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...Harvard, Yale and Princeton men, Browning, King & Co. means college clothes. To railroad conductors, bell hops and steamship officers, Browning, King means uniforms. The 112-year-old clothing firm virtually outfitted the gold rush of '49. John Hazard Browning, descendant of a Rhode Island settler who bought a "dwelling house and two lots of acres . . . for ?3 in wampum" had been in the clothing business 27 years when news of gold at Suiter's Mill burst upon New York. He packed clipper ships with pants and coats as fast as they could be sewed together, sent them around...
...other troubles are the fact that the whole team would not get back to Cambridge is September until a week after the opening of College and the financial difficulty of paying expenses between Boston and San Francisco. Steamship fare across the Pacific would be paid by the Japanese group sponsoring the trip...
...sinking of the Nantucket Lightship yesterday afternoon provokes many, upon hasty judgment, into scathing condemnation of steamship companies, captains, and speedy runs, but a careful study of the facts already known and those that will be brought out in the Lighthouse Service Investigation will show the weakness of snap judgments. Granted that the "Olympic" was in the wrong according to decisions of Admiralty Courts which hold that in case a ship is unable to stop in time to prevent a collision she is going too fast for the conditions, yet in this unique instance there are many extenuating circumstances...
About the speed of the ship, her having to make a schedule, the ill-favor of steamship companies for captains who are continually late, etc., more will come out in the investigation. The fact remains that although the "Olympic's" officers claim that she was proceeding at a "moderate" speed with alert look-outs posted, the collision occurred before the ship could be stopped; and that although the lightship knew she was in danger of collision the crew was not so disposed so that a quick escape with life preservers could be possible. This first instance of a lightship sinking...
...Belfast, Northern Ireland, when the Canadian Pacific steamship Duchess of York put in, U. S. Consul General Lucien Memminger went aboard with a party of detectives, searched diligently but vainly for Dillinger...