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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1900
Page
2
The article reports a post election gathering featuring bankers and leaders discussing finance. Speakers defend banking power as national defense, warn of industrial consolidations, and praise the balance between money supply and demand. Prominent remarks link global finance to domestic prosperity and stability.
Anthony Comstock secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice issues a formal reply to F Norton Goddard. He accuses Goddard of misrepresentation and theft of his substitute bill while recounting efforts to amend laws and to secure committee approval. Comstock claims Goddard violated an agreement and attacked his character.
Judge Morton refused an injunction on the petition of J. B. Mulholland and others to stop the Boston Pneumatic Transit Company from finishing an underground pneumatic tube system project in Boston. The suit claimed the $157,000 contract with Rigo Pneumatic Service Company was illegal due to alleged fiduciary breaches by trustees acting for both firms.
A pneumatic tube company seeks incorporation with $1,000,000 capital to construct a main tube from New York to Hartford via Bridgeport New Haven and Meriden. The project promises near instantaneous newspaper delivery from New York to Connecticut cities. New York and Hartford capitalists back the plan.
The British steamer Somerhill tows the liner Westernland from Antwerp after the Westernland loses her propeller. Westernland sails Dec 15 for New York, to Ipswich for towing to Southampton. The incident follows a Dec 1 departure from Newport News.
William Rockefeller of the Standard Oil Company of New York was elected a director of the Lincoln National Bank to fill a long standing vacancy. His election expands Rockefeller's ties to major entities, including the New York Central Railroad and the National City Bank. The prior director addition occurred in August with James Stillman, president of National City Bank, expanding holdings after purchasing Lincoln Bank stock.
In Benton Harbor Michigan Charles Mosher thirty five and his ten year old son Harold died of typhoid fever after the family who follow the Dowie faith refused physicians and medicine. The mother is recovering while another daughter is not expected to live. The father died yesterday and the boy died Sunday.
Chief of Police William S. Devery declares politics will not interfere with the Brooklyn Police Department. He says he remains chief, questions the board's power to remove him, and accuses President York and Deputy Chief McLaughlin of running Brooklyn. He notes transfers were his own judgment and rejects political influence.
The Committee of Fifteen met at George Foster Peabody’s office and elected Baldwin as chair, Seligman secretary, and Peabody treasurer. They plan an impartial inquiry into gambling and vice, publish findings, push stricter anti vice legislation, fix accountability for officials, and improve conditions to deter crime with meetings next at United Charities Building.
Brooklyn Democratic Leader Hugh McLaughlin dismisses Chief Devery’s police shake-up as a ridiculous pretense. He ridicules transfer of Deputy Chief McLaughlin for wearing a plug hat and mocks Devery’s claim about McClusky’s alleged crime in sharp, satirical terms.
Special to The New York Times Carlisle Penn Dec 19 Major Richard H Pratt superintendent Carlisle Indian School and Tenth Cavalry defends slavery in reply to Bishop Francis H Hill arguing slavery brought millions of Africans into the United States taught a new language and prepared them for citizenship. He says freedom may not be boon and calls slavery a bridge to civilization.
Cecelia Gramshaw aged eighteen of 140 Governor Street and Annie Handwerk sixteen of Auburn Street were saved after skating on the Passaic River near Great Falls broke through the ice. They sank about twenty feet. a long ladder and rope helped rescuers pull them back onto the ice as hundreds looked on.
In Chancery Chambers Jersey City yesterday Washington B. Williams William H Speer Jr and Dr Hamilton Vreeland ruled Abbey Smith a seventy two year old resident of Faith Care Church parsonage is insane Her daughters Abney Long and Josephine Schultz Jr filed suit to appoint a guardian She holds property in Jersey City and Elizabeth and has bank funds
Charles Newell, a commercial traveler with Newell & Gurley of Utica New York, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition today. The liabilities amount to 33790, while assets list at 55.
Utica reports Rear Admiral Albert B. Barker U S Navy Commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard will visit with his wife and daughter the Proctors over Christmas. A reception for Admiral Barker is planned at the Fort Schuyler Club Monday evening.
Montagnacs and Velours coats for the Four Hundred range in 22 to 28 dollars with many silk lined. a selection now offered at 19.50. Includes neckwear gloves handkerchiefs hosiery pajamas bath robes smoking jackets umbrellas and more from WM. Vogel & Son Broadway Houston Street.
Gen Francis Vinton Greene informs the executive committee he will not seek another term as President of the Republican County Committee. He cites time constraints and personal affairs, and the group plans to adjourn for a week. Rumors name Lemuel B. Quigg and William H. Ten Eyck as possible successors.
In Minneapolis on December 19 a syndicate of leading paper and pulp mil1 owners has bought 100000 acres of spruce timber in northern Minnesota with option on more land. They plan large pulp mills to slash white paper prices. State officials face criticism for selling spruce lands to the syndicate. Longstanding paper representatives in Minnesota helped broker the deal.
Birmingham reports a coal shortage as mines fail to meet demand from railroads and Birmingham district industries. C A Wickersham of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad is in Birmingham trying to force supply to meet contracts. His lines are short by about 5 000 tons, with all other roads in similar straits. The Alabama coal mines have had the strongest demand in over two years, yet supply lags badly.
The United Italian Societies of Chicago selected the plans and model for a Garibaldi monument. New York sculptor Signor Victor Gherardi is shaping a bronze statue of Gen. Garibaldi on a granite pedestal. Base about twelve feet, statue nine feet high. It will stand in Lincoln Park and arrive June 1, 1901, with unveiling set for Sept. 2.
Everything for the Children is here year round with abundant holiday gifts. Boys coats, reefers, box overcoats for 6 to 16 years, sailor suits, umbrellas, and babies coats are offered in bright plaids, blues, and grays with varied linings and details. Prices range from $3.75 to $12.50.
An advertisement promotes a large selection of children’s books both bound and unbound along with mechanical trains on tracks for sale at $1.00 each.
Gov Roosevelt arrived from New York and will hear Col Asa Bird Gardiner District Attorney of New York County on alleged failure to prosecute election law offenders. He is also set to hear Dr Peter M Wise President of the State Commission in Lunacy about undisclosed charges. Odell to join briefly. Roosevelt to spend Christmas at Oyster Bay.
Col Gardiners defense and that of his assistants is to be sent to Governor Roosevelt today. The papers include affidavits from each assistant denying the charges with emphasis on Assistant District Attorney Ungers denial of obstructing the Grand Jury in election violation cases. Unger recounts an incident on Nov 1 involving the Bleecker Street resort case and seeks advance notice of prosecutions. Gardiner denies any fear of the outcome of the charges.
Governor Roosevelt visited West Side Italian Mission School at Sullivan Street and addressed a large crowd. He praised the children's singing of When Teddy Comes Marching Home and the Battle Hymn of the Republic, recalling San Juan Hill and his Italian bugler Cassi. He later met officials at the Union League Club before departing for Albany.
New Orleans dispatch reports Town Marshal W E Richardson of Gulfport Mississippi was shot and killed while trying to arrest a suspect. A mob with bloodhounds pursues the suspect, with lynching feared upon capture.
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