Skyscraper Fire Debate Stirs New Safety Plans
City fire officials clash over skyscraper fire limits with exponents of a dirigible standpipe system arguing high rises can be fought from below using powerful horizontal streams and floor-controlled nozzles. They assert new apparatus could neutralize risks as buildings grow taller.
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George W. Babb
New York Board of Fire Underwriters
Building Codes Revision Commission
J. Babb
New York
Fire Department of
Fifty-ninth Street
Baltimore
Ings
International Association of Fire Engineers
Musham
Chicago
Ngs
Brophy
Boston
New York Fire Department
Hugh Bonner
Bonner
The Horse Whisperer Aims for Quiet Control of Horses
A London Live Stock journal notes how modern horse whisperers avoid gesticulation and rely on sounds to calm fractious horses. Don Sullivan, famed for taming King Pepin, demonstrates calming techniques by speaking softly and even smoking aloud, enabling a successful race win.
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England
Ireland
Nimrod
Duval
London Live Stock Journal
Don Sullivan
Killmallick
Lord Doneraile
Sullivan
Kiang Pepin
Curragh
Mallow
Pepin
Flirty Lone Rose In A Prairie Morning
A lyrical portrait describes a radiant outsider with red roses in hair and on her breast. She moves commands the scene as breezes lift her gown, grasses bow, and perfumed prairies tease the observer who claims he is not in the picture.
Another Flood Needed
In a Chicago News cartoon dialogue a boy Bobby asks if all the bad men were drowned in the flood and wonders if another flood is soon due, as his mother confirms. The exchange uses a dark joke about punishment and renewal.
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Bobby
Mamma
Chicago News
Do good to all men and seek happiness through kindness
The text urges acting with charity toward all as opportunities arise. It suggests broad compassion and helping others as a path to personal blessing, noting that happiness may come indirectly by spreading kindness rather than pursuing it directly.
The First Engine Driver of the Rocket Remains Alive at 92
Edward Entwistle, the man who drove the Rocket on its historic trial, recalls his role and memories from 1829. He describes his boyhood apprenticeship with the Stephensons, the Rocket’s creation, and the world’s skepticism before the successful run that defined steam traction on railroads. He notes the gauge 4 feet 8½ inches and the Rocket’s lasting influence on global railways.
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George Stephenson
America
Edward Entwistle
Tilsey’s Bank
Lancashire
England
Robert
Newcastle
Liverpool & Manchester
Chat Moss
Railway Company
Liverpool
Stephensons
Stephenson
Robert Stephenson
Manchester
Duke of S
Mr. Entwistle
Gary City Built to Feed Steel Factory a Corporate Dream
A vast industrial town rises near Chicago designed to funnel steel production. Gary’s plan creates a self contained community with 15 000 workers and 50 000 kin, offering water gas and electric mains with tight corporate controls to curb saloons and speculation. The project ties rail and river, moving a river and two trunk railroads to site and links town planning with factory efficiency and minimum cost.
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Daniel Vincent Casey
Gary
Chicago
Virginia
Finois
Milla
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Philanthrophy
Europe
America
Pullmans
Ways of Attacking Poverty
The Philadelphia Ledger argues that poverty is best addressed by justice rather than charity. It asserts that large sums to the poor are ineffective, charity only palliate and that societal failure rests on human nature and individual defects, not mere government structures.
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Geneva
Philadelphia Ledger
Bathos in the Law Courts Illustrations by Brander Matthews
At a dinner Professor Brander Matthews lampoons bathos with court examples. He cites a Massachusetts judge summarizing a larceny case comparing Sinai's Thou shalt not steal to common law and equity. Another judge laments a murder trial with a bayonet through cavalry breeches. A Sunapee justice scolds a thief with mock piety.
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Brander Matthews
Bathos
Massachusetts
Sinai
John Jones
Republic
A&a Sunapee Justice of the Peace
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Hugh Ponner
Horse Whisperer
Houston Post
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