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Navy got away well and led by half a length in the first quarter-mile with Penn in hot pursuit. Penn drew up to the Blues just past the trolley bridge and Columbia snorted hard about a length behind. Just before the finishing post the Reds (Penn) strained their oars and finished half a length ahead .of the Middies, with Columbia half a length behind them...
...trolley car, or-as their operators prefer to call it-the "electric railway industry," is only 36 years old. Not until May 4, 1888, did the first commercially successful overhead trolley car appear in this country and spell the extinction of the older, slower and smaller 'horse car ' systems. To Richmond, Virginia, belongs the honor of witnessing on that date the beginning of the electrically-operated street railways. From that experimental beginning, the industry grew until at present it represents about $6,000,000,000 of invested capital, an annual income of about...
...according to the American Electric Railway Association, the industry is coming back. Cooperation between trolleys and buses is being effected, living fares are paid, and the public is taking a more sympathetic interest in its local trolley lines. In 1923 the industry spent over $2,000,000 in advertising and intends to increase its appropriations for this purpose during the present year...
...Manhattan, a large, gray tomcat, "snapping and spitting as the result of an overdose of catnip," chased pedestrians, trolley cars, automobiles, was finally cornered by a patrolman in a cigar store telephone booth...
...Cambridge Street, directly behind Holworthy Hall, E. S. Robinson '26, crossing from Hemenway Gymnasium at about noon yesterday, stepped out behind a passing trolley-car directly into the path of a large milk truck. He was knocked down before the driver of the truck could throw on his brakes. Bystanders picked him up unconscious, but he had revived sufficiently, when he had been taken to the Stillman Infirmary, to walk from the car into the Infirmary...