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...Lawrence University (Canton, N. Y.) Charles W. Appleton, General Electric vice president LL.D. Frank Billings Kellogg LL.D...
...century-old real estate dream came true last week in Baltimore. Back in 1828 Peter Cooper, Manhattan financier and philanthropist, of Cooper Union fame, and a group of Baltimore businessmen organized Canton Co., purchased Canton-a strip of land along the Baltimore water front for $105,000. It was thought at that time that the then-young Baltimore & Ohio R. R. would want the Canton district for a Baltimore freight terminal. No purchase was made, however, and for many years Canton remained comparatively undeveloped, its chief industries being cockfighting and politics. Shortly before the Civil War, Canton did become prominent...
...modern Canton includes about three miles of water front, 1,700 acres of land, many a pier, warehouse and factory. It includes also the short (32 miles) but vital Canton R. R., connecting Canton with Baltimore's trunk lines. But, though the importance of Canton increased with the years, the Baltimore & Ohio still failed to purchase...
Last week it appeared that the B. & O. had waited too long, that another railroad had stepped in to make the Canton dream come true. For Canton was sold (price, $13,000,000) to American Exchange Securities Corp., investment affiliate of Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. Obviously the bankers were acting as agents, but for whom they would not state. After many questions, denials and guesses, however, it was stated, unofficially but definitely, that the purchaser was not Baltimore & Ohio but Pennsylvania R. R. Whether the Pennsylvania would keep Canton for itself or sell it to the friendly Wabash...
...days later Marshal Feng was dismayed to learn that Canton had not been captured. President Chiang was sending two armies, each as large as the entire U. S. regular army, moving north and northwest against him. The Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) had met and expelled Marshal Feng for life...