Ahearn Ousted Borough President Seat Upheld
The Court sustains the demurrer and rules the Board of Aldermen validly filled the Borough President vacancy left by Mr Ahearn. The Attorney General challenges the appointment as usurpation, but the decision affirms the 1907 vacancy filling as legal and proper, with the elected successor legally oathbound and empowered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin W. Little
John F. Ahearn
Jackson
Justice Yn
Supreme Court
Mir. Ahearn
Board of Alderee
Legal
Batcall
Manhattan
Aps
Ahearn
The
Board of Men
Hilgen Helps Government At Oil Trust Hearing
Frank B Kellogg was absent from the hearing on the government suit to dissolve the Standard Oil Company. Mr Morrison led cross examination as E Rafer and other special agents testified denying price rebates in Albany and Troy. Thomas L Hisgen of Boston attended and prompted Morrison while Roy Aiken admitted multiple prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank B. Kellogg
Standard Oi Company
Morrison
Kellogg
Rosenthal
Standard
New York State
New England
E. Rafer
Albany
Troy
Spcies
Thomas L. Hisgen
Boston
Roy Aiken
Reorganization Plans for Consolidated Steamship Lines
The reorganization committee led by Charles W. Morse signals plan changes for rehabilitating Consolidated Steamship Lines. Key shifts include allowing a majority of outstanding preferred stock voting to authorize bond dispositions and extending the fixed charge period on bonds to January 1, 1910. Foreclosure steps may follow after the January 1 default.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Consolidated Steamship Lines
Charles W. Morse
Treasuries
Consolidated Steamship 4
Debenture Holders Threaten Action Over Wabash Interest
Debenture Avanda bond holders threaten legal steps to claim on Wabash Railroad earnings and assets after directors refused yesterday to pay interest. They contend the original mortgage has precedence over the new refunding mortgage, hindering payment on the new bonds unless interest on the debentures is met. The railroad maintains debenture rights are limited to interest payments from earnings, which have not covered the interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avanda
Wabash Railroad Company
Burglary Insurance Underwriters Form City Association
Burglar insurance firms in the city form the Burglary Insurance Underwriters' Association led by D W Armstrong of the National Surety Company as president and S B Brewster of the twa Indemnity Company as secretary. New business commissions drop from 3 to 25 percent while renewal commissions stay unchanged. The group plans higher minimum policy amounts to 1000 dollars at 12 dollars a year, up from 750 dollars at 10 dollars. current membership covers over 80 million in insured value with more than 1 million in premiums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. W. Armstrong
National Surety Company
S. B. Brewster
Twa Indemnity Company
May Readjust S. C. I. Finances After Plan
The Sheffield and Iron Company deposits for its reorganization expired yesterday. A committee including E. C. Converse James Gayley L. Elwood W. M. Douglass and Co. W. Funk reports no statement yet but notes deposits and subscriptions under 1004 aim to fund bond and stock readjustment and raise additional cash. The Coal and Iron Company was placed in receivership last December and will be known after reorganization as the Sheffield Iron Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheffield and Iron Company
E. C. Converse
James Gayley
L. Elwood
W. M. Douglass
W. Funk
Id Coal and Iron Company
Benjamin Strong, Jr
Sheffield Iron Company
Saturday and Sunday Excursions From New York
The Central Hudson steamer Homer Ramsdell offers Fourth of July and Sunday trips with a Hudson River sail, plus a trolley ride from Newburg landing to Orange Lake Park. Departures from Pier 4 Franklin Street at 9 am, 12th Street at 9:30 am, return from Newburg at 6 pm and West Point at 7 pm, price $30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hudson
Homer Ramsdell
Hudson River
Newburg Landing
Orange Lake Park
Pier 4
Franklin Street
12Th Street
Newburg
West Point
Mary Ene
Desbrosses St
129Th
Marth
Hendrick
West Shore
Franklin ST
Newburgh
Orange Lake
Weekend Fourth Plans Stir Local Newsdealer Prompt
Fragmentary notice urges readers to place orders with the local newsdealer as they prepare for the Fourth of July. No clear date or full details available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunday Tribune
Sunda Tribune
