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"79—Mrs. Katherine Silliman Wilcox,
wife of Dr. Frederick T. Simpson, and
daughter of the late Dr. Lucien S. Wil-
cox, ‘50;:. died; at
December fo, 1899. -
°83—William Trumbull is the author
of “The Battle Hymn of the Boers,”
recently published in several of the
American papers. The verse runs as
follows: |
"88. S.—The following notes of the
Class of Eighty-Eight Sheff. have been
furnished by the Class Secretary: |
W. C. Catlin’s present position is
that of Engineer with the Cambria Iron
Co. of Johnston, Pa., and not Chemist
as given in the Decennial Record.
.. H.. Farguha “is now practicing
law at York. Fa
_ Howard Green, Jr., has left his posi-
tion at Syracuse, N. Y., and is now with
the M. C. Bullock Manufacturing Co.,
engine and drill manufacturers, 1170
West Lake street, Chicago, III.
Fred R. Hamlin is Business Manager
of the Grand Opera House of Chicago,
Ill, and not Manager as given in the
Decennial Record.
Charles M. Heminway has taken a
position as Cashier with the Connecti-
cut Lighting and Power Co., 100 Broad-
way, New York City.
The New York address of George
C. Kimball is 28 Reade street, and his
Hartford address is 266 Farmington
avenue. ‘
George G. Mason has moved to
Mason City, Ia., to take the position of
Trainmaster of the Dakota Division,
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail-
way Co.
Charles Norris, M.D., joined the
Faculty of the Cornell University Medi-
cal School, New York City, last Fall,
and is instructor in the pathology of
infectious diseases.
Franklin T. Parlin is manager for
the Germanic Life Insurance Co.. of
its Northwestern Department, with
offices at St. Paul, Minn.
"88. S., ’*89 and ’97—As soon as the
Board of Health of Honolulu decided
that the bubonic plague had actually
appeared there, it issued a call for
volunteers to go into China Town, the
infected district, in order to place the
section in a good sanitary condition and
to inspect for any new or suspicious
cases of sickness. A newspaper corre-
spondent gives the following story of the
work of disinfecting, in which three Yale
men played a very active part. These
were George R. Carter, ’88S., J. R. Galt,
’8o, and C. R. Hemenway, 797: “The
experience of the volunteers was an
interesting one, but probably none of
them is anxious to repeat it. The entire
district of China Town was quarantined
and guarded by the militia, so that no
one could go in or come out without a
passport from the Board of Health.
Volunteers were each given charge
of a block, and were created special
agents of the Board of Health.
Their power was very great, and in-
cluded authority to buy-any material
needed, hire all the help required, and
to issue any orders which were con-
sidered necessary for the interest of the
infected district. Ready to assist them
in enforcing their orders were the
National Guard and the Police and Fire
Departments. Each started in with a
large dray full of disinfectants, which
were principally corrosive sublimate and
lime, with brushes, sprinkling cans and
other material. A lively volunteer
would draft into the service ten helpers
and then start the work. All dirt, filth
and rubbish of every description was
taken out into the middle of the street
and burned. For a week huge bonfires
were going day and night.”
One of the volunteers, a recent Yale
graduate, described the work to the
correspondent as follows: “After start-
ing the men to work on different jobs of
cleaning, we took a Chinese interpreter
who carried a sprinkler of disinfectant,
Hartford, Conn.,
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and another who carried whitewash and |
lime; we went through every house in
the district, going from room to room
looking for sickness, and disinfecting
beds, bedding, floors, closets, cesspools,
etc., and where the woodwork was in
very bad condition it was whitewashed.
I never dreamed of people living in
such conditions.. We found gambling
dens, opium joints, and even worse
places, all of which had to be cleaned
out, and in many cases we had to break
open doors and windows with a heavy
éhisel.”’ :
The conditions found by the volunteers
have started up the people of Honolulu,
who intend now to keep the Chinese
part of the town in good condition. |
Ex~88 S.—H:. K. «Wood's present
residence is 124 Garden street, Hartford,
Conn.
Ex-’88 S.—S. M. Stagg is telegrapher
at Frankfort, Ky., for the Louisville ©
and Nashville R. R. Co.
Ex-’88 S.—D. T. C. Perkins is proprie-
tor of the Cresent City Mill and Trans-
portation Co., 8 California street, San
Francisco, “Cal:
Ex-’88'S.—F.” W.. Parmerter has’ en-
tered the employ of the Crownpoint
Works of the American Steel and Wire
Co., at Crownpoint, N. Y.
