City Gas Firm Accused Of Unmetered Water Use
Register Michael C. Padden announced inspectors found a six inch unmetered by pass at the New Amsterdam Gas Company plant on First Avenue and 424 streets. The by pass reportedly supplied water to five tank basins, with a meter gap estimated at about 170000 dollars over time. Edison Electric plant nearby says its meters were correct.
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Ester Register
Michael C. Padden
New Amsterdam Gas Company
First Avenue
Beas
John H. O’brien
den of Water Supply
Gas and Electricity Wits
Oe 65
Patrick J. Hannan
Asgeant
Tmere
Hannan
Pases
Newterdam Gas Company
Edison Biec Company
85 Company
Gate Gee
van Girt
Paden
Feedy Water
Hanman
Uni
Livingston
41St Street
Liv Ingster
New York Edison Comment
Am@rdam Company
Banking supt to liquidate assets of decayed trust firm
A report states the Banking Superintendent will dispose of the county assets to cover creditors. About 557,600 owed to a brokerage linked to the Jenkins family has been reduced by 360,000 with the balance secured by mortgage on the main office building. Preparations are made to form firms to take over the old Menohes trusts at Coney Island Ridgewood.
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Frank Nkins
Paris Engages 84 9 Million In Gold
Paris absorbs a large gold outflow as demand rises in sterling markets. A further 4 million in gold shipments is planned for Paris by the next steamer, with mixed indications on actual exports and import activity. A moderate net outflow is anticipated in the coming weeks amid trade disruptions and banking preferences.
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Paris
Chief Biggy Drowns Under Mysterious Circumstances
San Francisco reports Chief William J Biggy drowned in the bay after a return voyage from Belvidere on the police launch Patrol. Engineer William Murphy found him missing near the stern as Biggy complained of motion sickness and despondency over newspaper pressure. A search continued all night with no results.
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San Francisco
Wiliam J Biggy
Biggy
Belvidere
William Murphy
Murphy
Kiel
Taylor
Police Commission
Abraham Ruef
Five Million Deal Involving Pittsburg and New York Properties
Dennis and Preston acted as brokers in a five million dollar transaction involving Robert E. Dowling selling the Hotel Empire at 63rd Street Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue and 24 lots on 25th Street to Herbert Du Pu y of Pittsburg. Du Pu y paid cash for the hotel and 25th Street lots, also acquiring the Van Dyke and Severn apartment houses with Todd Bros taking the Hirst Presbyterian Church property in part payment. Dowling previously owned the Empire Hotel and the Van Dyke and Severn apartments, while Du Pu y, vice-president of Crucible Steel, has been a major Manhattan buyer in real estate for years.
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Pittsburg
Dennis & Preston
Robert E. Dowling
Columbus Avenue
Broadway
Amsterdam Avenue
Herbert du Puy
Dowling
Dowling Bought Last Year the Hotel Empire
Tid
du Puy
Todd Bros
Hirst Presbyterian Church
Penn Avenue
3Th Street
6Th Street
Empire
Crucible Steel Company
Manhattan
Realty owners in arms over 42d street bridge plan
A 42nd Street Association formed to block a proposal to depress 42d Street at Fifth Avenue and build a bridge to carry Fifth Avenue traffic over 42nd Street. Key figures include Warren Cruikshank Frank Everland H F Foote W S Hawks Levi P Morton and Walter J Salomon. Officials discuss a $325000 plan to draw up designs while critics argue the project serves statues for Tilden and Cleveland and would cost about $805 090 with doubtful city benefit.
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Fifth Avenue
Forty-second Street Association
Board of Estimate
Corporation Counsel
Borough Abearn
Tilden
Cleveland
Solomon
42D Street
40Th Street
New York Central
44Th Street
Sth Street
Fifth Avenue Building Sold By Cassidy on 399 Fifth Avenue
J Cassidy sold a five story building at 399 Fifth Avenue through Albert B Ashforth. The plot fronts 248 feet and depth 100 feet. Sold for 6190000, after a prior purchase around 3350. The total value of Fifth Avenue sites changing hands in the last month nears 4000000. Frenk R WwW & ANNUAL MEETING. At the Rome Watertown Ogdensburg Railroad annual meeting, directors were elected and officers for the Rome Watertown Ogdensburg Railroad Company were reelected.
