Funeral of Samuel Spencer Prompts Southern Halt
Funeral services for Samuel Spencer will be held at St John's Church Washington with private burial. All Southern Railway trains and machinery will halt for five minutes at 2 PM as a mark of respect. The official notice lists numerous rail executives and directors attending the service and honors. Spencer previously led the Virginia Midland section as superintendent in 1877 before rising to top posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Samuel Spencer
Southern Railway
Lawyers
St. John's Church
Roland C. Smith
Southern
Road
J. Pierpont Morgan
New York
Col
A. B. Andrews
Southern Railiway
Raleigh
N. C
Ww. W. Finley
J. M. Culp
Washingon
D. Hy, Ackert
T. C. Powell
St. Louis
Savannah
George S. Bowdoin
Baker
New_York & Long Branch
Joseph Bryan
Richmond
Robert M. Galloway
Samuel M. Inman
Atlanta
Adrian Iselin, Jr
Charles Lanier
Edmund D. Randolph
James T. Woodward
Harris C. Fahnestock
Charles Steele
John M. Cadwalader
Augustus D. Juilliard
J. 8. Basgett
J. Turner At
St. John’s Church
Washington, D. C
Spencer
Southern System
Virginia Midland
Wreck Probe Pins Blame on Rangoon Telegraph Operator
An official examination of Southern Railway telegraph records shows operator G D Mattoax at Rangoon failed to clear the block before the Jacksonville express entered the same stretch, leading to two trains colliding ten miles south of Lynchburg. Mattoax vanished after the crash, with search efforts ongoing.
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Lynchburg
Southern Railway
Angoon
Southern
G. D. Mattoax
Rangoon
Mattoax
Mattoux
Jacksonville
Jawyers
Lawers
Washington
Jamestown
N. Y
Merrill
St. Andrew's Home
British View of the Wreck Special Cablegram
The Pall Mall Gazette hopes the Southern Railroad president’s death will push American railroads to safer management. It notes American fatality statistics for preventable crashes shock English readers but spur reform, with directors among victims seen as a catalyst.
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THE
NEW York Times
London
Pall Mall Gazette
United States
Spencer
Southern Railroad
America
Honors Schuyler Memory From Union Club Members
A Union Club committee mourns Gen Philip Schuyler killed in the Southern Railroad wreck and adopts resolutions praising his public service in the Civil War and his postwar work with New York Hospital and public libraries. The note lauds his kindness, duty, and gentlemanly conduct, stating his loss leaves a void in the club and among friends.
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Union Club
Fifty-first, Street and
Fifth Avenue
Philip Schuyler
Southern Railroad
Schuyler
Regular Army
Hmfe
New York
el Oe
Annoyed telephone girls report incident on Williamsburgh Bridge
Florence Runce and Annie Sullivan testified in Essex Market Court that Samuel Fried halted their car on the Williamsburgh Bridge and spoke to them. Fried claimed a friend attacked the women and a witness vouched for him. Magistrate Steinert set $500 bond for six months' good behavior.
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Florence Runce
Clinton Street
Manhattan
Annie Sullivan
Linden Street
Brooklyn
Cortlandt Street Exchange
Samuel Fried
Tinton Avenue
Bronx
Essex Market Court
Williamsburg Bridge
Fried
Bridge
Steinert
Samuel Monasky
Passing of Col. Dady Ends Chance for Reappointment
Kings County Republican Executive Committee voted seventeen to six to reject Col. Michael J. Dady as a candidate to succeed himself on the Elections Board and named ex Senator Rudolph C. Fuller as the committee's choice. Dady attended as proxy for D. Harry Ralston while Fuller was represented by State Chairman Woodruff. The decision, likely to be endorsed by the County Committee and sent to Mayor McClellan, ends Dady's term on the board at month end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kings County Republican Executive Committee
Brooklyn
Michael J. Dady
Temple Bar
Col. Dady
Elections Board
Rudolph C. Fuller
Dady
D. Harry Ralston
Woodruff
Fuller
M. J. Wheeler
Robert A. Sharkey
Philip T. Williams
Jacob A. Livingston
John Hann
McClellan
Col. Cady
Immigrants Held at Ellis Island Reach High Daily Total
Nearly 6,500 immigrants were held awaiting discharge on Ellis Island yesterday the largest single day in six months. Ships Slavonia 2088 Moltke 1500 Koenigin Luise 1205 Italia 1500 brought arrivals. processing will take about two more days.
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Ellis Island
Cunarder Slavonia
Sugar Refining Company Teamsters End Strike Demand
The American Sugar Refining Company of Jersey City agreed yesterday to pay 30 cents an hour for all work after 6 P.M. and the striking teamsters will resume duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Sugar Refining Company of
Jersey City
Acting Mayor's Wife Injured and Uncertain Cause
Mrs Patrick F McGowan wife of the Board of Aldermen president and Acting Mayor at mayor McClellan absence lies in the New York Polyclinic Hospital East Thirty fourth Street with a fractured leg strained back and facial bruises. Police cannot explain the cause and neighbors saw nothing at the church railing near Fourteenth Street and Second Avenue where she was found.
