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Brown and Durant, playing at the number one and number two spots, paced the Lowell linkmen to victory over the Elephants, 6 to 3. In other matches, the mighty Kirkland was tied again, this time by Adams; the Winthrop-Leverett encounter was called...
Tourists were edified. They could boast of seeing "linkmen"* going once more about London town, bearing torches before the motorcars and persons of the great. Bus conductors walked ten feet ahead of their busses, connected with them by electric wires on which lamps glowed. When two bus conductors sighted each other they signaled port or starboard to the drivers whose busses did not then bump. At Charing Cross, at every major crossing, huge gasoline torches sent up roaring flames three feet high?barely visible at ten yards...