Letters pertaining to Hamilton Chase’s attending the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, NJ in 1919 - 1922
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| pages 4 and 5 of the Lawrenceville YMCA handbook 1919 |
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| page 82 and 83 of the Lawrenceville YMCA Handbook 1919 |
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| Notes on page 86 of the Lawrenceville YMCA Handbook |
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| notes on page 87 of the Lawrenceville YMCA Handbook 1919 |
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Letter to Mr. Hamilton Chase, Mount Princeton Hotel, Buena Vista, Colorado
From Annie T. Chase, Topeka, Kansas
August 14, 1919
My dear Boy,
Your letters sound as if you are having a good old time out in cool Colorado. You are a lucky boy to have been out of this heat, though the last few days have been better, it is still hot.
You will be surprised to hear you are not going to Staunton. Aunt Fan and Uncle Sam heard some stories they did not like about the treatment of the boys at Staunton, so telegraphed Dad they now entering you at Lawrenceville, New Jersey. You know the school which the Stubbs boys went. It is not fully settled as yet but more than likely that is where you will go -- that school opens Sept. 16th. Will write you more about it as soon as we know (....).
Father and I think it is very expensive and the supplies they ask you to bring, bedding, towels etc. is enough to bankrupt us.
Ethel says your “hope box” will be full. She went to a luncheon at the Morris’, a little party Cynthia Morse is going today. Last evening we had Miss Connell (Edith is in Chicago) over for a game -- Ethel is quite interested in bridge -- there is so little doing for her. It is so hot and everybody out of town. Dick sent her the grandest big box of Los Angeles candy yesterday which we are all enjoying. At last I have your watch repaired so will try to get the box off tomorrow. Your grey suit looks quite well since it has been (...)
(...) did not use the vest to mend it.
All join in (...) love to you, Aunty and Uncle Joe.
Mother
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Letter from Hamilton Chase, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
October 9, 1919
To Mrs. Harold T. Chase, 1257 Western Ave, Topeka, Kansas
Wednesday night, 8:15
Dear Family : --
I was very pleased to receive mother’s “newsy” letter this afternoon. Isn’t that just like my old man? Won’t let me go up in an airplane but as soon as I am away he takes a trip. Well, I’ll be darned !
Don’t let that Warren Parr slip through my fingers. You know that I can get up to N.Y. I have always wanted to see an Army-Navy game. Each boy can have at least one week-end per term in N.Y. and I believe that I could get off without any difficulty.
I am getting quite crazy about old Lawrenceville. The days aren’t so long, and I am having a good time. Am out for house foot-ball, and enjoying it a great deal, although we haven’t done much as yet. Am glad to hear that Frances is enjoying Colonial, but sorry about Mary R., she will like it better after a while, I guess.
Our room is not a matchless beauty, but is very comfortable and large. I am in Hamill and George J. is in Davis, one-half a mile from the school. Our house is one of the circle houses, and is very accessible to the recitation hall and chapel. My roommate is a fine fellow. Last year he won the high-school debating contest in Wisconsin. He was once tennis champion of Wis. and also won his letter for foot-ball on his high-school team. He does not brag about his accomplishments at all, and I have just dragged this information out of him. We get along well and everything is O.K. Am carrying 22 hours? Have six classes on Monday, that means work.
We won a big foot-ball game Saturday. It was played against Barringer H.S. of Newark, N.J. Their team out-weighed L. about ten lbs. to the man, but we won 7 - 0. It was a great game and a hard won victory.
Saturday night was the night of the Fifth form P-rade. The Fifth-form is given one night is which they can do as they please. They made the rounds of all the circle houses throwing Roman candles in all open windows and tearing things up quite generally. I would have enjoyed being in it, but as I am now in the fourth form I was watching from the side-lines.
Jack, Ned Fleming, “Jim” Perry and a fellow named Watkins from Emporia, drove up here in the Essex Sunday. Marsh, Warren and I went into Trenton with them, and also to Princeton. We had a fine time, and enjoyed their entertainment and visit greatly. Dad, you were foolish when you said Trenton was a town of 40,000. It is a real city of 120,000, and is quite a manufacturing center.
Jack asked me town to Philie some week-end, but I don’t know whether it can be done or not.
Well, I must look over some Greek, so will close now.
With love from “Hamp”
P.S. I wouldn’t mind hearing from Sis, just once in a while.
