Bronx 107 Acre Tract Sold to Lord Alverstone Syndicate
A 107 acre portion of a larger 800 acre tract at Hunt's Point in The Bronx sold to Lord Alverstone's company for about 1.2 million dollars. The buyer includes ex Mayor Hugh J. Grant and Anthony N. Brady with Charles H. Patrick as president. The purchase expands factory and docking access while signaling Bronx redevelopment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bronx
East Bay Land Company
Chicago
Eyadicate
Lord Alverstone
Charles H. Patrick
Hugh J. Grant
C. K. G. Billings
Anthony N. Brady
Hunt's Point
Hunt’s Point
American Banknote Company
Hast
New York
Jacob Leitner
East River
Giso
Messrs
Great Britain
England
Charles Russell
Behring Sea
Mrs Bianchi Sues Over Amherst Mortgage Coercion
Martha G D Bianchi filed suit in the Supreme Court seeking to annul a mortgage and deed on Amherst College campus property. She alleges coercion by Miss Charlotte T Terry and attorney Maurice Leon to save her husband Captain Alexander Bianchi from jail amid a $500 bail in a separate civil action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Bianchi
Martha G. D. Bianchi
Supreme Court
Charlotte T. Terry
Maurice Leon
Wall Street
Amherst
Mass
Biles Terry
Bianchi
Gramercy Park
Amherst College
New England
Gilsey House
Dickinson
Vaudeville Actor Freed After New Trial Acquittal
William Robinson of Cooper and Robinson, freed by a General Sessions jury after a new trial, was acquitted of robbery charges while previously sentenced to up to fifteen years. Judge Malone urged a thorough review of testimony by Hyman Sussman and Jacob Phillips amid alleged perjury. The jury deliberated under fifteen minutes.
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William Robinson
Cooper and Robinson
Sing Sing
Malone
Hyman Sussman
No. & West Jist Street
Jacob Phillips
Bussman
Ze Maloneet
Robinson
Hudson Grand Jury Indicts Slayings and Arson in Jersey City
The Hudson County Grand Jury handed twenty five indictments to Justice Swayze. James F. Connelly was indicted for manslaughter in the killing of Joseph Marshall during a quarrel at a Democratic primary in Jersey City. Bond was set at 1000 and he was released. Ivan Relten was indicted for arson for allegedly twice setting fire to General William Heppenheimer’s home in Jersey City.
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Hudson County Grand Jury
Justice Swayze
James F. Connelly
Joseph Marshall
Jersey
Simpson
Dennis McLaughlin
Connelly
Ivan Relten
Wiliam Heppenheimer
Wersey City
Fire Strikes Gilsey House On Broadway During Holiday Rush
A blaze on the sixth floor of the Gilsey House hotel at Broadway and 28th street disrupted Christmas shoppers. Patrolman Diehl spotted the fire started in a valet’s room. guests were warned by Miss Mamie Sullivan the telephone operator and no panic ensued. Water damage afflicted several guests while valuables belonging to Boo Monroe Al Smith Lillian Vane Adelaide Herrmann Amelia Summerville and Fannie Rice suffered losses. The fire, contained to the sixth floor, prompted police lines and hose bursts as order was restored at the historic hotel now under receivership.
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Gilsey
Broadway
2Eth Street
Diehl
Tenderloin
Mamie Sullivan
Miss Sullivan
Boo Monroe
al” Smith
Lillian Vane
the Lion and the Mouse” Company
Adelaide Herrmann
Amelia Summerville
Fannie Rice
Archibald Douglas
Douglas & Armitage
No. 2
Marine Deputy Chief of the Fire Department to be created
City to appoint a Marine Deputy Chief of the Fire Department with rank matching a marine master after federal demand. Aldermanic action followed. Also approved a $2,000 salary for the Court of General Sessions captain and established a street department hostler grade. Jefferson Boulevard name change sought for a Thomas Jefferson statue site. Loughman discussed a $10,000 water main shut off purchase request and resolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
McGowan
Board of Estimate and
Court of General Sessions
Hostler
Mulcahy
Seventh Avenue
110Th Street
Harlem River
Jefferson Boulevard
Women’s Democratic Club
Thomas Jefferson
New Boulevard
Marx
Loughman
Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity
Vice Licensed as Fourteen Committee Probes Courts
Frederick H. Whiting testifies before a legislative committee on inferiors courts. He cites case where bail was forfeited and a suspended sentence, notes lack of license for a known house, and argues records of such places should be kept. He urges trials for social law violations before three magistrates chosen by the Mayor. The hearing continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick H. Whiting
Baines Law
Whiting
New York
Corrigan
Joseph C. Graveur
Court of Special Sessions
State to sue railroads for forest fire losses
Albany reports State Forest Fish and Game Com mission general counsel John K Ward will file suits against railroad companies to recover damages from fires started by negligence on rights of way. Commissioner James Whipple directs actions against all railroads to recover timber and state property losses.
