Mayor McClellan moves to curb Tammany as officials resign
Commissioner of Corrections John V. Cogger will resign at the mayor’s request. Mayor McClellan breaks with Murphy and McCarren, signaling a straight business administration for twelve months. The Board of Elections reappointment and related fill-ins loom as tensions shift in New York City politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John V. Cogger
Corrections
Mclellan
Tammany
Coggey
Cassidy
Hayes
Murphy
Berry
Bronx
Commissioners of Accounts
Mr. Berry
Spooner
Charles F. Murphy
Assembly
Patrick H. MewUarren
New York
Kings
McCarren
Tammany Or
Tammany Law Committee
Daniel F. Cohalan
General Committee
Commissioner of Elections
Cohalan
Board of Elections
John T. Dooling
Thomas F. McAvey
Tammany Executive Committee
Asken
John R. Voorhis
Voorhis
Tammany County Committee
Tammany Hall
Charles B. Page
Rudolph C. Fuller
James McKane
McKane
Brooklyn
Kings County
Senator McCarren
McClellan
Brooklyn Leader
City Hall
Stevenson
Lincoln Republican Club backs straight ticket for mayor
The Lincoln Republican Club approved a resolution favoring a straight Republican nomination for mayor next fall. The group met at 104 West 63d Street and said recent elections show an honest vote could elect a Republican city administration next fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln Republican Club
West 63d Street
Fall from Window Leads to Jail Custody in Brooklyn
William Redmond’s fall from a third story window at 165 Degraw street Brooklyn left him mortally injured and led to the arrest of Patrolman Henry Mehi of Elizabeth street station Manhattan and John J. Savage of No 3 Columbia street Brooklyn after Redmond accused them of forcing entry and pressing him from the ledge. Redmond later died in Long Island College Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Redmond
Degraw Street
Brooklyn
Raymond Street
Henry Mehi
Elizabeth Street
Manhattan
John J. Savage
Columbia Street
Redmond
Long Island College Hospital
Max Schmittberger
Gallagher
Amity Street
Savage
Charles Tafel
Spearson
No. 3
Transcontinental Short Line First Mortgage Bonds Offered
National City Bank N W Harris Co Potter Cheate Prentice and Moffat White offer Transcontinental Short Line first mortgage bonds to investors. The Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company issue 4 400 000 bonds with fifty year terms. Interest paid January 1 and July 31. Company may retire at 119 and accrued interest on three months notice before other payment dates.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
National City Bank
N. W. Harris & Co
Potter, Cheate & Prentice
Moffat & White
Bayside Yacht Club killing trial hinges on Hains brothers
The trial of Thornton J. Hains for the Bayside Yacht Club shooting of William E. Annis features heavy defense cross examination. Witnesses describe Captain Peter C. Hains Jr’s mental state and the brothers’ actions August 15 as investigators outline motives and events around the fatal incident.
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Thornton J. Hains
Peter C. Hains, Jr
William E. Annis
Bayside Yacht Club
Thornton Hains
Bayside
Annis
Charles R. Weaver
General Hains
Hains Concrete Mixer Company
Hains Brothers
Sandy Hook
Mr. Weaver
Captain Hains
John Tierney
Tierney
Hains
Charles Roberts
Mrs. Annis
Joseph A. Shay
Mr. McIntyre
Leo Rugge
Jesperson
Douglas Manor
McIntyre
Walter Stafford
West 11Th Street
Martin Skura
Skura
Fallon
District Attorney’s Office
Stafford
Crane
Philippines
Boston
Weaver
New York
Thornton
Bay Ridge
Mr. Annis
Ashman
Big John
Tanning
Mr. Roberts
Winnier
Mr. White
Laborers or artists mused in U.S. immigration clash
Washington dispatch reports the Federation of Musicians and the New York Musicians Union pressing Secretary Straus to reclassify musicians from artists to laborers under the contract labor law. They argue foreign players harm domestic jobs. Straus pokes fun at himself, noting the department’s harmony role.
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The
Tribune Boureau
Washington
Federation of Musicians
New York Musicians’ Union
Straus
Department of Commerce and Labor
Tooter
Joseph Weber
Philip Houser
E. J. Gavegan
New York
Rhosevelt
Tom
Department of Harmony
Messrs. Weber, Houser and
Gavegan
Mr. Straus
Ellis Island
Five Hurt In City Car Crash At Eighth Avenue Intersection
Five persons were injured last night when two crowded surface cars collided at Eighth Avenue and 5d Street. Samuel Jenzin of 141 Broome Street is in Roosevelt Hospital with a hip injury and internal wounds. Motorman Patrick Gildea of the Amsterdam Avenue line was arrested for intoxication and criminal negligence after disobeying a crossing rule. Both cars were wrecked and lights extinguished as panicked passengers struggled amid crowded seating and standing room.
