Water Main Break Causes Subway Shutdown and Heat Hazards
A old four inch water main under Forty-second Street failed after a tunnel explosion. Repairs lagged as contractors and the Water Department clashed over responsibility. The Grand Central area flooded with a four foot water pool and intense heat from pumps, forcing trains to run slowly and crowds to flood streets.
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Forty-second Street
Fortieth Street
Park Avenue
Water Department
Norton & Palton
Dalton
Patton
Mr. Craven
Hedley
Grand Central Station
Interborough
Gilchrist
Grand Central
Mr. Hedley
Belmont
Tures
Fourteenth Street
New York City Railway Company
Dense Fog and Flood Deluge Halt Brooklyn Subway Work
A fog and heavy rainstorm crippled Brooklyn transit as the Fulton Street subway site flooded near Duffield Street. Water from a broken sewer main invaded the tunnel, delaying elevated trains and halting wagon traffic. Streets, including Wallabout and Brighton Beach lines, became impassable with waterways three feet deep in some districts. Crowds hunted for dry cars as showmen and hotelkeepers faced delays and disappointment at Coney Island.
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New York
Atlantic Transport Line
Minnehah
London
Fulton Street
Brooklyn
Duffield Street
Wallabout
Brighton Beach
Lee Park
Coney Island
Fleet unfit ten ships fight went out zero meet Togo
Vladivostok report cites AP interviews with surviving Russian naval officers. Claims poor command and lack of training, with Kniaz Souvaroff sunk and Admiral Rozestvensky wounded. Describes ineffective gunnery, disorganized formations, and exhausted ammunition on day one amid heavy Japanese fire.
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Nebogatoff
Rojestvensky
Madagascar
Oshabia
Alexander III
Kniaz Souvaroff
Oslabia
Vladimir Monomach
Oushakoff
Seniavin
Togo
Borodino
Nakhimoff
Navarin
Russia
Berkh
Dunne and Johnson Confer on Government Railways Ownership
Chicago Mayor Edward F. Dunne and Clarence S. Darrow met with Cleveland Mayor Tom L. Johnson for two days to discuss municipal railway ownership. Attendees included A. B. Dupont, a Detroit Railways builder, and a St. Louis street railway manager, with Prof. E. W. Bemis and Newton D. Baker. Dunne stated the next Democratic platform will push government ownership of railways, with Johnson backing him and Bryan expected to support.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Edward F. Dunne
Chicago
Clarence S. Darrow
Tom L. Johnson
Johnson
A. B. Dupont
Detroit Railways
St. Louis
Dunne
E. W. Bemis
Cleveland Water Works
Frederick C. Howe
Newton D. Baker
William Jennings Bryan
Justice Gaynor criticizes raids in Brooklyn poolrooms
In Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gaynor refused to stop police entry into the West Side area dubbed The Allen's place but condemned raid methods. He warned that government by axe and club echoes Russian practices, not American law.
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Gaynor
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
West Side
Allen's Place
Justice Gaynor
Russia
Thompson-Starrett Hires Only IBEW Local 3 Members
The Thompson Starrett Company signed a one year contract requiring employment only of Electrical Workers' Union No. 3 members who are currently locked out by the Building Trades Employers' Association. The move appears as a direct challenge to the Employers' Association, which had expelled the firm for re employing its locked out carpenters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Thompson-Starrett Company
Electrical Workers’ Union No. 3
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Employers’ Association
Mr Roosevelt Receives Replies to Peace Note and Plans
Mr Roosevelt gets replies to his peace note and plans to attend Harvard commencement on June 27 and 28 before traveling to Oyster Bay.
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MR. Roosevelt
Harvard
Oyster Bay
Russians Skeptical Amid Peace Prospects in Russia
St Petersburg dispatch notes Russian hope for deliverance from war yet deep skepticism about peace terms. Analysts warn peace without national counsel may empower reactionaries, with a plenipotentiary appointed and censorship tightening as Zemstvo Congress address to the Emperor awaits Wednesday reception.
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London Times
NEW York Times
ST. Petersburg
Japan
Roosevelt
Russia
Dogger Bank
Moscow
Zemstvo
Peace Negotiations May Be Handled By Chiefs In Manchuria
London dispatches report Russia and Japan may use Generals Linovitch and Oyama to settle the Manchurian conflict under Roosevelt’s suggestion. Japanese experts doubt this, noting Oyama’s strength as a field commander but unfitness for diplomat duties, arguing war and diplomacy are separate crafts.
