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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1901
Page
6
The Sunday edition of The New York Times for June 23 1901 provides a full day of national and international news, editorials, and features typical of the era. It includes political dispatches, market updates, and cultural notes reflecting early 20th century American life.
Publication Office in New York at 41 Park Row lists district telegraph offices in Washington and Philadelphia. Geneva Switzerland, C. E. Alioth, 7 Boulevard du Theatre, noted.
Rates listed include daily and Sunday editions per month and per year with postage to foreign countries an 80 cent monthly surcharge. Out of town readers may receive daily and Sunday editions mailed to them at 65 cents per month.
The piece critiques Representative Foerderer and a Philadelphia franchise gang, summarizing Wanamaker’s counteroffer of 500000 cash and 2500000 to the city for deeper channels and new schools. It argues the deals reveal the franchises’ true value and warns against partisan prosecution influencing justice.
A historical discussion argues for reducing untempered partisanship in District Attorney offices. It posits the DA should act like defense counsel when evidence supports justice, balancing public interests with fair treatment of defendants.
The Dingley tariff draws fire over its impact on U S trade and domestic costs. Critics say restrictions harm American buyers and international relations while supporters defend tariff benefits and industry protection. The piece notes economic law and growing U S self sufficiency complicating foreign demand.
A critical examination of Russian upheavals notes caution against relying on non-Russian observers. The Independent features J. W. Birnstock a St. Petersburg bar member and legal adviser to the Russian Embassy in Paris who offers plain authoritative insights from inside the official class.
The Brazilian idea of taxing and destroying 20 percent of the coffee crop draws criticism for waste and morality. The piece questions equity across varied grades and suggests grading reforms and planned destruction by planters rather than a blanket levy.
Pro Bono Publico writes to rebuke the delay in New York courts, contrasting schedules and workloads with Queens, Richmond, Westchester, and Rockland. The letter argues twelve parts and twenty judges fail to clear a two year backlog, urges reforms, and blames the system not the bar.
Louis Berger of New York argues June 21 1901 that Mr Alexander Brownlie’s letter to the New York Times does not reflect majority views and challenges the claim that the Old Testament supports total abstinence. He cites Jewish tradition and several biblical verses to claim the WCTU is not Christian in the true sense.
Dr Albert S Ashmead argues beri-beri on ships stems from carbonic acid gas exposure rather than diet. He cites oxygen deprivation on low wards, notes beriberi is not contagious, and challenges rice as the sole cause while comparing to other outbreaks aboard vessels. He dismisses the Dutch East Indian doctor and Takaki theory as insufficient.
In a June issue letter Patrick Mc Guinness argues the Washington Market lost trade due to outside stall chicanery and fraud and calls for restoration of its former grand trade through reform inside and around the market.
Letter from L. J. Callanan of New York on June 21 1901 criticizes the Washington Market condition fueled by the Bureau of Markets within the Controller's department. He argues political interests have degraded the market into a ramshackle disreputable shed and urges removal of outside sheds and modernization to restore trade and city revenue.
A 1901 letter by R. S. W. argues for practical reforms to ease street car crowding in New York. It endorses keeping cars balanced with seating, swapping open and closed configurations by weather, ensuring decent standing space, and rerouting transfers to alleviate peak-time congestion.
An editorial discusses the Metropolitan Railroad trolley cars and their seating limits due to elevated tracks. It notes opposition to double decking during the construction of the Sixth Avenue Elevated Road and reflects on transportation design constraints.
In New York on June 20 1901 the surface railway tried double-deck streetcars to attack the elevated line. Passengers rode the upper deck, but the plan failed as the elevated girders swept away the threat and the surface road soon withdrew its double-deckers.
William Saul of Jersey City argues on June 20, 1901 that standing in streetcars should be outlawed with fines on passengers and carriage firms. He calls for licensed vehicle caps, citing decency and health as reasons and urging walking for those two blocks or more.
A letter argues for reconfiguring Metropolitan Railway open cars like Washington DC designs. It calls for end platforms with a central aisle and two seats on each side, increasing capacity to fifty two per car. Benefits include reduced standing, fare collection reform, and fewer inside passengers used as fare collectors.
A reader lauds Mr. Guggenheim for advocating rights of travelers in the city. She praises a champion for better access to high stepped open cars, noting the misery and anxiety endured by entering and exiting. Dated New York June 20, 1901.
Albert E. Medway of Fort Wadsworth argues that the Staten Island Ferry has a good safety record and urges improvements. He calls for faster boats, updated arrangements, more lifeboats, and a revised franchise with stricter requirements, while criticizing sensational coverage of the Northfield incident.
A writer denounces a proposed milk commission as an advertising sham that will create offices and labels while the Health Department already enforces milk laws. The piece cites the Sanitary Code and urges strict enforcement by health officers, questioning the need for a new body.
The passage argues that enriching wholesalers harms workers and children by depriving the poor of milk. It attributes high child mortality to overfeeding and poor nutrition from decayed fruit, poisoned candies, and cold drinks, countering claims about bag milk.
A June 18, 1901 letter argues wealth must be produced exchanged and consumed to advance progress. It contends wealth benefits only when spent and used, not merely owned or traded en route to consumers. The writer warns against fear of Chinese competition, urging higher consumption to avoid labor system disruption.
Co P Butler of Brooklyn questions how Alabama can restrict black suffrage during a state convention without violating the Fifteenth Amendment. He argues rights conferred by the Federal Constitution cannot be extinguished by state action and condemns race discrimination in voting.
A reader reports seeing a circular rainbow around the sun in Central Park between noon and 1 PM on June 17 1901. The sky had scattered clouds with a northernly bright ring, noted while shielding the sun with a parasol. A Cross corroborates the mariner’s earlier story.
A reader from Pittsburg argues in the Times that the New York Society for the Protection of Animals has declined from a true SPCA mission to a staff-led institution. He recalls Bergh’s era and urges continued scrutiny until the society serves animals rather than officials.
Ane at the Pabst Hotel portico advocates that if the same feature stood before a church it would be removed soon. The remark arrives amid commentary on urban gateway structures as a protest against architectural displays near public buildings.
In a Detroit Free Press snippet, Cawker suggests burying all wires, and Cumso agrees that the wirepullers should be underground as well.
A clipped Philadelphia Press satire mocks a claim about a man in a store looking at trousers. The speaker jests that he only considers Twouserings and derides trousers as ready-made.
Poetic reflection on Georgia in June with images of gray doves winging through fields, fragrant vales, and mockingbirds singing, set in the Atlanta Constitution’s voice.
A rural office candidate boasts he never convicted a white man or lynched a Black man for stealing a watermelon. The next morning every melon in his patch disappears and he mutters about rope and blaming others.
A Boston youth dies in a Denver Post report of a pale, near dying soldier in a tent. He laments leaving home while recalling war fantasies and dime novels, and a hidden yellow book titled Dare Devil Dick is found on his chest before burial.
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