Elevator disaster at Paterson Departmente Store shocks city
A Paterson department store elevator dropped from the first to the basement injuring seven passengers. Two men, P A Anderson and Ella McNally, were killed instantly. Mrs Frank Holland and John Slagland among the injured. Weights, each 100 pounds, fell onto victims as the car struck the basement floor. Rescue crews removed the injured. cause under investigation likely a cable slip. Holiday shoppers crowded the scene amid panic and debris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paterson
Paterson Departmente
Helevator Beys
East Twenty-Kinton Street
Ella McNally
Straight Street
Prank Holland
Main Street
John Dr. Slagland
Water Street
Anderson
Elevator Crushes Man at Salvator Brewery, Dies at Hospital
Patrick Mulligan of East Thirty Seventh Street was killed when an ascending steam elevator at Salvator Brewing Company, 400 Cherry Street, crushed him and badly injured Patrick Raddigan of 425 Warren Street. Raddigan survived with hip and side injuries and is recovering at Gouverneur Hospital. The two men, alone in the car, could not escape as it sped upward and finally halted, trapping them between car and floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick Mulligan
East Thirtyseventh Street
Salvator Brewing Company
Cherry Street
Gouverneur Hospital
Mullighn
Patrick Raddigan
Warren Street
Brooklyn
Ile
Earl to Succeed Ross in Weber & Fields Show
Behind the scenes at Weber and Fields last night discussions centered on who would replace Charles Ross in the new production Self and Lady. Fritz Williams may return to Frohman forces, while De Wolf Hoppe could take lines as scheduling confusion and a missing actor vexed the cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weber & Fields
Fritz Williams
Charles Ross
Frohman
Self
Earl of Yarmouth
Paul,Arthur
Ferdinand Gottschalk
Arthur
England
Mr. Gottschalk
de Wolf Hoppi
Mr. Willams
Fields
New York Theatre
Mr. Ross
Opera Season Opens at Metropolitan with Romeo et Juliette Debut
The Met closed the first foreign language week with two shows. Romeo et Juliette featured Melba as Juliette though not in full voice yet, Salesa and Gilibert sharing roles. Miss Carrie Bridewell impressed as Stephane, hinting at a bright future. Aida followed to a near empty house, despite strong performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Opera House
Gounod
Melba
Juliette
IM. Saleza
I. Gilibert
M. Plancon
Capulet
Carrie Bridewell
Stephane
Page
Loie Fuller Arrives With Fifty-Two Bag Gage and New Steps
Loie Fuller landed by steamship St Louis with thirty tons of baggage and a troupe of staff. Four new and fancy steps, each more complex than the last, will be showcased at Koster & Bial's Music Hall on New Year's Eve before a ten week engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loie Fuller
St. Louis
Koster & Bial
Music Hall
Gabriele Bloch
Mme.de Cam
Mabel Knowles
George Crager
M. Homsberg
Sarmuel Millard
Jjap
Atomia
Miss Fuller
American June Pier
ANOTHER NEW THEATRE ON FORTY-SEVENTH STREET
Kirke La Shelle via Hall and Sons buys a Broadway plot 1170 West Forty-seventh by 100.4 feet plus rear plots to build a six story theatre with street entrance and additional apartments. The project estimated about 400000 dollars, to open in the fall for his own productions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirke la Shelle
Forty-seventh Street
Throu Hall& Sons
Broadway
Beginni Theatre
la Shelle
N. Brigham
West
la Shelie
Mme Sembrich Sings for Charity at Carnegie Hall
Mme Marcella Sembrich gave a charity recital at Carnegie Hall in aid of a junior relief cause. The great soprano presented a varied program including Beethoven and Purcell along with folk songs and rarities. The audience filled the boxes and praised her noble artistry, with the second part encore lauded as the finest moment of the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie H
Marcella Secital
W George Junior
Mme
Sembrich
Buononcini
Purcell
Schumann
Richard Straus
Ene Sembrich
First German Bach Festival Planned in Berlin
Berlin announces the first German Bach music festival to be held March 21 with an exhibition of manuscripts pictures and instruments in public rooms at City Hall. The event is linked with a Berlin Town Council led display and public access.
