Building Code Fight at Tammany Hall over City Reform
A bitter clash centers on a city Building Code Commission and a 1907 overhaul. Tammany Hall allegedly delayed reform, stacking a 17 member panel to push its favored interests, while original commissioners accuse graft and mismanagement amid a poisoned process shaping the code for construction and safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municipal Ownership League
Building Committee
Recordership
Tim
14Th Street
Tammany Hall
Sullivan
Grifenhagen
Code Commission
Alderman Sullivan
Thomas J. Brady
Thomas L. Hamilton
Ulrich H. Huberty
Brooklyn
P. F. Kenny
Clarence Luce
James Clark McGuire
Air Lost To Prisoners Near Ely Nevada
Six inch air pipe supplying air to six miners entombed near Ely Nevada for a month bent under rock pressure at six hundred feet. Rescuers repaired the break after hours of effort. Imprisoned men remain well but rescue remains distant.
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Ely
Nev
Steamer May Have Sunk In Storm Near Block Island
Telegraph report from Providence dated January 5 notes wreckage found at Block Island suggesting a possible steamer disaster, likely a collision. Wrecked ship’s name unknown. Plymouth, on NY Fall River route, disabled east of Point Judith and reached Fall River under own steam after five hours at sea.
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Tribune
Providence
Block Island
Point Judith
Plymouth
New York
Fall River
FOR 100-FOOT LOCKS
Isthmian Canal Commission will propose the 100 foot width for canal locks to the Secretary of War as ample for years. If Navy and President deem it necessary, a 110 foot width may be added at reasonable cost without structural risk, tied to future naval vessel beam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Isthmian Canal Commission
Secretary of War
Navy Department
Navy
Investments Here Safe
Arthur Spitzer and Pierre Dejardin Verkinder of Société Générale visit Buffalo to assess U S holdings amid rumors of American business troubles. They note bonds in Westinghouse and Pennsylvania Railroad totaling about 40.9 million dollars and express confidence the financial downturn is temporary. The French bank, capitalized at 300 million francs, has 700 branches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Arthur Spitzer
Pierre Dejardin-Verkinder
Société Générale
Europe
M. Manheimer
Paris
Westinghouse Company
America
Spitzer
Westinghouse
France
Carnegie’s Mother Name Sparks Aid to Indiana Widow
A Pittsburg telegraph report notes Mrs. Margaret Morrison Morrison Carnegie, an Indiana widow with a name identical to Andrew Carnegie’s mother, sought help. Carnegie, learning the story, authorized immediate assistance and lifelong pension for the woman who matched his mother’s name.
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Thoritune
Pitteburg
Margaret Moersameer
Alrison Carnegie
Drew Carnegie
Indiana
Margaret Morrison
Arnegie
Pittsburg
Prince Helie Sues Count Boni in Assault Case
Paris January 5 Prince Helie de Sagan files a civil suit against Count Boni de Castellane for assault seeking one franc in damages. The matter will be heard in criminal court on January 21.
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Paris
Prince Hélie de Sagan
Count Boni de Castellane
Rent Strikes Spark East Side Clash and Flag Raids
Police raided seven tenements on Rutgers Cherry and Monroe streets seizing fifteen red flags marked Rent Strike and other banners. Dozens of tenants and supporters clashed, five arrests made, one officer bitten, while rent strike leaders and lawyers gathered at the headquarters planning further actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutgers
Cherry
Monroe
Cherry Street
Fahey
Lang
Isidore Placke
Pincke
Picke
Madison Street
Hines
Monroe Street
Rutgers Street
Abraham Lowenthal
East Lth Street
Serberg
East 5Th Street
East Éth
12Th
3Th Streets
Grand Street
13Th District Court
Jacob Panken
Captain Shaw
East 3Th Street
FORM UNION TO GET LOWER RENTS
Five hundred residents in Chicago form a tenants union to push landlords to cut rents by two dollars a month. They urge refusal to pay current rates and threaten court costs if reductions fail. Five rooms cost eighteen dollars, six rooms twenty two. movement to imitate New York and spread to laboring classes. committee to seek Chicago Federation of Labor support.
