Mayor's Message Points to Debt Load and City Finances
Major McClelan criticizes the Legislature for rising city costs and urges taxes for new improvements. He details 1906 and 1907 increases in funded and temporary debt, notes deductions for lands and judgments, and cites a remaining borrowing margin of about 26 million. He urges Fifth Avenue widening, street automo biles regulation, and abolition of the Aqueduct Commission. He praises Morgan and Sage gifts and lauds ten years of consolidation.
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Major McClelan
Fifth Avenue
Aqueduct Commission
J. Pierpont Morgan
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Russell Sage
City Hall
Ineseate
Darlington
New York Central Lays Off Men in West Albany Shops
Albany January 6 reports that the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company laid off three hundred additional workers in the West Albany shops. This is the second layoff in weeks, bringing total to about seven hundred as part of a plan to cut payroll by 12 percent, with expected impact on the Boston and Albany division.
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Albany
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company
West Albany
New York
Boston and
Indict Grosscup Again Over Central Traction Crash
Mattoon Illinois January 6 The grand jury returned true bills against Judge Peter S Grosscup and other Central Traction Company employees for manslaughter and criminal negligence in the August 30 collision between Mattoon and Charleston in which eighteen people were killed The indictments added criminal negligence beyond manslaughter and followed the companys settlement of wreck claims totaling 41000 last Saturday which surprised observers
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Py Telegraph
the Tribune
Mattoon
Ill
Grand
Peter S. Grosscup
United States Circuit Court
Central Traction Company
Charleston
RECORD OCEAN TRAVEL
More cabin and steerage passengers landed in New York in 1907 than in any prior year. Ninety four thousand nine hundred sixty one first class passengers. one hundred fifty six thousand four hundred seventy second class. steerage reached one million four hundred ninety six thousand one hundred eighty six. Mediterranean ports supplied nearly three hundred thousand steerage travelers.
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New York
United States
Mediterranean
Appeal to U S Court Over NYC Railway Receivership
Papers by Paul Fuller J Hamp den Dougherty and Melvin G Palliser as state receivers seek to relinquish control of the New York City Railway property to federal receivers Adrian Joline and Douglas Robinson. They allege federal action blocks state law and that notice to New York was lacking. Argument set for Friday January 17.
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Paul Fuller
J. Hampden Dougherty
Melvin G. Palliser
New York City Railway Company
Supreme Court
Seabury
United States Circuit Court
Adrian H. Joline
Douglas Robinson
Arthur H. Masten
Federal Court
Metropolitan Railway Company
Marion Trust Company
Metropolitan
State of
New York
State of New York
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Morton Trust Company
Public Service Commission
Receivers for Standard Oil Firms Granted in Texas
The state court in Austin granted a receiver for Standard Oil Company of New York Standard Oil Company of New Jersey Standard Oil Company of Indiana Union Tank Line and National Transit Company The appointment was deferred until tomorrow for the formal order in the state's suit seeking ouster and penalties totaling 73000000 against these companies Security ou Company of Beaumont and Corsicana Refining Company are co defendants.
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The
Tribune
Austin, Tex
Standard Oil Company of
New York
New Jersey
Indiana
Union Tank Line
National Transit Company
Security Ou Company
Beaumont
Corsicana Refining Company
Corsicana, Tex
Illness in McKeesport girl baffles physicians
Pittsburg January 16 physicians are puzzled by the illness of Mary Dolan two year old daughter of Matthew Dolan of McKeesport. The child sank into a sound sleep at noon last Friday and has not awakened since despite efforts to arouse her. She had been sick for several days and was being treated for grip.
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Pittsburg
Mary Dolan
Matthew Dolan
McKeesport
Ohio to introduce bills for public service commission
Columbus plans proposed legislation to establish a five member public service commission with $10,000 salaries. The body would regulate service and rates, with appeals allowed from corporations or 25 dissatisfied citizens under franchise terms.
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Columbus
Ohio
Public Service Commission
New York State
Senate
House
Reduced rates to New York for merchants by Merchants' Association
Reduced rail rates for merchants from central passenger territory to New York will be applied as last season and take effect from February 1 to February 4 inclusive. The Merchants' Association of New York arranged the discount plan.
