Inaccurate Data Prompts Historic Debate At Convention
Educators convene at Columbia University as Harvard professors Hart Dewey and Lowell challenge reliability of historical and economic studies. Hart cites myths like Blue Laws while Dewey urges government-led data observation. Lowell laments terminology and public science reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Bushnell Hart
Harvard
Davis R. Dewey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lowell
Columbia University
University Hall
Earl Hall
City Club West Forty-fourth Street
American ‘Antiquarian Society of
Worcester i
Metropolitan Club
Ambassador Bryce
of. W. M. Sloane
Columbia
S. . Hittman
Hart
Americanistorical Association
Daily Press
Eee
Congress
Connecticut
Buell
Paul Jones
William Jones
Sucson
William Paul
John Paul
Jones
Illiam Jones
John Paul Jones
Will- Jones
Pels
Will- Paul
American Economic Association
Henry George
Esident
American Hucal Science Association
F. A. Walker
John Stuart Mill
Richard T. Ely
University of Wisconsin
Ahearn Aide Vacancy Keeps Aldermen in Deadlock
The Manhattan Aldermen failed to break a deadlock over filling the unexpired Borough President Ahearn term. One ballot listed McAneny for Republican support, Scannell and Goodwin as others, with Hagan on the Tammany ticket. They adjourned until today as Tammany plans likely to continue stalemate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
Ahearn
McAneny
Highways Scannell
Lewers Goodwin
James J. Hagan
Tammany
Alderman Dowling
Walsh
Alderman Browh
Dowling
Heirs Named for Estate of Adams Who Died Without Will
Surrogate orders letters of citation for George W. Adams who died by his own action on November 20 at 81 Second Avenue. He left over 80000 dollars. Addison Fuller Hathaway of East Norwalk Conn and aunt Phebe Powelson of Stamford seek letters of administration with Phebe and her son William H. W. Young of Richmond Hill L I applying as coadministrators while Hathaway notes Phebe’s age and alleged incompetence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
George W. Adams
Second Avenue
Addison Fuller Hathaway
East Norwalk
Conn
Phebe Powelson
Adams
Stamford
Hathaway
William H. W. Young
Richmond Hill, L. I
City mobilizes 9000 men to clear New York snow
Nine thousand workers swarm the Street Department offices and rush to clear snow from Manhattan and major cross streets. Men report to stable depots across the city to be assigned wagons, with bonuses offered to haul snow from the east and west sides as crews battle a ten inch snowfall.
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New York
McClellan
Edwards
Broadway
Columbus Circle
Street Department
Fifth Avenue
Manhattan
Bronx
Sullivan Street
Rivington Street
Seventeenth Street
Avenue A
Fifty-second Street
130Th Street
116Th Street
Fifteenth Street
Eightieth Street
Hamilton Street
L’ortyeighth
Seventy-seventh Street
Brooklyn
Fifty-eighth Street
Fortieth Street
Pawers and Rammers’ Union
Columbia
Oat
Suit on Wilmerding Estate Continues in Surrogate Court
Surrogate Thomas extends an order restraining Isabel Louise Wilmerding widow of Gustav Lurman Wilmerding from handling the estate while Charles H. Wilmerding of Flushing seeks to revoke her letters of administration. He alleges extravagance and improper use of assets. she claims reliance on relatives and that the estate is valued around ten thousand dollars with no waste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Isabel Louise Wilmerding
Gustav Lurman Wilmerding
Night and Day Bank
Charles H. Wilmerding
Flushing
Wilmerding
Baron von Schiller Fined in West Side Court
Baron John Joseph von Schiller, a noted soldier of fortune and great grandnephew of the German poet, was fined $10 by Magistrate Herrman in the West Side Court. The incident followed a disagreement with Cassino Micker, a hospital director, after a trunk move at the Alexander Hospital where Baron managed actress Mme Alexandra Viarda. He struck Wicker during the altercation, which involved a prior chance encounter after his January release from Governors Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Joseph von Schiller
West Side Court
Herrman
Cassino Micker
Mr. Wicker
Alexander Hospital
West Forty-ninth Street
Baron von Schiller
Mme
Alexandra Viarda
Wicker
Governors Island
Washington
Engineer Corps
United States Army
Mayor McClellan veto blocks $9 million outlay
The mayor vetoed over $9 million in Aldermen and Board of Estimate appropriations, citing the coming transfer of office and the need for incoming officials to decide. He struck items for water hydrants, charities hospitals, sewers, schools, Central Park work, ambulance garage, bridges, land for Brooklyn projects, and Bronx improvements. The Aldermen condemned the veto and rejected a roof repair funding for the Second Naval Battalion armory in Brooklyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClellan
Board of Estimate
Pate
Water Department
Department of Charities
Brooklyn
Central Park
Daeciae
Bronx
Department of Eppo
Ain Choneradice
Baa of Education
Second Naval Battalion
Colgan
Downing
Doull
Redmond
Judges to Dine Whitman at Hotel Astor
The Judges of General Sessions host an informal dinner tonight at the Hotel Astor for Charles W. Whitman. They will discuss the new calendar and the relations between the District Attorney’s office and the courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hotel Astor
Charles 5. Whitman
Catalog Prices for 19th Century Drawers and Garments
A list of garment price ranges from 19th century items including drawers from 19c to 36.74 dollars chemises from 49c to 26.89 dollars underskirts from 24c to 85.49 dollars and night gowns referenced in the sequence.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Economic and Historical Congress
Arthur T. Hadley
Yale
Bagehot
Walker
Hell
Havemeyer Hall
Political Science Association
Richard S. Childs
Arthur Crosby Luddington
Elliott H. Goodwin
National Civil Service Reform League
Historical Research Abroad
American Historical Association
New York Society
Central Park West
George W. Prothero
London
British Historical Society
Dr. Prothero
England
Bryce
Eduard Meyer
Berlin
Camille Enlart
Paris
Cullenbrander
Voorburg
Holland
R. Altamira
Oviedo
Spain
Sheomiagdale
Lexington
3D Ave
59Th
60Th St
Bloomingdales
American Cat Glass
Sd Ave
iBloomir
Bowery
Vaughan
Princeton
Public Service Commission
Twenty-eighth and
Twenty-ninth Street
Park Avenue
132D Street
Brinton Buckwalter
James Mulligan
126Th Street
Patrick Flanigan
211 East
122D Street
Harlem
Buckwalter
Mulligan
Flanigan
Agistrate Cornell
Wilmerding Estate
Mme. Viarda
Hudson
Ric Picauy
Sixth Ave
McGowan
Bond
Rf. Macy & Co
Macy
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