—Mr. E. B. Harden, of Philadelphia, of the Department of In
ternal Affairs, Harrisburg, is at present busy in the Mechanical
Museum making geological relief maps of Pennsylvania and re
modelling old ones for the St. Louis Exposition. He is the maker
of the large relief map of the State to be seen inside of the front
entrance of the main building.
—On Saturday evening, January 30, Rev. Dr. F. D. Gamewell,
the “Hero of Pekin,” delivered his lecture on the siege of Pekin
in the Auditorium under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. and the
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Methodist church.
Dr. Gamewell' is a Methodist missionary and has served twenty
two years in that capacity in China. He has travelled over all the
eighteen provinces of China during these years and has a number
of times crossed the Great Wall. He has been acting president of
the Pekin University, a Methodist institution, having about two
hundred students; also, presiding elder of the Methodist church
in China.
The lecture, describing the sufferings of the missionaries and
native Christians penned up in the British legation during those
fifty-six awful days of siege, was delivered in most thrilling lan
guage. Dr. Gamewell, who had charge of the fortifications, stated
that for the fifty-six. days the bullets flew about them at the rate
of 120 per minute. It was by the thorough and efficient work
done by Dr. Gamewell that the party were able to withstand the
siege.
On Sunday evening Dr. Gamewell addressed the Young Men’s
Christian Association on the subject of education in China. Later
he addressed a large audience in the Auditorium, speaking of his
experiences in China during his stay there.
—The election of officers for the Y. M. C. A. on Tuesday even
ing, February 2, resulted as follows: President, P. M. Rainey;
Vice President, C. P. Stewart; Secretary, IT. D. Easton; Treas
urer, J. J. Morgan.
—The fifty-year Jubilee Convention of the Y. M. C. A. will be
College Miscellany.