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...Charles Ferdinand Dowd, principal of a seminary in Saratoga Springs. N. Y.. first thought of a way to end the time nightmare. He presented his zone system to a railroad convention in 1869. Not until 14 years later did the roads divide the U. S. into four time zones-Eastern, Central, Mountain. Pacific-one hour apart and spaced by meridians 15° apart in longitude. By then the Dowd idea had been turned over to William F. Allen, secretary of the American Railway Association, and to him has gone most of the credit for Standard Time...
Died. Edward Phocion Howard. 56. founder & publisher of the New York Press (turf weekly); of heart disease; at Saratoga, N. Y. Famed for his loud clothes, handsome manners, easy generosity and lugubrious wit. Publisher Howard had been a Senate page, a New York World reporter, a financial editor, an oilman. In 1916 he bought a racing stable, made a habit of attending every important U. S. race meeting, traveling in style whether flat or flush. In 1924 he started the New York Press in which, among racing tips, form charts, track gossip and ad- vertisements for ''advisory bureaus...
...Walter Hagen, touring Scotland with young Densmore Shute, new British Open golf champion: three course records in three days; at Kingussie (64), Pitpochry (65), Inverness (64). ¶ Mrs. Dodge Sloane's Caesar's Ghost, shrewdly ridden by Jockey Dominick Bellizzi: the Saratoga Handicap in which Equipoise, favorite despite being assigned a weight impost of 142 lb., was scratched. ¶ William Miller, famed sculler of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club: his fourth U. S. singles championship in a row (a record); by one length over his clubmate, Al Vogt, in the challenge round of the National Association of Oarsmen...
...association, as a Commissioner of the State of New York, with the development of the Saratoga Spa. I cite your statement: "He [Peabody] formed a private corporation, Saratoga Waters Corp., leased at nominal fee the right to bottle the waters. . . . The State purchased the Peabody lease for more than $350,000." There is absolutely not a word of truth in this nor any basis to be found in any way for the scandalous attack upon my character which this statement makes...
...Saratoga Waters Corp. was organized by Mr. Louis W. Noland and Mr. Leslie R. Rounds, who is now Deputy Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in order to carry out the terms of a lease negotiated by Mr. Noland and Mr. Rounds, who were to manage the same, with the then Saratoga State Reservation Commission in 1915. I was not at that time a member of that Commission, having had to resign because my obligations as a Government Director and Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York prevented my longer continuance in any other...