Rubber Road Snaps Back Blunder Over Railroad Distances
The New Haven road admitted a blunder in June 5 timetable distances stretching stations from Woodlawn to Stamford and widening the miles from New York. Commuters question motive, some alleging deliberate falsification to raise fares. Officials vow corrections and consider penalties. others urge hearings and rate reviews. Local groups and lawmakers push investigations with railroad and public service commissions.
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New Haven Road
Railways Ordered to Testify in New Jersey Rate Probe
The State Railroad Commission, after a June 7 conference with Governor Fort, issued subpoenas for passenger agents of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western, Pennsylvania Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, and Erie Railroad. They must appear at the State House next Tuesday to testify in a rate investigation urged by five Lackawanna commuters. The commission can only recommend rates, not set them, with help from the Governor and Attorney General.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Duncan Edwards
Greenwich
Greenwich Board of Trade
Interstate Commerce Commission
State Railroad Commission of New Jersey
Lackawanna E Railroad
Fort
Trenton
XN. J
Stote Railroad Commission
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Pennsylvania Railrosé
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Erie Rea
Iroad
State House
Lackawanna Railroad
Witnesses Against Prisoners in Eighth and Sixth Avenues
Twenty children, mostly girls aged seven to thirteen, appeared before Magistrate Appleton at Jefferson Market Court yesterday afternoon as witnesses against five prisoners employed in Eighth Avenue and Sixth Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mue Moving Picture Theatres
Maurice Mishal
Sixth Avenue
Fortunato Vezzell
Eighth Avenue
John Burke
William Thompson
Gaynor
Appleton
Jefferson Market Court
Sixth Ave
Sane Fourth Amid Fireworks Permit Ruling
Justice Erlanger refused to force Fire Commissioner Waldo to issue retail fireworks permits. The ruling upholds Explosives Commission setbacks restricting sales to settings with automatic sprinklers, citing the rise in fires. The decision delays Mayor Gaynor’s quiet Fourth plan unless the Appellate Division reverses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Erlanger
Waldo
Gaynors
Supreme Court
Erlanger
New York
Explosives Commission
Decision Upholds Whitman on Second Offense Arraignments
Justice McCall dismissed a habeas corpus writ by Joseph T. Burns, a chauffeur charged after a second arrest for a second offense. The ruling supports the district attorney’s view that a person cannot be arraigned for a greater offense before the first charge is resolved, a decision affecting about 175 pending or awaiting second and third offense prosecutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCall
Joseph T. Burns
Whitman
Court of Special Sessions
Burns
Prof Peck Sues The World for $100000 Over Poems
Professor Peck of Columbia sues The New York World for $100,000 alleging publication of poems from Greystone and Porphyry copied from Ginn & Co. The suit claims garbled text misled readers about the origin and intent of the poems and that Peck did not write related letters quoted in The World.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World
Harry Thurston Peck
Columbia
David C. Bennett
Bennett & Tappan
Wall Street
Bennett
Peeck-Quinn
Miss Quinn
Peck
Professor Peck
Bequests To Societies Ordered By Will Executor
Justice Giegerich ruled in the probate action of Will iam Bell Wait Jr over Miss Theresa Barcalow s will As executor he determined that the Ladies Health Protective Association is entitled to the bequest intended for the Health Protective group and that the Sorosis Circle and the Political Study Society were unin incorporated at the time and cannot receive legacies Thel Barcalow secretary of the Theosophical Society died June 1 1908 leaving the gifts to several NY groups
Wedded Bride in Hospital By Telegraph to The Tribune
Philadelphia date June 7 announces the marriage of Nathan Folwell a 24 year old Penn football star to Miss Marguerite MacDonald of New York. The ceremony was held Monday in a private New York hospital with Father Forbes officiating in the bride’s presence. The wedding cards were nearly ready when the bride fell ill with typhoid fever but attended the service.
