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...Corsair, yacht belonging to J. P. Morgan', and the Aloha, belonging to Arthur Curtiss James, ex-Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, were among the 200-odd boats seen on the river...
...invite Secretary Hughes and Ambassador Hani-hara. So they martialed a flock of carrier pigeons and the 102nd Aviation Squadron of the National Guard at Staten Island, to deliver a message to each of these distinguished diplomats. Lieutenant J. Kendrick, of the Aviation Squadron, was equipped with a Curtiss plane-familiarly known as a "Jenny," powered with a 100-horsepower engine and capable of 70 to 75 miles an hour at most. The airman and Nature's fliers left Miller Field on Staten Island about the same time. The first three pigeons soared high above the aviator...
Standish Hall.--Robert Hollis Curtiss, of Milford...
...more than one-sixth of the $15,000,000 necessary to complete St. John's, Manhattan. Biggest givers were: $250,000 from the Stuyvesants (A. Van Home, Miss Catharine E.S., and Miss Anne W.); $100,000 or more from Edward F. Albee (theatres), Vincent Astor (real estate), Arthur Curtiss James* (railroads and banks), F. A. Juilliard (finance), Frank A. Munsey (groceries and newspapers), Dr. and Mrs. A. Hamilton Rice (explorers), J.P. Morgan...
...Curtiss also mentioned that the Business School was quite ahead of the College in its greater freedom from outside activities and closer application to work. "As I have lately lived in College for a year, I think I know about how much college fellows work" was his parting shot...