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...secretary, H. R. Hathaway, turned over a majority holding of common stock in the Victor Talking Machine Co. to J. and W. Seligman & Co., Manhattan brokers, and Speyer & Co., Manhattan bankers. For all 348,863 shares outstanding, the buyers were prepared to pay some 40 millions hospital, coal wharf, the largest yard of African mahogany and other cabinet woods in the world. Out of the town have come instruments by the tens of thousands to carry "canned music," on rubber records pressed in the Argentine, to hamlets, shacks and tents thousands of miles from a concert hall. The conduct...
...river thief and drunkard on his own initiative, received a pardon signed by Secretary of State [of New York] Chauncey M. Depew, after serving seven years of a fifteen-year sentence for highway robbery. Eight years later this McAuley founded a mission at No. 316 Water Street, Manhattan, where wharf life is drably vile. His slogan was "The Man No One Else Wants." Drunkards, drug addicts, broken down sports, panhandlers, sick street-creatures could get a bed, a wash, a meal. It was the first city rescue mission in New York, and remains the most famed...
Poem A boy sat on the Yachtsmen's Wharf at Atlantic City last Thursday, complacently fishing. Beside him dozed his necessary adjunct, a tawny, nondescript dog. The John Greenleaf Whittier poem was complete; bare feet, red hair, freckles; attired in a cotton shirt and overalls. Occasionally a promising dip of his long fishpole caused his eyes to sparkle momentarily; occasionally an intrepid fly was rewarded with an energetic slap. . . . Occasionallv, too, he shot a glance of stern disapproval across the wharf, where the Courtney children-Martha, four, and Jane, six-romped carelessly. Suddenly, simultaneous shrieks rent the air, mingling...
...British submarine H-29, tilted suddenly and inexplicably at her dock in Devonport Basin last week, sank within a minute and a half. Some men leaped to the wharf, some into the water; none died. Four other British submarines have sunk since...
...next speaker was what might be called a self-made politician. He was born in the wharf district beneath the island end of Brooklyn Bridge. His truck-driver father died when he was 12. His only education was a brief period in a parochial school. His youth was spent as a clerk in a fishmarket. Then he began to hold electoral office and has held it ever since except for two years. He just grinned, and was human and able. Three times he was elected Governor of his state by impressive majorities. Only lately he fought to a standstill...