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Newspaper

New York Tribune

Location

New York, New York, United States of America

Date

Apr 13, 1908

Page

5

Chelsea Fire Destruction Destroys City Hall and Looms Over Waterfront

A massive blaze in Chelsea, starting near Cypress and West 3d streets, swept diagonally to the waterfront, destroying the Fitz Public Library, Masonic and Odd Fellows buildings, several churches, City Hall and hundreds of homes. Marines, militia and police aided evacuations as flames fed by tarred paper and oil tanks, with two bodies found and thousands left homeless.

Wood Charlestown Navy Yard 105Th Navy Yard Beck Hill Admiral Swift Wabash Liberty Boston & Maine Railroad Boston Blacking Company West 3d Street Rosenfelt Brothers Maple Street Chaplin & Soden Car Company Works Everett Avenue A. Spencer Boston Everett Lynn Haverhill Wakefield Salem Malden Cambridge Winthrop Revere Bers Broadway Waterfront Chase Square Fitz Public Frost Hospital Children’s Hospital Fitz Masonic Temple Odd Fellows Chelsea Square Chelsea Bridge Boston Elevated Railway East Essex United States Shurtleff Grammar School Shurtleff Street City Hall Square Washington Streets First Baptist Church St. Luke's Episcopal Parish Veteran Firemen’s Association First Unitarian Church Hawthorne Street City Hall Maverick Congress Shurtleff Shawiuut Avenue Tidewater Oil Company Highland Portsmouth N. BH Chelsea 6Th Library and Bellingham Streets Chelsea Creek Wordsworth Street Boston Fire Department East Boston Standard Oil Company Essex Street Magee Furnace Company Austin & Young Biscuit Company McGrath Essex and Highland Streets No. 12 Watts Street North Grove Street Boston & Albany Division New York Central Railroad Standard Oil Charles W. Parker Sth Infantry Sth Corps Coast Artillery Charles S. Hill State Board of Charity Draper Salvation Army Associated Charities Charlestown Mystic River United States Naval and Marine Hospital State Soldiers’ Home Fitz Public Library Union Park

Boston's Historic Fire Losses Across Centuries

Boston has suffered repeated blazes with major disasters in 1676 1679 1711 1760 1872 1889 and 1893. The 1872 fire on November 9 destroyed over eight hundred buildings covering fifty acres and valued at more than 76000000. Earlier fires in Chicago 1871 Baltimore 1904 and San Francisco 1906 caused vast destruction including 17450 buildings burned 200 deaths and an estimated 200000000 in losses for Chicago, and $400000000 for the San Francisco earthquake and fire.

Boston Chicago Baltimore San Francisco Hves

Governor to Push Food for Thought in Special Election

In Niagara and Orleans counties the governor will frame his anti gambling bills as essential food for thought for the state. Republicans worry about statewide chances as a faction rebels, with Senator Owen Cassidy facing renewed opposition for voting against the bills. Byram L Winters labels Cassidy a renegade, while Tompkins and Chemung counties lean Democratic or uncertain, signaling rising public pressure and potential party handicap if the governor’s line fails at the extraordinary session.

Niagara Orleans Owen Cassidy Cassidy Schuyler Chemung Tompkins Tioga Byram L. Winters Tioga County Tompkins County

Recount Begins In Long Contest Over Mayor McClellan Win

A recount starts today in Buffalo over Mayor McClellan's 190 victory after Hearst forced legal action. A special jury will review ballots from all boxes, likely taking days with possible delays from technical objections. The dispute followed appeals and court rulings on box openings and fraud allegations.

McClellan Wiliam R. Hearst Justice Lambert Supreme Court Buffalo Board of Canvassers Hearst Court of Appeals Mayer Jackson Eugene Lamb Richards Board of Elections Justice Gaynor Brooklyn

Auburn Denounces Wilcox Over Anti-Gambling Bill Vote

Several hundred residents attended a mass meeting at the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Auburn on April 12 to denounce State Senator Benjamin M. Wilcox for voting against anti-racetrack gambling bills. Speakers included Rev. E. J. Rosengrant and Judge George Underwood. Resolutions demanded he reconsider his vote and pledged cooperation with Governor Hughes and supporters of the bills.

Auburn N. Y First Methodist Episcopal Church Benjamin M. Wilcox First Church E. J. Rosengrant Hughes Wilcox Rosengrant B Cc. Mead George Underwood A. C. Thompson George Black Stewart Allen M. Dukes Auburn Theological Seminary

Massachusetts for Taft at Republican convention

Senator Lodge and Representative Gardner returned to Washington after a harmonious Republican convention. Senator Crane travels west to consult with leaders. Lodge declares Massachusetts is for Taft and notes twelve district conventions and twenty four delegates remain to be elected. Crane supporters anticipate renomination to the national committee.

the Tribune Boston Senator Lodge Gardner Washington Crane Massachusetts Taft National Committee

Senator Wemple Denounced at Indignation Meeting in Schenectady

Nearly two thousand people gathered at the Van Cuyler Opera House in Schenectady to denounce Senator Wemple for his stance against anti-racetrack gambling bills. He declined an invitation to attend the protest.

