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...Engineer Sprague spent a year with Thomas Edison, then formed his own company, got a contract in 1887 to install an electric railway in Richmond, Va. Said he later: "I believed in myself and staked a fortune. All hands worked with a vengeance. . . . The morning we tried the first trolley up the steepest grade, it crept up the 10% slope slowly, steadily, wobbling here & there. After an eternity it reached the crest and the men cheered. Our company went into a receivership in the end but. . . contracts poured in from all over the world." In New Orleans, at a mass...
Such persistent picketing gave Congress a touch of nerves. Vice President Curtis, panicky, had the Marines called. From the Navy Yard 60 arrived by trolley with rifles & bayonets. The marchers guffawed at this turnout. Ten minutes later the Marines were on their way back to barracks. "I'm fed up with hysterical meddlers!" snorted General Pelham Glassford, superintendent of the Washington police, whose amiable discipline has kept the B. E. F. in good order for eight weeks...
Beginning this week Columbia's early bird is having his salary doubled, from $400 to $800 a week. His morning programs have "gone over big." Commuters with radios in their automobiles have been stopping on their way to work to hear him better, avoiding streets where trolley-car tracks prevent good reception. Along with the added $400, Little Jack Little has been given extra time which no entertainer would scorn. Commuters without radios in their cars can hear him Sunday afternoons from 5:45 to 6, Tuesday evenings from 11:45 to 12, Friday evenings from...
...Manhattan, a taxi descending Brooklyn Bridge ramp sent a group of pedestrians helter-skelter, bounced off a trolley car, mounted three curbs, dragged a steel traffic cable & stanchions 10 ft., crushed through a newsstand, cracked a subway kiosk, stopped at the head of the subway stairs. Extricating himself uninjured from the wreckage, Chauffeur Jacob Selditch said : "I guess maybe them brakes ought to be tightened...
...their efforts to disperse the huge crowd, crying "Break it up, boys, break it up!" but to no avail. During the course of the riot the night gate of the University Theatre was removed and burned in the middle of the street, along with several placards of that theatre. Trolley cars were disabled in the middle of the square and huge busses were rocked from side to side. Traffic through the square was practically paralyzed. It was not until well after 12.30 o'clock that the crowd began to disperse, and it was after one o'clock when the square...