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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first chapel car called "Chapel Car Evangel" was built in 1891 and used in new towns along the railroads in the West. In 1892 we built our second chapel car, "Emmanuel," and sent it to the Pacific Coast. It was later brought back to Colorado for service. In 1894 we built our third chapel car, "Glad Tidings," with money given by Mr. William Hills, of New York, in honor of his wife, and it operated in the Southwest. In 1895 we built our fourth chapel car, "Good-will," given by Baptists in general who were inspired by the generosity...
...built our seventh chapel car, "Grace," given by Mr. and Mrs. Conaway of Los Angeles, Calif., in memory of a departed daughter and it was set at work in Wyoming. This last car was built at a cost of $25,000. The other cars cost somewhat less...
...chapel cars are not as active now as they were in the years of rapidly developing frontiers. New towns are not now springing up along new railroads, hence some of our cars have been given to churches and built into permanent meeting houses...
...cost approximately $1,000,000 an hour in 1930. Rainbow is considered by Harold Vanderbilt an economy boat. Using some of the equipment of Enterprise, the Cup defender which beat the late Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V in 1930, she cost only $5,000,000. Rainbow was built in 97 working days at the Herreshoff shipyards at Bristol, R. I. where Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, now 85 and retired, had designed and built five successful defenders. Rainbow was designed like Enterprise by William Starling Burrgess. She has seven suits of sails, each consisting of 2 miles of canvas, weighing...
...three races, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's new Endeavor, in which he and Mrs. Sopwith expect to cross the Atlantic this month, beat her trial horse, W. L Stephenson's Velsheda, twice. Unlike the Shamrocks which were all green, Endeavor is a pale hydrangea blue. She is built entirely of steel except for a mahogany rudder, silver-spruce boom and pine decks...