Croker Replies to Rabbi Wise Over Tweed Era Defense
Croker defends his role in toppling Tweed and rebuts Rabbi Wise who called a dinner night of shame for New York. Wise claims judiciary complicity, while Croker asserts his opposition to Tweed and condemns Wise’s political stance. Croker hints at traffic reform plans as a side note.
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Rice Croker
Tammarray
Wise
Wiese
New York
Croker
Mr. Wise
Root
Speskine
Martha Washington
Pein
Themocratic Club
Dr. Wise
Geod Mars
Oregon
America
Omar
Emen
Tweed
Tammany Hall
Dr Wise
Orcries
Therty
Aaron Wise
Temple
Rodeph Sholom
Stephen S. Wise
Columbia University
Madison Avenue
Rabbi Wise
Republican Party
F Roosevelt
Reot
Fifth Avenue
Newport
Supreme Court
Mr Croker
Richard Croker
Tammany Halilies
Purify the Negro Plan Drawn From British Viewpoint
Sir Harry Johnston of London, visiting Tuskegee, urges separating nearly white blacks from darker peers and permitting intermarriage with whites to purify the race. He doubts republics like Hayti can exist without white supervision and foresees American intervention there. Johnston favors staying in America for black Americans over emigration to Africa.
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the Tribune
Mobile
Sir Harry Johnston
London
South
Tuskegee
Booker T. Washington
Harry
America
Africa
Liberia
Virginia
Georgia
Mississippi
Alabama
Cuba
Powder Trade Suit Sees Subpoenas Imply Immunity
Hearings in the government suit against E I du Pont de Nemours Powder Co and allies resume as the defense withholds books and records. The government says subpoenas for T Colman du Pont Pierre du Pont and Jonathan Haskell would grant immunity, while a New York witness testifies about pressuring rivals and traders through gifts to secure Rockdale Powder Co business.
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Wilmington
Del
E. I. du Pont
Pierre 8. du Pont
Jonathen Haskall
Powder Company
Scarlett
H. G. Nicholl
New York
Good Music Needed in the Home
Walter Damrosch of New York argues domestic discord grows from lacking cultivation of the finer arts. He says family music and art are scarce and vulgar tunes like The Merry Widow do little to create a homey mood, urging more refined culture.
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Br Telegraph
The
St. Louis
Walter Damrosch
New York
Mayor McClellan Addresses Loyal Legion at Delmonico's
Mayor McClellan son of Little Mac urged preservation of conservatism to guard against anarchy through overreaching legislation. He praised Civil War vets for upholding law and order and recalled two generals who wore blue and gray. Colonel Prime narrated an Alabama Claims arbitration incident.
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State of
New York
Military Order of the Loyal Legion
Delmonico’s
McClellan
Little Mac
Anson G. McCook
Legion
Washington
Aegra
Monmouth
Teen Ree
Valley Forge
Union
France
Hill
Spain
Congress
Ralph E. Prime
Alabama Claims Arbitration
Prime
Great Britain
Public Service Bonds Under Scrutiny Urges State Regulation
Senator Alfred R. Page urged that telegraph and telephone firms fall under state regulation after a $50 million 4 percent bond issue by the American Telegraph and Telephone Company. He argued the public should know if funds finance improvements or finance frenzied finance, and urged PSC approval before any stock or bond sales.
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Alfred R. Page
Public Service‘commissions
Ars Ie End Telephone Company
More Co
Telephone Ust
J. P. Morgan &C. Kuhn
Loeb & Co
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Baring Brose. & Co
Public Service Corporation
Public Service Commission
Hughes
Union City Officers Held in Contempt in Night Rider Case
Judge Thomas F E Matthews in Nashville finds Union City sheriff and staff in contempt of court over prisoner services on Night Rider defendants. He rules yesterday’s arrests illegal. Union County grand jury returns 62 true bills, names to be kept secret until indictments are recorded.
