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About this time, the Shipping Board called for bids on those five. The old man's active son consulted with two self-made Coast financiers, the Fleischhacker brothers, Herbert and Mortimer. Then, early this year, the old man's son went to Washington...
...Lake Champlain. From her Commodore MacDonough sent this despatch to Secretary of the Navy Madison: "Sir, the Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory." Saratoga III, a sloop of 22 guns and 1,025 tons, was launched in 1842, suppressed slave-trade off the African coast, went to Japan with Commodore Perry in 1853, was gunnery ship at Annapolis, was sold...
...world that he, Chaliapin, would not sing with the Chicago Civic Opera Company next season? Perhaps not. But whatever Mr. Chaliapin's feelings, the announcement was made. He will appear in the usual limited number of performances at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, and tour from coast to coast in a new series of concerts. What caused Chaliapin's decision may have been anything. It may have been Director Samuel Insull, whose alleged mismanagements have been loudly decried (TIME, Feb. 9). Last year, Amelita Galli-Curci, with a thin treble indication of wrath, similarly left the Chicago Company...
...Coast-Range Christ is of David Carrow, whose innocence knew only love for Christ. David spurned James O'Farrell's wife, fled the War draft, hid in the hills, praying. O'Farrell's wife, Iscariotwise, led a manhunt in the dark. When David took his fierce old father's bullet in the breast, a blinding apocalypse came down upon the hills...
...road's earnings to sustain its tremendous capitalization. In part, the bankruptcy can be attributed to one of the greatest gambles ever taken in U. S. railroading?the construction of the 1,400 miles "Puget Sound extension" which carried the road from the Middle West to the Pacific Coast, 15 years ago. Previous to this time, the St. Paul had been a prosperous "granger" road in the Middle West. But James J. Hill and others had pressed their lines to the Coast, and the St. Paul faced the dilemma of perishing slowly for lack of through freight, or of entering...