This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------0754B8ACC36A1B39EB8D6152 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------0754B8ACC36A1B39EB8D6152 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com ([204.212.38.30]) by mtiwgwc03.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07.07 118-134) with ESMTP id <19990629193610.WOWC13781@bl-14.rootsweb.com>; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:36:10 +0000 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA25685; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37791EB0.78D6@futureone.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:29:52 -0700 From: "M. Clifton" <mclifton@futureone.com> Reply-To: mclifton@futureone.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Old-To: NYC-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [NYC] Columbia U. #3 Resent-Message-ID: <v39t3.A.8QG.n1Re3@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: NYC-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: NYC-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <NYC-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/16270 X-Loop: NYC-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: NYC-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by bl-14.rootsweb.com id MAA25685 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Here are a couple more items from Grandpa's scrapbook. Michele >From an invitation: October 14th, 1912 =93Officers, Graduates, Students, and Ex-Students, School of Architecture, Columbia University. Greetings: The Alumni Society, Columbia School of Architecture, cordially invites you to a =93Dutch treat=94 Beefsteak Supper in the Commons over Gymnasium= at a cost of $1.50 per cover. Following the supper the men will have an opportunity to hear and to meet Prof. A. W. LORD, the new head of our school.=94 (other info here) Cordially yours, Entertainment Committee, Alumni Society of School Architecture.=20 W. W. JACKSON, Sec. & Treas. 50 Beekman St., N.Y.C. E. L.. SATTERLEE 3 West 29th St., N.Y.C. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >From an unknown newspaper, July 29, 1913: Put College Theft on Ex-Army Officer Chase Britisher at Columbia and Find Him Hiding Behind Coal Bins Stolen Wallet on Him Police Send Word to New Haven and Cambridge, Where the Prisoner Has Journeyed =93The midsummer quiet of the Columbia University grounds was disturbed yesterday afternoon by the pursuit of a man by several students and instructors. The fugitive eluded capture for a time but eventually was traced to his hiding place and put under arrest. The police took a good deal of interest in the prisoner. In his pockets were found parlor car checks showing that the man who had fled across the Columbia University grounds had made several trips between New York and New Haven and New York and Cambridge, both college towns. =93The police of the West 125th Street Station in the last few months hav= e had sevral complaints of thefts at the university. In most cases these occurred when coats were in the gymnasium or other lockers, or were left hanging over the backs of chairs while students worked in the laboratories or drafting rooms. Thomas F. GIBSON of 420 West 121st=20 Street, a student at the Summer School, was working in the drafting room in Avery Hall yesterday afternoon. He hung his coat over the back of his chair. A stranger came along, leaned over his shoulder, and praised his work. GIBSON was annoyed and tried to get the stranger to go away, but withour success. At last GIBSON turned around. As he did so he touched the pocket where his wallet was kept, and found the wallet missing. The stranger hurried out of the room. =93GIBSON folllowed, not quite sure that he had been robbed. He was questioning the man on the stairs when Prof. C. A. HARRIMAN passed and overheard a portion of the conversation. He lost a pocketbook containing $30 a few weeks ago, and when he heard what the conversation was about he shouted to GIBSON to hold this man. At this the stranger bounded down the steps and ran across the campus to the near-by entrance at 117th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. he ran into 118th Street and disappeared into the cellar of 430. =93Detectives HAWKINS, DALY, and MC GRATH were called. They traced th= e fugitive to the cellar and finally found him behind some coal bins. He was taken to the West 125th Street Station. =93There he said he was Alexander L. FROST of 416 West 118th Street. H= e said he was a draftsman. Word of the arrest had sptead about the university. It brought to the police station Charles P. CHANDLER, who had lately lost $10 while working in Havemeyer Hall, and Thomas BYRON=20 of 569 St. John=92s Avenue, the Bronx. BYRON was swimming in the pool yesterday afternoon just before the arrest, and on going to his locker found his wallet missing. =93In searching FROST there were found on him GIBSON=92s wallet, containing among other things $5 and two tickets for the Winter Garden, and another black wallet which closely resembled BYRON=92s. The latter could not positively identify it, although it contained four $1 bills, as his had. There were also pawn tickets for a set of draughting instruments, and three pieces of jewelry, besides the parlor car checks. The police communicated with the Yale and Harvard authorities to ascertain whether there had been any robberies there lately. =93In the police station FROST showed great indignation because he was held. He said he had been a second lieutenant in the British Army and had been educated at the Royal Artillery School at Woolwich. He said he did not need to steal as his father was an eminent clergyman in England and his family sent him a large allowance every month. =93The police afterward made an investigation of FROST=92s room at 416 West 118th Street and from letters and effects found there, say that they are satisfied he was telling the truth when he said he was once an officer in the British army. There was also a Harvard year book on the fly leaf of which was written =93A. L. FROST - Graduate School of Applie= d Science.=94 They say they have looked up his record and found that on Aug. 19, 1912, he was sentenced to six months on Blackwell=92s Island for stealing at the Twenty-third Street Y.M.C.A. =93The police say that the prisoner=92s appearance tallies with the description given by Columbia students during the past few months after several robberies had been committed, of a man they suspected. This man posed as a student and was known as a =93good fellow.=94 The students at present at the institution would not necessarily know this man, as they are not the regular student body but members of the Summer school.=94 =3D=3D=3D=3D NYC-ROOTS Mailing List =3D=3D=3D=3D ROOTSWEB - http://www.rootsweb.com/ --------------0754B8ACC36A1B39EB8D6152--