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Among the passengers on the ill-fated Modoc train which collided with a freight train a few days ago were two Harvard students, members of the class of '88. All the baggage which they had brought on was destroyed...
...smaller than the Pennsylvania and other roads, there are 5,000 miles of track running through 6 states and 4 territories. It has a capital of $270,000,000 in securities, an income of $25,000,000 a year. It carries in a year 7,000,000 tons of freight and 2,500,000 passengers. It has 550 locomotives, 12,000 cars. It uses 25,000 steel rails a year and 2,000,000 ties. This is the growth of but 40 years. What will it be in 60 years? The laws of aggregation and consolidation are just beginning...
...developed music. The passengers were the members of the "Pierian Sodality and Harvard Glee Club," billed to appear in a concert at Portland. The street-cars, driven at the exhilarating speed usual in Cambridge, reached the main depot in ample time for the Portland train, and unloaded their freight into a couple of drawing-room cars. These immediately assumed a character which it is safe to say they never before dreamed of. The report along the line that a menagerie had "broken loose" will give a hint as to the character meant. The grave senior, unused to aught but dignity...
Encouragement for the eleven. An ex-captain of Yale says that the Yale team are playing in a palace-car rather than a freight-train style...
...having a special car attached to a freight train the team were enabled to reach St. Albans Thursday night. Monday morning they started for Hanover where they arrived at 1.30, having just time to dine, dress and reach the field by half-past...