Interboro asks PSC for drastic service cuts on elevated lines
Bryan, president, and Hedley, manager of the Interborough Rapid Crensit Company, before the Public Service Commission seeking permission to reduce service on elevated and subway lines due to a business slump and falling ticket sales. They reported a 14 percent rise in car mileage but only 5 percent travel gain in early 2006 and warned financial trouble without relief. They bemoaned low gains on the Brooklyn extension and discussed plans for a two track subway and bridge line between Bowery Canal and Flatbush Avenue, noting uncertainty if work could proceed under current conditions.
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BP. Bryan
Interborough Rapid Crensit Company
Frank Hedley
Public Service Commission
Interborough
Maltbie and Eustis
Commission
Bryan
Hedley
Brooklyn
Long Island
Borough Hall
Bassett Refuses Resignation After Veto Rumor
Public Service Commissioner Bassett dismissed talk of resigning after Governor vetoed the Robinson bill which would have let private capital back subway building under longer leases. Bassett said I am no quitter and expects a future Legislature to align with veto suggestions. Controller Metz estimated first section costs near 7 million with land purchases, noting Belmont tunnel lessons and time needed for full tunnel, planning to meet commissioners before Friday Board session.
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Bénaré M. Bassett
Public Service
Robinson
Bassett
Brooklyn
Commission
Eisberg
Metz
Fourth Avenue
Public Service Commission
Board of Estimate
Receivers Seek Large Sum in Street Railway Suit
In U S Circuit Court Judge Ward heard the case of receivers Joline and Robinson against Metropolitan Securities Company over a 4 4,000 balance on a 10,000,000 loan for rehabilitating New York City and Metropolitan street lines. The defense cites insolvency, claiming payments cannot be made. The suit alleges breach of contract from 4 February and 2 May 19 9 4. The case contends partial payments totaling 3,035.0% of 3,60,48 were made. witnesses and minutes were reviewed. Proceedings expected to finish in a couple of days.
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Messrs. Joline and Robinson
New York City
Metropolitan Street Railway
Metropolitan Securities Company
Joseph H. Choate
Arthur H. Masten
Robert C. Beatty
Paul D. Cravath
Joseph P. Cotton, Jr
Beatty
New York City Railway Company
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Securities Company
Metropolitan Company
H. W. Brown
New Style Airship Lifts Two Feet in Test Flight
Rocco Viniello of Union Hill New Jersey is inventor of a novel airship shown at Schutzen Park. Enthusiasts from the Aero Club of America witnessed the lift of about two feet with two gas filled balloons and a strengthened framework planned for a future flight. Viniello claims the machine follows natural laws and will rise higher once the frame is reinforced, with another trial planned in a few weeks.
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Rocco Viniello
Union Hill
N. J
Aero Club of America
Schutzen Park
Union Hil
Rocco
Roceo
Rocco Viriello 2
Fulton street cars halted as receivers sought
Application for a receiver for the Fulton street horse car line may be made today after Adrian H. Joline and Douglas Robinson of the New York City Railway discontinued operations yesterday. The line, losing about 25000 dollars yearly, was deemed unprofitable and the Guaranty Trust Company had been warned months earlier. Five old cars and ten horses formed the rolling stock. drivers and conductors were dismissed.
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Fulton Street
Adrian H. Joline
Douglas Robinson
New York City Railway
New York City Company
Guaranty Trust Company
New York City Railway Company
Unite to Help Babies Organizes Summer Education Effort
A city wide baby care initiative formed yesterday under the Health Department as clearing house. William H. Allen named chairman with Dr John J. Cronin as secretary. an seven member executive committee will run the program. The plan aims to educate mothers and coordinate nurses and physicians with local charities to avoid duplication.
