Class of 1897

The Washington Post speaks of the appointment by President Coolidge of Benjamin F. Adams, of our class, as civilian commissioner of the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia. We hope that the position carries an able secretary who can write this title. The class extends its congratulations.

Billy Balch is living in Hudson, Mass. He has not been in good health recently. Bill's son is in New Hampshire State University.

Sport Morse is what the Chamber of Commerce's house organ referred to as a "live wire" bond salesman. He operates for Dillon, Read and Company, Boston. It is to be noted with interest that he has been cited in general orders as having sold abnormal amounts of bonds. The house has backed up its satisfaction by a raise in pay, by bonus, and by other friendly acts.

The class will remember that Ante Lewis had an operation for goiter at the Mayo Hospital in Rochester. A letter from him says: "I have a gall bladder to get extracted this fall, and expect to return for this," from which, with characteristic light heart, he turns to the subject of the weather. He adds: "I have been out for three weeks about the state, buying cattle for wintering. We have much surplus hay and no market. I never respected a Ford before. I had a young stock man with me who furnished a Ford Coupe. We just went anywhere; most of our traveling was in the foothills and through the mountain passes; we stopped with ranchers mostly, from whom we bought cattle. We almost lived on venison, deer liver, and bear meat. We got a nice buck ourselves to bring home." He says that Pat Conway was due from San Francisco, and that the Lewises are hoping the Conways will be with them over the week-end. Ante says: "I cannot tell you how financial distress has hit the Western producer of raw stuffs. You know the live stock, soil crops, mine and fishery outputs are about all the virgin new things offered to the nation each year, and the workers in the two first have been contesting in a handicap race the past five years now, with a IS per cent to 28 per cent disadvantage. This fact is so hard to get through to the East. Some wilfully will not,—most of course thoughtlessly do not see it. The East would feel it, were it not for the enormous new thing called the automobile industry, which has entered our economic life since the previous depression."

Secretary, Park Square Building, Boston