State Bankers Meet as Gilberts Speaks at Frontenac
Alexander Gil bet of New York, addressing the New State Bankers Association at Frontenac, urged a unified banking system and a currency plan to curb over trading and speculation. The Empire State bankers gathered for their fifteenth meeting amid calls for reform and the promise of a prudent presidency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. N
Alexander Giles
New York Clearing House
New State Bankers’ Association
Frontenac
Sefe
Empire State
New York State
Todar
Charles Eliot Warren
E. O. Eldredge
M.S. Sanford
Alexander Gilbert
James A. Emery
Joseph T. Talbert
Commercial National Bank
Chicaso
William H. McElroy
York
E. S. Tefft
Charles Elliot Warren
Gilbert
Manie
M. Gilbert
Banke
Congress
United States
Wild Car Hitts Train Near Summit New Jersey
A brake chain on a coal car broke during a yard switch near Summit, New Jersey. The car rolled down a grade for about eight miles before hitting a freight train at a curve. Engineer Bailey and conductor Benzoni were badly hurt, Wilson the freight conductor was slightly injured, and all three were hospitalized along with the engine and four cars derailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York, Susquehanna & Western
Summit
N. J
Wilson
Bailey
Benzoni
Union Station in Buffalo stalled by site disputes
A New York Central official said a union station for Buffalo remains blocked by site objections despite improvements. The railroad has expanded waiting areas and built a 20 foot wide concrete subway, with plans to service fourteen tracks, while hearings continue and preferred Fillmore Avenue site faces city opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company
Buffalo
Public Service Commission
A. H. Smith
New York Central
Grand Central Station
Erie
Lehigh Valley
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Michigan Central
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern
Nickel Plate
Buffalo & Susquehanna
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg
Wabash
Grand Trunk
Toronto, Hamilton,& Buffalo
Prison bound thief who robbed hotel guests at Belmont
Nathan Levine captured after breaking into Major Cookson's 14th floor Belmont room. He bound Mrs Cookson, threatened to kill, was knocked from a revolver, then confessed and received a sentence of ten to forty years at Sing Sing. He had robbed several hotels, wore a false name Schultz, and carried two revolvers and other burglary gear. Major Cookson, who arrested him, later sailed with his wife aboard the Baltic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hotel
Belmont
Nathan Levine
Mostyn Cookson
Hotel Belmont
Mrs. Cookson
Levine
Major Cookson
Sing Sing
Wahle
New York
Nathan Schultz
Cookson
Court of General Sessions
No. 325 East 82d Street
Baltic
Warrant Needed for Poolroom Raids, Magistrate Rules
In Jefferson Market Court yesterday Magistrate Wahle discharged five men arrested in a Wednesday night raid on a Broadway poolroom near 39th street. He warned that police cannot force entry without a warrant and noted any citizen may resist entry unless a warrant is present. Solomon Mannheimer of West 92nd Street, charged with interference, was freed after contesting police access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wahle
Jefferson Market Court
Conklin
Schindler
Kennedy
McMullen
Broadway
39Th Street
Solomon Mannheimer
West 92d Street
Mannheimer
Dismissal Granted in Hart Bet Case at Brooklyn Court
Magistrate Tighe in the Adams Street court Brooklyn dismissed the proceedings against Charles J Hart who was arrested at Sheepshead Bay racetrack for making a wager memo with Mr Noonan on Creation to win the second race. An order was issued for the return of Hart bail money and similar dismissals were hinted for Ulmann and Lefkowitz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Bischoff
Tighe
Adams Street Court
Brooklyn
Charles J. Hart
Sheepshead Bay
Noonan
Creation
Hart
Ulmann
Lefkowitz
Paul Kelly Aids Police Against Mob On East Side
Paul Kelly once a feared East Side gang figure helped Patrolman Wey arrest two men after a night shooting at East 113th street. He stood with officers facing a thousand Italians until reserves arrived. The wounded man Feleso Caenento was hospitalized in critical condition. The two prisoners were Mauro and Leonardo Gucci, claiming no connection to the shooting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Kelly