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Albany
John K. Ward
State Forest, Fish and Game Commission
James 8. Whipple
Ward
City Court to Get New Furnishings for $10,000 Bonds
Chief Judge O Dwyer told the Board of Aldermen the City Court needs $10,000 in revenue bonds to furnish the two new stories. Borough President Ahearn sought authority to buy the furnishings without advertising for bids, despite objections. The resolution passed as O Dwyer warned delays would leave judges clerks stenographers and attendants idle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Court
O'Dwyer
Ahearn
Death in Jersey Auto Crash
Dayton Meeker of Irvington was killed in Nutley New Jersey when an auto driven by Frederick Baldwin collided with a livery truck. Four occupants were thrown from the car. Meeker suffered a fatal skull fracture while the others escaped serious injury.
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Dayton Meeker
Irvington
Nutley
N. J
Frederick Baldwin
Meeker
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Rail Road to Buy 17 Tons Steel Rails
Dispatches from Pittsburg report the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Rail Road Company authorizes the purchase of 16.96 tons of steel rails for 19 per ton. The order, to be placed soon, calls for delivery early next year and totals more rails than used in 1968. Much of the rails will support the Ohio River bridge at Beaver and replacement work for 190 will exceed this year’s effort.
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Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad Company
Pittsburg
Ohio River
Christmas Post Office Rush Sets Record For Holiday Trade
The post office gears up for a record holiday rush with eleven extra wagons and 750 more carriers and clerks. Murphy notes early rush due to public mailing cues, while stamp and money order departments run at peak volume. In Brooklyn, 350+ public building workers face a two week layoff due to funds.
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General Post Office
Murphy
Money Order Department
Brooklyn
Express Company
Red Cross
Nassau
Fulton
Chambers Street
Broadway
Nassau Street
Hester Street
John Street
Ann Street
Grand
Cana
Bureau of Public Buildings and Offices
Tubular Chime Clocks with Exclusive Designs
Madison Square debuts tubular chime clocks featuring exclusive case designs. The new line showcases compact silhouettes and distinctive motifs aimed at collectors and home decorators.
Metz Sighs Over Sleep and vast private empire
Controller Metz told the joint legislative committee that he sleeps only between 4 and 7 a.m. and spends post-6 p.m. on personal business. He described owning a Newark factory, two Worcester mills, the village of Stonefield, and presiding over five corporations with substantial national reach. He noted a personal payroll of about a thousand and offices across the U S and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saxe
Newark
Worcester
Mass
Stonefield
United States
Europe
Navy Yard Christmas Week Brings Feasts and Exoduses
Brooklyn Navy Yard prepares for a nearly deserted village on Christmas with shipboard dining on the New Hampshire Chester Alabama and Celtic and Hancock crews joining in festive meals. Marines and officers plan home or barracks celebrations while services are held in Cob Dock library. Few clerical staff take time off as a long standing practice of year end leaves prompts a mass exodus and a proposed yard closure that has never been enacted.
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Navy Yard
Brooklyn
New Hampshire
Chester
Alabama
Celtic
Hancock
Uncle Sam
Flushing Avenue
Cob Dock
Walter G. Isaacs
Manhattan
Father McDonald
Francis T. Bowles
Construction and Repair Bureau
May Kill Franchises Yonkers Railroad in Transit Crisis
Yonkers Railroad under receiver Leslie Sutherland faced a court driven shutdown of Elm and Watt street lines and the South Broadway spur. Fare to New York cut to 10 cents was postponed as franchises may be revoked. City council rejected Sutherland and Whitridge transfer plans, forcing abandonment of two lines.
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Kingsbridge
South Broadway
van Cortlandt Park
Union Railway
Huckleberry
Common Council
Mr. Sutherland
Frederick W. Whitridge
Yonkers
Yonkers Road
City Line
New York
Sutherland
Whitridge
McLean Avenue
New
Obituary of Bishop John Stephen Michaud of Burlington
The Right Rev. John Stephen Michaud bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Burlington Vermont died yesterday at St. Vincent's Hospital from Bright's disease. He arrived Monday on the steamer Amerika from France where he sought health and grew ill on the voyage. Born November 24 1843 in Burlington he studied at Montreal College Holy Cross Worcester and St. Joseph's Seminary Troy and was ordained June 7 1873. He was consecrated bishop June 29 1872.
