Empress of Ireland Inquiry Hearings Highlight Erratic Steering
Testimony shows Empress of Ireland steered erratically across the St Lawrence as Norweigan Alden and Storstad crews describe close maneuvers. Marconi wireless operators at Father Point relayed distress signals and coordinated aid with Lady Evelyn and Euro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odin Sabie
Alden
Bri
Cape Dogs
Quet Point
J. W. Griffin
Storstad
Witne
Ness
Pep Storstad
Nobods
Peterson
Mersey
Griffin
Sydney
Montreal
Mr. Griffen
Dominion Coal Company
Quartermaster Peterson
Aspinwall
Norwegat
Montea
St. Lawrence
Honore Lapierre
Empress
Laerre
Marconi
William J. Whiteside
Father Point
Crawford Leslie
O. K
Mr. Whiteside
Leslie
Lady Evelyn
Whiteside
J. McWilliams
Telegraph Company
Lord Mersey
Oper
Beatty
Canadian Pacific Way
Era
Gen
Courtney Hillhouse
Fairfield Shipbuilding Pany
Cave
Staunton
George O'Donovan
Suffragists threaten suit over school ticket incident
The Victory Suffrage Club led by Mrs. Sophia Kremer says it will sue Miss Laura Charleton Principal of School 98 for libel and property destruction. The case, handled by attorney Winter Russell, stems from suffrage tickets torn from children in the street during a park picnic distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victory Suffrage Club
Sophia Kremer
West Eighty-third Street
Laura Charleton
West Ninety-third Street
Winter Russell
Broadway
Victory Club
Central Park
Miss Charleton
Gwendolen Lapoint
West 124Th Street
Miss Lapoint
Mrs. Kremer
Film Firm Dispossession Over Fire Code Violations
Fire Commissioner Adamson began a crackdown on moving picture film makers failing to meet fire laws. He dispossessed three second floor firms at 102 West 101st Street for operating without permits, citing dangerous conditions and blocked exits. The Remo Film Company actors were found at Fort Lee returning in gladiator costumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adamson
West 101St Street
Remo Film Company
Commercial Nature Picture Company
Life Photo Film Company
Fort Lee
N. J
Healy
Armor collection arrives as Riggs tours museum
William Henry Riggs arrives from Paris aboard the France for a two month stay as Prof. Bashford Dean leads five ex Bassemora and twenty others at work arranging the Metropolitan Museum armor collection. A sword of Charles the Bold and Henry II shield are en route and public display may begin November first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Henry Riggs
Metropolitan Museum
Paris
France
Bashford Dean
Mr. Riggs
Dean
Charles the Bold
Provence
Henry II
Riggs
Museum
Curb Association seeks open hearing over Ketcham case
Fifty members sign a petition for an open hearing by the Curb Association next Wednesday over alleged delay in acting on charges against L D Ketcham. He was suspended last week for failing to explain why he did not deliver certain Standard Oil stocks after receiving about 20000 from three Stock Exchange houses. J H MacCormick resigns as Chairman of the Board of Representatives. Signers say two to three weeks elapsed between filing the complaint and suspension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curb Association
L. D. Ketcham
J. IL. MacCormick
Association
Ketcham
Dr Spitzka Resigns Jefferson Professorship
Philadelphia June 19 Dr Edward A Spitzka neurologist resigns as Professor of Anatomy at Jefferson Hospital to take the New York post once held by his father Dr Charles Spitzka who died last January. Spitzka is a leading anatomist and brain specialist who joined Jefferson in 1906 and built a strong reputation rivaling his father.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Edward A. Spitzka
Jefferson Hospital
New York
Charles Spitzka
Spitzka
Ant
Ellis Island Seen as Spread Point for Infectious Disease
Dr. I L Williams of the U S Public Health Service argues in the New York Medical Journal that Ellis Island acts as a national infection focus. He cites crowded steerage barges and inadequate isolation and toilet facilities as key issues and calls for stricter navigation laws, higher funding, and improved shipboard and dockside hygiene to prevent secondary cases and reduce morbidity and mortality among immigrant children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. L. Williams
United States Public Health Service
Ellis Island
New York Medical Journal
Williams
Foeign
Ellig Island
William Williams
Byron H. Uhl
Hospital Durin
United States
Immigration Staons
Music on Eight Piers Approved for City Recreation
The Board of Estimate approved an 11000 appropriation for pier light recreation expenses. Dock Commissioner Smith turned the piers over for public use during the vacation. Park Commissioner Ward noted the shaded piers benefit mothers and children and a ten piece band will play at least twice weekly to provide pleasure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Estimate
Smith
Cabot Ward
Reception and Tea for Tuberculosis Preventorium Friends
A reception and tea will be held at the Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children in Farmingdale New Jersey. Addresses will be delivered by Marcus M. Marks president Bororough, John A. Kingsbury commissioner of charities, and Dr. Hermann M. Biggs president of the Preventorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friends of the
Banks in Deposits Race
London City and Midland Bank absorbs the Metropolitan Bank of England and Wales as Lloyds Bank strengthens its position. Lloyds deposits reach about £105,000,000 after Wilts and Dorset acquisition while City Midland grows toward a thousand branches as rivals approach one thousand.
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London
London City and Midland Bank
Metropolitan Bank of
England and Wales
London City Midland
Lloyds Bank
Lloyds
London City and Midland
Wilts and Dorset Bank
Metropolitan Bank
Seven Thousand Paris Taxicabs Carry Coffin in Protest
A funeral cortege of seven thousand taxicab drivers accompanied Pierre Clop's coffin from Champerret Cave to the Austerlitz Station after his cab fell into a hole in Rue St Augustin. The procession, with red flags, disrupted transit as Paris endures ongoing subsidence following a storm. Socialist Deputy Jean Bon criticized municipal authorities while no major disturbances occurred.