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Berlin
London Theatres Welcome Holiday Audiences Amid Packed Listings
The article notes crowded holiday business across theatres with Mr and Mrs Daventry drawing fashionable crowds. The Prince of Wales attended a show on Thursday while Frohman’s Alice in Wonderland at the Vaudeville drew mixed critic reaction. Nearly forty pantomimes will run in and around London, Cinderella leading with nine versions. Phyllis Rankin returned to the English stage in Florodora at the Lyric, but appeared nervous and underplayed Lady Holyrood.
Madeleine Ryley to star at Madison Square Theatre season
Mrs. Madeleine Lucette Ryley author of My Lady Dainty sails from Europe to view the production at Madison Square Theatre. Effie Shannon and Herbert Wheley head the principal cast in the piece. Blanche Bates to portray Cigarette in a special production. Five acts and nine scenes. Hamlet rehearsals in New York completed as Sothern Virginia Hearned company departs for St Louis. Sothern reports full strength and recovery. Second coup de Souza, a baritone, arrives on Pennsylvania. opening date and itinerary not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madeleine Lucette Ryley
Charles Frohman
Madison Square Theatre
Europe
Effie Shannon
Herbert Wheley
Paul M. Potter
David Velasco
Cigarette
Blanche Bates
Hamlet
New York
E.H. Sothern
Virginia
St. Louis
Portugal
Pennsylvania
Gambling Crackdown by Tammany Committee Shuts Dozens of Rooms
Lewis Nixon, head of a Tammany inquiry into vice, closed about sixty gambling houses and poolrooms by press time. He and Acting Chief Cortright pressed for raids, with warnings that reopened venues will incur police discipline and public publicity. Observers noted closures across Fulton Street Tenderloin districts as clubs and “fake” venues remained tricky to raid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Nixon
Tammany Committee
Devery
Nixon
Moses W. Cortright
Cortright
Tammany Hall
Fulton Street
Tenderloin
Broadway
Thirty-fourth Street
Longacre Square
Andrew J. Thomas
West Thirtieth Street
Committee of Five
Union
Manhattan
Union League
Deputy Chief McLaughlin Warns Brooklyn Precincts to Curb Vice
Deputy Chief P H McLaughlin forced a meeting with Brooklyn precinct captains, declaring he will not tolerate vice and will personally remedy any precinct failures. He stressed duty and cleanliness for the force, and defended his visits to Mulberry Street as proper and timely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. H. McLaughlin
Brooklyn
Mr. McLaughlin
Devery
Towing Disabled Liners Off Skerries
Two tugs tow the White Star steamer Cufic away from Skerries after she was abandoned in distress. The Somerhill tows the Westernland to West Bay, but loses her main mast and sustains hull damage yet continues. The New York carries Westernland passengers from Southampton after the rescue.
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London
White Star Line
Cufic
Skerries
Liverpool
Somerhill
Westernland
West Bay
Weymouth
Southampton
New York
Cherbourg
Westchester Republicans Host Dinner for Ward and Brown
Westchester County Republicans held a dinner at Sherry’s honoring William L Ward chair of the county committee who received a gold watch and chair valued at 1000. John J Brown secretary received a diamond and pearl pin. Ex Congressmen Southwick Senator Mills and several assemblymen sheriff and county officers attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Organization
Westchester County
Sherry
William L. Ward
Westchester County Committee
Ward
John J. Brown
Southwick
Mills
Apgar, Cooley
Mains
Miller
Weavers to Return to Work in New Bedford Strike
At a meeting in New Bedford Massachusetts on December 22 striking weavers from Acushnet and Hathaway mills voted to return to work on Wednesday. Loom fixers will remain out and many workers from other cities have taken positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bedford
Mass
Acushnet and Hathaway
Queens District Attorney Merrill Receives Gold Watch
District Attorney John D. Merrill of Queens County was presented with a gold watch and chain yesterday afternoon by his office attachés. The gift was engraved John D. Merrill, District Attorney, Queens County, Christmas, 1900.
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Merril
Queens County
John D. Merrill
Arrival of Buyers at Major Cities in 1880s
Morse Dry Goods of Grand Rapids promotes cloaks and suits with E A Morse and Everett House. Stearns and Co of Boston shows Barnard cloaks and suits at Continental Hotel. Carroll Company of Rochester lists Jees and H Carroll dry goods at Cosmopolitan Hotel. Levy & Co of Baltimore handles straw goods at Hoffman House.
