KENTUCKY KERNEL

PAGE TWO

Alumni fag?
Editor

Alumni Secretary

CALENDAR
(Second Satat
luncheon
12:00, Lafayette Hotel.
Buffalo, Feb. 14. (Second Satur1 :15
day Regular) luncheon,
p. m Chamber of Commerce,
corner Main and Seneca streets.
Chicago, Feb. 16. (Third Monday
Regular) luncheon at Field's
Grill.
Detroit, Feb. 27. (Last Friday-Reg- ular)
dinner at Dixieland

Lexington,

urday

Feb. 14.
noRiilnr)

Inn.
Somerset, March fi. (First Friday
Regular) 7:30 p. m. at Dr.
Norflcct's office.
Philadelphia, Mar. 7. (First Satat
urday Regular) luncheon
Engineers' Club, 1317 Spruce
Street.
THE LAND OF THE WATTLE
following, written by J. L.
Pinkcrton '14, nppeared in a recent
issue of a current magazine:
In these waters, by reason of the
strong currents, they continued, now
gaining, now losing in their course,
until on the day of the Nativity they
passed by the coast of "Natal," to
which they gave that name. Thus
it was that on Christmas Day, 1497,
Vasco dn Gama sailed by the coast
of the territory now known as the
Province of Natal and did not have
the good taste to stop!
Three centuries roled by and yet
the Terra do Natal remained a closed
book to Europe. It was only in 1821
that a serious effort was made to establish a settlement in the territory,
in which year a small band of adventurous spirits from Capo Colony
landed in the "Bay1 of Natal." This
expedition, destined to be the beginning of great things, was under the
direction of Lieutenant Farewell, R.
N. (indeed, what's in a name?). The
existing records have it that Farewell
built his camp on the site of the present palatial Town Hall, one of the
finest structures of the subcontinent.
A century of progress!
And Natal's sons have had impressed
minds, through the medupon their
ium of the Centenary Celebrations at
Durban, the great deeds of their
forefathers.
They are proud of the history of
Natal and well they may be. A
great and warlike people have been
conquered, and today a Zulu is more
remarkable as a rickshaw boy than
as the man behind the dreaded "assegai"; cities have been built and
prosperous communities have been
developed;
Natal has become the
"Land of the Wattle"; churches,
schools and even colleges have been
established; and Natalians are proud,
too, that in the "Bay of Natal" has
been developed the "first port in Africa Durban."
Right handsomely did they celebrate the Centenary! Many miles of
bunting and pennants enlivened the
workaday appearance of Durban's
principal streets by day and thousands of electric lights by night. The
four days set aside for the official
celebrations were a continuous round
of military reviews, unveiling ceremonies (at commemorative tablets)
receptions, balls,
nffipinl
luncheons,
tab-bfireworks displays and gigantic
thousands of school children
Some of the larger business houses
had made and displayed on the fac
ades of their buildings, enormous
paintings illustrating the progress
made since the arrival of the British
settlers in 1824; also portraits of the
nrominent pioneers. It is interesting
tn nnto that among the latter was
an American citizen G. C. Cato
who later became the first mayor of
Durban, and who assisted Dick King
to escape the Dutch outposters in
1824, when he started on his famous
Cane Colony (vide post).
The ceremonies were presided over
Hichness, Princess
Uv TTor Roval
Alice (sister of the King and wife
of the present Governor General, the
Earl of Athlone). Besides the local
officials and South African military
organizations, there, were present several units of the Royal Navy to do
honor to the memory of the hardy
nionnors of Natal. The United States
nlsn officially participated in the cole
brations in the persons of the officers
und men of the United States ship
Tronfnn.
As a consular officer has recently
remarked, every consul of an average
grade is constantly threatened with
an assignment to Durban, and when
he turns to that most interesting page
of the Journal and sees unuer mo appropriate heading: "Consul Joe Doe
to Durban," he prooamy says io mm
self that ho may bo next, and won
,w what the nlaco is like, anyway
Since "post reports" are uvailable
only in our consular Mecca, a brief
description of Durban may not bo
The

1824-192-

mniss.