00. S.sw kk. elites has. retmisned
from the South and is taking a course
in machine shop practice at the Bullard
Machine Tool Co. shops, Bridgeport,
Conn. Address Stratford, Conn.
‘ot & ’92—H. L. Pangborn and Elliott
Marshall have formed a partnership for
the general practice of law under the
firm name of Pangborn & Marshall.
’91—Malcolm MacLear has been ap-
pointed Clerk of the New Jersey House
of General Assembly.
’o1—David L. Billings has changed
his address from 9 Park avenue, New
York to 37 Myrtle avenue, Bridgeport,
Conn.
’o91—The marriage
of Miss Mary
Elizabeth McBride, daughter of George
P. McBride, to Charles Gibbs Carter took
place Saturday, January 6, at Trinity
Church, Pittsburg, Pa.
‘OL L..5.-—Benjainin. ...Charles ~ at-
tended the recent banquet and meeting
of the alumni of Westminster College,
held at the Midland Hotel, Kansas City,
Mo. Mr. Charles is still practicing law in
St. Louis, Mo., where he has been since
he graduated from the Yale Law School.
’92 S.— Wilbur F. Day, Jr., has taken
the General Agency for New Haven of
the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Company of Hartford. His office is at
308 Exchange Building, New Haven,
Conn.
’95—Guy R. McLane was admitted to
the firm.of Jesup & Lamont, Brokers,
18 Broadway, New York City, January 2.
795 S.—William Arthur Whitcomb is
Assistant Manager of the Department
of Manufacture of the International
Paper Co., 30 Broad street, New York
City.
’96—A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. A. G. Keller, Thursday, Decem-
ber 7.
’96—F. S. Jackson is with the law firm
of Sackett, Bacon & McQuaid, Tribune
Building, New York.
796 and ’96 S.—Louis H. Porter and
Grosvenor Nicholas have formed a law
partnership under the firm name of
Nicholas & Porter, with offices in
Aldrich Court, No. 45 Broadway, New
York City.
Ex-o0—B.*. 7... Gilbert” sailed. ~for
Europe the latter part of December.
His address this Winter will be, Care of
Hottinguer et Cie, 38 Rue de Provence,
fatts.
’97—The marriage of Miss Anne
Moulton Reynolds, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Doremus Harrison of Orange, N.
J., to John H. Winterbotham, took place
January 8 at Grace Church, Orange,
Ne J:
: ’97 S.—Levi Wilcox is in business in
Apothecaries’ Hall, Waterbury, Conn.
’°97 S—Mr. and Mrs. Chas H. Call
announce the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Miss Jeanne Kennedy to Henry
Spark Pickands, Wednesday, Dec. 27,
1899, at Marquette, Mich. Mr. and Mrs.
Pickands will be at home after February
20, at 1401 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, O.
oo
Captain Daly of the Harvard eleven
has announced that Mr. Dibblee, Cap-
tain of the 1898 team and coach of last
Fall’s players will coach next Fall.
Ninety-Six Dinner,
The annual New York Ninety-Six
Dinner is to be held at the Yale Club,
No. 17 East Twenty-Sixth Street, New
York, on Saturday, January 27, 1900
at 7 o'clock.
The committee in charge announces
that Cordial Welcomes to this Agreeable
Game are for sale at two dollars each,
net. This purely nominal outlay in-
cludes rich red wine, imported cigars,
instrumental music and a speech by
Chairman Peck—everything in fact ex-
cepting car fare. Last Winter’s large
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_ gathering and the enthusiastic character
of the Triennial Reunion indicate that
a very full attendance may be expected
this year. Every Ninety-Six man is in-
vited, and those who have not yet re-
ceived personal notices are requested to
communicate with one of the under-
signed immediately, as the Club’s seat-
ing capacity is limited.
McKee Dunn McKee, 17 East 26th St.,
New York; J. Frederick Eagle, 40
Wall St., New York; Johnston deFor-
est, 40 Wall St., New York; Clarence
S. Day, Jr., 40 Wall St., New York.
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YALE OBITUARIES.
ALEXANDER MCBURNEY BYERS, ’Q4.
Alexander McBurney Byers, ’94, died
of typhoid fever, at his home in Alle-
gheny, Pa., Saturday, December 16.
He had been sick four weeks and had
apparently passed the crisis in the
disease and began to convalesce when
the relapse came. He was 27 years old.
Mr. Byers was the oldest son of
Alexander M. and Martha Fleming
Byers and was born in Allegheny.
