Jack Atkin Wins Metropolitan Handicap In New York Spring Circuit
elsco reports that "the best race horse in the world" captured the Metropolitan Handicap. This marks the fourth major New York stakes win for Jack Atkin this spring after winter racing in New Orleans where he led weight carrying sprinters. Trainer H R Brandt considered scratching due to penalties from the Montague States but owner orders prevailed. Jockey Musgrave swapped rides to McCarter the favorite, allowing Schilling to ride and win on Jack Atkin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsco
Jack Atkin
New York
New Orleans
Chiainfon
Inter Racing
Montague States
H. R. Brandt
Brandt
Musgrave
McCarter
Schilling
Belmont Park Fashion at the Spring Race Day
Thousands flocked to Belmont Park as spring races drew crowds. Women wore black gowns and varied hats while men favored straw and colorful tailored suits. wagers on King Cobalt and Brookdale Nymph led to losses for many in the clubhouse.
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Belmont Park
Long Island
Manice House
Metropolitan
Mr. Whitney
Brookdale
T. S. MARTIN TAKES STAKES
T. S. Martin ridden by Dupee won the New York Steeplechase with Kemp Ridgeley second and John M. P. unplaced. The program also saw Fitz Herbert and Bonnie Alan win maidens and a six furlong handicap, while Blandy captured the final race amid political betting intrigue at Westchester Racing Association.
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Jack Atkin
Fitz Herbert
Eo . Madden
Joe Madden
Edward
Bonnie Alan Cleverly
Dial. Plate
J. E. Madden
King James
Fair Play
Black Oak
Blandy
Post
Monfort
Bonnie Alan
Musgrave
E. Dugan
Shreve
Nick Stoner
Koerner
Montauk
Garner
Troublesome
Notter
Almandine
Shaw
Torenia
G. Burns
Hardpan
MacCarthy
Englander
B. c
Alan-a-Dale-Bonnie Blue
M. Uo. Schwartz
John Miller
Jennie
Torbellino
Doyle
Br. c
Ethelbert Morganath
H. R. Brandt
Srongs
Hitz Herbert
McCarthy
Jae Ote Preceptor
Soil
McCahey
MecDaniel
F. Jack Atkin
Schilling
Restigouche
Delaby
Don Creole
Spooner
Flynn
Far West
E. Lynch
Superman
Brookdale Nymph
Dugan
Rod Redn
Thwaietasientte
Rae Rae Ene
McCarter
New York
T. S. Martin
Dupee
Kemp Ridgeley
E. Heider
John M. P
T. Donohue
Bat
J. O'Brien
Palm
M. Henderson
St. Kevin
Carter
William Garth
Jacobite
A. Belmont
Plaudstene
J. E. Maden
Politicians Delay Farrell’s Belmont Park Entry
An auto accident delayed Frank Farrell’s arrival at Belmont Park after the first race began. Farrell’s entry Alman faced a late start due to the mishap, altering the day’s betting dynamics.
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Farrell
Belmont Park
Frank Farrell
Alman
Family quarrel ends in fatal wounds at Corona
Herman Koehler and his wife Caroline were wounded after a dispute at their meat market on West Shell Road in Corona. Mrs Koehler suffered a fractured skull while Mr Koehler had a bullet wound near the left shoulder blade that pierced the lung. both were rushed to Flushing Hospital.
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Herman Koehler
Caroline
Flushing Hospital
Awakening of Spain welcomes Ridgley on voyage to Mexico City
Consul General Benjamin H. Ridgley of Barcelona arrived aboard the Antonio Lopez en route to his new post in Mexico City. He traveled with his wife and daughter and noted Spain’s growing openness to Americans as manufacturing expands. Ridgley plans to depart for Washington this afternoon.
