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OBITUARIES
THEODORE LEETE DIES
AFTER AN ENERGETIC LIFE
He Was a Leading Citizen of
Longmeadow and of Western
Massachusetts
Theodore W. Leete, business mar,
real estate operator and public-spir
ited citizen of Western Massachu
setts, died Thursday morning at his
home in Longmeadow. A life full of
energy, given partially in the service
Of his fellows, reached Its first real
slackening of pace Saturday, when
Mr Leete returned from a business
trip, and it came to a halt when a
stomach malady caused his death.
He was first in everything in Long
meadow, active in business in Spring
field as a working member' and pres
ident of the old board of trade, treas
ttrer and general manager of the Tab
sr Prang art company ana president
and treasurer cf the International
screw company of Springfield, prom
inent in the Hampden county .m
---, prcvement league, one of the county’s
two food administrators and a man
who established himself in the s
teem of many a small town west of
here by his untiring efforts a few
years ago with the HU! towns transit
association, which finally got the Lee-
Hrntington trolly line built. He
worked tremendously at everything
he undertook and the fact that his
boundless energy would never allow
him to take a vacation may nave
helped to produce the condition which
led to his death.
Born In a Parsonage
Mr Leete. the son of Kev Theodor.
A Leete. was born November 4, 1856.
in the brick parsonage at Windsor,
CL He was married October 17. 18SS.
to Annie Bradford Coomes of Long
meadow. whose birthday was the same
as his. He lived in Blandford, Long
meadow and Thorndike and received
bls education in the schools of Mon
son and at Eastman’s business col
lege at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Before
•ntering his business career he spent
several years on a farm in lowa and
his first business experience was in
an insurance office in Chicago. 111.
Mr Leete came to Springfield In
1883, living in Longmeadow, where
his father and mother had just es
tablished themselves in the G. O.
Bliss homestead close to the house in
Which his mother, Mary Cooley White
Was born. His Springfield career
opened In the Newell button factory.
Later he conducted the button busi
ness of the Leete-Pudan company and
had for 10 years the leasing of the
Dwight building, now the Worthing
ton building.
j While on the board of trade com
mittee to bring new enterprises to
Springfield he induced the unite.l
business firm of L. Prang & Co of
Boston and the New Bedford paper
company to settle in Springfield and
on the failure of the united company.
Mfr Leete was made receiver on June
21. 1800. His successful handling of
this concern put it in two years on
a paying basis; he was then made
• treasurer and general manager of me
Company and continued in this office
until the'time of his death.
Took Winning Automobile to 1895
Race
In 1895 Mr Leete was treasurer of
the Duryea motor car company and
accompanied to Chicago the carriage
that won a famous race—one of the
•arliest of automobile races—and
gave a great boom to the Springfield
industry. For three consecutive
years. IS9B to 1900. Mr Leete was
president of the board of trade, a
longer period of service than that
With which the board up to that time
had honored any man and a period
which only one president since has
exceeded.
As time went on Mr Leete became
more and mote interested in city and ;
euburban improvements; his real es
tate venture in South Park terrace has
added a very attractive group of homes
to the north part of the town. His bus
iness sagacity and leadership did much
to furnish Longmeadow with its wa
ter and lighting system and also its
trolly line. Since 1915 the Interna
tional screw company has made many
Improvements and under Mr Leete's
management has been giving promise
of a decided success. For about seven
years. Mr Leete had been treasurer
of the Smith-Worthington com
pany of Hartford, Ct., a concern that
has boomed during the war.
At the time of Everett H. Barney's
death he was appointed one of the
three trustees of the Barney estate.
At one time director of the Second na
tional bank, he was at the time of his
death a trustee of the Hampden bank.
He was the trustee of several estates.
Including that of Emerett and Oliver
Colton.
Helped Develop Hill Towns
Chairman of the transportation and
good roads committee of the board of
trade and a leader in the Hill towns
.transit association, he had promot"d
the extension of the trollies to the
Western part of Massachusetts, helping
to secure notably the Lee-Huntington |
line. Chairman of the executive com-
Jnittee of the Hampden county im
provement league and giving his
Strength freely in many kinds of spe
cial service, he accepted the appoint
ment with H. A. Moses as food ad
ministrator for Hampden county dur
ing the war.
He was positive, persistent and bus
iness-like. but at the same time he
was a lover of men and made friends
•asily.
In Longmeadow he was a member
of the Storrs library association, pres
; ident of the Longmeadow-street im
• provement association, custodian for
the Longmeadow historical society and
. prominent in all affairs of the church
and the town. He was a leader of the
Longmeadow faction in the long bat
tle In the state Legislature for separa
tion from East Longmeadow, which
was won in 1895. Since then his at
tackment to Longmeadow had been
deep and true. When the old sol
diers have rallied every Memorial day
they have seen at the head of each
comrade's grave a geranium put there
by Mr Leete’s loyal hand. It is hard I
to realize that a man so full of
energy and resourcefulness has so
I culckly ceased to labor among his
fellow men.
Mr Leete is survived by his widow,
and two sons. Theodore Coomcs Leete,
a sergeant training at Orono. Me.,
•nd Bradford White Leete of Long
meadow. and four grandchildren. Uis
only brother is Rev William W. Leete
of Boston, field secretary of the Con
gregational church building society,
•nd his only sister is Mrs Edward
forest Chapman of New York.
Lieut Porter of Springfield
Lieut Horace Harold Porter, well
known to thousands of men anji wom
en In this city died of pneumonia in
France on October 15. according t>
a letter received by his aunt. Miss
den. a resident of Baltimoie. Md.
letter s&me trom friends whoa
Lieut Porter had made during his
stay in Paris. No official confirmation
has been received by any of his rel
atives.
