Croker Blames Mains For Water Pressure At Fires
Chief Croker testified before the Commissioners of Accounts on fire dept hose shortages and water pressure issues. He urged immediate purchase of 279,000 feet of hose and urged open market access for brands, plus replacing the fire alarm telegraph system.
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Fire Department
Commissioners of Accounts
Williamsburg
Lantry
Mitchel
Parker Building
Mel Croker
Water Department
O’brien
Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity
Chief Croker
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San Francisco
Chicago
Hayes
O'Brien
Windsor
Mitchell
Lower New
Bronx
Brooklyn
Gisa Oval
Philadelphia
New York
Binns
Torker
R Mitchel
Fire Hose Breaks As Cork Works Fire Spreads
A waterfront blaze at No 23 to 4 Rodney street in Williamsburg endangers 300 workers after rotten hoses burst under pressure. Firemen save two cork plants International Cork Company and Brooklyn Stopper. Women flee, several overcome by smoke, while nearby firms National Aniline and Chemical and Binney Godfrey Wire and Bronze Works escape major damage. Fire lasts over half an hour with police keeping tenement residents safe.
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Williamsburg
Cork Works
Rodney Street
International Cork Company
Brooklyn
McCannin
Clymer Street
National Aniline and Chemical Company
Ross Street
Binney-Godfrey Wire and Bronze Works
Cork
Wythe Avenue
Fire Alarm Telegraph System Up for Complete Overhaul
After years of danger from deteriorating fire alarm wires and equipment Commissioner Lantry plans to seek a full appropriation to replace the system with new wires alarms instruments and a fireproof headquarters. Chief Croker warned the cost could reach 2 500 000 though immediate risk may be overstated until repairs proceed.
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Lantry
New York Board of Fire Underwriters
Nicholas J. Hayes
Hayes
John H O’brien
Board of Estimate and
Department of Finance
Croker
Commissioners of Accounts
Treat Praises National Banking System at Boston Meeting
Boston audience hears Charles H. Treat urge preservation and improvement of the national banking system. He argues for a supplemental currency, critiques the Aldrich bill, and backs a national clearing house bank to unify the currency and support commerce.
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Chase
Congress
Finance Committee
United States Senate
Treat
Mr. Treat
National Clearing House Bank
Requis House Banks
Scarritt sails again for proxies in Fish Harriman fight
Winthrop E. Scarritt former Auto Mobile Club of America president leaves for Europe to solicit proxies for Stuyvesant Fish from foreign Illinois Central stockholders. He says he has secured proxies from major holders in Britain France and Holland. Foreign ownership totals over 176000 shares or 16 percent of the stock, likely affecting the Fish Harriman contest.
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Winthrop E. Scarritt
Automobile Club of America
Europe
Illinois Central
Mr. Scarritt
Fincis Central
Great Britain
France
Holland
Harriman
Scarritt
Jerome Appears Before Grand Jury Over Traction Probes
Jerome and Kresel report the grand jury will hear testimony from Ivins King Blum Degener Hayman Parsons Mass and Amory about traction company affairs. King cites records from the Public Service Commission and urges full access to five years of Jerome's files to restore public confidence amid reformer attacks.
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King
Ivins
Grand Jury
William F. King
William M Ivins
Mr. Jerome
Manhattan
Kresel
William M. Ivins
Ide Blum
Metropolitan Street Railway
George L. Degener
Nathan H. Hayman
John H. Parsons
William Mass
William N. Amory
Mr. Kresel
Jerome
Public Service Commission
Traction Companies of
New York
Jerome All Pee
Commuters May Form League Under Mount Vernon Mayor
Mayor Howe calls Mount Vernon residents to a Thursday meeting to discuss forming a commuters league. The aim is to extend it to towns along the Central and New Haven roads in Westchester County to protest reduced train service and press better treatment from the roads.
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Howe
Mount Vernon
New Haven
Westchester County
Shirtmakers Begin Strike Over Wages Across Ten Firms
The union shirtmakers began their annual strike yesterday with 50 girls quitting work to press four wage demands, seeking increases from 15 to 20 percent. Ten firms are affected, centered in Leonard Street, with a general wage-demand plan for all members to follow in a week.
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Leonard Street
Real Estate Man James W Sargent Dies in Kingston
James W Sargent a Somerville real estate man connected with Boston was found dead at his Kingston summer home. A revolver lay beside him and a note on his sleeve indicated he took his own life. He was forty three, married, and had come from Boston just yesterday.
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Kingston
Mass
James W. Sargent
Somerville
Boston
Sargent
Delaware & Hudson plans 10.9 million note issue
The Delaware and Hudson company will issue about 10.9 million dollars of one year 5 percent notes. Proceeds will pay off 6.9 million dollars of 6 percent participation certificates issued last February by the subsidiary Quebec Montreal & Southern, guaranteed by D and H. The notes mature early next month and two local banking houses are expected to handle the loan.
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Delaware & Hudson Company
Quebec, Montreal & Southern
Delaware & Hudson
Cotton Drops After Census Report On U S Production
Washington Jan 23 the census bureau reports U S cotton year to date through Jan 16 totals 10 337 607 bales up from last year but down from 1906 In round bales 187 662 are counted As price on the New York Cotton Exchange fluctuated after the census May contracts rose then fell to 11 21 cents a pound and closed slightly lower after liquidation and partial recovery Sales were around 500 000 dates.
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Washington
Census Bureau Today
United States
Sea Island
New York Cotton Exchange
Hollane-Ariense L
New York
Rotterdam
Boulogne
Noordam
Statendam
Ryndam
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Holland-America Line
Bway
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Baltimore
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Adam Washington
Royal Ltd
Chicago
Pittsburg
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Astor House
Greenwich St
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N. Y
Fulton St
Brooklyn
Receivers Appointed for Washington and Potomac Steamboat Co
Chief Justice Clabaugh appointed Richard H. Lynn and United States Trust Co as receivers for the Washington and Potomac Steamboat Company. Bonds set at 50000. Lynn filed a judgment for 15722 against the firm. The company owns five steamers and River View and Colonial Beach amusements, with assets said to exceed liabilities but loans hard to obtain amid financial disturbances.
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Washington
Clabaugh
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia
Richard H. Lynn
United States Trust Company
Washington and Potomac Steamboat Company
Boond
Steamboat Company
River View
Colonial Beach
Belmont Rothschild Denials Expand in Market Rumor
Ladenburg Thalmann Co and Lee Higginson Co said they were asked by cable to contradict reports that N M Rothschild & Sons planned to sever ties with August Belmont Co. The rumor, spread in Wall Street after a large real estate transfer to the Rothschilds, prompted the denials and clarified the situation.
Bankbook notices and debts in early 1900s York City records
Bankbook numbers 268,767 449,058 and 467,297 of Union Dime Savings and Dry Dock Savings are listed as LOST or missing with requests to present claims within set days or cancel and reissue. A $6,000 loan offer for three years at 6 percent seeks funds secured against a New York City plant valued at $50,000 with McDonald-Wiggins Co. named. A country store named New York Cash Grocery and Meat Market indicates debts owed to a death in the family, with $20,000 at stake and C. E. Batley referenced in Brewster.
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Union Dime Savings Institution
Dry Dock Savings Institution
City of
New York
4Th Ave
14Th
Philipp
Anna Schreck
New York City
McDonald-Wiggins Co
Broadway
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