Chinese Minister Wu Ting-fang in Barnes case promises amid talks
Testimony in New York court reveals letters from Wu Ting-fang and secret codes as Thurlow Weed Barnes pursues a $90,000 claim against the American China Development Company and a Chinese Railway syndicate. Barnes describes concessions, bonds, and contracts tied to Hankow to Peking railway ventures, with the Spanish War affecting bond financing and imperial approval cited.
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Wu Ting-fang
Washington
Davis
Thurlow Weed Barnes
American China Development Company
Caine
Mr. Barnes
Jis
Barnes
New York
Calvin S. Brice
Ohio
China
Sid Mr. Barnes
Wu Tins-fane
Senstein
Legation
A. W. Hach
Hankow
Ganton
La-han
Samear
Chung
Peking
Wu Ting-fane
State Department
United States
Erie Railroad sells Lehigh Valley stock holdings
The Erie Railroad Company reportedly disposed of its holdings in Lehigh Valley Railroad stock, selling in the open market over time. Proceeds are expected to fund short term needs in the coming spring after Erie’s 1961 investments with Lackawanna, Central of New Jersey, Reading and Vanderbilt interests.
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the Tribune
Erie Railroad Company
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Erie
Lehigh Valley
Lackawanna
Central of New Jersey
Reading
Vanderbilt
Thomases to Pay Debts After Banking Panic
E R Thomas and C F Thomas, removed from banking, propose to settle with twenty banks and trust companies owed over 5 million dollars. They will extend payments over years, with the Stock Exchange house Robert Maclay & Co debts included. Mrs Thomas aids her son as General Samuel Thomas’s estate funds his widow.
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E. R. Thomas
C. F. Thomas
Thomases
Goller
E. R
O. F. Thomas
Stock Exchange House
Robert Maclay & Co
Samuel Thomas
Thomas
L Train Through Flames At Bowery Fire
A blaze on Bowery No 22 spread through first and second floors of a building housing A Goldenbloom Robel and Rooshen and Smedley photo studio. Firemen faced flames while two trains passed the burning site. damage pegged at $5,000.
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No. 22
Bowery
Third Avenue “L
A. Goldenbloom
Robel & Rooshen
Smedley Photographic Studio
Lilly and Wanzer
Help wanted ads list skilled trades and office work
A long list of classifieds offering draftsmanship, electrical, plumbing, machine work, and office help. Various qualifications include experienced draftspersons, drug clerks, licensed druggists, electricians, firemen, furnace men, laborers, linotype operators, upholsterers, and porters. Names and addresses span New York City areas and nearby towns.
Help Wanted Classified Ad Fragments
Help wanted items include rigger painter with sober, reliable man aged 40 married good references Alfred Anderson 350 22 st Brooklyn salesman by North German businessman or steady work stenographer competent reliable legal and commercial experience reference moderate salary Larkin Sir Tinton or The Bronx males wanted for newspaper office neat quick bright not afraid of work good references H Box 20 one Office
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Man
Bond
G. Blanker
Lake Ave
Clifton
N. J
Robert
Ist Ave
Rego
Rigger
Alfred Andersen
Brooklyn
Larkin
Sir Tinton
The
Bronx
Booke SR
Edgecombe Ave
F. W. Holste
East 168Th St
Weabe
Knickerbocker Ave
William Sillery
West 37Th St. E
Bill
le House
W. Kohn
West L7th
J. Phelan
Marlborough
N. Y
Vaughn
East
Joseph Lang
M. Down
West 55Th St
Eee
Tribune Office
Anna Schmidt
Avenue A
Seana Eggene
A. B
Sandy
Hancock St
West 24Th St
G. McGibney
Broadway
White Plains
East 64Th St
Sands St
B. J. Feeley
Warren Et
Newark
Robert H. Petasch
East 25Th St
Flaherty's Bureau
Columbus Ave
River
Miss Fitzgerald
5Th Ave
Maher
East 19Th St
Cook
Flaherty’s Bureau
Private agent and secretary seek work and references
Classified help wanted notices listing positions from private agent to accountant and assistant roles. Entries include H J Ferris at 306 East 80th Street seeking security for flats and offices, Ludwig’s varnishing foreman offering private job references, N Von Riper Paterson artist, FP O Box 58, Madison Square accountant, Samuel Cohen Canal Street assistant bookkeeper, J G Miller Elmhurst Leonia Island clerk, D Lohmann bartender, Leon Borochow East 103rd Street bookbinder.
