City Hall Hall of Records Plans Face Major Revisions
Disputed cost estimates and interior redesigns delay the Hall of Records project on Chambers Street. Architects favored marble and elaborate decor, but the Board of Estimate and Apportionment and Justices resist, proposing cost cuts and reallocation of space for county and court offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Champlain
Board of
Fistimate and Apportionment
Coler
Horgan & Slatrere
Sioco
Hall of Records
Corporation Counsel
Supreme Court
Phos
Chambers Street
Centre Street
Broadway
City Hall Park
Italian Fight at Hotel Jose Leaves One Dead
A brawl outside and inside the Hotel Jose in Mamaroneck last night left several Italian residents wounded, with Antonio Naragliano and Antoni Dori dueling after a dispute at a Christmas dance. A musician shot in the eye and a man dying in hospital followed, as witnesses fled before authorities arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamaroneck
Thas
Jose
Hays
Mount Vernon
Orueh
Vito Naraglano
Antoni Dori
Maragbus
Dor
Dori
Antonio Giusepph
Wils
New_ Rochelles
Nuvaxiahu
New York
Loeffler family returns to Newark hospital
Charles Loeffler and his son Joseph were admitted after burns. the Bruce Street Mission leader, Fisher, visited and urged humane admission. The elder Loeffler was treated at City Hospital and then readmitted for care. The incident prompted aid from neighbors and hospital staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
Charles Loeffler
Joseph
Dro Fisher
Bruce Street Mission
Loefflers
Witti Tie
Janeitress Robbed in Brooklyn Cellar
Mrs. Eien Buckles, janitress of 100 Adams Street, Brooklyn, was assaulted in the cellar of her building and robbed of a purse containing forty dollars. Detectives Toman and Keelan investigated after tenants cried out for help. the attacker fled through a doorway to an alley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eien Buckles
SS Adams Street
Brooklyn
Adams Street
Sirs. Buckley
Ibie Palabaras
Dady Contract Dispute Moves to Civil Government
Havana reports Mayor Rodriguez suspends Ayuntamiento actions over Michael J. Dady contract bids. Five reasons cited include lack of bid guarantee, authorship dispute, price divergence with Engineering Department plans, restricted public competition, and a past Ayuntamiento vote. Cady's plans valued at 10.6 million dollars versus Black's 9.135 million with a 1.5 million city saving. Government will review by ten days. officials view Dady as defeated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Rodriguez
Ayuntamiento
Michael J. Dady
Dady
Daly
Deady
Engineerin Department
Civil
Nunez
Canadian Pacific to Acquire Clover Leaf Rail Line
A Cleveland rail information source reports that heavy holders of Canadian Pacific interests are purchasing Clover Leaf stock, and Canadian Pacific will soon gain possession of the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Canadian Pacific
Philbin Installed as New New York County District Attorney
Eugene Ambrose Philbin was sworn in as District Attorney of New York County by Justice Morgan J. O'Brien after Gov. Roosevelt removed Col. Asa Bird Gardiner. Philbin arrived with his commission at 4:20 PM and pledged to uphold the Constitution and pursue law violations, aligning policy with Roosevelt’s police era. Gardiner awaited service all day and left for Garden City after a brief farewell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Ambrose Philbin
County of
New York
Roosevelt
Col- Asa Bird Gardiner
Supreme Court
Morgan J. O'Brien
Philbin
Col. Gardiner
Amos M. Knapp
Criminal Courts
Mr. Knapp
Waldorf-Astoria
John F. McIntyre
Mr. McIntyre
Amir. Knapp
Waldorf
Lohmer
Mr. Philbin
West Seventy-seventh Street
Grice
Knapp
Jean A. Waldron
Waldron
Broadway
John Proctor Clarke
Justice O'Brien
Lamb
Joseph Freeanor
O’brien
United States
State of
Eugene A. Philbin
New York County
NEW York Times
Tub Times
Col. Waring
Alessis
Osborne
Tiennessy
Publc
Notary Accusations Against Moral Dismissed
Gov. Roosevelt drops charges of improper conduct against Bernhard Moral the notary charged by Judge Stiner of the Eleventh District Municipal Court. Ficklen asphalt contractor sued Moral’s company for return of $704 in goods pledges. judge orders property returned and Moral to repay loan and costs. Secretary Youngs led an inquiry finding no facts to support the complaint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. D. Epstein
Broadway
Bernhard Moral
West Twenty-ninth Street
Gov. Roosevelt
Moral
Stiner
Eleventh District Municipal Court
William Ficklen
Hotel Vendome
People’s Storage Company
Copartnership
Ficklen
Fifth Avenue Hotel
William J. Youngs
Christmas Packages Sent to Hobson from Hospital
Lieut. Hobson, long ill at Presbyterian M Hospital, is improving. Packages arrived for him yesterday and throughout the day but will be kept and given when he recovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobson
Presbyterian M Hospital
Penitentiary Their Refuge Commentary on Vagrancy Case
