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...maintenance. His railroad career covers 46 years. It began just one year after Canadian Pacific spanned Canada, when he became a machinist's apprentice on Southeastern Railroad, which was later absorbed by CPR. In 1901 he was sent west from New Brunswick to be locomotive foreman for CPR at Cranbrook in southeastern British Columbia. Only two years later he was in muddy Calgary as master mechanic of the western division. In 1904 he was moved east to sprawling, plain-surrounded Winnipeg as superintendent of CPR's locomotive shops there which serve all its Western lines. In 1910 he left...
...Fewer paintings than Andover but a more pretentious art school has the Cranbrook Foundation in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., endowed with $15,000,000 by Publisher George Booth of the Detroit News...
Besides old masters, the principal purchases were contemporary paintings, sculptures and prints by foreign and U. S. artists. Chief buyers: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Andover, Mass, (reputed to have spent $750,000 on American painting of all periods); the Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney collection; the Cranbrook Foundation, Bloomfield Hills, Mich, (decorative and sculptural art); Circusman John Ringling; Mr. & Mrs. Chester Dale of Manhattan; Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Edsel Ford...
...twelve beautiful girls, known as "The Fisher Body Girls." These presented the publicists with keys. The city of Detroit, close to Canada, had taken steps to provide in every way for the comfort and convenience of its visitors.* On the first day of the convention the delegates visited "Cranbrook," the manorial estate of famed publisher George G. Booth. There, in a sweltering heat, they admired the cool lawns, the shade under the trees, the pellucid depths of a large swimming pool. On the next evening, as guests of the Detroit Free Press, News & Times, the advertising men enjoyed an almost...
Resolved to die poor, Publisher George G. Booth, son-in-law of the late James Edmund Scripps, newspaper owner, added $6,500,000 to the $5,000,000 he and his wife have already given to complete Cranbrook Foundation-"cultural centre" of five schools and a church-on his estate in northern Michigan (Bloomfield Hills). A children's school and a boy's school, already open, will be followed by a school for girls. They will finally prepare for college, or encourage the talented to enter the school of arts and crafts and the academy...