Ivins Details Charter Changes as City reorganizes Government
William M. Ivins testified at the Charter Revision hearings about a planned centralized Board of Estimate and Apportionment with seven bureaus including Public Improvements and Engineering Franchises Real Estate Claims Salaries and Statistics and Publicity The plan aims to centralize purchasing and reporting while creating a Department of Licenses to streamline revenue and curb taxes The testimony also touched on debt limits and proposed water metering and budget constraints revealed during the inquiry into city finances The session noted criticism of the Finance Department by Police Commissioner Binghams and more testimony was slated for Monday
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William M. Ivins
New York
Charter Revision Commission
Iving
Coucfl
Tiss
Jage
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Bureau of Franchises
Board of Estimate
Bureau of Real Estate
Bureau of Claims
Bureau of Statues and Publicity
Board of City Record
Department of Supplies
Eity
Vins
Department of Licenses
Lying
Vienna
Paris
Berlin
Bucausiest
New York City
Ivins
Board of Etate
Hunt’s Point
Kissena
Metz
Eo Ham
Finance Department
Police Department
Gen. Bing
Department of Water Supply Gas
Bingham
West Thirtieth Street
Frederick A. Cleveland
Bureau of Municipal
Cleveland
Lusitania Delayed By Gales and Mail Transfer
The Cunarder Lusitania arrived twelve hours late due to strong westerly gales and high seas, with a stop to transfer 2,386 sacks of mail. Among arrivals were Cornelius Vanderbilt and family, Sir John J. Harrington and Lady Harrington, and numerous dignitaries including Archie Gordon and Edward Duncan Beals.
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Cornelius
Grace Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
John J. Harrington
Abyssinia
Lady Harrington
William_H. Taft
John Harrington
Legation
Peking
Miss McMillan
Manchester-by-the-Sea
Archie Gordon
Earl of Aberdeen
Lord
Revelstoke
John Baring
Avery D. Andrews
Edward Duncan Beals
Lionel Carden
Central American Republics
J. T. Wilson Clark
Col
Charles M. Dally
Colin C.duncan
Ralph de Blois Flint
E. T. Gill
William D. Hoxie
F. B. Harrison
A. D. Grigg
Joseph J. Keegan
Bert Levy
George W. Macauley
Four Capitol conspiracy defendants denied new trials
In Dauphin County Court Judge George Kunkle refused a new trial for four defendants in the Capitol furnishings conspiracy case. John Sanderson of Philadelphia and three others James M. Shumaker William P. Snyder and William L. Mannes were convicted last spring of defrauding the state. The judge upheld the original verdicts after reviewing 112 reasons for Sanderson and over 50 for the others. Sentencing is set for next Friday with appeals to the State Supreme Court to follow.
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Harrisburg
Penn
Capitol
George Kunkle
Dauphin County
John Sanderson
Philadelphia
James M. Shumaker
Johnstown
Board of Public Grounds
William P. Snyder
Spring City
William L. Matnnes
Sanderson
Kunkle
State Supreme Court
Fertilizer Trust Rumors Roil Baltimore Market
Rumors claim a new Independent Fertilizer Company with 50 million capital plans an international fertilizer trust. It would acquire Herman Schmidtmann phosphate interests and run plants across Europe and about sixty in the United States from Maryland to Florida. Schmidtmann supposedly as president and T C Meadows of Buffalo as vice president and manager. Baltimore opposition grows over terms demanding cash for preferred stock.
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Baltimore
Independent Fertilizer Company
New Jersey
Herman Schmidtmann
Germany
Maryland
Florida
Schmidtmann
T. C. Meadows
Buffalo
Alpha Delta Phi Club Vacation Tonight at Club House
The Alpha Delta Phi Club plans its annual vacation this evening at the club house located at 136 West Forty-fourth Street. The Nu Sigma Nu medical society will host its fifth annual dinner at the Hotel Manhattan with speakers including Health Commissioner Darlington Dr. W Gilman Thompson and Dr. J Ralph Jacoby. A letter carrier Henry Kuss from Station N Amsterdam Avenue and Sixty-eighth Street was arrested on a theft charge for allegedly stealing a test set valued at $5.20 addressed to Mrs. Wa mean at 316 Seventy-seventh Street.
