Land value experts accused in city condemnation cases
Cassidy Committee hearings reveal $187000 paid to six expert witnesses over 1904–1906 for condemnation matters. Investigators question Jacoby's dual roles, improper sales, and dummy ownership in Bronx Park awards while Coggey faces questions on department budgets and staff appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John P. Dunn
Corporation Counsel
Cassidy Committee of Legislative
Dunn
Jacoby
Munroe Street
Tarris Silbermen
Arthur F. Speis
Jacobo
Sptember
Bureau
Samuel Silberman
Speis
Silberman
R. B. McIntyre
Controller's Office
Bronx Park Land
Joseph A. Flannery
James K. Walter
Flannery
Walter
Bronxville
Equitable
Propty
Ronx Park
Sffice
John B. McDonald
Subway
Binallow
James V. Cogg
Commissioner of Correction
Poerey
Consolidated Stock Exchange Pledges Cooperation to Inquiry
C H Badeau president of the Consolidated Stock Exchange of New York offers full cooperation to Horace White as temporary chairman of Gov Hughes inquiry into market trading. He invites the committee to use the exchange clearing house and notes the committee will meet at the State Banking Department offices this afternoon for its first session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Badeau
Consolidated Stock Exchange
Horace White
Gov. Hughes
Consolidated Stock Exchange of New York
State Banking Department
Hegre
Mrs Sage funds new Long Island City Y M C A building
Mrs Russell Saze and Miss Helen Gould headliners at the opening of a $100000 Long Island Railroad Y M C A building on Borden and West Avenues in Long Island City. Mrs Sage financed the project, contributing $15,000 toward the final tally as others spoke of railroad and Y M C A work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Saze
Helen Gould
New Long Island Railroad
Young Men’s Christian Association
Borden and
West Avenues
Long Island City
Sage
Ralph Peters
Long Island Railroad
Railroad
Young Men's Christian Association
Peters
Christ
Philadelphia
Mr. Baldwin
Pennsylvania Railroad
Edward P. Lyon
Brooklyn Y. M. C. A
Clarence A. Hicks
McCrea
Virginia
Borden Avenue
West Avenue
Listing of small claims and fines across Manhattan streets
A cataloged series of nominal fines and trifling amounts listed with names and addresses in Manhattan locations such as East 127th Street Amsterdam Avenue 6th Avenue and West 69th Street. Amounts range from $25 to $3,000 with notes like trifling slight and various names including Mary Gigila Isaac Davis and Thomas Yannilli.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. Loss
East
M. Smith
Amsterdam
Batter
Vo Reeves
Orchard St
Silverman
MecMahon
St. Mary Gigila
East 106Th St
B. Berkowitz
L. Gapano
Isaac Davis
Henry St
J. Divakowitz
Meyer Malden
B.wipp
West 69Th St
A. Delicco
40Th St
Kate Flynn
Slight
M. Schlansky
100Th St
Angelo Zalanto
145Th St
Southern Boulevard
S. Toulfer
5Th St
Thomas Yannilli
Plan to run trains at reduced speed may replace subway work
A Public Service Commission visit revealed a proposal to abandon the Ninety-sixth Street to Broadway subway enhancement funded at 850000 dollars in favor of a speed controlled signaling system. Interborough experiments show trains can enter a block at slower speed reducing delays and possibly negate the need for costly track overhauls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Ninety-sixth Street
Broadway
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Old
Rapid Transit Commission
Board of Estimate
Bion J. Arnold
Interborough
Lenox
Seventy-second Treet
Willcox
Commission
Seaman
The
Commision
Interborough plans long discussed street upgrade
Hedley, manager, says the Interborough favored the plan to prevent rear collisions by automatic power shutoff. Officials cite varied costs from 40,000 to 200,000 for the improvements. Once street surfaces are restored, city savings are estimated near 100,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meral
Hedley
Interborough
Public Service Commission Denies Flatbush Elevated Rehearing
Public Service Commissioner McCarroll writes to Allied Boards of Trade and Taxpayers Associations of Brooklyn that the commission will not reconsider its decision against elevated tracks on the Flatbush Avenue extension. He warns further agitation could delay Brooklyn transit development and says the request contradicts prior association resolutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied Boards of Trade and Taxpayers’ Associations of
Brooklyn
Public Service
McCarroll
Flatbush Avenue
Daring Rescue Of Drowning Boys From Ice On Wallkill Bridge
On the Wallkill Transit line between Middletown and Goshen a motorman named Anderson halted a crossing car when two skating boys sank in the river ice. Passenger Benjamin Gluck leaped onto the ice, fell in, and with crew and others' help pulled Theodore and Donald Hutching to shore. The older boy improves. the younger remains critical at the Middletown hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Middletown
N. Y
Wallkill Transit Company
Goshen
Wallkill River