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J. Cassidy
Albert B. Ashforth
Fifth Avenue
Central Fifth Avenue
Frenk
Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad Company
Atice & Black River Railroad Company
Oswego & Rome Railroad Company
Edwin Parsons
Clarence 8. Day
William Lummis
Robert W. Parsons
Walton Ferguson
Henry Parsons
Chauncey M. Depew
Jefferson Hogan
W. A. Parsons
New York City
Stormy Kings County Democratic meeting targets McCarren
A turbulent session of the Kings County Democratic General Committee in Brooklyn centered on State Senator P. H. McCarren. Dr. J. Richard Kevin led a reform resolution to reorganize the party, drawing applause from opponents and conflict with McCarren allies.
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Kings County
Democratic General Committee
Thomas Jefferson Building
Brooklyn
P. H. McCarren
Kevin
Luke F. Filan
24 Assembly District
John J. Bridges
McCarren
Dr. Kevin
Pat
Senate
City Hall visit as McCarren notes no significance
Senator McCarren met Mayor McClellan at City Hall and dismissed the meeting as politically meaningless. The Mayor indicated he will appoint a successor to Dowling at the 2d District Municipal Court, Brooklyn, who died yesterday. Controller Metz returned to work after a Southern tour where he criticized fusion talk for the mayoral race.
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McCarren
McClellan
City Hall
Justice Dowling
2D District Municipal Court
Brooklyn
Metz
South
Washington
Atlanta
Third Ave Case Referred to Special Master
Judge Lacombe of the United States Circuit Court referred to a special master settlement of claims between the Third Avenue Railroad and the New York City and Metropolitan Street Railway companies and their receivers. Claims include lease terms, compensation for use of property, and personal property valued at 49036 tied to Whitridge and the receivership.
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Lacombe
United States Circuit Court
Third Avenue Railroad Company
New York City and Metropolitan Street Railway
Third Avenue Company
New York City Company
Third Avenue Road
Messrs. Joline and Robinson
Ladd
Frederick W. Whitridge
Jefferson R. R. Bonds Extended to 1918
The Jefferson Railroad Company owned by Erie Railroad extends its 800.0% first mortgage bonds maturing Jan 1 to April 1, 1918, with interest at the extended rate. Bondholders may deposit with J. P. Morgan & Co by December 1. unextended bonds will be purchased at par. Morgan also buys at par the December 1 coupons of New York & Lake Erie fifth mortgage bonds and Buffalo, New York & Lake Erie bonds.
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Jefferson Railroad Company
Erie Railroad Company
J. P. Morgan & Co
Innovation Ingenuities Incorporation Forms in Rye
Albany December 1 The Innovation Ingenuities Incorporated of Rye Westchester County formed to manufacture trunks The product of the Innovation Trunk Company with a capital of 1006000. A certificate of Incorporation was filed today with the Secretary of State Directors named Bernard M Moore Henry A Fanshawe Nelson Hiss Jacob Henry E K Beddall Frank J Grimm Seymour N Marsh all of New York or nearby towns
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Albany
Innovation Ingenuities, Incorporated
Rye
Westchester County
Innovation Trunk Company
Bernard M. Moore
Henry A. Fanshawe
Nelson Hiss
Jacob Henry
E. K. Beddall
New York
Frank J. Grimm
Brooklyn
Seymour N. Marsh
Mamaroneck
Owe City Faces 24 Million Franchise Tax Shortfall
Daniel Moynihan testified before the Senate and Assembly committee that New York City still owed more than 34 million in unpaid special franchise taxes from street surface railways subways electric utilities and other public service corporations. Only about 5 million has been collected. The discussion covered constitutional challenges mandamus claims and a 10 percent tax basis dispute. Officials described complex bond financing and contracting practices affecting city finances.
