State Prison Plans Protested Over Beardsley Designs
State Architect Ware and Samuel Barrows protest the Board of Award choice of Beardsley designs for the new 2 million dollar state prison. They allege violations of fixed conditions, insufficient sunlight for shops, higher costs, and design flaws. Legal action and potential suits loom as Westinghouse Kerr & Co and Benjamin W. Morris weigh in on the dispute.
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Franklin B. Ware
Board of Award
W. J. Beardsley
Poughkeepsie
Samuel J. Barrows
Ware
State Board of Award
Glynn
Barrow
Beardsley
Barrows
Commission On New Prisons
Albany
Commission
Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co
Charles F. Howard
Buffalo
Thomas W. Hynes
Brooklyn
State Commission of Prisons
Cornelius V. Collins
J. B. Ransom
Elisha M. Johnson
Olean
Thomas
Westinghouse, Kerr & Co
William A. Payne
Benjamin W. Morris
K M. Murchison
W City
Riker’s Island
McClellan
Hunt and Aiken
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Buffalo Architect Blames New York Chapter Over Beardsley Award
President Cary of the Buffalo Chapter of the Institute of Architects accuses the New York Chapter of violating an agreement by offering plans for the Beardsley award in the $2,000,000 prison plan competition. He notes no Buffalo architect submitted plans. The local chapter backs New York to seek legislative relief amid the dispute. Beardsley, known locally, previously oversaw the Chautauqua Court House project.
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New York Times
Buffalo
Cary
The
Institute of Architects
New York
Beardsley
Hae
Chautauqua Court House
Howard Denies Critics On Prison Designs
Dr Charles F Howard of Buffalo President of the Commission on New Prisons rejects a New York press critique saying designs would be judged by a mix of professionals and officials and disputing rumors of political manipulation. He accuses the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects of attempts to govern state work.
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Poughkeepsie
Charles F. Howard
Buffalo
Commission On New Prisons
Prison Commission
Arnold W. Brunner
Dr. Howard
Dr. Howard: ‘‘ the Politicians Mr. Brunner
Farman to Fly Here for Brighton Beach Exhibitions
French aviator Henry Farman will arrive about July 23 and stage three sessions at Brighton Beach track starting July 29. He brings two machines including the Ghent record aeroplane, with flights July 20, 30, and Aug 1, then Aug 10 to 14. Contract talks place Farman under a ninety day American engagement with possible further flights in Philadelphia Boston Montreal and St Louis. Farman may challenge for the Scientific American Cup and is to earn about 24000 dollars.
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Henry Farman
Brighton Beach
Ghent
T. R. MacMechen
Samuel Bowman
St. Louis
Farman
New York
America
MacMechen
Hotel Astor
Philadelphia
Boston
Montreal
Glenn H. Curtiss
Zeppelin to Make 24 Hour Airship Flight July 14
Berlin July 10 Count Zeppelin prepares for a twenty two car escort along the route from Friedrichshafen to Mainz for his giant airship completing a 24 hour flight. Automobiles carry officers and relay incidents by telegraph to headquarters on Lake Constance. White flags will mark day time presence while red flags or lights signal help at night. Police and river authorities along the Rhine are ordered to standby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Count Zeppelin
Friedrichshafen
Mayence
Lake of Constance
Rhine River
Complaints Over Brighton Beach Line Service Raised
Commissioner McCarroll heard complaints on local traffic impact of Brighton Beach Line expresses. Figures show long gaps between locals with few stops, and residents say four track work worsened local service and harmed station easements. The shuttle train between Prospect Park and Brighton Beach was objected to.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCarroll
Public Service Commission
Brighton Beach
George W. Brush
Brooklyn League
Prospect Park
Sheepshead Bay
Church
Newkirk Avenues
Philip S. Tilden
Flatbush Taxpayers’ Association
Church Avenue
John Bee
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Life Terms Handed to Quadruple Burglary Suspects in Queens
Judge Burt J. Humphrey sentenced Robert Winfield to life in Sing Sing under the Habitual Criminal act after a guilty plea to stealing a gold watch and clothes from John Pappe in Flushing. Stephen Ingalls drew thirty years for arson related crimes including Bayside terror and a yacht club house fire causing 20000 dollars in damage. Others received penalties: Isaac J. Sherratt one year in Queens County Jail. Robert Mordaunt Nager Bowen four years six months in Sing Sing for robbing St Bridget's Church poor box of 131 dollars.
