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Williams College students did rescue work in the Hoosac Valley. The Dartmouth College football eleven plunged perilously by motor from Hanover, N. H. to keep an engagement with Brown University at Providence, R. I. Smith College girls rowed out of their boathouses to help Northampton, Mass...
From this start, improvements, expansion and new railway companies emerged rapidly. In 1831 the eight-wheeled truck was introduced. In 1836 the first sleeping car was developed. By 1838 Congress authorized the use of railways to carry mail. In 1851 the Hoosac Tunnel-the first of its kind -was commenced. By 1852 the Pennsylvania Railroad opened a through route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, and by 1853 all rail connection between Chicago and eastern states was established. In 1857 the first refrigerator car was attempted and in 1859 the first Pullman sleeping car introduced...
Boston & Maine trains, moseying up the Hoosac Valley to Williamstown, Mass., carried a curious freight this week. In the winter their usual load is milk cans and traveling men; in the spring and autumn milk cans and college boys; in the summer milk cans. But this week big, all-steel specials swept up that dreaming valley, bearing to Williamstown financiers, lawyers, editors, college presidents, diplomats, army and navy officers, savants from all parts of the world, assembling at the invitation of Dr. Harry A. Garfield, President of Williams College, for the annual session of the Institute of Politics...
...School of Boston University. He began to practice in New Bedford, later in Boston. In 1902, he went into the textile business, constructing the Butler Mill in New Bedford. His connections increased. The Butler Mill was followed by the New Bedford Cotton Mills Corporation, the Quissett Mill, the Hoosac Cotton Mills, the Newmarket Mill, the Consolidated Textile Company. By 1912, he abandoned the law completely for business. From textiles he went into street railways, insurance, banking. He became associated in politics with Calvin Coolidge, helped win that gentleman the 1924 Republican presidential nomination, became Chairman of the Republican National Commitee...
...problem, however, which we must consider seriously is the food problem. It is said authoritatively that in New England the food supply at one time is never more than enough for two weeks. What would happen, then, if the Hoosac Tunnel and other means of transportation were destroyed...