Mayors stand on child care cited by prominent citizens
Ninety prominent New Yorkers sign a letter to Mayor Mitchel praising his stance on city supervision of privately run child care institutions receiving city funds. Signers include J. H. Choate, J. H. Schiff, G. W. Wickersham, and others, urging standards of cleanliness and care. The letter notes no criminal charges but condemns attempts to frame the issue as a religious clash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell
Joseph H. Choate
Jacob H Schiff
George W. Wickersham
George W
Strong Commission
Commissioner of Charities
John A. Kingsbury
William H. Hotchkiss
New York
John Purroy Mitchel
City of New York
York City
Nnt
Thompson Legislative Committee
Charles H. Strong
H. Gary
Geo. W. Wickersham
Jacob H. Schiff
John G. Milburn
Or Morawetz
James M. Beck
Bronson Winthrop
Ene Haterbridge
A. Barton Hepburn
Edward M. Bassett
Ludwig Nisn
R. Fulton Cutting
J. Ghite
Irving T. Bush
Cleveland H. E
F. W. Whitridge
Amory Hodges
Alfred E. King
Albert Strauss
Adolpha Lass Loetermann
Nam M. Chadbourne
G. Mis
Frank Harvey Field
Adler
Arbert Croly
George Rhins
Wm FE Tarmon
Unningheam
Albert Shaw
Frankmn H. Siddings
Haley Fiske
Mark Sullivan
George Haven Putnam
Hamilton Holt
A. Frissel
Oscar S. Straus
George W. Wickersham Aand
Dunn
Aor
Mitchel
Fittenel
Brooklyn
Coverey
Mayor Assailed in Sermon at Fordham Field Mass
More than 20 000 persons attended a Fordham University field mass closing the San Salvador Council Knights of Columbus silver jubilee. Rev Owen Hill S J urged Catholics to oppose anti Catholic foes and defend church interests in public life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fordham University
San Salvador
Mitchel
Bullock Charges Mayor With Civil Service Violations
William Bullock, head of the Bureau of City Inquiry, accuses Mayor Mitchel of breaking civil service law by appointing John F. Rhame to the Police Department as Assistant Electrical Engineer at 2700 dollars a year while Rhame was not on the civil service list. He cites Mayor Gaynor’s 1910 reform to appoint from civil service lists and end spoils politics.
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William Bullock
Bureau of City Inquiry
Mitchel
John F. Rhame
Wantagh
L. 1
Police Department
Rhame
Civil Service
Bullock
Gaynor
Jaynor
Two Killed by Motors In Evening Auto Crashes
Two men died in separate crashes yesterday while several others were seriously injured. Maurice Lipman, 23, of Manhattan, died at Peekskill Hospital after his motorcycle collided with a car driven by Robert C Lent of Ossining on the Albany Post Road. Joseph Messer, 58, Newark cabinet maker, died at City Hospital from injuries after his car struck a telegraph pole. his son George, who was driving, swerved to avoid children in another auto. Albert Hilbert, Egg Harbor merchant, was critically injured when hit by Charles Creig’s car. Cora Zamarie, 17, Williamsburg, and Frank Stein, 34, Williamsburg, were severely hurt near the Williamsburg Bridge. Gustave Gallus, Williamsburg, was said to be dying in Eastern District Hospital from auto injuries. Theodore Rohman, driver of the car that hit Gallus, was arrested in $1,500 bail. Seven-year-old Charles Schwark of Fresh Kill Road, Great Kills, was struck by George Egbert’s car and mortally injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Lipman
East 118Th Street
Manhattan
Albany Post Road
Peekskill
Cold Spring Harbor
Robert C Lent
Ossining
Lipman
Joseph J. Messer
MD Central Avenue
Newark
City
Eleventh Avenue
Seventhtreet
George
Albert Hilbert
Egg Harbor
N. J
Charles Creig
Hilbert
Cora Zamarie
North Fifth Street
Williamsburg
Frank Stein
South Ninth Street
Williamsburg Bridge
Williamsburg Hospital
Gustave Gallus
South Sixth Street
Buries
Theodore Rohman
Gallus
Bedford Avenue
Permanent pumping station planned for Morningside Park
New York Board of Water Supply President Charles Strauss announced a permanent pumping station will replace the present temporary structure in Morningside Park to serve the Catskill Aqueduct system. He defended the plan as engineering necessity, rejecting alternatives as impractical and costly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Long Branch
