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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
6
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The governor and Senator Foelker are lauded for passing racing and prohibition bills after long effort. Foelker traveled to Albany to secure the roll call while Hueuf praises the victory as upholding law and order and funding through race gate money. Political aims beyond the term are hinted at, with no plans for vice presidency.
Washington dispatch lauds Treasury activity and bank bustle. It urges optimal use of the statute and warns against sulking over a result, signaling strong support for financial policy efforts.
The article argues against emergency currency use by banks while noting active but cautious efforts to form currency associations. It critiques protective tariffs for wasting resources, urges resource conservation, and highlights merchants pressuring Taft to back a system enabling commodities to be currency backed by gold. It frames finance politics as influencing platform decisions and voter pressure.
Iowa newspapers weigh Dolliver’s potential second place bid in Chicago. Des Moines Capital argues he should decline to avoid losing Senate influence. Council Bluffs Nonpareil praises his recent Senate work and urges him to stay.
The Commission chosen by the President to advise on resource conservation includes bipartisan lawmakers and leading figures from education business and science. An executive committee drawn from Forestry Service Soils Interior and Geological Survey ensures coordinated action. The piece notes advancing the movement toward legislative measures to curb resource waste and forest destruction.
The Philadelphia death of Mrs Owen Wister at seventy two recalls the Kemble theatrical dynasty. She was Fanny Kemble’s granddaughter through Charles Kemble and Ellen Tree, sister-in-law of Anniss Wister Furness, and mother of Owen Wister, a leading American novelist.
The editor argues against funding a four borough subway before securing reliable revenue. It warns that the project would need near its cost to start and would not dominate traffic. Caution urged as city tax rate rises and a budget review follows a legislative committee's investigation into finances.
A large number of Mercer Street Station officers reportedly pledged total abstinence from intoxicants, sparking debate on extending sobriety across the city. Corporate employers already require temperance for employment, with off duty behavior under scrutiny for public safety reasons. A sober force is seen as reducing bribery and aligning policing with law and order.
A Staten Island property owner argues for extending the Brooklyn Fourth Avenue subway to balance traffic and aid Richmond prosperity. Experts caution the plan would not balance traffic significantly and should avoid using tax funds, noting private financing and through routes as crucial for profitability.
A column contrasts art market prices with genuine aesthetic value and mocks Sir Purpon. It then notes Secretary Tart’s ladder superstition during a War Department stroll, preferring bold risk to superstition as he moves toward potential presidency, ending with reassurance.
R Fulton Cutting of New York defends the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor against Bishop Potter’s critique. He notes 1,114 distressed school children reported this year, 140 in destitution, with ongoing care, plus 540 additional families aided by physicians churches settlements and individuals.
Letter from John H. Griffith of New York dated June 10 1908 notes a Republican club of 61 members with 47 present where 38 share Mr Baker’s views and refuse to vote for Roosevelt or Taft. He cites common sentiment among Republicans unsure whom to support.
Milton Fairchild warns in a letter to the New York Times about a gambling system affecting boys’ baseball. He says games with purses of 5 to 8 dollars per side foster betting, rooters’ bets, and hidden payments even in church and YMCA teams, urging parents to intervene.
A reader urges the Chamber of Commerce and the New York Stock Exchange to jointly fund a bronze statue of J Pierpont Morgan in Central Park. The letter praises his role in saving the city’s credit during a crisis and asserts Morgan would be gratified by such a civic tribute despite his disdain for adulation.
A Times reader complains about four park benches placed in a row at Riverside Park leaving no aisle space. He notes sunset views are fine but requires climbing over many feet, causing discomfort.
Inquiries question why the Brooklyn Fourth Avenue project bid succeeded while Lexington Avenue in Manhattan failed. The writer suggests public authorities like the Public Service Commission and the Board of Estimate and Apportionment may be skilled at manipulating outcomes.
News from The Hague reports F. Cunliffe Owen of this city awarded the Order of Orange Nassau by the Queen of the Netherlands. Owen is a noted writer known by the pen names Ex-Attaché and Marquise de Fontenoy.
The Hudson Tunnels system began regular through service Hoboken to Twenty third Street at 12 01 am on Monday. A test run yesterday featured President McAdoo leading railroad officials and journalists aboard a special car from Fourteenth Street to Lackawanna terminal and back to Twenty third Street, completing the return in ten and a half minutes. The party included Wilbur C Fisker E M Hedley and Lewis Hewitt, with ticket chopper 1294 guarding the scene as McAdoo produced his own pass.
Controller Metz will present a report on the city’s financial status, with the debt limit near 1.4 million below the cap. Officials warn funding for the subway and related real estate will consume large sums, leaving little room before the Board of Estimate’s summer adjournment.
Adelphi College of Brooklyn held its largest commencement last night at Central Congregational Church. Forty five students earned Bachelor of Arts degrees, three earned Master of Arts, and seventy five received departmental certificates. Rev Dr Lyman Abbott gave the address and plans for teacher training and a larger endowment were announced.
A class of ninety four from Stevens Institute of Technology received the Mechanical Engineer degree at morning exercises in Hoboken Castle Point. President Humphreys noted a ten percent enrollment rise and proposed a million dollar expansion bond. honorary degrees were also conferred and a dormitory gift announced.
Carl Berger, manager of the Hotel Gotham, negotiating with Henry L. Goodwin of Fifty fifth Street Construction to take over the lease from October 1. Berger expresses confidence in Gotham as a high class family hotel with several guests already booked for the winter season.
Miss Lilian D. Wald of Henry Street Settlement argues for school meals over charity kitchens to feed east side children. She cites past failed free lunch programs and urges school-based meals as essential to education and long term welfare, urging selective expansion rather than charity-driven feeding.
Lansing dispatch reports the Pullman Car Company will maintain a half cent per mile parlor car rate in Michigan. An executive said flat statewide rates were used to harmonize charges after two small railroads set their own parlor-car rates. The Public Service Commission favored charging only the actual distance traveled.
An eight year old girl named Marie Julich from Bremen was aboard the North German Lloyd steamer Kurfürst when it sailed yesterday for Bremen. She was cared for by A Luders second steward and kept hidden until discovered at sea. Her parents await at the dock to greet her upon arrival.
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