East Side
Kelly
Wey
East 104Th Street
East 113Th Street
Second Avenue
No. 218
Mauro
Leonardo Gucci
Feleso Caenento
No. 337
East 14Th Street
Harlem Hospital
Kidnap Plot Foiled. Corral Children Safely Guarded
Consul Lomeli of Mexico, with Galveston police aid, stopped a plot by Mexican revolutionist sympathizers to abduct Vice President Corral’s children after their El Paso arrival with their mother. Police guarded Mrs. Corral and children in a hotel, later escorted them to Mexico City. Separately, a two hour talk between Acting Secretary Bacon and Ambassador Creel yielded a mutual pledge to enforce neutrality laws on the border with no complaints against American officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribu
el Paso
Tex
Lomeli
Mexico
Galveston
Corral
Lomell
Washington
United States
Bacon
Creel
Gambling Indictments Expected Against Racing Ring
Kings County Grand Jury plans to hand in several indictments to the County Court today connected with racetrack betting. Indictments are expected to be minor compared with looming cases next week. Assistant District Attorney Robert H. Elder probes ties between the betting ring and the racing association and aims to show bookmakers pay a regular fee for operation. John B. Cavanagh, superintendent of the betting ring, allegedly handles fee collection. three of his aides Michael Curry Edward Waugh and Joseph Reydell were subpoenaed and examined yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kings County Grand Jury
Robert H. Elder
Racing Association
John B. Cavanagh
Cavanagh
Michael Curry
Edward Waugh
Joseph Reydell
Nassau Trust Increases Stock to Meet New Law
Nassau Trust Company stockholders voted to ratify a stock increase from 500 000 to 600 000 at a Brooklyn meeting on Broadway and Bedford Avenue. The rise adds 50 000 to surplus to comply with a new banking law requiring 500 000 capital and 100 000 per branch, affecting Lafayette and Flatbush Trust companies with a deadline of October 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nassau Trust Company
Broadway
Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn
Lafayette
Flatbush Trust
Woman and Spaniard Discharged in Market Court
Mrs Elizabeth Washburn of Lafayette Indiana and Enrique Llamas of Colombia were arraigned in Jefferson Market court yesterday after a romance ended in his arrest for taking more than 12000 from his sweetheart. On her promise to return home with her husband she was discharged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Washburn
Lafayette
Ind
Enrique Llamas
Colombia
Jefferson Market Court
Discharge of Llamas After Severe Court Castigation
Magistrate Wahble discharged Llamas after ordering him to leave the city. The proceedings included a severe castigation, with the judge referring to the individual as a retiree in the course of the discharge. The article notes his consent to depart the city as part of the ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Llamas
Wahble
Parsons Boom Launched By Wadhams At Taft Ratification
William H. Wadhams of the Madison Square Republican Club launched a Parsons boom at a Taft Sherman ratification meeting at 240 West 7th Street. Parsons downplayed any concrete prospects while praising the Chicago convention and Taft as the best candidate. Speakers included Ezra P. Prentice and Judge Wadhams, highlighting party unity and contrasts with the Democratic platform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Parsons
William H. Wadhams
Madison Square Republican Club
West 7Th Street
Parsons
Judge Wadhams
Mr. Parsons
Club
Chicago
Democratic Party
Sherman
Congress
Taft
Hughes
Ezra P. Prentice
25Th Assembly
Wadhams
Mystery death of Greenbaum secretary identified as Macelroy
John Macelroy of Brooklyn, private secretary to Justice Greenbaum of the Supreme Court, died in a Mount Vernon hotel room from heat. After two days, coroner Van Patten and Detective Silverstein traced movements from a newsboy. Macelroy had registered as James McKinnon and was seen with a woman in black who fled toward New York. The body was in Davis's morgue. wife and children unaware. Blank spots: Richard B. Tillinghast, a Brooklyn lawyer, aided identification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
