Cost of New Subways Spars With Transit Bill Clash
A Senate Cities hearing on the Elsberg rapid transit bill pits Hinrichs and supporters against ersham and Auerbach opposing the Interborough, with Ivins and Warner arguing against merger as Hearst looms as a possible mayoral candidate if the bill fails. Parsons and Warson defend the cost and feasibility of new subways, estimating about 85 million dollars per side, and warning that city financing would be insufficient to fund a municipal build.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Senate
Oisberg
Iam
M. Ivins
John Hn LeWitt Warner
Fred Harichs
George Ersham
Joseph S. Auerbach
Ing
Interborough Company
Iam Barclay Parsons
A. Bb
Rapid Tran
Eric W. Cate
W. Wie
Wi. Boardmission
Frederick W. Hinrichs
William RR. Hearst
John LD
Boardman
Rapid Transit Commisson
Ryan-Belmont
New York
Ivps
Elsberg
Witt Vearner
Meet
Aspendment
Ckersham
William Barclay Warsons
Subway
Iie
The
Battery
Bronx
Ford
Metz
Ivins
New York City
Auerbach
Seid Hymart
Secret session probes Kilburn graft allegations
Albany February session sees Senate Finance Committee adopt a resolution demanding information from Governor Higgins on alleged misconduct by Superintendent of Banks Kilburn. Senator Marks supports broad graft investigation tied to 126 administration of state departments. Assembly Judicial Committee declines to report a concurrent resolution for statewide election of insurance and banks superintendents and railroad commissioners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Senate Finance Committee
Coy. Higgins
Frederick TD. Kilburn
Marks
Ette
Assembly Judicials
Assemblyman Fompkins
New York
Index to Departments and Page References
Brief reader guide listing sections such as Amusements Arrivals of Out-of-Town Buyers Business Troubles Commercial World Court Calendars Marine Intelligence New Corporations Real Estate Society United Service Weather Report Yesterday's Fires and page numbers for each item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ewes
Marine Intelligence
Society
United Service
Weather Report
Seaboard Florida LT Quickest Train Route Mention
An ad notes Seaboard Florida Limited as the quickest train to Pinehurst Camden Tampa and Florida with a daily noon departure. Office address listed at 1,182 Broadway.
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Seaboard Florida
Florida
Jedrie
All
Pullmans
Los
New York
Pinehurst
Camden
Tampa
Broadway
Pure food laws protect purity of Burnett's Vanilla
A short note asserts that pure food laws are beneficial and that Burnett's Vanilla remains unquestioned in purity with no concerns raised about its quality or ingredients.
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Burnett
Relief funds and Jewish relief networks amid Russian unrest
Reports from St Petersburg on February 6 discuss police taking a large share of a relief fund for Russian uprising victims. A Moscow University official’s son is jailed for aiding starving workers. rumors claim Jewish university entrance restrictions may ease, while Moscow residence limits persist. Over 33 million was raised. the American relief effort, led by Jacob Schiff, surpassed 31.2 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar S. Straus
Europe
Lord Rothschild
Sir Symes Montagu
London
Baron Gunsburg
St Petersburg
Jesser Fund
Cyrus L. Sulzberger
American Fund For
Russia
Sulzberger
American National Relief’ Commission
Jacob H. Schiff
Pettus Returns to Senate After Fainting Spell
In Washington on February 6 Senator Pettus of Alabama fainted in the Democratic cloak room and later appeared in the chamber pale and trembling. He had fought to support two military bills urged by the Military Affairs Committee while Senator Hale opposed them and sought reconsideration. Pettus, 84, has battled illness but showed stubborn resolve to back the measures.
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New York Times
Washington
Hale
Army
Senator Pettus
Alabama
Allison
Pettus
Petius Addem
Maine
Senator Gallinger
Senate
Miners Depose Dolan in Pittsburgh Rift
The district convention ordered President Dolan and Vice President Bellingham to resign for their Indianapolis vote. They refused, triggering mobilization by John Mitchell and Thomas Jewis to lead the dispute. Dodds may quit as secretary treasurer. a call to Mitchell and Lewis to assume control was carried.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Patrick Polan
United Mine Workers
Uriah Bellingham
John Mitchell
Thomas Jewis
National Board of the
Indianapolis
Rity
Dolan
Mitchell
Bagges
Bellingham
Indianpolis
William Dodas
Allegheny County
Miners’ Union
Dodds
Lewis
W. E. Ryan
International Es Retary
Pyan
Chauffeur Chase Triggers Hotel Lincoln Scare In $50,000 Missing Stock
Denver mining magnate G. F. Goleman pursues missing wife Mabel Coleman and $54,000 in mining stock after a wild chase around Hotel Lincoln. Chauffeur Frank Stanley is jailed on grand larceny charges. Coleman plans legal action and vows to prosecute.
