Illinois Central Buys Central of Georgia Railway
The deal transfers control of Central of Georgia to Illinois Central after years of Harriman influence. Cromwell and Castles acted for Harriman to sell for 0 a share totaling about £3,990,000. The purchase widens Cairo connections via two Ocean Steamship lines and triggers broad debate on Wall Street practices and regulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Hanson
Central of Georgia Railway Company
Illinois Central Railroad Company
E. H. Harriman
Illinois Central
Ilinois Central
J. T. Harahan
West
Central of Georgia
Birmingham
Ala
Atlantic
Omen
Georgia Line
William Nelson Cromwell
John W. Castles
Oakleigh Thorne
Marsden J. Perry
Richmond Terminal Reorganization Committee
Harriman
Thorne
Perry
The
Cromwell
Castles
R. 5. Lovett
Union Pacific
Harriman Lines
Georgia
William Garrard
Supreme Court
Savannah
Central and
Manhattan Trust Companies
New York
Sevenneah
Boston
Ocean Steamship Company
Army and Navy Orders From The Tribune Bureau
Washington June 16 orders issued list Army officers reassigned to forts and duties including Macomb Connolly Malone Jones Butts Sigerfees Winston Helmick Richardson Merril Caldwell Davis Pond Duncan McCormack Burt and others Navy movements and ship movements many vessels listed along with ration and duty details moving to various stations and ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Augustus C. Macomb
9Th Cavalry
Fort Sheridan
Patrick A. Connolly
26Th Infantry
Fort Wayne
Paul B. Malone
27Th Infantry
Samuel G. Jones
11Th Cavalry
Fort Leavenworth
Governor's Island
Edmund L. Butts
3D Infantry
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
Edward Sigerfees
Sth Infantry
Edward T
Camp Douglas
Thomas Duncan
Coast Artillery
Fort McDowell
Samuel V. M'Claure
Harvard School
Tos Anarer
Abraham 1 Loer
Sth
Orcer
Presidio of
San Francisco
Willard H McOrmack
Fth Cavalry
Reynolds J. Burt
9Th Infantry
Turnstiles Defended by Brooklyn Rapid Transit Plan
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company announces turnstiles will be installed on the mezzanine of the Brooklyn Bridge Manhattan terminal. If faulty, Public Service Commissioners can order changes, but the Bridge Commissioner permits installation. The system has worked well at Delancey Street, with one wide Park Row entrance for non rush hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Brooklyn Bridge
Manhattan Terminal
Public Service Commissioners
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Delancey Street
Williamsburg Bridge
Park Row
Railroad Company
Bridge Department
Brooklyn
Calderwood
Five Hurt In Wreck At Chimney Rock Crossing
An eastbound trolley from Somerville to Bound Brook collided with a stone train on the Central Railroad of New Jersey branch at Chimney Rock crossing. Five passengers were seriously injured, including Mrs. Paul T. Barne, Mrs. J. Wall, and John J. Smart of South Bound Brook. The wreck occurred after the conductor had switched signals to clear the crossing, moments before the collision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Somerville
N. J
Public Service Corporation
Bound Brook
Chimney Rock Crossing
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Paul T. Barne
J. Wall
John J. Smart
South Board Brook
Somerset Hospital
C. Muldowney
Plainfield Theatre
Murphy
Plainfield
Joseph Campbell
J. J. Jones
New Brunswick
Campbell
Jones
Suez
James M. Trimble Dead in Montclair
James M. Trimble a prominent Essex County lawyer died Monday night in Montclair New Jersey aged sixty two The death message was kept secret to avoid marring his son Mary Weekes Trimble graduation at Princeton University Trimble had been a Democratic mayoral candidate for Montclair in 1906.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montclair
N. J
James M. Trimble
Essex County
Weekes Trimble
Princeton
Uni- Young
Trimbie
Rufus Trimble
Democratic Party
Mayor McClellan set to rule on Duffy case Saturday
Mayor McClellan returned to City Hall after four days at Princeton and noted Princeton's victory over Yale in baseball last Saturday. He examined witnesses in the Duffy case yesterday and said he expected to issue a decision on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClellan
Princeton
Yale
Tex
Duffy
Son of Congressman Faces Indeterminate Joliet Term
Danville Illinois June 16 A young man named George De Grace tells Judge Craig he is the son of Congressman George A. Pearce of Maryland. Convicted of burglary after robbing a clothing store he is sentenced to an indeterminate term at Joliet. He has wandered for years and stolen to buy food. The judge will seek Pearce's confirmation and may seek parole if the claim proves true.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
Craig
George A. Pearce
Maryland
Joliet
George de Grace
Anxiety Felt in Navy Yard Administration Change
Washington June 16 anxious reports say a secret board led by Rear Admirals Leutze and Swift with Captain Nicholson and Commander Page is pushing radical changes in navy yard regulations. Meyer faces criticism for missing naval constructors on the Leutze panel and hints point to restoring pre Newberry authority where the commandant holds yard control. A proposed design board could shift duties from construction to design amid ongoing Navy Department alarm over reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Leutze
Swift
Nicholson
Page
Washington Navy Yard
Navy
Sperry Board
