19 Apr 1901
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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1901
Page
1
The British Budget imposes duties on refined sugar and molasses, glucose, and coal exports. It includes a 1 shilling 2 pence per pound income tax rise and 260 million borrowing on consols after suspending the sinking fund.
London reports crowd in Commons as Budget details reveal expenditure for 1901 02 at 187 402 000 pounds with a 53 207 000 pound deficit. Sir Michael Hicks Beach warns of rising debt from war in South Africa and China, detailing revenue shortfalls and new taxes including income tax and sugar duties.
A Colorado and Northwestern passenger train near Boulder was struck by a massive snowslide during the Ward to Boulder run. Four trainmen died: engineers Hannon and Fitzgerald, fireman Miller, and conductor Bair. A second fireman may also be dead, with bodies not recovered, while passengers were unharmed. The slide struck on a curve as engines started to buck the snow on the steep grade.
Midnight raids by the Committee of Fifteen hit more than a dozen venues mainly in the Tenderloin and Bowery. Alderman Frederick Fleck was arrested at the Bowery music hall, with other managers and staff charged with maintaining disorderly houses. Warrant tips, bail, and planned hearings followed as district officers condemned the activities and prepared court dates.
The Citizens Union met at Cooper Union with about four hundred delegates to organize and draft a platform for city offices. A campaign committee was to grow from seventy to one hundred, while a seven member resolutions panel was named under George Haven Putnam. Debate arose over committee size and district representation but the original plan advanced.
Sixteen hundred Democrats filled Carnegie Hall for the birth of the Greater New York Democracy. The meeting backed a seven member slate to form a campaign committee and a hundred member body to pick candidates for the fall municipal election, with leaders signaling opposition to Tammany Hall and Croker. The assembly approved Wheeler’s resolution and Huntington’s substitute, and named the seven in a closing roll call.
Mayor Van Wyck vetoes the amended charter reform for the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. He argues the changes dissolve the current balance, replace key officials with five commissioners of public works, and risk city finances and local control, calling the move a return to Tweed era waste and an autocratic school system oversight.
Ex SDGE Daly Peter B Olney and others address a large anti Crokerism meeting in Carnegie Hall forming the Greater New York Democracy. The Citizens Union votes steps toward a platform and a campaign committee to oppose Tammany misrule.
Governor Odell sent to the Senate the nominations of Hugh McRoberts and Frederick H. Schroeder to serve as New York Quarantine Commissioners with Charles H. Murray to replace Edmund J. Palmer. Murray, formerly Aqueduct and Police Commissioner, shares district leadership with Assemblyman Adler. McRoberts is a Richmond Republican leader and Schroeder heads the Twenty-first Ward in Brooklyn.
A marked travel note from the New York Central Commercial Traveler describes why travelers choose train routes for scenery and access to thriving cities and towns, signaling demand for comfortable rail journeys and the appeal of arriving at destinations as stops occur.
Corporation counsel consents to entry of judgment with interest for over ten dollars per claim. Judgments against the city of New York will be filed with County Clerk Huberty in Brooklyn on behalf of four to five hundred firemen of the former city of Brooklyn seeking back pay.
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