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Timson, Lyman T. Whitehead, are all engaged in various manufacturing industries. Lew E. Holland is connected with the Parmalee Company, Warren A. Johns is w^ith Donnelly, the directory company, and the struggling Standard Oil Co. w^ill be unable to declare over a 400 per cent dividend because Lawrence M. Kiplinger is here.

Benj. W. Landborg is in the shoe business, but cannot buy shoes as cheap as the quartermaster at the Camp sells them. Howard J. Liston is an electrical engineer by profession and a soldier by preference.

Many of the streets w^e travel over are easy to manicure because James S. McCann induced the municipal authorities to use brick as a pavement.

Richard S. McConnell and John P. Tansey, members of the Iroquois Club, prefer politics to golf as a pastime.

William McCredie put in nearly a week digging trenches and showed fewer blisters than any man in the squad. Do you recall the candidate who threw clay in cadence, had a handkerchief tied across his forehead, and unconsciously impersonated one of the trio representing "the Spirit of '76"? His name was Charles E. Owens.

George R. Becker is a professional singer, whose voice has as much charm in congenial company as his rifle aim has terror for the enemy.

Arthur A. Gelatt is an expert on advertising, and the Panhandle railroad lost a good yardmaster when Patrick J. Sweeney offered his services to Uncle Sam.

Victor O. Crane is a theatrical manager, and he never engaged a better "on the march" singer than Henry S. Kingw^ill of the 10th squad.

Several student officers are also students in civil life. They are: David W. Beckwith, William H. Eastman, August L. Sundvall and Walter I. Uden.

Urban G. Willis is the dean of the Pullman Manual Training School. Otto A. Birr, Waldo H. Drake, Eugene Selleck, Warren M. Nutter and Arnold E. Heeter are instructors in various educational institutions. If it is more blessed to give than to receive surely they enjoy an enviable state of pleasure.

George W. Trickey w^as the State of Michigan Commander of Spanish-American War Veterans and is the purveyor of good cheer in the barracks. Sidney J. V. Bovey is a member of the Veteran Corps, 1st Regiment, I. N. G. Rowland P. Manuel is a professor of music, and can keep his end up in a trench with William H. Collins, a civil engineer.

Harry E. Rice belongs to one of the best squads in the company and he helped make it so.

John R. Boston understands construction w^ork to the last letter, while Curtis H. Brainard has spent his years of study in metallurgy.

Nathan G. Nelson is an accountant for the Western Union.

Charles E. Turner was the sergeant in charge of equipment during the first week of Camp, and his genial manners made many a candidate feel more at home than would be possible to were a less pleasant or capable man in charge.

Michael Callahan dispatches trains, Orville Bunnell advertises good shows, William F. Conner is the able secretary of the Commercial Club of his town, and Willis E. Dick makes farming a pleasure.

Truman O. Pooler is a gardener, Allan C. Wilson is an engineering expert, and Edwin Zeleny conserves electrical energy for elevated railroads.

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