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NEW York Times
London
St. Petersburg
Manchuria
Times
Japan
Russia
Roosevelt
Gen. Linovitch
Gen. Oyama
Oyama
Mr Roosevelt Triumph Inspires European Admiration
London dispatch notes tributes to Roosevelt as a personal and national triumph. Editorials in The Morning Post praise his unique diplomacy while The Daily Chronicle hails a splendid beginning to a world policy. The Daily Telegraph emphasizes Russia's sincerity and Roosevelt’s resolve against any affront.
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London
Roosevelt
The
Morning Post
Lincoln
Europe
Asia
America
Daily Chronicle
Daily Telegraph
Russia
Russian Parliament to begin in September
The Russian experiment in parliamentarianism will begin in September with a bicameral system. The Emperor has approved a scheme creating the Gosudarstvennaia Duma and the Gosudarstvennaia Sovet while keeping final authority with the Emperor. Elections will occur during the upcoming summer.
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ST. Petersburg
Associated Press
Council of State
Gosudarstvennaia Duma
Imperial Duma
Gosudarstvennaia Sovet
Council of the Empire
Mikado Holds a Council in Tokio
Dispatches from Tokio report the Emperor presided yesterday at a council with all state ministers and forty senior military and naval officers present.
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London
Tokio
Policy gang raided in Manhattan crackdown
Superintendent Burke of the Anti Policy Society raided two policy shops in West Forty eighth Street and West Twenty ninth Street. Fifteen men and two girls were found at the first, with Fritz Strahlmeyer and others arrested. At the second, James McElroy’s saloon, James Rogers and four others were seized as curfew ends, pledging to close all such dens.
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Burke
The
Anti-Policy Society
Allegen
West Fortyurst Street
West Twenty-ninth Street
West Thirtyseventh Street
Fritz Strahsmeyer
Tenteen
Strahlmeyer
Herman Hoffman
Warren Gillard
Hoffman
F. Norton Goddard
Heaney
Ray
West Twenty-ninth Street Place
James McElroy
James Rogers
Rogers
Goddard
Mr. Burke
Manhattan
Peach quest in Asia for mother of all peaches
Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture seeks news from the Orient as a second expedition searches the Himalayas and Yangtze headwaters for the prehistoric peach. He hopes the expert will soon cable that he has found the mother of all peaches and will bring specimens to America for cultivation in new regions.
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New York
Washington
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Orient
Department
China
Himalayas
America
Trust Co Sues the Wabash for Bond Interest
The Mercantile Trust Company of New York sues the Wabash Railroad in federal court seeking an accounting from July 1, 1899 onward to determine receipts and expenses and to force payment of interest on $30 million in bonds. The suit argues earnings were diverted to projects like double tracking and steel bridges contrary to the mortgage terms.
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New York Times
St. Louis
Mercantile Trust Company of New York Today
United States District Court
Wabash Railroad Company
Eleneous Smith
Trust Company
C. U. Sets Lighting and Subway Ownership Agenda
The Citizens' Union City Committee adopts a supplemental declaration urging municipal ownership of lighting plants and subways. It calls for city control and possible operation by public means, seeking legislative power to dispose of property for public benefit and urging nonpartisan, merit-based administration.
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The
Citizens’ Union
Cutting
Committee of Sixteen
City Convention
New York
Union
Ford
Elsberg
New York City
City Committee of the Union
Fort Howard Repels Naval Demonstration By Adml Dickins Squad
A June morning exercise near Baltimore saw Fort Howard’s artillery engage multiple enemy vessels, including the battleship Texas and several destroyers. The onshore guns claimed “sunk” results as the ships retreated down the Chesapeake Bay toward Admiral Dickins’s squadron near Sandy Point.
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Baltimore
Dickins
Texas
Fort Howard
Sandy Point
Forts Howard
Smallwood
Armistead
Carroll
Worden
Destryer
Whipple
Seven Foot Knoll
Poole’s Island
Chesapeake Bay
Admiral Dickins
Butchers May Fight Trust at State Convention
At the twelfth annual convention of the New York State Retail Butchers Association in the Imperial Brooklyn, speakers Rev. James Duffy and Borough President Littl eton urged action against the Beef Trust. Delegates from across the state gathered, with over 100 attendees, as the afternoon session proceeded in secret.
