Budget Exhibit Hails City Fiscal Discipline and Salary Rules
The Budget Exhibit praised the New York City budget for 1909 and endorsed a salary-change rule requiring twelve members of the Board of Estimate to approve any department head's wage adjustments, with audits of payrolls and detailed expenditures. Speakers, led by Dr. William H. Allen, urged evidence-based budgeting and warned against graft, while figures like Controller Metz and ex-Senator Brush highlighted cost differences and property deals. The session also covered subway planning delays due to owner consent and appellate division procedures for the Broadway Lexington route.
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Ayers
New
Card of Estimate
Board of Estimate
Finance Department
Bureau of Municipal Research
William H. Allen
George W. Brush
Metz
Emia
Controller Metz
Chanler
Bronx
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Brooklyn
Commission
Lexington Avenue
Woodlawn
Pelham Bay Park
Appellate Division
Gerard and Jerome Avenue
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
Astor
River and
Gerard Avenues
Budget Approved by Board of Estimate Amid Deliberations
The Board of Estimate signed the city budget yesterday authorizing a total of 148,446,904 for city and county expenses. Despite acrimony during hearings, the document was approved with a planned saving of about 34,000 from calculation errors, and uncollected taxes to cover a deficit.
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Haffen
Ahearn
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Greer Plans Coordinated Laymen Effort in New York Diocese
Bishop Greer met with leaders from the Church Club Federation of Parish Clubs Staten Island Manhattan Bronx Brotherhood of St Andrew and Burial Society to rally lay participation. He announced a memorial gathering for late Bishop Potter at Synod Hall Nov 16 and said a central lay committee of about twenty would act as a diocesal lay cabinet to unite and empower lay organizations.
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Parish Clubs
Staten Island
Manhattan
Church Club of
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Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Seabury Society
Episcopal Church
Synod Hall
Potter
Parrot Recovered After Citywide Search and Reunion
Gray parrot with red tail found after several days of wandering. It entered the kitchen window of William Harrison Brown at 201 West Fifty-fifth Street and perched on his maid's head before being returned to J. E. Laub and his wife. A cousin and Dr Henry Warford of Philadelphia helped locate them after Laub advertised in Tue Tracs.
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J. E. Laub
West Sixty-sixth Street
Central Park
Tue Tracs
Laub
Tur TiMés
Henry Warford
Philadelphia
William Harrison Brown
West Fifty-fifth Street
Mary Calahan
Louis Cohen
Cohen
Laubs
Dr. Warford
City Vigilance League Urges Women Teachers to Oppose Chanler
A circular from the City and Vigilance League led by Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst and Frank Moss asks New York women teachers to avoid political activity in support of Chanler for governor. It alleges teachers press men in churches to vote for Chanler by promising he will sign the Equal Pay Bill, calling the tactic a ploy by gamblers and others to enlist women under false pretenses.
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City& Vigilance League
Charles H. Parkhurst
Frank Moss
New York
Chanler
Chanier
Mayors clash as Board approves $150000 for Public Service Commission
The Board of Estimate, amid partisan exchanges, approved a $150,000 appropriation for the Public Service Commission after Controller Metz defended the board against claims of hampering the agency. He cited prior plans for the Fourth Avenue subway in Brooklyn and criticized previous park spending as driving debt limits. The mayor pressed for accountability as lawsuits over subway contracts lingered.
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Public Service Commission
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Han
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Rapid Transit Commission
Brooklyn
Fourth Avenue
Jefferson Levy
Levy
Banker John M. Smith Dies by Own Action at Hotel
John M. Smith, a Consolidated Exchange member and Nutley native, shot himself in a Greenwich Street hotel room amid business worries. He lived at 828 West Twenty-third Street, New York, with his wife and two children after moving from Nutley. He had joined the Exchange on April 14 and was active on the trading floor. He attended a Nutley Fortnight Club dance with his wife the previous night.
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John M. Smith
Consolidated Exchange
Smith & McNell
Greenwich Street
Veséy Street
Mr. Smith
Nutley
N. J
York
West Twenty-third Street
Smith
Consolidated Exchang
Mr. Fox
Unclear Document Instructions Found in Office Papers
A fragment from an officer’s file shows typewritten directions warning not to rummage through books and papers and directing them to turn over to Mrs M Smith of Nutley New Jersey. The note references a bureau and appears to be part of a larger set of records.
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Canion Beth Abraham
Bayonne
Emple
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Thief Caught After Break-In On Eighth Street
Mary widow and her eighteen year old Edna alerted by a call found a burglar inside their flat at 15 E Eighth Street. Isaac Aksetz climbed a fire escape and opened the dining room door. a revolver was aimed as he fled. The burglar leapt a wall, dodged police in a chase across Park and Park Avenue, finally captured after a struggle. John Webber, 23, of Sixty-fifth Street, was identified by a jewelry haul and a prison letter in his pockets. He faced charges at East 104th Station.
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Aksetz
Maurice Sommers
Sommers Dow
McGrath
Ana
Desperat Grath
East 104Th Station
John Webber
Sixty-fifth Street
Dannemora
Webber
Webber Young
Thief Chased After Purse Snatch on Fifth Avenue
Miss Helen Thompson was approached near Thirty-eighth Street by a man who grabbed her purse containing about 12 dollars and fled. Jacieme Mare and Michael G chauffeur witnessed the theft and joined in the pursuit, with a crowd helping chase through Park Avenue to Th Street before authorities intervened at the corner near the 10th Street Station. The purse handle tore from the bag during the struggle.
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856 & Me
Fite
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Thirt Street
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West Thirty
Eighth Street
Park Avenu
Joseph Herzing
Miss Thompson
Tred Reed
Broadway Comic Opera Stirs Attention Amid Studio Rumors
Reports say a new Broadway operetta with a composer and librettist duo has stirred interest as news leaked of experimental choruses. Isidor Sachs and John G. are connected to the project and contract talks progress amid a flurry of industry activity.
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Wilson
South Dakota Divorces in Flux Amid Residence Reform Fight
Reformers urge a one year residency to curb nonresident divorce petitions in South Dakota. Backers warn of apathy as a referendum race nears to overturn the six month rule, citing economic impact from 320 divorces granted in 1907 to non residents and a broad cross section of signatories.
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Idaho
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Policeman Thomas Madigan Arrested Over Double Registration
Mercer Street Station officer Thomas P Madigan was bailfined in Jefferson Market Court on a charge of illegally registering. Magistrate Butts heard that Madigan admitted registering twice while intoxicated and under the interim Grand Jury supervision by Election Superintendent Leary.
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Mercer Street
Thomas Madigan
Sudan
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