Oil War in Maryland Highlighted in Trust Trial
Baltimore figure Louis Blaustein testifies that Standard Oil agents posed as independents to disrupt rivals in Maryland and Virginia. Witness Bruce Robinson describes price cuts by independents and Standard following suit. testimony covers Eagle Oil Company battles and a Lake Champlain corridor rate dispute. The government case continues Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Louis Blaustein
Baltimore
Blaustein
Standard of
New Jersey
Franklin Ferriss
Custom House
Charles B Morrison
Frank B. Kellogg
Maryland
Virginia
The
Oil Combe
Morriews
Rison
Mr. Blaustein
Morrison
Standard Old Company
Mr. Morrison
Standard Lawyers
Standard Oil
Bruce Robinson
Shore
Chesapeake Bay
Jie
Ee B. Kellogg
Eagle Oil Company
Bualtisnore
Eagle Company
Robinson
Crewe-Levick Company
Frank P. Mathews
Pottsdam
N. Y
Mathews
G. W. Bonney & Co
Ogdensburg
Lake Champlain
Merchants’ Oil Company
Old Navy Pilot Frank Bell Dies After Stroke
Frank W. Bell, aged one of the navy's oldest pilots, collapsed on a gangplank at the Brooklyn Navy Yard after leaving the collier Nere. He died soon after in Navy Hospital on Flushing Avenue. Bell lived at 187 Carlton Avenue and served twenty three years, noted for piloting the battleship Massachusetts through Hell Gate twelve years ago.
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Brooklyn
Tompkinsville
S. T
Frank W. Bell
Navy Service
Navy Hospital
Flishing Avenue
Bell
Carlton Avenue
Ely
Massachusetts
Wield Gate
Boston
Amd Bell
Noise on the East Side Targeted by Mrs Rice
Mrs Isaac L Rice toured the lower east side with Sigmund Schwartz to hear street racket complaints. She visited Essex Market Police Court and Essex Prison where she found conditions distressing and proposed colored card signals to guide peddlers and reduce noise for sleeping residents.
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Isaac L. Rice
Lower East Side
Sigmund Schwartz
United Push Cart Peddlers’ Association
Essex Market
Rhce
Harris Thensie
Essex
Michael Whalen
Belmont Park May Become Major Motor Racing Venue
Belmont Park, the Metropolitan district’s largest track, may be converted into a motordrome for automobile racing. After the success of twenty four hour events at Brighton Beach, promoters see Belmont’s mile and a half oval and long straightaways as ideal for high speed runs. There is debate on whether horse racing will remain, with Sheepshead Bay’s Coney Island Jockey Club also cited as a potential automotive site.
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Belmont Park
Brighton Beach
Motor Racing Association
Coney Island
Boxing Club Suit Heard Over Temporary Injunction
Supreme Court Justice McGall heard arguments and reserved decision on the National Athletic Club’s request to extend a temporary injunction shielding its use of the clubhouse from interference. The case tests police powers at boxing contests as Assistant Corporation Counsel Hahlo argues for police presence to stop alleged violations.
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Supreme Court
McGall
National Athletic Club
Hahlo
Restful Night Delays Fire Alarms in Manhattan Bronx
From 8 p.m. Thursday until 10 a.m. yesterday no fire alarms were reported to Police Headquarters. Firemen and horses rested after a fourteen hour idle stretch, with crews at Company T6 on 16th Street and Amsterdam Avenue keeping watch. When a call came, one unit resisted stirring, while others woke early fearing they had slept through an alarm.
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Manhattan
Bronx
Company T6
Amsterdam Avenue
Néliie
Dexter Murder Case Turns on West Side Witness
Fred Schmidt of Denver claims he witnessed Orlando P. Dexter’s 1008 Adirondacks murder near Santa Clara. He alleges a local neighbor killed Dexter, hid the rifle, and harmed Schmidt’s daughter. investigators will test the tale before extraditing Schmidt to New York. Detectives continue probing the case as Henry Dexter seeks answers.
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Fred Schmidt
Denver
Orlando P. Dexter
Adirondacks
Santa Clara
Henry Dexter
West Sifty-sixth Street
Schmidt
Dexter
Ile
New York
Adirondack
Dexters
Local Notices and Addresses From A Mystery Listing
Fragmentary street and address listings show names Marv Dotvictly Alexander Robert Kraft Philip Snyder M. Horowitz J. Dean Isaoas D Fischbrandt and firms Peerless Clothing Co Roeser & Sohmer with amounts like 50 dollars and 5 to 9 dollars. Entries reference East Tremont Avenue West 27th Street and 136th Street locations and multiple addresses in Manhattan and the Bronx with scattered descriptors.
