Brooklyn Tunnel Safety Doubts Prompt City Inquiry
Brooklyn civic leaders ask Mayor McClellan to appoint an independent engineer to inspect the East River tunnel between New York and Brooklyn. John B. Creighton of the Brooklyn League says rumors of faulty construction warrant full testing while Elwin Piper offers cooperation from allied boards of trade. Parsons asserts the tubes are safe and ready for use by early autumn, dismissing all danger as unfounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClellan
Brooklyn League
Brooklyn
East River
League
John B. Creighton
Rapid Transit Commission
Mr. Creighton
Elwin
Piper
Allied Boards of Trade of Brooklyn
William Barclay Parsons
Parsons
Ani
Mr. Parsons
New York
George Rica
Pareons
Priest Falls On Broadway After Sudden Collapse
Rev. Father Henry Van Renstaer, assistant priest of St. Francis Xavier, collapsed late yesterday while boarding a Broadway car at Fifteenth Street. He was found unconscious with a scalp wound, rushed to York Hospital, where his condition was reported as serious, the result of rheumatic attacks and lack of sleep from parish duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry van Renstaer
Groh
St. Francis Xavier
Westth Street
Fifteenth Street
York Hospital
Aveeel
Cannon Forces Omission of Tariff Edits in Indianap olis Speech
Washington June 2 Speaker Cannon blue penciled the Presidents Indianapolis speech and reportedly compelled removal of passages urging immediate tariff revision. He allegedly warned the President against unsettling business on the eve of a campaign and pressed to omit tariff language. The report claims two prior instances where Cannon influenced tariff content in messages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Cannon
Indianapolis
White House
Ceck
Taft
Congress
Pennsylvania's Big Loss Shrinks Pennsylvanias Net Earnings
Pennsylvania Railroad reports a four month net earnings drop of 1 269 300 with Western lines up 203 800 while East lines fall. Expenditures rose sharply due to wage increases since December 1 and wage adjustments from the two cent fare law slated to cut profits by about 2 000 000 annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Philadelphia-Penn
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Erie
West Jersey & Seashore
Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Radroad Company
Northern Central Company
West
Pennsylvania Lines
John B. Thayer
Largest Photo Ever Made for Michigan A C Centennial
A semi centennial celebration photograph of President Roosevelt will be printed as a twelve by fifteen foot image, far larger than the current five by eight foot record. The project requires a converted building, a mammoth dark room, and a camera workflow from ten by eight to fourteen by fourteen sizes, with the bromide print alone costing over $200.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan Agricultural College
Roosevelt
Orher
Peventesan Indies
Go Ag
Thinks He Scalped A Man At A Dance
In Sharon Pennsylvania Michael Varilico fled after a scuffle at a dance where he believed he had torn off a man’s scalp. Andrew Bugile wore a heavy wig and it flew off when Varilico struck him. Varilico, unaware of wigs, thought he had knocked the top of the head off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Sharon
Penn
Michael Varilico
Varilico
Andrew Bugile Bugile
DROWN IN SOUND CREW LOST AS SLOOP CAPSIZES IN STORM
Edward Auth of Brooklyn and four companions sailed from Bridgeport for a two week cruise aboard the sloop Belle. A capsize in rough Long Island Sound during engine trouble left four drowned, while Auth survived after clinging to a rope and being rescued by the tug Wyoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
New Haven
Conn
Edward Auth
Saratoga Avenue
Brooklyn
Wyoming
Jacob Ruth
August Jager
Otto Fleger
Worst Street
George Glaser
Manhattan
Norwalk
Long Island Sound
Ruth
Tve
Bridgeport
Grace Hospital
Capt. McGolderick
The
Auth
Carnegie art on billboards shocks Pittsburg neighbors
Pittsburg residents and Carnegie Institute trustees protest a 140 by 20 foot signboard opposite the institute. It shows travesties of masterpieces including La Touche's The Bath, beer advertising, and a mocked modern bath scene, provoking anger over desecration of art and local impact on the neighborhood and a nearby boarding house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Carnegie Institute
Andrew Carnegie
Institute