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United Work
Health Department
Department
William H. Allen
Bureau of Municipal Reform
John J. Cronin
Allen
Abraham Jacobi
S. Armstrong
L. Emmet Holt
E. J. McCullum
William H. Park
Sc. Phillips
Rowland Freeman
Bensel
Board of Health
Greenwich House
Association For the Improvement
Seven New Milk Stations To Open In City
New York Milk Committee plans seven additional milk stations in congested districts starting June 15 to fight infant mortality. Each station will be run by a trained nurse under a physician, dispensing certified milk part of the day and visiting homes to instruct mothers. Stations will weigh babies, diagnose health, and tailor milk quantities to need.
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New York
Association For
Bond Syndicate Dissolved Over AT&T Convertible Bonds
The Morgan Kuhn Loeb Kidder Peabody and Baring syndicate, formed in 1996 to underwrite 100 million of AT and T 4 per cent convertible bonds, was dissolved a year early. About 10 million bonds sold to investors and 15.66 million syndicated participations held by foreign buyers remain. AT and T has paid all bankers in full. bonds trade around 84. The group later revised pricing on a planned 25 million three year note issue, raising the cost to the company.
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J. P. Morgan & Co
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Boston
Baring Brothers & Co
London
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Mobile Panama Line Opens Passenger Mail Service
Mobile reports the Mobile Panama Steamship Line begins operations with the departure of the steamship Thelma carrying passengers and mail. The service promises to markedly shorten travel time between Panama and the United States.
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Mobile-Panama S&s. S. Line
Mobile
Mobile-Panama Steamship Line
Panama
United States
Bankruptcy Petitions Filed in U S District Court
Involuntary petitions listed against Joseph Hymson druggist at Broome and Essex streets by Slomin and others with claims totaling 4754. Joseph Lichen berger named receiver. Involuntary petition against Jacob Brons at 2772 Tuird avenue by Michaelson Davis and others with claims 749. Involuntary petition against A B P Dargue Co at 6 Leonard street by Rothschild Newman with claim 8077. Graham Summer named receiver. Voluntary petitions: Adolph Rodell painter New Rochelle N Y assets 2870351 liabilities 208. Morris Goldman manager 37 Montgomery street liabilities 1286765 no assets creditors Louis Harms 218 East 12th street 346 Frederick Harms 71 Broad street. Helen Campbell Company schedules show assets 972,0776 and 12,2449 including books and pictures 1.09 machinery 2.5 debts due 4,54469 property in reversion. Helen J McKeen appointed receiver of Laura Belle Finch dressmaker 93 Fifth avenue. Bankrupt assets said to be worth 4.
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Joseph Hymson
Broome
Essex
Samuel Slomin
Joseph Lichenberger
Jacob Brons
Tuird Avenue
Michaelson & Davis
A. BP. Dargue & Co
Leonard Street
Rothschild & Newman
Graham Summer
Adolph Rodell
New Rochelle
N. Y
Morris Goldman
Montgomery Street
Louis Harms
East 12Th Street
Frederick Harms
Broad Street
first woman ambulance surgeon starts duties in Brooklyn
Dr Mary Merritt Crawford becomes Williamsburg Hospital interne then regular ambulance surgeon. She responds to a call at Lee Avenue police court aiding intoxicated detainee William Stark, administering an opiate and advising transfer to Kings County Hospital. Crawford vows to handle cases conscientiously.
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Mary Merritt Crawford
Brooklyn
Williamsburg Hospital
Harold Barnes
Crawford
Lee Avenue
Miss Crawford
E. Gaston Higginbotham
William Stark
Kent Avenue
Stark
Battle Over Mount Morris Hotel Seizure Disturbs City
Edward A. Maher of the Third Avenue railway tried to seize the Mount Morris Hotel on Third Avenue and 18th Street using a court order. Lessee Alexander Reinenam and manager James Driscoll resisted. wreckers tore parts of the building as guards and police blocked clashes. Driscoll was discharged after detention, while Whitridge plans to seek lease cancellation in US Circuit Court arguing unpaid rent and undesirable tenancy to clear the site for a twelve story office building.
