Recorder election case tests Alderman Kuntze memory
Alderman Kuntze testifies in Peters perjury trial and fails to recall details of the 1907 election when votes switched from Palmieri to Cowling for the Recorder post. Judge Goff considers committing him for perjury as prosecutors press for recall of past votes while other M O L Aldermen face related charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Kuntze
Municipal Ownership League
John Palmieri
Judy Cowing
John W. Goff
Henry Clay Peters
Brooklyn
Whitman
Paters
Kuntze
Smyth
Jerome
Goff
Peters
Alderman Clifford
Cowling
M. O.L
O’neil
Ruger
Cowing
Mr. Smyth
M. QO. L
Pamieri
Milton Aborn
M. L
Joseph Folk
Ene Peters
Mr. Myth
M. O L
Gaicene Dien
Clifford
Pennsylvania Company Declares Semiannual Dividend Cut to 3 Percent
The Pennsylvania Company, operating lines west of Pittsburg, announced a semiannual dividend of 3 percent, down from 4 percent last December and maintaining a 6 percent annual rate. The Pennsylvania Railroad, sole owner of the company, will receive $600,000 less this half year. Ontario & Western also declares a 2 percent annual dividend payable August 3, a rate unchanged for two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Company
Pennsylvania Lineswest
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ontario & Western
New York, Ontario & Western
Trustees elected to Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
Edwin S. Marston president of Farmers' Loan and Trust Company Wayne MacVeagh former Attorney General in Garfield administration and James M. Bock ex Assistant United States Attorney General were elected trustees of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwins. Marston
Farmers’ Loan ‘and Trust Company
Wayne MacVeagh
Philadelphia
Garfield
James M. Bock
United States
Mutual Lif Insurance Company
New York
Bingham Orders Crackdown On Firecracker Nuisance
Police Commissioner Bingham issues a directive to arrest anyone lighting explosives within twelve hours before and after July 4 to fix oversight by Fire Commissioner Hayes. The move targets firecrackers and related devices in the period surrounding Independence Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bingham
Hayes
The Limes for the Summer
Readers may have The Daily and Sunday editions mailed during vacation for 75 cents per month. Daily Edition at 50 cents per month. Arrangements with local newsdealers for regular delivery. Subscriptions received at The New York Times offices Times Building 8 Spruce St and 80 Broadway. Telephone 1000 Bryant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Times
Spruce St
Broadway
Bryant
After Bide-a-Wee Home Dispute Reaches Court
Mrs. Harry Nibbe, president of Bide-a-Wee Home for Animals, was summoned in Yorkville Court to answer a nuisance charge. The summons came from a nearby boarding house keeper with witnesses said to be discharged employees seeking to bolster the complaint. Dr. Walter Bensel, city sanitary chief, endorsed the home after dismissals, noting it now complies with regulations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry
Nibbe
Yorkville
Butt Ig
Ride-a-Wee
Walter Bensel
Timmes
Health Department
Hotel Narragansett Proprietor Faces Bankruptcy Filings
Edgar Bronk, owner of the Hotel Narragansett at Broadway and Ninety-third Street, faces a petition in bankruptcy from creditors Sayles Zahn Company, Conron Brothers Company, and Joseph Hahn & Son. Judge Adams appointed Elbert B. Hamlin receiver with a $5,000 bond as assets include furniture and accounts valued at least $10,000 amid multiple judgments and city executions. Bronk, once a shirt manufacturer, entered the hotel business in 1906 and faced stiff competition and high provisioning costs. two judgments were recently filed against him for $265 and $361, partially satisfied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Bronk
Hotel
Narragansett
Broadway
Ninety-third Street
Sayles-Zahn Company
Conron Brothers Company
Joseph Hahn & Son
Adams
Elbert B. Hamlin
Bronk
Anthony Krayer
Samuel E. Hunter
Imitation birds held dutiable as wearing apparel
