Big Change in Year on Exchange as Bond Business Surges
The year ending saw immense activity on the New York Stock Exchange especially in bonds. Unofficial totals show stock sales at 193,735,723 shares with large portions listed and unlisted, while bond sales reached 529,642,363 par value. Rail and miscellaneous stocks cleared through Consolidated Exchange rose, with mining stock volumes modest and wheat clearances up. The year reflected price declines and weaker overall business, though exchange totals and customs figures indicated substantial turnover across sectors.
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New York Stock Exchange
Consolidated Stock Exchange Clearing House
New York Learing House
Sub-Treasury
Jones urges coal fund and mining safety reforms in optimistic outlook
In Pittsburgh on December 31 President John H. Jones of the Pittsburgh-Buffalo Gal Company voiced optimism on coal output, citing world production near 1.2 billion tons and U.S. output about 440 million tons. He pushed for a coal miners’ fund funded by employers and state administration, criticized Pennsylvania laws allowing legal fees to widows and children, and predicted strong industrial growth if railroads and mines expand. Superior’s port report shows coal receipts of 6,995,446 tons in 1907.
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the Tribune
Pitteburg
United States
John H. Jones
Pittsburg-Buffalo Gal Company
Jones
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvvania
Superior
Wis
Labor unions blamed as receiver named for Reliance Steel Foundry
Vice Chancellor Howell signed an order appointing Charlies de Thompseon of Montclair as receiver for Reliance Steel Foundry Company, a Dela mana plant maker. The bill from Northrop & Griffiths cites harassment by organized labor as a key insolvency factor, noting assets around 254 dollars and debts exceeding 20 dollars.
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Howell
Charlies de Thompseon
Montclair
Reliance Steel Foundry ‘Company
Delamana
Northrop & Griffiths
Jersey Cay
Arthur Faulkenau
Passaic
Francis H. Stillman
Brooklyn
Bright Blaze at Bellevue Hospital Fire Alarm Responded Quickly
Tar paper rolls in the Bellevue Hospital rew buildings caught fire yesterday afternoon. Iver Brannon, president of the hospital board, ordered a fire alarm. Two fireboats and three engines fought the blaze and extinguished it. Superintendent Armstrong had attendants check wards to reassure patients with no panic.
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Rew
Bellevue Hospital
Iver Brannon
Board of Trustees
Armstrong
Fie
Government receipts fall off in monthly report
Washington reports forthcoming government receipts and expenditures for the month ending today show a net yearly loss of 17 million. Receipts decline by 8.6 million with customs down 6.895 million and internal revenue down 2.77 million, while expenditures rise across civil, war, navy, pensions, and public works sectors.
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Washington
Hearing Adjourned In Metropolitan Street Railway Case
A hearing before Judge Lacombe in the United States Circuit Court on the motion to compel payment of accrued rentals and interest by the Metropolitan Street Railway receivers was adjourned until Friday. Related matters, including funds-raising via receivers' certificates to operate the system, were also adjourned to Friday next at the same hour.
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Lacombe
United States Circuit Court
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Third Avenue Railway
Metropolitan
Vandeville Class E S Best Part
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Vandeville and a contrast between eS and F worst and best parts, but details are unclear. The readable items point to a possible entertainment or performance reference without concrete context or a clear event, date, or location.
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Vandeville
Hughes Law in Jersey Underscored by Hughes Public Utility Proposal
Governor Stokes received two reports from New Jersey State Railroad Commission. Whiting urges repeal of the current board and enactment of a Hughes style public utility law to regulate pipelines water telephone and telegraph firms. The report favors public ownership only as a regulatory choice and stresses simple, sound legislation aligned with conservative practice.
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Stokes
State Railroad Commission
Joseph W. Congdon
Paterson
Edmund Wilson
Red Bank
Borden D. Whiting
Orange
Messrs
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Wilson
Whiting
Mr. Whiting
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Tribune
New York
Hughes
New Jersey
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Hughes Public Utility
City charity rushes lodging house rebuild under way
Commissioner Robert W Hebberd of the Department of Charities announced that work will be rushed on the Municipal Lodging House on 25th Street near the East River after delays caused by quicksand under the boiler room. Bids will be readvertised next week as a new contractor may complete the six story building to alleviate overcrowding and worker displacement. Many wanderers and unemployed seek shelter amid cold weather as Salvation Army reports 125000 unemployed in the city and 275000 farm flies needing aid.
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East River
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Blackwell's Island
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Army
New York
Thaniel Slattery
Bringham
Yorke
Park Row
Bowery
Old Bohemia Memoir of Aldrich friendship and Whitman
William Winter recalls Aldrich in Boston and New York bohemian days. He details their meeting in 1850, Aldrich’s early works and influence, and Winter’s view of Whitman and the poet’s craft. The piece mixes reminiscence with literary circles, locales, and aging friendship.
