Plan 100 Story Building for Gotham
In Cleveland a building owners meeting heard that skyscrapers above 30 stories are wasteful. George T. Mortimer of United States Realty claimed a 100 story building is practical, citing Manhattan rock foundations and steel construction. He outlined vast material needs including 40,000 tons steel and 6,900 windows, with 90 elevators planned.
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EW York
National Association of Building Owners and Managers
Cleveland
George T. Mortimer
United States Realty and Improvement Company
New York
Equitable Life Insurance Company
Paul Morton
Metropolitan Tower
Mortimer
Manhattan
Aged Churchman Charged With Arson In New Jersey
Old Bridge resident Nee N J Ellis Appleby a 60 year old Baptist deacon wealthy and well known was arrested on arson charges after a six year terror from incendiary fires across Middlesex county In the August 31 blaze at Mrs Jessie Browns home the indictment links a string of murders and arson cases to the church elder The case followed a long inquiry with multiple detectives and two agencies giving up before a private insurer hired detective pointed to the elder as the culprit The Appleby family is among New Jerseys best known.
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N. J
Ellis Appleby
Old Bridge
Middlesex
Jessie Brown
Heeper
Rooster Inn
Young Whiteman
Thomas Collins
Citzen
County Board of Freeholders
Appleby
New Jersey
Pretty Girl Thief Impersonates Inspector at Wanamaker’s
In Philadelphia a 21 year old woman impersonated a store inspector at John Wanamaker, collecting about 600 dollars from five cashiers before a vigilant cashier stopped her. She signed receipts with the initials M. R and timed the theft to precede the regular inspector. A later attempt at the cloak department secured over 4000 dollars before suspicion halted the plan.
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Hiladelphia
John Wanamaker
Suit and Cloak
M. R
Cowboy Shopper Is One Real Spender
ANSAS CITY Mo When the top of the Bar Circle X and the Bar Y ranches comes up to the city to buy his winter wardrobe about game time his more effete brother the top of the towns goes to St. Louis Chicago or New York to lay in his winter wardrobe so there is little chance of them meeting and comparing notes. The bronco busting dude of the southwest would laugh at the other in a Prince Albert coat and top hat. Each makes his annual eastern migration about the same time of year. The difference between them is small. The one returns with a full suit fuzzy hat spats gloves and more and believes he is a spender. He would be surprised to learn the other sees him as a cheap sport a piker. The cowboy is the original money Turner spending 40 on boots 10 on gloves 20 on a hat and 75 on a saddle without flinching. He endures long days on the range thinking of a trip to Kansas City. When the town warms he buys his outfit at Blkna before sampling brands of wet goods or playing poker.
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Ansas City
St. Louis
Chicago
New York
Prince Albert
Kansas City
Doe
Bldnka
Railway Garden Pays Promotes Better Service and Savings
A Chicago convention of about thirty Railway Gardeners’ Association members, formed in 1907, shows growing support for station grounds and right of way landscaping. Gardens reduce maintenance costs, improve traveler comfort, and can boost patronage, with many railroads now advocating expanding horticulture programs.
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Railway Gardeners’ Association
Chicago
Railway Age Gazette
Locomotives Earnings Across Railroads Revealed
An engineering expert computed daily locomotive value for railroads. The Pennsylvania RR averages $131.84 per locomotive per day, slightly above national. In the east Central of New Jersey leads at $147.06, D L & W at $140.83. In the west Santa Fe tops at $149.53 per day.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Central of New Jersey
Santa Fe
Oldest Locomotive Engineer Nathaniel Taft Of Waverly
Nathaniel Taft of Waverly, cousin of President Taft, is cited as the oldest living locomotive engineer in the United States at age eighty six. He began as a pledgee to abstain from tobacco and alcohol at twenty, served sixty two years with the Boston Worcester and Fitchburg and later the Erie. He worked on the first Boston to South Framingham passenger train in 1849 and retired on pension at eighty, with a flawless safety record and a verified 1,624,086 miles traveled.
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Nathaniel Taft
Waverly
President Taft
United States
Taft
Boston
Worcester
Fitchburg
Erie
Framingham
Mass
Syracuse Post-Standard
Vanderlip Race Against Death Sets NYC-Chicago Rail Record
A. Vanderlip, head of National City Bank, raced a special NY Central train to Chicago to reach his dying mother. The 965 mile run took 907 minutes, averaging 1.06 miles per minute, beating prior records. He learned of her death just as the train passed Englewood.
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Pew
Rank
A. Vanderlip
National City Bank of
New York
Chicago
Railroad Magazine
Vanderlip
New York Central
la Salle Street Staton
Englewood
Englewood Station
Deaths on British rails show 1909 to 1910 casualties
An official parliamentary paper lists railway accident figures for 1910 in the United Kingdom. It records 1,062 killed and 8,342 injured, up from 971 killed and 7,692 injured in 1909, with detailed breakdowns for passengers, employees, and other persons including trespassers and level-crossing incidents.
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United Kingdom
Board of Trade
Mice Hamper West Shore Turntables at Newburg Yard
Rodents disrupted electric turntables in the Newburg New York yard twice in a month. A mouse entered the meter and crossed commutator bars, shorting the motor and blowing the meter, causing engines to misalign when coupled to trains. Electricians worked two days to restore operation and prevent a recurrence.
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West Shore
Newburg
N. Y
Georgia's Profitable Railroad Seventy-Five Years On
Georgia created a railroad seventy five years ago and now owns property that has yielded over 20 million dollars in cash. The asset would fetch about the same sum on the market and currently nets more than 400 thousand dollars annually in rent. The lessee reports net earnings for the year ended June 30, 1910 of 1,022,368.25 dollars, or 7,187.12 dollars per mile.
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Georgia
American Popular in China May Send Infant Emperor to America
The infant Emperor Pu Yi of China might be sent to the United States for education under a plan that may place royal care with Dr. John G. Ferguson, an American trusted by the Chinese government. Ferguson, long a Chinese adviser, has served as secretary to commerce and chief secretary to the imperial railways, and has been sent on missions to the United States.
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China
Pu Yi
America
John G. Ferguson
Chinese Board of Communication
Ferguson
Dr. Ferguson
United States
Europe
Chinese Ministry of Commerce
Imperial Chinese Railways Administration
Wu Ting Fang Joins Chinese Revolutionary Cabinet
Dr Wu Ting Fang former Chinese minister to the United States becomes secretary of foreign affairs in the rebel government. Wen Tsung Yao also joins the revolution. His move sparks sensational reaction in Washington, signaling American influence on China’s new institutions.
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Wu Ting Fang
United States
Wen Tsung Yao
Washington
Pekin
America
Leishman Dons A Uniform At Berlin Court
The American colony in Berlin shows mild excitement over Ambassador Leishman reviving the custom of wearing a uniform when appearing before the Kaiser. The practice was started by Ambassador Tower with Roosevelt’s permission and ended by Ambassador Hill. Leishman has provided uniforms for embassy staff who may meet the emperor.
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Berlin
Ambassador Leishman
Ambassador Tower
Roosevelt
Ambassador Hill
Leishman
Charles Page Drvan
Brazil
Portugal
Japan
Dainois
Ambassador Reid
London
Turkey
Italy
William Warkentin
Kansas
Youthful Shah of Persia
The 13 year old Bul tan Ahmed, crowned shah of Persia in 1909, struggles amid a parliament with little real power. After his father’s abdication and the Bakhtiari rebellion, the ex-shah was routed and his general executed. The youth appears powerless, longing for normal childhood playmates rather than royal confinement.
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Persia
Bultan Ahmed
Shah Muhammad Ali
Perala
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