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Tribune
Philadelphia
New York
Nathan Folwell
University of Pennsylvania
Marguerite MacDonald
Father Forbes
Edne MacDonald
William H. Folwell
Miss MacDonald
Parr 10 to receive moiety for sugar duty raid at Havemeyer docks
Richard Parr acting deputy surveyor who led the 1907 raid that uncovered steel springs used to defraud duties on Havemeyer and Elder sugar imports is to be rewarded under the moiety act. Attorney General George W. Wickersham approved Parr’s May 24, 1909 claim and Franklin MacVeagh will decide soon. The amount of the award has been the subject of speculation, with the immediate recovered sum not stated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Parr
Treasury
Havemeyer & Elder
Williamsburg
George W. Wickersham
Parr
Franklin MacVeagh
Mr. Wickersham
Secretary of the Treasury
Wickersham
Custom House
Washington
Mr. Parr
Europe
Arbuckle Brothers
National Sugar Refining Company
Havemeyers & Elder
Loeb
Roosevelt
Maine
Frederick Schwerdtfeger
Schwerdtfeger
Mr Parr
Oliver Spitzer
Spitzer
Reward to Richard Parr for Sugar Fraud Discoveries
Attorney General Wickersham rules Parr is entitled to compensation for information that led to the recovery of between 4.9 and 5.0 million dollars from the sugar trust. The final amount rests with the Secretary of the Treasury who may award a share of recovered funds as allowed by the moiety act. Parr had uncovered tampering by steel springs on docks and aided prosecutions and trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wickersham
Richard Parr
Parr
Secretary of the Treasury
Prince Here To Study In United States On Leave
Prince Mirza Riza Khan of Persia, aged forty five with twelve wives, is on leave from his post as Persian Ambassador to Turkey to study American social and economic life for three months. He led by the hand a hostess, Mrs. Charles P. Hatch, from Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse yesterday afternoon and will visit Plum Beach Farm Port Washington Long Island during his stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mirza Riza Khan
Persia
Charles P. Hatch
Turkey
United States
Plum Beach Farm
Port Washington
Long Island
Commissioner orders sergeants to apply for mounted duty
The commissioner announced that all sergeants seeking mounted duty must submit applications immediately. Critics view it as weeding out shirkers, while officials say it aims to fill the Mounted squad. Lt. Timothy J. McAuliffe, previously fined thirty days’ pay for arresting Coroner Schwannecke, was transferred to Westchester police station as official punishment.
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Baker
Timothy J. McAuliffe
Schwannecke
Westchester
Lawsuit wraps up as sugar executives trial nears end
The trial of Charles R. Heike Ernest Gerbracht and James F. Bendernagel adjourned with ten minutes per side to finish testimony and a looming summing up. Witnesses discussed liberal weighing practices at Havemeyer & Elder docks and government versus city weighers. The case, tied to the American Sugar Refining Company, may not reach a jury until tomorrow as Judge Martin and counsel maintained tense but routine proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles R. Heike
American Sugar Refining Company
Ernest Gerbracht
Havemeyer & Elder
Williamsburg
James F. Bendernagel
Heike
Gerbracht
Bendernagel
Martin
Frank Schaffer
Hugh Kelly Company
Stimson
Stranahan
Schaffer
George Graham
Heikes
Mr. Stimson
Graham
Mr. Stinson
Mr. Stanchfield
Oliver Spitzer
Prospect Park Bank
Brooklyn
Mile a Minute Murphy Reinstated to Police Force
Charles Murphy known as Mile a Minute Murphy due to riding a bicycle behind a train was reinstated yesterday by Commissioner Baker after resigning eight weeks ago to pursue vaudeville. He is assigned to the Madison street station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Murphy
Murphy
Baker
Madison Street
Denies All Wife Says in Cruelty Suit Against Wheeler
Mrs Claudia T Wheeler formerly Claudia Carlstadt sues for separation on cruelty and abandonment. She alleges protracted neglect, removal of belongings, threats, and withheld support after March 6 from their Dakota apartment. Wheeler counters claims, disputes income, and cites sufficient cause for abandonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claudia T Wheeler
Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr
Wheeler
Claudia Carlstadt
New York Stock Exchange
J. B. Russell & Co
Dakota
Three Robbers In A Wagon In Early Morning Burglary
