Legal attack begins on steamship trust
Government probes the North Atlantic Conference for Sherman Anti-Trust acts violations. Hearings in New York Federal Building before Special Examiner Pickett focus on steerage rate fixing and use of ships to pressure rivals. Defendants include International Mercantile Marine, Cunard, White Star, Hamburg-America and others with notable figures named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steamship Trust
Federal
Charles E. Pickett
Trust
International Mercantile Marine Company
Allan Line Steamship Company, Limited
The
International Navigation Company
Anchor Line
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Cunard Steamship Company
British and North Atlantic Steam Navigation Company
Hamburg-American Line
Holland-America Line
North German ‘Lloyd
Red Star Line
Russia-East Asiatic Steamship Company
White Star Line
Bruce J. Allan
Philip A. S. Franklin
John Lee
William Coverly
Charles P. Sumner
Adrian Gips
Gustav H. Schwab
Herman Co. van Porst
Gustav H. Schwab, Jr
Alexander S. Johnson
Max Strauss
J. Bruce Ismay
Steamship
United States
John C. Spooner
Lord
Day & Lord
Choate & Larocque
Burlingham, Montgomery & Beecher
Lawson Sandford
Europe
New York
Dorr
Sandford
Cunard
White Star
Doile
Rotterdam
Testimony On Secret Committee Over Shipping Rivalry
A witness recalls a brief period of service and questions a possible unnotified action. Government evidence includes a New York to Rotterdam letter detailing arrangements to send warlike steamships against rivals. The letter names Winter, North German Lloyd, Nyland, Holland-America, and Farley International Mercantile. Hearing continues tomorrow morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Holland-America
Home Office
Rotterdam
Winter
North German Lloyd Line
Nyland
Holland-America Line
Farley
International Mercantile Atarine Company
Indicted man Geisel pleads not guilty in mail threats
Theodore Homer Geisel of Jersey City pleaded not guilty in U S Court to sending threatening letters to Rev Thomas A Conover of St Bernard's Bernardsville and was jailed for trial. He threatened violence if detained and fled after indictment before a bail bond was posted by Rep Eugene F Kinkead.
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New York Times
Trenton
N. J
Thomas A. Conover
St. Bernard's Episcopal Church
Bernardsville
All Saints’ Church
Theodore Homer Geisel
Jersey City
United States Court
Mercer County
Geisel
Conover
Man calling himself Frank Ward arrested for disorderly conduct
Ward who sought access to Mayor Gaynor’s office was brought before Magister Freschi in Men’s Night Court. The charge was dismissed and insanity added to the complaint, with Ward committed to Bellevue Hospital for observation after revealing a past sanitarium stay. He claimed to be 53 and homeless.
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Frank Ward
Gaynor
Freschi
Ward
Belevue Hospital
Lieut
Kennell
Lubiner
Divorces Walter Wheeler in Reno Court
Charlotte D Wheeler obtained a divorce from Walter Wheeler known as Captain Wheeler of the Larchmont Yacht Club. The court ordered $50 monthly child support. The couple married in San Francisco in 1891, later moving to New York. The wife cited cruelty and described a rift after his illness and affair with a nurse around Christmas 1907.
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New York Times
Reno
Charlotte D. Wheeler
Walter Wheeler
Larchmont Yacht Club
Capt. Wheeler
San Francisco
New York
Wheeler
Motor boat accident财Ventnor hotel man fatally injured
William Magill, a hotel operator, was severely injured when he toppled into the whirling motor of his motor boat off Ventnor in the Thoroughfare. He fell backward at high speed and was cut and harmed internally.
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Atlantic City
N. J
William Magill
Ventnor
Eastern Rabbis Issue Reply to Central Conference
The Eastern Council rejects claims of being inimical to the Central Conference and defends its regional role. It argues the Central Conference is national and constructive, not destructive, and lists member rabbis including Maurice Harris and Stephen S. Wise who support unity across regions.
