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...Station consists of an excavation in solid rock 22 feet square, with the floor 15 feet beneath the earth's surface and the roof covered with six feet of rock and gravel. It is completely lined with concrete walls two feet thick, and the delicate recording instrument will be placed on concrete piers 30 Inches high, and five feet wide. This insulation will insure almost perfect recording of earthquakes, as the station will be entirely free from traffic disturbances, temperature changes, and all other interference...
...four essentials of a good seismographic station, according to Leet, are isolation from traffic, large size, deep burial, and surrounding rock. In each of these respects the Harvard station is probably unsurpassed by any of the 250 seismographic stations in the world, of which about 30 are on the North American continent. The station here is the only one in New England, the nearest being in Ottawa, Canada, and New York City. Burial in solid rock is relatively unique...
Manhattan socialite, board chairman of Devoe & Raynolds Co. (paints, varnishes), went pheasant hunting with a party of friends near the Mellon-owned Rolling Rock Country Club at Ligonier. Pa. Some birds flushed, the whole party fired. Hunter Kountze, 30 yards in front, received a full charge of no. 6 shot in his stomach, was rushed to a hospital...
That he accepted $40,000 from the Rock...
...ousted board included Banker Charles Hayden, J. & W. Seligman. Partner Frederick Strauss, President Thomas Ignatius Parkinson of Equitable Life. Because Nathan Amster got in on the ground floor of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. reorganization in 1917. is now a member of its executive committee, Wall Street was not surprised that the new board included two Rock Island men. Edward Norphlet Brown, chairman of the executive committee (he is also board chairman of stricken St. Louis-San Francisco) and Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck. At its first meeting the new board chose Insurgent Amster as president...