Pay of Professors Conditions in Germany
A Carnegie Foundation pamphlet compares American and German professorial pay. It notes U.S. full professors average about $2,500 yearly across strong institutions, with limited top salaries, while German professors enjoy greater security and a broad pay scale, including fees and housing benefits, plus long training periods and strong academic autonomy. The report contrasts appointment systems, tenure, and faculty control, highlighting Germany's government-managed salaries and pensions for professors and their families.
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Bulletin
United States
Maly
Minister of Public Instruction
Bulletine
Germany
Court hears bid to force SPCA to care for horses
Justice Blanchard heard an application by Assistant Corporation Counsel Farley for Police Commissioner Bingham to compel the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to care for abandoned animals, focusing on horses beyond its admitted duties for stray dogs and cats. The society argued it has no legal obligation to handle animals other than cats and dogs, and the matter remains awaiting decision.
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Farley
Bingham
Blanchard
Supreme Court
Society For the Prevention of
Justice Blanchard
Williamsburgh Ferries to Close After July 31
The Brooklyn Ferry Company warns 300 workers including pilots engineers and deckhands will lose their jobs when ferries Roosevelt Grand Street 23d Street 42d Street and a Grand Street to Williamsburg to Grand Street Manhattan route close. Greenpoint to 10th Street and to 234 Street services continue. The ferries’ property sold at auction to New York Terminal Company for 25 dollars with a mortgage of 6 773 541 dollars and over 1 million dollars in taxes water rates and assessments. A special commission previously appraised the property unfavorably amid calls for city purchase.
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Brooklyn Ferry Company
Roosevelt
Grand Street
Ferry Company
New York Terminal Company
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Animals At Auction In Central Park Sheepfold
John W. Smith director of the Central Park menagerie was overcome by heat at the surplus animal auction in the Central Park sheepfold. Fifty three sheep and lambs and a thousand pounds of wool sold well and several specific purchases were noted including lambs to W E D Stokes and Angora goats to Brian G Hughes. Additional bids on elk red deer fallow deer and sacred zebus were recorded with total proceeds reported as five dollars.
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John W. Smith
Central Park
Mr. Smith
W. E. D. Stokes
Brian G. Hughes
Warner van Norden
van Norden Trust Company
Connecticut
City Seeks Half Value for Quit Claim Deeds
The city plans to charge 50 percent of property value for quit claim deeds awarded after long possession. A Sinking Fund Commission resolution, urged by Controller Metz, sets the policy. The Dock Commissioner was authorized to provide free ferry transport for fifty public and parochial school children daily to Curtis Field under a teacher supervision.
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Metz
Sinking Fund Commission
Curtis Field
Staten Island
Dr Washington Returns to Van Wyck Place on Long Island
Booker T. Washington settles again at the Van Wyck place West Neck Huntington Long Island across Cold Spring Harbor from Sagamore Hill arriving after a local dispute over installing a house telephone. Residents opposed lines but telephone company declined to discriminate delaying progress. Washington is generally liked at West Neck.
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Booker T. Washington
van Wyck Place
West Neck
Huntington
Long Island
Cold Spring Harbor
Sagamore Hill
Dr. Washington
Equitable Life to Build 62-Story New Headquarters
Edward S Murphy approval sets in motion plans by Daniel H Burnham Co for a 62 story Equitable building to rise just below the Singer Building. The project includes modern steel construction to reduce wasteful corridors and is valued around 25 million with a 15 million site value and a projected 4 percent yield.
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Edward S. Murphy
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Board of Trustees
Singer
City Investment
Paul Morton
Daniel H. Burnham & Co
Chicago
Equitable
Broadway
Equitable Society
Building code panel weighs tall building limits
A commission revising the building code plans to report to the Board of Aldermen soon. Committees on concrete fireproofing fire limits masonry sky signs elevators and escalators heating and height limits have drafted a model law with multiple changes. The group may meet nightly to finalize the report, motivated by Parker Building fire lessons and proposals for stepped setbacks.
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Board of Aldermen
Charles R. Lamb
Parker
Another Note Broker Convicted In Keyport Cutlery Case
Charles Barry a lawyer was convicted of grand larceny in General Sessions for manipulating notes from Sherman Co a Keyport New Jersey cutlery firm. A Regulus Shippy and John Gundlach were also convicted of grand larceny. Sentencing set for next Tuesday by Judge Foster. Notes valued about 108000 allegedly obtained April 24 197? totaling 25000 in outstanding notes.
