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Fortnight ago the U. S. towboat General Ashburn paddled proudly up the Illinois River on a three-day trip from St. Louis. When it reached Peoria it pushed the big steel barge it had brought up to the city's new $400.000 wharf and warehouse. Whistles tooted, bands played, citizens cheered to celebrate the opening of one more link in the Government's vast mid-continent waterway system...
Edmund Baker Edwards '98, a former superintendent of the Boston Towboat Company, died of pneumonia in Berkeley, California on Saturday. During the Spanish War he enlisted in the navy with a number of his classmates. At the close of the war he went to the University of Glasgow where he studied marine engineering. Returning later to Harvard he received the degree of S. B. A few months ago he left for California to take a position with a water-wheel company...