Appellate Division Rules on Review of Public Service Orders
The Appellate Division denied quashing the writ of certiorari by the Metro politan receivers, keeping open the constitutional question about PSC power to fix rates and interline transfers. It states the order and proceedings may be reviewed, but not the broader powers, leaving whether PSC actions are purely executive or judicial to future consideration.
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Public Service Commission
8Th Street
Metropolitan Street Railway
Supreme Court
Metropolitan
Patterson
Beron Gome
Vndeoa
Ze Service Commission
City Club seeks independent inquiry into Manhattan Bridge plans
Homer Folks chair of the City Club transit committee asks the Board of Estimate and Apportionment to appoint an independent investigation of work on the Manhattan Bridge. Mayor McClellan presents the request, referred to Nelson P. Lewis for a report. Bridge expert Modjeski works over plans. club wants the inquiry run by the Board of Estimate, not the Bridge Department, while gathering data on the Bridge Department under McClellan.
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Homer Folks
City Club
jRoara
Manhattan Bridge
McClellan
Nelson P. Lewis
Baid
Ralph Mosijeski
Bridge Department
Manhattan
Park Rowd
Modjeski
Board of Estimate
Commissioners of Accounts
Ahearn
Haffen
Repeal Sought on Perpetual Rail Franchises in City Plan
Nelson P. Lewis chief engineer submitted a report on a Charter Commission inquiry into time limits for franchises contracts and leases to railroads and other public utilities. He advocated repealing perpetual franchises and granting longer terms for tunnel roads up to 25 years with readjustment of compensation at intervals not exceeding 25 years, subject to Public Service Commission certificates and City Board approval.
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Nelson P. Lewis
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
William M. Ivins
New York Charter Commission
Charter Commission
Mr. Lewis
Public Service Commission
Board of Estimate
Water at a dollar a gallon sparks Brooklyn water bill mix up
Cassidy investigation recalls a six gallon spring water bill priced at one dollar per gallon. An inspector confirmed the usual price and the bill, dated November 14, 1908, was reduced to 31 cents after reaching the Controller’s office. Borough President Coler cites a clerical mistake and notes the water was ordered for private use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cassidy Mance
Louis Bedell
Commission
W. M. Hoag
Department of Finance
Department of Sewers
Brooklyn
Senator Cassidy
Bird S. Coler
Public Works
Coler
Dunne
Bureau of Sewers
Former Bearded Lady Becomes Dead Woman Revealed as Man
A morgue attendant learned Lena Becker a 52 year old who died of gas asphyxia at 25 West 25th Street was a man in disguise. Becker formerly posed as the Bearded Lady in a circus and had worked as a cook for Long Island families.
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Lena Becker
West 25Th Street
Becker
Long Island
Valet Testimony in Hewitt Will Contests Revealed
Owego New York December court session discussed cross examination plans for Mrs. Fanny Whitney and the Arnot will contest. Frank Belden testified Hewitt forbad washing stockings and did not bathe last year of life. He noted Hewitt planned to leave ivories furniture and family plate to Mrs. Arnot as per will. Sarah Peck reportedly influenced codicils by kissing Hewitt. contest asserts undue influence. Case adjourned to January 18.
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Tribune
Owego
N. Y
Frederick C. Hewitt
Taylor
New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital
Fanny Whitney
Charlotte H. Arnot
Elmira
Arnot
Relden
Sarah Peck
Mr. Hewitt
St Johns Chapel in Varick Street to Close February 1
Trinity vestry has not decided the fate of St John’s Chapel Varick Street after its February 1 closure as a house of worship. Vestry members reluctant to speak on the building’s future. possible outcomes include ongoing idleness repurposing or demolition for new structures. Comments from St John’s supporters and church leaders are mixed as discussions await next month’s vestry meeting.
