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Died. Arthur David Palmer. 45, advertising manager of the New York Central R. R.; after being struck by a motor bus; in Yonkers...
...dirty look? Don't soil your hands on him. . . .So I let him wait a little that guy'll be going pretty soon now and then I gave him the old line about I couldn't afford it. And that's right. I can't, and keep the bus too. Sure I have. Oh, I sold the Ford to Louie before Christmas. And the old man asks me if I want to live at college next year or get another...
...taxicabs in Philadelphia) has developed the "gas generator," has tested it on 20 buses, traveling 300,000 miles of hilly country. Last week Mitten Vice President J. A. Queeney said that he was ready to use fuel oil in 600 buses, 3,000 taxicabs; advised all U. S. bus operators to use fuel oil if they want to save $50,000,000 yearly...
British Railroads & Busses. U. S. railroaders dared but admire, not imitate, the action of British railroaders who now are buying control of all motor bus lines which conflict with their traffic. In England municipalities own most of the city, suburban and even interurban bus lines. With their authorities, Sir Josiah Stamp and Sir Ralph Wedgewood, able, persuasive financiers both, have had on the whole successful parleys. As for the U. S., the New England railroads have done most to absorb or create bus lines. The severest railroad-bus competition is along the Pacific Coast...
Then, balancing a limp-plumed bonnet, in stalks Beatrice Lillie to be jostled by a bus queue for five minutes of mute martydom, wherein the only betrayal of her cold, furious resentment is a sublime, rancid smirk, and at long last a fervent "Taxi!" Nine times in all she appears, and whether it is the channel swimming scene ("Oh, pul-lease!"), or her deceptively wistful "I'm World Weary," or the Paris in 1890 scene ("They call me La Flamme because I make men mad"), she is never allowed to leave the stage until her audience is too weak...