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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1908
Page
14
The American District Telegraph offices and all advertising agencies receive requests for next day insertions in the New York Times. Objectionable and fraudulent advertisements are excluded from publication.
Multiple lost and found notices in a dense Midtown column include pocketbooks with cash and checks, jewelry, glasses, diamonds, keys, a silk fob with initials, a tan leather purse, and notes about trains and locations. Also includes numerous room rental listings and a few pet lost notices. Reward offers and contact details abound, with many entries specifying streets and neighborhoods.
March 12 awaiting owners items found include gloves, spectacles, purses, photos and cards at multiple elevated rail stops. Lost property notices list various small personal effects and contact details for reclaim. Classifieds advertise rooms with board in West Side buildings and a private estate rental near Cranford New Jersey.
Classified ads seek furnished rooms in private houses and boarding in Manhattan and Brooklyn with trade references. Also unfurnished rooms for sublet at 658 Broadway near 103rd Street with five rooms and kitchen for $30 monthly.
Trustees of the Carnegie Library Fund halted work on the Glenmore Avenue Branch in Brownsville Brooklyn and ordered the architect to enlarge the building. They cite increasing demand from a growing population with 90 000 inhabitants and a busy Pitkin Avenue Branch where 7 000 members grew to 9 000 and 23 000 volumes circulated monthly. The children’s department drives most activity with scarce books and long lines. no adult women readers are recorded among Pitkin’s 7 000 members, and a note says the branch’s printing is done in Yiddish.
Judge Holt of the United States Circuit Court questioned Sherman Act remedies in the $30,000,000 suit by Receiver Earle and the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Co. against the American Sugar Refining Co. He indicated the plaintiffs may not have begun business and ordered briefs with another hearing set for April 6.
The US cruiser Milwaukee returning from Magdalena Bay reports $3800 in gold stolen from the Paymaster’s room. The safe combination was forced and no suspect found after a shipwide search of the 400 enlisted men. authorities believe the money remains hidden aboard.
Classified listings show multiple stenographer posts and office work opportunities. Listings from Times Downtown and Times Building advertise graduates and experienced stenographers, typists, and secretaries, plus accountants and sales positions with pay ranges and box numbers for responses.
Albany March 18. Francis of the Assembly Banks Committee and State Banking Supt Williams released amendments to banking reform bills. The changes limit loans to 25 percent of capital and surplus for collateral loans and business paper in Manhattan. Second mortgages permitted only if total prior liens do not exceed 10 percent of capital and surplus, and total real estate secured loans capped at 10 percent of assets in Manhattan and 25 percent elsewhere.
Hugh Hollis, a Treasury Department clerk who had served briefly as private secretary to the IRS commissioner, shot and killed his wife at their Washington home after obtaining a revolver days earlier. He woke, fired as she returned to attend their child, then slept unaware of the act, claiming he dreamed of burglars.
In Indianapolis on March 13 the United Mine Workers of America met and adjourned to await the Scale Committee report. T. D. Nichols from the Wilkes-Barre Scranton district said no agreement was reached and the current wage scale may be pressed for.
The Camp Fire Club of America held its fifth annual dinner at Café des Beaux Arts with Gifford Pinchot Gov Wilford Oster Alaska and Job E Hedges as guests of honor. About 154 members attended as discussions focused on protecting game and forests and compiling hunting trip reports for club records. Hornaday spoke on preservation and Pinchot outlined foresters work. officers for three years were Hornaday Seymour Coffin Beard and Bacheller.
The Appellate Division confirmed Isaac Bloom's seven year prison term for perjury in a city railway damage suit. The brief items note social events and a hospital admission following a heroin overdose linked to Mrs Lignel Post of Pazzabeth New Jersey, daughter of Dr Victor Mraving.
Fire at the Baltimore Wall Paper Company in Baltimore Maryland triggered three alarms, starting in the cellar and causing about 35000 dollars in damage. In Cochituate Massachusetts the Arthur C Williams and Chester B Williams shoe factory burned, with an estimated 50000 dollars in losses likely from an overheated boiler.
A roundup of fire calls with times and addresses across Manhattan and nearby districts. Entries include losses under varying amounts with names such as Frank eS, Harry Cohen, R. Robertson, Joseph Berger, Herman Struck, Charles Wener, Senator Reynolds, J. J. McCarthy, Victor Rapki, Samuel Hutter, Pauline Chegnay, Samuel Newman, L. Kind, Abraham Eskowits, Samuel Cohen, Michael Henderson, and C. G. Samuels plus locations like 223d St, 119th St, 8th Ave, W. 7th St, Lexington Ave, 57th St, 14th St, and Broadway.
The Sunday Times announces a forthcoming interview with Admiral Dewey amid renewed interest in the arrival of U S ships at Magdalena Bay. The interview promises Dewey will speak for the Administration and advocate its policy as timely and important.
Police cornered burglar Henry Brink after a dawn pursuit from 55 East Sixty-fifth Street to a Park Avenue tunnel. Detective Stringer descended a rope, saved Brink from an oncoming train, and Brink was taken to Bellevue Hospital with injuries. Police recovered silver loot and keys from Brink’s pockets.
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