Long Island Railroad Aims Surface Line on Atlantic Avenue
The Long Island Railroad Company seeks to restore a surface passenger line on Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn from Flatbush to Shepard Avenue a four mile route atop its old right of way now under ground and overhead wires. It claims perpetual surface use from a historic franchise and cites 1855 agreements while Public Service Commission review awaits thorough investigation.
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Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn
Long Island Railroad Company
Public Service Commission
Flatbush Avenue
Shepard Avenue
Greenport
Long Island
Janaica
Bronx policeman vows to find brother’s killer
Policeman Thomas McCarthy of the Bronx Park Precinct vowed to avenge his murdered brother Owen T. McCarthy whose body was found in Gravesend Bay with a skull wound. Owen, foreman of a box factory, had been missing days before. his funeral was held at a Coney Island undertaker, and McCarthy received indefinite leave to pursue the case as investigators from Brooklyn and Manhattan search for clues.
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Thomas McCarthy
Bronx Park
Owen T. McCarthy
West Twelfth Street
Manhattan
Gravesend Bay
West Eighth Street
Coney Island
McCarthy
Bingham
Brooklyn Police
Headquarters
Owen McCarthy
Bay
East 18Th Street
Manhatttan
Calvary Cemetery
Hoboken to Turn Late Sam Sloan Statue Facing Rail Hub
Hoboken plans to rotate the late Sam Sloan statue in its new plaza so it faces half toward the ferry slips and the City of Hoboken and half toward the Lackawanna Railroad station. The statue sparked debate as locals misidentified it and foreman misattributed names. officials complain the sculpture should face the railroad.
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Hoboken
Sam Sloan
Lackawanna
Venus
Kaiser
Germany
Abraham Lincoln
Emperor William
Theodore Roosevelt
John D. Rockefeller
Mary Walker
Tate
Sloan
Hudson
John H. Stalin
Glen Island
Mr. Sloan
Weddings Gift Misdelivered Leads to Court Dismissal
A stray wedding gift check caused confusion as Adolph Antman of 114 Lewis Street received payment intended for Adolph Antman of 817 Fifth Street. Labtoner of 213 Rivington Street learned of the mix up. judge Wahle dismissed after finding no intent to defraud. All three Adolphs left amicably.
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Adolph Antman
Lewis Street
Fifth Street
Adolph Labtoner
Rivington Street
Antman
Labtoner
Adolph
Goldberg
Essex Market Court
Wahle
Adolphs
Drowned hero Jim Farrell remembered as kind driver
John Fitzgerald reports the death of Jim Farrell a celebrated New York City horse driver who saved his son Arthur as he drowned in the Hudson near Fifty second Street His family a wife and six children mourn at a crowded West Fifty third Street tenement funeral plans are underway and Father Chidwick calls him the finest manhood in the neighborhood The incident drew aid from neighbor Robert Graham and several youths who tried to rescue the father and later retrieved the body for Dr James to declare time of death
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Jim” Farrell
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
New York
Hudson River
Arthur
Farrell
West Fifty-third Street
Jim’ Farrell
Father Chidwick
Maine
Robert Graham
West Fifty-sixth Street
Thomas Fay
West Fifty-second Street
Daniel Johnson
West Fiftyfirst Street
Fifty-third Street
Graham
Dr. James
Bellevue Hospital
St. Ambrose’s Church
Jerry
Fifty-second Street
Jim
Marion
James
Annie
Edward
Bessie
Five Women in Boat Collision Drown Near Speonk Point
A motorboat carrying five young women and a man was struck by another launch off Speonk Point East Bay. Miss Katherine Heidenfelder, a niece of Charles Redfield, drowned after becoming entangled in a rope. the others were rescued. Dr. Wesley’s steering gear failed and his boat collided with Redfield’s, then drifted free as the wreckage was towed ashore. The coroner planned an inquest.
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Speonk Point
East Bay
Charles Redfield
West Hampton Beach
L. I
Redfield
Katherine Heidenfelder
Wesley
Howell
Dr. Wesley
Mr. Redfield
Young Couple Drown at Chautauqua Lake
Miss Elsie Green a Savannah Georgia 19 and Porter Parish 21 of Memphis Tennessee drowned in Chautauqua Lake near the Chautauqua Assembly after their boat was struck by the Chadakoin steamer. The accident occurred late last night and bodies are not yet recovered.
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New York Times
Jamestown
N. Y
Elsie Green
Savannah
Porter Parish
Memphis
Girl Burned Aboard Yacht After Oil Stove Explosion
An oil stove exploded on the auxiliary yacht Remsey off Inwood injuring Ella Fisher a 10 year old girl and lightly burning Captain John Fisher and his wife who were aboard with guest Mrs Hayes. The family dived overboard and were rescued by three nearby canoeists. The yacht was cruising with a Palisades camp opposite Inwood.
