City plans Campanile tower and new municipal buildings
Lindenthal proposes a Campanile 650 feet high north of Chambers Street as part of a unified City Hall Park redevelopment. The plan includes a refurbished bridge station, expanded subway and elevated lines, a new Hall of Records, a courthouse, and a central municipal building with five office floors. Estimated cost is about 9 million dollars, with additional ground acquisition and construction expenses.
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Lindenthal
Board of Estimate
City Hall Park
Postoffice
Chambers St
Centreet
Hall of Records
City Hall
Lingenthal
Henry F. Hornbostel
George B. Post
Brooklyn Bridge
Manhattan
Bridge
Elm St
Centre-st
William-st
Park Row
Brooklyn
New Hall of Records
Bridge Station
Chambers-st
Broadway
Campanile
Cgag
Place de la Concorde
Paris
Trafalgar Square
London
Earery
William St
Threom
Ion
Gallery
Bridger Park Row
Manhattan Bridge
Millions for bridges and public works in city plan
The Board of Aldermen approved $800000 for Riverside Drive extension from 135th to 145th streets. Redfield won $10000 for a Gates Avenue courthouse and $211600 for two baths in Greenpoint and the Navy Yard. Condemnation authorized for land between First Avenue and the East River for Bellevue Hospital with estimated land cost $1260000. Additional appropriations include $4000000 for Public Charities, $3560000 for Blackwell's Island Bridge, $15044 for Williamsburg Bridge and $155000 for Bronx baths and bath sites.
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Board of Aldermen
Cantor
Riverside Drive
Public Works
Redfield
Brooklyn
Gates-ave
Greenpoint
Navy Yard
First-ave
Twenty-eighth
Twenty-ninth Sts
East River
Bellevue Hospital
Department of Public Charities
Blackwell's Island Bridge
Williamsburg Bridge
Bronx
First peonage cases lead Cosby and partner to prison
Montgomery July 1 George D Cosby and Barancus Cosby planters pleaded guilty to peonage and were sent to Atlanta federal prison in the first such convictions. Testimony described coerced labor under guard, fines paid to jailers, and signed contracts binding enslaved workers to fourteen months more. Further testimonies scheduled for July 9 as related cases proceed.
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Tribune
Montgomery
Ala
George D
Barancus Cosby
Atlanta
Cosbys
George Cosby
Pike Swanson
Swanson
Cosby
Broadway Fire Spreads From Underground Wires at Fortieth Street
A massive fire erupted from underground electric wire insulation under Broadway near Fortieth Street as a manhole geyser shot flames about forty feet high drawing five to six thousand spectators around the Metropolitan Opera House. About fifteen hundred wires were disconnected to stop the blaze, cutting lights to stores hotels and theater venues while police controlled the crowd.
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Broadway
Fortieth-st
Metropolitan Opera House
Edison
Union Electric
Brady
Broadway Squad
Electric Light
Fortieth St
Tenderloin
Siegfried
Brunnhilde
Loki
Casino
Broadway Theatres
McCue Taken to Fort Sheridan After Bigamy Probe
Lt William K McCue of the U S Army is detained at Fort Sheridan by order of General Bates amid bigamy allegations. His San Francisco marriage on June 12 to Ida Westcott is disputed after a telegram from Mackey Cincinnati claimed a June 7, 1899 marriage to Westcott. McCue tore up the telegram and gave his last pay to his hotel wife as nine days of pill payment.
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Chicago
Wiliam K. McCuest
Fort Sheridan
Bates
Department of the Lakes
San Francisco
Ida Westcott
McCue
Dock Board arrests loom as Murphy signs pier lease to brother
Two suspected figures tied to the old Dock Board scandal may be arrested within 48 hours. District Attorney Jerome declined to discuss imminent captures while Tammany Hall reels from the probe. The report notes Charles F. Murphy signed a December lease for the Canal Street pier despite his brother John Murphy and James E. Gaffney lacking city lease rights. Documents from 1901 reveal attempts to freeze out Brown & Fleming and reveal Fleming's letters pressing for long term leases.
