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First Race. On a 23-mi. triangular course started: Whirlwind, owned by Paul L. Hammond's and Langdon Ketchum Thome's syndicate, a beamy, heavy boat with a white hull and green underbody, a pointed stern and "No. 3" on her sails; Enterprise, No. 4, owned by the Vice Commodore Winthrop W. Aldrich and Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt syndicate, with Mr. Vanderbilt sailing her; Weetamoe, owned by Rear Commodore Junius Spencer Morgan's and George Nichols' syndicate, white and bronze, No. i; and the old boats, Gerard Barnes Lambert's Vanitie, and E. Walter Clark...
...French engineer, one J. A. Thome de Gamond, exhibited the first practical drawings for a Channel Tunnel. In 1875 tne Gunnel Tunnel Co. (still in existence) was organized. Queen Victoria spurred the idea by announcing: "All the women of England will bless the builder of the tunnel for saving them from seasickness," Preliminary borings were actually started. From the chalk cliffs of Dover and from the French shore near Sangatte, mile-long galleries were driven out under the Channel floor. Proving the theory of Engineer de Gamond that the Dover chalk beds run out under the Channel, these abandoned galleries...
Harry E. Collin S. Brinckerhoff Thome...
DREAM'S END?Thome Smith? McBride ($2). A young poet meets two women. One of them, whose name is Scarlet, is a passionate lady who lolls about showing her teeth in a provocative manner while she wears clothes which are nothing if not voluptuous. The other, name of Hilda, is a radiant and ideal embodiment, with "something unearthly about her." David, the poet, finds that whereas Hilda realizes for him a dream of beauty, the lower depths of his nature are called to the surface by the warm, red lips of Scarlet. The conflict goes on until Hilda...
...Topper - Thome Smith ( $2). Suburban humor of a high order. The facilities of TIME'S book department are at its readers' disposal...