Bronx Ten Day Exhibit on Population and City Planning
Beginning tonight the Bronx hosts a ten day exhibit on congestion and city planning at Second Battery Armory on Gate Avenue south of Tremont Avenue. The program covers ten events with city officials and experts, led by Benjamin C. March, Executive Secretary of the Committee on Congestion of Population in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bronx
Second Battery Armory
Thgate Avenue
Tremont Avenue
As & Commercial and Manufacturing
Greater
New York
Benjamin C. March
Pope honors five New York priests as Monsignors abroad
Pope Pius X elevates five New York clergy to Monsignor while abroad with Archbishop Farley. Recipients include Rev. James J. Flood of St. John's Church, Rev. Dr. Francis H. Wall of St. Charles Borromeo, Rev. James B. Lewis secretary to the Archbishop, Rev. Daniel McMakin Italian secretary, and Rev. James B. Connolly of Our Lady of Good Counsel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pope
New York
Farley
James J. Flood
St. John’s Church
Francis H. Wall
St. Charles Borromeo
James B. Lewis
Daniel McMakin
Aean
James B. Conolly
Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel
Brooklyn Composer Philip Egner Named Military Academy Professor
Philip Egner of Brooklyn is elected Professor of Music and leader of the academy band at the United States Military Academy to succeed the late Basighe. He is a well known musician and composer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Egner
Brooklyn
Academy Band
United States
Llitary Acade
Basighe
Aee
Wrights assert aviation as safe as riding a bicycle
Orville Wright arrived in Washington with Wilbur to prepare for final government tests of the aeroplane. The brothers discuss automatic balance, the recent fatal accident, and the plan to complete official flights at Fort Myer before June 28.
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New York Times
Washington
Orville Wright
Dayton
Ohio
Wilbur
Lieut
Sulfridge
Wright
Orville
Charles Taylor
Wrights
Fort Myer
Army
War Department
Germany
Signal Corps
A. M. Herring
New York
Reunion of Old Enemies Among NJ Civil War Veterans
Gen Edward Burd Grubb invites survivors of the Yahoos and Game Chickens to Grassmere Edgewater Park NJ for a reunion next Monday. Confederate veteran Col Hilary Herbert and Gen Thomas Mulford will attend with the Eighth Alabama and Daughters of the Confederacy. The Salem Church battle date May 3 ties to prior reunions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Burd Grubb
New Jersey
Grassmere
Edgewater Park
N. J
Grubb
Salem Church
Virginia
Alabama
Hilary Herbert
Navy
Cleveland
Col. Herbert
Eighth Alabama
South
Daughters of the Confederacy
Golden Eagle Captured at Fairmount Cemetery Newark
A young golden eagle, claimed as the only captive of its kind besides one in Washington, D. C., was captured Friday by Fairmount Cemetery employee John W. Good and special policeman James Cole. The bird, exhausted yet improving in captivity, will be sent to the Bronx Zoo in New York.
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Fairmount Cemetery
Newark
N. J
Zoological Gardens
Washington, D. C
Bronx Zoo
New York
John W. Good
James Cole
Good
Cole
Brill
B. B
North Shore
New England
Breakers
Golden Beach
Bar Harbor
Maine
Shore
Boston & Maine
R. R
Broadway
New York City
Juror Craft Held Without Bail After Assault Charge
Wilbur Craft, a juror in Captain Peter Dains’ trial, was detained without bail by Magistrate Gilroy in Far Rockaway Court. He is charged with felonious assault on Stephen M. Van Allen, a Jamaica real estate operator and rifle shot, who lies gravely wounded at his Puntine Street home.
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Hains
Craft
Stephen M. van Allen
Jamaica
L. L
Wilbur Craft
Peter Dains
Gilroy
Far Rockaway
Long Island
van Allen
Puntine Stre
Money
Diffe
Trou
Big Torpedo Flotilla Arrives in New York Harbor
The Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla led by Lieut Commander Frederic N. Freeman docked at the navy yard after entering Sandy Hook in a single file formation. The twelve vessels from Norfolk include Worden Blakely Sang Long Shubrick Macdonough Wilkes Thornton Tingey Stockton Seb Dupont Biddle and are here for Summer naval maneuvers with a stay of only a few days expected.