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Queens County
Burt J. Humphrey
Robert Winfield
Sing Sing
Stephen J. Ingalls
Winfield
John Pappe
Flushing
John Butler
Ingalls
Bayside
Bayside Yacht Club
Isaac J. Sherratt
Ferris Street
Brooklyn Manor
L. I
Episcopal Church
Martha Goldsmith
Robert Mordaunt Nager Bowen
Australia
St. Bridget’s Church
Queens
Minority seeks co receiver in Box Board case
O C Barber’s minority will seek a coreceiver in the United Box Board and Paper Company affairs. Attorney John Barton Payne filed with Judge Grosscup a petition naming 8 S B Fleming as coreceiver for the minority, a proposal met with major faction criticism. Payne said Fleming was among several names considered, while criticizing President Sidney Mitchell’s knowledge of boxboard business.
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New York Times
Chicago
O. C. Barber
United Box Board and Paper Company
John Barton Payne
Barber
Grosscup
B. Fleming
Fleming
Box Board
American Strawboard
Petoskey Fibre Paper Company Pleads Guilty in Anti Trust Case
The Petoskey Fibre Paper Company of Petoskey Michigan and twenty three other wrapping paper firms faced the Federal Grand Jury for Sherman Act poolings. Judge Hough in the Criminal Branch of the United States Circuit Court imposed a $2000 fine. Mr Stroock paid the amount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petoskey Fibre Paper Company
Petoskey, Mich
Gra
Stroock
Hough
Criminal
United States Circuit Court
Mexican Navy Officers Arrive En Route to Britain
One hundred officers and men of the Mexican Navy under Capt. Raffael Hoyo arrived on the Ward liner Merida from Mexico and head to England to fetch the new Mexican gunboat Vincente Guerrero built at Barrow-in-Furness. The Long Island Railroad carried 45,454 passengers July 3 to 5 with no accidents, up 37,576 from 1907. The Tough Club of the Ninth Ward plans its annual outing at Witzel's Point View Island next Sunday. organized in 1865, it includes leading Ninth Ward businessmen. Thomas Dixon Jr., 17, was released on $200 bail after a speeding charge in Yorkville Police Court. Judge Hough overruled a demurrer in the indictment against cloak makers Jacob Miller and Samuel Werbelovsky for concealing part of their assets. they proceed to trial. Alice Boyer, an elderly boardinghousekeeper at 232 East Twenty-first Street, died by gas inhalation at her home after worries over her business.
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Raffael Hoyo
Merida
Mexico
England
Vincente Guerrero
Barrow-in-Furness
Long Island
Ninth Ward
Witzel
Point View Island
Thomas Dixon
Yorkville
Hough
United States Circuit Court
Jacob Miller
Samuel Werbelovsky
Alice Boyer
East Twenty-first Street
Indictment of 22 bookmakers shocks Kings County racing scene
The Kings County Grand Jury indicted 22 bookmakers for violating the anti-betting law. Acting District Attorney Robert H. Elder signaled possible indictments against prominent racing officials for alleged connivance. John Boden, secretary of the Prighton Beach Racing Association, testified, while detectives gathered evidence and bail was set at 500 dollars per defendant.
