Traffic Reform Battle Over Streetcar Vestibules
Metropolitan and Brooklyn Rapid Transit officials oppose a proposed ordinance to ban standing in streetcars. At a public hearing, carriers argued limits would cause delays and crowding, while Alderman Bridges and Doull pressed for vestibules to aid winter operations and rider safety. The committee reserved decision.
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Metropolitan and
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Alderman Doull
Root
United States
Wells
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Fulton St
Brooklyn
Henry L. Bogert
Flushing Association
Bogert
Alderman Bridges
Jimms” Bridges
Oren Root
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
John L. Wells
Doara
Doull
Bronx
Escors
Bronx to Brooklyn One Fare Debate Triggers Transit Hearing
At a Brooklyn extension transit hearing at 320 Broadway Mayor Low urged a single fare from The Bronx to any Brooklyn part. Greatsinger warned that a three cent fare would bankrupt his company. officials considered a unified fare across future tunnels while discussing bids, bonds, and station ads.
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Rapid Transit Commission
Brooklyn
Broadway
Low
Bronx
Greatsinger
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Flatbush
Atlantic Ares
Belmont Syndicate
Rockaway
Manhattan
Orr
Grout
City Hall
Bowers
Long Island Railroad
Mr. Bowers
Edward M. Shepard
McDonald
Shepard
New York
Commissioner Smith
Brooklyn Heights
Westst
Andrew J. Smith
S. B. Donnelly
4. J. Boulton
Henry George
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Mr. George
Mr. Johnson
Foreigners in Dr Mackay's Pulpit at Collegiate Church
New Yorkers will have an opportunity to hear Dr Donald Sage Mackay at the Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue and Forty eighth Street where he addresses the issue of foreigners in the pul pit. The sermon promises a look at immigration policies and cultural integration with emphasis on faith and public life in New York.
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Fifth-ave
Fortyeighth-st
Donald Sage Mackay
Revival Preachers Slated for Scottish and London clergy
In August Rev. William Swanson of the United Free Church Glasgow will preach morning and evening. In September Rev. Dr. Alexander Connell of Regent Square Church London is expected to preach for Dr. Mackay. Dr. Connell was invited to Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church three years ago. Dr. Mackay and family will spend the summer at Blue Hill Maine, with a possible September trip to England with Mrs Mackay.
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Scotland
Pr. Wiliam
Swanson
United Frea
Glasgow
Alexander Connell
Regent Square Church
London
Mackay
Connell
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Blue Hill
Brush challenge aims to unseat Mayor Fiske in Mount Vernon
Dr. Edward F. Brush seeks to overturn Mayor Fiske's lead in Mount Vernon after a six month dispute. Justice Wilmot Smith held the sixty five split ballots in First District as reported, with 39 later deemed valid under Thatcher and other recent Appellate Division rulings. Brush appeals aim to recount and potentially add votes in three districts, risking Fiske's sixteen vote lead and possibly giving Brush a 29 vote majority.
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Edward F. Brush
Mount Vernon
Fiske
Wilmot M. Smith
White Plains
Smith Roger M. Sherman
Brush
Sherman
Appellate Division
Thatcher
Justice Smith
Money blocks Broadway cars with safes on wagon
Three iron strong boxes containing a fortune from an American Express wagon halted Broadway cars at Broadway and Fourteenth street for about fifteen minutes. The weight prevented moving the wagon until an emergency wrecking wagon arrived. Police and Mercer street officers controlled the crowd as workers retrieved the safes and resumed toward Grand Central and Franklin street Boston.
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American Express Company
Broadway Electric
Broadway
Fourteenth-st
Express Company
No. 65
Grand Central Station
Franklin St
Boston
Fourteenth St
Metropolitan Railway Company
Chapman
Mercer-st
Reconciling Cleveland and Hill at Tilden Club opening
Prominent Tilden Club members aim to unite Grover Cleveland and ex-Senator Hill for the club's June 19 opening with Cleveland expected to speak. Dowling Calhoun and Hotchkiss, aided by McAdoo Straus Warner, view the gathering as sealing a long rift within the Democratic ranks.
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Tilden Club
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland
Hill
Robert E. Dowling
John C. Calhoun
The
Southern Society
Henry D. Hotchkiss
McAdoo
Oscar S. Straus
John de Witt Warner
Cross Purposses
Cloudburst devastates Courtland Nebraska near Beatrice
A cloudburst in Nebraska drenched Courtland near Beatrice, seven inches of rain flooding fields and destroying many buildings. It is unclear if lives were lost as efforts to reach the storm area continue and damage across the county is described as extensive.