The Board of United States General Appraisers overruled Henry Brown & Co. of Boston on their protest about imitation birds made from a wire frame covered in silk netting. The board ruled these are duty bound at 60 percent under the Dingley tariff wearables provision, not 30 percent under the feathers paragraph which covers only natural skins and plumage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. S
Fischer
Napier Motor Company of America
Farmers' Loan Sues for 1 200 000 Against Rail Firms
The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company filed a suit in the U S Circuit Court seeking 1 200 000 plus interest. It lists the Central Park North and East River Railroad Company and multiple lessees and creditors as defendants. The plaintiff claims a prior mortgage to secure bonds due 1902 and asks that all defendant funds be placed under court control. Judge Lacombe may act Friday on related receivership petitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
United States
Central Park, North and East River Railroad Company
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Joline and Robinson
New York City Railway Company
Morton Trust Company
Guaranty Trust Company
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Degnon Contracting Company
Central Crosstown Railroad Company
Metropolitan and
New York City Railway Companies
Lacombe
Messrs. Joline and Robinson
New York City Railroad Company
Central Park, North & East River Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Railroad to Buy New York Philadelphia Norfolk Stock
The Pennsylvania Railroad plans to acquire the stock of the New York Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad. Payment is in 4 percent forty year trust certificates guaranteed by PRR. Offer open until August 1 with Fidelity Trust Company as depository. Over 90 percent of shares already tendered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad
Fidelity Trust Company
Pennsylvania
New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad Company
Southern
Norfolk Gateway
Lusitania Passengers Defend Shipboard Comfort Claims
Vernon H. Brown Cunard New York reports a Liverpool cablegram about Lusitania passengers meeting aboard on June 17 to approve resolutions signed by George H. Kinsolving Bishop of Texas. The note says the ship never vibrated enough to affect comfort, countering prior charges, with many individual names attached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernon H. Brown
Cunard Line
New York
Liverpool
Lusitania
George H. Kinsolving
Texas
Lackawanna Diagonal Cutoff Plan Ratified
President Truesdale said no signs of business improvement yet but expected gains from crop harvest and political settlements. Directors of the Lackawanna ratified plans for a twenty eight and a half mile cutoff through the New Jersey hills, with fans published in THE occa weeks earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truesdale
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Lackawanna
New Jersey Hills
Occa
Hearst Recount Halted as Fraud Claims Fail
The recount ends today after Hearst claims of fraud fail to show evidence. Court expected to dismiss the complaint though discussions mention a possible Hearst “Trump Card” strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hearst
Recount Underway in McClellan Hearst Case in Kings County
Vote boxes in 1905 Mayoralty recount near completion in Brooklyn Kings County. McClellan holds largest plurality as Justice Lambert prepares to direct jurors to verdict finding no fraud and valid election. Hearst counsel Clarence J. Shearn weighs next move with expected adjournment if allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
McClellan
Justice Lambert
Clarence J. Shearn
Hearst
Shearn
Hearst Net Gains From Boxes Shaped City Vote Tally
The report shows Hearst adding 62 votes yesterday for a 765 net lead from 1,780 counted boxes. McClellan also gained 62 that day as 168 boxes remain to be counted, with 43 from Staten Island and 109 from Queens, affecting the Twenty first Assembly District of Kings.
