Cadet crusade aims at East Side vice ring
Isaac N. Seligman and partners including Jacob Schiff Adolph Lewisohn and Mr Warburg launch a crusade against the cadet system and East Side vice. Magistrate Cornell alerted them to deplorable conditions and organized crime targeting young girls. They hire a lawyer and private detectives to secure arrests and push for convictions, aiming to shut down the ring and prevent reoffending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Issac N. Seligman
Jacob H. Schiff
Adolph Lewisohn
Mr. Warburg
East Side
Cornell
Essex Market Court
Mr. Seligman
Tete Cornell
Beaker
No. 12
Willamst
Fourteenth-st
Fourth-ave
Simon C. Noot
Seligman
York- We
Barlow
Noot
No. 320 Broadway
Isl
Neighbree
Second-ave
William A. J. Mannle
Perkins Searles
Dto
Mishey
Fifth-st
Tnen
Philadelphia
Aon
McDermott
WassermYaid
Seaboard Florida Limited Schedule Noted
Continued on third page refers to the Seaboard Florida Limited train times. Mentions Classico and Gaily at 12:25 noon and two other trains to Pinehurst. Office located at 18 Broadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ste Hendsomes
Florida
Pinehurst
Cal Tesorte
Broadway
Addicks Man Chosen Speaker in Delaware House
Dover January 13. The Delaware House of Representatives organized after a deadlock dating from January 8. William D. Denny Union Republican Addicks was elected Speaker on one ballot with 21 votes to 11 for Democrat Smith. The compromise divided offices, with Union Republicans naming the Speaker and Regulars filling other posts. Governor Hunn was informed of the action. session adjourned to Monday as Senate votes pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Dover
Delaware
House of Representatives
William D. Denny
Union
Addicks
Senate
House
Denny
Smith
Representative Smith
General Assembly
Pennsylvania system teeters on general strike
The entire Pennsylvania system from the seaboard to Chicago faces a possible strike after union workmen voted within 36 hours. Robert Pitcairn was summoned from Pittsburg to advise Cassatt. issues arose over removing an extra fireman, delaying pay raises for forward brakemen, and broader labor action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Seaboard
Chicago
Brotherhood of
Cleveland
Robert Pitcairn
Surrender at Port Arthur Shocks Besieged Garrison
The Times correspondent reports Port Arthur began siege with fifty five thousand including soldiers sailors and civilians. Food lasted two months with no privation. The Daily Mall notes money was shared among Russian officers triggering bitterness and contributing to the fortress fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Arthur
Mall
Tokio
Miss Vreeland In Cab Crash Involving Youth
Miss Margaret Vreeland and Mrs. W Sayers rode in a New York Electric Transportation cab that struck eleven year old Thomas Kenova at Thirtieth Street and Seventh Avenue. He was knocked unconscious and taken to New York Hospital by Dr. Gillespie after police summons. Cab driver Sidney Hauck was arrested and held pending further investigation as Miss Vreeland’s father H H Vreeland and another vehicle moved on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Vreeland
H. H. Vreeland
New York City Railway Company
W. Sayers
Newark
New York Electric Transportation Company
Thomas Kenova
West Twentyninth-st
Thirtieth-st
Seventh-ave
Dr. Gillespie
O'Connor
West Thirty-seventh-st
New-York Hospital
Sidney Hauck
Eighth-ave
Attack on T. C. Platt at mass meeting in postal protest
At a Cooper Union gathering by the People’s Institute and Postal Progress League C. W. Post announced plans to seek a U S Supreme Court restraining order to bar Senator Thomas C. Platt of New York from taking his seat, alleging failure to fulfill his oath and ties to a corporation. The session also urged postal reforms and criticized current post office policies and congestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooper Union
Supreme Court of the United States
Thomas C. Platt
New York
United States Senatoa
C. W. Post
Battle Creek
Mich
People’s Institute
Postal Progress League
Post
T. C. Platt
United States Express Company
Platt
New York State
Ellis H. Roberts
United States
New- York State
Senator Platt
New-York
Supreme Court
Washington
United States Senate
Senate
United States Supreme Court
F. C. Beach
Scientific American
Herbert Myrick
Orange Judd Company
Charles W. Dayton
William R. Willcox
Dayton
Threats to Hayti Demand US Intervening Action
American Minister Powell informed the Haytian government that the United States will not recognize the judgment against Jaeger Huberman three fifteen years hard labor for alleged bond frauds tied to the Sam administration. The United States calls for annulment under threat of intervention. the episode stirs locals as Nord's coup follows a plan to issue six million in bonds plus over two hundred thousand to the Bank of Hayti.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port-au-Prince
Hayt
Powell
United States
Jaeger Huberman
Simon Sam
Bank of Hayti
Sam
Republic
Hayti
Nord
Warner Named Commissioner of Pensions
President appoints Vespasian Warner to succeed Eugene Ware as Commissioner of Pensions. Warner, from Illinois’ 19th District, is a Civil War veteran and Harvard law graduate who has served five terms in Congress. The Senate vote is expected tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Vespasian Warner
Eugene F. Ware
Warner
Illinois
Congress
Grand Army of the Republic
Senate
Mount Pleasant
Ill
20Th
Alinods Volunteer Infantry
Shiloh
Harvard University
