1904*

"Dear Dave:

"I sure would like to spend a day or two talking over old times. They are old, for we will have, not far distant, a fortieth reunion. That would be the same to the freshman of today as the class of 1860 would have been to us as freshmen. My father was 1869, and I thought when I entered college, that he was a very old man. But even so I seem to remember the things that happened thirty years ago better than I do the happenings of a year ago. I am very well, and so far I don't see that age has slowed me up much. I can ride a horse as far as I ever could, and I don't get tired any faster, but then of course, I have never had an office or had any indoor work. I still have cattle, but not as many, nor do I care as much about making money. I am also mining on the Argus Range, overlooking Death Valley. We are working 16 men and milling and mining fifty tons of ore a day, shipping our bullion to the San Francisco mint. My boys are doing very well. The one you met on our 20th reunion was a flyer for a number of years, and is now production supervisor for the Consolidated Aircraft Corp. The younger boy graduated from Deerfield Academy, then from Stanford University as a petroleum engineer, and is now in charge of the pipe line department at Taft, California, for the Standard Oil Co. of Calif. They are both fine boys. The older one is married; I have no grandchildren.

"I see Bill Sabin a lot, and last year I drove up and called on Jack Belnap. I get all the news from Tom Streeter. He writes me often. Anyone is lucky indeed to have one friend like Tom.

"I have had a grand life! I have loved every day and every year. I have done just what I wanted to do always. A man is very lucky to make a living doing something he loves to do. I have many friends among all classes, and have a great respect for anyone who has a religion of any kind. The only thing I have missed is seeing more of my old classmates. I think about you fellows a lot, and I hope you will keep well until I can get East again.

"HARRY B. MORSE."

Hurry and come east, Harry, we'll all live longer and enjoy life more after a visit from you!

The L. W. Webster Corporation at Randolph, Vt., which is our Leon Webster engaged in the manufacture of wood finish, suffered the entire loss of their big mill by fire on June 20th. Web has had a hard summer, but just told me over the telephone that he has the mill entirely rebuilt, but because of general conditions in the steel industry they haven't been able to reequip it with the machinery needed, so in a busy summer he has been obliged to suffer from a lack of opportunity for capacity production. He expects the necessary machines will be available in a week or two; says he is tired from an unusually hard summer, but otherwise everything is all right and his courage is good.

New addresses are: Ralph M. Barton, Hopkinton Road, Concord, N. H. Bridge Division N. H. State Highway Dept. Walter H. Russell, 271 Wolseley Street, Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada.

The Chicago Tribune of Saturday, October 4th, has under the headline, HEAD STATE CHAMBER, "Louis E. Leverone, Chicago; vice president of the Stein-Hall Manufacturing Company, yesterday was elected president of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce by the board of directors. He succeeds Roy C. Ingersoll, Chicago, who became chairman of the board."

Secretary, Canaan Street Lodge, Canaan Street Canaan, N. H. Treasurer, Morris town, N. J. "Silver Valley Ranch, "Daggett, Cal., July 24.