Bohemia Comes Alive On Second Avenue Steps
The Rev Dr Robert F Y Pierce moved his pulpit to the front steps of Second Avenue Baptist Church as sunset neared turning the avenue into Bohemia. A diverse crowd filled the block with music from cafés and street entertainers, and Pierce invited anyone to join him inside for prayer, while singing and laughter echoed through the cosmopolitan East Side.
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Robert F. Y. Pierce
Second Avenue Baptist Church
East Side
Bowery
Tompkins Square
Second Avenue
Café Boulevard
Café Monopol
Bohemia
Dr. Pierce
Lucia
Richard Hovey
Park Vandals Arrested In Prospect Park
One hundred seventy eight youths and adults, mostly from the eastside, were arrested yesterday afternoon in Prospect Park for park ordinance violations mainly picking flowers and damaging shrubbery. Extra police and patrol wagons assisted, crowds followed arrests, most prisoners could not post $100 bail and will be arraigned in Flatbush Court this morning.
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Eastside
Prospect Park
Miles O'Reilly
Park
Flatbush Court
Prosecutor Mott Urges Civic Righteousness in Sheriff Vote
A large crowd attended a First Presbyterian Church address in Newark by Prosecutor Wilbur A. Mott under the Civic Righteousness Federation. He urged electing a sheriff candidate who will continue Sheriff Sommer’s anti crime work, with pledges to vote in the Sept 22 primary distributed and signed by attendees.
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First Presbyterian Church
Newark
Civic Righteousness Federation
Wilbur A. Mott
William Y. Chapman
Roseville
Federation
Mott
Ely
Frank H. Sommer
Sommer
Roads Save Million on Oil Costs Across Rails
Testimony in the Government suit against Standard Oil cites modern lubrication methods saving railroads about $1,000,000 in ten years. Data from seventy systems show lower per mile costs despite heavier locomotives and cars. Some railroads report cost increases due to equipment weight and weak cooperation with educators.
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United States
Standard Oil Company
Frank B. Kellogg
the Times
Galena Signal Oil Company
Galena Company
Gana Company
P.C
Atlantic Coast Line
B. & O. System, Inc. B. R
Wetac
Dune
Chicago, Bur. & Quin
Chicago & Northwest
Chi
Mil
St. Paul
Chicago & Alton
Delaware, Lack, & W
Great North
All Lines
Hinois Central
Louisville & Nashville
Michigan Central Sess
Cnoy.c
H.R. R.rjune
Penn
Chi, R. 1 & Pac
Lehigh Valley Cenecens OV Oe
Southern Pacific
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg
Chicago & Great Western
Kanawha & Michigan
Lonieville & Nashville Road
Across Orange Mountain Trolley Begins After Yearson
After fifteen years of effort the first trolley line over the Orange Mountain starts today with Frank Brewer operating half hour headways. A franchise bid to cross Valley Road will be made to West Orange Town Council Tuesday night, with talks to Public Service for routes to Main Street Orange and South Orange Avenue. The extension toward St Cloud continues and a sweeping curve near mountain top will replace a switchback, while other switchback roads proceed.
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Orange Mountain
Frank Brewer
West Orange Town
South Orange
Crimmins defies speed laws to aid dying wife
Cyril Crimmins, son of New York contractor John D Crimmins, drove at top speed from Wee Burn Golf Club Noroton to St John s Rectory to fetch Rev Eugene Sullivan for last rites for Mrs Daniel Murphy who lay dying by the roadside. Her clothing burned as she tried to escape kerosene oil flames. Her husband and others assisted. She and husband were treated at Stamford Hospital and prognosis was grave.
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New York Times
Stamford
Conn
Cyril Crimmins
John D. Crimmins
New York
Wee Burn Golf Club
Noroton
St. John’s Catholic
Eugene Sullivan
Daniel Murphy
Wee Burn Club House
J. J. Cloonan
Mr. Crimmins
Felix Mulgrew
Wee
Two Hurt In Auto Crash In Westerleigh
Mrs Frank Belknap wife of an electrical engineer living at 2188 Richmond Place Port Richmond S I was seriously injured in an automobile crash at the corner of New York and Jewett Avenues Westerleigh yesterday afternoon Her daughter was badly bruised about the head and face Mr Belknap the driver was thrown out but escaped injury An ambulance from St Vincent s Hospital took them home Mrs Belknap sustained a fracture of her right arm deep lacerations of the scalp and face and concussion of the brain The girl had several bad scalp wounds and bruises
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Frank Belknap
Richmond Place
Port Richmond
S. I
New York and
Jewett Avenues
Westerleigh
S. L
Belknap
New York Avenue
Jewett Avenue
Two Automobile Smashes in Bronx Street Clash
Silk merchant Louis Krause of 597 Broadway collided with a runabout injuring Mrs Delia Monahan of Fort Schuyler near Pelham Parkway and Fort Schuyler Road. Krause paid her $20. A second near accident involved a horse drawn rig with Benjamin Goldsmith Isaac Rosenstuck and a child. they were thrown, the carriage teetered on a bank and stones were thrown by a mounted police officer.
