New Powers Added to Public Service Commission
The Legislature strengthens the Public Service Commission by expanding control over commutation and joint rates for steam and trolley railroads and extending oversight to holding companies. The amendments broaden jurisdiction over surface traction receivers, ensure filings from holding entities, and empower the commission to initiate rate investigations, authorize capital issuances, and require verifiable corporate reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Commission
Albany
Public Service Commissions
Commission of the Second District
Commission of the First District
European passenger rates fall short on travel comforts
Reports from United States consul Ifft describe Europe’s travel as cheap yet irregular with few conveniences. Rates per mile vary by country and ownership, with Germany and England showing high charges and Italy offering high base fares despite long-distance parcels. first class resembles US parlor cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
United States
Ifft
Nuremberg
Germany
Saigtine
Belgium
France
Holland
Acai Sedaka
England
Gt R. R
R. R
Italy
Chiasse
Palermo
Naples
Great Eastern Railroad
Straus Opens Nine More Pasteurized Milk Depots
Nathan Straus adds nine new pasteurized milk stations to his network, bringing total depots to seventeen in Battery Park City Hall Central Parks and recreation piers. Milk is sold at reduced prices, with a cent a glass on piers and parks, plus free medical care for ill babies by Dr. Arthur Randolph Green.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Straus
Battery
Ciy Hall
Central Parks
East Third
East Twenty-fourth
East 112Th
Barrow
West Fiftieth Streets
Educational Alliance
Tompkins
Mount Morris
Straits
Arthur Randolph Green
Straus
Washington
National Capital
Midnight autopsy on girl eloper shocks city
Coroner ordered autopsy on Mrs. Margaret Leavitt Smollen, who died at Miss Perrigo's sanitarium after eloping with chauffeur Joseph Smollen. Cause listed as septicaemia. secrecy around death noted but no foul play found. Smollen seeks counsel as Coroner examines marriage to Smollen and arrangements for funeral.
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Feinberg
Margaret Leavitt Smollen
Miss Perrigo
Central Park West
G. Howland Levitt
Flushing
Board of Health
Mrs. Smoken
Joseph Smoken
Jersey City
Lehane
Smollen
Lorraine
Europe
Frank R. Oastler
Charles G. Meyer
Oastler
M. A. Werner
Second Avenue
H. C. Coe
E. B. Cragin
West Fiftieth Street
Smoken
Perrigo
Department of Health
James J. Corbett
Thoypas Dare
Corbett
Ada Dare
West Electy-fifth Street
Katherine Verdery
Paris
Samuel Willets
New York
Bowne
West Fighty-fourth Street
Bayside
L. 7
Leavitt
Dayton
Jeffries
California
Mr. Smollen
Mother
Sheridan Manuscript of The School for Scandal to Sell at Sothebys
The authentic manuscript of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, owned by a private family, comprises about 137 quarto pages in Russia binding with the Chetwynd arms. Notes and letters confirm its authenticity, including Sheridan's submission to the examiner and a 1777 license event. Sheridan's stage edits include removing Miss Verjuice and part of Lady Sneerwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Brinsley
Sheridan
Sotheby's
London
Times
Russia
School For Scandal
Theatre Royal
Drury Lane
House of Commons
Lord Hertford
George Chetwynd
Fairburn
Miss Verjuice
Lady Sneerwell
City swimming pool opens in Brooklyn bath complex
Borough President Alfred E Steers opened a new public bath and swimming pool at President Street and Fourth Avenue Brooklyn. The $168000 facility features a 60 by 4 foot pool with depths from 3 1 2 to 6 feet and 90000 gallons of water. An exhibition by Odiva and athletes from the Women’s Christian Association and Volunteer Life Saving Corps highlighted the launch. Engineers plan a Fourth Avenue Subway station at President Street that could cripple the pool by cutting pumps and coal supply, despite pleas to relocate the site to Union Street.
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Alfred E. Steers
President Street
Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn
Odiva
Women's Christian Association
Volunteer Life Saving Corps
W. E. Longfellow
Bath
Union Street
Yale Commencement Week to Highlight 200th Year
Yale’s 200th anniversary commencement next week will attract notable alumni. President Taft and his son Robert Alphonso head a group including ex Senators Dryden and Brandegee and Congressman Dalzell. Justice H B Brown will deliver the Law School address. about 800 degrees will be awarded across departments with next week’s exams determining final counts.
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New York Times
New Haven
Conn
Yale
Taft
Robert Alphonso
Harvard Law School
United States
John F. Dryden
New Jersey
Frank Brandegee
Connecticut
Senator Dryden
Brandegee
John Dalzell
Pittsburg
H. B. Brown
The
Supreme Court
Samere
Sheffie Scientific School
Ee Oo Wall
Trade of Girls for Opium Reported From Mindanao
A Manila dispatch to New York discusses traffic in opium involving native girls in the Sarangani region south of Mindanao. W. S. Lyon, an horticulturist, notes the trade is primarily among Moros and Chinese traders, with scarce government enforcement. He describes payment via opium or cash, and remarks on marriage customs and the hope for missionary reform.