First of all, Durban is a port; secondly, a watering place.
Natal is most fa
Commercially,
mous as the Land of the Wuttie, anu
n Us wnttlo bark (used In tanning)
passes through Durban; much of it
to the United aiaies Yet Natal is

I-

-

1?

not the home of the Wattle, the tree
being n native of Australia; but it
thrives so well In Natal that millions
of pounds of bark arc annually ex
ported to the former country.
Durban is the foremost bunkering
port south of the Equator in the Con
tincnt, and more thnn 1,000,000 tons
of cargo coal are annually shipped
thrntio-it. nearlv nil of which is
mined in Natal. Milions of bags of
miotics are shipped through Durban.
The word "miclics" is the Afriknnn's
translation of maize, which the Boers
have put into South African English
Durbnn is n modern city of 100,000
It is
inhabitants, of three colors.
nlso a rapidly growing city, and such
do not hnve "old quarters"; yet it is
not without local color. In the
section one may find stolid
litte brown merchants squatting
d
before their shops, us
unlly on an upturned box and under
a fez.
A wait of five minutes nt the busiest corner of the city (where consular
officers join the throng of straphang
crs) will bring you a view of a pass
ing Bantu belle in little more than
a loin coth and adorned with a cylin
drical headdress at east a foot long,
though her hair is less than two
inches in length, root and branch. At
her side may be swaggering a Bantu
bravo who has preceded her to civilization and who has acquired several
articles of modern clothing, among
them an English shirt, the extremely long tail of which he insists on
wearing 'outside his trousers. These
"braves" are the servants of Natal.
Native women are too good to work
(or too unintelligent).
And there are the rickshaw boys!
They are the most picturesque of all.
Imagine a
Zulu, bare of leg
and arm, with skins of small animals
and porcupine quills on which .ire
pasted tufts of feathers. As you pass
he cavorts within the shafts of the
rickshaw to attract attentiton and
emits sounds suggestive of an ox.
When you pass along the main
richshaw row, almost at the foot of
the statue of Queen Victoria, and look
over that line of stalwart Zulus, you
seized with a desire to have
looked upon one of the 44 men, chiefly
Boars, who in 1838 went forth with
muskets of that day and defeated a
great army of them under Dingaan,
actually leaving thousands on the
field, in avenging the treacherous
massacre of Piet Reteif and a party
of Boers. History tells us that be
fore the battle the little band prayed
fervently, promising their God that
if victory be theirs a temple should
be raised to Him and the day should
be marked as a day apart. Dingaan's
Day is now a national holiday in
South Africa, and there stands in
Pietermaritzburg a little church, me
morial to the bravery and piety of
the Boers. The capital of the union
of South Africa bears the name of
their valient leader Andries Pree- torius.
On the Esplanade at Durban there
has been erected a statue of a horse
man of a very weary horse and rider
a monument to the man and beast
who, while the Dutch were beseiging
the town in 1842, carried the call for
help through to Grahamstown in Cape
Colony in ten days, across scores of
streams and over GOO miles of roadless country. In Natal, Dick King's
Ride is like unto Pauul Revere s in
America, and though less spectacular,
as an example of sustained effort of
man and beast, is well nigh incom-- 1
parable.
In starting on his famous ride,
Kiner slinned away from the Dutch
at night and crossed the bay in a
rowboat, swimming his horse. The
man who rowed the boat for him was
none other than the American, G. C.
Cato, afterwards first mayor of Durcross-legge-

Amburgoy
Linville
is farming at
semester.
Rutherford B. Hays Is Principal of Monticello, Ky.
tho Butler High School at Princeton,
'21
Ky., this year.
Fred K. Augsburg has returned
M8
Ky.,
from Bnrbourvillc,
Harry L. Mllward Is with tho Wis- snlesmnn with tho Molso and Is now
Electric
consin Conl Corporation, Anco, Ky.
Ho was formerly with tho Carnegie
Chester B. Hamilton,
formerly
Steel Corporation nt Youngstown, O.
snlesmnn with the Korroct Klother
'19
compnny
of St Louis. Mo., Is now
Chnrles E. Planck writes: "I nm with tho Mlshawnkn Rubber company
running nn nvintion department weok-l- of Chicago. His headquarters
is
In tho Freo Press hero. Somo of Miami, Florida.
tho Journalists of tho fnmous '19 class
'23
might bo Interested. It nmounts to
Mary E. Lyons left Inst week for
nbout three columns weekly and Is by
myself and several others, maybe 25 Now York. Her address will bo 418
or 30 In nil. Devoted to anything Central Park West.
24
scronnullcnl except hot air."
Harvey P. Pettlt is head of tho DeThos. L. Garwood's newft address Is
partment of Mnthematlcs nt tho Illin- 2701 Fenwood avenue, Torro Haute,
ois Wesloyan University at Blooming-to.n- , Ind.
111.
He is living at 108 University
avenue.
"Tho modern dance is no dance in
20
Jay Leo Chambers Is teaching In tho first place, and when you havo fitho Normal School at Morehoad, Ky., nally learned it, it isn't modern any
this yenr.
more."

