Mayor Gaynor Targets Graft in Naturalization Case
Jacob Goldstein, accused of bartering expedited naturalization papers, was discharged by Commissioner Shields after Assistant US Attorney Walton said he was not prepared to proceed. The episode ties to Mayor Gaynor’s probe into abuses at the Federal Building and suggests possible grand jury evidence.
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Jacob Goldstein
Gaynor
Shields
Wickersham
Federal
Goldstein
United States
Walton
Inspector Russell
Carrao
Rafsky
Doak
Charles Bedner
Bedner
Federal Building
Broome Street
Hedner
Hough
Congress
W. J. Gaynor
George W. Wickersham
Washington, D. C
City of
New York
Mayror-Gaynor
Citizens’ Union
Root
Edward Lauterbach
National Liberal Immeration League
Ormsby McHarg
Department of Commerce
Aber
Bennet
Washington
Mayor Gaynor objects to Ambulance Board picks
Mayor Gaynor writes Police Commissioner Baker criticizing the Ambulance Board for appointing L. C. Potter as Director and W. J. McKenna and N. O. Fanning as deputies outside civil service. He argues staff should come from the classified list to avoid favoritism, asserting city policy favors civil service order.
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Baker
Ambulance Board
Daniel C. Potter
Potter
Bureau of Charitable Institutions
Department of Finance
Roeheeeoe
Board of Ambulance
L. C. Potter
Ambulance Service
W. J. McKenna
N. O. Fanning
City of New York
Apple Kate Marries After Forty Years on Broadway
Kate Coughlin known as Apple Kate tied wedding with William McGarey at St. Peter’s Church Barclay and Church Streets at 8 AM. After decades selling apples outside St. Paul’s Church and near Broadway and Fulton Street she starts a Catskills boarding house with her real estate husband. She is 48, he is 50.
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Apple Kate
St. Paul's Church
Barnum's Museum
St. Peter’s Church
Barclay and
Church Streets
Wiliam McGarey
Catskills
Kate Coughlin
Broadwa
Astor House
Fulton Street
Sunday Games Debate at Playgrounds Congress
Joseph Lee of Boston urged allowing Sunday games with limits, arguing rest comes from recreation and that cultural venues should open Sunday afternoons. He said a day of idleness breeds lawbreaking and questioned how youths should reconnect with vital instincts through team games.
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Rochester
Joseph Lee
Boston
Mass
Congress of the Playgrounds Association
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Reform urged for city finances at national controllers meeting
City finance officials from over fifty cities met at the Hotel Astor for the fifth annual convention of the National Association of Controllers and Accounting Officers. President Alonzo Tweedale urged uniform accounting. critics balked at outside investigations and the Municipal Research Bureau.
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United States
National Association of Controllers
Hotel Astor
Alonzo Tweedale
District of Columbia
Edmund D. Fisher
New York City
Prendergast
Fisher
Sete
E. E. Phelps
Phel
Pittsburg
Tweedale
Association
Municipal Research Bureau
Harvey S. Chase
Boston
Astor
Coney Island
Firemen Honored in Funerals for Two Martyrs
Firemen Timothy Cotter and William F. Healy, who suffocated fighting a Washington Street fire, were buried with full honors. Cotter's aunt Nora Willman also buried in a shared service. Healy's service held at St Peter's. A Calvary Cemetery burial followed. a district board, led by Chief Croker, will investigate the incident.
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Timothy Cotter
Engine Company 6
William F. Healy
Engine Company 10
Washington Street
Nora Willman
Cotter
St. Alphonsus’s Church
West Broadway
Canal
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Mer. McGean
St. Peter's
Leonard
Father Noonan
Father Dineen
Calvary Cemetery
Waldo
Healy
Croker
Thomas R. Langford
John P Howe
Spreckels Sails to Lead Graft-Fighting Effort
Rudolph Spreckels of San Francisco sailed on the George Washington with 400 first class passengers aboard. He said San Francisco faces widespread graft concerns and plans to extend a campaign against corporate trickery beyond the city, aiming at national scope. He will return in July to share further plans and partners.
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Rudolph Spreckels
San Francisco
Spreckels
Writ Granted For Mrs Hitchcock In Matteawan Case
Supreme Court Justice Erlanger granted a writ of habeas corpus for Mrs Charlotte Hitchcock confined in the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Matteawan. Hitchcock was indicted for the murder of her husband Robert Hitchcock found shot March 25 1908 in his Bronx apartment. Indictment recently dismissed. Talley argued she was improperly confined as a criminal and urged she is now sane.
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Supreme Court
Erlanger
Charlotte Hitchcock
State Hospital
Matteawan
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