1894

The New York and Boston papers of February 16 carried word of the death of Archibald J. Matthews, who succumbed to coronary thrombosis at his home in Potsdam, N. Y„ the afternoon before. A sketch will appear in this, or an early, number of the MAGAZINE. Had he lived until May he would have been seventy-six. Flowers in behalf of the class were sent to the funeral by Herbert Wilson.

The date February 27 brought word from Winter Park, Fla., of the very serious illness of our class "Chaplain," Quincy Blakely. It also brought a letter from Mrs. Decker Field, which said that Decker was going to the hospital that day "for some surgical work which may or may not be serious." Later information about both these men will be waited with intense interest.

Jimmie Mann sends us a new address, as a result of his selling his twelve-room house, in Indianapolis. His address is "temporary" and is 3235 New Jersey Ave., Indianapolis. He al- lows that his daughter Betty was put down as a granddaughter in "Fifty Years After"which correction brings his count of daughters up to five and makes his grandchildren three: one boy, two girls. One of his Air Corps sons-in-law is in this country, the other in England.

How about a word from Detroit, Ben Welton? Can't you tell us what you and "Curt" have been doing lately? And you, John Bartlett, why not send in a despatch about the '94 doings in Washington? And while we are at it, let us skip across the continent to inveigle Major Tenney into regaling us in his inimitable fashion about what he and Jimmie Townsend, Irving Read, Punch Rollins and Ted Ruggles have been up to in recent months. Q. E. D.

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge (38), Mass.

Treasurer, 1801 23rd Ave., Vero Beach, Fla.