boys who see ahead is to get Colonel who was born at Verona, Ky., Jan
Robert A. Burton, of Danville, to uary 29, 1896, died nt Phoenix, Arienter the race for the legislature. zona, January 25, 1925.
Mr. Waller wns principal of the
The Advocate has not asked the Col
onel what he thinks about the matter, Casey county high school nt Liberty,
but a number of people have asked Ky., at the time of his failing health.
our opinion of him, which is good to He left there Inst June for Arizona
the superlative degree. However, we because of his health.
He graduated from Berea College
do not propose to take any hand in
before coming to the university nnd
who runs for the various offices.
"Colonel Burton is an alumnus of hnd since done n year's work on his
Centre College and also of the Uni- Master's degree nt Hie University of
versity of Kentucky. He did valiant Maryland. Ho wns a mcmber of
service for both institutions when Alpha Zeta nnd Delta Tau Dcuta
they hnd their stadium drives. He is fraternities of the university. He
a splendidly educated man and can was a Mason and n member of the
make a forensic speech. He has been Baptist church.
Mr. Waller as n student of the Veengaged nenrly all of his life in educational work and is n gentleman of rona high school wns chosen to repthe highest type. The past several resent them in the second year Latin- months he has been working for the Cacsas contest. He was successful,
General Educational Board of the winning the $5 gold medal. The next
Presbyterian church and good report year he went to Berea, where he re
comes from his work. If the Colonel ceived his diploma after being there
terms. After tak
gives heed to the importunities of one and one-ha- lf
college course ho
his friends nnd enters the race and ing the three-year- s
wins, he will make one of the most became a member of the faculty nnd
Boyle county wns presented a scholarship for the
able representatives
hns ever had."
summer term in Cornell University.
He wns nlso given n trip to Cnlifor
nin by way of Great Salt Lake, Na
tional park and other points of in
tercst. After receiving his B.S. do

six-fo-

ban.

M.
IS

J,

CRUTCHER
APPOINTED

Is New Supt. of Build
ings and Grounds at
University
Maury J. Crulcher '17 of Lexington, was appointed to fill the vacancy
in the office of the Superintendent
of Buildings nnd Grounds, caused by
the resignation of Mr. A. O. Whipple,
nt a meeting of the executive committee of the University of Kentucky
hold Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Whipple, who had held this position for
about seven years, had wired a request from Seattle, Wash., to President McVey, asking that be he relieved of his duties hero in order to ac-

com-pnn-

y

Denr Alumnus:
y?V h,nvo ,"formn,t'on "bout any of tho alumni listed below, kindly fill
out tho
and mall it to tho Alumni Offlco:
Clarence Barbour Shocmnker '15 Is now located at
.

Newell Pemberton

SmltPlG

Is now iocatod

,

grce here he began teaching again. Arthur Eugene Wegert '15 "is "now "'iocatod "nt"
He is survived by his wife, formerly Miss Eva Wesley '23, whom Rnlph Emerson Bltner '1C Is now ioca'ted'at"
he met while both were students nt
Norberto Devera 'ii Is now located
Berea.
o

l

Hunt Frost '16 is now iocnted at Z
Lognn Nourso Green

CLASS PERSONALS
John

Mrs. Bessie Fogcl Judd

Charles Frank Kumli

74
'

Is now iocatod

'1G

'1G

'1G

at

Is now iocnted" at"