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Chicago
New York
Chicago Federation of Labor
Newark Tenants Rally for Rent Strike Organization
A mass meeting of striking tenants met at Starr's Auditorium in Newark to form a permanent group to oppose landlords. Police reserves cleared outbreaks in tenement districts as Real Estate Owners' Association legal adviser chaired talks behind closed doors. Renters report many dispossess notices, with landlords planning evictions and police support.
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Starr
Morris and
Fifteenth Avenues
Newark
Real Estate Owners’ Association
Edward Schoen
4Th
Benjamin Epstein
Manhattan
New York
Broome Street
Denver Heiress Engaged to Count Gyory in Formal Announcement
The engagement of Miss Maud May, a Denver heiress, to Count Francis Eimerich Gyory of Hungary was formally announced. The count is twenty seven years old and has resided in Denver during the past two years, representing a Havana tobacco concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Denver
Jan
Maud May
Francis Eimerich Gyory
Hungary
Tvo
Havana
Tragedy at Redder's Pond Drowns Three Young Men
William Stecher Jr aged sixteen and his brother Francis nineteen, and Joseph Teicey twenty, drowned when ice broke on Redder's Pond Jamaica while attempting a rescue. Police and firemen fought cold and shifting ice, recovering the two Stecher brothers first, Teicey salvaged last by William Reiss. Teicey, a clerk, lived at Richmond Hill with parents. Stecher worked for Queens County Trust Company. The ice was thin ashore and thinner mid pond. bodies sent to Jamaica police and an undertaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Stecher, Jr
Francis
Joseph Teicey
Redder’s Pond
Jamaica
Young Teircey
Redder's Pond
Black Stump Road
Hillside Avenue
Burt Jay Humphrey
Jamaica Station
Martin
Hennessey
Fagan
Humphrey
Ouderloney
Hook and Ladder Company 77
Long Island
Wiliam Reiss
Teircey
Joseph Smyth
Chichester
Oak Streets
Richmond Hill
Crawford
St. Mary's Hospital
Stecher
Queens County Trust Company
Tug Captain Rescues Barge Crews In Gale
In a southwest gale the Wyoming of the Lehigh Valley fleet dropped its six tows off Raritan Bay and saved crews from the last two scows. The skipper cast off the string and hauled the men aboard as waves swept decks. Barges bound for Rhode Island and Boston carried about two thousand tons of coal each.
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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 Crash
John C. Cautley a retired British army officer died in a Buffalo hospital after being struck by a trolley car. The fifty six year old former lieutenant colonel of the Royal West Kent Regiment had served in India with the Gordon relief expedition and at Majuba Hill. He lived in Toronto after previously residing at Minnicoganshene Georgian Bay and left a wife and son in England while his son and two daughters studied in Buffalo.
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Buffalo
John C. Cautley
Cautley
Cambridge
England
Royal West Kent Regiment
India
Majuba Hill
Minnicoganshene
Georgian Bay
Toronto
Typhoid Claims Trenton Pastor Keevil
Trenton New Jersey January 6 typhoid fever outbreak claims Rev Dr Charles Keevil pastor of First Baptist Church after transfer from New York He died at Mercer Hospital where he had been moved three weeks earlier Keevil born May 18 1871 in England survived by two children two brothers who are ministers and a sister He previously preached in Quincy Massachusetts Woodside Long Island and served Brooklyn Brooklyn Second Baptist Church and Johnson City Tennessee. Park Row ad at HAAN'S Restaurant mentions cookware and musical advertisement.
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the Tribune
Trenton
N. J
Charles Keevil
First Baptist Church
Second Avenue Baptist Church
New York
Keevil
Mercer Hospital
Joseph Keevil
Second Baptist Church
Brooklyn
J. J. Keevil
Johnson City
Tenn
Dr. Keevil
King’s Meade
Wiltshire
England
Quincy
Mass
Woodside
Long Island
Order Veterans Home Reported Recall of Former Japanese Soldiers
Vancouver dispatch says hundreds of former Japanese soldiers in Vancouver have received orders from the Mikado to return to Japan at once. The report was received in Portland Oregon, dated January 5.
