The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-11
APPEAL TO The ALUMNI
GRADUATES OF PURDUE ASKED TO
AID GYMNASIUM FUND.
Merchants of Lafayette Contributing
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Exercises
to BE Held To-Day.
pecial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Nov. 10.-After the
Purdue memorial services tomorrow the
project to erect a gymnasium as a tribute
to the dead students will be taken up by
the faculty and be brought to a success
full issue. The plan is attracting attention
in every part Of the State and Purdue
alumni are assuring the promoters of their
support. The business men of Lafayette
nave not only contributed $500 for the
project but are preparing to raise another
amount to increase the fund. AS yet the
faculty has taken no action in the mat
ter except to voice their approval of the
plan and assume a united support, but a
permanent organization will now be eff
fected for the purpose of devising means
of raising the necessary amount. Mean
while the Purdue Alumni Association has
gone ahead and arranged to solicit SUBJ
scriptions from members of the alumni in
all parts of the country, and with that
end in view a copy Of the following let
ter was sent to each of the 400 alumni:
Dear Sir-For the sixteen persons whose
lives were lost In the disaster to the Pur-
due football special on Oct. 81 it is pro-
posed to erect a memorial gymnasium at
Purdue University as a suitable monument
to our dead athletes. The movement is
we'll under way among the citizens of La
fayette and 1t Is fitting that the alumni
of Purdue should be largely represented
in this movement. With this end in view a
committee has been appointed to solicit con-
tributiOns from the alumni and other for
mer students. You will find inclosed a SUBJ
scription blank on which you are asked to
indicate the amount you will give to this
memorial fund" Signed. Mrs. w. ]. Jones,
local secretary: HI. A. Huston, j. w. Noel,
X. E. Golden, H. III. Vinton, committee.
Arrangements We're completed to-day for
the memorial exercises tomorrow, and pro-
visions are being made to accommodate a.
great assemblage in Fowler Hall. Extra
seats are being placed In position, and even
with this provision 1t is probable that many
will be unable to get inside. President Stone
will deliver a formal address in the morning
and in the afternoon Oliver E. Cults, the
football coach, will speak. He will tell of
his relations with the dead and injured stu
dents Fowler Hall has been appropriately
decked in mourning. The classes will sit
Many members of the alumni living within
a radius of 100 miles are arriving in the
city TO attend the services.
Irwin S. Osborne. captain of the football
team, returned to the university to-day. He
was injured in the wreck and Went 10 his
home in Dover; O: to recuperate: He will
days. Fred Hawthorne, substitute end.
and Coach Cults also arrived In the city to-
day. the latter from his home ia Cambridge,
Mass. Cults will remain at the university
some time yet TO wind up the affairs of the
football team. 1t is likely that he will come
back to Purdue next year if Ii is decided to
nave a football team. A movement Is on
foot to make Dave Allen captain of the
1904 team for the purpose of starting a
movement 10 form another eleven next year.
Many stores will close In LAFAYETTE to-
morrow to allow proprietors and clerks to
attend the memorial services. Pupils at the
high schools of LAFAYETTE and West I.afay-
cite will attend.
RICHMOND, Ind, Nov. 10.-Prof. r. L.
Sackett left to-day for Purdue University
TO attend the memorial services to be held
tomorrow as a representative of Earlham
College. He will appear on the morning pro-
gramme and will read the resolutions re-
Gently passed by the Earlham students and
faculty.