Brown and White Vol. 18 no. 13

              havana october 26th to the editors of brown and white we made a prompt start from new york on the 21st and have enjoyed good weather all the way down the apprehensions that some of the party entertained of meeting a heavy ocean swell following the storm proved groundless we have a great party aboard ; the official list shows 121 in all of whom 28 are wives of members and 8 are — well — we ma call them prospect ive wives of members — young la dies accompanying friends and who from their charming presence should certainly be secured and en rolled as permanent members of the organization this leaves 85 members of the weaker male sex tc complete the roll i hear there is to be a debate at one of the evening gatherings on board on the suf fragette question so we may as well start modestly from the male end lehigh is well represented lam proud of our showing in this gath ering of distinguished engineers from all over the country the rep resentation by states is — new york leads with 36 ; pennsylvania comes next a close second with 33 ; then follow colorado and virginia with 7 each ohio 6 district of columbia and new jersey 5 each ; massachusetts and minnesota 4 each michigan illinois wisconsin nebraska and w 7 est virginia 2 each ; kentucky montana and del aware 1 each lehigh contributes 13 to this ag gregation — f l clerc c e 71 civil and mining engineer colora do it s drinker e m 71 and mrs drinker w a lathrop c e 75 presidfe f , lehigh coal & nay co and mrs lathrop j s cunningham m e 77 x j southern representative of e i behind coal lands and mrs cunningham > prof j w richards a c 86 m s 91 ph d 93 lehigh uni versity h a j wilkins 13 s 87 e m 88 consulting mining en gineer new york ; s d warriner b a amherst b s e m lehigh 90 vice president and general manager lehigh valley coal co and mrs warriner ; j elmer jones ex-'92 lehigh 3 years ; columbia e m mining engineer supt mill creek coal co hazleton pa ;. robt c sahlin ex-t3 penna dr r w ray mond hon ll d 06 i have filed with the council the application of our lehigh mining and geological society for affiliated membership in the institute and it will doubtless be acted on favorably in due course we reached havana yesterday the 25th about 10:30 a m some six and a half hours ahead of sched ule time thanks to the kindly seas through which we passed we are anchored near the wreck of the maine which stands partly out of the water the united states en gineers have commenced work on the coffer-dam which is to surround it the plans approved by the u s engineers involve the construc tion of a coffer-dam enclosing the wreck the borings when com pleted will determine the exact out lines of the dam it will be about 500 feet long and 200 feet wide and will be formed of circular cais sons 75 feet high and 40 feet in diameter set close together and in terlacing so that in plan their sec tions suggest a string of closely set beads these caissons will extend down through 35 feet of water 15 feet of harbour silt and 25 feet into the nearly uniform layers of clay which as shown in the ores brought to the surface appear im pervious to water water and har bour silt will be pumped out from the caissons and they will be filled with sand pumped in no portion of the wreck has been found at greater depth than the bottom of the harbour silt when the wreck is enclosed the water will be pumped out and the disposition to be made of the wreck can then be determined by con gress about three months is the time estimated as necessary for the completion and pumping out of the coffer-dam the board of engineers has rec ommended that any portion of the maine which can be raised after the examination and recovery of the remains of its dead be carried out to sea and solemnly consigned to the keeping of the ocean's depths i think we should all rejoice that our government has at last taken the necessary steps to clear up the mystery of the blowing-up of the m.aine i have never believed that it was done or instigated by the spanish they may be a cruel peo ple but they have ever been chival midshipmen win from lehigh by score of 30 to 0 lehigh went down to defeat last saturday at the hands of the strong annapolis team by a score of 30-0 the first period of play was the best and closest of the game lehigh playing first-class foot-ball and holding the navy players down to a single field goal by cobb in the second period dalton replaced cochran for the navy and scored a touchdown and a field goal fum bling by both teams was much in evidence during this period and pre vented lehigh from getting near the midshipmen's goal line in the third quarter the brown and white team seemed to go to pieces and dalton and sowell both crossed our goal line with the ball the fourth quarter gave dalton another oppor tunity to cross our goal line and also to kick a splendid goal from place ment from the 38 yard line the line-up : n avy lehigh hamilton . . . left end wood king left tackle vela wright left guard reese weems center . wylie brown right guard . . . harwig davis right tackle black gilchrist .... right end wood sowell . . quarter-back .... price cochran left half-back . . . dunn clay right half-back dobbins rodes full-back ..... goyne substitutions : downs for wylie donaldson for price rinehart for quin goyne for dobbins cox for goyne cobb for hamilton elder for cobb dickson for elder meer ing for wtight wakeman for brown douglass for davis latti more for 1 douglass dalton for cochran erwin for clay mc reavey for rodes touchdowns : dalton 3 sowell goals from touchdowns dalton 1 goals from field dalton 2 cobb referee poe princeton umpire armstrong yale field judge kussig cornell time of quarters 12 minutes each y m c a meeting shellenberger 14 was the lead er of the sunday evening y m c a meeting in drown hall he gave a very interesting account of the recent y m c a convention in toronto wright graham and secretary platt also gave short talks on this subject telling of the scope and growth of the work and of the powerful men who are in terested in it on the return trip the lehigh delegation stopped off at buffalo and visited the associa tion building there the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday november 8 1910 lehigh defeated at annapolis vol xviii a letter from dr drinker first college lecture given recital of kipling's poems by henry hadfield henry j hadfield the well known interpreter of modern dra matic poetry gave a recital of se lections from kipling at eleven o'clock friday morning in the chapel mr hadfield's fifteen years experience in leading shakes pearean and modern roles on the american and british stage has em inently fitted him for the profession he has chosen a brief sketch of kipling's early life dealing especially with the facts that led him to devote his ef forts to literary work headed the program in the costume of a british infantryman mr hadfield recited the two famous poems tommy and gunga din af ter an explanation of what was to follow he reappeared dressed as an anglo-indian and recited paget m p and study of an elevation in indian ink in ordinary dress he rendered the conundrum of the workshops the neolithic age and the story of uriah st andrew's hymn he recited in the costume of a ship's engineer in the character of the pirate of the spanish main his selection was the ballad of fisher's boarding house the final number on the pro gram the far famed ballad of the east and west superbly rendered by mr hadfield was beyond a doubt the most interesting of the series the costumes in every instance were true to life the adaptation to the characters was good and the entire program was unique and in teresting glee club final trials for the glee club were made on saturday afternoon and resulted as follows : first tenor camp fuller peters and souther land ; second tenor buckley comp ton francis hunter and terwilli ger first bass lambert mitman shaw staab and wilson ; second bass ackerly atkins babcock bowman and schall the next regular rehearsal will be held on wednesday at 2 45 in drown flail all men who are not present at every rehearsal will be dropped this rule will apply both to the glee club and minstrel asso ciation w a tener a former foot-ball and trade man at lowa state and now in the christian association work in manila will be here on tuesday and wednesday continued on second page canal zone meeting of the american institute of mining engineers no 13 victory will be the reward of confidence