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Henry George Stebbins died in 1881, and his grandson, Henry George Stebbins Noble, took over his seat. He in turn was elected to the presidency, was at the tiller in 1914 when the torpedoed Exchange went into drydock for four and one-half months. Last week, at 79, he was the Exchange's oldest member in point of seniority (56 years), had been on its governing committee longer than any other man (37 years), was one of its few authors (The New York Stock Exchange in the Crisis of 1914 and The Stock Exchange: Its Economic Function). Author Noble...
Fortnight ago, as the French liner Lafayette lay burning in a Havre drydock. the crew of the French liner Champlain was on strike in the same port. After midnight one night last week, two fires were discovered on the Champlain, one in a cabin, one in a linen locker. Both were quickly put out. A 22-year-old sailor named Joseph Salou, found in a companionway, was arrested. Sailor Salou confessed that he had started the fire in the cabin by dropping a cigaret. Said he: ''Overcome by realization of the enormity of my carelessness I tried...
Roys A. Ellis, Jr. '40 and a passenger; E. G. Howes of Boston, narrowly escaped death when they were forced to land a Stinson monoplane on a short, narrow cinder stretch adjacent to the naval drydock in Sou8th Boston yesterday...
Marines stationed at the drydock and soldiers from the army base hastened to the scene believing both men injured as the plane stood with its nose stuck in the cinder field...
...eight years the 25,000-ton French liner Lafayette shuttled travelers between the U. S. and France. In preparation for the summer tourist season, the Lafayette was last week getting an overhauling in the Havre drydock. One night a stoker, firing oil burners with a blow torch, accidentally set fire to some spilled mazut (fuel oil) in the stokehold...