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Alpha Delta Phi Club
West Forty-fourth Street
Nu Sigma Nu
Manhattan
Darlington
W. Gilman Thompson
J. Ralph Jacoby
Henry Kuss
Amsterdam Avenue
Sixty-eighth Street
Jacobs
James
Wa.mean
Seventy-seventh Street
Shields
Federal Grand Jury
Mysterious Detective Bill Jackson Vanishes After Court Absence
Police in New York search for Patrolman William Jackson after he presented a suspect at East Fifty-first Street Station and later disappeared. A statewide scar check was ordered for all precincts to locate the alleged detective, with Banks released after Jackson failed to appear in Yorkville Court.
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Bill Jackson
Police Department of
New York
Bill” Jackson
William Jackson
Jackson
Police Department
East Fifty-first Street
George Banks
Banks
Third Avenue
Bill
Mulberry Street
McCafferty
Detective Bureau
Funston
Fifty-first Street
Yorkville Court
Moses W. Cortright
West Thirtieth Street
Rhinelander Waldo
Force
Bingham
Father murdered in Mott Street tenement case set for inquiry
Vito Palero a Pennsylvanian laborer was found murdered in a cellar at 121 Mott Street. His son Domenico Palero, 21, was jailed on suspicion then charged with the killing. Detectives say enough evidence supports accusation. Coroner holds Domenico for the inquiry next Tuesday. Carlo Orifine, 17, of 122 Mott Street, is held as a witness.
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Vito Palero
Mill Creek
Penn
Mott Street
Domenico Palero
Mulberry Street
Paleros
New York
Soon Gol
Italy
Naples
Pulero
Domenico Pulero
Egan
Montrose Marries Mrs Kate Frances Young in Newark
Announcement in Newark states William Lawrence Montrose married widow Kate Frances Young on Thursday night at 13 Pennsylvania Avenue Newark. The former indictment tied to the 1907 death of Young’s former husband Orlando W. Young was dismissed for lack of evidence. Mrs Young, widow of O W Young Oil Co., had earlier sought Montrose’s release at a New York police station, and Montrose formerly faced a $10 000 alienation suit in Binghamton related to a sensational local affair.
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Newark
Kate Frances Young
William Lawrence Montrose
Montrose
Presbyterian Hospital
New York
Mott
Pennsylvania Avenue
Binghamton
N. Y
William Macumber
Young Bride Seeks Annulment Over Underage Marriage
Mrs Katharine Singer applied to Justice Kelly in the Supreme Court Brooklyn for an annulment decree. Married in October 1905 without parental consent, she was 17. She alleges cruelty by Frank L Singer, son of Otto Singer, Brooklyn builder. Decision reserved.
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Frank L. Singer
Otto Singer
Brooklyn
Katherine Singer
Justice Kelly
Supreme Court
Two young men held on cruelty to animals charge in New York
Henry Harrison of Cleveland and Raymond Warschmidt of Chicago faced Magistrate Krotel on cruelty charges after they etherized and dissected three cats they claimed were dead. Agents found cat skins drying and the pair said they were students at a non listed Institute of Optometry taking a three month course.
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Henry Harrison
Cleveland
Ohio
Raymond Warschmidt
Chicago
Ill
Krotel
West Side
Institute of Optometry
East Twenty-third Street
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Calhoun
West Fifty-second Street
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals Headquarters
Freel
Riverside Drive
Ninety-fifth Street
Hudson River
Ninety- Second Street
City College
College Chemical Laboratory
West Side Court
Society
Warschmidt
Harvard
Police probe into Patrolmen's Benevolent Association funds
Brooklyn police officials led by Commissioner Bingham and Deputy Commissioner Hanson investigated the association’s $2000 fund usage. Charges were filed against Patrolman Martin Hanley for allegedly false statements to Lieut. Maurice Hannon, with a transfer request and adjourned trial as the case moved between deputies.
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Brooklyn
Bingham
Hanson
Patrolmen's Benevolent Association
Baker
Martin Hanley
Coney Island
Maurice Hannon
Hannon
Hanley
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