Brooklyn Broadway Lafayette subway plans debated at City Board
Commissioner Bassett urged delaying the Lexington avenue contract while pressing for Brooklyn Broadway Lafayette line work to relieve Brooklyn trade pressures. The Board voted to urge PSC to present construction contract forms within sixty days despite objections over the cost and city finances.
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Bessett
Albany
Public Service Commission
Engi
Aonere
Lexington Avenue
MecCar
Beesett
Brooklyn
Broséwer
Broadwey-Lafayettes
Broadway-Lezfington Avenue
Manhattan
Ridge
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Eny
Broadway
Ahearn
Fourth Avenue Subway
Mr. Ahearn
Coney Island Fare Debate Before Public Service Commission
Counsel for the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad and the complainant presented an agreed state of facts to Commissioner Bassett. They argued over the legality of charging more than 5 cents and whether overcapitalization could justify the fare. Towns indicated no testimony would be needed.
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W. XN. Drkman
Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad
Mirabeau L. Towns
Coney Island
Bassett
Public Servce Commission
Towns
City Moves to Remove Tracks on Eleventh Avenue
City officials and the New York Central Railroad engaged in protests as the Board of Estimate discussed removing 21 switches and sidings on Tenth and Eleventh Avenues to clear all tracks. The secretary was told to seek authority for laying new tracks or the city may proceed to remove existing ones.
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Tenth
Eleventh Avenues
Board of Estimate
Yo Central Railroad
Eleventh Avenue
Bronx Broadway Leaington Avenue Subway Proposal Emphasized
Letters to the Public Service Commission urge building the eastern Bronx segment first to provide rapid transit. Advocates say residents lack service and would pay fares temporarily to connect with the current subway at Westchester Avenue and Southern Boulevard. The plan would elevate the section to Westchester Avenue toward Main Street, offering faster, cheaper construction.
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Public Service Commission
Broadway
Leaington Avenue
Bronx
Westchester Avenue
Main Street
West Chester
Million for School Safety Promised by City Officials
The New York Board of Estimate approved a $1.0%0 funding plan for repairing and altering twenty schools deemed unsafe. Public Service Commission funding, fire department building repairs, and library maintenance in Manhattan and the Bronx were also allocated as part of broader safety and infrastructure measures.
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Meyer McClellan
Board of Estimate
Metz
New York
Marer McClellan
Wessee
Queens Country Court House
GGRB
Chiristie
Canal Streets
Manhattan
Bronx
Appeal of Facts on Relief for the Poor Suffering
An appeal urges the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor to relieve widening distress shown by its work since the start of the year. The notice calls for action from January to April to address mounting needs and support vulnerable populations.
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Association For
Sinc
Plans for Seamen's Church Institute Building Rise in West Street
The Seamen's Church Institute prepares a twelve story brick and limestone building in West Street costing 3400.00 for the structure and 80.68 for the site, with a shipping bureau restaurant recreation rooms and a two floor assembly area to shelter hundreds of sailors. The fund stands at 25008.00 and work will start when fully funded. Nearby Brooklyn development and a June Summer School on Moral Control of Nervous Disorders led by Drs Worcester and McComb at Emanuel Church, Boston, aims to train clergy physicians and social workers in new church work.
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West Street
Shipping Bureau
Institute
Brooklyn
Long Island
Churches of America
Elwood Worcester
Samuel McComb
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Boston
Emmanuel Church
Episcopal Church
Dra. Worcester
McComb
Clergy Lead Committee For Brooklyn Station Project
Rev C Campbell Walker of St Ann s chairs a committee including Rev J How ard Melish Rev W De F Johnson and Rev Dr C F J Wrigley of the parish rectors on the shipping front. The group has begun work for a Brooklyn station to be kept at least until the new building is completed and longer if needed.
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C. Campbell Walker
St. Ann's
J. Howard Melish
W. de F. Johnson
C. F. J. Wrigley
Brooklyn Station
Tent Evangials Plan For Summer Campaign
The Tent Evangel, a 27 year old gospel tent in New York, will operate this summer under the same management with a second tent at Wth street and Amsterdam avenue led by Rev. A Lincoln Moore. Officers include Rev. Dr R B MacArthur president and Rev Dr D C Hughes vice president. The program features many noted pastors and three week long conventions on temperance missions and Bible study. Headquarters are at Tent Evangel and gifts may be sent to the treasurer, with no mass meetings for fundraising.
