Class of 1899
When in doubt, follow the alphabet, so here goes for the two Eastern Abbotts, Pap and Rab. More formally, the imposing white card says, "Mr. Alson Morgan Abbott, formerly with J. R. Williston and Company, has this day become associated with Mitchell, Hutchins, and Company of One Wall Street, New York, members of the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade."
And for "Manchester (N. H.) Rab" it's the daughter who headlines: Mary is finishing her course in Miss Wheelock's Kindergarten Training School in Boston.
Eastern news seems to have come to the top of the column. Here's another item. The B's have it this time, that is, the Benezets. Genevieve is teaching at Miss Porter's private school for girls at Farmington, following her year in Europe; Roger is teaching mechanical drawing and hygiene in the Woodrow Wilson High School at Des Moines.
"D" is for Dartmouth, and also for Donahue of course. That means in this case a dinner at the Parker House, given by the Bar Association of the City of Boston to Charlie—excuse me, to Judge Charles H. Donahue of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Among the speakers were George W. Wickersham, former attorney general of the United States, now chairman of the National Crime Commission; and Chief Justice Arthur P. Rugg and William Flaherty to represent the bench and the bar respectively.
A, B, C, D, E,—that's Eastman. Walter's boy Jerome is taking the premedical course at Norwich University, and serves as assistant to the college surgeon. In this, his senior year in the regular academic work, Jerome is also president of his fraternity.
"East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," is true enough for routine purposes, but not when speaking in terms of '99—or of the alphabet.
So here we are at "A" again, and on the Pacific Coast, that means California "Rab" Abbott and John Ash. When the Secretary recently spent a day with John in Corvallis, Oregon, the latter showed him over his building supply plant, which now covers an entire city block. He also whirled him off on a sixty-mile drive to the Coast, where the famous Oregon Rock Oyster was compelled to come forth at low tide to send the Secretary back East in a properly humble spirit, to say nothing of the effect upon his sporting imagination when he was shown the favorite fishing holes where John spends all his spare vacation time.
John Ash still has his Eastern affiliations too; at present the most striking of these is his nephew, William P. Grimes, elected last fall to the new Congress from the Dover, N. H., district—the youngest Congressman elected.
The Secretary's Western contacts this time got him only as far as B, C, and D. "B" is for Arthur Brown of San Francisco; "C" is for his Crowd of California Customers; and "D" is for the Dodge Brothers' four-wheeled product, which Arthur will confidently tell you is the last word needed to bring a Determined American people out of their much over-extended Depression.
Kindly send word promptly to '99's general headquarters at 41 West Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Md., about any letters of our common alphabet that may be missing from these brief notes. *
Secretary, 41 West Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Md.
