Mounted Policemen Visit West Point for Cavalry Drill
Thirteen New York Police Department mounted officers accompanied Capt. Piper and Inspector Cross to West Point for instruction in horsemanship. The trip featured cadet drills, cavalry methods, and praise for the cadets while noting occasional critique of rein handling and saddle techniques.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Police Department
West Point
Alexander R. Piper
Adam A. Cross
The
Bronx
Cavalry
James Donovan
Thirty-seventh Precinct
Regular Cavalry
Inspector Cross
George W. Sands
John B.macdonald
ARMY
United States Army
New York
William
Egan
Police
Central Park
West Forty-second Street Ferry
West Shore Railway
Sergt
Gerald I. Hillyer
Seventy-third Precinct
Brooklyn
Prospect Park
Thirty-seventh
Ken Sergt
Max. Steinbruck
Thirty-third Precinct
Seret
James McGlynn
Fortieth
High Bridge
Serget
John W. Wilson
Forty-first
Old Park
John M. Hefferon
James Frawley
John T. Smith
Old Central Park
William Cullen
United States Cavalry
Henry W. Hatten
Capt. Piper
Donovan
Capt. Piner
Franklin Street
Piper
Great Britain
Riding Academy
van Cortlandt Park
Capt
Weehawken
Capt. Donovan
Anti-Suffragists Hold NY Meeting Elect Officers
The Standing Committee of the New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women met at Mrs. Gilbert E. Joneses residence 229 Madison Avenue and elected officers including President Mrs Lyman Abbott and Vice Presidents Mrs Arthur M. Dodge and Mrs Elihu Root. The executive slate and report urged continued opposition to woman suffrage citing slower progress in states with votes for women and urging legislators and voters to heed protests against granting suffrage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State Association
Gilbert E. Jones
Madison Avenue
Lyman Abbott
Arthur M. Dodge
Elihu Root
Richard Watson Gilder
William Putnam
Philip Schuyter
van Patten
William J. Wallace
Charles H. den
Joseph S. Rylance
Nison
Munroe Smith
Howard Duffield
Emil Knichling
Association
New York
Kelsey
Fire cripples John Street telephone exchange after wire damage
A mysterious fire at the John Street exchange in Manhattan crippled about 5000 telephones for hours. Officials say 90 percent of wires on the switchboards were ruined, likely from a downed power line after a storm. No explosion occurred and restoration followed by experts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Street
John Street Exchange
Manhattan
East River
Nassau Street
Chambers Street
Maiden Lane
Yale Students Lock Up After Broadway Street Fight
Frederick Roosevelt Scovel, who claims relation to the President, Charles Powers, and Prof. Carlos Alberto Levi were jailed at West Thirtieth Street Station after a street brawl at Broadway and Thirty-fifth. The trio, with about a dozen others from New Haven, drank and caused a napkin dispute before the fight. Policeman Frost arrested them as the professor, in evening dress, tried to intervene. Scovel proclaimed his presidential kinship while in custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Roosevelt Scovel
Charles Powers
Yale
Carlos Alberto Levi
East Twentyfourth Street
Powers
Scovel
Frost
United States
Morrison Convicted in Kings County Larceny Trial
David Morrison was found guilty of larceny in the second degree in Kings County Court after a weeklong trial. The jury returned a verdict with a strong mercy recommendation as Morrison faced a swindle case involving bogus saloons shops and horses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Morrison
Otto Ransweiler
Palmyra
N. J
Kings County
Morrison
Benjamin F. Tracy
Stephen C. Baldwin
Mercy
Actress Faints After Marriage Refusal Outside Holland House
Actor William Claggett of 17 East Twenty sixth Street confronted actress Carlotta Neilson outside Holland House at midnight after repeated marriage proposals. Neilson fainted, citing fear for personal safety, and police arrested Claggett who was later released.Neilson returned home escorted by a rival actress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Claggett
East Twenty-sixth Street
Bock
West Thirtieth Street
Collector Doane Dead at Nogales
Frank I. Doane, Collector of United States Customs at Nogales, died Wednesday of typhoid pneumonia. He was the son of former Ohio congressman Doane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nogales
Arizona
Frank I. Doane
United States Customs
Acme Gas Company Formed in New Jersey
