General Greene Named Police Commissioner in New York
West Point graduate and longtime Army officer Gen Francis Vinton Greene was chosen by Mayor Low to become Police Commissioner, succeeding John N Partridge on January 1. Greene, a friend of Roosevelt and Odell, said he would study the police situation and have a free hand but would let results speak for themselves. He holds multiple corporate posts and civic memberships and is expected to dissociate from the Eastern Trust Company upon assuming the post.
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Low
Francis Vinton Greene
John N. Patridge
Greene
Gen. Greene
Roosevelt
Odell
West Point
Army
Republican County Committee
Eastern Trust Company
Broadway
NEW York Times
Police Department
Partridge
Capt. Piper
Ebstein
Jerome
Poe Department
Duhier
Asphalt Company of America
National Asphalt Company
the Century
University, Metropolitan,Lawyers
Union League
Riding, Republican
New York Yacht
Army and Navy
American Institute of Mechanical Engineers
American Society of Civil Engineers
United States Military Academy Alumni Association
Fast Thirtieth Street
Rhode Island
Military Academy
Artillery Corps
United States
St. Petersburg
Shipka Pass
National Guard
McKinley
Manila
Cuba
Lemuel Eli Quigg
Barber Asphalt Paving Company
Asphalt Trust
Commissioner Salaries and Powers Noted in City Records
The Commissioner of Water Supply Gas and Electricity and the Commissioner of Police are defined in city records. The police commissioner earns an annual salary of 7500 dollars and is removable at the pleasure of the mayor.
Many Police Promotions Show Big Officer Advances
Commissioner John N. Partridge promoted two new Captains and sixty Sergeants in a rare large list at Police Headquarters. Captains Dooley and Houlahan received commands, with several transfers of senior officers, while 14 more names were added as sergeants from Civil Service eligibility.
It's Nine Hundred and Twelve Miles From New York to Chicago
The Pennsylvania Special covers this distance in twenty hours. A palatial train advertises luxury and speed between major cities, highlighting rapid travel and comfort aboard the rail service.
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New York
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Lawyers Seek Reinstatement For Five Dismissed Policemen
Louis J. Grant counsel for five discharged patrolmen and ex Sergeant Thomas McCormack asks Supreme Court Justice Scott for writs of certiorari. The patrolmen Quigley Heartt Campbell and Loosen were discharged for gambling in a Jams Slip saloon last August. McCormack, nicknamed Terror Mack, was dismissed in November over a $5 bondsman payment charge.
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Louis J. Grant
Justice Scott
Supreme Court
Partridge
Quigley
Heartt
Campbell
Loosen
Miles O’reilly
Thomas McCormack
Terror Mack
McCormack
Committee Hails Greene Police Commissioner Appointment
At the Republican County Committee meeting yesterday the Executive Committee unanimously adopted a resolution commending Mayor Low for appointing Gen. Francis V. Greene as Police Commissioner of New York City and extending congratulations to Gen. Greene.
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Republican County Committee
Mayor Low
Gen
Francis V. Greene
City of
New York
Gen. Greene
Submarine coal mining planned in Nova Scotia
In Glace Bay Nova Scotia Ochiltree McDonald plans a historic operation bonding coal areas near Port Morien all submarine he aims to sink a shaft on Flint Rock offshore to mine coal beneath the ocean beach experts foresee submarine mining expanding across Cape Breton with extensive submerged coal beds potential across generations.
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New York Times
Glace Bay
N. S
Nova
Scotia
Ochiltree McDonald
Port Morien
Flint Rock
Ocean
Cape Breton
Triumphs of 1902 and Moët & Chandon White Seal
A 1902 chronicle notes global events in the United States England Germany and France with royal welcomes coronations and statuary unveilings while Moët & Chandon Champagne is linked to all celebrations. The ad asserts Moët & Chandon White Seal as superior and popular.
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America
England
Germany
France
United States
H.R
Prince Henry
Prussia
White House
Edward the VII
India
Rochambeau
Mayor Low presses transit reform for New York lines
Mayor Low urges reform after a Merchants Association request. He seeks more cars, two conductors on crowded runs, vestibuled cars for motormen, and round-the-clock service. The Merchants Association backs hearings, calls for no seat no fare, vestibules, ads removed, and expanded hours.