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Charles Barry
Sherman & Co
Keyport
Barry
A. Regulus Shippy
John Gundlach
Foster
Three Dogs Attack Book Agent in Brooklyn
Edward White of 211 Pacific Street Brooklyn is hospitalized in Newark City Hospital with severe lacerations to his left arm and a torn right hand after three bulldogs attacked him while canvassing on Grove Street. He was set upon as the dogs emerged from a rear porch and dragged him to the ground. He remains in serious condition.
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Edward White
No. 211
Pacific Street
Brooklyn
Newark City Hospital
White
Grove Street
Why Meat Is High in June A Manhattan Beef Shortage Explained
A Tribune reporter tours Manhattan slaughterhouses as executives explain the rise in beef prices. They cite panic selling of fattening stock, grain shortages, and a lag in grain-fed cattle supply, predicting relief only after newer cattle are killed by September.
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Tribune
Slaughter House
Manhattan Island
Thaw deemed permanently insane by state commission
Albany reports Dr. Albert Warren Ferris, head of the state lunacy commission, says Harry K. Thaw shows unstable mental condition and homicidal history. He urges care in Matteawan for community safety, noting the hospital is for the insane ordered by courts and for those with criminal tendencies who cannot be safely housed elsewhere.
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Albany
Albert Warren Ferris
State Commission In Lunacy
Harry K. Thaw
Ferris
Thaw
Matteawan
Supreme Court
Dowling
Justice Dowling
Fly Time Rules Urged to Householders by Merchants’ Group
Merchants' Association backs health board guidance urging households hotels and eateries to distribute fly time cards. Rules advise killing stray flies especially in sickrooms preventing disease spread, removing decaying matter, purging garbage, using lime or oil, kerosene drains, covering food, burning or burying refuse, and screening food, windows and doors. Ends with guidance about leaving order with local news dealers during the Fourth.
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Merchants’ Association
Board of Health
Edward Hatch, Jr
Chanute Opposes Plan to Bring Delagrange Here
Octave Chanute the "father of aviation" told guests at the Hotel Manhattan he sees no need to invite Leon Delagrange for August exhibitions. He argued American aviators can demonstrate as well and warned foreign showcases would misrepresent U S progress. He noted the Wright and Farman machines trace to his ideas and predicted aviation will largely serve sport and war, with limited global disruption.
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Octave Chanute
Chicago
Manhattan
Leon Delagrange
Chanute
Charles M. Manly
Afro Club of America
Wright Brothers
Notable marriage license issued to Howard S Gans
Howard S Gans former Assistant District Attorney obtained a license yesterday in City Hall to wed Mrs Birdie Stein Sternberger of 102 West 75th street. Sternberger had been divorced on April 10 from Louis Sternberger and custody of their two children was awarded. Sternberger is forty and Gans is thirty five.
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Howard S. Gans
City Hall
Birdie Stein Sternberger
West 75Th Street
Dedication of Roebling Statue in Cadwalader Park
Thousands attend in Trenton for a monument to John A Roebling founder of the wire and rope industry. A 6500 marcher Roebling workforce paraded in heat while 10000 locals filled the park. Eastabrook billed the tribute with Miss Emily M Roebling unveiling the statue. Notables include Senators Briggs Kean and Governor Fort.
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Tribune
Trenton
John A Roebling
Brooklyn Bridge
John A. Roebling
Cadawalader Park
Roebling Company
Roebling
Trentonians
Madden
Henry D. Eastabrook
Western Union Telegraph Company
New York
Estabrook
Karl G. Roebling
Stokes
Emily M. Roebling
Mahion R. Margerum
Frank Briggs
John Kean
Robert C. Clowrys
Messrs. Roebling
Indictment for Utah Banker in Reserve Vault Theft
East Lake City June 3 The federal grand jury indicted A W Nelson a cashier at the State Bank and former Utah National Bank employee over alleged tooting of the Utah National Bank reserve vaults. His uncle Joseph B Nelson also previously served as cashier. The elder Nelson resigned after a McCormick signed report confirmed a loss of funds from the reserve chests.
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East Lake City
Federal Grand Jury
A. W. Nelson
Utah National Bank
Nelson
State Bank
Utah National
Joseph 8. Nelson
W. C. McCormick
Going Away Over The Fourth
Local notice urges residents to plan ahead for Fourth of July travel and happenings. Emphasizes leaving orderly surroundings and disposing of waste responsibly.
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