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Trinity Vestry
St. John’s Chapel
Varick Street
Vestry
St. John’s
Sturvesant Fish
Trinity
Cammann
New York
Greer
Evening Post
William R. Huntington
Grace Church
Old South Church
Boston
St. John's
Dr. Huntington
Huntington
Dix
Tesl
Lower West
George B. McClellan
R. Fulton Cutting
Levi P. Morton
W. Bayard Cutting
Joseph H. Choate
C. F. Southmayd
D. O
Basso of Sandwich Fame Dies in New York
Angelo Basso, a well known Italian resident of New York, died at 183 Thompson Street after a three year illness. He was 69, born in Genoa, and came to the United States forty years ago to open a Greene Street grocery. He later moved to Prince Street then 143 Bleecker Street where he built a prosperous catering business famed for Basso's sandwiches. His wife Mrs. Basso is seriously ill. Funeral set for this morning at 19 o'clock from the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii at Bleecker and Downing Streets.
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Angelo Basso
Thompson Street
Basso
Genoa
Greene Street
Prince Street
Bleecker Street
Louis
Joseph
New York
Madison Square Garden
Church of Our Lady of Pompeii
Bleecker and Downing Streets
Wall Street Commission Meets to Plan Stock Exchange Inquiry
Governor Hughes appointed commission met at the state banking department to study the NYSE and other exchanges. Horace White was named permanent chairman and Morris H. Muhleman offered the secretaryship. Committees on plan and scope and on ways and means were formed. meetings will be private with adjournment to 10 30 a m Saturday December 9. No charges were yet made and the scope of investigation remained undecided.
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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 on licenses
Six physicians appeared yesterday before a special committee of the State Board of Medical Examiners in the St James Building, charged under a new law by the New York County Medical Society. The panel will report to the State Board of Regents, which can revoke licenses, with each defendant facing specific convictions from prior cases.
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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 Ormsby
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
Appointment of J N Fiero as Reporter for Court of Appeals
Albany December 1 James Newton Fiero dean of Albany Law School was named reporter of the Court of Appeals at a salary of 1000 a year to fill the vacancy created by the death of Edwin A Bedelis He will resign his Albany Assembly seat to accept the post A special election will be held to fill the vacancy Mr Fiero a former president of the State Bar Association and author of legal works was elected to the Assembly from Albany County at the recent election
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Albany
James Newton Fiero
Albany Law School
Court of Appeals
Edwin A. Bedelis
Fiero
Assembly
Albany County
The
State Bar Association
City Considers Health Department as Sole Marriage Records Keeper
Move to amend marriage law seeks to place record keeping with the Health Department due to widespread nonreporting and violations. City Clerk Scully notes clerks and clergy failed to file licenses and certificates within forty days, prompting threats of suits and missing records across Brooklyn and Manhattan.
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Health Department
Scully
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Guilfoy
City adopts time sheets for all city workers
The Board of Estimate and Apportionment authorized time sheets for over sixty thousand city employees, with about thirty thousand expected to be affected. Controller Metz notes many staff depart by 4 pm and use city time for side ventures. The Municipal Research Bureau also pushed a reform granting trade and cash discounts similar to private business.
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Board of Estimate
Metz
Bureau of Municipal Research
Ban on Christmas Decorations Warns Fire Underwriters
The New York Board of Fire Underwriters issues a formal notice to fire policy holders banning candleless Christmas trees and wreathless windows. Violations may void indemnity if fires originate from unapproved holiday displays. The circular cites accidents and losses totaling millions and targets such inflamed materials and displays as extra hazards.
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New York Board of Fire Underwriters
Theifr
New York Board of Underwriters
Antis Rumors Fly Over Women Civic Education Event
Two rumors swirled after the Berkeley Theatre meeting on The College Woman and the Ballet with Mrs A J George absent amid claims of kidnapping or league sabotage. Officials blamed Mrs Alfred Meyer's illness for postponement. Dr William H Allen urged ballot limits, calling disfranchisement a danger and noting public information as the cure. Police guarded the event as antis stayed away in bad weather.
