Stevens Institute of Technology - Link Yearbook (Hoboken, NJ)

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HORACE JONES HENRY R. SMITH THE SMITH-JONES MFG. CO. 'NJECTORS coN1nAc'ro s Fon atowsns vsNTu.A'rons BLAST Nozz,-ES ENGINEERS HYDnAul.uo AND EXHAUSTERS sPEcnAl. MAcn-umsav BRASS SYPHONS MACHINISTS FOUNDERS BRASS oAs'nNc.s Acm svn-lows up-ro 5.1:-oo I-as CONDENSERS ' Jones WATER coouzn GLOBE AND ANGLE VALVES Lonelyville, Texas, March 7, 1895. My dear Mr. Editor: Yours of the second received. It is hard to realize '96 is getting out a Link, and you are editing it. By Jove! Why, you were only a Sophomore last time I saw you! It will give me great pleasure to send you an account of my brilliant career since I left old Stevens, only don't print my name, please. The pyrotechnic display of last June resulted in my coming down with the sticks, after recovering from the shock I sought rest in a vacation which I intended should be a long one. The old gentleman, however, cut it short by telling me that if I loafed I must pay my own bills. This caused me to leave the seashore rather hurriedly and with hardly a word of good-by to Nel-you know whom I mean, my boy, and as this is for publication I'll omit names. No, not to be congratulated yet. Oh no! A fool of a man who has been out of college ten years and has piles of money came along and spoiled all my plans. I came right down to the city and began to look for a pgsition. I first visited Mr. Strong, president of the P. D. 8 Q. R. R., an old friend of the family, at least so father said. Mr. Strong was busy, quite busy, but spared time enough to tell me that though he would be glad to do anything for the son of such an old friend of his, he was sorry that, owing to the hard 1 I 2

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Asszlvfanf in Ajblbfzkvi E!r'cz'1'z'cz'z'y.' GURDON M. MAYNARD. f1zsz'1'2zcZz'7zg Me6ha1zz'6 in IfV07'ksk0j1s.' MA1'HEXV LACKLAND. A J. w a AW ' ' 7, Ellunmi Elgeociation. fl! WIIALIAM HEXVl1 l', '74, - . . 1'n's1'dwz1'. HARRY DU B. PARSONS, '84, . f I.l'5f I 'fn'-l'1'v.v1'a'w1f. A. RIICSENIBIQRGER, '76, PHILLIP E. RAQUE, '76, J. DAY FLACK, '87, XV. H. BRISTOI., '84, Ifbr I-wo years. .HARRY VAN .A.'.l l'A, 'S 1, A. A. D13 BoNN1cx'u,LE, . Sevoun' I 'in'-I'1'vs1'df11t . Cnr. Sf'r1'4'f1I1j'. Rae. Sn'n'fa1j'. . . Y 'rm.v1m'1'. Eirectors. IGH' nl1f 1'f'fzr. XVILLIANI SHIQLDUN, '78, '78, JOSICPII A. 3IcEI.Rm', '87 Il

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times, etc., etc. However, I still had to see Mr. Wicks, vice- president of the Jerusalem Iron Co., Mr. Oldham, chief engineer of the Whyckihoo Engineering Co., and numerous others. I saw them all inside of three days. We will let that subject drop. I spent three or four very pleasant weeks getting letters of introduction and presenting them, and-looking for more letters, I also spent several evenings with a pipe in my mouth and murder in my heart. while I forced myself to realize I was not UThe Boy Wonder, or, from Mechanic to Chief Engineer in a Year.H I finally took a position-J say took because as soon as it was offered to me I grabbed it, and I still have it. Oh yes, I like the work, but an answer to your question about salaryl would rather, if you please, not give for publication. I am expecting a raise. This town is-- I don't suppose the word would look well in print. Why, lightning wouldn't strike it! The tobacco is terrible: no cigars to be had that would not affect one's mind to smokeg the whiskey-save the name! And the prettiest woman in town looks like the cross section of a stroke of paralysis. I would give my best pipe for a glass of good old Hoboken beer, and oh, for a decent cigar! You ask what studies I had at Stevens that I make the most use of. At present. steam-fitting and bluffing. What do I hear from the rest of the class?' Oh, too much for this letterg some are doing well, others are doing nothing. . Thereg I'm too tired to write more. Give my regards to the Profs, with exceptions of courseg remember me to the men I know. Dear, dear! I suppose you've got a fresh supply of green things! How do you stand them? Your very sincerely. X. C. FOUR. P. S. You haven't a five you could lend me for a couple of weeks, have you? X' C- F- I