Resignation of Fred. W. Ruckstuhl as Exposition Sculpture Chief
Frederick W. Ruckstuhl, former Chief of Sculpture for the St. Louis Exposition, explains his resignation after disputes with Director of Works Isaac S. Taylor. He recounts attempts to secure independence for his department, disagreements over sculpture limits, contracts, and commissions, and a 1902 letter demanding clearer authority plus an advisory committee report urging stability. He hopes a successor will enjoy freedom from Taylor’s influence for a successful fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick W. Ruckstuhl
St. Louis Exposition
St. Louis
Ab. R. Francis
Exposition Company
National Sculpture Society
Department of Sculpture
Buffalo
St. Lous Exposition
Isaac S. Taylor
Taylor
Augustus St. Gaudens
Daniel
New York
Louis
Exposition
Francis
Pittsburg
D._R. Francis
St. Louis Exposition Company
Department of
F .W. Ruckstuhl
F. W. Ruckstuhl
Ruckstuhl
Stuckstuhl
Wleventh
J. Q. A. Ward
Daniel C. French
Messrs
D. R. Francis
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company
Rucksthul
Ruckstahl
America
Capt
Mads
Grounds
Capt. Clark
Liberal Arts
Varied Industries
Elec
Beil
Chicago
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Mr. Ruckstuhl
Senate Finance Chairmanship Turmoil in Republican Party
The Republican State Committee meets at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to decide chairmanships including the Senate Finance Committee. Contenders are Senator George Malby and Senator Elon R. Brown with Malby favored by Platt men and Brown backed by Gov. Odell. A Brown win would signal stronger gubernatorial power than Senator Platt. Col. Dunn aims to finalize committee makeups this week, with other posts like Cities chair promised to Senator Horace White.
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Dunn
Republican State Committee
Fifth Avenue
Platt
Odell
Higgins
Nixon
Senate Committee On Finance
George Malby
Elon R. Brown
Senator Malby
Senator Brown
Malby
Gov
Finance Committee
Malloy
Brown
Elsberg
Committee On
Cities
Horace White
Syracuse
Col
Otto Kelsey
Livingston
Krum Corporation
Burglar Hid Pipe Aiming At $800 Theft From Mrs Kemp
Lester Williams, a burglar with prior prison time, was captured inside a factory where he had cut a lead pipe from walls. He planned to rob Mrs. Kemp of 26 West One Hundred Thirty-first Street, pled his luck, and said accomplice Henry Leary, 19, joined him. Both were held on $500 bail for examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Williams
Kemp
West One Hundred and Thirty-first Street
Williams
East One Hundred and Twenty-second Street
Zworz
East One Hundred and Fourth Street
East One Hundred and Eleventh Street
Second Avenue
Rogues
Harlem
Carter
Henry Leary
Leary
Zeller
City College Men Protest Ban on Mechanical Curriculum
The Senior Mechanical Society of City College held its second banquet at Terrace Garden. Felix Bein of Cornell Forestry presided. Speakers condemned plans to abandon the mechanical curriculum, with Markham of Cornell Forestry praising the course and Prof. Fox arguing the program equally benefits general culture and practical development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aea
City College
Terrace Garden
Felix Bein
Cornell School of Forestry
Markham
William Fox
Burlington Train Robbers Identified
Burlington police from Iowa and Omaha identified two of three suspects held on the Burlington train robbery charge last October. One man called Cramer was declared to be James Conroy, a former inmate of Anamoosa penitentiary for train robbery. The other suspect is John Lee, said to have served time in Nebraska and Sioux Falls penitentiaries.
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Burlington
Iowa
Omaha
Cramer
James Conroy
Anamoosa
John Lee
Nebraska Penitentiary
Sioux Falls
Governor Odell appoints Laimbeer as aide‑de‑camp
Deputy Fire Commissioner Richard H. Laimbeer Jr of Brooklyn is named a member of Governor Odell's military staff as aide-de-camp. He will hold the rank of Lieutenant Colonel starting January 1. Laimbeer served five years with the Seventh Regiment and was Quartermaster of the One Hundred Fourteenth Regiment, formed at the start of the Spanish War, and most recently was an aide-de-camp on General McLeer's staff of the Second Brigade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. Laimbeer, Jr
Richard H. Laimbeer, Jr
Brooklyn
Gov
Odell
Laimbeer
McLeer
Philippine roads opened by Bell plan wagon train traction
The New York Times reports Gen. J. Franklin Bell improving Batangas roads in Luzon, linking Calambas and Batangas with a 50 mile macadamized route. Wagons hauled by traction engines will run on schedule, charging nominal fares while government funds finance links and new wide tire carts to replace old narrow tires.
