Word: yachts
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Publishers Pulitzer and Scripps were both tall men, both bearded, both wilful and autocratic. Each died on his yacht (Scripps in Monrovia Bay, Africa, five years ago this month). There the similarity ends. Scripps was a book-binder's 13th child. After public schooling and farm life in Rushville. 111., he started work as his half-brother's office boy on the Detroit Tribune for $3 per week. He was 24 when in 1878 he obtained $10,000 from his half-brothers to start a newspaper in Cleveland. He called it The Penny Press and resolved always...
When the Corsair, trim, black yacht of John Pierpont Morgan, was returning from a cruise through the Caribbean, it put in at Miami, Fla. Photographer Ralph Willetts of the Miami News, who has recorded the features of innumerable Florida visitors, determined to lense-catch Mr. Morgan, most elusive of celebrities. He learned, after being chased away, that at 9 o'clock one morning Mr. Morgan's sister-in-law, Mrs. Stephen Van R. Crosby, would go ashore to entrain for the North. Photographer Willetts posted himself close to the Corsair. A fellow reporter placed himself nearby in evidence...
...friend of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, she hid him lin her Brooklyn house in 1875 after he had been found guilty of colossal thieveries from the New York municipal government and sentenced to twelve years imprisonment. By her aid he eluded vigilant watchers, escaped to Cuba on his yacht...
Once Ogden Goelet's yacht, then a despatch boat for the U. S. Navy, then the presidential yacht Mayflower, a trim white ship lay tied up in Philadelphia last week being changed once more into a naval craft to serve in the Caribbean. Fire broke out in her stern. It raged forward, reached and sent rocketing some explosives, injured two fire-fighting seamen, got completely out of control. The firefighters had to withdraw and watch the withered Mayflower burn and sink until her bow rested on the bottom of the Delaware River...
Club v. Club. In Dictator Machado's favorite club, the Havana Union, a bomb was exploded last week, reputedly by sympathizers of the Havana Yacht Club which he padlocked (TIME, Jan. 19) when one of its members "snubbed" a member of his cabinet. A club which had extended courtesies to the ousted yachtsmen had its municipally-owned golf course taken away...