President vindicated by miners agreement
Washington June 17 Secretary Cortelyou described the Scranton meeting between miners and operators led by John Mitchell and President Baer as a fitting result of Roosevelt’s earlier mediation. The settlement is hailed as proof of peaceful arbitration, confirming the president’s policy and preventing a repeat of last year’s coal crisis.
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Scranton
John Mitchell
Baer
Roosevelt
New York
Ohio
Mr. Roosevelt
Mitchell
United States
White House
Cornell University Reconfigures Site and Grants Land
At Cornell University board meeting in Ithaca on June 17, the Rockefeller Hall of Physics site was rescinded and a 25 acre campus playground with 30 acres of east land for an athletic field was approved. New appointments were made, resignations accepted, and Carnegie funded a city water filtration plant after a typhoid outbreak. The board noted a push for men’s residential halls, discussed forestry policy, expanded the campus by 170 acres, and delayed building due to material costs. Commencement is scheduled for tomorrow.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Board of Trustees
Cornell University
Rockefeller Hall
Lincoln Hall
Thomas F. Hunt
John Craig
Andrew Carnegie
State Department of Health
Schurman
University
Carnegie
Cornell
Sage College
Odell
College of Forestry
Adirondacks
Europe
America
United States
New York State College of Forestry
Earene
Cornellniversity
A. C. Barnes
F.C. Cornell
W. H
R. B. Williams
Boy's arm saved after graft from donor worker
Willie Neubarth of The Bronx suffered a severe arm crush when struck by a train at 149th Street and Robbins Avenue. Doctors at Lebanon Hospital grafted skin from his donor Gustave Voelkel to save the limb, a successful procedure after initial fears of amputation. Richfield Springs sleeper advertisement follows.
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Willie Neubarth
Brooksave
Bronx
East
Two Million Wasted in Dock Board Probe
Assistant District Attorney Marshall B. Clarke opened John Doe inquiry into Charles F. Murphy and associates of Tammany Dock Board under the Van Wyck era. Possible misdemeanor or conspiracy indictments discussed amid claims of undervalued pier leases and planned losses to the city, with witnesses named Bouker and Chenoweth.
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Marshall B. Clarke
John Doe
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany Halli
Sergeant Cram
Tammany General Committee
Peter F. Meyer
Richard Croker
Tammany Dock Board
van Wyck
Dock Board
Jerome
Dock Department
Murphy
Hawkes
Clarke
John A. Bouker
Bouker Contracting Company
No. 24
State St
A. C. Chenoweth
No. 7
East
Thirty-first-st
Bouker
Chenoweth
Mr. Clarke
Old Dock Board
Sinking Fund Commission
Dumping Board
Brown & Fleming
the Tribune
Murphy, Cram and Meyer
Old Board
Tammany
Murphy Board
Canal St
Joseph Egan
Egan
Twenty-ninth St
Thirtieth St
Independent
SIS
Thirty-ninth St
Michael J. Egan
Forty-third-st
Bristow Sustains Tulloch In Washington Post Office
Postmaster General Payne released Bristow’s reply to Seymour W. Tulloch’s charges about irregularities at the Washington City post office. Inspectors’ June 30, 1899 to July 31, 1900 report cites direct orders for questionable payments, illegal appointments, two salaries for one person, and disbursements with little or no service.
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Payne
Bristow
Seymour W. Tulloch
Washington City Post Office
Payne Defends 1900 Postal Inquiry Findings
Postmaster General Payne issues an official statement defending the 1900 confidential postal investigation. He notes that Smith conducted the inquiry, charges arose from wartime mail needs, and expenditures were largely justified by military postal service needs. The release aims to give public understanding and promises further action if warranted.
Bristow Reply Evidences Postoffice Abuses in Washington
Washington June 17 Bristow reply to Tulloch charges supports Tulloch allegations and shows Heath in a bad light. It cites Inspector Smith and Litte reports revealing irregularities and questions appointments and pay drawn by several clerks. The notice notes a shift to current conditions under presidential orders and ends past abuse discussions. A map advertisement follows noting Manchuria map by New York Central published at Windivostock.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Bristow
Tulloch
Seymour W. Tulloch
Perry S. Heath
Washington Postoffice
Postoffice Department
Heath
Smith
Roosevelt
Post Office Department
Litte
Edward S. Allen
H. A. Cummings
Beavers
D. M. Monroe
Frank E. Murray
Metcalf Dismissed Over Money Order Bid Controversy
Washington June 17 1993 Postmaster General Payne removed James T Metcalf longtime superintendent of the money order system citing serious but non legal indiscretion in contracting for money order forms He favored the Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford firm over the lowest bidder Paul Herman of Rutherford N J whose bid was 45000 lower Metcalf employed by the Wynkoop firm through his son was found to have advised Herman to withdraw and to join the Wynkoop bid A full investigation will follow and President Roosevelt was consulted before the dismissal was announced
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Washington
James T. Metcalf
Postoffice Department
Metcalf
Paul Herman
Rutherford
N. J
Wynkoop-Hallenbeck-Crawford Company
New York
Mr. Metcalf
Payne
Bristow
Robb
Herman
Wynkoop-Hallenteck- Crawford Company
Wynkoop-Hallenbeck-Crawford
Fosnes
Messrs
Sinstow
Wynne
Roosevelt
Menate
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Miners’ Association
Pocono Mountain
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Delaware Veater Gap
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Cornell Hall
Typhoid and Forestry School
Father
Richfield Springs
Piers
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New York Contracting and Trucking Company
Seventy-ninth St
North River
Irving National Bank
Warren and
Greenwich Streets
Washington Post Office
Perry
S. Heath
MR. Payne
McKinley
Treasury
Congress
Porto Rico
Cuba
Department
Tar
MR. Bristow
Larner
Manchuria
Wlndivostock
New York Central
G. H. Daniels
G. P. A. New York
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Payne Removes Him
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