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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1905
Page
16
The New York Times invites readers to aid in excluding fraudulent and objectionable advertisements from its columns. All information will be treated confidentially.
Lost and found notices include a green parrot that speaks German lost June 15 with a liberal reward for return, from Goettel at 206 East 15th St. A reward is offered for the return of a gun metal cigarette case lost on Coney Island heat Wednesday evening from L. B. M. Box 313 Times Square. Boarding notices describe rooms for rent with various amenities across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and nearby areas, listing street addresses, features, rates, and contact cues for boarders and references.
Situations Wanted lists many stenographer and stenographer and typewriter postings with details, addresses, ages and salaries. Includes candidates from Miss Owens to Eliza beth Calhoun and Anna Wilson seeking starting wages, experienced professionals and a traveling candidate with strong references.
COMPANION. By experienced teacher as companion to young girl, would travel. Box 313 Times Square. SECRETARIAL work wanted by liberally educated woman demanding more than mere verbal reproduction. Ph. P., Box ROL Tinges, Times Square. STENOGRAPHER. Smyth, Box 216 Times Towntown.
Two replacement workers for Jones & Laughlin foundry in Williamsburg were attacked while under police escort. One man was knocked unconscious and another injured, prompting police to disperse the crowd. Daniel Roman and John Gallagher identified. Roman held for hearing, Gallagher discharged.
Frank Gaffro of 32 Madison Street suffers a fall on Thirty-fifth Street while trying to reach New York Hospital. An ambulance collides with a Broadway car on Twenty fifty Street. driver John Rice is flung to the pavement and Dr. Burrows attends the injured man. Rice unharmed. Gaffro lightly hurt. dispute over fault discussed between Rice and the motorman.
A four member committee from the United Order of Oppressed Curb Brokers will visit Commissioner McAdoo to argue that curb traders should not be forced to move by Broad and Wall Street tenants. A curb market panic followed rumors McAdoo might lump brokers with stock vendors, prompting calls for branch segregation and mounted police to enforce it. Tonight, Music in the Parks features Battery Park with William Bayne conducting and Port Richmond Park led by Joseph Stanley.
At a directors meeting the Merchants Trust Company announced an offer for Hudson Valley traction properties that could discharge liabilities and save depositors. The bid, likely from Colvin interests, totals about 850000 on 2500000 in securities. Court permission to accept will be sought Saturday, with $200000 to be raised on Rutland securities to free the properties and protect stockholders.
James J. Corbett and Parson Davies are barred from taking over the Delavan Hotel after the Henry B. Harris Theatrical Company obtained a Supreme Court injunction. Justice Clarke issued the order, citing a five year contract keeping Corbett from any venture using his name. O Rourke says the hotel will stay open.
Mrs. Adelaide H. James sues Henry H. James a Fifth Avenue diamond expert for separation and alimony claiming cruelty and undisclosed prior marriage. She cites his large income and possible $15,000 commission on a Pearl necklace sale involving Rockefeller kin. judge orders $12.50 weekly alimony and $100 counsel fee.
Harry Goldfarb robbed Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lease at G1 East One Hundred Twenty-second Street and George H. Birch at 208 West Eightieth Street. He received an indeterminate term in the Elmira Reformatory in General Sessions yesterday.
J Edward Simmons Charles A Shaw and Charles N Chadwick named to the Board of Water Supply bring a request to the Board of Estimate for a $100000 appropriation to begin work. The board will act on the request today.
Supervisor Thomas E. Brown Jr with 900 enumerators in New York County declines to estimate city growth. He notes compensation for enumerators at two dollars per day and emphasizes actual and necessary work. Virginian T. Taliaferro fights census questions in West Side Police Court before a magistrate.
President Littleton of Brooklyn asks the Board of Estimate to authorize private sale of the Montauk Theatre for 500000 though assessed at 300000. Tax Board Chief O Donnell protests the price gap and seeks explanations from tax officials. Ex Senator Reynolds Senator McCarren and Brooklyn political figures back Controller Grout in the matter.
Joseph Ambruchwalter, a sewing machine operator for Farry, Fishman, at 127 Bleecker Street, was pulled into a live machine causing a panic among 300 workers. A short circuit sparked sparks and a false fire alarm, drawing four engines and ladders. no one else was hurt.
Ralph Fisher, a blind musician, and his escort Mazie Hill were crossed on Amsterdam Avenue at Ninety-first Street when a street car driver failed to slow. They were thrown to the ground and bruised but not seriously injured after treatment at J Hood Wright Hospital. no arrest was sought.
A car skidded at the entrance of Central Park on One Hundred Tenth Street and Lenox Avenue and struck a lamppost. Mrs. Charles H. Dickinson, of the Inverness apartments, was thrown to the sidewalk and unconscious for a time. Her eight year old niece Helene Canby escaped injury. Dickinson, a manufacturer with business in New York and Coldwater Michigan, owned the car.
Payments totaling $900000 for franchise and realty taxes were received by the Department of Finance. Franchise taxes accounted for $851177.36. The largest check was $772686.58 from Brookyln Union Gas Co with other Brooklyn and Queens gas firms contributing sizable amounts.
Joseph Scott of 2 050 Third Avenue was sun dazzled and fell from a water wagon he was driving at the intersection of One Hundred and Fifty third Street and Amsterdam Avenue. A police officer conveyed him to J Hood Wright Hospital for treatment.
The New York Electrical Society elected officers including President W. B. Barstow. Vice Presidents H. G. Stott Putnam A. Bates Max Loewenthal Albert F. Ganz Louis B. Marks and W. B. Rugg. Secretary George H. Guy. Treasurer H. A. Sinclair.
Rapid Transit Commission to study a proper ventilation system for the Subway with Chief Engineer Rice empowered to investigate and plan improvements. The work will not occur this year. aims to have a system ready for next year. Belmont of Interborough notes oppressive air. officials cite kiosk entrances as worst spots.
Charles Clark, M. D., formerly of New Orleans, visited Samuel Lloyd, M. D., at 12 West Fiftieth Street seeking treatment. Clark tried to leave with a shotgun, was restrained, and charged with grand larceny. He claimed to be a 42 year old graduate of a Southern university and had letters from physicians.
Police Commissioner McAdoo received eight eligibles for five Inspector posts from the Municipal Civil Service Commission. He will send the list to his Advisory Committee this afternoon and may discard several candidates, with Nally a veteran who must be appointed if chosen. He stated he will not act on the list today.
Adolph Hirschberg a Lexington Avenue stationer was arrested for selling cap explosive arrangements to his son before the legal deadline. Michael R Carroll of East Ninety-seventh Street testified at the Harlem Court. A boy suffered an eye injury from a premature blast and blood poisoning led to eye removal. Hirschberg held in 300 bail.
Four girls employed by a belt manufacturer on 4% Broadway fainted from heat in the workroom. Dr. O'Leary of St. Vincent's Hospital treated them for about thirty minutes before they recovered. The incident left the rest of the force disorganized, and the proprietor granted a half holiday.
Transit notes reference Warren Street between 13th and 32nd Streets with nearby numbers 258 842 1260 noted, implying service or construction details in a historical urban grid. Further context is limited in readable text.
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