Wallace resigns as Isthmian Canal Chief Engineer
John F. Wallace resigns from the Isthmian Canal Commission and as Chief Engineer after a dispute with Secretary Taft over reorganization plans and a tempting offer in New York. Roosevelt accepts Wallace’s resignation effective immediately at the end of June 1905.
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Isthmian Canal Commission
Wallace
Washington
John F. Wallace
New York
Panama Railroad
Secretary of War
Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Cambridge
Mass
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Plot against Panama Canal Commission exposed in Washington
Washington reports say the administration believed an Interborough Rapid Transit push to lure Chief Engineer Wallace and others would delay canal construction. It cites offers to Wallace and Shonts, renewed attempts at control, and moves to replace the old commission with new leadership to speed work.
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Philippines
Commission
Washington
Pertora
New York
Wallace
Interborough Rapid Transit ‘Company
Panama Canal Commission
Shonts
Government
Canal Commission
Canal
Tropics
Panama Commission
Col
Edwards
Walace
Congress
Col. Edwards
Civil Service
Getta
United States
Ang
Panama
Senate
House
Parsons: Not Offered Panama Canal Chief Engineer
William Barclay Parsons of New York said he has not been offered the post of Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal and cannot say if he would accept or decline it while in Philadelphia examining filtration matters.
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Secretary of War
Mr. Wallace
New York
Wallace
United States
Manhattan Hotel
New Haven
Cromwell
Panama Canal
Dicker
Nis
York
Panama
Whitehouse
Washington
New York Times
Philadelphia
William Barclay Parsons
Improvement in Henderson’s Condition Reported
Dubuque Iowa June 29 A marked improvement in the condition of ex Speaker Henderson is reported by his physicians The parent is able to move his arm which had been totally paralyzed.
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Dubuque
Iowa
Henderson
Gen Whitlock suffers breakdown. leaves on steam yacht
Gen Benjamin F. Whitlock, president of the Bayonne and New Haven Transportation Company, a leading figure in local rail and industrial affairs, has suffered a nervous breakdown and gone away for a month on his steam yacht Une, accompanied by his wife and daughter.
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Benjamin F. Whitlock
Bayonne and New Haven Transportation Company
Une
Hospital Brander Out: Gouverneur Doctor Dismissed for Branding
Dr John W Brannan president of Bellevue and allied hospitals dismissed Dr Du Bois Hunt an interne at Gouverneur Hospital for branding Isaac Chaves the immigrant with the word fakir during a thermo cautery treatment The incident prompted officials to condemn the act while noting the burns were superficial and would heal. Hunt admitted fault and faced termination.
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John W. Brannan
Board of
Bellevue and Allied Hospitals
du Bois Hunt
Gouverneur Hospital
Isaac Chaves
Bellevue Hospital
Gregory
Bellevue
Hunt
Chaves
Dr. Gregory
Dr. Hunt
Toronto
Canada
Toronto Medical School
Concert Series Music Tonight Across City Parks
Concerts are scheduled tonight in Battery Park Seward Park Hudson Park and Port Richmond Park led by conductors William Bayne Morris Schwartz and Joseph Stanley. The performances feature Moore's Band and other local groups in a citywide music outreach.
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Battery Park
William Bayne
Seward Park
Morris Schwartz
Hudson Park
Moore
Port Richmond Park
Joseph Stanley
Insurgent ambush in German Southwest Africa reports kills
A Steinkopf telegram states Petrus Christian led an attack at Karasberg killing fifteen German soldiers and wounding twenty six. six guns reportedly captured though unconfirmed. Separately Marsden J. Perry of Providence was elected Director of the New York Westchester and Boston Railway Company and joined its Executive Committee.
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Cape Town
Steinkopf
M. J. Perry
Westchester
Marsden J. Perry
Providence
New York, Westchester and Boston Railway Company
Rhode Island Traction Company
United Gas Improvement Company of
Philadelphia
Twombly Buys West Livingston Farm Near Florham Park
Special to The New Fork Times reports Ham Stow Mck. Twombly purchasing the West Livingston farm from the Thomas Vincent estate. The property lies near Florham Park and Twombly plans to send his recent large importation of Guernsey cattle to the site.
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New Fork Times
Orange
N. J
West Livingston
Thomas Vincent
Ham- Stow Mck. Twombly
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34Th St
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Brooklyn
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34Th Street
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E. 34Th St
Shelter Island
Parsons
B. F. Whitlock III
Cheviot
Madras
Penang
Epnot Batiste
Saks & Company
Broadway
Hospital Brander
Browning, King & Co
Beau Brummell
Fulton Street
DeKalb
Cooper Square
Sth
Vogel Brothers A2
Six
Cor B. Ave
Great Northern Railway
Snr
W. M. Lowrie
General Eastern
Prudential Building
Buffalo
Ition
Ss. J. Ellison
Passenger Department
Ity
Lewis and Clark Exposition
TO . I. Whitney
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Mr. Twombly
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