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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1915)
Ctylish, tasty ^ dress is an ac kn o wledged asset in social life. The Madison model is a con servative style, tasty and refined. Young men whose choices favor the quieter sort should try out the Madison. iHt? llil <S) 1915. The L SuStem ■ H. M. Llndcrthal & Sans. MADISON SUIT THElSYSTEM eioiA.s /or '^/ouncf C/entleinen are strongly represented here. They are beautifully, cleverly tailored clothes, and have won the unbound admiration of young men. We have other styles to satisfy individual requirements in rich, popular textures. A. M. WALDROP & COMPANY THE HOME OF GOOD CLOTHES FOR YOUNG MEN fiOING TO 'FRISCO? THEN JOIN THE CROWD. Estimate of Expenses Shows Trip Can Be Made Cheaply by Char tering Tourist Cars. Are you going to San Francisco this summer? At least one car and per haps two cars of A. & M. students, faculty members and officers of the college will leave for San Francisco immediately after the close of school —June 9. Another meeting will be held this week some time when defin ite plans will be made. Come out. This party will travel in tourist sleeper cars and an effort is being made to secure cafe tourist cars. Two reasons are offered in favor of the plan to go together in these chartered cars, not as representatives of the college, hut as individuals. In the first place, the trip can be made much more cheaply that way than in any other way. And in the second place, the trip will be more pleasant as each man will have with him those with whom he is well acquainted. Sleeper fare and dining car ex penses to the exposition and hack will constitute one of the heaviest ex penses the men will meet if they make the trip later in the summer and individually. Straight Pullman fare there and back is $21.50, and the minimum estimate for meals en route on a basis of ten days is $2.50 per day, or $25 for the trip. Kitchen tourist cars cost $35 per day. Included in that is, of course, the sleeper service, and two chefs and a porter are furnished by the Pullman Company. These are four teen section cars and may be occupied very pleasantly by forty-two men, two to the lower berths and one to the uppers. The forty-two men sharing equally the cost of chartering this cat will make the expense per man per day 85c, or $8.50 for the time that will be consumed in making the round trip with stopovers of several hours in Denver, Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City. This car can be stocked Avith food to last through the ten days, the maximum amount required being $200, which will make the cost per man about $5 for the round trip. Here are the estimated expenses of such a trip: Railroad fare (round trip).... $52.50 Sleeper fare (including hire of chefs) 8.50 Stocking kitchen car with sup plies 5.00 Hotel at exposition one week. . 25.00 Tour of San Francisco.. 1.00 Tour of Salt Lake City 1.00 Tour of Los Angeles 1.00 Tour of Colorado Springs 1.00 Entrance to exposition grounds seven times 3.50 Total expenses 99.50 Contrasted to this expense is an esti mate of the cost where regular sleeper fare is paid: Railroad fare $ 52.50 Sleeper fare (round trip) 21.00 Meals en route ten days at * $2.50 25.00 Hotel at exposition seven days 25.00 Tour of San Francisco 1.00 Tour of Salt Lake City 1.00 Tour of Los Angeles.. 1.00 Tour of Den\ r er 1.00 Tour of Colorado Springs 1.00 Seven tickets to exposition.... 3.50 Total $132.00 Difference in cost under tire two plans $ 32.50 LETTERS ARE AWARDED TO NINE TRACK MEN BY ATHLETIC COUNCIL Speed Artists Made Splendid Records This Season Despite Many Difficulties. At a meeting of the Athletic Coun cil Monday night, letters were award ed to nine track men. Those receiv ing letters were Dudley Everett, car- tain and hurdle man; Rothe, whose work in the vaults and broad jump has been especially good; Turner, who was good in the quarter-mile and broad jump; Haines, whose work with the shotput and the discus won many points for A. & M.; Schuchardt, who next to Brooks was a consistent win ner in pole vaulting; Mitchell, who Avas the Farmers’ best bet in the dashes; Nick Braumiller, Avho heaved the discus and threAV the hammer; Collins, who was a fiend in the dashes, and Brooks, who broke all records in