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Nashville
Tenn
Thomas FE. Matthews
Union City
Union County
Quentin Rankin
Dixon Seeks Divorce and Custody of Children
Warren Dixon Jersey City corporation counsel filed for absolute divorce in Trenton Chancery Court. Eleanor Bentley Dixon seeks custody of children Jonathan sixteen, Margaret fifteen, Eleanor twelve, and Warren eight, with alleged acts occurring in Summit and Elizabeth. The couple married in 1831 and separated December 3 197. An order allowed testimony of Lilly Johnson, a former servant, in Jersey City last Saturday. A co respondent identified as Thomas A Aiten with unknown address.
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Chancery Court
Trenton
Warren Dixon
Corporation Counsel
Jersey City
Summit
Elizabeth
Pitney
Lilly Johnson
Dixon
Theodore Rurode
Thomas A. Aiten
Reservoir Plan Wipes Out Villages in Warren County
Surveyors began mapping land in northern Warren County for a large storage reservoir to feed a new barge canal during dry seasons. The project would flood Chestertown Horicon and South Horicon, forcing removal of hundreds of houses to create the water supply.
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Giens Falls
S. C
Warren County
Chestertown
Horicon
South Horicon
City Wastes Quarter in New York Contracts
Frederick A. Cleveland testified before the legislative committee on city finances that New York could save 25 percent of the 15 million dollars spent annually on supplies by adopting standard business methods. He said contracts are unbalanced and favor certain bidders, with delayed payments and poor record keeping. He cited duplicate water department requisitions and unused stock in schools, and warned that vague specifications stifle competition.
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New York
Frederick A. Cleveland
Bureau of Municipal Research
Cleveland
Water Department
Merritt
Betsy Head Legacy Funds New City Playground
A $187 746 84 legacy from Betsy Head of Islip will fund a Betsy Head Playground adjoining Corlears Hook Park in Manhattan. Corporation Counsel Pendleton turned the funds to the City Chamberlain, and Mayor McClellan said action will be taken soon to fulfill the will's health and recreation aims.
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Betsy Head
Islip
Suffolk County
Corlears Hook Park
Pendleton
Chamberlain
McClellan
Peace advocates dine at Delmonico's for arbitration plan
General James Grant Wilson hosted a dinner honoring Senator James B. McCreary at Delmonico's. McCreary outlined the Peace Arbitration League program favoring adequate armament and binding arbitration with Roosevelt and Dewey supporting the effort. Notables Isaac N. Seligman James Talcott Selden Twitcher and others attended.
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James Grant Wilson
Peace Arbitration League
James B. McCreary
Kentucky
League
Delmonico’s
Fifth Avenue
44Th Street
McCreary
Europe
Roosevelt
Admiral Dewey
Isaac N. Seligman
James Talcott
Selden Twitcher
Philadelphia
John Bates Clark
Columbia
Hart Lyman
Charles Sprague Smith
Alfred Bullowa
Ralph M. Easter
W. D. Walker
Hamilton Holt
Oldest Utica Resident Catherine Van Allen Dies at 102
Mrs. Catherine Van Allen of Oneida County died at her Utica home after a three day illness aged 102. Her father was a full blood Mohawk and her mother half Indian and half Negro who had been stolen from slavery by her father. Her uncles lived to 11, and she had hoped to reach that age.
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Utica
N. Y
Catherine van Allen
Oneida County
van Allen
Fires Claim Two Residents in City Homes
In separate incidents yesterday, Mrs. William Becker of 4 Pine Street Brooklyn died after a house fire caused by her dress catching fire while ironing. At 174 West 4th Street, John Falcon, a laborer, sustained fatal burns to the head chest and hands and was taken to St Vincent Hospital where death was considered likely.
