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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1912
Page
5
The New York Times reports Roosevelt supporters guarded at the Blackstone Hotel as delegates from South Dakota arrived at the Coliseum in an Overland Limited stage coach. Taft camp contends security and counterfeit tickets mark the opening day of the convention.
In Brownsville last night a boy tossed pistol cartridges into a barrel fire at 180 Chester Street provoking a burst of gunfire that sent residents fleeing. Twelve year old Nathan Gershkowits was struck in the chest and taken to St. Mary's Hospital where surgeons removed the bullet. The shooter fled and remains unidentified.
Special to The New York Times from Cambridge Massachusetts June 19 Kermit Roosevelt second son of ex President Roosevelt will take up chemistry as a profession He is due to arrive from Chicago tomorrow to receive his Bachelor of Arts degree with Harvard's graduating class He completed the usual four year course in two and a half years Oliver W Roosevelt his cousin also receives a degree tomorrow planning to study to be a physician
Linen Suits advertise ordering by telephone to save time. Colors highlighted include Wistaria, Blue, Coral, Tan, Brown and Green. Plain or braid trimmed styles offered as last season's stock may be outdated.
Judge Hanford of the Federal District Court denied Olssen’s motions to reopen the case and for a new trial after canceling his citizenship four weeks earlier for alleged fraud in obtaining it. The ruling paves the way for an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals with local Socialists raising funds and a state bar committee investigating charges against Hanford.
The navy proceeds with its summer naval militia drills, with rendezvous at Provincetown Massachusetts July 7 15 Tangier Island Chesapeake Bay July 15 22 and South Manitou Island Lake Michigan August 12 19. Pacific Coast cruises include Washington Oregon and California assignments with ships Iowa Maryland Mars, and more, plus Alaska and Pacific visits before August.
Crowd gathers around Times Building bulletin board as Roosevelt and Taft factions clash over credentials and potential stampede. Reporters note divisions widen, with cheers for Roosevelt and calls for fair play turning into heated exchanges before adjournment and speculation on a final nominee.
Mrs. Una Abell-Brinker and leading man Louis Dean were arrested in Newark before a matinee of The Typhoon for alleged copyright violation. They were arraigned before United States Commissioner Richard Stockton and held under $1,500 bail, the complaint by Emil Nubray alleging ownership of the version used by the Brinker Stock Company.
Senator Nixon leaves half of his estate to his widow under Nevada law with the other half to his son Bertram Nixon when he turns 35. The trust funds will be managed by the Bank of Nevada Savings and Trust Company with gifts and yearly allowances to the son during life. The will notes property amount is over 500000 dollars but overall value is estimated around 3 million.
Hugh Sargent a 37 year old New Zealand resident was badly hurt during an afternoon air piloting trial on Nassau Boulevard Long Island. Unconscious at Nassau Hospital with possible skull fracture he had recently arrived to study aviation and trained under George Beatty before attempting flight. He rose to about thirty feet when the machine veered and crashed into the dirt.
After two months of investigations Miss Mary Proctor daughter of the late Richard A. Proctor English astronomer sails from Vancouver for Australia to deliver lectures and promote a solar observatory. She spent time at Yerkes Mt Wilson Lick observatories gathering data for her 48 research projects and aims to complete a global solar observatory chain under the British Empire League involving Mount Wilson India and others.
At Vienna station a midnights tragedy left Countess Alice Alberti dead from a heart wound and Baron Kuerthy dying from a temple shot. A revolver lay in the Baron's hand and a crucifix remained with the Countess who wrote a farewell note about a hopeless love. The couple sought death together after their marriage was opposed by the Baron's relatives. The Countess, 30, belonged to an old Tyrolese family and was related to Princess Stephanie of Belgium.
Swen Swanson a 27 year old line man for Union Electric Light and Power was struck by 2200 volts at 5045 Lindell Boulevard and hung lifeless for an hour. Doctors used a pulmotor for over four hours and reported signs of circulation returning and optimism for recovery.
The navy plans a summer and fall recruiting drive with seven ship models and an operating radio exhibit at expositions and state fairs. A Norfolk school display, seamen gunner tasks, and machinists models will accompany a touring recruiting party from Newark NJ and a Baltimore district itinerary targeting Virginia Maryland and West Virginia.
Nassau County firemen held the tenth annual tournament in Hempstead with contests for horseshoe chemical engine hand engine hose and ladder. A morning parade from Greenwich Street featured fourteen bands led by Grand Marshal A F Heber, while George Atty flew overhead in an airplane tracing the procession and nearly skimmed treetops.
Edmund B. Osborne of Montclair, New Jersey, Roosevelt delegate, arrived in Chicago at La Salle Street on a special NY Central train in 17 hours, beating Wanamaker’s slower Pennsylvania run by about 1.5 hours. Wanamaker, Pennsylvania Taft delegate, reached Union Station at 4:37 p.m. and sped to the Coliseum in time to vote, while Osborne arrived later and missed the vote by minutes. luggage mixups occurred after arrival.
A Vanderlip special train took 16 hours and 7 minutes to cover 965 miles from Vanderlip's city to Chicago on March 27, 1909. The trip, with six four minute engine changes, marked the fastest time between the two cities and used ordinary locomotives rather than big express engines.
An eighteen hour train run between this city and Chicago was tested in June 1906 with several trials and talk of sixteen hour services. A 17 hour run occurred on Jan 17, 1910 when John Farson Jr. used a Central New York line to reach his ill father, though fogs and traffic congestion hindered further records.
A woman jumped in front of an elevated train at Franklin and Myrtle in Brooklyn. Motorman Harry Kerr stopped the train but the body was wedged under the first car. Father William D. Cleary gave last rites beneath the elevated tracks before she died at Cumberland Street Hospital. George Hiskegaerd testified he employed her as a servant and believes she hoped to sail for Norway, not suicide.
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