Stewart and Gaffney confrontation marks graft inquiry
James C. Stewart, centerpiece in Whitman graft probe, failed to identify James E. Gaffney before a Grand Jury after hours of questioning. He testified he could not recall and cried as jurors pressed him on the hold up. Stewart had previously acknowledged Gaffney or Murphy’s man may have demanded 5 percent of contracts. Murphy reportedly told Stewart he would look into the matter, and Stewart later met Murphy at Tammany Hall. The session featured a staged confrontation with Gaffney arranged by DA Whitman to press for identifying the alleged bagman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James CC. Stewart
Whitman
Grand Jury
Criminal Court
Mr. Whitman
Stewart
Judges of
General Sessions
James S. Gaffney
Bagman
Tammany
Murphy
James E. Gaffney
Gaffney
Canal Board
Jim ’.Gaffney
Tammany Hall
Charles F. Murphy
Delmontco’s
Ing. Whitman
James A. Deering
J. C. Toole
Tie
Lloyd D. Willis
James C. Stewart
Alexander Stewart
Almuth C. Vandiver
O'Gorman, Battle & Vandiver
James
Tragic Automobile Shooting Near San Remo
Moritz Sigall a Leipzig businessman was shot dead during a motor trip from Mentone to San Remo. The car carried Mr and Mrs Longfield who were arrested after the driver Heard a scream. Police suspect Longfield a Santa Rosa thief and found an automatic pistol on him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marconi
New York Times
Paris
San Remo
Moritz Sigall
Leipsie
Sigall
Longfield
Mentone
Stuttgart
Bremner Worsens Then Rallies After Radium Therapy
Congressman Robert G. Bremner of New Jersey faced a serious sinking spell at Dr. Howard A. Kelly's sanitarium in Baltimore. His sister Rose Bremner was summoned, and later he rallied to rest comfortably with Dr. C F Burnham in charge. no radium was applied that day due to his weakened state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Baltimore
Robert G. Bremner
New Jersey
Howard A. Kelly
Rose Bremner
Washington
Wife Files Divorce Suit Against William K. E. Carter
Mrs. Lucille Polk Carter, renowned social figure in Philadelphia New York and Newport, filed for divorce from William KE. Carter. The couple and their two children survived the Titanic disaster aboard the Carpathia and later shared their experiences. They have homes in Bryn Mawr and Newport and belong to several clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Philadelphia
Penn
Lucille Polk Carter
New York
Newport
William KE. Carter
Carter
W. T. Carter
Walnut Street
St. Anthony
Sons of the Revolution
St. Anthony Club
W. Stewart Polk
Baltimore
President Polk
Robert Goelet
Philadeles
Bellevue-Stratford
Bowdoin Receives $500000 From Smith Will
Bowdoin College will receive $500000 from the residue of Edwin Bradbury Smith's estate, announced by Rev Dr William De Witt Hyde at the Bowdoin alumni dinner in New York. Smith, Bowdoin alumnus, died recently at age 89 in New York City after a Maine birth in Kennebunkport. He practiced law since 1859 and served as Assistant Attorney General from 1875 to 1881, later living at 353 West 57th Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William de Witt Hyde
Bowdoin College
Brunswick
Edwin Bradbury Smith
New York
New York Association
Bowdoin
Breslin
Smith
Maine College
Hyde
Mr. Smith
Kennebunkport
Oliver
Caroline Bradbury Smith
Siaves
Bar Association of New York
New York Law Society
New England Society of New York
Union League, Lawyers and University Clubs
West Fifty-seventh Street
Robert E. Peary
North Pole
Twenty Four General Arbitration Treaties to Be Ratified
Washington a Jan 30 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee informally agreed to renew twenty four general arbitration treaties with nations including Great Britain Japan Italy Spain Norway Sweden Switzerland and Portugal The move signals rapid ratification with eight treaties already lapsed by limitation and the Panama tolls issue seen as a key to broad approval Leaders expect swift action on the arbitration pact and a Colombia damages claim treaty to follow. The discussion noted opposition from Senator O Gorman and Senator Smith but anticipated no derailment, with further talks on Mexico Japan and Russia remaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Wilson
