Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-24

| CIdCh uuISlhI 1u0 JOD was very u0dt1J uOu6. | A theory that is quite generally accepted l is that the thief followed Manager Mckay of | the F'Seven Ravens" to the hotel. He left | the Theater at a late hour with $950 in his ! pocket. As the office was closed when he \ arrived at the hotel he took the money to
 his room and locked and bolted the door se- curely. He also put a chair against the l door. The lock of his door exhibited in the l morning evidence of having been tampered | with. MT. Mckay had an attempt made to I rob him once before No trace of the thief had been obtained up to last night, nor is it l likely that there can be.
 PROFESSOR TwINING. A Sketch of His Career-Hts Life and ! Services.
 l On Saturday last New Haven lost by death 1 one of it's oldest and best known citizens, | Professor Alexander c. Twining. He was | born July 5th, 1901, in house, sometime
 the residence of Roger Sherman, which many f of our older citizens will remember as stand ! ing on the south side of Chapel street, in
 front of MT. Carlrs house, opposite South | college. He pursued his preparatory studies l at the Hopkins Grammar school in this city | and entered college in 1916, in the class of | which Dr. Leonard Bacon and President Woolsey were members. He graduated in ! 1920 and then studied theology at Andover 1 seminary. Returning to New Haven he ! served as tutor in Yale college for two years. ! Among his colleagues were President Wool \ ssy, Professor Solomon Stoddard, Henry White, Esq, and Chancellor Lathrop. Hay 1 ing decided to become civil engineer he ! went to West Point to prepare
 himself for his profession. He served his
 
 nia under General Clinton as his chief. His ! first independent work in his profession was | as chief of the survey of the Hartford 6 New Haven railroad. The locating of the lines of | this road was spoken of by one of the most distinguished engineers of the day as the finest piece of location in the world. Since ! that time Professor Twining has been en- ployed either as chief or as consulting engi- | neer upon every railroad running out of New Haven with the possible exception of | the Derby road. In like manner he f was engaged upon the northern lines
 running up the Connecticut river and through Vermont; upon the Lake Shore railroad, be- ! tween Buffalo and Erie; upon the roads be-
 tween Pittsburg, Cleveland and Columbus in I Ohio and upon railroads in Illinois and | Michigan. In 1852 he made an elaborate | report upon the sources of water supply of \ the city of New Haven, and at a later date prepared for the city a scheme for the | grades of our streets which was partially l adopted. 1 For nine years beginning in 1889 Profess or Twining filled the chair of mathematics \ and natural philosophy in Middlebury col
 lege. He resigned this position to give him self more exclusively to his engineering 1 duties.
 1 In November, 1883, while at West Point, | he observed the remarkable star shower of l that year, and at once saw the importance of 1 the fact that the meteor tracks radiated from a fixed point among the stars. This was the ! first definite proof that shooting stars are bodies coming into the air from outside | space, and that their discussion belongs to astronomy, not to terrestrial physics. During several years Professor Twining's l labor was mainly given to the development of his invention for the artificial production of ice on 8 large scale and with economy. For this he failed to secure pecuniary recom- l pense. The invention, however is one of permanent value to society and one with which the inventors name should be ever l identified.
 His mind was always active and intensely so. In theology, in astronomy, in mathematics, in physics and political science he never failed 1 to find subjects that interested him, and his views were often striking and original He was sef-reliant in his habit of mind and fol- lowed out his own lines of thought to their logical conclusions more than he assimilated the thoughts of others. In politics he was 8 Republican. In the steps that led te the formation of that party he was an active participant and he was the author of the first draft of the famous letter
 of citizens of Connecticut to President Blu chanan.
 Professor Twining was not merely Gn en-
 quirer and a man of science. To a few of
 his chosen friends he at times revealed
 glowing fervor of thought and 8 wonderful
 depth of pure tender sentiment He had a poets high ideal of life, Q womanly perfec- tion of beauty and of all that is pure ands good.
 He united with the Center church (of which his father was deacon) in 1820, about the same time that President Woolsey and Dr. Bacon united with the College church. He at first studied for the ministry. But though the ministry was not his ife-work his religion was always part of his life. He had strong sense of spiritual truth and that spiritual truth was the most important of realities His manner of presenting religious thought to other minds was pecu- liarly happy and he rarely failed d 1 to secure interested listener. Professor Twining married Miss Harriet | Apoua h1uSI0Jj O1 USSG IN. 4., March 2nd 1899. Three sons and four 1 daughters were born of this union. In 1852 l he removed his family from Middlebury, in | Vermont, to New Haven where they have 1 since resided. Mrs Twining died Oct. 18th, l 1871. One son died in the war; another, l Rev. Dr. Kinsley Twining, of the New York Independent, resides in Morristown, N. J and the third, s. Douglas Twining, M | D., has settled in Chicago.
 Captain Phillips Accidentally Hurt.
 Captain H. D. Phillips fell from high ladder Saturday afternoon while assisting taking down the Democratic banner on Church street. He sustained quite severe injuries, which will confne him to the house for several days. He is under Dr. F. H. Whittemores care.
 Home for the FrfendIess.
 The managers of the Home for the Friend less wish to remind the friends of this instf- tuition that their usual Thanksgiving gifts are much needed and that donations for this object can be left at Messrs. Judson Brothers, 5O5 State street, who have kindly consented to forward them to the home.
 Merfdenss Postomce.
 It is generally conceded by Meriden Demo-