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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1908
Page
6
Listing shows various gloves and capes with linings and materials. Items include tan cape chamois lined at 2.50, tan cape wool writlets at 3.25, coachmen’s gloves hand sewn fleece lined at 10.00, tan cape sable squirrel lined at 7.25, and gray reindeer squirrel lined at 7.75.
Advertises tan white chamios chamois mochas in gray wool and silk lining options with prices from 1.00 to 1.75. Mentions gas 00 appears as garbled text, likely price or stock note.
Oblong tray two dollars with sporting print offered. oblong with print three fifty. oval silver plated handles seven. oval with print similarly priced. round silver plated handles ten seventy five. round with print also listed.
A compact listing notes English silver items with prices about 4.50 and a negative 8.00 reading, indicating a financial entry or appraisal metric. The fragment shows a monetary pattern and catalog style, lacking full context or clear entities.
State Court of Appeals ruling clears imported game sales between September and December, allowing New York butchers and major hotels to avoid bonds and inspections. Fines paid by Waldorf Astoria Cafe Martin and others may be recovered. lawsuits to claims court will seek $3,000 to $4,000 per firm.
Final argument in a five year old infringement suit by Bethlehem Steel led by president Charles M Schwab against Niles Bement Pond in Newark New Jersey before Judge Cross. The case centers the Taylor White process for hardening tool steel alleged to be patented by Frederick W Taylor and Meunsel White. Bethlehem seeks royalties for infringement while Niles Bement Pond argues the process has been in global use for twenty years and is not patentable. Col Herbert Hughes ex Lord Mayor of Sheffield attended to hear the case.
Commissioner Bing ham mobilized available officers to patrol avenues and streets used by speeders. Extra forces last night resulted in up to midnight arrests of thirty five reckless drivers, a typical after dark crop of five to ten.
At a Board of Education meeting Brooklyn Commissioner Nathan S. Jonas condemned City Superintendent William H. Maxwell as vindictive and prejudiced. He criticized the nomination of Dr John L. Tildsley for Clinton High principal, urging that acting principal Dr Arthur M. Wolfson be chosen instead. Tildsley won 3d to 4, with Cosgrove Jonas Katzenberg and May opposing. A letter from Alfred Mosely requesting fifty more teachers be sent to England after Christmas was read and referred.
At the New York Southern Society's twenty third annual dinner in the Waldorf Astoria, Woodrow Wilson and Martin W. Littleton spoke on the Souths political condition and future. Attendees included Thomas F. Ryan Paul Morton Morgan J. OBrien and local society presidents. Wilson urged moving forward, noting tariff reform and restraining privileged interests while Littleton framed tariff and tax reform as key issues.
Torbert Ackerman formerly of the Ninety-eighth Coast Artillery and Engine Company 13 Brooklyn Fire Dept admitted at Adams Street police station that he shot Frank Webber on November 14 in a Fiftieth Street saloon. A warrant named J J Hylan previously circulated for the same shooting.
The Church of St Mary le Bow in London and the Fifth Avenue Church in New York joined in a Milton birthday observance. Noted figures like William Dean Howells and Nicholas Murray Butler attended as speakers while Ben Greet recited Milton's works. A procession featured clergy, scholars, and international church leaders as Rev Percy Grant preached on Milton as poet of religion and beauty.
At Columbia University a Milton birthday celebration featured Richard Watson Gilder reading the poem Milton and tributes by George L. Rives and Prof. William P. Trent. Earl Hall hosted undergraduates from Columbia and Barnard in caps and gowns as the speakers recalled Milton as a man of letters and a figure of enduring influence.
Five men pleaded not guilty in Jefferson Market Court to violating Penal Code Section 443 by conducting a mock diamond and jewelry auction at 1 157 Broadway. Bail set at 400 each. hearing scheduled for December 15. Charles P. Goldsmith posted bond. Detective Edward Sprague testified the auction was staged to drive up prices with Turner Gates as auctioneers and other defendants assisting.
Isidor and Nathan Straus fail to overturn a Court of Appeals ruling on sales of American Publishers Association books. The court held that regardless of seller, books bought under the association price must stay at that first agreed rate. Chief Judge Parker authored the opinion, affirmed by judges Vann, Ray, Warner, and Hiscock with dissents by Bartlet and Bartlett.
Darwin R. James filed for probate in Brooklyn Surrogates Court and asked Surrogate Ketcham to remove his mother Mrs Mary E James as executrix claiming she is incompetent due to impaired mental faculties and illness. James died November 19 at his home 226 Gates Avenue. The will valued the estate at about 123000 with Mary E James named sole heir and executrix.
Supreme Court Justice Seabury dissolved yesterday the injunction won by Cornelius J Sullivan Advertising Co restraining the city and officials from tearing down billboards in front of the Parker Building at 19th Street and Fourth Avenue The court held the municipal authority to erect a pedestrian shed did not grant the plaintiff the right to use public property for advertising and the company lacked authority to erect the boards.
Representatives Payne and Dwight of New York met with President Roosevelt to seek McDougal's reappointment as Marshal for the Northern District of New York. The President indicated he would forward the matter to the attorney general for consideration.
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