Magistrate Brenner learned of Francis McDonald, twenty two, arraigned for vagrancy after seeking shelter and work. McDonald, from Buffalo, says he would not steal but faced starvation, with the Home of Industry crowded. The judge urged broader public support for charities, noting men left with no place to go except prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brenner
Adams Street
Brooklyn
Francis McDonald
McDonald
Bridge
Buffalo
Willoughby Street
Bearded Dispute Lands Man in Yorkville Court
Charles Kunhold restaurant keeper of 21 Second Avenue was held on $300 bail after a Yorkville Police Court hearing where he was charged with uprooting and destroying a neighbor’s luxurious whiskers. Frederick Suder, a 136 First Avenue saloonkeeper, testified that Kunhold slapped his face during an argument and pulled Suder’s beard, leaving it with gaps and ravines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Kunhold
Second Avenue
Yorkville
Frederick Suder
First Avenue
Kunhold
Suder
Httle
National Gospel Campaign Forms Central Committee
The Nominating Committee of the National Gospel Campaigns met at Lawyers' Club in New York to finalize officers and add members with details to be released after acceptances. Plans call for interdenominational work to organize churches and societies for evangelistic efforts with flexible methods and aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Central Committee
National Gospel Campaigns
Lawyers’ Club
Broadway
Central Committee
King David Fined Ten Dollars For Metaphysical Claim
In Jefferson Market Court Magistrate Zeller fined David Hill Jenkins of 249 Sixth Avenue ten dollars after he claimed to be King David and King Solomon and presented a fanciful diploma of masonry. Jenkins described himself a doctor of metaphysics and a thirty fourth degree Mason while arguing he possessed royal credentials and titles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King David
David
Solomon
David Hill Jenkins
Sixth Avenue
Jefferson Market Court
Zeller
Jenkins
Solomeid
Fire at Rogers Peet & Co. clothiers on Broadway crowds Theatre District
Fire discovered at 11 20 last night on the second floor of Rogers Peet & Co. clothiers at 1268 Broadway. Defective insulation of electric wires started the blaze, extinguished with little effort by the firemen. Water damage and efforts to reach the seat of the fire totaled about 1500 dollars. Principal Broadway theatres were dismissing audiences, causing excitement as crowds blocked streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogers, Peet & Co., Clothiers
Broadway
Eee
Jewelry Stolen From Mrs. Gheist by Unknown Visitor
Mrs. Henry Gheist of 168 West Fighty Street reports jewelry valued at 104 missing after a visiting woman called while she was out. A tall dark woman waited momentarily, then left. upon return, the jewelry was gone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Gheist
West Fightyfirst Street
Postal Clerks Sentenced for Mail Stealing Schemes
Four post office clerks convicted in the United States Circuit Court for stealing letters and contents were sentenced by Judge Thomas. Arthur S. Hunkele and Robert J. Lusk received two years six months at Sing Sing, while Edmund J. Bell and John J. Prior drew the same term at Elmira Reformatory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Circuit Court
Thomas
Arthur S. Hunkele
Robert J. Lusk
Sing Sing
Edmund J. Bell
John J. Prior
Elmira Reformatory
Child Run Over by Ice Wagon in Street
Five year old John Schreiber of 353 East Fifty second Street was struck by an American Ice Company wagon driven by Samuel Pringle while playing outside his home. The child suffered a fractured skull and was taken to Flower Hospital. Pringle was arrested and placed in the East Fifty first Street Station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Schreiber
East Fifty-second Street
Samuel Pringle
American Ice Company
Flower Hospital
Pringle
East Fifty-first Street
Greenhaired Miss Verona sues druggist for $5000 damages
Miss Lillie Verona, once a stage soubrette, sues John Kiehl over dyed henna leaves that turned her hair green and caused fear for her career. The insurer Fidelity and Casualty covers defense up to $5,000, with rates scaled to shop size and staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kiehl
Third Avenue
Thirteenth Street
Lillie Verona
Kiehl
Miss Verona
Iarly
M. Strassman
Verona
Fidelity and Casualty Company
New York
Lee
Tammany Revolt Over a Job in 35th District
A revolt brews in the Tammany General Committee of the Thirty-fifth Assembly District led by Louis F. Haffen. The panel seeks a six year appointment as clerk in Justice Tierney’s court, with three candidates named Joseph Farley Charles Marrin and Michael Hecht. If Haffen does not choose one by Thursday the majority committee threatens to resign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tammany General Committee
Thirty-fifth Assembly
Louis F. Haffen
William R. Spear
Justice Tierney
One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Street
Third Avenue
Haffen
Thomas Maher
Crosstown
Joseph Farley
Jefferson Market Court
Charles Marrin
Michael Hecht
Woman Charged with Defacing Church Records
