Fireing Destruction at Worth Street Dry Goods Building
A five story brick and iron structure at 43 45 Worth Street in Manhattan's wholesale dry goods district was nearly destroyed by fire from 4 PM to 10 PM. Firemen from Engine 4 and Truck 10 endured collapses and rescues as a heavy safe crashed through floors, injuring many and prompting multiple alarms. Two rescuers died. 14 firefighters were injured but many saved. The building housed Woodward Baldwin Co and several firms. total damage around 200000 with building value near 50000.
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Worth Street
Dry Goods
Engine Company 4
Truck 10
Hudson Street Hospital
McConnell
Jie
Maiden Lane
Doonan
East Forty-third Street
Clinton
Eighteenth Street
Brooklyn
Woodward, Baldwin & Co
Chaffee, Morehouse & Carmichel
Charles C. Copeland
Francis R. Masters
Hey
George ‘Brueckner
Leonard Street
Guerin
Froker
Caph Doonan
Sweet
George Saich
Chief Croker
Steel Workers Optimistic Over 1908 Profit Sharing Offer
United States Steel Corporation reports full subscription of 25 000 shares of preferred stock offered to employees under the profit sharing plan for this year. The shares cost 87.50 each, down from last year’s 102, with employees paying about 2 200 000 for the allotment. Meetings among steel and iron producers represented about 95 per cent of national output, with a pledge against price cutting to relieve stagnation, though no formal price agreement exists. Another meeting will be held this month to review trade conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
American torpedo flotilla sighted near Punta Arenas
The American torpedo boat flotilla, after departing Buenos Ayres Jan 30, was sighted off Punta Arenas at 1 30 pm. Rear Admiral Evans fleet plans informal calls at Valparaiso with twenty one gun salutes. A Chilean welcome is reported and a special commission leads greetings at Punta Arenas aboard the Chacabuco.
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Punta Arenas
Strait of Magellan
Buenos Ayres
Evans
Valparaiso
Towergate
Philadelphia
Washington
Navy Department
Simpson
Chacabuco
Coal Contractors Warned Over Dynamite In Coal
In Washington on February 4 letters warn coal operators contractors and others handling coal for battleships that finding dynamite or any explosive in coal will prompt an inquiry into canceling coal contracts. The action follows the discovery of a stick of dynamite in coal loaded for the battleship Ohio at Trinidad recently.
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New York Times
Ohio
Trinidad
Plans for New Submarine Torpedo Boat Revealed
Foreign Naval Attachés show interest in a Lake Torpedo Boat contract for a large fast submarine. It features a 3,000 mile range with a gasoline tank, six torpedo tubes, and a nose compartment enabling underwater egress and surface ascent. Delivery promised in 27 months, with builders aiming for 18. Construction at Bath Iron Works.
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New York
Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Metcalf
Lake Torpedo Boat Company
Nnne
Bath Iron Works
Lost Jewels From Broadway Dept Store Worth $1950
Mrs Edwin P Phillips of 215 West 104th Street reported to West Thirtieth Street Station that a chamois bag with jewelry valued at 1950 dollars was stolen from her handbag in a Broadway department store. She described a ring bracelet pearls diamonds turquois and tourmaline with details on the set and carat weights. Detectives were assigned and store detectives conducted an ineffective search.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin P. Phillips
West 104Th Street
Broadway
West Thirtieth Street
Thlips
Seaboard Florida Limited Rail Service Ad
Seaboard Florida Limited advertises a daily Pullman train to St Augustine Pinehurst Camden and Columbia with office at 1 183 Broadway. The note references the Seaboard Florida Limited service along the east coast route.
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Florida
West Coast
Seaboard Florida Limited
St. Augustine
Pinehurst
Camden
Columbia
Broadway
yAdve
Ice Trust Men Begin Jail Terms in Ohio
Roland Beard Compton Hyde and Joseph Miller of the Ice Trust start six months in the county jail after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled againstWorkhouse confinement. Judge Kinkade refused leniency noting no parole or pardon exists. The case stems from anti trust violations tied to the Hygeia Ice and Toledo Ice and Coal companies.