Is now

located at

received his Benjamin Harrison Mitchell 1G Is now iocnted nt
Lb. 13. from the University of Louis
ville in 187G is practicing attorney nt William Harrison Mitchell '1G Is now located at
Owensboro, Ky.
'92
Gcorgo Pago Neagle '1G Is now located at
William S. Page, who has been de
puty Collector
U. S Orvillo Robert. Willctt '1G Is now Iocnted nt
of Customs,
....
Treasury department, Danville, Wash.,
for Homo time, now has offices in suite John Henry Williams '1G Is now located at ..I
20G Federal building,
Everett, Wash.
Ho is living at IISSO Hoyt avenue. Mr. Carrie Francos Blair '17 Is now located at ...
Page is Secretary of the Class of '92.
cept a position offered him in that
Benjamin Franklin Foster '17 la now located nt'
city.
DUES AND KERNEL S2
"
Jesse Forrest Gregory '17 Is now located nt
Mr. Crutcher, who will assume his
new duties at once, is a graduate of
94
Ronald Hutchinson '17 Is now located at
the college of Engineering and for
Natlinn A. Newton is Sales Manager
the last two years has been in the of tho National Transit Pinup and Ma- Elmer Burton Jones '17 Is now
located at
employ of the Louis des Cogncts chine company, IS North Petroleum
Company of this city. He had charge street, Oil City, Pa. Mr. Newton re- James William Norrls '17 is now located at
.....
of the building of the new stadium ceived his M. E. degree In '99.
'96
here last fall, and his constant watch
Burton F. Williams '17 is now located at
Woods
John
that details were worked out accord- offices W. 112Vj is nn attorney with
North Winchester George Clifton Bradley '18 is now located at
ing to specifications showed that he nenue, nt
Ashlai'd", Ky. His residence
was more than ordinarily interested address is 730 Ej .' latn avenue.
Henry J. Koibe '18 is now located at""ZZZZ
in the stadium being a success.
'02
Previous to his employment by the
Flemnn C. Taylor, who received his Minnie Evelyn NeVHIe 'IS Is now
located at
local contractors, Mr. Crutcher had M. E. in "05, is Traveling Mechanical
been for a time connected with the engineer villi the American Wato" Constantino Nlckoljoff 'IS Is now located at '.
Electiic company, f0
Ford Motor Company of Detroit, and Woiks .tp.'
before that was with the New York Proad street, New York City.
Todor Nlctyoloff 'IS Is now located at
'06
Engineering
Corporation,
Carrier
Byron K.CIelland, whose nudre?3 Arnold Henry
Webb '18 is now located at
where he was rated very highly. He tins been vilngtag for some time in the
was also at one time general man- Alumni Otfice, is now Jiving on the
Ruby Karl Diamond '19 Is now located at
ager of the Mercury Body Corpora- Pichmond 3: ad. where he Is ta.inlng.
'07
tion of Louisville.
William Whitfield Elliott '19 Is now located at
Mis. Thomas Jordan, formerly Flor
He married Miss Vie Tolen Cramer
of Murfroesbaro,
'17, June 1, 1918, and they live at once M. Maddocks
Ola Logan FIgg '19 Is now located at
Venn , la now Hring at Yaraa, Ariz ,na.
051 Elsmere Park.
Elizabeth McGowan '19 Is now located at
DON'T FORGET DATE OF U. K.
BANQUET
APRIL 23
Mose Smith '19 Is now located at

DETROIT
CLUB
HOLDS ELECTION

A. Dean,

who

'08

i

Frank H. Graham, Telephone Engineer of the Western Electric company,

463 New York City, is now living In
CI, 312 West lOOth straat.

Carl Albert Timmer '19 is now located at
Cardwell Douglas Triplett '19 fs now located