Miss Anna Fitch of Norfield Church Parish Weston is arrested on charges of defacing church records. allegations claim during a Bridgeport trial over pastor salary she altered the records and tore out three pages from the book before presenting them to the Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Norwalk
Conn
Anna Fitch
Norfield Church Parish
Weston
Bridgeport
C. M. Arthur
Jim
Erie Railroad Abolishes Train Boys West of Salamanca
Orders have been issued to abolish train boys on all Erie Railroad trains west of Salamanca New York after midnight December 31. The move affects crews on the lines west of Salamanca and is to take effect at the start of the new year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie Road
Cleveland
Ohio
Erie Railroad
Salamanca
N. Y
Fraud in the Philippines Tied to Late Spanish Mining Claims
An investigation led by General Otis exposes a scheme to register numerous mining claims in the Philippines during the final days of Spanish rule. Major Murray cites 1618 registrations versus 481 in prior centuries, implicating Spanish officials and Oscar F Williams, former Manila consul, amid ongoing inquiries at the War and State Departments. Williams denies official connection. War Dept weighs a review by the Philippine Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Chicago
Otis
Department of the Lakes
Philippines
Murray
Manila
Army
Pullman
Dewey
Manila Bay
Merritt
Major Murray
Oscar J. Williams
United States
Gen
Washington
State Department
Department
Oscar F. Williams
Burritt
Gen. MacArthur
Inspectorate of Mines
Consul Williams
War Department
Philippine Commission
Williams
Syracuse
N. Y
Ex-Consul Williams Denies Manila Plot Narrative
Williams disputes Burritt’s report to Gen. MacArthur claiming no Americans were in Manila before May 1 and denying a plan to embarrass the government. He says he remained with Admiral Dewey’s fleet after Manila Bay and did not go ashore for several days. He also says Spanish officials Burritt mentions are unknown to him and rejects the entire account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
Williams
Burritt
MacArthur
Manila
Spain
Admiral Dewey
Hongkong
Manila Bay
Newark reports three weeks of supplies after Guam disaster
Officers of the United States cruiser Newark say supplies would last three weeks after the Yosemite incident off Guam. They expect Cavite to supply thereafter while noting soil will yield rice and corn by April though current conditions appear forlorn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Newark
Yosemite
Guam
Cavite
Dynamite Driscoll Dies at City Hospital
John D. Driscoll known as Dynamite Driscoll died at Boston City Hospital after cancer of the tongue. He was seventy, born in the United States, and veteran of Civil War service in Company F, Massachusetts Volunteers. A friend of Irish patriots Mitchel O Donovan Rossa Parnell and Davitt, he held several minor city offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
John D. Driscoll
Massachusetts Volunteers
Berlin Bank Director Arrested in City
Berlin authorities seized Herr Warsinski, head of the Deutscher Grundschuld Bank and linked to troubled mortgage banks, who had been reported to have fled to Italy but was arrested in the city yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Scott and Bowne Cod Liver Oil Ad Sample
An advertisement states that Scott's emulsion of cod liver oil passes into the blood and nourishes flesh bone and nerve. It claims a small amount can revive a failing body and offers a sample from Scott and Bowne at 409 Pearl Street New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Scott & Bowne
Pearl Street
New York
Rare Dutch books to join Columbia University collection
The Holland Society of New York will deposit its Dutch language library at Columbia University. The nucleus is 258 volumes of Grotus works plus related titles given by Robert B. Roosevelt in 1890. The collection, including Elzeviers and rare seventeenth century typography, spans from the early 1600s to today and aids Columbia’s Germanic studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland Society of New York
Columbia University
Grotus
Robert B. Roosevelt
William Henry Carpenter
Columbia Germanic Department
America
Netherlands
Germanic Department
Columbia
Won't Forgive His Wife in West Side Court
Joseph Goodheart the expressman remained separated from his wife Gertrude after a second court hearing. Mrs Goodheart maintained she had taken the infant from an unknown woman then later claimed the child was returned by the child's mother. The court ordered Goodheart to provide $3 weekly for living expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Goodheart
Expressman
Gertrude
West Side Court
Mrs. Goodheart
Mayo
Eighth Avenue
Out Door
First Pacific Wheat Export By Tacoma Steamship
The British ship Glenlochy currently in Tacoma will load 221 160 bushels of Pacific Coast wheat in sacks and sail to Liverpool via the Suez Canal. It is expected to be the first steam vessel to transport wheat from Tacoma to Europe by that route. Despite Cape Horn distance, fuel costs in South America may favor the longer sea route. The Glenlochy will coal in Japan and Port Said, aiming for sixty five days or less to reach its destination.