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Eighth Avenue
5D Street
Samuel Jenzin
No. 141
Broome Street
Roosevelt Hospital
Patrick Gildea
Amsterdam Avenue
8D Street
Gildea
Eighth Avenue Line
Berry Denies Signing False Time Slips In Bronx Park Dept Probe
Joseph I. Berry, head of the Bronx Park Department, testifies that charges of signing time slips for unperformed work are absolutely false. He says affidavits and witness claims are part of a political campaign and vows to examine January 5–11, 1907 slips tied to drains in Pelham avenue.
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Joseph I. Berry
Park Department
Bronx
Commissioners of Accounts
Michel
James Finnigan
Finnigan
Pelham Avenue
Berry
Mitchel
Wyman
Ferris
Wilkinson Cellar
Haffen
Cost of Government of the City of New York pamphlet
Controller Metz issues a fifty page analysis of New York City's budget for the year 199 detailing the budget's cost drivers. He notes debt interest accounts for about 32 percent of the growth and highlights a large rise in private charitable institution allocations by 593,450 92 dollars. He states no salary increases are planned for 1909 except minimal clerical or labor needs approved by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment and the Board of Aldermen.
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Metz
City of
New York
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Board of Aldermen
Smugglers of Chinese Sentenced in Federal Court
Salvador Armenta Ygnacio Barrion and Francisco Charves three Mexicans convicted of smuggling Chinese into the United States from Mexico were sentenced to nine months in San Bernardino County jail and fined one dollar each by the federal court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Ilec
Salvador Armenta
Ygnacio Barrion
Francisco Charves
Mexico
San Bernardino
City News in Brief Highlights Local Events and Court Action
A dinner honoring Albert Lucas for Jewish service is set for January 17 at Leslie Rooms Broad Way and 88d Street. A St James church choir hosted reception occurs at the parish house St James Place near Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn. Drugstore owner Harry Gordon of 421 Bushwick Avenue Williamsburg is held for grand jury action on homicide related to Samuel Shapiro’s death on December 12. The High School of Commerce alumni annual dinner is tonight at Healy's.
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Ccity
Albert Lucas
Leslie Rooms
Broadway
88D Street
St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church
St James’ Place
Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn
Harry Gordon
Bushwick Avenue
Williamsburg
O'Reilly
Manhattan Avenue
Gordon
Samuel Shapiro
High School of Commerce
Healy's
Aquarium Attendance Reaches 2.5 Million This Year
The Battery Aquariums records show 2.5 million visitors this year, averaging about 7,000 daily. The year ends Thursday, with additional attendance expected. Public viewing will continue tonight and tomorrow night.
Maritime Almanac and Oceanic Schedules Include Wireless Reports
The page lists marine timings and tides for Sandy Hook and Gov Island with high water periods. It also provides wireless reports from ships like Zeeland and a long roster of vessel movements, arrivals and destinations across Atlantic routes and Pacific lines with dates in December and January.
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Sandy Hook
Gov. Island
Hell Gate
Shipping News Aboard Steamer Arrivals and Quarantine Reports
A listing of steamers including Crispin, Denver, Seguranca, Admiral Schley, Rosario di Giorgio, Caracas, El Cid, Porto Rico, Proteus, Slavonia, Bay View, Harry Luckenbach, Princess Anne, Paloma, da Cuneo, and others with routes from Port Antonio to New York, Baltimore, and Caribbean ports. Details note passengers, mails, cargo, and quarantine status, with bar arrivals and times at Sandy Hook.
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Crispin
Wuliams
Para
Harbados
Booth & Co
Moise
Sandy Hook
Denver
Staples
Galveston
Mallory
Ss Co
Seguranca
Oakes
Santiago
Nassau
New York and Cuba
Southern Pacific Co
Slavonia Br
Dunning
Trieste
Fiume
Palermo
Naples
Gibraltar
Cunard Sc Co
The
Bar
Bay View
Cummings
Britannia
Newport News
Boston
Harry Luckenbach
Dalton
New Oceans
Princess Anne
Tapley
Newport New
Norfolk
Old Dominion Ss Co
Pat
Paloma
Moston
Matansas
Sagua
Carbarlen
Cardenas
Munson
Sito
da Cuneo
Nor
Iversen
Maria
Anita Bay
Morant Bay
Port Morant
Port Antonio
Cuneo Importing Company
Port Maria
Jefferson
Saramacca
Paramaribo
Standard
Ger
Flushing
Steamers at Foreign Ports Arrivals Listed in NY Ledger
Ships arriving at New York from Genoa Yokohama and other ports include Regina d Italia via Suez on Dec 25 and York Shanghei via Singapore Cebu and Hong Kong on Dec 28. Other entries note Bermuda Alderney Letxoes and Montevideo departures, with vessels such as Orinoce Cavour Kurdistan and Cretic among those listed.
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Regina’ d'Italia
New York
Genoa
Suez
York
Shanghei
Aragonia
Ger
Singapore
Cebu
Hong Kong
Southampton
Orinoce
Kingston
Colon
Bermuda
Bermudian
Torre Annunziata
Alderney
Ner
Pillau
Gut Heil
Local street grid notes at Warren and 13th 34th streets
Fragmentary street grid entry lists intersections Warren street with 13th and 34th streets and a sequence of numbers. No clear event or attribution available.
