Firebug Threatens New York Tenements Across Upper East Side
Police and fire officials hunt a pyromaniac blamed for a dozen incendiary fires since Sunday on the upper east side. Fires start under first floor stairs of crowded tenements as dozens of firemen struggle to control blazes and rescue residents, with no fatalities but heavy damage and exhausted crews. Senate of incidents includes addresses on Third Avenue Second Avenue Ninety-second Street Ninety-fifth Street and East 102nd Street.
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Fire Department
Upper East Side
104Th Street
Sixty-seventh Street
Eighty-eighth Street
Seery
Rae
Marshal Seery
Lower East Side
Sixtieth Street
25Th Street
East 11Th Street
Third Avenue
Second Avenue
East Ninety-second Street
East Eighty-fifth Street
News Print Paper Auction Third Sale Details
The second auction sale of news print paper, led by John Norris, saw 560 tons sold at an average of $1.90 per 100 pounds. A. H. Muller & Son conducted the sale at the Real Estate Exchange, with bids by mail, listing Cheboygan Booth Aldrich mills and buyers including the Cincinnati Enquirer and Toronto Daily Star among others. Total revenue reached $21,340 and Norris anticipated price stability guiding future large-city auctions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Norris
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
A. H. Muller &Son
Vesey Street
Cheboygan Mills
Booth Mills
Ottawa
Canada
Nebraska State Journal
Toronto Daily Star
Syracuse Herald
Aldrich Mills
Norris
Cincinnati Enautier
Chicago Journal
Duluth Evening Herald
Houston Chronicle
Fort Worth
Wheeling Record
Rodman Arrested In Fortune-Telling Stock Swindle
Henry T. Rodman, president of Linwood Gold and Copper Mining Co., was held in $1,000 bail after testimony at the Tombs Court about William Garnett the Yogi who claimed fortunes in Linwood stock. Complainants including Lena Brabenec and Andrew Eberlein describe buying stock on promises of riches and notes issued by Rodman. Deputy Sheriff re arrested Rodman in a civil suit filed by a woman swindled by the fortune teller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry T. Rodman
Linwood Gold and Copper Mining Company
Walsh
Tombs Court
Willam F. Garnett
Rodman
Jordan
Franklin Street
Hayes
Lena Brabenec
Pitkin Avenue
Garnett
West Forty-fifth Street
Linwood Company
Andrew Eberlein
Park Place
Margant Thompson
Martha A. Tavies
Newark
N. J
Kindleberger
Davidson Gentty
Retired Broker Curtiss Testifies in Supplementary Proceedings
Winslow W. Curtiss a retired cotton broker testified in a supplementary examination that he has no ready money. The case involves a $500 debt to Mollie O’Hara, a dressmaker, from purchases for his debutante daughter who later married. The hearing adjourned to Sept 8 with subpoenas planned for Curtiss family friends.
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Winslow W. Curtiss
Fifth Avenue
Emile Schultz
Broadway
Curtiss
Mollie O'Hara
Grand Union Hotel
Saratoga
Smith
Schultz
Warren Bankrupt in New Bankruptcy Filing
Frank R. Warren once owner of a café and liquor saloon at 114 East Twenty third Street faces bankruptcy proceedings filed by Engel Brothers. Creditors claim insolvency and preferential payments totaling thousands, with Adams appointing William F. Allen as receiver after Warren sold the business for 4000 dollars on July 30.
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Frank R. Warren
Sarah Cleckner
Jersey City
Warren
East Twenty-third Street
Engel Brothers
Frederick Wolf
Wolf, Siesel & Co
Francis C. Neale
Evers & Putscher
Adams
Illiam F. Allen
Clarke & Kloss
Saw Fatality At Whitestone Woods Worksite
Polish worker Michael Simchichn aged 25 was cut in two by a moving saw at a Manhattan clearing operation by Hercules Contracting Co. at Willetts Point and Whitestone Roads. He entered a weather-shielded timber building yesterday morning and did not emerge, his body found near the saw. His companions believe a fall, not self harm, caused the tragedy. An ambulance wrecked en route. Dr Volkenhein and a passing auto aided the rushed response.
