Long fight looming over transprs rate dispute between lines
Receivers for the Metropolitan Street Railway challenge joint rate plans with the Public Service Commission. Judge Lacombe notes legal uncertainties and hints the transfer arrangement may require court action, signaling a protracted battle likely lasting months and court appeals.
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Metropolitan Street Railway Company
United States
Lacombe
Public Service Commission
Fiftyninth Street Road
Court of Appeals
Commission Penalty Provisions for Disobedience
The text outlines penalties up to 5000 dollars for each offense and treats each day of continued disobedience as a separate offense. It also states that company officials who aid or abet disobedience shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
School Board Replies to Metz on Contract Time Limits
The Board of Education Buildings Committee prepared a reply to Controller Metz and will forward it in days. Chairman Schaedle said Winthrop acted with the committee in framing the response. The Executive Committee allocated about $500 000 to prepare for the upcoming session. Erasmus High in Brooklyn will get a new pipe organ. Superintendent Maxwell reported 60 250 part time pupils citywide on May 321, with Commissioner Jonas noting a yearly increase.
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Metz
Winthrop
Schaedle
Erasmus High School
Brooklyn
Jonas
Maxwell
New York Leads Navy Target Record in Gardiner's Bay Drills
On the JW S S Prairie Gardiner's Bay NY led naval militia target records finishing work with 8.18 hits per minute. Maine 6.38 New Jersey 4.71 Rhode Island 4.30 Connecticut 3.04 Massachusetts 3.04. Captain C F Purdy set 18.04 shots per minute, Harvey A Klupp 9.73, sea torpedo practice aboard Stringham De Long Thornton.
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Gardiner’s Bay
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New York State
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Connecticut
Massachusetts
C. F. Purdy
Fifth Battalion
Atlantic
Harvey A. Klupp
Buffalo Division
A. A. Ackerman
Klupp
Stringham
de Long
Thornton
Octopus
Newberry
Charles N. Marsh
Portsmouth
Brooklyn policeman held on murder charge with $10000 bail
David Shellard of the Hamburg Avenue Station Brooklyn was admitted to $10000 bail by Justice Blackmar after being charged with kiing Barbara Reig in Irving Square Park shelter house. The judge found no motive evident in the case. Shellard’s hearing is set for August 19 in New Jersey Avenue Court.
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Justice Blackmar
Supreme Court
Blackmar
Peter Hansen
Shellard
New Jersey Avenue
Goulds' divorce case rapid answer ordered
Mrs Helen Kelly Gould obtained a Supreme Court order directing Frank Jay Gould to file an answer to the complaint in her suit for absolute divorce within twenty four hours. The suit, filed July 24, seeks custody of daughters Dorothy and Helen, aged six and others. no alimony requested. The couple married December 2 1901 and separated last March.
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Justice Goff
Supreme Court
Frank Jay Gould
Henry L. Sprague
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Helenita
Cape Breton
Nurses Take Gould Yacht Outing on Helenita
Frank J. Gould entrusted his yacht Helenita to Dr. Homer Gibney and a party of twenty five hospital nurses from New York and Presbyterian Hospitals Hospital for Crippled and Ruptured and West Side German in a planned outing. The cruise sailed from the New York Yacht Club Pier at East Twenty sixth Street at 9 am went to Larchmont then returned to Tarrytown. The group includes nurses connected to the institutions of Dr. Gibney.
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Hospital
West Side
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Evangelist Preaches in Times Square crowd forms outside Times Building
Dr. William Wilkinson, a well known open air evangelist, spoke from a soap box outside The Times Building in Times Square yesterday. His exhortation drew about 200 listeners, many from the theatre community.
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William Wilkinson
Wall Street
Broadway
Times
Fifty Autos Burned In Chicago Garage Fire
A Chicago blaze destroyed fifty autos and taxicabs housed in the C. A. Coey & Co. garage. The fire began with an explosion and spread quickly, leveling the building before firefighters arrived. Loss is estimated at $500,000.
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Chicago
C. A. Coey & Co
Yesterday's Fires Report with Multiple Incidents
A compilation lists numerous fire losses and addresses in New York. Entries include amounts from 25 to 5 000 dollars, with locations on Broadway Broome Street Attorney Street and more. Names such as Rose Krawitz Vaun Mardenburg Kesselman O Keefe Lynch appear alongside addresses and dollar figures.
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J. Vaun
Stanton
Desbrosses
P. O'Keefe
Greenwich St
S. Kesselman
Allen St
Kaufman Bros
E. 28Th St
H. C. Cole
C. Lynch
Russian Tailor Sekanski Hangs Himself in Brooklyn Jail
William Sekanski a 26 year old Russian tailor jailed in Raymond Street Jail Brooklyn awaiting trial for a double murder died by hanging in his cell. He murdered his sweetheart Annie Kockona and shot Michael Kissian on May 3 and either refused marriage or interference led to the killings.
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Raymond Street
Brooklyn
County Court of
Patrick J. Mitchell
Mitchell
Lang
Sekanski
Annie Kockona
Kent Avenue
Michael Kissian
North Eleventh Street
Big Bill Hawley Reappears As Miner Broker In Suit
William C Woodward sues Dr G Lenox Curtis alleging Curtis optioned Sonora Mexico gold mine now valued at 50 million dollars. Woodward claims Curtis offered 50 000 shares for aiding in finding a buyer who would pay 75 000 to 106 000 for the shares. Alfred Epstein represents Woodward. Watson Raymond defend Curtis claiming no agreement or purchaser was found.
