Coney Island A Mecca for Summer Crowds
New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island as Luna Park and Steeplechase Park planned summer openings. Crowds used 5 cent transfers, packed Surf avenue, and congestion spread from Bay Ridge to the island. Police managed the throng with few arrests as amusement areas prepared for the season.
Pickpocket Captured After Subway Chase at Hotel Manhattan
John Brady of East qirth street was arrested after a chase through an express subway car as he tried to check in at Hotel Manhattan. Isadore Hirshfield, lawyer of West 116th street, alleged Brady pocketed him during a struggle with a confederate who escaped. Passengers fled cars, Brady knocked down others at Grand Central Station and in the hotel, then was pursued by Sergeant Edward Manchester to East 51st Street station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
John Brady
East Qirth Street
Isadore Hirshfield
West 116Th Street
Brady
Mr. Hirshfield
Grand Central Station
Edward Manchester
West 68Th Street
East 51St Street
Sloss Defies Steel Trust Cuts Pig Iron Price
Sloss-Sheffield Steel Co. reportedly cuts pig iron price to $10 a ton in Birmingham, contradicting U S Steel President Corey who ordered prices held at $12. With 100000 tons in stock, the move threatens European pig iron imports while Southern producers gain $2 per ton in profit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Pittsburg
Sloss@defield Steel Company
Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Birmingham
Sheffield
Sloss-Shefield
Steel Corporation
Fire ties up Sixth Avenue with $4,090 damage at Broome Street
Fire early yesterday morning halted Sixth Avenue elevated trains for forty minutes. An office building and factory at 495 Broome Street suffered $4,090 in damage. Two alarms brought in firefighters who, unable to reach upper floors, asked Interborough to cut power. Firemen mounted the West Broadway elevated structure and sprayed water into the building, tearing flooring to reach lines. No one was hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixth Avenue
Broome Street
Croker
Interborough
West Broadway
Sale of Silks and Fabrics at Varied Prices
Sale offers fifty thousand yards of plain and novelty silks including taffetas and pongee. White and black taffetas, habitai, pompadour, check taffetas, Louisine, foulard and rough shantung pongee. 55c per yard for printed dotted Swiss. Designs include rings, dots, stripes and florals on white and tinted grounds. 19c per yard.
Pigeon Smuggling Case Nets Two Scotch Fantails
Tim Donohue, a veteran customs inspector, examines two crates of fancy pigeons at the Anchor Line pier. The missing fantails are recovered after sleuths trace the birds to a Broadway storefront, where a coal-dusted Scotch trader is caught attempting to sell them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tim Donohue
Atlantic
Maiden Lane
Tim
Appraiser's Department
Glasgow
Treasury Department
Y’rds
Matt Coneys
Rares
Anchor Line
Coney
Coneys
Conan Dorle
23D Street
Moore
Eliza
Broadway
35Th Street
Pion
Hoboken
Mr. Coneys
Mike
Bill
Sleuth
Proposals for Light-House District work due May 6 1908
Proposals will be received at the Office of the Light-House Engineer Tompkinson until 12 o'clock m May 6 1908 for performing specified articles in the Light-House District for the fiscal year ending June 30 1909 in accordance with the specifications. Copies of blank proposals and information may be had at the office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Water
Broadway
News
Board OF Water Supply
Marbletown
Ulster County
New York
John A. Bensel
Charles N. Chadwick
Charles A. Shaw
J. Waldo &Mith
Thomas Hassett
Supply
Board
Wallkill
New Palte
Gardiner
John & Bensei
J. Waldo Smith
Ffice
Capitol Building and Grounds
Washington, D. C
Olliott »Ds
U. S. Capitol Building
Groundi
Fort Mason
San Francisco
Cal
Quartermaster’s Department
U. A
United States
George McK. Williamson
Q .M
Reasury Department
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Co of Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue
J. G. Capers
Sps
Tompkinson
Tompkin
New York Arsenal
Governor's Island
O. RB. Mitcham
Today’s City Calendar Full of Luncheons and Lectures
Numerous society meetings and lectures fill Waldorf Astoria, Cooper Union, and area schools. Dinners at Knickerbocker and Peck’s, plus talks on empire governance and immigration. Notable events include the Minerva Club, the Daughters of the Solution, and the Society for Anatomical Research with speakers from Charles Zueblin to George Castegnier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Museum of Natural His
Minerva Club
Waldorf-Astoria
General Society of the Daughters of the Solution
National Society of Ohio Women
Waldorf- Astoria
Ivy Club
Sekol Hall
East Tist Street
Unisalist Club
Cooper Union
Board of Education
de T Hoton
S9th
Ernest HK. von Nardroff
Heat and Boards of
Dgecombe Avenue
Josephine Day Nyerican
East 27Th Street
J. Seymour Emann
St. Nicholas
Walter E
East 119Th Stret
Samuel Ll. Joshi
India
Lewis
East Houston
Hermane “Shakesneare
Elizabethar
Hebrew Technical Institute
15Th Street
Second Avenue
Alien Rogers
Transatlantic Steamer Schedules Via San Francisco and New York
A garbled listing shows multiple ships visiting ports including Suriname Barbados Bremen and Liverpool with times from early morning to evening. The document references vessels such as Kaiser Wilhelm II Nieuw Amsterdam Ma list of ports like Norfolk Macon Savannah and Hong Kong and routes toward Australia New Zealand and the Pacific with dates in April May and notes about close in New York and via San Francisco.
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Suriname
Barbados
D WI
Jefferson
Norfolk
Old Dom
Hughenden
Pernambuco
Braaiilaw
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Bremen
N G
Lloyd
A de Larrinaga
Argentina
Barber
Korona
St Thomas
Quebec
Finance
Colon
Panama
Huron
Jacksonville
Clyde
Monroe
Old Dominion
City of Macon
Savannah
Majestic
Southampton
White Star
Lucania
Liverpool
Cunard
Maravai
Grenada
Trinidad
Seminole
Turk’s Island
Nieuw Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Hol-Am
Martha Washington
Naples
Austrian
Nord America
la Veloce
Alamo
Galveston
Mallory
Princess Anne
New York
Hawaii
Guam
Philippine Islands
San Francisco
New Zealand
Australia
Samoan Islands
New Caledonia
San_ Francisco
Rawaii
Japan
Corea
China
Lina
Vancouver
Victoria
India
Philippine
Tacoma
Teucer
Tahiti
Marquesas Islands
Mariposa
Fiji Islands
New
Almanac and Wireless Reports From New York Harbor
Miniature almanac notes sun and moon times and high water. Wireless traffic reports distance and expected dock times for ships Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse Grosser Kurfurst and Kroonland near Sandy Hook Lightship with routes to Curacao and Buffalo as listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandy Hook
Gov. Island
Hell Gate
Kroonland
S Hook
Shipping arrivals and sailings in New York harbor list
A long column records multiple steamship arrivals and departures near New York on April 26 through April 27, detailing ship names owners routes cargoes passengers mails and ballast. Entries include New York and Continental Line Jersey City Caprivi Vigilancia Esperanza Caledonia Californie Mackinaw Sierra Blanca Manoa Mohawk Joseph B Cuneo Marantine Idaho Nassovia City of Everett and other vessels with destinations such as Hamburg Sagua Panama and Bordeaux.
