1890

July 20 the secretary received a letter from Mrs. Hilton that she and her son, Henry Hoyt Hilton Jr., were making a leisurely trip eastward via auto to the Hilton farm on the Andover road just out of Lowell. Leaving Chicago at the above date, they planned to make trips from the farm on the Andover road to friends in Me. and Mass. during August. Sept. 1 Mrs. Hilton wrote inviting me to visit her Sept. 5, relating that she had been a very sick woman. I found her down stairs for the first time after an attack of malignant, virus pneumonia, doubly dangerous at the age of 80 or thereabouts. The doctors advised that her children be notified. They all came except Katherine in Cal. whom Mrs. Hilton refused to have notified. To the surprise of doctors, nurses and her children she recovered. A strong constitution coupled with a will to live on turned the scales. She is now living in Hotel Windermere East, apartment 537, Chicago, near a married daughter and her family and her married son, who is a lawyer with one of the prominent legal firms in Chicago. Now a great-grandmother she plans to visit Katherine, her oldest daughter, the wife of John H. Bradley, the author of many books and formerly at the head of the geology department of Southern Cal. They now live in Escondido, Cal. near their only child.

John Canty retired from the engineer department of the B and M RR July 1, after a continuous and uninterrupted service from the day he left Dartmouth to that date. It must be a record of service in that department. He has given a college education to his three daughters and his son, an alumnus of Dartmouth and graduate of the Thayer School of civil engineering. Some months ago Mrs. Canty suffered a severe hip accident. In lieu of going to the hospital, the nurse came to the house, and with the aid of her daughters and John, Mrs. Canty is about as usual with the aid of a cane. In that family it is one for all and all for one, which is just another name for the Dartmouth Spirit.

The secretary of 'B9, Ralph S. Bartlett, and myself are also alumni of Boston University via the Law School of B. U. We have every reason to be proud of B. U. for it is the fastest-growing university in the U. S. A. What president Hopkins was to Dartmouth, president Marsh is to B. U., ably assisted by Guy Cox, Dartmouth, '93, chairman of the board of trustees of B. U„ from whom he has received the degree of LL.D.

Secretary and Treasurer, 3 Dartmouth Place, Boston, Mass.