1890

"There seems to be a great deal of misinformation about Norton. As I remember, he graduated from the Yale Law School, and was to begin the practice of his profession on his return from Florida, where he went yearly with his friend, a very prominent banker and the owner of the yacht on which Norton was found murdered. This friend was a resident of New Haven, with offices in New York City. My father saw Norton, from time to time, when he was in New Haven, and, on one of these visits, met the friend of Norton. After Norton's tragic death father saw the man in New York City and talked with him about it. He was so affected by the memory of it all that he cried like a baby. "Norton," he said, "was my intimate, one of the family, and I was taking him into the firm. Like myself, Norton was fond of hunting and fishing. He had been making these trips with me to Florida for some years. This last trip, I was called to New York by wire, and told Norton, whom I had left in charge of the yacht, to wire me c/o a Jacksonville hotel, where to meet him, on my return. There was no wire from him at the hotel and so I went on to the place where I had left him with the boat. It was there in the Indian River. I procured a boat and was rowed out to my yacht. We found Norton murdered, his watch and money missing. I offered $5000 for the arrest and conviction of any one of the Seminole Indians who made up the crew of the yacht, none of whom was ever found."

"While we were roommates, Norton was twice visited by a scout from the Boston National League team, and offered the position of utility infield player. The scout told Norton, if he would come to Boston and sign up, he would make good and be the sensation of the big league. Norton's mother did not want him to play professional ball and he said "no." He was the greatest athlete I have ever known. He played three years on the Yale 'varsity baseball and football teams. Yale was tops those days. He was not only a great athlete, he was a student too. All the. time I knew him he was scratching gravel to keep in college. There is a great deal more to be said about Norton. I intend to look up this banker and friend of Norton, and compare notes with him.

Servidor de Vd....

Had a pleasant chat recently with Stavers. He and his wife own a substantial brick house in a block on St. Botolph St., which is in one of the better residential sections of Boston. George has practically retired from the hotel business, although he keeps his hand in, as it were, because he rents a few spare rooms. Hopes tend our reunion in June. Says he hasn't been in Hanover to stay since the gay nineties Hilton was a Special guest at the Chicago meeting of the Alumni Fund Committee March 29. Hardy represented the Fifty Year class at the Boston meeting April 1 Mrs. Mills spent the winter in Vermont—the first in four years. She writes that she is fairly well The plans for our Golden Anniversary are all made. Here's hoping for a record attendance!

Reynolds writes from Australia: "The undersigned begs leave to report a very enjoyable expedition to the Antipodes and points between. It is a great country, this Australia, even if it was started only 150 years ago by criminals sent out from England because her jails were getting overcrowded. It is a close race just now as to whether the sheep or labor is king. But who are we to throw the first stone on that account? But the beauteous maidens of the Fiji and other South Sea isles come very far from living up to their pictures in tourist travel literature. Or, perhaps, the approach to a 50th college anniversary makes a difference in the outlook. Nothing but sunshine and flowers down here, instead of the snowstorms I read about as diverting the Eastern part of the U. S. A. But the tropical plants and scenery are fully as advertised, and the waters of the Pacific are most of the time as smooth as the surface of Arlington's famous pond. I was finger printed by the police before landing in Australia and so was wife which brought a realization that war was going on." Gerould had an article in a Parisian scientific journal recently

George Young died April 10th.

Secretary, 34 Gray St., Arlington, Mass. A. H. Bacon recently wrote me as follows from South America: