Maxwell Advocates City Lunch Kitchens for Hungry Children
Thirteen organizations met at 265 Henry Street to discuss feeding hungry schoolchildren and dismiss reports of widespread hunger. A seven member committee was formed to study the issue. Maxwell urged city funded lunchrooms at actual cost with tickets to protect privacy, while officials questioned claims of east side starvation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Street
Maxwell
New York
Paris
Board of Education
Children’s Relief Society
Canal
Forsyth Streets
J. Lee K. Frankel
United Hebrew Charities
West Side
Robert Grueve
The
Society For Improving
Monroe
Gouverneur Streets
McGowan
East Side
Madison Street
Hyman Levy
Thomas J. Higgins
First East Side Lunchroom Opens at Canal and Forsyth
Five hundred underfed pupils from ten schools on the East Side were served a hearty luncheon at the Canal Street lunchroom opening. The event follows the formation of the Children’s East Side Relief Committee to aid 10,000 local pupils facing hunger and semi starvation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ast
Canali
Forsyth Streets
Children’s
East Side Relief Committee
Midway
Canal Street
Policeman Willi on Trial for Abduction
Edward M Willi the policeman shot in the leg by Frederick Hoffman during an incident at 351 West Forty-fifth Street faced trial for abduction. Hoffman testified Willi barred his revolver and fled. Hoffman pursued and fired, catching Willi as he ran to a nearby officer. The defense says the girl invited Willi to her sister’s house after meeting on the street. The jury will hear the case today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward M. Willi
Frederick Hoffman
Willi
Rose
West Forty-fifth Street
Hoffman
Bridge Department Confirms Tracks For Interborough and BRT
The Public Service Commission reviews yesterday’s Bridge Department data to decide which Manhattan Bridge tracks go to Interborough and Brooklyn Rapid Transit and which are kept for the Fourth Avenue Subway. Bridge officials say the bridge can bear ten all steel cars weighing about 48 tons each with a 5 percent grade instead of 54-10 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Bridge Department
New
Manhattan Bridge
Interborough
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Fourth Avenue
Convention Opens For U S Brewers Association
Milwaukee hosts the forty eighth annual meeting as Mayor Rose promotes a crackdown on low saloons and the Anti Saloon League pushes for abolition and stricter licensing to regulate liquor sales. President Liebmann outlines enforcement relies on public will and calls for a scientific study of inebriety and stable licensing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
United States Brewers’ Association
David S. Rose
Julius Liebmann
Association
Liebmann
Board of Trustees
Anti-Saloon League
Book Trust in Court Appeals Over 1901 Publishers Agreement
An appeal from an interlocutory judgment in a $100000 case by R H Macy & Co against the American Publishers Association and the American Booksellers Association was argued in the Appellate Division. The Book Trust allegedly fixed retail prices and blocked sales below them, with 95 percent of publishers and 90 percent of dealers in the two associations. The 1901 agreement and its legality were debated, with prior decisions cited and the appellants denying a monopoly beyond copyright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. Macy & Co
American Publishers’ Association
American Booksellers’ Association
Supreme Court
Ingraham, McLaughlin
Houghton, Clarke
Scott
Booksellers’ ‘Association
Book Trust
John G. Carlisle
E. E. Wise
Butchers Call Tariff Bias to Be Lifted
In Utica on June 9 the New York State Butchers Association adopted a resolution blaming federal policy for high meat prices. The group demanded removal of the tariff on cattle, with Secretary Daniel J. Haley arguing tariffs hinder competition. They also backed repealing oleomargarine taxes and tariffs on wrapping paper and paper bag stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utica
N. Y
New York State Butchers’ Association
Daniel J. Haley
New York
Rescue Cost Him His Life Fireman David Bell Dies After Heroic Rescue
David Bell a seventy year old volunteer fireman who ran an oyster house on Third Avenue died at his sons home in the Bronx from paralysis following the excitement of a rescue last week He helped carry two babies from a burning house on 137th Street Bell born in 1837 on Delancey Street had long service with the Fire Department in both volunteer and paid eras.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Bell
Third Avenue
St. Paul's Place
Bronx
137Th Street
Bell
Delancey Street
Fire Department
Piano Makers Form 49 Million Dollar Combine
Articles of incorporation filed in Jersey City create American Piano Company with 5 million in preferred and 6 million in common stock. Ernest J. Knabe Sr. presides. board includes Knabe, W. Foster, C. Foster, Keidel, Eddy, and others. Consolidates William Knabe & Co Chickering & Sons Foster-Armstrong to control major piano brands and plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Piano Company
Masten & Nichols
Wall Street
Jersey City
Ernest J. Knabe
William Knabe &Co
Baltimore
Charles H. W. Foster
Chickering & Sons
Boston
George G. Foster
Foster
Ernest J. Knabe, Jr
George A. Foster
William Knabe
Charles H. Eddy
William B. Armstrong
George Eaton
William Knnabe & Co
Foster-Armstrong Company
Chickering
Kanabe
Williams, Thomas & Williams
New York
Ropes, Gray & Gorham
PIANO FORTE NOT IN DANGER FROM PLAYER PIANO
Dealers at the Hotel Astor convention claim the player piano will not supplant the pianoforte soon. They see mutual growth for both, noting music study benefits and rising demand for instruments with player attachments alongside traditional pianos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hotel Astor
Earle B. Bartlett
W. W. Kimball Company
Paul Brown Klugh
Cable Company
Chicago
Henry
United States
Instrumeis
Littleton Defines Threats to Economic Liberty at Piano Dealers Dinner
More than 500 members attend the National Association of Piano Dealers of America seventh annual dinner at the Hotel Astor where Martin W. Littleton questions anti-business sentiment and urges protection of private property rights in stock and bonds. Rev. John Wesley Hill honors President Roosevelt as toastmaster William H. McElroy, B. B. Crew and others also speak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Association of Piano Dealers of America
Hotel Astor
Martin W. Littleton
Littleton
John Wesley Hill
Roosevelt
William H. McElroy
B. B. Crew
The
Association
Atlanta
A. Grinnell
Detroit
E. H. Droop
Washington
R. T. Cassell
Denver
J. T. Wannelink
Cleveland
C. R. Putnam
Boston
D. BE. Woolley
Philadelphia
Three Broadway Stores Report Address Change
Notice of uptown store relocation from 32nd Street to the northeast corner of 34th Street at Broadway. Other locations listed include Warren Street, 13th Street, and 34th Street with updates to the 32nd Street outlet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren St
13Th St
34Th St
Uptown
32Nd St
N. E. Corner
Auto Run Ends in Fire Near White Plains
Charles Worth of the Bronx and his mechanic Paul Heller were bruised when Worth’s car ran off the Ma Marloneck Road near White Plains, toppled into a ditch, and caught fire. Under Sheriff Henry Scorp assisted after the crash. Worth was thrown about 25 feet from the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Plains
N. Y
Charles Worth
East 175Th Street
Bronx
Mamaroneck Road
Paul Heller
Henry Scorp
Mr. Worth
Ex-Senator Brackett Denied Open Default in Miller Suit
Ex-senator Edgar T. Brackett applied to Supreme Court Justice Bischoff for permission to open a default against Mrs. Isabelle E. Miller in a $100,000 damages suit against Daniel E. Miller of 150 Central Park South and associates Emily M. Lloyd and Harriet A. Dickinson. The application was denied after years of delays. Mrs. Miller previously sought a divorce from her late husband, who died before trial. The husband was linked to the Gould family, being a brother of the late Mrs. Jay Gould and an uncle of George J. Gould. The matter had been postponed twenty-two times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller
Edgar T. Brackett
Supreme Court
Bischoff
Isabelle E. Miller
Daniel E. Miller
Central Park South
Emily M. Lloyd
Harriet A. Dickinson
John B. Miller
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Amushment
Robert W. Chambers
D. Appleton & Co
Richard Hairding
Davis
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Jesse Lynch Williams
Princeton
Springfield Union
Charles Scribner’s. Sons
Pekin
Prince Borghese
By Luigi, Barzini
Mitchell
York
eBie
Utilities Board
Manhattan
Macy & Co
Sull
Knabe & Co
Foster-Armstrong
American Co
E. J. Knabe
Waukesha
Fifth Avenue
Rocers, Peer & Company
Broadway
Hijominijanes
Lexington
Orient
Pioor
Bloomingdales
Lex
3D Ave
Eh. N
Fabyan
N. EH
Si Jlah
Bethlehem
Crawford House
Mount Pleasant House
Crawford Bretton Woods
Maplewood Hotel
Twin Mountain Houx
Twin Mountain
New York City
Grand Central Station
M. Sunda
Diana
Mount Washington Bretton Woods
Waumbek & Cottegis
Jefferson, N. H
Franconia Nowh
N. HL
Panama
31St St
of CO
Brooklyn
Flatbush Ave
Fulton St
Bedford Ave
Jamaica
Royal Mail Steam Packet CO
Times
New York Times
Regal
Regal Motor Car Company OF
Walter C. Martin
Mgr
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