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New York
Yesterday's Fires Report Across Manhattan
A Sunday night to Monday night fire log records multiple incidents with names and damages. James Herrmann and James B Moore report slight damage, others like Max Kessler Maurice Weisenstein and Jacob Fannel show trifling damage or small sums. The New York Central Railroad area sustains trifling damage.
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Forty-ninth Street
James Herrmann
Tenth Avenue
James B. Moore
West One Hundred
Fifty-third Street
Max Kessler
Pearl Street
Lewis Street
Maurice Weisenstein
Allen Street
Jacob Fannel
Third Avenue
East Fifty-second Street
Morris Kobesky
Park Avenue
Kessel Salzman
Beach
Hudson Streets
New York Central Railroad
Arcanum Rates Explained to Celtic Council Members
About 700 members of the Celtic Council of the Royal Arcanum heard Treasurer P. F. McGowan describe the new assessment rate adopted by the Supreme Council. He noted older members faced higher costs or reduced coverage, with an option to switch by October 1. Some seniors opposed the increase and mentioned potential legal action to retain the old rate.
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Celtic Council of the
Royal Arcanum
Grand Central Palace
P. F. McGowan
Supreme Council
Midnight Sun Cruise Sails From Labrador on Quebec Line
The Pretoria chartered by The Quebec Line will depart Aug 3 for a Labrador voyage to view the midnight sun. Indian Harbor will host the party with Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell meeting them. Miss Isabel Rogers Edgar manages the cruise extending to Cape Chidley in the arctic circle.
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Quebec Line
Pretoria
Labrador
Indian Harbor
Wilfred T. Grenfell
Isabel Rogers Edgar
Cape Chidley
Arctic Circle
Wrigley Ad Campaign Favoring Billboards Wins
The Wrigley Company backed billboards in St. Louis and Chicago for Nips Gum. J L Stack urged newspapers in both cities but a compromise left St Louis to papers and Chicago to outdoor ads. After one month St Louis demand surged while Chicago showed little reaction.
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William Wrigley, Jr
Wrigley Company
St. Louis
Chicago
J. L. Stack
Fourth Estate
Adv
Wood Gatherer Seized After Ladder Incident
Michael Murphy twenty eight years old of 428 West Twenty eighth Street was arrested after a ladder disappeared from a window ledge at Fifth Avenue and Fortieth Street. He claimed someone forced the ladder into his hands but remained in custody at Seventh Avenue and Twenty seventh Street.
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Michael Murphy
West Twenty-eighth Street
Michael
Murphy
Fifth Avenue
Fortieth Street
Kirk
Seventh Avenue
Twenty-seventh Street
Seventeen Story Plaza Hotel Planned by Fred Sterry
Fred Sterry of Hot Sprints Virginia announced plans for a new seventeen story hotel on the Plaza site. Architect J H Hardenberg designed the building resembling the Carlton Hotel in London with marble first two stories and an Italian garden. Construction would begin July 1 with occupancy aimed for September 1 next year.
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Fred. Sterry
Hot Sprints
Plazafore
Holland House
J. H. Hardenbergis
Manhattan
Carlton
London
Counterfeit Half Dollars Demonstrated by Worcester Trader
A Worcester dry goods salesman faced thirty counterfeit half dollars in one day. He used a knife to whittle them to pieces to show their worthlessness and argued that customers were innocent victims of the counterfeit. He recommends this treatment for all spurious coins.
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Worcester
Waterbury
Conn
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Dunne and Johnson
National Assembly
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Linevitch
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C. U
Wilfred Grenfell
Library Bureau
Broadway
Oce
New Plaza
Mr. Sterry
T Hotel
Pennsylvania
Pullman
Desb
Cort
Cincinnati
Si Amiss Aecestor
W. W. Atterbury
J. R. Wood
Geo. W. Boyd
Hudson
130Th ST. Ferry
Statue of Liberty
Wall Street
Palisades
Hudson River Realty Company
W. W. & E. E. Slocum
42Nd St
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