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Senate
France
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Italy
Spain
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland
Portugal
California
International Tribunal
State Department
Colombia
Panama
Mexico
Russia
Canal Zone
Canal
O'Gorman
New York
Smith
Michigan
Pacific Coast
Bryan
White House
China
Denmark
Netherlands
Peru
Salvador
Austria-Hungary
Costa Rica
Haiti
Paraguay
Argentine Republic
Bolivia
Ecuador
Uruguay
Chile
Brazil
Hague
Six Articles of Importance Highlighted
Sir Joshua Reynolds helped pirate old masters. Col George Harvey discusses diplomats of democracy. New York auto thefts total 1.5 million dollars annually. A former hobo outlines reforms for the city's needy. Meunier's masterpieces neglected by American crowds. Reaching celebrities at The Lambs club. Tomorrow's Sunday Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joshua Reynolds
Col
George Harvey
New York
Meunier
Gunmen Driven Out by Maay Crusade
Five men were arraigned in separate courts for Sullivan law violations as city police under Commissioner McKay and Mayor Mitchell push gun seizures. A sixth man was found with a loaded revolver, and police claim a sharp drop in Harlem’s Little Italy murders since the crackdown, with guns piling up at headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan
Mitchel
McKay
City Hall
Douglas S. McKay
Rhinelander Waldo
Waldo
Harlem
Little Italy
Ninetieth Street
120Th Street
Third Avenue
East River
East 104Th Street
Jones
Diamond Dick" Crossen
Arthur H. Woods
Bingham
Woods
West Farms Court
Michael Ferro
East 215Th Street
Carmine Avaro
van Nest Avenue
Joseph Costa
Bronx
Magistrate House
West Side
Deuel
John Ward
Ward
West 156Th Street
Clare Russell
Wilkins Avenue
Sergt
Quilty
Tremont Station
Russell
Southern Boulevard
180Th Street
Tony Imbranda
Mott Street
Carson
Fourth Avenue
Fourteenth Street
St. Mark's
Fire destroys Walters Piano Co factory at 226 East 63rd Street
A midnight blaze gutted the Walters Piano Company five story factory, sending crowds from Times Square to witness the flames. Firefighter injuries occurred as a wall collapsed during an explosion of varnish, but all firefighters were accounted for and no fatalities were reported. The blaze threatened nearby buildings including Public School 74 and Baron de Hirsch Home for Working Girls, with an estimated loss over $300,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walters Piano Company
East Sixtythird Street
Times Square
Lieut
Nelson
Dirge
Manhattan
Engine 39
Public School 74
Kenton
Kipling Credited With Influencing Toll Exemption Move
In Washington on January 30, Kipling is said to have indirectly spurred President Wilson toward repealing or delaying the Panama Canal toll exemption for American coastwise ships. The tale claims Walter H. Page, U S ambassador to London, was persuaded by Kipling that the provision violated the HayPauncefote treaty, but the report remains unconfirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Rudyard Kipling
Wilson
Kipling
Walter H. Page
London
Page
Mr. Whipling
Ships Held by Thick Fog Delay Harbor Traffic
Fog hung over the river front for hours delaying several vessels. The White Star liner Cedric waited at Liberty Island from 12:50 P M Thursday until 11:00 yesterday morning before Captain Carter could weigh anchor. Graf Waldersee Albingia Morro Castle City of Montgomery and several New England Steamship Co. steamers bound for New England points waited in the Sound as the fog lingered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Star
Cedric
Liverpool
Liberty Island
Capt. Carter
Graf Waldersee
Hamburg
Albingia
Haiti
Morro Castle
Havana
City of Montgomery
Savannah
New England Steamship Company
Long Island Sound
New England
Warrior in Great Peril off Colombia Coast
