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Filling the afternoon air with a droning roar, racing speedboats plowed foamy furrows up and down the Niagara River at Buffalo. Chief plowhand was Commodore Gar Wood of Detroit. Guiding Baby Gar IV, he won three straight 50-mile heats and a leg on the $5,000 Fisher-Allison Gold Cup. Baby Gar IVs average speed for the 150 miles was 42.06 m.p.h. Rainbow, owned by S. B. Eagan of Buffalo, plowed home second; Nick Nack, owned by Humphrey Birge of Buffalo, third. Nick Nack finished second to Baby Gar III in 1922, at Hamilton, Ontario, and was awarded...
...more important achievements: the "umbrella" generators to which the waters of Niagara Falls were first harnessed; the high tension system of power transmission; the synchronous converter employed on New York City subways for converting alternating to direct current; the generating equipment for the first big railway electrification (on the N. Y., N. H. & H.); the single-phase alternating current; the single reduction-gear streetcar motor, which, although designed in 1890, is the type still used. His conception of the single-phase alternating-current railway system, now in universal use, is declared to have revolutionized the industry. The 62,500-kilowatt...
...Governor Smith, then piloted his ship swiftly further up state. From the roofs of their office buildings, the excited citizens of Rochester and Buffalo greeted the vessel with shrill shoutings. To make the voyage still more memorable, Commander Lansdowne descended to an altitude of only 1,200 feet above Niagara Falls. The crew maintained they felt the spray, and for the first time the gigantic waterfall had a dirigible passing over...
Milligan turned in a 10 to 0 victory over Niagara University in the first home game and Harrington repeated the shutout performance in the next, when the Ithacan defeated St. Lawrence. 6 to 0. Cornell took the other end of the scoring however, when Dartmouth out-hit, outplayed and out-pitched the Red and White for a 5 to 0 win. Three hits was the extent of the damage done by Coach Carney's team, while the Green touched Milligan for eight safe blows...
Last week there was given to Ford's opponents a new big argument. It is known as the Hooker-White-Atterbury bid. Elon H. Hooker, owner of an electro-chemical company at Niagara Falls, built two of the Muscle Shoals units during the War. J. G. White is a great chemical manufacturer. Atterbury, famed "General," is operative head of the Pennsylvania Railroad. They aggregate no mean amount of prestige. Their offer is to function as an operating company for the Government in the manufacture of a metallic magnesium aluminum alloy, which has the strength of mild steel, would revolutionize railway...