1887

During the summer death has taken two members of the Class of '87, D. Waldo White and Winifred S. Ross.

White was an electrical engineer, and before his permanent association with the New Hampshire Public Service Commission was the manager of an electric street railway, the second one in the country. He was a member of the Commission for 18 years and during the last ten years was Chief Engineer. Toward the end of his service, it was suggested that he come to the office only when he felt like it. But he came often to consider many of the perplexing problems.

He possessed the tact to handle such problems as were controversial, and between two opposed factions was generally able to reach a solution satisfactory to all.

Ross was one of the scholars of the class, and his life for the most part was devoted to teaching.

Immediately following his graduation he was for two years enrolled at the Andover Theological Seminary, and then studied classical philology at Harvard, winning the degree of Master of Arts.

His last years were spent at Norwell, Mass., where he established a small publishing business, "The Ross Bookmakers." He built up a good business revising manuscripts for authors and publishing their books.

Mrs. Ross writes, "I spent a terrible winter watching Winifred lose his mind, getting worse every day until I could no longer take care of him or manage him. He was just a little child.

"He was in the hospital nine weeks. His trouble seemed to be entirely mental. I do not think he suffered."

In August with the temperature soaring to ioo°, Herbert Gage had a desire to hook up with some of his old railroad engineers—he was nearly fifty years in railroad engineering.

He joined a group of old-time associates to take in the Chicago Railroad Fair. It was celebrating 100 years of progress. "On display were famous old-time locomotives and cars dating back to 1829; and especially interesting was the modern equipment, monster locomotives—both steam and diesel, the latest design of cars, coaches, dining, sleeping, mail express, freight, etc." (Thus Gage and Bell go out and expand their education even after being over eighty years old.)

After Chicago and the Fair, Gage "journeyed to the North Woods of Wisconsin"—notto see wild animals but "to spend a weekwith Florida friends." Incidentally, he calledon the widow of Ed Frost '86, our notedastronomer and Director of Yerkes Observatory.

Then just for good measure on his wayhome he stopped off a few days at Lorain,Ohio with more Florida friends.

That "boy" is younger than some of us.

Secretary, ; Bath, N.H.

Class Notes Editor, 37 Arlington St., Cambridge 40, Mass.