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John Stephen Michaud
Burlington
St. Vincent's Hospital
Bright
Amerika
France
Michaud
W. A. Plemenden
D.A. Shea
Montreal College
Holy Cross College
Worcester
St. Joseph's Seminary
Troy
N. Y
Henry C King Loses Land Suit In Supreme Court
Charleston West Virginia December reports three Supreme Court opinions uphold Henry C King of New York losing title to thousands of acres in Southern West Virginia. King claimed under the original grant and contested numerous squatters in a long running case marked by bitter litigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Supreme Court
Henry C. King
New York
West Virginia
Prominent Businessmen Die Within Short Span
EDSON G. DAVIDGE longtime figure in United States Leather Company dies at his Middletown New York home from Brights disease. THOMAS F. SMITH head of Thomas F. Smith & Co grain brokerage dies suddenly in St James Hospital Newark New Jersey from pleuro pneumonia. JOHN WOOD longtime treasurer of Max Huncke Chemical Company Brooklyn dies after a long illness at his West 140th Street home. He served in the Civil War as a U S Navy commander and was adjutant of Lincoln Post G A R. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery after a funeral at 11 o clock tomorrow.
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Edson G. Davidge
United States Leather Company
Middletown
N. Y
Bright
Thomas F. Smith
Thomas F. Smith & Co
St. James's Hospital
Newark
N. J
John Wood
Max Huncke Chemical Company
Brooklyn
Anny and Peck recount Mount Huascaran near fall
Providence climbers Annie and Peck, returning from South America aboard the Panama liner Alliance, describe reaching the Huascaran summit on September 2 and a near disaster during descent when guide Taugwalder slipped and pulled them toward a fissure. Gabriel zum Taugwald saved them by bracing himself and directing foothold digging to ease the rope’s weight.
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Annie & Peck
Providence
South America
Panama
Alliance
Mount
Huascaran
Taugwalder
Miss Peck Recovers From Mount Huascaran Climbning Peril
Miss Peck describes a near fall on Mount Huascaran with guides Taugwalder and others. An ascent to 24,000 feet set a new record, surpassing W. W. Graham. Earlier attempt stalled at 16,000 feet after crevasse danger and mountain sickness.
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Taugwalder
Miss Peck
Mount Huascaran
W. W. Graham
Himalaya
Mount
Huascaran
Great Canadian Bridge Completed
The Grand Trunk passenger department in New York received a telegram announcing completion of the new bridge across the Battle River, 676 miles west of Winnipeg. The new line shortens the route to Edmonton, Alberta, by 792 miles from Winnipeg, enabling regular passenger service to start early next summer.
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Grand Trunk
New York
Battle River
Winnipeg
Edmonton
Alberta
Woman acid attack shocks Jersey town doctor
A patient, Mrs. Alice Castner, 35, blinded Dr. Charles E Smith after brandishing a pistol and hurling carbolic acid in his Washington office. The assailant, who had warned she might kill either him or herself, fled to her farm after the attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, N. J
Charles E Smith
Alice Castner
Dr. Smith
Boy's Foot Crushed in Subway Door Crush
William McDowell a clerk at 11 West 126th Street suffered a crushed foot when his shoe was caught between two subway car bumpers at Tid Street station during the morning rush. He was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital with severe fractures and a grim prognosis.
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William McDowell
No. 11
West 126Th Street
Tid Street
Young McDowell
McDowell
Roosevelt Hospital
New Smelting Company Active
International Smelting and Refining Company, incorporated in New Jersey with 56,000 capital, seeks contracts with silver, lead and copper mine owners dissatisfied with current smelting. John D. Ryan travels west to scout sites for plants as the firm plans a rapid start and stockholders from Western mines. Officers and directors to be announced soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Smelting and Refining Company
New Jersey
John D. Ryan
Phone bonds oversubscribed in wide city subscriptions
A total of approximately Sida subscription has been received for the 85 per cent a teen-year first mortgage bonds offered by Lee Higginson & Co. on a 450 per cent income. The bulk of subscriptions was received in Chicago and Boston.
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S.q
Lee Higginson & Co
Chicaa
Boston
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Innocent
Hudson Grand Jury
VICE
IO Sue
Forest, Fish and Game Counsel
Whipple
Santa Claus
New York City
Theodore B. Stark
Madison Square
Metz
Lee
Joint Legislative Investigating Committee
Troller
Chickering Quarter
Emer
Angelus
J. C. Campbell Piano
Schumacker
Vose
Emerson
Kurtzmann
Knabe
Eta
John Wanamaker
Fourth Avenue
John
Annie Speck
Rockwood
Fifth Avenue
Great Canadian Bridge
Jersey Man
Subway
NEW Smelting Company
Savoy Hotel
Naples
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