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New York Times

Location

New York, New York, United States of America

Date

Sep 04, 1908

Page

5

Sultan's Spy's Week of Terror Over in New York Visit

Zia Bey, once chief spy to Sultan Abdul Hamid, spent a tense week in New York living under an assumed name Ignatieu. He met a Russian acquaintance, ordered a leather bag, and avoided arrest before sailing to Liverpool. Turkish Consul General Mundji Bey questioned his identity and hinted at possible sensational motives behind his statements.

Constantinople Zia Bey Sultan Abdul Hamid London Mauretania New York Teutonic Lafayette Southampton Philadelphia Ignatiea Sultan Hotel Lafayette West Forty-fifth Street Seventh Avenue Z. B. Kouilianine Liverpool Waldorf Imperial Guards America Mundji Bey Legation Washington the Waldorf Ignatieu New York Evening Post Olice Yildiz Abdulamid Yildiz Palace Yerik Pasha Saraskar Riza Pasha Izzet Pasha Faim Pasha Abdul Hamid Marmora Faim I Pasha Nazim Pacha Izzet Pacha Nazim Pasha Sislian Stephan Melik Armenian Hunchakist Committee Babili Droskakists Belius Moniteur Oriental Europe Vazim Turkey Russia Najib Pacha Ottoman Empire Young Turks

Bettors Barred At Sheepshead Bay Race Track

Racing officials ban seven more professional bettors from Sheepshead Bay for Saturday entry while 1,000 spectators attend yesterday. Club talks of losses across Spring and Fall meetings, with calls to reduce the $25,600 Champion Stakes to 10,000, conflicting with owners who see it as due from a profitable club. District Attorney Clarke returns. ADA Elder oversees the case.

Sheepshead Bay Coney Island Clarke Kings County Elder Sheepshead Coney Island Jockey Club

Personal Liberty League Holds Brookyln Meeting Against Hughes Reforms

The Personal Liberty League mass meeting at Prospect Hall Brooklyn denounced the Hughes racing law and backed liberal candidates. Speaker John Sherwin Crosby argued the state cannot regulate personal liberty while Andrew McLean cited the right to pursue happiness. Simultaneously the Logan Republican Club praised Gov Hughes and endorsed his renomination.

Personal Liberty League Prospect Hall Project Avenue Hirth Avenue Brookyn Frank W. Thorp John Sherwin Crosby Andrew Mclean The Brooklyn Citizen J. Grattan MacMahon Crosby McLean League Logan Republican Club Brooklyn Hugh Gordon Miller United States Crim Gov. Hughes

Kings County DA backs ADA Elder in gambling cases

District Attorney Clarke returned from abroad and praised Assistant District Attorney Elder for handling the race-track gambling cases. Clarke announced Elder will continue in charge and that the office will proceed with the trials of the Jenkins brothers, the bankers who are under investigation.

Clarke Kings County Elder Jenkins Brothers

Dismissed Conspiracy Indicts Williamsburg Trust Firms

The district attorney plans to proceed on a conspiracy indictment connected with the Williamsburg and Jenkins Trust Companies once a trial venue is set. He humorously notes returning from Europe without his beard after a Capri trip where a sculptor named Michael Angelo shaved it.

Williamsburg and Jenkins Trust Europe Capri Michael Angelo Michael

To Bar Bets at Belmont Meeting in Nassau Effort

Nassau County officials and Westchester Racing Association plan a joint conference to curb race track gambling at Belmont Park during October. Sheriff Foster and District Attorney Coles will push for cooperation to close the betting ring, which is mainly in Nassau with some spillover into Queens.

Nassau County Racing Association Ring New York Times Mineola N. Y Nassau County Board of Supervisors Court House Belmont Park Queens The Coney Island Jockey Club Sheepshead Bay

Proposed to Her 500 Times in Three Years

John Scopi of 482 Hicks Street Brooklyn was arraigned in Night Court on Sophie Houser of 419 Greenwich Street charge of perpetual proposing. She said he asked her to marry at least 500 times as she sold loans. Magistrate Corrigan fined him 3 dollars and urged fewer proposals in three years.

John Scopi Hicks Street Brooklyn Sophie Houser Greenwich Street Corrigan Scopi

Styles in men's wear at tailors show

At 1 181 Broadway the American Style and Fashion Show debuts Autumn and Winter menswear. Frederick T. Kroenberg directs with displays from Milwaukee to St. Louis, praising new cutaway morning coats and evening wear while predicting shift from sack suits to tailored, single breasted lines.

Broadway Frederick T. Kroenberg Fifth Avenue Kroenberg Milwaukee St. Louis Kansas City London New York Decatur Hall of Pittsburg Pfohl & Olney Pittsburg John C. Walter

Union Labor Day Parade Outlines Eight Battalions

A Labor Day Committee meeting set plans for Monday’s parade. The march will start at 9 A.M. from Fifty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue, led by James M. Cunning, with John Pugh and William Truax as aides. Eight divisions and chapels of Typographics Union No. 8 will form eight abreast on West Fifty-fifth Street near Fifth Avenue, marching past Washington Square and disbanding after the route.

Central Federated Ai 1 Ose Fifty-ninth Street Fifth Avenue Washington Square Typographics! Union Fifty-fifth Street James M. Cunnion John Pugh William Truax

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