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Cty
Wiliam Becker
Pine Street
Brooklyn
Becker
West 4Th Street
John Falion
St. Vincent's Hospital
Adolescent insanity to be used in Hazel murder defense
In Toledo on December 2 seventeen year old Harvey Hazel faces a first degree murder indictment for killing his mother. The defense plans to invoke adolescent insanity with expert testimony from Clark University president Hall of Worcester Massachusetts. Hazel showed emotion during questioning by Mansfield reform school officials as up to date the trial proceeds with about thirty state witnesses and fifty for the defense.
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Toledo
Harvey Hazel
President Hall
Clark University
Worcester
Mase
Hazel
Hall
Haze
Leonard
Ohio State Reformatory
Mansfield
Fourth suit over sire will challenges elder brother
Clarence D. Sire the youngest son sues to break his father Benjamin Sire’s will claiming undue influence at age seventy nine. The will favored Albert T. Sire, with most of the estate left to him and more than 1,000.09 in property cited. This is the fourth suit including a probate decree revocation and two others seeking partition in New Jersey and Suffolk County.
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Clarence D. Sire
Benjamin Sire
Albert T. Sire
Albert
Clarence D. Sie
Anc
New Jersey
Suffolk County
Through Train Link Cuts Continental Schedule
St Paul December reports that Great Northern and Chicago Burlington & Quincy will add a through Chicago to Pacific Coast passenger service next spring. The new schedule trims seven hours to contend with Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul and Union Pacific routes. The Oriental Limited St Paul to Seattle will drop from sixty to fifty five hours.
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St. Paul
Great Northern
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Reade
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Union Pacific Road
Oriental Limited
Seattle
New 500 Foot Vessel For The Lakes
Detroit December 2 The Great Lakes Engineering Works has closed a contract to build a five hundred foot bulk freight steamer for the Inland Navigation Company of Hamilton Ontario. The ship will be added to the Canadian fleet and delivered next spring.
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Detroit
Great Lakes Engineering Works
Inland Navigation Company
Hamilton
Fire devastates Shapiro store in Dickson City suburb
Scranton reports a blaze at Anthony Shapiro’s clothing and jewelry shop in Dickson City suburb. Five family members died, including Mr. Shapiro, a son and daughter, and Mrs. Shapiro. two other children escaped by leaping from second story windows.
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Scranton
Penn
Anthony Shapiro
Dickxen City
Shapiro
Shaptiro
Conquest of the air topic at mechanical engineers meeting
Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm traced the history of air combat progress to the present at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers gathering. Major George O. Squier spoke on the current status of military aeronautics and debated air power’s role and legality under treaties and self defense.
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Frank P. Lahm
United States Army Signal Corps
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
West 39Th Street
Wright Brothers
Fort, Myer
Virginia
F. R. Hutton
George O. Squier
United States
the Hague
Public hearing on depressing surface tracks at 42d Street
A Board of Estimate committee heard protests on lowering tracks under Fifth Avenue to widen 42d street. Hotel owners wiring impact on traffic and costs from subway work, with officials debating city rights and curbside claims. A second hearing is set for next Wednesday afternoon.
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Fifth Avenue
Board of Estimate
Corporation Counsel
Bureau of Highways
Borough of
Manhattan
Messrs
Hawk and Wetherbee
Manhattan Hotel
Metz
42D Street
Robinson
Frederick W. Whitridge
42D Street Railroad
Sixth Avenue
Fifth Ave
Pendleton
Dom
Lewis
House Line
Withington
Finance Department
Mrs Coates Demands Return of Personal Trunk
A woman calling herself Mrs Jimmy Coates, formerly Mrs Jack Wilmerding, went to the West 125th street station at night asking a patrolman be sent to 42 Bradhurst avenue to compel her husband to surrender a trunk she claimed as hers. She said she lives at the Colonial Hotel List Street and Columbus Avenue. Lt. Miller refused to send an officer and advised a court summons.