Incorporated in New Jersey with authorized capital of $1,000,000. Incorporators include Burson W. Gibson Thomas G. Barnes Stephen Callaghan and Joseph Holden of New York City and Nathan F Griffin of Newark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acme Gas Company
Burson W. Gibson
Thomas G. Barnes
Stephen Callaghan
Joseph Holden
New York City
Nathan F. Griffin
Newark
Daylight burglary rips West Ninety-eighth Street flat
Police investigated a daylight burglary at 35 West Ninety-eighth Street where W C Carpenter and spouse lost about 1000 dollars in clothes jewelry rugs and other items. Thieves observed from outside wore kid gloves and used a dumbwaiter to haul loot from the second floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West One Hundredth Street
W. C. Carpenter
West Ninety-eighth Street
James Valelly
Edward A. Kling
James Yule
Woman Defends Home in New Brunswick Burglary
Dr. Caroline H. Marsh of 79 Livingston Street woke to a burglar in her room. She fought the intruder, furniture overturned, and was struck in the face before he fled. She fired after him, believing she wounded him, with blood noted near the street door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Brunswick
N. J
Caroline H. Marsh
Livingston Street
Miss Marsh
Youths Arrested in Church Robbery at Sts Peter and Pauls
Detectives nabbed five boys aged seven to eighteen for robbing the vestry at Sts Peter and Pauls Church on One Hundred fifty ninth Street and St Ann's Avenue Tuesday night. Aged Edward Webber was jailed. others confessed. Items included two opera glasses four dollars twenty cents and fifty dollars total value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sts. Peter and Paul's Church
Edward Webber
St. Ann's Avenue
England
Morrisania
Gerry Society
Father Murphy
Third Avenue
Smith
Ryan
Mount Vernon's Finances Facing Prolonged Inquiry
At a meeting of forty of Mount Vernon's largest taxpayers chaired by Judge F A Bennett, the group urged continuing the city financial investigation. Critics argued the $4000 monthly cost and slim chance of recovery, while supporters said the inquiry must finish to reveal the true fiscal position amid near bankruptcy indications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
F. A. Bennett
Charles H. Wilson
David S. Wood
A. A. Lismar
H. B. Falke
Hayer and
Moxon
Greek Bishop Arrives to Found Missionary Orthodox Diocese
Bishop Seriphim of the Greek Orthodox Church arrives in New York on La Lorraine and will reside on Yonkers Avenue. He represents Constantinople to establish a missionary diocese for churches in New York New Jersey and nearby not aligned with the Russian church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yonkers
N. Y
Seriphim
New York
la Lorraine
Yonkers Avenue
Constantinople
New Jersey
Lumber dealer Alfred Spelmire arrested for embezzlement
Alfred Spelmire a 28 year old lumber dealer residing at 410 West Twenty second Street was arrested last night by Detectives Gray and Kelly of the Central Office and locked up at Police Headquarters on a charge of embezzlement. The arrest was made at the request of Detroit Chief of Police Downey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Spelmire
West Twenty-second Street
Gray and Kelly
Central
Spellmire
Police Downey
Detroit
Railroads Propose Higher Live Stock Rates to Chicago
Western railroads led by the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe submit a plan to lift live stock rates from the Missouri River to Chicago from 12 to 18 1 2 cents per 100 pounds with Santa Fe extending the higher rate from Kansas City westward and to Chicago. The Inter State Commerce Commission is considering the dispute sparked by a prior 12 cent rate and a summer tariff shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Chicago
Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fé
Missouri River
Kansas City
Kanss City
Santa Fe
Chicago Great Western
Kansas City Packers
Atchison
RULES AGAINST BIG Four Passenger Rate Dispute
Passenger Traffic Manager Eustis of the Burlington system ruled against the Big Four in a dispute over differential rates between Cleveland and Chicago. He sustained opposition from the Baltimore and Ohio and Nickel Plate roads, denying the Big Four the right to match rates on western business beyond Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Chicago
Eustis
Burlington Railway System
Cleveland
Big Four
Baltimore and Ohio
Nickel Plate
Horner
The
Niagara Transfer Company sparks Niagara River rail rumors