Thomas Ryan, a Murray street watchman, witnessed three men in a wagon at about 3 am in the wholesale produce district. Police arrested two men after a pursuit. one held in $2,000 bail for trial, the other discharged. Harry Feuller and Benjamin Herkowitz faced Tombs court proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray Street
Fulton Street
Thomas Ryan
Ryan
Higgins
Kane
Kelly
Tombs Court
Herbert
Harry Feuller
Cannon Street
Benjamin Herkowitz
City Autos To Carry City of New York Marking
Alderman Nicoll proposed a resolution at the board meeting directing all city owned automobiles to display City of New York in black letters not less than one inch high. A $10 penalty would apply for unmarked city machines. The Mayor vetoed a resolution allowing Church Temperance Society lunch wagons in public squares. Henry Clews & Co protested a drinking fountain outside their Broad Street offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicoll
City of New York
The
Church Temperance Society
Henry Clews & Co
Broad Street
Father Naegleisen Honored At German Catholic Dinner
A gala dinner at Union Square Hotel honored Rev. John A Naegleisen rector of St Nicholas Roman Catholic Church on his twenty fifth anniversary Celebrations drew cheering German supporters and messages from Cardinal Merry del Val President Taft Mayor Gaynor and Justice Giegerich The toastmaster Val entine J Faeth read cables and letters from church and civic leaders including Monsignors Lavelle Donnelly and Sutro
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father John
Union Square
John A. Nageleisen
St. Nicholas’s
New York
Merry del Val
Vatican
Fast
Gaynor
Giegerich
Supreme Court
Valentine J. Faeth
Theodore Sutro
Monsignor
Lavelle
Archbishop Farley
Eugene Donnelly
Flushing
Marine Intelligence Miniature Almanac
Sunrise and lunar times listed with a wireless report update. The Pennsylvania and The Oceanic are reported east of Sandy Hook with expected docking times and routes. Cunard line schedules show sailing from La Guayra on May 3 and Queenstown on June 1.
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Pennsylvania
Sandy Hook
Oceanic
Maritime Shipping Schedule Fragments From June Notices
A chaotic OCR of ship arrivals, sailings, and mail closes listing ports Havana Cienfuegos Naples Messina Tangier and many more. It records vessel names Cunard Palmyra El Mar and others with dates in May and June across Atlantic and Pacific routes, plus Transpacific mail deadlines.
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Tietgen
Alleghany
Oceanic
Havana
Trent
Santiago
Kingston
Cienfuegos
Citta
Messina
Naples
Christiansand
Hayti
Sthampton
Parthenia
Antwerp
Arotava
Bermuda
Eugenia
Cunard
el Mar
Galveston
Grenada
Trinidad
Cherokee
Turks Island
Clyde Oceania
Austrian San Giorgio
Iralian
Hamburg
Hamb-Am Star
Zealand
Liverpool
Buenos Ayres
Cadiz
Giulia
Gibraltar
Ies
Merida
Havane
Ward Metapan
Santa Marta
Cadena Galveston
Salle Lusitania
Teutonic
Southampton
W S
Alice
Azores
Austrian
Pesmudian
Quebec
Moracas
Grant
Algonquin
Jacksonville
Clyde
Alamo
Tampa
Mallory
Washington
Bremen
la Savoie
Havre
Morro Castle
Ward
Ancon
Cristobal
Panama
Tampico
Comanche
Jackville
Shipping News Arrivals and Quarantine Departures Listed
Shipping report from the harbor lists steamers Bremen Zulia Sarnia and Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse with cabin and steerage passengers, mails, and cargo. Arrivals at the bar and quarantine departures noted. vessels from Galveston to Havre and Paramaribo to Kingston documented with dates and destinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bremen
Ger
Oelrichs & Co
Santiago
Guantanamo
Manzanillo
Clenfuegos
New York
la’ Guayra
Bliss & Dallett
Moise
Bar
Monroe
Newport News
Norfolk
Old Dominion Line
Caronia
Liverpool
Mar
Queenstown
Cunards Line
Marchuria Bry
Cienfuegos
Matanzas
Munson
Afghanistan
Wessel, Duval & Co
el Dia
Galveston
In Pacific Co
Daleby
Carbarien
Munson_&s
la Gascogne
Havre
Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
Isi Eatin
Mase
Saramacca
Paramaribo
Say
Barbados
Trinidad
Royal Dutch West India Mail
Chesapeake
Baltimore
New York and Baltimore Transportation Line
Mdise
Comanche
Jacksonville
Charleston
Clyde Ss Co
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
Southampton
Cherbour
Southern Pacific Co
Sandy Hook
Iled
Steamers at foreign ports arrive and sail notices
Arrivals and departures listed for ships at New York by June 7 from ports including Port Said Genoa Trieste Naples Naples via Naples and Kingston. Vessels named include Maita Rabenfels Lombardia Argentina Magdalena Taku Bar Mauretania Camilly Dublin Grar w Idepsee and Korona with routes to Port Said Demerara Hong Kong Copenhagen Christiana and Havre.
