1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

98 THE SCROLL.California—Samuel Benedict Christy, '74, as professorof mining in the University of California, directs the workof more students than are enrolled in any other school ofmining in the world. In the past nine years the studentsin his department have increased in number ten-fold. Mrs.Phoebe S. Hearst is erecting a mining building of graniteto cost half a million dollars, which will be ready for use byAugust, 1904.Ohio Wesleyan—Frank L. Davies, '82, was candidate formayor of the city of Danville, Illinois, on the Republicanticket last spring. Through the machinations of politicsand the opposition of the so-called ' liberal' element he wasdefeated by the narrow margin of 179 votes. He is a memberof the firm of Davies and Perkins, general contractors,rooms 312-313 Daniel Building, and has been a very successfulman in business.Emory—Judge William H. Thomas, '87, is making anenviable record in Alabama, and his reputation has spreadall over the Union. The following is a pointed editorialfrom the Brooklyn Eagle, of July 10, 1903:'The charge of Judge William H. Thomas to the grand jury inAlabama is a fine contribution to justice. Score it to the credit ofthat state. To read it is to admire it. To ponder it is to take hopefor the future. That country issafe of which the judiciary is strong,brave and true.'Richmond—John H. Read, Jr., '93, who is a second lieutenantin the Fourteenth Cavalry, U. S. A., stationed atFort Wingate, N. M., was married on June 2, 1903, at SantaBarbara, Cal., to Miss Marguerite Burruss, of Norfolk,Va. Lieutenant Read enlisted in the army in 1898, andserved in Puerto Rico with the Fifth cavalry. His risefrom the ranks was rapid, being successively appointedcorporal, sergeant and first sergeant, and finally, in 1901,he received his commission as second lieutenant. . ;. ;Ohio—William E. Bundy, '86, died suddenly in Qincinnati,at his temporary apartments in the Dennison Hotel ofuremic coma, due to acute Bright's disease, August 16,1903. At the time of his death he was United States attorneyfor the Southern Ohio district, colonel of the FirstOhio volunteer infantry and a trustee of Ohio University.He was one of the most brilliant members of the Cincinnatibar, and his untimely death cuts short what seemed destinedto be a career of unusual success in public life. A