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Frank Stanley
Sixty-first Street
Lincoln
Broadway
Fifty-second Street
G. F. Goleman
Denver
Coleman
Breslin
Stanley
Eighth Avenue
Fifty-third Street
Hotel Lincoln
Ree
Finnegan
West Fortyseventh Street
West Forty-seventh Street
Cannon Ball Gala Mining Company
Goldfields
Nevada
Madelee Man
George Robinson
Nassau Street
West Side Court
Crane
God Tigida
Schwab Nfines
Great Jumbo
Colorado
Times
Mabel
Hades
New York
West
West Side
Southern's Palm Limited Advertisement
The notice describes a daily train service from New York at 12 55 P M except Sunday to St Augustine Aiken and Augusta with direct New York offices at 271 and 1185 Broadway.
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Southern
S Palm Limited
New York
St. Augustine
Aiken
Augusta
N. Y
Broadway
Court Building Sags From Subways Water and Piling
The Criminal Courts Building shows visible settling due to subway drainage. Superintendent William H. Walker says pumps drained water from piles, causing shrinkage and wall cracks. A $100,000 repair plan will shore up the structure and restore stability after subway work and current water return.
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Criminal Courts
Public Buildings
William H. Walker
Board of Estimate
Walker
Kaiser's Diplomacy Softens Morocco Reform Conference Tone
Paris dispatch reports a shift in German papers on the Moroccan Reforms Conference. Behind the scenes talks with Algeciras influence suggest demands are being dropped. The Kaiser aims to avoid a Franco German crisis and lets diplomacy run its course toward any possible agreement.
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Loxpon TimmEs
New York
Tmas
Paris
Algeciras
Prince Biilow
France and Germany clash over Morocco police control
At Algeciras on February 6 France demands limits on Moroccan police to prevent political control while Germany objects citing open door principles. The Moors draft a ten article plan to grant Sultan control, which Paris callspreposterous as it would invite anarchy and suspects German backing.
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Algeciras
France
Morocco
Germany
Woman in New York Apartment Scares Off Carpet Thief
Mrs. May Hamilton, in a top floor unit at 115 West 137th Street, confronted a man in a blue jumper alleging to be a carpet man. She threatened him with a revolver and he fled. An earlier sighting reported a similar stranger in Mrs. Williams’s nearby flat under the bed.
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May Hamilton
West 137Th Street
Billy
Mrs. Hamilton
Capt Waldo to Lead Tammany March at Osceola Club Ball
Rhinelander Waldo first deputy police commissioner will lead the grand march at the Osceola Club ball in the Twenty-ninth Assembly District. Notables James W Gerard Jr Harry Payne Whitney Francis Key Pendleton Cornelius Slidell Pinkney Isaac Bell Brennan Montgomery Hare will occupy boxes as club and committee members.
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Capt. Waldo
Tammany
Rhinelander Waldo
Gen. Bingham
Osceola Club
Thomas E. Rush
James W. Gerard, Jr
Harry Payne Whitney
Francis Key Pendleton
Cornelius Slidell Pinkney
Isaac Bell Brennan
Montgomery Hare
Club
Tammany General Committee
Floripa's Famous Trains Schedule Expresses Routs
The notice lists train services including WY. & Fila Special at 2 10 P M and Fla & West Indian Ltd at 9 25 A M via Penn and Atlantic Coast Line. It references 1 161 Broadway and Adv. as publisher details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floripa
Fila
Fla, & West Indian Ltd
Penn, & Atlantic Coast Line
Calder's letter poll shows Brooklyn voters largely back railroad rate
Representative Calder of Brooklyn mailed 40000 constituents asking for suggestions and received 1400 replies in eight days. Most urge support for the railroad rate bill with unanimity, while other topics like Philippine tariff and currency reform draw varied interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Calder
Penk
Brooklyn
Congress
Tramping to the Wedding In Custody in Cincinnati
A New Orleans woman identified as Lottie Strickland says she is traveling by hiding in trains to reach the Longworth Roosevelt wedding in Washington. She claims to have started with 10 cents, received help from passengers, and hopes to meet President Roosevelt to request admission. She says she worked in a major New Orleans dressmaking store and is alone in the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Cincinnati
Lington
Lottie Strickland
New Orleans
Roosevelt
Shanahan Anti-Merger Bill Held For Hearing In Albany
A preliminary Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing on the Shanahan Anti-Merger bill featured sponsor ex State Senator John Ford and E B Whitney of the Rapid Transit Reform Association arguing for the measure. Opponents including W P Rudd for New York Central and Porter Norton for Buffalo Street Railway warned it would block rail property acquisitions and hinder public service plans by the Vanderbilt Andrews syndicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Albany
Assembly Judiciary Committee
John Ford
E. B. Whitney
Rapid Transit Reform Association
W. P. Rudd
New York Central
Porter Norton
Buffalo Street Railway Company
Brooklyn Rapid Transit ‘Corporation
Whitney
Shanahan
Ryan-Belmont
Inverborough Metropolitan Corporation
Broadway
Rudd
West Shore
vanderbilt-Andrews Syndicate
McAdoo Resumes Law Practice at Broadway Office
Ex police commissioner McAdoo reopens his career in law announcing an office at 170 Broadway with the firm Battle and Marshall. The move marks his return to legal work after public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAdoo
Broadway
Battle & Marshall
Lake Shore Limited Schedule Details
The Lake Shore Limited runs between New York and Chicago by New York Central Lines. It leaves New York at 5 30 P M and arrives in Chicago the next afternoon at 4. From Chicago it departs 5 30 P M and reaches New York at 5 30 the next afternoon.
