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...Movable Property. 7,500,000,000 Government & Local Property. 4,500,000,000 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $124,725,000,000 Less Property Owned by Foreigners 2,500,000,000 "Total Gross Wealth". . $122,225,000,000 Less Debt Charges. . . . . . . . . 32,000,000,000 "Total Net Wealth" . . . . . . . . $92,225,000,000 *At Southampton last week as he sailed for Manhattan on the Aquitania, Mr. Young was not even asked by correspondents whether he had been in Paris. To their other eager questions he replied: "If I should start talking about moratoriums, gold and other interesting questions, as you ask, I would...
...fight German, French, Dutch competition in the North Atlantic. Whether this "gentleman's agreement" would grow into something considerably stronger, they refused to prophesy. Immediate results: next week only one ship of the six "rationalized" lines will leave Liverpool for the U. S., only two will sail from Southampton, only one from Glasgow. Four British ships per week will leave the Port of New York, instead of the twelve that sail in the height of the summer season, the seven which sailed last week...
King Alfonso of Spain lately went to Southampton, England, on a train whose chef, steward and pantryboy all were named King. Hearing that King George would be at the horse-racing at Sandown, Isle of Wight, the Kings (chef, steward and pantryboy) put purses on a horse named Cherry King. Cherry King came in first, paid...
...present vogue of contract bridge. When automobiling was a sport he had the fastest car in Newport; when planes became practical he had the most elaborate one in the U. S. One day he left his yacht during a New York Yacht Club cruise, flew from Newport to Southampton to play 18 holes of golf, flew to a Harvard-Yale baseball game and to Poughkeepsie for a rowing race in the late afternoon, going on to dinner in Port Washington...
...Sidney B. Wood Jr., 18-year-old tennis upstart of New York, winner last fortnight of the Sea Bright Bowl: the Meadow Club tournament at Southampton, L. I.. beating Davis Cupman Wilmer Allison of Texas 3-6, 6-3, 2-6. 6-2. 6-4. in the final. In the semi-final he beat Frank X. Shields. 20, of Manhattan, who eliminated William T. Tilden...