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New York Times
Washington
Batangas
Islaha
Luzon
J. Franklin Bell
Gen. Bell
Calambas
Laguna
Philippines
Manila
United States
Seventeen Caught in Fifth Avenue Saloon Raid
Detectives Kane Howard Cassidy and Carter, under Capt. Smith, raided Patrick ONeill’s rear summer garden saloon at Fifth Avenue and One Hundred and Sixth Street. They arrested ONeill for liquor without license, Frank L. Jones for maintaining a poolroom, and fifteen others for disorderly conduct. A telephone, racing charts, and a cashier in a concealed closet were seized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kane
Howard
Cassidy
Carter
Smith
One Hundred and Fourth Street
Patrick O'Neill
Fifth Avenue
One Hundred and Sixth Street
New Orleans
O'Neill
Frank L. Jones
Columbus Avenue
New York Girl Weds Yukon Postmaster In Alaska Romance
Miss Marguerite Ducksworth Livingstone from New York married Dr. Frederick Cane, Postmaster of White Horse Yukon Territory, in a ceremony at Skagway after their meeting in Seattle and White Horse where she served as Assistant Postmaster. The bride, trained as a nurse at Bellevue, graduated with high honors and later headed hospitals in Western cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Tacoma
Marguerite Ducksworth Livingstone
New York
Miss Livingstone
Frederick Cane
White Horse
Yukon Territory
Alaska
Cane
End of a Playhouse Amid Encore Lively Curtain
A crowded small theatre on Fifth Avenue ended its run with a gala finale to Fadt and Folly. The company dazzled a last night audience, encores extended the show, and Blanche Ring with Harry Connor addressed the crowd before a final curtain fall.
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Fifth Avenue
Blanche Ring
Herald Square
Miss Ring
Harry Conor
Mitchell resigns as stage manager at Weber & Fields
Julian Mitchell, four years stage manager at Weber and Fields Music Hall, quits after dispute over time commitment. He sought two weeks in Chicago to prepare The Wizard of Oz ahead of the New York opening at the Majestic Theatre January 15. The firm pays for exclusive time and will hire temporary managers for productions then oversee stage management themselves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julian Mitchell
Weber & Fields
Music Hall
Mitchell
Majestic Theatre
Chicago
New York
Weber
Fields
MEEE BATES WEDDING Brings Holmes Reception Honor of New Supreme Court Associate
Washington dispatch reports the marriage of Miss Henrietta Bates to McKee Dunn McKee at the Bates residence on N Street. Attended by relatives and a select guest list from New York Philadelphia Scranton and Chicago, the ceremony featured Marine Band music and a formal reception with poinsettias and holly. The couple plans a honeymoon at Virginia Hot Springs after a supper and informal dance. Justice Brown hosted a dinner for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr with guests including Gen and Mrs A W Greely and Mr and Mrs James Lowndes.