Lieut Porter was a technical school
graduate and for several years a Poli
stock company player. He was clever
as an actor, and is said to have
charmed audiences in almost every
large city of the United States. About
two years ago he decided to give up
the stage, and found employment on
the sales promotion force of Gilbert
& Barker, making his home in this
city. He had a host of friends here,
and all who have known him are
unanimous in their praise of his good
qualities and character. He was also
a story-teller of some repute and
spoke on several occasions at the
Young Men’s Christian association.
In August. 1917, he decided to enter
the service of the United States and
was offered a chptaincy in the ord
nance department, but preferred to go
into a branch of service where he
could see action on the battlefield. He,
therefore, applied for admission to the
officers’ training camp at Fort Myers,
Va„ and was commissioned lieutenant
on December 15, From there he was
transferred to the aviation section, and
was first sent to Kelly field, and then
to Camp Leon Spriggs. Tex. He was
sent to France the following January,
and was assigned to the 2d aviation
section.
REV DR JOHN S. LYON DIES
Former Local Pastor Succumbs at
Clarksburg, W. Va., After a
Brief Illness—Funeral to Be fn
Holyoke
Word was received fn Holyoke Mon
day of the sudden death at Clarks
burg. W. Va.. at midnight Sunday of
Rev Dr John S. Lyon, who for 14
years was pastor of the Second Bap
tist church in Holyoke. He left the
Holyoke pastorate to take up the
work as managing director tor the
chamber of commerce and later ac
cepted a position as educational sec
retary for the Northern Baptist con
vention and was traveling in the in
terests of that work. He wrote about
a week ago that he was suffering
from a cold, but it was not thought
that he was seriously ill. His sudden
death was caused by heart failure.
His wife was with him at the time of
his death and his son, Raymond,
whose home is now in New Jersey,
has started for West Virginia and
tile body will be brought back to Hol
yoke. the funeral services to "be held
at the Second Baptist church.
Always a “booster” for Holyoke, he
was ever talking the city up and
working to bring the community to a
higner level. A hard worker, he
built- up the Second church parish to i
one of the most important Baptist
parishes in the vicinity. Some time
ago he decided to leave the active
ministry, but the pressure was so I
strong from his parishioners for him
to remain in the pastorate that be
gave up his intention for a time and
remained with them. When he finally
resigned and accepted the post of
managing director for the local cham
ber of commerce he rapidly increased
his large circle of friends in the city
and added to the growth of that or
ganization and to its ability to get
together for municipal work. He
was also a lecturer of more than
usual merit and a public speaker
whose services were ever in demand.
The work on which he was engaged
at the time of his death had a partic
ular appeal to him. and with him at
the helm its success was assured. In
his death a great number of Holyokers
will fee! that they have lost a close
personal friend.
He Was the son of Seth Stanley and
Sarah Jane (Barnard) Lyon, and was
born in South Londonderry, Vt.. in
1801. He absorbed all the advan
tages of the schools in Vermont, it
tending the (Black River academy at
Ludlow. Vt. He then entered Col
gate university, where he remained
for a year. For a time he taught in
Friends college.
Hr was graduated from the uni
versity of New York with the degree
of A. B. In 1908 this university con
ferred upon him the degree of doc
tor of divinity and he was ordained
a minister of the gospel according o
the ordinances of the Baptist church.
He was settled over the church at
Fair Haven, VL. was also pastor in
Bristol. Ct., and from 1990 was lo
cated in Holyoke, as clergyman until
1914. and the following year was
manager of the local chamber of com
merce.
Ho married Ella Grace White,
daughter of John Everett and Elmira
(Sawyer) White of Mechanicsville,
town of Mount Holly, Vt. He leaves,
besides a widow, two sons. Attorney
Clifford S. Lyan of the law firm oi
Green & Bennett, and Raymond of
New Jersey, and one daughter, Mrs
Paul Houston of Washington, D. C.
DEATH OF EDWARD P. TABOR
Prominent Citizens Passes Away—
Was Selectman for Many Years
Longmeadow has lost another of
its prominent citizens in the death
Sunday afternoon of Edward Pay
son Tabor, 73, at his home on Long
meadow street. Mr Tabor had been in
declining health from diabetes for sev
eral years, but was critically ill only
a week.
Mr Tabor was the son of Mr and
Mrs Stephen H. Tabor and was borp
in Blackstone, October 22, 1845, but
the family a little later moved to
Providence. R. 1., where his father
was for some years general superin
tendent of the Providence and
Worcester railroad. In 1»68 he
came to Longmeadow, where he
bought the Stephen Colton place on
lower Longmeadow street, but was
soon called back to important busi
ness in Providence
Edward Tabor, his son, who came
to Longmeadow 50 years ago with his
father, remained and became at once
a useful and respected citizen. He
had served the town as selectman 11
years and been on the school board
for nine years. He had been clerk and
treasurer of the First church parish
for 22 years and served on the pruden
tial committee of the parish for 16
years. He was Interested and help
ful in the May breakfast association
and all of the enterprises for the
good of the church and town, and
was well beloved by friends and neigh
bors. December 29, 1869. Mr Tabor
was married to Miss Jennie Dickin
son, daughter of Rev J. E. Dickin
son. her mother being the sister of
Rev W. E. Boies, with whom she made
her home in Longmeadow after the
death of both parents. Mr Tabor
leaves, besides his widow, four chil
dren, Stephen Lyman, who has an im
portant position with headquarters at
Dallas. Tex., Madeline, wife of Win
throp G. Hall of Worcester, and Ed
ward Payson, Jr., and William Bous
at home. He also leaves three grand
children. Stephen, Margaret and Pris
cilla, childten of Mr and Mrs Hall.