Anderson
Benjamin H. Gluck
Cauldwell Avenue
Bronx
Gluck
Theodore
Donald Hutching
James Hutching
Mechanicstown
Ile
Light on the Very First Credit Man
At the New York Credit Men's Association annual dinner Robert H. Davis of Munsey's Magazine introduces John D. Shylock as the first credit man from Missouri. Shylock’s motto is Show me and he carries a two headed nickel as a talisman. About 200 attendees hear remarks from W. A. Prendergast Rev Dr W C P Rhoades and Charles E. Meek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert H. Davis
Munsey’s
New York Credit Men’s Association
Arkwright Club
Broadway
Missouri
John D. Shylock
W. A. Prendergast
W. C. P. Rhoades
Charles E. Meek
Tried to Kill Wife in Minister's Home Riotous Attempt
Christopher Reiss, 56, barged into the Bronx rectory of Rev. Herman von Hollen, shot at his wife Emily, then beat her with a revolver butt. He fled, was arrested and jailed on felonious assault charges with bail set at 5000, amid claims of a troubled marriage and threats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily
Edgewater
N. J
Christopher Reiss
Fifty-third Street
Ninth Avenue
Herman von Hollen
Morris Avenue
The
Bronx
Reiss
J. R. Fabricius
Grand Avenue
Fordham Road
von Hollen
Thomas F. Burke
Fire Engine Company 75
Burke
Jerome Avenue
Tremont Station
Morrisania
Emmy Latch
von Hollens
Grand 2 Next Weeks LA Bn i a The Lion and Mischief
Fragments show names and references such as LA GLASER EDDLER AMMERSTENS and BLANEY with mentions of ice hockey and 66th Bt. rym Dal and other unreadable text. The item appears as a clipped social or sports note with multiple proper nouns and vague events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaney
Knowles
Way
I. Dal
seRar Sr
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Cassidy
Six
Coggey
Famuel Smith
Thos. C Smith
Bert C. Plass
J. M. Thompson
A. Berrian
Mortis Jacoby
Bronx Park
Charles A. Collin
Mr. Coggey
Senator Cassidy
Department of Correction
Schwarzschild & Ee
John T. Harrington
Harrington
Sixteenth
Kings County Penitentiary
Blackwell's Island
Vichy
President Badeau
Consolidated
Mrs. Sage
Chester Billings and Son
Randel Bare
Moreg Billings
Service Board
Flatbush
Avenue Extension
B. H. Gluck
Madison Square Garden
Agnes Repplier
Berkeley Lyceum
West Forty-fourth Street
Equal Suffrage League
Ethel N. Arnold
Dr. Arnold of
Rugby
Matthew Arnold
Arnold
Europe
National League For the Civic Education of Women
William H. Allen
Bureau of Municipal Research
St. Luke’s Protestant Episcopal Church
141St Street
Convent Avenue
John T. Patey
Henry M. Tech
Young Men's Hebrew Association
Palestine
Louis I. Haber
Marcus M. Marks
Schulman
Elizabeth Conway
Thomas
State Street
Wallach
Hart
POS
29Th Street
Schaffner & Marx Clothes
New York
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Wynite
Stuart
Ruth Allen
Will Rogers
Alice
Henry Lee
the Kellines
Barrows-Lanrcaster & Co
McNaughtons
the Lion
Mouse LA Glaser
Mlle
Mischief
Welch
CIA Theatre
Wien
Life OF
Paris
Ammerstens Eee Sisters
Eles
BEN Greet
Wil
Darnton
Eve
Norrow
Marguerite Clark
Grace Cameron
Mile
Ln Glaser
Billou
Joe Weber
Annie Rus
ASTOR
Dway
Mississippi
Seatred
B’way
st.Ev
45Th St. Ev
Wed
Honga
Waives
the Man
McAhillical
D Betty
Vewee
T. Sat
Acton Daves
Belascop
George Arliss
Mats
Belasco
Blanche Bates
Fighting Hope
St. Ev
Mats. Wed
Carnegie Hall
LMAN
Ers
Henry Wolfsohn
Thu Mail Ord
Mendells
Mana
NDC
Barden Theatre
Henry W. Dixey
Jov Newvissw
M. H. Hanson
Ashton Stevens
Mary Jane
Adray Hill Theatre
Mit Todax
Smok
Julits Eee
Empire B'way
St. Evs
John Drew
Jack Straw
Hudson Ethel BA
Mluson
Maude Adams
Wee Rymore Frederick
L. Frank Baum
WM. Gillette
Samson Lycetn
Garrick Rip
Weer
Pacer
Collier A. Patriot
Henry Miller Pace
Wilton Packaye
Tawantian
Aero Club
Vanhy
T Irving
Hermann Klein
Sler
Krea
Nata
C. Lillie Lawlor
Ormsby
Otto Meyer
Olympic
J. H. Cutter
E. LA Montagne’s Sons
Beaver ST
Cluett, Peabody & Co
Arnheim, Nina
C. Vladimir F. Gnesin
5Th Ave
West 21St ST
Manhattan Opera House
Oscar Hammersteein
Labia
Constantino
Sammarco
Gianoli Galletti
Campanini
Mme
Melba
Trentini
Gilibert
de Segurola
Gianoli- Galletti
Miles
Gerville- Reache
Espinasse
Zeppilli
MM. Dufrance
Arimondi
Parola
Manhattan Opera Orchestra
Mon
Tales OF Hoffmann
Mmes Ra
Mariska-Aldrich
MM. Dalmores
Renaud
Crabbe
Daddi
Charlier
Boheme
Zenatello
Gianoli-Galletti
Fri
Othello
Doria
Lucia DI Lammermoor
Tetrazzini
Samson and Delilah
Gerville-Reache
Dalmores
Dufranne
Vieuille
Venturini
Goet Somering
Mmes
Fremstad
Homer
Fornia
Gay
Farrar
Martin
Note
Toscanini
SUN
Raptold
Didur
Spetrino
Trovatore
Emma Eames
Caruso
Amato
Witherspoon
Sperrino
Tristan Und Isolde
Fremstfad
Schmedes
Feinhais
Blass
Mahler
THURS
Aida
Flihaut
Toscaning
Elisir D’amore
Sembrich
Bonai
Scotti
Campanari
Alda
Bonci
Pagliacci
Brooklyn Academy OF Music
MM. Martin
Scott
Werer
New Amsterdam
Matinees
Liberty
Frederic
Thompson
Anna
Eathe
F. Ziegfeld, Jr
Mimi Aguglia
Peccatrice
Cavalleria Rusticana
Malta
Ireland
Joseph O’mara
Peggy Machree
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