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New York
Frederic N. Freeman
Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla
Sandy Hook
Navy Yard
Norfolk
New England
Worden
Freeman
Poca N. Freeman
Blakely
Reuben L. Walker
Sang Long
Frank H. Er. Shubrick
George B. Wright
James O. En
Stockton
James O. Richardson
Harold R. Stark. Dupont
William F. Halsey, Jr. Biddle
Vaughan V. Woodwar
Canary chase ends with bird lost in Central Park
Louis Parsons, a St. Regis room clerk, won a Hartz Mountain canary from a departing guest but lost the bird in a frantic chase through Sixth Avenue to Central Park. After multiple getaways from a pursuing crowd and transit cars, the bird finally perched on an elevated car and disappeared. the cage was stolen.
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Louis Parsons
St. Regis
Central Park
Mr. Parsons
Sixth Avenue
Fiftieth Street
Parsons
Fifty-eighth Street
Ten Die in Porter County Trolley Wreck In Indiana
Ten people were killed and forty injured when two Chicago Lake Shore South Bend Railroad electric trolleys collided head on near Bakleytown Porter County Indiana. Motorman George Reed died after disobeying orders. most victims were returning home from an event in Crown Point. The wreck left a mass of debris as rescuers worked by lantern light amid telecommunication delays.
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South Bend
Ind
Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend
Porter County
Indiana
H. A. Wallace
George A. Reed
Reed
Gary
Wilson
Bakleytown
Michigan City
Villa Grove
Ill
Ray F. Merriman
Charles Johnson
Porter
Edward Gilbertson
A. Barber
Hishawaka
F. T. Moore
William Leon
Dowaginc Motor Works
Dowagiac
Mich
F. A. Lake
Dowagiac Motor Works
H. H. Hutson
Niles, Mich
Charles Swantson
Fred Wolth
Chesterton
A Johnson
Delbert Be.kinney
Guy Stutzman
Mishawaka
C. A. Simmons
Benton Harbor
Nan Larsen
Titus BE. Kinzie
Cordius Kline
Hudson Fulton Centenary Education Brochure Released
The State Department of Education issued a school brochure detailing the ter centenary observance of Hudson and Fulton. It includes a foreword by State Commissioner Andrew S. Draper, organization by the commission, a biographical sketch of Henry Hudson, a brief river history, and facsimiles of signatures from notable state and national figures. It features a depiction of the Revolutionary period bridge across the Hudson at West Point and portraits of George Clinton, Robert Fulton, and Gov. Hughes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department of Education
Hudson-Fulton
State Commissoner of Education
Andrew S. Draper
Henry Hudson
Hudson River
Hudson
West Point
George Clinton
Robert Fulton
Gov. Hughes
Summer care of babies by nurses from Junior Sea Breeze
Four trained nurses from the Junior Sea Breeze Home will be assigned to the City Health Department for summer work. Supported by the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, they will visit households in the district west of Third Avenue from Fifty-fifth to Seventy-second Street and follow the Conference on the Summer Care of Babies. The Junior Sea Breeze is an outdoor camp for mothers and children, under medical and nursing supervision.
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Junior Sea Breeze
East Eighty-fourth Street
Association For Improving
City Health Department
Fifty-fifth
Seventy-second Street
Third Avenue
Interest and Custodial Services Highlighted
The notice outlines services including interest on deposits, custodianship of personal property and real estate management, Travelers' Letters of Credit, foreign money and express checks, and vault boxes for customers.
Jury Disagrees in Calhoun Bribery Trial
San Francisco reports a hung jury in the United Railroads bribery case against Patrick Calhoun with ten jurors for acquittal and two for conviction after five months of proceedings. Judge Lawlor discharged the panel and urged legal reforms. Prosecution and defense anticipate a new trial. Calhoun vows to press charges against Heney and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Patrick Calhoun
United Railroads
Patrick Henry
Lawlor
Heney
Calhoun
Francis J. Heney
Rudolph Spreckles
James D. Phelan
Hermit of the Delaware Islet Seized by Illness
James Willis known as the Hermit of the Delaware, owner of a river island above Scudders Falls, was taken to McKinley Hospital in Trenton after suffering nervous indigestion. His fortress like camp features a network of electrical devices and traps, deterring intruders for a decade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Trenton
N. J
Delaware River
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
James Willis
Delaware
McKinley Hospital
Steep Fort George Hill Coasts Turn Boy Injured
Seventeen year old Fred Ecker of 66 East 107th Street sped down Amsterdam Avenue Fort George Hill. He could not slow and fell striking a stone sustaining deep cuts to knee and arm. Brought to Fordham Hospital by ambulance. His bicycle wrecked.
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Fred Ecker
East 107Th Street
Fort George
Amsterdam Avenue
Fort George Hill
Young Ecker
Dyckman Street
Dr. Black
Fordham Hosital
Ecker
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