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...Developed by T. H. Kruttschnitt, son of the late able Railroader Julius Kruttschnitt. ∙Later records: a Plant System train at 120 m.p.h. for 5 mi. between Fleming and Jacksonville, Fla. in 1901; a Philadelphia & Reading train at 115.2 m.p.h. for 4.8 mi. between Egg Harbor and Brigantine Junction...
...Victor Co.); by David Graves George, 67, Southern Railway Co. employe, onetime Virginia hillbilly; for an accounting of profits on the record, "The Wreck of the Old 97" which George claimed he wrote in 1906 when a crack mail train plunged off a trestle near Franklin Junction, Va. Probable royalties: over...
...pointer Susquehanna Tom won the Grand National. In minor meets this winter, setters have won almost as many firsts as pointers but pointers have won the more important prizes. Of the 16 dogs entered for the Grand National, run last week over the Ames Plantation near Grand Junction, Tenn., only two were setters and the favorite, if there was one, was Walter C. Teagle's white & liver pointer, Norias Roy, who won the Continental trials in January...
...before he was graduated, entered the brokerage business in 1881, married the daughter of a wealthy waterworks builder. His railroad deals and manipulations soon made him one of State Street's most spectacular figures. Much of his fortune, reputed one of the largest in Massachusetts, came from Chicago Junction Railways, which he sold to New York Central for $32,000,000, and from Union Stockyards Co. Both companies were built by him in the early 1890's. A good part of each year he spends in France, either in his Paris house or at Pau where...
Born in Grand Junction, Colo, of a racetrack family-his father and an older brother were jockeys-Hank Mills became famed suddenly in Miami last winter when he rode 27 winners in 16 days. Trainer James Fitzsimmons of the Wheatley Stables, owned by Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills (no kin to Jockey Mills) and his sister, Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps, quickly bought Hank Mills's contract for $7,500. This year, Jockey Mills has had 779 mounts, 169 winners, 141 seconds.* He won the Brooklyn and Brookdale Handicaps with Blenheim, the Shevlin Stakes on Faireno. the Potomac...