Appellate Division rules on Public Service Commission certiorari case
The Appellate Division denies quashing the writ of certiorari sought by Metropolitan receivers, ruling the PSC actions involved are potentially reviewable as a semi judicial order. It avoids ruling on constitutionality, stating the matter concerns whether the PSC order is reviewable by certiorari or must await other remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Loch Street
Metropolitan Street Railway
Supreme Court
Metropolitan
Public
Patterson
Service Commission
City Club seeks independent probe of Manhattan Bridge work
Homer Folks chair of the City Club transit committee asks the Board of Estimate and Apportionment to order an independent inquiry into the Manhattan Bridge plans. Major McClellan presents the request. Nelson P. Lewis to report. Bridge expert Modjeski has been reviewing stress sheets and work in Park Row, with results pending. Mayor and City Club stress Board responsibility for public works. The City Club may await Board action before acting further while gathering data on Bridge Department conduct during the McClellan era for possible later disclosures.
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Homer Folks
City Club
Board of Estimate
Manhattan Bridge
Major McClellan
Nelson P. Lewis
Ralph Mosijeski
Bridge Department
Manhattan Siage
Park Row
Modjeski
Bridge
McCillan
Commissioners of Accounts
Ahearn
Haffen
Repeal Sought on Perpetual Franchises for Transit
Nelson P. Lewis, chief engineer, recommends repealing perpetual franchises for railroads and other public utilities. He favors longer terms under a Public Service Commission certificate, with Board of Estimate approval, and two year terms for tunnel roads plus readjustment of compensation at 25 year intervals.
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Nelson P. Lewis
Board of Relinate and Apportionment
William M. Ivins
New York Charter Commission
Charter Commission
Lewis
Public Service Commission
Board of Estimate
Water at a dollar a gallon sparks Brooklyn inquiry
Cassidy committee reveals a $1 per gallon water bill for six gallons certified by W M Hoag and stamped by the sewers office. Borough President Coler explains a clerk error led to the diversion of the bill to the Controller and notes the water’s normal price is four dollars a gallon.
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Cassidy @maonee investigation committee
Louis Bedell
Commission
W. M. Hoag
Department of Finance
Department of Sewers
Brooklyn
Senator Cassidy
Dunne
Bureau of Sewers
Former Bearded Lady Becomes Mrs Becker in Tragic Death
Lena Becker a 52 year old found dead from gas asphyxiation at 25 West 20th Street. She had sometimes presented as a woman and previously served as the Bearded Lady in a circus. A lodger from Mrs Eben Tobin’s West 20th Street house recalled Becker saying she was once in a circus act. The body was taken to the morgue before full examination. Features and hands and feet appeared feminine, and Becker was said to have worked for several Long Island families as a cook.
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Lena Becker
West 20Th Street
Becker
Long Island
Cook
Hewitt Will Contest Hearings Move Forward in Owego
In Owego New York December 18 the trial to break Frederick Hewitt’s will unfolds with no cross examination of Fanny Whitney contestant daughter of Charlotte Arnot. Valet Frank Relden testifies Hewitt avoided washing and baths in the year of the will and planned to leave carved ivories furniture and family plate to Mrs Arnot. Relden confirms alleged influence by Miss Sarah Peck who kissed Hewitt and persuaded codicils though contrived changes do not affect bequests to New York institutions. Adjourned to January 18.
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Tribune
Owego
N. Y
Frederick ©. Hewitt
Taylor
New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital
Fanny Whitney
Charlotte H. Arnot
Elmira
Hewitt
Frank Relden
Mr. Hewitt
Arnot
Relden
Sarah Peck
New York
Unresolved Fate for St. John's Chapel Varick Street
Trinity vestry has not decided the future use of St. John's Chapel on Varick Street after its February 1 closure. Discussions hint at no immediate action, with options ranging from idle status to sale or relocation. Bishop Greer and Dr. Huntington weigh in, suggesting preservation as a memorial via buyout by wealthy signatories such as Roosevelt, Morgan, and Choate.
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Trinity Vestry
St. John’s Chapel
Varick Street
Vestry
St. John's
Stuyvesant Fish
Fish
Henry H. Cammann
Trinity
Cammann
New York
Greer
Evening Post
William R. Huntington
Grace Church
Old South Church
Boston
St. John’s
Huntington
Dix
Dr. Huntington
George B. McClellan
R. Fulton Cutting
Levi P. Morton
W. Bayard Cutting
Joseph H. Choate
C. F. Southmayd
D. O
Seth Low
Elihu Root
J. Mayhew Wainwright
Basso of Sandwich Fame Dies in New York
Angelo Basso a renowned Italian resident of New York died at 183 Thompson Street after a three year illness. He was sixty nine, born in Genoa, and built a grocery business on Greene and Bleecker streets before expanding with his famed sandwiches. Funeral is at 10 am at Our Lady of Pompeii church on Bleecker and Downing Streets.