Maj Webster of Northampton Killed
News has been received In Northam
ton of the death of Maj Harrison
Briggs Webster, who was killed In ac
tion while serving as regimental sur
geon of the 47th infantry. He was
'helping take the wounded to the rear
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1918
when he was struck by a bursting
shell. Maj Webster was graduated from
Harvard college in 1905. and Harvard
medical school in 1908. He was prom
inent in athletics and president of his
class in the medical school. He re
ceived his hospital training at the
Massachusetts general hospital of
Boston. The year following was spent
with Dr Grenfell in Labrador. At
the time of his enlistment in May,
1917. he was conducting a private
hospital in Castine. Me.
He entered the medical reserve as
a lieutenant at Fort Benjamin Harri
son and soon was promoted to rank of
captain in an ambulance company
Later he was made major and instruc
to» of ambulance companies at Fort
Oglethorpe. Ga. He had been serving
as regimental surgeon in France since
May, 1918. He was born in Boston
in January, 1884. the son of Andrew
G. and Florence L. Webster, who are
now living at 191 Commonwealth ave
nue. Boston. In May. 1913, he mar
ried Margaret I. Gleason, who sur
vives him with a son and two daugh
ters He also leaves a brother. Capt
David L. Webster of the scientific re
search division corps, who is sta
tioned at Langley field. Mrs Webster
has been living at 145 South street,
Northampton, with her sister. Miss
Mary Gleason.
CONFEDERATE VETERAN DIES
Charles Henry Tower, Long-Time
Business Man. Succumbs at Age
of 89
Charles Henry Tower, a Confederate
veteran, died at his home. 102 Pleas
ant street, Holyoke, Monday. Mr
Tower was born in Chesterfield Au
gust 23, 1829, the son of Elijah and
Elvira (Russell) Tower. He attend
ed the district schools in that town
until he was 13 and went to Pittsfield
in 1847, where he learned the tinsmith
trade. In the spring of 1851 he went
to Richmond, Va., returning again to
Pittsfield the year following.. In 1855
he_went to lowa and from there in
1859 returned again to Richmond, Va,
where he joined the Richmond blues,
a light infantry organization. During
the civil war he served in the 46th
Virginia infantry and in March, 1565,
was wounded at Hatcher's Run and
was paroled in May of that year.
In December, 1865, he came to Hol
yoke and with his brother bought the
tinsmith and plumbing store owned by
the late D. B. Wing, which he con
ducted until 1876, in the Parsons hall
block, now occupied by the Henry G.
Sears company. The partnership was
dissolved in 1876, his brother dropping
out of the business, and he conducted
it alone until April. 1880, when he
took as a partner the late Gustavus
A. Phelps and the firm of Phelps &
Tower conducted business at 16 Main
street until November. 1892. when Mr
Phelps retired. The location of the
store was changed to 135 Main street
and Mr Tower remained in the busi
ness until April, 1900, when he dis
posed of it to the C. F. Sullivan com
pany. He remained in their employ
until 1909, when he retired from ac
tive work.
On December 24. 1868, he was mar
ried to Miss Sarah Young, who sur
vives him, with one son, J, Wallace
Tower.
SERGEANT WHITNEY BOWLES
Grandson of Second Editor of The
Republican Was Killed in Ac
tion
Sergeant Whitney Bowles. 24. of
New York city, only son of Dwight
Whitney Bowles and Mrs Josephine
Porter Bowles and a grandson of
Samuel Bowles (1820-1878). second
editor of The Republican, was killed
in action in France on September 29.
Sergeant Bowles wds born in
Greenwich, Ct., and was educated nt
the Gunnery school in Washington
Ct. He was a handsome fellow and
had a peculiarly winning manne?.
He had gone into the advertising
business in New York city, being
connected with a prominent agency,
and had made an excellent start. As
a member of the old 7th regiment he
saw protracted service on the Mex
ican border two years ago. Since
the entry of the United States into
the. European war and the transfor
mation of the old 7th into the 107tb
he had been assigned to an officers'
training camp and was in line to re
ceive a comm'ssion. But before his
training was completed the 107th was
sent overseas and he rejoined it. be
fore its departure, as a corporal. After
arriving in France he was promoted
to a sergeancy.
In August. 1917, Sergeant Bowles
married Miss Elizabeth Brown of New
York city and a son was born on Oc
tober 10. just 11 days after Sergeant
Bowles’s death in France. Sergeant
Bowles had numerous friends and rel
atives in this city.
THEODOR LANGE DIES
Spent Most of His Life Here in
Case Business — Oldest Member
of Turnverein
Hhtodore Lange, GO. one of the old
est case owners in the’city, died early
Monday morning of Bright’s disease
at his home, 38 Washington road, fol
lowing a few weeks’ illness, Mr
Lange was born in Exln, Ger., in
1858, coming to this country at the
age of 14, and with the exception of
a few years in New York, had spent
the remainder of his life in this city.
He had been in the hotel, case and
restaurant business many years, hav
ing conducted the Highland hotel for
a time, and for the past 15 years nad.
with his son, Frank J. Lange, con
ducted Lange’s case on Bridge street.
He was one of the foremost German-
American residents of the city and
the oldest member of the Turnverein,
which he joined in 1876. He was also
a member of the Schuetzenverein. In
addition, he had held membership in
Springfield lodge of Elks, Roswell Lee
lodge of Masons. Hampden lodge of
Odd Fellows, the Red Men an!
Knights of Pythias. He was never
active in political affairs.
