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...later rich Mr. Eastman arrived at Cairo wearing one slipper, one shoe, a pair of dress trousers and the jacket of his green pajamas. He told how the train was finally stopped, when the sleeping car attendant managed to climb, catlike, over the swaying luggage van and into the cab of an engineer who knew his trade too well to look behind. Other passengers, all safe, were chiefly irate because their luggage had been destroyed when the two flaming coaches, which could not be extinguished, were uncoupled and allowed to burn to the rails...
...thing, Gertrude Bell's whole life was led in perfect intellectual freedom and with few curbs upon her remarkable physique. After taking a brilliant First at Oxford she was for a time coquette enough to refuse to ride alone, one evening, with a young man in a hansom cab; but not long thereafter her loves became Persia and Palestine and the wild crags of the Swiss Alps...
...turns up in the white man's end of Kansas as a jockey, riding races at the county fairs. At the age of seventeen Curtis left the track and got a job driving a hack in Topeka. By day he went to school. By night he drove his cab. Forming a friendship with a lawyer, he became interested in the law, and studied in his small spare time...
...Booth Theatre (Heart Balm) 7.70 Taxi to Madison Avenue and 84th St. 1.40 1 Pane glass (billed) 2.15 1 Broken heart (cooed) .63 Smelling salts for hostess 1.00 Refreshments 5.00 (Entry illegible) 33.00 Refreshments 5.00 Taxi, 2 blocks, protested by driver .15 Received from driver for vacating cab 2.00 Milk, wagon to 5th Ave. and 43rd St. 10.00 2 bottles Grade A. .40 1 Riding habit, borowed from milkman 12.00 1 Horse, gallop in Vanderbilt Ave. 5.00 Fine and Costs 13.00 Bench in Grand Central Experience Train to Northfield, Vt., by mistake 14.40 Refreshments at Northfield, Vt. (also by mistake...
Died. Charles W. Gray, 52, president of the famed Yellow Cab Co.; thrown from his horse while riding, in Chicago...