Loomis resigns after Munroe case shocks National City Bank
Archibald G Loomis Second Vice President of the National City Bank resigns amid disclosures that he personally sponsored loans to Munroe and Munroe tied to Montreal and Boston stock deals. Directors prepare to accept his resignation as investigations continue.
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Montreal
Boston
Munroe & Munroe
Archibald G. Loomis
National City Bank
James Stillman
Loomis
Munroe
George Munroe
Stillman
Whison
Munroes
City Bank
Frank Vanderlip
Washington
Beese
Samuel Untermyer
Untermyer
RRL
Bristow resigns as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow tendered his resignation after a dispute over the Postmaster General’s removal of 200 inspectors. He was named Special Commissioner to study Panama trade conditions and freight rates, with authority to visit Pacific ports, the Isthmus of Panama and other key locations. The order results in his departure Jan 20 and assigns Panama Canal Commission funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Post Office Department
Bristow
Taft
Senator Long
Kansas
Joseph L. Bristow
Pacific
Panama
New York
Atlantic
South America
United States
Europe
Panama Railroad Company
Secretary of War
Isthmian Canal Commission
Wynne
White House
Panama Canal
Pacific Mail Company
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
San Francisco
Colombia
Fatood
Canal Commission
Talbot Inquiry Dropped in Reading
The board of inquiry finds no current investigation into charges by Rev. Dr. Irvine against Bishop Ethelbert Talbot due to lack of canonical authority. The eleven members ruling addresses clerical deputy representation errors at the last General Convention and notes the full membership was sixteen.
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Reading. Penn
I. N W. Irvine
Ethelbert Talbot
Pennsylvanian
Protestant Episcopal Church
Board of Inquiry
Bodine
Stetson
New York
President seeks reduced canal board and more control
President Roosevelt asks Congress to reform the Panama Canal Commission by cutting the board to five or three members and allowing the President to appoint and assign duties and salaries. He appoin ts Mr Bristow as special commissioner to advance trans Panama commerce and to align Panama Railroad matters with U S policy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Panama Canal Commission
Taft
Panama
Board of Canal Commissioners
Isthmian Canal Commission
Secretary of War
Engineer Corps
Army
Navy
Canal Strip
Arrivals at Hotels and Out-of-Towners
A list of hotel arrivals and out-of-town visitors appears across the edition, detailing guests and notable names. The column tracks current movers and shakers lodging in local hostels and their origin cities.
United States Denounces Haitian Bond Fraud Sentence
American Minister Powell informs Haiti that the U S will not recognize a contumacious sentence of fifteen years hard labor for Jacier Huber, amid bond fraud charges tied to ex President Sam’s administration and Bank of Haiti. The U S demands annulment or face intervention. Dispatches recall 1902 bond frauds and 33 arrests in Nord era crackdown.
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Port-Au-Prince
Powell
Haiti
United States
Ier Huber
Sam
Bank of Haiti
Republic of
Nord
Fortnights in Florida Pennsylvania Railroad Tours
Railroad personally conducted tours offered in January 31 February 14 and 28 with a round trip rate of 50 dollars from New York. Details available from ticket agents or C Studds E P Fifth Avenue New York City. Also an advertisement for Piso's remedy for children's cold symptoms.
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Florida
Pennsylvania
New York
C. Studds
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Seaboard Florida Limited Train Service Ad
The Seaboard Florida Limited is described as the handsomest and quickest Florida train. It departs New York daily at 12:25 noon. Two other high class trains serve Pinehurst Camden and Florida resorts. Office 1.183 By wav Adv.
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Seaboard Florida Limited
Florida
New York
Pinehurst
Camden
Florida Resorts
Wav
Adv
Phipps Gives Mallion for Model Tenements
Local plan details show Phipps allocating Mallion for model tenement projects likely to be built on the Upper East. Officials describe the initiative as a step toward affordable housing and urban renewal.