Besides his widow, who was Miss
Annie K. Miller of this city, Mr Lange
is survived by a daughter. Bertha of
this city, a son. Frank J. Lange, a
brother, Herman C.; formerly pro
prietor of the Park Square hotel.
Westfield, and several brothers and
sisters in Germany, of whom nothing
l as been heard since the outbreak of
the war.
NURSE DIES OF INFLUENZA
Miss Blanche E. Campbell of
North Adams Had Worked
Faithfully During the Epidemic
Blanche E. Campbell of «0 Hall
street, North Adams, died at the Car
penter hospital last week after a brlsf
Illness of pneumonia brought on by
Influenza. Miss Campbell was a trained
nurse and came with two others from
Greenfield at the hight of the epidemic
to help out in the local fight against
the disease. They had planned to re
main in the city until the epidemic
had been controled and then to move
on to another community to continue
the fight. She was especially efficient
and faithful in her fight against the
disease and would not give up work
until the last. The local health board
considered her one of the best nurses
on the force and Holyoke owes her a
deep debt of appreciation and grati
tude which cannot be adequately ex
pressed, for she gave her life for the
city's protection. There was sorrow
in the city when the news of
her death became known and it is
expected that the health board will
draw up resolutions at their next
meeting. She is survived by her
father, John W. Campbell of North
Adams, a brother, Herbert A. of Bos
ton, and a sister. Florence E. of North
Adams.
NURSE DIES AT FRONT
Miss Margaret S. Bailey, Once of
Springfield, Had Harrowing Ex
periences Under Fire
Among the heroes and heroines of
the war, who have given their lives
for the country, will be included Miss
Margaret S. Bailey of this city, word
of whose death in France from pneu
monia has just been received by her
aunt, Mrs James P. Stearns of 52
High street. Miss Bailey was a nurse
in the Mount Sinai hospital unit at
tached to the rainbow division. Never
too tired to serve, never too weary to
care for just one more poor soldier,
and never too fearful to stay at her
post, even though under fire. Miss
Bailey has been on duty in France
since January of this year. She died
on October 16.
Miss Bailey was born May 16. 1887.
at Kahului. Hawaiian Islands, where
het father was government physician.
Her parents died in her early child
hood and she came to this city at the
age of 12 and made her home with
her uncle and aunt, Mr and Mrs
James P. Stearns. She graduated from
the central high school and from the
Wesson memorial hospital. She was
assistant superintendent of the hos
pital for two years, 1911 and 1912,
when she resigned to go into the tea
room business in New York. She re
sponded to the country’s first appeal
for nurses at the front and enlisted
In June. 1917. in the Mount Sinai
unit, which later went across with
the famous nainbow division.
MISS DOROTHY GAY
Death in France of Young Woman
Well Known in This City
Miss Dorothy Gay, cousin of Robert
O. Morris of this city, has died of
pneumonia in France, according to a
telegram received Monday by Mr
Morris from her father in New York.
Miss Gay had spent mu<*n time in
the city and lived with the Morr’s
family dur'ng the two years that she
attended the Mac Duffie school, from
which she graduated In the class of
1905. After graduating from Vassar
college she spent some time here do
ing suffrage work in 1912. The past
few years she had done considerab'e
writing, and in August of this year
went to France with the Vassar un.t
for canteen work. Miss Gay was a
voung woman of much abil'ty. and
her sincerity and pleasing personal
ity won her many friends here.
GEN HORATIO C. KING
Death of Civil-War Veteran, Author
and Composer
Gen Hcratio C. King, 80, veteran of
the civil war, lawyer, lecturer, author
and composer, and clerk for many
years of historic Plymouth church,
died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Friday.
Gen King was born in Portland, Me.,
the son of Postmaster-General Horatio
King. He was graduated from Dickin
son and Allegheny colleges and was
practicing law in New York city when
he enlisted in the Union army in 1862.
He won a congressional medal for con
spicuous bravery in the Virginia cam
paign In 1865 and was breveted suc
cessively major, lieutenant-colonel and
colonel.
Returning to New York after the
war. he published the Christian Union,
of which Henry Ward Beecher was
editor, and later the Christian at Work,
edited by T. DeWitt Talmage. His
joined the New York militia and rose
to the rank'of judge advocate-general,
which gave him the military title by
which he was known through his lat
er years.
Gen King was an unsuccessful dem
ocratic candidate in 1895 for secretary
of state of New York, but later joined
the republican party. He wrote many
books on legal and military subjects.
ROBERT ANDERSON VAN WYCK
Death in Paris of First Mayor of New
York Under Charter of Consolida
tion
Robert Anderson Van Wyck, for
mer mayor of New York city, is dead
in Paris. He was the first mayor of
Greater New York after the adoption
of the charter under which Brooklyn.
Long Island City and other places
were consolidated with New York city.
He was elected mayor in 1898 for a
four-year term, defeating Seth Lo.v
and Gen B. F. Tracy.
He was born on July 20, 1849. was
graduated from Columbia law school
in 1875. and practiced law until 1880,
when he was elected judge of the city
court and became presiding judge.
He was founder and first president
of the Holland society. In politics
he was a democrat.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday morning In the American Holy
Trinity church in Paris.
(APT J. B. GREENHUT DEAD
Former Head of Greenhnt-Slegel
Cooper Company Passes Away
Capt Joseph B. Greenhut, 75, for
merly head of the Greenhut-Siegel
Cooper company, which operated a
large department store in New York,
died at his home there Sunday after
a six-months’ illness. Capt Greenhut
came to this country from Austria
with his parents in 1851 and lived in
Chicago until the outbreak of the
c vl war, when he was said to have
been the second man there to cnlitt
after President Lincoln's call for
troops. He won promotion to a cap
taincy and although discharged in
1862 as incapacitated by wounds, re
en’isted and was again wounded at
the bailie of Gettysburg.