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Kings County Grand Jury
Dike
Robert H. Elder
John Boden
Prighton Beach Racing Association
Grand Jury
Eieres
Stephen C. Baldwin
Edward J. McCrossin
Orlando A. Jones
George Cafferetta
Edward J. Callahan
George R. Lichtenstein
Harry Hayman
George Carhart
Louis Daniels
Lol ‘Robinson
Philip Donohue
Mortimer J. Kehn
Leon A. Cohen
Charles Dowd
Joseph Hickey
Charles Ballinger
James Brutt
Jacob Davidson
Thomas Ruth
Ray Ballinger
Alexander C
Gourley
Jeremiah Lockhart
Charles MecClure
Michael Kaiser
William Dubois
Phtchogue
Baldwin
Montague Street
Jockey Club
New York
Elder
Bingham
Wahle
Jefferson Market Court
Thomas Isahoney
Nelson Herzog
Claire Are Connelly
Ritz-Carlton Hotel plans filed for Madison Ave block
Warren and Wetmore file plans for a fourteen story Ritz Carlton on the Madison Avenue block between Forty sixth and Forty seventh Streets. The frontage is 200 feet and depth 140 feet with tall pilasters and a grand oval salon restaurant on the mezzanine. Plans tie to Goelet interests amid Building Department revision concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren & Wetmore
Robert Walton Goelet
Murphy
Ritz-Carlton
Madison Avenue
Forty-sixth
Fortyseventh
Goelet Block
Amend Tenement Law Aims to Ease Building Shortfalls
Adolf Bloch and Edward Engel spoke at a Turnhall meeting in the Twelfth and Nineteenth Wards about proposed changes to the Tenement House law. They cited sanitary buildings that current law would bar from use due to basement ceiling height, and called for amendments to remove such hardships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House and
Turnhall
Eighty-fifth Street
Lexington Avenue
Adolf Bloch
Edward Engel
Defenders Surprised In Pine Camp Manoeuvres
News from Pine Camp New York reports the last two dark battles of summer army manoeuvres ended with attackers crossing woods and dunes to land near the defenders. Militia outposts and patrols provided lessons for Monday and Tuesday drills. Some units lost trains or delayed departures affecting schedules and no purchase of Pine Camp is likely due to rising costs and distant rail access.
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New York Times
Pine
Camp
N. Y
Pennsylvania
United States
Pine Camp
Burglary at Brooklyn Home Ends With Arrests
Three burglars broke into Mr. and Mrs. Israel Jackowsky on Sackman Street Brooklyn bound and gagged the couple then stole a gold watch a diamond sunburst a gold watch and a long neckchain. Neighbors and police pursued three men found hiding in a lot two were captured after shots were fired all three men Benjamin Levine Michael Rosenberg and Ike Kaplan were arraigned in New Jersey Avenue Court held without bail for the Grand Jury a pistol and bag of jewelry were recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Israel Jackowsky
Sackman Street
Brooklyn
Jackowsky
Theresa Froome
Brownsville
Benjamin Levine
Georgia Avenue
Michael Rosenberg
Watkins Street
Ike Kaplan
Sutter Avenue
New Jersey Avenue
Hylan
Levine
Quits Policeman Admirer Annie Ritter Returns Home
Annie Ritter an 18 year old dress maker from 1880 De Kalb Ave Brooklyn says she eloped with Policeman Daniel E Kelly of Ralph Avenue Station and traveled to Germantown Penn. She learned Kelly had a wife and three children after reading a newspaper account and ended the relationship. She told her mother she would not see him again. Nelly accompanied her to Manhattan but left at the Brooklyn Bridge end. Police said Kelly had not returned home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Ritter
de Kalb Avenue
Brooklyn
Daniel E. Kelly
Ralph Avenue
Germantown
Penn
Somers Street
Williamsburg
Nelly
Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge
Police officer dismissed for off post cafe incident and arraignment
Richard J. Murphy was dismissed from the police forces for being off post and in a café. He appeared at Essex Market Court before Magistrate Crane on charges by Mrs Anna Yee of theft of four pawn tickets a opium pipe a pocketbook and cash. He was arraigned on similar charges by Anna Schmidt and paroled to await July 15 examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard J. Murphy
Crag
Crane
Essex Market Court
Anna Yee
Manary
Anna Schmidt
Chrystie Street
Murphy
Forest Fire Ravages New Jersey and Long Island Regions
A major forest fire swept thousands of acres of woodlands near May's Landing New Jersey and threatened homes and a cranberry bog valued at $12 000. Fire wardens and volunteers battled flames for 48 hours until containment. Sparks from passing trains started new fires as farmers fear further loss.
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New York Times
May’s Landing
N. J
I B. Carson
Long Island
Sag Harbor
Novac
Julius Hallock
Forest Fire Spreads at Lake George Foot Prospect Mountain
A smoldering fire at the head of Lake George near Prospect Mountain burst into flames early today and continued spreading by night. Loss is estimated at 310,000 with over five hundred acres burned, threatening Virgin forests and property including that of George Foster Peabody of New York.