Hearing Set on Overcrowding of City Street Cars
The State Board of Railway Commissioners schedules a public hearing for December 30 at 10 A M in New York City on overcrowding of Metropolitan Street Railway Company and Manhattan Elevated Railway Company cars and the Union Railway Company. A prior Brooklyn session will address the same issue. Merchants Association of New York official S C Mead will present at 11 3 A M on December 31.
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Mayor Low
Merchants’ Association
New York
Manhattan
Vreeland
Metropolitan Company
Skitt
Mr. Low
Mr. Vreeland
Low
State Railroad Commission
Merchants of New York
McInnes
Board of Aldermen
State Railroad Commissioners
Aldermanic Chamber
Brooklyn
Alderman Wirth
Laws and Resolutions Committee
Albany
State Board of Railway Commissioners
City Hall
New York City
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Manhattan Elevated Railway Company
Union Railway Company
Merchants’ Association of New_York
S. C. Mead
Association
Doctor Lorenz Fails To Complete Hip Operation
In Boston at Children’s Hospital a Austrian surgeon Adolf Lorenz limits a hip operation on a nineteen year old boy after twenty five minutes. He places the limb in a helpful position and says a month or two surveillance could yield a full success. Earlier procedures succeed on two girls aged three and a half years and seven years.
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Boston
Adolf Lorenz
Children’s Hospital
Lorenz
Lorenz Patient Goes Home After Club Foot Operation
Washington pediatric case Charles Willett a ten year old patient of Professor Lorenz is leaving Children’s Hospital after a severe club foot operation. Doctors say the boy’s rapid recovery validates Lorenz’s surgical success and allows him to spend Christmas at his father’s house.
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New York
Washington
Prof. Lorenz
Charles Willett
Lorenz
Children's Hospital
Fire Drives Out Students at YMCA Building
A fire at the YMCA on Twenty third Street and Fourth Avenue forced evacuation during a Bellevue Hospital Medical College lecture. Flames issued from the third floor near the Employment for Men room, causing about 1500 dollars in damage before Battalion Chief Ross and an overnight guard contained it. The fire marshal will investigate the cause.
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Young Men's Christian Association
Twenty-third Street
Fourth Avenue
T. Cameron
Bellevue Hospital Medical College
Ross
Walter Reigler
Butler for One Night Only Silent Butler Pranks Guests
Charles Summer Pike a noted local versifier and Western hero to an Eastern magazine agreed to act as butler for Miss Margaret Lord in her Chicago home. He served a formal dinner for twenty with a gray wig disguising him as the butler while guests failed to recognize him.
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New York Times
Chicago
Charles Summer Pike
Margaret Lord
Miss Lord
Pike
James
Mr. Pike
Polish Community Nears Erection of Kosciuszko Statue
Chicago Polish residents after eight years anticipate a bronze equestrian statue of General Kosciuszko to be placed in Humboldt Park. A working model has arrived and awaits West Park Board approval and a decision by the Municipal Art League on artistic merit.
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New York Times
Chicago
Kosciusko
Humboldt Park
West Park Board
Park Board
Municipal Art League
Chicago bank stock acquired by George F. Baker
Chicago banker George F. Baker of the First National Bank of New York is said to have bought about 500 shares of Chicago National Bank stock. The purchase aligns with bankers seeking stronger ties to Chicago banking interests as the stock rose from six to four hundred. The Chicago National pays 12 percent regularly and 6 percent extra at year end. the next dividend is payable December 31.
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New York Times
Chicago
George F. Baker
First National Bank of
New York City
Chicago National Bank
Chicago National
Ssx
Baker
Pennsylvania Special Runs From New York To Chicago
The Pennsylvania Railroad advertises the natural highway to the West with the Pennsylvania Special connecting New York and Chicago in twenty hours.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Chicago
Wall Street Journal Accuracy Guides Dow Jones Ad Policy
Investors read The Wall Street Journal as Dow Jones Co advances accuracy and integrity in publishing. The article emphasizes reliability and precise financial reporting for readers and advertisers.