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Phipps
Astor plans to finish Knickerbocker hotel site revival
Col John Jacob Astor, owner of the Knickerbocker site, prepares to assume control after the International Realty and Construction Company defaults on Feb 1. The hotel stands unfinished with no tenant. new interior plans and management shakeups are anticipated. Henry Phipps launches a $1,000,000 tenement program, The Phipps Houses, to build sanitary, fireproof apartments with playgrounds, likely in upper Manhattan.
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Knickerbocker
Forty-second Street
Broadway
Col
John Jacob Astor
International Realty and Construction Company
Astor Estates
Col. Astor
Philadelphia
St. Cloud Hotel
Realty Company
International Realty
J. E. & A. L. Pennock
James B. Regan
Pabst
Woodmanston Inn
Westchester
Knickerbocker Hotel Company
Regan
Jesse Lewisohn
Godfrey S. Hirms
Knckerbocker Hotel Company
The
International
Astor
International Company
Isnessess
Astor Estate
Wall Street
J. E. Pennock
James Building
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Knickerbocker Hotel
Messrs. Lewisohn and Hyams
E Hotel
Henry Phipps
Andrew Carnegie
New York
Robert W. de Forest
Mr. Phipps
Mayor McClellan
Isidor Straus
John W. Arbuckle
Alfred T. White
Myles Tierney
Charles S. Brown
Dr. E. R. L. Gould
W. S. Hawk
Charles A. Moore
George E. Gordon
John S. Phipps
Charles Stewart Smith
Phipps Houses
Phipps
Charles I. Brown
New York State
Mr. de Forest
Low
E. R. L. Gould
City and Suburban Homes Company
de Forest
New York City
Pennsylvania
Allegheny City
Upper Manhattan
Harlem River
Dead-Lock in Delaware House Broken
W R Denny of the Union Republican was elected Speaker of the Delaware House late today. The vote ends the deadlock in the lower chamber following today’s conference.
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Delaware House
Dover
Del
W. R Denny
Adequate Passenger Service In Early Rail Listings
The notice lists train routes with destinations Buffalo Niagara Falls Cleveland Cincinnati St Louis Detroit and Chicago for New York Central and West Shore Railroads indicating a broad schedule. The figures show 18 trains to Buffalo 14 to Niagara Falls 11 to Cleveland 5 to Cincinnati 6 to St Louis 13 to Detroit and 85 to Chiia.
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Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Cleveland
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Detroit
Chiia New York Central
West Shore
Aae
Fireworks Prohibition Proposal From Fire Chief
Chief Edward F Croker urges immediate steps to ban all fireworks except fire crackers around July 4 citing stock and imports as hardship Others involved include Fire Commissioner Nicholas J Hayes and the Municipal Explosives Commission with support from the Board of Underwriters who back the plan
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Nicholas J. Hayes
Edward F. Croker
Hayes
Municipal Explosives Commission
Board of Underriters
Croker
Famous trains schedule notes unusual abbreviations
Train times listed include 2 10 P M and 9 25 A M with references to Florida and Western routes. Mentions Penn Atlantic capacity Tina 11381 and RB wav. Provides fragmented timetable cues for rail service.
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N. & Fla
Fla
West Tadtan Lad
Penn
Atlantic
Vanderbilts in Fire Scare Near Tenth Avenue Stores
Four alarms rang for a blaze that began behind a tea store at 796 Tenth Avenue and spread to a liquor dealer, a hardware shop, and the Nicholas Gas Tubing Co. plant. Alfred G. Vanderbilt arrived with friends as firefighters evacuated fifteen to eighteen families from nearby tenements. The fire, under control around 12:55 a.m., caused about $75,000 in damage.
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Tenth Avenue
A. J. Short
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Nicholas Gas Tubing Company
Croker
New Pension Commissioner Named by President
The President appointed Vespasian Warner as Commissioner of Pensions. Warner is a congressman from Illinois nineteenth district and was reelected for a fifth term. He received strong backing from the Illinois delegation and Grand Army of the Republic leaders. the appointment goes to the Senate tomorrow.
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Washington
Vespasian Warner
Warner
Illinois
Pensions Bureau
Grand Army of the Republic
Senate
Raid on the Cairo concert hall arrests women
Inspector McLaughlin and six detectives with Capt. Cottrell raided the Cairo on West Twenty-ninth Street near Broadway shortly before midnight. Thirty six women and about forty men were present. the men were freed while the women and Jacob Schmidt the alleged proprietor were arrested and taken to the Tenderloin Station amid crowd jeers.
