City docks plan to curb ice price abuses at hearings
Dock Commissioner Tomkins outlined a plan to revoke long term ice dock leases and replace them with revokable permits to prevent ice companies from overcharging the public. He warned against an ice famine and said the city has ample ice bridge facilities, with decisions on applications for Pier 53 East River and Pier 33 East River pending.
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Tomkins
Pier A
Dock Department
Manhattan
Gaynor
Joseph A. Sheridan
Forty-Fifth Street
North River
Pier 33
East River
Rutgers Street
William M. Montgomery
Sheridan
Hudson
Pier 53
Post & McCord
Carnegie Steel Company
Barney
Knickerbocker #32
Ice Trust
Foster-Scott Ice Company
Foster-Scott
East Side
Clinton Street Pier
Clinton Street
Robinson Wins Big Hyatt Fortune in Probate Decision
Surrogate Cohalan ruled George Hyatt Robinson, the 26 year old nephew, is the sole heir to Augusta Hyatt's estate valued at over 300000. Mortimer A. Hyatt, an uncle, would share only if Robinson is disqualified. A referee will review Robinson fitness before letters of administration are issued.
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Cohalan
George Hyatt Robinson
Augusta Hyatt
Robinson
Mortimer A. Hyatt
Miss Hyattt
Mr. Hyatt
T. Townsend Burden, Jr
Miss Hyatt
Ossining
New York City
Rosedale, N. J
Hyatt
Robinson & Shipman
George E. L. Hyatt
Tug Captain Killed When Wheel Strikes Neck
Julian Romard of the tug Leonard Richard died after the steering wheel flew back from his grip striking him in the neck. A deckhand found him dying with a fractured spine aboard the dredging tug off Stapleton Staten Island, bound for Narrows work.
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Julian Romard
Summit Street
Brooklyn
Leonard Richard
Stapleton
S. I
Narrows
Review Highlights Classics From Dostoievsky To Hugo
The piece surveys books and authors including Dostoievsky Brothers Karamazov versus Anglo-Saxon realism, Chesterton on revolutions, Hugo biographical notes, Munro on redquist laws, Goethe biography, Edward VII entries, and publisher pitches. It previews interviews with Gordon Craig and authors Mary Antin and Filson Young, plus editorial takes on publishing.
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Gordon Craig
Mary Antin
G. K. Chesterton
Hugo
Victor Hugo
A. F. Davidson
J. B. Lippincott Co
W. B. Munro
D. Appleton & Co
Goethe
Joseph McCabe
Edward VII
Dictionary of National Biography
Sir Sidney Lee
Macmillan Company
Filson Young
New York Teachers Finish Regular Term and Begin Summer Plans
The 1911 12 term ended as 16 000 teachers were paid and prepare to vacation in New York county and Canada. Many will travel to Germany while continuation and summer schools operate. Department clerks take 30 day vacations and July workloads remain high for the Board of Education.
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New York
Canada
Europe
Germany
Department of Education
Board of Education
Stevens
Meloney
Dartmouth College
Edson
Maxwell
Mildred Gower
D. Appleton & Company
West 32d Street
Frontispiece by Will Grefe Offered in Cloth Edition
Colored frontispiece by Will Grefe described with cloth binding priced at 1 dollar 30 cents net plus 12 cent postage.
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Will Grefe
Comtesse de Boigne
M. Charles Nicoullaud
A. E. W. Mason
Charles Marriott
Mr. Marriott
Elizabeth
Margaret Westrup
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G. H. Robinson
BIG Hyatt Fortune
Nephew
Aran Islands
Kerry and
Wicklow
At All Booksellers, Or
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Boston
G. D. Fox
Jack White
James Pott & CO
Henry Malkan
Broadway
New Street
Bureau OF Service
Modeste Hannis Jordan
36Th St
Opyright Areaa
Fifth Ave
L. B. Mallory
West 58Th ST
N. Y. City
Forward MS
Broadway Publishing CO
Broadway, N. Y
Inson- Pitt
Frank Henry Rice
Church Street
Frank Conly
Hoon
Metropolitan Life
Tel
Gramercy
Romard
New York Times
Anne Warwick
New York Times Book Review
Chicago Tribune
N. Y. Tribune
Richard Washburn Child
Houghton Mifflin Co
Coles Phillips
Harold J. Cue
Park St
John Lane CO
Chicago Evening Post
J. D. Beresford
Jacob Stahl
Beresford
London Morning Leader
Athenaeum
London
London Standard
London Times
Little, Brown & Co., Publishers
Davidee Biro
Rend Bazin
Davidée Birot
Rene Bazin
Resne Hebdomadaire
Frances
Shelley
Duke of Wellington
Lord Castlereagh
Metternich
Scott
Talleyrand
Maria Louisa
Duke
Duchess de Berri
N. Y
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Philadelphia Press
Phillips
Sun
David Graam
Philips
Guy DE Maupassant
Francois
John Lane
George Moore
J William Marion Reedy
J. B. Kerfoot
Cleodore
Crewdon
James L. Ford
W. Morgan Shuster
Persia
the Century CO
Margaret Blake
Chicago Record- Herald
G. W. Dillingham CO. Publishers
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