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Wall Street Journal
Dow, Jones & Co
Adv
Death of George Griswold Sr Struck by Train Near Bartow Bronx
George Griswold Sr a New York society figure died after being struck by a freight train near Bartow in the Bronx The body was removed from the tracks by railroad and fire crew and identified by nurses at Pelham Manor His family noted mental illness after his Harvard Oxford and New York Law School education He had recently returned to a calm mood but vanished from a hospital setting leading to his death two miles from the station on Prospect Hill Road and Railroad Bridge The Griswold family long lived on Fifth Avenue and East Thirty fourth Street with J N A Griswold a prominent real estate figure and club members in the Union and Calumet clubs
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George Griswold, Sr
New York
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Bartow
Bronx
George Lacy
Westchester
Lacy
Mr. Griswold
J. N. A. Griswold
East Thirtyninth Street
Harvard
Oxford
New York Law School
Richard L. Kimble
Pelham Road
Pelham Manor House
Prospect Hill Road
Railroad Bridge
A . Waters
George W. Hill
Bernard Levin
Newport
R. I
Griswold
Jack
Colorado Springs
Miss Emmet
Thomas Addis Emmet
George Griswold
Union and
Calumet Clubs
George Bend
Richard C. Derby
Railroad to Pay Guardsmen for Coal Strike Service
From the Pennsylvania Railroad division orders it is learned the company will pay full salaries to employees who served in the National Guard during the coal strike. Superintendents are to report names of Guard members and the wages they would have earned, affecting several hundred men.
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New York Times
Williamsport
Penn
Pennsylvania Railroad
Tional Guard
W. Heyward Myers
Philadelphia and Erie and
Northern Central Railroad
Jailer Frees Missouri Judge for Christmas Leave
Judge Thomas Nevitt of St. Clair County Missouri was released from jail in Marysville by Judge Philips so he could spend Christmas with his family. He will return after the holidays to Marysville to resume confinement and his duties as presiding judge.
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Kansas City
Thomas Nevitt
St. Clair County
Missouri
Marysville
United Statees Court
Philips
Nevitt
County Court of
St. Clair
Louisville to buy site for Carnegie Library
The General Council of Louisville approved 100,009 dollars to purchase a library site. Upon deed delivery to Mr. Carnegie he will send 250,000 dollars for the library. The project will merge with the Polytechnic to form the Souths largest library.
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New York Times
Louisville
General Council of
Carnegie Library
Carnegie
Polytechnic
Christmas Dinner at Hotel La Fayette Menu Ad
French cuisine and home comforts offered at Hotel La Fayette Old Hotel Martin University Pl and 9th St special menu priced at 1 25 with music. Wake Piso’s Cure for Consumption promises to cure coughs at 23c by all druggists.
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Hotel Lafayette
Hotel Martin
University Pl
9Th St
Vanderbilt Noted To Hold Its Own In Typhoid Fight
Early morning bulletin reports Cornelius Vanderbilt resting quietly with no new symptoms though temperature remains high. Doctors Flint and Janeway note spleen subsiding and peritonitis resolved while nourishment is well tolerated as curative signs.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Park Avenue
Mr. Vanderbilt
Dr. Flint
Vanderbilt
Flo
Flint
Vanderbilt Residence
Wealthy Widow Engaged to Young Chemistry Teacher
Baltimore reports the engagement of Mrs. Evelyn Tome a millionaire widow to Irwin France a 27 year old chemistry teacher and member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons class. Mrs Tome widow of Jacob Tome leads Cecil National Bank Elkton National Bank and chairs the Jacob Tome Institute board of trustees.