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Central Conference of Reform Rabbis
Eastern Council
Central Conference
New Jersey
East
Harris
Maurice Harris
Joseph Silberman
Isaac S. Moses
Nathan Krass
Henry Itson
Rudolph Grossman
David Levy
J. Leonard Levy
Alexander Lyons
William Hoseman
Charles Rubenstein
Stephen S. Wise
Prima Donna's Son Loses Lawsuit in Federal Court
A New Jersey jury awarded Miss Johanna Alice Forner of Dresden $25 900 in damages from Hans Schumann Heink son of the opera star Mme Schumann Heink. The defendant absent, an interpreter conveyed the verdict amid visible relief from the plaintiff who presented evidence of an alleged engagement and a child not in court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Trenton
N. J
Hans Schumann-Heink
Mme
Schumann-Heink
United States
Johanna Alice Forner
Dresden
Germany
Miss Forner
Police Honor Dead Hero In Brooklyn Rescue
East Fifty first Street Station officers marched to Patrolman Thomas O Connell s home at Middagh Street Brooklyn honoring their comrade who died after leaping into the East River at Forty third Street to save a man. The body was to be moved to his home in St Joseph s Pennsylvania. Six officers carried the coffin as sixty in uniform joined the procession and the hearse passed the Brooklyn Bridge end.
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Thomas O’connell
East River
Forty-third Street
East Fiftyfirst Street
Middagh Street
Brooklyn
O’connell
St. Josephs
Penn
Honor Legion of the Department
John H. Gillen
Daniel Fogarty
Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge
Havemeyer Gains Control in Sugar Trust Probe
Assistant District Attorney Knapp argued Havemeyer’s purchases of beet sugar factories created a unified control. Key witnesses described Havemeyer buying half shares in Utah Idaho Company and seeking control of Eccles Ogden and Greeley sugar plants. Details included proposed $5000 per factory and Mormon Church stake, with Duplicitous director arrangements. The trial resumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knapp
Sugar Trust
Henry O. Havemeyer
Thomas R. Cutler
Utah-Idaho
Havemeyer
Cutler
Ogden
Logan
Ogden Sugar Company
Utah- Idaho Company
Franks. Crawford
American Sugar Refining Company
Hinvemeyer
William Rockefeller
Mormon Church
Mr. Knapp
Richard Young
Ae Young
Utah- Idaho Sugar Company
Mr. Cutler
Joseph F. Smith
Mr. Havemeyer
Poultry Shop Attack Spurs Butcher Clash in Bronx
A delegation of kosher butchers attacked Louis Cohen's poultry shop at 1485 Brook Avenue, prompting police rescue. Two men, Max Brender and Herman Rosenbaum, were arrested and fined for disorderly conduct. A separate Essex Market Court case saw Lena Lipis fined $10 for taking meat by force.
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Louis Cohen
Brook Avenue
Cohen
Tremont Station
Bathgate
Wendover Avenues
Max Brender
Wendover Avenue
Herman Rosenbaum
Washington Avenue
Morrisania
Essex Market Court
Lena Lipis
East Tenth Street
Fannie Roccosia
St. Mark’s Place
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Steinway
Chickering
Briggs
Thmodi
Bride
Landay Gates
Landay
Victor
34Th St
Bet
Fifth Ave
37Th St
Cor
46Th St
U. S. Pat
Pacific Coast
Ner Rani
Broadway
42Nd St
28Th St
Ward. St
Wall St
Transatlantic Conference
Cunard Line
Mr. Sandford
Geise
Bellevue
Answer Central Conference
Police
Buttons
Industrial Gas Appliance Laboratory
Second Ave
Gramercy 47
Entertainment Committee
Nushsit Sarnaitslo
E. E. Turlington
St. Ie
Chambers St
Col. 13Th
3D Ave
Harlem
Prince Albert
P. A
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Winston-Salem
N. C
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