Wall Street Peace Advances in Erie Financing Talks
Key financiers Morgan and Harriman reach accord on Erie Railroad funding plans and notes. The Wheeling & Lake Erie note financing shifts to Blair & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. amid broader realignment of eastern railroads. Morgan and Harriman discuss future joint actions to support Erie and related line integrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Gepald
Solvins
E. H
Harriman, Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Blair & Co
Gould
Morgan
Europe
Harriman
Northern Pacific
Union Pacific
Banking House
Northern Securities Company
Northern Securities
Jacob H. Schiff
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Harriman Roads
Erie Railroad
Morgan & Co
Road
Erie
Mrr. Harriman
Olympic trophies stolen from Gen Drain in London hotel
Gold medal from the American rifle team and a commemorative medal vanished from Gen James A. Drain's room at the Victoria hotel near Trafalgar Square. Also missing were three diamond rings and two necklaces belonging to Mrs Drain. Scotland Yard investigates as the drains plan to return to America after hosting at Henley regatta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen
Mrs. Drain
Drain
Scotland Yard
Gen. Drain
America
New York
Lord Desborough
Henley
Last Subway Section Opens with New Terminal at 242nd Street
The final section of the subway will open at 1 a.m. Saturday from 30th Street and Broadway to Van Cortlandt Park with a temporary terminus at 242nd Street and Broadway. Interborough Rapid Transit Co seeks PSC approval to operate the end of the line and will run via 232nd and 244th Streets after the opening. Construction began March 25, 1900 and the main line to 145th Street opened October 2, 1904.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
30Th Street
Broadway
van Cortlandt Park
242D Street
Interborough Rapids Transit Company
Public Service Commission
Willcox
230Th Street
2320
288Th Street
244D Street
145Th Street
Empress Eugenie Martha Washington Ships of Austro-American Line
The Austro-American Steamship Line names ships after famous women. Rumor says one vessel would be named Alice Roosevelt but President Roosevelt declined consent citing publicity concerns, so the director’s boat was named Alice. The manager at the Whitehall Building offered no comment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austro-American Steamship Line
Empress Eugenie
Martha Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Alice Roosevelt
Col Symons Retires After 37 Years in Army
Col. Thomas W. Symons of the Engineer Corps retires from active service on his own application after thirty seven years in the army. He now serves as consulting engineer of the New York Canal Commission and was long stationed in Washington as Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas W. Symons
Engineer Corps
Army
Symons
New York Canal Commission
Steamship Lusi tania and Baltic reported by wireless
Wireless reports placed steamships Lusi tania and Baltic 1909 miles west of Queenstown and 75 miles east of Sandy Hook respectively yesterday. Both due at their piers this morning, with times around 7:30 and 4:15. Kalil's Restaurant advertises downtown charm and music.
City Health Board orders dogs shot to curb rabies
Sixty police patrolling the city kill unmuzzled or unleashed dogs with no records kept and no reports required. The order, backed by a Corporation Counsel opinion, aims to wipe out rabies but faces opposition from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The program runs through October 31 and targets all dogs regardless of license.
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Board of Health
Corporation Counsel
Alfred Wagstaff
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Health Board
Pvoard
Walter Bensel
City Sanitary
TIMES
Health Department
Thomas F. White & Co
City Offar Contractors
Thirty-ninth Street
North River
Pasteur Institute
Col. Wagstaff
The
Department of Health
Darlington
Dr. Koty
Staten Island
New York
Mr. Pendleton
Theodore Connoly
Dr. Doty
Ienll
Targe
Trees
Society For the Protection of Cruelty To Animals
Horton
Strong & Cadwalader
Wall Street
Thomas Car Delayed En Route to Paris From Hanover
Special Cable reports the American Thomas car faced a shaft failure sixteen hours after repair near a wayside apple tree near Hanover. Schuster and Miller labored through the delay, with fog and slow farm wagons risking collisions. The crew aims to regain time and reach Paris soon, weather permitting.