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St. Joseph
Courtland
Neb
Beatrice
Mare Domen Feer
Smite Dante
Bertha Stone Returns Home After Disappearance
Bertha Stone, daughter of Mrs Clara Stone of 161 West Eighty fourth street, reappeared at her home yesterday after vanishing on May 2. Her mother, told dying of a broken heart, rests easier as Bertha explains she was visiting friends in Jersey and reading about her disappearance in papers. She refused to detail her trip but said she immediately wrote to reassure her mother and headed home. The New York Tribune plans wider European and British distribution at hotel bookstalls and rail stations.
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Bertha Stone
Clara Stone
West Eighty-fourth-st
Jersey
Jolaing
Nil
Europe
New-York Tribune
Great Britain
Marconi's New Wireless Station at Cape Cod Nears Completion
Marconi plans to demonstrate transoceanic wireless telegraphy in the United States within weeks at South Wellfleet Cape Cod where a new station near Cape Cod nears completion by June 22. The site features four 215-foot towers forming a square 210 feet on each side with steel wire bracing and windproof cables. The electrical setup includes fifty seven strand copper cables per bridge and a coherer receiver improved with wedge shaped nickel plug faces and new adjustments. Transmitting gear swaps induction coils for transformers producing sparks between two-inch globular terminals with a forty horsepower dynamo and two twenty horsepower engines driving the system to reach 50 000 to 70 000 volts.
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Poldhu
Cornwall
Newfoundland
Marconi
Cape Cod
England
Ministers Considered as Possible Congress Nominee in Brooklyn
Republicans in the new Md Congress District of Brooklyn seek a non aligned candidate to unite factions. Rev Dr James H Darlington of Christ Episcopal Church is mentioned as a potential nominee but is out of town. District spans Thirteenth Nineteenth Twenty first wards plus parts of Twenty third and Twenty seventh. Factions Hobley Kissel clash in Vth Assembly District. Walter B Atterbury pushes Twenty third Ward for nomination. Observers fear any factional win could aid the Democrat.
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Congress
Brooklyn
James H. Darlington
Christ Episcopal Church
Darlington
Slld
Hobley
Public Baths Raise Eye Disease Alarm at Medical Meeting
The New York Academy of Medicine gathered at 7 West Forty third Street under the Section of Ophthalmology with Dr J E Weeks presiding. Dr Richard H Derby urged stricter inspection and treatment of inmates in asylums and hospitals. Dr Carl Koller discussed modern trachoma treatments while J Frank Van Fleet argued current New York laws are sufficient and highlighted past progress.
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New York Academy of Medicine
West Forty-third St
J. E. Weeks
Richard H. Derby
Carl Koller
J. Frank van Fleet
New-York
van Freet
Death of Lidgerwood Son Reported in London
Morristown New Jersey June 5 William Watt Lidgerwood son of John Lidgerwood of the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company is dead in London. A cable dispatch states the cause is unknown and the family awaits details. He had lived in Morristown for years and lately spent time in South America while traveling home via Europe.
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Morristown
N. J
William Watt Lidgerwood
London
John Lidgerwood
Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company
No. 5
Liberty St
Manhattan
South America
Europe
Bank merger talks at Union Square Bank opening prospects
The Corn Exchange Bank seeks control of Union Square Bank to convert it into a branch. Union Square Bank, located at No Union Square, shows 200000 capital stock and 373000 in net profits. Weekly statement lists loans 1963.40 and deposits 2794600. Officers include Frederick Wagner president John J Gibbons vice president and Jan Schell cashier. The stock yields 6 percent and trades around 330 bid.
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Corn Exchange Bank
Union Square Bank
Union Square
Frederick Wagner
John J. Gibbons
Jan. Schell
Corp
Dedication at Marienburg in the Emperor’s presence
In Marienburg West Prussia on June 5 a picturesque spectacle unfolded as the Emperor William and the Empress attended a ceremony restoring the ancient site. Many diplomats and royalty along with German notables observed the event.
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Marienburg
West Prussia
William
Emperor attends completion of Marienburg Castle ceremony
Grand masters of Fonies honored by revival of ancient costume of the Knights of St John as bells toll and choir sings. Emperor presides at Chapel Hall reception and consecration. A dinner follows with the Emperor and royal personages. Castle of Marienburg is officially completed.
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Eas Castle
Knights of St. John
Castle of Marienb
City Club officials debate Police chief Partridge amid mayoral talks
City Club delegates pressed Mayor Low over Police Commissioner Partridge's administration while trustees privately considered a report censuring the police leadership. Committee members denied official club action and stressed they would not criticize the department publicly, as speculation swirled about a possible resignation by Partridge.
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City Club
Partridge
Lew
Wheeler H. Peckham
R. Fulton Cutting
James R. Burnet
Thomas R. Slicer
Colonel Partridge
Low
Fornes
Board of Aldermen
McInnes
Goodman
Rye
James B. Reynolds
Board of Trustees
Reynolds
Jerome
Slicer
Police Department
Olonel Partridge
Washington Seligman Loses in $2000 Damages Suit
In City Court Judge Seabury presided as Mrs. Annette M. Osborne won a $2000 verdict against Washington Seligman after a July 8 1901 incident at Sea View Hotel Bath Beach. Eyewitnesses William Clark bellboy Ernest Frank and testimony by Miss Sutherland and others shaped the case.
