Customs search in Shonts home reveals $1500 value subject to duty
Theodore P. Shonts of Interborough Metropolitan Company faced a customs probe after wife and daughters were found to have worn gowns bought in Paris. Inspectors valued the gowns at about $1,200 to $1,500 with duty potentially $400 or $500. Shonts offered payment and defended family purchases as overhauls and American-made goods. The case, now under review, will be sent to the Treasury Secretary for disposition.
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Theodore P. Shonts
Interborough Metropolitan Company
East Thirty-fifth Street
Shents
Johnson
America
Duke
Mr. Shonts
Fowler
Eaton
Treadwell
Brunges
Shonts
Secretary of the Treasury
Bingham seeks city plot for Harbor Squad station
Police Commissioner Bingham announced plans to apply to the Sinking Fund Commissioners to turn over a city plot between Ninetieth and Ninety first Streets and Avenue A and the East River for a new Harbor Squad station. He envisions a frame house with storage for fifteen launches, condemning seven rotten old hulls and purchasing two 41 foot gasoline launches at 6500 dollars each. The Harbor Squad has 35 men who currently sleep near the sewer mouth at 122 Street and East River, while the Pastime Athletic Club now occupies the land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bingham
Police Department
Ninetieth
Avenue A
East River
Tiarbor
122 Street
Pastime Athletic Club
Reading to Drop 41 Local Trains In Philadelphia
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad announces reductions in local service. Ninety trains will be withdrawn starting next Sunday night, including 19 on the Chestnut Hill Branch, 6 on the Norristown Division, 6 on the Frankfort Division, 7 on the Glenside Division, and 3 on the New York Division Fanon.
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Reading
Philadelphia
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company
Chestnut Hill
Norristown
Frankefort
Glenside
New York
Kelsey Pushes Insurance Law Revisions in New York
Albany report by Otto R. Kelsey urges amendments to the Armstrong laws, seeks a minimum contingency reserve and changes to security valuation. It compares 1904 and 1907 New York company business and notes tax and discrimination issues affecting domestic firms and new company formation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Albany
Armstrong Legislative Committee
Otto R. Kelsey
Armstrong
Kelsey
New York
New York Department
New York Life
Metropolitan Life
Equitable
Ees
Mutual Life
Germania
The
Home Life
Bills for Bank Reforms Urged by Williams in Albany
Albany Jan 21 Bank Superintendent Clark Williams urged reforms to curb savings bank style activity by state discount and trust banks. He told committees that many banks evade safeguards by handling savings business without proper rules. He proposed prohibiting interest on balances under 1000 in NYC and suggested lower minimum in second class cities. Senator Travis favored a 500 minimum for New York City. Williams warned that interest based finance endangers financial institutions.
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New York Times
Albany
Clark Williams
Williams
New York City
Travis
Brooklyn
Duty Only on Auto Repairs Defies Unit Valuation
The U S Supreme Court denied certiorari in J T B Hillhouse case for Mrs Collis P Huntington. It held that autos repaired abroad and imported back are appraised only for new parts, with a 45 percent duty. The ruling also reinforces that a year of use abroad need not be consecutive to qualify for free entry.
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J. T. B. Hillhouse
Collis P. Huntington
United States Supreme Court
New York Custom
William J. Webster
Supreme Court
New York Senator Proposes Tax Law Amendments
Senator Saxe of New York introduced bills to overhaul arrears tax collection with privileged liens for transfer tax notes and shift extensions from Aldermen to the Tax Department. The measures also seek to tax corporate stock at its actual value, including surplus after real estate deductions.
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New York Times
Albany
Saxe
New York
New York City
Board of Aldermen
Tax Department
Aldermen
New Trust Co Forming in Fourteenth Street District
A new trust company plans to form in the Fourteenth Street district with capital of 2.5 million dollars and a 1.1 million dollar surplus. Lawyer Charles J. Hardy chairs the organizers with J A Hiltons as attorney, and about 250000 dollars has already been subscribed. The venture targets business men rather than Wall Street figures, aiming to be a practical banking institution for the community. The proposed name Citizens' Trust was abandoned.
