Class of 1878
Word comes from Seattle that Mr. and Mrs. Eugene O'Neill have moved from their former address in that city and are now residing at 1102 Fourth North, Tacoma.
Mrs. Isaac F. Paul is at Winter Park, Fla., and at last accounts Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Burleigh of Tavares were expecting a visit from her.
Dr. H. A. Tarbell of Watertown, S. D., expects to attend the meeting of the American Medical Society at Milwaukee in early June, and hopes, conditionally, to continue the journey to Hanover for reunion.
Early returns from the first call for reunion of the class in June are encouraging. Of the first fifteen only two are wholly without hope of being present; two will try, but very doubtfully; the rest will try more or less confidently to be present. The fourteen not yet heard from include as many of those who expected to come as did this first fifteen to reply. Several will bring their wives or daughters, and in addition to these, at least two of the ladies long attached to the class, who have survived the boys who first attracted them to it, have expressed an intention to join us. We hope they will encourage several others.
One feature of the returns above referred to is the indication that our generation is finding itself still of some consequence in the march of events. Family reunions under the parental roof are tran- spiring in several instances as a result of the economic situation. Youth and middle age, skirmish line and battle front, have been beaten back and have sought shelter in the tents of the patriarchs, whence they will surely emerge after winter is over, as Washington did from Valley Forge, to carry the fight to a successful conclusion.
Thus far no instance is reported of the old folks seeking shelter under the roof of the young. But let us not be too confident.
Lewis Parkhurst is distributing a beautifully illustrated pamphlet on "The New Prison at Norfolk," in which is recorded his ten years' determined fight to remove from Massachusetts the disgrace of the barbarous old Bastile at Charlestown and to replace it with a modern, decent, civilized reformatory, to be much more economically operated.
He now sees the approaching finish of his long campaign against heavy odds, so heavy as to compel him to move by the right flank much of the way. It now looks like complete success in the near future, and it is an extraordinary achievement of a public-spirited, very resolute, and very resourceful private citizen.
The aim of the pamphlet, however, is not merely to record the fight but to enlist public interest and public support to hasten the comparatively short but very necessary and ultimately inevitable steps to complete the program and reduce the prisons of the state from four to two.
Secretary, 321 Highland Ave., Fitchburg, Mass.