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Wrifling
East 46Th St
Prank, Leher
Delancey St. Philip Snyder
West 27Th St
Geo. Hoffman
Sullivan St
M. Horowitz
Aqueduct
Tremont -Avt Morris Estate
135Th
Murray St
Fale & Towne
Rdeer
Peerless Clothing Co
Roeser & Sohmer
Im -Trilling
Tremont
Lsts
Russian Joan of Arc Witness for Pouren
Mrs. Trina Shepte nicknamed the "Russian Joan of Arc" testified before U S Commissioner Hitchcock on whether Jan Janoff Pouren should be sent back to Russia as an escaped criminal. Shepte described past meetings, threats, and a 1906 incident where soldiers whipped her family.
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Trina Shepte
Joan of Arc
United States
Hitchcock
Jan Janoff Pouren
Russia
Pouren
Shepte
Roxbury
Mass
Herbert Parsons
Iniitti
John Murray
Mr. Murray
Foures
Lieit
Lici
Cambridge
Dinner at Hotel Astor for League of Republican Clubs
Johnnvs Hammon hosted a dinner at the Hotel Astor last night for League of Republican Clubs members active in the recent campaign. Guests included A. N. Rose, A. Payne, K. Wright, J. W. Stevens, C. A. Norvall, F. RB. Wilson, J. F. Turner, M. Roeder, H. C. Biggs, A. Aimutt, and CC. W. Kohlsaat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnnvs Hammon
Hotel Astor
League of Republican Clubs
League
A._N. Rose
A. Payne
K. Wright
J. W.S. Stevens
Bankrupt cloak merchant indicted for concealing assets
Benjamin Schondorf once of Schondorf Flamm Sarkwitz Philadelphia, known in New York as Benjamin Rosenwasser, is indicted for concealing bankruptcy assets from his trustee and is jailed at the Tombs. Evidence shows goods moved between Philadelphia and New York, with fictitious firms and torn silk packs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Schondorf
Schondorf, Flamm & Sarkwitz
Philadelphia
New York
Benjamin Rosenwasser
West Fifteenth Street
Federal Grand Jury
Race Street
James A. Crabtree
Schondorf
Rosenwasser
Cohen
Epstein
J. Howard Reba
Crabtree
James N. Rosenberg
James, Schell & Isikus
Merchants’ Provective Association
Schororf
Brooklyn Receiver Stops Brancken MacAgency Auction
Lawyer Oscar A. Lewis of 215 Montague Street Brooklyn was appointed receiver to halt a bankruptcy sale of Brancken MacAgency Company assets. Auctioneers began selling belongings at Sixth Street and Towanns Canal before Lewis arrived and ordered the process stopped. The firm’s creditors had the company declared bankrupt by Judge Chatfield with Lewis named receiver. assets estimated at about $29,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar A. Lewis
Montague Street
Brooklyn
Brancken- MacAgency Company
Dudeé Chatfield
Lewis
Finsh
Sixth Street
Towanns Canal
Chatfield
Republican Captain Benjamin Stone Dies After Election Day Injury
Benjamin Stone age 35 of 325 East Twenty-sixth Street, a Republican captain in the Third Election District, died at Bellevue Hospital after injuries sustained on election day. Reports say he was assaulted near First Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street around 2 o'clock, with Dr. Moore noting head injuries. Stone initially refused hospital treatment and was carried in by four friends an hour later. relatives said he had been blackjacked.
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Benjamin Stone
East Twenty-sixth Street
Bellevue Hospital
Stone
Bellevue
First Avenue
Twenty-fifth Street
Moore
Pellelvue
E J Clyde Withdraws From Pearson's Magazine
Edward J Clyde announces withdrawal of his interest and retirement from Pearson's Magazine. He returns to his book publishing quarters at 156 Fifth Avenue.
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E. J. Clyde
Pearson’s Magazine
Edward J. Clyde
Pearson’s
Fifth Avenue
Old Lady with a Hundred Pockets at Woman Suffrage Bazaar
The Old Lady with a Hundred Pockets drew crowds at Martha Washington Street bazaar, aiding the suffrage treasury. Palmistry, phrenology, and the Spring Lady device attracted visitors, while Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt led a domestic electric display showing women voting and managing housework by electricity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha, Washington
Twenty-ninth Street
Lary
Audience Mackey
Philip
Hadiv
Damon Lyon
Jessie Fowler
Atrs
Sofie Loebinger
Carrie Chapman Cail
International Woman Suffrage Association
New Monica Restaurant Opens in Theatre District
The New Monica Restaurant on West Thirty-ninth Street between Sixth Avenue and Broadway opened yesterday under Mir bach and Manheimer management. A six story building opposite the new Mixine Elliott Theatre is centrally located in the theatre district with a ground floor café and restaurant and a second story of private dining rooms. The Shubert organization controls the property.
