Murphy backs Bryan delegates recognized
Charles F Murphy reports assurances from William J Bryan that New York State delegates chosen at the state convention in Carnegie Hall will be treated as regular and will back Bryan on the first ballot. The Tammany factions see harmony with Bryan, with Nixon as a possible running mate ally and Coler favored for Controller. Bryan predicts strong Illinois and Pennsylvania support, and claims New York power transitively shaping Denver actions.
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Charies F. Murphy
William J Bryan
New York State
Carnegie Hall
New York
Bryan
Tim” Sullivan
Board of Estimate
Brian
East
Frank Katzenbach
New Jersey
Katzenbach
Trenton
Lewis Nixon
Tammany
Mr. Nixon
Murphy
Denver
Johnson
State Committee
Murphy-Conners
Nixon
McCarren
Harrisburg
Mr. Bryan
Wiliam R. Hearst
Lexington Avenue
Hearst
Charles F. Murphy
Buffalo
Conners
Grady
Bermel
William R. Hearst
Coler
Sullivans
Brooklyn
Cohalan
Tammany Law Committee
Hoffman House
Pennsylvania
Iinois
Ilinois
James Kerr
Keystone State
Guffey
Joseph Howley
George A. Giray
Mr. Kerr
Transit Bill To Hughes
Albany April 22 The Senate passed 35 to 5 a bill amending the Fischer rapid transit law to permit private capital to build and operate New York City subways for fifty years. Supporters said subway development outweighed contract length while opponents warned of perpetual franchises and city control. Endorsers included White Metarren and others. critics were Grady and five Democratic senators.
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Albany
Senate
B. R. Robinson
New York City
Grady
New York
Senator White
Cities Committee
Metarren
Boyce, Frawley, Grady, McManus and Mullaner
Harvard Man Hurt In Naval Academy Baseball Game
R H Aronson of the Harvard baseball team sustained a fractured skull while sliding to a base during a game with the Naval Academy midshipmen in Annapolis. He was taken to Naval Hospital and later moved to Carvel Hall. Dr J M T Finney of Johns Hopkins arrived by special car and service officials halted track traffic during the incident.
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Annapolis
R. H. Aronson
Harvard
Naval Hospital
Midshipmen
J. M T. Finney
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Road
Aronson
Carvel Hall
Millionaire Pedro Alvarado Donates Vast Charity
Telegraph dispatch from Galveston dated April 22 reports Pedro Alvarado once a poor miner rose to wealth from Pal millo mine. He has recently distributed nearly 2 million dollars to the needy Mexicans in charity. Aware of festivals he gave food clothing and medicines via local societies priests and authorities, though he could not name exact totals.
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Tribune
Galveston
Farral
Mexico
Pedro Alvarado
Palmillo
Greatest Ocean Liners to Be Largest Yet for White Star Line
Liverpool April 22 Two new White Star steamers to be laid down at Belfast next June. Vessels will exceed 140 feet in length and 70 feet beam with gross tonnage between 45000 and 50000. They will feature a turbine and reciprocating setup with guaranteed speed of 21 knots. Names listed include Titanic. Engines will be in the plans though exact figures are not released. Also an ad notes Dewey’s Pure Grape Juice from T. Dewes & Sons Co. Newark.
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Liverpool
White Star Line
Belfast
Titanic
Exac
Big Bill Against B R T City Over Paving Bills
Commissioner Desmond Dunne of the Public Works Department cites years of Brooklyn Rapid Transit and Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad failures to pave outside tracks, seeking $82,220.95 in bills for 1908 and 1917. He notes an informal agreement ended paving outside tracks and predicts funding hurdles amid Fulton Street contract talks. BRT President Winter disputes liability, saying the company fulfilled franchise duties. In Oakland a dynamite blast destroyed James L. Gallagher’s home, an ex supervisor witness in San Francisco bribery trials reports no casualties.
