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Later than it does to most men, Death came last week to Chauncey Mitchell Depew, after-dinner orator, optimist, railroad lawyer, spectator of U. S. national affairs since the Mexican War, aged 94 years less three weeks. A bronchial infection, picked up after a winter in Florida, turned into pneumonia in Manhattan. Two bishops and a Fifth Avenue rector officiated at the funeral service. Thousands of dignitaries attended or despatched their respects...
...have lived long because I could laugh at anything," Chauncey Depew used to say. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst writer, who usually has a pat last word to say on any subject, observed that Napoleon, who seldom laughed, did not live 93 years but that "he did live more in one day than amiable Mr. Depew in all his 94 years...
Nevertheless, Chauncey Mitchell Depew's was a full life, based on an alert brain, a well-guarded stomach and a useful diaphragm. The diaphragm's usefulness was revealed to him by a schoolmaster at Peekskill, N. Y., his birthplace. The other schoolboys recited their orations. Chauncey would offer original compositions. His master began an oratorical training which was completed at Yale and on the political stump. He declaimed his way into the New York Assembly. On the advice of Commodore Vanderbilt, whose railroads he was to help run for the rest of his life, he renounced politics...
...held. The veteran hurlers who reported for the first practice of the year were F. B. Cutts '28, R. R. Ketchum '29, Howard Whitmore '29, E. L. Malloy '29, and W. S. Hardie '30. The following aspirants for the catching berth, left vacant by the graduation of Henry Chauncey '27, reported to Coach F. F. Mitchell: R. H. Barbour '30, R. W. Turner '28, D. P. Donaldson '28, and W. W. Lord '28, who will give up his regular position in the outfield to make a bid for the backstop post...
...Giddens '29, John Prior '29, E. J. Steptoe '30, and R. W. Turner '28 are possibilities to fill the backstop's berth left vacant by the graduation of Benry Chauncey...