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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1909
Page
2
Miss Morgan delivers a passionate call to unite workers and managers toward cooperative success. She urges shared responsibility, understanding, and government as a model employer to improve conditions for future generations. John Mitchell echoes the plea for solidarity and the restaurant's wide influence.
Amid Navy Yard and Riverside Park the community held a festival to open the summer season. Children crowded the 15-foot fence as a grand procession formed behind a sun palanquin and four Winds. A staged winds and leaves pageant featured Miss Marie Hofer and a kindergarten chorus before a chaotic finale with a collapsing fence and a May pole winding.
Open clashes mark the tariff fight as Aldrich condemns insurgents while Bailey predicts more Republican defections. Beveridge accuses duties of burdening the poor as Smith defends protection and MacVeagh faces a party loyalty test amid Senate actions on cotton, hosiery, and clothing provisions.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Crowell to collect testimony for the Mayor as investigation continues. Louis J. Grant, police lawyer, plans charges against Commissioner Bingham over hazing of delinquent officers. Jacob Rouss to move to remove his picture from the Rogues Gallery. Reuss faced subornation of perjury charges but was never convicted.
A warrant was issued for Samuel W. Gumpertz head of Dreamland at Coney Island after police alleged a Sunday law violation seen in a Dreamland arena circus ride. Magistrate Voorhees pressed Jones as he questioned motives and the hounding claim while Gumpertz prepared to testify and contest the arrest as a test case. Senator McCarren is linked to Dreamland through common associations.
Paul Fisher of 268 Bowery walked to a saloon on East Tenth Street and found it broken into. He alerted Officer John A. Nelson, was jailed as suspicious, and later discharged for lack of evidence as about 165 dollars in wines and cigars had been stolen.
John Thone a mechanic of 1526 Gates Avenue Williamsburg faced Magistrate O Reilly on a charge of intoxication alleging Policeman Hart Hamburg Avenue Station brutalized him. Thone was sleeping on his stoop May 23 when awoken and allegedly clubbed before arrest. A neighbor testified. The magistrate discharged him and advised filing a complaint with Commissioner Bingham.
Noted guests from Japan and Britain joined Col. Robert Thomson at Sherry's for an all nations toast to peace among the United States Great Britain and Japan. Admiral Uriu Capt. Pelly and other officials spoke on preserving cordial relations as models for world stability.
Magistrate Cornell ordered further investigation into the Sunday arrest of John J. Murray and Thomas Hickey on suspicion of robbery and interfering with a policeman. Murray, a Spanish American War veteran, claimed persecution by Officer Butler as witnesses testified to alleged beatings. Court adjournment was denied and Butler was sharply criticized before Murray was removed from the court.
Washington June 7 blenders of whisky win a victory over straight whisky distillers and Dr H W Wiley. Solicitor General Lloyd W Bowers says straight whisky may be flavored colored and diluted and still labeled whisky under the pure food law. This reverses prior Agriculture Justice Department positions.
Secretary Dickinson reports Pacific Mail Steamship Co plans to pull ships from San Francisco Panama service. Competing tramp lines eroded its exclusivity, threatening the Isthmus gateway. Company warns it will quit June 13 unless wharfage terms improve, prompting calls to avert disruption.
Frederick Mohrle who killed Samuel Young in North St Louis weeks earlier was assassinated in the Criminal Court Building corridor by William Kane a former deputy under Young as Mohrle was being taken to court for the Young killing The shooting followed a bitter political feud and other linked violence including additional shooting and a mortally wounded bystander Alfred Neilson.
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