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...Northern merger rounded another bend in its tortuous progress. President Donnelly of Northern Pacific made two significant statements to his stockholders: I) "I do not think so" (in reply to a stockholder who asked whether the disadvantages of giving up the Burlington would not outweigh the advantages of merging the two Northerns); 2) The Northerns are "considering" the purchase from the Burlington of its line from the Twin Cities to Aurora, 111., and the leasing of trackage rights from Aurora into Chicago...
...Frederick Albert Cook, onetime polar explorer, onetime oil stock crook, recently released from Leavenworth Penitentiary (TIME, March 17), was given a job as physical director of the Boys' Brotherhood Republic's summer camp at Burlington, Wis. He told a meeting of the Boys in Chicago that anyone who went to the North Pole could find a metal tube he buried there...
Northerns. Another important event of the railroad week transpired at J. P. Morgan & Co. when President Ralph Budd of Great Northern, President Charles Donnelly of Northern Pacific, President Frederick Ely Williamson of Burlington, and Arthur Curtiss James, largest Great Northern stockholder, met to discuss means to merge Great Northern and Northern Pacific as proposed by the I. C. C. Awaited for many years, this merger is now held up by the difficulties, financial and legal, attendant upon the two roads divesting themselves of Burlington stock, against which they have issued bonds...
Died. Rt. Rev. Arthur Crawshay Alliston Hall, 82, English-born Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Vermont; at Burlington, Vt.; of heart disease...
...determination to uphold its general consolidation plan (TIME, Dec. 30). Three years ago was formed the Great Northern Pacific Co. to take over the G. N. and the N. P. In its Interstate Commerce Commission application the G. N. P. Co. naturally included in the merger the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, jointly owned by the G. N. and the N. P., serving them as their great high way into Chicago. The Interstate Commerce Commission's general consolidation plan called for a separate system around the C. B. & Q. Last week the Commission approved the unification...