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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
Ohe
Women Vote Support At Berkeley Lyceum Meeting
Berkeley Lyceum hosted a spirited Collegiate Equal Suffrage League event with Miss Ethel Arnold as speaker. The crowd, including many men, heard a history of suffrage progress in England and Europe, amid applause and orderly attendance by ushers and college delegates from Vassar Barnard Bryn Mawr Cornell and NYU. Notable attendees included Mrs. Russell Sage Mrs. Clarence H Mackay Mrs. Henry Villard Mrs. Edward Lauterbach and Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer.
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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
Barnard Seniors Open Stockings Christmas Fun At College
Barnard seniors sat on the floor opening Christmas stockings yesterday. A mock class solved puzzles while Santa distributed gifts. Stockings hung on lockers sparked ongoing pranks. the class president received a doll and gavel, the crush a heart set, and the engaged girl a wedding bell. Sophomores held multiple festive events in Thompson Gym, and faculty joined with a chapel service and glee club.
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Barnard
Santa Claus
Thompson Gymnasium
Loangetaha
Glee Club
Dinners for Seven Hundred at Murray Hill Christmas Day
Frank Tilford invites seven hundred Little Mothers from the city’s poorest districts to a Christmas dinner at Murray Hill on East 34th Street near Third Avenue. The event, on Christmas Day at 1 o'clock, features a musical programme with the children participating and gifts to be distributed. Lyceum.
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Frank Tilford
Murray Hill
East 34Th Street
Third Avenue
Lyceum
Flower Mission Opens Rooms for Christmas Aid in New York
The New York Flower Mission at 104 Eastth street announces open rooms on December 19, 21, 22 and 23 for receiving evergreens, 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 poor children are welcomed. Donations cover distribution costs and delicacies for the sick.
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New York
Christmas Greens and Fruit Prices at Washington Market
The Washington Market Christmas display shows abundant greens and trees including Normandy firs and fancy spruces with prices from $1 to $150 each. Fruits and vegetables are costly with figs at $12 and $15 per box, Spain Malaga grapes $1 a basket, oranges 35 cents to $1 a dozen, cranberries 2% cents a quart, and a wide range of produce and seafood priced for the season.
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Washington
Malaga
Arizona
India River
Amusements, Puritanism, and Tammany in New York
John Collier of the People's Institute lectured on Amusements' grip on the city, arguing private interests control theaters and moving picture shows. He urged reform through better amusements and public education, highlighting dance halls being vital yet ruinous for shop girls and children.
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Tammany
John Collier
Tt People’s Institute
Womans Forum
No. 21
West 44Th Street
Collier
Greece
New York City
Women Plead to Save St John’s Chapel at Fraunces Tavern
Knickerbocker Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution met at Fraunces Tavern. Mrs Sam Cumming Story urged preservation of St John’s Chapel Varick street, calling it a beautiful example of ecclesiastical architecture. Speakers included J C Pompelly H S and C A Pugsley congressman who voiced support for suffrage.
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Knickerbocker
Daughters of the American Revolution
Sam Cumming Story
Manhattan
St. John’s Chapel
Varick Street
New Yorks
Store
J. C. Pompelly
H.s Sicker
C. A. Pugsley
The
Sons of the American Revolution
Pugsley
W. R. Stewart
Dialogue Skit Lifts Wedding Day Promise
A brief humor sketch centers on a couple, the Husband and Wife, debating habits and restraint. The Wife recalls a change on their wedding day, while the Husband insists on continual parenln seeking as a running joke.
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NEW Bridge Inquiry
Lewis
Mar
Testator
Old Chapel
Sandwich Fame
Wall Street Commission
J. N. Fiero
Kings
Kings County
Robert H. Elder
Savoy Hotel
Theodore B. Stark
Madison Square
Wanamaker
First Gallery
John Wanamaker
Fourth Avenue
Eighth
Tenth Street
Philip Snowden
London
Flower Mission Open
Philadelphia
Maryland
Mrs. Story
A. F. Jammes
P. X Plan Standard Music Roll Co
Fifth Ave
Sath St
West End Exchan and
West Téth St
Exchange
Walter Geer
Bergh
E Pp. Thom
J. H. Dill
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