Water Board defends Catskill supply plan against critics
The Board of Water Supply rebuts claims that Catskill water is wasteful and unnecessary. It cites 1905 constitutional changes, cost breakdowns, and future demand, arguing a new long distant aqueduct with storage is essential to meet New York City’s growing needs.
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Croton Dam
Board of Water Supply
State Water Supply Commission
State of New York
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Croton
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Nes
United States
Baltimore
St. Louis
Cretan
Still Defy Mitchel in Haffen Case as Books Remain
Commissioner John Purrer Mitchel failed to secure the Geiszler Haes Realty records from Julius Hass after Hass claimed a board meeting prevented a quorum. Mitchel warned directors of contempt and planned warrants for attendance Tuesday at 1:30 PM to force submission of the company books amid a Bronx property probe.
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John Purrer Mitchel
Accounte
Geiszler-Haes Realty Company
Julius BH. Hass
Boreuzh
Haffer
Bronx
Mitchel
Haas
Commissioner of Accounts
Alois Griszler
Joseph Haven Jer
Corporation Counsel
Brooklyn League Explores Long Island Oil Works Tour
Herbert L. Pratt led thirty Brooklyn League members on an educational trip through the Long Island Oil Works in West avenue Long Island City. Dr. George W. Brush presided and J. B. Creighton was secretary as Pratt traced oil from ground to consumer through pipelines boats and refining steps.
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Herbert L. Pratt
Brooklyn League
George W. Brush
J. B. Creighton
Long Island Oil Works
West Avenue
Long Island City
Mr. Pratt
Civil prisoner Ot Urbach held over jewel theft claim
Solomon Urbach, a civil prisoner in Ludlow Street jail since October 24, 1906, faces possible life imprisonment unless he returns jewels valued at $40.6 percent. Judge Holt ordered surrender to Job E. Hedges, receiver for Urbach's creditors, after investigators questioned his robbery tale aboard a sleeping car en route to Baltimore.
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Solomon Urbach
Ludlow Street
Ife
Urbach
Holt
United States District Court
Job E. Hedges
Baltimore
Army Officers Consider Leavenworth Post As New Leader
Washington April 1 Brigadier General Frederick Funston is favored to head the army service schools at Fort Leavenworth Kansas after Major General Charles B Hall retires Funston desires the post graduate link while officers Bailey White Kerr Chamberlain Tate Fonda Moes Butler Baker Herr Mangum and others receive new assignments and duties Orders issue detailing staff changes and transfers as naval and army movements are reported with ships arriving and sailing from multiple ports.
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Frederick Funston
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Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
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Funston
W. 8. Edgerly
Department of Dakota
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J. Bailey
Coast Artillery Corps
General Staff Corps
Artille
John V. White
Fort Stevens
Fort Williams
John B. Kerr
Mounted Service School
Fort Riley
John L. Chamberlain
Army and Navy General Hospital
Hot Springs
Daniel L. Tate
3D Cavalry
Uniersity of Vermont
State Agricultural College
Burlington
Harry H. Tebletts
10Th Infantry
Army War College
Ferdinand W. Fonda
10Th Cavl
J. Alfred Moes
Benja
George ¢. Y
She Tue Foutote
18Th Infant Signal Corps
Signal Coips
Joseph W. Beacham
17Th Infantry
William A. Kent
Lawrence P. Butler
John H. Baker
Charles F. Herr
Wiley P. Mangum
Sth Cavalry
Francis M Wells
William P. Kendall
Beecher Bray
Permaster
Louts A
Garde
Minister Sues Williamsburg Trust for Fraud Losses
Rev. H. Allen Tupper of Fifteenth Street Baptist Church in Brooklyn seeks about 39 thousand 5152 dollars from Williamsburg Trust Company now in receivership. He claims the bank used fraud to obtain a loan of 12 thousand 996 49 dollars plus a 15 percent bonus on his Valley Stream holdings, with L. Harry Fisher as go-between. A referee was appointed to hear testimony behind closed doors at the trust company headquarters. The minister seeks 29 thousand 515 26 dollars plus deductions of 8 thousand 380 55 dollars owed to the bank on legitimate notes, alleging mismanagement of a 192 thousand dollar trust estate and improper payments to a director.
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H. Allen Tupper
Fifteenth Street Baptist Church
Brooklyn
Williamsburg Trust Company
Valley Stream
Long Island
L. Harry Fisher
Tupper Justice Betts
Supreme Court
Kingston
N. Y
W. T. Holt
Trust Company
Williamsburg Bridge
Tupper
Bowles Named President of Baltimore Trust
Thomas H. Bowles was elected president of the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Company to fill the vacancy from Bernard N. Baker’s resignation. The appointment was announced in Baltimore on April 11.
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Baltimore
Thomas H. Bowles
Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Company
Bernard N. Baker
Central Plans Bond Issue for Railroad Expansion
Albany April report shows the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad applying to the Public Service Commission for authority to issue 4 million dollars in 6 1/2 percent bonds. The funds would finance property acquisition debt retirement facility extensions and overall service improvements.
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Albany
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company
Public Service Commission
City News in Brief Highlights Creekside Court Actions
Max Muno, brother of a wealthy Broadway importer, held on $2,000 bail for attempting to pass a forged check. The McClure Company’s bid for a new trial against E. L. Phillips was denied by Judge Hough. Deputy Clerk Frederick W. Brooks held on $3,000 bail for issuing two naturalization certificates without court order. Louis Marx known as French Max indicted by the grand jury concerning Tenderkoin gambling district exposures and released on $1,000 bail.