After the war Capt Greenhut found
ed several distilling companies in the
middle West, but later removed to
New York city and became largely
Interested in retail merchandising. He
retired in 1917.
Dr Hugo Preuss, thp new German
secretary of the Interior, is unknown
In this country, which counts in hla
favor. Under the old system to be
known and to get found out were
synonymous.
SCHOOLandCOLLEGE
MBS RUSSELL SAGE'S WILL
MANY PUBLIC BEQUESTS
One Hundred Thousand Dollars
for Northfield Schools — Am
herst, Williams, Smith and
Dartmouth Will Also Benefit—
Eight Millions Go to Her
Brother
The will of Mrs Margaret Olivia
Sage, widow of Russell Sage, was
filed for probate in New York last
week, disposing of an estate valued
at about $50,000,000. Of this $8,000,-
000 is bequeathed to her brother. Jo
seph Slocum. The bulk of the re
mainder of the estate is divided among
other relatives and a large number of
charitable, educational, and religious
institutions.
Bequests of public institutions are
both specific and residuary, some 60
being made in sums ranging from
810.000 to $125,000 and also in the
form of 52 equal parts of her resi
duary estate. The largest specific
gift of any- institution is $125,000 to
the association for the relief of re
spectable aged indigent females in
New York. To the Northfield schools.
Middlebury college. Rutgers college.
Syracuse university, and Hampton
institute specific bequests of SIOO,OOO
each are left, the same amount also
being given to the Young Men's
Christian and the Young Women’s
Christian association in New York
city. Smaller sums are left to various
hospitals, churches, mission societies
and charitable aid organizations.
In the residuarj' legacies, the larg
est goes to the Russell Sage founda
tion which receives seven parts of the
residuary estate. Syracuse university
is left two parts as also are the
Metropolitan museum of art and the
American museum of natural history.
Among educational institutions which
are bequeathed one part each are
Yale. Princeton. Dartmouth. Amherst.
Williams. Barnard. Bryn Mawr, Vas
sar. Smith and Wellesley.
Tn connection with these bequests
Mrs Sage’s will states that she ex
pected "during my life time to antici
pate some of these legacies by giving
different amounts from time to time”
to these institutions, and that “in so
far as such gifts amount to $10,006
or more at any one time in anv case,
such gifts made during my lifetime
shall be deemed advances on account
of the legacies to which such institu
tions are entitled.” and the legacies in
the will shall be diminished accord
ingly.
The will provides that of the SB.-
000.000 left to Joseph Slocum $1,000.-
060 Is held in trust for his life, with
the rest to his children. To each o’
Mrs Sage's nephews. Herbert Her
main Slocum and Stephen L’Homme
dieu Slocum, and to her niece. Mar
garet Olivia Flint, a bequest of SIOO,-
000 is made.
-Among other personal legacies are
$50,000 each to Helen Chapin, niece
of Russell Sage, and Ellen Sage,
widow of Rufus Sage. Rev Donald
Sage Mackay and Dr D. Bryson De
lavan are to receive $25,000 each.
The residuary estate is estimated at
approximately $35,000,000. which
would make each of the parts into
which It is divided worth about $700,-
009. \
ENGLISH IDEAS GAIN HERE
Influence of British University
Methods Upon Our Institutions
—Mutual Interchange Desirable
Ex-President Mac Lean. of the uni
versity of lowa, sent in 1913 to Eng
land by our government to get educa
tional suggestions, was told by an
Oxford professor: “Good heavens! We
need that you should send mission
aries to teach us.” A new evidence
of the willingness of British universi
ties to take lessons from America —
lessons in what not to do as well as
what to do—is the present visit of a
commission of British scholars, says
the New York Evening Post. The
most profitable relationship between
the institutions on both sides the At
lantic must give full room to the
interchange of ideas.
Our colleges hgve not been in recent
years neglectful of British educational
experience. The best-known instance
of borrowing from the mother land is
the adaptation of the Oxford tutorial
plan to Princeton conditions in the
p-eeeptorial system. Its object, as
President Wilson said, was to make a
studying man of the undergraduates,
rof a mere vessel receiving instruc
tion. The conferences of the precep
tors —56 of whom were added in 1905-
1900—with thdir groups of students,
held informally, giving the students
guidance in reading, testing their
strong and weak points, and revealing
them to themselves, training them to
see the worth of studies disliked, anl
awakening their intellectual zest, ro
produce important features of the
tutor’s work at Oxford.
English Influence, in “Quad Plan”
The “Quad plan" for student resi
dents with unmarried faculty men in
university halls proposed by Presi
dent Wilson in 1907. but rejected part
ly because of insufficient funds,
showed English ancestry. Something
like It has been put in operation at
the graduate school, where students
and some teachers live, eat, work, and
exercise together.
Harvard has introduced a modifica
tion of the English tutorial plan in
her division of history, government,
and economics. It involves concentra
tion by the student after his second
year upon closely related subjects,
their pursuit under the direction ami
inspiration o.“ a tutor, and a final
examination which tests the student's
general knowledge and thinking ca
pacity.
The pass and honors system of
seme English Institutions has also
found imitation. Oberlin has adopted
a plan by which candidates for
honors are in their last two years
given special privileges and responsi
bilities designed to develop high
scholastic ability. They must do at
least a twelfth more work than other
students, must conduct original in
vestigations. are given individual at
tention" by the faculty, and at the
end receive comprehensive oral and
written examinations. Columbia and
some Yale departments have developed
an honors system that displays Eng
lish influence and involves the "tutor
ial relation."