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Morse Dry Goods Company
Grand Rapids
Mich
E. A. Morse
Everett House
Stearns
Boston
Mass
Barnard
Continental Hotel
Carroll, C. H
Rochester
Jees & H. Carroll
Cosmopolitan Hotel
Levy, S., & Co
Baltimore
J. Levy
Hoffman House
Mrs Sarah Brownell Files Bankruptcy Petition
Sarah S. Brownell of 83 West 103rd Street has filed for bankruptcy with liabilities of 5372 and no assets. debts from 1890 to 1898 include apparel, millinery, jewelry, bric-a-brac and borrowed money plus 50 confectionery 118 theatre tickets and 305 hotel bill. She is a beneficiary under her father John W. Lockwood's trust earning 1200 yearly but says it is insufficient for her needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Brownell
Sarah S. Brownell
West One Hundred and Third, Street
John W. Lockwood
Fires destroy goods at Buffalo and Boston firms
In Buffalo fire on the loft of The Buffalo Commercial at noon ruined W. C. Warren’s household furniture and effects, with insurance covering the loss. In Boston a blaze erupted from an explosion in the four story Burbank & Rider block on Central Street just before 3 am, hitting the Washburn Cropsy local branch and New England Pattern Company among others with heavy losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
W. C. Warren
Boston
Mass
Burbank & Rider
Central Street
Washburn-Crospy
New England Pattern Company
SOF Kimball
Fragmented Damage Log Of City Incidents Overnight
A sequence of fire or damage reports lists times from 12 40 A M to 11 40 P M with addresses across Manhattan and surrounding streets. Owners include Mary O Donnell George Quinn Lizzie MacDownell Max Medler Borniler Adele Emaneus J H Raynor and firms like America Motorcope Company. Damages range from slight to 1000 dollars, with multiple unnamed owners and various streets such as Columbus Avenue Fifth Avenue West Fifty-sixth Street and East One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street cited.
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Gay Street
East Orfe Hundred and Twenty-third Street
Mary O'Donnell
Columbus Avenue
George Quinn
Ninety-second Street
Louis Othess
West Twenty-sixth Street
Lizzie MacDownell
East Third Street
Max Medler
Twelfth Avenue
One Hundred and Thirtieth Street
West Ninety-seventh Street
David Levin
Fifth Avenue
Borniler
Connor Street
Max Gardier
Norfolk Street
M. Uisrick
West Fifty-sixth Street
Peter Flood
Second Avenue
Adele Emaneus
Monroe Street
Louis Slessock
West Twelfth Street
J. Age Slight
Hundred and
Petrano
Dam Avenue
Wooster Street
Mendtz Brothers
West One Hundred and Forty-seventh Street
J. H. Raynor
East One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
America Motorcope Company
M. Bruce
Sixth Avnue
New
P. York Athletic Club
Hocoma Sucet
Merico Carmerdilli
P. Ma!rd Avenue
Shipping News Roundup From New York Harbor
Daily log of sailings, arrivals, and routes across Atlantic and Pacific seas plus transpacific mails. Includes lists of ships, destinations such as Norfolk, Havana, Genoa, Liverpool, and Honolulu with arrival bars and passing notes, plus supplementary mails and recent port dispositions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Hook
Hook
Hamilton
Norfolk
Iroquois
Charleston
Colonee
Alamo
Galveston
Lauenburg
Haiti
Inagua
Wen
Silvia
Newfoundland
St. Louis
Southampton
Trinidad
Bermuda
Vaderland
Antwerp
Pro- Vigillanea
Havana
Greso
Yucatan
Brazil
Cyrene
Santos
Ardleten
Rotterdam
Arkansas
Copenhagen
Betty
Gibraltar
Brooklyn City
Swansea
el Mar
New Orleans
Guyandotte
Hiugenden
Havre
Incamores
Algiers
John Sanderson
Sunderland
la Normandie
Louisiana
Moonstone
Huelva
Nubia
Stettin
Olinda
Matanzas
Prins Maurits
Port Au Prince
State of Nebraska
Glasgow
Amsterdam
Antilla
Nassau
City of Birmingham
Savannah
Colorado
Brunswick
Horrox
St. Lucia
Ithaka
Knickerbocker
Tauric
Liverpool
Alliance
Colon
Altai
Port "Simon
Anchoria
Caracas
San Juan
el Paso
Georgian
Laurentian
Princess Anne
Aller
Alps
Jamaica
Jefferson
Lampasas
Peninsular
Lisbon
Tefitonic
Vimeira
el Monte
Handel
Mesaba
London
Trave
Bremen
Simon J. Murphy
Hekla
Alaska
Tampa
St. Cuthbert
Canova
Manchester
Boulogne
Vincenzo Florio
Iital
Naples
Trieste
Exeter City
Bristol
Adirondack
Kingston, &c
Ponce
Porty Rice
Morro Castle
Comus
Chesapeake
Baltimore
Kansas City
Gulf Stream
Philadelphia
Star of Australia
Melbourne, &c
el Rio
Newport News
Victoria
Genoa
Maracaibo
Curacao
Hildebrand
Para
Oneida
Wilmington
N. C
Georgestown
S.C
City of Macon
Boston
Nueces
Key West
Berks
Frostburg
Yachting and Marine Engines Advertised by NYC Firms
A collage of advertisements from Charles L. Seabury & Company and partners in New York and Brooklyn offer yachts motors and launches. Listings include gas engines water-tubellers ship ways and overhaul services plus charter and sale options. Also featured are guides for inspectors licenses naval architecture services and multiple yacht brokers with contact details.