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New York
Merchants’ Association of New York
Little Time Too Busy on Building Code Revision
Timothy P. Sullivan leader of Tammany in New York says the seven teen building code revision commission and city aldermen will not rush the long awaited code update. He claims public interest guided appointments and notes the new code, though praised by some members, remains sidelined by current political priorities.
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Timothy P. Sullivan
Tammany
Board of Aldermen
Sullivan
Tribune
Municipal Ownership League
Little Tim
Charles H. Israels
Israels & Harder
Electus Litchfield
McGuire
Tim
Commission
Europe
Aldermanic Flower Garden Crowds the City Hall Chamber
Flowers poured into the aldermanic chamber at City Hall crowding the room in a colorful display. Amid the bloom fest, some officials swapped price tags off floral offerings and sent them to the City Court in the brownstone. Alderman Sullivan won 42 votes as vice chairman with Gunther at 19, and Oxford was chosen sergeant at arms for 1500 dollars a year by 42 to 29. Sullivan opposed the mayor’s message but the body adopted Levine and Laws and Legislation measures, including a public hearing on pushcart activity.
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Aldermanic Chamber
Aldermaniec
Brownstone
Dowling
Timothy P. Sullivan
Alderman Brown
John Gunther
Sullivan
Gunther
Committee On
Levine
Hatch Heads Upholsterers Union In New York Move
James H. Hatch former labor candidate for New York State Commissioner of Labor was elected president of the International Union of Upholsterers and Drapers. The union headquarters and its international executive committee were moved from Chicago to 147 East 42nd Street Manhattan. Hatch said the business depression was passing away in the trade with more men hired and a return to normal conditions likely soon.
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J. H. Hatch
James H. Hatch
New York State
International Union of Upholsterers and Drapers
Union
International Executive Committee
Chicago
East 42d Street
Manhattan
Hatch
Queens Health Officer Out
Dr. John P. Moore head of the Queens Borough Health Department was terminated yesterday. It is unclear if he resigned or was removed. Reported earlier months ago that his resignation was sought due to differences with Dr. Darlington.
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John P. Moore
Queens Borough Health Department
Moore
Darlington
Stock dividends raise question in savings bank bonds legality
Clark Williams state Superintendent of Banks asked the Attorney General for an opinion on whether bonds paying stock or scrip dividends can remain valid savings bank investments. The Missouri Pacific stock dividend sparked the inquiry amid Wall Street speculation. Henri De Vries must pay $1,535 to Leavitt’s assignee for breach of contract after a jury verdict on a failed 1906 Madison Square Theatre vaudeville arrangement.
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Clark Williams
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Williams
Wall Street
Missouri Pacific
Henri DE Vries
Abraham Leavitt
Michael B. Leavitt
Justice Truax
Supreme Court
Leavitt
de Vries
Holland
Madison Square Theatre
Arsen
DeVries
Sntre
Lost and stolen bankbooks and local ads in Tribune listings
Notices warn owners to present claims within days or have passbooks cancelled. Includes Bankbook Nos 462,047 325,204 363,405 827,205 and a garage for sale. Also lists Tribune advertising offices and train schedules for the N Y H R R with multiple departure times and stations.
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The
Union Dime Savings Institution
Storage company auctions household goods in New York
People's Storage Co. notifies Emma Brown and others that a lien on stored household goods has expired. If charges are not paid, property will be sold at public auction at 254 West 29th Street, New York, on Friday January 24, 1905, with bids likely for second hand machines and machinery purchases offered by George B. Eddy at 308 Madison Street.
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Ee People's Storage Coo
West 2Th St
New York
Emma Brown
John B. Thomas
W. A. Holmes
Daisy Mutr
Josephine Washington
George W. Harvey
W. B. Rulon
Gertie Robinson
W. Winston
West 29Th St
People's Storage Coo
George B. Eddy
Madison St
Fruit of Loom Muslins Yardwide Sale Ad Details
An old advertisement listings yardwide muslins and unbleached fabrics with price cues and bulk purchase incentives. Mentions finished yard wide goods from Lonsdale Company, ready made sheets, hemstitch pillow cases and extra long sheets to 3 yards, with various price points and volume discounts.
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Lonsdale Company
Lonsdale
Envale
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