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Same day Sir Henri arrived, President Atterbury proudly announced that electrification of Pennsylvania's tracks to Washington would be finished for passenger trains in six months. Undisturbed by Sir Henri's skepticism, he and many an-other railroadman well knew that oil experts themselves are fearful that there may be an oil shortage within 20 years...
Died, Joy Morton, 78, son of the late Julius Sterling Morton, founder of Arbor Day and Secretary of Agriculture under President Cleveland, board chairman of Morton Salt Co. ("It Pours"); of a heart attack; in Lisle, Ill. Onetime banker and railroadman, Joy Morton entered the salt business in 1879, made his company largest in sales in the salt world.** Thousands yearly visit his 400-acre arboretum near Chicago...
This was a threat that no railroadman (except the heads of the seven key roads) could ignore- particularly Daniel Willard, whose efficient and progressive B. & O. Messrs. Prince & Barriger planned to dump into the lap of its big rival, Pennsylvania. Last week at a Baltimore banquet, Lawyer John J. Cornwell, onetime Governor of West Virginia and now B. & O.'s general counsel, told the world what was going through Daniel Willard's long head. "This so-called Prince plan . . . is destructive in every phase except as to the interests of the seven big railroads in the country...
Died. Mary Williamson Averell Harriman, 81, philanthropist, relict of Railroadman Edward Henry Harriman (died: 1909) who left her $100,000,000, in Manhattan...
Some Denverites: Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, Shoeman William Lewis Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Assistant Secretary of State James Grafton Rogers, Paul Whiteman, Author Courtney Ryley Cooper, Silverman Simon Guggenheim whose son is named George Denver...