N. J
Charles Strauss
New York Board of Water Supply
Morningside Park
Catskill
Strauss
Water Supply Board
Commissioner of Parks
Ward
Water Board
Atention
Justice Finch
R. Strauss
Board of Water Supply
York Sawyer
Park Board
Art Commission
Mr. Strauss
Park
Aqueduct
Bach
New York City
Sal
Williamsbridge
Park Commissioner
Ed Ge
Bishop Greer ordains wide ceremony at St John the Divine
Trinity Sunday service at St John the Divine saw more than thirty clergy ordained as deacons and candidates joined in the rite. Bishop Greer led the ceremony with Dean Grosvenor delivering the sermon and several priests presenting the candidates for holy orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A Woodward
Philip W. Hull
UL. P. F. Vauthier
Allan R. Chalmers
Cc. Corbin
C. B. Deykendahl
J.C. McA Shrewsbury
Vincent L. Bennett
James T. Carney
Maurice Picard
Charles T. Bridgemen
Bishop Greer
Blackwell's Island
Grace Church
Jersey City
Lines
Newark
Jederick Hamblin
St. Augustine's Church
The
Bronx
Joseph C. Ryan
Woman Assaults Blind Man After Coney Island Knockdown
Crowds of about eight hundred thousand filled Coney Island on a sunny day as John Sullivan of Brooklyn was struck by a car and later a woman struck him with a bottle fracturing his skull. The car fled after witnesses provided plate 87-010 and police searched for the Whitehorne party. Detectives also detained Esther Posner and her husband over an assault on Samuel Cohen, a blind man, in a Bowery gallery incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coney Island
West Thirty-third Street
Surf Avenue
John J. Sullivan
Washington Avenue
Brooklyn
Gladys Keniston
Sullivan
New York
Edwin Whitehorne
Bergen Street
Whitney Hotel
Rosie Whitehorne
Eddie
Whitehorne
Esther Posner
Bowery
Kensington Walk
Samuel Cohen
St. Nicholas Avenue
Manhattan
Bomb at Police HQ by saloon owner on Chrystie Street
Giuseppe Lione, part owner of a 226 Chrystie Street saloon, carried a home constructed bomb into Police Headquarters at midnight. Inspector Owen Egan said the dynamite device would have killed all detectives in the room and damaged the building. Siminerio, his partner, says Black Hand involvement is possible and faces further questioning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giuseppe Lione
Chrystie Street
Owen Egan
Division of Combustibles
Egan
Detective Bureau
Haerle
Hornbustle
First Branch
Sione
Chastie Street
Phillippo Siminerio
Siminerio
Black Hand
Manhattan Ridge
Simmerio
Utah Progressives oppose endorsements and back Roosevelt
At a mass meeting in Salt Lake City on June 18 the Utah Progressives adopted resolutions for a complete national state and local Progressive ticket and declared opposition to endorsing Republican candidates. A copy of the resolutions was wired to Colonel Roosevelt.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Roosevelt
Vetoes Increase in Central Fares Refused by PSC
The New York Public Service Commission Second District rejects New York Central Railroad's bid to raise passenger fares effective Jan 1, deeming no proven need for the increase. Commissioner Carr notes the railroad earned 11.11 percent on capital in 1915, arguing fare hikes are not justified for intrastate passengers. Dissenting Emmet would allow uniform schedules to aid rate equality.
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New York Times
Albany
New York Central Railroad
Public Service Commission of
Second District
James O. Carr
Emmet
Hudson River
Commission
New York Central
Troy
Carr
New York
State of New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States Supreme Court
Art
Kaiser’s Dentist Arrives Under Passport Scrutiny
Arthur Newton Davis of Picqua Ohio long the German Emperor’s dentist in Berlin arrived on the Bergensfjord at Brooklyn. Passport officials retained his document and questioned him about his August trip and current visit while monitoring his movements. Charlies L Hoover US Consul at Prague also traveled aboard the same liner.
