Subway Contractors Clash Over War Contracts and Relief
City officials and 6,000 striking workers faced off as the Public Service Commission promotes the Lockwood plan for wartime subway costs. Contractors reject the mayor’s stance, claiming losses from April 1917 to 1919 and warning that delays threaten New York’s transit. Borough President Dowling condemns contract delays and demands accountability.
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Mathew McConville
Steam Engineering Union
Public Service Commission
General Contractors’ Association
Lockwood
Eren
New York
Tegislature
Tockwood
York
Craig
Ures
Dowling
Bac
Board of Estimate
Frederick I. Crawford
Commissioner Enright retires Lt Grant Williams on half pay
Commissioner Enright orders the retirement of Police Lieutenant Grant Williams on half pay after a serious health breakdown. Williams, 46, has been treated in a sanitarium and is in serious condition. He led the Bureau of Missing Persons and Identification, which under his direction helped solve many cases. He joined the Police Department in J.
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Enright
Grant Willams
Williams
Wiliams
Bureau of Missing Persons and Identification
Bureau of Missing Persons
Open Trial Sought by Brown Aimed at Health Dept Hearing
Lucius P. Brown, head of the Health Department Bureau of Food and Drugs, asks Health Commissioner Copeland for an open trial with witnesses and counsel. Brown argues for public inquiry beyond narrow legal rights, while Copeland cites Corporation Counsel as prescribing the hearing form. The hearing is set for July 5, Copeland to return July 4 from vacation.
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Lucius P. Brown
Bureau of Food and Drugs
Health Department
Royal
Copeland
Brown
Grown
Dr. Copeland
Waplanacon 9
Corporation Counsel
Neans
Charce
New Aquila Star Sparkles Across Hemispheres
Independent observers report a new star in Aquila first seen by Professor T Olivier of Virginia and noted by Harvard observers in Cambridge. Photographs from May 22, 1888 show it at magnitude eleven. Mount Wilson experts in Pasadena say it brightened rapidly and may have peaked near Sirius in luminosity.
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Cambridge
Mass
Aquila
Washington
T. Olivier
University of Virginia
Harvard College Observatory
Warren Hiudworth
Norwood
Europe
Edward ©. Pickering
Harvard Onegrsptory
Cudworth Enab
Harvard Observator
Pasadena
Cal
Mount Wilson Solar Observatory
Sirius
Hudson River Day Line Fares Raised by ICC批准
The Hudson River Day Line was authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission to raise passenger charges following the railroad fare increase. The Western New York and Pennsylvania Traction Company sought ICC approval to raise both freight charges to match the new steam road rate.
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Washington
Hudson River Day
Interstate Commerce Commission
Western New York and Pennsylvania Traction Company
Commission
Boston Postmaster Flies Here With Mail
Lieutenant P. H. Webb flew from Boston to Belmont Park with two passengers Postmaster W. Murray and R. Heck carrying about twenty pounds of mail. The trip took three hours in misty weather ending at Belmont Park where they were welcomed for a first flight.
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P. H. Webb
Boston
Belmont Park
Fr. Murray
R. Heck
Otto H. Kahn
West Hills
Providence
Boston Peatmaster
Philadelphia
Washington Mail
Wea
Walter Millar
Belmont Field
Air Mail Service Planned Between Boston and New York
A plan to establish a daily air mail route between Boston and New York is discussed. The flight narrative highlights smooth operation without engine trouble and describes thrilling speeds and heights near 7,000 feet. Lieutenant Webb led the plane with careful search for a landing spot amid clouds near Providence.
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Boston
New York
Providence
R. L
Webb
New London
New Haven
Importer killed in car crash at Columbus Ave and 77th
Austin Hyman, importer living at the Hotel Majestic, was killed early today when a touring car driven by Max Starlight, also of the Hotel Majestic, struck an elevated villa at Columbus Avenue and Seventy seventh Street. Several others in the car, including two women, were present but unnamed by police. Hyman died at Roosevelt Hospital.
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Austin Hyman
Hotel Majestic
Central Park West
Seventy-second Street
Max Starlight
Columbus Avenue
Seventy—seventh Street
Whisky, beer and wine dumped from police HQ sewer
Police Headquarters whisky stock, valued at over $1,500 from five years of raids, was dumped into the sewer yesterday afternoon by Property Clerk James E. Murphy and assistant Theodore Sundermann. Onlookers watched as bottles were smashed and beer barrels opened with an axe and the illegal liquor flowed away.
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James E. Murphy
Theodore Sundermann
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