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New York Times
Toledo
Ohio
Roland Beard
Compton
Hygeia Ice Company
Joseph Miller
Toledo Ice and Coal Company
Kincade
Supreme Court
Common Pleas Court
Fee
Alexander Smith
George H. Beckwith
Frank H.geer
E. M. Beard
Smith
Beard
Toledo, Ice and Coal Company
Miller
Kinkade
Cc Ietink
Cc Ietink For Mercy. Judge. Kinkade
Ice Men
Hv Id
Wold
Babcock
Cleveland
Circuit Court
Trust
Tiff Circuit Court
Babco
Coal Miners Strike in Pittsburg District
Three thousand miners in ten Pittsburg Coal Company mines in the Youghiogheny Valley struck over a smokeless powder rule. They allege collusion between state inspectors and operators, while inspectors say the change prevents mine disasters which have claimed over 700 lives in two months.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Pittsburg Coal Company
Youghiogheny Valley
Oceanic and Statendam Reported by Wireless East of Nantucket
The SS Oceanic and SS Statendam were reported by Marconi wireless about 120 miles east of Nantucket South Shoals Lightship. Oceanic was due at her pier by 4 P M today and Statendam due at her pier by 6 A M tomorrow, with both vessels' arrivals updated from the same position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oceanic
Marconi Wireless
Nantucket South Shoals
Statendam
Uits
Florida Cuba South Train Service Ad Featured
Florida Information Bureau advertises unexcelled rail service via Penn and Atlantic Coast Line Railroads with schedules 9:25 P.M. and 2:10 P.M. city listings Broadway and 30th Street.
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Florida
Cuba
South
Penn
Atlantic Coast Line
R. R. Florida Information Bureau
B’way
Gov
30Th St
Ady
Bomb Blasts Bowery Lodging House Injuring Many
A bomb exploded at 11 pm near Labarba hotels on Elizabeth Street, rocking the Majestic Lodging House and Savoia Hotel area. The blast sent 1300 inmates fleeing in panic as walls collapsed and stairs were ripped out. Police questioned Labarba brothers. they denied Black Hand letters but hinted at potential demand for money. Investigators suspect a timed fuse to aid escapes.
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Raines’ Law
Antonio and
Pietro Labarba
Elizabeth Street
Bowery
Savoia Hotel
Labarba
Digilio
Petrosino
Labarba Brothers
Molley
Campbell Leaves State on Clyde Line Steamer
Arthur D. Campbell the indicted ex cashier of the Borough Bank of Brooklyn reportedly sailed yesterday afternoon for Jacksonville Florida aboard the Clyde Line steamship Comanche. Assistant District Attorney Robert H. Elder said he would investigate the rumor. A private detective agency head Jacob G Hamburger claimed to have seen Campbell on deck. At 410A Hancock Street neighbors offered conflicting replies about his location.
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Arthur D. Campbell
Borough Bank of Brooklyn
Jacksonville
Fla
Clyde Line
Comanche
Robert H. Elder
Elder
Jacob G. Hamburger
Campbell
Hancock Street
Inquirer
Remorse funds fraud case involving Harrison lender
Eight hundred ten dollars in hundred dollar bills and one ten dollar note arrived by mail to Thomas E. Gleeson at the People's Building and Loan Association of Harrison New Jersey. The money followed a November forgery fraud where a man claiming to be Thomas Anderson cashed a check for stock shares and then failed to produce his certificate, with later theft at Anderson's home.
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People's Building and Loan Association
Harrison
N. J
Thomas E. Gleeson
Newark
Anderson
Thomas Anderson
Essex’ County National Bank of
Gleeson
Mpeting
Gould Will Contested In New Rochelle
A legal challenge to the will of George Gould seeks to prove insanity and invalid signatures. His son George M Gould and daughter Katharine contest a $50,000 estate plan that leaves most property to Harriet and small sums to Isabella Jones Florence Rockefeller Katharine Gould and the widow Anna M Gould receives a third of real estate. The proceeding questions witnesses and execution of the document.
