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Last July the British cruiser Suffolk was warped to a berth in Portsmouth harbor. While nervous Chinese gentlemen hovered anxiously around, a gang of Royal Marines slowly carried ashore 93 brass-trimmed steel trunks. In those trunks were 21,000 separate pieces of imperial Manchu treasure which, lent by the...
Streamlining has apparently reached its limit for conventional, long-hooded cars. Full advantage has been taken of the possibilities for additional room provided by moving motors ahead over the front axle. Disc or steel artillery wheels are now almost universal. Spare tires have followed trunks into built-in compartments. Hydraulic...
BROWN STONE FRONTS AND SARATOGA TRUNKS-Henry Collins Brown-Dutton ($3.75).
Brownstone Fronts and Saratoga Trunks includes accounts of the Draft Riots, the Gold Corner, the opening of the Atlantic Cable, the bloody street-war between the Fenians and Orangemen. But it is principally memorable for its items of unessential information which throw an oblique light on the times. Thus, Author...
On hundreds of campuses last week, students opened trunks, tossed their contents helter-skelter into closets. With some colleges already opening and others holding freshman week, enrollments were generally up, might set a new record. Newsworthy openings: