Vreeland bill tabled as banking panel favors move
The Banking and Currency Committee voted 12 to 3 to lay the Vreeland bill on the table and authorized Chairman Fowler to report a favorable measure creating a currency commission. The session focused on emergency currency provisions, clearing house bonds, and potential amendments with input from Mr. Vreeland, Mr. Aldrich’s framework, and remarks about President Roosevelt’s stance.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Committee On Banking and Currency
Vreeland
Fowler
Cat Ef Currency Commission
Prince
McMorran
Weems
Walde
Hayes
Puje
Glass
Gillespie
James Crawford
McHenry
Burton
Weeks
McKinner
Aldrich
House
Pujo
James
Committee On Banking
Ireland
Senate Conferrees
Vreland
Mr. Vreeland
Agro
Clearing House Association
New York
Aman Bankers’ Association
Someon
Fee
American Bankers’ Association
Hill
Connecticut
Ses Sim
Congressional Move Aims Bank Methods Investigation
Washington reports both parties in Congress plan to enact a currency commission empowered to investigate bank practices before and during the financial panic last fall. Leaders seek to determine accountability for currency stringency and assign authority to the commission.
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Washington
Congress
Currency Commission
Trains Collision Near Melbourne Kills Forty-One
In Braybrook Junction near Melbourne two trains from Ballarat and Bendigo collided late last night. Forty-one died and sixty injured as the Bendigo train crashed into the Ballarat train causing five cars to wreck and fire. Rescue efforts were slow and many bodies were unrecognizable.
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Melbourne
Australia
Ballarat
Bendigo
Braybrook Junction
College Widow Delights and Puzzles English Audiences
London April 20 The Adelphi hosts Henry W Savage's American cast presenting George Ade comedy The College Widow. Americans led by Robert J Wynne savor jokes with a glossary while English spectators find much slang unintelligible and respond with mixed applause and hooting.
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London
George Ade
Henry W. Savage
Adelphi
Robert J. Wynne
Oscar Lewisohn
Courts Get Queer Will
Court officials parse Emanuel Walter's California will locating the residue income of about 3009 900 for fifty years to aid needy and distressed relatives to the sixth degree. Afterward the principal would be shared among those relatives. Walter also left 5090 to Max Hessburg to aid his kin. Art bequests of 50 000 and 60 900 are contested between local institutions claiming the works and museum status.
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Emanuel Walter
California
Ger
Hessburg
Art Museum of San Francisco
Golden Gate Park Memorial Museum
Mark Hopkins Art Society
Anti bucket shop bill passed by Assembly
The Assembly tonight passed the O'Brian anti bucket shop bill with only one vote in the negative. The measure makes all stock margin transactions and futures deals felonies and defines bucket shops, penalizing both operators and patrons involved.
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The
Tribune
Assembly
Albany
Baltimore Prelates to Consider Modifications on Decree
Cardinal Gibbons has issued no statement on enforcement of new regulations for engagements and marriages. His conference with archbishops at Catholic University may discuss modifications to the decree and is expected to yield several important changes with Gibbons presiding.
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the Tribune
Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
Catholic University
Affinity Earle to Lecture on Matrimony at Monroe Hall
Ferdinand Pinney Earle famed for "Affinity" aims to lecture on My Idea of Matrimony at Monroe Town Hall. Announcement from Middletown April 20 notes the talk seeks an audience in the local venue.
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the Tribune
Middletown
Ferdinand Pinney Earle
gMnity
Monroe
Easter Gift Offerings Reach Record at Grace Church
Grace Church at Broadway and 11th Street collected 158302 dollars in Easter offerings, with 118302 from a centennial bank drive and a 49000 gift in memory of Dorothea Wolfe Hoffman for the House of Simeon endowment. Proceeds will fund church property on 19th Street and Broadway and other church missions.
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Grace Church
Broadway
11Th Street
William R. Huntington
Dorothea Wolfe Hoffman
1Th Street
Vienna
10Th Street
Miss Hoffman
William B. Hoffman
East 36Th Street
Mary A. Hoffman
House of Simeon
Simeon
Anna
Grace Hospital
East 14Th Street
Grace Chapel
St. Thomas's Church
Fifth Avenue
53D Street
Morgan Dix
Old Trinity
Wall Street
St. George's
Stuyvesant Square
Rockaway
Long Island
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
J. Ross Stevenson
Broadway Tabernacle
West 56Th Street
Leighton Parks
St. Bartholomew's
Madison Avenue
Indictments questionable as grand jury makes minutes public
A New York grand jury released its Metropolitan Street Railway inquiry minutes, revealing large contributions to Tammany Hall and the GOP, including $16,000 to Tammany Hall and $20,000 in $1,000 bills. The jury found no crimes by officials and no need for new laws, praising the jurors while noting no indictments.