Winds and heavy seas drove Frederick W. Vanderbilt’s yacht Warrior onto a reef off the Colombia coast. Rescue ships Almirante and a Jamaica wrecking tug stood by but could not reach the crew of 48 as the vessel drifted farther ashore amid rising breakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Frederick W. Vanderbilt
Warrior
Colombia
Almirante
Jamaica
Miss Harriet Otis Cruft Estate Reveals Vast Property
Inventory of Miss Harriet Otis Cruft shows personal property at 654,900 dollars and real estate valued at 594,500 dollars, inherited from her father Edward Cruft merchant. Public bequests in her will total 325,000 dollars, marking one of Boston’s largest estates held by an unmarried woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Harriet Otis Cruft
Wireless hero Ferdinand Kuehn of the Monroe
Ferdinand Kuehn a Bronx native and chief wireless operator on the liner Monroe took off his life preserver to shield a woman as the wreck began. He was 20 or 21 and had joined the Marconi Company after making home wireless apparatus as a Bronx high school pupil. His family, including parents Abraham and Mrs. Kuehn and sister Victoria, live at 494 Jackson Avenue, while another story notes a Newark resident Mrs. Winifred Bolton among the lost. A separate Washington dispatch identifies Lieut Le Grand B Curtis of the U S Army aboard the Monroe en route to Fort Monroe for promotion exams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferdinand Kuehn
Monroe
Bronx
Abraham Kuehn
Victoria
Jackson Avenue
Ferdinand
Marconti Company
Boston
Jefferson
Old Dominion Line
Kuehn
Winifred L. Bolton
Broad and Oriental Streets
Newark
Norfolk
Smith B. Stanfield
Catherine Finnegan
Bolton
Watervliet Arsenal
Troy
N.Y
F E. H. Curtis
Marine Corps Headquarters
Atlantic
Nantucket
Hamilton
F. J. Kuehn
New York City
Oscar Perkins
Unclear Naval Records Mention Missing Marines
Search of naval records failed to confirm O Wagner or Earl Wagner as Marine Corps members. The Naval Bureau of Navigation shows no J Edwards listed, despite reports of an enlisted Navy man with that name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. Wagner
Earl Wagner
United States Marine Corps
Naval Bureau of Navigation
J. Edwards
Navy
List of Monroe liner loss cabin and crew passengers
Corrected roster shows many named cabin passengers stewards and crew of the Monroe. Notables include J. F. Ray of New York and Hilda Hillett of Macaria Theatrical Co. with numerous others from cities such as New York Newark Bridgeport and Norfolk among both passengers and crew. The list names military officials actors and maritime staff with roles from quartermaster to chief engineer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
McCombs
Miss Sally
Macaria Theatrical Company
McCoy
Ada
McNair
A. F
Buffalo
N. Y
Marlow
George M
Montgomery
J. M
Moore
Joseph
Poole
Gray
Mrs
C. W
Gray, Va
Newby
J. J
United States Navy
Nylan
O'Connell
James
Washington
D. C
Ray
Rollins
Charles
Lawrenceville
Rena. Scott
Louis E. Smith
Zach C. Snyder
C. T
Soule
Leona
Macaria Theatrical Co
Thackeray
Hilda Hillett
Alfred S
van Winkle
Nutley
N. J. Vernon
PB. B
Wiegand
Thomas
Williamson
George
Wilkinson
Howard
Norfolk
Woods
T. J
Stricken Ship Monroe Sinks After Collision in Dense Fog
In fog off Virginia Capes the steamship Monroe sinks in twelve minutes after a starboard amidships collision with Nantucket. Thirty-nine die. two survivors perish from exposure. Nantucket saves others, Kuehn sacrifices life aiding a woman. Rigorous inquiry set for Norfolk authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Norfolk, Va
Nantucket
Merchaunts and Miners
Virginia Capes
Munroe
Old Dominion
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gaffney Balks
Stewart and
Mr. Gaffney
Mr. Stewart
Bremner
Sues
W. E. Carter
Philadelphia Society
Edwin B. Smith
O’gorman
Sunday Times
Maay Crusade
Miss Cruft
Ferdinand J. Kuehn
The
Bolen
Gilbert
Roper
Wilson,l
Bradrolf
Joe
Johnson
Hersly
Gately
J. E
Perkins
John
der—Crew of
Capt. Johnson
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