Class of 1889
The following is taken from the BostonHerald of May 16, 1928.
"Fitchburg, May 15—John Barrett chairman of the international Pan-American committee, in the first public address since returning from an extensive our o the South and West declared today that New England faces its greatest opportunity in immediately opening both import and export trade with the Latin-American countries. He spoke at noon at the Rotary Club and later at the Constitutional League."
The 153d anniversary of the Battle of Chelsea Creek, in which the British ship Diana was burned, was observed by appropriate public exercises on May 28. Judge Samuel R. Cutler gave an address at the memorial tablet on the Revere Beach Boulevard which marks the approximate site where two field pieces fired on the Diana. The Chelsea High School band played and pupils from the Chelsea schools sang.
Chester B. Curtis attended the annual meeting of the Store Managers Division and the Personnel Group of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, held in Detroit early in May. He was elected chairman of the Division for the next year. Later in the month Chester was called to his old home in New Castle, N. H., by the death of his mother, at the age of 89. Many of the class remember Mrs. Curtis, whose strong personality made a lasting impression upon us.
The Secretary chanced to meet Charlie Doane on the street recently, and learned that he had spent three months of the past winter taking a motor trip to Florida and going about that interesting state. At the time we met he was more interested in his garden on Cape Cod than in the resources and developments of Florida.
O. S. Warden is editor of the Great FallsTribune and also chairman of the Montana State Highway Commission. In both capacities he worked long and hard, with many others, to secure the passage by the late Congress of the Oddie Forestry Roads Bill. In brief, this bill provided for the building of roads through Indian reservations, national forests, and other unappropriated government lands in eleven states, these roads to be connecting links in the Roosevelt Highway and other important through roads. The bill was passed, but vetoed by the President. The Senate voted to override the veto, but the House sustained the President. The Montana senators took an active part in the discussion. Senator Walsh read a communication from Warden, as chairman of the State Highway Commission, making a strong appeal for the bill. Senator Wheeler read into the record an editorial on the subject which had appeared in the Great Falls Tribune a few days before. This editorial, couched in forceful but courteous language, leaves no doubt in the mind of the reader but that the writer regrets and deplores the action of the President in blocking the way at this important juncture in the development of the highway programs of the public lands states of the West.
87 Milk St., Secretary, Boston
