Stock Exchange committees weighing White report reforms
The New York Stock Exchange governing committee will, at its next meeting before summer recess, form a special group to study Wall Street reform recommendations from the White committee. Traders discuss margins, branch offices, and supervision, with several firms praising stricter scrutiny while endorsing current margin levels and branch operations for convenience.
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The
Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Thomas
Greek Exchange
Europe
Ernest Groesbeck
Hughes
New York Stock Exchange
C. D. Barney & CO
Henry “Lews
Huches St
Ack Exchange Commission
Edward Sweet & CO
New York City
Arthur Lipper
Arthur
Badeau
Consolidated Stock Exchange
Violace White Committee
Exchange
United States
Commission Houses
Welding Ring
Produce Exchange
White Committee
F. G. Urner
Mercantile Exchange
Thasis
Dunkek
Urner
Metal Exchange
Prisoner’s record saves him in Tombs court
David Gre Minor, a Russian clerk of 1721 Madison Ave, testified he could not have aided in a theft on June 4 because he was in jail until June 6. The court released him upon this evidence. George Taylor, an errand boy for Siegel Moss tails, found a pocketbook on West 1th Street June 4 and a scarf pin in it. Two men approached him to pawn the pin. They claimed the pin was worthless and Gre was arrested as one of two who had obtained the clothing by another’s order.
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Crane
Tob
David Gre Minor
Madison Avenue
George Taylor
Siegel@ Moss
Fifth Avenue
West
Grebeen
Coler Borough President Inquiry To Begin Before July 3
Commissioner of Accounts John Purroy Mitchel announced a public inquiry into Borough President Coler's administration will start before July 3. Topics include Coler's alleged connection with the Medina Quarry Company and other matters from the recent talk with Mayor McClellan.
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Coler
John Purroy Mitchel
McClellan
Brooklyn
Medina Quarry Company
Richards Considered for Richmond Borough Presidency Race
Eugene Lamb Richards Jr, counsel to Mayor McClellan in recount litigation, has been urged by leading Democrats in Richmond to seek the Borough President nomination. Republicans likely to renominate Cromwell, in his third term, while the Mayor’s veto of a 1009 dollar Sea View hospital appropriation shapes political debate as the debt limit and Court of Appeals rulings delay action until fall. Richards says he may run only if pressured and cannot afford to enter politics, citing salary and time demands of the office. The debt limit decision is expected by the month’s end.
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Eugene Lamb Richards, Jr
McClellan
Richmond
Cromwell
Friends of Borough
Sea View
Richards
Friends
Tribune
City Hall
Court of Appeals
Statewide drive to enact direct primary law in New York
Albany reports a plan for a state wide campaign to enact direct nomination legislation. Ex Judge Wadhams heads the Direct Primary Association of New York with aims to organize county leagues and gain Assembly support. Governor Hughes favors direct nominations, urging party voters have direct influence to ensure reform.
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Albany
Hughes
Direct
New York
Hotel Ten Eyck
William H. Wadhams
Association
Darwin R. James
Brooklyn
Merwin K. Hart
Utica
William H. Clark
Cortland
Pliny T. Sexton
Palmyra
Fred R. Hazard
Syracuse
James Talcot
Oscar S. Straus
Turkey
Commerce and Labor
Wadhams
Judge Wadhams
Tammany Hall
The Hundred Meet Today Organize Subcommittees
Winfred T. Denison said the Committee of One Hundred would meet at No. 82 Beaver Street to organize and appoint subcommittees. They aim to start campaign work early through the vacation period. Acting Chairman Gustav H. Schwab may not remain, with a successor to be chosen soon. Notable omissions include Charles Brown of Douglas Robinson & Co. and RB. Ayomar Landas from the larger committee.
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Winfred T. Denison
Committee of One Hundred
Beaver Street
Douglas Robinson & Co
Ayomar Landas
Republican Club
Parsons
Republican County Committee
Hearst face bill to pay mayor's recount costs
Corporation Counsel Pendleton considers suing William Hearst to recover court awarded costs for Mayor McClellan's recount. Controller paid the mayor 8576.44 after the Supreme Court ordered reimbursement, citing the court order as authority without vouchers.
