Olympic Tops as World's Biggest Liner Docks at Pier 59
The Olympic, the world largest liner, moored at Pier 59 North River with twelve tugs guiding her and a crowd on the pier. Passengers toured a hotel like ship boasting vast saloons, promenades, baths, squash and racket courts, a la carte restaurant, and a spacious main dining saloon. Officers and passengers reported smooth voyage from Daunt's Rock to Ambrose Channel, with 1,416 aboard and 2,500 bags of mail, while Mayor Gaynor exchanged greetings with Southampton officials and noted the ship's majestic scale and luxury.
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Olympic
Pier 59
North River
Julius Adler
B. J. Smith
North
Lusitania
Bath
Charles
Cunard
Staten Island
Daunt’s Rock
Ambrose Channel
John Bell
Smith
McElroy
O'Loughlin
Latimer
Times Square
Thirtyfourth Street
Broadway
Mirvins
James Bruce Ismay
International Mercantile Marine
White Star Line
Ismay
Arbusson
Haddon Hall
Court’s Express License Injunction Clarified
Assistant Corporation Counsel Arnold Weil said the injunctions granted by Judge Lacombe were misunderstood. He noted the judge held the ordinance requires express firms to pay five dollars per wagon and ten cents per driver, and that the license of the express business itself was enjoined.
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Arnold Charles Weil
Lacombe
Mr. Weil
Marsh Appeals for Higher Hospital Provisions for Consumptives
Benjamin C. Marsh writes to the Board of Estimate at the urging of the Tuberculosis Committee of the Charity Organization Society. He calls for increased appropriations for hospitals treating consumptives, arguing the situation is critical and more can be done than current city or public efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuberculosis Committee
Charity Organization Society
Benjamin C. Marsh
Board of Estimate
Marsh
TWO DIE OF CHOLERA OUTSIDE THE PORT
Three transatlantic steamers were held in quarantine at the port after cholera cases and deaths aboard. The Duca degli Abruzzi carried two cholera deaths and one at sea, with 65 cabin and 635 steerage passengers held under supervision. The Barbarossa had an infant death not caused by cholera, and the Hiner Laura showed no cholera in examinations. All passengers on the Abruzzi remain observed. the ship stays in quarantine until Friday.
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Trieste
Palermo
Bremen
Duca Degli Abruzzi
Abruzzi
A. H. Doty
Health Oficer
Naples
Doty
Josef Colella
Paulo Lebuzzetti
Pest House
Swinburne Island
Melchiorre Raffa
James W.wadsworth
Vincenzo Passero
Hoffman Island
Dr. Doty
Speeding on the Duane Street horse car line
John Scott a 73 year old driver from 20 Goerck Street was taken to Tombs Court on a speeding charge after a half hour stoppage on Chambers and Duane Streets. Magistrate Corrigan fined him for the offense praising his long service and noting no further speeding on the line. The case was aided by Big Simon Gillis the police hammer thrower.
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Chambers
Duane Streets
John Scott
Goerck Street
Tombs Court
Big Simon Gillis
Corrigan
Scott
Duane Street
Big Simon
Fourteen Stories to Death of John C Armour
John C Armour a public accountant and Southern Society member fell or jumped from a fourteenth story window in the Home Life Building 256 Broadway dying instantly. He had practiced in New York about twenty years and lived with his wife in Brooklyn. He suffered nervous worry over a business investment reportedly triggering headaches heart trouble and loss of appetite. Armour born in Mobile Alabama had English father and Canadian Guards service as a youth and no children.
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John C.armour
Southern Society
Home Life
Broadway
Mr. Armour
Bergen Street
Brooklyn
Elon S. Hobbs
Hobbs
Armour
King
Alabama
Mobile
Canadian Guards
Silber Anniversary of Louis and Mrs Feinberg
Mr and Mrs Louis Feinberg celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary at home on 500 West 179th Street with over 200 guests. The couple stood under a silver bower as Rev Dr Bass blessed their union and Mendelssohn’s Wedding March accompanied a new bridal procession. Their eleven children included the youngest flower girls. A concert followed after dinner by vocalists and a string orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Feinberg
West 179Th Street
Bass
Mendelssohn
Battleship Thief Caught Paymaster Lee Pleads Guilty
Edward Valentine Lee, a 26-year-old paymaster's clerk born in Russellville Kentucky, stole 46000 from the battleship Georgia in Havana on February 11. He was arrested in Buffalo after investigators tracked him to Toronto and Chicago. Police found 25000 in a bag and 800 in his pocket. He admits embezzlement and will plead guilty in Federal court.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Edward Valentine Lee
Georgia
Havana
Thomas O'Grady
Washington
Toronto
Lee
O’grady
Russellville
Europe
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Greenwich St
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Warren Street
Phillips-Jones Co
W. Y
H. P. Davison
J. P. Morgan
Morgan
Southampton
Lord Pirrie
Harland Arene
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Gaynor
Col. E. Bance
Bance
Mrs. Norton
Metropolitan Building
Woolworth
Bunker Hill Monument
Washington Monument
S- Goa
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White Mountain
J.b.greenhut
Greenhut Building
Rass Neessee
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Greenaut
Ade
Ater
Tor
Thewt
Chambers Street
Public Accountant
SEF & Ga
Russia
Taft
Congress
Ilman
Joseph
Edgar
James Cree
Chamberlin
THE
Evening Mail
Alliance
Thompson-Starrett Company
Thompson-Starrett Company Building Construction
Fifty-One
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Glidden
Twoklet
Glidden Varnish Company
Cleveland
Canat
Smith Gray & Co
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Bedford Av
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