Norfolk Road Receiver Appointed for Rail Line
The Norfolk & Southern operating lines between Norfolk and Raleigh were placed in the hands of receivers Harry K. Wolcott Hugh M. Kerr and Thomas Fitzgerald after default on July interest on 15 million dollars in bonds. Bonds totaling 100 thousand were posted as security and the receivers will assume control tomorrow. A reorganization committee including George Clark Rathbone Gardner Oakleigh Thorne John S. Waterbury and S L Schoonmaker was named to execute an approved plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Norfolk, Va
Norfolk & Southern o_o
Norfolk
Eden
New Berne
Elizabeth City
Raleigh
N. C
Cape Henry
Virginia Beach
Harry K. Wolcott
Hugh M. Kerr
Thomas Fitzgerald
Trust Company of North America
New York
Thomas L. Cladbourne
Trust Company
Cladbourne
George ©. Clark
Clark, Dodge & Co
Rathbone Gardner
Union Trust Company
Providence
Oakleigh Thorne
The
John S. Waterbury
Manhattan Trust Company
S. L. Schoonmaker
State reports higher aggregate franchise valuations this year
Albany reports final valuations by the State Board of Tax Commissioners show a rise of 45 to 50 million dollars over last year, totaling 590,269,462 dollars. Excludes four cities where assessments are not yet certified, with New York State seeing the largest increase to 492,492,970 dollars from 406,855,000 last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Mount Vernon
New Rochelle
Yonkers
New York
Erie
Monroe
Onondaga
Rensselaer
Schenectady
Chautauqua
Niagara
Dutchess
Bargain sale of mining stock at weekly securities auction
More than 55 000 shares of about twenty five mining firms sold for about $50 the Jet. Stocks included Royal Age Gold Mining Rappahannock Gold Mining Squaw Mountain Tunnel Gold Mining and Drainage Stormont Mining and others. Also $3 750 first mortgage bonds maturing 1909 of the Mexican Flume and Lumber Company and 75 00 common shares of the Mexican Exploration and Development Company sold for $28. Two shares of the Louisville Property Company brought $99.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Age
Rappahannock
Squaw Mountain Tunnel
Stormont
T-Bone
Taylor Plumas
Mars Consolidated
Hanover
Gould
Colorado City
Manitou
Alceyone Consolidated
Goldfield-Kawich
Daisy- Mohawk
Greenwater
Death Valley
Sutro Tunnel
Central Arizona
Furnace Creek
Decatur Silver Mining
Boo Goldstone Consolidated Mining
Mexican Flume and Lumber Company
Mexican Exploration and Development Company
Louisville Property Company
Large Nebraska wheat crop exceeds expectations in July reports
Reports from Central and Southern Nebraska wheat belts show harvests larger than anticipated with yields from twelve to thirty bushels per acre and an average of eighteen. Central Nebraska reports 98 percent of the normal crop. Corn progress is rapid and often laid by, with river valley losses offset by upland gains in western areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Omaha
Nebraska
Central
Westinghouse Lands Large Orders From Japan and Mexico
Westinghouse interests received several large orders today raising factory activity. The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co has orders for powerhouse engines for the Mexican mines of the New York Honduras and Rosario Mining Co. The Westinghouse Machine Co. received a rush order from the Japanese government for a large steam turbine for the arsenal at Port Arthur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Pittsburg
Westinghouse
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
New York, Honduras
Rosario
Westinghouse Machine Company
Japanes
Steem
Port Arthur
Freight Rates Extended by Jersey City Route
New Haven and Hertford Railroad extends traffic rates and interchange agreements with Central Railroad of New Jersey Reading and Baltimore and Ohio to August 31. Agreement previously extended two or three times during the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York, New Haven & Hertford Railroad Company
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Reading
Baltimore & Ohio
Jersey City
Stockholders Move to Stop Sale of Smelting Property
A committee of Consolidated Arizona Smelting stockholders is being formed to block the property sale in the hands of a receiver. Many stockholders reportedly endorse action to prevent foreclosure sale, with details still being arranged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Consolidated Arizona Smelting Company
State Printing Contracts Awarded in Albany
