Great Western Plan Morgan Reorganizer
Chicago Great Western Railway announces a plan to form a new company to acquire the existing property and issue bonds and stock under Morgan and New York committees. The reorganization involves 4 percent bonds, preferred stock, and common stock with a five year voting trust and details on allocations, costs, and deposits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Morson &C
Chicago Great Western Railway Company
London and
New York
New York Committee
J. Pierpont Morgan
George F. Baker
Robert Fleming
SRO
J E.mevran & Co
Bankers’ Trust Company
Guaranty Trust Company
J. P. Morgan & Co
Stevens to Open Bids for Five Canal Contracts
Albany June 9 F Stevens State Superintendent of Public Works announced bids will be received on Tuesday July 23 at noon for five additional barge canal contracts totaling more than 5 million dollars.
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Stevens
Albany
State Superintendent of Public Works
City Grants Ferry Franchises And Office Move
The Sinking Fund Commission granted the Interborough Ferry Company a twenty five year franchise at 2 percent of gross receipts not less than £7.59 to operate ferries from East With street and East Eid streets to Long Island City. Long Island Railroad received a one year extension for ferries from East Mth street to Borden Avenue with city taking 2 percent of gross receipts. The New Jersey and Staten Island Ferry Company won a franchise for a Richmond Terrace to Elizabethport route. A new ferry between Ocean Avenue and 21st Street Sheepshead Bay and Jamaica Bay was approved with Wilbur F Steele leasing the franchise for five years at 32 percent yearly rental. Marriage license bureau moves from City Clerk’s office to The City Record quarters now in City Hall basement. The City Record moves to No 3 Reade Street.
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Sinking Fund Commission
Inter-oorough Ferry Company
East With
East Eid Streets
East River
Long Island City
Long Island Railroad Company
East Mth Street
Borden Avenuut
New Jersey & Staten Island Ferry Company
Richmond Terrace
Borough of
Richmond
Elizabethport
N. J
Ocean Avenue
21St Street
Sheepshead Bar
Jamaica Bar
Wilbur F. Steele
City Record
Reade Street
D. H. Complies With Law Transfers Coal Output
The Delaware and Hudson Company aligns with a Supreme Court ruling by making the Hudson Coal Company the sole vendee of its current and future coal output. All coal now sold to Hudson Coal at breakers. storage at previous points will continue, with properties transferred to Hudson Coal for future operation.
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Hudson Coal Company
Delaware & Hudson Company
United States Supreme Court
Hudson Ral Company
July cotton steadies on private settlement rumor
Brokers on the floor attribute July cotton firmness to a rumored private settlement involving 08 bales, with transfer from a leading Southern operator to a big spot house for October at a 1 point premium. July closes 30.79 cents after an opening near 30.73, while other active options rise 1 to 7 points amid market steadiness. Railroad holding bill passes in Senate with no opposition, moves to House for concurrence. Steel companies restore wage cuts to pre April levels, affecting about nine thousand workers as industry improves.
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Exchense
W.& Cents
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Loeb Advances Customs Reform Amid Staffing Overhaul
Collector Loeb pushes ahead with changes to the customs service reorganizing night inspections into a patrol led by Major Wilhelm Lutz. Ninety loyal inspectors become watchmen while seventy three inspectors and eight weighers are demoted and sworn in as watchmen. Pay order favors pier watchmen to prevent payroll delays.
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Loeb
Customs Service
Wilhelm Lutz
Major Lutz
Porto Rico
William H. Walsh
John V. Treacy
Ernest G. Cooley
John A. de Sario
William Gruninger
George M. Lachman
Michael J Bradley
Frank
Taught Girls to Steal Arrest in Hoboken Case
In Hoboken Recorder McGovern heard Anna Stefano fourteen arraigned on instigating two younger girls to steal from their father. Tessie Genario thirteen and Millie Genario eleven testified Stefano directed daytime theft of about 50 dollars, with nighttime plans if needed. Stefano held in $300 bond for grand jury.
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Recorder McGovern
Hoboken
Anna Stefano
Tessie Genario
Millie Genario
Gen
Genario
Gum Concerns Merge to Form Sen Sen-Chiciet Company
Plans to organize the Sen Sen-Chiciet Company to acquire five leading independent chewing gum makers advance toward incorporation in Maine within two weeks. Authorized capital is 2709.4, with 2710 bonds and 4005 stock. T. B. Dunn expected as president. Fleer & Co and others to be absorbed. trustee Guaranty Trust Company named. Promoters Flint & Co of New York helped form the venture.
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Sen Sen-Chiciet Company
Maine
Guaranty Trust Company
T. B. Dunn
State
New York
T. B. Dunn Company
Rochester
Fleer & Co
Philadelphia
Somerville & Co
London
Canada
Curtis & Sons Company
Portland
the &. Grove Company
Salem
Ohio
Frank H. Fleer
Flint & Co
Broadstreet
American Chicle Company
Architects Fault Lions At New Police Headquarters
The Municipal Art Commission rejected two colossal recumbent stone lions for the Centre Street Police Headquarters entrance, saying the design was too architectural. Architect Francis L. Hoppin suggested tigers might have been accepted, and noted the lions may be remodeled by the sculptor though no extra funds exist. The building should open in three weeks without the lions.
