Marks Wins Fight for Floating Baths Funds
Borough President Marks pressured the Board of Estimate to fund six floating river baths this summer from the Public Buildings Fund without revenue bonds. Mayor Mitchel supported the baths if bonds were avoided, while Controller Prendergast warned Marks he may need special revenue bonds for Jefferson Market repairs.
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Jefferson Market
Lafayette Street
Goodrich
Battery
Pike Street
Fifth Street
Ninety-sixth Street
East River
Fifty-seventh Street
North River
Kerner Easton
Finance Department
Street opening delayed over cemetery tax exemption protest
The Board of Estimate postponed a street opening from Metropol itan Avenue to Stanhope Street and Linden Street to Forest Avenue near Linden Cemetery after about 100 Queens property owners protested cemetery tax exemptions. Opponents objected to $1,500 in costs already incurred and sought relief by pressing for removal of cemetery corporations from the statute or taking the issue to the next Legislature. a delegation will be sent to the Constitutional Convention.
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Board of Estimate
Queens
Metropolitan Avenue
Stanhope Street
Linden Street
Forest Avenue
Linden Cemetery
Coney to Hold Mardi Gras in September Festival
About forty businessmen from Coney Island attended a Coney Island Mardi Gras Association meeting at Kisters Hotel and voted to hold Mardi Gras from September 13 to 15. Officers elected include President Louis M. Potter and Vice President Samuel W. Gumpertz, with Charles Schiffman as Secretary and William Ward as Treasurer. Mayor Mitchell named an Honorary Vice President for aiding Dreamland Pier rebuild set to reopen July 1.
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Kister’s Hotel
Louis M. Potter
Samuel W. Gumpertz
Charles Schiffman
William Ward
Mitchel
Association
Dreamland Pier
Purser Tells of Jackknife Fish Encounter Aboard Zulia
Purser Brann aboard the Red DD steamship Zulia reported a struggle with a spotted pang pang or jackknife fish that bit his thumb during a sighted drift on June 16 in lat 43.25 north long 72.15 west about 600 miles south of Sandy Hook. The derelict boat Edna M. Smith, later found aboard, carried the strange fish which climbs mangroves for oysters and uses a knife like projection to separate shells.
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Zulia
Venezuelan
Sandy Hook
Edna M. Smith
New York
Caribbean
West India Islands
St. John
N. B
Gulfpot
Bristol
Farrell
Escaping Gas Kills Two in Brooklyn Hotel Room
Anna McGeary, 55, widow of a fire lieutenant, and her four year old granddaughter Veronica died from a gas leak at the West End Hotel Ocean Avenue Rockaway. A maid found them prostrate. the clerk reported no movements since breakfast. Police call the deaths accidental and believe they attempted to reach a window or signal for help before suffocating.
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Anna McGeary
Monroe Street
Brooklyn
West End
Ocean Avenue
Pier Avenue
Rockaway
Veronica
George McGeary
Graham Avenue
Hartigan Weighs Babies at City Hospital Weigh-in
Commissioner Joseph Hartigan of the Mayor's Bureau of Weights and Measures weighed two newborn brothers at Blackwell's Island City Hospital. Alexander McDonald weighed nine and a quarter pounds while John McGuiness weighed eight pounds. Mothers Mazie McDonald and Katherine McGuiness claimed the heavier baby, but both left with official records. rabbis would reference honest measures during Weights and Measures Week.
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Joseph Hartigan
John McGuiness
Alexander
John
Hartigan
Bond sale planned for Union Station Company
Western railroads including the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul and others in New York to arrange sale of Union Station Company bonds. About 20 million of an authorized 50 to 60 million total issue to be sold through Kuhn Loeb and Company.
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New York Times
Chicago
Western Railroad Companies
New York
Union Station Company
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Chicago & St. Louis
Chicago & Alton
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Bay Conservation Bureau Helps Homeless Boys Into School
A private group of New York bankers and brokers formed the Bay Conservation Bureau in 1912 to place at risk youths into schooling with costs covered and family-like support. The program, still experimental, has housed over 200 boys and reports several as medal winners. critiques note selective, not universal aid and ongoing assessment of each boy's history and needs.
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Bay Conservation Bureau
State Board of Charities
West Broadway
Shots Fired In Auto Chase Injures 7 Year Old Boy
A taxicab struck James Healy on Tenth Avenue near Forty-eighth Street injuring him with a concussion and possible internal injuries. Police pursued the taxi, the driver Frank M. McNamara of 27 Columbus Avenue admitted the hit but claimed no escape intent. He was jailed on assault charges after medical staff treated the boy at Polyclinic Hospital.
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Forty-eighth Street
James Healy
Kleinmeier
West Forty-seventh Street
Ernest Hugin
West Forty-ninth Street
Healy
Patrick Colleran
West Fortyninth Street
Harry H. Owens
Fiftyeighth Street
Gill
Owens
Fifty-second Street
Ninth Avenue
Eleventh Avenue
Sixty-third Street
Broadway
Sixtieth Street
Sixty-fifth Street
West End Avenue
Amsterdam Avenue
Forty-seventhtreet
Frank M. McNamara
Columbus Avenue
Thomas
Polyclinic
New York Central Files Large Mortgage Over Lake Shore Rail Line
New York Central Railroad, formed from the Lake Shore and other lines, filed a 1.378 million mortgage in Cleveland with Bankers Trust and trustee William H. Elmendorf. The lien secures the 4 percent consolidation mortgage gold bonds on the railroad formerly known as the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Lake Shore
New York Central
Hudson River
New York Central Railroad Company
Bankers Trust Company of New York
William H. Elmendorf
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company
Four Judges Fail To Decide On Alimony Case
Ernest B. Parsons, former private secretary to the late Frederick Townsend Martin, told Supreme Court Justice Shearn he could only pay his wife Leona $3 weekly, not $10. He warned of justice being assassinated if jailed at Ludlow Street and said he had sent $50 since December but could not pay more. He claimed the case is complex, four judges have given up, and he may end his dispute by raising funds or accepting jail.
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Frederick Townsend Martin
Justice Shearn
Supreme Court
Leona
Parsons
Ludlow Street
Paris
Luxempore
Garders
Sheriff Seeks Mrs Parrish Assets At Wentworth Hotel
Deputy Melvoy visited the Wentworth Hotel to attach Mrs Charlotte Katharine Palmer Parrish assets in a suit against her by Paquin and the Callot Sisters for 17660.87 for women’s wear and furniture. He found no attachable property, noting bank deposits at Blake Bros Co. Securities and cash were requested to cover 10000. Parrish says she never received bills and believed accounts were paid by her husband.
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Wentworth
Charlotte Katharine Palmer Parrish
James Cresson Parrish
Vanderbilt
Parrish Hadeen
Paquin
Callot Sisters
Paris
Parrish
Parrish É
President weighs secretaries as State choice narrows
President Wilson will confine the vacancy in the State Department to options already in office. Names likely include Secretary Lansing Secretary Lane or Secretary Garrison with Lansing favored by officials. Treasury head McAdoo remains at the Treasury amid key pending questions.
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New York Times
Washington
Wilson
Garrison
Lane
Robert Lansing
Lansing
McAdoo
Fortfolio
Treasury Department
Washington Irving Girls Compete in Fire Prevention Essays
Washington Irving High School girls write essays on preventing fires as part of Commissioner Adamson's fire prevention campaign in public schools. Among the entries received, Miss Ada Storm's essay was highlighted as the best by the Commissioner.
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Washington Irving High School
Adamson
Publc
Ada Storm
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