English Ideas In Western Colleges
As far West, as the university of
Washington a professor with an Ox
ford degree and a departmental head
who had visited England have, intro
duced various British ideas. One is
shown in a plan by which promising
seniors are excused from regular
classes "to devote themselves to more
intensive and correlated wtudy"; one
In .senior examinations which test
orally and in writing the student's
whole information and powers of
thought; and one In tutorial confer
ences which emphas'ze the examina
tion of students' essays. At "Boston
luch" I’rof Frank Aydelotte has
• planned * method of teaching
English literature and composi
tion which is based upon Oxford
ideas.
From the British universities we
can absorb conceptions for making
undergraduate work more thorough,
less machine-like, more original and
eager: and for bringing to full mental
growth the exceptionally brilliant stu
dent. who with us is too much kept
at. the commonplace gait with the
commonplace herd. But our borrow
ings maj- well go outside classroom
and -study. English universities are
rich in varieties of executive admin
istration. and our recent difficulties
and quarrels in that field should make
us willing to go abroad for lessons.
British organizations both of faculty
and alumni are full of hints for
American practice. Extension teach
ing we borrowed from England, and
from the new "federal” universities
like London or Victoria much can be
learned concerning the co-ordina
tion of educational corporations into
one effective institution.
STUDENTS’ CORPS STATUS
Colleges to B* Assisted in Re
turning to Prewar Basis
’Studies are being made of the sit
uation in which the ending of the
war leaves the students’ army train
ing corps, Secretary of War Baker
said Saturday, in order that measures
may be adopted to allow the release
of such of its members as desire an
immediate return to civil life or who
wish to continue in school but in pure
ly academic courses.
Mr Baker said that the colleges con
cerned would be assisted in return
ing to their normal work and that
whenever they had a student body
sufficiently large to resume function
ing on a prewar basis their obliga
gation toward the war department
would bo canceled. Whenever it is
found that a school’s resources and
students had been turned over to the
government plan so far that the
change cannot be made, he said, the
present arrangement would be con
tinued.
OFFICER CADETS MAY LEAVE
Immediate Discharge Permitted if
Desired
Candidates for commissions in of
ficers’ training schools, the war de
partment announces, may be dis
charged from the army immediately
if they desire. If they elect to com
plete the course they will be com
missioned upon graduation in the of
ficers’ reserve corps and placed upon
the inactive list.
No more candidates will be admit
ted. Those who Were transferre 1
from the student army training corps
will be allowed to return to that or
ganization, provided they return to
ccllege immediately. These provi
sions, tlie department’s announcement
says, apply to all officers’ training
schools for the line or staff corps
and departments of the army.
FOR WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE
Scholarships at the Massachusetts
Agricultural College
The New England branch of the
woman’s national farm and garden
association is offering this year SSOO
in scholarships for young women
electing short courses in agriculture
college. The college will be given its
short course work on December 2 with
the opening of the two-year course in
practical agriculture for men and
women 10 years of age or over who
have at least a common school educa
tion. This course will continue for
four months this year.
Applications for these scholarships
may be macle to the committee on the
award of scholarships, women’s na
tional farm and garden association, 4
Joy street. Boston.
FOOTBALL RESULTS
At Springfield. Springfield 7, Massa
chusetts institute of technology naval
unit 0.
At Amherst, Amherst 20, Will
iams 0.
At New York. Columbia 14. Wesley
an 0.
At Pittsburg, Pa., Pittsburg 37,
Pennsylvania 0.
At Ann Arbor, Mich., Michigan 15,
Syracuse 0.
At Andover. Exeter 26. Andover 7.
At Princeton, N. J., Princeton 28,
Camp Upton 7.
At Hanover, N. H., Dartmouth 2G,
Middlebury 0
At Medford. Tufts 27. Boston uni
versity 0.
At Newton, Fordham 14. Boston col
lege 0.
At Waterville, Me., Maine-Colby,
postponed.
At Easton. Pa.. Lafayette 10. Frank
lin and Marshall 0.
At Schenectady. N. Y„ Union 0,
Hamilton 0.
At South Bethlehem. Pa., Penn
State 7. Lehigh 6.
At Annapolis, Md.. Navy 127, Ur
sinus 0.
At Chicago, Hl.. Northwestern 21,
Chicago 6.
At Indianapolis. Ind., Purdue 53.
M abash 7.
At Oberlin. O'.. Case 17. Oberlin 0.
At Georgetown. D. C.. Georgetown
14, Charleston navy-yard 0.
At Minnesota, Minn., Minnesota 6.
Wisconsin 0.
At Urbana, HL. Illinois 13, Ohio
State 0. ,
At New York. Great lakes 54. Rut
gers 14.
At Philadelphia, Navy-yard 21,
Brown 7.
At Swarthmore. Pa., Swarthmore
29. Delaware 0.
At Lewiston, Me., Bowdoin 6.
Bates 0.
At Worcester. Holy Cross 27
Worcester “Tech” 7.
At Worcester. Worcester academy
23. Williston 13.
At Renfrew, Renfrew 35, Dalton
high 0.
At Greenfield. Deerfield academy
13 Greenfield high 7.
At Annapolis, Md., Navy 127,
Ursinus 0.
COMMON LANGUAGE
Americanization is a problem of
pul lie education, says a bulletin of the
special agency to promote this work,
the Massachusetts department of jni
terslty extension. This department
has already offered Instruction in
“Methods of teaching .English to Im
migrants.” "English for new Ameri
cans” and "Clvice for naturalization.”
