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Farther south he went, through the Shenandoah Valley where the sun sank scarlet behind the blue hills, through North Carolina with its little towns and their false-front buildings on Main Street. Finally the young man and his Ford reached Charleston, S. C. where the harbor water lay flat and blue. The thing he liked most in Charleston was the German cruiser Emden which one day steamed into port, made fast to a wharf. Mornings he watched brisk German sailors in white gymnasium suits doing setting-up exercises on the warship's decks. Finally after a good long look...
Peter Blume could not forget his automobile trip. As he thought about it, images mingled as in dreams. The coal turned red like the sun or blue like Charleston Harbor. The Emden sailors seemed to soar from the decks like birds. All the time Peter Blume was trying to paint what he had seen. He finally finished his picture with red and blue coal, flying sailors, the Emden conning tower, the houses at Scranton, the harbor at Charleston all painfully lumped together on one canvas...
...Richmond, Va. President Alexander M. Luke of Hawthorne Flying Service of Charleston, S. C. went up in a plane, jumped 1,500 ft. without a parachute, left a widow and two daughters...
...rotunda. His Municipal Building in Waterbury. Conn, was pure colonial in brick and white marble. Detroit's white marble Public Library was Italian Renaissance. The Union Central Life Insurance Building in Cincinnati was a towering office building. The $10,000,000 West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston was Classic. In 1899 he won a competition with a French Renaissance rendering for a U. S. Customs House in Manhattan, moved to Manhattan shortly thereafter...
...minutes, is the radio beacon signal of the lightship that guards dread Nantucket Shoals. The first lightship was stationed off the shoals in 1854. Three years ago Lightship No. 117, a 132-ft. craft equipped with every device science could think of to protect transatlantic shipping, was launched at Charleston, S. C. and took up its rough and lonely post 40 mi. southeast of Nantucket Island...