At a State Board of Printing meeting contracts were awarded to the J. J. Lyon Company of Albany for session laws, Department and legislative printing. Lyon was the lowest bidder with 197,485 dollars for legislative printing and 87,069 dollars for department printing. Session laws and department contracts cover two years, legislative one year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
State Board of Printing
J. J. Lyon Company
State Department
Legislative
Lyon Company
Department
WwW and L E Interest Not Paid Amid Receiver Control
Interest due yesterday on Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad equipment bonds totaling 2,094,000 outstanding and on Pittsburg Wheeling and Lake Erie Coal first mortgage bonds 634,000 was not paid. Mercantile Trust Company as trustee received no funds. The railroad, under a receiver, owns most of the Coal Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Company
Pittsburg, Wheeling and Lake Erie Coal Company
Mercantile Trust Company
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Police Seek Woman in Wilson Poison Mystery
Philadelphia detectives pursue a woman connected to the cyanide poison plot targeting Dr. Wilson. Authorities seek a man and a woman and appeal to postal inspectors to locate where the poison letter was mailed. Coroner declares Wilson did not poison himself. Mrs. Wilson remains gravely ill from shock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Wilson
Dr. Wilson
Jermon
Miss McDougal
Oxford
Penn
William McColby
Rising Sun
Atlantic City
Thomas Cooney
8Th and Arch Streets
Cooney
Philadelphia Country Club
Department Medical
Bread line row spurs Washington Square quarrel
The Washington Square Association complains the Fleischmann bread line regulars use the square to eat their rations. Otto Fleischmann defends continued bread distribution. The Mitchells report the dispute has ceased with help from Acting Captain Heney, and no further trouble remains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Square Association
Fleischmann
Broadway
Washington Square
Otto F. Fleischmann
Mali
Bowery
Cornelius B. Mitchell
West 10Th Street
Heney
Immigration Declines Sharply in First Half of 1908
An official statement for steamship firms shows a major drop in immigration in the first six months of 1908. Eastbound steerage passengers outpaced arrivals as 377,664 workers left for Europe versus 186,586 who came from Europe, nearly twice as many leaving as entering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gustav H. Schwab
Lloyd Steamship Company
Europe
Moonshiners Arrested in Williamsburg Raid
Police uncovered a moonshine still at 408 Manhattan Avenue Williamsburg in a ramshackle two story frame. Three alleged distillers—Hyman Levene Harry Horowitz and David Kadane r—were arrested and handed to federal authorities after occupation of the vacant building. The still was warm and demijohns of raw spirits and barrels of sour mash were found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan Avenue
Williamsburg
Hyman Levene
Hendrix Street
Harry Horowitz
Watkins Street
David Kadaner
Rivington Street
Manhattan
Chase Ends as Auto Run At Twenty Miles An Hour
Bicycle Officer Charles F. Faber chased a racing automobile twenty miles to stop it. Occupants Walter Dryer Michael Malone and John Malone were fined 2 dollars each for disorderly conduct in Yorkville court. Chauffeur John Loughlin of Palmer Singer Motor Co faced 200 dollars bail for speeding and operating a machine without a state tag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Faber
Yorkville Court
Walter Dryer
Michael Malone
John Malone
John Loughlin
No. 2500
Seventh Avenue
Palmer-Singer Motor Company
Broadway
Faber
List Street
Tree Sprayer Swindle Exposed by Rural New Yorker Editors
Promoters posing as tree trimmers swindled homeowners in New York City and Mount Vernon area towns. They promised two year care contracts and growth miracles while damaging trunks and roots. The scheme—run from a Mount Vernon base—unraveled after Professor George T. Powell exposed the fraud in Rural New Yorker and The Country Gentleman, with detectives summoned by the state agriculture department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Hudson River Valley
Burbank
East 47Th Street
State Department of Agriculture
George T. Powell
Powell
Paper firm orders cuts from New York office
Franklin New Hampshire July 1 The agent of the International Paper Company here received orders from the head office in New York today to reduce the workforce and cut operating expenses across the local plant.
