Morse Tells How $200000 Loan Fueled Steamship Deal
Testimony before referee John Davenport details a Knickerbocker Trust loan of 200000 to Edward B. Wire and its investment in the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company. Morse claims the funds were used in a steamship deal with Barney and Curtis, with stock collateral of limited market value.
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John 5. Davenport
Supreme Court
Clark
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Miny
Trust Company
Edward B. Wire
National Bank of North America
Charles W. Morse
New York
New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company
Ernst Thalman
George L. Rives
Henry C. Ide
Morse
E. B
National Bank of North America, Co
W. Morse
Bank of North America
E. B. Wire
Wire
Consolidated Steamship Lines
Charles T. Barney
Alfred H. Curtis
Henry Lb. Scheuerman
Barney
Curtis
Steamship Company
New York and Cuba Mall
Upper classes superior say Harvard professor on privileges
Barrett Wendell, Harvard English professor, tells Chicago Twentieth Century Club that the privileged classes are now the despotic laboring class and that the upper classes are the cream of society. He argues those unworthy drift to the lower classes.
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Chicago
Barrett Wendell
Harvard University
Twentieth Century Club
Japan
Pacific
Cape Horn
Pennsylvania Railroad to Restore Pre Two-Cent Fare Schedule
The Pennsylvania Railroad and its branches will revert to the pre two-cent fare schedule on February 1 after the State Supreme Court ruled the two-cent fare law inapplicable to the company and its leased lines.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad Company Today
State Supreme Court
Wireless Report Sighting of Stranded Schooner in Atlantic
The steamship Apache reported a sighting of the dismantled schooner Sarah W. Lawrence at 3 PM as it headed from Providence to Newport News. The Lawrence requested a tug from New York, and the revenue cutter Onondaga was sent to assist after wireless contact from the Apache. The Apache also reported the barge I F Chapman anchored 28 miles east by northeast of Winter Quarter Lightship.
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Jacksonville
Fla
New York
Sarah W. Lawrence
Lawrence
Providence
R. I
Newport News
Winter Quarter
Rupprecht Wins Divorce From Brooklyn Wife in Supreme Court
Harold Rupprecht of Brooklyn was granted a divorce from Bessie Spencer Rupprecht in the Supreme Court. Papers show the couple lived in Pittsburg two years ago and that Bessie eloped with a man named Blues, taking her daughter.
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White Plains
Harold Rupprecht
Brooklyn
Bessie Spencer Rupprecht
Supreme Court Today
Rupprechts
Pittsburg
Rupprecht
District Attorney Calls Wasserman Mara Cases Shysters Trial
The district attorney denounces police trials as improper in the Wasserman and Mara cases. Mara faces perjury charges while Wasserman's absence and alleged illness are questioned as the trial unfolds at Police Headquarters.
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Mara
Wasserman
Smyth
Wahle
Essex Market Court
Charles S. Meyerson
Doctor Testifies About Thaw Like Rival Tempers
The witness compared the defendant to Thaw and recalled taking his temperature after fearing he might attack officials. He testified he called in another physician when the situation grew tense and adjournments were made after his remarks.
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Mr. Levy
Commission Sees Tunnel Progress Under East River
Public Service Commission members guided by Alfred Nobile toured sections of the new East River tunnels. They observed air pressure in use beneath the river and visited terminals on both shores. One tube is to be bored within a month and the other three within two months.
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Public Service Commissioners
Alfred Nobile
Eastern
Pennsylvania Railroad
East River
New Spring
Bloomingdales
New York
Mrs Storer to be Decorated by the Emperor of Japan
Mrs. Bellamy Storer was reported to be to be decorated by the Emperor of Japan for her work in Japanese bronze. A specimen was sent to the Mikado by a subject. She studied four years with a renowned Japanese bronze artist met while her husband served as ambassador to Spain. Her exact decoration and timing are not known. She is currently in Boston.
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New York Times
Cincinnati
Bellamy Storer
Storer
Spain
Washington
Boston
Concert feature eyed for Hoffmann House weekends
A new Hoffmann House cafe hosted a trial concert last night that may become a regular Saturday and Sunday night feature. Soprano Miss Whiteside, harpist Miss War ran, and tenor Mr. Logan performed, while listeners included Mme. Tetrazzini, David B. Hill, John B. McDonald, John Peirce, John Talcott, and Justices Woodward Carr and Millar.
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Hoffman House
Miss Whiteside
New Place for McIntyre Exempt Auditor Becomes Department Examiner
By order of the Board of Estimate and approval of the Mayor Robert B McIntyre auditor in the Finance Department was transferred yesterday to examiner of the department at a salary of 34000 a year He returns to the classified service at the same pay and has served seven years with multiple transfers as needed for expert work Controller Metz urged the new grade to keep his salary due to McIntyre’s skill and ability.
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Board of Estimate
Aldermen
Civil Service Commission
Robert B. McIntyre
Finance Department
McIntyre
Metz
Call for Chicago conference to form an industrial union
The Western Federation of Miners Executive Board issued a call for a conference in Chicago on April 6 to form an industrial union. It aims to unite various unions including John Mitchell’s Industrial Workers of the World factions and United Mine Workers. The manifesto attacks Civic Federation and political alignment, accusing labor leaders of being misleaders tied to capitalism.
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Western Federation of Miners
Chicago
Industrial Workers
Wort
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
United Brewery
National Union of Lithographers
Civic Federation
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Bingham
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John J. Mara
Abraham Levy
Police
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Levy
East 114Th Street
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C. W. Baker
Meyerson
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Manning
William C. Langdon
Meyer Ratow
Commission
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Tetrazzini
Clinton
West 125Th Street
Bet
7Th and 8Th Aves
Greenhut and
Greenhut & Co
Ission
18Th Street
Mission Furni
Ture
Morris
China
Sixth Avenue
Eighteenth
Nineteenth Street
B. Altman & Co
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Messaline
Striped Taffeta
59Th Street
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Bloomingdale
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69Th Street
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