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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1908
Page
24
A state inquiry into inferior criminal courts reveals a card index system for speed violators. It links prior convictions to penalties and flags repeat offenders for Special Sessions, noting docket delays and magistrate reform proposals to ease congestion and handle minor offenses locally.
Dr Woods Hutchinson urged a seven year anti tuberculosis program in the city stating one year's graft could wipe out tuberculosis with $5 million for sanatoriums and up to $25 million to end the disease. He warned twenty eight thousand current cases and ten thousand deaths yearly without major investment. Reverend Manning linked tuberculosis to social ills and warned divorce as a separate moral danger.
Charles A Williams a chief yeoman at the Brooklyn recruiting station faced a general court martial in the Brooklyn navy yard on eight charges and thirty specifications including desertion forgery theft embezzlement and disobedience. If convicted on all counts he could receive up to twenty one and a half years in a federal prison. Evidence centered on forged checks including those to Teesir Hert and C J Gude Co and several bad checks passed at Brooklyn cafés. Commander J C Gillmore testified as a witness and daily sessions were expected to run for about a week.
John D. Archbold and Henry M. Tilford faced cross examination as the government presses to pierce immunity claims in the case to dissolve Standard Oil. Discussion covered marketing stations, by products, asset figures, and the expansion of Pacific Coast and midcontinental operations, with judges and counsel debating records, contracts, and the scope of discovery.
English and American engineers clash over bridge safety as reports on the Blackwell's Island Bridge reveal overstressed members, lax fatigue considerations, and the dangers of competitive tender design. The Engineering journals urge reform after Quebec and Blackwell's Island flaws, urging stricter standards and better material choices.
Telegraph dispatch reports a peace conference between TIHnels manufacturers and railroad officials scheduled for tomorrow in Chicago has been canceled. Railroad men reportedly declined to attend, ending plans for discussions on a proposed freight rate advance.
Announcement by Collector Fowler says Dell A. Baker, private secretary to the collector, has been named deputy collector by executive order from President Roosevelt. He will assist with the expanded duties at the Custom House.
The City Club backs an expert examination of the Manhattan Bridge plans and seeks liability reviews of the Queensboro Bridge. They note unpaid contract money and bondsmen questions while urging eminent bridge engineers to evaluate current Manhattan Bridge designs amid a history of plan changes from Van Wyck to Lindenthal and Low administrations.
Henry O. Kuehne, superintendent of the New York and New Jersey Crematory at North Bergen, died yesterday afternoon while seated at the organ. He invented the new electrical process of incineration.
Albany dispatch reports Attorney General Jackson of Buffalo is ill with typhoid fever at Albany Hospital after being stricken at his Capitol office yesterday afternoon. Doctors say he is as well as could be expected. The Ring and the Man pageant note hints at a Christmas Eve party and a forthcoming installment in the Tribune.
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