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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1908
Page
5
Dr. Robert T. Irvine, health officer and Sing Sing physician for seventeen years, denies taking money to swap convicts into hospital care. He claims a plotting motive behind his forced resignation and presents receipts and letters as proof of innocence while detailing encounters with ex convicts and alleged would be bribes.
Albany Sept 29 The resignation of Dr Robert T Irvine from Sing Sing Prison last June followed an investigation that found he took money from convict friends for special privileges through his role as prison physician. Superintendent C V Collins reported bribe connections also led to several guards being dismissed prior to Irvine’s resignation. Minutes and testimony were provided to the Prison Commission and Gov Hughes.
Frederick K. Fish Jr., head of Frederick K. Fish & Co., was arrested at the Produce Exchange Building on charges of larceny involving $1,600 from Mrs. Mary Wilson of East Orange New Jersey. Mrs. Wilson says she paid for stocks that were never delivered and later received valueless stock certificates and a $2,500 note. Fish claims he was a figurehead and that checks bore his name only as endorsements.
Alexander Heilbroner president of the Fur Manufacturers Association denies a coming strike and says wages remain high. Cutters earn 25 a week plus overtime, operators 15, finishers 12, with possible 45 for overtime. Samuel Littman of Local No. 1 Farriers' Union backs him, noting fewer workers but steady pay and the union's split from the international group.
The Children’s Aid Society launches an office and errand boy training class at the Sixth Street Industrial School to prepare youths for business entry. The program covers tasks from following directions to copying letters, parcel work, telephone duties, switchboard operation, stamp and cash accounts, plus a course in New York City geography.
At a public meeting the Public Service Commission discontinued the Retail Dry Goods Association complaint against Hudson & Manhattan Railroad over Sixth Avenue repaving. The company signaled willingness to repave between Fourteenth and Twenty third Streets and work should finish before cold weather. The commission also ordered a rehearing for Long Acre Electric Light and Power Company on a $60,000,000 securities issue, denied after the first hearings. Aunt Sally Morse 100 years old at Brooklyn Home for the Aged. Bomb injures boy as Italian celebration bomb blows off his hand. doctor amputates arm at St Vincent's Hospital.
The court martial of First Lieut. William W. Ballard resumes as Lieut. Berry testifies Ballard drank about thirty to thirty-eight quarts of whisky monthly. Major Woodruff describes alcohol’s damaging mental effects and Ballard’s memory lapses. officers note Ballard's erratic behavior and high club accounts. The trial may extend with more witnesses, including Staten Island artillery officers.
A fire started on the third floor of the Harris Raincoat Company at 827 Broadway after someone tossed a lit cigarette into oil soaked cloth. The blaze touched the upper floors, triggering a chaotic evacuation as about 75 women and 100 men worked above. Fire was quickly controlled with little damage. Jacob Sherman and others tried to douse the flames with water, but the smoke drove people to flee to the street.
Two Loziers to compete in Founders Day race. Entry of Vanderbilt Renault for Grand Prix and a 4th car for Savannah discussed. Louis Chevrolet returns to racing as part of a three-man Cleveland Car team.
Startlist expands to sixteen with a Pennsylvania car among entrants for the Philadelphia event next week. The Automobile Club of America reports broad industry requests to lower cylinder bore and tighten weight limits to curb extreme modding, following Royal Italian Club input. Club representatives abroad will be briefed at October conference on proposed changes.
Theodore R. Pell advances to the final round at the New York Lawn Tennis Club defeating Robert Townsend Bryan and William Th-71 Tounett. Connell loses to Johnson as Johnson earns the title on the Brooklyn courts with semi final and first round results listed for the men’s singles event.
The American Football Association cup draw includes twenty clubs with Trooklyn teams like the rooklyns Arcadia Thistles Critchieys and Alan MacDonalds. Opening round matches pair Kamerons against Trenton Caledonians New York Caledonians against Hollywood Inn Yonkers Scottish-Americans against Clark Athletic of New York and Fall River Rovers versus West Hutsons Newark. The current championship holders are West Hudsons of Newark.
Surf fishing from the Navesink Highlands draws New Yorkers and locals alike as weakfish blackfish and fluke flood area waters. Tommy Johnson of South Grodelyn reports three and a half pound weakfish near Gravesend Bay while Captain Ivan Lewis in Great South Bay nets six blackfish five flounders and two striped bass. Hammels Station becomes a fishing hotspot as Grassy Port yields abundant weakfish and fluke with notable catches by Irvine Lewis and Dan Henry of Jamaica.
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