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Died. Arthur Chase Needles, 69, since 1924 president of Norfolk & Western Railway; of bronchial asthma; in Roanoke...
...drunken afternoon, when agonizing memories assail him, into the climactic, ridiculous night, when he finds himself challenged to a duel. Around him tragedies worse than his own are piling up. The headmaster's son has been shot; French troops have mutinied; there have been riots at the railway as the troops embarked for the front; the daughter of a town official has robbed her father and started for Paris; an embittered young soldier, wounded, has broken with his parents. In all of them, as in himself, Cripure finds more than adequate support for his belief that human beings...
...riot at the railway station Cripure takes the part of the soldiers, suddenly biffs a distinguished, patriotic colleague and is challenged to a duel. As he prepares his will in the certainty that he will be killed, strange things happen: his housekeeper, whom he had expected to be greedy for his money, turns out to try to fight for him. Others rush to his defense, old friends appear, his opponent is caught in some shabby trickery and Cripure saved. But the old faker, more startled at humanity's occasional goodness than at its depravity, ends his moment of peace...
Chosen as sponsor by the Pennsylvania was the Chicago Chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society-a group of some 50 businessmen who "love locomotives," trade each other pictures of them. They and their families were joined by some 150 members of the Model Makers Guild, enough others of the general public to crowd the twelve day-coaches with 468 people, 400 of whom carried cameras. Present were railroad enthusiasts from Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Each was given a mimeographed guide sheet with minute details of the route, the histories of towns, the identity of every grade-crossing...
Train ferries are not new. On the Channel, they were first tried during the War for freight only. The new passenger service required the building not only of new ferries, but of new railway cars. The cars are smaller than standard, to take up less room aboard ship, which also carries a garage. Although the ferries can accommodate twelve sleeping cars on four tracks, the first train tried on the run was made of only four cars. It left Paris at 11:30 p. m.. reached Victoria Station next morning. Cost of first class ticket...