Schenectady N. Y van Cuyler Opera House Senate Wempl

Taft Returns to Washington After Western Trip

Secretary Taft arrived in Washington today after about ten days in the West where he delivered several speeches. He plans to stay in the capital until next Saturday then travel to New York City to address the Sphinx Club.

Washington Taft West New York City Sphinx Club

No Attempt To Block Election In 47th Senate District

Albany April 12 No attempt was made yesterday in the special term of the Supreme Court to obtain an order forbidding a special election in the 47th Niagara Orleans Senate district to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Stanislaus P Franchet. Secretary of State John S Whalen notified county clerks that a special election will be held May 12 1908 for a Senator to represent the 47th district comprising Niagara and Orleans counties.

Albany Supreme Court Justice Betts Niagara-Orleans Senate Stanislaus P. Franchet John S. Whalen Niagara Orleans Stanislaus P. Franchot 47Th Senate

Taft to Speak at Mission Meeting at Carnegie Hall

The Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church announces a layman's missionary mass meeting at Carnegie Hall next Monday evening. Secretary Taft will speak. A prior men's missionary gathering is set for Marble Collegiate Church at 3 p.m.

Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church Taft Carnegie Hall Marble Collegiate Church

Lancashire Spinners abandon Delta land purchase plan

The Lancashire cotton spinners decided not to buy cotton growing estates in the Mississippi delta due to legal barriers on aliens owning real estate. The association had formed a committee to explore creating a company to control a US cotton plantation, a result of a British delegation visit last year.

Manchester Lancashire Cotton Spinners Mississippi Delta Cotton Spinners’ Association United States

Double Tragedy Ends Hungarian Romance in City Tenement

A Hungarian couple’s romance ended in tragedy when Billa Was eh fatally wounded his fiancée Julia Szillagzi after she declined marriage. Wasch then killed himself in the rear room of 255 Hast 3d street as witnesses were questioned by Detective Gorman. The woman was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition.

Billa Waseh Hast 3d Street Julia Szillagzi Wasch 3D Street Wash Gorman Harburger Biellevue Hospital

Ex Army Officer Nabbed For Forged Checks

Clarence Eustaphieve, 30, homeless and jobless, was arrested at Mills Hotel No 1 in Bleecker Street on a charge of passing a worthless check to W C Muschenheim of Hotel Astor on November 28. A former U S Army second lieutenant, he claimed to be Arthur W Copp and to be a lieutenant, with forged checks and aliases connected to Buffalo and Watertown banks. he is said to have attended Cornell and NY Military Academy.

Clarence Eustaphieve Mills Hotel Bleecker Street W. C. Muschenheim Hotel Astor Gegan 23D Infantry United States Army J. C. Eggieston Buffalo Eustaphieve Muschenheim Arthur W. Copp Watertown J. E. Johnson Hrotzell Hotel 27Th Street Fifth Avenue Clinton

Will Need Negro Vote for October Ratification

James L. Mayson, candidate in Georgia’s 33rd District, released three affidavits from prominent Georgians alleging Congressman Jon Livingston urged voters to defeat the negro disfranchisement bill after checking for reporters in Fairburn. He reportedly said in eight years they will need him to beat "Tom Warsen and his class," the negro calling the poor white trash.

Tribune Atlanta James L. Mayson Jon Livingston Livingston Fairburn Tom Warsen

Playful Kitten Ties Up Traffic on Lexington Avenues

A gray kitten caused a half hour of disruption on 6th street crosstown and Lexington avenue lines. It darted from a cigar store, was caught by a boy, handed to a woman, and carried away after two motormen briefly stopped trains. A fuse blew and a shoe loosened, prompting a wrecking wagon call.

6Th Street Lexington Avenue

Negro bishop attacks Roosevelt and Taft over Brownsville

Bishop Alexander Walters of the African Church in New York reads a letter at a Morris Brown College gathering in Bis Chapel AME, denouncing the Brownsville affair and urging African American support against Taft and Roosevelt. The letter questions representation cuts and calls for action to defend the honor of colored soldiers. The meeting, though presided by Dr Parks, focused on education with a statement of sympathy for Negro education amid broader political debate. The Emperor of Japan is noted to have thirty residencies across his domain.

Alexander Walters African Church Diocese of New York Pamicent Roosevelt Taft Brownsville Morris Brown College Bis Chapel African Methodist Episcopalh 1 Avenue Brownsvi Senate Taffort Dent Roosevelt Congress Ohio White House Columbus Parks Acuss Movement For

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