OKEEFFE SWAPS JOBS TRADES WITH W F BAKER
Okeeffe, First Deputy Police Commissioner, and William F. Baker, president of the Municipal Civil Service Commission, swapped positions in a move that puzzled politicians yesterday. The trade did not yield the Civil Service presidency for Okeeffe. Frank L. Polk, the Manhattan official, is mentioned in relation to the upheaval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur J. O'Keeffe
William F. Baker
Municipal Civil Service Commission
Mr. O'Keeffe
Civil Service Commission
Frank L. Polk
Manhattan
OKeeffe Resigns Police Deputy for Civil Service Post
Commissioner O Keeffe leaves a $6000 police post to accept a $5000 Civil Service Commission position. He tells The Tribune there was no political influence involved and cites fatigue from two years without vacation. He plans to study his new duties closely, denies friction with superiors, and notes Senator McCarren remained unaware of the move until newspapers reported it. Mayor McClellan comments on his two-year tenure and independence desires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O'Keeffe
Civil Service Commission
O’keefe
the Tribune
Police Department
McCarren
Senator McCarren
Brooklyn
McClellan
the Civil Service Commissioners
City officials discuss police chief swap and salaries
The mayor and Commissioner O Keeffe plan an exchange between Civil Service and Police Department roles with talk of raising the First Deputy Police Commissioner salary to 7000. Bingham rejected O Keeffe's 15000 demand, and Baker remains Civil Service Commissioner. O Keeffe leaves January 9 1908 with Bingham praising his two years of service.
Sets P. S. C. After Heating Company
Public Works Commissioner Henry S. Thompson asked Governor Hughes for an amendment to extend the Public Service Commission’s jurisdiction to the New York Steam Heating Company. He cites pavements rotted by the company’s pipes as causing heavy city damages and claims the commission lacks authority to revoke its franchise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry S. Thompson
Public Works
Hughes
Public Service Commission
Commission
New York Steam Heating Company
Thompson
Willcox
Lantry Reinstates P F Ryan as Fire Official
Fire Commissioner Lantry restored Patrick F Ryan to head of the department of construction and repairs after he had been removed by Commissioner Sturges in Mayor Low's administration. The Legislature later empowered reinstatement on warranted findings and Ryan sought reappointment. The Court of Appeals refused to overturn Sturges opinion.
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Bingham
O’keeffe
Lantry
Patrick F. Ryan
Department of Construction and Repairs
Sturges
Low
Ryan
Court of Appeals
Kansas University Football Captain Dies by Suicide
Urban Angney twenty two year old captain of last year’s Kansas University football team died by his own action in Lawrence Utah? No, Kansas. He jumped from Frazer Hall at the university grounds today January 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Kan
Urban Angney
Kansas University
Frazer Hall
Grape-Nuts Claim Sanitary Factories Prove Health
A promotional notice extols Grape-Nuts and Postum as the most nourishing foods made from entire wheat and barley. It claims the factories maintain spotless cleanliness, invites factory tours, and offers a free illustrated book, The Door Unbolted, mailed on request.
Illinois Central Answers Fish Suit Over Voting Shares
The Illinois Central Railroad Company files an answer in Superior Court to Stuyvesant Fish's suit to enjoin voting 281,231 shares held by Union Pacific and Railway Securities. Affidavits from Harriman and others deny domination, note hostility arises from the suit, and assert no plans to curb competition. The railroad asks dismissal as to its involvement.
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Chicago
Jan
Stuyvesant Fish
Ilinois Central Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Railways Securities Company
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Edward H. Harriman
Walter Luttgen
John Jacob Astor
Alexander G. Hackstaff
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John W. Auchincloss
Robert Walton Goelet
Charles A. Peabody
Mr. Fish
Messrs. Goelet
Peabody
Harriman
Mr. Harriman
Goelet
Illinois Central
Union Pacific
Omaha
Fish
Sugar Transfer Delays Frustrate Investors and Brokers
Brokers accuse slow transfer of American Sugar stock after books opened a week ago, with 1600 new holders joining a 19000-shareholder base. Delays hit odd lots and 100-share certificates, worsened by small lots and regional unit differences, while company ledger practices and post slump backlogs add to the backlog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Do. R. Heike
American Sugar Refining Company
Heike
New England
Boston Stock Exchange
New York
Havemeyer
Grand Jury Hears Woodruff In Provident Inquiry
Timothy L. Woodruff testified before a Manhattan grand jury probing financial institutions linked to Provident Savings Life Assurance Society. The inquiry focuses on E. R. and O. F. Thomas and their cash assets, not the society's current status. No indictments are expected this week.
