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...this price. The tender captains charge only 6,000 francs ($235) for landing or embarking 200 passengers. Thus far tourists have been so scarce this year that no line calling at Cherbourg has been willing to pay the extra charge for the sake of being able to advertise "The Longest Gangplank In The World" as does the French Line whose ships tie up at Havre. Shipmen argue that the Municipality of Cherbourg built its deep-water port and docks with money collected from travelers as a port tax, should therefore feel morally bound to cut its rates for the comfort...
...Vines and Crawford play each other in the final at Forest Hills, the match will be like another between a hard-serving Californian and a steady Australian-when Brookes played Maurice McLoughlin in the Davis Cup matches at Forest Hills in 1914 and lost, after one of the longest first sets on record, 15-17, 3-6, 3-6. Since Tilden's retirement to professional tennis and Cochet's unmistakable decline, tennis has had no completely preeminent player. Favorites to prevent Crawford from completing his clean sweep at Forest Hills this week will be Vines, Perry and Shields...
...orders were to burn nearly twice as much oil as on an ordinary crossing, push the speed of the Rex up higher than a liner had ever steamed before and win for Italy at one stroke the two most coveted Atlantic records-fastest crossing, longest...
...currently $75,160,000), in a will which disposes of his estate "so far as can at present be ascertained." Total value of his estate is expected to be about $140,000,000, of which the British Government will take one-half in death taxes. His will, longest in British history, bequeaths to employes who have served in his companies 14 years or more a month's salary plus 25 percent; to his widow $750,000 and a tax-free annuity of $150,000; to his adopted daughter, Mrs. Winifred MacPherson, $3,000,000 outright...
Engineer William Gilbertson and Stoker John Jackson of Britain's crack train, "Royal Scot," now on exhibition at the World's Fair, said the train ride from Chicago to Manhattan was the longest they ever had. But they reminded newshawks that the "Royal Scot's" 300-mi. trip between London and Carlisle (80 mi. from Edinburgh) is the longest non-stop train-trip in the world, with the train averaging 60 m.p.h. Bragged Stoker Jackson: "But she can do a bit more than that. We've had her up to 100." "Better say 90," cautioned Engineer...