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Lake Shore Limited
New York
Chicago
New York Central Lines
Lawson Calls on Cummins to oversee reform proxy plan
Thomas W. Lawson of Boston asked Gov. Albert B. Cummins to join a reform committee with four other leaders to receive proxies for New York Life and Mutual Life. The group would seek control to elect honest, sound directors at upcoming annual meetings. Other proposed members include Gov. Johnson of Minnesota Senator La Follette of Wisconsin Gov. Broward of Florida and ex Attorney General Monnett of Ohio. Cummins would consider the plan after conferring with Gov. Johnson.
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Des Moines
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Albert B. Cummins
Lawson
New York
la Follette
Wisconsin
Gov. Broward
Florida
Monnett
Ohio
Two Boys Rescued From Ice at Coney Island Creek
Fifty children skated the ice after school when a crack opened. Gabriel Perry 16 Augustus Perry 12 and Albert By Bushmann Jr. fell in. Luke Boy fisherman and James Tustin rescued them. Augustus and Bushmann were unconscious but revived by Dr. Pierce and returned home.
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Coney Island Creek
Gabriel Perry
Augustus Perry
Albert By. Bushmann, Jr
Coney Island
Luke Boy
James Tustin
Bushmann
Boyle
Third Street
John W.pierce
Four Dead In Oregon Train Wreck Near Bridal Veil
Four persons were killed and ten injured in a collision between two passenger trains on the Oregon Railroad and Navigation line near Bridal Veil Oregon. Pacific Express from Chicago rear collided with Spokane Portland Special stalled on the main track. The rear Pullman car of the Spokane Portland Special was wrecked as the No 5 train attempted late arrival. Brakemen failed to halt the accelerating train in time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Oregon Railroad, and Navigation Company
Bridal Veil
Oregon
Pacific Express
Chicago
Belmont Injunction Over Steinway Tunnel Work
Belmont interests file injunction to stop the city from interfering with 24 500 workers on the Steinway tunnel under East Forty second Street and East River to Long Island City and to test the franchise validity granted by New York and Long Island City boards. The case names Corporation Counsel Delany and Interborough Rail Transit owners of the NY and LI Railroad.
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Belmont
East Forty-second Street
East River
Long Island City
Wree
Delany
DeLaney Nicoll
George W. Wickerstam
Interborough Rail Transit
Manhattan
Rock
City Club
McClellan
Ahearn
O’brien
Fire destroys Bethel AME Church in Jersey City
A prayer meeting at the Bethel African Methodist Church on Bergen and Virginia Avenues Jersey City was interrupted by a fire that started in a closet as Rev Isaac Horsey led the closing prayer. About seventy five people evacuated safely with the organ saved. damage around 1500 dollars.
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Bethel African Methodist Church
Bergen N
Virginia Avenues
Jersey City
Isaac Horsey
Fire Scare on Casino Stage Sparks Quick Drama Rescue
A small blaze on the Casino stage last night during The Earl and the Girl threatened the set. Stage manager and assistant doused the flames with a hose, keeping the fire from spreading as actors and ushers coordinated safety. Eddie Foy and Georgia Caine steadied the company while the one drop curtain limited damage. The show resumed after a brief 15 minute pause with the ballroom scene.
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Casino
Eddie Foy
Georgia Caine
William de Grass
William Armstrong
Chicago
Mr. Foy
Zelma ‘Ralston
Victor Morley
Wail
Convict Wins $25000 Prize For Naming Attendance
Nebraska convict Frank Campbell, inmate at the state penitentiary, is reported winner of the 25000 prize for naming the attendance at the St Louis Exposition. He faces about a year more in prison after embezzlement charges and will pay a lawyer half if he wins. In St Louis, publisher E G Lewis advertised 75000 in cash prizes for guessing Exposition admissions with a $25600 grand prize. Legal suits and an injunction delay payout while disputes are settled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln, Neb
Frank Campbell
Nebraska State Penitentiary
Campbell
ST. Louis
E.G. Lewis
Railroads Win Big Suit Over Lake Front Land
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals denies Cleveland’s suit to eject railroads from lake front land valued at 15 million dollars. Justice Lurton reads the opinion. The forty nine acres occupied by railroad terminals were largely reclaimed since 1849 when the city leased the lands to the railroads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Cleveland
United States Circuit
Court of Appeals
Lurton
California Train Fares Sale Notice
Lehigh Valley R R announces sale of tickets to California running daily from February 14 to April 6. Advertisement lists Broadway in New York and Fulton Street in Brooklyn offices and promotes Apianatic invisible bifocal glasses at Spencer's 12 Maiden Lane for near and distant vision.
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California
Lehigh Valley
R. R
Broadway
N. Y
Fulton St
Brooklyn
Spencer's
Maiden Lane
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New York Times Special Cable
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Moscow
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Miner
Kaiser
Woran
Ryan Belmont
Cummins
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