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’°62—Albert F. Judd is now at the
Sound House, Lakewocd, N. J., for his
health.
°64—Henry M. Whitney has been
given the degree of Lit.D. by Beloit
College. He is Librarian of the Black-
stone Library, Branford, Conn., and a
younger brother of James L. Whitney,
’56, Librarian. ‘of the. Boston: - Public
Library.
64 L.S.—“Black Sam, a Story in
Verse of the Civil War, with Some
Minor Poems,” is the title of a volume
of poems by Col. DeWitt C. Sprague,
of Washington, which will be issued in.
New York next month. The book will
be elaborately illustrated.
’65—Hon. Lyman D. Gilbert, Harris-:
burg, Pa., is President of the Penn-
sylvania Bar Association.
’°67—Professor William H. Goodyear
lectured on Saturday afternoon, Feb-
ruary 3, at the Brooklyn Institute
Museum on “Acanthus Ornament and
the Corinthian Capital.” |
‘71—Alfred B. Mason was in New
Haven recently on a business trip. ~
*78—The marriage of Miss Mary A.
Brady of Danbury, Conn., to James P.
Pigott took place January 24.
’78—Edwin W. Smith, Pittsburg, Pa.,
is Chairman of the Executive Commit-
tee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
78—Judge William H. Taft, United
States Judge for the Sixth Judicial Cir-
cuit, has been appointed President of
the new Philippine Commission by Pres-
ident McKinley. The New York
Evening Post, commenting editorially on
Judge Taft’s appointment, says: “The
President has done well in making
Judge Taft of the United States Circuit
Court head of the new commission which
will go to the Philippines to straighten
out things, and set some sort of a gov-
ernment running. He is a son of the
Judge Taft who served as Attorney-
General during President Grant’s sec-
ond term, and. a graduate of Yale: in
1878; became judge of a state court
seven years after his admission to the
bar, in 1880; was Solicitor-General of
the United States under Harrison; and
has been a Federal Judge since 1892—
a man of high character, excellent
ability, and judicial mind.”
’79—President Charles H. Levermore
has an article on Governor Hutchison
in the February number. of the New
England Magazine.
_ ’80—Dr. Jay W. Seaver has recently
invented a device for ascertaining the
degree of spinal curvature.
’°81—A daughter was born recently to
Mr. and Mrs. William Morton Grinnell
of New York City.
"85 S—Edwin Y. Judd sailed Feb-
ruary 9, for a four months’ trip to
Japan with his brother-in-law, Leonard
D. Fist: 3
86 5.—William E. Hutchings is the
Civil Engineer of the Louisville and
Nashville R. R., with headquarters at
Louisville, Ky.
’88—In the last issue of the WEEKLY
a clipping was taken from a Chicago
paper concerning Mr. Carl Meyer and
the offer which that paper said he had
made to heln increase the Chicago
police force and to encourage the effec-
tive handling of burglars and highway-
men. Mr. Meyer writes to the WEEKLY
that he .never had even thought of
making any such offer; that the whole
thing was absolutely wrong. He said
he had no acquaintance with the alder-
man to whom the offer was said to have
been made.
’88—Frederick W. Mar has been ap-
pointe: Z ie of the Queens Bor-
oug ibrary of N i
Mayor Van Wyck. oa te by
89—J. R. Galt of Honoluly is Vi
C s Vice
Chairman of the Citizens’ Sanitary
Committee recently appointed to take
VATLAN ARTO weeny
The late Ward Cheney, Yale 96, First Lieutenant, Fourth Infantiy, U.S. A. From.a photograph, taken at
the Encampment of the Fourth near De Loma Church, four miles from Manila, June 3, 1899, by a classmate
visiting the islands. The pockets are stuffed with provisions and, with the exception of his belt containing
cartridges and pistol, he is in marching order.
means for stamping out the bubonic
plague in that city. A recent alumnus
note spoke of the measures taken there
to clean out Chinatown, when the plague
first appeared in that section of the city.