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McClellan
Hearst
Eighteenth
Fulton St
Atlantic
Utica
Buffalo
Atla’c
St. M'ks
Grant Sq
Bedford
F’klin
Albany
At’ntic
Sch'd'y
At'ntic
E'gston
Rogers
Ntic
C’n'rsie Lne
Tilden
Rochester
Ocean P’ Kway
Tbush
Nostrand
Snyder
Prosp’t
C. Isl
Irvington Hall
Gravesend
Avenue
Barren Island
95Th Street
Flatlands
Rockaway
Nineteenth Assembly District
Graham
Humbolt St
Orient
Powers St
Knick. St
Morgan
Bogert
Knick
Central
Beaver St
Myrtle
Lawton St
Hamburg
Twentieth’ Assembly District
Jefferson Si
Hart St
de K
Starr
Woodbine
Palmetto St
Central Av
Bush
Broadway
Madison St
Eldert St
Harmon St
Greene
Wyck
Ever
Twenty-First Assembly District
Cooper
Moffat St
Chauncey
Liberty
Wyona
Pitkin
Blake
Belmont
Shepherd
Glen St
Jamaica
Atlan’c
Hopkin’n
Rocka’y
Glenm’e
Osborn St
Thatford St
Seioa
Staten Island
Queens
Kings
MARTYN DISAPPEARANCE PROMPTS SEARCH AND THEORIES
Friends of Charles Martyn publisher of The Caterer believe he may be found soon after vanishing from his home at 569 West 150th Street on May 28. Mrs Martyn left for Connecticut with her lawyer and neighbors think she is aiding in locating him. Police note the case is among the strangest they have faced. She has received letters from him threatening self harm if publicity is used, and two letters on the day of disappearance spoke of flight. Four years earlier he had received anonymous threats demanding $5 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Martyn
West 150Th Street
Bank Outing Ends in Fog Off Coney Island
The Bank Outing Club of Coney Island lost bearing in a heavy fog while at sea off Sandy Hook. Captain Foley steered the 70 foot sloop to shore near West Twenty-fifth Street where Night Watchman James Chamberlain alerted locals. Lifesavers and hotel men rescued the group including soubrettes. Edith Gill fell overboard but was saved, with Charles Hagan hailed as a hero for assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank Outing Club
Coney Island
Surf Avenue
Bowery
John Foley
Steeplechase Pier
Sandy Hook
Norton's Point
Foley
Edith Gill
Charles Hagan
Bank
Athout
Mrs Mattison Testifies In Divorce Trial
Mrs Agnes Cruikshank Mattison, wife of Richard V. Mattison Jr, testifies in Supreme Court before Justice Er langer. She denies misconduct accusations against Dr Charles F Wainwright but admits heavy drinking and impulsive actions including an 1905 Newport incident on the armored cruiser West Virginia. The trial continues tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes Cruikshank Mattison
Richard V. Mattison, Jr
Justice Erlanger
Supreme Court
Charles F. Wainwright
West Virginia
Newport
Mattison
Lost all in Niagara hotel tale of honeymoon theft
J. G. Rodgers of 48 Prospect Place was arrested on a Niagara Falls larceny charge after his wife and two month old child accompanied him. Held by Magistrate Moss in 1500 bail awaiting state officers, he confessed a failed honeymoon hotel venture after spending 1100 on furniture and shipping 500 worth to New York. The arresting detective took the wife home to aid her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. G. Rodgers
Prospect Place
Lyons
Niagara Falls
Moss
Rodgers
Stonington
Conn
New York
Taft to Speak at Prison Ship Martyrs Monument Dedication
Stephen V. White announces Taft will address the dedication of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument on Greene Hill, with the ceremony set for November 17. Also notes Henry McCrea’s gradual recovery in Flushing Navy Hospital and the October 1920 court arraignment of Albert Carson for a fatal auto crash on President Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen V. White
