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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1902
Page
8
The newspaper issue from New York dated Friday December 5 1902 highlights daily news. It presents general front page content including World and national items, with emphasis on political and editorial material of the period.
A list shows publication offices in New York Harlem and West 125th Street, Washington Post Building Philadelphia Public Ledger Sixth and Chestnut Streets, and The Times London printing house. It notes second class matter entry at New York Post Office.
The notice lists subscription prices for the Daily and Sunday editions, including per week per month and per year rates. It notes higher costs for foreign postage and mentions additional offerings like magazines and financial supplements. The text reflects pricing details from The New York Times Saturday Review and related foreign postage charges.
A columnist argues the United States must enforce international standards with Haiti and Venezuela, warning against debtors and pirates while criticizing British and German pressure. It contrasts imperial threats with U S restraint and condemns corporate inertia in the New York Central Railroad case.
A 19th century editorial argues the Ship Subsidy bill, championed by Mr Frye, is dead in the House committee. It notes absence in the President’s message and predicts bleak prospects for the next Congress. The piece compares the subsidy to tariffs and questions whether financiers can indeed profit, calling for broader public understanding.
The New York Central Railroad outlines proposals to restore Park Avenue for public use and upgrade its New York terminal. The letter criticizes delays in necessary improvements, cites damages from a smoke obstructed tunnel, and urges a balanced approach between public spirit and protecting terminal property.
A volunteer opinion questions Gov Odell’s opposition to the Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnel franchise. It contends the Legislature is out of session and suggests charter amendments to curb alderman powers. It argues most New Yorkers favor the Thirty-fourth Street tunnel and views a few aldermen as obstructing the public good. The governor’s stance is seen as aiding those opposed.
A Treasury proposal argues to remove the subsidiary silver coinage cap, allowing coinage from Treasury bullion and recoinage of standard silver dollars. The plan aims to meet rising change demand with inexhaustible bullion, arguing no risk as coins are redeemable on demand and criticizing amendments that would require buying more bullion instead.
Debates in the House of Commons and press discussion show the new Education Bill as an illogical, obscure package of compromises. Its final clause on church representation in schools admits unclear intent and allows officials latitude in policy, likely producing varied interpretations.
The bill increases funds for secondary schooling and places it under stronger educational authority. It faces disputes over favors to the Established Church and the Nonconformists tax issue, with Liberal expectations dampened. Mr. Baufour's prestige grows from his handling of the bill to its current stage.
The mayoral commission on New York water supply, lead by Freeman Burra and Herrring with Commissioner Monroe, will study current waste and feasible leakage controls. The editorial urges courage for conviction, public support for water economy, and wants facts first.
The piece argues against a New York fair to mark Captain Henry Hudson’s voyage, urging a long term landscape project instead. It favors thoughtful, low disruption commemorations over mass expositions and dense tourist crowds, noting New York’s history and transit burdens.
Observers question whether American surgeons will critique slowness to operate in ex Speaker Rhed’s case as they did for King Epwamp. The piece cites national debates over treatment of appendicitis differences between Britain and America and notes a perceived shift toward delaying surgery in a powerful American figure at the capital.
A reader laments anti imperialist rhetoric surrounding the Maine disaster and condemns ERVING Winston for alleged mendacity while urging restraint and composure. The piece argues unions face litigation issues but maintains corporations without contract violations need fear no court oppression.
Letter to the New York Times argues Dr. Concha should be deemed persona non grata as Panama Canal minister. Writer accuses a Yankee phobia clique and cites anti US attacks in 1898, urging passport for Concha and suggesting Herran lead canal negotiations instead. December 4, 1902, New York.
A brief feature notes a man with extraordinary nerve, claimed as inherited courage rather than training. The piece mentions his father and his seater as janitors, illustrating a lineage of steadiness in the household.
A Baltimore American quip explains how a scheme selling meal tickets at ten for a dollar succeeded by ensuring customers never returned after the second meal. The remark highlights a simple, repeatable scam that exploited patrons seeking cheap sustenance and not revisiting the provider.
Quote highlights a contrast between lively talk and careful silence. Miss Cayenne praises conversational power while noting selective reticence. The Washington Star remarks on the subject’s measured approach to what is spoken.
A judge notes that historical consensus forms as dissenters fade away. The inquiry asks how a fiction becomes accepted and the investigator answers that agreement arises naturally when temporary non participants disappear from the scene.
A Washington Star poem laments repeated holiday turkey dishes kept alive by appetite and tradition. It touches on tariff debates, enduring remedies for monopoly, and the stubborn persistence of older comforts that resurface year after year. The piece blends nostalgia with quiet social commentary on ongoing political talk.
The Chamber of Commerce endorsed proposed U S banking and currency amendments after a committee on finance and currency chaired by ex-treasury secretaries approved measures aligned with Secretary Shaw’s report. The plan includes flexible national bank circulation, a credit currency, parity of gold and silver, deposits of public funds in banks with state and municipal bonds as security, and empowerment for the Treasury to issue subsidiary silver coins and coin bullion as needed.
The committee urges adopting gold as the sole legal tender, with expanded but secure currency and elastic credit backed by national trade. It warns against executive power to deposit government funds, while defending gold and silver exchange and redemptions in a cautious path to prosperity.
The Mer ritt Chapman Wrecking Company's squadron arrived at Sandy Hook New Jersey at 8 25 AM with a sixteen inch gun en route to the proving ground. The gun was hauled aboard the Captain Tom with half its weight supported by the derrick Monarch lashed alongside. At high water the derrick swung the gun over two cars and with falling tide by 1 PM placed it on the cocks. The cars were then hauled to the proving ground. The first test will be the powder test.
Prof H V Hilprecht received the Lucy Wharton Drexel Medal from the University of Pennsylvania for his Nippur excavations and related publications. The Drexel fund, established last month with $2000, endows annual medals for the best archaeological excavator or the best publication based on excavations by an English-speaking scholar named by those currently holding the award.
At the National Council of Jewish Women convention in Baltimore the officers for the coming year were elected. President Mrs. Hannah Solomon of Illinois. First Vice President Mrs. Hugo Rosenberg of Pennsylvania. Second Vice President Mrs. Moses Goldenberg of Maryland. Recording Secretary Miss Gertrude Berg of Pennsylvania. Corresponding Secretary Miss Sadie American of New York. Treasurer Mrs. J. B. Judah of Kentucky. Auditor Mrs. Ben Lowenstein of Ohio. Directors include Mrs. M. Landsberg of Rochester New York. Mrs. M. Schwab of Ohio. Mrs. E. Strouse of Baltimore. Mrs. Max Schloss of California. Mrs. Pisco of Denver. and Mrs. J. Hecht of Boston.
The President refused to pardon J. M. McKnight, former president of the German National Bank of Louisville, convicted on two counts for embezzling 3786 dollars and 2000 dollars to bribe Louisville aldermen. The White House stated the case shows clear guilt with no pardon excuse.
The U.S. Naval Observatory reports staffer W. W. Dinwiddie observed the comet discovered by Giacobini at Nice. The object lies nearly on a line with Trocyon and Sirius, about one third of the distance from Trocyon to Sirius, moving northwest.
In Trenton New Jersey on December 4 counsel for J Aspinwall Hodge and United States Steel Corporation agreed to submit their case to the Court of Errors and Appeals on brief rather than present oral arguments. Each side has ten days to file the brief which will be circulated to several court members.
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