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Your last paragraph suggesting the excursionists riding in the cab and the bleachers on the tender for further excursions was amusing and perhaps a little nearer to the truth than your writer imagined. Several of the younger passengers discovered the front baggage car door unlocked and rode some 15 or 20 miles on the back of the tender on this last excursion. The preference for soot and cinders rather than coach facilities was discouraged by one of the train's crew and the door was locked.
A. C. KALMBACH
Editor
The Model Railroader Wauwatosa, Wis.
Boosters
Sirs: It was with great interest I read on p. 59 of TIME for Oct. 19, the item entitled "One-Day Railroaders," for as Program Chairman, and Past Chairman of the New York Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, I have handled the details of a number of such trips, and cooperated with the railroads operating them, out of New York, during the past two years.
The Chicago Chapter is the latest offspring of the parent Society, whose membership numbers about 500, few of whom are railroaders. The New York Chapter is a fast growing child almost three years old, and very active. We have over 100 members.
If TIME would be interested in knowing something about the thousands of fans scattered all over the country, who boost and support—but receive no financial and little moral support from—the railroads, let one of its staff join us on our last trip of the year, on Sunday Oct. 25, to the Sayre, Pa. shops of the Lehigh Valley. There is no other industry that we know of which has well wishers who will spend their good money and time to see how the product the industry has for sale is manufactured.T. T. TABER
Madison, N. J.
Perhaps in time the harried U. S. railroads will take trouble to foster their fans in the same way the Army and Navy profitably encourage theirs.—ED.
Who's Who Sirs:
Far be it from me to detract from Hobart College's Who's Who-ing accomplishments, but your statement this week that it is famed for having "more graduates in Who's Who than any [sic] school of its size" has run afoul in my memory of almost identical claims by two other excellent colleges of small matriculation rolls: Hampden-Sydney and the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. Maybe the publicity men for these schools had better go into a huddle.
CAMERON M. PLUMMER
Bolivar, Tenn.
Reader Plummer's memory serves him well. In 1930, Professor Donald B. Prentice & B. W. Kunkel analyzed college affiliations listed in the 1928-29 Who's Who. Rated by the proportion of Who's Who alumni to undergraduate enrollment, these ten colleges headed the Prentice-Kunkel list: Hampden-Sydney, Amherst, Harvard, Wesleyan, Trinity (Conn.), Yale, Hobart, Williams, Princeton, Haverford.
—ED: Most Embarrassing Sirs:
Your intimation p. 17 Nov. 2 issue that we might through Vancouver plant accept [British Air Ministry] contract too hot to negotiate directly is without foundation and most embarrassing. Canadian branch has not even been approached to construct such planes. Subterfuge has no place in this company's established policy of complying with the letter and spirit of State Department requirements.
BOEING AIRPLANE Co. Seattle, Wash.