Buffalo gains a new steam railroad plan as Niagara Transfer Company incorporates to build Tonawanda to Buffalo line. Ottawa filings by Niagara Grand Island Bridge Company extend project time. Canadian surveys near Grand Island fuel talk of Ontario entry and a Tonawanda bridge. Tonawanda rumors tie Niagara Transfer to a Northern Pacific route across Grand Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Niagara Transfer Company of
Tonawanda
Ottawa
Niagara Grand Island Bridge Company
Niagara River
Grand Island
Ontario
Niagara Transfer Railway
Northern Pacific
Pneumonia Patient Vanishes During Delirium Patrol
Henry Miller, a 42 year old Bronx mechanic, wandered three miles from 2011 Fulton Ave to 139th Street and Third Avenue in delirium while ill with pneumonia. Found by a policeman, he was taken to Lincoln Hospital in a dying condition. His wife and two daughters were at home when he vanished from Miller’s room after a doctor treated him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Miller
Fulton Avenue
Bronx
Miller
Southern Pacific adopts pension plan for long service
President Harriman unveils a pension system for long serving Southern Pacific employees. Eligible workers aged seventy with twenty years of service will receive 1 percent of their ten year average salary per year of service, with a 30 percent example for a 30 year career. A separate option allows retirement of those aged sixty one to seventy who are incapacitated, with twenty years of service, while employees contribute nothing to the fund and may work elsewhere after pensioning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Harriman
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Pennsylvania
Ilinois Central
Chicago
Cincinnati Bonds Sale Plays Over New Year
Cincinnati reports an $1,800,000 issue of 7 percent bonds ready for sale. The announcement notes the bond offering extends into January 1, with details indicating state or city financing moves. Major financial figures and dates anchor the record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton and
Indianapolis
Indiana, Decatur and Western
Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western First
Cincinnati
Hamilton
New York Times
The
Four Taken In Raid On Gambling House
Detectives Ebert and Butler of West Twentieth Street Station raided a gambling house at 304 Twenty-fourth Street near Eighth Avenue last night, securing four prisoners and a small sum of money. The room raided was on the second story rear. The alleged proprietor identified himself as George D Vlus. Capt. Cottrell said the raid followed complaints from women whose husbands lost money there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ebert and Butler
West Twentieth Street
Twenty-fourth Street
Eighth Avenue
Titus
Detective Bureau
George D. Vlus
Cottrell
Strawberry Plants Bloom Report From Michigan
Reports from St. Joseph Michigan and other points indicate strawberry plants are blooming as winter approaches. Sheets of bloom were observed after reports of milder weather and shifting planting cycles.
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Sergi
Roosevelt
Carlotta Neilson
Doane
Incorporated
the Mail and Express
League of the Sacred Heart Department
Panfist Fathers
ALL
Catholic News
Barclay
Alaska
Jesse Lynch Williams
Life
Saratoga
America
Herbert Whyte
Outing
H. Macy & Co
6Th Ave
Broadway
14Th Street
6Th Avenue
Gabriel Tolliver
C. Harris
Atherton
Love
Hobbes
Spenders
Wilson
Gross
M. Corelli
Richard Gordon
Alexander Black
Hope Loring
L. Bell
Donovan Pasha
Gilbert Parker
Two Vanrerers
B. Tarkington
Hornung
Merriman
Alan Dale
A. Barr
Hough
Dixon
Daskam
Paul Ketver
Jerome K. Jerome
Red House
Nesbit
Winslow Plain
Greene
Oliver Horn
H. Smith
A. Evans
Horton
Blue Flower
van Dyke
Captain Macklin
R. H. Davis
Blue—Crockett
Wolfville
Lewis
Thorneycroft
Babylon
Potter
Cholmondeley
Lizette — Marshall
Miss Petticoats
Tilton
Mark Twain
Cromptons
Mary J. Holmes
Glengarry
R. Connor
New France
New England
Brady
Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle
Macy
Eloor
Niagara Transfer Company
Buffalo Concern
Cr. W. Hillard
Eastern Illinois
St. Louis
Southern Pacific Pensions
Dayton
Capt. Titus
ST. Joseph, Mich
Reed & Barton
Union Square
Oxford
Cambridge
Saks & Company
34Th Street
John Dillon
Mercy Hospital
Dillon
John Feil O’brien
West 28Th Street
ALFRA
Ray Ae Rile
E. le Eng
Order of T
J. McGanney
Bees
Iffany
Jacques, Marcus
Theo
B. Starr
W. 28Th St
Cor. St. Ave
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