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...inventory of the estate of the late great Samuel Rea of Bryn Mawr, Pa., onetime president of Pennsylvania R. R. and many another line, was filed last week, valued...
...GREENES-Lorna Rea- Harpers...
...come together at Mrs. Rodney's dinner-party at 7:45 p. m. Another author might have attended the party, woven a plot. But Author Rea stops her character-sketching at precisely 7:35 p. m. leaving her six Mrs. Greenes- all products of English homes, schools, marriages, incomes, social sets-just as she found them, separate beings related to one another only by name and background. Author Rea writes wisely but not well...
...with strings of steel for the wind to play. So, in 1890, was formed the North River Bridge Co., a corporation dedicated solely to the building and operation of a Manhattan-Jersey bridge. Engineer F. W. Roebling was one of the original incorporators; so was the late great Samuel Rea, onetime (1913-25) Pennsylvania R. R. president. So was the late, great Thomas Fortune Ryan (TIME, Dec. 3). But of all that original company, only Builder Lindenthal, now 78, is alive today. And over the Hudson River, on Manhattan's west hangs yet no path of steel...
...east and west. In 1896 the Williamsburg Bridge was begun; in 1901 the Queensboro and the Manhattan. But none of these bridges were over Builder Lindenthal's river, although, as city commissioner of bridges he redesigned the Williamsburg Bridge and aided in the construction of the others. Meanwhile Railroader Rea, having found bridging the Hudson an insoluble financial problem, turned his attention to tunnels, and for him Consulting Engineer Lindenthal worked on the building of the 21-ft. cast iron tubes through which travelers from Pennsylvania Station today pass en route to the Jersey mainland. Later, still working with...