National Arts Club row over torn painting and apologies
The National Arts Club faces a dispute after artist Van D Perrine tore down his own work from the club’s exhibition and demanded an apology. Club chairman Frederic S Lamb condemns the act as theft and pledges to hang the damaged piece until Perrine issues a written apology. Mary Bacon Ford, connected to The New Gallery, clarifies Perrine’s dealings and defends the gallery’s actions.
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National Arts Club
van D. Perrine
Mary Bacon Ford
Mr. Perrine
New Gallery
Eugene Higgins
Jonas Lie
W. H. Stevens
West Thirtieth Street
Frederic S. Lamb
National Arts’Club
Gramercy Park
New York
Isue
Lamb
Perrine
Man Dies in Court as Juror Call Drops Silent
An elderly man sitting near Judge Crain’s desk collapsed and died after being called as a juror. Dr McGuire stated heart disease, worsened by jury duty, caused the fatal episode. Coroner allowed removal to 754 Westchester Avenue. Record for Sunday. School Attendance. Great Barrington reports Roy Sabin, 17, maintains 13 years of uninterrupted Sunday school attendance, a Massachusetts record.
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Cowing
Moses Olenick
Judge Crain
McGuire
Olenick
Harburger
Westchester Avenue
Great Barrington
Mass
Roy Sabin
Death by own action of former stock broker in subway tragedy
William Hourne Nevin, 47, ex Stock Exchange member and broker at William R. Houghtaling & Co, jumped before a Lenox Avenue local at Seventy-ninth Street Station yesterday morning. Ground to death beneath three cars and the forward truck. He had recently returned from Canada after failed ventures and suffered a nervous breakdown. His wife is Miss Georgiana Pratt of Montreal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Hourne Nevin
The
Stock Exchange
Seventy-ninth Street
Nevin
New York
Canadian Northwest
Lenox Avenue
Daniel Walsh
Fifth Avenue
Andrew Mulraney
West Street
Brooklyn
Mulraney
Rievela
Merritt
William R. Houghtaling
Ou Brokers
Nassau Street
Exchange
Calgary
Edmonton
B. C
Motreal
Alfred Johnson Nevin
England
Atkinson Nevin
Wfe
Georgiana Pratt
Montrea
Shipping lines cut steerage and cabin rates rivalry at sea
The International Mercantile Marine Company and Cunard Line cut steerage rates to British ports by 3.75 while the rival lines White Star and American also reduced second cabin fares by 7.50. The Lusitania and Mauretania changes trigger a pricing clash as Cunard mirrors cuts. critics claim unfairness and argue travelers pay for speed. The adjustments affect rates on multiple ships including Oceanic Adriatic Baltic and Celtic.
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Cunard
Lusitania
Mauretania
International Mercantile Marine Company
The
International
Cunard Line
Here
Great Britain
White Star
Wite Star Line
Oceanic
Adriatic
Baltic
Cedric
Celtic
Majestic
Teutonic
Atlantic
Gains by Legal Aid Society show rise in applicants
The Legal Aid Society reports 26 390 applicants last year up from 22 175 in 1906. Main office at Broadway and Park Place handled 8 804 cases. others at 1 Broadway 2 783. 654 Grand Street 4 193. 741 Tenth Avenue 3 001. Harlem Branch 4 846. Brooklyn office unspecified. Property recovered valued at 100 216. fees and commissions 6 628. training fee all cases ten cents. recovery fee ten percent of amounts over five dollars.
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Legal Aid Society
Merrill E. Gates, Jr
Broadway
Park Place
Grand Street
Tenth Avenue
John D. Rockefeller
Harlem
Brooklyn
Uaier
Ashokan Records Burn in Fire at Alexander Avenue Site
Capt Charles Baxter chief appraiser of the United States Award Company fled a two story frame building on Alexander Avenue and 142nd Street as flames gutted the structure. Nine months of records on Ashokan Dam costs and plans were destroyed. Baxter jumped from his window landing on a shed then to the street. Building loss is about 15000 with all tenants safe. Capt Sophie Rothbloom Lieut Mary Regan of Salvation Army Post No 11 were trapped but carried to safety by Phelan and firemen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Baxter
United States Award Company
Ashokan Dam
Alexander Avenue
142D Street
R. ‘Baxter
City Salaries Reported By New York Paymaster
City paid out 76.2 million dollars in salaries last year with 1.58 million transactions. John H. Timmerman reports costs of 83 thousand dollars to carry out payments, noting 712 thousand were by check and the rest in cash. He says all payments were free from loss or theft by any office employee for over thirty five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John H. Timmerman
Metz
Divorce Action Lifts Veil on Missing Papers
Walter W. Gibbs filed for an annulment of his nearly fifteen year marriage to Minnie T. Gibbs after she could not locate divorce papers from her first husband John H. Huffcutt. Huffcutt had remarried and had several children with his second wife, while Gibbs seeks alimony and legal costs as he pursues the case amid lost records and unsettled custody.
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Walter W. Gibbs
Fourth Avenue
Minnie T. Gibbs
John H. Huffcutt
Gibbs
Greenthal & Greenthal
Chambers Street
Tarbell
Binghamton
Huffcutt
Miner A. Strong
Warren
Conn
Walter W.gibbs
Church of the Reconciliation
Mitter
A. B. Camp
Aleferee
Arther Drewall
Elliot Danforth
Greenthal
Justice Newburger
30 Degree Mason Astray In Yonkers Wanderer
Patrolmen Linehan and Sullivan found Nicholas T. Morry a 62 year old Greek produce merchant from Oakland Cal wandering North Yonkers. He had 2000 dollars in drafts on the Mission Bank of San Francisco and a large wallet. he claimed to have started with 125 in gold and to be visiting a friend in New York City. He is in St Johns Hospital Yonkers awaiting contact with his friend.
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Linehan and Sullivan
Yonkers
North Yonkers
Nicholas T. Morry
Oakland
Cal
Mission Bank of
San Francisco
Morry
New York City
St. John’s Hospital
Keene Mother Finds Long-Lost Son in Yonkers
Mrs. George Ipson of Keene New Hampshire located her son after a mail search and letters to police nationwide. Albert B. Beckworth of 8 Morris Street Yonkers ran away from home about ten years ago when twenty.
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George Ipson
Keene, N. H
Yonkers
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W. B. Nevin
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N. T. Morry
Finde Son
Vogel Brothers
8Th Ave
Manhattan
Ely
Mie Ae
Aersee
Lee EI Sa
Shae Gay
Bodo
Lofser
Brealyn
Subway
Ince
Brooklyn Bridge
New Jersey
Bronx
McAdoo
Loeser
Flatbush Avenue
Duffield Street
Elm Place
Sey
Sulu Cote
Brussels
Axminsters
Wilton
Hackett, Carhart & G
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Canal St
Chambers St
Nineteenth Street
Nottingham
Royal Wilton
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