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H. J. Ferris
East 80Th St
Hiring Advertisements From Hoboken and New York City
Classified help wanted notices listing many positions including foreman bookkeeper office assistant driver watchman woodworker and various laborers. Names and addresses appear with brief skill notes and salary or willing terms across Manhattan Brooklyn and Hoboken.
Help wanted ads for female office workers and staff
Classified notices seeking assistants secretaries stenographers bookkeepers chaperons governess companions and other white collar roles. Many listings request strong references and specify addresses in Manhattan and Brooklyn with varied salary ranges and part or full time hours.
Domestic situations wanted in city listings
A New York style want ad list offering various domestic workers: Japanese butler valet gardener nurse cook coachman janitor and chambermaid, with names and addresses for recruitment. Details include languages, experience, and wages or references from agencies and employers.
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Jackson
West 99Th St
East 4Th Et
Knife Stab Wounds Longshoreman In Waterfront Fight
A man claiming to be John Waters of Brooklyn arrived at St. Gregory's Hospital in Gold Street with a fourteen inch stab wound to the right chest and side. Surgeons saved his life after he said the injury occurred at work and police noted a small knife found on Waters. Detectives from Oak Street station doubt his story and fear motives for possible revenge after discharge.
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John Waters
Pineapple Street
Brooklyn
St. Gregory’s Hospital
Gold Street
Waters
Oak Street
Pittsburg Bank Closed by State Authority
Pittsburg on Jan 22 saw the Traders and Mechanics Bank closed by order of State Banking Commissioner James L. White, with temporary receiver named. The Treasury Trust Company, sharing the building, was also closed after failing to get permission to absorb the bank. White cites failure to clear and maintain reserve as the trouble.
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Pittsburg
Traders and Mechanics’ Bank
James L. White
Treasury Trust Company
Fourth Avenue
Market Street
Trust Company
State Banking Department
Commission to Inquire Into Cotton Compresses General Order Hinted
Washington January 22 the Interstate Commerce Commission reached an important determination regarding the control and number of cotton compresses along railway lines The motion for rehearing in the Muskogee case was denied but the commission will launch a broad inquiry into the relations among railroads compresses buyers and shippers with growers aimed at shaping a general order on the whole issue.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Muskogee Commercial Club
Muskogee Traffic Bureau
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company
Decision Applies Only to P R R 2-Cent Rate Law
Justice S H Mestrezat, one of three dissenting justices, says the Supreme Court decision on the 2-cent rate law applies only to the Pennsylvania Railroad. He notes the contract with the state allows three cents a mile only on the 246 miles between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg. Other roads must prove the rate unjust to be exempt.
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The
Tribune
Pittsburg
S. H. Mestrezat
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mestrezat
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Justice Mestrezat
Combination of Workers Illegal in Cleveland Case
Judge Phillips ruled the Amalgamated Glass Workers Union in restraint of trade and ordered its dissolution. The four trades cutters flatteners blowers and gatherers were amalgamated, a minority sought dissolution and the $110,000 in the union treasury be divided. The petitioners alleged discrimination by the majority blowers and gatherers within the union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Phillips
Amalgamated Glass Workers’ Union
Syndicate Now Holds Entire New York City Bond Issue
The syndicate of J. P. Morgan & Co National City Bank and First National Bank has purchased $54,000,000 of New York City 6 percent revenue bonds last quarter and $12,000,000 more from the $15,000,000 with an extended option. The remaining $900,000 option expires February 15 and may be exercised, yielding a total of $45,000,100 for the full issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Morgan & Co
National City Bank
First National Bank
New York City
Coin stolen from New Orleans Sub-Treasury
A bag containing 830 in underweight gold coin was stolen from the New Orleans Sub-Treasury. The coins disappeared Tuesday and officials who held the gold in charge have since covered the shortage.
