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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1912
Page
5
A speaker frames a national struggle between privilege and justice, urging unity across class and region. He cites Lincoln's eternal conflict, pledges to fight corruption in business and politics, and calls Chicago readers to action for democracy and humane reform.
Architect Ernest Flagg proposes a new northwestern boulevard cutting through the lower west side from Broadway near Murray Street to Varick Street and north to Abingdon Square. The plan would widen Eighth Avenue and extend Sixth and Seventh Avenues to meet the boulevard, improving access to the Post Office and western avenues.
Baltimore hosts Gaynor boom events including a dinner at Hotel Emerson and a city organization forming to back him. Cantor and New York Democrats push a nonTammany effort, while Clark backers led by Stone vie for Temporary Chair with a Washington meeting planned for Thursday.
Negotiations involve Senator O Gorman Representative Henry Bell and Ollie James with Tammany Hall and Bryan factions watching. Rumor says Thomas F Ryan may back Harmon while Dos Passos seeks a platform plank opposing slow law enforcement and urging a national commission. Dos Passos met committeemen and arranged a convention headquarters.
Mayor Gaynor becomes a rising presidential possibility amid heavy talk at City Hall and a new Democratic Association push. Treasurer William Black notes multiple movements aimed at Gaynor, while the Brooklyn Eagle Editorial calls him the most available candidate and notes strong constitutional rights backing.
L. E. Holladay of Dresden Tennessee sent a telegram to Mayor William J. Gaynor asking for financial help for rural Tennessee delegates attending the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore. The telegram notes the delegation is uninstructed and that an assistant sergeant at arms will oversee the Tennessee group. The message underscores a need for funds to transport delegates to the convention as of June 15, 1912.
Yonkers Commissioner Fleming says a package sent to Mrs. Henry Sidenberg at Hastings on Hudson from Germany is a harmless storage battery. Inspector Landy describes a zinc cylinder with carbon and salammoniac salts, wrapped in cheese cloth, tested by heat and found nonexplosive with a dark waterproof liquid ending. No clue exists on the sender, and case is handled outside Yonkers jurisdiction.
In June 1912 L. E. Holladay of Dresden, Tenn., demanded influence in a convention. Mayor Gaynor quickly rebutted, saying Holladay would not stay in charge due to unspecified moral perceptions. The mayor then sent Holladay’s telegram to the Tennessee delegation chair.
In Washington delegates bound for Baltimore from the West and Pacific coast arrive with James G. Maguire M F Tarpey and Robert F Fitzgerald. Tarpey and Fitzgerald head to New York pledging California's 26 votes for Clark on every ballot while Maguire stays to see the Speaker. Maguire says the party should nominate the strongest man, Clark, and that tariff and high living costs will shape the campaign.
The Murray Hill District board met at City Hall to consider a proposal for a new diagonal avenue from the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fortieth Street to the Pennsylvania Station at Seventh Avenue and Thirty-third Street. The meeting began at 11 16 oclock this morning and all interested were invited to attend.
Workers at American Smelting & Refining Co. in Perth Amboy vote to return to work after accepting terms that raise wages, though below demands. Other plants, including National Fireproofing and Standard Underground Cable, report wage increases and early returns. Funerals for three strikers killed in Friday incident proceed with no disorder.
The Central Conference of American Rabbis released May 29 resolutions from its Executive Committee meeting in Cincinnati. They urge discouraging city only rabbinical associations to preserve liberal Judaism and require the Eastern Council of Reform Rabbis to disband by June 15 1912 unless Greater New York forms a replacement. The measure passed with sixteen of seventeen directors voting.
Samuel Brand convicted of incendiarism after Fire Marshal Thomas Brophy testified. In Brooklyn County Court Judge Fawcett imposed an indeterminate sentence of seven and a half to fifteen years the maximum allowed, deeming the crime severely despicable. Brand set a fire at 726 One Street in East New York and was arrested by the Fire Marshal.
A manufacturer complained that the landlord promised a partition and an extra wash basin but has not fulfilled the agreement since December. He asks if the commission has power to compel the landlord to install the wash basin, noting only one basin serves thirty to forty employees.
William Reid of Upper Nyack N Y died intestate leaving 300000 to be divided among heirs. The widow sister Mrs Robert Kenner Mrs Reuben Kohler of Nyack and brother John Reid of New York City plus two nephews including Douglas Mathewson of New York City.
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