During the past year 550 men and
women have been trained to teach
English to immigrants. These trained
teachers are ready to teach classes
of non-Engllsh speaking people in
evening schools, in day or evening
classes. In factories or In homes.
Certificates from the board of edu
cation are granted to all new Ameri
cans" and "Civics for naturalization. ‘
plete standardized courses under t p
preved teachers. At the present ’ ime
Mr Towne, who Is in charge of the
Americanization work of the depart
ment. is arranging a state program
which will aid in “making English the
language of Massachusetts.''
RELIGIOUS
PLANS FOR CAMP PASTORS
New Ruling of War Department
Permits Assistant Chaplains
Dismay and considerable indigna
tion were aroused some time ago by
the action of the war department in
canceling the status of those pastors
whom the various denominations had
sent to the cantonments in this coun
try to take care for the spiritual in
terests of their own members. This
feeling was intensified by the charge
o' partiality in not making the pro
hibition universal. But those who
were alarmed by the possible conse
quences will be relieved to learn that
the war department has approved a
plan by which clergymen will yet be
available to assist the commissioned
chaplains.
The voluntary service of clergy
men in the camps has been the sub
ject of frequent conference, for the
war department has taken a sincere
interest in the moral and religious
welfare of the men. Is earnestly desir
ous of assisting the chaplains, and
has given careful attention to (he
considerations urged in favor of the
camp pastors. Through the general
war-time commission of the churches
a conference was arranged between
Dr Keppel, third assistant secretary
of war, and a committee representing
the churches. This committee has
formulated a plan by which to nom
inate clergymen qualified to render
service in the camps. Their names,
after approval by the executive com
mittee of ths general war-time com
mission of the churches, will be filed
with the war department and their
services placed at the disposal of the
tegular chaplains. The text of the
order was approved by eight of the
nine men at the conference. The
chief points are:—
(a) The( importance of training
chaplains for overseas must be em-
I hasized.
(b) The help of clergymen to whom
the churches have looked for inspir
ation and leadership is appreciated,
and an arrangement is desired by
which such men. barred perhaps from
entering the army as chaplains, may
continue to help at the training
camps.
(c) The war department desires the
best efforts of all the churches. Prot
estant. Catholic, and Jewish, to in
fluenza experienced and capable men
to apply at once for commissions as
chaplains.
(d) The names of men classified by
paragraph "b” may be submitted by
the churches to the executive com
mittee of the general war-time com
mission of the churches or similar
committees representing other church
es. whom a certified list may be fur
nished for the war department.
(e) When these men have been ap
proved by the war department, chap
lains will be permitted to invite, with
the approval of the commanding of
ficer. such representative men to vis
it the camp to help in the work
among enlisted men and officers.
(f) All clergymen so invited shall
report to the chaplain in charge and
work under his direction.
(g) The term of service of any
clergyman under this order shall be
determined by the chaplain with rhe
approval of the war department.
(h) The war department looks with
favor upon efforts of the various
churches, located in cities or com
munities adjacent to camps, to shape
their services with special reference
to the needs of the soldiers on leave,
and urges all chaplains to call the at
tention of their men to such services
when provided.
(I) An Important result, very much
desired and expected under the plan
preposed, will be the assurance that
the visiting clergyman will keep the
"folks back home" informed of con
ditions in the camps.
UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH
Rev Dr Frederick H. Knukel,
President —Support Pledged to
Government in Meeting Prob
lems of Vice
The United Lutheran -church Ir.
America, an amalgamation. of three
Lutheran bodies, was incorporated at
New Y'ork Friday. More than 1000
delegates from this country and Can
ada ratified the merger. Rev Dr
Frederick H. Knubel of New York
was elected president on the third bal
lot. Rev Dr M. G. G. Scherer of
Charles'on, S. C., was chosen secretary
and Clarence D. Miller of Philadel
phia, treasurer.
Dr Knubel is a native us New York
city and was graduated from Penn
sylvania college. Gettysburg, Pa., in
1893, and from the Gettysburg theo
logical seminary three years later. He
then began the work of establishing
the Lutheran church of the Atone
ment in New York city of which he
has since been the pastor. Dr Schere
formerly was president of the United
synod. South, which, with the general
synod and general council of Lutheran
churches, merged into the new holy.
Resolutions were adopted, pledging
“the fullest support of the united
Lutheran church in America to the
government of the United States t >
meet the problems of vice which
threaten the physical and spiritual
welfare of the ' boys and girls and
men and women of the United States."
CHURCH UNITY PROPOSAL
Presbyterians’ Invitation Accepted
by Representatives of Nine
Protestant Denominations
Representatives of nine Protestant
denominations have accepted an Invi
tation of the Presbyterian church in
the United States of America to meet
in Philadelphia December 3 ti^G to
consider a proposal of the Presbyterian
general assembly for "organic union
of the evangelical churches in Ameri
ca.” it was announced at New York
last week.
The plan as presented for discussion
calls for an interdenominational coun
cil to work out a plan for making
“one federal church out of all these
denominations.”
The denominations which will be
represented at the conference are the
Presbyterian church in the United
States of America, Protestant Episco
pal church In the United States. Re
formed church In the United States.
United Presbyterian church of North
America. Methodist Episcopal church.
Congregational churches. Disciples of
Christ. Evangelical synod of North
America and Moravian church In
America.
LUTHERAN CHURCHES UNITED
The general synod, general council
and united synod. South, three sep
arate Lutheran organizations, were . f
ficinlly merged Into one ecclesiastical
body under the name of the Un ted
Lutheran church la America, a
| convention at New York Thursday.
Legal formalities connected with the
merger will be completed to-day,
when the new church will be incor
porated under the laws of New York
and permanent officers elected. Tem
porary officers elected Thursday wer«:
President, Rev Dr Theodore E.