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Louis Krause
Broadway
Eightyseventh Street
Delia Monahan
Fort Schuyler
Pelham Parkway
Fort Schuyler Road
Bronx
Benjamin Goldsmith
Morris Park Avenue
Isaac Rosenstuck
Victor Street
Pelham Bay
Raynor
Westchester
Fatal motorcycle accident ends life of Arthur Gill
Arthur Gill a 22 year old amateur rider from West Fifty-ninth Street Manhattan was mortally injured at Clifton motorcycle stadium yesterday afternoon. While practicing on a 38 degree incline he reached to greet a friend lost control his bike struck the top guard rail and threw him forty feet to the ground. Gill was taken unconscious to the Algier Hotel and then home where physicians said he cannot live. He had ridden a motorcycle for only two weeks.
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New York Times
Paterson
Arthur Gill
West Fifty-ninth Street
Manhattan
Clifton
Gill
Algier Hotel
Live Wire Accident In Trenton Kills Man Near Death
William P. Kent, an automobile enthusiast from Trenton, escaped fatal electrocution when a live trolley wire fell onto the top of his car. He released the brake and leapt away as the wire slid over the tonneau nearly touching his face, after the car rolled into a trolley car below.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Trenton
William P. Kent
Kent
Auto Crash Kills Two in Indianapolis With Eight in Car
A large touring car carrying four men and four women was struck by a Terre Haute & Eastern Traction train in Indianapolis. Two men, including car owner A. J. Yanger, were killed instantly, chauffeur Earl Gardiner died en route to a hospital, and five others were injured. Miss Maggie Shaw is severely hurt and may die.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Terre Haute & Eastern
A. J. Yanger
Earl Gardiner
Maggie Shaw
Steamer Maraval detained at Quarantine after arrival from Trinidad
The steamer Maraval with fourteen cabin passengers was detained at Quarantine for inspection and is expected to be released today by port health authorities. Daniel Hearty of 750 Greenwich Street arrested in the crowd at his saloon fire, held on $3,000 bail for examination. A westbound crosstown car killed 2 year old Frank Duffy at 314 East 139th Street. motorman arrested, Coroner remanded him. Wern injured by propeller near City Island. taken to Fordham Hospital in serious condition. A Brooklyn store robbery ends with a woman shot in the arm after a man demanded garters from Ettie Eldenberg.
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Maraval
Trinidad
Daniel Hearty
Greenwich Street
Jefferson Market Court
East 139Th Street
Harry G. Wern
Wyse Avenue
City Island
John Lantry
Hart's Island
Wern
Fordham Hospital
Rachel Eldenberg
Fortythird Street
Brooklyn
Ettie
Coney Island Riot Over Two Sheath Skirts
A pair of Directoire skirts worn by two young women sparked a crowd of hundreds at Surf Avenue. Police and reserves dispersed the mob after the visitors entered a restaurant. The party, staying at the Manhattan Hotel, drew 400000 beachgoers to the Island that day with few arrests.
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Surf Avenue
Coney Island
Thomas Downs
New York
Manhattan
Thomas Kelly
Anthony Comstock
Bowery
Yesterday's Fires List Across City Affects Numerous Properties
A compiled log records multiple small blaze incidents with times and locations from 34th Street to Avenue C. Owners are often unknown or listed as trifling losses. several entries note amounts like 3000, 500, 1300, and 50 dollars. Notable addresses include 34th Street, Lewis Street, River Avenue, First Avenue, Sterling Place, East 115th Street, East 102nd Street, Monroe Street, Montgomery Street, Willett Street, and the Greenwich Avenue area. A homicide reference appears at Dasher's Lane and Riverdale Avenue with S Summers, described briefly.
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W. 34Th St
Lewis St
Pincus Bantufon
River
Eae Eas Cack Mites
George Einberger
Frank Burkhart
Sterling Place
Castle Hill
W. Brennan
Olanteess
E. 115Th St
Elia Paolazzi
Simon Schneider
Botras
Avenue Cj
I. Leissman
Willett St
N.eran
Boy Rescues Five From Lake Erie Squall
Twelve year old Leroy Lebarron rescued his mother father two men and another woman from a sunken sloop in Lake Erie off Century Park Beach. He rowed one mile in a rough sea for an hour to reach the boat and bring the party to shore as a crowd onshore watched. Friends plan to seek a Carnegie Medal for him.