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Patrick F. McGowan
Board of Aldermen
McClellan
New York Polyclinic Hospital
East Thirty-fourth Street
McGowan
Gunn
Mr. McGowan
Chetwood
Bowdoine
Burke
Loughman
Fifth Street
Fourteenth Street
Second Avenue
Las Night
East Twenty-second Street
Polyclinic Hospital
Dog Bites Two Children In City Incident
A fox terrier bit six year old Frank Halsey at Eighth Avenue and 140th Street injuring his right arm. The dog then ran to Edgecombe Avenue where five year old John Canton was bitten on the arm. A policeman shot the dog and both boys were taken to J Hood Wright Hospital for treatment.
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Frank Halsey
West 144Th Street
Eighth Avenue
140Th Street
Edgecombe Avenue
John
Canton
West 142d Street
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Yesterday's Fires Chronicle Erratic Citywide Damages
A long list records multiple fires across Manhattan and surrounding areas with times from 3:25 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. Damages vary, including $10,000 to American Ice Company and numerous smaller sums. Several addresses list owner unknown or trifling damage. The entries name property owners, businesses, and locations such as Madison Street Norfolk Street Sixth Avenue Amsterdam Avenue Harlem Park East Seventeenth Street and 19th Street, with entities like the Unsay ment Society, Nathan Siegel, Joseph Lam bardt, and Yedler Brothers among those affected.
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Madison Street
The
Unsayment Society
Norfolk Street
Samuel Meltzer
George Kaplan
Sixth Avenue
Clarystie Street
Israel Horowitz
Harlem Park
Seventy-second Street
Nineteenth Street
Avenue D
Claremont Avenue
124Th
125Th Streets
Seatine
East
Ninety-fifth Street
Nathan Siegel
Marmion Avenue
Fairmount Place
East 128Th Street
American Ice Company
East Third Street
Abraham Markofski
West 112Th Street
Gouverneur Street
Julius
Longfellow Avenue
Bronx Park
Pelham Avenue
Madise Avenue
West Forty-third Street
Second Avenue
Joseph Klene
Caner Might
Omaha
Spring Street
East Nine Third Street
Broad Street
Mulberry Street
Joseph Lambardt
Grand Street
Samuel Lee
Charles Guggenheimer
Seventh Avenue
Yedler Brothers
Italians Rush to Buy Long Island Lots in Speedy Sale
A real estate firm on Long Island held a sensational sale attracting 500 Italians from Brooklyn. Agents spoke Italian and praised an automobile course as buyers snapped up most of the lots sight unseen, confident the property would rise in value within a year. The crowd dashed to stake claims, bought with low deposits, and planned to build an Italian city within ten years.
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Long Island
Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn
Land Company
Vanderbilts
Astors
Rockefellers
City Hall
Pennsylvania Tunnel Avenue
Blackwell's Island Bridge Street
East River Tunnel Lane
Eenok
Runaways Wed at Sea Aboard Slavonia
Sigmund Engelbach and Marie Joseffa Kermann, two Vienna sweethearts fearing parental interference, married aboard the Slavonia off Trieste before landing in New York. The ceremony was witnessed by Capt. Taylor. Rev. Dr. A. Craig of Newton, NJ, performed the rite as the ship neared port.
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Trieste
Slavonia
Sigmund Engelbach
Marie Joseffa Kermann
Chicago
Sigmund
Vienna
A. Craig
Newton
N. J
Taylor
Warrant Issued for Dr Lyman in Mining Swindle Case
Nov 30 Golddfield Secretary E H Latimer of Union Securities arrested on swindling charge. B H Sheffers accuses Latimer and Dr John Grant Lyman of cheating him out of 13000 in a mining stock deal. Warrant for Lyman issued. extradition sought. Lyman linked to New York Stock Exchange expulsion in 1899.
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Goldfield
E. H.latimer
Union Securities Company
B. H. Sheffers
Chicago
Latimer
John Grant Lyman
Dr. Lyman
Pe Lyman
New York Stock Exchange
Express trains boosted on Sundays by transit board
The Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners will order the Interborough Company to run more Sunday expresses after a unanimous resolution by Controller Metz. He noted few express runs on Sundays over a 14 day period and crowded trains, urging changes. George L. Rives advised the board it cannot grant a Brooklyn monorail franchise and that bids must be invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners
Interborough Company
Metz
George L. Rives
Mono-Railroad
Brooklyn
Steamship line train collision near Montville kills fireman
A Central Vermont steamboat train collided with a freight engine on a siding at Montville, killing 19 year old fireman George E Geer who was buried under coal. Brake man Frederick Atkinson suffered a leg fracture after opening a switch. no serious injuries among the about 75 passengers aboard.
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New York Times
New London
Chester W. Chapin
Montreal
Frederick Atkinson
Geer
Atkinson
James E. Packard
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