Priceless Records Destroyed by Fire in Albany Capitol
Five million dollars estimate the damage to the New York State Capitol as a fire razed the State library and adjacent offices. Key records including 23 Dutch manuscript volumes of Governors of New Amsterdam and Governor Clinton correspondence were lost. The building’s interior remodel may be pursued in restoration, with the Senate chamber largely intact and no insurance carried.
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Albany
N. Y
State Library
Ware
Court of Claims
Assembly
Excise Department
Senate Finance Committee
New Amsterdam
A. J. F. van Laer
United States
Capitol
Senate
Education
Washington Avenue
George Clinton
William Johnson
Daniel B. Tompkins
National
North Pole
Library
Lincoln
Education Department
Washington
Andre
South Carolina
Massachusetts
Maryland
Samuel J. Abbott
Syracuse
Newton
Mass
The Albany Capitol Graft and Quarters of Paper Ceiling
The Boston Transcript recounts New York State Capitol Albany as a symbol of graft built on quicksand and clay with a papier mache oak ceiling amid fire and water damage. It notes cost spirals from 4 million to about 27 million, unsafe staircases, corruption, and unfinished corridors, with no one held to account.
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Capitol
AlJany
Boston Transcript
New York State Capitol
Albany
Pennsylvania
Great Assembly
H. H. Richardson
Boston
Isaac H. Perry
Albany Capitol: Massive $27 Million Granite Structure
The Capitol rises on Albany hills as a three acre white granite building with red towers. It spans 0 north to 40 feet east and west. Foundation stone laid July 7 1869 and cornerstone June 24 1871 by the Grand Lodge. Legislature first occupied January 7 1879 with formal occupancy January 12 1879.
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Albany
Assembly
National Capitol
Washington
Hartford
N. Y
City of
Capitol
Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted
Lorimer Senate Seat Fund Claim Sparks Testimony
H H Kohlsaar publisher of the Chicago Record-Herald told a Senate investigating committee in Springfield that $100,000 had been used to procure William Lorimer's election to the U S Senate. He refused to name the source of his information despite committee power to imprison.
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Springfield
H. H. Kohlsaar
Chicago Record-Herald
Senate
William Lorimer
United States Senate
Governor Pays Just in Time Public Tax Auction
About 850 city parcels were sold at City Hall for unpaid taxes. Governor Foss narrowly avoids sale of four Newbury street parcels after sending a $130 tax payment just before the auction. Warg 7 property tied to ex Finance Commissioner George J. Crocker sold to Mrs. Mary K. Doyle for about $60. The sale drew the usual crowd of land sharks and buyers, most of the day.
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City Hall
Foss
Newbury Street
Warg 7
George J. Crocker
Mary K. Doyle
Johnson a Much Sentenced Champ
In San Francisco on March 29 Jack Johnson was sentenced to 25 days in the county jail by Acting Judge Treadwell to address questions about the legality of the original sentence. An auto speeding charge will be heard April 4, and a habeas corpus petition was filed while awaiting a State Supreme Court appeal.
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San Francisco
Jack Johnson
Treadwell
Johnson
State Supreme Court
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Priceless
Tennessee
David B. Hill
Brooklyn
Ostrich
Willow
Crown Ostrich Feather Co
Washington Street
Siegel’s
Thomas Ellison
Lorimer
Wellville
Akg
Thomas T. Estabrooks
Post
Luther Halsey Gulick
Ted
Fred Pegram
Sally
Paul West
Ethel Colson
Sunday Post
Champ
Adamson
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