Oil may supplant coal in city power plants
The Tribune reported that the Interborough Rapid Transit Company plans to burn Texas oil to fuel its forthcoming power plant, with Morse Iron Works substituting oil for coal. Business leaders see potential for lower power costs, aiding manufacturing. widespread adoption hinges on oil supply, price, and fleet infrastructure to deliver fuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Texas Oil
Morse Iron Works and Drydock Company
Beaumont
Law of Supply and Demand
Fifth annual session opens for Charity Organization Society school
The Charity Organization Society announces its summer six week program for philanthropic work beginning June 16 with admission already full. Speakers include Jacob A. Riis Dr Samuel M Lindsay and others from Boston Philadelphia Baltimore and New York. The course blends lectures with home visits and field work focusing on family welfare and care of children among urban destitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charity Organization Society
Jacob A. Riis
Samuel M. Lindsay
Porto Rico
Mary L. Pirtwell
Associated Charities of
Cambridge
Mass
Jeffrey R. Brackett
Department of Charities and Correction
Baltimore
United States
United Charities
Brackett
Lee Frankel
United Hebrew Charities
Mary E. Richmond
Philadelphia
Charles F. Weller
Associated of Washington
Alexander Johnson
Fort Wa
James F. Jackson
State Board of Charities of
Minnesota
Edward T. Devine
City
President Butler
Columbia University
Robert W. de Forest
Charity Nization Society
8. M. Croth
Death of Peter Labouisse in New York City
Peter Labouisse died Wednesday night at his Madison Avenue home after a prolonged illness. He was fifty five, a former cotton broker from New Orleans who had lived in the city for four or five years. Surviving are a widow Pauline Rathbone Labouisse a son Peter Rathbone Labouisse and a daughter Mrs Henry Lane Eno. Funeral will be private. He served in Wheeler's cavalry and rose to wealth in the cotton trade with partners Labouisse 2 Dobie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Labouisse
Madison Ave
New Orleans
Labouisse
Pauline Rathbone Labouisse
Peter Rathbone Labouisse
Henry Lane Eno
John Peter Labouisse
Theodora Maria Smith
Ge Labouisse 2
Pauline Rathbone
Henry Rethbone
Labouisse Crowned Cotton Corner Leader Who Never Visited Floor
In 1874 at Canal Bank events, Labouisse, aided by a German firm, drove cotton prices up. He led the Cotton Exchange without ever entering its floor, transacting solely through brokers. A weak heart and fear of pit danger kept him away, yet the 1995 corner near collapse left him unstable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canal Bank
Labouisse
Cotton Exchange
Exchange
Succeeds Likely As All Souls Church Rector
The Rev Dr Samuel D McConnell rector of Holy Trinity Brooklyn has received a call to All Souls Church Manhattan to succeed Rev Dr R Heber Newton. He may accept and has been noted as a prominent Brooklyn Episcopal clergyman and former Long Island bishop candidate. Vestry members include Edward M Shepard George Foster Peabody and J Warren Greene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel D. McConnell
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
Clinton and Montague Sts
Brooklyn
All Souls’ Church
Sixty-sixth-st
Madisonave
Manhattan
R. Heber Newton
McConnell
Dr. McConnell
Bishop Littlejohn
Long Island
Philadelphia
Charles H. Hall
Holy Trinity
Edward M. Shepard
George Foster Peabody
J. Warren Greene
Kidnapping Attempt At Yonkers School For Irene O Connell
An unknown woman gained access to St Marys Parochial School Yonkers and left with Irene O Connell a pupil. The child remains missing and authorities, aided by the child’s grandmother and police, pursue the case amid ongoing custody litigation involving her father Michael O Connell and his divorce actions. The grandmother posted a 1000 bond to ensure the child’s return if required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary's Parochial School
Yonkers
Irene O'Connell
Michael O'Connell
Annie Curley
O'Connell
Dugro
Supreme Court
Irene
De Varona Cleaners Ponds After Visit by Dougherty Group
Debates over Brooklyn water quality escalate as I M De Varona chief engineer leads cleaning of ponds, creeks, and brooks feeding Jamaica and Springfield reservoirs. Deputy Commissioner De Long reports 168 million gallons pumped to Brooklyn alone, with clean up set to improve water supply for residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dougherty
Long Island
de Long
I. M. de Varona
Brooklyn
Jamaica
Springfield
de Varona
Mds
Board of Health risks civil action against elevated railway
