Class of 1910

Marshall Comstock has two daughters, 15 and 13, and*a son 9 . . . . the older daughter is headed for Radcliffe year after next .... Marshall is still with the Wagner Electric Corporation .... Howard Smith, Vermont Marble Co.'s assistant treasurer and man who knows their costs, spent his vacation in the "land of herring and blueberries" which is a little farther down East than Bunny's "Friendship" . . . . Bob and Jack Taylor, sons of Old Man Otto, are young, husky, and headed for Dartmouth .... Walter Golde, musician of note, was heard over WJZ recently .... and right here we'll give Jack Ingersoll '11 a word of commendation by saying that his football broadcasting is a mighty welcome relief from some of the stuff the public has been forced to listen to for some years. .... Vic Willis, construction engineer for Dwight P. Robinson & Co., Philadelphia, is now located at Trona, Calif., on construction of a soda products plant on shores of Searles Lake, 180 miles northeast of Los Angeles .... the lake is a dried up salt bed on the surface but the water underneath is saturated with many varieties of salts and is pumped to the plant and processed to produce principally potash and borax .... the new plant will produce soda ash .... Vic has covered a lot of the country in his construction work.

We got that guy Frank Meleney to emerge from his silence with these interesting lines: "Helen, son, and I stopped atHanover in July on the way from Boston tothe Adirondacks. Ever since our 20th reunion,when we had such a glorious timeand a rebirth, or rather a rejuvenation, ofour love and loyalty for Dartmouth, wehave managed to route our course of travelthrough Hanover and stay for a day ortwo. The golf course is a great attraction.I don't know any eighteen holes morebeautiful or varied in their beauty andinterest. Andy Scarlett was routed out anhour earlier than usual to play with me.... kindly host and generous opponent. ... let me win the 18th to make it allsquare if I remember correctly (Ed. note —if Medico Man Meleney can play Andy that even on the Hanover course, he's a smart young feller) . ... we stopped to seeThurby at Nashua .... we enjoyed seeing his lovely wife and son in their attractive home .... we had six weeks in aboys' camp at. the Adirondack FloridaSchool, where I taught two years before Istarted to study medicine" .... Here's one! .... Scene, Rabbi Judd's boat supposed to be far out on Lake Erie but actually anchored in a cove not far from Cleveland .... Skipper Judd, Julius Warren, Hank Haserot, Chet Newcomb 'n, and two unknowns aboard .... Pineapple Henry elected himself "galley maid" or something else (our nautical stuff is not so hot up here in Northern New England) so as to advance the merits or demerits of such Haserot Co. food products as were taken on the trip .... the inevitable bridge game a la Cleveland was in full swing .... Insatiable Hen bid a Grand Slam .... it produced such a laxative effect on ordinarily complacent Schoolmaster Julius that the game busted up . . . . Skipper Judd and Chet rushed to the anchor Hankus became a real "galley maid" in fact .... and the real cruise to the islands, Pelie and Put-InBays, was started Cleveland's 1910 delegation is one of the best in existence.

Here are some interesting extracts from recent letters .... Ernest Stephens, Lynn's well known and capable schoolman, "Frankly, I never feel that what I am doingis of any particular interest to the wholegroup .... its nature is so exclusively theschoolman's job .... but it is an alluringtask and one which keeps one on one's toesall the while . . . . I renewed old timeswith Art Rollins at the superintendents'October conference at the Crawford House,Oct. i, 2, 3 .... I also ran into Nat Sherman, who was managing the cog railroadup Mt. Washington .... it's always aninspiration when some of the boys dropinto the office on business or for just achat."

"Beezle" Parker, one of 'io's well-known constructionists: "For last two years havebeen working with the Aberthaw Co. onconstruction of new publishing plant for Christian Science Monitor in Boston ....

not quite making enough to live on butconsidered lucky to find anything to do inthe construction lines .... job nearlyfinished and prospects are good for a longvacation minus pay . ... at present ammaking occasional visits to Vermont Marble Co.'s plant at Proctor, Vt., and expectto combine at least one inspection tripwith a game at Hanover."

