Queensboro Bridge cost ten millions wasted by changes
An analysis asserts the Blackwell's Island Queensboro bridge wastefully increased costs from 12 million to over 23 million while not boosting traffic capacity. It claims 7.448 million pounds of useless steel were removed to meet safety, leaving taxpayers paying for a structure close to the original plan in size but far heavier and costlier.
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Breckwells Island
Queensboro
City Pridger Department
Blackwell's Island Bridge
Vilage
Queens
Messrs. Boller & Hodge
Board of Extimate
Stevenson
Board of Aldermen
Beller & Hodge
the Tribune
Bridge Department
East River
Manhattan
Man Dies In Brooklyn Train Tragedy At Bay 25th Street
Leo Gell shoe salesman aged forty of Bath Avenue Bath Beach was crushed when the forward truck of the second car passed over him at the Bay 25th Street station. A crowd watched as workers freed the body after about an hour. Motorman John Myers was charged with homicide. Gell, unmarried, lived with a niece.
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Leo Gell
Bath Avenue
Bath Beach
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Bay 25Th Street
John Myers
Geli
Illumination Jubilee Tragedy In Vienna Crowd Stampede
In Vienna a massive stampede at the Emperor Francis Joseph diamond jubilee crowd scene near the Hofburg caused three deaths and about forty serious injuries with around 100 more minor injuries. Officials halted traffic after sunset but failed to control 1.5 million celebrants. The event featured electric lights on public buildings and candles in residences. The Emperor announced a partial amnesty and decorations were awarded to officials and diplomats. Tomorrow's Gazette will list 3,400 recipients of honors and promotions.
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Vienna
Francis Joseph
Hofburg
Holzl
Baron von Aehrenthal
Warm Atlanta Contest in mayoral white primary
Telegraph report from Atlanta describes a tense mayoral race between James G. Woodward and Robert Maddox. Large daylight and torchlight parades mark campaign intensities as red badge Maddox supporters and blue badge Woodward backers clash. Saloons close ahead of voting.
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Tribune
Atlanta
James G. Woodward
Robert Maddox
Maddox
Woodwardises
Woodward
Wedded Ahead of Time in Denver Revelation
Miss Betty Shearn, daughter of John Shearn, wed Yale football player Tad Jones in New York ten days before the planned December 10 ceremony. Telegrams to Denver confirm the marriage, part of a pact among Denver girls to wed early.
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The
Tribune
Denver
Betty Shearn
John Shearn
New York
Tad” Jones
Yale
Mrs. Nagle
Gerald Hughes
United States
Colorado
Gladys Chesman
John Evans
Nell Singleton
James Newton
Swarthmore College Declares Non-Sectarian Status
Philadelphia December meeting votes unanimously to abolish a rule that made Swarthmore a Friends' institution, shifting the college from sectarian to non-sectarian status. The school, long linked with the Baltimore Yearly Meeting and Friends control, was established with Quaker roots.
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Swarthmore
Philadelphia
Swarthmore College
Baltimore
Trad
Dinner for Mr Morgan at Tavern Club in Boston
The Telegraph reports Boston on December 1 that J Pierpont Morgan attended a quiet dinner at the Tavern Club after arriving from New York. Morgan was unheralded in Poston, with only close personal and business friends aware of his presence. The club offered no further details beyond confirming a dinner under its auspices with Gordon Abbott as president.
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Boston
Tavern Club
J Pierpont Morgan
New York
Mr. Morgan
Poston
Gordon Abbott
Far East policy notes call for trust between nations
The United States and Japan made public their Pacific policy notes dated November 30, affirming no aggression, preserving status quo and equal commercial opportunity in China. Ambassadors Takahira and Root describe the exchange as a transaction between trusted friends and a reaffirmation of long standing understandings. They stress mutual confidence and peaceful, joint maintenance of regional balance.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Far East
Root
Takahira
State Department
Mr. Takahira
Pacific
Pacific Ocean
China
K. Takahira
Elihu Root
Department of State
Navy reorganization moves under Newberry at Navy Dept
Washington dispatch reports Truman H. Newberry, sworn in as Secretary of the Navy, reorganizes the General Board to extend its duties toward a general staff role. The plan enlarges board membership, increases time for military study, and seeks closer tie to construction and repair offices while skeptical Senate opinion may shift with time.
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General Board
Navy
General Staff
Army
Senate
Hale
Committee On Naval Affairs
Congress
Newberry
Navy General Board
Naval War College
Bureau of Navigation
Royal R. Ingersoll
Sidney A. Staunton
Joseph L. Jayne
Evans
Clarence S. Williams
Frank K. Hill
Henry V. Butler
Navy Department
Carol Newberry
Metcalf
Admiral Dewey
Washington
California
Los Angeles
Walter A. Dane
New Hampshire
Welcome in Tokio policy notes published in Japan
The text of the notes exchanged by Secretary Root and Ambassador Wakahira outlining the American Japanese declaration of policy in the Far East was published in Tokio this morning and warmly welcomed on all sides.