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Corporation
Pendleton
William R. Hearst
Supreme Court
MrClellan
The
Tribune
Hearst
Mr. Hearst
Medellan
Eugene L. Richards, Jr
G. D. B. Hasbrouck
Parker, Hatch & Sheehan
Dykman & Carr
Ahearn Election Validity To Be Decided
Albany June 17 The Court of Appeals will hear whether John F Ahearn can legally be elected President of the Borough of Manhattan by the Board of Aldermen after removal by Governor Hughes The appeal follows a lower court ruling in a quo warranto case by the Attorney General challenging Ahearns ouster and succession by self election
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Albany
Court of Appeals
John F. Ahearn
Borough of
Manhattan
Board of Aldermen of
New York
Hughes
Ahearn
Appellate Division
Justice McCail
Supreme Court
Board of Aldermen
Tamany Hall's Big Five Form City Convention Panel
Thomas F. McAvoy named a five member arrangements committee for the city convention. The group includes Charles F. Murphy Daniel F. Cohalan J Sergeant Cram Eugene McGuire and Michael Garvin. It signals a practical Tammany conference panel amid ongoing party maneuvering.
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Thomas F. McAvoy
Tammany
Charles F. Murphy
Daniel F. Cohalan
J. Sergeant Cram
Eugene McGuire
Michael Garvin
McCarren
Tammany Hall
Murphy
Isaac A. Hopper
Cooper Union
Republicans to Play Baseball at Madison Square Club
The 2th Assembly District Madison Square Republican Club plans a Saturday event at the Phenix Hotel and Park New Dorp Staten Island featuring a baseball game between teams from the 2th and 27th districts. Herbert Parsons will prize the winning team and spectators will see feats of strength and a women’s baseball throwing contest.
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Madison Square Republican Club
Phenix
New Dorp
Staten Island
Herbert Parsons
Coia
Committee to Make Primary Call
President Herbert Parsons of the Republican County Committee led a brief monthly meeting at Murray Hill Lyceum. Moses McKee moved that since the meeting was the last before September reorganization, the executive committee should issue the primary call as new law requires primaries in municipal elections to be called six weeks before election day.
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Herbert Parsons
Republican County Committee
Murray Hill Lyceum
Moses McKee
Regents Appointments: New York Examiners Reappointed
Albany June 17 Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York named reappointments to professional examiners. Medical Examiners include Dr William S Ely Rochester whose term expires July 41 and Dr William M Park New York with Dr Willis G Macdonald Albany. Dental Examiners William C Deane New York and A M Wright Troy each for four years from August 1 1909. Nurse Examiners Lena Lightbourn Syracuse reappointed for five years from August 1 1909. Certified Public Accountants Henry A Niles and Homer A Dunn New York reappointed one year from August 1. Optometry Herbert Co Watts Syracuse and Frank B Marchant Brooklyn reappointed three years from July 1 1999.
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Albany
Board of Regents of
University of the State of New York
State Board of Medical Examiners
Willian S Ely
Rochester
William M. Park
New York
Willis G. Macdonald
State Board of Dental Examiners
William C. Deane
A. M Wright
Troy
State Board of Nurse Examiners
Lena Lightbourn
Syracuse
State Board of Examiners of Certified Public Accountants
Henry A Niles
Homer A. Dunn
State Board of Examiners In Optometry
Herbert Co. Watts
Frank B. Marchant
Brooklyn
State to require immediate reporting of tuberculosis cases
Albany reports Dr. Eugene H. Porter, State Commissioner of Health, will enforce a new law mandating rapid reporting of all tuberculosis cases by physicians to local health officers within twenty four hours of discovery. Records must include name, age, sex, color, occupation, last workplace, and address. noncompliance is a misdemeanor with fines up to four dollars.
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Tribun
Albany
Eugene H. Porter
Porter
State Department
New York City
New York
Death in East River Tells of Missing Picture Frame Man
Emil Lange, 52, a West 11th Street picture frame maker, was found dead in the East River near Market Street after several days in the water. His brother in law, Emil J Villenyi, a Wall Street lawyer, believes foul play ended Lange’s life as Lange carried at least $25 and a gold hunting case watch on disappearance, which were not found with the body. Lange had been in business on 36th Street for 25 years and vanished after a Second Avenue business errand.
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Emil Lange
West 11Th Street
West 111Th Street
East River
Market Street
Emil J. Villenyi
No 49
Wall Street
Lange
Mr. Villangs
Second Avenue
43D Street
Chloroform Death in Chicago Doctor’s Wife
Chicago reports that external chloroform caused the death of Nora Jane Cleminson on May 31. Coroner Hoffman disclosed chemical analysis shows no internal ingestion and notes difficulty of self-administered by external use. Dr Haldane Cleminson, arrested, claims accidental poisoning. inquest to resume tomorrow.
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Chicago
Nora Jane Cleminson
Haldane Cleminson
Hoffman
Cleminson
Home honors Wrights at Dayton for first flights celebration
Dayton townspeople honor Orville and Wilbur Wright with parades speeches and displays. The brothers tour the city work in their aeroplane shop, pack parts for shipment to Washington, and attend a public reception. A gold medal from Congress is to be presented tomorrow as plans for government flights in Washington and a return to Germany are noted.