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NEW York Times
Hanover
Germany
Dame Fortune
Thomas
Paris
Schuster
Miller
Dortmund
Flanders Files Bankruptcy With Assets Valued At Ten Dollars
William P. Flanders of 27 Liberty Street petitions for bankruptcy reporting liabilities of 15 772 and assets of 10 consisting of one pair of cuff buttons. He has long been in the surety business and headed a Bankers' Surety Company unit, earning 46 000 yearly. Creditors include Nassau Trust Company 5 000, Metropolitan Surety Company accommodation paper, and others totaling several thousand dollars. He resides in East Orange New Jersey and life is insured for 10 000 for his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William P. Flanders
Liberty Street
Flanders
Bankers’ Surety Company
Nassau Trust Company
Brooklyn
Metropolitan Surety Company
Fletcher Heath
W. B. Hoag
Balloon flight ends safely after windstorm up to 10000 feet
In Pittsfield the Heart of the Berkshires balloon, piloted by Leo Stevens with Allan R. Hawley and William Wanslee t, rose from Aeron Park. A wind storm pushed the craft to 10000 feet before rapid descent and ballast jettisoning. The party landed safely at Wahconah Falls eight miles away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsfield
Mass
Heart of
Girl Plunges In For Boy Heroic Rescue At Wharf
Grace Farlee, 14, saved 8-year-old Fred Schard from Assiscong Creek by diving into the swift current. Onlookers initially searched for a boat, fearing the current, but she reached the boy, brought him to midstream, then to shallow water as bystanders pulled them ashore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Burlington
N. J
Grace Farlee
Fred Schard
Hunger Driven Theft Brings Teen to Special Sessions
Sixteen year old Jacob Minsky was arraigned in Special Sessions after stealing a bottle of milk and three rolls from a Bronx window sill on June 21. He had fled home June 11 to avoid clerking in a store, and a family friend urged mercy after noting his schooling and parental distress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Minsky
Crotona Avenue South
Bronx
Nathan Stone
Déuel
Graveur
Alfred Lauterbach Dies In Westchester Village Crash
Alfred Lauterbach, 35, a lawyer and director at several companies, died instantly when his car skidded and hit a telegraph pole at Williamsbridge Road and Main Street in Westchester Village. Passengers William Cann and Edward Goodman were unhurt aside from minor injuries. The accident occurred while returning to Manhattan from Westchester, witnesses said the car was traveling at high speed. The Times notified Mrs Lauterbach, who was staying at Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach. Lauterbach was educated at Columbia and active in Republican and fencing clubs.
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Williamsbridge Road
Main Street
Westchester Village
Manhattan
Westchester County
Lauterbach
Mr. Lauterbach
Mr. Cann
Mr. Goodman
TIMES
Edward Lauterbach
Pannaci’ S
Seabright
Alfred Lauterbach
William Street
Fifth Avenue
Young Lautebach
Almin Realty Company
Anchor Tonique Manufacturing Company
Manila Anchor Brewing Company
Staten Island Midland Railroad Company
Tle
Coumbia
Dog Catcher Bitten In Port Richmond Incident
Henry Buchter's German beagle bit five year old Frank Goldsmith on Richmond Terrace while passing Buchter's home. The injury to the left ear was cauterized and the boy sent to the Pasteur Institute. John Leahy, the dog catcher, was bitten when attempting to seize the animal. The dog may be killed after the incident.
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Henry Buchter
Frank Goldsmith
Richmond Terrace
Port Richmond
S. T
Buchter
Lafayette Street
Frank
Pasteur Institute
Board of Health
John Leahy
Buchler
Leahy
Ohio Governor Harris ill, may skip campaign
Gov Harris of Ohio, resting on his Eaton farm, denies alarming health reports but says he does not feel well. He may be unable to campaign actively next in the forthcoming race, though no specific illness is given and friends express concern.
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Columbus
Ohio
Harris
Eaton
Chamberlain In Grave Condition In London
Joseph Chamberlain, back from the Continent, remains in London with his health failing. Reports say his eyesight is seriously affected and even a possible trip to Birmingham may not occur as he may never leave England again.
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London
Joseph Chamberlain
Birmingham
Mr. Chamberlain
England
Lusitania in rough weather reported by wireless
A wireless from the Lusitania captain dated 10:30 A M Wednesday says the liner averaged 57 knots per hour since leaving Daunts Rock and notes the rough passage with the highest 24 hour run of 630 knots by noon Monday. At 10:56 yesterday she was 1/4 mile west of Queenstown and is expected to reach her pier early Friday morning.
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Lusitania
Daunts Rock
Halifax
Queenstown
Manitoba proposes mass harvest labor plan for Western Canada
The Manitoban Government announced that 80,000 men are needed to harvest the wheat crop in Western Canada and urged governors to release prisoners held for vagrancy and minor offenses early next month to work in the fields.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
Hawley Signals Possible Settlement In DL&W Strike
Scranton July 29 after a five minute Grievance Committee session Grand Master Hawley announced a statement would be made tomorrow Hawley and Robert Flynn local president of the switchmen held another interview with General Supt Clarke Hawley said we don’t want a suspension and if both sides are reasonable there will be none if one side has been obstinate developments may show the folly of sticking to such a course
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Scranton
Penn
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Hawley
Robert Flynn
Supt. Clarke
Guard Saves Drowning Boy in Atlantic City
William Specht a Morris Guards lifeguard rescued 14 year old William Conway of Camden after Conway sank three times in the surf. Specht discarded his buoy to reach Conway and brought him to the surface where he was resuscitated and taken home.