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Letter from Hamilton Chase, Hamill House, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
October 22, 1919, Wednesday
To Mr. Harold T. Chase, 1257 Western Ave, Topeka, Kansas
Dearest Family: --
I have been intending to write to you for quite a while, but have been very busy lately. The first of the week is the hardest for me. I have six classes on Mon, four on Tues. and four on Wed.
I am out for foot-ball every afternoon and have to study at night, so my time is well occupied. This school certainly has the right plan to keep fellows from becoming home-sick. Everyone is too busy to get home-sick, it’s just one big rush everyday except Wed and Sunday. We have Wednesday afternoon free (no foot-ball) and can do as we please. As I failed to pass my entrance exams in Algebra, and Geom., I am now taking them over. I am carrying French (3 hrs.), English (3 hrs.), Algebra (4 hrs), Geom. (5 hrs), Greek (5 hrs), Bible (1 hr.) and Elocution (1 hr). Bible and Elocution are required. The course is quite stiff, and the lessons are hard.
I have been playing foot-ball in a pair of khaki trousers and am afraid that I will soon have to get some foot-ball clothes, as I have had some pretty hard cracks. A fellow needs some protection in a scrimmage. I had a physical exam the other day and the Dr. advised me to see an oculist. I have an appointment with an oculist in Trenton for next Sat., and expect that I shall have to get some reading specs. I now have $ 23.50 in the bursars, and do not see how it can last until Christmas. There is absolutely nothing in what the catalogue says about $ 50.00 lasting a year. It is an impossibility and every fellow has at least $ 100.00 deposited when he comes to school. I do not want to seem unreasonable, and am trying hard to make my money to as far as possible. The school is going to the Hill - L. foot-ball games on Nov.1.
This is the biggest game of the season and I would like to go very much, as I have gotten the Lawrenceville spirit and want to be there to root for the team. It will cost $ 8.00, and your permission is required. There is no chance of getting to N.Y. on Thanks., as no permits are given for either students or masters. I surely would like to see that Army- Navy game but think my chances are slim.
George Jone’s family were here Fri & Sat., and they had me over to the Lodge for dinner Sat. evening. It was very kind of them, and I enjoyed it a great deal. We lost our foot-ball game last Sat. to Peddie by 15 - 0 score. It was a hard blow, but they have a great team and are doped for the winners of the Atlantic Coast Championship.
Marshall Warren has had a great deal of trouble with his ear, and they thought that he would have to have an operation, but he is now back in school and is taking treatment from a Trenton Dr. His mother has been here with him for a week and I met her the other day. She seemed very nice, and said that she new mother, which sounded very good to me. Have been hearing from Aunt Fan & Uncle Sam quite regularly, and also from Mariana. I guess that I told you of seeing the Bonnell family in W - B. and of our pleasant visit. Uncle H. spoke of having me over to Philie, but I haven’t heard from his as yet.
I hope that you weren’t bothered by what the fellows said about my trousers cuffs being down. All “Rhinies” are required to turn down the cuffs of their pants until Christmas. It is an established rule and cannot be evaded.
Well, I must close for this time. I have certainly enjoyed all your letters, and especially the one which I received from Sis the other day.
With love from
Hamilton Chase
P.S. Hope that you will soon send that permission for the Hill - L. game.
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Letter from Hamilton Chase, staying at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City. Letter mailed from Grand Central Station, NY, NY (while attending the Lawrenceville School in N.J.)
November 15, 1919, Wednesday
To Mr. Harold T. Chase, 1257 Western Ave, Topeka, Kansas
My Dear Family,
Much obliged for the permission. I am very sorry that I had to bother you with both of those telegrams. The Trenton office of the Western Union made a blunder and I didn’t get your first telegram until yesterday afternoon. I was afraid that you hadn’t received my first wire so sent another one. It was very kind of you to let me come up here, and I am having the time of my life. I didn’t miss a class, and don’t think my school work will be harmed a bit by the trip. It certainly seems wonderful to get away from school for a short time. It’s great to have a little freedom.
We are now waiting for dinner, and believe me I am hungry. We just had a snack for lunch, as we were late getting away from school, and missed our train out of Trenton.
