Launch Crushed by Steel Hawser in Hampton Roads Tragedy
The launch carrying midshipmen and sailors was struck by a steel towline and raised from Hampton Roads with one body recovered. The Navy board of inquiry, led by Capt. Mahan, will determine the cause as divers and inspectors examine damage to the Minnesota’s launch and bow area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Metcalf
Hampton Roads
Moetcaf
Norfolk
George W. Westpnal
John W. Oast
Superviewe
3 District
Bray and
Péley
Col. Oast
Naval Board of Inquiry
New York
Philadelphia
Crisfield
Mahan
Indiana
Hubbard
Minneota
McCrea
Iowa
W. H. Emery
Oorth
Minnesota
Navy launches criticised after fatal Hampton incident
Rear Admiral Coghlan defended naval launches, saying boats fill with water and sink, not stay afloat. He warned canvassed canopies trap passengers in rough weather, making escapes nearly impossible, calling such launches a laughing stock among navies and a safety risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hampton Ads
Army
Navy
Ister
Joseph B. Coghlan
United States
Harvard President Warns Diet Weakens Athletes
Cambridge Mass June 15 President Charles A Eliot of Harvard told the Young Men's Christian Association that the diet now used by athletes is weakening not strengthening. He said the food focus at colleges consumes all attention leaving little energy for intellectual growth and that athletes' energy is spent on training year round. He noted a shift from broader study to records food and sport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mass
Youngen’s Christian Association
Charles A. Eliot
Harvard
Heto
Abruzzi Ship Not Sighted Off Boston Amid Delay
Special to The New York Times reports delays in the Duke of Abruzzi's flagship Varese. The Varese, expected to reach Boston at noon, has not been sighted after leaving Norfolk while Des Moines and Illinois arrive separately as escort, weather off Cape Cod cited as a cause.
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New York Times
Boston
Varese
Cape Cod
Des Moines
Illinois
Norfolk
Schmitz Refused Bail in Extortion Case
San Francisco June 15 Judge Dunne denied bail for Mayor Schmitz, convicted of extortion, with sentencing set for June 37. Prosecution policy and public sentiment favored keeping the mayor in custody. Schmitz confined in the branch county jail as orders were issued. Indictments against G H Ambsen Joseph E Green W L Brobeck and Abraham Ruef for bribery of Supervisors were read. they pleaded not guilty.
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Ban Francisco
Schmits
Dunne
Schmitz
Branch
Dune
G. H. Ambsen
Joseph E. Green
W. L Brobeck
Abraham Ruef
Regulars See Guardsmen Muster Out After Fort Exercise
After a week of mimic warfare at Fort Schuyler Wadsworth and Hamilton the Seventh Thirteenth and Forty seventh Regiments and the Eighth Battalion which aided regulars were mustered out of the United States service yesterday morning and reached their armories late in the afternoon Footsore and weary The regulars will not break camp until tomorrow when two weeks of field service ends At the forts the departing regiments were given a rousing send off except the Seventh which has been said to be reluctant to mix with regulars and left without a friendly farewell from its camp mates after the Thirteenth parted amid cheers and shouts of farewell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forts
Schuyler
Wadsworth
Hamilton
United States Service
Baby drinks cleaning liquid at Harlem market
Mrs. Herman Friedman of East 117th Street took her two year old Margaret to Richard Weber's Harlem Packing House on Third Avenue. In the crowd Margaret, unattended by her mother, drank a bottle of a liquid used to whiten shoes, mistaking it for milk. The bottle was taken away by Supt. Kummer, who then gave Margaret hot salted milk. Mrs. Friedman fainted but recovered. The market resumed normal business after the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman] Friedman
East 117Th Street
Third Avenue
Richard Weber
Harlem
120Th Street
Margaret Friedman
Weber's
Veral
Mart
Maret
Margaret
Mararet
William Ummer
Kummer
Pastor and congregation Stage whiskey bust in Orient wagon raid
Pastor John A. Gray of Orient and about twenty worshippers dressed as Polish laborers to raid Albert Brandt's wagon alleged to sell liquor. Brandt was arrested on a warrant and held for $1,000 bail before Justice Terry ahead of the next Grand Jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Gray
First Congregational Church of
Orient, S. 1
Albert Brandt
Orient
Dr .Gray
Brandt
Terry
Brokers Stop A Judgment In Two Suites
Supreme Court Justice Truax granted a preliminary injunction with show cause to make permanent restraining Susan Day Parker and Eliot Norton from executing a judgment against F Egerton Webb and John Hi Pra t of Webb Prall stock brokers. The disputes cover two suits totaling about 50 with Mrs Parker suing in 1904 for 50000 in Union Pacific bonds converted for brokers use. The referee Hamilton Odell found against the brokers despite their accounting defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Truax
Susan Day
Parker
Eliot Norton
F. Egerton Webb
John Hi. Pra't
Webb & Prall
Charles Thorndike Parker
Union Pacific Railroad
Toeir
Hamilton Odell
New Harlem Hospital Officially Opened at Lenox Avenue
The New Harlem Hospital on Lenox Avenue and 186th Street opened yesterday after six weeks of operation. Ninety patients are now under care in its modern five story building costing $624000 with plans for a nurses home and potential extra wing. Dr John W Brannan presided with Controller Metz outlining city hospital funding and the push for more public and private medical facilities.