Clinton, Ill
Oglesby
Hamilton
Fifer
Limited Train to Cleveland From West 23d Street
Leaves West 23d Street Station daily at 4 55 p m on a limited train to Cleveland arriving at 7 55 p m No extra fare to Ci.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
West 23d Street
Cleveland
Loomis Resigns From National City Bank Over Munroe Affair
Archibald G. Loomis resigns as director and vice-president of the National City Bank amid fallout from the Montreal and Boston stock wash and Munroe & Munroe dealings. The letter cites exposure to criticism and states loans were secured by collateral with no personal stake. Officials decline comment. Untermyer notes no law violation by the bank, only a possible preferred payment under bankruptcy rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archibald G. Loomis
Montreal
Boston Consolidated Mining and Smelting
Munroe & Munroe
National City Bank
National City Bank of New York
Boston and Montreal Copper Company
A. G. Loomis
Loomis
Samuel Untermyer
Untermyer
City Bank
Untermeyer
United States
Alexander
Boston
A. B. Leach
Munroes
Legal action to sue syndicate over stock underwrite
Samuel Untermyer, attorney for the Munroe & Munroe receivers and creditors, announces suits will be filed against several members of the syndicate that underwrote 700000 shares of the Montreal and Boston Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company. The suits target money paid to the syndicate on December 7, 194, the day before the failure, with involuntary bankruptcy proceedings referenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Untermyer
Munroe & Munroe
Montreal
Boston Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company
Untermyer
Quicker Rail Service From New York to Cleveland
A brief timetable notice touts a fast line leaving New York at 5 32 P M and arriving Cleveland at 7 15 the next morning with fine service and no excess fare. The ad also mentions a Cincinnati segment and another departure at 45 P M by New York entr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cleveland
Cincianstase
New
Phipps Plans Million Dollar Tenement Trust for New York
Henry Phipps proposes a 1 million dollar fund to acquire land in New York City and build tenement houses for workers on a business basis. Trustees include Isidor Straus and John Arbuckle. Isidor Straus to be vice president, Robert W. de Forest to chair the executive committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Phipps
Pittsburg
Robert W. de Forest
Mr. Phipps
Isidor Straus
Phipps
Alfred T. White
Myles Tierney
Charles S. Brown
New York State
Mr. de Forest
Low
E. R. L. Gould
City and Suburban Homes Company
Pennsylvania
Alleghany
Institute For
Philadelphia
City of
New York
Manhattan
Fraudulent Book Agent Convicted in Fortunes
L. C. Devaney alias La Bar was found guilty in the Circuit Court of offences worth 200 dollars under false pretences and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. His wife Harriet Isles Devaney was acquitted of a similar charge but rearrested weeks later on a charge of fraudulently passing a bad check.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Telegraph
the Tribune
St. Louis
Harper & Bros
Charles Scribner's Sons
New York
Holdaway Publishing Company
L. C. Devaney
la Bar
O Ks
Harriet Isles Devaney
Washington
Bristow Resigns as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Joseph L. Bristow today handed his resignation to the President as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. The action takes effect January 20 and follows a Roosevelt executive order issued later today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Joseph L. Bristow
Postal Service
Roosevelt
Bristow Appointed Special Commissioner for Isthmian Trade Study
President Roosevelt names Joseph L. Bristow of Kansas as special commissioner to investigate Atlantic Pacific trade conditions and freight rates across the Isthmus of Panama and to assess policies for the Panama Railroad. The order sets travel to Pacific ports New York and other ports with stenographer aid and expenses, report by January 20 1905, and funds by Isthmian Canal Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Bristow
Atlantic
Pacific
South America
United States
Europe
Panama
Taft
Bristow
Senator Long
Kansas
Joseph L. Bristow
Pacific Coast
New York
Secretary of War
Isthmian Canal Commission
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Long
Post Office Department
Division of Post Office
Florida's Famous Trains and Schedules Brief
Railway brief notes the New York and Florida Special at 2 10 P M Fin and Indian Ltd 9 25 unexcelled service and Atlantic Canal Line in plain white text with abbreviated routing across Florida rail services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y
Fila
Fin. & Indian Ltd
Atlantic
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Stice William J
Jo Gaynor
Edward M. Grout
BR. L. Duke
William F Potter
The
Long Island Railroad
William T. Jerome
William McAdoo
Pirie MacDonald
Elbert O. Smith
Richard Walsh
BEGIN
Cadet” Crusade
Messrs
Seligman, Schiff and Lewisohn
the Seaboard Florida Limited
Addicks Man
Jersey City
London
the Times
Miss Vreeland
Resuit
C. H. Post
Supreme Court of Senate
E. F. Ware
Munroe& Munroe
Syndicate
M. & B. Stock
Mayor Mechellan
I ‘Harles S. Brownsido
W.S. Hawk
Charles Moore
John Arbuckle
George E. Gordon
Alfred T White
John S. Phipps
Miles Tierney
Charles Stewart Smith
Brooklyn
Peabody
Phipns
J. L. Bristow
Wynne
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