Word: leonor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Colonel James Taber Loree, 39, Vice President and General Manager of the Delaware & Hudson, son of Railroader President Leonor Fresnel Loree; to one Miriam G. Collins, in Brooklyn...
...Leonor Fresnel Loree, ablest railroad analyst in the U. S., is apparently blocked from creating a great fifth trunk system in the East, in rivalry to the New York Central, Pennsylvania, B. & O. and proposed Nickel Plate System. He controls the Wabash (Mississippi River and Great Lakes Ports to Buffalo; it reaches the Port of New York over the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western), the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh (connecting those cities), the Delaware & Hudson (upstate New York to the St. Lawrence). The B. & O. and the New York Central own control of the Philadelphia & Reading. In this particular road Mr. Loree...
...dinky, little, 512-mile Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad that connects West Virginia coal fields with Lake Erie ports caused a petty flurry on the New York Stock Exchange last week. Someone wanted a few shares. Others thought they knew why. They knew that Leonor Fresnel Loree had mentioned the road as a connecting link of his proposed fifth eastern trunk system. They knew that Chairman Frank E. Taplin of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia also had mentioned a feasible hook-up of his road with the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Western Maryland to form a Great Lakes-Atlantic Coast chain...
...Underwood has always been "good copy" for newspaper men. There was the time when he was arrested for disorderly conduct because he would not get off a Staten Island ferry to buy a return ticket to Manhattan. He insisted on paying a deck hand. There was another time that Leonor Fresnel Loree had Mr. Underwood up in the Delaware & Hudson's office, reciting a long table of statistics about ton-miles and locomotive-hours. Mr. Underwood listened to the end, then, pointing to the pictures of eight presidents of Mr. Loree's Delaware & Hudson, said he: "That...
...shares of stock (par value $50) surrenders 40? of his dividends. The Erie's wage tax increases by $650,000, or 37? for each of its 176,000 shares. But then, the Erie Railroad has never paid a common dividend, and in late years no preferred. Leonor Fresnel Loree's Delaware, Lackawanna & Western pays 23? a share ($400,000). His comment was: "The fact that the Arbitration Board has decided to increase the wages of the train service employes did not come as a surprise to me. Arbitrators usually try to effect a compromise between