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...York and at once absorbed the Symphony's directorate. Each orchestra will maintain its separate identity until the end of the present season. Of the new Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, chairman of the Philharmonic Society, will be chairman. President Harry Harkness Flagler, of the Symphony Society, will be president of the merger. The purposes of this musical merger are, of course, the same as that of Mr. Mackay's other merger of the week-economy of operation. Openly declared last week were these specific reasons: "The establishment of an orchestra with a sound...
...might not remain so, even with Spain gone and Britain acquiescent, was perceived by the U. S. statesman who secured the Panama Canal. That the Panama Canal was a business as well as a Naval channel was perceived by the man who founded Florida's perpetual youth?Henry M. Flagler. On his way to Havana, President Coolidge would not fail to be impressed by the Flagler monuments...
...first of these monuments would become apparent so soon as the Presidential train reached the rails of the Florida East Coast R. R. and started passing through resorts, glistening with opulence, which Henry M. Flagler's railroad and hotels first started booming...
...cost of the 1926 hurricane. A sumptuous motorcade stood ready to show the President the boulevards, beaches and buildings of Miami and Coral Gables when his train stops there for an hour Saturday. But the President's attention is likely to be occupied not by realty but by the Flagler genius when, reaching Everglade station south of Miami, the train starts out on a long point to a station called Jewfish. There the railway crosses an inlet to Key Largo and begins a unique run, 100 shimmering miles southwest into the Gulf of Mexico, to "America's Gibraltar," "the only...
...Indian Key, Long Key, Grassy Key, Fat Deer, Key Vaca, Pigeon, Knight's, Little Duck, Big Pine Key, Cudjoe, the Saddle-bunch Keys, Big Coppitt, Boca Chica?in less than three hours the train clicks off the distance over bridges, causeways and the lowlying limestone reefs which Henry M. Flagler's engineer, the late Joseph Carroll Meredith, utilized as ties for the Oversea Extension. In places, Gulf currents 30 feet deep swing eastward under the trestles...