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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1909
Page
3
The Fifth Avenue Branch at 475 Fifth Avenue near 41st Street offers interest on deposit accounts and acts as custodian of personal property and manager of real property. It provides Travelers' Letters of Credit foreign money and express checks and vault boxes for customers.
Lightweight suits without waistcoats in blue black and fancy serges and cheviots and worsteds. Half lined to preserve shape yet comfortable for warm weather. Priced from 1g to 30 dollars.
In Indianapolis on June 7 the balloon Indiana reportedly broke the American endurance record, with pilots Carl Fisher and G. L. Bumbaugh. reports say it touched Tennessee and later descended near Corinth Mississippi, while other balloons completed races across Kentucky Tennessee Alabama and Indiana. Gunfire from a Alabama man prompted arrests as aeronauts faced hostile shots during the crossing.
Joseph Brucker former Staats Zeitung editor and German commissioner says he will cross the Atlantic in an airship. He cites Columbus winds and plans to build through winter and launch from Cadiz in spring aiming for Cuba or the U S.
G H Curtiss completed two successful flights of about two miles each in Hammondport New York describing a figure eight with the new aeroplane built for the Aeronautical Society. The craft will be entered in Morris Park competition in New York next week.
The Weekly Health Department report led by Commissioner Darlington shows 1,405 total deaths for the week ending Saturday with a death rate of 16.06 per thousand. Increases occurred in measles, diphtheria, heart disease, pneumonia, and tuberculosis, with 53 more infant deaths and 147 more deaths among residents of tenements.
At the sixth annual Education of Backward Delinquent and Truant Children conference in Buffalo, Col. C. B. Adams opened sessions. Mrs. Orphelia L. Amigh urged treating border line girls as defective and handling them under supervision or placement in suitable work, to curb exploitation in the white slave trade. Discussions supported integrating such girls into existing institutions with supervised roles, while a rural concern addressed child problems in small towns.
The large oaken desk used by Richard Croker during his fire commissioner days was ceremonially moved from Edward Murphy’s fourth avenue offices to the County Court House basement for repair. Once a municipal relic, the self closing desk has a long history across several city departments, ending in the hands of John R. Voorhis for repair.
Lady Aberdeen and Sir William Thompson traveled from Dublin to Boston for a breakfast at the Algonquin Club and a reception at the Hotel Somerset. They visited the Health Department and Nathan Straus milk laboratory to study pasteurized milk depots and TB work, noting six Dublin depots with four more planned and a decline in infant mortality.
Collector Loeb appointed Elbert J. Allendorf chief liquidating clerk in the Naval Office as Deputy Collector in charge of the Seventh Division. The division handles final classification and adjustment of duties on imported goods and protests to be sent to the Board of General Appraisers. Allendorf, born 1867 in Schultzville New York, joined the Naval Office in 1888 and rose through grades to this post.
In a Florida Bay case, Capt. Walter Smith sues Collier's Weekly for 50000 dollars in libel damages over Bird Protection's First Martyr. A jury was seated before Supreme Court Justice Gerard as Smith testified he shot Bradley after Bradley fired first.
Mayor McClellan held a hearing on the Aldermen adopted taximeter regulation ordinance and signaled a veto. He said he will veto based on arguments from Francis V. S. Oliver Chief of the Bureau of Licenses. Oliver opposed the form passed because fare rate limits were removed leaving cab owners free to set rates.
Henry J. Iles, 24, receiving teller at Borough Bank of Brooklyn, was proven correct when a ten dollar note he flagged as counterfeit was authenticated as a highly clever forgery by Treasury experts in Washington after initial doubts from other bankers. The case followed examinations by Citizens' Central National Bank of Manhattan and the Brook line bank.
Commissioner Bingham issued a limited inspection for all police ranks through June 16 after discovering many uniforms were made of inferior cloth or papier mache. Fraud cases loom for tailors and inspectors who passed substandard gear. failing officers must replace uniforms and equipment.
In the Appellate Division First Department eighty men and two women were admitted as lawyers yesterday. Belle Robins aged 21 and Kate Pantell aged 23 were among the new admittees. Robins studied law evenings at NYU Law School after graduating Public School 4, Rivington and Ridge, while Pantell graduated from the School of All Nations and studied at NYU. Also admitted were William H. Giegerich, nephew of a Supreme Court justice, and Joseph Mayper, brother of a local assistant district attorney.
The third sale of smuggled finery will be held at the Custom House today at 10 o clock. Marshal Henkel will offer forty nine Princess gowns numerous shirt waists lingerie dress goods embroidery lace and other articles of women's adornment and wear. The goods were seized after landing from the Red Star liner Gothland and exhibited yesterday to a dealer audience from civil service on the fifth floor. Buyers included dressmakers costumers and large firm representatives.
Collector Loeb reported duties on mailed articles rising from 173,923.93 in the first five months of last year to 87,242 this year. May 1908 duties totaled 16,215.81, compared with 36,675.63 in May this year, signaling a strong uptick and improved import demand amid the prior year’s depression.
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