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Vancouver
Portland
Ore
Oregonian
B. C
Japan
Few Japanese Leaving Hawaii Reported in January
Honolulu January 5 There is little movement of Japanese laborers from Hawaii to Vancouver B C The sugar grinding season has begun and there is abundant employment Passage has been engaged for two hundred Japanese via San Francisco on the French steamship Admiral Fourichon which is due here shortly Otherwise there is no present movement of Japanese toward the North American continent
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Vancouver
B.C
San Francisco
Ships Tangled in Gale Off Brooklyn Harbor
In strong northwest conditions the Ciudad de Reus broke from Morse's dry dock and drifted ashore after collision, likely a total loss. The Maraval also dragged anchor after a bow collision, but sustained only a cracked bow plate. tugboats aided as both ships tangled and separated. The Maraval returned to 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 in City Hotel
Katrina Seckersdoff, once an opera singer and wife of retired manufacturer Gustav Seckersdoff, died suddenly at the Victoria Hotel Annex. Police and Coroner Dooley attributed likely apoplexy. A small mongrel dog, kept as a pet, impeded those trying to assist before being locked away.
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Katrina Seckersdoff
Gustav Seckersdoff
Victoria Hotel Annex
Broadway
26Th Street
Seckersdoff
Cold Frost Brings Skating Deaths Across England
London Jan 5 A week of hard frost enables skating by thousands but causes numerous deaths from ice accidents and exposure across England.
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London
Fog delays British coast shipping halting liners
London report says dense fog on the British coast, especially near Glasgow and Liverpool, has seriously impeded shipping. Many liners were delayed on Saturday with the Carmania postponed from Saturday afternoon to this afternoon, and numerous other large steamships both arriving and departing held up.
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London
Glasgow
Liverpool
Staten Island ferry bootblacks gain shine access
Staten Island women can now have shines on the ferry boats after Dock Commissioner Bensel investigated and approved bootblacks shining in the upper saloon. A steel bicycle clip keeps the woman’s skirt above the boot, ending previous objections.
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Bensel
Staten Island
South Ferry
Burglars Near Rich Haul At Greenwich Street Bakery
Burglars forced a rear entry at No 44 Greenwich street between midnight Saturday and 5 30 yesterday morning drilled a hole through the safe door near the combination lock and were within six inches of hundreds of dollars when alarmed by upstairs noise and fled leaving tools behind. The store belongs to John Lester a widower ill in bed and who owns much property in the neighborhood. On Saturday his woman clerk collected rents from tenants and placed them in the safe.
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Greenwich Street
John Lester
Edward H Bulkley Seriously Ill in Newport Cottage
Telegraph dispatch from Newport Rhode Island reports Edward H Bulkley in serious condition at his cottage with four Boston specialists summoned for consultation.
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Edward H. Bulkley
The
Tribune
Newport
R. 1
Boston
Roosevelt condemns Brownson act on hospital ships affair
President Roosevelt denounces Admiral Brownson for resigning over hospital ships policy and blasts naval infighting. He cites differences over ship construction and training but says disloyalty to the service is unforgivable. Metcalf is to publish exact disputed facts and seek Admiral Converse’s opinion.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Willard H. Brownson
Metcalf
Admiral Brownson
Brownscom
Navy Department
Converse
Navigation Bureau
Brownson
Pillsbury
Bureau of Navigation
Bureau
Department
Secretary of the Navy
Navy
Congress
Medical Department
Theodore Roosevelt
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Tammany
Building Code Commission
Sterling
Max S. Grifenhagen
Hook Or Creek
Hook and Crook
Board of Aldermen
Meyers
Electus Litchfield
Lord & Hewlett
Charles H. Israels
Israels & Harder
George Wasser, Jr
Mason Builders” Association
Little Tim
Brady
Israels
Mr. Israels
Tammany Man
Huberty
Mr. Starrett
Cosgrove
McGuire
Luce
Ian
Mr. McGuire
Nevada
Carnegie
Prince Helie
Boni
Munsterberg
Py Telegraph
Hugo Munsterberg
Harvard
Harry Orchard
Ernstitta Surest
Skipper
Order Veterans Home
Island
MR. Metcalf
Miral
Secrt
Tary Bonaparte
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