Schmauck of Lebanon. Pa.; secretary.
Rev William Baum of New York. Tel
egrams of congratulation were read
from Gov McCall of Massachusetts
and others.
GETS LEGION OF -HONOR
Cardinal Gibbons Receives High
Decoration From the French
Government
In the presence of members of the
cardinal’s household and the faculty of
St Mary ’s seminary, Embassador Jules
Jusserand, French representative in
this country, conferred the degree of
the Legion of Honor on Cardinal Gib
bons at the cathedral at Baltimore
Saturday afternoon. The embassador
in his address said: —
"When there was doubt everywhere
you chose the right course. We knew
of your work in helping to free France
from the clutches of the German.
"In honor of the 50th anniversary
of your ascension to the dignity of
bishop and in appreciation of your
work for our people, I have been au
thorized by the French government
to award you the highest honor that
can be conferred by our government.”
After accepting the beautifully de
signed emblem of honor Cardinal Gib
bons paid his compliments to France
and to its embassador. "I am happy
to receive this honor at this particu
lar time." he said. "We have been
friends in war; we are now brothers
in peace.”
Accompanying Embassador Jusserand
were Mme Jusserand and several at
taches of the French embassy. Cardi
nal Gibbons entertained at dinner
Maj-Gen Carter and other commanding
officers of Camp Meade.
Y. M. C. A. Worker Killed On Last
Day of Fighting
Harry B. Gibson, a Young Men’s
Christian association worker of
Avalon, Pa., was killed near Sedan last
Monday, the last day of fighting, says
a dispatch from Paris. He had vol
unteered to work in an advanced first
aid station. A shell burst nearby and
he was killed almost instantly. He
had served with the Ist division for
a year as an active field worker. He
was badly gassed at Cantigny in the
spring and doctors had advised him
not to return to the front. As far as
is known he was the last Young
Men’s Christian association man killed
in the war. Fifteen men and three
women attached to the Young Men’s
Christian association have been killed
by shells, gas or bombs during hos
tilities.
Thirty-Three Young Men’s Christian
Association Workers Give Up Lives
Thirty-three Young Men’s Christian
association workers —29 men and
four women—-have given up the’r
lives in service abroad since the Unit
ed States entered the war. according
to a statement at New York Satur
day by a representative of the Young
Men's Christian association interna
tional committee. Nineteen were
killed and 14 died of disease or
wounds.
Lutherans and the English Language
That the world is moving forward,
even in conservative quarters, is evi
dent from the exhortation of Rev G.
C. Kunzman. long time secretary of
the board of English home missions of
the Lutheran church, in an appeal
calling for aggressive work in the
Americanization of the immigrant. He
hes been prompted to do so as a re
sult of experience with men in camp
unable to express themselves ii
English, unable even to understand
it. and unfamiliar with the simplest
principles and facts of American life.
The appeal in part follows: —
"We must realize that the work of
the Lutheran ■ church is to be done in
America under American church con
ditions and primarily for the Chrit
tianization of America. The foreign
speaking church is to become Ameri
can and not remain European. While
it holds the same eternal truth in all
lands, its human elements must be
adapted to the land of its adoption.
It must win the. people of America tor
Christ by the truth of God which it
holds, and it cannot do so in a for
eign language. Paul might preach to
the Jews in Hebrew in their synagogs,
but he could not thus reach the Are
epagites on Mars hill in Athens.
“The official and universal language
of the United States is English. A
foreign language is a temporary asset
and cannot become a permanent lia
bility. This is the first fact with
which we must reckon and to which
we must adjust ourselves. True, we
have come as Germans, Scandinavi
ans. Hungarians, Russians. Poles,
etc. We have come, however, not to
remain such, but to become Ameri
cans. If we desired to remain what
we were, we should ha' e remained
where we were.
“It was the gain of all gains for
the Lutheran church to acquire the
English tongue in this land, which
the principles of the Reformation
have made pre-eminent. The German
lexicographers, the Grimm brothers,
call the English the most expressive,
forcible and commanding medium of
communication in the world. It is
the commanding language of two con
tinents, America anj Australia.
“The United Lutheran church of
America, composed of the most Angli
cized portion of the American Luther
an church, is now assured. The
Lutheranization and Americanization
will go hand In hand, and in propor
tion as these processes are hastened
there will be a unification of all our
Lutheran forces, with such centrali
zation of functions and such distrinu
tion of power and rights as shall best
seive each part and benefit the who’o.
The only hope of permanency for the
Lutheran church in America Is the
English language and the coming to
her own by the process through which
the United Lutheran church of Amer
ica has passed and the things which
she has attained.”
The American Bible society makes
the announcement that there are 656
languages and dialects in which nt
least one book of scripture has bom
prmled for religious use. This num
btr includes the complete Bible and
about 140 complete forms of speech.
During the last decade the scriptures
have appeared In a new language on
tin average of once every six weeks.
Tne three Bible societies which are
th? largst producers and distributors
—the British and Foreign Bible so
ciety, the American Bible society and
the National Bible society of Scot
land—produced during 1917 18.096,212
Bibles, Testaments and portions of
scripture. These same societies, since
the year of their organization to the
end of 1917, produced 481.116.209 Is
sues.
Four years ago It would have been
almost impossible to conceive that a
German foreign secretary would be
taiking as Dr Solt is now. of a plebi
scite for Schleswig-Holstein to decide
"■lu iher the peop'c wimM ralhe.r stay
German or transfer their allegiance
tn Denmark. Prussia promised that
sorb « vote would he taken, hut the’
prom Ise was treated as a scrap of
paper.