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...miles of auxiliary line; cost at more than $100,000,000; construction under direction of Henry L. Doherty & Co.). The new line is backed by oil & gas interests (Mr. Doherty's Cities Service, the Insull companies, Standard of New Jersey, Texas Corp., Skelly Oil, Phillips Petroleum and Columbian Carbon) with assets of more than four billion dollars. The line will call for more than 310,000 tons of steel...
Amused and stimulated were Columbia's pedagogs last week when their visitor, in his three lectures, took gentle but firm issue with the Columbian idea of mass education and the pet theory of their colleague, Professor Thomas Henry Briggs, head of the department of Secondary Education. Professor Briggs vehemently believes that all schools should be state-supplied, "democratic," that today's private schools are unsatisfactory. Sir Michael prefaced his remarks by soothing any Columbian feathers that might become ruffled later. Said he: ''Teachers College is by far the greatest center for the study of educational method...
Tourists should be grateful for this approach to Biltmore. In 1890, with Chicago's World Fair (Columbian Exposition ) still three years off, and popular interest in art largely limited to pyrography, china painting and the confection of Turkish cosy corners, George Washington Vanderbilt, sensitive, shy, 22-year-old grandson of Commodore Cornelius, commissioned the bearded Beaux-Artist Richard Morris Hunt to build for him the finest private house in America. Architect Hunt, who had already sprinkled Newport and Fifth...
...Paris's College of Bridges & Highways (where he graduated at the head of his class with honors) and at the University of Illinois (Illinois gave him his Civil Engineer de gree) then he hastened to Cracow, Poland, his birthplace, to marry Felicie Benda, childhood friend. As the Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago in 1893, he opened Chicago offices as a consulting engineer. Chicago has been his headquarters ever since. Thence he has traveled to design and build great bridges at Portland, Ore., St. Louis, Que bec, Toledo, Keokuk, Iowa, Celilo, Ore., Cincinnati, New London, Conn., Philadelphia, Memphis, Manhattan...
...been for the skill of the Paya Indians in navigating the tremendous rapids, it is doubtful whether I could have reached the interior," contained Mr. Spinden. "Although they are an extremely primitive people, dating back to pre-Columbian times, the Payas are boat-men of great daring and endurance, who drive forward in the face of the most tumultuous streams. I was alone with these natives during the course of my trip and found them a very interesting people, more humanly attractive than the comparatively civilized Maya Indians of Yucatan...