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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20084, 13 November 1930, Page 17

London's 80ft limit to the height of buildings is proving an obstacle to the erection of the biggest hotel yet planned for England. The Canadian Pacific Railway has drawn up 'plans for an hotel with 1000 bedrooms, every bedroom with a bathroom, and is prepared to sg>end £3,000,000 on the project. The intention is to build the hotel as nea£ as possible to Trafalgar square. A London official of the company said: One of the sites we have considered would have been admirable had we been allowed to build an hotel as high as those of the company in Canada."

Charles Rugglee, "Last of the Lumber Barons," died recently at the age of 84 years, at Ministee, Michigan, leaving estate valued at nearly £]0,000,000, nine-tenths of which he gives to charitable, benevolent, educational, and other public services, Mr Rugglea was a picturesque "character, who lived alone in a room above his office, booking his own meals and making in'* nnm had. He went about in

moccasins, never wearing a tie beneath his flowing beard. Bat lie wab modem in his business methods, and he organ* iseti a board of trustees to administer his large fortune aa provided for in his will. The oondor keeps its young in the x nest longer than any other, bird. Fully twelve' months elapse before, tha young condors can fly.

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