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...party from the University of Pennsylvania set sail for the jungles of the upper Amazon, to snare the almost mythical "hoatzin." The party is headed by Rodolphe M. de Schauenesse, son of a French baroness, and owner of a rare aviary; Joseph McGoldrick; and Henry Norris. The hoatzin is so rare a bird that few scientific men have ever seen it except William Beebe (TIME, April 7), who tracked it down in British Guiana. It is a primitive type, relic of vanished ages, closely allied to the pterodactyl, first known fossil bird. It has a very strong beak, with which...
Nowadays, however, the scene has changed. The clipper ships have disappeared and the only sailing craft that have increased in numbers are the fishing boats which are slowly drawing from Cape Ann all the glory that in former years was Gloucester's. Even though the sail has given way to the funnel, however, and cargoes are now coal and lumber instead of silk and spice, Boston's sea commerce is rapidly decreasing; freight differentials and a lack of American vessels, it would seem, are responsible for the removal of many shippers to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, where no such...
...College Men's Travel Clubs will sail from New York June 28 on their sixth annual European tour. The itinerary this year includes visits to the principal points of interest in France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, and England. While the party is in France from July 7 to 14, opportunity will be afforded for attending the Olympic games...
...hours the Senate debated behind closed doors. Then a vote was taken-61 to 7, in favor of the treaty which will permit British ships to bring liquor into American ports under seal in exchange for which American officers may seize British rum smugglers within an hour's sail of our coast...
...square-rigger a cheap instrument of conveyance. But the dominant factor is the place of the English export coal trade. A "tramp" carrying bulky raw goods to England for manufacture can always count upon a return cargo of coal; and to be profitable a "tramp" must never sail empty...