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...confidence in the count. One of these ladies, Miss Harriet Perkins, confers with Septimius. Septimius suddenly discovers that he would much like to dine with Miss Perkins. He suggests that there is nothing wrong about a wholesale acceptance of the count's kind invitation. Soon all are aboard The Vanguard, most sumptuous yacht of current fiction...
...Laurentic, from Liverpool to Manhattan. She is 604 feet long and was built less for speed than for cruising comfort. Except for two winter trips between Manhattan and Liverpool, she will be in regular service between Canadian ports and Liverpool in summer and in cruise service during the winter. Aboard when she docked at Manhattan was W. J. Willett Bruce, who directed her building. Explaining her length, short compared to that of the Leviathan, Majestic or Paris, he said that thousand-foot steamships are useful mainly for advertising purposes. He considers that the new-type vessels being built considerably shorter...
...interesting geological points of Europe. Replacing the annual expedition to mountains of America, it will count as a full course for all students in the University participating. The party, consisting of men and women from Mount Holyoke, Northwestern, Oberlin, Clark, and M. I. T. will hear daily lectures aboard ship, but will, in addition to the work required, have an opportunity to see many points of interest in the countries traversed...
...York and Jersey Cities formally opened the 9,250-ft. Holland vehicular tunnel connecting them under the Hudson River (TiME, Aug. 30, 1926). Aboard the yacht Mayflower, midstream in the Potomac, the President pressed the same gold telegraph key which President Wilson pressed in 1914 to blast open the Panama Canal. At the Coolidge touch, U. S. flags fell away from the ends of the Holland tubes. Officials of New Jersey streamed underground into New York and vice versa, followed in the first hour by 20,000 common citizens...
...Ships, before docking in U. S. harbors, must wait in quarantine until health conditions aboard have been approved by port health inspectors. Only newspapermen and certain public officials from shore may go aboard during the wait. *Mrs. Woods is niece of J. P. Morgan...