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Remsey
Inwood
Ella Fisher
John Fisher
Fisher
East Fifty-seventh Street
L. Hayes
Palisades
Dilla Fisher Bank
Earby
Yacht Fire Hurts Girl As Family Rescued
Mrs. Hayes tried to extinguish the blaze while her eyebrows singed. The Fisher party were saved and the girl suffered severe burns but a nearby physician attending campers treated her wounds and the girl is expected to recover.
Docking mishap on Beelle Haven ends with rescue
At Rockaway Point yesterday four thirty pm the gangplank on the Beelle Haven broke throwing twenty five aboard into twelve foot water. Police officers Lawler and Schmidt organized a rope haul to rescue all aboard with no serious injuries. Passengers included Mrs Harold and daughter Evelyn and Mr Charles Smith and daughter Mildred of Brooklyn.
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Beelle Haven
Sheepshead
Rockaway
Rockaway Point
Edward Lawler
Eighth Inspection District
C. L Schmidt
Broadway
Brooklyn
James Harold
Atlantic Avenue
Evelyn
Charles J. Smith
Mildred
Cornelia Street
Catboat Capsizes During Sound Sail Off Whitestone
John Fairman of the London and Northwestern Railroad and F J Miner C G Moore and C J Luce of the Manhattan Woolen Co hired a catboat at Webber’s boathouse New Rochelle. A squall off Stepping Stone Light capsized the boat around 2 PM. The four clung to the hull for 30 minutes before a Oyster Bay launch rescued them and landed them at City Island.
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John Fairman
London & Northwestern Railroad Company
Fifth Avenue
F. J. Miner
C. G. Moore
C. J. Luce
Manhattan Woolen Company
Bleecker Street
Webber’s
New Rochelle
Whitestone
Oyster Bay
City Island
Webber
Manhattan
Deckhand saves woman in Thousand Islands collision
Frank Shaw, a deck hand, leapt from the St Lawrence to rescue Mrs Clara Crosby of Adams New York as the steamer collided with her motorboat near Park New York. Spectators began a subscription to seek a Carnegie medal for Shaw for saving her life.
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Shaw
le Head
Riot on Excursion Barge Ends with Arrests in New York Waters
Bloomfield Fire and Drum Corps excursion on the barge Empire stirred a riot as Special Deputy Sheriff Charles Shorter stopped fights. A man accused of trying to throw Shorter overboard led to arrests of William Structt Frank Daly and John Brennan as harbor police boarded the Empire off Twenty-third Street and escorted the barge ashore via the Kill van Kull.
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Bloomfield Fire and Drum Corps
Empire
Charles Shorter
Ewark
Shorter
Virginia Jackson
Hudson
McNaught
Olice
Fein
Jackson
Twenty-third Street
William Structt
Bloomfield
Frank Daly
Orange
John Brennan
Brennan
Pier A
Battery
New York
Foundered schooner off Cape Lookout rescued by Kansas City
A wireless message to The Associated Press reports Charles K. Schull off Cape Lookout North Carolina details the rescue by the steamer Kansas City of the captain and seven crew members from a coal laden schooner bound from Philadelphia to Charleston South Carolina. The vessel foundered near the coast.
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Charles K. Schull
Cape Itjookout
North Carolina
Kansas City
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Charleston
S. C
Saa
Eleven Marines Bitten by Rabid Dog in Panama
Naval Ensign L W Farwell arrived from the Canal Zone with Major G H Russell and ten privates of the Marine Corps as patients after a rabid collie attacked at Camp Diabalo on the Isthmus. The victims, all from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, were en route to Washington for treatment at the Naval School Medical Hospital. None have shown hydrophobia symptoms. serum is prepared and they proceed to care in Washington.
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L. W. Farwell
Canal Zone
Finance
Marine Corps
Camp Diabalo
Atlantic
Isthmus
G. H. Russell
A. B. Hobbal
W. H. Hawkins
R. D. Bagley
W. H. McFerland
L. Clark
G. B. Baxter
Thomas Waple
W.¥. Cooper
Oscar Anderson
JL. Moore
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Panama
New Hampshire
Naval Hospital
Brooklyn
Canal Commission
A. B. Disconturio
Ecuador
France
Rabid Bull Terrier Attacks Man in Maywood Suburb
William Haas of Manhattan, living in Maywood Hackensack suburb, was bitten by his bull terrier on Friday. The dog showed signs of rabies. it died Saturday night. Dr Freeland confirmed rabies after examining the head. Haas received Pasteur treatment for a severe hand wound. the baby was nicked but not cut.
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William Haas
Manhattan
Maywood
Hackensack
Haas
W. W. Curry
Hackar
Curry
Freeland
New York
Hans
Pasteur Inn
Third Avenue Line Plans Employee Pension and Insurance Fund
Frederick W. Whitridge proposes a provident association for Third Avenue Railroad Company workers. Employees would contribute 50 cents monthly. company matches scale from 50 to 100 percent based on participation. If 80 percent join the fund would be doubled by company contributions. The plan funds illness pay, survivor benefits, and a pension, with a seven member board and clubhouse at 129th Street. Participants sign by October to join.
