Tiger's Building Code Scratched by Tammany Tigers
A heated battle over New York City's Building Code Commission reveals Tammany Hall influence as the code is revised and expanded. Key figures include Alderman Grifenhagen and ex-Superintendent Brady, with scrutiny on attendance and motives.
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14Th Street
Tammany Hall
Sullivan
Municipal Ownership League
Grifenhagen
Code Commission
Alderman Sullivan
Thomas J. Brady
Thomas L. Hamilton
Ulrich H. Huberty
Brooklin
P. F. Kenny
Clarence Luce
James Clark McGuire
Air Lost To Prisoners In Nevada Mine
Ely Nev Jan 5 Six inch air pipe feeding three trapped miners at the six hundred foot level became bent by rock pressure causing a temporary loss of air. Rescuers repaired the break within hours but the rescue remains distant as conditions hinder progress.
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Ely. Nev
Steamer May Have Sunk After Collision Mystery
Telegraph report from Providence dated January 5 describes wreckage found at Block Island suggesting a steamer disaster, possibly a collision. Wreckage includes new hatches wheelbox bulwarks with no vessel name known. The Plymouth, sailing New York to Fall River, disabled near Point Judith and returned to Fall River under her own power.
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The
Tribune
Providence
Block Island
Point Judith
Plymouth
New York
Fall River
Isthmian Canal Commission backs 100 foot lock width
Washington reports the Isthmian Canal Commission votes unanimously to recommend to the Secretary of War that canal locks be built at 100 feet wide, deeming it ample for years of commercial shipping. The Navy and President may authorize a 110 foot width if feasible and affordable to accommodate future naval ships.
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Washington
Isthmian Canal Commission
Secretary of War
Navy Department
Navy
Investments Here Safe
Arthur Spitzer and Pierre Dejardin-Verkinder of Société Générale and M. Manheimer Paris City Engineer visit Buffalo to verify holdings in Westinghouse bonds worth 3.9 million and Pennsylvania Railroad bonds about 28.9 million among American securities totaling 40.9 million. They state the financial downturn is temporary and affirm confidence in holdings. Société Générale, capitalized at 300 million francs, operates about seven hundred French branches.
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Buffalo
Arthur Spitzer
Pierre Dejardin-Verkinder
Société Générale
Europe
M. Manheimer
Paris
Westinghouse Company
America
Spitzer
Westinghouse
France
Carnegie's Mother Name Sparks Pension for Indiana Woman
Pittsburg Jan 5 Aged Indiana woman with the same name as Andrew Carnegie's mother writes claiming need. Carnegie investigates and places Mrs Margaret Morrison Carnegie on his pension list for life and provides for her immediate needs.
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Indiana
the Tribune
Pittsburg
Margaret Morrison Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Prince Helie Sues Count Boni for Assault
Paris January 5 Prince Heli de Sagan sues Count Boni de Castellane in criminal court seeking one franc damages for assault. The action is scheduled for January 21.
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Prince Helie
Boni
Paris
Prince Hélie de Sagan
Count Boni de Castellane
Munsterberg denies inventing truth-telling instruments
Boston dispatch reports Harvard psychologist Professor Hugo Munsterberg refuting claims that he invented devices to compel truth. He said the instruments existed years before and lacked crime solving value. He also disclaimed links to stories about his Harry Orchard examination and noted mechanical tests cannot distinguish innocence from guilt. Briarcliff milk notice also mentions increased supply and new orders.
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the Tribune
Boston
Hugo Munsterberg
Harvard
Harry Orchard
Rent Strikers Clash as Flags Seized by Police
Police swept seven tenement blocks in Rutgers Cherry and Monroe streets seizing red flags bearing Rent Strike. Isidore Piacke, charged with assaulting an officer, led the arrests after tenants fought officers. Fifteen flags were taken, with hundreds of landlords reported as having yielded to strikers.
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Rutgers
Cherry
Monroe Streets
Cherry Street
Fahey
Lang
Isidore Piacke
Piacke
Madison Street
Hines
Monroe Street
Rutgers Street
Abraham Lowenthal
East Lth Street
Serberg
East Suh Street
Dove of Peace
Grand Street
13Th District Court
Jacob Panken
Captain Shaw
East Sun Street
Form Union to Get Lower Rents in Chicago Ghetto
Five hundred residents in Chicago's ghetto form a tenants union to push landlords to cut rents by two dollars monthly. They urge nonpayment of current rates deemed exorbitant and threaten legal costs if reductions are refused. Four rooms cost 12 a month, five rooms 18, six rooms 22. The model mirrors New York, with plans to widen to the laboring class and seek Chicago Federation of Labor backing.
