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...Delaware & Hudson, a railroad only 884 miles long, has been said to run from "nowhere to nowhere." This jibe does injustice to Wilkes-Barre and Montreal, but nevertheless it had point last week when D. & H.'s shaggy bearded chief, Leonor Fresnel Loree, popped out with a proposal that the D. & H. should be given practically all the railroads of New England and a long list of others, six of which are bigger and longer than the nowhere-to-nowhere...
...carried, the Van Sweringen representatives left the meeting, but the Taplins continued with a meeting of their own. They elected Frank Taplin president, in place of Van-man William McKinley Duncan, and threw out all the Vanmen directors, including Frederick H. Ecker, Metropolitan Life's new president. Director Leonor Fresnel Loree, head of Delaware & Hudson, was also dispossessed...
...Pennsylvania, New York Central and B. & O. were solidly braced to take on smaller lines. The Van Sweringens entered the situation by buying control of the Nickel Plate, Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley and offering a plan (contested in the event) for unifying them. Leonor Fresnel Loree entered it by control of the Delaware & Hudson and the Wabash, by buying near control of the Lehigh Valley and by getting an option (lapsed in the event) on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh...
...idea of U. S. soldiers instead of sailors concerning themselves with waterways, is not paradoxical. Speaking before the New York State Chamber of Commerce last week, that sapient layman, President Leonor Fresnel Loree of the Delaware & Hudson R. R., pointed out that the Navy's "natural home" is the ocean. Nor was it paradoxical for a railroader like Mr. Loree to assert that, besides another trans-Appalachian railroad line, more inland waterways are needed by the U. S. for national defense as well as for commerce. He wants to see a coastal-lateral canal system from Boston to Norfolk...
Last week, suddenly, they hooked another line into their great design. It was the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway, which Leonor Fresnel Loree lost months...