when Gen. R. E, Lee became President of Washington and Lee Uni- versity at Lexington, Va.. Col. Johnston was appointed Professor of History and English Literature, which position he held for ten years. During this time he wrote an admirable biography of his father, Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, who fell at Shiloh, published by the THEODORE B. 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