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Holiest of the lambs of Rome are those that frisk and bleat on the meadows of the Church of St. Agnes the Martyr, far out on the Via Nomentana. It is their special duty to sprout the wool that is woven into pallia for Papal bestowal on Cardinals, Patriarchs and Archbishops.* On the feast of St. Agnes last week, two of the most docile of the lambs of St. Agnes were carefully washed with finest soap, garlanded with flowers, trussed together with ribbons, laid in a grass-lined basket, carried to the Vatican...
...possible buyer of Banker Burr's 20,000 shares of Denver & Salt Lake. The basis of the rumors about Arthur Curtiss James was the fact that he is Chairman of the Western Pacific, as well as being identified with the Burlington. The Moffat tunnel would link the Burlington, via the D. R. G. W., with the Western Pacific into the second shortest transcontinental route-the shortest being the Southern Pacific plus Union Pacific plus Chicago & Northwestern...
...indication of the commercial side of their railroad problem. Freight shipments originating in the Boston area, or being transferred from Boston's busy waterfront, destined for the Middle or Far West, may take their choice of accomplishing the first lap (Chicago) on a through-freight via B. & A., or routing by stages starting over one or two carriers from Boston. Reverse traffic is similarly confronted...
...merger proposals of the Interstate Commerce Commission have disappointingly neglected to recognize this condition, although they are foresworn to a policy of "improvement via competition." It is unfortunate that one of the country's most enviable short-line franchises- New York-to-Boston-could find no better use in the eyes of I.C.C. than to be hooked up to another short-line, of minor importance, which would accomplish a direct connection between...
...indeed are the social errors which can not be apologized for via this most recent time-saver, which covers a veritable multitude of sins, among them "riding to bounds in a ballroom", "dismantling plumbing fixtures", "throwing potted palms", "setting fire to footmen", and "deposing mural moosehead in punch". Others, one hardly printable in a proper family journal, are listed to aid the social delinquent...