Yoakum urges railroads policy at Chicago dinner
At the Association of Commerce dinner in Chicago Ohio business leaders press for stricter railroad regulation and leniency to big business. B F Yoakum of Rock Island and Frisco rails calls for a stable federal policy, Roose velt policy framed, Taft welcomed, Morgan honored, and warns against overregulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Chicago
Association of Commerce
Auditorium Hotel
Taft
Roosevelt
Ohio
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mr. Morgan
B. F. Yoakum
Rock Island and
Frisco
Mr. Roosevelt
Yoakum
Panama Canal
Chicago Canal
Mississippi River
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
Panama
States
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Henry Poor sale items fetch rare books and Thackeray relics
The Henry W. Poor library sale closed the fifth Part II session with $5,000, bringing total sales to $68,207. Highlights included Thackerayana sold to George D. Smith for $655, a Thackeray Pocket Note Book to a decorator in Kensington, and rare first editions by Tennyson selling up to $600 and $305. Oscar Wilde autograph letters also appeared, with one dated 1882 bringing $30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry W. Poor Library
Anderson
Randolph Higden
William Caxton
Westminster
Thackeragana
Aylmer
Thackeray
Kensington
Ireq
Tennyson
Lord Tennyson
C. R. Haddelsey
Alfred
Charles
Frederick Tennyson
the Sailor Boy
Riviére
Oscar Wilde
St. Paul, Minn
Mr. Carte
Wilde
Clara Morris
Magnetic survey yacht Carnegie built of bronze
The Carnegie Institution awards to the Tebo Yacht Basin Company a contract to build a 155 foot non magnetic sailing vessel for precise magnetic studies of the seven seas. It will be bronze clad with manganese bronze and gun metal hardware, costing about 125000 dollars with auxiliary gas power and a possible steel shaft only if unavoidable. The first voyage heads to Hudson Bay and Greenland, then the southern seas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Carnegie Institution
Tebo Yacht Basin Company
Brookn
N Y
Carnegie
Seven Seas
Hudson Bay
Greenland
South Seas
Birds on Big Bridge Vouch for Strength on Queensboro
Migratory birds flock to the Queensboro Bridge at night with pigeons swallows and ducks. Workers report birds defend the structure against predators and regard the birds as a sign of safety citing Kipling and at least two bridges as examples. Ornithologists note large flocks indicate a sound bridge and workers see the birds as good luck omens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queensboro
East River
John Dirgen
Edward E. Sinclair
Queensboro Bridge
Kipling
Iowa
Missouri River
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé
Threats against Mrs Phipps in Denver extortion plot
Denver police report a second extortion attempt against Mrs Genevieve Chandler Phipps former Pittsburg steel executive's wife. A typed letter demanded 10 000 in 100 bills left in a tin can at a vacant lot near Jesuit College with deadly consequences if not obeyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Denver
Col
Genevieve Chandler Phipps
Pittsburg
Jesuit College
Phipps
CAN'T SNAPSHOT THE HAINSES AT TRIAL SET FOR NEXT MONDAY
The press will be barred from photographing per camera suppression and flashlight ban during T Jenkins Hains trial in the old Flushing Town Hall Cranes Part I. Gen Peter C Hains father of the defendants has leased a Flushing cottage for his wife during the proceedings. Hains plans a lengthy Atlantic Coast cruise if acquitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Jenkins Hains
Justice Cranes
Flushing
Peter C. Hains
Peter C. Hains, Jr
Queens County
Capt. Hains
Atlantic
Central America
Falling Walls Kill Two In East New York Coal Shed
Two men and a horse die after a mass of steel work collapses and brick walls partially fall at a coal shed yard near the Brooklyn pumping station. Lyons died after warning workers. Millers pulled the horse to safety before being struck. Six others injured, including Byrnes Gill Pepin Mansfield Bonaguata.
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Brooklyn
Atlantic Avenue
Logan Street
East New York
Charles Millers
Fulton Street
Daniel Lyons
Ames Lane
Canarsie
Lyons
Fuller O'Connor
Court Street
Daniel Byrnes
Norwood Avenue
Vincent Gill
Nassau_ Street
Greenpoint
Charlies -Pepin
Warwick Street
Harry Mansfield
Sutter Avenue
Tony Bonaguata
Pennsylvania Avenue
Miller
Napuata
Bomb Rips Five Story Tenement In Sicilian Black Hand Outrage
A five story building at 330 East Sixty third Street owned by Illinois Surety was blown apart by a roof to shaft dynamite blast. Nine ground floor residents were seriously injured. two believed mortally. The attack, tied to Sicilian extortion, caused widespread panic and damaged nearby homes. The attacker used a rope to lower the dynamite into the air shaft and fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Sixty-third Street
Illinois Surety Company
Michael di Angelo
Presbyterian Hospital
Pietro Giamo
Vito Giamo
Martino Giamo
Francesco di Angelo
Giuseppi di Angelo
Amani and
Bartelletto
Giamps
Second
Third Avenues
Joseph Cottelletta
di Angelo
Italy
Lieut. Petrosino
John Bozuffi
Bozuffi
Second Avenue
Biactors
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B’way
N.Y
Remsen St
Bklys
Fulton St
Jamaica
Samuel S. Campbell
Frederick Phillips V
Thomas B. Clarke, JR
V. Pres
Gustav L. Wilmerding
Luyties Srothers
U. S
New York
Henry Malkan
Broadway
New ST
Derby and Murricks
Leonard
Vorth St. Suh
Hardman Autotone
St. Av
19Th St
B’klyn
Westinghouse
Bryant
Cincinnati
Grand Central Station
NTS
BF. Yoakum
Rock Island Road
J. P. Morgan
Broadway Saks & Company
34Th Street
Union Square
H. Jaeckel & Sons
Furriers
Sitka Fox
Oth
G. C. Phipps
G. White
5Th Avenue
B. Akman & CO
India
Shetland
35Th Street
Net
Karakul
St. Avenue
Golden Topaz
America
Theolore A.kohn & Son
Fifth Avenue
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