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Timothy L. Woodruff
Grand Jury
Manhattan
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society
E. R
O. F. Thomas
Henry Moir
Thomases
Robert Joyce
Tremont
Hamilton Bank
New Sewerage Commissioners Named by Mayor
The Mayor restored resignations of Dr George A Soper and James H Fuertes and kept them on the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission. New appointees to fill three vacancies are H De Berkeley Parsons Charles Sooysmith and Dr Linsly R Williams. The panel, created to study New York Bay sewage, had asked for 5000 more after receiving 10000, which the Board of Estimate refused. President McGowan is investigating the dissension among members as Soper and Fuertes disagree with others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Sewerage Commission
Daniel Lewis
O. H. Landreth
Andrew J. Provost
George A. Soper
James H. Fuertes
H. de Berkeley Parsons
William Street
Charles Sooysmith
Broadway
Linsly R. Williams
Madison Avenue
New York Bay
Board of Estimate
McGowan
Soper
Fuertes
Havemeyer Will Probated in New York City
Parsons Closson Mellvaine asked yesterday for probate of Henry O Havemeyer s will. The estate is placed in trust for the widow and children. The home at 1 East 66th Street with contents and 0 000 yearly income goes to Mrs Havemeyer. Children are Mrs Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen Electra Havemeyer and Horace Havemeyer. Real estate includes St Paul Building at Broadway and Ann Street an office at Broadway and Prince Street and a new office at Fifth Avenue and lith Street.
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Parsons, Closson & Mellvaine
Henry O. Havemeyer
William E. Carnachan
Havemeyer
East 66Th Street
Peter Hi. B. Frelinghuysen
Electra Havemeyer
Horace Havemeyer
St. Paul
Broadway
Ann Street
Prince Street
Fifth Avenue
Lith Street
Follows Friend's Lead in Suicide on Subway Tragedy
William Bourne Nevin former stock exchange member of 16 West 78th Street committed suicide by leaping before a subway at 73rd Street station. Witnesses describe a mangled body as Nevin, age about 45, suffered heavy financial losses and neurasthenia. His friend Charles Whitney had died by self destruction days earlier, adding to Nevin's distressed state. The bereaved wife identified the body, and Nevin's parents reside in Montreal.
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William Bourne Nevin
The
Stock Exchange
No. 16
West 78Th Street
73Th Street Station
Nevin
Andrew Mulraney
No. 174
West Street
Brooklyn
West 68Th Street
Whitney
Wall Street
Montreal
Alfred Johnston Nevin
New York
London
Atkinson Nevin
Rent Strike Fades as Settlements Rise on East Side
The rent strike wanes though echoes persist on the East Side as tenants largely pay old rents after landlords resist. Evictions rise with looting at 117 and 179 Monroe Street. Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes addresses a crowd at Central Palace Hall urging orderly, principled action and lower rents. Parke Goring’s Eldridge Street eviction sparks further unrest among tenement residents.
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Grand Street
Joseph Caplan
Caplan
Abraham Roesch
Marshall Ulman
Monroe Street
Rose Pastor Stokes
Central Palace Hall
Sheriff Street
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Stokes
Max Pine
Jacob Pankin
Eldridge Street
Parke Goring
Kishineff
Russia
Gran Street
Goring
Legal Aid Society Work Increases In 1997
The Legal Aid Society reports 26,399 appeals across six offices in 1997, up over 3,000 from the previous year. Main office at 289 Broadway handled 8,8 cases. seamen unit at 1 Broad Way received 278. East Side at 254 Grand Street logged 4,193, mostly Russian Jews. Harlem 4,546. Brooklyn 2,622. Merrill E. Gates Jr earned 6,623 in commissions and fees. about one third of clients could not pay the nominal fee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legal Aid Society
Broadway
East Side
Grand Street
Harlem
Brooklyn
Remsen Street
Merrill E. Gates, Jr
Review of Col. Dyer's Regiment Tonight in Armory
Assemblyman J Mayhew Wainwright will review the 12th Regiment under Colonel George R Dyer in the armory tonight. Dyer after full exoneration by the court of inquiry ordered the review on twenty four hours notice to show the regiment's efficiency during the trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Mayhew Wainwright
George R. Dyer
Dyer
Heavy Snowfall Grips Upstate New York
Rochester dispatch reports a major snowstorm across western New York. Canandaigua records eight inches of snow while Interlaken sees over a foot, delaying trains and rendering country roads nearly impassable. Department stores and schools brace for travel disruptions as the storm continues.