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Municipal Art Commission
Centre Street
Tribune
Francis L. V. Hoppin
Hoppin, Keen & Huntington
Flatbush Medium Dispossessed in Flatbush Auction
Pauline Krueger Lage Buerkholz an elementary astral and spiritual medium with five dachshunds occupied a dilapidated East 21st Street Flatbush house until deputies moved in after a foreclosure. She held an all day vigil with a rifle and dogs. the dining room contained fruit and vegetables as she stated she ate vegetarian. The property was foreclosed and sold at public auction for 37,10.
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Pauline Krueger-Lage-Buerkholz
Albany
East 21St Street
Avenue C
Flatbush
Health officials urged to fight minor diseases in children
Atlantic City June 9 health section resolutions from the American Medical Association urge federal and state action to prevent preventable child illnesses. They call for sanitation study in schools and criticise health boards for overreach while voicing opposition to benzoate preservatives in foods. Taft to be asked to back legislation banning benzoates.
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Atlantic City
American Medical Association
Henry BR. Hemenway
Evanston
Hemenway
Jr. D. H. Berger
Philadelphia
Taft
Night patrol targets reckless chauffeurs in joy riding ban
The National Highways Protective Society, with City Commissioner Bingham, mobilizes plainclothes and uniformed officers to curb midnight joy rides. Officials report many chauffeurs entertain guests without the master and warn of potential auto bans if trends continue. Edward Cornell says nine of ten fatal accidents stem from joy riding.
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National Highways Protective Society
Bingham
Cvilian
Riverside Drive
Tonneau
Edward
Cornell
Divorce papers disappear in Goelet case in St Louis
In Judge McQuillin's court the divorce case of Mrs Elaine G Goelet against Dr Augustine H Goelet showed papers missing. The judge questioned the plaintiff's attorney who had not seen them. Clerk Henry Bchewe could not locate the files. The case was taken under advisement after Mrs Goelet's witnesses testified. The couple wed in July 1897 in Greene County New York and separated in June 1907. A woman identified as Mrs Goelet was found March at Channing avenue and Olive street and taken to City Hospital. she refused to give her name. Mrs Goelet testified that her husband struck her with a chair on one occasion and mistreated her, a detail audible only to the stenographer and court staff.
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St. Louis
Jane
Elaine G. Goelet
Augustine H. Goelet
New York
Goelet
Greene County
N. Y
Spring Avenue
St Loui
Robert Stevens
Orange
N. J
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Channing Avenue
Olive Street
City Hospital
E. G. Goelet
General Delivery
Old Pickpocket Convicted in Kings County Court
A jury found Charles Schmitt, a 12 year pickpocket, guilty of grand larceny in the second degree for stealing a purse from a Metropolitan avenue car on June 14, 188. He testified that police officers shared spoils with him and implicated Detective Coghlan in a bribery scheme. The verdict followed four hours of deliberation and judge Dike praised the jury.
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Kings County Court
Charles Schmitt
Frederick Gabriel
Metropolitan Avenue
Schmitt
Detroit
Coghlan
Cincinnati
Dike
Crop conditions on June 1 reported by Agriculture
Washington June 9 crop condition summary shows 4 percent below last year’s level but 8 percent above two years ago. Acreage estimates for winter and spring wheat oats barley clover hay and other crops are given with percentages. The June 1 summary lists yields for Clover hay alfalfa spring pasture apples peaches pears cabbages onions lima beans asparagus berries melons cantaloupes hemp sugar cane and sugar beets among others.
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Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
New York Besieged In Coast Defence Manoeuvres
New York City braces for a ten day coast defence drill with New York militia regiments and regular troops manning forts Totten Schuyler Wadsworth Hamilton under Brigadier General Austen. Units train progressively with night attacks ended by 11 pm to preserve civilian quiet while simulated combat continues.
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New York City
New York
Coast Artillery
Sii
9Th
13Th Coast Artillery
the &Th
Elmore F. Austin
Totten
Schuyler
Long Island Sound
West Mth Street
William F. Morris
Fort Wadsworth
Brooklyn
Fort Hamilton
Charles O. Davis
David E. Austen
New York State
War Department
Delia Keating Injured and Arrested After Auto Crash
Miss Delia Keating twenty three of West 46th street was knocked down by a speeding automobile at Lexington avenue and 45th street. She was treated at Flower Hospital for a sprained wrist and possible skull fracture. She was arraigned in Yorkville court and fined one dollar for intoxication. Patrolman Swanton arrested her on the intoxication charge after the incident.
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Delia Keating
No. 234
West 46Th Street
Yorkville Court
Flower Hospital
Benjamin P. Riley
No. 47
East 59Th Street
Miss Keating
Lexington Avenue
45Th Street
Swanton
East Diet Street
Dearborn Convicted for Fourth Time in Speeding Case
Fifth time offender Frank H. Dearborn of Central Park West was convicted in Special Sessions yesterday for speeding. He received a $1 fine and five days in jail. prior sentences were suspended or paid fines in earlier convictions.
