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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1908
Page
10
The text lists the New York Times publication offices and pricing for daily and Sunday editions, subscriptions by mail, and promotions for related publications, including the Saturday Review and Financial Quotation Review. It also notes foreign pricing and second-class mail status.
The piece argues the Ways and Means Committee under Mr Paris and Mr Cannon will push a substantial tariff reduction, backed by a White House commitment to an honest revision, while opposing protectionists resist. It notes political maneuvering over Panama Canal slanders and references Ferrero on Roman political turmoil as context for public discourse and commission expenses.
The Citizens' Union notes the retirement of R Futton Cutting from its presidency and praises his work. The article highlights ongoing municipal research aims and the Union's role in improving city governance and public accountability through the Bureau of Municipal Research.
The article notes Mr. Courtine resigns from leading the Citizens' Union to pursue wider local and national reform efforts. It argues his new role will yield practical, intelligible information on municipal government and potential improvements, benefiting the entire community. It praises Currina for expanding his efforts into this new field.
The Governor appoints a nine member unpaid Commission of high character to investigate speculation in securities and commodities. Banking, commerce, economics, law, and public views are represented by named officials and experts, including Mr. Williams, Mr. Kine, Prof. Cuark, Mr. Warre, ex-Justice Loventrtt, Mr. Ornoway, and Mr. Charles Sprague Smith.
The decision is seen as unfavorable to the Commission not Harriman, restricting inquiries to acts of an individual not a railway. It notes no complaint was filed and warns unlimited power would threaten private rights. Ownership of stock by railroads is allowed, aiding public interests and limiting harmful competition.
The Receiver of the Third Avenue Railway presents a map of routes colored red and green for transfers, with independent yellow lines. He argues red and green transfers should not exchange, but red and green must compete for the yellow lines and extend transfer privileges based on competition results. The main north south lines would be affected by this plan.
The piece notes Mrs. Carrie Nation’s Glasgow arrival sparks mixed reactions from amused mobs to offended liquor interests. Rioters drive her to a licensed bar, a scene the column calls humorous yet advertising for her anti drink campaign. It also weighs the Toronto fossil claim and jokes about Canadian wise men.
The excerpt argues that current urban transit plans fail riders. It praises Mr. Wart ridge for ingenuity in starting fresh routes but says the proposal is insufficient. The writer urges inclusion of subway and elevated lines alongside rival surface systems despite doubts.
A narrator notes a bewildered physiologist far behind the discussion and the futility of pretending to understand. Names for unknowns are convenient, but once unknowns become known the terms often prove ludicrously wrong, urging caution.
A letter from Margaret Doane Gardiner of Albany, New York, dated December 13, 1908, challenges Mrs. Borrman-Wells argues over suffrage interviews. Gardiner questions suffrage reasoning, rights, and the role of women and black men in voting, urging thoughtful, nonpartisan civic work rather than mere ballots.
In a Stapleton letter to the Times John Martin argues subway construction boosts land values and could justify broad improvements. He notes government cost guarantees abroad spread over decades ease the burden, as proposed by Assembly member William Allaire Shortt, in a Port Richmond 1908 letter by WM. MacDonald.
A dead shade tree on Willis Avenue near 147th Street required six laborers a horse and wagon and a foreman for three days to remove. Private workers would need two men half a day. City wage costs totaled 72 dollars, sparking humor among nearby residents from a Bronx taxpayer letter dated December 14, 1908.
A letter from New York on December 14 1908 urges burial justice for Thomas Hanrahan a brave soldier who died under fire and was to be buried in Potter s Field unless relatives are found. The writer asks military groups or city to honor his heroism by preventing nameless burial.
A festive verse extols Christmas as a brief respite from woes. It emphasizes good will, love, rest, and cheer over wealth, noting that joy comes from hearts and kindness rather than money. The poem invites shared merriment despite troubles.
The Clausen Galleries hosts a retrospective of Edward Gay landscapes noting his Irish birth and training in Albany and Germany. His quiet, natural scenes such as October June Day and Clouds in the Valley emphasize form and color over theatrical effect. The Salmagundi Club features watercolors while other pieces by Snell Turcas Ball Dufner Potthast Grant and Gruppe showcase vivid landscapes and figures.
Colin M Ingersoll resigned as Chief Engineer of the Department of Bridges and Mayor McClellan appointed Kingsley Martin to the vacancy with a 10000 dollar annual salary. Martin, born in 1869 in Brooklyn, studied at the Brooklyn Polytechnic and Stevens Institute and held prior roles on the Brooklyn and Williamsburg Bridges. He is active in the American Society of Civil Engineers and Brooklyn engineering circles. Ingersoll remains as consulting engineer, citing relief from detail work.
William M. Ivins, chairman of the New York Charter Commission, tells the Cassidy committee the city is about 8 million dollars from the constitutional debt limit. He cites uncollected taxes and misused bond proceeds as key causes and urges legislative steps to curb mismanagement and separate bond proceeds from current expenses.
The Hamburg American Line reports the steamship Amerika carries 1,984 steerage passengers and a total of 2,465 aboard including 270 in first class and 211 in second class. It notes a yearly high for immigrant arrivals and expects continued growth as trade revives.
The Mayor signed an ordinance repealing all licenses for sidewalk theatre ticket sellers effective after Jan 15, ending sidewalk speculators. He vetoed a separate measure to ban hotel ticket speculators, calling it unconstitutional and citing Judge Parker. Aldermen referred the reintroduced plan to require printed ticket prices to the Laws and Legislation Committee.
Mayor McClellan vetoed the anti-noise ordinance after Aldermen passed it two weeks earlier. He cited lack of provisions for transporting steel beams and similar materials without noise as a flaw. The aldermen apparently intended a separate measure to address such transportation needs, a point not officially acknowledged.
A. Walker praises the city parks department for a year of remarkable work and improvements noting extensive work carried out under the present Commissioner of Parks, whom he has never met and does not know personally.
A letter to the editor notes St Nicholas Avenue is poorly lit after dark with only a gas lamp at intervals on a hundred-foot street. The writer cites danger crossing at night and urges the street lighting department to address the issue, comparing with brighter Seventh Avenue electric lamps.
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