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Port Said
Rasengahr
New York
Algiers
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Ete Maita
Rabenfels
Ger
St Thomas
Parima
Demerara
Genoa
Lombardia
Ital
Napes
Trieste
Argentina
Naples
Barbados
Magdalana
Southamp
Kingston
Cols
Taku Bar
Michael
Bry
Port Natal
Labuan
Newehwane
Liverpool
Mauretania
Ia Fishevarde
Copenhagen
am—Hellig Otay
Dany
O Christiana
Santos
Pernambuce
Ete
Batispone
Brantfory Bey
New
Dublin
Lsie
Sagres
Duca Aa
Nea
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New Haven
Norwalk
Hugh M. Hewson
Westchester County
Local Improvement League of
Sound Beach
Sound Beach, Conn., Will Present To the Interstate Commerce Commission
Public Service Commission
Connecticut Li
State Business Men's Association
Boards of Trade
Bridgeport
William Lyn Ransom
Willam M. Ivins
Lackawannie Morris Pieiis
Susquehanna
Crystal Lake
Erie Suffern
Bound Brook
New York Central
Harmon Vos
New Rate Sound Beach
New Jersey Commission
Picture Theatre
Edward Miller & Ci
Warren St
Justice McCall
Prof. Peck
Will
Macveagh
Prince
Atlanta
Henry L. Stimson
Edward Foster
John B. Stanchfield
Foster
Stanchfield
Joseph A. Ball
George Hanchett
Hanchett
Fritz Reichman
Father Nageleisen
Marine Intelligence
Oocee Srd
Governor's Island
Hell Gate
Stern Brothers
West Twenty-third Street
Transpacific
N. J
P.M
Japan
Corea
China
Tacoma
Philippines
Vancouver
Fiji Islands
Australia
New Zealand
Manuka
Kewait
San Francisco
Sierra
Shipping News
Port of
Athinat
Constantine
Cearense
Para
Kilsyth Bry
Saltwell
E! Alba
City of Columbus
Savannah
Mohawk
Richmond
Georgetown
Jefferson
Wingrah
Bessie Brown
Prederick Duggan
Lizzie E Dennison
Potsdam
Rotterdam
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Inca
Clothil Cuneo
Nor
Port Antonio
Normandy
Eagiod
Cuba
Excelsior
Antonio Lopez
Span
Indraghiri
Melbourne
Chimu
Valparaiso
Jamestown
Abbie H Gheen
William Hood
Virginia
Lueia Porter
Calais
Charles G Endicott
Jessie L. Leach
Harry Prescott
Coney
Peet
Ronda Aah SE &Son
Criterion Bes
Soem Oerst
Francis Wils
Hudson
Garrick
Miller
Jas
Morton and
Erie
New Amsterdam
Frederic Thompson
Ana Oo
Chas. J. Ross
Stella Wayhew
Barry Lupino
Gertrude van Dyelle
Geo, Evans
Rom
Sydney
Broadway
Yric
DeWolf Hopper
Lew Fields Herald Se
Visio Marie Dressler
Astor
Keith
Proete Bihave
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