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Angelo Basso
Thompson Street
Prince Street
Bleecker Street
Louis
Joseph
Basso
New York
Madison Square Garden
Church of Our Lady of Pompeii
Bleecker and Downing Streets
Wall Street Commission Meets In State Banking Rooms
Governor Hughes appointed body to probe the New York Stock Exchange and other exchanges met at No 52 Broadway. Horace White elected permanent chairman, Morris H Muhleman offered secretary post. Committees named on plan and scope and on ways and means with meetings set for Saturday at 10:30 am.
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Hughes
New York Stock Exchange
State Banking Department
Broadway
Horace White
Morris H. Muhleman
Muhleman
Hepburn Banking Commission
Edward D. Page
John B. Clark
Willard V. King
Clark Williams
David Leventritt
Chamber of Commerce
Stock Exchange
Six New York Physicians Face Board Hearing
Six New York physicians appeared yesterday before a special committee of the State Board of Medical Examiners in the St James Building. The hearing, under the New York County Medical Society, will report to the State Board of Regents which can revoke licenses. Defendants include Ex-Coroner Moses Jackson, Dr Rudolph Milke, Dr Robert Ormesby, Dr Edward F Conrad, Dr Francis J Dudenhausen, and Dr Francis Gray Blinn, with incidents ranging from bribery to illegal operations and false naming. Prosecution by A Vandiver and F H Wilmot noted, while efforts to dismiss charges or delay hearings were raised by defense counsel.
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New York
State Board of Medical Examiners
St. James
New York County Medical Society
State Board
State Board of Regents
Moses Jackson
Chadwick
Rudolph Milke
New York Medical Institute
Robert Ormesby
Edward F. Conrad
Goff
Francis J. Dudenhausen
Francis Gray Blinn
A. ©. Vandiver
F. H. Wilmot
New York Medical Society
Jackson
Conrad
W. M. K. Olcott
James Newton Fiero Appointed Reporter of Court of Appeals
Albany December 1 James Newton Fiero dean Albany Law School was named reporter of the Court of Appeals at a 5000 a year salary to fill the vacancy caused by Edwin Bedell's death. Fiero, elected to the Assembly from Albany County, will resign to take the post. A special election will be called to fill his Assembly seat. Fiero formerly led the State Bar Association and authored multiple legal works.
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Albany
James Newton Fiere
Albany Law School
Court of Appeals
Edwin A. Bedell
Fiero
Assembly
Albany County
The
State Bar Association
Antis derail Civic Education event with two rumors
After noon rumors swirled about Mrs. A. J. George missing from the Berkeley Theatre platform for a Women’s Civic Education League talk. Officials blamed Mrs. Alfred Meyer’s illness and postponed the lecture as suffragists and antis traded insinuations amid a small, stormy audience and four guards outside.
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A. J. George
Boston
League For the Civic Education of Women
Berkeley Theatre
League
College Equal Suffrage League
Allen
New York City
Bureau of Municipal Research
Antis
Gilbert Jones
City Considers Health Dept as Sole Marriage Records Keeper
The city plans an amendment to make the Health Department the sole repository for marriage records due to tracking difficulties. Many clergymen failed to report licenses and certificates within forty days, prompting threats of suits and numerous filings. For Brooklyn and Manhattan, ten months to November show large declines in records compared to prior years, though Health Department stats suggest figures reflect reporting, not fewer marriages.
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Health Department
Scully
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Guilfoy
Inn
Citywide time sheets spark drastic reform in payrolls
The Board of Estimate and Apportionment authorized time sheets for all city employes, affecting over sixty thousand workers. Controller Metz cites daily early departures and unpaid side work, as the reform, urged by the Bureau of Municipal Research, also includes private-business style trade and cash discounts for the city.
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Board of Estimate
Contreller Metz
Bureau of Municipal Research
Women Meet at Berkeley Lyceum for Votes Plea
Berkeley Lyceum hosted a Collegiate Equal Suffrage League meeting with Miss Ethel Arnold as speaker. The packed audience included many men and representatives from Vassar Barnard Bryn Mawr Cornell and NYU. Notables such as Mrs Sage Mrs Mackay and Mrs Stanton Blatch attended amid orderly proceedings with no disturbance.
