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...second Fogg Museum archaeological expedition to Western China is now in Pekin, preparing for a long journey to the interior provinces by cart and camel. America has lagged behind in Asiatic research, and only now is undertaking to train young men in Asiatic study and to give them field work and opportunities of thorough research...
General Wu received the travelers most courteously and insisted on giving them angered escort for the first part of their journey by cart. The escort left them at the border of the province of Honau? which at that was infested with bandits, and the party passed safely in the peaceful province of Shensi...
Giovanni Martinelli, famed tenor, last week returned to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, after having been absent, ill with typhoid, for almost three months. When he, as Canio in Pagliacci, drove on the stage in the prescribed donkey-cart, standees, gallery-devils, box-holders interrupted the orchestra to applaud; in a convenient pause, the musicians themselves laid down their flutes, their fiddles, applauded with the audience; when he finished singing the famed aria Vesti la giubba the ovation was taken up again, lasted for five minutes. Martinelli, bowing and bowing, shed tears of gratitude...
...clan, so far interested in New York City as to advocate Governor's Island as a landing field, but in a cool detached manner; R. E. M. Cowie, President of the American Railway Express, a canny, able old Scotchman, describing how the pushcart gave way to the horse-cart, the horse-cart to the express train, and predicting that the Express company will give unlimited business to the first responsible air transport company; Grover C. Loening, Manhattan society man, young, sparkling, decidedly of the "beaumonde" yet one of the ablest aeronautical engineers in the country who pictured the amphibian...
...pushcart, the horse-cart, the express train...