Health officials said they would pursue civil action against Manhattan Elevated Rail road Company over coal burning. Chief Inspector Branley sent crews to tally engines using soft coal and plan fines per engine. Jacob Doll, piano maker, faced Yorkville Court for black smoke complaints. he denied soft coal use and offered to install a smoke consumer, with $10 bail and case to drop if the device is installed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
Manhattan Elevated Railroad Company
Branley
Jacob Doli
East Thirtieth St
Yorkville Court
John Sullivan
Doll
New Park Soil Debate From Boston Gardener
A Boston landscape gardener, J. H. Bowditch, argues in a dispatch to The Evening Post that Central Park need not replace old soil. He favors enriching soil with fertilizers and importing Montana sheep manure at wholesale prices, warning public crowds could harden soil and hurt grass. Olmsted Brothers echo the view that renewal need not remove soil, recommending sun exposure and tree removal while protecting ground from public damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Evening Post
J. H. Bowditch
Central Park
Montana
Olmsted Brothers
Delegates Arrive as Reformed Church Synod Reveals Committees
At Asbury Park on June 5 delegates from Dakota Oklahoma and other regions joined the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America. New committees were announced including Domestic Missions Foreign Missions Board of Direction and more. Chief Wautan the Arapaho elder attended with interpreter Rev Walter Roe and will lecture back home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asbury Park
General Synod of the Reformed Church In America
Dakota
Oklahoma
Atlantic Ocean
Wautan
Reformed Church
Colony
James M. Farrar
First Reformed Church
Brooklyn
Abbott E. Kittredge
Madison Avenue Reformed Church
New York
Messrs
A. H. Demarest
F. B. Seeley
H. de Vries
Peter V. van Buskirk
William R. Bennett
H. de Bree
Jacob de Jong
H. D. B. Mulford
S. HB. Dubrink
J. A. Harper
E. W. Thompson
J. B. Shepman
M. Fackenthall
Benson van Viiet
Samuel Rowland
H. B. Rosa
John
Marinus E. Broekstra
Henry J. Best
A. B. Dunn
E. B. Horton
William Mauers
Taber Knox
Charles M. Dixon
George W. Scarlett
J. Menlendyke
Ira Voorhees
P. H. Souler
Minor Swick
H. P. Lyman-Wheaton
W. L. M. Phelps
Peter H. van Wagener
H. C. Berg
T. Shepard
G. W. Laban
D. R. Hobart
L. L
J. H. Karsten
Holland, Mich
General Synod
Christian Reformed Church
Reformed Church In
America
G. D. Matthews
London
England
Alliance of the Reformed Churches
Poland
Russia
Matthews
Siberia
Church of Christ
Edward B. Coe
New Brunswick
Kittredge
P. J. Jackson
G. H. Dubbink
Philip Soule
A. J. Welmers
Jacob Baker
J. §. Bussing
B. van Vilet
A. W. Patrie
Peter Bogart
Alfred H and
Congregational Home Missionary Society elects officers
In Syracuse on June 5 the Congregational Home Missionary Society held its national convention and announced officers led by President Rev Dr Newell Dwight Hillis of Brooklyn. The list includes vice presidents E Clark Ford Ohio and Rev Charles R Brown California, among others, with George Edgell auditor and an executive committee comprising Packard Syracuse Holman Connecticut and Wannamaker Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Newell Dwight Hillis
Brooklyn
E. Clark Ford
Ohio
Charles R. Brown
California
Harry J. Hollister
Michigan
Michael Burnham
Missouri
William D. Hyde
Bowdoin College
Edward D. Eaton
Wisconsin
George E. Hale
New Hampshire
Edward M. Chapman
Vermont
Allen Thomas
Massachusetts
David J. Brewer
Washington
Calvin McClelland
Rhode Island
George Edgell
New York
E. N. Packard
W. B. Holman
Connecticut
W. H. Wannamaker
Pennsylvania
Englishwoman arraigned over shipboard theft in New York
Mrs. Katherine Hartridge, an English woman accused of stealing 270 dollars from Otto Kerscard of San Francisco on a steamship, was arraigned before Magistrate Pool in the Jefferson Market Court. Danish consul Feerbech represented the complainant and urged a baggage search.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pool
Jackson
Panama
Katherine Hartridge
Otto Kerscard
San Francisco
Jefferson Market Court
Feerbech
Odell Platt to Discuss Renomination and State Politics
Senator Platt and Governor Odell plan a Fifth Avenue Hotel meeting to discuss the political outlook. Platt expects Odell to accept renomination amid strong Republican momentum while Democrats struggle. they may also touch on appointing a $6000 annual fiscal supervisor for the State Board of Charities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Platt
Odell
Fifth Avenue
Plat
Platt
Newburg
