Carnegie gifts approved for forty libraries in New York state
Andrew Carnegie told 300 librarians at the New York Library Club dinner that he approved forty library endowment applications in one day, including Albany. He urged limiting new fiction under three years old, praised rural distribution, and noted the value of keeping books and libraries as enduring sources of learning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Carnegie
New York Library Club
Albany
Carnegie
Aldine Association
Fifth Avenue
Henry M. Leipsiger
Mr. Carnegie
Mrs. Carnegie
Mr. Dewey
Josh Billings
Congress
Dewey
New York Tradesmen’s and Mechanics’ Association
Henry Ward Beecher
Rinter
Dumfries
Scotland
America
Charles C. Burlingham
Burlingham
New York
Man Survives 1 Mile Sewer Plunge in East River Rush
Edward Boyle, a 24 year old plumber helper, was swept seven blocks through a city sewer from East Fifty third Street to the East River after a tunnel collapse. He remained conscious, avoided death by gas, and surfaced aboard a scow where he was rescued and later smoked a cigarette.
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Edward Boyle
Boyle
George Bradickish
Fifty-third Street
Park Avenue
Second Avenue
Forty-ninth Street
East River
Eastiftythird Street
Nolan
East Fifty-first Street
Bradickish
Flower Hospital
Th. Forbes
East Forty-ninth Street
Albany
Albay
Carl Lauritzen
Lauritzen
East Fifty-third Street
South First Street
Brooklyn
Index to Departments and Page References
Food and market listings with prices for wheat corn oats and cotton plus notices across departments including legal, real estate, insurance, railroads, weather and society entries. Arrivals at hotels and out of town buyers are noted along with losses by fire and marine intelligence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine Intelligence
United Service
Frenchmen Murdered on Chinese Frontier
The Chinese Government reports the murder of two French officers on the Kwang-Si Tong-King frontier. Authorities vow to punish the culprits and cashier the officials responsible for the murders and their jurisdiction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kwang-Si
NEW York Times
London
Morrison
Peking
the Times
Tong-King
Earthquake Destroys Kyankari in Asia Minor
The Constantinople correspondent reports Kyankari, 62 miles northeast of Angora in Kastamuni, completely destroyed by the quake. Three thousand buildings wrecked. Four dead and about a hundred injured.
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Kyankari
London Times
NEW York Times
London
Constantinople
the Times
Angora
Earthquake Destroys Kyankari in Asia Minor
A dispatch from Constantinople reports Kyankari, a town of 20 000 inhabitants in Asia Minor, was destroyed by an earthquake yesterday. No further details on the disaster have been received.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Neue Freie Presse
Constantinople
Kyankari
Asia Minor
Registered Mail Stolen in Chicago Transit Pickup
Chicago postal authorities investigate the loss of a pouch of registered mail stolen from a collector's wagon at the Masonic Temple station. Postmaster Coyne and Inspector Stuart pursue leads while indemnity claims could total a large sum if owners apply. George E. Travis holds the Chicago mail contract. driver E A Hannum was away for about five minutes.
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Chicago
Masonic Temple
Coyne
Stuart
George E. Travis
E. A. Hannum
Ticket offices offer round trips to California by three lines
Round trip tickets to California on sale at all ticket offices via Chicago and North Western Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Bus offices at 461 287 and 349 Broadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Chicago & North- Western
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific Bus
B’way
Foxy Grandpa Ad Promises Colorful Pictures
An advertisement claims readers can create vivid pictures using water and a seven color palette plus Sunday New York Journal. It promises guidance from Foxy Grandpa to complete the artwork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York Journal
Foxy
Girl's Golf Skill Wins Her A Husband In Greenwich
Special to The New York Times from Greenwich Connecticut March 13 engagement announced Miss Katherine Rowland daughter of Mr and Mrs George P Rowland of New York to George Lauder Jr Pittsburg millionaire nephew of Andrew Carnegie Engagement and romance linked to her golf prizes Lauder aged 24 and Miss Rowland younger plan June wedding yacht trip aboard the Endymion valued at 80000 dollars with Bermuda voyage and mansion in Greenwich to follow Family summer home noted and line of golf enthusiasts involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Rowland
New York
George Lauder, Jr
Pittsburg
Greenwich, Conn
George P. Rowland
George Lauder
Andrew Carnegie
Rowland
Fairfield County Golf Club
Mr. Lauder
Miss Rowland
Mr. Rowland
Greenwich
Rowlands
Lauder
Bermudas
West Indies
Mary Rowland
Nannie Hoyt
Walter Appelton Clarke
Frank Parker
McKinnell
Texas
Charleston
S.C
Liverpool
Republicans Get Together on Cuba
Washington staff reports a Sibley compromise on Cuban relief shaping the Ways and Means bill. Conference on the plan includes Payne Dalzell Cannon and beet sugar advocates led by Oxnard, aiming to limit changes and guard concessions from Senate amendments.