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New York Times
Washington
Henrietta Bates
McKee Dunn McKee
Bates
N Street
Marine Band
Eliza Morgan Bates
Samuel Thorn
E. L. Trudeau, Jr
Robert D. Wrenn
New York
S. Brinckerhoff Thorn
James B. Neal
Scranton
Penn
David R .McKee, Jr
James T. Terry
W. Redmond Cross
James A. Darrach
Frederick R. Swift
Allen M. Hervey
Alexander Brown
H. H. Henry
Philadelphia
Morrell Dunn
Chicago
AL. E. Olmsted
New York City
William M. Scudder
Story
Boston
Carolan
San Francisco
Henrietta Whitney
New Haven
Mildred Barnes
Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr
Yale University
Eliza Bates
Gen
Mrs. Hates
C. C. Richmond
William_ Bliss
Miss Barnes
Frank Cochran
Andrew Green
Clayton McMichael
Charles Henry
Bayard Henry
Woodward
Roe Douglass Wallach
Miss Claggett
Sanger
Sheridan
Elsie Cobb
Isabel Hagner
Horace Westcott
Mme
Henri de Sibour
Virginia Hot Springs
Baroness Moncheur
France
Mme. de Margerie
Mme. Vignal
Count Quadt
Reber
McKenna
Patten
Cameron
Louise Jones
Major MacVeagh
Robert Clark
Shaw
Justice Brown
Margery Colton
Lucien .B. Chase
Charters Granted in Delaware Seaport City
Wilmington Delaware December 27 These charters were secured at Dover today The American Public Utilities Company of Cincinnati Ohio to operate electric light and gas works capital two million dollars The Wayside Publishing Company of Detroit Michigan capital one hundred fifty thousand dollars
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New York Times
Wilmington
Del
Dover
American Public Utilities Company
Cincinnati
Ohio
Electric Light and Gas Works
The
Wayside Publishing Company
Detroit
Mich
New Pennsylvania Station Planned at Greenville Ocean Avenue
The Pennsylvania Railroad announces a new station and depot in Greenville near Ocean Avenue at the Waverly branch terminus. Immense piers rise on New York Bay, with principal freight yards on the bay shore. Passenger traffic likely to begin in the Spring, linking Greenville with Northern Bay, Bayonne, Newark, and other New Jersey stations.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Greenville
Ocean Avenue
Waverly
New York Bay
New York Bay Shore
Lehigh Valley
Northern Bay
Bayonne
Newark
New Jersey
Seaboard Rail Awards 1000 Freight Cars to South Baltimore Car Works
The Seaboard Air Line Railway awarded a contract to South Baltimore Car Works for 1000 freight cars of 60,000 pounds capacity each. Deliveries start in March and the entire order will be completed before summer at a cost of $700,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Seaboard Air Line Railway
South Baltimore Car Works
Brothers James and William Bachman Found Dead in Allentown Hotel
Two brothers aged 24 and 19, James and William Bachman, were found dead in a Gast House room in Allentown after asphyxiation by illuminating gas. They missed the last trolley to Macungie, their home, and apparently blew out the gas when they retired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allentown
Penn
James Bachman
William Bachman
Gast
Hotel proprietor wounded in hunting accident near Whitehouse
Charles E. Tomson Sr. owner of the Union Hotel was badly injured during a hunting outing with Jacob Melick and James N. Pitlock Jr. A rabbit sprang from brush and Melick fired. Part of the shot struck Tomson in the hand and side. The bullet was removed and he is improving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitehouse
N. J
Charles E. Tomson, Sr
Union Hotel
Jacob Melick
James N. Pitlock, Jr
Georgia Northern Railroad
Tomson
Melick
Big Dry Dock Sinks at Algiers Across the Mississippi
The Good Intent dry dock at Algiers opposite New Orleans sank during the night. Tugboats could not rescue it, and by daylight only chains ashore kept it from sinking completely. Built 35 years ago for 38 000 dollars, it has seen many improvements and is not expected to be floated again.
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Algiers
New Orleans
Good Intent
Held for Murder at His Request in Toledo
Guy Harris was bound over to the Common Pleas Grand Jury at his own request on a murder charge. Anna Snyder was found suffocated by pillows Tuesday night. Harris was seen leaving her body by a friend of the victim. He says a stranger committed the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Ohio
Guy Harris
Common Pleas Grand
Anna Snyder
Sigma Nus to Convene in Chicago
The biennial Sigma Nu College Fraternity convention will be in Indianapolis December 31 to January 2. More than 250 delegates and alumni from forty chapters will attend, with attendance of the fraternity founders noted as a feature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigma Nus
Chicago
Sigma Nu College
Indianapolis
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St. Louis Fair
Isaac S
Holland House
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Gov. Odell
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Union Square, West
L. Shaw
West 14Th Street
6Th Avenue
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Supreme Court
Justice Holmes
Nearseal Coats
Cubs
W. H. Hall
Sixth Ave
NEW Illustrated
Charters
Delaware
New Pennsylvania Station
Seaboard Air Line
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St. Andreasbergs
Express
Holden
P. Holden
Gth
Tokay
Angelica
Sauvierna
Norton's
Burgundy
Jersey City
H. T. DEWEY @ SONS CO
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I Shayne
West 41St St
West 42d St
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