Engineers Oppose Hudson River Pier Extensions Report
The New York Harbor Line Board recommends against extending New York piers into the Hudson to the 1,000 foot mark. It notes dock shortages for 900 foot liners, cites traffic growth, and argues no waterway area should be yielded while large ships require suitable wharves elsewhere. Secretary of War action pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
New York
Hudson River
New York Harbor Line Board
Secretary of War
William T. Russell
Cy Black
Army Engineering Corps
International Mercantile Marine Company
Cunard
Hudson
Champlain
Manhattan
Steamship Lines
Sixth Avenue
Forty-second Street
New York City
Seventh Avenue
Thirty-first
Thirty-third
Madison Avenue
Franklin
Chelsea
Pennsylvania Ferry
Twenty-third Street
War Department
Dickinson
New York Harbor Lines Board Likely to Block Olympic Pier
Secretary of War Dickinson's expected confirmation of the board report risks no New York pier long enough to dock the White Star liner Olympic on June 21. Officials debate extensions of piers, alternative berthing options, and the role of public officials in arranging new docks on the Hudson and Chelsea areas.
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New York Harbor Line Board
Dickinson
New York
White Star
Olympic
P. A. S. Franklin
International Mercantile Marine Navigation Company
White Star Line
Franklin
Manhattan
New York Harbor
Chelsea
Bedloe’s Island
Tomkins
Christopher Street
Hudson
Army Building
Montauk Point
Jongeriers
Worty-second
Fifty-ninth Street
Brooklyn
jJohn
Mason
Tix
City Hall
Gaynor
New Jersey
Dix
Wilson
Hudson River
John A. Bensel
The
Chamber of Commerce
Comnun
Strike Ended On Hearst Chicago Papers
The Chicago printers strike against William R Hearst's Chicago American and Chicago Examiner ended with workers returning to the Examiner at 10 pm. The union had demanded smaller editions while Hearst offered arbitration and deposited the page-difference with the printers' president.
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Hearst
Chicago
The
Union
New York Times
Chicago American
Chicago Examiner
Examiner
Chicago Association of the American Publishers’ Association
J. W. Hays
International Typographical Union
American Today
American
Railroad President Held In Counterfeit Plot
Albert T. Young president of the Missouri Inland and Southern Railway and Bode Payne are held on bond in Rolla Mo on charges of attempting to pass counterfeit money. Carl H. Evers of Chicago is also arrested on similar charges. A confession by Harry Burka in Alton Illinois linked the trio to a midnight transfer of a counterfeit bill near Houston. Young and Payne waived preliminary hearing.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
Albert T. Young
Missouri Inland and Southern Railway
Southern Missouri
Rolla
Bode Payne
Secret Service
Carl H. Evers
Chicago
Young
Payne
Missouri Inland & Southern Railway
Houston
Harry
Burka
Alton
Evers
United State
Breuer
Burke
Gas Company Plans World’s Largest Hell Gate Tunnel
The Consolidated Gas Company seeks War Department permission to bore a 17 by 17 foot main tunnel under Hell Gate from Long Island to the Bronx. The 275 foot deep tunnel would carry two 72 inch mains from Astoria to Port Morris, crossing a small Bronx city plot with easement talks set between $1,000 and $1,500.
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The
Consolidated Gas Company
War Department
Hell Gate
Long Island
Bronx
Astoria
East River
Ninety-seventh Street
Port Morris
Lawyer Extinguishes Home Fire Without Help
Lyttleton Fox, a lawyer of 146 East Seventy-second Street, put out a fire in his third floor front room last night without the Fire Department’s aid but burned his left hand. He rushed upstairs after cries of fire and found clothes burning from a heater, beating the flames with a rug before sending his chauffeur to alarm the firemen.
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Lyttleton Fox
East Seventy-second Street
Mr. Fox
Fox
Rus
Arrest of Railway Paper Editor Sparks Post Office Case
Urban A. Walter editor of The Harpoon a monthly Railway Mail Service paper was arrested by Post Office Inspectors for sending defamatory matter through the mails using envelopes bearing remarks about Hitchcock Taft and post office policy. The arrest concerns distribution of such material rather than the criticisms themselves.
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New York Times
Denver
Urban A. Walter
Harpoon
Hitchcock
Post Office
Walter
Railway Mail Service
Taft
Magazine publishers clash with Taft over postage hike
President Taft told magazine publishers that he would press the postal rate dispute to the end of his term. He defended Post Office findings, cited $250,000 spent on investigation, and urged Congress to settle the second class mail burden while rejecting sensational tactics. The publishers argued for a thorough investigation into the deficit and possible adjustments.