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Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Desmond Dunne
Public Works Department
Brooklyn
Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad
Dunne
Brooklin Rapid Transit Company
Commissioners of Public Works
Fulton Street
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Coner Island & Brooklyn Company
George W. Tillson
Bureau of Highways
Manhattan
Department of Public Works
Wiliam C. Redfield
Imove
Law
Board of Aldermen
Winter
Oakland
Cal
James L. Gallagher
East
Gallagher
Boedling Board of Supervisors
San Francisco
Prince Hélie de Sagan Arrives in Naples in Discreet Manner
Naples April 2 Prince Hélie de Sagan landed in good spirits and refused interviews. He checked into a hotel under an assumed name then went to the steamship office to learn the Friedrich der Grosse carrying Mme Gould as a passenger was not due until Thursday morning because of a storm.
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Naples
Prince Hélie de Sagan
Mme Gould
Storni
Unrecorded 17th century wills found in New York storerooms
William S. Pelletreau of the New York Historical Society reports discovery of about 200 unrecorded wills in the Surrogate's Court storerooms with dates reaching back to 1679 and earlier. Many lacked record due to unpaid fees. some affidavits reveal wills contested or unreadable by language and literacy limits. among notable documents are affidavits on the will of Cornelia de Peyster and connections to Roosevelt ancestors.
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New York
William S. Pelletreau
New York Historical Society
York
Pelletreau
Province of
Cornelia de Peyster
Abraham de Peyster
Pelletrea
Mr. Pelletreau
New York City
Westchester County
Long Island
Staten Island
Thomas Tredwell
Joseph Hazzard
Fishkill
Kingston
Tryon
Samuel Bayard
Lewis A. Scott
Tribune
John Morin Scott
Lewis Alan Scott
Trinity Church
Roosevelt
Daniel Sullivan
Nancey
Accident at Fort Stevens Jetty Piledriver Fatalities
In Fort Stevens Oregon on April 22 a piledriver derailed at crossover No 6 and plunged into the ocean. Two men were killed and six injured. the cause of the accident is not yet known.
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Fort Stevens
Oregon
President's Son in Sky Balloon Flight From Navy Yard
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. rode a large Signal Corps balloon from the Washington Navy Yard at 1 40 PM, landing four miles north of Delaware City at 5 39 PM after traveling 125 miles in 3 35. He was accompanied by Captain Chandler Lee and Captain Fitzhugh Lee.
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Washington
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Navy Yard
Delaware City
Del
Handler
Pier
Fitzhugh Lee
Young Roosevelt
Wilmington
Chandler
Signal Corps
Lee
Longworth
Wadsworth
Beveridge
Alexander Graham Bell
Ainsworth
Allen and Aleshire
Baltimore
St. Louis
Cyclists in Smash-Up Arraigned for Reckless Riding
Two men Marcello Dupee and William Scaffers were charged after a late night collision at 119th street and Broadway involving two motorcyclists and three bicyclists. Both prisoners were badly cut, treated at J Hood Wright Hospital, and fined 19 dollars each by Magistrate Walsh.
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119Th Street
Broadway
Marcello Dupee
West 28Th Street
William Scaffers
Sixth Avenue
110Th Street
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Walsh
Hospital Doctors Quit Over Bad Food At Long Island College
Six of eight LI College Hospital doctors resigned after breakfast protests about poor meals led to a mass walkout. Drs Arthur L Carroll Franz E Salier Grover C Elder Francis L Guarino Francis J McNimani and George S Wilkes left the hospital citing menu quality. Drs Robert Rogers and Fred McRae stayed to tend critical patients and planned to join later.
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Long Island College Hospital
Arthur L. Carroll
Franz FE. Salier
Grover C. Elder
Francis L. Guarino
Francis J. McNimani
George 8. Wilkes
Robert Rogers
Fred McRae
Richard E. Shaw
Shaw
Bipartisan newspapers urged by William Jennings Bryan at AP dinner
William Jennings Bryan urged bipartisan newspapers at a joint dinner of The Associated Press and the American Newspaper Publishers' Association in New York. Six hundred editors and publishers attended as the AP and the ANPA held their annual meetings. Bryan stressed unbiased reporting and warned against partisan influence.
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William Jennings Bryan
Associated Press
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Waldorf-Astoria
Mr. Bryan
United States
Canada
New York
Knox
Civic Forum
Bryan
Roosevelt
Hughes
Albany
S. S Wise
America
Yellow Journal
Wise
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Robinson
White Star
DEWEY
T. Dewes & Sons Co
Fulton St
Newark
George R. Lawrence
Big Bill
White House
Long Island Institution
Bryan and
MR. Bryans
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