Woodbury's First Report Highlights Street Cleaners Reform
The quarterly report by Commissioner John McGaw Woodbury to Mayor Low compares cleaning work under Tammany with Low’s first months. It notes severe initial shortages, 228 horses and 47 trucks hired, and a plan to incinerate rubbish to cut waste by at least half. It details ash separation goals, legal options, and costs for street debris removal, snow, and related operations in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn with figures for 1901 and 1902.
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John McGaw Woodbury
Low
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East Sixtieth
East Twenty-ninth Streets
Boston
Montreal
San Francisco
Dr.Woodbury
É&C
Manhattan
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Brooklyn
Borough of
Water Department
Supplementary Mails and Transatlantic Dispatch Schedules
Mails open on the piers of multiple transatlantic steamers and close times vary by route. Coastwise and transpacific mail deadlines are listed with connections, plus post office notices and ship arrivals and departures from New York and London ports.
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Victoria
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Vancouver
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Aorangi
United States
Fiji
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Luecania
New York
Sonoma
Empress of China
United States Postal Agency
Shanghai
Canada
Tahiti
Marquesas Islands
Dan Cott
Hongkong
Yokohama
Honolulu
Gaelic
Anthenian
van Cott
Oil firms move vast machinery to Crowther oil field
King Crowther Corporation advances development in Live Oak McMullen and Atascosa counties with new equipment 12 large drilling outfits piping and rotary gear delivered to Karnes City and hauled 40 miles to Crowther. Plans railroad and Gulf coast pipeline to market lubricating and illuminating oils.
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Live Oak
McMullen Counties
Oakville
Tex
McMullen
Atascosa Counties
Live Oak County
King-Crowther Corporation
Campbellton
San Antonio & Crowther Railroad
King-Crowther Pipe Line Company
Texas
San Antonio
Crowther
Gulf Coast of Texas
Rockport
Corpus Christi
Aransas Pass
Gulf
Enero
Vas
Whitsett
Yates, Brown
Jacobs
van Meter
McMullen County
Sam Crowther
Atascosa
Tom Orth
King-Crowther Wells
King-Crowther
Karnes City
Falls City
Live Oak Counties
Beaumont
Pittsburg
New King Crowther Co Opens Oil Field Townsite
The King Crowther Corporation plans a 1000 acre townsite at Crowther Texas to support a San Antonio Crowther Railroad. It leases 500 acres to Big Four Oil Co and another 500 acres to a second firm, fueling rapid field development across McMullen Atascosa and Karnes counties. Judge O E Lewis and managers oversee surveys and terminal site selection with expected five week ground reach.
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Karnes City
Tex
King-Crowther Corporation
Big Four Oil Co
Beaumont
Crowther
O. E. Lewis
San Antonio
Judge Lewis
San Antonio & Crowther Railroad Company
Texas
Burne
Splendid Oil
Ole Earth
King-Crowther
No Oil Company
Wh Corporation
Oil Kingdom
San Antonio Express
Corporation
Pleasanton
Campbellton
Tilden
Oakville
Falls City
Pleasanton Hears Plea for San Antonio Rail Line
Citizens meet at Pleasanton Texas to win a railroad connection with San Antonio. Judge Lewis of the San Antonio and Crowther line says the route favors the King Crowther Oil interests and offers to reach Pleasanton with a $15,000 cash bonus and 20 acres for depot grounds if the town backs the project. A 10 member committee is formed to secure funds and coordinate right of way and depot negotiations.
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Pleasanton
Tex
San Antonio
Court House
Pancoast
Crowthern
San Antonio & Crowther Railroad
San Antonio & Crowther Enterprise
O. E. Lewis
Sam Crowther
King-Crowther Oil Company
Crowther
Messrs. Lewis and Crowther
Dist.Atty. Martin
James Walton
William MelKinnon
W. T. Brite
C. E. Lewis
King-Crowther Corporation
Lewis
Atascosa County
San Antonio & Crowther Railroad Company
BUSINESS TROUBLES TRON MATT CHEMICAL CO
A judgment for 10 404 was entered yesterday against the Iron Matt Chemical Company in favor of George F. Van Slyck as receiver of the corporation J F Smith & Co for money expended from Sept 17 1895 to Jan 1 1898. Wittram Lewin doing business as the Capitol Steam Laundry and Harlem Tower Supply Company assigned yesterday to Martin B. Cohn. He bought the laundry business in December for 5 000 giving notes in part payment. He was reputed to own real estate on West 159th Street valued at 15 000. Fox & Erstein Justice Greenbaum appointed William L Levy receiver of Fox & Epstein cloaks and suits firm formed March 3 and closed business. Each partner contributed 705 capital. Epstein says he added 500 more by loan. Stock valued 2 000 reportedly sold to an auctioneer by Fox. Epstein claims disagreement over proceeds.
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Albert Meyerson
West One Hundred and Second Street
Joseph & Meyersom Manufacturers of
Broadway
NEW York Purchasing Company
West
West One Hundred and Twenty-second Street
Haendel & Lubomirsky
Moses Haendel
Harris Lubomirsky
Frederick M. Beakes
Hudson Street
F. A. Beakes Spe Company
Tron Matt Chemical Company
Iron Matt Chemical Company
George F. van Slyck
J. F. Smith & Co
Wittram Lewin
William Lewin
Capitol Steam Laundry
Harlem Tower
Comany
West Twenty-first Treet
Martin B. Cohn
Lewis
West One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Street
Fox & Erstein
Justice Greenbaum
Supreme Court
William L Levy
Fox & Epstein
Church Street
Solomon Epstein
Isaac Fox
Pendulum of Bankruptcy Petitions Surges in District Court
Adam Kornblum a liquor dealer of 147 Delancey Street Sarees filed for bankruptcy with liabilities of 2157 to two creditors and no assets. The district court clerk reported 5000 petitions since the law’s Aug 1 1898 start, including Frederick M Beakes. Eugene H Mason a furniture dealer at 19 Warren Street filed for bankruptcy with liabilities 2018 and assets 1627 including stock 1600 accounts 24 and cash 3. Mason has conducted business since 1885.
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Adam Kornblum
Delancey Street
Sarees
United States District Court
Frederick M. Beakes
Eugens H. Mason
Eugene H. Mason
Warren Street
Peter
Mr. Mason
Dissolution of Hummel Kaufmann Firm Opens New Partnership
The importers firm Hummel Kaufmann & Co. has dissolved by mutual consent. Bernard Kaufmann’s suit for dissolution and a receiver is discontinued. Ex-partners Henry Hummel and August Rusert form a new partnership, Henry Hummel & Co., operating at 623 Broadway.
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Hummel, Kaufmann & Co
Supreme Court
Bernard Kaufmann
Henry Hummel
August Rusert
Broadway
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