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Iowa
Charles L. Seabury & Company
Electris
Seabury’s
Chartera and Insurance
Broadway
Morris Heights
New York City
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Susan ‘S
Minnie Tracey
Bombart de la Tour
M. de la Tour
Wai Drother
Indy
Gene
Jdournet
Louise Homer
M. So
Amonasro
King
M. Flon
Covent
Egypt
Earl
Ross
Yarmouth
Weber & Fields Company
Aida
the Metropolitan
Mme. Sembr Ch
Beethoven
Lulalicl
Ruliec Laewe
Mme. Wavell T* Anstriica
Teua Shears
Belle of
York
London Theatrical Notes
Mr. Nixon
Canfield
Fourteenth Street
Third
Fourth Avenues
Madison Square Garden
German Savings Bank
Fourth Avenue
NEW York Times
West Third Street
Macdougal and
Sixth Avenue
Macdougal Street
West Third
Lighth Avenue
Henry Barr
Society For the Prevention of Crime
Barr
Eighth Avenue
Burr
Mr. Thompson
Capt
Martens
Thirty-first Precinct
Marvin
Chief Devery
McLaughlin
America
Coening
Mulberry Street
Mrr. McLaughlin
Westchester Republicans
Merrill
Shipping and Foreign Mails
Hermodius
Paraguay
Mexico
Tampico
Jamestown
Santiago
Cuba
Santi- GE
Mes Wting
Ewan
Trojan Prince
Azores Islands
Rede
Aoe
Algonquin
Dagery
Transpacific
Hawaii
Japan
China
Philippine Islands
San Francisco
Vancouver
Australia
West Australia
New Zealand
Fiji
Samoan Islands
Etruria
Samona
Fiji Islands
Warrimoo
Seattle
Peking
Hastings
Bridgeport
New Haven
Consuelo
Watson
Hull
Sanderson & Son
Fire Island
Decker
Campeche
Ndse
James E. Ward & Co
The
Bar
International Navigation Company
Fraser
A. E. Outerbridge & Co
Campania
Walker
Queenstown
Vernon H. Brown & Co
H. H. Meier
Formes
Bremer
Oelrichs & Co
Arabistan
Enright
Buenos
Jefferson, Dole
Old Dominion Steamship Company
Staples
Providence
William P. Clyde & Co
Yuma
Woes
William P. Clyde
Jacksonville
Spliedt
Hamburg
Plymouth
Cable
Eichel
Coull
Rio Ja Oo
Pernambuco
Hogarth
Taylor
Macelo
Williamson
Port Elizabeth
Lucania
McKay
Ohio
Hadaway
Hull To-Day. S38 Wordsworth, (Ielg.,) Capt. Hairby, From Santos For New York
Bahia
Chicago City
Hunter
Kensington
Roberts
Partridge
Pring Regent Luitpold
Walter
Sii
Ragusa
Ebert
Barbados
Columbia
Vogelgesang
Montserrat
Span
Moreno
Cadiz
McFarlane
St. Michael's
Bolivia
Craig
Palermo
Belg
Eherf
Pontiac
Brownless
Venice
Forte Spuria
Smith
Montevideo
Buenos Ayres
Harris
Anjer
Port
R. M. Pugsley
Nassau St
Frank Bowne Jones
McIntosh Yacht Basin
26Th St
A. J. McIntosh
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