D K E RECORDS SPILLED
Then, one night we took a party of Dekes to Hartford for a banquet. A banquet in those days was a real banquet, and coming back about Three A. M., it was suddenly discovered that the record book, a very important document, had fallen off. We stopped and the members of the party walked back to look for it. But they wouldn't have seen it, if they had stepped on it, so it took a long time. But once it was found, we went on our way more triumphantly than ever. Oh what a night! Speaking of banquets, I remember the night we took a big load to the Old Spring House on the Lebanon Road. On the footboard, steadied by one of the party, who doubtless remembers it well, was a large wash-tub of punch, a supreme achievement in liquid-mixing. In the wee hours, we returned, the wash-tub empty, but nevertheless a full-load.
The first time the Harvard Baseball team played in Hanover, we met the "Peanut Train" at 8:30 P. M. and brought them up from the Junction. Coming up the hill by the road to Wilder, we stopped with a jerk. There was nothing much the matter. Only, the wheels had sunk into the soft clay up to the hubs—a matter of two and a half feet, that's all. They all piled out and walked up the hill, but it only happened once more that trip. It was kind of too bad it happened at all, though, because we were trying to make a good impression on the.Harvard boys' first trip to Hanover. On my last eventful trip to Wilder I noticed that they had a nice macadam road on that hill.
It used to take us just an hour to make Lebanon. But one day we were to take a visiting baseball team down to catch the train. They were slow in getting ready and we were twenty minutes late in starting. The manager was quite disturbed about it and asked the driver if he could make it. "Sure," says he, "If the horses' legs hold out." They did, and we made it just as the train pulled in. Now, I believe, they allow ten minutes, if the tires don't blow out.
DUDLEY'S COACH This picture is about 1904-5. Carpenter '06 in the center and H. F. Brown '06 in foreground. Who are the others?
