Class of 1909
The Travel A dvisers,80 Boylston St., Boston.
DEAR BOB:
So you would like a line about ourdoings this summer. Well there really isn'tmuch to say, except relate what the socalled depression decided for us, and thatwas that instead of going to Europe, westayed at home third-class and enjoyed ourpension where the cuisine was quite good.
There were occasional side trips to surrounding suburbs which we enjoyed, oftengoing to Newton Center, occasionally toDedham (not the Court House), and oncegot down on the Cape for fifteen or twentyminutes.
Some days we journeyed to Boston, calling at the office for luck, and sometimesfound it. Then there would be the thrillingwalk to the station, a short ride, and thenthat long cool glass of home brew on oursidewalk porch as we watched our twogamins do about everything the apachesof Paris do.
The fir tree served as our Eiffel Tower,the closed house across the street answeredfor Napoleon's Tomb, and when we feltlike reviewing the Follies, we turned tothe stock market page.
There is nothing equal to living together or traveling together to find outhow the other half lives, and taken altogether it was a successful summer, and weare as broke now as we were to start with.
As a travel adviser I do not recommendthe above procedure, for travel is sobroadening if one gets enough Pilsner.
I sincerely hope no one in the old class,now nearly a quarter of a century old,fared any worse than we did, and that allmay soon experience the truth of thesaying, "the righteous shall inherit theearth," and at that I bet you lawyers willget most of the settlement.
Classically yours, PHIL CHASE.
We had thought that inasmuch as people are not traveling abroad any more, except the Emma Goldmans etc., that Phil Chase, our noted travel adviser, must be dead broke, and we had crossed him off our reserve list of persons from whom we might possibly borrow money. However, we have promptly put him back at the head of the list, as he still has an office, a porch, and sufficient cash or credit to buy material for home brew, as evidenced by his letter.
We have heard at last from Max Bonter, as follows:
58 Sutter St., Rm. 234,San Francisco, Calif.
DEAR BOB:
I became associated with the BerkshireKnitting Mills of Reading, Pa., about ayear ago, in the capacity of Pacific Coastsales manager. Berkshire is the largest producer in the world of women's full-fashioned silk hosiery. I am very happy in mynew position and have recently moved toCalifornia to live. I make my home in SanMateo—about seventeen miles south of SanFrancisco. My family consists of a daughterGretchen, age two, and a son John, agesixteen, who is headed toward Dartmouth.I come to New York twice a year, andon my next trip, which will be some timein January, I hope to be able to swingthrough Boston for a couple of days andrenew my old acquaintances.
The Hookers, and all the not-so-little Hookers, opened their mountain-top summer place for the week-end after the Norwich game, and Burns and I attended, much to our pleasure. Their place is unique and most delightful, but with a temperature at about forty, we were content to merely look at the swimming pool. Sunday morning we played the new nine holes in Hanover, and found them very interesting. Any golfing member of the class who gets a chance to play them should take advantage of it, and we guarantee a brand-new experience. The only other classmates we saw were John Childs and Hal Osborne. John reports a very busy summer season with the state of New Hampshire road and bridge construction. Hal had some of the United Shoe Machinery crowd with him out on the golf course, and although the course had been flooded by a heavy rain the night before and was very heavy, went around in about 90. Burns, Hooker, and I are not publishing our scores. It seems too bad that more of the members of the class do not take advantage of the opening game to visit Hanover, get a line on the squad, and enjoy the really beautiful weather and scenery one usually has at that time.
Secretary, Atlantic National Bank Bldg., 100 Milk St., Boston