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Tokio
Root
Wakahira
Far East
Record Tobacco Price Reaches High on Local Breaks
Lexington KY December 1 The highest price in years was paid for barley tobacco from the 1978 crop on local breaks today with bids of 3% per hundred pounds for tobacco raised entirely by independent growers. About 100000 pounds were sold at prices ranging from five to RA.
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the Tribune
Lexington
Troops Ride Down Mobs in Prague Riots
Prague reports violent clashes between Czechs and Germans intensifying to martial law levels. Gendarmes and police injured as rioters attack troops, with Imperial flags burned. British Consul Captain A W Forbes mauled in a tram assault. Troops patrol streets into the night as German shops are looted and barricades rise.
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A. W W. Forbes
Pope’s Doctors Anxious Over Pope Weakness
Rome on December 1 reports the Pope’s physicians say the cold he suffers remains within a normal course but they express anxiety due to his ongoing weakness threatening his health.
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Rome
Revolt in Salvador Crushed. Martial Law Declared
A plot to overthrow President Figueroa was discovered and crushed in El Salvador. Martial law was proclaimed as the revolutionary movement, which began in the Sonsonate Department, was swiftly suppressed. Many prominent opponents were implicated and imprisoned, while the public expresses satisfaction and order returns nationwide.
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San Salvador
Figueroa
Department of Sensonate
Harriman Declines Comment On Chairmanship Rumor
E. H. Harriman refused to discuss a Wall Street rumor that he would join the New York Central board as chairman. When questioned about points in his Economic Club speech, he said, No man is responsible for what he says in an after dinner speech.
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E. H. Harriman
Wall Street
New York Central Board
Economic Club
Mr. Harriman
40-Year Laurel County Feud Sparks Double Murder
A sheriff's posse hunts William Tyree and Robert Barnes in Laurel County over Sunday's murders of William Barnes and Emma Taylor. The 40 year feud among Whitaker Mize and Barnes families has left many dead in the area, with recent victims including William Whitaker and Harve Mize. The Barnes wife, a Whitaker by family, is among the feud's victims.
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Lexington
Laurel County
William Tyree
Robert Barnes
William Barnes
Emma Taylor
Whitaker
Mize
Barnes
John Farmer
Harve” Mize
Ray Whitaker
Sam Whitaker
J. W. Woodall
Roy Whitaker
Julius Warren
A Whitaker
James Arnold
Harland Arnold
Yale Student Dies by Own Action in New Haven
John Alan White, a Walton New York student in Yale graduate school, leaped from West Rock to the ground, 4 feet, and was found by roommate Harry J. Agard. Coroner confirms death by own action. A letter to his father and illness in his family suggest temporary mental distress from hard work and typhoid fever. White led Yale class of OT and held many scholarships.
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Pec
John Alan White
Walton
N. Y
Yale Graduate School
West Rock
White
Yale
Burrows Won't Support Townsend for Senate
From The Tribune Bureau Washington December 1 Senator Burrows of Michigan declines to back Representative Townsend for the United States Senate. He states he does not see how he can support Townsend despite Townsend's candidacy being announced two years hence. Burrows expects to seek re election.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Burrows
Michigan
Walamazoo
Representative Townsend
United States Senate
Townsend
Senate
City Considers 10 Million Hudson Bridge for Water Supply
New York contemplates a 1200 to 1400 foot suspension bridge at Storm King near Peekskill to carry an 17 foot 6 inch diameter Catskill water conduit. Cost estimates hover around 8 to 10 million with rock-bottom borings failing to locate solid rock, prompting discussion of a pressure tunnel option.
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Hudson
Storm King
Peekskill
Catskill
William H. Burr
Board of Water Supply
Hudson River
Wallkill tunnel bids opened by Water Board
Bids from Booth & Flinn Company and American Pipe Manufacturing Company led the two section tenders for the Wallkill pressure tunnel project. The combined bid reached 3 365 000 dollars while one section saw the lowest bid by American Pipe. The board will tabulate and announce results today after previously scrapping initial bids and readvertising. The four and a half mile tunnel sits 354 to 480 feet deep under the Wallkill River near New Paltz and Modena.
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American Pipe Manufacturing Company
Wallkill
Forencon
Board of Water Supply
Booth & Finn Company
S. Pearson & Sons
Wallkill River
Highlands
Shawantunk Mountains
New Paltz
Modena
Rondout Valley
Wallkill Valley
Pine Bluff seeks river channel change to save city
Dec 1 telegram to President Roosevelt from Pine Bluff officials and citizens asks intercession with War Department to allow a new Arkansas River channel. War Dept refused. without a channel, banks rely on brush fastenings as river rises to twenty five to thirty feet. Jefferson Hotel and courthouse face destruction as flood crest nears, threatening much of Pine Bluff’s business district.
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Ark
Roosevelt
Secretary of War
W. L. Teeney
War Department
Jefferson Hotel
Pine Biv
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