Plans for a National Highway to Link Chicago and New York
Dr Gardiner S Chapin and H Sargent Michaels of Chicago traveled 3000 miles to map a proposed National highway between Chicago and New York. They surveyed routes, soil, gravel pits and quarries, photographed landscapes, and prepared materials for Congress urging federal support and feeder roads in allied states.
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Broadway
Thirty-first Street
Gardiner S. Chapin
H. Sargent Michaels
Chicago
Walcott
New York
Congress
Chapin
South Bend
Ind
Logansport
Kokomo
Indianapolis
Bryan
Ohio
Detroit
Mich
Toledo
Cleveland
Pennsylvania
Lake Erie
Buffalo
Rochester
Auburn
Syracuse
Glidden
United States
Utica
Mohawk
Albany
Mr. Michaels
Anit
Henry A. van Alstyne
Commonwealths
Clash Over Rise in Coal Sparks Street Altercation
Tension between small east side coal dealers and middlemen boiled over in Columbia Street as representatives from both sides clashed. Jacob Bierman, president of the Retail Coal Dealers Association, faced $1,000 bail after police arrested him and Samuel Orenstein, a driver for Joseph Firestein. Orenstein was later discharged. Bierman accused large dealers of raising coal prices and hinted at continuing the fight despite threats from middlemen.
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East Side
Columbia Street
Jacob Bierman
Retail Coal Dealers’ Association
Samuel Orenstein
Gouverneur Street
Joseph Firestein
Fox
Steinert
Bierman
Retailers’ Association
Orenstein
College professors dine with Yale and major scholars
Judge Simeon E Baldwin of Yale hosted a Metropolitan Club dinner attended by prominent academics including Yale’s George Burton Adams Oliver Huntington Richardson and Will iam Archibald Dunning. Others present included George Lincoln Burr Cornell Bryn Mawr Albert Shaw Mahan and Adams of Boston among many distinguished guests.
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Simeon E. Baldwin
Yale University
American Historic Association
Metropolitan Club
George Burton Adams
Yale
Herman W. Ames
University of Pennsylvania
George Lincoln Burr
Cornell
Charles McLean Andrews
Bryn Mawr
Albert Bushnell
Hart
Harvard
William Isaac Hull
Swarthmore
Oliver Huntington Richardson
Albert Shaw
Review of Reviews
William Archibald Dunning
Columbia
William Babcock Weeden
A. M
Providence
R. J
J. Franklin_ Jameson
University of Chicago
A. Howard Clark
Smithsonian Institution
Charles Homer Haskins
James Schouler
Boston
Alfred Thayer Mahan
New York
John Bach McMaster
George Pierce Garrigan
University of Texas
Reuben Gold Thwaites
Madison, Wis
James. Harvey Robinson
Charles Francis Adams
Plans to relieve congestion at Ninety-sixth Street Station
Inter borough Rapid Transit Company drafts a plan to ease rush hour crowding at the Ninety-sixth Street Station by routing Broadway express trains past the station without stopping and dropping local service to 103rd Street. Express trains would then use express tracks to continue, reducing delays for Lenox Avenue transfers.
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Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Ninety-sixth Street
Lenox Avenue
Len
Ninety-first Street
Bribery Charges Hit Chautauqua County Supervisors
Special to The New York Times reports bribery charges against the Chautauqua County Board of Supervisors in connection with a 135000 vote for a new courthouse. A board meeting is set for next Monday at the petition of a majority to consider the matter.
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New York Times
Jamestown
N. Y
Chautauqua County Board of Supervisors
There's a Reason to Think: Brain Health and Postum Coffee
A sermon urges readers to improve thinking through better brain nourishment. It argues failures come from poor analysis and reliance on coffee and promotes Postum Food Coffee as a remedy. The piece frames success as a matter of brains that are clean, active, and well nourished.
Brooklyn Senator McCarren vows to face treason trial
Brooklyn leader Senator Patrick Henry McCarren returns from a Western trip and says he will attend any treason trial before the Democratic State Committee. He dismisses worries over Ha yes organization efforts and asserts his right to think and speak freely. He plans to appear in person if called and will be represented by Kings County law officials.