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New York
Paris
Champerret
Austerlit
Pierre Clop
Rue
St. Augustin
Cloup
Jean Bon
Rue Moncey
Plan for Baptist minister annuities adopted in Boston
The Northern Baptist Convention approved a plan to provide annuities for ministers and missionaries. It sets a limit of $500 starting at age 65 for ministers with at least thirty years in Baptist churches, to take effect after 500 ministers become eligible. The body also opposed sectarian public school instruction but supported moral religious education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Northern Baptist Convention
Commission On Baptist Bodies
Countess Di Frasso Arrives For Sister's Wedding
Countess Denise di Frasso daughter of Mrs. Henry Siegel arrived on the French liner France to attend her sister Miss Dorothy Wilde’s wedding to Earl Joseph Moon on June 24. She brought a box of aigrettes stopped by Customs and sent to Public Stores. Being a foreign subject she may not bring them into the United States and will ask the Collector to allow disposal for wear at the wedding. Ae Siegel met her at the pier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deniice di Frasso
Henry Siegel
France
Dorothy Wilde
Earl Joseph Moon
Europe
United States
Ae Siegel
Dinner for Paris Olympic Delegates Hosted by AOC President
Colonel Robert M. Thompson, head of the American Olympic Committee, entertained about 200 guests at a dinner at the embassy in Paris. Attendees included Ambassador Herrick, Princess of Windisch-Gritz, Captain Roald Amundsen, and the Duke and Duchess of Somerset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
NEW York Times
Robert M. Thompson
Herrick
Princette of Windisch-Gritz
Roald Amundsen
Duke and Duchess of Somerset
Ten Thousand Gift Stabilizes Freeville Republic
The Freeville George Junior Republic in New York reports a $10,000 anonymous gift plus $2,000 earlier support, restoring finances and showing no mortgage on its Freeville property. Trustees deny William R. George’s ouster, stating he has not run the institution since 1908 and remains an advisory director. The group cites health strain from attacks and notes plans to relocate George to continue national work if conditions with North Carolina officials resolve.
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George Junior Republic
Freeville
N. Y
Joseph W. Burden
The
Republic
Burden
William R. George
Freeville Republic
Mr. Burden
Lyman Leecher Stowe
National Association of Junior Republics
Frenville Republic
William R. Hereford
National Association
George Junior, Republic
George
George Junor
Harvard
William
Cherze
Gheoree
Mace
Mr. George
Ticaca
Cortland
Gideon
Association
North Carolina
Hereford
Freeport
Ele
Justce Samuel Seabury
Joseph H. Choate
Lilian DD. Ward
Citizen
New York
Indicted Juror and fixer face bribery charges
George Jaimeson a Supreme Court juror and Milton Solomon alleged jury fixer were indicted for bribery and held in 5000 bail each by Judge Crain in General Sessions. Witnesses described passing money at Ann and Nassau Streets as part of a scheme tied to the Raftfray versus Slazard mining stock case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Jaimeson
Supreme Court
Milton Solomon
Bai
Crain
Jaimeson
Solomon
Doommelly
Raftfray
Jalmeson
Lronnelly
Houghton
Allison
Frederick Simpson
O'Malley
Memenber
Walter 8. Shenrod
Pushcart Markets Proposed Under East River Bridges
The Board of Estimate discussed a plan to establish pushcart markets on the east side under the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges to lower living costs. The city would spend about 39,000 to enlarge drainage. pushcart owners would be taxed to cover the cost. Many cart owners would pay a rent of one dollar weekly. The plan aims to reduce costs, ensure sanitary, supervised sales, and curb police interference amid crowded conditions. Three spaces under the Manhattan Bridge and four under Williamsburg Bridge would be used. The proposal was referred to the Corporate Stock Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
Williamsburg
Board of Estimate
Marks
Committee On Markets
Lege
Manhattan Bridge
Williamshoro Bridge
Clergy urge Mitchel to free Bouck White in workhouse
Four New York pastors met Mayor Mitchel at City Hall asking him to use his influence to free Bouck White of the Church of the Social Revolution, serving six months for invading Calvars Baptist Church. Mitchel said he has no power in the matter and would review the case. The clergy indicated White was punished sufficiently, without asserting innocence or guilt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mitchel
City Hall
Bouck White
Church of the Social Revolution
Calvars Baptist Church
Percy Stickney Clieat
Church of the Ascension
Fifth Avenue
Tenth Street
Howard Melish
Church of the Holy Trinity
Clinton and
Montague Streets
Brooklyn
Frank Oliver Lall
Universalist Church of the Divine Paternity
Central Park West
Seventy-sixth Street
John Haines Holmes
Unitarian Church of the Messiah
Park Avenue
Thirty-fourth Street
White
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Collier
Quebec
Empress of Ireland
Haight
Galway
Mr. Haight
Canadian Pacific Railway
Aspinwall, On Betalf
Canadian Pacific Raiines
Alder
Capt Murray
Kendall
Impress
Murray
Liverpool
Jacob Saxe
Ife
Sword
DR. Spitzka
Cives
Fellowship House
Hebrew
Guardian Orphan Asylum
London City
Midlands
New York Time
Plan Baptist Annuities
Countess DI Frasso
Owen
Johnson
Bobbs- Merrill Company
Mayor
34Th Street
J.B. Greenhut Company
Reenhut’s
Fulain Igotm
Kampfe Tires
Strore
Averin
Vung
Greenhut - Siegel CO
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