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Berkeley Lyceum
Equal Suffrage League
New York State
Ethel Arnold
Humphry Ward
Matthew Arnold
Arnold
Thomas Arnold
Rugby
England
Europe
Frank H. Cothren
Vassar
Barnard
Bryn Mawr
Cornell
New York University
Russell Sage
Clarence H. Mackay
Henry Villard
Edward Lauterbach
William Ivins
Stanton Blatch
Carrie Chapman Catt
Robert Erskine Ely
Stephen Wise
Anna Garlin Spencer
Ban on Christmas Decorations by New York Fire Underwriters
The New York Board of Fire Underwriters issues a formal notice to all fire policy holders prohibiting candleless Christmas trees and wreathless windows. It warns insurers may deny indemnity if fires originate from illegal displays and cites past accidents and losses totaling millions. The circular also bars Christmas greens harvest specimens cotton snow props and picture machines as hazards.
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New York Board of Fire Underwriters
New York Board of Underwriters
Mrs Snowden Joins League as Honorary Vice President
Mrs Philip Snowden of London, recently in town for the suffrage movement, has accepted the honorary vice-presidency of the league, reflecting continued support for women's rights.
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Philip Snowden
London
League
Barnard Seniors Open Stockings With Holiday Fun
Barnard College seniors held a Christmas stockings event with a mock school session and gifts. Students opened stockings hung on lockers, receiving small dolls gables wedding bells and hearts. Sophomores and freshmen joined in festive activities including a spider web party a cotillion and a dance in Thompson Gymnasium as the faculty offered readings and music by the Glee Club.
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Barnard
Santa Claus
Thompson Gymnasium
Loangetaha
Christmas Dinner For Seven Hundred Little Mothers
Frank Tilford invites seven hundred children from the city’s poorest districts to a Christmas Day meal at the Murray Hill Lyceum East 34th Street near Third Avenue at 1 o clock. A musical program features the children and gifts will be distributed.
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Frank Tilford
Murray Hill Lyceum
East 34Th Street
Third Avenue
Flower Mission Opens to Receive Donations in December
The New York Flower Mission at 104 East th street will host December 13, 21, 22 and 23 openings for evergreen arrangements Christmas cards fruit and jelly for East River hospitals and tea condensed milk canned soup and other supplies for tenement house sick and infirm Dolls toys and picture books for very poor children are welcome Money for distribution and delicacies for the sick is needed.
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New York
Christmas Greens At Washington Market Reflect Holiday Demand
The Washington Market shows a rich Christmas greens display with Normandy firs, koster blue spruce, Remispere trees, Irish yew, and English laurel trees at various prices. Fruit and vegetables dominate shelves with figs, Malaga grapes, kumquats, and pineapples, while seafood and meats remain costly with lamb, lobsters, and fresh butter listed alongside festive decorations and wreaths.
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Washington
Amusements and reform clash in Tammany era talk
John Collier of the People’s Institute told a Women’s Forum audience at 21 West 44th Street that Tammany’s grip on public amusements blocks reform. He warned that private interests dominate theatres and moving pictures, urging better managed entertainments and broader industrial education to lift the race.
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Tammany
John Collier
Tm People’s Institute
Womans Forum
West 44Th Street
Greece
New York City
Collier
Heidelberg
Bowery
Women urge saving St. John’s Chapel at DAR meeting
At Fraunces Tavern the Knickerbocker Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution heard Mrs. Story of the Manhattan Chapter plead to preserve St. John’s Chapel on Varick Street. She urged the chapter to do all it can despite slim chances, praising ecclesiastical beauty and the memorial’s past significance. Speakers included J. C. Pompelly and A. Pugsley. regent Mrs. W. R. Stewart introduced the new chaplain and spoke briefly.
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Knickerbocker
Daughters of the American Revolution
Sam Cumming Story
Manhattan
St. John’s Chapel
Varies Street
New Yost
J. C. Pompelly
Hicker Cc
A. Pugsiey
Sons of the American
Cone Tessman
W. R. Stewart
Bargain hunter proves frugal on wedding day exchange
The husband teases about seeking bargains while the wife quips that only on their wedding day did she avoid bargains. The exchange captures lighthearted domestic humor about frugality and marriage.
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NEW Bridge Inquiry
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Circus
Asserits
Testator
Old Chapel
Theodore B. Stark
Madison Square
Sandwich Fame
Wall Street Commission
J. N. Fiero
Kings
Kings County
Robert H. Elder
Board of Ustimate
Metz
Savoy Hotel
Naples
Wanamaker
First Gallery
John Wanamaker
Fourth Avenue
Eighth
Tenth Street
Flower Mission Open
Malaga
Florida
Arizona
India River
Philadelphia
Maryland
Ivo
UNIO
F. Jammes
Ave
PF x. L. Pas
Fifth Ave
Uunn
West Téth St
Atin
Walter Geer
Bergh
Mra
EB. P. Trss
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