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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1902
Page
25
Washington reports on book losses at year end auctions and the postal service testing automobile mail collection. Peary weather anecdotes and a sharp Senate subhead blitz highlight political journalism and a Christmas season music anecdote involving Judge Lanham and Representative Finley.
Coroner Williams to hold an inquest next Tuesday into the death of George H. Leyh from cyanide poisoning at his Broadway store in Brooklyn. Leyh’s stomach report due next morning. Witness Robert Westphal, a boy in Leyh’s employ, is expected to testify. Authorities noted tampering with two bottles of beer. officials advised against arresting the boy to avoid disrupting testimony.
City Club trustees met last night and made no decision on the police issue. Captain F Norton Goddard attended as a possible Police Commissioner nominee. Rev. Thomas R Slicer stated that nothing new was decided and no further action was taken by the City Club in the matter.
Beppy Hooligan, a large ape from a basement show at the Novelty Exhibition, ignored attendants and mounted the wheel to explore above. He charged through exhibits, dodging keepers and scattering visitors as alarms rose and staff tried to corral him.
A jury was empanelled to try Thomas Sharkey the private detective for the manslaughter of Nicholas Fish banker. The incident occurred September 15 in Ehrhardt's saloon Thirty-fourth Street near Eighth Avenue with Sharkey alleged to have struck Fish who died from a fractured skull. Defense contends Fish fell intoxicated and struck his head on the pavement.
Police found Michael Ruthven aged 73 dead from starvation in a Gates Avenue building with brother Jacob 67 barely alive. The shoemakers kept to themselves and neighbors say they saved about $1000 in a bank. No relatives or origins were known.
Chief Clerk Davis reports 3 1 2 3500 metal corner signs mounted on Beekman Ann William Rivington West Clinton Rutgers and other East Side streets and lower West Side streets. Reflector and cast iron illuminated signs scheduled on gas lampposts and electric posts from Fortieth Street to the Bowery and midtown avenues.
The celebrated fire dog Socks attached to Truck 16 was accidentally run over by Engine 39. After years aiding calls and guiding crowds, the half breed greyhound was killed after slipping from the building and being struck by the wheels. a neighborhood boy was bitten when attempting to help, and an ambulance surgeon treated him.
Wall Street praised United States Steel Corp's purchase of the Union and Sharon steel plants. Analysts say intrinsic value supports the deal, bond conversion funds may repay the assets, and the plan could buy time for expansion while avoiding new large obligations. The proposed Pittsburgh to Lake Erie railway may be unnecessary now.
In Charlotte on December 17 in U S District Court the Rev T Bright a key figure in the cherry tree swindle was sentenced to four months in jail and a $1000 fine. Other defendants also faced $1000 fines each. Victims totaling about $10000 face no recovery of their money.
Senator Depew introduces a bill authorizing emergency currency by the Treasury. It would supply notes to national banks with capital at least 50,000 up to a percentage of capital, with extra funds only during serious money-market crises to protect values and business interests.
George T. Moon of the Fulton Market Fishmongers Association outlined a joint plan after a Sinking Fund Commission hearing. The proposal would share wharf space among all dealers, build a new market, widen South Street, and set new leases starting May 1905. The plan envisions space for the Wholesale Fish Exchange and limited room for the Independent Dealers, with condemnation possible for private interests.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court ruled Section 710 of the New York Charter unconstitutional in the Moses Abrams case, prompting the discharge of 195 inmates from the Blackwell's Island Workhouse. The decision overturns strict five day and twenty day release rules for first and second intoxication offenses, delegating sentencing to magistrates.
Captain Haase of the steamer Alleghany reports the three masted schooner Maggie C Hart abandoned and waterlogged about six hundred miles east of Jacksonville on December 14. The Hart, from Jacksonville with 400000 square feet of pine lumber, sailed November 22 under Captain Orlando C West of Rockport Maine with seven crew.
William Bersh of the shipyard science department attempted to prove a circle equals eight percent of its circumference at The Daily Press office in Newport News. Experts showed the hypotenuse method cannot yield exact results. Bersh said he would prove his claim in writing as Stoutamyer prepared to read the formula.
The former office of Judge William H. Robertson in White Plains is replaced by a modern building owned by Henry R. Barrett. The first and second floors are leased to the Westchester and Bronx Title and Mortgage Guaranty Company formed by Assemblyman J. M. Wainet and notable local figures. The title firm plans to open January 1.
Architect Herbert 8 Hardle took title yesterday to a large plot near Riverside Drive in Highty-fifth Street and plans a big apartment building on the site.
In the XXIXth Assembly District Republican Club election Senator Nathaniel A. Elsberg defeated Newbold Morris 153 to 113. Bainbridge Colby supported by Elsberg won easily, with Morris expected to lose reappointment to the County Committee presidency that night.
At Station H of the New York Post Office Grand Central Palace drivers in the city announce a strike after Christmas. They demand shorter hours higher wages and a full day off weekly to minimize public disruption and sway opinion against delays in Christmas mail.
Boston December 17. President Soden of the Boston National League club discusses rumors of a baseball league consolidation. He says a club in Boston could play on Huntington-avenue grounds and that he would sell if offered a price. He hints stock in a new company might come to Billings Soden and Conant if consolidation occurs.
In a St Nicholas Rink opener between Andover and Cutler Whitney Carpenter of Andover suffered a severe head and ear injury after a collision with a Cutler forward. No physician was available at the rink delaying play for about half an hour. The game ended in a 3 3 tie with Andover one man short after the incident.
The Grant Monument Association executive committee met at the Chamber of Commerce to arrange the tomb at Riverside Drive for Mrs. Grants body. Cornelius N Bliss chaired a team including Grenville M Dodge Elihu Root and Henry W Hayden to oversee placement in the sarcophagus as the family heads to Washington for funeral details. A derrick will be erected today to secure the sarcophagus cover.
Edward L. Tilton spoke at the National Arts Club on modern Greece and ancient Hellas. He described his Greece work with the American School of Archaeology and presented stereopticon pictures of trains, donkeys, and ancient buildings. He discussed language changes and discoveries at Mycenae with several excavated structures and Crete observations.
Camden N J December 17 A monster drydock nearly two million dollars could be built by the New York Shipbuilding Company once plans for two new battleships are finalized Captain William G Randle said the dock would be the world s largest and able to hold any vessel now afloat or anticipated for years to come It would adjoin the yard ways by the riverfront site already hosting the Mississippi plunge last Monday
Albany reports a Massachusetts to New York cattle move found with tuberculosis. Officials pursue federal charges for quarantine violation. A Delaware County herd in Vega has suffered fatalities from acute indigestion due to frozen grass.
The Columbia University Club held its annual meeting at the clubhouse No. 41 West Thirty-sixth Street. Elected were J. Howard Van Aringe president Robert C. Cornell vice president Victor W. Hungerford treasurer Gustavus T. Kirby. No action was taken on a new clubhouse plan.
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