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New York Times
New Rochelle
George Gould
George M. Gould
Katharine
Isabella Jones
Florence Rockefeller
Katharine Gould
Anna M. Gould
Harriet
Jersey City coal dealer dies by hanging after wife rebuke
Hugh Cook a 47 year old retail coal dealer of 227 Olean Avenue Jersey City was found dead by hanging from his apartment transom bar. A customer Arthur Ricker found him. A note blamed his wife’s Christian Science beliefs and declared he died with nothing in his pocket.
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Hugh Cook
Olean Avenue
Jersey City
Arthur Ricker
Fifty Young Women Demand Arrest of Dressmaker
About fifty girls pressed Lieut. Kelleher at the Tenderloin station seeking arrest of a Fifth Avenue dressmaker they say owes them wages from seven to eleven dollars weekly. Catherine Gilhooley urged action. the dressmaker and lawyers did not appear and the lieutenant advised civil action.
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Lieut
Kelleher
Tenderloin
Fifth Avenue
Catherine Gilhooley
Ninh Avenue
Bryan voices crusade against predatory wealth
William Jennings Bryan endorses continuation of Roosevelt era crusade against predatory wealth. He argues a Democratic victory would restore confidence by separating honest business from dishonest practices and condemns the Republican Party for selling government. Bryan declines to discuss his own candidacy.
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William Jennings Bryan
Roosevelt
Ile
Hoffman House
Republican Party
Bryan
Congress
Mr. Bryan
National
Mack
Hearst
Mary Mills Patrick
Constantinople
Dr. Patrick
Brooklyn
Metz
Bird
Colér
Borough
Coler
Gov
Chanter
Young Men's Christian Association
Ninety-second Street
Lexington Avenue
Economic Club
Hotel Astor
New Jersey
Canada
Buffalo
Starving School Children Highlight Food Shortage at No 114
Principal Mrs C H Tower of School No 114 testified at the Woman's Health Protective Association that many pupils come to school unfed and faint from hunger. She buys milk to feed them, seeks charity, and suggests a school kitchen with soup under board permission. Salvation Army has offered help. Robert Hunter’s work is cited. Mrs Samuel Richards proposes aid. Mrs Troutman urges Executive Board review.
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Salvation Army
Board of Education
Robert Hunter
Samuel Richards
Weed
The
Health Protective Association
Troutman
Governor urges measures to curb speculation and outlaw saloons
Gov. Noel to day sent a message to both houses recommending laws to prohibit futures speculation and close bucket shops. He urges saloon prohibition at once and a constitutional prohibition amendment be submitted to the people.
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Jackson
Miss
Noel
French Captain Drowns After Fall From Ship in Harbor
Havre reports Capt Ver sonne of the French line steamship La Bretagne fell into the harbor while leaving his ship at the dock and drowned. His body was recovered the same day.
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Havre
Versonne
la Bretagne
St Cuthbert Disaster Details in London Papers
Special cable reports the steamship St Cuthbert catastrophe with London papers crediting the New York Times for the wireless dispatch. The St Cuthbert stowaways are linked to England's unemployed seeking a new life in Canada or the United States.
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New York Times
London
Ths
the Mail
the Standard
England
Canada
United States
Policeman Attacks King Alfonso in Seville Parade
King Alfonso was mistaken for a suspect when a Seville policeman tried to push back the crowd during a street procession. The governor intervened, spectators felled the officer, and Alfonso ordered the policeman's release, amused by the incident.
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Seville
Alfonso
Lisbon
Toscanini to Conduct New York Met Opera
Milan February 4 It is announced that Arturo Toscanini director of La Scala Milan will be conductor at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York It is rumored that either Tito Ricardi or the Duke Visconti Modrone will succeed Heinrich Cenried as director
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Milan
Arturo Toscanini
la Scala
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Tito Ricardi
Visconti-Modrone
Heinrich Cenried
Thaw family opens talks with Earl of Yarmouth over settlement
In Yarmouth and Pittsburg on February 4, the Thaw family signals readiness to settle with the Earl of Yarmouth if his demands are reasonable, as the Countess seeks a marriage annulment and Frank Semple, the family's financial agent, confirms the likelihood of a proposal.