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John D. Lindsay
New York Society For the Prevention of
Manila
Philippine Islands
New York
Sarangani
Mindanao
Lyon
Department of Agriculture
Washington
South Mindanao
Palm Island
Lindsay
Mr. Lyon
Cottobato
Great Oa
Letters of Gen Wolfe to Miss Lacey Go Under The Hammer
Sothebys London will auction two unpublished holograph letters by Gen James Wolfe from 1747 when he was twenty, written to his confidante Miss Lacey during his Netherlands campaign. The letters reveal Wolfe’s view on soldierly happiness and hint at a yet unknown relationship, sparking biographers’ curiosity. Wolfe, killed at Quebec in 1758, never married his fiancée Miss Lawson.
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James Wolfe
Abraham
Quebec
Canada
Sotheby’s
London
Miss Lacey
Netherlands
Miss Lawson
Gen
Wolfe
Robert Burns
Sothebys
Burns
Matam
Carlton
Madame Sawyer
Republick
Bernard
Burns Letter Drafts at Sothebys Sale in London
Sothebys London will auction an unpublished Robert Burns love letter holograph dated 1747. The sale includes Burns drafts and an Earl of Buchan letter, plus Penn family heirlooms and Sheridan manuscripts, highlighting Burns, Erskine, and other 18th century figures.
Thackeray Portrait Found by Sothebys in London Sale
A new original oil portrait of William M. Thackeray, 24 by 20 inches, signed by L. Poyet and dating to his Paris years, shows Thackeray in early manhood with gray speckled hair and a noted nose disfigurement. The piece, en franchise frame, will be offered at Sotheby’s London along with an 18th century George III silver cake basket once owned by Thackeray.
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William M. Thackeray
Thackerayana
L. Poyet
Thackeray
Paris
Samuel Laurence
Charterhouse
John Russell
George Stevin
Poyet
Dent
Sotheby's
London
George III
Panic After Stove Explodes in Williamsburg Apartment
Mrs Rose Buschmann was badly burned when an oil stove exploded in her apartment on North Eighth Street Williamsburg yesterday. Her twenty year old daughter Annie burned her hands while trying to rescue her mother as flames spread and neighbors panicked. Policemen and an ambulance arrived but the daughter and neighbors urged caution as Mrs Buschmann’s condition remained serious.
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Rose Buschman
North Eighth Street
Williamsburg
Annie
Politemian McDermott
Bedford Avenue
Eastern District Hospital
Frank
Devotion's Devil: New York Medical Journal Attacks Christian Science
The New York Medical Journal brands Christian Science as a demonic cult. It accuses MA M of malicious spirit, claims followers exhibit self-worship and neglect charitable works, and cites alleged patient harm and persecution as consequences of the movement.
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New York Medical Journal
Luciffer
Corcover
Christian Science
Fog Hits Harbor as 16 Steamers Sink Scow in Collision
In dense fog two harbor collisions sink an oil barge and a street-cleaning scow. One life is lost as the Red Cross steamship Bornu sinks Scow 43 near Ward’s Island and the Carolina of Porto Rico Line wrecks after striking barges in Buttermilk Channel. The Carolina is damaged beyond repair and towed back to port. six barge workers are rescued.
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Red Cross
Bornu
Hell Gate
Newfoundland
Daniel McCambridge
Carolina
New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company
Atlantic Basin
Brooklyn
Ponce
Governors Island
Buttermilk Channel
Oil. Company
L. J. Sargent
Case Oil
Standard
Anette
Steamship Company
Plant Line
Savannah
Unti
Panama
Sandy Hook
Colon
Shooter's Island
Ward's Island
Capt
Dutton
Riker’ée
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Interborough Metropolitan Company
Hudson Companies
McAdoo
Public Service Commission of
First District
Delaware & Hudson Company
Delaware & Hudson Railroad
Second District
Laware & Hudson Railroad
New York City
Girl Eloper
City Swimming Pool
Barnard
Philippines
Gen. Wolfe
Lacey
Hero of
Leslie Stephen Tm
David Steuart Erskine
Earl of
Buchan
Elcho
Scotland
Mary
Heaven
Shade
Thorson
John Geddes
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
J. Wolfe
Camp of
Beaver
Jancy
Father
Casper
Maestuich
J. W. Camp
Westerloo
William Penn
Pennsylvania
Benjamin Fletcher
Sir Walter Scott
William Pitt
Lady Love
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Him
X-Science
DEVIL
Carolina of
Porto Rico
Philadelphia
Buffalo
Oppenheim
Guins RG
34Th Street
Pongee Ulsters
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