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Harlem Hospital
Lenox Avenue
186Th Street
Thrses
John W. Brannan
Bellevue and Allied Hospitals
Branman
Metz
New York
Dr Gamage to Open New School at Paulding New York
Details reveal Dr Gamage planning a St Pauls like school at the Dutcher House in Paulding, NY with five grades for older students. The property includes seven acres and a rear park, temporary use before a new building to be finished by autumn 1908. Dr Gamage departs Garden City July 1.
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New York Times
Garden City
L. I
Gamage
St. Paul's School
Bishop Burgess
Paulding
N. Y
St. Paul's
Dutcher House
St. Paul’s
E Robert Cluett
Cluett, Peabody Cr
Ed P. Meany
Ameri Telephone and Telh Company
New Jersey
Cluett
Meany
Railroads to Sell 100000 Bales of Unclaimed Cotton
Texas railroads plan to sell 100000 bales of unclaimed cotton, settled on market price at shipment. Most cotton was allotted earlier when prices were 9 cents or less, and roads expect to gain about 8 to 4 cents per pound on the $1,250,000 involved.
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New York Times
Galveston
Texas
Woes of Von KletzingA German designer of balloons arrives in New York
Dietrick Von Kletzing from Frankfort on the Main says he is of a noble family and designer of balloons. He boarded with Mrs Maud E Hewitt at 106 West Seventy Seventh Street. Ten days ago he left, then obtained a summons against Hewitt for three suits of clothes. Detectives Cahill and Glory tried to serve it. entry denied. Hewitt fled to a plumber shop. Police arrested Von Kletzing on the Hewitt stoop after a miscommunication with a German speaker. In court his lawyer called the arrest unwarranted and outrageous. Hewitt claimed the clothes were kept for a board bill. Von Kletzing denied owing her money but admitted poker debts. The summons against Hewitt was dropped. the disorderly conduct charge against him was also dismissed.
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Dietrick von. Kletzing
Frankfort-on-the-Main
Dr. Thomas
Maud E. Hewitt
West Seventy-seventh Street
von Rigzing
Mrs. Hewitt
West Side
von Kietzing
Bresnan
Bingham
Jerome
Immigrant in Bad Plight at South Ferry Station
Vincenzo Moretti, a newly landed immigrant, faced a ticket mix up at South Ferry Station. He dropped his Hartford ticket into the box, was told to buy a new ticket, and after a lengthy dispute with the clerk, an inspector opened the box and issued his fare and ticket an hour and a half later.
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Vincenzo Moretti
South Ferry
Ellis Island
New York Central
Forty-second Street
Moretti
Hartford
Per
Eee
Vincenzo
SICK CONDUCTOR A death by own action
John Harry a 46 year old Lexington Avenue trolley conductor had quit work two months earlier due to swollen leg veins. He hanged himself with a rope made from torn bandages after stepping off his bed at 87 East 114th Street. His wife Catherine and six children faced hunger. His daughter Catherine discovered the body after bringing supper. The Harlem Hospital doctor pronounced him dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Harry
Lexington Avenue
East 114Th Street
Catherine
Hartmeyer
Starry
Harvy
Dr. Bischoff
Harlem
Doctor H A Meeker Arrested for False Pretenses
Dr Herman A Meeker proprietor of West Side Private Hospital at 163 to 167 West Sixty fourth Street was locked up after accusations by James A Walsh and F L Le Pompadour. They say they bought hospital shares and served as Superintendent but were unpaid and were refused refunds. Detectives Nelson and McConville investigated due to prior acquaintance with the doctor.
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Herman & Meeker
West Bide
West Sixty-fourth Street
Nelson and McConville
James A. Walsh
Warren Street
Brooklyn
le Pompadour
Burly Lane
New Rochelle
Meeker
The St. Marys Last Cruise Ends Cadet Era
The schoolship St Marys of the New York Nautical School begins its final Atlantic voyage before retirement in autumn. It will be replaced by the U S cruiser Vicksburg, a steam vessel with sailing gear suited to cadet needs. Departure from Plymouth is in July with anticipated return by September.
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St. Mary’s
New York Nautical School
United States
Vicksburg
St Mary's
Enn Come
Plymouth
St. Mary's
Spreckels Accuses Road of Rebating in Land Deal Offer
The 1905 dispute shows Claus Spreckels alleging the New York Central gave rebates to Arbuckles and two sugar firms. He claims $18,393.70 is the landing cost difference and pledges to deed Yonkers land to the railroad if rebates are repaid. The railroad counters with a $4,830 offer and pending condemnation.
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Claus Spreckels
Federal Sugar Refining Company
New York Central
Arbuckles
American
National Sugar Refining Companies
Yonkers
Sutherland
White Plains
Spreckels
Albert H.harris
Harris
American Buger Refining Company
Arbuckle Brothers
National Bugar Refining Company
Ira A. Place
United States
B. D. Mitchell
Co. A. Spreckels
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Ivy Board
Derrick
Service Journal
Eliot
Abruzzi
Mr. Gray
Court
Susan D. Parker
NEW City Hospital
Brannan
Department of Charities
Health Department
W. Rhineland Stews
State B of Charities
Charles Blandy
Harlem Board of Commerce
Stewart
Blandy
Harlem Board
DR. Gamage
Texas Lines
Nee
von Kletzing
H. A. Meeker
Road
Pierre J. Smith
Impany
Ar' American
National
Oldsmobile
Long Island
Kansas City
Wilkes Barre
Readville
New Haven
Oldsmobile CO
Broadway
61St St
Lincoln Safe Deposit Co
St. Send
Westchester County
P. Brady
Jdarfem
Brady
Melrose
Gruck
Saks & Company
Valenciennes
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