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Manchurian bandits derailed the Chang chun-Harbin train, killing twelve, injuring 47. They kidnapped an undetermined number of passengers, robbed 600. One of the passengers was Henry Hilgard Villard, son of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation.) He escaped unhurt, with passport and money, lost only his luggage. With William Vincent Astor, Ichthyologist Charles Haskins Townsend, nine guests and several thousand kingfish and sea bass aboard, the Astor yacht Nonrmahal sailed from Manhattan for Bermuda. The fish, which are indigenous to the Atlantic Coast, were to be dumped overboard near Bermuda, to acclimate them to warm waters in hope...
...carry on his mother's and grandfather's tradition, the Nation's editor has two sons, Henry Hilgard Villard, 17, entering Yale this autumn and another, Oswald Garrison Villard, 11. Two other grandsons, sons of Harold Garrison Villard, a onetime editor of the Nautical Gazette have already departed the usual paths of liberals. One, Henry Villard, is in the U. S. Diplomatic Corps; the other, Vincent Villard is a white-collar man in a Manhattan bank...
...Professor Young of Princeton College, Professor Peirce of Harvard, President Porter of Yale, J. E. Hilgard of the United States Coast Survey office, President Garland of Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn., President Barnard of Columbia College, Professor Henry of Smithsonian Institute, and other scientific scholars have signed a memorial to Congress asking that the naval observatory at Washington be removed to a healthier and better situation than it has now, and that, so far as possible, it be made fireproof. - Transcript...