Heat Wave Hits City with 93 Degree Peak and Prostrations
The city endured its hottest day of the year with a 93 degree high and 92 percent humidity. Heat prostrations were reported, including United States Treasurer Charles H. Treat, who is confined to his hotel room but not in serious condition. A cooler wave was forecast to arrive, with a brief thunder shower expected in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Charles H. Treat
Wolcott
Four Heat Prostrations Reported in Newark
Four men collapsed in the street last night and were hospitalized in serious condition. Julius Hauser 30 of Newark Street City Hospital Joseph R Kotten 28 of 345 North Fifth Street City Hospital Nicholas Carnosino 19 of 47 Madison Street St James's Hospital Anton Antoni 23 of 123 Eighth Avenue St Michael's Hospital all were in serious condition after heat exposure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
Julius Hauser
Newark Street
City Hospital
Joseph Rkoten
North Fifth Street
Nicholas Carnosino
Madison Street
St. James's Hospital
Anton Antoni
Eighth Avenue
St. Michael's Hospital
Two Men Rescued After Wall Collapse At Midway Park
At Midway Pleasure Ground in Harlem a storm toppled a derrick and a wall as workers laid girders. Patrick Agnew leaped clear, injuring his shoulder. John Barlow and Isaac Sutphen were buried but rescued with injuries from the debris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midway Park
Fifth Avenue
110Th
111Th Streets
110Th Street
Patrick Agnew
East 1St Street
John Barlow
East 146Th Street
Isaac Sutphen
525
Park Avenue
Ernst Kausauber
Freeman Bernstein
Harlem Hospital
Also Mentioned on This Page
Justice Goff
M. Oo. L
Pennsylvania CO
Mutual Life
Dr. Bensel
Farmers’ Loan and Trust
NEW
Pennsylvania Line
Railroad
Norfolk
Kings County
Martyn
Mrs. Mattison
Niagara Hotel
Brooklyn News Notes
Henry McCrea
United States Navy
Navy
Flushing Avenue
Albert Carson
State Street
Myrtle Avenue Court
Charles Jacobs
President Street
Jacobs
Carson
Geronimus S. Underhill
Ketcham
Underhill
John K. Neal
D. Harry Ralston
Michael J. Cady
Marcus B. Campbell
Ewis M. Swasey
Prudential Savings Bank
Myrtle Avenue
Avenue B
Wm. Gressum
Zust Autos
Harry Gewin
Jacob Cooney
Siightet
Hancock St
Machi
E. 108Th St
Samuel Berg
Steer
Coriear
J. Bransee
Samuel Bros
Trifling Co
Cannon St
H. Kellern
Co. Ondonlo
E. 11Th St
West 89Th
igaEeuee Saas
Kidon
Eee
Coolwave
Cify
Ewecdeces
Cnaes
Weather Bureau
Jerseys
Criminal Courts
William J. Roche
East Fiftysixth Street
Edward Nestor
East Fifty-sixth Street
O'Connor
Rosalky
John McCue
Duane Street
Centre
Park Row
Max Saul
Bolton Street
Henry At Peng
Brooklyn Bridge
Oeces
New Chambersreet
Derrick
Gird
Midway
Wallach Bros
Third Ave
Cor
29Th St
Hart, Schaffner , Marx Clothes
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Savoy
Snes
M. Cohan
Helen F
Jerry J
Josephine Cohan
Daily Mat
Victoria Theatre
Alexia
Horace Goldin
Winsor McCay
Motoring
Godlman
Dog
Cat Chcus
Hammersten
Gs Sua
Colonial
Saheestone
Shannon Co
Ats AT
Cor Wallace’s. Eyes
THE
GAY Musician Times Wapires
Garden
Easing Musical
Or de Haven & Co
Boys & Girls, Eth
Panamas
North River
Chinatown
Dreamland
Wm. H. Reynolds
Pres
Luna Park
Harlem
Luna
Sunway
Atlantic Av
B’klyn
Sea Beach Express
Steeple Chase
North Beach
Jardin DE Paris
F. Ziegfeld, JR
New Amsterdam
Agai
Aerial Gardens
Mats
Wed
Sat
Aiboe Lams
John
Witching
Manperte
Hackett
the Wolf
Eugene Walter
W. of
Clyde Fitehs
Daly
Astor Theatre
Ring
Tzigane
Rigo
Merry Widow
Sun
St. Ale
Cirslem
Lincoln
St. Eve
I Blaney
Edna May Spooner
Camille
Mat
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