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Frederick W. Whitridge
Third Avenue Railroad Company
Maher
Roosevelt
Sage
Snydstrup
Whitridge
129Th Street
Third Avenue
Phonographs From Far East Reach New York
Seventeen cases of Oriental phonograph records for Chinese and Japanese in the United States arrive in New York aboard the Satsuma from China and Japan. The collection includes operatic selections in Oriental languages and will be produced as disks and cylinders for broad distribution. The voyage features Mrs Corinne Foote, a young voyager with extensive sea experience, and a monkey passenger named Chow who lost part of his tail in a fire-door accident aboard the Indrawedi.
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Far East
New York
United States
Satsuma
China
Japan
Corrine Foote
Foote
Fred R. Foote
Mary Hendry
Equator
Chow
Death at Bakery Seemingly Self-Inflicted Knife Wound
Benjamin Goldberg, a baker at 209 East Houston Street, was found dead yesterday morning in a rear room of his shop with a bread knife in his throat. Coroner Harburger suspected possible self-inflicted harm but urged full investigation. Neighbors heard no struggle. ladder may have been left by plumbers. Goldberg had recently moved from Transvaal, and his wife and five children are in Russia. Detectives from the Central Office, led by Lieut. Cary, investigated the scene.
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Benjamin Goldberg
East Houston Street
Harburger
Hyman Arbeitman
Goldberg
Russia
Trifling Sums and Miscellaneous Addresses in City Ledger
The notice lists numerous entries with addresses on Bridge Street East Houston Street Willis Avenue Market Street 125th Street Canal Street and other avenues. Amounts range from $5 to $50 with many labeled trifling and several entries show small payments or fees. Names include Peter De Gaetano Abraham Small James Roselle Katle & Co Morris Apple N. Capazzuto P Aquaro and M. R. Small among others.
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A. M
Bridge St
John Davidson
East Houston St
Tda Twetzky
Willis
Peter de Gaetano
Market St
Abraham Small
East 125Th St
S. Smith
M. c
James Roselle
Samuel Mead
Canal St
Katle & Co
East 10Th St
H.kirshman
West 3d St
Anna Hoare
West 90Th St
George Alien
Brook
Alexander Silverman
Montgomery St
Morris Apple
M. R. Small
Crowd of 300000 swamps Coney Island beach
A massive crowd at Coney Island overwhelmed bathing facilities and forced many away. A grass fire near West Twenty sixth Street and Fifth Avenue was extinguished by firefighters. Rescues saved a man and his daughter after a large wave swept her from his grasp. A Royal Touring Co auto injured two children in Sheepshead Bay but with minor injuries.
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Coney Island
West Twenty-sixth Street
Fifth Avenue
Sea Gate
St. John's Orphan Asylum
St. Joseph
Rogers
Manhattan
Mary
George B. Whipple
Bergen Street
Brooklyn
American Life Saving Corps
Flynn
Royal Touring Company
Mary Crippen
Twelfth Street
Sheepshead Bay
James
Servant Eva Good Fined for Theft in Orange New Jersey
Eva Good, a servant employed by Dr. William G. Alexander of 14 Webster Place Orange New Jersey, was fined 50 cents by Police Justice Bray for theft. She must pay ten weekly installments of five cents after stealing a $50 diamond ring hidden between a mattress and $1.25 from an envelope on the doctor's desk. She surrendered the stolen property at arrest.
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Bray
Eva Good
William G. Alexander
Webster Place
Orange
N. J
Alexander
Shy Iowa Woman Seeks Missing Husband in New York
Mrs Anna Wells of Hopkinton Iowa reports her husband Frank G Wells an artist who recently won a county fair prize has vanished after they arrived in New York. They toured hotels on Broadway and rested in a drug store near Thirty fourth Street while he hunted for a place to stay. A patrolman advised awaiting word at West Thirty-seventh Street Station.
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West Thirty-seventh Street
Broadway
Anna Wells
Hopkinton
Iowa
Frank G. Wells
New York
Thirtyfourth Street
Mr. Wells
Prohibitionists Claim Texas Victory in Primaries
Prohibition campaign managers in Austin claim the primaries produced a majority in favor of submitting prohibition to voters. They assert that a majority of all votes cast for the highest office is not required, countering anti prohibition leaders who say the law requires it.
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New York Times
Austin
Texas
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AK Theatre
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Jardin DE Paris
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Bway
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30Th St. Bv
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Brockaway
Eason
Atest
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Woodland
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Farman
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Aero Club of America
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Ammerstein
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Salome
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Winsor McKay
Alhambra
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