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...Calif., grandson of the late Ironmaster Jordan Lawrence Mott; and Mrs. Frances Hewett Bowne (Frances Gibson), onetime operetta singer (The Chocolate Soldier); in Merced, Calif. In 1912 Major Mott eloped from New York with Mrs. Bowne. He left his wife, two children; she left Manufacturer Bowne. They shipped as purser & stewardess aboard a British freighter. In Japan Major Mott received the Order of the Rising Sun, edited a temperance monthly, wrote stories. Eight years ago Mr. Bowne divorced his wife. Last year the first Mrs. Mott consented to a divorce...
...danger. Barging into the other boat or crowding it ashore was ruled out. Government inspectors were on hand to see that the racers did not exceed their legal allowances of boiler pressure. The Chris Greene drew a length ahead, two lengths, four lengths, five. The Chris Greene's purser appeared on deck with a big sign: "Chris Greene-Rah, Rah!" Thousands of people cheered from the leafy, sun-shot shores. At the finish the Betsy Ann was about 1000 feet behind. A true sportsman, Owner Way promptly boarded the Chris Greene and handed over the Betsy...
...TIME, March 5, referred to Van Lear Black as the British born "owner of the Baltimore Sun papers, purser of a blockade-running munitions freighter during the great submarine war, navigator by sea and air." Actually he cannot himself navigate a ship or plane; has never been officially a purser; and is the U. S.-born chairman of the board of the A. S. Abell Co., publishers of the Baltimore Sun, the principal stockholders of which are Charles S. Abell, Harry C. Black, Van Lear Black, Joseph A. Blondell, Paul Patterson...
...RICHARD PURSER...
...Lear Black owns the famous Sunpapers of Baltimore. Adventurous Englishman, purser of a blockade running munitions freighter during the great submarine war, a navigator himself, he took as naturally to the air as he had to the sea. May will see his three-motored Fokker upward and outward bound from Amsterdam, Holland, for Cape Town, then back to Cairo, then, if weather permits, to India and to Hong Kong. Last year handsome, aristocratic Mr. Black flew a passenger record, Amsterdam to Java, 20,000 miles...