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Death came last week to Europe's greatest trader and trafficker in Sleep—Davison Dalziel, 74, Baron Dalziel of Wooler. From Finland's icy mountains to Egypt's torrid sands, tired travelers snore peacefully, each night, in the sleeping cars of the great company of which he was president—La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Europeens.† Moreover Baron Dalziel was, up to the moment of his death in London last week, chairman of the British Pullman Car Co.—pioneers of such luxury services as the Pullman-Golden Arrow route between London and Paris.

As a young man Davison Dalziel showed journalistic promise which took him out to China and later on to California, where he founded the San Francisco Daily Mail. Subsequently he progressed eastward to Manhattan and finally to London, where he gradually branched out into railroading, and finally became associated with the great international firm of Wagon-Lits. The climax of his career came only a few months ago, when, by the stupendous merger (TIME, Feb. 20) Wagon-Lits absorbed the far flung firm of Thomas Cook & Son.

Surviving Baron Dalziel is his famed collaborator in the merger, fat and foppish

Captain Jefferson Davis Cohn, self-made financier, who is now probably the strongest directing force in the affairs of Wagon-Lits.