Washington
Charleston
Albany
Hill
Ernest Hall
Justice Beach
New York County Republican Organization
Hall
Justice Andrews
Brooklyn
Woodruff
Kings County
State Board of Charities
Bryan Attacks Roosevelt in Commoner Open Letter
Lincoln June 5 In an open letter to President Roosevelt William Jennings Bryan argues the Sherman Anti Trust law criminalizes conspiracy in restraint of trade and urges him to file criminal charges against the Beef Trust. He asserts fines are inadequate and a prison term would better deter monopoly while praising the Minneapolis speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
THE
Tribune
Lincoln
Neb
United States
Bryan
Beef Trust
Internal Revenue
Minneapolis
Allen Freed Case Dismissed as DA Would Not Prosecute
District Attorney Jerome asked that the indictment against Allen be dismissed after trial began. Justice Newburger freed Allen, who ran a gambling room at 80 Sixth Ave. Jerome cited concerns about the primary witness, a former county detective, and indicated he would not press for conviction. Robert Allen and Charles Meyer pleaded guilty and were fined five dollars each. Forty six gamblers faced Justice Newburger with twenty two accepting guilty pleas for fines of twenty five dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Tribunal of Justice
Jerome
Robert Allen
Charles Meyer
Robert Woolley
Justice Newburger
Lynching of a Black suspect near Ravenel, South Carolina
A mob seized Jim Black, accused of murdering the wife of Atlantic Coast Line section master J. K. Jones, from a posse en route to Ravenel jail and lynched him. Black had confessed before capture near Governot and was to be confined in Ravenel. Meanwhile readers are told The New York Tribune will be sold at European hotels and stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
S. C
Jim Black
J. K. Jones
Atlantic Coast Line
Ravenel
Black
Governot
New-York Tribune
Europe
Great Britain
New Rochelle Faces Fresh City Funds Theft Allegation
Old New Rochelle officials charged with stealing city money. $50,000 alleged loss in Sewer Department. George Ross suspended as commissioner awaiting investigation. Hearing underway with civil engineer testimony on sewer rock versus earth estimates. Ex mayor Dillon and many aldermen implicated. attorney Tierney withdraws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New-Rochelle
George €. Ross
Ross
Dillon
New Rochelle
Michael J. Tierney
Corporation Counsel
Fifth Avenue Art Galleries leased to James P. Silo for six years
Real estate news notes H. H. Cammann & Co. release to James P. Silo of the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries at 366 and 368 Fifth Ave with 4 by 150 foot frontage and a protected light strip on Thirty-fifth Street. The Smith estate owners were Charles Stewart Smith John H. Caswell and Howard C. Smith. Other transactions include sales at 358 and 2 Pearl St and multiple leases and transfers across Franklin Square Pearl Street Water Street and West Side addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooke & Georger
H. H. Cammann & Co
James P. Silo
Fifth Avenue
Fifth-ave
Thirty-fifth-st
Charles Stewart Smith
John H. Caswell
Howard C. Smith
Silo
Lovejoy & Noyes
Josiah Partridge
Franklin Square
Gold St
Brooklyn
James Slip
Joseph Bosco
Pearl St
Bridge St
Wolf, Sayer & Heller
Pearl-st
John-st
William Summerville Sons
Water-st
A. Musica
South-st
F. C. Linde Hamilton Company
Platt-st
Ungerer & Co
Burling Slip
Hoople & Androvetta
Front St
Maiden Lane
Chands Chalk Company
Ferry St
Day Metallic Manufacturing Company
Fulton-st
Norwich Pharmacal Company
Gold-st
Henry Huneke
Cliff-st
Henry B. Platt
T. R. McMann
West Broadway
Parker & Flanagan
Lofts
William-st
Charles F. Bloom
Edwin Whittaker
No. & Fulton
D. L. Richard
J. C. Lyons Building and Operating Company
East Eightieth-st
Isaac Dreyfus
William Evans
P. J. Heaney & Co
H. Jay
Elsmere Place
H.P. Averill
Hughes Ave
Morris Weinstein
H. E. Distelhurst
Engel Heller Company
Houston
Elizabeth Sts
Slawson & Hobbs
E. H. Chauncey
West Seventy-seventh St
Horace S. Ely & Co
Louis L. Seaman
East Sixty-third St
Hiram Rinaldo & Bro
H. A. Keefe
Lowenfeld & Prager
Oliver St
Arnold & Byrne
John Miller
John Kafka
Seventy-eighth-st
Amsterdam Ave
William F. Carroll
Central Park West
Audubon Ave Block Front Sold to Miss Van Cott
W. J. Huston & Co sold the west side block front on Audubon Avenue between 187th and 188th Streets to Miss E. M. Van Cott. The lot measures 138.9 by 50 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Huston & Co
E. M. van Cott
Audubonave
Forty-fifth Street Company Lands Building Loans for Hotel
