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...application, the balance to be paid before June 1. If a student finds before that date that he will be unable to sail, all his money will be returned; if the committee is advised at any time afterwards, the $75 may be subject to a forfeit to the steamship company...
...accidents, the railway and steamship disasters," said the people who "couldn't bear" to read such things...
...steamship companies at fault; their days of peasant exploitation are proved, by official facts, to be past and gone. The mistakes and seriocomic muddles are official mistakes and muddles alone. That they spring from a law whose application has been made too rigid and impersonal there can be no doubt. After all, the immigrant is not a chattel nor an automaton; he is a human being, and as such must have his own special problems and conditions...
...Widener Library has received from the family of the late Henry Villard his letters and business records covering his entire career as a railroad and steamship executive from 1874 until his retirement from business in 1895. During this time Mr. Villard was receiver for the Kansas and Pacific Railroad, and president of the North American Company, the Oregon Improvement Company, the Northern Pacific, which railroad he completed in 1883, the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, the Oregon and California Railroad, and the Oregon Transcontinental Company...
...date of the Unit's departure from this country has been definitely set for Thursday, June 23, although the 28th was also considered. Passage has been engaged on the steamship "Paris" of the French Line, which will sail from New York City. Upon its arrival in France the unit will be subdivided into a number of small groups which will be allotted to different towns and villages between Rheims and Verdun. Mr. Robert E. Buell, Secretary of the Reconstruction Association, sailed early this month to complete arrangements for the work. Although the date for the return of the Unit...