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...Akron, world's largest airship, to join the hunt. The Akron flew to Bermuda and back without success, was preparing to make another flight when word came last week that the Curlew had been found by the Coast Guard cutter Marion. She was 80 mi. east of Nantucket, about 112 mi. further from Bermuda than at the start of the race. She was proceeding toward the Bronxonia Yacht Club at 3 m. p. h. The Marion escorted the Curlew into port at Newport...
...pictures of Atlantic liners, Nantucket whalers, Mississippi steamboats, British, French, Dutch ships of the line-but he also specializes. Pride of his portfolios is a special collection of every steamboat that ever plied the Long Island Sound. He has a model of the Isaac Newton, first steamer on the Hudson to have three tiers of staterooms. He has not one but several lithographs of the Atlantic, first Sound steamer to use illuminating gas. One thing he lacked: a picture of the Glen Cove, first Sound steamer to be equipped with a steam calliope for the entertainment of the passengers...
...Washington the State Department filed a complaint with the Canadian Government against rum-runners from Nova Scotia who had disabled a pursuing Coast Guard crew off Nantucket last month by putting chemicals into their motors, spraying a noxious smoke screen from the exhaust. Rum chasers hereafter will carry gas masks...
Odin Roberts '86, was the first to address the club, speaking on the work of Sir James Jeans, who was guest of honor at the dinner. Miss Margaret Har wood, director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, discussed the present state of knowledge concerning the major planet Pluto and the asteroid Eros, both of which have been closely studied of recent months. Professor Frederick Slocum, of Wesleyan University, followed with a talk-on the next New England major eclipse, predicted for August 31, 1932, indicated the eclipse weather prospects and probable meteoric conditions...
...growth of the Harvard Observatory will be announced. At the dinner, which is scheduled to begin at 7 o'clock, Odin Roberts '86, Professor Frederick Slocum, of Wesleyan University, Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, and Miss Margaret Harwood, director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, are to be the speakers of the evening...