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Theatre
West Thirty-ninth Street
Sixth Avenue
Broadway
New Mixine Felliett
Mirbach & Manheimer
Pew Theatre
Maxine Elliott
The
Shuberts
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Standard’s
Eagle
Frank Bell
Stricken
Hell Gate
Mrs. Rice
Motors
Boxing Club
New Dexter
AMM
Bronxwood
POAT
East
Alexarder
Robert” Kraft
Rivington St
S5th St
Ee House
Moe Levy & Co
Walker St
Fulton St
Psoklya
Hammond
Taft
Benj. Schondorf
Hurt
Wallach Bros
Third Avenue
29Th Street
Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Hart, Schaffner& Marx
Suf
Sortlandt SF
Canary Sale Singers
Helden
Africa
Holden
G. H. Holden
Gth
Ave
15Th St
Barton & Guestier
Stillwell & Glapding
Barton
Bordeaux
U.S
Fraser
Jake
E. LA Montagne’s Sons
AG Beate Hom
Mellon
Kersey
Arnheim, Soi
Ions
Saxony
Hartford Corp: Company
Thompsonville, Conn
New Marbridge Building
John Drew
Jack Strawaway
Criter
Gillette
Samson
Henry Miller
Lyce U
Ake Todave Iary
Billie Burke
Arcs Knickerbocker
Edgar Selwyn
Garenieca
Ethel
Arky
W. Somerset Mesitam
Lady Frederick
Garrick
B'way
Joseph Coy
Alexandra Narlisle
May Irwin
Mrs. Peckham
Carouse
Thyvesant
David Belasco
Blanche
Dorithy Dix
Wallage
Marie
Matiner
Cahill
L& Evs
Mt-Tay&Wel
Hodge
Louis
Mississippi
la Erday Theatre
St. New Amste
Matiners
Klaw & Erlanger
New
Sas Grace van Studdiford
Nex
SUN
Vitor Herbert
Iiresrea
Lincoln Subway
Daisy
Amerie
Mortons
Alex Garr
MR. & Mrs
Bold Itzs Simmons
Davis- Gledhill
Daisy Lloyd
Cliff Gordon
Joe Hoganny
Fatima
Milis
Alice- Raymond
Vandestilt
Academy OF Music
St. & Irving
Charles Dillingham
Montgomery & Stone
Red Mill
Garden Theatre
Today
Savage
Carnegie Lyt Herman Montagu Donner
Sith St
Finland
Hermann Klein
Mad
Augusta Cottlow
Jotto Meyer
Fredk Weld
A. Rosenthal
Jomelli
G. Esmann
Hans Heuckerein
Flatiron
Chinatown
Bowery
Walter Damrosch
Coxvr
Ctqr
Gluck
Iphiain Aulix
Saint. Saens
le Rouet d
Saint Saens
Dhe Rims
Kykorsakoff
America
Otkts
St. & Pox
Metropolitan Opera House
Aloha Duncan
Symphony
Walter Danrosch
Rees
Miss Duncanna
Re. Johnston
Cooper Union
People’ S Chof
Frank Damrosch
Arctoskk
AL Union N.Y
Edouard Dethier Vialini
Carolyn Beebe
W. Cath
Carnegie Lyree
St Oy
Negie Philharmonie Society of Oe ‘Ork
Cometer General
Hall
Saad Leon
Carnegi
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Max Fie
Ler Camincior
Alice T
Bier Maginet Risis
Aa Arliss
Mare Wise Tikes
NLS
Wabel
White
Stpart
Eden
IGE Skating
St. Isicholas Kink, Hous Se, & Cok Ave
Murray
Eisio RouNbens
Agung
Young’s
Houston St
Produce Exchange
Dey St
14Th St
Nassau St
Fulton &T
28Th St
36Th St
Fifth Ave
City Hall
Madison Square Garden
Ciorce Arena
Seitz
Hippodrome
Naly’ Bieey
Faversham
St. Lateat
Bway
Lulu Glaser
vitEy
Casino
Wey
Sam St
Tuestas
Louise Gunning
Marcelle
Majestic
Fas
Seth Eve
Broauceis
Paul Am
Lew Fields
Matinee Herald
WestEnd
Enrailer Hoffmans
Mimic World
Ponzano
Arrezza
Renaud Dalmores
Vienille
Cleofonte Campanini
Samson and Delilah
Gerville- Reache
MM. Dalmores
Dufranne
Vienile
de Grazia
Montanari
Campanini
URDAY
Mile
Trentini
MM. Colombini
Sammareco
Gilibert
Seguerola
M. Cleofonte Campanini
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