Light on Train Profit Speculation in North Carolina
The hearing before Special Master Walter A. Montgomery explored costs and revenues for a two coach and two baggage car passenger train on the North Carolina Railroad from Goldsboro to Greensboro. Speaker Justice concluded costs were about 54.37 and projected fare revenue around 800, alleging 50M profit. Spencer called the method the wildest speculation. The session probed labor and other expenses, with estimates often unsupported, and adjourned to continue.
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H. B. Spencer
Southern Railway
Justice
North Carolina
Goldsboro
Greensboro
Southern Railway System
Spencer
Walter A. Montgomery
United States Circuit
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Cl Sax
Southern
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Twenty-third Annual Tournament and Dreks Ball at Marshall Hall
The Twenty third annual tournament and Dreks Ball under Mount Vernon and Marshall Hall Steamship Company will be held at the company grounds on August 28. Old time tourneys draw many spectators as knights in costume contest. Notables include Park Agnew and James J. Simms as orators with Pearre and Stone Pacey as evening speakers. Tilting starts at noon with dress code. judges from Maryland Virginia and DC. Committee chairmen include Hungerford Tubman Richey and Von Orendorf. Admission to grounds free. seats for ladies. Steamer Charles Macalester departs Seventh Street Wharf at 10 20 am 2 and 6 30 pm. return from Marshall Hall at 12 20 4 90 and 1 46 pm with stops at Alexandria Va.
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Marshall Hall
Auspicia of the Mount, Vernon and
Marshall Hall Steymedcat Company
Mmited
Lndies
Park Agnew
Alexandria
Ghames J. Simms
Glencarlyn
George A. Pearre
Cumberland
Frea Stone Pacey
LaPlata
Willam Lederer
Maryland
Horace Bowling
Robert Marbury
George W. Carroll
Sam C. Padgett
George W. Fergunos
Virginia
William A. ‘Thompson
District of Columbia
E.W. Hungerford
Benjamin Tubman
Walter T. Richey
3. von Orendorf
Marahail Hatt
St -Alonandrim
Pensioning the Blind in New York City's annual dole
New York August 4 at East Twenty sixth Street dock the Blind of Manhattan receive their yearly pension of 90 dollars. Over a thousand will line up for payments as reporters note old pensioners dying and new ones fewer joining. Residents discuss aims to make the blind self supporting and avoid dependency while praising the dock side ceremony as the most impressive day of the year.
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New York
Chartles Dock
East Twenty
Aixth Street
Manhattan
Ohio
Jiemmis
Sarah
Thore
Carda
Mary Smith
Finance
Conductor Dates Misunderstandings After Polite Incidents
A railroad conductor recalls three social missteps while performing duty on a summer evening outing. He faces threats of reports from passengers for being overly polite while helping a man onto a car and smiling at a fare paying woman, fearing his job may be in jeopardy.
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Avery
Toni
Han
Jack
Summer Vacation for Horses at Government Printing Office
Public Printer Stilings issues an order granting all horses in GPO service a summer vacation of at least fifteen days. If a horse cannot be spared, the vacation will not be taken. Other department heads reportedly issue a similar directive, with equine federal staff to pasture on outskirts during the period. Local firm awarded window shade contract for the new union station, the largest of its kind to a local company in this city.
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Government Printing Office
Clark, Davenport Co
Tia City
Union Station
Lost His Big Red Ant At National Museum
A queer looking man claimed a valuable red ant was stolen after arriving from Alabama for display at the National Museum. Police and bystanders doubted the tale as the man grew angry, insisting the insect is worth at least 10. The incident sparked jokes among detectives who consider possible hideouts from bread loaves to a garbage plant, while noting the owner might face a warrant for the insect.
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Alabama
National ‘Museum
Iota
Ant
Teast
Abbams
National Museum
Pennsylvania
Bunco Steerer Stung by Country Farmer Tale
A Pennsylvania farmer recounts two Bunco scams targeting rural folk in Washington. One victim, wealthy and educated, is duped at a hotel breakfast then robbed of money intended for the Treasury. A second elderly Eastern Shore visitor narrowly escapes a similar ruse.
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Warren County
Atven
Washington
F Street
Pennsylvania Depot
Wsual
Gino
Treasury
Ninth Street
Bunco
Virginia
Baltimore
Benigns
Mies
Helen Fowler
Ant
City
Washington Architects Plan Auto Tour of City Buildings
A Washington Architectural Club inspection tour by automobile is set for Saturday afternoon September 7. The trip will visit the municipal building Union Station House and Senate office buildings National Museum Agricultural Building Union Trust Hibba Building and other sites with special permits. Leo J. Weissenborn will chair the entertainment committee and accompany the group.
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Washington Architectural Club
Union Station
Senate
National Museum
Agricultural
Union Trust
Hibba
Walldines
A Dioner
Leo J. Weissenborn
Seventeenth Street Northwest
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