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...high seas, 300 miles southwest of San Francisco, two six-pound shells from the U. S. Coast Guard boat Algonquin splintered the deck of the Federalship, a Canadian rumrunner flying the flag of the Republic of Panama. When the smoke cleared, Captain Stewart S. Stone of the Federalship stood upon her bridge with his hands up, signifying surrender. His ship was towed into San Francisco. On board were 12,500 cases of Scotch whiskey valued at $1,000,000 and 19 young adventurers...
Shortly after Leys and Plumer graduated, they decided to have a look at the world, and it was then that the idea of racing completely around it originated. The two set out on the same boat from Newport, Rhode Island, each with $87. Shipping as deck boys, they went through the Panama Canal and up the Pacific Coast to Seattle. They took to the water again, journeying on to Alaska, spending Christmas day in Cordova, loading copper in snow-covered sacks...
...Island lighthouse, the young man whipped off his coat and dove overboard. His wife fainted. Passengers stumbled over suitcases to the rail. Then they saw that the young man, swimming powerfully, was saving a small boy. Tender-Captain Russell's ten-year-old had tumbled off the deck. Charles F. Havemeyer, onetime (class of 1921) Harvard footballer, N. Y. Stock Exchange member, had plunged to the rescue. A one-time (class of 1917) Princeton footballer, saturnine Knowlton L. ("Jew") Ames Jr., publisher of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, was nearby in his speed launch. While the tender turned itself...
...Such a boat is the Watercar, made in four models by the Dodge Co. Or, for a little more, you can get a cruiser from the American Car and Foundry Co., a cruiser as neat as a destroyer, with a cool wind always blowing on its deck and a neat shaving of water peeling away from its bow. Perhaps it is a 35-foot cruiser you want, or a 68-foot cruiser with twin screws. It all depends. The 68-foot cruisers have two cabins, an outside cabin with an awning and an inside cabin whose leather benches...
...thwarted last March (TIME, March 15). President Underwood has always been "good copy" for newspaper men. There was the time when he was arrested for disorderly conduct because he would not get off a Staten Island ferry to buy a return ticket to Manhattan. He insisted on paying a deck hand. There was another time that Leonor Fresnel Loree had Mr. Underwood up in the Delaware & Hudson's office, reciting a long table of statistics about ton-miles and locomotive-hours. Mr. Underwood listened to the end, then, pointing to the pictures of eight presidents of Mr. Loree...