The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-05
Uniuersity Calling
 War Students Home.

the car would fly down the track. On one of the longest down grades they had found the boys were rushing down the hill to the Cahaba River bridge. negro working in field nearby ran excitedly across the field waving his hands.
 'Marsters. Marsters." he called out, Jump. for Gods sake. De bridge over de river Is done burned.'
 And the boys jumped. They landed within a few yards of where the bridge had been. The empty, impro- vised hand car plunged over the brink from the broken rails to the water and rocks nearly fifty feet below. The boys shuldered as they looked at the awful precipice.
 If the negro had not given his time ly warning Montgomery would have lost two of It's future citizens. with their capacity for future usefulness. . License Inspector J. G. Cowan and Rev. G. w. Townsend were youthful passengers on that i'll fated hand car.
 Preparing for Reunion.
 At the University they are now pre- pairing for a reunion of war classes and they say this reunion in connec- tion with the laying of the corner stone of the Greater University will make the approaching commencement exercises the greatest in the history Of the institution.
 The war classes were composed of those students who were at the Uni versity in the classes of from 1865 to 1861. Special committees have been industriously at work to secure the attendance of as large a number or war time students as possible and they have every assurance that the work will be successful. They have written
 A- xnd asked their attendance. There are 150 of the students that cannot be located by the committees. The War Class students went away to the Confederate Army. Many of them never came back. Some of those who went into the army were never heard of afterwards. The register of students contains the names of scores of students who were killed in battle. But some of the students who became soldiers dropped complete ly out of sight and their names are printed on a list with the words ''ad- dress unknown" marked against them. The list has been published broadcast in the hope that some Of the un- known" may again become known to their comrades.
 The committee on arrangements which is preparing Tuscaloosa for the thrush of old students is composed of E. IN. Cs SnOWs CIditihdhy II. W ker, John A. Caldwell Walter Guild, A. F. Prince, W. S. Thorington and J. A. Ogburn, all of Tuscaloosa.
 President Hill Ferguson of the Alum nj Association. Prof. T. W. Palmer and E. F. Ellsberry. a well known alumnus of the University. have been compiling the lists of the alumni. col lecting information and writing let ters of urgent invitation to all the old time war students at the University Many of these students it is said, have never seen the college campus since the Federal soldiers, destroyed the old University. There Is strong hope en- tertained that the class reunions will bring back to the elms more of the old boys than ever attended com mencement.
 The list of students Of the year 1865, graduates and undergraduates has a special interest for Alabamians, not only because the present Governor was a student at the time, but because the roster bears the names of other prom inent men of the State. One of the graduates of that year was Colonel George Legare Conner, a brother of Governor Conner, who was an under graduates in the University. Another graduate of the same year was Repre- sentative Sam Will John. of Birming- ham, a personal friend and political ally of the head of the present admin istration. Among the living graduates