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Manhattan
Justice Dowling
Supreme Court
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Thomas F. Ryan
H. H. Vreeland
Metropolitan Street Railway
Dmpany
Tammany Hall
Republican Party
Lemuel Ely Quigg
Benjamin B. Odell
Wall & Cortlandt Street Ferries Railway Company
Ryan
Metropolitan Securities Company
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
William C. Whitney
Interborough Metropolitan Company
Wall & Cortlandt Street Ferries
New York
Public Service Commission
Grand Jury
King
Amory
Ivins
Criminal Courts
Jerome
H. H Vreeland
Mr. Whitney
Metropolitan Seeset Railway Company
Metropolitan Traction Company
Ftr
Broadway and
Seventh Avenue
Ed. Tm
Ee Pecams
Ami
Etropolitana Street Railway Company
Total Capital
Cooke Sues For Divorce Over Desertion
Willam P. Cooke, husband of Grace MacGowan Cooke, files for absolute divorce alleging desertion after over three years apart. He notes her literary success and cites a fire at Hali con Hall with $10,000 in manuscripts lost. Mrs. Cooke, daughter of Colonel John E. MacGowan, is linked to the Chattanooga Times.
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Tribune
Chattanooga, Tenn
Willam P. Cooke
Grace MacGowan Cooke
Sea Islands
Cabrera Narrowly Escapes Assassination in Guatemala City
A plot to kill President Manuel Estrada Cabrera failed yesterday as explosions occurred near his public audience at the palace in Guatemala City. He escaped with only a wounded finger amid a history of prior attacks attributed to political enemies. the prior major attempt on April 29, 1907 killed General Orellana and horses.
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Estrada Cabrera
Guatemala
Guatemala City
The
Republic
Ramon Bengoechea
Manuel Estrada Cabrera
William Heinke
Cabrera
Orellana
Surgeon Saves Cowboy After Gas Incident at Bellevue
Grover Brennan of Sheridan, Wye, a bronco buster with the Buffalo Bill show, was found unconscious after a gas exposure at Putnam House. Bellevue Hospital performed a late night blood transfusion by Dr H C Thatcher and Dr A L Slocum. Brennan rallied and shows a fair chance of recovery.
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Bellevue Hospital
Grover Brennan
Sheridan
Wye
Putnam House
Brennan
H. C. Thatcher
A. L. Slocum
Thatcher
Cowboy
Motors Hit Trolley In Brooklyn Collision
A Bath Beach division motor train struck a 39th street ferry trolley near Beth Street and Bay 19th Street killing no one yet injuring fourteen including a possible skull fracture. Ambulances and fire crews responded with patients moved to Coney Island and Kings County hospitals. The motorman and flagman were detained for investigation amid claims of signal misreadings.
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Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Bath Beach
Coney Island
Béth Street
Bay 19Th Street
Brooklyn
Coney Island Hospital
Kings County
George Cordier
Patrick O'Donnell
Alice Hughes
52D Street
Ira A. McCormack in Runaway Wreck near White Plains
Ira A. McCormack head of the New York Central Railroad electrical department suffered a fractured rib and injuries when a wagon carrying Er ness Harrett G S Wright and William E Stephens ran away after an automobile frightened the team. Stephens was bruised, Wright broke a collarbone, Barrett had a scalp wound and a sprained wrist.
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Ira A. McCormack
New York Central Railroad
Ernest Harrett
G S Wright
Harlem
White Plains
William 8 Stephens
McCormack
Stephens
Mr. Wright
Mr. Barrett
Ryan on Met charges company throttled not looted
Thomas F. Ryan defended the Metropolitan Street Railway and its former directors against claims of overcapitalization and insider profits. He argued state interference, higher taxes, congestion, and subway fines reduced net earnings by about 19 percent, and denied any insider profit from contracts.
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Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Thomas F. Ryan
Wall & Cortland Street Railway
P. A. B. Widener
William ©. Whitney
Thomas Delan
William A. Elkins
Ryan
Iin
Whitney
Dolan
Widener
Elkins
Vreekland
Metropolitan Traction
Metropolitan Street Railway
Lexington Avenue
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Dewey & Fans
Fulton St
Surgeon
Ira A. McOrmack
Philadelphia
New Jersey Central
MET
Messrs. Whitney
Dolam
Mr. Ryan
Metropolitan Traction Company of
New Jersey
SIZ
Metropolitan Trac- Company of
Bram Sellon
Iterset
Percy Wm Pan
West Street
Pavonia
Leon Thorp
Traction Company
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