Fritz Rainey, Philadelphia's philosophical teacher, archeologist, penman, and critic: "Here is my tale of woe .... April14 a rib parted from the spine, high between the shoulder blades .... neuritisof back and left leg all summer . ... inSeptember dislocated my spine .... moreand better neuritis . ... a week ago a ribcame loose from my breast bone (Ed. note, it looks as though Fritz were going to fall all apart) .... strapping resulted in apatchwork of blisters and sores all overchest (Fritz says them things really hurt) .... despite the same have worked steadily on a book on the criticism of poetry (by this time he was in a real mood to criticise .... we bet the poet fellers didn't get any breaks) .... only have to edit thefinal section, and that's that .... havediscovered that an overstuffed chair makesan ideal bed provided you can't lie down ina bed" .... all that noted archeologist needs is a little ol' fashioned Snake Oil, my crutches, and somebody's glass eye .... he apparently flirted with one of his unknown goddesses too long .... come to think of it, if any of you boys ever get real sick and don't know what to do, you might write Doc Kingsford for some of those pills he used to give for anti-over-cut-itis .... his address is Hanover, N. H., same as it used to be before the Civil War.

Guess we'll send this one to Gen'1 Johnson .... no, perhaps better to Franklin himself Leo McCusker, now a Los Angeles citizen: "The Blue Eagle broughtus a grandson .... a real 'native son'.... we tagged him James William Ewins. ... at 246 S. Anita Ave., BrentwoodHeights, Los Angeles, Calif." .... we don't know how to take all this grampa business .... perhaps, Slip Powers is going at it right .... getting used to it in name before in fact.

Here's something we've been lookingfor .... Ted Smith, tobacco magnate,Havana .... "Oldest daughter, Anita,engaged to Bernardo Solis Jr songraduated from Candler High School inJune .... now learning tobacco business.... youngest daughter is in third yearpreparatory. Conditions in Habana notso good of late (we'd say Ted expressed itrather mildly) .... after watching onestreet battle from behind a big columnhave refrained from seeing others ....what little ability I had for running in myyounger days I have used to the fullestextent on several occasions and have beencontent to hear the shooting at a distanceinstead of seeing same .... spare timespent at the beach, swimming and sailing. . . . water is wonderful at this time ofthe year .... used to see Kid Fowler occasionally, but of late hasn't been around"

Now here's one from the Kid, written seven days later (Oct. 23) .... "The U.S.papers have given us a lot of publicity, sothe general happenings are familiar toeveryone .... after seven years of tyrannyand graft, Machado was ousted .... thiswas accompanied by a general strike beginning Aug. 8 .... on the 12th the armywhich had been loyal to Machado becausethey were the only public employees paid,switched over and advised him to get out... he had no choice .... Cespedes, avery capable and honest man with nopolitical affiliations in the Latin-Americansense, was made temporary president ....the joy of the people was remarkable tosee .... there had been no freedom ofaction or speech for so long that they justcut loose and expressed themselves freelyaccording to their individual natures ....much of it took the form of reprisals againsteveryone and everything that had beenconnected with Machado .... and thekillings and looting of property were appalling .... three weeks of this went on.... the army realizing its power got ridof their officers . ... so out went all commissioned officers and Cespedes with them.... Grau San Martin, a professor atHabana University, was made president,and a sergeant of the army became commanding officer and chief of the staff ....the resulting battle between the ex-officersentrenched in the Hotel Nacional andtheir former soldiers would have beenfunny if it had not been so bloody ....for two weeks things have been ominouslyquiet except for sporadic communisticflare-ups and such riotings as would beexpected with the entire absence of authority or any personal guarantee of security .... business is at a standstill, and nomoney is coming in to the present government, so I don't see how they can continuemuch longer .... the army has twice revolted and may do it again .... militaryhistory proves that an army once in revoltcan never be subjected to discipline again.. ... I believe that most thinking Cubanslook to the U. S. for intervention as theonly way out for the island .... however,the policy of the Roosevelt administrationis strongly against such a step .... still Ibelieve it will come .... unfortunately,it probably will not come until after a verybloody upset here, which may come soonor be long postponed . ... in the meantime, we are sitting around, little or nowork we can do, and waiting to see whichway to jump.