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Michael Simchichn
Hercules Contracting Company
Manhattan
Willetts Point
Whitestone Roads
Simchidia
Flushing
Volkenhein
Study of Industrial Insurance For the Needy
The Sage Foundation trustees fund a Europe wide inquiry into industrial insurance to aid the poor. Dr. Lee K Frankel, formerly with United Hebrew Charities, gathers data abroad this summer. No decision to start any system has been made and none will come for at least a year.
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Russell Sage
Sage Foundation
Europe
Lee K. Frankel
United Hebrew Charities
Abroa
Robert W. de Forest
Excursion Boats Run Labor Day From Hudson Line
Central Hudson Line expands service for Labor Day with two steamers Homer Ramsdell and William F Romer operating trips to West Point and Newburyport. Homer Ramsdell departs Franklin Street at 9 A M and William F Romer departs West 129th Street at 9 30 A M. Both boats return from Newburg at 6 P M and West Point at 7 P M.
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Labor Day
Central Hudson Line
Homer Ramsdell
William F. Romer
West Point
Newbury
Franklin Street
West 129Th Street
Newae
Blocked Ferry Sale to the Pennsylvania
Bondholders face a narrow path as Brooklyn Ferry Co property in Williamsburg contemplates sale to Pennsylvania Railroad or New Haven in a dispute over ferry use. City resistance and injunction proceedings cloud a 99 year lease plan and possible city purchase to keep ferries in service.
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Brooklyn Ferry Company
Brooklyn
Williamsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Financial
Ferry Company
New Haven Road
New Haven
Pennsylvania
New York Terminal Company
Long Island City
Mrs Gresham Douges Court Misses summons at hotel
Mrs Bertha K Gresham did not appear in West Side Court yesterday for a summons from Hotel Lincoln management. Hotel staff said she owed money and cashed several worthless checks, claiming a kidnapping tale was false and that she spoke with her brother about settling bills.
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Bertha K. Gresham
Raoul Amado
Panama
West Side Court
Licoln
Fifty-second Street
Broadway
Hans
Herrman
New Ritz-Carlton Style Hotel Planned On Madison Ave
Ground broken for a 14 story hotel at Madison Avenue and Forty sixth Street to be named possibly Hotel Goelet. Robert Walton Goelet and London executive William Harris sign a twenty year lease. The building will cost 2.1 million dollars with 300 rooms and 500 thousand for furnishings.
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Madison Avenue
Forty-sixth Street
New York
Robert Walton Goelet
William Harris
London
Ritz-Carlton Restaurant
Hotel Goelet
Holland House
Carlton
Ritz
Plaza
Ritz-Carlton
Madrid
Evian
Switzerland
Berlin
Hamburg
Amerika
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
Paris
Kermit Roosevelt Receives Special Camera for Africa Trip
The camera ordered for Kermit Roosevelt to photograph the African hunting expedition arrived at the American Museum of Natural History. Frank Michler Chapman, curator, advised the purchase and will train him in darkroom work. The outfit cost several hundred dollars and is built for animal and moving-object photography.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kermit Roosevelt
American Museum of Natural History
Kermit
Frank Michler Chapman
Chapman
Times
Siegel a Deputy Sheriff Westchester welcomes new recruit
Henry Siegel becomes the latest addition to Westchester County’s Deputy Sheriff corps receiving his shield on Tuesday. He vows to join Richard Harding Davis and other deputies in enforcing the law and ridding the county of undesired citizens. Siegel cites personal experience from last summer when thieves looted his Orienta Point residence in Mamaroneck. He explains that respecting the law is one thing and enforcing it is another, adding the weight and solemnity of the role.