at

Apartment

Herbert Proctor Haley '20 Is now located at
09
Charles A. John's residence has been Ruth Phyllis Hoag '20 Is now located at
recently changed to 214 South 8th avenue, LaGrange, 111. He Is Chief of the Jos. Stuart Mlsrach '20 Is now located at
Price Standardization and Price Poll- ties division of the Western Electric Jno. Caleb Morris '20 Is now located at
Henry J. Beam '22, was elected company, Hawthorne Station, Chicago,
Morris Vilcofsky '20 is now iocatcd at ..
president of the Detroit club at the 111.
'10
meting held the last Friday in Janu
Ben II. Logan of 380 Reed avenue, William Yourlsh '20 Is now located at
ary at Dixieland Inn. Dr. Inga M. Akron, Ohio, is Works Manager of the
Werness '05 was elected
Imperial Electiic company of that city, Reginald Ernst DeAItry '21 is now located at
dent and C. M. Hargreaves '20 was lie married Miss Mary D. Bailey. Aug'
elected secretnry and treasurer,
ust I, 1914, and they havo two chil- Gustavo Berry Foster '21 is now located at
Eleven members and vistors of the dren: Ken II. Jr., 7 and WInford B 5,
Jesse Otto Osborne '21 is now located at
club were present. IS. A. Meadows
'22, traveling for the R. A. Jones HAVE YOU SENT IN YOUR STADIUM PAYMENT?
Emmet Otis Shultz '21 Is now located at
Company of Cincinnati, was in De
troit on business and had dinner with
Mary Theressa Ross '21 is now located .at
12
Others present were
the club.
Mrs. It. H. Combs, who has until re
Showdy Puckct, II. O. Wagner, II. contly been on tho "lost list" is now
B. Wilmott, C. E.. Taylor, E. II. Clark, living nt 340G Cluremlon Road, Cievo
C, E. Planck and Thomas E.
land Ileinhts, Ohio.
Mrs. Werness is now registrar
13
professor of
Leo Hunt, usslBtnnt
of the College of Medicine of the
Education at St. Lawrence University,
City of Detroit. Beam is local manAlvey Ferguson Com- Canton, N. Y writes as follows In re
ager for the
pany, handling conveyors, and Har- souse to a "Secretary" letter:your per
the letter and
"Thanks
greaves, besides being a very new soiial note. for always en'ov any news
I
husband and head of a home, is with from Kentucky and especially from the
the Dodge Brothers automobile com- University, The sentiments In your
pany. Tho others are n the same po- letter regarding tho Cluss of 1913 are
750 Frelinghuysen Avenue,
sition as previously reported.
the same as mine and It my dues will
Detroit alumni will make an effort help keop up our reputation hero thoy
Newark, N. J.
this year to have tho seniors of tho are.
I read with Interest all news of tho
university visit here on their annual
University and especially of tho foot
Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia
trip. Thoy believe that every pos- bull and other athletics. I, too, hope
sible type of factory can bo found in to see some gumes hi tho now stadium
Detroit and that it forms a conveni sometime
MANUFACTURERS OF WEATHER
ent point of their itinerary on tho
Wo are having ono terrible winter
way home from Buffalo. Tho few un horo. Lots of snow blocking high
alumni in Detroit boliev they can ways and at times railroad traffic. Wo
TO MAKE "EVERY DAY A GOOD DAY"
oru papers
havo received no Now
entertain the seniors and prove a
Tho tempera
can do anything from ad- sineo lust Wednesday.
vertising calves to handling conven- turoj on that morning was 42 degrees
below zero. How's Hint.'"
with the help of the following Kentuckians:
tions.
TIiIb letter was written Monday,
February 2.
'15
J. E. Boling, ' 5
J. I. Lyle, '96
Ward L. Euband, ox- - of Indianapolis
Ind.. who Is connected with tho Long
E. T. Lyle, '00
H. Worsham, '16

Alumni Make Effort to
Secure Visit From
Seniors

vice-pre- si

War-noc-

FORMER STUDENT
TO BE CANDIDATE
Col. R. A. Burton to be
in Race for Repre-

sentative
Colonel Robert A. Burton ex-'9of Danville, distinguished educator
and military nstructor, stated Tues
day that he will be a candidate for
nomination, said to be
Democratic
equivalent to election, for represcnta
Boyle county.
Colonel
tive from
Burton'a decision comes in response
to the call of newspapers in Boyle
county thnt he. offer for the egisla
turo. It is not expected that ho will
have opposition. Colonel Burton is
also an alumnus of Centre College.
The following, taken from the Ken

tucky Advocate (Danville) of last
Saturday, indicates the home town
standing of Colonel Burton who, in
his school days was a reporter on the
Lexington Transcript:
"The past few beautiful days have
gotten the politicians congregating
upon the streets, and when they get
together there is always something
Imtriied un. The matter that has
been engaging the attention of the

Carrier Engineering
Corporation

U. K. GRADUATE

DIES IN ARIZONA
Harry

B. Waller Was

Honored Professor in
Kentucky

1

niuns-Gtoe-

Book company, of Chicago

reached Lexington Wednesday for a
stay.
Mr. Eubank Is tho son of R. S. Eu
bunk, former publisher of tho Kentuc
ky School Journal.

L. L. Lewis,

DON'T FORGET TO SEND IN YOUR
CLUB NOTES FOR THE KERNEL

J. R. Duncan, '12

N. O. Belt,

R. R. Taliaferro, '13

A. P. Shanklin, '23

"17

'07

R.

M. S.

Smith, '08

J.

R. L.

Jone, '12

W. B. Thornton, '21

Harry B. Waller, son of C. W. Wal - Albert S. Crawford is doing gradu
ler and Beatrice Waller, deceased, ate work at Columbia University this Il52525tS15252525252525Z525Z52525Z

mtt

Waterfill. '20
H. Bailey, '20

,

'22

.

*