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...herald Manhattan's aviation show last week a squadron of planes was to caracole down the Hudson River from Albany, duplicating Glenn Hammond Curtiss' pioneer long-distance water hop (May 29, 1910). Inclement winds, snow flurries and fogs prevented such sideshow. Thus the show opened on a minor note. It continued so. Attendance was good, buying niggling. This pleased the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce heads, who had refused to coöperate with Aviator's Post No. 743 of the American Legion, organizers of the exhibition. The War flyers believed that enough aviation manufacturing and sales groups...
Score--Harvard 4, University Club 3. Goals--First period: Chase (pass from Curtiss) 13.16. Second period: Putnam (pass form Everett) 4.18; Cross (pass from Giddens) 6.14. Third period: Chase (unassisted) 1.15; Hilliard (unassisted) 13.31; Wood (unassisted) 14.00./ Overtime: Giddens (pass from Everett) 7.55. Penalifes--Hodder (charging); A. Bigelow (leg check;) Chase (roughing); Cunningham (roughing); Garrison (illegal check;) H. Bigelow (board check); Putnam (board check); H. Bigelow (tripping); Cross (tripping); Lakin (roughing; Chase (roughing.) Referees--Don Sands, Ag Smith. Time-three 20-minute periods, one 10-minute overtime period...
Last week George H. Burr, Manhattan banker, bought for $3,000,000 a 40% interest in the Denver & Salt Lake. "Others are interested in this deal," admitted Banker Burr. Who the "others" might be stirred much Wall Street cogitation. Arthur Curtiss James, the Lon Chancy of rail investing, was inevitably suspected of having engineered the coup...
...shared between the Western Pacific and the Missouri Pacific, these two roads have been brought within the scope of speculation as the possible buyer of Banker Burr's 20,000 shares of Denver & Salt Lake. The basis of the rumors about Arthur Curtiss James was the fact that he is Chairman of the Western Pacific, as well as being identified with the Burlington. The Moffat tunnel would link the Burlington, via the D. R. G. W., with the Western Pacific into the second shortest transcontinental route-the shortest being the Southern Pacific plus Union Pacific plus Chicago & Northwestern...
...members of that Committee. In due time this action was taken; and the reconstituted Committee now consists of the following members: Professor C. J. Bullock (chairman), Hon. Charles Francis Adams, Mr. Robert Amory, Professors J. D. Black, H. H. Burbank, T. N. Carver, W. L. Crum, Mr. Frederic H. Curtiss, Professors W. B. Donham and E. F. Gay, Hon. Ogden L. Mills, Professors P. Sorokin and F. W. Taussig, Mr. Eugene V. R. Thayer, and Professor J. H. Williams. In the Catalogue of the University it makes, and has always made, a modest showing, being merely mentioned with the "Other...