1897

Bill Ham, who has been busy for years on spinning, weaving and dyeing home-spun cloth, writes:

"The old gymnasium is now the Dartmouth College Workshop. In the basement they are making excellent pottery. On the third floorthey are making woodwork of a very creditable kind, including the complete building of looms for the weaving work. Conant Hall, where I used to live, is the cloth-making building. In my room that I occupied as a freshman they have storage of several hundred pieces of yarn spun with my machine, and Cappy Holt's room is filled with looms and cloth-making equipment."

A group of influential people in New York furnishes or approves designs for the cloth, financing the education of the trainees and the marketing of the products.

Bill's hope is that, among other things, the program may be of especial value to disabled veterans and to the blind, spinning being largely a matter of touch. My wife is crazy about Bill's output.

Bill has devoted infinite attention to extracting dyes from Icelandic moss, butternut trees in his yard and other plant growth, and is entitled to the credit for solving the equation, "Why is a mouse when it spins?"

Bill further writes that Bolser has made a great success in his life work and is much beloved at the College.

Brainard Rowe, desirous of living in a town with five O's in its name instead of three, has removed from Norwood to Contoocook where he has bought an old school-house which was made over irato an artist's studio. It is provided with a dais for models, and Brainard says that he will be delighted to see his classmates there, and that he will let them stand on the dais.

Here's good luck* to Hoppy and Dickey!

Secretary and Treasurer, 53 State St., Boston, Mass.