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...present, four great trunk lines connect Chicago and New York-the Baltimore & Ohio (1,014 miles), Erie (998 miles), New York Central (979 miles), Pennsylvania (909 miles). But from the recent attitude taken by President A. H. Smith, of the New York Central, it has been learned that that road contemplates establishing still another trunk line route between the two cities. Recent hearings of the Interstate Commerce Commission have been devoted to the old question of railroad consolidation. The tentative plan of the Commission had been to assign the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Philadelphia & Reading...
...background of this discussion of railroad consolidation is the ancient commercial rivalry between New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia. The proposal to turn over the P. & R. and Jersey Central to the B. & O. would favor Baltimore; to merge the two small companies would favor Philadelphia; to carry out President Smith's suggestion would favor New York. Undoubtedly the need of the latter for better freight facilities is greater than that of Baltimore or Philadelphia, and if the growth of the three centers continues in the same ratio as that of the past decade, this will be all the more...
...soon as peace has been signed at Lausanne, the new overlords of Central Europe, the Little Entente, will send representatives to a conference at Sinaia, in Rumania...
...anonymous prohibition agent was approached by a group of anonymous bootlegging brewers. They offered him $360,000 a week if he would turn his back while they flooded the cities of the Central Atlantic states with beer from an anonymous "brewery city." He cunningly fed the hopes of the bootleggers. He accepted $25,000 in advance bribes, a fur overcoat and an automobile of anonymous make (specifically not a Rolls-Royce). He allowed himself to be taken on a three-day party to Atlantic City and elsewhere while the bootleggers recklessly dissipated "grands" ($1,000 bills). He had them show...
Some of the people who attended the Firpo-Willard fight: two Governors, Silzer (N. J.) and Smith (Vt.); three former Governors, Cox (Ohio), Davis (Ohio), Edwards (N. J.); A. H. Smith (President N. Y. Central Railroad), Charles H. Sabin (President Guaranty Trust Co., Manhattan), John Ringling (circus man), Mr. and Mrs. Flo Ziegfeld, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Barney Oldfield, Ralph De Palma, Jim Corbett, George M. Cohan, Benny Leonard, Lew Tendler, Senator Walter E. Edge (N. J.), Princess Bibesco, Mike de Pike...