Mayor Gaynor's perilous blizzard trek to St James
Mayor Gaynor journeyed through a brutal blizzard from Hicksville to St James after his train stalled. He aided Huntington editor Charles E. Shepard, who fell on a trestle, then returned for help as snow and wind halted six Long Island Railroad lines and trapped hundreds of passengers.
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Charles E. Shepard
Huntington
Long Island
Shepard
Hicksville
Mr. Shepard
Little Hollow
Gaynor
Sepiaman
Adolph G. Rave
Long Island City
Wading River Branch
Mayor
Farmins Gate
Montauk
Montauk Point
Springfield
Hamels
Rockaway
Sheepshead Bay
Westbury
Dean Worcester Wins Libel Damage Verdict in Manila
Manila January 14 Dean Worcester is awarded $900 damages for libel against El Renacimiento, the Nationalist party newspaper. Worcester, a Philippines Commission member, alleged the paper accused him politically and professionally and defamed his character.
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Manila
Dean
Worcester Today
el Renacimiento
The
Islands
Worcester
Philippines Commission
Merchan ts and Miners' steamer Chatham wrecks at St Johns River
The Chatham steaming from Baltimore to Savannah and Jacksonville with 38 passengers ran ashore on the north jetty at the St Johns River entrance at 5 30 this morning and will be abandoned as a wreck. The Mohawk aided by sending boats. 14 feet of water in Chatham s hold doomed cargo. lighters sent to remove furnishings.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Merchants and Miners’ Company
Chatham
Freeman
Baltimore
Savannah
St. John's River
Taft Outlines Conservation Policy for Public Lands
President Taft sent Congress a concise conservation message outlining practical methods to save and utilize natural resources. He urges legislation on land withdrawals water power sites and reclamation funding while backing Ballinger Pinchot reforms and river improvements.
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Taft
Ballinger
Gifford Pinchot
Mr. Taft
Congress
Friends of
Conservation Movement
Capitol
Secretary of the Interior
Ballinger- Pinchot
Reclamation Service
Mississippi River
House
Cannon
Morgan Wins Dinner Bet With General Gill in Baltimore Visit
General John Gill and financier J. Pierpont Morgan wagered on miles logged in a day while returning from Europe aboard a White Star liner. Gill lost and Morgan set January 15 for a dinner at Morgan's New York home, with a guest list including James T. Woodward and others.
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The
Tribune
Baltimore
John Gill
Europe
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mr. Morgan
General Gil
New York
General Gill
Chesapeake Bay
Maryland
Gill
James T. Woodward
Osmond Latrobe
Watts Sherman
E. R. Bacon
W. W. Finley
John B. Thayer
Bayard Henry
Philadelphia
Telegraph Merger Sparks Talk of National Control
Vice President Charles C. Adams of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company seeks state Supreme Court permission to rename as the Transcontinental Telegraph Company, signaling potential centralization of the nation’s telegraph operations. The Postal line passed to New England Telegraph, now under AT&T influence, while AT&T leads Western Union stock, with Mackay interests as major Postal shareholders.
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Charles C. Adams
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Supreme Court
Transcontinental Telegraph Company
Adams
Postal Company
New England Telegraph Company
Postal
New England
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Western Union
Mackay Companies
Hogan resigns as Deputy Commissioner of Street Cleaning
James J. Hogan announces resignation from the Street Cleaning Department after conferring with Commissioner Edwards. He will join the law firm Simpson Thacher Bartlett at 62 Cedar Street, with the change effective Wednesday while he finishes directing current snow removal operations.
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James J. Hogan
Edwards
Hogan
Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett
Cedar Street
Mysterious white airship sighted over Chattanooga
Chattanooga Tenn Jan 14 for the third day in a row a mysterious white airship passed over the city at noon moving from the north toward the southeast and disappearing beyond Missionary Ridge. It was reported to have appeared Wednesday in a rosy form and Thursday again from the north.
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Chattanooga. Tenn
Chattanooga
Missionary Ringe
Seaboard Florida Limited Train Ad Preview
The Seaboard Florida Limited advertised as the only club car train to Florida. It features electric lighter service and all Pullmans on Via P. R. R. and Air Line. Office is 1183 Broadway.
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Seaboard Florida Limited
Florida
Air Line
B’way
Lightship Adrift Off Nantucket In Easterly Gale
The Nantucket Shoals Lightship broke from its chains during a heavy easterly gale near Siasconset Massachusetts on January 14. Captain Frank S Doane and a crew of fifteen plus two wireless operators rode out the storm while the revenue cutter Acushnet awaited word for possible aid. The ship, the new wireless equipped lightship twenty six miles from Nantucket, remains at risk as it guards a shoal famed for wrecks and marks the westbound transatlantic route.