Those efforts were apparently success-
ful at the time, but shortly afterwards
the plague broke out again more fiercely
than before. It was finally decided to
burn up all of Chinatown, which meant
preparing temporary quarters for the
eight or ten thousand people living
there. A very elaborate and successful
system of detention camps was devised.
Mr. Galt was in charge of the first de-
tention camp, in which were over 500
people from the infected district. After
getting this work in running order, Mr.
Galt resigned his position in order to
return to his business, from which he
had been absent several weeks. He hail
been just half a day at his regular work
when he was asked to serve as Vice-
Chairman on the Citizens’ Sanitary
Committee, who have now taken the
whole city of Honolulu in hand, and
divided it into forty districts, with
a full system of inspection in each dis-
trict. All business houses are open only
from to to 3 and practically all the citi-
zens help in the volunteer inspecting,
’91S.—The firm of Cooper & Co.,
composed of Lehman A. Cooper, ’or S.,
and Frank K. Hunter, general partners,
and James T. Drummond and Charles
R. Drummond, special partners, dis-
solved partnership February 8. The
same day a partnership was found for
the transaction of a general commis-
sion and brokerage business in stocks
and bonds, by Lehman A. Cooper, ’or S.,
Walter S. Cramp, William L. Beadle-
ston, ’95, and Henry P. Hall, ’80S.,
under the firm name of Cooper, Cramp
& Beadleston, with offices at 52 Broad-
way, New York City.
’°93—John H. Field has recently been
elected Secretary of the Wilson Render-
ing and Fertilizer Co. of East Buffalo,
N. Y. Address care of that company.
’93—George T. Slade has resigned his
position as Superintendent of the Great
Northern Railway and accepted the ap-
pointment of General Manager of the
Erie & Wyoming Valley R. R. Co.,
in charge of all departments, except
the accounting department, with head-
quarters at Dunmore, Pa. -
93 L.S.—The engagement of Miss
Clara Feuchtwanger of New Haven, to
Mr. James D. Dewell, Jr., has been an-
nounced.
794 S—A son was born January 29
to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Messler.
Their present home address is Irwin
and Murdock Avenues, Pittsburg, Pa.
704 S.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles W.
Hoyt of New Haven left town on
Wednesday, February 7, for a short trip
through the South and West.
’95—Roger W. Tuttle was recently
elected a Director in The Tuttle, More-
house & Taylor Company.
’95—Harry K. Taylor has severed his
connection with the Hartford Rubber
Works Company of Hartford, and is
now Secretary of the Billings-Chapin
Co., of Cleveland, O., manufacturers of
paints and varnishes.
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’95 and ’95 L.S.—Mr. and Mrs. Phelps
Montgomery of New Haven have gone
to Mr. Montgomery’s home in Oregon,
After a short stay there they will travel
in California.
’96—The marriage of Miss Charlotte
Ann Bushnell to Charles W. Birely took
place Wednesday, January 31, in the
Church of the Redeemer, New Haven.
W. Woods Chandler, ’96, played the
wedding music. Mr. and Mrs. Birely
will be at home after February 15, at
No. 1388 Chapel Street, New Haven.
*96— William S. Miller has accepted
the position of Attorney for The North-
ern Trust Co., The Rookery, Chicago.
°96—A special to the Hartford Cour-
ant from San Francisco under date of
February 9, says: ‘Following are the
particulars of the wounding of Lieuten-
ant Ward Cheney, as they were learned
from persons who came home on the
Sherman with his body:
Ward Cheney was sent out from Imus
at daylight, Sunday, January 7, with his
company to support scouts to recon-
noiter a strong insurgent position.
When Cheney and eight men were in
advance of the main part of the com-
pany they discovered about two hundred
of the enemy with arms stacked in the
road. He charged and routed them with
his eight men. The enemy received re-
inforcements, when Cheney and three
men were shot (he twice in the leg).
Scouts and the main body of Cheney’s
company then came up. He sent them |
forward, not allowing anybody to stay
with him. The enemy dispersed.