Doug Harding and I are the guests of Tom Craven’s aunt who lives in Rye. Craven is a mighty fine fellow. He was in West Point for two months this summer, but found that the work was a little too advanced for him, so he is at Lawrenceville getting some more preparation. We are going to see “fifty - fifty” this evening. I hear that it is very good and hope that it may be. After the theater we are going out to Rye and will spend tomorrow there. Expect to leave for school at five, tomorrow afternoon.
I want to thank you again, dear family, for letting me accept this invitation, and I am certainly enjoying it a lot.
It is time for dinner now, so I expect that I had better close. I surely have been enjoying your good letters, and it is mighty fine of Dad to write so often. Hope he will keep up the good work.
Lovingly, Hamp
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Letter from Hamilton Chase, Hamill House, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
January 25, 1920, Sunday
To Mrs. Harold T. Chase, 1257 Western Ave, Topeka, Kansas
My Dear Family,
I was very glad to receive a letter from Mother the other day and one from Dad yesterday. The enclosed dollar was greatly appreciated. No Dad, I can’t say that I am in love with Lawrenceville, but I guess it is good for me to be here.
Last night we had the Inter-House boxing match over at the gymn. I represented our house in the 125- 135 lbs. class. I lost my match through ignorance of the art of boxing and the fact that I hit my opponent after the bell rang. I saved my strength for the last of the three minute and a half rounds. I was just going after him for all I was worth and didn’t hear the bell ring at all. I hit him a couple of times and thought, when he walked to his corner, that he was done out, totally ignorant that the bell had rung. It was a lot of fun, though I was scared stiff at the start. The whole school sat upstairs in the balcony, and all the masters and a bunch of alumnae from Princeton had ringside seats. “Red” Hammond, across the hall, was knocked out in the second round of his bout.
I passed everything on the bi-weekly report.
Write often -- Love, Hamp
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Letter from Harold T. Chase to Samuel Chase and Frances Brooks Chase (his siblings) talking about Hamilton Chase attending Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, NJ. He was in Hamill House.
March 16, 1920
From the Dewey Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sam and Fan,
My time has been pretty full since Saturday night. I had a lovely day with Hampy. Never saw him looking so well. He crowed over me - “I weigh 133 stripped.” Mr. Abbott is an attractive fellow, a dead ringer for Tom Darling. Still, like most attractive people (I begin to think) a talker. He told me all about himself. A man, tho, can be very egoistic and very modest. It is often a mere vent. He said Hamilton is “one of his good boys” and “helped me clean us Hamill.” “I guess you cleaned it up,” Hamp said, and Abbott put it that “we did.” The house master is called a sissy by the boys (and is). I had a long confab. with him. He had nothing against Hamp, but when I told him the boy was a little downhearted because he is clumsy in athletics (“It would break my heart if I shouldn’t make one of the societies, Dad” he told me: tho there are only two and I took it as rather a good report, unconsciously, that he should think he might or ought to make one of them, not being good in any of the sports) Mr. Henry remarked, “Well, you know, he is diffident.” It is too bad that a boy gifted with charm should want confidence. I looked ‘em all over and there are all sorts, with every shape of head. We called on Geo Jones and I told Hamp to invite anybody to dinner but he didn’t and we were by ourselves, which suited me all right. But I find -- not quite like the fellow and dogs -- that the more I see of men the better I like boys. They are very attractive, so unspoiledly human. I think they get better with new generations.
Senator Capper is very nice to me and I am well fixed here. Just got in (11:30 pm) from the theatre with him and Florence. They go regularly to Keiths. It was very good. This morning I loafed around the Senate and talked with the press gang and listened a little to a dull debate on Egypt and heard Jim Reed till I grew tired. At 1:30, Arthur had asked Senator MeDill McCormick and we had lunch in the Senate restaurant. He is a very agreeable man but fearfully against every scratch of the pen of the peace treaty. These “mild” reservationists he told me will in 10 years have the historic place of the “doughfaces” of 1820 and 1850 (slavery). In 10 years, I told him, this fuss of the Senate will be forgotten and in a year from now the treaty will be ratified. He waved his hands in holy horror but said Bully when I told him my sister was as unreconciled as himself. But there can be no peace for us with Germany except ratification which is the dictated peace. We can’t dictate a peace with Germany now by negotiation -- even if there were a stable government there to negotiate with. I was talking to a Virginia Congressman and Ex-Judge, a Democrat, of course. But he could make no excuses for Wilson’s obstinate course on the treaty. Nobody can. The Democrats are disheartened and some of them I believe do not even want to win, say nothing of expecting or hoping to. --- I saw Henry in Philadelphia and George Woodward lunched with us. I was pretty disappointed in him. He is faddy, in all his manner and talk, choppy, -- you are distracted from what he says by the staccato, almost weird, way he says it, and leaps from one thing to another. Henry remarked, afterward, that he has grown “a little eccentric”.