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New York Times
Cleveland
Leroy Lebarron
Lake Erie
Century Park Beach
W. J. Lebarron
Thomas Forbes
George A. Roth
Drowned at Heights Baths In Manhattan Tragedy
John Airs 22 of 106 West Twenty eighth Street is believed drowned at the Washington Heights Baths near 155th Street and the Hudson. He was last seen swimming in front of the bathhouse with Dennis Nicholson around 1 pm yesterday. Airs’ dressing room was later broken into and his bankbook showing $280, a $245 money order receipt, and $40 in cash were found in his coat pocket.
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John Airs
West Twenty-eighth Street
Washington Heights
155Th Street
Hudson River
Airs
Dennis Nicholson
Nicholson
Union Dime Savings Bank
Drowning at Rockaway Beach Claims Local Man
Frank Hartley of 338 Stanhope Street Brooklyn drowned in Jamaica Bay near Bayside and Eldert Avenues Rockaway Beach yesterday. Thomas Kohl weiss of 399 Covert Street and George Williams of 336 Stanhope Street aided Hartley as he sank and brought him ashore unconscious, but efforts to resuscitate him failed.
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Frank Hartley
Stanhope Street
Brooklyn
Jamaica Bay
Bayside
Eldert Avenues
Rockaway Beach
Thomas Kohlweiss
Covert Street
George Williams
Skylarking In Boat Causes Drowning
Paterson, June 28. Michael Janeski, 85, of 2538 River Street, drowned in a clay hole at Luddy Grove Singac this afternoon during horse play in a rowboat. The boat overturned and he could not swim before friends reached him.
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Paterson
Michael Janeski
River Street
Luddy Grove
Singac
Janeski
Drowning of Brooklyn Boy at Wappingers Creek
Thomas McDonald nine years old of 132 Berkeley Place Brooklyn drowned in Wappingers Creek at Pleasant Valley six miles east of Poughkeepsie while wading with two Brooklyn companions who left him briefly. his body found later in six feet of water. A second incident reports a well dressed man around 30, likely Joseph Weintrob of Jersey City, who died by suicide at Belmont Mansion Fairmount Park after attracting a crowd during a Sunday concert by swallowing carbolic acid.
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New York Times
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Thomas McDonald
Berkeley Place
Brooklyn
Wappinger’s Creek
Pleasant Valley
John Wolf
Bruce McBride
McDonald
Philadelphia
Joseph Weintrob
Jackson Street
Jersey City
Belmont Mansion
Fairmount Park
Prairie dogs outsmart Bronx Zoo defenses with sand pipe ploy
At Bronx Park the prairie dog village under the ten foot wall and nearby rock and duck pond was breached by tunneling. Director Hornaday recruited a Western expert who buried a sand filled tile pipe below a tunnel mouth to coax the animals to surface and retrace their path, enabling capture and return to the village.
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Bronx Zoo
Bronx Park
Hornaday
Feld
Rairie
Brothers quarrel leaves one mortally wounded in Newark hospital
Bernadino Perno, 0 years old, of South Bethlehem, was mortally injured after a quarrel at the breakfast table with Angelo Perno, 42, of Kearny. Angelo was jailed in Hudson County while doctors warn Bernadino may die from abdominal stab wounds and liver injury.
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Ernadino Perno
Mechanic Street
Bethlehem
Penn
St. Michael's Hospital
Newark
Angelo Perno
Halsted Street
Kearny
Hudson County
Bernadino
Angelo
Aney
Kal
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C. B. Schopen
Cliff Avenue
Yonkers, N. Y
John Albert
Race Street
Homewood
Pittsburg
Geo. W. Case
Monroe Street
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Times Squar
New York City
J. D. Crimmins
Silk Merchant
Friend Fatal
N. J.) Stadium
Castoria
Boy
Heights
Oppenheimer Institute
West 34Th St
West 57Th St
Arnold
Ion
Brother
Italy
Bonwit, Harris & Co
Broadway and
Fifth Ave
Cor
21St St
Sale
Arnheim
Lew Three Twins
Herald
Eugene Walter
Clyde Clyde Fitch
Coe Daly
New Musical Review
North River
Flatiron
Chinatow-1
Blaney'’S
Alhambra
Ncoln SQ
Way
St. Eve
AX Spooner
Louise Dresser
Onaip
Matthews & Ashley
Gallagher & Barrett
Carlin & Otto
Rae Sun
Wm. H. Reynolds
Iron St
Eugene Astor Theatre
Luna Park
Harlem
Buna
Atlantic Av
B’klyn
Sea Beach
Hammerstein
Gertrude Hoffman
Fred
Ian War
Madison
Arden
New Amsterdam Theatre
West 42
Zs. Daz
AMS
Jardin DE Paris
F. Ziegfeld, JR
Mats
Sat
Coolas
Knickerbocker
Bway & 38Th
St Eves
M. Cohan
Helen
Happyland
Marie la Blanche
Staten Island
de Pegiols
the Merry
Raymond H
al Gord
Bel Hite
Steeple Chase
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