John Macelroy
Brooklyn
Justice Greenbaum
Supreme Court
van Patten
Silverstein
Macelroy
Davis
Potter's Field
Richard B. Tillinghast
No. 161
Broadway
Tillinghast
Adirondacks
New York to Get Mary Anderson Hotel for Chorus Girls
Promoters Augustus F. Groll & Co plan a women exclusive hotel named Mary Anderson between 38th and 45th streets on Broadway with Turkish baths a gymnasium beauty parlor a stage for rehearsals a billiard room bowling alley and a wall street press wire. Miss Stanton and Miss De Von of the Three Twins lead the effort backed by Western financiers as chorus girls discuss the project at a Herald Square Theatre mass meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
38Th
45Th Streets
Broadway
Augustus F. Groll & Co
Pulitzer
Mary Anderson
Groll & Co
Pittsburg
Parker
Saranac
Miss Stanton
Miss de von
Chicago
Martha Washington
Herald Square Theatre
P. S
Wall Street
Sign Painted on Roof of New Manhattan Skyscraper
The Lawyers' Tithe Insurance and Trust Co builds a sixteen story office at 166 Broadway and paints the roof with its name visible from neighboring towers and distant observers. Moving in next month will be slow due to the vast records and documents in the company plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawyers’ Tithe Insurance and Trust Company
Broadway
Lower Manhattan
Singer
City Investing
Mars
Four Armies Formed at Pine Camp in July Maneuvers
Four armies blue and brown militia and regulars depart Pine Camp in late July for maneuvers near Sterlingville. Colonel Macklin and Colonel Price command militia, Major Decker and Major McDonald lead regulars, with Colonel Paulding directing combined infantry and cavalry units. A seven officer commission will assess Pine Camp as a permanent site for the war department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Camp
Blue Army of Militia
Macklin
Maryland
Price
Pennsylvania
Brown
Decker
5Th Infantry
McDonald
15Th Cavalry
Paulding
Massachusetts Cadets
Maryland Infantry
24Th Regular Infantry
1St Connecticut Colored Infantry
15Th
13Th Cavalry
Artillery
Blue
Sterlingville
Grant
War Department
Army and Navy Orders and Ship Movements
Orders issued show officers transferred and assigned across departments, including Edwin Glenn to the Philippines and Homer retiring. Navy movements list admirals detached, lieutenants reassigned, and warships sailing or at various ports such as Mare Island, Honolulu, and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin H. Glenn
Department of the East
Philippines
William BE. Homer
Coast Artillery
Eerie Cateers
Legteinn
William R. Smith
Elmer J. R. Allace
Samuel M. English
Richard H. Williams
Joseph Matson
Henry H. Scott
Benjamin H. Kerfoot
Ralph E. Herring
Carl E. Wiggin
Richard L .Kenney
Walter Singles
Jacob A. Mack
Leroy Bartlett
Basil G. Moon
Ellery W. Niles
Aidelio Gibson
Sidney H. Guthrie
Listh
Thomas F. Dwyer
Lawrence
Miller
Jacob C. Johnson
John R. Procter
Jacob M. Coward
Kenneth C. Mastellor
Edward Canfield, Jr
F. Lecocq
Charles H. Patterson
Walter B. M'Caskey
12Th Infantry
Fort Sheridan
Atlantic Life
Fort Niagara
Charles & Reese
Ned M. Green
15Th Infantry
Leon Aes
Seaborn G. Chiles
11Th Infantry
Charles §. Blakely
Field Artillery
William. B. Homer
Bradford
Buffalo
Mare Island
Nevada
New London
Glacier
Honolulu
Panther
Navy Yard
New York
Yankee
Newport News
Alexander
Guam
Rainbow
Denver
Cleveland
Woo-Sung
General Marshall to Oversee New York Harbor Work
General William L. Marshall, newly named chief of engineers, will divide his duties with weekly time in New York overseeing harbor improvements. He aims to have a channel 1000 feet wide and 40 feet deep by January 1, with Secretary Wright approving the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Association
Clark William
Bankig
Lar
Aldrich-Vreeland
New York
Mel Mance
Washington
Wright
William L. Marshall
Battleship Nebraska Sails to Rejoin Fleet
The battleship Nebraska of the Atlantic fleet, detained for scarlet fever, has been fumigated and sails from San Francisco to rejoin the fleet at Honolulu. Wireless messages report the fleet 308 miles out, course toward Molekai, with favorable weather and plans to use wireless en route.