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Avoca
Frost
Hamburg
Rotterdam
Halifax
New York and Continental Line
Caprivi
Nor
Holting
Sagua
Carbarien
J H Winchester & Co
Jersey City
Davidson
Bristol
Swansea
James Arkell & Co
Mdse
Elise Marie
Ger
Stege
Fhields
Philip Ruprecht
Vigilancia
Johnson
Tampien
Nassau
New York
Cuba
Esperanza
Rogers
Ristorial
Panama Railroad Steamship Line
Caledonia
Baxter
Glasgow
Mav
Henderson Brothers
Moise
Californie
L’heveder
Bordeaux
Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
Mackinaw
Clarke
Philadelphia
Atlantic Transport Line
Ise Im Transit
Sierra Blanca
Sir
Dery
St Lucia
Philip I
Bar
Manoa
Williams
Ius Lucia
St Kit
Cuneo Importing Co
Passeng
Marantine
Belfast
Paramaribo
Funch, Edge & Co
Royal Dutch Steamship Co
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Hippodrome
ATF
Port Arthur
Arntvai
the Wolf Girls
Lew Fields
Gire
Ty Herald Sq
Hackett Fics
Wit Sos
Mabel Barrison
Jos
How Mats
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Flower OF the Ranch
Bijou
Papa le Bonnard
Coney Island
Mecca
Luna Park
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
George T. Herring
West Sun Street
Surf Avenue
Bowery
Fifth Avenue
36Th Street
Bay Ridge Avenue
Brooklyn
Reid Avenue
Island
van Ficklen
Culver
Smith Street
Franklin
DeKelb Avenue
Kings Highway
Park Circle
Lane Park
Dreamland
Electric City
Frederick Thompson
Central Park
Brooklyn Bridge
O'Reilly
Chase
Steel Trust
Sloss-Sheffield Company
James McCreery & Co
23Rd Street
34Th Street
Shadow Twa
Coney,s
Doz
Cate
Bath
Brussels
354Th Street
Knapp
Rocers, Peer & Company
Warren St
Strand St
Institute Hall
East 106Th Street
Alfred Mitchell
New York Public Library
East 96Th Stret
Elias W. Thompson
Ik la— Homa
Land of Now
St. Luke's Hall
Hudson Street
James C. Bayles
Health Department
St. Peter's Hall
20Th Street
Eighth
Ninth
Mountains of
North Carolina
Matilda Street
Wakefield
Raymond L. Durmars
Snakes
Andrews and
Burnside Avenues
Lydia A. Commander
St. Ann's Avenue
147Th
144Th
Louise &. Houghton
Palestine
Lafayette Hall
Alexander Avenue
With Street
Stansbury
Ogden and
Merriam Avenues
Highbridge
E. W. Taylor
the Rio Grande
Pensacola
Fla
Frank Willis
Gordon Walderop
Willis
Walderop
Madonna Lackawanna
Fabre
Gibraltar
Shields
Cherbourg
Lloyd Zone Uoe
Rio de Janeiro
Queenstown
Campania
Pennsylvan
Boulogne
Konig Albe
St Michaels
Exeter City
Transpacific
Marine Intelligence
Coame
Aorangi
Shipping News
Port of
Eamers Idaho
Hull
Indrapura
Fr Aden
Hong Kong
Nassovia
Ciert
Newport News
Northwestern
Caronia
Turner
H. Cran
Budson
Otis Skinna
Honor Sue Family
Garrick
Cyril Scott
the Royal Mounted
SAVOY
Knickerbocker
Broadeway
38Th Street
Saturnis
Anio
Geo. M. Cohan
Lyceum Theatre Way
AtSaea the Thief
Amsterdam
Ngs
Theat Free
Soul Kiss
GENEE
Mabel
Taliaferro Polly
eePu Daily
Buffalo Bill
WILD
Col
WM. F. Coor
Ted
Rough
Ste Re
Stuyvesant
HE Warrels
E Virgena
Belasco
Warrers
Virginia
Hammerstein
Ot & Co
Havel
Race
Lee
Astor
Carnegie Hall
Ticke Hall
Civic
West
Bryant
Icus Edwards
MERR
Taft
Wallace
Joe Weber
Sree
Ny Winow Music Hall
St. Mary TY
Academy OF
Fritzi Scheff
Col Mat Paley
Alhambra
California
Blaney
Governos
Oonek
Theatre x To Nige
Mrs Neues
Sadame Bonivarey
Queers
Jockey Club
Etatbush Ave
Tow
TIS P.M
Sailet
Cary
York
Dover
Finland
Veer
Bry
Beachy Head
Stoterdyrke
Zere
Piladelphia
Lizard
Hudson
Fry
New Yorks
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