CLASS OF 1885

C. W. Bates, teacher of French in the Boys' High School, Brooklyn, N. Y., is to act as courier for a personally conducted party of sixteen in a "Grand Tour of Central Europe.” June 30—Sept. 6.

Edwin A. Bayley's address at Lexington, Mass., last Memorial Day has been reprinted under the title "The Increasing Purpose of the Age, or the Ending of Human Warfare through Universal Justice."

Otis E. Hovey, Thayer School '89. recently delivered a lecture at the Thayer School on "Some Features of Bridge Construction.” In addition to his office work as engineer of designs for the American Bridge Company, Hovey has had a good deal to do with the commercial affairs of his company. He has been to Constantinople in its interest, and in England he secured by his skillful designing some contracts for important bridge work in South Africa in 1898. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. His home address is 39 Sycamore St., Plainfield, N. J.

Charles F. Chase, Thayer School '89, of New Britain, Connecticut, chief engineer of the Berlin Construction Co., was recently elected president of the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers. He is also clerk of St. Mark's Church and the secretary of the Church Club of Connecticut.

Richard S. Currier, Barre, Vt., is president of the Yermont Good Roads Association, having been one of its founders.

John B. Hodgdon has been for the past three years assistant engineer for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway. He has worked for the Southwest Missouri Electric Railway; has run two surveys for the proposed Arkansas Yalley Interurban Railway from Wichita to Arkansas City; has made extensive land surveys in the swamps of northeastern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri, where it took Yankee wit to locate some of the old government corners that were put in in the '40s; has made many hundred underground surveys in the lead and zinc mines in and around Joplin and Webb City, Missouri, and Galena, Kansas; and has enjoyed the reputation for several years of being the best "underground engineer" in that region.

Non-grad. William A. Dickey's address is Landlock, Alaska.

Non-grad. Arthur Lucas is editorial writer and financial editor of the AlbanyEvening Journal.

Non-grad. Arthur W. Whitcomb is secretary of the Independent Peerless Pattern Co., '07 West 25th St., N. Y.

Non-grad. A. S. Marshall is practicing law in Concord, N. H.

Non-grad. Leonard F. Hatch is in charge of the Moosehead Lake Sanatorium recently established by him at Greenville Junction, Maine.

Secretary, Herbert D. Foster, Hanover, N. H.