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...British hanged Robert Emmet, and his brother Thomas emigrated to the U. S. with his wife and daughter Elizabeth, who had a pretty talent in drawing. A fellow passenger on the packet was a portrait painter and steamboat designer named Robert Fulton, who set about improving Elizabeth Emmet's gift. Within eight years Thomas Emmet was Attorney General of the State of New York and Elizabeth Emmet was beginning her career as a portrait painter...
Cannon banged out a 21-gun salute, steamboat whistles mooed deeply. Over the narrow gullies of narrow Manhattan, office workers industriously emptied their trash baskets over the automobile of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From Paris, loudspeakers brought a few polished French platitudes from President Lebrun. President Roosevelt spoke in kind. The occasion last week was the 50th anniversary of the most famed piece of sculpture in the Western Hemisphere: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's 152-ft. Statue of Liberty. The statue was decorated for its birthday with an enormous U. S. flag hanging from the upraised torch...
Motorman Chrysler was not the only distinguished defendant arraigned before Judge Chesnut last week. Among others, Director Joseph B. Weaver of the U. S. Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, was fined $5 for unplugged gun, $1 for unpasted stamp. Enroute from Texas, Albanus Phillips, big, bluff Cambridge Md. soupmaker whose 6,700-acre estate adjoins his good friend Mr. Chrysler's, was expected in court this week to answer a charge of baited shooting...
Humor of the Old Deep South is divided into sections on Indians, Hunters & Fishermen, Doctors, Lawyers, Politicians, Preachers, Players & Showmen, Barkeepers & Bonifaces, Broadhorn Boys & Steamboat Bullies, Pirates & Picaroons, Duelists, Ha'nts, Greenhorns, Ladies, Darkies et al. The humorous incidents have been laid so long in lavender that they have mostly lost their tang; but those who can turn the clock back in order to laugh might enjoy the tale about the young doctor who cupped the Negro wench's sternum; the anecdotes about Lorenzo ("Cosmopolite") Dow, pioneer of Southern Methodism; Mike Fink's misadventures with the Deacon...
Chief Joseph B. Weaver of the Commerce Department's Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection revealed that he had assembled some 500 cases of crew trouble, mostly at sea. The charges included refusals to attend fire drills, to keep sufficient steam up after reprimands for not standing watch. It appeared that a crew had refused to sail until a prisoner in jail ashore was released. One story was that fire-hose had been found mangled by axes after the ship left port. When these tales reached the Press, ship owners bitterly assailed what they considered premature publicity, declared...