Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plan not authorized. - (a) Has never been submitted to the people. - (1) Question presented for vote last summer obscure. - (2) Many voters absent from the city. - (3) Expense underestimated. - (4) Vote taken on insufficient notice. - (b) Vote taken understood to be on question of elevated railroad...
...been practically settled that the boat race between the crews of Cornell, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania will be rowed on the Hudson at Poughkeepsie. The course extends from one mile below the Poughkeepsie railroad bridge straight up the river for four miles. It is from three to eight fathoms deep throughout, and offers no advantage to the crew winning the toss...
China has a population of about 360,000,000 scattered over an enormous territory, without railroad communication, without roads, and without even a national feeling or spirit. Her army numbered about 350,000 available men, poorly equipped and poorly drilled. Her navy consisted of 5 battleships, 9 harbor defence vessels, 56 cruisers, and 43 torpedo boats scattered along the coast. The Japanese have a population of only 41,000,000, with an available army only slightly smaller than the Chinese. Their navy consists entirely of cruisers, about 35 in number. The whole of Japan was ready to launch itself into...
...games during the recess, one with Dartmouth on Thursday and the other with Tufts on Saturday. In both games Harvard was defeated. The game which was to have been played with Dartmouth in Hanover was cancelled on account of the failure of the Harvard nine to make the railroad connections...
...night car, is to be judge in a mock trial to be held in Lyceum Hall, April 22, for the benefit of the sick fund of the West End Railroad's employes. Tickets can be obtained at Leavitt...