"Here where I am located we have hadour share of excitement since the middleof August .... the general strike did notcause us much difficulty, as we saw itcoming and were prepared in the factory toshut down .... when Cespedes came in,we started up again, but the men were unsettled and jumpy, and on the night ofAug. 23 walked out without warning andwithout much idea what they were striking for except that almost everyone elsewas .... this time we were in a worse fix,and my one American assistant and I hadto keep up steam and liquidate the wholefactory to save what sugar we had in process ... . from then on we had daily andnightly riots and communistic demonstrations .... things got so hot I had to sendthe family down to the U. S. Naval Stationat Guantanamo Bay . ... it was U. S. soiland we are glad to have it available ....the Station has had to house quite a largenumber of refugees .... fortunately, wehave many friends there among the officersand their families, so Betty and the boywere taken into the family and didn't haveto go to general quarters as did the lessfortunate ones .... after two weeksthings quieted down some and they wereable to come back, but we keep the suitcases pretty well packed.

"It is doubtful if anyone tries to makesugar in the coming crop under the present conditions .... unless some definiteauthority is set up here with teeth in it,operations of any sort are impossible, asbusiness and industry of any sort are at themercy of half a dozen different factions.... first come, first served .... thingsare going to get worse before they are better .... the opportunity for a quiet settlement of this thing has passed, and it'sgoing to take a big and probably disastrousblow-up to clear the air and situation. ... I hope lam unduly pessimistic aboutit all and that I'll get a chance to admit Iwas wrong, but things don't look so good."

These two letters are mighty interesting .... they give you an intimate picture of what's going on down in Cuba .... Kid's forecast has proven very accurate and sound up-to-date .... the class sends its appreciation along with best wishes to Kid and Ted.

Dick Sherwin, Shing's son, is at New Hampton, where he is finishing off for Dartmouth Dick is director of the school's Outing Club, no doubt his training as an Eagle Scout having come into play there .... Shing has been appointed an agent for Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Hartford with Worcester County as his territory .... Les Wiggin, whose spirit seems to be unbreakable, is convalescing from an attack of "pneumoan" as our Ivory Tickler describes it .... "am allowed out again and feelingshaky." .... Les certainly is due for improved health .... we all are pulling for him .... Paul Whitcomb's daughter, Kathleen, was married Sept. 9 to Chadwick Connell at North church, Portsmouth. .... Ed Higbee's son, Edward 3d, is mopping up at Hanover .... a fine, big lad on the freshman football squad a year ago and playing lacrosse, pulled through with 3.4 for the second semester .... there is pnoof that the race progresses little by little, for old man Ed stayed way above flunking marks .... but here's one that is hard to figger out .... it requires psychological, physiological, and illogical research to prove anything .... Rollie Reynolds' senior son at Dartmouth, continued his scholastic career with 3.4 in the second semester .... he has another son coming up next year who must be quite O.K. also, for he won the junior appointment from Horace Mann School to Dartmouth.

Jess Wilson has been with the Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Co. for 22 years .... for the last two years he has been superintendent of claims .... he is another one of these boaters who inherited his love for sailing from ancestors that set out from the Maine coast to sail the Seven Seas in clipper ships .... Jess really does sail .... he has a small boat on the Mystic Lakes in Winchester and a larger one at Kittery Point, where he spends his summers .... we really do list Jess as a worthy seaman .... but some of the guys (and we have no special reference to anyone from Cleveland who ties up in the first cove to play bridge, and still we might mean them) are no more sailors than we are, and the nearest we ever came to sailing was getting tipped over in a canoe many long moons ago way up in northern New Hampshire woods, when we tried to sail it with one of those big, old-fashioned wagon umbrellas .... Karl Maerker weighs 195 lbs Andy Scarlett shot 79 a few times last summer .... "Mun" Cole gets a great kick from his son George being in College at Hanover .. . . "Shorty" Stern gets fun from his annual summer visits to Hanover.