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Washington
Sibley
Messrs. Payne
Dalzell
Cannon
Oxnard
Metcalf
California
Taylor
Ohio
Morris
Minnesota
Fordney
Michigan
Committee of Conferrees
Ways and Means Committee
House
Conferrees
Mr. Oxnard
Ways and Means
Grosvenor
United States
Cuba
Congress
Senate
Fortune Heir Found in Brooklyn Estate
Patrick J Fortune, once an accountant trainee in Chicago, was announced as a speaker at a mass meeting and later found in the city lodging house. He had been missing for months and was told his brother David Fortune had died in Brooklyn leaving his estate to him. Michael English, a longtime friend of the Fortune family, learned Pat Fortune’s location and attended the meeting to relay the news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Patrick J. Fortune
Brooklyn
Fortune
Frank Aldermanic
Clark Street
Michael English
David “Fortune
Pat
Pat Fortune
Father of Twenty-Eight Children Seeks Support
Frederick R. Sulzbach Sr appeared before Magistrate Harrison in Philadelphia on a non-support charge against his sons Frank C. and Lewis. Sulzbach, 52, said he has 28 children from four marriages and lives at 2118 North Thirtieth Street. The two were held in nominal bail for court.
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Philadelphia
Penn
Frederick R. Sulzbach
Harrison
Frank C
Lewis
Sulzbach
North Thirtieth Street
Heinze to float new copper company with Cora mine
A Helena report notes F. Augustus Heinze plans to float stock of a large copper concern on the New York market. The Cora mine is slated as the principal asset, with a long history of work and daily ore output around eighty tons under Heinze’s lease.
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Helena
Mon
Butte
F. Augustus Heinze
Heinze
New York
Cora
New
Indictments Return in Soffel Escape Case
Pittsburg reports the grand jury returned true bills in three indictments against Mrs. Catherine Soffel wife of ex Warden Peter K Soffel connected to the January 30 jail escape of the Biddle brothers. The item notes Barnett Cocaine ad mentions.
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Pittsburg
Catherine Soffel
Peter K. Soffel
Biddle Brothers
Granite Men at Odds in Quincy Withdrawal
Quincy granite manufacturers plan to withdraw from the New England Granite Manufacturers Association. The move, linked to a summer strike, risks disbanding the association as Barre makers conceded to worker demands while Quincy resisted. A meeting will be held this week to decide future steps.
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Quincy
New England Association
Mass
Quincy Granite Manufacturers
New England Granite Manufacturers’ Association
Barre
Quincy Granite
Professor Stephens Resigns for California Position
Ithaca New York March 13 Prof H Morse Stephens professor of English and European History at Cornell announces resignation after eight years and will join the University of California as head of the State Department of University Extension. He was born in England and graduated from Oxford and later taught there before coming to America.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Jacob Gould Schurman
H. Morse Stephens
Cornell University
University of California
Stephens
State Department of University Extension
England
University of Oxford
America
Colonists' Tickets Offered to Arizona by NY Central
During March and April the New York Central will sell colonists tickets from New York to Phoenix or Prescott for 52.00 dollars. Inquire at New York Central ticket offices. Pall Mall London Cigarettes advertised for gentlemen of cultivated taste.
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Arizona
New York Central
New York
Phoenix
Prescott
New Panama Canal Plan Proposed by Senator Dietrich
Senator Dietrich of Nebraska proposes withholding the $40,000,000 Panama payment until the canal’s cost is proven to be 200,000,000. If the project costs 160,000,000 total, the extra 40,000,000 would be paid to Panama. If the cost reaches 250,000,000 the company forfeits its requested consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
the Post
Dietrich
Nebraska
Panama
United States
Canal Company
Chicago Women Protest Against Customs Laws
About 100 Chicago women met at Mrs Potter Palmer's home to denounce New York Customs House practices. They urged repeal of the $100 duty-free limit on personal effects and asked for courteous officials and better waiting rooms for travelers. Notables at the discussion included Mrs Carter Harrison and Messrs Harrison, Eddy, Farwell, Deering, Blair, Blaine, Thomas, Field Jr, Cable, Counselman, and Henrotin.
