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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1908
Page
5
An old advertisement touts Veriform Liquid Soap as hygienic and gentle for infants, faces, and hair. It urges husbands to gift the soap to wives and lists retailers Kalish Pharmacy Circle Pharmacy Caswell-Massey Co. Kinsman Drug Co. and others.
Dr C C Langsdorf began a public demonstration at Bellevue Hospital claiming a cure for morphine addiction. Three under-30 male patients received seven grains of morphine before a corrective dose, with the cure to take seventy two hours to show results.
Albany reports Gov Hughes will hear two women and a man as witnesses in a bid to stay Chester Gillette's execution for the Grace Brown murder. Attending lawyers plan a possible new trial motion if respite granted. Gillette and relatives visited the capital as Auburn Prison officials note no intervention.
Albany report cites 1,076,463 immigrants in the last three years and estimates $300 million sent home in 1907. It warns of about 2,000 illegal banks in Greater New York and cites 55,000 emigrants leaving with $150 to $250 million. The measure urges a state department to collect industrial and agricultural immigrant information to aid settlement and land valuation.
Dr Edward J Goodwin Second Assistant State Commissioner of Education will become president of the Packer Collegiate Institute Brooklyn his resignation from the New York education post to take effect September 1 next year Albany March 27 by the Associated Press
Special to The New York Times Albany March 27 reports confusion over names. It states Assemblyman Philip J. Schmidt of the Bronx voted in favor of the bills amending the Percy-Gray law and the Penal Code after initial confusion claimed he opposed them.
Albany March 27 Supt F C Stevens of the State Department of Public Works announces the Erie Canal will open for navigation on or about May 4.
The Appellate Division dismissed Attorney General Jacksons motion to appeal the Oriental Bank liquidation. The court discharged temporary receivers and approved payment of depositors by Metropolitan Trust Company. Costs of 10 are assessed against Jackson. he offered no comment.
Knickerbocker Trust Company resumed operations with three depositors at the 68 Broadway paying teller window while other branches ran normally. Throughout the day a steady stream of deposits came in and President Keep called the day's results more than satisfactory. The bank framed its reopening as no longer a news source.
The Inter-State Commerce Commission heard complaints from the Central Railroad of New Jersey Philadelphia and Reading and Baltimore and Ohio against the New York New Haven and Hartford about through routes and joint rates. New Haven argues it abrogated such facilities at New York and Harlem terminals yet offered them to others and claims it cannot carry Jersey City and Harlem traffic without disadvantage and may set fees as it sees fit.
The Board of United States General Appraisers ruled that open work hosiery is not lace wearing apparel and reversed the Collector's 60 percent duty. Lindeke Warner & Sons of St Paul imported the hosiery and sought lower duties as hosiery fashioned and shaped. Mandel Brothers of Chicago protested flax and jute yarn fabrics with duties at 50 percent ad valorem. the case supported as fabrics in chief value of flax. Protests were sustained for Howard Brothers Mfg Co Castle Gottkeil Overton F B Vandergrift Co and L Heller Son of this City. Decisions affirmed for W H McElwen Niagara Falls and Winters Reineke Philadelphia.
Henry Remington opens The Amputation Bulletin in Paterson offering a database of amputation cases nationwide for lawyers. The plan markets 25 to 50 cases yearly with high case values as a subsidy to personal injury practice, drawing strong opposition from NY lawyers and ethics concerns.
Neighbors recall ex police chief Devery firing three pistol shots from his West End Avenue home at 4 am. A fleeing man was pursued by witnesses but not found. The shots rang Miss Ellen Rainey’s burglar alarm and perforated a billboard as residents watched from nearby windows. No theft reported at Rainey residence.
Oren Root Jr, general manager of the New York City Railway, calls a reader letter claim that politics affected conductor hiring "absolutely untrue" and "absurd." He says the company is free from political influence in hiring and that many applicants are rejected for other reasons, not politics.
Louis F. Wadsworth once valued at 300000 and a Trinity College graduate died a pauper at the Plainfield Industrial Home at age 83. A Hartford native and former New York Customs official, he drifted into drink after leaving his wealthy circles, entering the home in 1898 claiming inability to support himself.
The White Star Maerff Majestic arrived after severe weather on the North Atlantic. Friday to Sunday saw heavy seas with a big wave flooding a door into the second cabin and causing passenger distress. Passengers praised officers for safe port, including Rose L. Fritz of 193 Gates Avenue Brooklyn who set speed typing records in London.
Emanuel L. Phillips, president of the Union Refrigerator Transit Company of Milwaukee, wins $15000 in a libel suit against S S McClure Company. A United States district court jury found libel in three McClure's Magazine articles by Ray Stannard Baker published in November December 105 and January 1906 stating rebates acceptance by Phillips.
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