Cheney died at Bacoor at noon January
7, en route to Manila. His cousin,
Lieutenant Sherwood Cheney, was with
him before his death.”
body
Lieutenant Cheney’s reached
San Francisco on the transport Sher-
man last week. His brother, Lieutenant
John Davenport Cheney met the body
and brought it home. Funeral services
will be held at Cheney Hall, South
Manchester, on Friday of this week,
February 16, at 2.30 Pp. mM. A _ special
car will be on the 1.55 Pp. M. train from
Hartford on the Highland Division, and
an extra will return after the services.
’97—W. D. Makepeace and Le-Roy
McKim, ex-’97, are traveling in the
South.
’97—More details of the accident to
George Langford are given in_ the
Chicago Tribune of February 4. This
article says that the newness of the
machinery in the mill had caused several
accidents and that after a number of
injuries to mechanics in repairing these
accidents, Langford has resolved to take
the worst cases of repair himself and
not expose those under him. On Jan-
uary 30, the gear wheels of the great
roll got out of order. Langford. had
worked himself into a very difficult sit-
uation, where he was so close to hot
iron that a slight movement would have
been fatal. He was examining a pair
of cog wheels. Just at that time the
water was turned on the rolls and that
part of the machinery was completely
enveloped in a very dense cloud of
steam. He knew that this would con-
tinue for some moments and thought it
best to grope his way out. Putting out
his left hand, he caught just his finger
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tips in the cogs, which he had been
examining, and the machinery began to
slowly draw his arm in. He retained
his presence of mind sufficiently to throw
his weight to one side so as to grad-
ually work the arm away as the cogs
continued to draw it in. In this way,
he made the wheels leave the arm some-
where about the elbow or above. He
crept out, walked away and fell ex-
hausted near the door of the factory.
He was able, however, to direct the
men who came to his relief in the
method of binding his arm, and re-
vived enough to walk part of the way
up a hill to the Silver Cross Hospital.
It is said his physicians had to resort
to strategy in order to ,administer
chloroform, when they performed the
amputation, as he objected to an anzs-
thetic. |
’98—The engagement is announced of
Miss Mabel Rowe, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. H. B. Rowe of New Haven, to
-A. Storrs Campbell.
’98-——Martin T. Bennett has _ been
elected to the editorial board of the
Yale Law Journal.
’99 S.—F. B. Harrison is the Assist-
ant Librarian at the New Haven Public
Library. |
"ex-’99 L.S.—The marriage of Miss:
Gussie Marks of New York to Walter
A. Saxon took place Wednesday, Jan-
uary 17, in New York.
1900 L.S.—The engagement of Miss
Vesta Foljambe Hardy of New Haven,
to Fred L. Vanderveer of Brooklyn, N.
Y., is announced. Immediately after
graduation Mr. Vanderveer will go to
he Louis, where he expects to practice
aw. }
YALE NOTICES.
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contribute to this column.]
Funeral of the Late Ward
Cheney.
Funeral services for First Lieutenant
Ward Cheney of the Fourth Regiment,
U. S$. Infantry, who died of wounds
received in a skirmish near Imus, Cavite
Province, F, f,.on. jaguary 7, 1900, in
the twenty-fifth yéar of his age, will be
held at Cheney Hall, South Manchester,
Conn., on Friday, February 16th, at 2.30
P. M. Burial will be private.
Friends will take the train leaving
Hartford on the Highland Division of
fie we Ys UN. ER ER... Ro at 25s
Pp. M., and will return by special train
after the services at the Hall.
Yale Club Notice.
A special meeting of the Yale Club
will be held at the Clubhouse, on Fri-
day, February 16th, at 9 Pp. M., in order
that the project for securing a new
Clubhouse may be presented to the mem-
bers. Plans of the proposed building
are now open to inspection at the Club.
ASHBEL GREEN, Secretary.
New York, Feb. 9, 1900.
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on receipt of ten cents in stamps. Address
Old English Department, The American
robacco Co., 111 Fifth Avenue, New York
City. All dealers sell it.