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Publisher Moses Louis ("Moe") Annenberg of the Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Morning Telegraph and Daily Racing Form, purchased for $100,000 the $250,000 Pocono Mountain estate of the late Philadelphia transit tycoon, Thomas Eugene Mitten, who drowned there...
Telephoning in transit is by no means new but is still undeveloped. Some freights have telephone service between engine and caboose at all times, and certain crack limiteds like the Twentieth Century have telephone service to anywhere when the train is at rest in stations, but nowhere can train travelers telephone beyond the train when it is moving. In Canada some five years ago the Canadian National conducted a stunt whereby a conversation was held between London, England, and a train running between Montreal and Chicago. Regular service proved too costly, was discontinued...
...nearly vertical Clay Street. Overnight, property values doubled on Nob Hill and all real estate boomed for several years as the city spread from Telegraph Hill to Twin Peaks with cable cars sprouting in every direction. Today cable cars are only a small part of San Francisco's transit system, but they are still one of its quaintest and most distinctive features...
...long appeal to the public, the Market Street Railway Co. was explaining why it had just asked the State Railway Commission for permission to jack its fare from 5? to 7?. By noon all San Francisco was jabbering, for cable cars are not the city's only unique transit pride. San Francisco is also one of the last stands of the 5? street car fare and presents the even more unusual picture of two privately-owned street car companies competing with a municipal system...
Genevieve Garvan of Hartford, Conn., comely sister of Francis Patrick Garvan (Chemical Foundation), in 1906 married Nicholas Brady, son of a family whose transit and utilities fortune at one time was among the greatest in the U. S. To them both, their wealth became a means by which to serve their Church. In 1920 a Cardinal, His Eminence Giovanni Bonzano, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., dedicated "Inisfada." The Bradys, indifferent to decorators, had spent 20 years traveling the world buying furnishings for it. Tycoon Brady, who confessed his sins in his last years to a bishop, his friend...