Transit talk turns to tension at Cooper Union meeting
William M. Ivins spoke on rapid transit to the People's Institute at Cooper Union. Disorder followed as Luther Bedford was arrested for distributing ciphered pamphlets. the meeting broke up amid warnings and a postponed vote on Bedford's anti transit resolutions.
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William M. Ivins
Public Services Commission
People's Institute
Cooper Union
Luther S. Bedford
Grove Street
Moss
Wight Court
Bedford
Charles Sprague Smith
Institute
Trowbie
Mr._Ivins
Kith
Fifth Street
Mr. Smith
Cooper’ Union
Ivins
Frederic Cyrus Leubuscher
Broadway
Debt figures spark clash over city finances in assembly
Assemblyman W. M. Bennett denounced the Controller's bookkeeping and urged an investigation to show taxpayers how their money has been spent. He cited a city debt over 700 million, claiming it exceeds the federal debt, as other speakers supported reforms.
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Ivins
Bedford
Elsberg
Myr. Ivins
Ele
Public Service Commission
Wall Street
Twins
Metz
Eild
W. M. Bennett
Bennett
United States
J. Aspinall Hodge
Julius Henry Cohen
Atlantic Monthly Sold to Sedgwick Syndicate with McClure ties
The Atlantic Monthly is sold to a syndicate led by Ellery Sedgwick including Waldo H Forbes MacGregor Jenkins and Roger Pierce. Houghton Mifflin will retain a small stake and Bliss Eerry remains editor in chief as the policy stays unchanged. Col McClure expands holdings after buying stock from Herold Roberts who leaves the McClure firms.
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Atlantic Monthly
Whittier
Lowell
Holmes
Ellery Sedgwick
S. S. McClure Company
S.S McClure
McClure Company
Mr.Sedgwick
McClure
Roberts
Col. McClure
Mr. Roberts
Cameron MacKenzie
Appeal for Mountaineers Highlighted by Miss Berry
Miss Martha Berry led a Plaza ballroom gathering to promote Southern Industrial Educational Association aid for Southern mountaineers. Gen Stewart J. L. Woodford presided with speakers Mrs Lowrie Bell Bishop Horner Rev Arthur S Lloyd and John Temple Graves. Donations followed the earnest appeal.
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Martha Berry
Southern Industrial Educational Association
Plaza
New York Auxiliary
Miss Berry
Judge Berry
Rome
Stewart JL. Woodford
Lowrie Bell
Horner
Asheville
Arthur S. Lloyda
John Temple Graves
Fifth Avenue Hotel auction draws throng of women buyers
A crowd of about 1990 women crowded the Fifth Avenue Hotel on opening day as dealers and a few husbands shopped rooms and furnishings. Bids rose on chairs and beds while an elevator ferried shoppers to sold-out suites. A thermometer sold for 7 dollars to ex Mayor F L Osgood. Total receipts reached 5500 dollars and transfer of the hotel and Madison Square Theatre to the Fitteral Building Company was recorded for 1000 dollars with a 2.57 million mortgage.
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Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue Hotel
F. L. Osgood
Norwich
Conn
Mr. Osgood
Paran Stevens
A. B. Darling
Hiram Hitchcock
Lving
A. W. Clarke
Madison Square Theatre
Henry C.eno
Fitteral Building Company
Interborough Bond Hearing Examines $56 Million Mortgage and Assets
The Public Service Commission held another hearing on Interborough Rapid Transit Company's request to mortgage its properties for 56 million dollars and issue securities for that amount. Witnesses discussed operating expenses, maintenance costs, and the impact of required improvements on the company’s surplus amid rising estimates for next year. The auditor noted expenses at 41 percent of receipts with maintenance at about 10 percent, and a proposed 45 percent next year.
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Public Service Commission
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Mortove
Marvyn Scudder
F. J. Gaynor
Theodore P. Shoents
E. P. Bryan
William M. Ivins
Commission
Gaynor
Ivins
Just A Question Of Tights In Court Over Demand
Supreme Court Justice Gerard presided as evidence was heard in the suit by Henrietta Lee Morrison known as Henrietta Lee against Hurtig and Seaman. They seek 8950 for wife and husband as salary after she refused to wear tights in a scene of the musical comedy Me Him and I. Morrison had dressed in feminine style for months and a request to wear tights led to dispute. The case continues.
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Supreme Court
Gerard End
Mra
Henrietta Lee Morrison
Henrietta Lee
Hurtig & Seaman
Charles F. Morrison
Miss Lee
Defendan
Cass
Wasserman Seeks Reinstatement After Rank Reduction
Abraham Levy, attorney for Polt Wasserman, former staff sergeant of Jerome, obtained a writ of certiorari from Justice Hendrick directing reinstate Wasserman as sergeant or show cause within ten days. The writ is returnable in ten days.
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Abraham Levy
Polt
Joseph Wasserman
Jerome
Justie Hendrick
Bingham
Wasserman
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Tim
Charter Revision Committee
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Atlantic Monthly Sale
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New York Times
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Megeonnis Bistiling SS
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Cor. Franklin
Chicago
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Macon
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