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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1909
Page
3
The Fifth Avenue Branch at 475 Fifth Avenue near 41st Street offers interest on deposit accounts and acts as custodian of personal property and manager of real property. It handles Travelers' Letters of Credit, foreign money and express checks, and provides Vault Boxes for customers.
Attorney General Wickersham reveals personal investigation of the Sugar Trust and related parties including the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company. The DOJ has obtained trial records and documents from the New York Sherman act suit, while officials urge secrecy and caution newspaper publishing until results are reached. The department expresses displeasure at publicity and interference.
Congressman Herbert Parsons rejects Houston’s charge that the Sugar Trust influenced politics. He states he never used his position to aid the American Sugar Refining Company and notes his father’s ties as counsel and director but says he has not shared fees. Parsons offers to answer further questions.
The Detroit Americans, champions of the American League, were hosted in the East Room by President Taft. Rep Denby of Michigan introduced each player, including Ty Cobb who joked about Augusta connection while Taft joked Cobb is twice as big a man.
Secretary Wilson orders a full inquiry into charges by former Inspector J. Harms against East St. Louis packing plants. Dr. Alonzo D. Melvin heads a Board of Inquiry with George P. McCabe and a DOJ assistant attorney general joining two Washington inspectors.
Senator elect Lorimer of Illinois has left Washington and returned to Chicago without taking his seat. He will return to be sworn in if his vote is needed by Republican leaders on the income tax measure.
A touring car with four men and two women roared through the Bronx and crashed into an iron pillar under a viaduct at Anthony and Burnside. Driver Harry Yorkel fled after John Gleason was critically injured. Gleason remained unconscious at Fordham Hospital. Yorkel, 19, son of J. Henry Yorkel, is sought by police for arrest. several occupants were shaken but uninjured. May Lane is engaged to Gleason, with a planned August wedding.
L. H. Clement of New York urged elimination of misleading ads in newspapers magazines and periodicals and called for national legislation to stop dishonest advertising by mail. About 1000 delegates from 37 states and Canada attended the National Association of Piano Dealers meeting in Detroit. The group also considered banning stenciled pianos made to hide manufacturers.
John R. Early, quarantined as a supposed leper, may be transported to New York for examination and treatment after New York health officials signaled acceptance. A three-member committee will decide if he has leprosy, with Dr. Bulkley’s prior finding not binding. Mrs. Early travels to Albany to seek state health board permission.
The Honolulu strike leaders are jailed after an indictment for conspiracy to intimidate plant workers. Negoro and editors from The Jiji and The Nippu sue the Territory for damages and appeal to the Japanese Foreign Office. Police keep force on duty as tension rises and Japanese protests reach Tokio.
Washington dispatch reports several Japanese nationals in Hawaii arrested on conspiracy charges but the State Department has not been informed and the Japanese Embassy has not been advised of the affair.
The Rev Dr James H Spear ex pastor of New York City First Union Presbyterian Church was badly bruised in Webb City Missouri when two street cars collided with the automobile he rode in He had come to Webb City to fill a local pulpit recently and had left Lexington Avenue for the West due to his wife illness.
Pennsylvania Railroad uses an electro pneumatic automatic block signal system. Compressed air drives signals while electricity controls the mechanism. Signals show danger if a train occupies the next block or if an interruption occurs. The two-signal setup informs enginemen two blocks ahead, boosting safety and reducing reliance on human judgment.
Harry K Thaw the Stanford White slayer obtained a writ of habeas corpus from Justice Gaynor in Brooklyn to test his sanity and seek release from Matteawan Asylum He seeks a hearing before Justice Mills at White Plains The case cites due process issues with the Penal Code and recalls prior writs and transfers involving Thaw and Matteawan.
Under Mrs Frances C W Hartleys will probate in Newark allocates about 1 million dollars to relatives and friends with the sole item for Helen K Jenkins a dining room table. Grandson Marcellus Hartley Dodge receives residuary estate and part of the late Marcellus Hartley business. Executors named are Marcellus Hartley Dodge and Mrs Cornelius W Butler. Henry K White and Mrs White receive large cash bequests. other sisters receive substantial sums. domestic staff receive smaller amounts. The estate is valued at several millions though exact worth is not stated.
Gov. Hughes announced the members of a commission to study employers liability and unemployment in New York. The group includes Henry R. Seager Otto M. Fidlitz John Mitchell George W. Smith Crystal Eastman and legislators Wainwright Platt Bayne Lowe Voss Thorn C W Phillips Jackson. The panel serves without pay funded by a 10 000 appropriation and will report to the 1911 Legislature.
Charles Schmidt, who admitted pickpocketing and accused Brooklyn detectives of attempting extortion, was sentenced by Judge Dike to four years and six months in Sing Sing for robbing Frederick Gabriel at 798 Metropolitan Avenue. Detectives Coughlan Duane and McCloskey were exonerated.
Jane Addams of Hull House becomes president of the National Conference of Charities and Correction for 1910 in a unanimous vote. The 36 year old organization marks the first time a woman leads, with officers including F H Nibecker Ansley Wilcox and Judge William H De Lacy and an executive committee with multiple city and state delegates.
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