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...Trolley cars in Peking, despite the catcalls of the coolies...
...Chinese General Chamber of Commerce lent its complaining voice to that of the rickshaw experts. It petitioned the Government to cancel the contract on the ground that it would ruin thousands of rickshaw coolies. "Besides, there is foreign money behind the trolley car company...
That musician who aroused perhaps the greatest discussion during the season in New York is Anton Biloti, the pianist. This young man, an Italian-American reared among the bourgeois respectabilities of University Heights, first gained publicity as a young boy by constructing a miniature trolley line on an uptown hillside for the amusement of himself and the neighborhood youth...
There is, however, no little room for doubt about the interest taken in the conflict among the Irish themselves. On Monday all Dublin joined in a one-day strike as a demonstration against the spirit of militarism,--not a trolley car was moved, not a newspaper printed. In fact it might have been an Old Testament Sabbath from all accounts, save for the crowds in the streets. Furthermore, the response to an appeal from the Irish Bishops for a popular demand for the treaty has elicited little response, apparently because of the cloud of fear which is over the whole...
...Engineering Society will hold a meeting in the form of a smoker this evening at 8 o'clock in Pierce 110. Mr. Edward Dana, General Manager of the Boston Elevated, will speak on "Problems of Subway and Trolley Service or Why is a Strap Hanger--the Other Side of the Case...