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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1909
Page
3
The Fifth Avenue Branch of The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company 475 Fifth Avenue near 41st Street offers interest on deposit accounts serves as custodian of personal property and manager of real property issues letters of credit foreign money and travelers checks and vault boxes for customers use.
Cambridge report quotes Charles W. Eliot arguing home making is the natural intellectual life for women. He says study of husband, children, and household tasks develops mind more than early trades or professions. He cautions servants limit growth and endorses mothering as civilizing, moral work.
A large crowd gathered at Juarez on Sunday for racing that saw heavy wagering. Abe, previously 20 to 1, was cut to 5 to 1 before the six furlongs. The mare won by five lengths as bookmakers faced a severe loss.
County Prosecutor Wilbur A. Mott announced abundant evidence tying Miss Wardlaw to the death of her niece Ocey Wardlaw Martin Snead in a bathtub. Investigators cataloged papers and life insurance documents linking Wardlaws to long running insurance swindles.
Bridgeport Ohio reports calm after three days of rioting at the Aetna Standard plant. Five ten thousand militia occupy tin plate mills under state custody as talks continue with Amalgamated leaders and Ohio Board of Arbitration amid plans for a return to work tomorrow.
Policeman O Neill of Hamburg Avenue station house Williamsburg was attacked early yesterday during a clash in a social club hall on Hamburg Avenue and Ralph Street. He arrested 19 year old clerk George Gueterich as ringleader. Gueterich was assaulted while being led away. Henry Wagner and Peter Kennahan of 250 Stockholm Street were also detained for disorderly conduct.
Will iam H Taft promised to dine at Joseph Burgers café on Avenue C after becoming president. He previously dined there in January with Samuel S Koenig and other prominent Republicans. A committee plans to visit Washington to fix a date for the Federal Club Sixth Assembly District event.
In Louisville a drug store courtroom sees Judge Shackelford Miller hear Frank Bebedick, a member of the First Kentucky Infantry, and others after a chase with twenty uniformed soldiers. Bebedick is held to $200 bond to answer for failing to report for military duty amid tensions over a Kentucky mobilization issue.
A fire at the Brooklyn Disciplinary Training School for Boys on Eighteenth Avenue prompted a paper pile blaze. Guards and a bucket brigade helped extinguish it before arriving firemen. Two boys reported missing were possibly among four named by staff, with origins unclear and authorities treating it as suspicious.
Chicago reports the City of New York will not receive the Yerkes Gallery as outlined in Charles T. Yerkes will. Disagreement over appraised value delays sale and catalogue, with debts and widow’s allowance paid first and residual funds to Yerkes Hospital in New York City.
Madrid dispatch reports 4000 reservists ordered discharged and sent home from Melilla as war service ends.
An early morning crash on the Williamsburg Bridge injured Alfred Mason, a Bridge Department street sweeper, with Bert Stevenson and others aboard. Mason recovered. A second incident near Forty ninth Street left Kate Sullivan slightly hurt as the driver fled Roosevelt Hospital after witnesses gave the license. Four drivers faced Magistrate Herrman for speeding. charges included excess speed on the Boston Post Road and lack of chauffeur badges. Bail amounts ranged from 300 to 800 dollars.
Andrew Darcumowis a father of nine, barber by trade, died at St. Francis's Hospital Jersey City shortly after a touring car owned by coal merchant Nelson Vanderhoof struck him at Fourth and Cole Streets. The collision occurred as Darcumowis walked his family home from a street crossing. Vanderhoof cooperated with police and the car was moved to the hospital with Darcumowis, his son Albert acting as chauffeur, and Harold Maypother aboard.
National Civic Federation officials report speed law uniformity topics will be debated at the National Conference on Uniform Legislation in Washington January 5 through 7. The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers notes state limits vary widely from 8 to 25 miles per hour with specific restrictions by area.
A morning blaze at John M. Allen's general store in Peapack destroyed two other stores and two homes, with losses around 50 000 dollars. Morristown sent an automoChild engine after Far Hills Bernardsville and Mendham crews, arriving in 21 minutes to relieve exhausted locals. Several firefighters were briefly injured.
Dr J Richard Kevin surgeon of the Twenty third Regiment Brooklyn owned an automobile that caught fire on Gates Avenue near Bedford from defective insulation. He jumped out to fetch sand as fire units from Gates Classon and Bedford responded and helped extinguish the blaze with a hand extinguisher. Damages described as slight.
Police Captain Ryan and plain clothes officers raided a spiritualistic meeting at 15 West Park Street Newark arresting Oliver C. Melter and his wife who led the meeting. Seventeen year old Blanche Neal from Tren ton was paroled to a man described as a prominent New York lawyer. The case rests with Judge Hahn as details remain guarded. The Melters had been staying with the Neal girl at 26 Centre Street in Newark.
Newark New Jersey August Newark man known as Uncle Jake Wildener aged 81 and long time locomotive engineer admitted age is catching up. He leaped from a moving engine in a rush and sprained a leg but called the injury trifling and expects to return to duty later this week after fifty plus years in service.
Trenton New Jersey December 5 1920 The present City Hall will be sold at public auction within six weeks. The buyer will gain possession only after the city completes its new million dollar municipal building. The old hall is expected to fetch around 200000 dollars.
Police last night arrested Chung Kuen of 33 Pell Street in relation to a Chinatown gun attack that wounded Lee Gong and Hong Chong. Gong remains at Bellevue Hospital, Chong at Hudson Street Hospital. The case centers on Tong factions and the broader feud linked to Hip Sings executions in Boston.
The Colby-New Idea group concedes defeat as William Pennington leads in Newark New Jersey for President of the Common Council. Jerome Congleton concedes. The expected party victory would influence the Essex County Republican Committee with Major Carl Lentz as German-American candidate for Chair and Col. Austen Colgate for New Idea. County Chairman Alfred N. Dalrymple seeks re election.
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