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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1908
Page
14
Numerous lost and found items listed from a Broadway era paper including muff, ring, vest, bag, diamond ring, wallet, blue aquamarine stone, fur coat, penknife, and pets. Rewards offered. locations include Times Building, Wall Street, Madison Ave, Hoboken Ferry, and various Manhattan addresses.
Multiple found belongings reported March 14 to 16 across IRT and BRT lines, including trousers, umbrellas, wallets, bags, gloves, notebooks and tools. Items mapped to Lost Property Offices and various railroad and ship line offices for owner claim.
Classified listing shows numerous rooms for rent with steam heat and meals optional. Advertises large and small rooms on West Side and various avenues with references, telephone numbers, and private baths. Several mentions include Gramercy Park, Irving Place, Nicholas Fish Mansion, and East 87th Street.
Describes the Douglas Manor Inn, a private estate of 200 acres near Douglaston Long Island, inviting winter visitors at moderate expense with homelike grandeur and luxury. Nearby Cranford New Jersey ad notes desirable station proximity for young men with references, E Box 16 Times Times Square.
Multiple listings for furnished rooms in West End and East Side locations. Descriptions include private baths, breakfast optional, telephone, electric light, steam heat, and proximity to subways. Gentlemen or single tenants preferred with references. weekly rates around six dollars and fifty cents.
Accommodations sought for responsible applicants in select houses and private families. Large demand for apartments rooms and boarding places with reliability guaranteed. Reliable people may secure a free list. Temple Rental Company 5 Beekman St.
Classified recruitment notices from Hopkins Educational Agency inviting governesses teachers housekeepers attendants matrons secretaries companions nurses and from Francis at East 26th Street soliciting German speaking agents for sales or service roles with no experience required.
Numerous sales positions advertised for cotton and woolen goods, stationery, chemicals, overalls, and more across the North and South. Territories include Illinois Iowa Canada New England and New York with salaries from 1100 to 3500. Also openings for specialty sales insurance real estate auto and other lines plus choir tenor and cookery school opportunities. Apply to listed firms or addresses in New York area.
A collage of old time classified ads listing positions for bookkeepers stenographers housework and helpers. Entries name Viola D Waring at 422 West 20th Street and other employers seeking skilled clerks secretaries and assistants with brief salary details and contact boxes.
An eight car Lenox Avenue express eastbound toward Borough Hall halted after parting at the Times Square curve at 25 mph. Westinghouse automatic brakes engaged when the coupling failed, sparks flew as brakes gripped wheels, and a rear red warning light flashed for oncoming trains. Guards reorganized the train in ten minutes despite crowded cars and injuries to contractor James E. Connelly, with service resumed after repairs at Brooklyn Bridge.
Michael Toplitzsky confessed to stealing a truck a team of horses and $3000 in dry goods to save his brother Abraham who claimed innocence. Abraham, 20, was held for examination while Michael received suspended sentence after Judge Rosalsky presided. Assistant District Attorney Ely said Abraham tried to shield his brother.
Philip Ruprecht of Standard Oil reports a wireless message from the barge Navahoe that towing machinery broke down at sea. The Navahoe, a six mast barge once near world’s largest, left Belfast on March 1 in tow of the steamer Iroquois for this port.
A dense classified column lists female and male job seekers by trades. Stenographers, typists, accountants, a draughtsman, drivers, gardeners, valets, and an elevator runner seek positions, with ages, experience, and contact boxes in Times Downtown and Times Square addresses.
Governor Hughes names Charles Andrews of Syracuse former Chief Judge to investigate twenty four counts against District Attorney Jerome involving insurance cases street railway actions and corporate campaign contributions. The inquiry will cover acts of the current term with older matters excluded.
Commissioner Bingham announced police arrangements for Fire Commissioner Hugh Bonner as his funeral is held today from the family home at 686 West End Avenue. The service will be at the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus on Ninety sixth Street and Amsterdam Avenue with a police escort of 250 including Inspectors Walsh and Thompson and mounted detail. Fire Chief Croker will lead a brigade of three battalions, Deputy Chiefs Lally Dudne and Binns in charge of the first to third battalions, with pallbearers including Deputy Chiefs Murray McCartney and Martin and others from Hamilton Rr. Pearly and Mc Namara.
Gov. Hughes will not interven e in the March 30 start of Chester Gillette’s death sentence for the murder of Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake in 1906. Mrs Louise Gillette, Chester’s mother, collapsed after learning the governor’s stance and expressed belief in the case’s merits and her son’s innocence while accepting the electric chair if needed.
Judgment entered against William R. Garrison and Constance C. Garrison for 2567 dollars in a suit by Julia C. Harle of 165 Madison Avenue over money loaned for personal expenses. Garrison’s counsel W J Harding of 145 Broadway refused to discuss the case and denied rumors of marital trouble.
Joseph Kingsley a clerk of 108 South Ninth Street Brooklyn stabbed Miss Mary Burke of 31 Morton Street in the shoulder and wrist after entering her room while she slept yesterday. He was arrested pleaded guilty and held for the Grand Jury.
Alfred J. Thornley 31 a foreman at Fore River Shipbuilding killed himself with a revolver at his lodgings today. He was married last Wednesday in Providence to Annie Tuchey 19 of East Weymouth.
A list of numerous fire incidents with times and locations including 12:10-848 W 41st St and 1:45-177th St Cedar Ave. The report names involved firms and residents such as M Epstein and H Kamber & Co with assorted monetary estimates and notes of trifling damages.
Supreme Court Justice Davis ruled the third elevated track on Ninth Avenue unlawful, awarding James R. Roosevelt and others $38,700 in damages for trespass. The decision affects pending suits from nearby property owners as the case began six years ago to stop the extra track and its effect on easements.
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