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During the Kentucky Derby last May all of Pullman's private cars were chartered but usually about only four are in transit simultaneously about the country. If a tycoon prefers his own car, Pullman will build it for him, as it has done for 226 people and companies in the past, at a cost of $65,000 up. Henry Ford spent $200,000 on his Fair Lane. Last private car built was the Wanderer, for the late Harry Payne Whitney...
...spent some time as private secretary to the Governor of that state, and as secretary to the board of land commissioners there, returning to Boston in 1895 to spend the rest of his life there. He spent his later years as eastern representative of the A. B. C. Transit Refrigeration Company, retiring only within the last few months...
...Died? Frank Evans Seagrave, 74, astronomer who accurately predicted the reappearance of Halley's comet in 1910, the time and duration of the 1932 total solar eclipse; after an operation for intestinal cancer; in Providence. R. I. In 1882 he made important astronomical news by photographing the transit of Venus...
...strike developed because of labor dissatisfaction with the terms of an arbitration award made by Judge Sullivan in settlement of a similar strike last November. For 36 hours General Johnson sweated with the disputants, got the Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. to promise a minimum of 48 hours work to its regular handlers during every week that 4,000 carloads of livestock were received. All other questions in dispute were again left to Judge Sullivan's decision. Despite his interrupted golf game, the Judge listened to General Johnson's plea, agreed to act again...
...hottest day in Chicago's history: official temperature, 104°, stock yard temperature, 110°. But no one went to feed the cattle, no one gave them water, no one hurried them to the mercy of the slaughterhouse. The 800 livestock handlers of Union Stock Yards & Transit Co.- "the cowboys of the stock yards"-were in the street instead of in the pens, pacing slowly back & forth, bearing placards: THIS PLACE UNFAIR TO ORGANIZED LABOR...