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...house warmed to him, he took many curtain calls. In the last act, there was a change of scene in which the stage, masked only by volutes of steam, was transformed from "a wild region at the foot of a rocky mountain" to "the summit of the Valkyries' rock." Taucher, about to make his exit from the former setting, took a step into the steam, trod upon emptiness, plunged down 25 feet to the mouldy basement of the Metropolitan through a trap which had just been opened to receive scenery. Stagehands, mechanics, saw Taucher's 200-pound shape...
...required another three hours to wind the cable back on the drums lifting the dredge alongside the Arcturus. The dredge resembles an oyster dredge with runners on top and bottom. Up from the bottom were brought glass sponges (similar to ordinary sponges but with fine glass skeletons) and volcanic rock. A traveling net was likewise used, attached to the cable at varying depths. This brought up a number of large-mouthed fishes (i.e., mouths huge as compared to bodies), a male pipefish with a brood pouch full of eggs, giant red shrimps, several octopi, fish with eyes...
With the passing of the "Cotton Belt" into the control of the Rock Island Road ends the battle of the old giants. The St. Louis Southwestern Railroad, known as the "Cotton Belt", was the last trace of the great steel network, which Jay Gould conceived and created, still to remain in the hands of his family. Now Edwin Gould without fuss or ceremony relinquishes...
...bitter struggle; and pride in its development has led to forgetfulness of the old unscrupulous dealings. Yet even today new giants are waging financial wars, or at least sparring for position in a great game of railroad chess. By the present deal, which was actually consummated months ago, the Rock Island Road gains a position of vantage in the Southwest carrying trade. Looking forward both to further competition, and to a day when the Southern Pacific will seek a road to the East, the Rock Island realizes that the "Black Belt" will be both an important factor in consolidating...
...Borglum countenance, sympathy upon that of Tucker. At the end of the path, they came to a small hut-the studio wherein, for many months, Sculptor Borglum has worked with plans, models of the relief of Generals Jackson, Lee and their armies which is to be chiseled into the rock at Stone Mountain, Atlanta, as a memorial to the arms of the South (TIME, Aug. 13, 1923; May 26, Mar. 2). The two entered the hut. Almost instantly, sounds of hammering could be heard within. After a short time, sculptor and assistant emerged, made...