Wreck Inquiry Spurs Union Safety Rule Debate
Stamford wreck inquiry at the Interstate Commerce Commission centers on union leverage over working conditions aboard the New Haven line. C L Bardo asserts spare board practices pressure managers, while Fred S Evans defends seniority based selection. Officials call for safety focused changes amid stiff testimony on apprenticeship and engine rules.
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New York Times
Bridgeport
Interstate Commerce Commission
Stamford
Boston Express
New Haven
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lackawanna Road
Westinghouse Air Brake Company
Dougherty
Charles W. Martin
Pennsylvania
Lackawanna
Bardo
The
Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania Limited
Ball signals must go in Massachusetts rail lines
Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners orders replacement of ball signal systems with interlocking arrangements by July 1 1914 in the state. The memorandum cites a June 3 collision on the Boston & Maine Road at South Lawrence and requires installation of an approved interlocking system at that location.
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Boston
Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners
Boston & Maine
South Lawrence
Yale Senior Arrested After Auto Injury on Graduation Day
Theo dore P. Davis of Austin Texas a Yale graduate was arrested in New Haven after his car struck Miss Mary Reardon causing serious injuries including broken legs and head and body bruises. He is held on a $1000 bond pending Miss Reardon’s prognosis.
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New Haven
Conn
Theodore P. Davis
Austin
Texas
Yale
Mary Reardon
Sulzer Loses Brooklyn Club Support Over Direct Nomination Bill
Gov. Sulzer loses the Young Republican Club of Brooklyn backing his Direct Nominations bill. Senator Elon R. Brown introduces a rival plan favoring retention of party designating committees while critics call the Sulzer measure worse than current law. A pro Sulzer demonstration is slated at the Capitol as lawmakers may be invited to a hearing.
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New York Times
Albany
Sulzer
Young Republican Club
Brooklyn
Elon R. Brown
Watertown
Senate
Young Republian Club
Hinman-Green
Charles E. Hughes
Sethow
Whitman
Shortt
William Allaire Shortt
Assembly
Richmond
Gov. Sulzer
Darwin R. James,Jr
Club
Judiciary Committees
Chester C. Platt
Sulzer “‘ War Board
Capitol
Gleemen
Governor’s Constitutional Convention Bill Moves in Senate
The article notes Senator Robert A. EB. Smith and others discuss a Governor urged measure to submit the Constitutional Convention plan to voters next Fall. The salient point is a general primary bill associated with the Governor’s plan and a decisive vote on the convention measure.
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Robert A. EB. Smith
Ice famine grips Cincinnati after wide ice strike
Cincinnati faces a severe ice shortage as more than 900,000 residents await results of an ice workers’ strike. An order prompts a full strike of engineers and firemen in ice plants, leaving only two factories operating to supply hospitals and the needy with free ice.
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New York Times
Cincinnati
Brooklyn Police Trial Ordered Over Park Incident
Mayor Gaynor ordered Patrolman Harry J. Farley and Lieut. Charles H. Washburn of Prospect Park station to stand trial after a 17 year old, Hyman Albert of 850 Myrtle Avenue, complained about the June 1 arrest for playing ball in the park. Albert alleged abuse and profane language by the officers and noted prior fines. Commissioner Waldo convened Inspector Hughes and Capt. Cullen to review the case amid expectations Albert may not testify.
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Gaynor
Waldo
Harry J. Farley
Charles H. Washburn
Prospect Park
Brooklyn
Hyman Albert
Myrtle Avenue
Farley
Washburn
Reynolds
Rofane
Albert
Hughes
Capt
Cullen
Prospect Street
Perjury Charge Sets Murphy as the Issue in Albany Fight
Governor Sulzer rebutted McCabe's claim of secret midnight conferences with Charles Murphy and alleged political conspirators aiming at Hearst and independents. He vowed to press direct nominations and to counter what he called a tissue of falsehoods while criticizing Murphy and McCabe's allies.
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New York Times
Albany
Gov. Sulger
Senate
Patrick E. McCabe
Sulzer
McCabe
Charles F. Murphy
William R. Hearst
Tammany
Mr. Hearst
Gov. Sulzer
Vermont
Murphy
Ulzer
Painter Falls Seven Stories From Scaffold
Isidore Sackman a painter of 555 Fifth Street was killed yesterday when a rope on a scaffold at the Schuyler Arms 307 West Ninety-eighth Street broke, sending him seven stories to a courtyard beside a private school. William Brosnan of 8 West 115th Street, who worked on the scaffold with him, saved himself by clinging to a rope and lowering to the fifth floor through an open window. Sackman stood at the north end of the platform when the rope snapped and he failed to grab the dangling strands.
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Isidore Sackman
Fifth Street
Schuyler Arms Apartments
West Ninety-eighth Street
William Brosnan
West 115Th Street
Sackman
Miles Stallo suit adjourned to June 25
Supreme Court Justice Newburger adjourned the trial of a $15,000 suit brought by George J. Miles Jr. against Edmund K. Stallo to recover the value of a note signed by Stallo and his father in law the late Alexander McDonald until June 25.
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Miles-Stallo
Supreme Court
Newburger
George J. Miles, Jr
Edmund K. Stallo
Stallo
Alexander McDonald
Nail Concern Placed in Bankruptcy After Fraud Allegations
The Kendall Nail and Supply Company, a wire nails wholesaler at 9 Broadway,FILED for bankruptcy in U S District Court. Creditors include Second National Bank of New York City for 25000 and J C Pearson Co Boston for 41414 in merchandise. receivers appointed. treasurer Rey L Brewer implicated. Mr Ewell alleged to have diverted funds and destroyed records. The company faced insolvency and alleged preferential payments to Motor Delivery Co Goodyear Rubber Tire Co and J G Hillard. treasurer consented to bankruptcy. The death of an associated individual from pneumonia occurred while under hospital care after arrest.
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Kendall Nail and Supply Company
Broadway
United States District Court
Seer
Ewell
St. A Hospi
Markey
Magistrate House
Jefferson Market Court
Rey L. Brower
Enell
Second National Pack
New York
J. C. Pearson Company
Boston
United States Realty and Improvement Company
Halstead H. Frost, Jr
Motor Delivery Company
Goodyear Rubber Tire Company
J. G. Hillard
Brewer
Frank ©. Ayres
Eart
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