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Fourteenth Street
Charles J. Hardy
Broadway
J. A. Hiltons
Charles W. Beck
Horace J. Beemer
C. E. Braine
F. D. Boulanger
E. B. Brinker
H.,r. Campbell
W. A. Cherry
H. C. Copeland
Dr. A. H. Drucker
H. C.hayden
B. A. Hegeman
W. J. Hoggson
E. J. Pine
R. L. Rees
R. H. Smith
James A. Stevenson
T. J. Watson
Mr. Hilton
Wall Street
Trust Company
Citizens’ Trust Pbs
Széchényi case withdrawn as fiancé settles dispute
Edmund J. Reily withdraws the summons after a dispute involving Gladys Vanderbilt's fiancé and a photographer. Magistrate Finn notes the withdrawal and Count Széchényi's attorney shows satisfaction with the arrangement, wishing the couple a happy honeymoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vanderbilt House
Yorkville Court
Laszlo Széchényi
Finn
Frederick N. van Zandt
Edmund J. Reily
Gladys Vanderbilt
Kelly
Count Széchényi
Morris Cukor
van Zandt
Cukor
Plan a Union of Lawyers in New York County
Notices sent to 14000 attorneys aim to recruit 8000 into a new Lawyers Association of the County of New York. A 60 member provisional group met at the Knickerbocker Hotel, naming Dillon as chair and Parker, Daly, Strauss, Stellissy in key posts. The body seeks to unite the bar to aid justice, advance legal science, and uphold high professional standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawyers’ Association
New York
Bar Association
Knickerbocker Hotel
Times Square
John F. Dillon
Alton B. Parker
Joseph
Dr Dunlop In Wife's Care After Insanity Verdict
Eliza Dr Dunlop wife of Dr Clark W Dunlop of 112 West Eighty sixth Street was named committee to care for her husband by Supreme Court Justice Newburger. The jury found Dr Dunlop insane with an estate around 600000. Abraham Stern and Title Guarantee and Trust Company act as committee of his property. Mrs Dunlop ordered to deliver all books documents and papers related to the estate. He had disappeared months earlier and was later located living with his wife in the Matthew Hilgert Magic Boot Institution on West Twenty sixth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliza Dr. Dunlop
Clark W. Dunlop
West Eighty-sixth Street
Supreme Court
Newburger
Dr. Dunlop
Abraham Stern
Title Guarantee and Trust
Pope
Dunlop
Matthew Hilgert
Magic Boot
West Twenty-sixth Street
Fishermen rescued at sea by French liner La Bretagne
The La Bretagne brought aboard two Brooklyn fishermen Magnus Johnson and Charles Wendel after a dory voyage from Seabright turned stormy twenty miles off Sandy Hook. They were with the Lichen and their craft filled with water before rescue. Captain Verlynde notified families in Brooklyn and reported a stormy voyage with battened hatches. Passengers included Count de Moltke and several others.
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la Bretagne
Havre
Magnus Johnson
Charles Wendel
Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn
Sandy Hook
Verlynde
Count de Moltke
Denmark
Call to aid the poor in 1908 New York appeal
Cold hungry sick helplessness increases as thousands lose work through no fault of their own. The New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor urges immediate generosity with gifts to R. S. Minturn, treasurer, Room 210, No. 105 East 22d St. Funds will be accounted upon request. R Fulton Cutting, president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. S. Minturn
East 22d St
R. Fulton Cutting
Pres
Metz Holds Up Bill Of Utilities Board Costs
Public Service Commission and Controller Metz spar over a $1500 bill for outside lawyer Charles R. Hall who drafted the commission’s report. The article compares compensation of the new board with the old Rapid Transit Board, noting higher ongoing costs and shifts in duties after consolidation.
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Metz
Bill OF Utilities Board
Public Service Commission
Charles R. Hall
Broadway
Hall
Willcox
State Civil Service Commission
Rapid Transit ‘Board
Frankel Leaves to Join Sage Foundation Fund Work
Dr. Lee K. Frankel resigns after nine years as manager of United Hebrew Charities to join the Russell Sage Foundation as of May 1. The foundation, backed by a $10,000,000 gift from Mrs. Sage, aims to study and improve social conditions in the United States and has already deployed experts to investigate causes of poverty, ignorance and vice. Frankel will conduct the initial abroad study for several months.
