■ fill ••jjfaocty” Risien 03 is an -r*-' LETTER PROM RENNER. The following is an extract from a letter from W. A. Pcnner E. E. ’06. He is now an apprentice at the General Electric Company's works at Lynn. Maas. "The things I’ve heard of Col lege since the-opening have turned 1 . my thoughts more than once to the Brazos bottom These first days of each school year are always in teresting!, and I thgik I should Eke to lounge around the place while the other fellows do the work. ‘T confess that it isn’t altogether a matter of seeing the College peo ple that make., me went to be in that' particular place. You see, this season of the year generally brings a change in a school boy’s diet, and my desire for a change just at this time almost amounts 1 to a ‘hankering.* I “The boarding houses Vhere we working folks eat are good enough, but the rations are handed out too b | much od the order a la Sbisa. The j, meat is poor and is almost always oold storage *tuff. The chickens run almost altogether to neck and legs; there are no professors at my boarding house and it is hard to ^.understand where the good meat goes. We have biscuits, but they don’t belong to the same family as those south Of the Mason ami Dtxou line. The one good feature lies in the fact that you never get enough to founder you on one order, and you do not like to be i eternally calling for moi4. ^'Theae Yanks are not such bril liant people as I once , imagined; * they just naturally have 1 to hustle an this sorry country. : This im mediate locality was created in the beginning, if the face of It indicates anything. Our Creator certainly would not have* been satisfied to do <. a job like this after he had made that country at hoad. > j “The good points in these peo ple outweigh the bad,, however. The sjratetn of good roads is some thing grant, and a person would ; 'travel a long while before he could find any better. In the last ten | ytars the State has expended about \i twenty-seven millions for grade crossings alone, and they're still Standing. The State operates a line of bath * houses, also, and the crowds at such places are immense. At the most ,popular bathing pavilions - 1 1 there are amusement parks, and these do a land office business in the hot season. The places are ' t dosed now, of course, but people who live near the l>eaehes still take to the water. Last Sunday was cold, yet: there were about twenty- five half naked people scampering aronnd on the l>eaoh. “Sine* the theatres opened up, I’ve bee* busted' the greater part of the time, but it is worth the money t> see Jefferson in ’Rip Van . Winkle,] David Warfield in The Music Master'—and others. “Tbi* work is fin«; and I realize more than ever that a person who jumps into the electrical field with out supplementing his theory with practical work of this] Mature is seriously handicapped. Of course I don’t believe I’ll know it all by any means, hut this w$B help a great deal.Mjlt seems to me that I am learning quit^ a lot. h*t I sup- poae that it is only the realization of my ignorance. .. , “Tabor «s in Boston now, and is attending Boston Tech, and the football games. Baines saw Prof. Lomax, onct. but so fir, I have not been able to find kim. The world doesn’t seem half so large when you know a few of these good people are around you.” • We are indebted to J. Neff, ’03, for the following fateresting letter. He Writes: “I am running a small foundry and machine shop in Brownwo<>d. Came up here the first of April from Houston, and have had all that I could do, at all times. Since the ginning reason opened I have had to work quite often at night “In the foundry I do all kinds of iron work, such as making col umns, sills, lintels,,' sash weights, ventilators and grates, etc., also all kinds of repairs for machinery. I can pour anything in cast iron that does not weigh over 1200 lbs. I do machine blacksmithing of all kinds. ,. In the machine shop I have two laths, one planer, a drill press, emery wheels, wood lathe, hand saws and rip saws. 1 am using a fcix horse-power Weber gas engine for motive power. • “I am working five men now and at one time I had eight men on my pay roll. I have melted something like 125,000 pounds of cast iron since I have been here. “I am in perfect sympathy with the College and shall t>e glad to receive The Battalion every week. With best wishes to the class of ’07 and all the campus people, I am, “Yours tnffy. “A. J. Neff.*’ > i. | |\ [ ; alumni notes. We are surprised to. see how few members of the class ’06 subscribe for The Battalion. Surely the men who voted unanimously tihat their college days Were the happiest of their lives, will avail themselves of the opportunity afforded by The Battalion to keep in touch with their classmates and their Alma Mata. H. F. Matthews '03 ifli at work in Indian Terijitory surveying the route for the M. C. Guffy Oil Co. pipe line from the Indian Ter ritory to the Gulf. ' Mr. Bennett; Pnryear, who is Second Lieutenant in the U. S army, is stationed with the Third battalion. Second regiment, at Havana^ Cuba, J. R. Rainey is employed by the First National Bank, Longview Texas. He sqys: ' “Send me The Battalion. You have no idea how much I enjoy ib.” gin^tr on the N. Y. C. & H. R. railroad in New York. His address is 4(9 W. 115th street. New York. A; C. Love ’99 is Resident Eh- gineter on the Lafayette > Baton Rouge extension of the M. L. & T. Ry.ft S. S. Co., Port Alien, La. FIRST-) Sterns '03 is Resident En gineer /on the Lafayette-Baton Rouge extension, Beaux Bridge, LOo&iana. ■ ok< Al r O I The Only Stable on Main Street. .ASS TURNOUTS. THE ONLY RUBBER TIRE CARRIAGE IN BRYAN. >uge extension, ] tu^iana. n. Bretsch ueider ’98, Civil »eer on the T.J&JN. 6. Ry. Ed > c is thq father of a fine girl. Mb. E. L- Martin 99 » resident engineer on the G. C. & S. F Ry., DeRldden. La. Wjj F. Glover 98 is a planter on a large scale at Mt. Phersonville, South Carolina. Wr P. Cottingham knowyi dealer in eng.n, plies at Houston, Texas. 92 is a well neers’ sup- Khlers ’05 is Civil En- with the Pickering Lumber eriug. La. J. R. Tabor ‘06 is attending wton Technical Institute. 8. Jobeon ’03 fine baby boy. is the R. ti- Barham '03 is instrum I J f B. Sterns. ent >ick Johnson is now located iue Pass, Texas. i l l * • i M.iB. Church ’05 arrived at Col- Beeman is 1, Mexico. now located at Jk. M: MIUU BIKti 0 •ffl Cornell. Upich d H. If. HKXHY j. v. HKoonox R 1.. BRO"N HENRY & BROGDON BROS WHOI.K8AL.E AND RETAIL CRAIN DEALERS -AND LIVERY BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY FOR WHITE TRADE ■ ; ~ Continued tram Pace t across goal. Puckett went down. Kicked 28—0. air went in at quarter, at left guard, and Dabney and fort Score 3 De\ BeisM. at Center Danny kicked off. Held C'>lk-gis for downs on 25 yard line. Simpahn made good gain around id. Clordy bucks right Another try at wide tackle down on the eight yard ^College took a brace. Two left guard got Daniel yards. Kirkpatrick around right end, when broke through and made tiest tackle of the game, .’a ball on five yard line. , Hamilton, Utay and Ross the ball out of the danger Cornell called round for n. DeWair round left end >theY. Visitors get ball near and Sub Sytnes goes in at d. A. & M. takes a spurt has another touch down. 34—0 and time up. plungfs at Balter 4 fire starte^ DeWt right £nt3 and s