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Edward A. Maher
Third Avenue
Mount Morris
18Th Street
Alexander Reinenam
James Driscoll
East 126Th Street
Maher
Reinenam
John Haugher
Driscoll
Harlem Court
Judge Lacombe
United States Circuit Court
Frederick W. Whitridge
Third Avenue Road
Mr. Whitridge
Whitridge
Moors at Dreamland almost backfires on publicity stunt
Edouardo Breker press representative at Dream land Coney Island survives a risky publicity stunt with a Moorish troupe from Algiers or San Juan HM led by Hannan Ben Ali. A photographer and Breker hid behind scenery to snap a photo as the troupe fired blank muskets and chased them toward Hell Gate. Breker later found himself locked in an incubator, afraid to go home in the dark.
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Edouardo Breker
Dreamland
Coney Island
Breker
Algiers
San Juan HM
Hannan Ben Ali
Ishown
Kid” Raisuli
Charles Nessensohn
Hell Gate
L I R R Engine Sets High Speed Record
Home shop workers revamped ten locomotives for the Long Island Railroad and one improved engine hauled nine heavy parlor cars at 108 miles per hour on a Jamaica to Hamlet run. Engineer Michael Redden supervised the Cannon Ball Express, leaving Jamaica twenty minutes late and finishing the Jamaica Manor leg in 52 minutes over a 55 mile span.
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Long Island
Michael Redden
Jamaica
Hamptons
Manor
Washouts Tie Up Seven Trains In Montana
Seven Overland Northern Pacific Burlington passenger trains carrying around one thousand passengers are stalled in Livingston Montana as one of the worst washouts on the Northern Pacific backs up service for two to three days. Ten miles east of town raises include complete fills of thirty feet each and a landslide blocks the Bozeman tunnel eastern portal. The last through train to Butte was Saturday night. Boston Mass reports a turning point as New England mills resume full time after months of short time schedules, with about thirty five thousand workers affected.
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Tribune
Livingston
Mont
Burlington
Northern Pacific
Bozeman Tunnel
Butte
Boston
New England
New Roma Barber Shop Opens in Hoffmann House
F Roma and Brothers celebrated a new barber shop opening on 2th street and Broadway in the Hoffmann House old cafe. They already run several Philadelphia shops including Reading Terminal. Decorations cost 180 dollars. marble fittings throughout. About two hundred patrons attended.
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F. Roma & Brothers
Hoffman House
2Th Street
Broadway
Roma & Brothers
Philadelphia
Reading Terminal
Co operative meals spark citywide kitchen plan
In a West Side tenement, Miss Mabel H. Kittridge and Mrs. Anna P. Leighton launch a communistic kitchen to provide good cooked meals at the cost of home preparation. The pilot at 545 West 49th Street serves meat pie and ice cream for 7 and 3 cents, aiming to cover basic costs and fuel with self supporting kitchens in tenements.
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Mabel H. Kittridge
Practical Housekeeping Association
Anna P. Leighton
Miss Kittridge
Cooper Union Art School Prixs and Exhibits Evening Event
The forty ninth annual reception of Cooper Union women’s art school occurs this evening at 8 with men’s department tomorrow night. Work from both genders will be viewable Wednesday and Thursday. The miniature painting class features Mrs John E Parsons prize winners Miss Mary C Barker and Miss F Claire Wood. Numerous designs in architecture and interior decoration appear, including Gothic fireplaces and over door panels. Notable winners include Miss Rudie Abrams and Miss Helen zur Helle in portrait and still life classes. deaf mute artists excel in design and modelling, with sympathetic work and intact figures versus fractured male pieces.
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Woman's Art School
Cooper Union
John E. Parsons
Mary C. Barker
F. Claire Wood
Barker
Cooper Union School
Kate E. Thompson
Paris
Ethel Cram
France
Rudie Abrams
Helen Zur Helle
Elizabeth Conover
New York
Charles B. Alexander
Just June from Women’s Home Companion
A June poem vividly captures moonlit nights and misty skies as a maiden walks a country lane with a young lover. The lighthearted verse highlights simple romantic moments and sweet sighs, culminating in a lilting kiss as June inspiration.