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New York Times
Atlantic City
N. J
William Specht
Morris Guards
William Conway
Camden
Specht
Nets Repel Torpedoes at Narragansett Bay Tests
Secret tests with Bliss Leavitt turbine torpedoes fired into steel nets used for protection by battleships and panel cruisers showed no damage at various ranges. A torpedo at thirty knots bounded back when striking the net while the second submarine flotilla tested Whitehead torpedoes against nets at differing depths aboard submarines Viper Cuttlefich Quectepus and Tarantula.
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New York Times
Newport
R.L
Bliss Leavitt
Narragansett Bay
Navy
Morris
Gwin
Viper
Pope Receives New American Gold Coin Inscribed In God We Trust
In Rome the Pope met Very Rev. Charles P. Grannan and Very Rev. A. P. Doyle of Washington. Father Doyle presented a new American gold coin bearing In God We Trust and explained the motto’s removal and restoration. The Pope praised the motto for religious sentiment reasons.
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Rome
Charles P. Grannan
A. P. Doyle
Washington
Doyle
Mob Hangs Suspect After Jail Raid In Florida and Georgia
In Pensacola Florida Mrs Lillian Davis fought a intruder Leander Shaw and fired a revolver after he slashed her throat and beat her during a home assault The mob stormed the county jail With a deputy sheriff guarding Shaw he was pulled from custody and killed in a public square by bullets The same night in Lyons Georgia Alonzo Williams accused of assault was taken from jail by a mob and riddled with bullets while a guard was overpowered The report notes mob violence and extralegal killings in both states.
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Pensacola
Fla
Leander Shaw
Lillian Davis
Shaw
Lyons
Speed-Comfort-Economy. Red Taxicabs Ad in New York
An ad offers Red Taxicabs with speed comfort and economy in Columbus and New York. The message promotes service by the New York Taxicab Co with a call to action to phone 6tou9 Columbus.
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Columbus
New York
Sands Killed in Paris Motor Crash at Vanderbilt Estate
G Winthrop Sands, heir to Mrs W K Vanderbilt, died in a July 20 Paris crash near Chateau St Louis de Poissy after his 50 horsepower De Dietrich car struck a tree at 75 mph. Chauffeur Pickins survived. Sands suffered fatal injuries and died at 10:00 am, with funeral plans uncertain.
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New York Times
Paris
G. Winthrop Sands
W.K. Vanderbilt
Pickins
Young Sands
Poissy
Chiteau
Mrs. Sands
Mr. Sands
Sands
Ww. K
Vanderbilt
Ritz
Lucerne
William Duke
United States
Chauffeur narrates fatal Paris crash with Mr. Sands
The Paris chauffeur Pickins testified about the fatal accident with Mr. Sands and his daughter, describing a 75 mph drive toward the chateau. A tire blew, the car toppled, and the vehicle caught fire after the tank exploded, trapping Mr. Sands.
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Kuhn-Loeb
Bash
Yale
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Great Lakes
Pittsburg
Wabash- Pittsburg
Mr. Morgan
Steel Corporation
Carnegie
Wabash
Kuhn, Lweh & Co
Wallace
Central Trust Company
Seaboard
Missouri Pacific
Western Pacific
Erie Railroad Company
J. P. Morgan & Co
Pennsylvania
Bisley
Gen. James
A. Drain
American Rifle Association
the Victoria
Trafalgar Square
Col. Symons
Wireless
Liverpool
Marconi
Baltic
Sandy Hook
Sahuku
Hordé
Laguna
Kalil’s
Park Pl
Charming Music
Order—Board
Leo Stevens
North Adams
Charles J. Glidden
Boston
H. H. Clayton
Boy
Ae Disinfecting Co
West 45Th St
Him
W. H. Cann
Edward Goodman
Edward Lau
Terbach
William H. Cann
West Fifty-fifth Street
Edward
Gov. Harris
III
Chamberlain
Lackawanna
Pope
Florida
Georgia
G. W. Sands
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt
Mr. Lands
Ted
Teanville
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