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...oarsmen and cox in crew C were the victims. When above the Brighton bridge,--nearly to the first dam in Watertown,--their shell struck a piece of ice, which punched a small hole amidships. The shell rapidly filled and before the crew could pull ashore, the water had nearly reached the gunwales. The men jumped into the water and abandoned the shell to Coach Stevens in his launch. Theoretically, they ran back to the boathouse, but it is rumored that nine men in dripping rowing togs arrived at Newell shortly after the accident in automobiles...
HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN?Realism taken to the heart of the Kentucky mountains, where a hypercritical religious exhorter seeks to wash out his rival's sins by turning a dam loose...
...probable route of such traffic, in the event of the realization of the project, would be down Cambridge street, over the Charles River dam, up a ramp to the end of the bridge from the North Station to the junction of Porter and Orleans streets in East Boston, and thence over the usual road...
With one victory to his credit wants another. His argument is this: From a military standpoint the present canal is weak: its locks may be broken by bombardment from sea or air; an earthquake such as that of 1882 might break Gatun dam and empty Gatun lake; a ship might be sunk in one of the locks where it could not be blown up without ruining the works. From a commercial standpoint he maintains that the Canal will become inadequate, estimating that it will have a traffic of 45,000,000 tons in 1934, and 135,000,000 tons...
Postmasters for Dinwiddie, Meadows of Dan, Beaver Dam, Disputanta, Saltville...