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Henry Siegel
Westchester County
Richard Harding Davis
Siegel
Orienta Point
Mamaroneck
Yeterday
Siege
Merchant Killed by Fall in Brooklyn Home
Richard M. Chichester, 736 Macon Street Brooklyn, was found dead yesterday morning on the back yard flagging with a fractured skull. Police say death likely resulted from a fall from a second floor bedroom window. He lived with his mother and was connected to F. P. & R. M. Chichester chairs at 171 Canal Street. He had served in Company H Twenty third Regiment National Guard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard M. Chichester
Macon Street
Brooklyn
Chichester
Atlantic Fleet Races and Dinners During Melbourne Visit
American battleship fleet entertained in Melbourne with a six race meeting named for the visitors, a 6 to 5 baseball win over Victoria, and a large 800-voice choir at an Exhibition Building reception. 3,000 guests rode to Bendigo for entertainments as 12,000 medallions were to be distributed.
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Melbourne
Victoria Racing Club
Flemington
Washington
United States
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Victoria
Exhibition Building
Sperry
Thomas Gibson-Carmichael
Melbourne Town Hall
Bendigo
Tommy
Fis
Bill" Lang
Burns
Royal Agricultural Society
Commonwealth
Australia
Albany
Royal Yacht ‘Club
Alfred Deakir
America
Venezuela Holds French Interests After Castro Refusal
Caracas reports President Castros rejection of the Brazilian chargé d'affaires taking charge of French interests here. French claims payments have stalled as French representation remains unestablished since the American Legation closed. France faces embarrassment while Holland navy rumors spark surprise and The Hague prepares a note via the German ambassador to Caracas.
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Caracas
Castro
Seftor Lorena Perreitra
Venezuela
Brazil
France
Jose de Jesus Paul
Nce
United States
Holland
Venezuelan
Caracaa
Hague
China moves toward imperial rites as new dynasty looms
Paking Sept 2 The government debates temple ceremonies for ancestors at the Forbidden City to mark a new dynasty and full government change. Edicts on provincial assemblies and a constitution suggest a new regime will follow Japan’s model, echoing recommendations by Chinese commissioner Tashou from Tokyo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paking
Forbidden City
Japan
Tashou
Tokyo
Marquis Inouye III in Japan Critically Ill
Tokio Sept 2 Marquis Inouyé a leading Elder Statesman of Japan and former diplomat is critically ill and not expected to recover He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prince Ito and later as Finance Minister and held multiple key posts shaping Japanese policy He is guardian to Katsunosuke Inouyé.
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Tokio
Marquis Inouyé
Japan
Katsunosuke Inouyé
Berlin
Prince Ito
Evans Ale Ad Promotes Dining Pleasure in Hudson
Proprietors of hotels restaurants and cafes seek patrons of the extraordinary are urged to offer Evans Ale, touted as adding pleasure to dinner or luncheon. The ad points readers to C H Evans & Sons in Hudson New York with a New York City depot at 35th Street and Ita Avenue.
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New York City Depot
35Th St
Ita Ay
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Pyromaniac
Seiler
W. W. Curtiss
F. R. Warren
Workman
Mill
City
Brooklyn Co
Mrs. Gresham Douges Court
Hatel Man
46Th Street
Merchant
Author Davis
Westchester
R. M. Chichester
Aks
MEDAI
Atlantic Fleet
Victoria Club
Fleet’s
The
Netherlands
Baron von Seckendorff
China
Marquis Inouye III
Evans’ Ale
C. H. Evans &Sons
Hudson, WN. Y
GEO
Callahan & CO
Callahan
Fear Heekman
N. Y
Tel
Gallen
Allahan
Lomonderr
Gustave Herzberg
Dresdner Bank
Deutsche Credit Bank
Germany
Dinard
Sharpless
Philadelphia
Rome
Thomas Burke
Viscount Kaneko
Grand Central Station
26Th Century Limited
New York Central Lines
LaSalle Street Station
Chicago
20Th Century Limited
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