Poolroom crackdown in New York tracks racing news network
Assistant District Attorney Vandiver raids 299 Broadway and 50 Broadway poolrooms linked to the New York and New Jersey Distributing and Circulating Company. He says the news bureaus supplied racing updates to numerous rooms, threatens large contracts, and wires were cut to sever the poolroom news chain. Officers seized racing sheets and plied suspects with subpoenas as investigations expand to additional sites and direct private lines.
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Harry Shultz
Sixth Avenue
Vandiver
Broadway
William J. Hannigan
John H. McCormick
New York and
New Jersey
Hannigan and McCormick
David H. Mitchell
Telegraph Department
Western Union
Bob” Davis
Inter-State News Bureau
Gravesend
New York Telephone Company
Union M. Bethel
Bingham
Jimmy
Barlow
Grand
Grand Jury
Aear
Harlem
Park Row
Duane Street
Cedar Street
Fulton Street
Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn
Paterson
Jersey City
N. J
East Tenth Street
East Twenty-third Street
Bond Street
East Hth Street
Centre Street
R. Arthur
Billy” Moran
Twenty-third Street Place
Gus Minchot
Fulton and
Hannigan-McCormick
District Attorney's Office
V. Bethel
Iroom
Fulton Street Place
Bethel
L. Peck
Gene Sullivan
J. A. Steinmetz
J. E. Mack
Mr. Vandiver
New York
Beatty
Seventh Mistook Alarm At Fort Wadsworth Drill
Sevenths misread a summons during a night attack drill at Fort Wadsworth led to a fire alarm scare. The Seventh Regiment chased fire buckets while gunners laughed as details scrambled. Batteries Six Richmond Ayres and B fired on a moving target with varied hits.
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Fort Wadsworth
Thirteenth Regiment
Richmond
Ayres
Bellevue inquiry into missing jewels of dying patient
Bellevue Hospital was asked to investigate a complaint from Louis Drusehki's friends after his May 18 death. They allege a diamond ring and gold watch vanished while he was admitted from the Mills Hotel on May 12. Drusehki, 75, who had heart trouble, was a waiter at the hotel and a member of a prominent Italian family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellevue Hospital
Louis Drusehki
Bellevue
Mills Hotel
Bleecker Street
Senate
Old Greenwich Village Graffiti Stones Unearthed
Old residents gathered at Hudson and Leroy to view scattered graveyard stones unearthed during the teardown of a two story brick house. Fragments reveal dates and names such as a 1790 brownstone and inscriptions including Moore and Johann Chr. Doctor der Theolo. Sprache Lutherische. A large fragment bears the inscription 7.
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Greenwich Village
Hudson and
Leroy Streets
Congress of Ancients
Moore
Johann Chr
Doctor der Theolo— Sprache
Lutherische
Cemetery History At St Lukes Park Hidden Graves Revealed
Diagonal across from the old house torn down lies St Luke s Park once St Johns Cemetery where a few bodies remain. Old residents recall earlier burial grounds predating Hudson Street and St Luke s Place and say streets openings moved outer graves and builders used tombstone pieces to shore up foundations.
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St. Luke’s Park
St. John's Cemetery
Hudson Street
St. Luke's Place
City of Savannah Launched in Chester Penns Landing
The Ocean Steam Ship Company launched the new steamship City of Savannah at River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works Chester. Miss Susan Cole Winburn christened the vessel as guests arrived by special train from New York. The ship measures about 408 feet in length with steel decks and asbestos covered hurricane and promenade decks. It will enter commission toward the Savannah Line by late September with capacity for 120 first class passengers.
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New York Times
Chester
Penn
Savannah
Savannah Lins
Milliken Brothers Collapse Triggers Receivership Plan
Milliken Brothers, Staten Island structural steel makers, face receivership after overextension amid prosperity. Foster Milliken and H S Manning, major stockholders, are tied to $2.4 million in loans plus $1.05 million advances. Receivers named to continue business, seek reorganizaton. contracts including Singer Building and Pennsylvania terminal cited.
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Milliken Brothers
Staten Island
Foster Milliken
H. 8
Manning
William Nelson Cromwell
Holt
August Hecksher
William L. Ward
J. van Vechten Olcott
Dougherty, Olcott & Tenney
Henry Wollman
Staten Isand
New York
United States
New York City
Singer
Broadway
Cortlandt Street
Pennsylvania
J. S. Bache & Co
J. 8. Bache & Co
Milliken
Foster Mulliken
Manning, Maxwell & Moore
York
Okers
Afterncon Street
Seventh Avenue
West Thirtyfourth Street
Humboldt Savings Bank
San Francisco
Greenhithe
England
Formosa
Elbert H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Steel Corporation
Gary
Milliken, Brothers
Barely Wins Ocean Race From New York to Bermuda
Hamilton Bermuda June 11 The two American power boats Ailsa Craig and Idaho completed a rough voyage from New York to St. David’s Head showing safety and cruising capability. Ailsa Craig finished at 9 59 this morning and Idaho at 7 12 tonight in a tight race for the Gordon Bennett trophy amid near deadline crossovers.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
New York
St. David's Head
Ailsa Craig
Idaho
Ailsa
Craig
Thomas Fleming Day
Eben Stevens
W. B. Stevens
Marblehead
Mass
Peter Shields
Philadelphia
Edward F C Young Improves with Specialist Visit
The condition of Edward F C Young president of the First National Bank Jersey City was greatly improved yesterday. Dr D O Edson of New York a specialist called in for the case on Monday and said Mr Young would probably recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward F. C. Young
First National Bankersey
D. O. Edson
New York
Intor
Mr. Young
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Havana
United
Cigar Stores
Matcimnor Perce
STAR
Hutchinson, Pierce & Co
Cafe Des Ambassadeurs
Waldorf-Astoria
Ramsdell Dells Co
Daggett & Ramsdell
34Th St
Ramsdell
New Jer
Sey Distributing Co
Jerome
Pri
Croton
Gene
City OF
Susan Cole Winburn
E. F. C. Young
Madras
Saka & Company
Herald Square
Knickerbocker Art Galleries
East 28Th St
C. E. Smith
Madison Av
Simmarines
Toles, Nee
Burnham
Phillips
27Th St
Nassau Street
Beckman
B. Akman & CO
G. Akman & CO
Huth Avene
34Th and
35Th Streets
W.g.sloane
Oriental Rugs
Nineteenth Street
James McCreary
Dep’t
Orion
Thirty-fourth Street
Times Square
Times Building
42Nd Street
Bryant
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