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Broadway
Evangel
Wth Street
Amsterdam Avenue
A. Lincoln Moore
Wangel
R. 8
MacArthur
D. C. Hughes
Ezra Sanford
F. T. Hopkins
George Wendell
G. W.mcpherson
Yonkers
Ent Evangel
America
New York
A. C. Dixon
L. G. Broughton
J. Wilbur Chapman
James M. Gray
Moody
Bible Trainings
Chicago
G. W. McDaniels
Virginia
George Stewart
Harry Taylor
G. W. McPherson
Gally
Tent Evangel
New Harlem Temple Cornerstone Set for April 12
The cornerstone for Temple Ansche Chesed at 114th Street and St Nicholas and Seventh avenues will be laid April 12 with Isidor Straus to do the honors. The Colonial Renaissance style temple features limestone basement Harvard brick upper structure, a grand brick and limestone entrance, decorative terra cotta cornice, two turrets on the Seventh Avenue façade, and a pediment inscribed To the Glory of God and the Brotherhood of Man. The auditorium seats about 1100, with basement space for a religious school and room for a rabbi, cantor, teachers and choir, plus an assembly room, library and trustees’ quarters. Edward I. Shire is the architect. The congregation has worshipped at No 1 East Fifth Street. land for the new temple was bought last November, ground broken November 17, and completion is planned for the September holidays.
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Ansche Chesed
114Th Street
St. Nicholas and
Seventh Avenues
Isidor Straus
St. Nicholas Avenue
Seventh
Harvard
Seventh Avenue
Edward I. Shire
Congregation
Ansche Chese
East Fifth Street
Church leaders weigh end of religious healing craze
Church leaders across the country debate the future of a new form of religious healing. Pastors from many Protestant bodies report involvement in the movement with widespread articles and cautious approval of its potential benefits.
Emmanuel Church aims to curb Episcopal defections to science
The article notes broad support for new work at Emmanuel Church Boston to halt defections to the Christian Scientists. It adds that while methods differ from Mrs Eddy followers, they are similar enough to persuade families to stay in the Episcopal Church, countering attrition from other denominations.
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Episcopal Church
Episcopal
Emmanuel Church
Boston
General Religious Events Span City Venues
The week features sermons by Dr. M Woolser Stryker of Hamilton College and Rev Wilford L Robbins of the General Theological Seminary at multiple churches tomorrow. Other talks include K Coulter on the Children's Court, Major General O H Howard on Abraham Lincoln's religion, and J J Henry at Trinity Church. The National Bible Institute lecture by A T Pierson is planned at Marble Collegiate Church, with additional musical services and a national church federation meeting at the St Denis Hotel.
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Hamilton College
Wilford L. Robbins
General Theological Seminary
St. Mark's Church
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
O. O. Howard
Abraham Lincoln
A. T. Pierson
National Bible Institute
Marble Collegiate Church
National Federation of Churches
St. Denis
Denver
Portland
Nashville
Eyas
Hendrix
Kansas City
J. Cleveland Cady
E . Sanford
John B. Devins
A. R. Kimball
Lairty
ST Nicholas
Donald Sage Nackay
D. Miner
Woolsey Stryker
Hamilt
College
West End Collegiate
West End Ave
Henry Evertson Cobb
Howard H. Russell
Anti-Saloon League
Cords Lme Chase
NYU Strike Wavers as Students Pause Amid Talks
NYU students called off the strike temporarily while Chancellor MacCracken is abroad and Dr. John J. Stevenson counsels restraint. If A A Young remains suspended, further trouble could follow Tuesday. some fear mass class withdrawal if the punishment stands.
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Harry E. Mowen
Young
Stevenson
Edward Baldieris
Fountain of Knowledge
Bloch
Religious Notices at Five Points House of Industry
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Worth Street
Penfield
Mus
RK. Garrutt
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Hector
Tia
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Words of Christ
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Ef George's Church
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Paste
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John G Fagg
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Tla Rm
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Garland Hamner, Jr
Ketewin
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Anthony H. Evans, DD
Secon
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Fredonia
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Clark
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