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Arthur Newton Davis
Picqua
Ohio
Berlin
United States
Bergensfjord
Bergen
State Department
Davis
Gerard
Davias Pansport
Pier 4
Bush Docks
Heath Brooklyn
Department of Justice
Mr. Davis
America
Rail labor costs and tariff debates at public service hearing
Commission debate focuses on wage pressures for railroads and the limit beyond which higher rates would burden the public. Emmet dissents on revenue-only view, noting potential misreads of tariff changes. Vanshoutwoord asserts PSC power to set rates irrespective of legislative action, urging fairness for public service and operation costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Central
Emmet
van Sahtwoord
Vanantwoord
Public Service Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Eastern Railroads
Burglary oddity shuns valuables in New Jersey cases
Metuchen's eccentric burglar roams Summer homes for a week and steals only a box of cigars from William Grecian home at 2 a.m. The intruder, about 85, smooth shaved with ruddy face, claimed he was smoking and left without valuables. Three prior entries yielded little loot.
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New York Times
New Brunswick
N. J
Metuchen
William Grecian
American Officers Shine in Canadian Ypres Counterattack
A British front dispatch notes brave actions during the recapture of key ground in the Ypres salient. An American officer who joined the Canadians after resigning from the U.S. Army leads by courage, joking about Macdonalds, while another American captain is praised for advancing with the first wave and being shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York Times
London
Daily Mall
France
Lont
Ypres Salient
Britons Adopt Baseball in London and Provinces
London reports baseball taking root as Canadians serving in the war form leagues with teams from the army pay office hospitals and munition workers. An American team may join the league created by J G Lee of Westminster. Baseball spreads to Taplow Epsom Hampton Bramshot and beyond as football and cricket occupy other seasons.
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NEW York Times
London
England
Army
J. G. Lee
Central Buildings
Westminster
Taplow
Epsom
Hampton
Bramshot
Fulham
Arsenal
Clapton Orient
Tottenham
Hotspur
Millwall
West Ham United
Mercer Reported Killed in Third Canadian Division
London dispatch states Brig Gen M S Mercer of the Third Canadian Division in France is unofficially reported killed after a June 2 front line inspection. General Mercer and General Williams were noted as missing amid hours of severe fighting during a German assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Bris
M. S. Mercer
France
Mercer
Williams
Irish Victims Fund Drive Held in Bronx
Five hundred men and women gathered at St Anselm s School in the Bronx for an Irish Relief Fund Committee of America event to aid widows and orphans of the Irish rebellion. Speakers condemned British actions and called for broader national relief efforts. A large sum was subscribed at the meeting.
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St. Anselms School
165Th Street
Tinton Avenue
Bronx
Iriah Relief Fund Committee of America
Martin Dwyer
P. J. Moynahan
Michael O’brien
R. V. Dwyer
St. Lukes Church
Thomas Lonnegran
Little Island
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Europe
Mexico
Judas
College of Apostles
Mer. J. J. Connolly
Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel
T. Rummell
Church of St. Anthony
Joseph Kelly
S. J
Sts. Peter and Paul's Church
J. F. Boulton
Frank McGovern
Fordham Hospital
Misa Irene Masterson
Decatur Avenue
Charities Row
Priest
Peltina
Mayor
City Inquiry Bureau
Peekskill Hospital
Tmure
Charles Schwark
Fresh Kill Road
Great Kills
G George Egbert
South Avenue
Mariners
Harbor
Perma
Morningside
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Car
Woman
Utah Moose
Capital Stock
Kaiser
Germany
Dr. Davis
Charlies L Hoover
Prague
Bohemia
Southern Pacific Lines
Gulf
Southern Pacific
Morgan Line
New Orleans
Sunset Limited
Los Angeles
San Diego
San Francisco
Broadway
Franklin St
Wall St
Fund For
Wallach
Chambers St
20Th St
Third Ave
125Th St
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Eo Adams Express
Times Square
New York Edison Company
Irvi
Delancey Street
Irving Place
Ng Place
Stuyvesant
Bryant
tt—Stuyvesant
86Th Street
Lenox
125Th Street
Harlem
Melrose
Ypen Unt Mido
Farragut
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