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...cars maintained by the Pullman Co. for private charter...
Elected. David A. Crawford of Chicago, executive vice president of Pullman Co.; to be president, succeeding the late Edward Francis Carry of Chicago...
Died. Edward Francis Carry, 62, of Chicago, president of Pullman Co., financier (banks, mail orders, cement, tools), Irish history student, onetime stenographer; of cerebral embolism; in Chicago...
...months of paternalistic culture and Trinity will be in a position today claim to the title, "best read college in America." The possibilities for dinner and pullman car conversations that these informed men will enjoy, are unlimited. No need for Trinity graduates to depend on. Vanity Fair talk as an avenue for popularity. And surely they will be able to sit down for fifteen minutes with a newspaper without fear of neglecting the classics they know so well. The only disadvantage in the idea is that it will be so easy to spot a Trinity man in any gathering...
...polished dependence upon tradition must have shuddered last evening when he opened his Transcript to the page which bears the clippings headed School and College. Underneath a large cut of a well-known college president there ran a bold face paragraph which mixed up college men and Pullman smoking compartments with disquieting innuendo. Readers of the more widely circulated journals may be interested to know that Mr. Nielson finds that college men lose all marks of their special training after ten to fifteen years when viewed in the storied light of a Pullman smoking room, but it is hardly...