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Benjamin H. Ridgley
Barcelona
Spain
Mexico City
Antonio Lopez
Father Aids Fullerton In San Francisco Arrest Case
Samuel H. Fullerton, president of the Chicago Lumber and Coal Co., confirms habeas corpus action for his son Robert W. Fullerton held in San Francisco on an indictment over Miss Gladys Hobart. He disputes arrest legality, recounts Jamaica trip with Cornell students in 1906, and says he will support his son through the trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Samuel H. Fullerton
Chicago Lumber and Coal Company
Robert W. Fullerton
San Francisco
Gladys Hobart
Yonkers, N
San Siekinens
South America
Jamaica
Cornell
New York
Robert
Boy spots woman drown near Gravesend Bay shore
A daybreak incident at Gravesend Bay saw a woman drown after floundering about twelve yards from the beach. A passing watchman and a shouting boy pulled the body from the water and efforts to revive her failed. Police seek the eyewitness boy amid unidentified victim details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gravesend Bay
Twenty-second Avenue
Charles Smart
Frederick Senken
Smart
Coney Island
Meeker
Bath Beach
Clinton’s Body Moved to Kingston Family Plot
The body of George Clinton the first New York governor rests in the public receiving vault at Congressional Cemetery after disinterment on Monday It will be moved to Kingston New York for reinterment May 30 in the family plot near where he took office in 1777 The monument weighing nineteen tons erected by his grandchildren will be raised in Kingston Clinton also served as vice president under Jefferson and Madison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
George Clinton
New York
Congressional Cemetery
Kingston
N. Y
Gov. Clinton
Jefferson
Madison
Pittsburg
William Montgomery
Allegheny National Bank
William L. Folds
Montgomery
Tonopah Extension
Brisbee, Tramps Consolidated
Bank
Allegheny National
Pittsburg Clearing House
Marine National Bank
Union National
Dr John Bullitt seeks annulment of marriage to nurse
In Trenton on May 18 Dr John Christian Bullitt filed a petition in the Court of Chancery seeking the annulment of his marriage to Josephine M Zink. He asserts he was of unsound mind at marriage the nurse in charge at a private hospital and that he came to Trenton December 27 1899 to wed secretly while mentally incompetent.
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Trenton
John Christian Bullitt
John C. Bullitt
Bullitt
Philadelphia
Court of Chancery
Josephine M. Zink
Nightcar collision injures horse-car driver on East Side
A south-bound dark Ninth Avenue car pushed by a passenger-filled vehicle struck a cross-town horse car on Twenty-ninth Street near an L pillar after 10 PM. Horse-car driver John Campbell of 71 East 106th Street was knocked senseless. motorman failed to see the horse car in time.
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Ninth Avenue
John Campbell
East 106Th Street
Politicians Aid Montgomery as Bank Loot Sparks Market
Philadelphia and Pittsburg dispatches report Allegheny National Bank cashier William Montgomery under arrest for a $1.35 million shortage. Heavy Rapid Transit stock sales and rumors link politicians to cover loans, while Montgomery’s forged notes and stock dumps widen the financial scandal across multiple banks and markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Philadelphia
Alleghany National Bank
Pittsburg
William Montgomery
Montgomery
Quay
Allegheny National Bank
Bohemian Club Jinks Honor Fleet Officers in San Francisco
In San Francisco on May 13 officers from the combined fleets attended the Bohemian Club Spring Jinks. The event, open to officers, recalled California’s gold rush era with scenes in a Red Dog Music Hall setting. Admiral Thomas received a silver urn from the Greek colony of San Francisco, and Admiral Evans commented on leaving the fleet with a mix of emotion and humor during a Chicago stopover on May 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Bohemian Club
California
Leavenworth Trail
Old Post Highway
Red Dog Music Hall
Admiral Thomas
Athens
Salamis
Thomas
Connecticut
Chicago
Admiral Evans
East
Penny Postage and Telegraph Rate Vision Echoed
London May 13 John Hanniker Heaton MP urged a penny telegraphic rate between Britain and Europe at a trade conference. He said penny postage with the United States would be adopted soon.
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London
John Henniker Heaton
M. P
Great Britain
Europe
United States
Direct-to-wearer Suits Cut Retail Costs at Wood & Co
The S N Wood & Co wholesale house unveils selling direct to the wearer from its wheelsale room. Customers pay wholesale prices and save half the retailer’s 50 percent profit. Suits in popular colors and weaves sell for 19 15 and 20 dollars at 84 to 90 Fifth Ave N W corner 14th St Pinaud Building.