After graduation from Yale he entered
into the iron business with his father,
who was President of the A. M. Byers
Company, and has since remained with
that firm, rising rapidly to a _ high
position. At the time of his death Mr.
Byers was one of the governors of the
Pittsburg Club.
LIEUTENANT WARD CHENEY, ’06.
First Lieutenant Ward Cheney, Fourth
Infantry, U. S. A., died on Sunday, Jan.
7, at 11.45 A. M., at Imus, about fifteen
miles. south of Manila, of wounds re-
ceived in a recent skirmish near that
place. This information was received
in a cablegram from General Otis, Mon-
day morning of this week. On the day
before Col. F. W. Cheney, Lieutenant
Cheney’s father, received a cablegram
from Sherwood Cheney, who is on
General Wheaton’s staff, saying that
Ward’s wounds were slight. This was
the first intimation to the family that
Ward had been wounded and it was
supposed that it was sent to prevent
anxiety from indefinite or exaggerated
reports. The news of Lieutenant
Cheney’s death comes as the WEEKLY
gsoes to press, when there is time to
print only a bare record of his life and
military service. The photograph re-
produced here is 4 early one.
Ward Cheney was born at South Man-
chester, Conn., May 20, 1875. His
father is Col. F. W. Cheney, Brown ’54,
and his mother was a daughter of the
late Horace Bushnell of Hartford, the
author and preacher, who graduated at
Yale in 1827. A brother, Horace Bush-
nell Cheney, graduated in Ninety Scien-
tific, another brother, Howell, graduated
in Ninety-Two, and still another Austin,
in Ninety-Eight S. A fourth, Frank
D. Cheney, is now a Senior at Yale;
he is manager of the Glee Club. An-
other brother, John Davenport Cheney,
was at Yale with the Class of Ninety-
Three Sheff. He left in his Junior year.
A number of more distant relatives,
cousins and others, have also been at
this University.
Ward Cheney was educated at the
Hartford High School. In College he
was a member of the Sophomore Society
of He Boule, the Junior Society of Delta
Kappa Epsilon and the Senior Society
of Skull and Bones. He was distinctly
popular, and his best friends, who were
the best men in his class, were exceed-
ingly fond of him.
- For a year after graduation, Mr.
Cheney studied in Germany. He then
came to the Hartford Courant and did
both desk and outside work for that
paper with success until the breaking out
of the war. He was determined to go
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to the front and enlisted with the First
Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers,
going into Camp at Niantic in May, ’98,
and from there to Camp Alger in July.
After a few weeks in the latter camp,
he received a commission as Second .
Lieutenant of Infantry, U. S. A., suc-
cessfully passed the examination, and
July 26 was assigned to the Fourth
Regiment. Early in August he was
handling recruits at Fort McPherson,
LIEUTENANT WARD CHENEY,
Georgia, but on September II was sent
to Fort Sheridan, ill with typhoid fever.
After a long siege, during which he was
critically ill, he recovered, returned to
his regiment, and left for the Philippines
on the transport Grant from New York,
January 17. He arrived at Manila,
March 9. Early the same month, he was
promoted First Lieutenant of Infantry.
For several months after his arrival
he was engaged in campaign against
Filipinos around Manila in Third
Brigade of General McArthur’s Divi-
sion. He was present at the capture
of Maraquina, March 31. In the Sum-
mer he was in a very lively engagement
near Imus, in which the First Battalion
of the Fourth Infantry was unexpectedly
attacked by two thousand Filipinos and
was placed in a particularly precarious
position because of the very short supply
of ammunition. For conspicuous gal-
lantry on this occasion, Lieutenant
Cheney was recommended for a brevet
by Major Bubb, who was in command
of that Battalion of the Fourth. Later
in the Summer and early Fall, Lieu-
tenant Cheney was acting Captain of
Company H of the Fourth. Of the
later movements of his command, and
the work in which he was engaged at
the time of his death, as much as is
known at this writing is given above.
WALTER SCOTT THOMAS, ’99Q S.
The death of Walter Scott Thomas
was recorded in the last issue of the
Weexkty. He had gone to Eastern
Pennsylvania to spend the Christmas
holidays with friends and relatives, was
taken ill with typhoid fever, December
23, and died early in the morning of
December 3I.
Mr. Thomas was born in Pottstown,
Pa., October 10, 1878. He prepared for
college at the Hillhouse High School of
New Haven. After graduation, he en-
tered the employ of the Westinghouse
Electric Company of Pittsburg, Pa.,
Aug. 1, 1899.
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