pole vaulting. “T AMC’S” were aAvarded “Bullet” Moses, one of the fastest distance men who has ever enrolled at A. & M.; de Montel, who was good in the hurdles, and Rogers, who also went well in the hurldes. Notwithstanding a series of in juries and accidents Avhich would have made many a team quit the race, the Farmers stuck to their posts, fin ishing second in the Texas meet and third in the Southwestern. Coach Clutter Avorked unceasingly with his men and not only won the thanks of the corps for the showing made by the team, hut Avon the highest esteem and friendship of every man under him. In the beginning “Pete” Everett was out of the going because of a bad knee. Since that time Joe Turner, Rothe, Collins, Shiner, Brooks and others of the track men have suffered more or less severe injuries and in juries which kept them from making their best records. The track team Avorked in the face of every difficulty, as no funds were provided except through the heroic Avork of Manager Scott. Their splendid shoAving in the face of all of these difficulties has been the cause of tnuch gratification to students and track fans at the col lege. The captain for 1916 has not been elected. “RUNT”HANSON URGES CADETS TO GET TICKETS FOR FINAL BALL. That the invitations to the com mencement exercises and final ball this year are the most handsome ever put out by the cadet corps is the statement of W. K. “Runt” Hanson, chairman of the finance committee. The invita tions Avere secured at a greatly reduced figure, Hanson says. “Cadets are not responding in the manner they should with reference to the final ball,” the- chairman com plains. “But few of them have paid their assessments. It takes money to put out an attractive and representa tive program and the final ball, the big gest social event of the year, costs money. So far the boys have not come up with their assessments as they should, and I hope that they will ‘kick in’ when they read this. “Prospects just now are that the fi nal ball this commencement will be larger than any held before We are negotiating for good music, 'and I am sure that the programs and invitations are about the most attractive ever put put. “Faculty members also will havp an opportunity to buy tickets to the ball. /No one will be admitted who does not hold a ticket, so put up.” Charles Davis, captain and adjutant, of Corsicana was elected president of the final ball, and will lead the grand march. ARCHITECTURAL CLUB. A Avell attended meeting of the Architectural Club Avas held last Fri day night. The good attendance was due, in some measure, to the passage of the “Thick Malted Fine Bill,” which met with such hearty approval at the previous meeting. HoAvever, it was not altogether coercion that brought Prof. Adelsperger out, but an uncon- trolable desire to come in on the “Thick Malteds.” ’Tis a poor rule that doesn’t work two ways. The club was successful in electing an exceptionally good line of officers for the ensuing year. President J. D. BroAvn has the club’s intersts at heart and will make a progressive head. He has already laid plans to extend the “Thick Malted” rule to apply to all honorary members and to Professor Giest. Vice-President H. A. Jopling is an expert in filling the chair in the absence of the president. Ben Irby, secretary-treasurer, has laid extensHe plans for the safe custody of the club’s funds—when it has any. The folloAving entry was made on the club’s records: Camp, T. R., to be sergeant- at-arms. After a short statement of the finan cial status of the 1915 Architectural Year Book, the club proceeded to elect 1916 edior and business manager. The editorship fell to Jopling, Avho has demonstrated his ability as this year’s manager. D. B. Milner was chosen new business manager. The club adjourn ed sine die. R. W. STILES, Sec. C. E. SOCIETY HOLDS ITS FINAL MEETING The C. E. Society held its last meet ing for this session Thursday evening. A short program was rendered and then officers Avere elected for next year. U. Stephens Avas chosen presi dent; E. L. Reisner, vice-president; T. W. Temple, secretary; A. A. Walker, sergeant at arms, and P. H. Olson, chairman of the program com mittee. The retiring officers com mended the socoety on its progress for this year and left Axords of en couragement for next year.