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Annette M. Osborne
Washington Seligman
Seabury
Eugene Seligman
Seligman & Seligman
Osborne
Sea View
Bath Beach
Seligman
Mr. Seligman
Supreme Court Revokes Bungalow License on Broadway
Justice O Gorman in the Supreme Court yesterday revoked the license of the Bungalow at One Hundred Tenth Street and Broadway, formerly run by Waldron Rorko and later Lipshitz Wacke, with the license standing in the name of Morris Lipshitz.
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Justice O'Gorman
Supreme Court
Little Coney Island
Broadway
Waldron & Rorko
Lipshitz & Wacke
Morris Lipshitz
City committee backs eight mph limit for cars in New York
At a Bar Association meeting the Committee of Fifty executive committee, chaired by J Bayard Backus, passed resolutions urging New York City to keep the eight mile per hour speed limit for automobiles. They call for automobile licensing, visible license numbers, separate streetcar speed rules, and penalties up to fifty dollars for violations. Members included Charles H Henderson and Alderman Herbert Parsons.
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Committee of Fifty
Rooms of the
Bar Association
J. Bayard Backus
City of
New York
Board of Aldermen
Aise
New-York
Smd
Backus
Parsons
Oatman
Charles H. Henderson
John L. Brower
Nathaniel A. el
Two Chauffeurs Held for Trial on Speeding
John Flynn of 42 East Fifty third street and Edward B Gitchell of West One hundred fourth street were held in 40 bail each for speeding by Magistrate Barlow. Bicycle Policeman Gillis arrested Flynn near Eighth avenue and Sixty seventh street. Gitchell was caught speeding a private car from forty fourth street to sixty first street and refused to name the owner.
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John Flynn
East Fifty-third-st
Edward B. Gitchell
Barlow
West Side Court
Gillis
West Sixty-eighth-st
Flynn
American Automobile Company
Eighth-ave
Manhattan Borough President Seeks City Motor Ordinance
President Cantor of Manhattan held a half hour conference with Aldermen Par sons and Mathews and William Eno of the Road Driv ers Association about creating a comprehensive ordinance to prevent future automobile accidents such as the Staten Island crash last Saturday. The plan would place licensing and speed regulation under municipal control, with Cantor delaying discussion of suggestions until consulting Kent Shattuck of the Automobile Club of America and other interested parties.
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Cantor
Borough of
Manhattan
Parsons and
Mathews
Laws and Legislation
William P. Eno
Road Drivers’ Association
Staten Island
Kent Shattuck
The
Automobile Club of America
Manhattan Beach Cycling Meet Promises Notable Speed
The Metropole Cycling Club announces a dense program for the Manhattan Beach opening meet on Saturday June 21 featuring professional sprinters amateurs and novices. Events include a flying start dash a sweepstakes handicap two mile amateur race for a motor bicycle prize and a five mile metropole sweepstakes with $200 purse. Entries and details available from S Wallace Merrihew. Officials note registration is mandatory for open and professional races with penalties for false information.
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Manhattan Beach
Metropole Cycling Club
Columbia
Metropole
Antic Pr
S. Wallace Merrihew
Tribune Building
Merrihew
National Cycling Association Board of Control
Tember
Board of Control
Howie
East Orange
Lewis Bennett
Asbury Park
Fred Gerner
Allenhurst
N. J
Meadow Brook Defeats Rockaway in Polo Match on Hempstead Plains
Meadow Brook poloists defeated Rockaway Hunt Club 14 to 7 on the Hempstead Plains with handicaps giving Rockaway one goal. Lineups featured Rene La Montagne and W. B. Rand replaced by P. F. Collier Henry W. Bull and R. Beeckman for Westchester, and notable play from Harry Payne Whitney and Reggie Brooks.
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Meadow Brook
Rockaway
Hempstead Plains
Rene la Montagne
W. B. Rand
P. F. Collier
Henry W. Buil
R. Beeckman
Westchester
Colter
Heary Bull
Beeckman
Conover
Savage
Harry Payne Whitney
Reggie ” Brooks
Whitney
Ateer
Meadoreok
Ak Aa
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Aldermen
Tribune
James
Queens
Railroad Committee
Lindenthel
Lindenthal
Diemer
Oren Root, Jr
Fifty-Ninth-St
Bridges
Alderman Douls
Mayor Low
Great Singer
MR. Orr
DR. Mackays
Dsank Walton
Gill
Nebraska
Marconi’s
Police
the Mayor
Conference ON Safety Ordinance
Iver Lawson
National Cycling Association
POLO
Rockaways
Tis
Henry W. Bull
J. S. Stevers
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