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Patrick Henry McCarren
Brooklyn
Democratic State Committee
Conners
Buffalo
Kings County
Williamsburg
McCarren
Court House Square
Arizona
Hat duty case ends with 1.25 paid by Miss Patch
Miss Mary L Patch, a stenographer in Phoenix Towing, failed to claim a hat mailed from Nova Scotia. The Collector of the Port valued it at 2.50 and imposed 1.25 duty under tariff provisions for trimmed hats. The Board of Appraisers affirmed the duty, Judge Day noting the hat lacked proof of value and the protest failed.
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Mary L. Patch
Phoenix Towing and Transportation Company
State Street
Nova Scotia
United States Treasury
Miss Patch
New York
Bangor
Canada
Canada and Containing Dutiable Articles Are Examined In the Custom House
Willcox
Board of Appraisers
Judges Day
Summerville
W. A. Robertson
Treasury I‘ounsel
Sommerville
Judge Day
Wabash Debenture Plan Deposit Extended
The deadline for depositing Wabash debenture bonds under the committee agreement has been extended to December 22 after yesterday's expiry. A majority of the 30 million dollars in debentures are deposited, with efforts to secure virtually all bonds. The plan becomes effective upon 95 percent deposit, though the company may trigger it earlier with a smaller percentage.
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Wabash
Wabash Railroad
Wabasha Railroad
Driver Dies After Mail Wagon Crash In Brooklyn
John Griesmar of 272 Avenue A was thrown from a United States mail wagon on Depew Place and died minutes later. The accident followed a wagon overturn on a temporary curb.
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John Griesmar
Avenue A
United States
Depew Place
Henry C. Hunter
New York and
New Jersey Metal Trades Association
Christopher Street
Dupont Avenue
New York
Brooklyn
New Transit Initiatives Aim to Break Staten Island Monopoly
A new Perth Amboy and Staten Island Ferry Company plans nine mile link between Tottenville and Perth Amboy with $175,000 start and offices in New Brunswick. A rival nine mile trolley line to Tottenville seeks $500,000 capital and would run Richmond Kreischerville and Rossville to Tottenville. Both projects target Staten Island transit expansion and waterfront development amid talks of broader New Jersey links.
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Staten Island
Tottenville
Perth Amboy
Richmond
New Brunswick
N. J
Perth
Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad Company
F. W. O. Schnitz
M. F. Reiff
Henry Lowerself
Edward White
John J. Nicholson
New York
Emil Biesenbach
Newark
J. W. Humphrey
Ferry Company
Electric Trolley Company
New Trolley Company
Frederick Griffen
W. J. Lally
Kreischerville
Rossville
the Battery
Tompkinsville
Court Strict on Chauffeurs After Speed Law Hearing
Justices of Special Sessions pledged harsher penalties for speed law violators following the November Grand Jury recommendation. Several fines reached 75 dollars, up from the usual 50, and defendants debated pleading guilty as emphasis on deterrence grew. One chauffeur, James D. Marston, was fined ten dollars after admitting to speeding with a Governor-elect in a reporting party.
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Zeller
James D. Marston
West Ninetyfourth Street
Republican County Committee
Hughes
Fifth Avenue
106Th Street
Justice Zeller
Friend of the Poor Dies in Yorkville Doctor McDonough
Dr Edward J McDonough 44 died at 304 East Seventy Ninth Street after diagnosing his own condition. He treated Harlem's poor, shared food with families, and died shortly after taking his temperature and pulse while alone after a Thanksgiving Day visit. He asked for ammonia and the Rev Father Hughes before passing.
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Yorkville
East
Seventy-ninth Street
McDonough
J. L. Wollheim
Catherine O'Neil
Emma McDonough
Harlem
Pooor
Father Hughes
St. Monica’s Church
Dr. Wollheim
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Broaadway Breslin Hotel
A. W. Brewster
Brooklyn Eye & Ear Hospital
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Marcum Kenyon
Manhattan Eye & Ear Hospital
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M. D
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Sixth Ave
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B’way
Astor House
Cortlandt St
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Lewis & Qonger
Rade Mart
Lion Brand
Dr. Chapin
Here
Judge Baldwin
96Th Street
Court House
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Elliott-Fisher Co
Worth St
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Brooklyn Leader
Hayes
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32Nd St
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NEW Transit
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