Class of 1903
We are informed that Mechlin is now working for the Triest Contracting Corporation somewhere in New York city. Will try to have more complete information for our next issue, and wouldn't mind if "Mech" sent it to us himself. Our records seem to be pretty bare. The above was gleaned from some publication that the Thayer School has recently issued about its alumni. Something in there about Sherm Smith too, and maybe others. Can't tell as yet, as we haven't the publication in hand.
Your Secretary is mailing to you (and you should have it before now) an up-to-date list of addresses, listed geographically as well as alphabetically. Send in any corrections or anything you would like to have appear about it, and we will thank you.
You will find in the news from the class of 1872 in this issue a mention of the death of Farmer's mother.
Some of my sins of omission and commission in my work of last year are rising up to haunt me. One of these seems to be this, that in the publicity in the MAGAZINE occasioned by the birth of John West Whelden I was unkind in neglecting to state that 1901 was interested. Eliot Bishop, M.D., 46 Gates Ave., Brooklyn, now the foremost obstetrician in Flatbush at least, maybe I'd better say in New York, was in charge. Have been trying to decide why I failed to heap coals of fire on Bunker's head when I had the chance. I have never forgotten his visit, along with Homer Eaton Keyes also then of Brooklyn, on me, and incidentally of course my Brooklyn Boys' High School roommate, when we were freshmen in Hellgate and our furniture consisted of two beds and one spittoon. At any rate, the visit helped indirectly to establish a national fraternity at Dartmouth, and I can't believe that was my reason. It should have made me sure not to overlook him.
We gather from the newspapers that along in July Omar Swenson had his automobile stolen from the garage on Auburn St., Concord, N. H., and the thief with the car was only found after officers went to Montreal. No little difficulty was encountered in getting permission to bring it home. Canadian customs officers had intended to sell it. Nothing in this seems to connect Omar with bootlegging or with seeking an excuse for a trip to Montreal. We hope the car will still run well enough to get him to the football games this fall. Bring it down to Jerry's beach party next spring. We want to see it.
Anent Fred H. Brown's entry into the primaries and renomination as Democratic candidate for governor of New Hampshire, we quote the following despatch to the BostonHerald from Concord: "No governor has sought a renomination since the two years' term became effective in 1880, mainly because most governors have found it an expensive and wearing life on account, of the social duties involved. Neither of these items has proved bothersome to Governor Brown, however, as he has passed up the social side and has continued to live as he did before he was governor, keeping his inexpensive quarters used here while he was United States district attorney."
Ned Kenerson, who was supposed to stay at Falmouth a good deal of the time this summer, has really been at work in Winchester more than down there. It seems that Winchester has a building committee and Ned is on it. They had in charge several school buildings that had to be ready for September, and a good many problems to solve which kept him on the job. And now they are planning to build a hospital in Winchester, and have made him one of a committee of three to carry that out. Meat Hanlon was the only '03 visitor at Falmouth, so far as I found out.
John Bodge Kenerson is in this year's entering class at Hanover,—the first son of an '03 graduate, I think, to get in there. May there be many there.
Kid Cohen has been in a power boat this summer cruising along the Atlantic coast. How do I know that? Of course, he didn't send me a card or anything else. Nobody does. I have to read the papers, and if I meet anyone dig any real news out of him. Ned Kenerson put up at a hotel over night down in Maine, in Castine Bay, to be exact, and who blew in at night but the one and only Kid ? At that I didn't find out whether this cruise was in-or outside the three mile limit— I mean the new twelve mile limit. Maybe a delicate subject, but I want to find out sometime. Everyone that goes to the Cornell game, ask him, will you ? Send me a card. Thank you.
'"Cutter Reaches Top at 43. Elected President of United Fruit Co. Rose from the Rank of Timekeeper." These are the headlines, along with in some papers a good and in others a poor likeness of our Vic, that the Boston papers put on their front page with the announcement of Cutter's election as president of the United Fruit Company, to succeed Andrew W. Preston, recently deceased. His record is given in full, entering the service of the company immediately after his graduation from the Tuck School, and being steadily promoted until he has reached the top.
I received a letter from Bob Davis a while ago, which was in English, containing some pictures and a circular evidently trying to sell us some hens, coqs, or something. But this was in a foreign language. Mouse Avery, still at Nashua on his sabbatical year, so to speak, came down for the week-end with me to scout Harvard in their first game, and volunteered to translate this for me. As soon as I get it, I will try to get all the information to you. Guess I will put the stuff in the class album, or scrapbook, which I understand your secretary is now just about to start out to go the rounds of the class. And I hope each of you will do a good job on it before you send it along or send it back, as may be requested. It will be a great thing for the twenty-fifth. '03 up!
In a write-up of the Riverton reclamation project in the Casper (Wyoming) Tribune for August 10 occurs the following: "The Riverton project has been under the personal direction of H. D. Comstock, engineer in charge, six years, day and night on the job, and typical of the engineering genius at the disposal of the government in the important humanitarian work of forcing nature to work for man's advancement. Practical, quick to make judgments, backed by years of similar experience, devoid of lack of faith in the reclamation service and its loyal men to do what must be done, Comstock is building his own monument. Prior to the Riverton project, he was a busy man on the Platte River project in Nebraska." A paper of Comstock's on "The Value of Good Roads," read before the Montana-Wyoming Lions' convention in June, was printed in the Wyoming Highway Magazine.
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