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Chamberlain, S. Dak. is a prairie town, pop. 1,300, with a grain elevator and lumberyard. The C. M. St. P. & P. Ry. crosses the muddy Missouri River there. The tiny town contains an Indian School, a hospital, four doctors...
...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...
...window was smashed by hysterical passengers who could not get out quickly enough. Fourteen were injured. Rarely does a railroad or transit president get caught in a wreck on his own line as Mr. Hedley did. Most famed case was that of Samuel Spencer, president of Southern Ry., who in 1906 was killed in his private car when one of his own locomotives rammed...
Iron Gift Horse. Two years ago the I. C. C. denied Colorado & Southern Ry.'s petition to junk its 185-mi. narrow gauge division between Denver and Leadville, valued at $3,600,000. For 32 years it had been steadily losing money; annual deficits had mounted to $400,000. Then Colorado & Southern (a subsidiary of the Burlington) tried to give it away. No one wanted it. Finally Lawyer Victor A. Miller of Denver said he would take the line as a gift, and last week he applied to the I. C. C. for permission to accept it. Lawyer Miller...
NIGHT FLIGHT - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry-Century. Author St. Exupery used to be an aviator but he does not write like any of the aviators with whose literary experiments the U. S. public is familiar. Night Flight, a second novel, is a brief account of disaster on the South American airmail. Fabien, carrying the mail from the far South to Buenos Aires, flies through a golden twilight in which "night was rising like a tawny smoke." Presently the evening becomes less calm. At the airport, Rivière, "who was responsible for the entire service," waits anxiously...