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Women’s Home Companion
Simple overwaist pattern No 6,91 mailed for 10c
Two easy overwaist designs from bordered or plain material with optional ribbons. Materials: for medium sizes upper 3 1/4 yards 12 in bordered or 3 1/4 yards 9 in. plain options 1 7/8 yards 21/24 in, 1 3/4 yards 32 in, or 1 yard 44 in. Pattern No 6 91 in sizes bust 34, 28, 4 inches. mail order for 10 cents with bust size.
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Hocking Valley Railway Company
Sunday Creek Coal Company
Central Trust Company
West Virginia
United States District Court
Helen Campbell Company
Helen J. McKeen
Laura Belle Finch
Fifth Avenue
Mary Crawford
Third Avenue Railway
Caid M'Lean
Montana
ROMA
Cooper Union Art School
Hac Ery
Franklin St
West 68Th ST
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On Rooms
Inc
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Abner Co. Thomas
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W. H. van Steenbergh
Wall Street
City of New York
Robert B. Marten
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Deccas H. van Stee Jrepgh
Manhattan Borough
Abner C. Thomas
George F. Seymour
Springfield
Illinois
City of
Daniel Seymour
Norman Seymour
Board of Water Supply
Marbletown
New Paltz
Ulster County
Ohn
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Dracta Amte
Charles N. Chadwick
Charles A. Shaw
J. Waldo Smith
Thomas Hassett
the Board of Water Supply
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Washington
Blue Plains
H .F. Macfarland
Henry L. West
Jay J. Morrow
Dea
West Point
WAR Department
Office of the Constructing Quartermaster
New London
Conn
Fort Trumbull
R. M. Schofield
Chancery Notice
Chancery
High Court of Justice
Justice Neville
Richard Allen
Harriet
F. Iffinger
Star and Garter
Church Road
Battersea
Harriet Iffinger
Varick Street
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand
England
Spencer Whitehead
New-York Tribune
Thos. J. Stewart Co
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Bryant
Erie and
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Jersey City
Starin
Hudson River
Gitcin md
Suntayo Pemcoks
Cortland ST Pie
Cortland’ Oer, Peers
Seraries
PS & S
Fulton St
Red Bank
Franklete
Tracy
Long Branch
Braich
Asburbury
Berlitz School OF
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Madison Square
Harlem
Lenox Ave
Court St
Asbury Park
Starkey Seminary
Lake
Wdatan
Gane Mendes
Ares
Pachers
Image x Music
Sjl Rive
Newport
American and Foreign Teacher Agency
M J Young-Fulton
Union Square
Ss Court OF the State
New York County
Charles Weish
Helene Stein
Harry Govhn
William Oppenheim
Patrick J. Tague
York Telephone Company
Fass & Company
Joseph Cohem
Joseph
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Emil Nestler
James A. Jackson
John P. Peter
Morris Cohen
Mort
Isidore de Bear
Isidore
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James Wallace
Arthur Ross
Montgomery
Wiliam
Kahn
Abe Kahn
Arnold Lichtig
Manhattan
Supreme Court of
State of New York
County of New York
County Court House
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Borough of Manhattan
State OF
Grace of God
Frederika Wenske
Wolfgang Reichel
Babette Biancig
Dora Smith
Heinrich Gerber
Leonhart Gerber
Helwig Gerber
Augusta Gerber
Maria Gerber
Johanne Gerber
Caroline Ketcham
Carl A
Kunigunda E. Reichel
George Schade
S.S
Charles H. Beckett
Daniel J. Dowdney
Gates’ Court
Finch & Coleman
Nassau St
M. Brooks
Harry R. Munsell
I Sen Brooks
Margaret Spear Henson
Ida Spear O'Neill
Nannette Spear Sime
Eugene Munsell
A. Munsell
County
New Date
York
Cori
Sail County
Thomas
A Ae
Said County
Daniel J. Dowdns
Millicent Smith
Floyd L. Smith
Millicent
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