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New York Times
Washington
Hitchcock
Congress
Senate
Taft
Graham C. Patterson
Pacific Monthly
United States
Wilder
Butterick’s
Association of Periodicals
Post Office
Post Office Department
No West Western Road Appeal Denied by ICC
Thirty five Western railroads decided not to appeal the ICC rate ruling and will accept the commission decree as final. A Western trunk line meeting at Chicago headquarters produced the decision ahead of possible later actions and a postponed presidents’ gathering.
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Chicago
Western Railroads
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Western Trunk Line Association
New Commerce Court
Commission
Philippine auditor quits amid clash with Gov. Forbes
Washington march 1 auditor of the insurgent government William H Clarke resigns after dispute over Governor General Forbes authority. Secretary of War Dickinson accepts the resignation effective April 1. Ad shows new Sunday fast trains to Philadelphia via New Jersey Central starting March 5 with multiple daily departures.
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W. H. Clarke
Gen. Forbes
Washington
Philippines
William H. Clarke
Clarke
Dickinson
Cable
Philadelphia
New Jersey Central
West 23d St
Liberty St
Reading Terminal
Babson Analyzes Financial Epochs Rail Era 1857 73
Roger W. Babson continues his important series analyzing financial epochs. This installment covers the period from 1857 to 1873, highlighting the great railroad development era. Read it in NEXT Sunday Times.
American in Mexican case sparks foreign fury
An American, J A Farrell, jailed in Zacatecas for ten years after a pistol transfer linked to a fatal shooting. The case, overseen by an anti foreign judge, triggers outrage among Zacatecan Americans who seek aid from the US to secure his release. Farrell’s confinement follows three and a half months’ detention amid claims of biased proceedings.
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Austin
Texas
Zacatecas
Mexico
J. A. Farrell
Farrell
Marentes
la Ié Mines
Guadalupe
José Calvillo
Langote
Calvillo
Tarreil
Waldo Shakes Up Fire Department Over Graft
Commissioner Waldo moves to oust Joseph Burke head of the Bureau of Combustibles and most inspectors after a Fosdick report uncovers lax supervision and minor graft. The probe cites unlicensed garages, unsafe buildings, and improper permits tied to political influence.
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Waldo
Joseph L. Burke
Bureau of Combustibles
Fire Department
Bureau
Accounts Fosdick
Burke
Bureau of
McClellan
Tammany Hall
Rimary
John J. Dietz
Tammany Cader
Twenty-fourth Assembly District
Municipal Explosives Commission
Fosdick
Horne
Rescue at Palm Beach Afloat Hero Saves Pair
Mrs Hobart Chatfield Chatfield Taylor fell overboard from a Palm Beach Iowa float. Chicagoan Harlan Balton swam to save her as her husband reached the scene without glasses. Mrs Taylor sprained an ankle. Balton later recovered the husband's glasses from the sandy bottom and was hailed as a hero.
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New York Times
Chicago
Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor
Palm Beach
Harlan K. Balton
Mr. Balton
Mr. Taylor
Dynamite Explodes Damaging Italian Tenement Stores
An explosion of dynamite wrecked two storefronts in the five story Italian tenement at 2807 East Forty-fifth Street shortly after 1 am. The blast knocked out hundreds of windows as terrified tenants fled in night clothes. No one injured. dynamiters escaped before police arrived. The target appeared to be Louis Sferraza grocer, who has received threats for months.
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East Forty-fifth Street
Louis Sferraza
Sferraza
East Fifty-first Street
Fortysixth Street
Fortyfourth Street
Second
Third Avenue
McAdoo Sails Lusitania for Rest Abroad
William G. McAdoo sailed yesterday on the Cunard liner Lusitania. His name was not on the printed passenger list, but he said he decided to depart for England a few hours before sailing. He declared he was going abroad for a rest and that he was tired of New York and of one William G. McAdoo.
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Lusitania
William G. McAdoo
England
New York
William, G. McAdoo
Japan to Keep Faith in Immigration Policy
Count Komura, Japan’s Foreign Minister, told the Diet that the new Japan United States treaty ratified by the U S Senate does not alter Japan’s immigration policy. He affirmed no departure from the established emigration rules for Japanese to the United States.