Wage cuts ordered for six mills of the corporation
The six mills will implement wage reductions next Monday. The reduction, not uniform, follows similar orders to company mills in New York State, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. New York dispatches report a 10 percent cut at the end of the annual agreement on August 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State
New Hampshire
Vermont
Maine
New York
Tragic Pedestrian Deaths In Bronx Auto Incident
Michael Antonile five, and Felix Ganglio nine, were struck by a moving car as they ran from behind a wagon at Pelham Road and the Bronx River. The younger boy died instantly. Felix was injured internally. Milford Martin of Rye ordered his chauffeur to aid the boys to Fordham Hospital and Coroner Schwanneke released the chauffeur from custody after the tale of the ordinary speed was given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Antonile
Felix Ganglio
Pelham Road
Bronx River
Milford Martin
Rye
Fordham Hospital
Schwanneke
Clarence F. Lee
Martin
Hamilton Bank Sells Mortgages in Real Estate Exchange
Hamilton Bank offered for sale twenty four first and second mortgages on parcels in Manhattan The Bronx and Brooklyn in amounts from 200 to 30400 totaling 1999. Two mortgages were sold to the property owners. A $4000 Brooklyn first mortgage sold for 3200 and a $40 Bronx lot mortgage sold for 135.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton Bank
Vesey Street
Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn
Muckraking Critique of Trinity Tenements Sparks Debate
Lawrence Veiller condemns an Everybody's Magazine piece as biased muckraking while defending Trinity Church. He notes long land leases limit church control over tenant conditions and recalls a 19th century water on every floor law the church challenged to the Supreme Court, calling the conduct disgraceful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everybody's
Trinity
Lawrence Veiller
School of Philanthropy
Charities
Trinity Church
Mr. Veiler
Trinity Corporation
Trinity Church Corporation
Madge Faces Bridge of Blindness in Lighthearted Group Dialogue
A group of women share anxieties about aging and illness at a social gathering. One fears astigmatism and blindness, another worries about wrinkles, while others fret over marriage, finances, and being buried alive, all delivered in humorous, candid dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madge
Fred
Record Fireworks Boom Drives 1908 Industry Trends
Firework manufacturers report a record year citing demand for modern devices and larger Fourth of July displays. Growth attributed to youth taste for expensive, innovative items and out-of-town celebrations. Rockets and safety concerns noted, with 1908 novelties like red white and blue stars and eagle imitations. Children's favorites include mines and electric torpedoes, while novelty shapes like colored paper baboons sell well.
Fashionable nightgown with embroidery finish
A simple nightgown with a half low neck and short sleeves is described as the most comfortable and fashionable of the season. It suits hand embroidery or a plain finish as desired.
Lace Insertion Pattern No 6039 for Various Bust Sizes
Pattern No 6039 offers lace insertion and trim mings for three sizes. Medium size requires five and five-eighths yards of 36 or four and one-quarter yards of 4 inch wide material. Bust measurements 40 or 42 inches. Send ten cents plus address to Pattern Department New York Tribune. Extra two-cent stamp speeds mail by letter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New- York Tribune
Fashion items and accessories in sale prices
Belts of gay cretonne and novelty buckles priced from 50 cents to 1 dollar. Lace and muslin garments, chemises, and embroidered coats offered at low prices. Dresden ribbon patterns, outing hats, shirtwaists, and Directoire sashes feature bold colors, ribbons, and lace. Accessories include lace bands, leghorn hats, and novelty pins selling for a few cents each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dresden
France
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Hearn
Action
Justice McCall
T. L. Hilgen
Standard Oil Company
MORSE
Wabash
Norfolk Road Receiver
L. E
Mr. Veiller
Gaid
Ann
Glen Onoko
Liberty St
Lake
Hopatcong
Atlantic Cuy
Lake Hopatcong
W. 234
Poughkeepsie
Hendrick Hudson
Mary Powell
W. 129Th St
Stmbt
Yellowstone
Raymond & Whit
Alaska
Rockies
Canad Raymond & Whitcomb Co
Fifth Ave
Bet
Mad. Sa
Fudson
Lock Island
RED Bank Line
Long & Asbury Park
Gerlitz School OF Languages
Madison Square
Harlem
Lenox Ave
Court St
Gummer
Asbury Park
Taconic School For
Berkshire Hills
Lil Dixon
Wellesley
Bryn Mawr
Bertha Bailey
Lakeville
RYE Seminary
S. J. Life
Oravian Seminary
Bethlemeal al Pa
J. Max Harr
D. D
Prin
Starkey Seminary
Seneca Lake
Watkins
M. Summereeli
Lakemont
M. J. Young-Fulton
Baron Square
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