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Chicago
New York
Chicago Federation of Labor
Newark Striking Tenants Rally for Tenant Organization
A mass meeting at Starrs Auditorium Newark drew many tenants eager to form a permanent group to fight landlords while nearby Real Estate Owners Association lawyers counseled. Police reserves were called to quell disturbances in tenement districts as landlords prepare dispossess notices and seek police and court support for evictions.
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Starr
Morris and
Fifteenth Avenues
Newark
Real Estate Owners’ Association
Edward Schoen
4Th
Benjamin Epstein
Manhattan
New York
Broome Street
Engagement announced of Denver heiress to Hungarian count
Denver Jan 5 The engagement of Miss Maud aves a young Denver heiress to Count Francis Emmerich Gyery of Hungary was formally announced yesterday The count is twenty seven years old and has lived in Denver during the last two years representing a Havana tobacco concern.
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the Tribune
Denver
Maudaves
Francis Emmerich Gyery
Hungary
Death trap on Redder's Pond claims three lives
William Stecher Jr age sixteen and his brother Francis nineteen plus Joseph Teircey twenty drowned after breaking through thin ice at Redder's Pond Jamaica. Rescue efforts by police and fire crews in freezing conditions lasted hours by bonfire light with grappling hooks improvised from local reconstruction materials. Teircey, a Richmond Hill clerk, was identified later. William Stecher Sr. works for Queens County Trust Company, the brothers were Christmas skaters.
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William Stecher, Jr
Francis
Joseph Teircey
Redder's Pond
Jamaica
Young Teircey
Redder’s Pond
Black Stump Road
Hillside Avenue
William Stecher
William
Burt Jay Humphrey
Jamaica Station
Martin
Hennessey
Fagan
Humphrey
Ouderloney
Hook and Ladder Company 77
Long Island
William Reiss
Teircey
Joseph Smyth
Chichester
Oak Streets
Richmond Hill
Crawford
St. Mary's Hospital
Stecher
Queens County Trust Company
Tug Wyoming Rescues Coal Barges in Southwest Gale
Amid a southwest gale the tug Wyoming of the Lehigh Valley fleet dropped six tows off Raritan Bay and rescued crews from the last two scows. She cast off the string, gathered the men aboard, and rejoined the barges as they risked sinking in rough seas. Three boats headed to Rhode Island and three to Boston, each carrying about two thousand tons of coal.
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Wyoming
Lehigh Valley
Raritan Bay
South Amboy
Perth Amboy
Raritan River
Rhode Island
Boston
British Army Officer Dies After Trolley Car Collision
John C Caulley a retired British army officer and former lieutenant colonel of the Royal West Kent Regiment died in a Buffalo hospital after being struck by a trolley car. The Cambridge born officer served in India and the Gordon relief expedition and Majuba Hill. He had lived in Minnicoganshene Georgian Bay and later Toronto with a wife and son and two daughters in Buffalo attended school.
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Buffalo
John C. Caulley
Cautley
Cambridge
England
Royal West Kent Regiment
India
Majuba Hill
Minnicoganshene
Georgian Bay
Toronto
Typhoid Claims Trenton Pastor Keevil
Trenton typhoid outbreak claims Rev Dr Charles Keevil pastor of First Baptist Church for a year after relocation from New York. He died at Mercer Hospital where he had been treated for three weeks. Keevil left two children and had several siblings including ministers Joseph Keevil and J L Keevil. Born May 15 1871 in Wiltshire England he began ministry in Quincy Massachusetts and served Woodside Long Island beforeTrenton. Ad shows Haan's Restaurant Park Row Building.
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Trenton
N. J
Charles Keevil
First Baptist Church
Second Avenue Baptist Church
New York
Keevil
Mercer Hospital
Joseph Keevil
Second Baptist Church
Brooklyn
J. L. Keevil
Johnson City
Tenn
Dr. Keevil
King’s Meade
Wiltshire
England
Quincy
Mass
Woodside
Long Island
Recall of Former Japanese Soldiers Reported from Vancouver
The Oregonian says Vancouver dispatch reports hundreds of former Japanese soldiers there have received orders from the Mikado to return to Japan at once. The notice comes from Vancouver, B. C., and was reported from Portland, Oregon, on January 5.