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Siasconset
Mass
Nantucket Shoals
New Bedford
Frank S. Doane
Doane
Acushnet
New South Shoals
Nantucket
Man Falls From Queensboro Bridge in Blinding Snow
William Bodamer, an Edison Company worker, was blown from a perch under the south walk of the Queensboro Bridge during a snowstorm and fell 125 feet to the ground. He died instantly from skull and arm fractures. Detectives identified the body at the morgue after it was found under an arch by two coworkers.
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William Bodamer
New York Edison Company
Queensboro Bridge
Kenney
Edison Company
Feinberg
General Young Greets A Loyal Soldier Reunion At Court of Inquiry
Washington January 14 After John Kirkpatrick testified before the Brownsville court of inquiry he was dismissed from the witness stand by Lieut General S B M Young. The general and the discharged soldier briefly shook hands recalling Kirkpatrick’s service in Young s bodyguard at the battle of San Mateo The reunion interrupted court proceedings.
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Washington
John Kirkpatrick
Brownsville
S. B. M. Young
Young
San Mateo
Philippines
General Herbert C Jeffries Acquitted in Panama Murder Trial
General Herbert C Jeffries, who in August struck William Nichols Chandler, editor of The Panama Press, killing him, was acquitted of murder in a Panama trial. A West Point graduate, Jeffries has long been active in Central American revolutions. Chandler was from Winsboro, South Carolina.
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Panama
Herbert C. Jeffries
William Nichols Chandler
Panama Press
Chandler
General Jeffries
West Point
Central America
Winsboro
8. C
Royal Betrothal in Portugal Projects May Marriage
Lisbon dispatch reports King Manuel of Portugal will wed Princess Victoria Patricia, youngest daughter of the Duke of Connaught, with the ceremony to take place next May and an official announcement to foreign courts forthcoming.
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King Manuel
Princess Victoria Patricia
Paris
Lisbon
Manuel of
Portugal
Victoria Patricia
Duke of Connaught
Fear Oyster Famine
Baltimore dies Jan 14 report says Maryland oyster pack will be far below average as ice blocks beds along the bay. Large beds frozen over and few fine Chesapeake bivalves reach New York orders due to the ice_
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The
Tribune
Baltimore
Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
New York
Roosevelt Honored by Harvard Alumni Association
CambridgeMass January 14 The election of Theodore Roosevelt Harvard 80 ex President of the United States as president of the Harvard Alumni Association succeeding Dr Charles W Eliot president emeritus Harvard University was announced tonight by the executive board If he is in the country Roosevelt will preside over the annual meeting in June The board also elected James J Storrow 85 as alumni marshal for the commencement day procession Power was delegated to the executive board to choose these officers at the June meeting
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Cambridge
Mass
Theodore Roosevelt
Harvard
United States
Harvard Alumni Association
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Roosevelt
James J. Storrow
Boston
Taft Plan Faces Strong House Opposition
President Taft faces a difficult House battle as advisers push the federal incorporation plan amid strong opposition. Many representatives refuse public comment, seeing the bill as controversial, with Judiciary Committee members and Democrats largely against it. A January Chicago meeting of 250 delegates urged abolishing the publicity feature of the new corporation tax law.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Taft
Congress
White House
Representative Mann
Illinois
Judiciary Committee of the House
Judiciary Committee
Indict C R Heike Sugar Official One of Six Named
The federal grand jury indicted six men tied to the American Sugar Refining Company including Charles R Heike secretary treasurer and holding company secretary of New Jersey. The charges cover false entries and conspiracy with four counts and fourteen overt acts in 1907 at docks 117 Wall Street and related sites. Heike, a longtime company official, sat beside president Washington B Thomas at a Jersey City meeting. Convicted former dock superintendent Oliver Spitzer is recovering from an operation and will be sentenced in February. The six defendants face trial in February or early March with potential bail for those on Blackwell's Island after appeals talks.
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Ridge Pole
Henry L. Stimson
American Sugar Refining Company
Tribune
Winfred T. Denison
Stimson
Judge Hough
United States Circuit Court
Grand Jury
Heike
Ernest W. Gerbracht
Havemeyer
No. 117
Wall Street
Richard Parr
H. O. Havemeyer
Butler County
Jersey City
Washington B. Thomas
Thomas
James M. Beck
Philadelphia
Walker
Henry F. Cochrane
Checkers
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Blackwell's Island
Oliver Spitzer
Williamsburg
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Brooklyn
New York
New York Central
Pennsylvania Railroad
Hoboken
Pennsylvania
Baltimore & Ohio
Bill” Edwards
Bronx
Edwards
George P. Bloomer
Beltmore
Long Island
Mr. Bloomer
Brown's Ho
Great Storm Sweeps New York City Bright with Snow and Loss
A furious blizzard paralyzed streets and harbor with snow and wind. four lives were lost in accidents and exposure. Traffic slowed. ferries kept running but in heavy conditions. pilots warned of dangerous navigation as major ships and trains faced delays. The storm continued with northeast gales and new snow, disrupting transportation and daily life.
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Yesteryear
Queensboro
Delaware
Portland
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