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Died. Peter Wiltberger Meldrim. 85, presiding judge of Georgia's Eastern Judicial Circuit, onetime (1914) president of the American Bar Association, onetime (1897-99) mayor of Savannah; in Savannah. After the Civil War in which he, 16, sniped at Sherman's troops on their way to the sea, he studied and practiced law, became a power in Georgia politics...
...much cheaper, yea, and more effective than wines. Perhaps today's undergraduate would carry his dypsomania with him into the dining halls. A great many sensible people feel that he would not, that encouraging the use of wine and beers in the dining halls would, as it were, short-circuit his craving for stouter stuff, and that the comparative austerity of the Houses would prevent unseemliness...
Those invited to be honorary pallbearers are Dr. Charles J. White '90, Dr. Herman T. Baldwin '91, Quincy A. Shaw '91, Matthew Luce '91, Judge James H. Morton '91, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Samuel D. Parker '88, Theodore G. Bremer '92, and Charles B. Barnes...
...Ernst Hallberg led off on Aida. a magnificent brown mare from the stables of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. No faults. Then Lieut. Herbert Sachs on the grey gelding Orient. No faults. Finally Count Gustaf Fredrik von Rosen on brown Kornett. In a breathless minute he, too. made a perfect circuit. No team could beat the Swedes. The Canadians, Czechs and Irish disqualified themselves from chances of a tie, even proud Gallowglass refusing a jump. It was up to the U. S. Lieut. E. F. Thomson on Tanbark, and Major John Tupper Cole on Avocat made their jumps perfectly. But Lieut...
...Dutch White was at that horse show too (he rode a Belmont mount then) and he has been at every horse show since. So has his assistant, lean, wrinkled Eddie Bauchard who trotted round the galleries in 1883 telling the gentlemen that smoking was forbidden. Nowadays he goes the circuit from Florida to Toronto, from horse show to horse show calling horses into the ring. Eddie Bauchard is as familiar to horsemen as Announcer Joe Humphries is to prizefighters. Impressive Reginald W. Rives, treasurer of the Association and amateur coachman, is another famed oldtimer. Treasurer Rives has spent much...