The experiment of having the Harvard game dinner in the same dining room with 1911 and 1912 proved a most successful one .... the committee reports through Else Jenness that "there was more goodfellowship shown and more general visitation and congeniality than has been usualat any similar dinner whether with ourclass alone or at a larger gathering" .... present were (and read these carefully, for you will see some most welcome newcomers) Lew Wallace, John Hobbs, Larry Bankart, Else Jenness, Irv Jewett, Beezle Parker, Les Wiggin, Dick Vincens, Ed Shattuck, Bunny Armstrong, Jack Dingle, King Brady, John Brooks, Pa Nelson, Jim Everett, Cliff Lyon, Ray Gorton, Heinie Hyde, A 1 Ferguson, Jim MacPherson, Slip Powers, Monty Fall, George Sinclair, and Walter Norton .... the following men were reported as having been seen at the Yale game: Bill Tucker, Phil Forristall, Jim MacPherson, Herb Wolff, Clarke Tobin, Obbie Coleman, Dixi Crosby, Walter Norton, Hal Sprague, and Ray Seymour.

This stunt of Ben Williams requires more mental concentration that we possess .... at the Harvard game he tried the experiment of watching every play to see exactly what Capt. Phil Glazer did, and wrote an article about it for the SundayAdvertiser .... Ben saw two or three men hit Glazer as hard as they could legally, on almost every play, and predicted that he would go home and sleep like a log .... he made a sucker out of Ben by turning up at the Barclay that night for a dance or two .... Rusty Williams was footballing in Hanover this fall . . . . Heinie Hyde was one of the few men who could not take a vacation last summer because of too much business .... Heinie, conservative and successful customers' man for Edward B. Smith & Co. in Boston, was snowed under with business and could not take time off ... . Pres. Pineo reports seeing Tom Heneage in Chicago not long ago .... Tom, a prosperous life and general insurance broker, "seemed the acme ofsartorial perfection, and was particularlyconcerned about the affairs of his son, nowin the freshman class, who is apparently doing excellent work" .... some of you anthropologists figger that out Earle Pierce is on another Western trip at this writing .... Charlie Fay has two fine boys, one of whom may be in Dartmouth next fall, although Charlie feels he is rather young to enter .... both boys are enthusiastic Scouts, and that certainly will do them no harm wherever they go or whatever they do ... . Charlie has been with the group department of the John Hancock Life Insurance Co. for many years .... there are lots of Dartmouth men in the insurance business in Boston, which reminds us that one of Boston's wellknown business men told us early in the year that Harvard men controlled the banks of Boston and Dartmouth men the insurance business .... and he was an alumnus of neither institution .... you can fly from Boston to White River Junction on a regular schedule these days in nice comfortable planes .... about an hour is required for trip one way .... Nick Carter took his family abroad a couple of months during the summer .... they spent a week in London; a few days at The Hague and Amsterdam; ten days in Switzerland, divided between Lucerne, Interlaken, and Montreux; then Geneva and Paris with side trips; back to England, where two weeks were spent in motoring through Cambridge, Ely, Lincoln, York, then up to Edinburgh, Laymouth, down through Derbyshire, the Midlands, Stratford, and Oxford to Southampton .... home to St. Paul, stopping off at the Chicago Fair. .... Nick predicts good importations from France after the 18th Amendment is finally out of the way, as he traveled through the wine section of France and had plenty first-hand information offered to him .... they met by chance George Morris 'll and wife, and spent an evening with them at Tours .... in addition to having his son in the freshman class at Hanover, Jack Dingle's daughter, Florence, is a junior at Bradford Academy . . . . Bob Woodcock's son, Bob, who graduated from Dartmouth last June with Montgomery Ward at St. Paul .... there is still time for some of you fellows to use the postals you did not send back.

Secretary, 168 Hill St., Barre, Vt.