Transit Board Departs as Subway Plans Move Forward
The Rapid Transit Commission adjourned sine die after thirteen years, approving contract forms for six of fourteen Brooklyn subway sections and authorizing a hearing on the rest. It outlined extensions on Flatbush Avenue, Sackett Street, and Fourth Avenue, plus extra tracks at Ninety Sixth Street and ventilating louvres, with a total project cost near 23 million dollars.
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Rapid Transit Commission
Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn
Interborough
Ninety-sixth Street
Flatbush Avenue
Nassau
Willoughby Street
Tillary
Johnson Streets
Fulton Street
Ashland Place
Sackett Street
Tenth Street
Union
President Streets
Eighth
Ninth Streets
Tenth
Twenty-second Street
Prospect Avenue
Seventeenth Street
Twentysixth
Twenty-seventh Streets
Twenty-seventh Street
Forty-first Street
Thirty-sixth Street
New
Manhattan Bridge
Fort Hamilton
Coney Island
The
Boar
Orr
Ninety Sixth Street
Interborough Company
Fiftyninth Street
Borough Hall
City Hall
Mr. Smith
Mr. Orr
Stalin
O. Mere
Rr. Langdon
Uth
Fac
Ania
McAdoo
New York
Motion to vacate exam of Miss Watson before suit trial
Supreme Court Justice Blanchard heard a motion to vacate the examination order for Violette Watson in Hansen versus Walsh. Walsh’s attorney argued the exam sought to force a settlement via publicity threats. Hansen seeks fees and defamation damages. The court reserved decision.
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Supreme Court
Blanchard
Violette Watson
Dethief C. Hansen
Thomas F. Walsh
Appellate Division
Hansen
City reduces Riverside Drive awards to six hundred sixty thousand
Condemnation Commissioners Arthur Truax Lawrence Kelly and P J Conway agreed to cut awards by another twenty percent per Controller Metz lowering total costs to 660000 from 1100000. Area to be assessed will cover property immediately benefited, a move met with surprise and seen as indicating original assessments were high.
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Riverside Drive
Upper West Side
Metz
Arthur Truax
Wrence Kelly
P. J. Conway
Shake-up in Manhattan high pressure water main work
Water Commissioner John H. O'Brien explains the shift of field leadership to George W. Birdsall and Daniel Curtin from Chief Engineer De Verona while preserving De Verona's responsibility. Merchants and insurance groups protest daytime Broadway excavation and urge revoking permits, citing contract provisions and public safety concerns.
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George W. Birdsall
Daniel
Curtin
de Verona
Birdsall
O’brien
Mr. Curtin
Broadway
Fourteenth Street
Twentieth Street
Manhattan
Merchants’ Association
Machen
The
Fire Insurance Exchange
Ahearn
Commissioner of Water Supply
Fourteenth
T Ee
Ancarn
Insurance Committee
McClellan
Dunns Check to Tammany Linked to Damaged Darling ton Storage
Bart Dunn the contractor and Charles ONeill the former bookkeeper testified in the Borough President Ahearn investigations. ONeill identified checks including one to Tammany Hall and another for primaries, and noted storage charges for the Hotel Darlington project that overstated costs.
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Bart Dunn
Charles O'Neill
Ahearn
Commissioners of
O'Neill
Dunn
Intense attempt to join convent ends in hospital
Mamie Kelly tried to jump from a window at her cousin James Kellys home on East 105th Street to quit the world before boarding a train to Harrison New Jersey where she planned to become a nun. She is in Bellevue prison ward with a probable skull fracture and may not recover. Relatives offer no explanation for the act.
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N. J
Mamie Kelly
James Kelly
East 105Th Street
Bellevue
Straine Held For Trial In Dedham Court
Dorothy Straine heiress to 100000 faced her father Robert F. Straine in Dedham District Court after a alleged kidnapping attempt at the Hurd home in Wellesley. She was heavily manacled to a deputy while witnesses Mrs Hurd Jeremiah Cullinan and Jeremiah McLean attended. Both Straine and Mrs. Duncan pleaded not guilty to assault with intent to kidnap Mme Le Blanc and the case was continued to July 9.
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Dedham
Dorothy Straine
Robert F. Straine
Joseph Hurd
Wellesley
Dana Hall
Straine
Hurd
Jeremiah Cullinan
Jeremiah McLean
Mrs. Duncan
Mme
Marie le Blanc
Probe of Murphy's Office Opens in City Inquiry
Acting District Attorney Smyth and Assistant ADA Appleton launched an investigation into the Building Department headed by Edward E Murphy. The probe draws on Ahearn inquiry material and other records, with graft complaints to be examined and witnesses questioned as the case aims for the Grand Jury. Local figures testify about the Lafayette and Walker Streets collapse and department conduct. Murphy seeks libel damages against contractor 8 A McGuire over testimony alleging heads of the department profited from approvals. In Roslyn New York, four Willets horses were struck by lightning on a farm, killing a hunter, a steeplechaser, and two coach horses.
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Appleton
Edward 8. Murphy
Ahearn
Jerome
Manley
Lafayette
Walker Streets
Henry Nthy
Lintig
Building Department
Grand
Murphy
8. A. McGuire
McGuire
Willets
Roslyn
N. Y
Taber Willets
Grand Republic to Run Daily Service Next Sunday
The steamer Grand Republic will begin regular daily trips between New York and Rockaway Beach starting next Sunday. The vessel is described as one of the city’s summer month institutions.
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Grand Republic
New York
Rockaway Beach
Textile Descriptions Include Wool Worsteds and Mohair Suits
The note lists fabrics priced at twenty dollars and up, citing worsteds like batiste and firm textures, and novelties such as cravenetted mohair suits.
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Batiste
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