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S N. Wood & Co
Fifth Ave
N. W. Cor
14Th St
Pinaud
Night Riders Damages Awarded in Federal Case
Paducah Ky May 13 a federal jury awarded Robert Hollowell 35000 damages against his brother John E Hollowell and 27 others for whipping him and driving him from Kentucky The ruling aims to curb later moonlight attacks while Hollowell wife and son face separate suits The case hinged on Hollowell being tied to a tree and lashed in 1907 amid militia presence to support the move to stop farm violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Paducah
Kentucky
Robert Hollowell
John E.hollowell
Walter Evans
Federal Court
Western District of
Jefferson
Bullitt
Hollowell
Price Hollowell
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court of the United States
Lamasco
League
Eas
May Sell Tract Building Attracts Debate In Society
At the eighty third annual meeting of the American Tract Society in Marble Collegiate Church New York City officials debated disposing of the society’s Nassau Street building if large mortgage debt cannot be renewed by gifts. Roosevelt Brewer Northen named honorary vice presidents with new officers elected including Hall MacArthur and Lewis.
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The
American Tract Society
Marble Collegiate Church
Fifth Avenue
Twenty-ninth Street
Roosevelt
David J. Brewer
W. J. Northen
Atlanta
Henry E. Cobb
New York
James L. Barton
Boston
J. M. Buckley
Charles H. Rutan
of Miller
Brookline
Mass
William _ Phillips Hall
Robert 8. MacArthur
Henry Lewis
Hall
Nassau Street
City notes and events pocketed in a busy day
Commissioner Bingham moved forty policemen to Coney Island for the season. Supreme Court Justice Greenbaum's hearing was delayed to 2:30 PM. Columbia University pupils plan an Earl Hall concert with Mrs Osborne and George Featherstone among soloists. The National Association of Employing Lithographers opened at Hotel Astor and will close with a dinner tonight. A second delay occurred in Black vs Sully legal services suit with trial set for May 20. New York Public Library trustees met in the new Forty-second Street building. a Dupressis portrait of Benjamin Franklin was presented. The Public Service Commission debated the ten cent fare to Coney Island before Commissioner McCarroll with arguments from Ex-Judge Hatch for BRT.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Greenbaum
Department of Music
Columbia University
Earl Hall
Raymond Osborn
George Featherstone
National Association of Employing
Aftor
William Harmon Black
Daniel J. Sully
Edward M. Grout
Black
Dowling
New York Public Library
Forty-second Street
Fifth Avenue
Benjamin Franklin
Bigelow
Coney Island
McCarroll
Public Service Commission
Edward Hatch
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
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Directoire
Empire
F. Gray Griswold
William Payne Thompson
Mrs. Griswold
Thompson
Robert Goelet
Gainsborough
Arthur Scott Burden
James A. Burden, Jr
Merson Buell
Brayton Ves
Harry Payne Whitney
Nedda
Payne Whitney
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Tomas Hastings
Nathalie Howland
Maria de Acosta
Edward Hough
Cornelia Fellowes
Miss Fellowes
R. Livingston Beeckman
van Rensselaer Kennedy
Thomas Hitchcock
Austen Gray
Albert Zabriskie Gray
August Belmont, Jr
Harry T. Peters
James R. Keene
Samuel Willets
Glen Urquhart
Jay Coogan
Searle Barclay
Charles D. Wetmore
Peter Goelet
Gerry
P. J. Rainey
John M.P
Paul J. Rainey
Grant Hugh Brown
J. FE
Rainey
Ef, Dugan
Aucassin
Beth Pay
Cary
McDaniel
Corncob
Ch. H
Hastings- Belvnder
F. J. Farrell
F. D. Weir
James Gaffney
Charles F. Murphy
Tim
Sullivan
Armandine
Christy D. Sullivan
S. Burr
Tom Foley
Paderewski
Weber Piano Company
I. J. Paderewski
Aeolian Hall
34Th St
Steve Lifter
Aids Fullerton
Clinton
Bones
S. N. Wood & CO
WM. Vogel & Son
Broadway
Houston St
Hoskins
Horrocks
Bankers
DERBY
Globewernicke Agency
State
Bingham
Gzzz & Sholmaxker
38Th Street
18Th Street
6Th Avenue
124Th Street
3D Avenue
21St St
125Th Street
Sheffield Dentifrice Co
New London
Conn
Sheffield
Barton@Guestier
Bordeaux
St. Julien Superior
Chateau St. Bris
Park @ Tilford
Twenty-first Street
Lortyfirst
de Iestase
Layties Brothers
U. S
Standard Adjustment CO
Fiatior
Gramercy
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