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...special Pennsylvania R. R. train carried the President out of Washington at midnight. Also aboard was Mrs. Roosevelt who had returned from her vacation just in time to join her husband on his. After breakfast next morning the special came to a leisurely stop at Hyde Park. The President descended a gangplank from the observation platform. Around him were hundreds of old friends and neighbors whom he saluted as "Tom" and "Joe" and '"Harry." A car sped him to Krum Elbow, the estate of his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, who was on hand to greet her son. The Vincent...
...annual affairs in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt, are more fun & frolic than work & worry. Last week's twenty-fifth meeting was no exception for the 14 Governors who enjoyed the hospitality of California's James (''Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. Monkeyshines began when their special train was playfully "held up" at midnight as it crossed the State line. At Truckee, Calif, there was a rodeo and Idaho's Charles Ben Ross exhibited his skill with a lariat, ended by roping Governor Rolph around the neck. There was a picnic near Lake Tahoe and champagne...
Four days later France's President Albert Francois Lebrun zipped out of Paris in a special Bugatti Automotrice boat-train made by Bugatti Automobile Co. In three hours and 15 minutes he was in Cherbourg, 230 mi. away. This remarkable time advertised the fact that Cherbourg has already speeded up its boat-train service to Paris from 6½ to 4½ hr., will further speed it with Automotrices. President Lebrun's job last week was to open a new $8,000,000 deep water port and maritime station for France...
Died. Frank William Peek Jr., 51, chief engineer of General Electric Co.'s Pittsfield, Mass, plant, pioneer developer of artificial lightning which he used to gauge the effect of real lightning on power lines; of injuries sustained when his automobile struck a train; near Gascones, Canada...
...Sharon Heights, Mass, at 4:15 one morning last week lights came on, heads popped from windows as the New York, New Haven & Hartford freight train OB 4 chuffed by with a load of onions for the Boston market, its whistle going full blast all the way. Conductor D. L. Kent hurried up from the caboose, and still windows lighted, heads popped at every turn. Faster & faster went the 664-16, 17, 18 m.p.h. Her fireman shoveled as he never had before to keep up steam pressure, for the whistle was stuck fast. At last the OB 4 rolled into...