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Tacoma
Washington
Glienlochy
Liverpool
Suez Canal
Europe
Cape Horn
South America
Glenlochy
Japan
Port Said
Nephite Ruins Found in South America by Mormon Party
Three months into a three year expedition, Mormon students explore South American ruins and report evidence supporting their tradition of Nephite survivors. Benjamin Gruff of Brigham Young Academy leads the project from Provo Utah, noting findings align with Book of Mormon narratives about Nephites and their destruction by the Lamanites around A D 385.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
Phoenix
Ariz
Benjamin Gruff
Brigham Young Academy
Provo
Utah
Nephi
Laman
Reorganization Planned for Pennsylvania Steel Company
Philadelphia December 24. Long-pending talks on reorganizing the Pennsylvania Steel Company have ended. A new company with 50 million dollars capital will take over the old property and operate as a modern iron and steel plant. Charter issued by New Jersey is liberal and allows broad business lines. Subscription opportunity for current Pennsylvania Steel shareholders on portions of the new stock. Much stock to remain in treasury and the stock will be fully paid and not assessable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Steel Company
New Jersey
Pennsylvania Steel
Hitch in Boston Ice Deal
Judge Morton in Boston granted an order of notice returnable next Friday in a case by Eugene J. Kauffman of Gloucester to restrain Frank W. Homans and Byron Eames from selling the stock of the Independent Ice Company to the American Ice Company. Kauffman says negotiations began Oct 24 1900 with a $170 000 sale price and seeks to halt any transfer of the stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Morton
Supreme Court
Eugene John Kauffman
Gloucester
Frank W. Homans
Byron Eames
Independent Ice Company
Maine
American Ice Company
Kauffman
Homans
Eames
Maryland Casualty seeks restraining order over Nebraska license move
Attorneys for the Maryland Casualty Company of Baltimore file in federal court to stop State Auditor Cornell from revoking its Nebraska license and from publishing a report. They challenge examiner fees of 70 and later 450 dollars as unreasonable and threaten action unless these claims are paid. A hearing is set for January 2, the day after the auditor retires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln, Neb
Maryland Casualty Company of
Baltimore
United States District Court
Cornell
Nebraska
Death by own action shocks Honolulu scout figure
In Honolulu on December 17, prominent American scout Frank P. Bennett shot himself, dying days after the morphine poisoning of Clara Schneider, a domestic in Paul Neumann's family. A post-mortem linked Schneider’s death to morphine. Bennett vanished for three days before his body was found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Frank P. Bennett
Clara Schneider
Bennett
Buffalo Bill
Earth
Schneider
Paul Neumann
Lyne Declines NSW Ministry Formation Request
Sir William Lyne premier of New South Wales has declined to form the First Federal Ministry after a request from Earl of Hopetoun the Governor General. He advised summoning Edmund Barton who led the Federal Convention sessions in Adelaide Sydney and Melbourne in 1897 and 1898.
Lifesaving crews rescue on Myrtle Beach shoal
Dispatch from Smith's Island Virginia reports Ocean King, Rondout and Astoria ashore on Myrtle Beach eight miles northeast of the station. Seventeen crewmen saved in lifeboat by Smith's Island and Cobb's Island saving crews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kimball
The
Life Saving Service
Hitchings
Smith's Island
Virginia
Ocean King
Rondout
Astoria
Myrtle Beach
Smith’s Island
Cobb's Island
Admiral Barker Entertained at Fort Schuyler Club
Rear Admiral Albert E. Barker Commandant at the Brooklyn Navy Yard visited Utica with his wife and daughter over Christmas. They were entertained at a brilliant pecanine gathering hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Proctor at the Fort Schuyler Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barker
Utica
Albert 8. Barker
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Thomas R. Proctor
Fort Schuyler
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Park Ave
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Dynamite” Driscoll
Wilson
HE Wilson Distilling CO
Baltimore, Md
Holland Society
University
Goodheart
Steamer
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E. J. Kauffman
Ladies’ Walthaw
Keene’s Watch Store
Fulton St
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Paris
H. B. Kirk & CO
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Garson
Body & CO Oe
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