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New York Times
Albany
N. Y
Prospect Mountain
Lake George
George Foster Peabody
New York
Real estate listings show scattered trifling and small sums
The notice lists numerous addresses in New York with minor amounts paid or due, including Stuyvesant Town area properties and shops along Pearl Street 125th Street and Broadway. Several firms and individuals such as Parnas Realty Co Struben & Merenhoff Hans Hanson and Bernard Max appear.
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A. M. Tow
Ath
N. Y
Benjamin Shau
Parnas Realty Co
Monroe St
Sliver & Shapiro
Longfellow
Esrs
Vas Shay
Broadway
Struben & Merenhoff
Bowery
Patrick Gordian
Eldridge St
Max Liebowitz
Forsyth St
Philip Goldberg
Greene
Maternal abuse noted as boy bears injuries
Police report describes Mrs Goodsell striking a boy with wood and causing a black eye. Doctors say the child will recover but carry marks of cruelty, as the case enters the percepable ward with the family denouncing the acts.
Electrical Trade Revives Across the Nation
The Electrical Review notes renewed prosperity in electrical trades with rising demand and inquiries from leading manufacturers. Firms entertain plans to expand lines, extend credit, and accept large orders, signaling a dollarDriven revival despite a low mood. Earnings remain solid, suggesting a year possibly matching 1907 record levels.
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The
Electrical Review
Street Rillway
Central Station
Telephone and Telegraph
Miss Hicks Sues Brother for Hollis Home Return
Miss Maude Hicks of Hollis New York sues her brother Lemuel Hicks to reclaim a Hollis house deeded to him before her European trip. He transferred it to his wife who refuses to surrender. He claims she is married to another man and that the transfer was to protect the property. Trial in the Supreme Court may reveal marriage details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Maude Hicks
Hollis
Queens
Manhattan
Europe
Lemuel Samuel Hicks
Miss Hicks
America
Supreme Court
Counterfeiter Arrest in Danville
Charles F. Brown a 35 year old attorney was arrested by Secret Service agents in Danville Newfoundland and Labrador on counterfeiting charges. He was held on 8000 bond to await federal grand jury action. Agents found a full counterfeit setup in his home desk and cellar ready to produce $5 gold pieces and various silver and nickel denominations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
Charles F. Brown
Secret Service
Thomas B.peter
D. W. Wilkie
Brown
Mob Attacks Driver After Child Struck on Brooklyn Street
Nathan Shultz, driver for a Brooklyn bakery wagon, was surrounded by a crowd on East 114th Street after a child, Clementine Dazasio, was struck. The mob beat him until police restrained them. Clementine, 18 months, suffered a broken rib and shock but survived after treatment at Harlem Hospital.
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Nathan Shultz
Brooklyn Bakers
East 114Th Street
Thomas’ Jefferson Park
Shuitz
Clementine
Dazash
14Th Street
Shultz
Ana Egeree
Sergt. England
Gleason
First Avenue
114Th Street
England
Station House
Hertty
Harlem Hospital
Julia Dazasio
Baby Hit by Truck on Audubon Avenue
Eighteen month old Thomas Palty slipped into Audubon Avenue near 181st Street and was struck by a heavy truck. He suffered internal injuries and is not expected to survive. Louis Suhre, the truck driver, was arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Palty
Audubon Avenue
181Th Street
Chicago Man Fined for Whipping His 10 Year Old Son
Samuel A Kuther ly heir of Peter Kinioe died years ago and left an estate valued at 10 000 dollars was fined in Hyde Park Police Court after pleading guilty to whipping his 10 year old son. The boy's mother testified he had lived in idleness since receiving a 400 000 dollar legacy from an uncle estate. The court ruled the punishment too severe despite the father's claim the boy deserved it.
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Psycopathic
Bellevue
Colar
Goodsell
Messiah
East Fifty-sixth Street
Chicago
Samuel A. Kutherly
Leon
Peter Kinioe
Go Leavin
Hyde Park
Kimberly
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Stein
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Boden
Racing Secretary
Real Estate Association
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Jersey
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Mills
Sues
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Bonwit, Harris & Co
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North River
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Alhambra
Fields & Ward
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Countess Rossi
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Jardin DE Paris
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Henry W. Savage
Lustige
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