1890

Walter Rowe and Lester Smith intended to enter Brown after graduating from the Winchester high school. Lewis Parkhurst, the principal of their high school and an alumnus of Dartmouth, intervened and they became members of the class of '90, Dartmouth. As a consequence, Rowe's brothers, Frank '91, who has been secretary of his class 59 years, Brainard '97 and Herbert '96, entered Dartmouth; and Howard Rowe, son of Brainard, '35, and last but by no means least Willard Rowe '51, grandson of Walter, also entered Dartmouth. I know of no member of '90 of whom so much can be recorded in that particular.

Mrs. Hilton wrote from Chicago, Apr. 13, enclosing her annual gift, in memory of her husband, as a small (?) contribution to the alumni fund. She spent two and a half months last winter in southern Calif, with her oldest daughter Katharine and her successful authorhusband and her daughter, son-in-law and first great-grandson. "Because of lameness and some minor ailments I shall probably not go east at all this summer. I feel that I could scarcely bear to visit Dartmouth again. My good wishes attend you all at your reunion. " She writes that she is fairly well but that it seems best to remain in Chicago, near her children, on the borders of a beautiful park, near the shores of Lake Michigan. In answer to my inquiry she writes that her companion maid, Lena Jones who has been with her 25 years, is with her. Mr. Hilton arranged that she should stay with her as long as Mrs. Hilton needed her.

Last fall at Mrs. Hilton's invitation I went to Lowell to see her just before she left for Chicago, after her severe illness. I suggested we chat for a bit and then I would depart, lest she might overtax her strength. "Mr. 8., we will have dinner. Miss Jones will assist me to the dining room and you prepare to join us," replied Mrs. Hilton. Next to the pleasure of talking with Mrs. Hilton, the memory of that dinner—it lasted about 2 hours—will remain with me forever and a day. Mrs. Hilton was not permitted to eat. Suffice it to relate almost everything on the table came from the farm. The talk with Mrs. Hilton last fall, the mementos of Henry Hilton she gave me, and the aroma of that meal prepared by Lena Jones will never fade from memory. If Mrs. Hilton and Miss Jones cannot come to Lowell, I can go to Chicago.

Secretary and Treasurer, 3 Dartmouth Place, Boston, Mass. Class Agent, 160 Main St., Madison, Me.