Many hundreds saved after steamer fire near La Crosse
The excursion steamer J. S. burned near La Crosse Wisconsin on Saturday night. Only three lives were lost though hundreds escaped by landing on Bad Axe Island and in Lansing Iowa. A locked passenger John Plane died in the brig during the panic. Rescue work and orderly evacuation were praised. the cause may have been a cigarette stub under a stairway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Randall
New Albion
Iowa
John Plane
Waukon
Bad Axe Island
la Crosse
Wad Axe Island
Lansing
Acme Packet Company
U. S
Money for Irish park at risk in Bronx Wakefield sale
A mass meeting at Carnegie Hall led by the Irish Counties Artistic Union raised funds to protect the athletic park in Wakefield, Bronx from sale to a land development company. Justice Morgan J. O'Brien presided as about four hundred attendees heard appeals for support. Archbishop Farley contributed to a $4,000 collection, with speakers including McAdoo and John T. McDonough. A concert aria and collection followed the address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie Hall
Te Irish Counties Artistic Union
Wakefield
Bronx
Morgan J. O’brien
Justice O’brien
Athletic
New York
Archbishop Farley
McAdoo
John T. McDonough
Andrew Mack
Margaret Keating
Thomas P. White
Cigarette Fire Causes Panic at Williamsburg Dance
A cigarette tossed from a dance hall window in Williamsburg ignited an awning over a cigar stove at Andrew Gienta’s ground floor premises on Grand and Havemeyer streets. The resulting panic sent women rushing to dressing rooms and downstairs, until Patrolman Smith halted the chaos. Firefighters extinguished the blaze with no further damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand
Havemeyer
Williamsburg
Andrew Gienta
Smith
Fire scatters workers from West 4th Street shops
A blaze at the Straw Hat shop on the second floor of an eight story building sent nearly 200 tailors fleeing through stairs and fire escapes on 4th Street. Police and firefighters evacuated workers from Nos. 15 and 19 West 4th and 267 Mercer, with several men sliding to a nearby roof after using an electric freight elevator. The blaze, confined to the hat shop, caused about 1000 dollars in damage. four tailors sustained burn-like injuries while aiding others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West 4Th Street
Mercer Street
Tenny, Hills & Hall
Taylor
Hadlick and
O'Connor
Morris Leproc
Morris Fink
Abraham Evens
Benjamin Bernstein
A. David & Sons
Leitzig & Rosenberg
Phi Beta Kappa to Meet at Harvard This Week
Phi Beta Kappa exercises at Harvard will complete elections adding about a thousand names to the roster. A reunion and dinner follow commencement with ex President Roosevelt and Governor Hughes to attend. Taft is the sixth president from PBK. his son Robert was last year’s undergraduate president. The tenth triennial council meets September 13 14 in this city with PBK Alumni entertaining delegates at the Savoy on September 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard
Phi Beta Kappa
Roosevelt
Hughes
New York
Taft
United States
Robert A. Taft
Savoy
Bigamy case mix up leads to parole and court tension
Magistrate Connolly released a man on bigamy allegations after a Queens Borough hearing. Complainant Matilda Evans accuses David J. Evans of multiple marriages since 1902 and failing alimony. The judge ordered a Tuesday session with both spouses and a friend, signaling suspected extortion and blackmail amid pending divorce actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connerly
Queens Borough
Matilda Evans
11Th Street
Brooklyn
David J. Evans
Jamaica Avenue
Richmond Hill
Queens
Schenectady
Evans
Minnie Emma Tracey
Utica
Annie Lawnson
Barb
McCarthy
Connolly
Sigismund Stern
West Fiftysixth Street
Cloakmakers Vote on General Strike at Madison Square Garden
A special executive committee meeting of the Brotherhood of Cloakmakers appointed a committee to set a date for a proposed general strike of 50 000 cloakmakers and to conduct secret ballots on strike versus no strike at the mass meeting and factories. President Rosenberg announced a bureau to organize Italian cloakmakers in the city with about ten thousand workers and rapid new member inflow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Brotherhood of Cloakmakers
Madison Square Garden
Rosenberg
International Women's Garment Workers
Steamer Captain Drowned In Cape Fear River
Captain Roy Smith aged thirty, master of the steamer City of Fayetteville, was drowned near Wilmington as a heavy wave knocked him from the cabin roof. His head struck the launch edge and the body was not recovered. He had commanded the Fayetteville for six years and was a prominent figure in local shipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
N. C
Roy Smith
City of Fayetteville
Fayetteville
Cape Fear River
Aitken Denounces Dismissal Over City Embezzlement
Peter Aitken former Collector of City Revenue and Superintendent of Markets accuses Controller William Prendergast of firing him to shield a $2000 embezzlement. He says the theft by a clerk was covered up for months and cites ongoing disputes with the Controller over contracts and payments. Deputy Controller Douglas Mathewson confirms the defalcation was investigated and a warrant sworn for the clerk’s arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Aitken
William A. Prendergast
Department of Finance
Aitken
Prendergast
Grout
Metz
Ninth Avenue Railroad
Mr. Aitken
Douglas Mathewson
Mathewson
Controller Prendergast
