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...held that some deadline must be observed in the execution of the law, the midnight rule must be strictly adhered to. The effect may be to decrease the haste of steamer captains in trying to cross the imaginary line, and thereby diminish the danger of collision in the narrow channel at the entrance of New York Harbor...
...where it is doing extremely well. Mr. Redden blames New Yorkers and praises the superior courage and enterprise of business men in the automobile centers. But perhaps it is more a question of geography. The London-Paris air services are busy because they enable passengers to avoid a nasty Channel crossing. Detroit to Cleveland by air is only 100 miles, while the rail journey is long and roundabout and a, lake steamer takes all day. Moreover, these two cities are very closely linked in business and industry, while New York to Atlantic City is a most pleasant and rapid railway...
...instead of five months. There would be no more of such conditions as those of July 31, when ten vessels assembled in Gravesend Bay, waiting for the stroke of midnight, and then dashed across the line, so that eight of them arrived within four minutes. In the narrow channel there was imminent danger of collision. In fact the Orizaba and the Argentina came within one foot of collision as the race started. In the darkness a collision of the crowded ships would have spelled catastrophe...
Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., swam the English Channel from Dover to Calais. (Although the distance was only 22.5 miles as the crow flies, he swam approximately 56 miles miles.) Sullivan, 31, made his first unsuccessful attempt to swim the channel ten years ago and has made five other unsuccessful attempts since then...
...crossing consumed 26 hours, 50 minutes of his time. (In 1875 Captain Mathew Webb swam the channel in 21 hours, 45 minutes. In 1911 Thomas Burgess did it in 22 hours, 35 minutes...