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Broadway
Butts
McClure Company
E. L. Phillips
Union Refrigerator Company
Hough
United States Circuit Court
Frederick W. Brooks
Supreme Court
Kingston, N. Y
Helt
United States District Court
Louis Marx
Max
Tenderkoin Gembling
Work For The Blind A New York Association Report
The first report of the New York Association for the Blind outlines efforts to educate and employ sightless individuals, prevent blindness, and expand social work. It details programs from broom making to beads, with a call for funds to reach a working capital of 100000 dollars.
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New York Association For the Blind
Edith Holt
Winifred Holt
Italy
New York
Carl Schurz
Lyman Abbott
Richard Watson Gilder
East 42d Street
Japan
East Sith Street
Appellate Court Rejects Jackson Charter Petition
The Appellate Division denied yesterday the petition of Attorney General Jackson to take to the Court of Appeals his bid to annul the Consolidated Gas Company charter. The AG has until April 27 to appeal, but further action is considered unlikely.
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Appellate Division
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Jackson
Consolidated Gas Company
Cotton Manufacturers Meet at MIT for 84th Annual Session
Boston hosts the eighty fourth annual meeting of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers in Huntington Hall MIT. President Hartshorne calls for prudent action amid financial panic while stressing moral awakening and confidence in law. Medal awarded to Charles H. Fish for a paper on Cotton Mill Fires.
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Boston
United States
National Association of Cotton Manufacturers
Huntington Hall
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William D. Hartshorne
Lawrence
Mass
Eben S. Draper
Hartshorne
Washington
Association
Charles H. Fish
Dover
N. H
New England
James R. MacColl
Pawtucket
R. IL
P. N. Caridia
Department of Agriculture
James Logan
Worcester
William B. Weeden
Providence
W. Irving Bullard
Danielson
Harvey N. Shepard
White Mountain Forest
William Whitman
National Association of Wool Manufacturers
Frederick W. Hamilton
Tufts College
Henry Clews
New York
Decide to maintain iron prices among steel producers
About fifty iron producers from the East Central West and South met in William E. Corey’s office to decide on pricing. Corey, presiding, announced unanimous agreement that prices should not change. Ex Judge Gary denied reports of cuts and any planned meeting for further reductions and also denied U S Steel negotiating for Corrigan McKinney iron ore properties.
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Central West
South
William E. Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Corey
Gary
Corrigan, McKinney & Co Iron Ore
Lake District
Steamer Statendam Case Involving Infant Death And Possible Suicide
The Holland-America Line steamer Statendam arrived with one passenger fewer. Mrs. Bertha Szybik, a steerage passenger, reportedly threw her four month old baby into the Atlantic after claiming the child died in convulsions. She was placed in Ellis Island Hospital for mental examination. Her husband, a Russian immigrant who runs a Passaic dry goods store, visited her aboard. Passengers heard no clear signs of distress from either the woman or child, and similar prior incidents were cited from a Nieuw Amsterdam voyage two years earlier with a Swiss governess involved.
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Rotterdam
Bertha Szybik
Atlantic
Ellis Island Hospital
Nieuw Amsterdam
New York
Labor Ready for a Fight Shapes Labor Unions Stance
President Gompers of the AFL presides at a hearing in the Everett House on local union disputes. He says he does not quarrel with Seth Low over the Hepburn Sherman law amendments and backs the Wilson bill as more favorable to organized labor. He warns, unification is needed to defeat opponents and push labor friendly measures, with pre election candidate positions to be recorded.
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Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Everett House
Seth Low
Congress
Prominent Americans Appeal for Tsarist Prisoner in Russia
Ex mayor Seth Low Mayor Busse Bishop Greer Mark Twain and other leaders from New York Chicago Boston Philadelphia unite in a cable to Premier Stolypin of St. Petersburg demanding Nicholas Tchaykovsky be tried or released from a Russian fortress. The appeal says a speedy trial or release would please many Russia friends in America.
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Seth Low
Busse
Chicago
Greer
Mark Twain
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Stolypin
St. Petersburg
Pehalf
Nicholas Tchaykovsky
Tchaykovsky
Japanese Delegation Lands in New York During Round-the-World Trip
Fifty seven Japanese travelers including three women arrived by the Fall River Line steamer Providence from Boston. They head to Washington to meet President Roosevelt, then return to New York for a city visit. The party travels under Ashi Shimbun auspices and aims to complete the 90 day world voyage one day ahead of schedule. The women include Mrs Horf, Mrs Umehara, and Mrs Nomura. They plan entertainments at De Hippodrome Buffalo Bill's Nippon Club and a Park Avenue Hotel stay before sailing the Cedric next Thursday.
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New York
Washington
Roosevelt
Jersey City
Baltimore & Ohio
Cook's
Ashi Shimbun
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Horf
Umehara
Mra
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Nami
Chicago
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de Hippodrome
Buffalo Bill
Crutchfield & Co suspended from New York Cotton Exchange
The Crutchfield firm, a member since ten years, faced suspension after liquidating longer cotton positions. attributed to customer margin shortages and weak May and July options. Charles Crutchfield, David Crutchfield, and J R Cunningham named, with tentative plans to resume Monday. Previously Bell & Crutchfield, the firm moved from stock exchange activity after Russell’s retirement.
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Exchange
Exchange Place
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David Crutchfield
J. R. Cunningham
David Cruterfield
Dem
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Russell
W Crutchfield & Co
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