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Tokio
Count Komura
Diet
American Senate
United States
Americans held in Ensenada blast case and border probe
Passengers report an American jailed in Ensenada after a dynamite blast last Friday night with property damage but no injuries. In El Paso an official inquiry supports Lawrence Converse and Edwin Blatt that they were arrested on American soil with evidence including a river boat and statements about the arrest location.
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EL Paso
Department of Justice
United States
Lawrence Converse
Los Angeles
Edwin Blatt
Pittsee
Mexico
Boutell Nominated as Minister to Portugal by Taft
Representative Henry S. Boutell of Illinois is named by President Taft as United States Minister to Portugal. The nomination prompts questions at the State Department about credentials and recognition by the provisional Portuguese Government.
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Washington
Henrys. Boutell
Illinois
Taft
United States
Portugal
Boutell
Cannon
State Department
Maus Ends His Life In Chicago Home
Fred K. Maus wealthy director of the Scully Steel and Iron Company shot himself at his Chicago home. Police found the body after Maw’s despondency following his wife’s death years earlier. He leaves two daughters Mrs George Duquette Chicago and Mrs W H O’Brien New York City.
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Chicago
Fred K. Maus
Scully Steel and Iron Company
Maus
Carriage Collision Injures Dooley Near Fifth Avenue
Mrs Theodore Robinson and Mrs Thomas Newbold were passengers in a coupé driven to a Madison Avenue reception when it struck Thomas Dooley at Fifth Avenue and Forty eighth Street. Dooley was stunned and taken to Flower Hospital with head contusions. the drivers and passengers aided him.
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Theodore Douglas Robinson
Park Avenue
Thomas Newbold
Madison Avenue
Thomas ‘Dooley
Fifth Avenue
Forty-eighth Street
Thomas Barker
Robinson
Man accused of bigamy held on $7 bail in Newark
Ellen Pritchard of 453 High Street testified in the First Precinct Police Court that her husband forced her to pose as his mother to enable him to wed Anna Haug who lived at 18 Alpine Street. Pritchard, an electrician, denied the charge stating he had never been married to the complainant and that she claims a marriage about twenty years prior.
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Ellen Pritchard
High Street
Newark
First Precinct
Anna Haug
Alpine Street
Pritchard
Simon Hahn
Plaza
Lieut. Mannion
von Arkovy
Ees
Calers
Jarron
West Twenty-seventh Street
Golden wedding celebration planned for Busch family
Twenty five thousand people including 5000 Anheuser Busch employees and families will attend a Coliseum event in St Louis on Tuesday night to honor the golden wedding of Mr and Mrs Adolphus Busch. The Busch family will also observe the anniversary at the brewer's Pasadena estate in California. Hofbrauhaus, Broadway and South Street noted.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association
Coliseum
Adolphus Busch
Busch Famiy
Pasadena
Cal
Clara Morris Sees the End in Private Memoir Work
Clara Morris the former actress, now Mrs. F. C. Harriott, lies in Yonkers and dictates her memoirs day and night from bed. Her diary covers life since girlhood, updated by her husband as she listens to operas and reads passages. She remains ill but mentally engaged and skeptical about woman suffrage.
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Clara Morris
F. C. Harriott
Yonkers
Miss Morris
Baron von Arkovy Arrested At Plaza Lobbies On Larceny Charge
Baron Richard von Arkovy is held on grand larceny charges after allegedly pawned two platinum crucibles to cover a gambling debt owed to Julio S. Jarron of the Cuban Consulate. He claims the pawning was justified and plans to prove his innocence as he awaited court.
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Julio S. Jarron
Baron Richard von Arkovy
Plaza
Cunardiner Lusitania
Sulzer
Tarlem River
Hogan
G. W. McArthur
Gould von Arkovy
Decies
Count Széchényi
Gladys Vanderbilt
Georgian Court
Gould Country
Lakewood
Beresford
Anthony Drexel
Society
von Arkovy
Mr. Jarron
von Avrkovy
Jarron
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Long Hudson Piers
Harbor Line Board
Missouri
Consolidated Gas Co
Eastern Railroads
Philippine Auditor
Roger W. Babson
Ensenada
Quiry
the Combustibles Bureau
Istration
Explosives Commission
McCabe
Samuel Hodkinson
Chatfield-Taylor
East 45Th St
McAdoo
Europe
Japan
Komura
San Diego
California
Harry C. Dell
Tia Juana
F. K. Maus
Thomas Dooley
Bway & Soth St
Anuban
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