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...work performed in New York City* indicated, men (rich men occasionally) are helped out on necessity. Some 45,000 able travelers were aided in this way during the year. Many more incapable travelers were assisted by the alert young women on duty in Manhattan railroad stations, at the steamship docks, on Ellis Island...
...steamship "Ryndam" of the Holland American line, 560 feet in length and 22,070 tons displacement, shown in the cut is being outfitted with classrooms, gymnasium library, and other educational necessities. In addition to college work, dramatics, concerts, and compulsory athletics will divert the tedium of life on shipboard. About 40 per cent of the total time, eight months will be spent ashore...
...only son, John Mason Cook (died 1899)* arranges such tours with the casualness of a banker cashing a check. A host of other travel agencies have since entered the business, among them: Raymond Whitcomb Co., American Express Co., Frank Tourist Co., F. C. Clark. So too have various steamship lines. Yet none of them has quite caught up with the household fame of Thomas Cook...
Almost any celebrity is glad to stand godparent to a child, a street, a monument, a steamship, a cocktail or a baseball bat. But there is a fitness to be observed in this business of name-lending. It would be very stupid for a manufacturer of safety-razors to name his product after Admiral Erberle; very rude of a mouthwash maker to call his deodorant "The Senator So & So" very short-sighted of a tire producer to christen his inner tubes for The Battleship Maine.* What adjective, then, can be applied to Louis and Isadore Cohen of New York City...
...Which is the world's fastest steamship...