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San Francisco
Nebraska
Honolulu
Portland
Ore
United
Great Circle
Molekai
One Death and One Prostration in Heat Wave
Heat wave claims an eighteen months old child, Thomas Bland of West 31st Street, and a 54 year old man, David Barrie from Mills Hotel at Rivington and Forsyth, with many cases likely unreported. Weather forecasts expect easterly winds to cool the city today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Bland
West 31St Street
David Barrie
Mills Hotel
Rivington and
Forsyth Streets
New York Hospital
Sanitary Soda Fountain Opens at Busy Broad Way Corner
Carl H. Schuita Inc opens a new store at Broad way and 28th street selling artificial mineral waters and ice cream sodas. Fountains sit on opposite building sides and are praised as the handsomest ever designed. All metal is heavily silver plated, waters are distilled from pure salts, and ice cream follows Department of Agriculture standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl H. Schuita (Inc
Broadway
28Th Street
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Bridegroom shoots serenaders injuring five
Allentown telegraph reports Amandus Miller of Danielsville fired into a crowd gathered to serenade him and his bride of a fortnight injuring five young men two seriously. The attack occurred at his home and left several partygoers including young women distressed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Allentown
Penn
Amandus Miller
Danielsville
New York Interborough rail line called a gold brick
Alfred Skitt, president of the New York City Interborough Railway, told the Public Service Commission that the road was a gold brick. He described a fixed annual charge of 9000, with construction costs around 400000, and said the deficit would be covered by interest. Only twelve of twenty four miles of double track built, eight in operation, bonds likely guaranteed by Interborough Rapid Transit. Receipts last May were 1128166 with operating expenses about 1213239, power costs about a quarter, rails and car barns rented from IRT.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Alfred Skitt
New York City
Interborough Railway Company
Robert €. Wood
John C. Tomlinson
Wood
Skitt
Tomlinson
Interborough
Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company
Kenyon
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Mr. Skitt
Barna
White bankruptcy schedule filed by former partner White
Edward T. White, former partner of T. A. McIntyre & Co, files bankruptcy schedules showing liabilities of 1,598,405 and assets of 1,140,700. Unsecured claims include 1,250,995. Personal property lists cash of 2,756.20, bills and notes 53,500, office furniture 2,386.94, personal effects 90,000, open accounts 822,079.2, stocks and bonds 171,583.57, bank funds 41,655.06, plus three Cotton Exchange seats assigned after a failed loan attempt of 20.90. White also lists individual assets at 1,550.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward T. White
T. A. McIntyre & Co
White
Columbia Summer Session Grows Attracting Attentive Women
The Columbia University summer session enrolls about 1300 students, half women, with a projected total near 1500 as it blends with regular work. Women mainly study languages, pedagogy, and other subjects while men and older students pursue degrees, extra work, and extended college plans.
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Columbia
Harvard
Columbia University
Texas
Pacific Coast
Germany
Peru
Canada
Japan
Porto Rico
Whittemore
Jack
Edward Lee Thorndike
Dean Russell
Richard E. Dodge
Charles E. Richards
Fayerweathers
Carhart
Britissh Association
South Africa
Tufts
Hallock
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Alex
Mr. Gilbert
Werren
E. C. Eldredge
New York State Bankers’ Association
Thousand Islands
Rochester
Job Hedges
William H. McEirey
James M. Emery
Clark Williams
C. R. Leach
Louis E. Pierson
Irving National Bank of New York
E. J. Newell
People’s Bank of Buffalo
E. D. Fisher
The
Flatbush Trust Company
F. A. Mead
First National Bank of Albany
First National Bank of Syracuse
Want Union Station
the Tribune
Nassau Trust
Madison Square Club
Greenbaum
Army and Navy News
Tribune Bureau
NAVY
J. E Pillsbury
A. Marix
R. P. Rodgers
W. W. Smith
Dubuque
Salem
J. H. Blackburn
Montana
O. G. Murfin
H. K. Cage
Dolphin
N. FE. Nichols
Marine Corps
A. A. Radicol
Ijr
P. M. Bannon
Marine Barracks
Davy Yard
Philadelphia
P. F. Archer
Navy Department
Prairie
Hampton Roads
Tompkinsville
General Marshall
Sanitary Soda Fountain
President Skitt
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