The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-17
BR1DGT0N ACADEMY ALUMNI
Hold Reunion and Banquet at
Riverton.

hIVeft0n.
About $50 Were Present and a Most En-
joyable Evening Was Passed-Hanno
w. Gage Presided and the Speakers
Recalled Old School Friends and Life
at the Academy.
The Alumni of BridRton Academy who
live in Portland and vicinity, loyal to
that institution as are its children every
where, held a reunion last night at Riv-
erton and after an excellent dinner lis t.
ensd to feast of oratory and "Reminiscences
and organized themselves into an associ-
alton to work for the good of their alma
mater.
1t was gathering of the students of
old Bridgton the like of which has new
er beforel been seen. There were those
present. whose gray hairs told of school
days long since past. men and women
who have won honorable names for them
selves in almost every walk in life and
who, last night, renewed the associations
and acquaintance of their youth an d
tdlhSu.OtSE UAG 0uyS WAlOh oiO INV odAJ
hallowed in memory. Then there were
many younger faces to be seen. young
mel and women who have a later ac-
quaintancs with the balls of the old acad-
envy but who bear for it no less loyal
and abiding 1--we than do those who
knew it when it was much smaller
and less renowned Institution than it is
today.
The plan for reunion of the Brideton
Academy salumai who live hereahouts
has conceived and carried into execu-
tion by Messrs. James L. Rackleff, Alvin
o. Dresser, Wills P. Babb and Lleweuyn
Barton and Mrs. Whitman Sawyer, Mrs.
George II. Babb and Miss Lulu l. Hoyt.
They knew that many Of Portland
most prominent and best known citizens
had receive at lesst a part of their edu-
cation in this institution and determined
TO gather them togetherand bind them by
a chain of fellowship and fraternity
which mi CHIT prove of pleasure to them
selves ami result in good fer one Of the
oldest and best known academies IN the
Estate. Their effor is met with the grearest
success and to the invitations OF this
co mmittee came responses from all quar-
ters, either in the shape OF letters or re-
greet or by ii personal attendance.
Those who were present last night We're
the following:
Prof. Harry L. Chapman. Brunswick:
John A. Fogg, Eeq., Portland; c. 9.
Spratt, Nursh Berwick. Alphonso
Moulton: Eta A. Moulton, Harrison; W.
c. Osgood, Col AMI Mrs. Il. G. Osgood,
Mr.. W. E. Fulhsm. Mrs. F. S. kilbcrn.
B. G. Stone, Mrs. b. G. Stone, Mrs. K.
NJ. S. Mitchell, George F. Emery. Mrs.
Franklin Gibbs, Judge s. G. StTout.
Hapno W. Gage, Louise H. Gaze. Rev.
GeorIe NJ. Bodge. Jennie Dodge johnson,
Gorham; Abbis Sawyer. Gray; Amy N.
Furlong, Mollie g. Thompson, Portland;
Octovia LON bard, brooklyn, N. X; DIR.
LON bard. Mrs. LON bard, Pleaaantdale,
South Portland: W. p. Babb, Mrs. W.
T. I3ahb, Frank II. Haskell, Portland
Hartley L. Lord, saco; Lulu J. Hoyt,
4 lice 6. CAMEL, Long Island; G.. N.
Chase, Lewiston. Mrs. Wesley Wight,
Gorham, n. ii. Mrs. Alexander Findley,
Pc rtland; John NJ. Gould. Portland;
Amelia TwitcheN Gould, Portland; Asa
E. Abbott, Portland; Mabelle W. White
house, Portland; May Rankin, Portland;
VIM. g. Newball, Portland; SCOTT Will
s. on, Mrs. Elizabeth II. Wilson, Deering;
Mrs. Caroline III. Babb. Portland; Geo.
H. Babb. Portland; Mrs. Grace Newman,
Boston; Llewellyn Barton, Portland;
I'd ilton A. Cummings, Portland: Z. 4.
Tolman. Portland; W. G. Jefferds of the
Argus; Alvin G. Dresser, Mrs. j. Henry
lsn'l; Mrs Emma Tonpson, Myra A.
Rand, Mabel Dresser, Standish; Harriet
f. EASTMAN, Danbury; Maud II. Dresser,
Standish; Minnie L.. Anderson, Mira.
Nellie Webb Dresser. Portland; Isaiah S.
Webb, Bridgton: Linnie A. Golf, Mrs.
ii. H. Fogg. Portland; Clarence W.
Proctor, n. Windham; Maude S. Legrow,
WesEbrook Miss Florence d. Brewer, Fl.
NJ. Brewer, Portland; freeman n.
Brown, South Brighton; Lily Brown
Peabody; Boston; Susie Evelyn LARA
bee, Joseph S. Larrabee, Scarboro; Byron
X i'm ball. North Brifgton; George
Hszep. Oxford; James Il. Tolman, Mrs.
Fila e. Tolman, Westbrook; M. Alice
Dyer, Portland; Fl. A. Hall. Annie r.
Horr. NJ. D., Susie Hooper, DIR. Oscar
Akers, Westbrook: DR.. g. II. Gillander,
Boston: Dr. W. Fl. Kimball, II. Mason,
Rulnfor d Falls.
letter vera read from the following
prominent alumni who were unable to
be present: Rev Cyrus Hamlin, Licking
ton, Mass, Hon. Edward y. Brown,
Hon. Melville e. Ingalls,, Cincinnati,
O., donor of Ingalls, Hall Col F. Nj.
Drew, Lewiston, Hon. f. P. Burnham,
Ssco, Hon. Joseph T. Stearns, Lowell
Certer, Judge A. Fl. Walker. BTidgton
Isnac Bnsseit. Ohoat. Boston, Prof.
Willis Kemp, Permanent Secretary of the
Alumni Association, Springfield, Mass.,
Rev. George Lewis. South berwick and
others.
Mr.. Lewis spoke of the boys and girls
OF 1850; Choat recalled the fact that Just
''forty five years" ago he was student;
white DR.. Hamlen I'D it was "sixty-
seven years since he was IA student at
the academy and closed with 'wishipg
all an earnest jolly reunion" All the
letters and speeches breathed spirit of
devotion and affection for the old acadia
my.
The alumni journeyed out TO Riverton,
the beautiful pleasure garden of the
Portland St. Railway Co., In three spec
IL cars and arrived at the Casino at sew
ell O'Clock. The genial landlord, Mr..
Smith. had prepared one of his famous
dinners aud tho Large party seated itself
at the four long tables and did ample
justice to the feast. 1t was nine clock
before Hon. Hanno W. Gage, who otfici-
ated as toastmastsr, raped the assem-
hlnOp to order and onOpd Che most pruu