Belt Line transfers loom as Metro separation nears
Public Service Commission hearings fail to decide transfers between Belt Line and Metropolitan cars as Central Park North and East lines exit the Metro system. George W. Linch says Belt Line will run independently with 120 cars, rising to 180, and transfers will occur only at 42nd and Tenth, 34th and Tenth.
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Public Service Commission
Belt Line
Central Park, North and East Railroad Company
Metropolitan
18Th Street
George W. Linch
Bell
Linch
Tenth Avenue
34Th Street
Tenth
Mr. Linch
Morgan urges London paving plan as model for New York repairs
Pierpont Morgan Jr advocates a London style approach to street repairs urging property owners to tackle mains before paving. He cites a Westminster notice detailing pre execution coordination with gas water electricity and other utilities and police to minimize disruption. He offers to meet if residents feel insufficient consideration by contractors and asks for timely notices for any works affecting road surfaces.
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Pierpont Morgan, Jr
London
McCovey
Re- Westminster
Morgan
City of
New York
Versatile crook Milkie McDonald captured after years of crimes
One of two oldtime con men, Milkie McDonald alias Charles T Forbes, was identified by Postal Inspector Boyle and arrested after a weeklong pursuit. He previously escaped a jail car accident and was linked to a spree of safebreaking in Denver and New York. He and partner James McIvar were committed to the Tombs and to be handed to U.S. marshals for federal action. The pair are tied to the Gandolff ring that swindled a bank seller in New Britain.
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Milkie” McDonald
Charles T Forbes
Forbes
McDonald
Grenoble
Kernochan
Boyle
Cafe Dower
Denver
Sisefes
Eighth Avenue
71St Street
West Mel Street
Milkie
James McIvar
United States
Shields
Gegan
Brooklyn
Gandolff
Welker
New Britain
Bank Clerk Ends Life After Two Checks Trigger
Charles Westerfeld a 22 year old assistant book keeper at the Produce Exchange Bank shot himself in the vault over two checks each for 9 dollars. Bank officials said he was well regarded and no funds were misused. He changed his name from Wuesterfeld and lived with his parents at No 21 East Tith street.
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Charles Westerfeld
Produce Exchange Bank
No. 12
Broadway
Charles Wuesterfeld
Westerfeld
Thomas B. Nichols
Nichols
Tribune
East Tith Street
Intruder Shot by Private Detective in Brooklyn
Hugo Sherman was shot and killed by Michael B. Kelly, a private detective hired by Leopold Werninger to guard his rooms at 445 Atlantic Avenue. Kelly says the revolver fired twice accidentally while detaining Sherman as he entered the front ballroom. Kelly is held on homicide charges awaiting inquest.
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Brooklyn
Hugo Sherman
Leopold Werninger
Atlantic Avenue
Michael B. Kelly
Kelly
Sherman
Werninger
Adams Street
Despairing Father of Eight Seeks $500 to Avoid Suicide
Chicago, Aug 4. A father of eight children appeals for $500 to repay a four month old loss he says he cannot tell his employers about. He fears death by his own action if not funded. An ad seeks $1 with weekly payments, amid reports the family’s finances stretch to only a fifteen year old earning $4 weekly and a wife who works by the day.
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Chicago
Cleveland
Helen Nagy
Abraham
Maggie Mulqueen
Maggie
Children’s Court
William McNamee
William
Kitty Muggins
Kitty
Cornelius Sullivan
Cornelius
William Romonsky
Mrs. Romansky
Jacob Robersky
Isadore
Samuel
Jacob
Saxe Clash Over Eleventh Avenue Track Removal
State Senator Martin Saxe challenged Corporation Counsel Pendleton on the need for new legislation to remove the New York Central tracks from Eleventh Avenue known as death avenue. He urged condemnation proceedings in court to test the law and urged city action for West Side residents. Also brief items report a naval fireman’s death on the Idaho ruled accidental drowning amid desertion fears, and a Cleveland mother jailed after harming her young child.
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Martin Saxe
New York Central
Eleventh Avenue
Death Avenue
Pendleton
Saxe
West Side
Philadelphia
Charles T. Moore
United States
Idaho
Delaware River
Navy Yard
Moore
Ohio
New York
Board of Inquiry
Children’s Court
Mayo
Death at Hotel Rennett Ends Local Hatters Former Partner
Joseph D. Horner once of J. D. Horner, Son & Co. hatters and longtime Baltimore resident, was found dead in bed with a bullet hole in his breast at the Hotel Rennett this morning. He had been a traveling salesman for a railroad supply firm in New York.
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Baltimore
Joseph D. Horner
J. D. Horner, Son & Co
Hatters
Rennett
Horner
Frm
New York
Louisiana restricts women from official roles in state
GLEANINGS notes that Louisiana bars women from state offices and from serving as state hospital physicians or nurses with a protective board. The piece recalls a failed constitutional amendment, mocks Southern chivalry, cites Kate Gordon, and references Dr. Thomas Claye Shaw arguing on the psychology of women and differences between male and female minds.
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Louisiana
Thomas Claye Shaw
London Lancet
Shaw
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
London
Minds of Women and Men Are Essentially the Same
The text argues that money status shapes behavior but minds are similar across sexes. Thinking is a simple reflex, and without work the mind becomes subservient to the body. Both genders can run the world equally if aided by similar training and environment.
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Eife
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