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Warren St
13Th St
34Th St
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Democratic Committee
County of
Hainses
Bayside Club
Brothers
No. 47
Riverside Drive
Peter C. Hains
Brooklyn Bridge
City Hall Park
Fort Hancock
Worth Street
the Waldorf
Cluett, Peabody & Co., Makers
Bonaba
Stern Brothers
West Twenty-third Street
Says J. I. Berry
Marine Intelligence
Zeeland
California
Glasgow
Tintoretto
Barbados
Prinz Augustum
Hamb-Am
Suriname
I Thornley
Arika
Seville
Lisbon
Liverpool
White Star Book
Texas
Havre
French Fiore
Curacao
Antwerp
Red Star Ryndam
Rotterdam
Holland-Am Crispin
Massachusett
London
Atlantic Trans
Aurora Curacao
Red
Progreso
Ward Galveston
So Pacific
New Orleans
Feeeencon
Eeedanaemals
White Star
Lioyd-Itar
Bremen
Lioyd
Swansea
Bristol Rhein
Wells City
eBrings Mail
Noordam
Holland-Am
Korona
Quebec
Lianwern
Argenti
Norton
U F Co
Altai
Hayti
San Domingo
Clyde
Maraval
Grenada
Trinidad
Kroonland
Red Star
Madonna
Fabre
Alice
San Marcos
Colorado
Tampa
Matllers
Mohawk
Jacksonville
Monroe
Old Dominic
la Lorraine
Merida
Havana
Vinland
Santo Domingo
Gneisenau
Lloyd
Savannah
Serene Hamilton
Old Dominion
Transpacific Mails
Close
Hawaii
Japan
Corea
China
Philippine Islands
San Francisco
U. S. Transport
Seattle
Iyo
Alameda
New Zealand
Australia
West
Samoan Islands
New Caledonia
Vancouver
Victoria
B. c
Empress of India
Tacoma
Titan
Tahiti
Marquesas Island
Mariposa
Shipping News
Rocers, Pret & Company
Hippodrome
Sporting Bipd
NSW Circus
Mechanical Assoc
All Star Wau
Maxine
St. Bet
Fipater
Tcg-Sv
Waxing Elliott
Lyrig Spt
BLUE
Mats Tom
Daly
Mats’ WM
Faversham, Fri
West Eng
Lulu Glaser Ae Mase Hiey
Joe Weber
Annie Russell
Hodge
Mississippi
NEW Amsterdam Mats
Klaw & E Great
Anna
ATRE
Gaiet Theatre
Os &B
Liberty Frederi Thomps
Eeee Theatre
Easway
41St St
Mara Peggy Machree
Ali
Oscar Hammerstein
Mme
Tetrazzini
Mile
Ponzano
Constantino
Saramarco
Jir Campanini
Irmance
Zeppill
Tremtini
Mmes
Doris
Mariska
Irvin Place
Heidelberg
Orch
Tie
Balao Gall
Mendelssohn Hall
Florence E. Gal
Maud Powel
Muklie
Peeee the Queen
Thos W. Ross & Co
Emmett Corrgan & Co
Bathing Girls
Alhanbra
Marcel's Art
John T. ‘Kelly & Co
Jessie Preston
Ruth Allen
Exposition Four
Othera
Py Theatre
N. Yrs
Sat Janes PA
Finland
Celtle (Br
Queens
Dee
Moville
Columbia Br
Constantinople
Lee
Claremont
Der
Chicago City
Rouen
le Cou
St Thomas
Sam—Farima
Demerara
Rio de Janeiro
Terence
Caroline
New
Cearense
Marenheuse
River. Plate
Hyperia
Brandenburg
Cherbourg
St Louis
Samland
Dover
Marina
Antw
Det
San Giorgio
Ital
New Yi
Genop
Criterion
SAT Wat
Gillette
Samson
Lyceum
Billie Burke
Garrick
Poe
William Collier
Patriotee Knickerbocker
Fritz! Scheff
Savoy
Wilton Lackaye
Sxee M Theatre
Herford
Ige
Sparkes
Bontampanart
Didur Ducter
Spetrin
Aida Hemer
Martin
Fein Scarini
Emma Hals
Didur
Parliars
Faust
Ditur
Traviata
Bond
Campana
Troy
Gay
Rossi
Madama Butterfly
Scotti
Weber
H Street
Meme Sant Oe Soncxem
Blanche Bates
DEVIL
Hackett
Sts
iVrs
Fiske
Ance
Warrens
Virginia
Keenan
Charlotte Walker
Mats
Eve
Madison Square Garden
NEW York Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Association (Ltd
Davies
Atlantic Cat Club
Oratorio Society of
N.Y
Wes
Avnus “Che Messiah
Gertrude Leadiabe
George Ham
Dalton Bake
Mendelssonn Hall
Tesday
Sid Flonzaley
Emmerstein's
NAT Ar Wix & Rare
Blane
Severin
Emma Carus
Eden
Gayrsy Music Cinematograph
New York Institution For the Blind
4Th Street
6Th Avenue
Cha H. Marshall
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