Porch Collapse at New Police Headquarters Building
A roof collapse on the porch of the Centre and Broome Streets Police Headquarters construction injured no one but forced a costly rebuild. The arch failure, blamed on a weakened temporary support, caused walls to crack and keystones to misalign, requiring about $8,000 in repairs. Contractors Gillespie Co. and receiver Leon Oppenheim oversee the project.
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Centre
Broome
Edward S. Murphy
Centre Street
Crawford & Co
Thom Defends Van Cortlandt Park Ferris Wheel
James Thom testifies at a City Hall hearing about his license to operate a Ferris wheel and merry-go-round opposite Van Cortlandt Park. He emphasizes past clean conduct, modest earnings, and a mostly working-family clientele while opponents warn of youth influence and park degradation. The hearing continues.
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James Thom
van Cortlandt Park
Bronx
John Corrigan
Bureau of Licenses
Thom
North Beach
Coney Island
Fort George
City ferry committee weighs leasing option for Brooklyn Ferries
A special committee of the Board of Estimate met at the Corporation Counsel’s office to consider the Brooklyn Ferry Company franchises. They favored opposing city purchase, discussed leasing to the city temporarily, allowing dock use without rent, and possibly raising ferry fares to five cents. Another meeting is planned for today.
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Board of Estimate
Brooklyn Ferry Company
Pendleton
NY State Music Teachers hold 20th annual convention in City College recital
New York State Music Teachers Association closed its twentieth annual convention with a violin harp piano and vocal recital at City College last night. In the morning business session officers were elected unanimously naming Edmund Severn as president J Warren Andrews as vice president Anna Laura Johnson secretary and Frank F Shearer treasurer Andrews was the retiring president. Next year’s meeting site was voted to be the city.
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City College
New York State Music Teachers’ Association
Edmund Severn
J. Warren Andrews
Church of the Divine Paternity
Anna Laura Johnson
Baldwin Street
Elmira
Frank F. Shearer
School of Music
Lockport
N. Y
Andrews
Standard Oil Case Proceeds In September Restart
The Standard Oil Company will pause its city hearing until September 1. A lawyer stated the public will see the company acted legally and equitably, with proof to rebut preferential rail rates and hearsay on rebates. Testimony described a Springfield Massachusetts oil war, with George Tuthill the sole witness. He recounted a rebate sale where 3,000 gallons were bought at a fixed rate and the buyer paid the wagon driver, who then refunded the difference.
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Standard Oil Company
The
Oil Trust
Springfield
Mass
George Tuthill
Lawyers clash over real plaintiffs in Metro Street case
In Sun District Municipal Court Justice Young wrestled with who the true plaintiffs were in the Minnie Weiller and Emmanuel Weil suit against Metropolitan Street Railway. After lengthy wrangles over documents and contributor lists, Isaac Blum testified that contributions were handed to the bookkeeper for proper entry. The court gave until August 10 for briefs before a decision.
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Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Minnie Weiller
Emmanuel Weil
Justice Young
Sun District
John B. Stanchfield
Pratt A. Brown
Champerty
King Committee
Metropolitan Street Railway
Eugene Kremer
Stanchfield
Kremer
Brown
Mr. Kremer
Isaac Blum
Weiller-Weil
Blum
Interborough Appoints New Vice Presidents and Assistants
T P Shonts announces Frank Hedley elected vice president and general manager. David W Ross named vice president in charge of contracts and supplies. W Leon Pepperman promoted to assistant to Mr Shonts.
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T. P. Shonts
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Frank Hedley
David W. Ross
Panama Canal Commission
W. Leon Pepperman
Shonts
Going Away Over the Fourth with Sunday Tribune
Take the Sunday Tribune with you for the Fourth of July travel. Arrange ahead with your local newsdealer to have it ready upon arrival.
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The
Sunday Tribune
Sister Boat Not Ready to Sail Costs Save Dock Fees
The steamer Altona of the United Tyser Line left Shields on June 13 with orders to just loaf along and arrived here yesterday as a slow craft to cut dockage costs. The Indralema, another Tyser Line ship, was not ready to depart and would have faced higher fuel and dockage costs if the Altona had entered earlier.
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Altona
United Tyser Line
Shields
Indralema
Held for Passing Worthless Check in Brooklyn
Wallace Utley, son in law of Levi C. Weir, was held for a further examination by Magistrate Tighe in the Adams street court Brooklyn on a charge of passing a worthless check drawn on the Roswell P Flower bank. Hamburg Auction Company said Utley paid a $12.50 bill with a $26 check and received $12 in change. the check was returned not good.
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Wallace Utley
Levi C. Weir
Adams Express Company
Tighe
Adams Street Court
Brooklyn
Roswell P. Flower Bank
Louis Hamburg Auction Company
Fulton Street
Unley
Louis Hamburg
Tragic Drowning Near Hoboken Pier on Kyonprinzess Voyage
Carl Kruever, second cook aboard the North German Lloyd Company's steamship Kyonprinzess, drowned within a hundred feet of the Hoboken pier yesterday afternoon when the boat containing him and three assistants split in two after being struck by the tug Victor. The other three were rescued by longshoremen. reports say the tug crew did not attempt a rescue.
