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...from New York City to Albany was made always on river steamboats. Presently, however, the Hudson River Railroad, running up the eastern bank, was constructed, as well as one on the western bank. These independent lines were purchased in 1863, after a historic struggle in the stockmarket by Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. A few years afterwards, he also acquired the New York Central, and thus consolidated the route to Lake Erie...
...Cornelius Woelfkin, pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, said: "Our practice of excluding members of other denominations unless they are baptized again in our way (immersion) is out of harmony with the spirit that is growing in the churches." He indicated that his church would no longer insist on immersion...
...Vanderbilts, the senior. Her husband was Cornelius 3rd. Her son is Brigadier General Cornelius. Among other prominent accessions to the St. Thomas' parish under Dr. Stires was a Presbyterian, the late Miss Spence, famed schoolmistress...
...Rector Stires' church. She had been for 50 years-ever since she taught Sunday School-a pillar of Rector Parks' church. She had given the church its magnificent Byzantine entrance, a memorial to her husband. She had endowed the church's hospital. She was-is-Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt.* Whether Mrs. Vanderbilt will transfer her allegiance is a matter of conjecture. Rectors Parks and Stires are good friends, the former having ofttimes supported the latter for a bishopric, notably in the election which resulted in the elevation of William T. Manning. Rector Stires is expected to advise Rector...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt (Alice Gwynne), largest individual taxpayer in Newport: "I wrote a letter to the Mayor of Newport protesting against the proposed Dempsey-Wills boxing bout to be held there next summer. Said I: 'I strongly disapprove of the project. I feel that it would not tend to the improvement nor advancement of the city...