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...West, focus of seven trunk railroads, sent 1,000 of its leading citizens to the capacious roof garden of its Hotel Gibson last week to dine with George Dent Crabbs and to laud him with all their might for persuading the railroads to build a $40,000,000 freight terminal and a $35,000,000 union station. Other Cincinnatians had striven towards the same ends since 1899. Mr. Crabbs, president of the Cincinnati Railroad Terminal Development Co., after only four years of wise, eloquent persuasion, succeeded...
...industrially. She has become draggled and dirty.* The bright ornaments that are her hospitals and colleges have only accentuated her drabness. The new union station is to be another ornament. The mere plans for it have already made her proud again, and boastful. With the new railroad tracks for freight and passenger terminals she plans to stitch together an up-to-date industrial dress, to become again in fact the Queen City of the West. Other U. S. cities have their soubriquets -descriptive, fanciful, hopeful. Some of them...
...jagged sluice of the Lehigh River cuts through the Allegheny Mountains of northern Pennsylvania. Thither from great passenger stations and greater freight terminals on New York Harbor run the rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, clean as carving knives. Across north central New Jersey they go?through manufacturing city butted against manufacturing city...
...Cosgrave is quoted to the effect, that Mayor Thompson would be an effective member of his cabinet, if he were in it, Mayor Thompson on his side told of the plans of the Thompson family, controlling the waterways from the Great Lakes to the ocean, to the end that freight might be shipped between Chicago and Dublin for seven dollars a ton. To top off the felicities, "Bathouse John" Coughlin, dean of the Chicago Aldermen, on behalf of the members of the City Council, presented President Cosgrave with a testimonial of greeting...
Last week contract time came again and again the Roosevelt Line sought to break into the jute trade. Nor did they come softly. They brandished before the eyes of shippers and importers of jute a freight rate card. That card offered to carry a ton of jute from Calcutta to New York or Boston for approximately $4. The rate had been $7.90 a ton. The Cunard-Brocklebank officials read the Roosevelt Line rate figures and, counting well on the loyalties of old clients, reduced their rate to $4.50 a ton. A rate...