The Forty-fifth Street Company secured a $323,000 loan from Title Guarantee and Trust Company and a $12,500 loan from George W. Stetson to finance construction of a twelve story brick hotel at 38 to 42 West Forty-fifth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forty-fifth Street
Title Guarantee and Trust Company
George W. Stetson
West
Forty-fifth-st
Bowman Leases Stable as Automobile Station on 43rd Street
George A. Bowman & Co. leased the last vacant stable on the south side of Forty-third street between Fifth and Sixth avenues to Banker Brothers Company of Pittsburg as an automobile station. Stable No. 56. Despite high street property values, leases may be secured at low prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Bowman & Co
Forty-third St
Fifth
Sixth
Banker Brothers Company
Pittsburg
Home for the Friendless Enlarged by Acquisition
The American Female Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless acquired a 50 by 233.9 foot plot on Woody Crest avenue east side, 100 feet south of 160th street, from William G. Ver Planck and wife for 10000 dollars. The site adjoins the institution’s existing home and will receive an addition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Female Guardian Society
Home For the Friendless
Woody Crestave
William G. Ver Planck
Plans for Twelve Story Brick Hotel on Broadway Front
Plans filed yesterday at the Bureau of Buildings Manhattan show a twelve story brick hotel to be built on the east side of Broadway between Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth streets. The plot measures 204.10 feet by 114.6 feet. Owner is The Eighty-sixth Street Company of 127 West Forty-second Street. Architect is Harry B. Milliken of 7 East Forty second Street. Estimated cost about 1.56 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Buildings
Manhattan
Broadway
Eighty-fifth
Eighty-sixth Sts
Eighty-sixth Street Company
West Forty-second-st
Harry B. Milliken
No. 7
East Fortysecond-st
Imate
Madison Avenue
Ninety-seventh Street
One Hundred and Seventeenth Street
Seventy-sixth Street
Ling - Pee
St. Nicholas Terrace
Twenty-seventh Street
One Hundred and Twentyninth Street
One Hundred and Eighth Street
First Avenue
Second Avenue
Amsterdam Avenue
Convent Avenue
Nostreet
One Hundred and Sixteenth Street
Pinnaite No. 113
Sixty-eighth Street
Ty-Eighth
Fifty-third
Seventy-fifth Street
Morningside Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Ninety-sixth Street
St. Nicholas Avenue
Columbes Avenue
Central Park West
Ninety-second Street
One Hundred and Fourteenth Street
Ninety-eighth Street
Park Avenue
Fifty-third Street
Forty-ninth Street
Forty Street
St. Nicholas Place
First Street
Fifty-first Street
Sixty-sixth Street
Eighty-second Street
West End Avenue
Chappelle Purchases Private Home in Key West for 25000
Thomas L. Reynolds & Co. sold a three story private dwelling at 109 West One-hundred-and-twentieth street, measuring 60 by 100 feet, to M. B. Chappelle of G. H. Mumm & Co. for 25000, from E. H. Gate of Key West Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas L. Reynolds & Co
E. H. Gate
Key West
Fla
M. 8. Chappelle
G. H. Mumm & Co
Sunnyside Flour Mills Sold in New Jersey Transfer
Charles Grimth Moses and Bro sold Sunnyside Flour Mills at Sunnyside New Jersey to Max Marx. The property includes a large mill, outbuildings, and ten acres of land. Abraham L. Erlanger of law and Erlanger took title yesterday to No. 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles GriMth
Moses & Bro
Max Marx
Sunnyside
N. J
Abraham L. Erlanger
of Law & Erlanger
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Ization Society
Vichy
Bradway, N. F
Heber Newton
Samuel D. M'Connelil
ALL Souls
Health Board
General Synod OF the Reformed Church
DR. Hillis
Roosevelt
Chappelle
West End-ave
New-Yorke Investment and Improvement
Oliver H. P. Belmont
Madison-ave
John T. Farley
Lanyary Title Insurance Company
Fical Estate
Jitle Guarantee Annpdtrust Company
Remsen Street
L. J. Phillips & CO
Aletrs
R. E. Simon
Rose Hill
O. F. Bresze
Orange County
Virginia
PD Teginia
Bresee
Piedmont
Virginian
Rapidan River
Safe Deposit and Trust Company OF Baltimore
Maryland
Brooklin Property
Prospect Park South
Flatbush
Park Row
Beverly Road
Dean Alvord
Anhanset
Shelter Island
George
Colman
Marie Antoinette
66Th St
Mon- Rea Lake
Andrew Mell’ Jr
Monticello, N
P Block Island
Pro Tohn H
Country Property
P. O
Gale
Mount Kisco Station
Harlem
BR. R
James E. Banks
Newark-ave
Jersey City
Borough of
City Hall
Rattan
Borough of Manhattan
Forty-fourth Street
Fortes Re
Navy
Sabia
Torial Abgropei
Ford
Mace
Aeaian
Famed
Care
Navy Cott
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