Sound Liner Sinks Steamer in Fog Off Race Rock
In heavy fog the Commonwealth flagship of the Fall River Line collided with the Norwegian steamship Volund off Race Rock near the Long Island Sound entrance. The Volund sank within minutes. Captain Bjorn Schyuth and his wife and crew of fourteen were saved by U S sailors from Newport. The Commonwealth rescued the Volund’s survivors as the ship’s bow was damaged and crew worked amid panic on board.
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Long Island Sound
Commonwealth
Fall River Line
Volund
Race Rock
Bjorn Schyuth
Ingbor
United States
K Washington
School of Gunnery
Newport
R. I
Voland
Fchyuth
Alfred A. Bernstein
Thomas Johnson
Olaf Hartung
Patrick Anderon
Ole Carstens
Charles Weber
William Brown
Navy
Weber
Brown
Laws
Wilcomb
Mitchell
Agraus
Tinen
Myer
Chyuuh
Schyuth
Jackies
North River
Edward Olsen
Uller
George Williamson
Ypland
Williamson
J. Howland Gardner
Providence
Newburg-on-the-Hudson
Windsor
N. 8
Campania Arrives After Stormy Atlantic Crossing
The Cunarder Campania reached its port yesterday after three days of very heavy weather and high seas from Liverpool. It towed the dismasted Norwegian bark Fox, which had sailed from Barbados to Gaspe, after passing the British steamer Luciline near shore. Passengers aboard included Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Adler, Mrs. Townsend Ashmore, Sir J. F. Whitney, and Stephen H. Wilder among others.
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Liverpool
Campania
Luciline
Newport
England
New York
Fox
Barbados
Gaspe
M. L. Adler
Townsend Ashmore
E. R
Long Island Tracks Moved Advance Major Rail Project
The North Shore branch of the Long Island Railroad opened new passenger route in Long Island City shifting tracks away from the Queens jail and Court House and Sunnyside Hill. The line now cuts a direct path toward Woodside to clear tunnel work and make way for a vast new railroad yard replacing Sunnyside Hill.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Long Island City
North Shore
Long Island Railroad
Queens County
Court House
Sunnyside Hill
Borden Avenue
Woodside
Fort Lee Monument Honors Revolutionary Camp Struggles
Gov. Fort recalled Washington’s Fort Lee camp and spoke of a possibly hidden May 14 1781 battle recaptured by Bergen County militia. The Fort Lee Monument Association unveiled an eight foot memorial with bronze figures as 20 000 spectators cheered.
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Fort Lee
Washington
New Hampshire
Grace Burdette
Hudson River
Bergen County
Trenton
New Jersey
John Devoe
Tost
Bergen
Samuel Demarest
Demarest
Adjutant General's Office
Our State
Fort. Lee
Tunis Dey
Richard Dey
Thomas Blanch
John Willis
Anarchist Views at NYC Unemployed Relief Convention
A public convention of the National Committee for the Relief of the Unemployed opens tomorrow at the Manhattan Lyceum 66 East Fourth Street and runs to Thursday evening. Speakers include Rev Leighton Williams Congressman Robert Baker Raymond Robbins and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Committee For the Relief of the Unemployed
Manhattan
Lyceum
East Fourth Street
Alexander Berkmann
Emma Goldman
J. Eads How
Manhattan Lyceum
Leighton Williams
Robert Baker
Raymond Robbins
Chicago
Alexander, Irvine
The
Arch of the Ascension
Edmond Kelly
R. H. Campbell
St Paul Arrives Amid Fog and Society Guests
The American liner St Paul docked in fog and rough seas yesterday. English guests Miss Pitt Taylor and Miss Madeline Pitt-Taylor arrived to help celebrate Pittsburg’s 150th anniversary. Also aboard were soprano Corinne Rider-Kelsey and singer Claude Cunningham, with remarks on American voice training.
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St. Paul
Pittsburg
Pitt- Taylor
London
Madeline Pitt-Taylor
Lord
Chatham
William Pitt
Fort Pitt
Charles Childers
Pennsylvania Railroad
E. C. F. Collier
Corinne Rider-Kelsey
Claude Cunningham
Henry Wolfsohn
America
New York
Miss Adams
Clement Just
Abeille
France
Mary Augustine Just
Mitchell L. Erlanger
Supreme Court
David Gerber
E. E. Baldwin
Brooklyn
Thomas R. Thorne
American Line
R. Conroy Vance
Virginia
H. P. Ward
C. Percival
Pensacola
Rose la Harte
Arthur H. Willams
Eugene Coleman Savidge
P. C. Meehan
Convict McCarthy Missing After Nighttime Island Search
Blackwell's Island keepers spent last night patrolling by boat seeking Charles McCarthy a 25 year old convict who disappeared from the bath house during a routine march of thirty inmates near Ravenswood Illinois It is believed he may have attempted to swim ashore though authorities found no trace of him and doubt he left the island by day proximately to Elmira Reformatory transfer pending burglary sentence three years back and parole three months ago
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Blackwell’s Island
Charles McCarthy
McCarthy
Elmira Reformatory
Ravenswood
Patrick Hayes
Zem Zemery Trip Ends With Surprise Weddings
Zem Zem Grotto excursionists returning from a four day Washington trip found two couples in the party had secretly wed. Alderman Henry Boldt and Lydia J. Newton registered as husband and wife after their recent ceremony, while G Robert Lee Morgan and Luella M. Quackenbush likewise registered as newlyweds in Jersey City. The group’s first hotel night woke guests as the band celebrated.
