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...ride to be had for 5? on New York City's subways. Nevertheless, many a skinflint succeeds in cheating the companies out of his fare by using slugs in the automatic turnstiles. Last week New York's short, swart Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia dispatched a scow to Long Island Sound to dump 620,000 slugs- representing a loss of $31,000 to the city-owned Independent Subway System alone -into the sea. The assorted slugs weighed three tons, consisted mainly of lead, iron, aluminum, brass, tin, linoleum. Some bore the slogan: "Roosevelt for President...
...very casual presentation of exotic subject indicates how far aloof is The Sportsman's clientele from the mass of U. S. readers: "The Business of Cricking," "Badminton Takes Hold," "Alligators for Sport," "The Scientific Sport of Bird Banding," "In Praise of the Bilgeboard Scow." In the May issue, with a display of pride such as attends an epochal event, The Sportsman presents its "scoop": complete data and sail plans of Sir Thomas Lipton's challenging Shamrock V and the four U. S. contenders for the honor of defending the America's Cup in September-material never before...
...cities grow, however, cities awaken. Chicago has taken its shore lines in hand, built new land with sandsuckers and made a new outer-driveway to the south as well as a made-land drive skirting Lincoln Park on the lakeside and a riverside boulevard (Wacker Drive) around scow-ridden reaches of the Chicago River. And last week New York City's Board of Estimate finally approved plans for a driveway, which will ameliorate land values as well as living standards, up the western shore of Manhattan Island from Canal Street to 59th Street. A linking boulevard from 59th Street...
...bargee in question was one Isobel Stone, 23, lyric-soprano, who was discovered last week, with her sister, Margaret Stone (Mrs. Richard O'Neill), living rent free upon a wretched scow near the slums of Manhattan. She was not a bargee by birth; her father indeed was the late William A. Stone, onetime (1899-1903) Governor of Pennsylvania, defender of famed Harry K. Thaw. A millionaire and a man of fashion, called "Pennsylvania's greatest Governor," he had died in 1920, his large fortune dissipated in unfortunate speculations. Isobel Stone with her sister Margaret was compelled to earn...
...Easley Wheatley, Confederate soldier, runs away to New York from the old soldiers' home and, for purposes of protection only, carries along tall and innocent Alice Kibbe, 17. Alice he finds in a bad house, where she by no means belonged. Vicissitudes carry them to live on a scow near a Brooklyn dump heap. Here they meet a rich gentleman who has lost his memory. After much todo, Alice reaches the arms of the restored man of property, and the old soldier hears bugles calling as the curtain falls slowly on a preposterous yarn, told with undeniable but sometimes...