1902

Davis Keniston writes that "Cap" Pillsbury tells him that it was to his great regret that he missed the reunion last June and is looking forward "eagerly" to the next one. That's the spirit and, being a Brigadier General on his retirement, he ought to be able to fix it to be there. At our age, most of us, who had such a grand time last June, are looking forward hopefully. I love that word eagerly, Cap. His address is Washington, D. C., which he terms a "delightful city" and where he has at last landed an apartment at 2126 Connecticut Avenue.

Ben Riley guessed the picture of Gus Hartigan put in by Steve Stevens of 1901. All of us who hoboed to Europe in 1900 will remember how Gus, who was a guard at the Paris Exposition, got a fine pension for us, showed us the Moulin Rouge and the sights of Paris and especially the nice little French restaurant where we breakfasted. Ben says the Madame that operated the restaurant was dumbfounded that 25 lbs. of ice, bought each morning we were there, had disappeared by noon. I don't remember getting ice water anywhere else. Ben says he will be there in 1952. Great optimists in our class who can't be denied.

George Elderkin is not quite so forwardlooking. He says, "Lets have the 45th all over again." That might be a good idea.

Bert Briggs, we hear, is up and about at his home on Cape Cod, and we wish him an uninterrupted convalescence.

Ethel and Louis Dow paid us a delightful visit this fall in Portland, and invited us in return to Cambridge for the Harvard-Dartmouth game which was a thriller. W. C. Hill,Percy Dorr and AI Schilling were the only other 1902 men we saw.

Tom Barnes writes me from Coronado Beach that there is no beach since the hurricane, so I guess my visit there will be omitted this winter.

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