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...Road. It is almost a century since a charter was granted on Feb. 28, 1826, to the Mohawk & Hudson Railway, to connect the Hudson River with Lake Erie. In 1831 the first train was sent between Albany and Schenectady. In the next few years, there was a huge demand by promoters for railroad charters. Gradually the Hudson-Lake Erie route was built, by seven independent companies. In 1853 these and three additional roads consolidated as "The New York Central Railroad...
...Smith, of Chicago, jumped at 2,000 feet with a parachute which failed to open. Entanglement in the landing gear of the plane checked his fall, but desperate attempts to climb into the cockpit were futile. The pilot with admirable presence of mind flew a few feet above the Mohawk River into which the parachutist jumped. But not knowing how to swim, he was rescued just in time from drowning - and probably gave no further exhibitions that...
...beginning about June 13, and the courses in geological field-work. Of the latter, one will be an elementary course under Professors Shaler and Woodman, and will include excursions to places of geological interest in Eastern Massachusetts; another, under Professor Woodworth, will study the geology of the Connecticut and Mohawk valleys and the Catskill mountains; a third, in charge of Mr. C. H. White, will consist of five weeks' field-work in the Rocky mountain region, probably in Southern Colorado...
...Geological Conference. Papers: The Tiborg-Thalen Magnetometer. Professor Smyth.--The Deltas of the Mohawk and the Hudson. Mr. J. B. Woodworth. Rotch Building...
...Geological Conference. Papers: The Tiborg-Thalen Magnetometer. Professor Smyth.--The Deltas of the Mohawk and the Hudson. Mr. J. B. Woodworth. Rotch Building...