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Mayor Earl Riley of Portland, Ore., home from a visit to San Francisco, got a visit from San Francisco's Mayor Roger Lapham, who dropped in to sympathize. Riley was abed with three busted ribs after a skid in a San Francisco bathtub...
California's American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. (the "AH Line") had a new president last week. But the name was old and familiar. Lewis A. Lapham, 38, is the lean, twinkling son of San Francisco's tubby, twinkling Mayor Roger Lapham (TIME, July 15) and grandson and great-nephew of Lewis H. Lapham and George S. Dearborn. Starting with a fleet of windjammers, his grandfather and Dearborn had built A-H into the biggest U.S. intercoastal steamship line. New President Lapham knew that his job was no sinecure: "I'm being thrown off the dock...
When Lewis Lapham came home to San Francisco after Hotchkiss and Yale ("I'm one of those mass-produced guys"), he wasn't interested in working for his father, then A-H's president. Instead, he wrote a shipping column for Hearst's Examiner, learned about the waterfront and gained a reputation for brains and high spirits. After six years of this, he went to work for A-H and was lent to the Waterfront Employers Association. Shippers think that he had a lot to do with improving labor relations. During the war, when ulcers kept...
...Francisco had an uproar over Mayor Roger Lapham's proposal to scuttle the famed cable cars which have clanged up & down the city's steep hills since 1873. Riders, jolting on the hard, wooden seats, clinging perilously to the outside steps, voted 9-to-1 to save their wornout conveyances. The Women's Chamber of Commerce called an "emergency" meeting. Mayor Lapham, who had already ordered ten specially powered buses, grunted: "Sentimentalists do not have to pay the bills...
...decision produced mixed emotions. Cried the Times: "From its topmost towers we will survey the River of Time flowing toward a better world." San Francisco's Mayor Roger Lapham still thought his city "would be a better place." But in New York, almost everyone seemed pleased about it. Wealthy U.N. neighbors-to-be foresaw sky-rocketing real-estate investments. Elimination of the slaughterhouses would remove some of the soot which now makes the district the city's dirtiest. Storekeepers were bound to profit...