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Portland
Ore
The
Oregonian
B. C
Japan
Few Japanese Leaving Hawaii Amid Strong Sugar Season
Honolulu report notes little movement of Japanese laborers from Hawaii to Vancouver as the sugar grinding season starts and employment is abundant. About two hundred Japanese have passage engaged to sail via San Francisco on the French steamship Admiral Fourichon, due soon.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Vancouver
B.C
San Francisco
Ships Tangle in Gale Off Brooklyn Amid Ulterior Damage
In a northwest gale the Ciudad de Reus dragged its anchor at Morse's dry dock and collided with the Maraval, pushing them off course. The Reus grounded on a beach after drifting three blocks, likely total loss for a scow it struck. Both vessels splintered lifeboats and twisted the Maraval’s bow plate but escaped major damage. Tugboats aided as both ships untangled and drifted apart, with the Maraval reaching a Brooklyn pier.
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Ciudad de Reus
Morse’s Dry Dock
56Th Street
Bay Ridge
Brooklyn
Trinidad
Former Opera Singer Katrina Seckersdoff Dies at Hotel
Mrs Katrina Seckersdoff formerly an opera singer and wife of Gustav Seckersdoff a retired manufacturer died suddenly in her Victoria Hotel Annex apartment Broadway and 26th last night. Police called Coroner Dooley suspects apooplexy as the cause. The dog she kept as a pet caused delay in aid when present and was locked in another room.
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Katrina Seckersdoff
Gustav Seckersdoff
Victoria Hotel Annex
Broadway
26Th Street
Seckersdoff
Dooley
Tenderloin Station
Skating Nets Fatalities as Frost Grips London
A week of hard frost in England brings widespread skating in London and other areas. Accidents on the ice and exposure have caused multiple deaths, highlighting dangerous conditions despite the popular pastime.
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London
Fog Delays British Coast Shipping Halting Liners
Dense fog along the British coast, especially around Glasgow and Liverpool, is delaying many liners. The Carmania, set to sail Saturday at five, was held until this afternoon as numerous large steamships on both inbound and outbound routes experience postponements.
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London
Glasgow
Liverpool
Staten Island Ferry Boots Shine At Last
Staten Island women can now have their boots shined aboard the ferry. Dock Commissioner Bensel investigated prior objections to bootblacking in the upper saloon and approved a simple fix using a steel bicycle clip. The clip keeps skirts above the boot, stopping mud transfer.
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Bensel
Staten Island
South Ferry
Burglars Target Greenwich Street Bakery Safe
Burglars accessed the rear of the Greenwich street bakery and lunchroom at No 44, drilled into the safe door near the combination, and nearly reached hundreds of dollars before an upstairs noise forced them to flee, leaving tools behind. The store owner John Lester is ill in bed, and his clerk had placed rents in the safe.
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Greenwich Street
John Lester
Edward H Bulkley Seriously Ill In Newport
Physicians announced that Edward H Bulkley, at his college in Newport Rhode Island, is seriously ill and a Boston specialist has been summoned.
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Edward H. Bulkley
the Tribune
Newport, R
Boston
President Roosevelt condemns Brownson in hospital ships affair
President Roosevelt released two letters to Secretary Metcalf sharply denouncing Admiral Brownson for resigning over an order on hospital ships. He warns against personal pique in the navy and calls for loyalty, order, and coordinated action across bureaus. He also urges examination of facts with Admiral Converse’s input and defends medical officers' commands of hospital ships.
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Roosevelt
Willard J. Brownson
Metcalf
Admiral Brownson
Navy Department
Converse
Navigation Bureau
Lenny le - Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Pillsbury
Bureau of Navigation
Bureau
Department
Navy
Brownson
Congress
Theodore Roosevelt
Metea
Bonaparte
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Lord & Hewlett
Charles H. Israels
Israels & Harder
George Vasser, Jr
Mason Builders’ Association
Recordership
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Brady
Israels
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Cosgrove
McGuire
Luce
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Carnegie
Munsterberg
Skipper
Order Veterans Home
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MR. Metcalf
Miral
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