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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1907
Page
6
The city saw a late heat spike fall after 2 pm with a 69 to 80 degree rise followed by a cooling breeze from the west. Forecaster Emery warned of possible showers during a busy suburban handicap at Sheepshead Bay, while heat prostrations numbered six but were non fatal.
In Larchmont-on-Sound residents propose abolishing partisanship and nominating a single ticket with saved funds spent on dinners. The first dinner at the Larchmont Yacht Club cost about $1,000 and drew 100 prominent citizens from both parties. Guest of honor was Eustis L. Hopkins, newly elected without opposition.
Edward Payson Call served as toastmaster as Wesley M. Oler Richard OGorman George Ide Walter B. Manny William Murray and Hogman spoke praising Hopkins administration. Speakers lauded Larchmont as a year round home for business folk and denied gambling vice and graft. Hopkins received a loving cup despite toastmaster’s quip about a steam yacht.
Six golfers were injured by lightning during the Ohio golf tournament in Youngstown as rain began at 1 PM. Two lightning bolts at 3 PM struck C. B. Bradshaw of East Liverpool and his caddie Rev W H Hudmut and his caddie and two other players, leaving the first four unconscious until nightfall. the other two were not seriously hurt.
Fire Commissioner Lantry appointed forty seven new firemen the largest single addition since he took office. Phi Gamma Delta Club officers will be elected at 8 tonight at the Hotel Astor. Yale Forestry students planted thirty thousand white pines and three bushels of black walnuts at Winchester Arms Farm as part of silviculture under Professor Tourney. Annie Daneider eight, daughter of Jacob Daneider of 156 Cook Street Williamsburgh set fire to her clothing at a bonfire and lies at St Catherine's Hospital likely to die. Peter Busch of 227 Jefferson Street Hoboken died last night at Bellevue Hospital after an injury in a Pennsylvania Railroad excavation. A diamond pin valued at 175 was deposited as bail at West 10th Street Station for Charles E. McKay a chauffeur charged with speeding. McKay arrested at Fifth Street and West End Avenue.
Magistrate Arthur C. Butts led a bitter challenge to the use of summonses in New York magistrates courts saying they are illegal and abused. The full board, including Wahle and Crane, defended the practice as essential for minor offenses, while agreeing to study rules and discipline. The matter was referred to the committee on discipline and rules for report at the next regular meeting.
Charles D. Montague, a New York metallic furniture expert, testified before the Capitol Investigation Commission that the state overpaid for metallic furniture under a $2,004,000 contract with the Pennsylvania Construction Company. He said the vaults in the State Treasury could be bored through in four hours with an ordinary drill, the Capitol safes were worth far less than paid, and most features lacked chrome steel. Montague cited price lists showing large discrepancies between billed costs and estimated values for the first floor, entres, and sub-basement components.
Pittsburg suffers an extreme haze on a hot day with heavy clouds over the downtown area. The smoky atmosphere dims the sun and reveals visible sun spots, alarming some residents while scientists had been studying the phenomena for days.
In Richmond on June 19 Miss Copeland H Rowlett dressed in her wedding gown as guests gathered and the minister waited for a ceremony that never happened the bridegroom called to say he changed his mind with no excuse given
June 14 at Cincinnati, the Giants lose 3 to 2 to the Reds. Mathewson starts for New York, Huggins hits a first inning home run off his pitches, Giants tally runs in the sixth and ninth, with Cincinnati clinching on a Davis single and a Ganzel McLean sequence. Final line shows Reds 3, Giants 2.
St Louis Browns defeated the New York Yankees 9 to 0 at American League Park. Petty pitched well for St Louis, allowing only five hits while the Browns fielded flawlessly. Wallace and Hartsell starred with key hits as St Louis gained revenge after a prior loss.
St Louis turned the tables on Brooklyn to win 12 to 4 as Henley was knocked out in the fifth. Scanlon substituted and fared no better against the home batters. The box score lists key hits by Noonan Hummel Byrne Lumley and others with Karger and Henley pitching for respective sides.
Roger Bresnahan, catcher for the New York National League club, was reported in favorable condition at Seton Hospital after being struck by a pitched ball in Cincinnati yesterday. Doctors feared a blood clot but that danger appeared to pass, increasing optimism for an early return to the game.
At the opening of the Public Land Convention in Denver on June 19 Fred P. Johnson announced that the credentials work was hampered by indiscriminate delegate tickets and must be redone. The committee faced disputes over voting rights and accusations against Mark Woodruff. Debate followed on land policy including withdrawals of millions of acres for forest reserves coal leases and grazing lands with critics arguing government land policy oversteps constitutional bounds and amounts to a form of landlordism led by Roosevelt administration plans.
Philadelphia and Detroit played a baseball game with Philadelphia scoring zero runs and Detroit scoring five. The box score lists players Mullin Stevers and Schmidt for Detroit and Dvgert Schreck for Philadelphia. Umpires Evans and Stafford officiated the contest with line score references, though the text is garbled and lacks full context.
Jersey City defeated Toronto, and Providence beat Buffalo while Newark edged Rochester. Final scores: Buffalo 6, Newark 5. Rochester 6, Providence 1. Montreal 3, Baltimore blank. Toronto rain postponed Jersey City at Toronto. Standings show Toronto at 93, Newark 5, Rochester 2, Providence 1, Baltimore 2, Montreal 16.
Atlantic League results list shows games held at Reading Allentown Chester and Newark with scores and outcomes to be determined from game details. The brief item notes multiple venues in Pennsylvania and New Jersey without explicit team names or results.
Marie Goss proprietor of a boarding house at 1e West 74th street was assaulted in her home by a man she employed, Christopher Rogers. She was bruised and unable to attend court. Rogers, from the West Indies, faced $750 bail on two charges. a possible third was hinted by Assistant District Attorney Keogh. Magistrate Butts arraigned him. bond was sought at the maximum and forty-eight hours for bondman investigation requested.
Pittsburg councilman William A. Martin, serving a three year term for soliciting a bribe, testified in the Tube City Railroad trial that President Cameron offered $60,000 to push the ordinance through, with a later demand rising to $100,000 and finally settling at $70,000, Cameron promising to shield him from trouble.
The Drydock No. 3 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard sprang a leak after the battleship Connecticut moved in on Tuesday night. Government officials had long considered Brooklyn drydocks fragile due to quicksand and poor foundations, with Dock No. 4 abandoned for this reason. Officials warned Drydock No. 2 might also be retired, though they hope it endures the heavy docking demands of Admiral Evans’s fleet.
Philip Lahm, seventy-one, a retired real estate dealer of 61 East 108th Street, shot himself in Central Park near Fort Clinton after a long illness of cerebro spinal meningitis. His son Edward says the case was hopeless and the man, who recently faced financial worry, left a wife a son and a daughter.
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