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Loree Rejection. The Interstate Commerce Commission last week received from its assistant finance director who had examined the matter, a recommendation to reject the plan of Leonor Fresnel Loree, bushy-bearded Delaware & Hudson R. R. president, to build a 344-mile line across Pennsylvania as the main link in a new New York-Chicago Trunk Line. Reason: public convenience did not necessitate the construction cost of $200,000,000; no new traffic would be created...
Gold Spike. To commemorate the laying of the world's longest stretch of ''heaviest rail" (130 pounds a yard) between Chicago and New York, Pennsylvania Railroad officials last fortnight observed an ancient custom and drove a gold spike in the last link. The ceremonies took place on the Pennsylvania main line tracks at Chicago's 41st Street. Chosen to drive the spike was Foreman...
...evolved from the oil. With high operating voltages these gases become ionized, and, striking the paper tapes, in time destroy them, literally by bombardment. In addition the heat generated chars the insulation and disintegrates the oils so that the combined effects have made high voltage cables the most unreliable link in the present electric power system No adequate test has yet been developed which will predict whether a cable will operate for any reasonable time...
...basis for such protest, however, is found as much in the result as in the cause itself. The present system of entrance requirements has made of the preparatory school no more than a necessary link in a systematic, and oftentimes cruelly mechanical, chain. Under the dictates of the Old and the New Plans the secondary school of today is rapidly affiliating itself with the professional tutoring bureau which retains at least the saving grace of making no pretenses or excuses for its existence. A preparatory training should undoubtedly have more to offer than an intensive competition which is limited...
...Constitution. Rhetoric beats a shallow drum before the figure of a man whose effort was not stinted with egoism, whose diseeraing eyes were not slow to kindle with humanity. As a man who played many integral parts against the shifting background of national affairs his death destroys a vital link between past and present...