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New York Times
Pietsburg
Thaw
Earl of
Yarmouth
Frank Semple
Roosevelt letter praises Ballard on saving the country
In Cleveland, Ohio, Thomas P. Ballard received a reply from President Roosevelt to his February 1 letter congratulating him on his congressional message. The President thanked Ballard, saying his words reflect the aim to save the country from both greed and graft as well as from want and hate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
Thomas P. Ballard
Roosevelt
Congress
Police Officer Replaced Over Snores At Hospital Ward
West 125th Street Station officer Terence Gallagher who tended prisoners at J Hood Wright Hospital was replaced after complaints about his loud snoring. He swapped rooms with colleague Michael Sheehan whose snoring is described as harmonious and quiet.
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Terence Gallagher
West 125Th Street
Terence
Michael Sheehan
Malice at the Phone Stirs Newark Business Inquiry
Newark fraud scare spreads as calls to customers and creditors accuse firms of insolvency. George W. Weidenmayer, president of Stephens & Condit Transportation, leads a city inquiry. Authorities suspect dismissed workers may collude in spreading false reports amid carrier industry slowdowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
George W. Weidenmayer
Stephens & Condit Transportation and Forwarding Company
Roosevelt Coach Crash Near Forty third Street
Roosevelt and his family escaped injury after their coach from Madison Avenue collided with a Sixth Avenue car near Forty third Street. The coach was damaged and a horse was seriously injured. patrolman halted the runaway horses. Driver Thomas Cavanaugh escaped serious harm and the Roosevelts continued to the Lyric Theatre on foot.
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John =. Roosevelt
Madison Avenue
Lyric Theatre
Sixth Avenue
Forty-third Street
Charles McDonald
East Fifty-first Street
Thomas Cavanaugh
West
Roosevelt
Senator Hansbrough Hospitalized for Ear Disease
Senator H C Hansbrough of North Dakota is at St Josephs Hospital in St Paul undergoing treatment for an ear disease. He arrived Sunday evening and will likely be confined for a few days.
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ST. Paul, Minn
H. C. Hansbrough
North Dakota
St. Joseph's Hospital
Explosion and Fire on Burning Ship Off Massachusetts
Survivors recount terror aboard the St Cuthbert as 39 rescued are aboard the Cymric near Wellfleet. Official list includes 14 missing and names listed of officers crew and stowaways. Cymric expected to dock in Boston tomorrow morning.
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South Wellfleet, Mass
St Cuthbert Fire Disaster Told From Wireless Dispatch
The Times reports the burning of the Phoenix Line steamship St Cuthbert two hundred miles off Cape Sable. A Marconi wireless from the White Star ship Cymric rescuing the captain and thirty eight crewmen is cited as the first land news. The Cymric and Cambrian stood by as a lifeboat was lowered under a gale and snow.
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Cape Sable
N. 5
Marconi
White Star
Yuirk
St. Cuthbert's
New York
St. Cuthbert
Tim Times
TIMES
Tus Times
Cymric
Antwerp
John Lewis
Queenstown
Boston
Cambrian
Stivey
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John J
Robinson
William
Tully
Dan
Hughes
Joseph J
Steel Workers
Wild
ICE Trust
State
Remorse
Gould
Suicide
Eddyie
Mississippi
Bretagne
Times Dispatch
St. Cuthbert Disaster
Toscanini
the Metropolitan
Policeman Gallagher
Senator Hansbrough
Iliin Hospital
the Times
Marcon
Lewis
John
Mastes
Tranmere
Hobbs
S. H
Woolton
Louhy
Edgehill
Patterson
G. M
Walter
James
Ghent
Bowman
S20
Ninth Avenue
Jakobsen
West Twenty-third Street
Long Island City
KING
Malden
Spalding
Gaysides
Providence
Roggermoser
Sred
Stmoick, A
Serus
A. _Lamot
Edward Gallagher
I de Clark
Joseph
Ryan
Patrick
Vieckhorst
Janson
Thomas
Kard 4Ney
Jose
Schweder
F. Schultz
Albert
Umberto
M. Jensen
August
Paulopson
J. Brogeart
F. Dosse
G._ Jackle
Josep Jobart
A. Brogeart
L. Jorger
J. Ripptnewitz
E. Missing
Scaeffery
Cymrie
Phoenix Line
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