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Carl Kruever
Lioyéd Company
Kyonprinzess
Cecilie
Hoboken
Victor
Judge appoints receiver for Hotel Gotham Company
Supreme Court Justice Blanchard granted a motion to appoint Gilbert H. Montague as receiver for the Hotel Gotham Company in a suit by Theodore Schmalholz & Sons, butchers, creditors for 741. An unsatisfied execution loomed. The Gotham carries a 2 million dollar mortgage to Metropolitan Life and a mortgage to Knickerbocker Trust. Hotel Plaza management may lease Gotham property.
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Justice Blanchard
Supreme Court
Hotel Gotham Company
Theodore Schmalholz
Hotel
Plaza
Gotham
Despondent Brooklyn Man Ends Life Over Failing Sight
William Ludwig Schultze a 49 year old retired furniture dealer of 37 Marlborough Road Brooklyn reportedly took his life with a pistol yesterday after failing eyesight could not be relieved by specialists in the country or abroad. Mrs Schultze and their two children heard a shot at breakfast and found him with a bullet wound behind the left ear and the smoking revolver beside him.
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William Ludwig Schultze
Marlborough Road
Brooklyn
Mr. Schultze
Wealthy Scranton mill owner dies in New York institute
Charles H. Sears, a wealthy Scranton mill owner, died at the Oppenheimer Institute in New York shortly after admission. His son Grover Sears and Dr S E Lynch brought him from Scranton after heavy drinking. An autopsy is planned. coroner Harburger investigated.
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Charles H. Sears
Scranton
Penn
Oppenheimer Institute
West 34Th Street
Grover Sears
S. E. Lynch
R. M. Benson
St. Vincent's Hospital
New York
Sears
Lynch
Harburger
Frederick Davenport
Aeronauts to witness first Scientific American trophy test
Fifteen aero club and Aeronautic Society of New York members depart tonight for Hammondsport New York to watch the Aero Club pilot Glenn H Curtiss in the June Bug attempt the 1 kilometre race for the Scientific American trophy. Dr Alexander Graham Bell presides over the Aerial Experiment Association.
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Aero Club of America
Aeronautic Society of New York
Hammondsport
N. Y
Aero Club
Glenn H. Curtiss
Aerial Experiment Association
Alexander Graham Bell
New York
Alan R. Hawley
Augustus Post
A. M. Herring
Charles M. Manly
E. la Rue Jones
Aeronautics
S. Y. Beach
Scientific American
A. Holland Forbes
Burglar Invited In For Drink, Pelted With Ice Water
Real estate operator E P Hovey at 128 Briggs Avenue Morris Park Queens reported two burglars attempting to enter through a window. He invited them in for a drink, they declined and fled. Hovey threw a pitcher of ice water, soaking them as they escaped.
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E. P. Hovey
Briggs Avenue
Morris Park
Queens Borough
Hovey
De Angelis Arrested For Speeding In New York
Jefferson De Angelis, the actor, was jailed in West Side Court for speeding on Broadway after a chase from 66th to 57th Street. He begged reporters not to mention his name as he faced a $100 bond posted by Emmanuel Mendel of West 112th Street. The magistrate urged a bondsman and the actor expressed his distress at being jailed.
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Jefferson de Angelis
West Side Court
William Delaney
Broadway
Yonkers
66Th Street
57Th Street
de Angelis
Harris
Emmanuel Mendel
West 112Th Street
New York
Japanese Soldier Arrested for Assault at Ping Hang Mission
A Japanese soldier ran amuck through the American Methodist missionary site at Ping Hang and bayoneted a Corean caretaker. By order of Prince Ito, the Resident General, the soldier was arrested and sentenced to two months hard labor. Superior officers face disciplinary confinement of three to seven days.
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Seoul
Amuck
Ping Hang
Prince Ito
Clever Trade Trick Among Rich Women Surfaces
A feature on fashionable women using social influence to obtain goods at lower prices, with commissions on purchases made by friends and clever workarounds. It highlights travel abroad for bargains, paying in kind, and the moral note on spending abroad while maintaining American rents and economies.
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London
Berlin
Paris
The Voyage Box For Traveling Children
A practical guide urges mothers to create a voyage box of small, mysterious gifts to entertain traveling children. Packages labeled for specific times include peppermints, deck games, notebooks with pencils, toss bags, and art cards. Suitable for land trips and steamer voyages, the box blends simple crafts and keeps youngsters engaged during travel.
Summer dress pattern details for girls ages six to twelve
The Tribune Pattern offers a low neck short sleeve frock with embroidery suitable for white lawns and dimities, with sizing and fabric yardage for medium size ten years. Pattern No 6027 covers six to twelve years and can be mailed for 10 cents, with an extra 2 cent stamp for fast mail.
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New York Tribune
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