Secretary of the Navy
Navy Yard
Meyer
Naval Constructors
Newberry
Leutze Board
Navy Department
Navy Regulations
Naval General Board
Three Submarine Boats Launched at Fore River Yard
Three United States Navy submarines were launched at Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy Massachusetts. The boats, Grayling Bonita and Snapper, form part of a seven submarine flotilla with trials near Provincetown under Lieutenant Julius C Townsend. The Bonito and Snapper resemble the Octopus. lengths speeds tubes vary by vessel and sponsors include Mrs Townsend Miss Bowles and Miss Nicoll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Mass
United States Navy
Fore River Shipbuilding Company
Provincetown
Julius C. Townsend
Fore River Works
J. ©. Townsend
Townsend
Katherine Bowles
FT. Bowles
Repairs on the Maine Finished
Portsmouth New Hampshire June 16 The battleship Maine first of sixteen in North Atlantic squadron to complete overhaul sailed at noon today for rendezvous off Norfolk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Choton
Navy Yard
New York
Tompkineville
Ajax
Bosarolina
Haffa
Ohio
North Carolina
Halfa
Alexandretta
Iris
Guam
Honolulu
Midway
Chester
Birmingham
Salem
Las Palmas
Punchal
Portsmouth
N. H
Maine
Norfolk
Against Lloyds Albany Opinion Grants Dept Supervisory Power
Albany June 16 Attorney General O Malley advised State Superintendent of Insurance William H Hotchkiss that a last Legislature amendment giving the department power to take possession of insurer property also grants supervision over Lloyds associations and underwriters The opinion answered fifteen questions about various associations many accused of violating the law and asserted the Superintendent can compel obedience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
O'Malley
William H. Hotchkiss
State Insurance Department
Lloyds
Insurance Department
Albany creates extraordinary Supreme Court term for tax cases
Albany announced that Governor has convened an extraordinary term of the Supreme Court in Erie County for July 12 to hear unpaid special franchise tax actions totaling about 41 million dollars. The new law shifts trials from referees to extraordinary terms and will handle proceedings by judicial district across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
O'Malley
Supreme Court
Erie County
the &Th
Nstead
Six Special Dinner Sets Mark June Sale At Discount Prices
A June sale offers American porcelain dinner sets at 10 and 22 dollars, Austrian sets at 16.50, French sets from 17.50 to 25, with four hundred decorated plates 25c to 1 dollar. Also Colonial mahogany candlesticks, brass candlesticks with prisms, lamp shades in cretonne and madras, plus English quaint furniture pieces in two gallery sections of the new building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madras
New Building
Six Grades of Upholstery Fabrics At Much Lower Price
Readable excerpt lists six fabric grades with substantial discounts, offering Jute Tapestries Silk Tapestries Cotton Tapestries Wool Tapestries Silk Damasks Silk Armores, and notes on furniture renovation options. Indicates Third Gallery, New Building.
Oriental Carpets Price Comparison Sale Listing
Comparison invites readers to price three grades of Oriental carpets. Listings include Persian Mahals Gorovans and KirmanSHahs with detailed dimensions and prices from 68 to 360 dollars. The note mentions a delayed arrival due to Persian insurrection and a by the mile sale of Axminster carpets in the Fourth Gallery of the new building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gorovans
Kirmanshahs
New Building
Will of Brooklyn man Hoffmann deferred by Surrogate
The will of Charles F. Hoff man of Brooklyn disposing of a multi million estate was deferred by Surrogate Ketchum. The bulk goes to Hoff man’s mother Caroline Hoffman with no reversion, she died after the will, and relatives contest the disposition. The matter now likely moves to the Supreme Court. Great Western Reorganization deposits on Chicago Great Western Railroad securities remain satisfactory as a proposed plan progresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Hoffman
Brooklyn
Ketchum
Supreme Court
Hoffman
Caroline Hoffman
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Sartember
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Georgia Central
Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange
Germany
Stock Exchange
LURE
City of
Exchange
Stork Exchange
Consolidated Stock Exchange
Produce Exchange Mining Department
Cotton Exchange
Mercantile Exchange
Metal Exchange
Horace White
Carlos A. Schieren
David Veventritt
Clark Williams
John B. Clark
Columbia
Willard V. King
Columbia Trust Company
Samuel H. Ordway
Edward D. Page
Faulkner, Page & Co
Charles Sprague Smith
People's Institute
Army and Navy
Winstow
W. Brauners Reuther
W. L. Irvine
J. D Macnair
W. P. Potter
Bureau of Navigation
DP. A. Wraver
mame = & BRYAN
Mississippi
Internston J. Polding
Fortune Medical Inter
A. C. H. Russell
F. W. F. Wierdr
Nevel
Canacao
Ansit
Paseed
G 6 Hathaway
Mare Island
T. J. Pright
Son
Congressman
Bonita, Snapper and
Grayling
Wanamaker New Building
Dhe Ff
Jounsey Fourer
Uini
Corrobum
America
Wanamaker
William Morrisy
Windsor
Newark
Hans Palatial
Zimmern
Den
Galierien
John Wanamaker
A. T. Stewart & Co
Broadway
Fourth Avenue
Eighth
Tenth Street
Great Western Reorganization
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