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New Orleans
Coiis
Blodgett retires from bank presidency in Long Branch
Rufus Blodgett ex senator retires as president and director of Citizens' National Bank of Long Branch a post held since 1898. Brent Good of the Beach and Park Commission elected to fill vacancy on the board. A president to be elected at Saturday meeting.
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Rufus Blodgett
United States
Citizens’ National Bank of
Long Branch
Brent Good
Long Branch Beach and Park Commission
Judgment for $25 989 30 against island firms in county clerk
Judgment by default for 25 989 39 was entered yesterday in the County Clerk's office against Pilley's Island Pyrites Company Terra Nova Company National Metallurgic Company and Newfoundland Syndicate in favor of Manufacturers' Commercial Company on a note dated June 1 1907 to Newfoundland Syndicate endorsed to the plaintiff. E L Adams of 299 Broadway is attorney for the plaintiff.
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Pilley’s Island Pyrites Company
Terra Nova Company
National Metallurgic Company
Newfoundland Syndicate
Manufacturers’ Commercial Company
Newfoundland
E. L. Adams
No. 299
Broadway
Lost and Stolen Bankbooks in City Notices
Public notices warn of missing bankbooks from Union Dime Savings Institution and German Savings Bank. Individuals with claims must present within ten days to prevent cancellation and new books issued. several books listed with numbers and issuing banks, including Harlem, Dry Dock, Germain, and others, with dates in 1906.
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Union Dime Levines Institution
Union Dime Savings Institution
Greser
TOST
Bagkbomk
Lsims
Wpm
Iock
Eee Rees Mst
Etolen
Bigrant Industrial Savinge Bank
Sean
Mgratt Industria] Savings Bank
Het
New York
Paya Hoppes
Ee Met
Spring room deals and boarding houses listed in Midtown
Classified snippets offer half price apartment rooms with private baths and meals, various boarding options with steam heat and running water, plus legal notice services and a jewelry shop ad. Names and addresses include X. KR Tribute Uptown Office 1364 Broadway and M F Tepper 41 West 35th Street.
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Broadway
Sale of Chinese and Japanese porcelains at Fifth Avenue rooms
A large collection of Chinese and Japanese porcelains goes up for sale at Fifth Avenue Auction Rooms on 25th Street and Fourth Avenue starting this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Many pieces are 300 to 400 years old, including a Kwamion statue, a Goddess of Mercy, and a Beijing screen reported as the largest in the U.S. Also offered are about 400 curios and 350 old Japanese prints by renowned artists.
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Fifth Avenue
25Th Street
Fourth Avenue
Kwamion
Peking
Japan
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Tompkins Ave
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Greene Ave
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Franklin Ave
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East 107Th St
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Bedford Ave
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68Th St
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Greene St
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Locust Valley
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Clark St
O. K. Hansen
Care
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West 62d St
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Tit Lexington Ave
Mrs. Collers Agency
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Lang & Kerer Co
Petrick
Gast 78Th St
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Industrial Association
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Sth Ave
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Saratoga Ave
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Norris
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Lexington
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West 35Th St
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Collier's Agency
Ostman's Bureau
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Horner
Brown
Amsterdam Ave
West Lithst
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Oster’ Bureau
Tel i Plaza
Lady'’S Companion
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Iopkins
Surrey
Cali
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St. Laundress
Road & Boecherer Co
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Boecherer
2D Ave
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Ease H St
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Lexingtomm Ave
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Fisherty
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Gustafson
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Capitol
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Harlem
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Isree
Goldstein
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Aeenness Folly Tange ‘Machinery Louserm
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Medison St
Tritone
Bots
Mtemnens
Mae
12Th St
Reeyv Liwa Ia
Welw i Employment Bureau
Lryant
St. Mark's Av
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28Th Street
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Akte
V & Wainright
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Lama and Rensselaer Hotels
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Sth
Saal
M.F. Tepper
35Th St
Telecee
Eighth Ave
37Th St
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Theodore
Carey
Ellagton
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Brooks
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Pulver
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Voglin
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Woodall
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Dunn
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Howes
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Peaks
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Huntley
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Staylor
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Robb
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Mitchell
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Robinson
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Cox
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Parrell
Montel
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Taylor
Foley
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Gadson
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Patton
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Hall
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