CLASS OF 1874

Charles O. Gates died on May 8 in New York City. He had recently resigned his position as President of the Royal Baking Powder Company with the intention of retiring from business entirely. He had also sold his residence in Brooklyn and expected to make his future home in New York. Mr. Gates, while not strictly ill, had not been quite well for some time; but he hoped to regain full health and strength from an automobile trip through England, which he had planned for the coming summer. Mrs. Gates was already abroad and Mr. Gates expected to join her early in June. His illness was not of a nature to cause anxiety, and his sudden death from heart failure Was a great shock to all his friends.

Mr. Gates' success in later life had gained him ano less. honored position in the business world than he had attained in his earlier years as a teacher. He born in Fairfield, lowa, and taught in high school and in Adelphi College, but after his marriage with Miss Elizabeth Hoagland he went into business with his father-in-law in the Cleveland Baking Powder Com- pany. Later, after this company was merged with the Royal, he became president of the company. He leaves a widow and three children, two sons and a daughter.

Charles W. Badgley died suddenly of angina pectoris on May 32 at his residence in Denver, Colo. Mr. Badgley's reputation for unassailable honesty and integrity had made him the candidate of the reform party tor county treasurer and resulted in his election to that office in the last municipal campaign.

Eaily in May, while Mr. Badgley was confined to his house by painful heart disease, frauds were discovered in the disease's office. As soon as they became known to him he insisted upon going to .the office despite the warnings of his physician.

While there he was again attacked by angina and died soon after removal to his home. The press of Denver openly charges Mr. Badgley's death to the corporations. The Denver News of May 23 says, ''That the exposure of the crooked work of subordinates in his office, done at the behest of the local utility corporations, caused the death of County Treasurer O. W. Badgley in the opinion of men who had known him long and well." The Denver Post of May 24, says editorially Charles Badgley is dead. Rest his honest soul, and many a heart in Denver is heavier today for the knowledge that a good man is gone. He died when his office was resting under grave charges—charges that meant that there was hidden in that office a dishonest man. Not one voice in Denver, where Charles Badgley lived and died, even dares to hint that he was the man." Mr. Badgley leaves a widow and four children, three sons and a daughter.

Secretary, Charles E. Quimby, 44 West 36th St., New York City