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The morning of Saturday, May 19, will be devoted to sports and an excursion to some place in the country. In the afternoon there will be baseball game and a crew race between Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. The meeting will close with a supper in the evening.
Shifty and absend-minded, Death is seldom timely in his remembrances. Last week, 23 years too late, he sought out William van Schaick, once Captain of the famed excursion boat General Slocum.
The 15th of June in 1904 was a blue and shining day. There were a few white patches of froth against the china sky and a warm wind loitered in the air, as gay as a song. The people who boarded the General Slocum that morning ? mostly women who...
Died. William van Schaick, 90, one-time Captain of the ill-fated excursion boat General Slocum; in Utica, N. Y. (See p. 12.)
How many million people saw the first appearance of the new Ford car last week, it is impossible to estimate. In Detroit Henry Ford, his son Edsel and grandsons Henry II and Benson examined the public display before the great Convention Hall's doors were opened to let 100...