Anyhow, he is not amusing or very human. I saw House and sat in at an editorial conference and put him “next” to “Diamond Dust”. -- Had a fine day with you and am only sorry it was so short.
With love, Harold.
PS. I read the school paper’s account of Hamp’s boxing bout. He had the files and I asked him to get me that one. It gave a better account than he had done and said it was a bang-up go from start to finish and in doubt to the last second. -- Harold
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Letter from Hamilton Chase, Hamill House, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
May 2, 1920
To Mr. Harold T. Chase, 1257 Western Ave, Topeka, Kansas
Dearest Family: --
Tis a wonderful night. Have you noticed the eclipse of the moon, We’ve all been looking at it out of one of the fellow’s window. It shows all red. We’ve had a lot of fun this week-end.
Paul Klotz, a Pennsylvania dutchman from Allentown, had his Cad down. We went riding all over the country. It surely seemed great to ride in a car once more. We went over the the Four Seasons school this morning after chapel. It’s a girls school down near Princeton. It surely is a wonderful school; there are only about twelve girls there. They winter in Florida, spend the Spring and Fall down here, and go to Europe in the summer. Was great also to see some of the opposite sex. Well, Sis, has leap-year helped you any yet? Want to keep your eyes open old dear !
Justin Smith, who rooms next to me, had his brother down to-day. He is Psi U. at Cornell, Sis, name is Walker Smith. He holds the world’s record in the 70 yd. hurdles and was beaten a yard’s length in the 120 yd. hurdles at the Penn Relays yesterday, by Thompson of Dartmouth. He is going to represent the U.S. at the olympics, Thompson is going as Canada’s representative. He ran some hurdles down on our running track this afternoon. Certainly could hop over them. Says he knows Ronald Finney up at Cornell.
Well, dearest Family, I have decided to go to Dartmouth. Sent a letter Friday night asking for a room. Johnny Adams and I are going to room together.
I certainly am crazy to go to Dartmouth. While I’d like to come back here next year and all that, I think I would never forgive myself if I didn’t go to college next year. It surely has been mighty fine of Aunt Fan & Uncle Sam to send me here this year. I really think that it has done me a lot of good, and I have enjoyed it a lot. I hope Uncle Sam won’t be disappointed, it was simply great of him to offer me another year here. It is a great school, the best in the country I think, but I’ve just got to get into college.
I’m enclosing a couple of clippings from Willie Howard’s (my French teacher) article about the prom. He was there and never missed a dance. Some snake old Willie.
Well, must close.
Much love
From Hamp
P.S. The Prom broke me flatter than a pancake. My account at the Bursar’s reads $ 0.25 --
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| Lawrenceville School Second Ball 1920 |
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| Lawrenceville School Second Ball 1920 |
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Letter from Hamilton Chase, Hamill House, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
May 30, 1920
To Mr. Harold T. Chase, 1257 Western Ave, Topeka, Kansas
(written on stationery from the Biltmore Hotel, NYC)
Dearest Family: --
Don’t get all shocked by this stationery. It is some that Marsh Warren left here. Whenever anyone gets kicked out of school we all rush into his room and grab anything that is left behind. So, I got a pipe and some paper. None of my friends in the house are fire eaters, but they are all good boys. Bill Swan is a southerner, rather lazy, but very good in his studies and a real friend. Bill Jilett is a darned good tennis player, not very peppy, but also a good friend. Jim Scully is a fine athlete. He was guard on the football team, and throws the hammer on the track team. He is in all house athletics too. He is president of Hamill, comes from a very wealthy family, and is a very popular chap. Ted Betts, from Phila., is a smart, peppy fellow. He is in for everything, and while he doesn’t do very well in athletics, gets a lot of fun out of it. Of course I know a lot of others and see a good deal of some of them but these fellows are probably my most intimate friends. Eddie Walsh in Davis House is a good friend. He comes from Honolulu, but is an American. He is a very bright fellow and exceedingly likable.
