Show DAVY YALES FAVORITE DEAD TIle AgelI Xegro for Years a Figure About the Campus Passes Away New Yortc Sun3 David Breckinridge the aged negro who for years has sold candy at the Tale athletic games was found dead at his home on Winchester avenue New Haven Saturday He was seated in a chair near a stove in which the fire had ceased to burn In his right hand he held a poker He had not been seen about his old haunts since last Tuesday and was discovered by a friend who burst in the door of his shanty Davy as the negro was called was one of the characters of Yale and will be remembered by almost every graduate of Yale for half a century I Every attendant at any of the college I sports will recall the bent figure of the negro as he traveled about carrying his load of sweets and constantly cry tag out A few more left Annually An-nually for years Davy has appeared ap-peared on the campus shortly after the opening of the fall term and circulated what came to be known as his bread lsto This was a scheme for collecting money to carry him through the wInter win-ter Davy possessed an exc ° llent moor and never forgot the names of his benefactors in their college careers when they returned years afterward to celebrate their class reunions He was 85 years old and unmarried un-married dents He will be buried by the stu |