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Miller
Brooklyn Detectives Warned to Solve Tainter Robbery
Inspector McCafferty visited the State street headquarters after Brooklyn detectives failed to solve the Tainter robbery in South Brooklyn. He urged the detective force to wake up and find the crooks, promising a week in Brooklyn to boost efficiency.
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Inspector McCafferty
Brooklyn
Auction of North Pownal mill assets in Bennington
In Bennington Vermont on December 1 the final stage before reorganizing Arnold Print Works assets occurred with a public sale of the North Pownal Manufacturing Company in the county court house. The property drew a single bid of 150000 by W. W. Jones of the New England National Bank Boston acting for the creditors committee.
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Bennington
Arnold Print Works
North Adams
Mass
County Court House
North Pownal Manufacturing Company
North Pownal
W. Jones
New England National Bank of Boston
Labor Famine Threatens Akron
Avon Ohio Dec 2 The sudden renewal of business activity there promises a labor famine for the near future. Hundreds of men are being put to work. At a Chamber of Commerce meeting today rubber manufacturers stated that two thousand additional men would be needed soon, and that they did not know where to find them. Automobile tire factories are said to be working day and night to fill orders.
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Avon
Ohio
Chamber of Commerce
Wool tariff debate facts and witness remarks
Ex Representative Charres H Grosvenor testifies for Ohio wool growers arguing the current duty should stay to protect the industry. He notes a county drop from 153900 to 92000 sheep amid land value gains. Other witnesses urge protecting wool while consumers cite lower costs under existing duties. The committee adjourns as the wool schedule resumes tomorrow.
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United States
Charres H. Grosvenor
Ohio
Grosvenor
Wilson
Clark
New York
E. E. Dane
Avon
N. Y
Theodore Justice
Philadelphia
Brown S. Stuart
Textile Workers
Bourke Cochran
Cochran
Stuart
Andrew Carnegie
Health leaders meet as Governor lauds state officers
Albany December delegates from the annual sanitary officers convention are greeted by Governor Hughes who praises health officials for protecting life and preventing disease. Papers on vital statistics water and milk safety are presented by state and university experts with calls for stricter filtration and sanitation.
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Albany
Hughes
Sanitary Officers of
Eugene H. Porter
State Health Department
W. F. Wilcox
State Department of Health
F. D. Beagle
Division of Vital Statistics
State Department of
H. F. Ogden
Cornell University
L. M. Wachter
Herbert Cooke
St. Lawrence University
Wilcox
New York State
Maryland
Colorado
Maine
Connecticut
New Jersey
Vermont
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Ogden
Water Board
Keasber says pottery strike ended at Perth Amboy
In Perth Amboy New Jersey December 2 the pottery strike is described as ended by Vice President Keasber of the National Fireproofing Company. Old workers returned to plants at one dollar per day and guards escorted strike breakers to New York. Some fear prompted quitters and reinstatement attempts followed. No disorder occurred.
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New York
Far West
Perth
Amber
N. J
Keasber
National Fireproofing Company
Mgm
Ex Sergeant Bird Acquitted After Bribery Trial
Former Sergeant Peter J Bird attached to the licenses bureau police was acquitted in General Sessions after four hours of jury deliberation. The indictment tied to the Commissioners of Accounts inquiry alleged he took Payments from Mrs Dorothy Mason, operator of a moving exhibit at 8th Street and Ogden Avenue, to allow performances without a license. Bird denied the charge and was dismissed by Commissioner Bingham a week earlier.
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Peter J. Bird
License Bureau Police
Commissioners of Accounts
Bird
Dorothy Mason
M8th Street
Ogden Avenue
Hel
Bingham
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New Yorker
Suems Court
Jerome
Loyal Legion
P. S. C. Powers
Wills City
Peace Advocates
Senator McCreary
Pacific Oceans
Aeronautics and War
Jack’’ Wilmerding
Arnold Print
Akron
Mr. Cochran
Gov. Hughes
Sergeant Bird
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