The way things look now I ought to get away from here June 20th. Just three weeks from to-day. Hamill House is going strong in the House baseball series. Played two games and beat Griswold 23 - 0 and Davis 6 - 3. Hope we win the Championship.
Well write often. -----
Much love, Hampie
P.S. Thanks for the check
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Letter from Hamilton Chase, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
November 1, 1920
To Mr. Harold T. Chase, 1257 Western Ave, Topeka, Kansas
Dearest Family: --
I am taking a few minutes this morning to drop you a line. Monday is my easy day and I always look forward to it with a great deal of pleasure. Was glad to receive Dad’s good letter this morning, but am sorry that he hasn’t been feeling so well. I hope it wasn’t like Pa, in the “Real Diary of a Real Boy”, who had such a bad headache on the night of his speech.
You weren’t expected to remember Kafer House. It is just one hall above the jigger shop where the overflow from Upper House and few others are parked. We have a pretty good bunch tho’, and our house-master, Mr. McCollum, is all right. We get along fine with him and he treats us more like his friends. Mr. Henry always treats the fellows as tho’ they were just a little inferior to him.
I’m sorry old man but Caesar is a necessity. I’ve tried to pass it twice on the College Boards and have flunked it with very low grades both times. I find it pretty soft but the school requires me to take it, so I do.
We all went up to New York Saturday for the Hill - Lawrenceville game. Had a special train both ways. You would have laughed to have seen the whole school riding up Broadway in rubber-neck busses, about ten of them and every one making a great racket. The game was played on the N.Y.U. field. It was a real fight all the way thru and ended 0 - 0. We are all going to the Princeton - Yale game one week from Saturday. It ought to be pretty good. Princeton has been showing up well this season. I was glad to hear about Sis’ fiance’. It is very kind of him to have an interest in me.
Well, write often -- Much love -- Hamp
P.S. Georges Carpentier was a spectator at the H. - L. game.
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| Note Hamilton Chase as a Bass in the Lawrenceville Glee Club 1921 |
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Letter to Hamilton Chase
Kafer House, Lawrenceville, NJ
From HT Chase, Topeka, KS
January 21, 1921
Dear Son: --
We had a fine long letter from you, in which you mention that you are out of funds. I enclose a $5 bill to carry you along, but you better let me know about what your necessary running expenses are so I can have some sort of notion what you need. I am more anxious about your grades, from your letter. I do not understand why you should not get good marks, if you get your mind on it, as you report you are doing. Probably what you need to do is to concentrate better -- that is, try to feel interested in what you are doing, reading or studying or working on, get the meaning of it and make yourself feel an interest in what it is about. If you can do that your brain will respond and you will get good results. If you are well and your eyes are not troubling you I am thankful.
Ethel is still at Winnetka. I suppose she went over there after leaving LaGrange and Oak Park. She asked Katherine to come home with her and she may do so, tho Sister says Katherine is to be married in May and is busy. Uncle Ayres and Aunt Mary left home for Honolulu yesterday. We are hoping to have Sister home in a week or so at the latest.
I have been hearing sad news about Mr. Stubbs’ affairs, but mainly rumors, tho they are getting more frequent, widespread and definite. It is too bad, if the reports are true, after all he had been thru. I imagine his greatest regret is that his boys have not been a help since they started in to work. He used to talk a great deal to me about them and was immensely proud of them. I think he expected rather uncommon things of them, and they have not come up to the mark -- not yet, at least. I am telling you of this because of your interest in the family, not to be repeated.
Last night we had dinner and spent the evening at the Nichols’, it being Mr. Nichols’ birthday, just the family and Miss Murphy. She is disgusted with high school and says the boys run it. We sat in a circle and talked and had a pleasant evening.
If your work does not seem to go satisfactorily have a good talk about it with your housemaster. Maybe he can get you going right. I was to see you get thru, since you have undertaken it. Above all, don’t get downhearted. Keep a stiff upper lip, keep up your spirits, get into the whole game, so far as you can, and in a word, make as good a go of it as you are able. There is a time for fun and a time for work, and neither should be slighted.
I think mother is feeling much better. She has had a pretty good rest, but a bad cold has hung on, keeping her in the house a good deal. I never see any of your boys, so I don’t know any news of them. But Edith and Ruth say it is deadly dull and nothing going on since the holidays. Let us hear from you and how everything is going.