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Hawley
William C. Woodward
Sam Montezuma
Dr. Curtis
Woodward
Alfred Epstein
Epstein Brothers
Broadway
Epstein
Watson & Raymond
Wall Street
Junk bells ban dismissed in Harlem case
Magistrate Steinert ruled there is no noise ordinance banning junk dealers from using bells and dismissed the complaints against Lynch of 77 East 119th Street. A. B. Cole argued the order lacked legal backing and Steinert agreed the Bingham directive has no enforceable authority.
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Harlem
East 119Th Street
Bingham
A. B. Cole
Wall Street
Cole
Blackmailer Threats Drive Priest From Newark to Europe
Rev. Michael Servetka a Newark Polish priest said he was driven city to city by threats to his life and fled on a steamer to Europe. He claimed attacks in Brooklyn and Newark and a letter demanding 1000 dollars. Newark police agreed to escort him as he departed to escape further harm.
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Newark
N. J
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Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Roe
Brooklyn
Pene
Father Servetka
Convent Girl in Trouble Over Jewelry Theft
Mary Barry of Chicago, 21, appeared in Hartford court over a $300 pair of earrings she tried to pawn for $15. The jewelry belonged to Miss Welsh of Bond Street. Barry is the daughter of Thomas Barry of the Barry Brothers Transportation Co. She has spent most of her life in convents in Montreal, Kingston, and other places.
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Chicago
Chambers
Welsh
Bond Street
Barry
New York Times
Thomas Barry
Barry Brothers Transportation Company
Great Lakes
Ville Marie
Montreal
Notre Dame
Kingston
Ont
Labor Endorses Democrats in AFL Letter
In Chicago on August 12 the American Federation of Labor executives led by President Gompers issued a pre election appeal to trades unionists signaling official support for the National Democratic ticket. The document, signed by the Executive Council including John Mitchell, avoids naming Bryan by name yet clearly backs Democrats while criticizing Republicans as aligned with corporate interests. It urges labor and allies to choose what serves their best interests and warns of worse conditions if duty is neglected.
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Chicago
Gompers
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Labor
John Mitchell
Bryan
National Democratic
Republican Party
Democratic Party
White Caps Send Letter to Jacobs in Pine Plains Threats
A threatening letter from a Tar and Feather Club in Pine Plains pledges to tar and feather Mervin V. Jacobs if he visits the village again. Mrs. Husted hires lawyer Charles Morschauser to prosecute six identified participants. Grand Jury may indict. she denies separation from her husband, and both women defend each other amid publicity.
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M. W. Jacobs
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Poughkeepsie
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Harry Thaw
Morschauser
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Mrs. Jacobs
Missing Hotel Keeper Found Drowned in Flushing Bay
Jacob Creter a 66 year old hotel keeper and proprietor of a saloon bowling alley gymnasium at Vernon Avenue and Bodine Street Ravenswood Long Island City was found drowned in Flushing Bay off Elmhurst early yesterday morning. Authorities say business reverses may have driven him to walk and vanish.
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Flushing Bay
Elmhurst
Creter
Vernon Avenue
Bodiner Street
Ravenswood
Long Island City
Broker Guilty of Forgery in Incorporation Certificate
Samuel T. Bondhus, a broker and promoter, was convicted in General Sessions before Judge Crain of forging the Pitt Boiler and Manufacturing Company certificate of incorporation. He altered the capital from 200 000 to 2 000 to reduce fees, aiming to keep a 15 commission.Bondhus' wife attended the trial, which lasted several days, and broke down when the guilty verdict was announced.
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Crain
Pitt Boiler and Manufacturing Company
Bondhus
William A. Pitt
Adolph Steinhart
Jacob Hoffman
John Schmetzle
Frank W. Merritt
Londhus
Edward W. Rabbitt
Pitt
State Department
Bond
Chauffeur Placed in Prison for Joy Ride
Justice Wyatt of Special Sessions sentenced Charlies A. Terrell, a chauffeur, to thirty days in City Prison for taking and using his employer Leroy D. Ball's car on August 3 for thirty hours without permission. Ball testified the car suffered $100 in damages from wear and gasoline expenses. The judge warned that any owner can seek conviction if a chauffeur damages a car by a joy ride.
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Special Sessions
Charlies A. Terrell
Leroy D. Ball
West Seventy-ninth Street
Terrell
Ball
Young Wife Nellie Hanna Found Dead in River
The body of Nellie Hanna, wife of Henry G. Hanna, a taxi cleaner, was found in the North River at West Fortieth Street. A forehead wound initially suggested murder. Her mother, Mrs Mary Sheehan, said Nellie mourned her first husband and had warned of harming herself and the children before disappearing with the baby, who was not recovered.
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Henry G. Hanna
Eleventh Avenue
North River
West Fortieth Street
Mary Sheehan
The Sunday Times previews major forthcoming features
The Sunday Times announces forthcoming articles on the Senate's changes, William James Conners of Buffalo, Bohemianism in London and New York, a Paris diplomat's America visit, and other varied content. It promotes features on food fads, Fletcherism critique, New York Central Terminal, new plays and operas, plus pictorials of Paris crowds and society events. Readers are urged to pre order for early delivery.
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William James Conners
Buffalo
the Times
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New York
Protos
Thomas Cars
Paris
New York Yacht Club
Bay Shore
Newport
Fur-Lined Coats Promise High Returns at Hope Corner
Hope investors tout fur lined coats as superior to bonds stocks and real estate with claims of 100 to 200 percent gains in 90 days. Buyers seek coats for immediate use in mountains and on automobile tours amid a growing hype at the Hope corner.
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Hope Corner
New York City
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