Sullivan men concede tunnel vote yet vow fight in aldermen
The Sullivan era aldermen admit the Pennsylvania Rail Road tunnel franchise will pass today but promise continued opposition. Vice-Chairman James McInnes and Alderman James C. Meyers predict forty eight votes for approval while Alderman James Gaffney and allies insist they have forty seven. Borough President Cantor is expected to oppose the measure as Bronx officials who may back the franchise could influence outcomes. The session includes speeches by many aldermen as majority and minority reports on the contract are debated, with a tight vote anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan
Board of Aldermen
Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnel
James McInnes
James C. Meyers
James Gaffney
Charles F. Murphy
Grout
Pennsylvania Company
Pennsylvania
Tammany
John =es McCall
Tim” Sullivan
Murphy
City Hall
Haffen
The
Bronx
Messrs. Hlarnischfeger
Gass
Leitner
Goldwater
Peck
Longfellow
Harnischfeger
Cantor
Merchants’ Association
Gaffney
Mr. Gaffney
McCall
Wafer
Lundy
Diemer
Friends of the Franchise
Legislature Can Act On City Franchises For Tunnels
Attorney General John C. Davies advised William F. King that the legislature can strip the Board of Aldermen of tunnel franchise power and vest it in the Board of Estimate and Apportionment or another city body, but cannot grant a railroad tunnel franchise itself. The opinion notes such franchise power is vested by statute in the Board of Aldermen, while the legislature may transfer that power to another city body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Davies
William F. King
Merchants’ Association
Pennsylvania
New York City
Board of Aldermen of
Board of Aldermen
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Cantor urged to vote aye over tunnel franchise clash
William F. King, of the Merchants' Association, sends Cantor a letter urging approval of the Pennsylvania tunnel franchise. He cites local labor and city development, notes Cantor was born of foreign parents, and says he will state his reasons to the aldermen when the matter comes to a vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. King
Merchants’ Association
Pennsylvania Tunnel
Cantor
Central Tunnel Plans Prompt East Side Protests
Richard J. Donovan representing the Citizens' East Side Improvement Association and local property owners submits a brief and petition opposing New York Central track changes on Park Avenue between Forty-fifth and Fifty-sixth streets. Protests seek level grade, roofing of Park Ave, three year deadline for depowering to electricity, city funding limits, and direct underground rapid transit connections, with potential loss of Park Ave rights if deadlines are missed.
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Richard J. Donovan
Citizens’ East Side Improvement Association
East Side
Mayor Law
Board of Aldermen
New York Central
Park
Donovan
Forty-fifth-st
Fifty-sixth-st
Manhattan
River Front
Parkave
Forty-fifth St
New-York Central
Park Ave
Crowded Manhattan Elevation Cars Prompt City Action
Officials defend service levels as passenger crowds persist before and after rush hours. Merchants' Association calls for decency measures and greater protection for women amid overcrowded cars. Six car trains trialed on Sixth Avenue with more cars claimed to be in use. timing extended to 10:30 p.m. during holidays. Albany replies counter to Weeks claims, stating sixty cars more than ever before are in operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Cantor
William F. King
Merchants’ Association
City of
New York
Johnson
New-York City
Sixth-ave
Albany
Alfred Skitt
Manhattan Elevated
F. H. Weeks
Third-ave
Strike at City Hall Continues Over Union Demands
Walking delegates of the Building Trades, after meetings with contractors Ryan and McFerran and City Hall superintendent William Walker, failed to secure all union demands. The paper demanded firing of foreman Matthew Ryan, exclusive union hire, $25 for time lost, and removal of nonunion marble work. The contractors would only agree to employing union labor, and the strike proceeds with about sixty workers affected, potentially growing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ryan & McFerran
Board of Building Trades
City Hall
Messrs
Ryan and
McFerran
William H. Walker
Building Trades Organization
Matthew Ryan
Trades Union Board
Plasterers’ Union
Ryan
John J. Donovan
Asters’ Union
Fourth-St
Anthracite Shortage Triggers Rail Demands and Higher Rates
Coal supply fears surge as Lehigh Valley Coal Co increases shipments to Perth Amboy and Jersey City. Erie yard congestion and tunnel traffic through Jersey City Heights disrupts normal service. Freight prices rise with barges earning 40 to 75 cents per ton and demurrage costs up to 10 dollars daily. Jersey Central demands 20,000 tons weekly, signaling shift back to anthracite. Consumers debate ton weight accuracy affecting dealer profits and retail pricing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lehigh Valley
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
New York City
Perth Amboy
Jersey City
Erie Railroad
Jersey City Heights
Jersey Shore
New York
Manhattan
Jersey Central Railroad
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company
Miners End Evidence as Railroads Tied to Anthracite Case
Scranton reports the coal strike commission hears miners close their case after nineteen days and about 160 witnesses. They focus on the railroads coal companies link, freight rates, and whether fair wages are affordable. Deliberations reveal tensions over scope and wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Penn
Gray
Reading
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Darrow
Cecal
Lloyd
Simon P. Woloton
Reading Company
Mr. Lloyd
Mr. Wolverton
Brumm
Peter
Paul
Annie Denks
Judge Gray
Curb to curb snow removal by street railway contracts
City contracts with street railway companies expand snow removal by 56 percent this year. Commissioner Woodbury requires permits and signed commutation contracts to curb rival shovelers and ensure curb to curb cleaning on major streets from Vesey to East Broadway and beyond. The Street Cleaning Department still handles many streets but lacks sufficient carts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Street Cleaning
Woodbury
Coal dealer threatened as dock chaos snarls Brooklyn coal flow
Police hunt the sender of a German taunt card to Rudolph Reimer East New York coal dealer with skull and crossbones warning. In Brooklyn 15 000 tons of coal are tied up by canal dockmasters shortage as forty barges wait to discharge. Local officials urged more dockmasters to restore order amid coal market strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty-ave
Rudolph Reimer
East New York
Reimer
Brooklyn
Gowanus Canal
Holiday in Mitchells Honor in Spring Valley
John Mitchell received a warm welcome on his return to his old home as Spring Valley and nearby towns observed a general holiday. About three thousand unionists and citizens joined a parade led by a military band. Resolutions praising Mitchell’s mining successes were presented on a silver tray and embossed on aluminum. Speeches followed at an evening meeting by W R Russell of the Illinois Miners Union and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Valley
John Mitchell
Citizens and Labor Organizations
Peru Trades and Labor Council
Mitchell
Pennsylvania
W. R. Russell
Illinois Miners’ Union
Thomas L. Kilda
W.B. Wilson
James Beattie
Fourteen Railroads Sued Over Car Rate Restraints
In Chicago on December 15 the United States Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments to temporarily restrain fourteen railroads from enforcing car rate practices alleged to violate the Sherman and Interstate Commerce acts. Judges Grosscup and Philips preside. The lines named include Michigan Central Pittsburg and Fort Wayne Pittsburg Cincinnati Chicago and St. Louis Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Illinois Central Chicago and Northwestern Chicago and Alton Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Chicago Great Western Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Chicago Burlington and Quincy Missouri Pacific and Wabash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Grosscup
Philips
Kansas City
Interstate Commerce Commission
Michigan Central
Pittsburg
Fort Wayne
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern
Ilinois Central
Northwestern
Chicago and Alton
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Chicago Great Western
Atchison
Topeka
Santa Fe
Rock Island and Pacific
Reading Railroad puts coal to market to ease fuel shortage
Reading Pennsylvannia December 15 nearly 100 000 tons shipped as Reading Company launches a rush to move coal from mines to markets in New York and Philadelphia to avert a fuel famine. 52 40 tons brought down from midnight Saturday to midnight Sunday and nearly 40 000 tons started Friday. Traffic runs with help of all locomotives though snow and ice slow moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Penn
Reading Company
New York
Philadelphia
Eanes
Coal famine grips Schenectady shoppers
Schenectady N Y Dec 15 scores of poor orders issued for coal by noon yet none filled. Coal dealers cannot meet regular customer demand as Citizens' Committee office remains crowded with people seeking coal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schenectady
N. Y
Citizens’ Committee
New Tetanus Cure Report At New York Meeting
Dr William H Luckett outlined a promising tetanus treatment at the New York State Medical Association gathering. The method injects anti tetanic serum into the spinal cord area to counter the toxin, with two treated cases recovering promptly and showing better results than prior methods which had over 40 percent mortality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State Medical Association
Academy of Medicine
West Forty-third St
William H. Luckett
Luckett
No Coal For County Jail In Frigid Ballston
In Ballston New York December 15 the last coal shovelful was placed in the furnace at the courthouse and no supply is in sight. Fifty seven prisoners are held in jail and the county clerk's office shares heating from the courthouse as temperatures sit at 17 degrees below zero.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ballston
N. Y
Lighthouses Run Low On Coal at Rhode Island Lighthouses
Narragansett Pier Dec 15 The lighthouses at Point Judith Watch Hill and Block Island lack coal. Superintendent H M Knowles reports to Life Saving Service head in Washington and relief has not yet arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Narragansett Pier
R. I
Point Judith
Watch Hill
Block Island
H. M. Knowles
Kimball
Life Saving Service
Washington
Snow Causes Car Blockades In City Streets
Snow blocked streets and stalled streetcars across the city as horse teams struggled on slick pavement. An uptown effort to clear avenues lagged, while an electric train repeatedly halted between stations near Sixth Avenue. A snowfilled cart toppled at Sixth Avenue and Forty second Street, crossing conductors and halting lines until crews cleared the blockage. Postal trains from the West and New England ran two to four hours late, with officials optimistic about resuming schedule today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixth Ave
Park Place
Twenty-eighth-st
Sixth-ave
Forty-second-st
New England
Trains Delay on Erie Line After Snow Storm
Erie Railroad trains on main line and branches ran late yesterday morning with commuters delayed one to two hours into the city. Through trains from the West including the Chicago Limited were about three hours late due to the heavy track conditions from the recent snow storm, with other roads into Jersey City reporting similar delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie Railroad
Chicago Limited
Jersey City
Ambulance Delay For Epileptic Girl Two Hours
Police at West Forty-seventh street sent multiple calls to Roosevelt Hospital for Eliza Walsh a fourteen year old from No S31 West Fifty third street suffering epilepsy. The ambulance arrived two hours later due to impassable streets and only one ambulance in operation at the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrigan
West Forty-seventh St
Roosevelt Hospital
Eliza Walsh
West Fifty-third St
Whittemore
Park Commissioner Grants Central Park Coasting Zones
Park Commissioner Willcox designated several Central Park sites where children may coast with sleds and throw snowballs. Areas include Empire grounds, Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street entrances for specific genders, rear of the 7th Regiment monument, near Conservatory Lake, and behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art East Drive. Snowballing allowed on the baseball green and North Meadow. The plan anticipates a heavy snow season.
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Willcox
Central Park
Empire Ball Grounds
Fifty-ninth-st
Seventh-ave
Fifth-ave
7Th Regiment
Conservatory Lake
Washington's Coal Famine Hits Government Buildings
Washington faces a coal shortage as government offices near exhaustion. The Postoffice Department lost lights above the first floor and its private elevator, while the Interior Department’s steam plant halted for an hour. The Capitol has two days of fuel, yet a Reading Railroad contract is expected to keep heat. DC Commissioners authorize temporary tracks to speed coal deliveries and alleviate the crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Postoffice Department
Interior Department
Capitol
Reading Railroad
of Commissioners
District of Columbia
Electric Shock Causes Aphasia in Bellevue Patient
Mrs. Annie Stapleton, 21, of 435 West Thirty-sixth Street, was shocked on a Ninth Avenue surface car. She became speechless and unable to move her right leg, though conscious after recovery. Bellevue Hospital doctors, puzzled, noted blue tongue at first but no lasting bodily marks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellevue Hospital
Annie Stapleton
West Thirty-sixth St
Vose
Vineland Heiress Turns Heir to Irish Estate Saga
In Vineland New Jersey George Swifte claims he is the rightful heir to the Earl of Carlingford and a Dublin to London court case, backed by John W Northrup and Charles Keighley. He alleges deception by his stepmother and guardians, with support from family funds to reopen litigation.
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George Swifte
Vineland
N. J
House of Lords
Earl of Carlingford
Swifte
S Heath
Ireland
John W. Northrup
Charles Keighley
Dublin
London
Peter O’brien
Lord Carlingford
Godwin Meade Pratt Swifte
Carlingford
Miss Flite
Northrup
England
Godwin Meade Butler Swifte
Geo
America
Arlingford
George
Negro Colonization Scheme Investigated For Philippine Isles
Telegraph dispatch reports T. Thomas Fortune sent to the Philippine Islands to assess negro colonization prospects. Senator John T. Morgan cites Roosevelt and War Department interest, believing the islands offer a suitable home for African Americans with favorable climate and governance. He compares growth to a crawfish hole, noting initial small beginnings could expand to a large settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tarun Washington
T. Thomas Fortune
Philippine Islands
United States
John T. Morgan
Alabama
Roosevelt
War Department
Philippines
Fortune
Morgan
Otis oxen evade quarantine in New York case
A yoke of oxen from Otis Massachusetts eluded State Board pickets but were found and placed under surveillance. Owner Rat dall Hoxie Ghent Columbia County faces federal action for violating the quarantine. A herd at Binghamton thought infected is only suspected tuberculosis. state remains free of foot and mouth disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Otis
Berkshire County
Mass
Rat Dall Hoxie
Ghent
Columbia County
State Board of Agriculture
Hoxie
Binghamton
Fire sweeps seven story Summer street block in Boston
Encased in ice from heavy snow the Boston Fire Department battled a seven story blaze at 210 to 218 Summer street. Estimated loss runs from 100000 to 125000 with two bookbinding firms and several publishers taking heavy damage as water and ice hindered access for hours. crews fought through frozen stairs and flooded streets in severe winter conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Summer St
E Fleming & Co
McDonald & Sons
Estes Press
Avery Id Rand
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W. F. King
Jaelea
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R. J. Donovan
James H. Torrey
Delaware and Hudson Company
Dunmore
Eighth-ave
Grand Central Station
Fourthave
Union Square
Twenty-third-st
Fiftyninth-st
First-ave
Tenth-ave
Amsterdam-ave
Lexington-ave
Bouton
Fourteenth-st
Eighth-St
North River
Twentieth St
Fiftieth St
Mr. Reimer
Low
Swanstrom
Illinois
Vineland’s
Real Live Earl
T. T. Fortune
Senate
Root
Taft
Mississippi
SIG
Boston Fire
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