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Daniel Moynihan
Finance Department
Senate and Assembly
Cassidy
New York
Saxe
James A Shankland
Charles Collins
Lewis Bedell
Pass Flat Wheel Ordinance Moves After Brief Debate
The Board of Aldermen approved the anti-noise section on flat or broken wheels and noisy railroad equipment. The ordinance, one of four parts, sets a $500 maximum fine for violations. The Finance Committee rejected a Queensboro Bridge substructure stock resolution, with Alderman Sullivan citing lack of information from the Department of Bridges.
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Board of Aldermen
Finance Committee
Board of Estimate
Queensboro Bridge
Rolleall
Alderman Sullivan
Department of Bridges
Women complain of signs and safety on subway cars
The Public Service Commission, responding to a New York City Federation of Women's Clubs petition, ordered the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to answer charges that subway trains lack proper destination signs, in-car station indicators, adequate safety devices, and courteous staff. The commission also reviewed a Brooklyn conduit case, scheduled a hearing on electrifying the Harlem River line to New Rochelle, and addressed complaints against Nassau Electric and Brooklyn Heights lines over noisy operation and track concerns. Commissioner Bassett later dismissed E. H. Gates’s complaint about Jamaica Flushing service on the Queens County Railway.
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New York City Federation of Women's Clubs
Public Service Commission
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Willcox
Robert Francis Cartright
Federation
Committee On Public Safety
Coler
Brooklyn
Gold Street
Seaman
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Harlem River & Post Chester Railroad Company
129Th Street
Harlem River
New Rochelle
Bassett
Nassau Electric Railroad
Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company
E. M
Little Traffic On 59th Street Crosstown Line
Testimony to Public Service Commission on the 59th street crosstown line shows George W. Linch, manager and receiver for the Second Avenue Railroad Company, detailing car allocations. He began with forty Metropolitan cars at 850 dollars each, then reduced to fifteen in regular use with three extra during rush hours. Henry W. Brown notes 1907 damage charges at 17 percent of gross earnings, higher than average, linked to more accidents while under elevated lines.
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59Th Street Crosstown
George W. Linch
Second Avenue Railroad Company
Public Service Commission
Crosstown
Third Avenue
Linch
Metropolitan
Oren Root
Henry W. Brown
Metropolitan Receivers
Dykman
Railroads decline to alter school commutation fares
Albany reports that Commissioner Decker received responses from several railroads including New York Central Delaware Hudson Delaware Lackawanna Western Boston Maine and Lehigh Valley. The carriers say they do not plan changes to current arrangements regarding low priced school commutation tickets for public school children.
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Albany
Decker
The
Public Service Commission
New York Central
Delaware & Hudson
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Boston & Maine
Lehigh Valley
Look Into 10-Cent Fare Across Crosstown Line
Public Service Commission opened an inquiry into a 10 cent fare charged for crosstown travel between Second Avenue and the 9th Street ferry area after receivership split operations between the Second Avenue line and the Metropolitan system. A hearing before Commissioner Maltbie is set for December at 23 p.m with witnesses including George W. Linch, receiver, and Metropolitan officials.
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The
Public Service Commission
Second Avenue Railroad Company
Second Avenue
Sth Street
Maltbie
S6th Street
Eighth Avenue
92D Street
Astoria
West Side
Metropolitan
Commission
George W. Linch
East River Terminal Railroad Wins NYC Crossing Certificate
The Public Service Commission granted East River Terminal Railroad a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a Kent Wythe avenues crossing in Brooklyn with six tracks. A franchise from the Board of Estimate is required before work can begin on a twelve story freight terminal planned between Kent Wythe and 1d 4th streets, with at least $1,000,000 in initial expenditure. Commission hearings last summer debated freight versus steam railroad plans before approval.
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Public Service Commission
East River Terminal Railroad
Kent and Wythe Avenues
Brooklyn
4Th Streets
Board of Estimate
East River Front
Wythe Avenue
McCarroll and Bassett
Bassett
Hurley Challenges Pennsylvanias Western District Strike
E H Hurley vice grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers arrived in New York to discuss the Pennsylvanias western district grievances. He cited two years of running changes and faulted General Manager Peck for refusing to meet a committee of engineers, a unprecedented move in twenty years.
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E. H. Hurley
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
New York
Brotherhood
Pennsylvania Railroad
Peck
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