Word: port
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...French was born in Chester, N. H., Sept. 12, 1837. He prepared for college at Exeter and entered Harvard as a sophomore 1854. In 1862 he was appointed naval officer of customs at Boston and the following year was collector of the same port. In 1880 he retired from business, but eight years later accepted the presidency of the Manhattan Trust Company which he held until his death...
...State laws. (1) The landing of foreigners in the U. S. not a fit matter for state legislation. (2) The central authority responsible to foreign nations for wrongs done subjects. (3) A State quarantine law controls vessels and goods only within its own territory. (4) A port of entry and the best site for a quarantine station may be in different states: Forum, Oct. (5) The lives of our citizens and our whole commerce is at the mercy of local ignorance or negligence. (c) National quarantine laws grant too much authority to the separate states: U. S. Stat...
...National quarantine impracticable: - (a) Different sanitary condition of the several ports render uniform action impossible. (b) Local authorities more alert and efficient. (c) Division of authority between Nat'l and local boards would produce inefficiency: Ibid. (d) Local jealousies would be aroused. (e) Local regulations more elastic: e.g. action of N. Y. and Boston in Sept. 1892. (f) Mismanagement in one port less harmful than mismanagement in all. (g) Nat'l quarantine more expensive, because, organization must be permanent and universal to be effective...
...Port Chester, at Port Chester...
April 15 - Waterbury Y. M. C. A., at Waterbury, Conn. April 16 - Brown Freshman, at Providence. April 20 - Manhattan A. A., at New York. April 30 - Amherst Freshman, at Amherst, Mass. May 7 - Wallingford, at Wallingford. May 14 - Harvard Freshmen, at Cambridge. May 21 - Port Chester, at Port Chester, N. Y. May 28 - Harvard Freshmen, at New Haven. June 3 - Phillips Exeter Academy at Exeter, N. H. June 4 - Phillips Andover Academy, at Andover, Mass...