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Frank H. Dearborn
Central Park West
Thomas Automobile Company
Dearborn
Chilean Navy Officers Arrive for World Study Tour
Admiral L. Perez Guitano and Captain W. Searle, members of Chile’s naval commission, arrived aboard the Bruval Mail packet Atrato. They are to stay six weeks visiting the Brooklyn navy yard and New York as they study world navies, lodging at the Hotel Astor with Consul General Ricardo Sanchez-Cruz hosting briefings.
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Chilian Navy
Chilian Naval Commission
Chili
Atrato
L. Perez Guitano
W. Searle
Ricardo Sanchez-Cruz
America
New York
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Hotel Astor
Fashionable chemise with corset cover trim details
A simple yet shapely chemise serves as corset cover and petticoat, trimmed with banding and lace. It can be closed at front or back and shown in datiste with lace trimming, or finished with embroidery or a hem along the lower edge. Former patterns suggest versatile fabrics and finishing options.
Paternal Duty Debate at New York Kindergarten Meeting
Percival Chubb told the New York Public School Kindergarten Association that fathers must teach rhythm and folklore at home and warned against printed nursery rhymes and colored Sunday supplements. He urged mothers to read The Pilgrim's Progress to children and criticized ads for whiskey and lax morals in high schools.
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Banbury Cross
Percival Chubb
New York Public School Kindergarten Association
Normal College
Mr. Chubb
Germany
Archdeacon Sinclairs Servant Management Quits Trouble Free
In England Archdeacon Sin clair boasts no trouble keeping servants by not meddling, writing tasks on a slate each morning and letting staff work freely. London trends show mascots and charms, from tiny motor cars on watch chains to Daisy Tops tokens and pollywogs, while fashion-minded men barely change styles, yet small shifts alarm some observers about social manners.
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London
Normal College Exhibits Kinder Garten Art Work
An exhibition of kindergarten training class art opened yesterday in Normal College drawing room and will stay on view the rest of the week. It features free brush work tree studies simple landscapes and block printing among other pieces. The display aims to reflect the child spirit with emphasis on free imaginative expression throughout the two-year course in fine arts.
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Normal College
Wells College Commencement Exercises Held at Aurora
Wells College opened commencement with a baccalaureate service at the Presbyterian Church in Aurora attended by Mrs. Grover Cleveland. Rev. Dr. Jonah Strong preached on Consecration to God Is Service to Man. The Glee and Mandolin clubs presented a concert and the senior class staged As You Like It on the grounds. Ivy planting, alumni sessions, and tributes to Professor Mary Case followed, with gifts totaling to the endowment and new officers named. The commencement continues with oration by Rev. Samuel A. Eliot and BA degrees awarded to thirty graduates.
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the Tribune
Aurora
Wells College
Presbyterian Church of
Grover Cleveland
Jonah Strong
New York City
God
Music Hall
Dorothy Carson
Rochester
Jacques
Helen Hardee
Toledo
Rosalind
Bess Parrish
Paris
Orlando
Mary Case
E. S. Carpenter
Minneapolis
Miss Case
William Hardee
Osgood W. Tracy
Syracuse
William W. Keifer
Springfield
Ohio
WY. Tracy
Ross Parrish
Paris, IL
Katharine Sherman
Watertown
N. Y
Eastern Association of Wells College
Ann Herendeen
Pearl W. Barnes
Friends of the College
Thomas M Osborne
Auburn
Summer school in the country by an English vicar
The Rev Mark Napier Trellope of St Saviour's Poplar opens an outdoor summer program at Berghersh Hall near Ipswich. About 150 girls from St Saviour's School spend a month in groups of forty to learn trees, flowers, bees, and farm work, aiming to imbue town children with country life appreciation.
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England
America
London County Council
Mark Napier Trellope
S1 Saviour’s
Poplar
Trellope
Ipswich
Berghersh Hall
Fashion goods and accessories cost range from low to luxury
The shop listing details a wide array of items with prices: ribbon with pink poppies at 295 per yard for sashes and trims, capes from 12, lingerie on sale with dresses at 1, and flowered silks at 3.45. Also notes white muslin curtains 1.50 a pair, antique rings from 3 to 59, and black satin coats from 15. The tone suggests a bustling window of mid century fashion bargains and fine wares.
Remarkable tribute from the Boston Transcript
A notable feature in the Boston Transcript honors literary and cultural figures with a thoughtful tribute. The piece underscores the publication’s role in shaping public taste and preserving regional literary memory through reflective commentary and selections.
The White Mice for Week End Trip
Readers craving brisk, vivid storytelling will enjoy The White Mice for the week end trip. The recommendation targets fans of swashbuckling adventure and fast paced romance, promising sharp prose and tense momentum.
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Three Musketeers
Anthony Hope
Marion Crawford
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Boston Railroad Holding Company
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Ciety
Y& ER
Buffalo
Denver Gas
Standard Vegas
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Jackson Gas
St Paul
Syra Lt & P
New-York Tribune
Mother Goose
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Boston Transcript
Richard Harding Davis
Charles Scribner’s Sons
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