Carnegie
la Touche
Residentis
Balloon Death During Royal Review In Rome
King and Queen witnessed a balloon accident near Farmesina field in Rome during a royal review. Captain Olivelli of the Royal Engineers ascended to about 1500 feet before a wind gust drove the craft into a cloud and lightning ignited it. He died a few hours later from internal injuries after being brought to a hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Rome
Royal Engineers
Farmesina
Olivelli
Capt
Americans In Auto Smash Near Versailles
Ten Americans in three cars were traveling to Versailles when a racing car crashed into Edward Steindler’s vehicle in Paris. Mrs. Steindler was pulled from the wreckage and taken to the Elysee Palace Hotel in a dazed condition. another American woman suffered serious injuries and a man sustained contusions. Steindler, a New York Curtain Company member, lives at 811 West 107th Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Timms Co
Paris
Versailles
Edward Steindler
New York
Livermore
Lamme
Elyete Palace
Bois de Boulogne
Regi Steindler
New York Curtain Company
Broadway
Mrs. Steindler
West 107Thtreet
Croker plans Derby trip and possible Parliament bid
London reports Mrs. Richard Croker says her husband will not leave Ireland for the Derby and will visit London briefly after the race. News notes Croker’s possible Irish Nationalist candidacy, questions of American citizenship, health concerns, and age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlton
London
Richard Croker
Croker
Dublin
Min
Irish Nationalist Party
Bright
Reed condemns Corey in Dickinson baccalaureate sermon
Carlisle Pennsylvania June 2 President George Edward Reed of Dickinson College spoke at the baccalaureate sermon praising William K. Corey President of the United States Steel Corporation while condemning recent found evils in the nation and urging progress through education and reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickinson
New York Times
Carlisle
Penn
Wiliam KE
Corey
United States
America
Oceanic Fire Clears Steerage Amid Pier Blaze
A steerage fire aboard the White Star Oceanic at West Eleventh Street pier caused heavy smoke and $10,000 in damage. Fireboats McClellan and land crews fought the blaze, with the ship under control by 2:45 AM and sailing delayed several days. No injuries reported and cause under investigation.
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Oceanic
West Eleventh Street
West Street
Haddock
Ean
McClellan
Per
Piier
wThere
Bermuda Line
White Star
International Mercantile Marine Co
White Star Line
Liverpool
Queenstown
Bilis Island
Creanlc
Southampton
England
Fire damages Lorington Apartments in Central Park West area
A fire of unknown origin caused about $1,000 damage last evening in Frederick Woers’s apartments on the seventh floor of the Lorington on Central Park West and Seventieth Street. Mrs Woers detected smoke from a closet. elevator men and staff battled the blaze until firemen arrived and extinguished most of it.
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Frederick Woers
Lorington
Central
Park West
Seventieth Street
Wests
Beadleston & Woers
Woers
Erventh
Lawyer Lucas Perkins Dies in Fall From Roof
Lawrence Kansas June 2 Lucas H Perkins secretary of the State Examin Board for lawyers and former president of the State Bar Association fell from the roof of his home last evening and died without regaining consciousness He carried life insurance of about 490000 most of which was written in the past six months He was prominent in Masonic orders and leaves a wife and three children
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Jemies Auth
Edward
Jacob Auth
Baratoga Avenue
Brooklyn
New Haven
Charles
Decatur Street
Edward Auth
Telephone Manufacturing Company
Rose Street
Safety Signal Company
Liberty Street
August Jaeger
Otto Pfieger
George Glasser
Auth
Jaeger
Und
Sea Cliff
New York Times
Lawrence
Kan
Lucas H. Perkins
Ufe
Perkins
State Examin Board For Lawyers
Endy
State Bar Association
Masonica
Snow falls in Boston and Catskills on June day
Boston recorded a rare day with snow hail and rain as a northeast gale lowered temperatures to 47 degrees the lowest in sixteen years. Snow briefly fell in the harbor area while docks were hazardous and light craft stayed away. In New York the North Mountain and High Peak summits seen snow from two heavy squalls with Twilight Park and Haines Falls also reporting snow.
