EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: If you will kindly permit me I should like to say a few words concerning the sum of fifty dollars which Mr. Coolidge refers to in his statement in your issue of Saturday last, as a debt incurred in 1885 but which was paid by the boat club this year.

This sum of fifty dollars was part of the larger amount of $150 which was to be paid Fearon the boat builder, for a cedar pair-oar built by him for the boat club while I was an officer of that organization.

The boat was built to test a stretcher, out-rigger and rowlocks of which Mr. Fearon was the inventer. Fearon agreed to furnish the boat at coast, which was $150, to put in his inventions for nothing and if they were unsuccessful to take them out and rig the boat in the ordinary manner.

This agreement was thought to be advantageous to the boat club because it secured for it at cost a pair oar, of which it then stood in need, a test of these inventions of Mr. Fearon, which several graduates prominent in boating matters had recommended as well worth a trial and if they proved to be of value, the sole use of them for one year.

At the time of this agreement it was my intention to ask the boat club to pay but fifty dollars and to raise the balance myself by subscription. Soon after the boat was delivered. Fearon was paid fifty dollars by the boat club and fifty dollars I raised by subscription.

Through the spring the boat was tried a number of times but owing partly to delays caused by the leaking of certain parts difficult to repair, and partly to the feeling that whatever merit the inventions might have it would hardly be possible to obtain any practical advantage of them that year, the matter was allowed to drop, and no definite conclusion was reached.

Owing entirely to my carelessness and not to that of any other present or past officer of the boat club I never raised the balance of fifty dollars by subscription as I had originally hoped to do. The matter stood thus until January of this year, when I received a bill from Mr. Fearon reminding me of the unpaid balance of fifty dollars. This bill I gave to Mr. Coolidge, asking him to see that it was paid by the boat club, and it was accordingly paid as he states. Whatever embarassment was thus caused to the boat club was occasioned by my neglect and of their embarassment, I shall consider it my only to relieve the boat club by reimbursing it for the amount so expended.

Very truly,J. J. STORROW, JR.