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Old Dock Board
Jerome
Tribune
Tammany Hall
Charles F. Murphy
New York
Messrs. Cram and Meyer
Ninety-sixth-st. Pier
Murphy
John
James E. Gaffney
Clarke
John Fleming
Dock Board
Fleming
Brown & Fleming
Old Board
Charles A. Brown
Canal St
West Fifty-fifth
East Fortiethst
Brown
Joseph Egan
Egan
New- York
Gaffney
John J. Murphy
Charles J. Farley
West Fifty-fifth-st
East Fortieth-st
Canal-st
U S State Dept Replies To Russia On Jewish Petition
The State Department released a formal statement clarifying opposition to Russian claims about forwarding the Jewish U S petition. Officials condemned Russia’s stance and praised American sympathy for Jewish victims of massacres, noting it spoke for the administration and the nation. Count Cassini declined comment.
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Cassini
St. Petersburg
State Department
Iowa Republicans Endorse Platform At Des Moines Convention
Des Moines July 1 Harmony marked the Republican State Convention with a completed ticket and platform. The tariff and trust plank, drafted by Senator Allison after talks with Iowa and other states, faced no opposition in committee or on the floor. Governor Cummins accepted renomination and expressed support for the platform, while signaling he will uphold his previous positions. The ticket names A B Cummins Governor and others, with much of the platform praising protection, reciprocity, regulation of trusts, US Cuban treaty benefits, and gold standard. Senators Allison and Dolliver backed the platform. Lacey and Cousins spoke against tariff changes. The convention nominated Cummins for Governor, John Harriot for Lieutenant Governor, Charles A Bishop for Supreme Court, David J Almer for Railroad Commissioner, and F J Riggs for State Superintendent, with Riggs winning on the third ballot.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Allison
Cummins
Dolliver
Lacey
Cousins
Cumming
A. B. Cummins
John Harriot
Stuart
Charles A. Bishop
Des Motzen
David J Ft Almer
Washington
F. J. Riggs
Sigourney
Rush Medical Gift Toward Chicago University Plan
Trustees of Rush Medical College report a $1,000,000 fund raised toward a $6,000,000 Rockefeller gift to the University of Chicago for a new medical college in Chicago. The securities are ready. trustees will present the report and seek acceptance, then representatives will travel to New York to confer with John D. Rockefeller and finalize action.
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Chicago
Rush Medical College
University of Chicago
Rush
John D. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
New Medical College
Congressman Accused in Havana Row Over Army Roll Forgery
A Havana judge sought to prosecute a House member on suspected forged documents to add friends to the army roll. The congressman denied the charge in an interview with The Tribune correspondent.
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Havana
House of Representatives
The
Tribune
CAUGHT AFTER EIGHT YEARS CHASE IN BALTIMORE
Nathan Zemon a forty four year old Russian arrested in Baltimore has been turned over to New York Detective Sergeant Deevy after eight years on the run. Zemon and wife lived in Yonkers where he ran a store and allegedly choked and acid burned Mrs Zemon in 1895. Detectives traced him to Europe and back to the United States.
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Baltimore
Nathan Zemon
Deevy
New York
New-York
Zemon
Yonkers
N. Y
Europe
Colored minister objects to Fortune plan for negroes
J H Duckrey of Mount Olive Baptist Church Cambridge voices strong opposition to Thomas Fortune's proposal to relocate African Americans to the Philippines. He calls it a decoy to expatriate and erase the race, a view echoed by other black leaders and sympathetic whites who warn of hardship and moral risk for the uneducated if sent abroad. The item notes the opposition to the plan amid broader debate on race and migration.
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Boston
J. H. Duckrey
Mount Olive Baptist Church
Cambridge
T Thomas Fortune
Philippines
Will Send Petition On Behalf Of Jewish Citizens
Oyster Bay July 1 United States Government will forward the petition of Jewish and other religious faith citizens to the Russian Government despite the Russian Governments pronouncement. Administration details confirm action will not be affected by public Russian statements or non forwarded communications to the State Department. President Roosevelt declined to discuss the Russian statement for publication. Pocono Mountain Special via Lackawanna Railroad runs Thursdays Fridays Saturdays to Delaware Water Gap Stroudsburg Mt Pocono with meals in dining car Excursion tickets July 3 to 6 one fare round trip advtu.
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Oyster Bay
United States
State Department
Roosevelt
Pocono Mountain
Lackawanna Railroad
Delaware Water Gap
Stroudsburg
Mt. Pocono
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