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Dayton
Ohio
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Wright Brothers
Wrights
Wilbur
Milton Wright
Katherine Wright
Reuchlin Wright
Tongonoxie
Kan
Loren Wright
Washington
Hawthorne Street
Huffman's Prairie
le Mans
France
James Allen
Lahm
Signal Corps
Congress
Judson Harmon
Burkhart
Carlos Gracia Velez
Germany
Fuller Reprimanded After Court of Special Sessions Find
William M. Fuller acting clerk of the Court of Special Sessions was found guilty last night of neglect of duty for permitting vouchers to be paid by the city but the charges were dismissed with a reprimand since he did not profit. Two justices backed promoting him to chief clerk though others blocked it, leaving him as acting chief clerk. The executive meeting ran about three hours after starting at 6. Fuller’s attorney was George Gordon Battle and he was informed of the findings after the session.
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William M. Fuller
Court of Special Sessions
Fuller
George Gordon Battle
Feared Runaway Fatalities In Coal Centre Incident
Mrs Augustine Polit, weighing three hundred pounds, died this morning after a runaway buggy overturned near Coal Centre, twenty miles from Pittsburg. Dr E W Eagleson, her physician, was badly injured and may die. he had been driving when the horse ran away, tipping the buggy and trampling both passengers. Mrs Pott, wife of a wealthy farmer, had avoided riding in a buggy for years due to fear of runaways.
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Pittsburg
Augustine Polit
E. W. Eagleson
Coal Centre
Bound Woman Robbed by Stranger at Brooklyn Home
Mrs Estelle Webb, wife of W Franklin Webb a typewriter salesman, awoke to a man armed with a pistol in her Brooklyn apartment at No 456 14th Street near Prospect Park. He bound her, took a few jewelry items and a typewriter, then fled. Police arrested Henry Merlanger of No 193 15th Street Brooklyn, who confessed to the robbery.
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Estelle Webb
W. Franklin Webb
14Th Street
Prospect Park
Brooklyn
15Th Street
Ninth Avenue
Manhattan
Inspections of military colleges finalize. distinguished schools named
The annual inspection by four General Staff officers concludes on military colleges, highlighting uniform study standards and naming several institutions as distinguished for high military training. Promotions, retirements, and detachments across Army, Marine Corps, and Navy are noted, with ship movements reported to Navy Department.
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Washington
New York State
General Staff
Army
J. A. Penn
Ith Infantry
M J. Lennihan
Peter Harris
4Th Infantry
P. 5. Lechridge
13Th Cavalry
Lieut Grant to be Mr Taft's aid
Washington June 77 Captain John H Poole corps of engineers relieved from duty as superintendent of the State War and Navy Department Building and as a military aid to the President Lieutenant US Grant grandson of President Grant now on duty at Boston will probably succeed him Cap
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ARMY
Milton F. Davis
Fudge
Richard W. Johnson
Daniel H. Boughton
Cavalry
George W. Goode
Milton F Day
Charles Walcott
Sth
William F. Hale
Coast Artillery
Coast Artillery Board
Eustis
Fort Monroe
Claudius M. Seaman
John H. Poole
Corps of Engineers
Army School of the Hne
Fort Leavenworth
William E Hunt
New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Henry L. Harris
Sa Feld Artillery
Donald Miner
Medical Reserve Corps
United States
Pickens E Woodson
Sth Infantry
Hornspy Evans
Ith Infantry
Camp Perry
Ewart R Wilson
Th Infantry
Marine Corps
H. D South
Naval Academy
Cincinnati
E. A. Ostermann
Marine Barracks
Naval Prison
Navy
H. C. Reisinger
Permissin
Navy Department
Ial Corps
Washington
State, War and Navy Department
U. S&s
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Kahler
P. Kahler & Sons
Special Sessions
the Tribune
Misses’, Youths’ & Children’s Knit
Cincinnati, Ohio
West Shore R. R
New York Central
Los Angeles
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ST. Paul, Minn
Denver, Col
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L. F. Vosburgh
Madison
America
Army and Navy Notes
Hist
Key West
Olympia
Hartford
Tonopah
Gardiner’s Bay
Lebanon
Maine
Portsmouth
N. H
Hampton Roads
Hero
Charleston
Eagle
Anapolis
Vicksburg
San Francisco
Acapulco
Lieut. Grant
MR. Taft
Pacific Northwest
Via
Union Pacific
Portland
Davis
J. & Defriest
G. E A. Broadway
Nsw
F. Chauveret
H P. Finlay
Tain Poole
Army School of the Line
Fort Leaveningworth
Kansas
Seaton Schroeder
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Schroeder
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Barre
Spaines
Buca
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