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Chicago
Potter Palmer
New York Custom House
United States
Custom House
Mesdames Carter H. Harrison
Arthur J. Eddy
Arthur J. Farwell
Charles Deering
Chauncey J. Blair
Emmons Blaine
Theodore Thomas
Marshall Field, Jr
R. R. Cable, Co. Counselman
C. M. Henrotin
Funston refuses to retract remarks from Chicago speech
Gen Frederick Funston says he stands by his Marquette Club statement. He confirms the Washington dispatch misquotes are fair, defends his critique of the so called peace party, and upholds Major Waller’s court martial while calling the eo proto m inquiry a separate matter.
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Chicago
Frederick Funston
Marquette Club
Major Waller
Peace Party
Washington
War Department
Congress
Funston
Waller
Woman Routs Burglar in Ghent Home
In Goshen New York Mrs. Harry Paddock woke to a stairway noise while guarding her measles suffering daughter. She struck the intruder with a coal hod, he tumbled down stairs, fled through a hall window, leaving behind a bag of stolen rings and a bracelet at her home.
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Goshen
N. Y
Harry Paddock
Harvard Medical School gift drive reaches milestone totals
Mrs. Collis P. Huntington contributes 250000 toward the Rockefeller linked endowment for Harvard Medical School expansion. The combined gifts from Rockefeller J P Morgan Stillman Higginson Shattuck Bacon Fabyan Lee Richardson Sears Thayer Hemenway and others bring the total to 2,821,225 with dozens of smaller gifts to follow.
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Boston
Collis P. Huntington
John D. Rockefeller
New York
Harvard Medical School
Huntington
Rockefeller
J. P. Morgan
James Stillman
Francis L. Higginson
Frederick C. Shattuck
Robert Bacon
George F. Fabyan
Elliott Co. Lee
W. L. Richardson
David Sears
Nathaniel Thayer
Augustus Hemenway
H. H. Fiunnewell
Government Bond Purchases Under Review by Secretary Shaw
Secretary Shaw weighs ending Government bond purchases for the sinking fund. He has not decided or spoken for publication, and is seen as discouraging bond sales. He notes high bond prices tempt banks to dump deposits, shrinking circulation, a trend he regrets. He also warned banks reducing circulation would lose public deposits.
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Washington
Shaw
Boyton Brothers N Adv in Antediluvian Arts
A fragment notes the Boyton Brothers connected to an antique advertising context described as old and aristocratic, highlighting a refined but obscure enterprise or style from a historical period.
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Boyton Brothers
Strike Ends as Crane Leads Boston Labor Settlement
Gov. Crane helps broker end to four day freight handlers strike in Boston. Merchants and city and state leaders influenced unions to resume work for about 20 000 idle workers with replacements returning and old employes awaiting possible vacancies. Committees will notify strikers and press coverage will publish the official termination notice.
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Boston
Allied Freight Transportation Council
Gov. Crane
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
Boston and Maine Railroad
Collins
Easley
National Civic Federation
State Board of Arbitration
New York
Young’s Hotel
State House
Mayor Collins
J. Richard Carter
John Mason Little
Associated Board of Trade
CA. Lawrence
A. C. Farley
E. B. Wilson
E. H. Walcott
Merchants’ Association
Jerome Jones
George H. Leonard
Chamber of Commerce
Lucius Tuttle
Barnes
Boston and Albany Railroad
W. E. Chamberlain
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Oscar F. Cox
Hartnett
Teamsters’ Union
Gov. Crané
Warren A. Reed
Amory A. Lawrence
Thomas H. Canning
Geoffrey O. Powers
Thomas Mahoney
Commonwealth
Boston and Maine Road
Boston and Maine
Albany
New Haven
Hartford
Allt
Board of Arbitration
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Library Club
Dean Swift
Shakespeare
Milton
Plato
Montaigne
Marcus Aurelius
Lord Acton
John Kendrick Bangs
Boston Public Library
St. Andrews Golf Links
St. Andrews
Workman
Fleming
Goerck
Broome
Twenty-eighth Street
Third Avenue
Chhva
Golf
The
Law
NEW Copper Company
Barnett
Granite
Prof
Cornell
Merece
Harvard
C. P. Huntington
J. D. Rockefeller Fund
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