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New York Times
Baltimore
Maryland
Evelyn Tome
Irwin France
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Cecil National Bank of
Port Deposit
Elkton National Bank
Tome
Jacob Tome
Cecil County
France
The
Tome Institute
Inez France
William Nesbitt
Lackawanna Steel opens with ore from upper lakes
Buffalo today witnessed the opening of the Lackawanna Steel Plant as the Moses Taylor delivered 6,200 tons of ore to the new canal site. The celebration echoed along the waterfront with whistles and dynamite blasts. The firm, capitalized at 40 million dollars, plans steel production within weeks and expects about 15,000 workers.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Lackawanna Steel Company
Upper Lake Points
Moses Taylor
New Ship Canal
Steel Company
Mammoth New Plant
Lackawanna Company
Arthur Scrantor
Steel Trust
Inquest Finds Poison Killed Brooklyn Store Owner Leyh
Coroner Williams held an inquest into the death of George Fr. Leyh at his 73 Broadway store. A jury found poison caused his death. cyanide was found in his stomach and beer. Robert Westphal, his employed boy, testified he sometimes laced drinks with headache powder on orders from others. A pocketbook with 27.08 dollars was found near the stove. Leyh had considered changing his will to equally divide the estate among his children.
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Williams
Brooklyn
George Fr. Leyh
Broadway
Walter H. Kent
Robert Westphal
Leyh
Mr. Leyh
Whayne Will Probate Names Wife as Executrix
Robert C. Whayne of Louisville whose death last Wednesday prompted a will filing had his estate largely left to his widow and children. The widow declined the executorship, and Fidelity Trust Company was named trustee. A charitable bequest of forty thousand dollars was set aside for local charities.
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Louisville
Robert C. Whayne
Fidelity Trust Company
President Roosevelts arbitration stance sparks cabinet debate
Washington dispatch reports strong opposition to making President Roosevelt arbiter in the Venezuela dispute. Cabinet discussions consider The Hague option while noting Monroe doctrine implications and that American commissioners reserve the doctrine. Rubio details the Calvo doctrine and a notable Salvador case highlight regional resistances.
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New York Times
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Hay
Cullom
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Illinois
Hague Tribunal
Venezuela
United States of America
Moody
Root
Hagu Tribunal
Inter
Salvador
United States Corporation
American Squadron Assembles Near Venezuelan Blockade
A strong American squadron is forming near the Venezuelan blockade with battleships Alabama and Kearsarge reported at Port of Spain, joined by Iowa with Scorpion, Cincinnati at Curacao, and Massachusetts sailing from Santa Lucia toward Trinidad.
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New York Times
Washington
Alabama
Kearsarge
Port-of-Spain
Iowa
Cincinnati
Curacao
Massachusetts
Santa Lucia
Trinidad
Dewsey
Hoa
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President Roosevelt
Gov
John N. Partridge
Police
Robert E. Dooley
Coney Island
George R. Houlahan
de Ikxalb Avenue
Dooley
Houlahan
Albertson
Delancey Street
Eldridge Street
Hogan
East Fighty-eighth Street
Creeden
Capt. Houlahan
Jefferson Deevey
High Bridge
Morrisania
Charles C. Wendell
West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
Frederick W. Martens
Alexander Avenue
Edward P. Alcorn
Thomas Ryan
William F. Bottler
Thomas Myers
Frank J. Conboy
Albert F. Mason
William J. Dooley
William F. Fennelly
Edward Kelly
John C. Schmid
Herman Lehr
John T. Smith
John EK. Shea
William H. Sullivan
James H. Post
James A. Cooper
Patrick McGinley
William H. Masterson
Wiliam Butler
Daniel Daly
John Dugan
Thomas McGuire
William Bauer
Peter F. McNelley
James McDonald
Michael P. Sweeney
Gustavus Rehahn
William J. McGloin
Robert J. Bedell
William A. Jones
John H. Boyle
Henry B. Schryver
Michael B. Snyder
Max Lasky
Francis B. Fabri
John L. Pearse
Frank Jedlicke
Thomas J. O'Connor
John Cahill
United Service
Weather Report
Vesti
State Railway Commission
New York Central
20Th Century Limited
Advy
DR. Lorenz
Washington Bay
Butler
Chicago Bank
Western Institution
Pelham Manor
Indica
Railroad
Reim
Carnegie Library For
Lackawanna Works
R. C. Whayne
Dewar
Caracas
Guayra Harbor
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