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Rochester
New York
Canandaigua
Interlaken
Coroner holds elevator operator in bail over inquest
Coroner Harburger jailed Jacob Odzer an elevator boy at No 11 Waverly Place in 38000 bail awaiting inquest into Nathan Margolies death who was killed in the elevator Odzer ran Thursday The Thirteen Club ladies dinner at Hotel Astor Monday 713 pm with Tillman and Hedges invited New club officers to be installed marking its 26th anniversary Chase Bank chief A Barton Hepburn to lecture currency at Havemeyer Hall Columbia University 5 pm Governor Hughes expected at University of Pennsylvania men dinner January 17 with speakers including Joseph French Johnson George Graham Provost Marshal and Smith University of Pennsylvania
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Harburger
Jacob Odzer
Waverley Place
Nathan Margolies
Brownsville
Odzer
Thirteen Club
Hotel Astor
Senator Tillman
Job E. Hedges
West End Women Push Timothys Smoking Ban Meeting
The West End Women's Republican Association applauds Timothy Sullivans proposed ordinance banning women from smoking in hotels restaurants and other public places. The group plans its first annual dinner January 17 at the Astor with Governor as guest of honor and cross party attendance from Democrats and Republicans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West End Women’s Republican Association
Hotel Astor
John L. Niver
Timothy Sullivan
West
Woman's Democratic Club
Republican Club
Charles H. Young
William Grant Brown
Chintz Revival Exhibit Shows Homage of America to France
Paris exhibit at the Galliera Museum unveils a 1784 toile de Jouy piece titled The Homage of America to France. The cloth depicts a North American Indian saluting a classical female figure on a globe with fleur de lys, reflecting France’s sympathy for the American War of Independence.
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Paris
Galliera
Seine
France
Europe
Jouy
America
Versailles
Toiles de Jouy
Mulhouse
Jolly
Oberkampf
Paris presses to revive toile de Jouy art in modern age
The article traces the decline of the toile de Jouy wallpaper tradition as cheap wall coverings and new fabrics replace it. Paris moodily experiments with revival through the Bernard-Palissy School and a Galliera exhibit, while students blend past motifs with modern invention, including motor boats and airships.
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Tolle de Jouy
Lyons
Jouy
Normandy
Alsace
Paris
Bernard-Palissy
Galliera
Be like the promontory against which waves break
A brief quotation attributed to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus about steadfastness in the face of constant challenge. The speaker urges resilience and composure as tempests rise. The maxim portrays the image of a firm headland deflecting raging seas to symbolize inner fortitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Aurelius Antoninus
Sunshine Society Gratitude Messages From Readers
A North Carolina minister expresses thanks for a $2 donation toward replacing a loss and prays blessings on T. S. S. members. An Arizona youth with consumption thanks donors for gifts including stamps and magazines to aid his quiet recovery, noting a $5 contribution plus ongoing needs. Alabama’s Mrs. Bradley thanks Sunshine Society friends including Mrs. Bailey and an anonymous San Jose supporter for Christmas kindness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Valentine
Arizona
Sunshine Society President Seeks Support and Dues Increase
Bettie Lipscomb, president, thanks supporters and notes twelve girls aiding Christmas work. She reports two aged shut-ins lost and a member injured but improving. She requests reading material and quilt pieces for Sunshine work, lists addresses for donations, and mentions visitors from the North considering alliance with home branches.
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The
Tribune Sunshine Society
General Society
Carrie
Hull
Titusville
Walter McLeod
Apopka
Fis
Flora
Pitkin
McKnight
Columbia
S. C
State Hospital
Sunshine
Bettie Lipscomb
Hatpins and fashion spark caution in cold weather
A guest writer mocks hatpin length and fashion as dangerous and ridiculous. He notes a consumptive woman needs a warm sweater under a coat while public transport risks impaling hats. Public alarm over hatpins persists, while readers remain unfazed by hazards.
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Civil Service
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Rbingham
Board of Aldermen
McClelan
Coney Island
Greene Avenue
R. Ross Appleton
Bird S. Coler
Coler
Kings County Regular Organization
Theodore A. Bingham
P. S. C. After Heating Company
P. F. Ryan
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Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
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Woodruff
Provident Life
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Col. Dyer
City News
Rex
Tim
Republican State Committee
Woodruf
Woman's Republican Club
Daughters of Empire State
James A. Allen
Louis XIV
Indiennes
India
Levant
Molière
Comédie Francaise
Saint-Germain
Mme. Pompadour
Chaiteau
Bellevue
Indienne
Lorraine
Louise de la Vailière
Charles and
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