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...Interstate Commerce Commission last week rejected Leonor Fresnel Loree's proposal to create the Kansas City Southern System in the southwestern states, by having the Kansas City Southern Railway buy up the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (the "Katie") and the St. Louis Southwestern (the "Cotton Belt...
Married. Colonel James Taber Loree, 39, Vice President and General Manager of the Delaware & Hudson, son of Railroader President Leonor Fresnel Loree; to one Miriam G. Collins, in Brooklyn...
...Leonor Fresnel Loree, ablest railroad analyst in the U. S., is apparently blocked from creating a great fifth trunk system in the East, in rivalry to the New York Central, Pennsylvania, B. & O. and proposed Nickel Plate System. He controls the Wabash (Mississippi River and Great Lakes Ports to Buffalo; it reaches the Port of New York over the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western), the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh (connecting those cities), the Delaware & Hudson (upstate New York to the St. Lawrence). The B. & O. and the New York Central own control of the Philadelphia & Reading. In this particular road Mr. Loree...
...dinky, little, 512-mile Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad that connects West Virginia coal fields with Lake Erie ports caused a petty flurry on the New York Stock Exchange last week. Someone wanted a few shares. Others thought they knew why. They knew that Leonor Fresnel Loree had mentioned the road as a connecting link of his proposed fifth eastern trunk system. They knew that Chairman Frank E. Taplin of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia also had mentioned a feasible hook-up of his road with the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Western Maryland to form a Great Lakes-Atlantic Coast chain...
...always been "good copy" for newspaper men. There was the time when he was arrested for disorderly conduct because he would not get off a Staten Island ferry to buy a return ticket to Manhattan. He insisted on paying a deck hand. There was another time that Leonor Fresnel Loree had Mr. Underwood up in the Delaware & Hudson's office, reciting a long table of statistics about ton-miles and locomotive-hours. Mr. Underwood listened to the end, then, pointing to the pictures of eight presidents of Mr. Loree's Delaware & Hudson, said he: "That...