CLASS OF 1885

The following is taken from the New YorkSun, of June 2.

WEDDING ORDER BY WIRELESS

Editor and Widow Arranged for it When 1500 Miles at Sea.

Boston, June 1. R. W. Pillsbury, proprietor of the Manchester, N. H., Union, arrived on the steamer Cincinnati from Europe yesterday with his bride, whom he met while making a tour of the world on the Cleveland, and whom he married at Yokohama a few months ago, after arrangements for the marriage had been made by wireless when the steamer was 1500 miles from that port. Mr. Pillsbury's bride was Mrs. H. C. Valentine, of Trenton, N. J., a widow. The Cleveland left San Francisco last February. Mr. Pillsbury began courting at once. When the steamer 'arrived at Hongkong, they announced their engagement. Before reaching Yokohama Mr. Pillsbury sent a wireless requesting that a Presbyterian minister be got. When the big liner arrived there, the Rev. S. H. Devine was on the pier and married the pair. Mr. Pillsbury was a widower and has a son at the Naval Academy.

Herbert C. White has moved from Massillon, Ohio, to Niagara Falls, N. Y., where he has a flower shop.

Chester H. Larimer recently testified as an expert on air brakes at the trial in connection with the railroad accident at Stamford, Conn.

Robert Louis Manson died May 25, 1913, in New York, of inflammation of the brain, after a week's illness. He was born in Bath, Maine, May 7, 1863, the son of George F. and Elizabeth Breard Manson, entered Dartmouth from Bowdoin, and showed during his college course literary tastes. He was. engaged in journalistic work in New York for twenty four years, first on the staff of the New YorkWorld, then with the Critic, then on the World again, and finally with the New YorkAmerican, from 1896 to 1909. In 1887 and again in 1905 he was traveling in Europe. He was never married. The only surviving member of the family is a brother, George F. Manson of Boston.

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