With much love, Dad
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Letter from Hamilton Chase, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
March 7, 1921
To Mr. Harold T. Chase, 1257 Western Ave, Topeka, Kansas
Dearest Family: --
This is a real Spring day. Yesterday when we were out for a walk we saw several robbins and a blue-bird -- so I guess old Spring will soon be with us again.
Our trip to Baldwin was a great success. We left here at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Arrived in Philly about 4:30 -- went up to the Belvue - Stratford where we dressed in our tucks and had dinner about 5:30. It surely was great to eat a real meal again and to have it served on real china. After dinner we went out to Bryn Mawr. Our concert began at 7:45 and lasted until 9:00. All the clubs were along; the Orchestra, Banjola, Mandolin and Glee Club, in all about seventy fellows. After the concert there was a short reception, during which we were supposed to meet the girls, and after that we danced until 10:30. When we sang our “Farewell Song” and all beat it. I danced with Lonnie Miner and several other W - B girls. We had a special car all the way thru and surely did have fun en route. On the way home all the fellows played their instruments and sang. We got home at 2:00 am all ready for bed.
I passed Greek on the Bi-Weekly report but flunked Cicero text (3 ½ hours) with a 56.
Mr. Jones was down yesterday and had me over to the Lodge for dinner. He had just been to the yearly banquet his class at Yale gives in New York. Said Mike Crawford was there and gave a good speech.
Write often -- Much love, Hamp
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| Note Hamilton Chase as a Bass in the Glee Club 1919 |
Letter from Hamilton Chase in New York City (while attending the Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ)
May 1, 1921, Sunday afternoon
To Mr. Harold T. Chase, 1257 Western Ave, Topeka, Kansas
Dear Family: --
Well, we just finished lunch with Bab and a friend of her’s, Ernest Campbell from Atlanta, who is at Bab’s school. I never have had a better time in my life since we arrived here Friday afternoon. Yesterday Phil gave us a treat to see John and Ethel Barrymore in Claire de Lune. I have never seen better acting, but the play, a tradgedy, wasn’t so good. Last night I took Phil to see Grant Mitchell in The Champion. It was one of the best comedies I have ever seen. The story of a young man who schocks his English family to death by running off to America and becoming the lightweight champion of the world. The leading woman was Ann Andrews, a beautiful girl and a fine actress.
It has been raining almost continuously since we have been here, so we have not had much chance to look in on places of interest. However, yesterday we looked around the Library on Fifth Avenue. Today, we took a bus ride out to Washington Square during an intermission between downpours. I am surely crazy about New York. Surely plenty to do allright.
Do write often.
Thanks so much for the treat.
With Much Love, Hamilton
P.S. Just swiped all this stationary !
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Letter from Hamilton Chase, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
Sunday, May 8, 1921
To Mrs. Harold T. Chase, 1257 Western Ave, Topeka, Kansas
Dearest Mother: --
As you probably notice Dad and his toothpicks have nothing on me and my stationary.
I have been thinking about you on this Mother’s Sunday and wishing that I might be home to spend it with you. I picked a little wild flower down in the woods and wore it in my button-hole. I hope that you have had the perfect spring day that we have had after a rainy week these last two days have been perfect.
Last night Mr. McCollum had a bridge party. He had his sister, who has been here for the last week recuperating from a severe illness, Miss Anderson, who runs the Lawrence Lodge, and Miss Colwell, the librarian. All the fellows played except one or two and we had a lot of fun. I got the men’s prize, a box of candy, and Miss Colwell the women’s. Mrs. Walsh, Mr. McCollum’s sister, told all our fortunes with the cards afterwards. That was a lot of fun too. She is certainly a peach.
Yesterday was quite a big day. The inter-scholastic track meet was held here --- We won. We beat Lome School is baseball 6 - 3, and also in tennis. We have a mighty good baseball team this year. The Princeton Varsity only beat us 10 - 6. We beat Blair Academy last Saturday 14 - 0. George Jones plays third-base and does it well. He is one of the best hitters on the team. Got a home-run off Princeton.
I was very sorry to hear about the death of Mary’s baby. They must be all broken up.
Won’t Legler make a hot best-man ! Do write me often all of you.
With Lots of Love, Hamilton
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