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New York
Boston
Kedman Farm
Wonkapog
Mess
Witham Winter
Will
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Boston Transcript
Svastus
Daniel N. Hassell
Willy
Aldrich
New York Home -Journal
Congress Street
Haskel
Revere House
Haskell
William Winter
Weed
Horace Seeley
Tribune
Nassau and
Spruce Streets
Rushmore G. Horton
the World
Home Journal
Nathaniel P. Willis
George F. Morris
Noah
Sunday Times
Freemasonry
Dispatch
James
Ernst Brooks
Evening Press
Bryant
Rennete
Herald
Saturday Press
Spruce Street
Charles F. Briggs
Harry Franco
Courier
Augustin Daly
Henry Clapp, Jr
Kerward Howlang
Deren
Clapp
Alrey
Frest
Neal Est Sth
Mardougal Street
Oll
Fitz-dames O'Brien
Liamond Lens
Bohemia
Atlantic Monthly
BR. H. Stoddard
T. B
America
Herrick
Walt Whitman
Walt
Artists Save From Potter's Field In New York City
Dr Leigh Hunt secretary of the Artists Fund Society received a letter from Mrs Elize Walton asking rescue before 6 pm or her brother Joseph Michael Angelo Witte would be buried in Potter's Field. Witte, 45, had cancer in St Joseph Hospital since Oct 29. The society paid to bury him in Calvary Cemetery. Walton described family hardship including illness and unemployment. her brother was a decorative artist and a National Academy of Design member descendant with ties to well known artists.
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Leigh Hunt
West Lith Street
Artists’ Fund Society
Elize Walton
Pleasant Avenue
Herb
St. Joseph's Hospital
Potter's Field
Joseph Michael Angelo Witteborn
National Academy of Design
Walton
Hunt
Calvary Cemetery
Artists Fund Society
Artists’ Aid Society
Waltenora
St. Joseph Hospital
James Whitehorn
Wallingford
Trumbull
Morse and Dunlap
Pet Crow Saves Life of Boy in New Jersey
Carl Enfeldt’s pet crow Kaiser warned of danger by circling and tapping wings, leading to a hidden spot where five year old boy Herman Enfeldt had fallen and injured his head. Kaiser, previously wounded, recovered with care and became the family pet.
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N. J
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Herman Enfeldt
Enfeldt
Kaiser
Cved
Deluged With Postal Cards In New Year Rush
Post office workers wrestled a flood of New Year picture postal cards as city residents sent greetings to nearly every inhabitant. Assist ant Postmaster Murphy said the volume surpassed last year and Christmas packages, aided by heavy scent stamp sales, with over ninety thousand one cent stamps used the day before Christmas Cas.
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Murphy
Missing Colton securities found empty box in Wall Street vault
The Atlantic Safe Deposit box holding about 450000 in Mrs Ellen M Coltons estate securities was opened by estate collectors. It was in the name of David F Walker and Walter J Barnett of San Francisco. Barnett faces 200000 bail for embezzlement from California Safe Deposit. Proceedings to set aside Colton will continued with Paris heir Siegfried Sacher arriving next week.
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Atlantic Safe Deposit Company
Wall Street
Ellen M. Colton
Oavid F. Walker
Walter J. Barnett
San Francisco
Barnett
California Safe Deposit and Trust Company
Colton
Margaret B. Sacher
Paris
Siegfried Sacher
Johny B. Dahlgren
Dahlgren
Charles A. Douglas
Brainard W. Parker
Washington
New York
Art Forgery Law Urged by Fine Arts Federation
The movement led by sculptor William Ordway Partridge seeks a law making it a penal offense to sell a replica of an old master as original. F. Wellington Ruckstuhl supports tougher penalties, citing forgeries by artists like Treu in Paris and a widespread issue in both painting and sculpture.
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Fine Arts Federation
F. Wellington Ruckstuhl
St. Louis Exposition
Treuilibert
Europe
Corot
New York
West
Inness
WINS CHEMISTS MEDAL FOR APPLIED CHEMISTRY
John B. Francis Herreshoff will receive the first Perkins medal for achievements in applied chemistry at a New York Society of Chemical Industry meeting in the Chemists Club on January 34. Professor F. Chandler will present. The medal honors his refinements in copper refining and is tied to the Sir William Perkins mauve discovery and its vast industrial impact.
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John B. Francis Herreshoff
New York
Society of Chemical Industry
Chemists’ Club
F. Chandler
Columbia University
Society of Industrial Chemistry
Mr. Herreshoff
American Chemical Society
American Electro-Chemical Society
William Perkins
Herreshoff
Brown University
William H. Nichols
Nichola Chemical Company
Laure Bul, N. J
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