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Boston
Catskill
N. Y
North Mountain
High Peak
Twilight Park
Haines Falls
Hoarded $30,000 in old coins shocks Tennessee town
Wil lis Smith, 84, of Pulaski fears murder for his money and floods the county with $30,000 in quarters and half dollars kept in fruit jars for years. The coins, though coin dated years ago, show no wear and were partly drawn after a bank incident that spurred withdrawal.
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Pulaski
Tenn
Jane
Wills Smith
Smith
Riot in San Francisco leaves strikebreaker dead
June 2 report from San Francisco states W A Forgey a strikebreaker for United Railways was mortally wounded at Van Ness Avenue and Turk Street by Officer W J Blomberg of the Humahike Society after Forgey fired on a crowd pursuing two men. Structural ironworker Thomas Stack was shot in the leg. Forgey died later in hospital.
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San Francisco
W. A. Forgey
United Railways
van Ness Avenue
Turk Street
W. J. Blomberg
Humahike Society
Forgey
Blomberg
Thomas Stack
Structural
Drowning on Hudson River Trip Ends in Death
Henry D. Tiedgen of 160 East 178th Street and John W. Lindsey of 200 Argyle Road Flatbush parted ways in rough water near the Hudson after their canoe filled and sank. Lindsey swam to shore exhausted. Tiedgen drowned as the other tried to assist during a windy, dark return. Police found Lindsey at Kingsbridge.
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Hudson River
Henry D. Tiedgen
East 178Th Street
John W. Lindsey
Argyle Road
Flatbush
L. L
Tiedgen
Lindsey
Wouyton Duyvil
Landeey
Tredgers
Kingspridge
Mob Attacks a Church in Cleveland Parish Destruction
In Cleveland on June 2 a crowd of about two thousand, led by drunken foreigners, stormed St. Vitus Catholic Church and the parish house, killing Father Vitus Hribar. Police, under Sergt White, dispersed the mob and the crowd melted away. Parishioners had sought Father Hribar’s removal for months.
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New York Times
Cleveland
St. Vitus’s Catholic Church
Father Hribar
Father Hridar
Bneg Meron
Fire near Cadillac in French boarding house causes $1000 damage
A fire at 141 West Forty-third Street near the Cadillac Hotel in a French boarding house owned by Mrs. G. Ricard caused about $1,000 damage. One upstairs room burned while most damage came from water. no injuries were reported as residents and neighbors alerted firemen who quickly extinguished the flames.
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West Forty-third Street
Cadillac
Asy
Cold Wave Brings Record Lows and Storm Damage in Bronx and City
The June cold wave chilled New York as temperatures dropped to 45 degrees with a 51 at noon, dragging down Coney Island tourism and shuttering boats. In the Bronx wind toppled trees and a two story frame house while fences and shrubbery suffered across Manhattan from Battery to Harlem. Weather across the nation showed much colder readings with scattered records set or broken.
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New York Weather Bureau
Bandy Hook
Nner
Lfe
Bronx
Manhattan
The
Battery
Harlem
Coney Island
170Th
Bristow Streets
Joseph Roberts
Lenox Avenue
Heller Rubinstein
Bronx Park
Spignupert Road
Catholic Prefectory
Borough Hall
Third Avenue
Third Avenues
1824 Street
Lower Manhattan
Ron Steamboat Company
North River
Thet
New York
Pearce
Sirius
Fler
Niel Lafferty
Grand Republic
Newburg
Steare
Dan
Liberty Island
Weather Bureau
Boston
Philadelphia
Buffalo
Chicago
Washington
St. Louis
New Orleans
Jacksonville
Key West
Yellowstone
No Flies On Coney A Year Ago Happy Time
A fragmented note recalls a year with fifty million seeds planted at Coney. The passage hints at prosperity and widespread happiness tied to corn seeds amid an unclear broader event.
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East River Tubes
Priest
Father van Paeselaer
Kansing
Carnegie Art
Crokers
DERBY
Mr. Croker
G. E. Reed
Blaze
Brewer Woerz
R. A. Perine
Kansas
Faille
Tennessee Man
Banke
Hudson
Gale Lavels
Coney
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