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Lee K. Frankel
United Hebrew Charities
Russell Sage Foundation
Sage
Russell Sage Foundation Fund
Broad Street
United States
Jr. Frankel
Tragedy Follows Marriage as Clerk Shoots Self
N Elsworth Higby a 20 year old Hamburg American clerk shot himself in the basement vestibule of a boarding house after a quarrel over support. He had married May Calder seven weeks earlier and left two sealed letters to his wife. The body was sent to the morgue.
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N. Elsworth Higby
Higby
Newton Higby
Pina Bush
Orange County
N. Y
Sable boa lost on pier as Kronprinzess Cecilie sails
Mrs. August Zinsser of 302 West Ninety-third Street reported her sable boa valued at 300 dollars stolen while waiting on the North German Lloyd pier for the Kronprinzess Cecilie. The steamer's steerage was crowded with returning aliens and 165 passengers were left on the pier.
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Lidyd
Kronprinzessing
Cecilie
August Zinsser
West Ninety-third Street
Hoboker
Pennsylvania Special Train Described As Premier Route
The Pennsylvania Special runs from New York to Chicago via the four tracked Pennsylvania System, a premier world train noted for punctuality and speed. It offers hotel like comforts, and even emergency trains can adjust hours, arriving in Chicago before morning.
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Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Atlantic
Suns
New York
Burden caretaker shot in Long Island burglary
In Westbury on January 21, burglars raided the James A. Burden estate while caretakers Paul Waghgren and Silas Feller slept in the west wing. Waghgren was wounded in the shoulder by three gunshots as he confronted the intruders. Feller was also injured.
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Westbury
L. I
James A. Burden
Paul Waghgren
Nassau Hospital
Mineola
Burdens
Charles R. Howe
Long Island
Waghgren
Silas Feller
Feiler
Feller
Burglary Firefight Sent Burglar Run. Wounded Victim Sent to Hospital
Two robbers fled a house as Feller pursued to the door and fired but hit neither. He aided Waghgren who was in much pain and was taken to Nassau hospital. Sheriff Foster Under Sheriff Hultz and County Detective Seaman were alerted but found no trace of the burglars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feller
Waghgren
Nassau Hospital
Foster
Nassau County
William Hultz
Phineas. Seaman
Hunt Estate Delights with Oriental and European Sale
The sale of Mrs. A. G. Hunt of Washington offered 300 items including ceramics bronzes and enamels. Proceeds totaled 2349 with prices from 1 to 125 dollars led by a large triple gourd vase from the K Ang Hai period. Other buyers included A C Zabriskie W J Filbert Vernon C Brown and more as works of art and related pieces moved. A follow up sale of pictures engravings etchings drawings and water colors is planned for tonight and tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Hunt
Washington
A. C. Zabriskie
Empire Jardiniere
W. J. Filbert
Vernon C. Brown
Hunt
Edward Bilerstadt
Saul J Dickhetser Appointed Deputy Attorney General
Saul J Dickhetser a lawyer of 99 Nas sau Street was appointed yesterday to Attorney General Jackson as Deputy Attorney General to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Deputy Attorney General Charles Firestone. Dickhetser attended public schools and graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1898. He was admitted to the bar in 1901.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saul J. Dickhetser
Nassau Street
Jackson
Charles Firestone
Dickhetser
the College of the City of New York
George Junior Republic Seeks Urgent Funding Support
George Junior Republic in Freeville appeals for immediate financial aid to prevent the closure of several cottages and the displacement of many children. Treasurer A. G. Agnew of 22 William Street emphasizes the urgent need to raise funds to keep the facility operating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Junior Republic
George Junior Republic of
Freeville
A. G. Agnew
William Street
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Union OF Lawyers
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Public Services Commission
Gas Commission
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Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battie Creek
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