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Hudson County
Washington, D. C
Washington
Henry Boldt
Twelfth Ward
Jersey City
Zem Zem
Boldt
Lydia J. Newton
North Hudson
G. Robert
Lee Morgan
South Amboy
Luella M. Quackenbush
Millburn
Washington Hotel
Vermont woodchopper defeats time in five cord feat
Edward Moot of Weathersfield chopped and split five cords of basswood in 4 hours 22 minutes on Maxwell Evarts farm near Windsor Vermont. The feat won by Moot before about a thousand spectators and prominent guests from Washington New York and Boston with wagers totaling several thousand dollars. Moot earned 100 dollars and likely extra winnings from backing himself.
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Windsor
Maxwell
Evarts
Vermont
Washington
Green Mountain State
Mr. Evarts
Edward Moot
Weathersfield
New York
Boston
L. F. Loree
Delaware & Hudson Railroad
L. A. Coolidge
United States Treasury
Samuel G. Blythe
A. B. Kittredge
South Dakota
Frank
Betting Cases in Brooklyn Court Test Anti-Gambling Law
In Brooklyn's Adams Street Police Court a crowd reminiscent of a pre law betting ring gathered as bookies and players from Gravesend arraigned. J B Stanchfield led defense challenging the complaints as insufficient to constitute a crime. Magistrate Geismar set argument for next Friday at 2 PM with an appeal possible to rule on constitutional issues of the anti gambling statute.
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Adams Street
Brooklyn
Orlando A. Jones
Sol’ Lichtenstein
Thomas Shaw
Richard Brown
James Beattie
Gravesend
John B. Stanchfield
Davies
Stone & Auerbach
William Wills
Charles J. McDermott
Stanchfield
Elder
Geismar
1711 Tourists Return on Amerika Liner to New York
The Hamburg America liner Amerika arrived at her pier with 1 171 passengers 749 first cabin as Emil L Boas notes new steamers Cleveland and Cincinnati may start in March and April next year creating a tri weekly New York Hamburg service. List of arriving travelers includes many named individuals and families. Boas expects regular service with departures from New York Thursdays and Hamburg Saturdays. Homeward travel from Europe appears to be easing compared with prior years.
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Emil L. Boas
Line
Mr. Boas
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Amerika
New York
Hamburg
Julian Mitchell
Charles T. Wills
Charlies Haas
T. H. Poole
A. Koevengaard
Charles F. Smillie
James D. Smillie
James C. Smillie
A. Smill
Umel Ehfid
E. L. Norton
Charles E. Wilmot
Hugo Muensterberg
Max Rueckgaber
Jose Maria de Bermingham
Warren A. Reed
Clarence C. Reed
J. Zabriskie
Henrietta L. McAlpin
Louisa Harvey
Father Forced Wedding Before Ship Sailed
In Woodhaven New York John Osterman fearing he'll not return from the Fatherland arranged a hasty wedding for his daughter Gertrude to John Zipfel. The couple wed at Weiskopf's Hotel with Osterman and Gertrude's mother as witnesses then departed with their parents to the steamer just in time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodhaven
Queens
John Osterman
Gertrude
John Zipfel
Germany
John
Zipfel
Weiskopf
Mrs. Osterman
S G Bryans Romance Develops At General Memorial Hospital
Sylvester G. Bryan son of Er P Bryan president of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company visits daily his fiancée Alice O'Brien daughter of John P. O'Brien president of Atlantia Realty and niece of ex Justice Morgan J. O'Brien The couple became engaged last spring and Bryan rushed from Europe to be with her as she recovered from a dangerous operation at Central Park West 106th Street hospital. He rented a hotel room near the hospital to keep visiting hours and spent Sundays at her side while her condition improved.
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Sylvester G. Bryan
Er. P. Bryan
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Alice O’brien
John P. O'Brien
Atlantia Realty Company
Morgan J. O’brien
Miss O'Brien
General Memorial Hospital
Central Park
106Th Street
Young
Miss O’brien
Young Bryan
Havre
Bound Brook
River Rest
Columbus Avenue
West Ninetieth Street
Bryan
Grapes Campaign Targets New York Restaurants
Grape growers and marketers press a drive in New York to lift grape sales amid record New York state harvests. They accuse restaurants of overpricing grapes and call for lower prices in eateries and broader fruit handling by retailers. California and Florida distributors back the effort to cut restaurant markups and boost grape consumption.
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New York
New York State
Growers’ Association
California
Florida
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Fall River
Race
Rock
Woland
Naval
Skipper
Cunarder
Long Island
Jersey
Connor
Marks
Washington’s Camp
Gov. Fort
William M. Johnson
BH. W. Wakelee
Caereekegeeess Hughes
George W. Perkins
Palisades Inter-State Park Commission
John C. Abbott
Burdette
Fifth Avenue
Lord Chatham
Champion
J. B. Stanchfield
West
Filipsborn
Directoire
S. G. Bryan
Twenty-third Street
Smart Empire
Paquin
Harve Perdoux
Drecoll
Frances
Renard
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