New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-16
Personal.

esreaLinp Of Clarence Hale, a brother of Senator
Eurene Hale whom President Roosevelt has ap-
pointed to be the United States District Judge OF
Maine The Portland Argus says: IN leaving
the bar for the bench MI Hale, If Is understood Is
resigning one of the largest and most lucrative
practices enjoyed by any lawyer in the State Mr.
Hale is not without experience in municipal ousl-
ness. having been CITY Solicitor of Portland LOT
years Afterward he became member OF the
State legislature serving from 1883 TO 1872 making
his mark as a strong debater and sound lawyer
But while the law has engaged his close atteh-
ton NJ. Hale has found time TO indulge somewhat
his literary and scholarly tastes. more particulars
in the line OF historical study. He is member or
the Maine Historical Society and has one OF the
best private Libraries in the State Mr.; Hale mas
of the State which has favored his appointment
with practical unanrnity, and extends 70 MN iIS
cordial good wishes in entering upon the Judiciai
career before him.
Lady Russell of Kilowen has Just witnessed the
completion Of the memorial placed upon her hus-
bands grave in the Epson cemetery. The cross
now set in its place is reproduced from drawings
Lady Russell had made after ancient pattern
still to be in the cemetery or the ruined Alb
hey Of Clonmacnoise on the banks OF the Snan,
grave IS also coDied from an antique irish grave
stone, and the little wall Of Enclosure round the
the late Lord Chief Justices own Newry Noun
tars.
The Rev. Joseph S. Lord. of Laingsburg. Mich,
who is believed to be the oldest graduate Of Yale
dent Hadley of that institution: MY Dear Sir: In
behalf of Yale University / giving myself the
pleasure of sending Fluctuations to its Oldest living
graduate the completion of his ninety-Tourtn
year. Faithfully yours. Arthur T. Hadley-' Mr..
Lord entered Yale in 1927 and was graduated in
1881.
Game Commissioner c. x. Sober. of Lewisburg.
Penn, known as the Chestnut King account
of his extensive and successful venture in the new
field of raising improved variety of chestnuts.
has been engaged by the national authorities at
Washington 10 prepare for gratuitous distribution
a report TO be issued on chestnut culture
The Rev. DR.. William Howe. of the Broadway
Baptist Church. of Cambridge, Mass. ninety
six years old on Sunday. and preached to his con-
sregaton usual He the first pastor OF the
church, and is said to be the oldest Baptist minis
ter in the country.
President David Starr Jordan. of Stanford Uni
verstty, accompanied by his wife and young son.
sailed from San Francisco for Samoa on the
steamer Sierra Thursday, The family will spend
the summer the island AS head of the fish
commission President Jordan will make
haustive collection of the fishes of the South Sea
Islands for later study and classification. Profess
Vernon Lyman Kellogg. head of the entomol-
ogy department, and Mr.. SindOw. japanese scieu-
fist and student the university. will assist DR.
Jordan in this work.
Professor Charles Rockwell Lannan is the sec
ond American to be elected member Of the Royal
Asiatic Society. He is professor of Sanscrit in
Harvard University.