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Ommen
Jefferson Market Court
McLaughlin
Cottrell
Cairo
West Twenty-ninth Street
Broadway
Tenderloin
Jacob Schmidt
Belated Wedding Note for Dearing and Barker Couple
Charles A. Dearing son of Mr and Mrs Benjamin Dearing of Wyoming New Jersey and Miss Clara Sterling Barker daughter of Abram Barker connected with the Metropolitan Street Railway of New York were married in Jersey City Presbyterian Church on November 14. The couple planned to announce in June but news leaked. Dearing belongs to the Maplewood Field Club and the Wyoming Lawn Tennis Club.
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New York Times
Orange
N. J
Charles A. Dearing
Benjamin Dearing
Wyoming
Clara Sterling Barker
Abram Barker
Metropolitan Street Railway of
New York
Presbyterian Church
Jersey City
Dearing
Maplewood Field Club
Wyoming Lawn Tennis Club
Rink Race Ends In Severe Injury At Brooklyn Meet
Harold See suffered serious injuries after a hard fall in the Class A one mile handicap at the Clermont Avenue Rink in Brooklyn. He landed against a wooden partition and was unconscious before being taken home by his father Samuel Lee. Fellow skaters E B Underhill Mortimer Loews and Herbert Earl also sustained minor injuries when slips and contact occurred near the finish.
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Brooklyn Skating Club
Clermont Avenue
Brooklyn
Harold See
Lee
See
Samuel Lee
E. B. Underhill
Winthrop Athletic Club
Mortimer Loews
Herbert Earl
Hetty Green Settles Suit for 75000 Dollars in Boston
Hetty Green and trustees of her father’s estate settled in Boston after years of mismanagement claims. By agreement all parties signed the settlement awarding Green 75000 dollars. Mrs Green remains involved in the estate to some extent awaiting further action.
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Hetty Green
Boston
New York
States Circuit Court
Mrs. Green
Sleeper to Cleveland via Pennsylvania Railroad
Daily express from West 23rd Street Station departs at 4 55 P M and reaches Cleveland at 7 15 A M This limited train carries no extra fare to Cleveland and operates under Pennsylvania Railroad service.
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Sleeper Town Land
CLEVE
Pennsylvania Railroad
West 23Rd Street
Cleveland
Quickest Lime to Cleveland on New York Central
Train schedule notes a New York Central service leaving New York at 5:32 P M and arriving in Cleveland at 7:15 A M the next day with calls at Cincinnati Indianopolis and St Louis, highlighting rapid overnight travel and convenient connections.
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Cleveland
New York
Cincinnati
Prisoner from Chicago faces Umbria plot link in Philadelphia
Gessler Rosseau, 40, arrested in Philadelphia on suspicion linked to the Umbria dynamite plot and an alleged plan to blow up English ships. Detectives found a loaded timing device in a telescope, with wires and a dry cell battery, and Rosseau admitted ties to an Irish society. He was held without bail pending further hearings.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Gessler Rosseau
Cunard Line
New York
Umbria
Frederick the Great
Washington
City Hall
Joseph Miller
Tall
Patrick Kelly
North Second Street
Owen Kelly
Miller
Rosseau
New York City
Thel
Donaghy
Chicago
Denver
Col
Kochersperger
Order of Hibernians
Kelly
Michael Ryan
A. S. I. Shields
J. Washington Logue
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Dent
Talbot
Board
Continental Railroads
Canal Zone
Canal
Culebra
Davis
Isthmus
Colon
Own Bay
Marine
United Service
Weather Report
Earl of
Beaconsfield
Saturday Review of Books
Times
Carnegie
Upper East
Astors
Hotel Knickerbocker
A. G. Vanderbilt
Coon
Rozier Meigs
St. Louis Humane Society
Mary Waldo Calkins
Tenderloin Resort
Jersey
G. Rosseau
Cunard
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