Wandering Son Returns After Four Years Missing
Joe Reynolds, missing for four years, returned to Old Greenwich Village and shared a first dinner with his mother. He wandered the West and South Pacific, suffered head injuries, and regained memory through a doctor and key names. He traveled via Sydney and Melbourne, aided by ex-officer Edward Roper who spent much of his funds helping his recovery. Reynolds, twenty two, studied philosophy at Columbia University before leaving New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe” Reynolds
Greenwich Avenue
Greenwich Village
Antipodes
Reynolds
Sydney
Australia
Ziegfield
South Pacific
Edward Roper
Gilbert Islands
South Pacific Ocean
Roper
Forbes
Joseph
Melbourne
New York
San Francisco
Columbia University
Hope
England
G. L. Gilham
Print Cloth Market Shows Slow Trade in Fall River
Quiet last week with total sales around eighty thousand pieces as buyers hesitated and mills held back. Wide goods showed more activity than narrow, with New York prices easing on several sizes while Southern mills attracted buyers. Outlook remains discouraging with several mills closing for a week starting July 2 and major plants idling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fall River
Mass
New York
Big American Printing Company
Algonquin Printing Company
Big Fall River Iron Works
GOAT EATS LIGHTED CIGAR AT BRONX ZOO INCI DENT
A lighted cigar dropped into a Bronx Park Zoo goat enclosure triggered a dramatic display by Billy a Rocky Mountain goat. He appeared to chew tobacco burn his fence post using it as a target and even clashed with another goat before calming down. Onlookers debated how long the cigar stayed lit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bronx Park Zoological Gardens
Billy
Rocky Mountain
Salome music delighted Central Park Sunday concert
Crowds gathered near the Mall band stand in Central Park to hear Nahan Franko's orchestra perform Salome as part of the Sunday concert. The weather drew many spectators despite a narrow passageway to the bandstand, and the audience applauded enthusiastically after the fantasia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Park
Nahan Franko
Mall
Franko
May Greatest Export Month in U S Manufactures
Washington reports May exports of manufactured goods set a record with a total value of 71,060,000 dollars. Eleven months ending May total 699,006,000 dollars, signaling June will push fiscal year 1910 past all previous totals. if June matches May, year exports would reach 770,404,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Dartmouth Baccalaureate Sermon Critiques New England Religion
Dartmouth College seniors heard Rev. Hugh Black of Union Theological Seminary deliver the baccalaureate in Hanover. He warned that New England religion mirrors Scotland, urging genuine thought over rote study and noting education is earned through ancestral sacrifice. He said minds should think beyond echoed words and not dull the conscience with mere intellectualism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover
N. H
Hugh Black
Union Theological Seminary
New York
Dartmouth College
New England
Scotland
Black
HARDSHIPS OF STEEL MEN AT BETHLEHEM WORKS
A report by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America outlines long hours low wages and injuries among Bethlehem Steel workers. It cites 4 72 percent on twelve hour days 28 percent seven days a week and 927 injuries with 21 deaths. recommendations include a six day week and eight hour day plus recognition of workers organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem Steel Works
Social Service Commission
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Charles Stelzle
Josiah Strong
Paul A. Kellogg
Bethlehem
Jacol Riis
Graham Taylor
John H. Glenn
Ernest H. Abbott
Charles R. Towson
Hutert ©.Herring
E. B. Sanford
Leighton Williams
John McDowell
J. H. Melish
Edwin D. Harb
William H. Morgan
Samuel Z. Batten
John B. Lennon
Charless. Macfarland
Arthur B. Pugh
John Williams
George C. Chase
Herbert Welch
Protestant Ministerial Association
Ministerial Association of Bethlehem
State moves to probe insurance promoters after July first
Albany announces a new law enabling the State Insurance Department to examine any New York formed or state offices engaged in promoting or funding insurance corporations. The department will inspect promoter schemes and urges citizens to report ongoing promotions to aid a thorough investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
William H. Hotchkiss
Hughes
State Insurance Department
New York
Insurance Department
Marine Intelligence Mini Almanac Snapshot
Marine intelligence notes provide a compact miniature almanac with daily sun rise and set times, moon rise, and the moon's age. The details list sunrise at 4 20, sunset at 7 34, moon rise 11 18, and the moon’s age as 21 days for the period.
Wireless reports on ships near Sandy Hook
Vessels including the Arabic the Finland the Philadelphia the Ryndam the Carpathia and the Kaiser Wilhelm II were reported about 600 to 1,170 miles east of Sandy Hook yesterday. Most were expected to dock this forenoon or Tuesday forenoon, with times ranging from 8 am to 2:15 pm yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandy Hook
Finland
Sandy Nook
Philadelphia
Ryndam
Carpathia
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Unclear Vessel Movements From 19th Century Logs
Fragmented ship and port movements list various vessels with origins and destinations including Philadelphia Kingston Kingston June dates and several lines such as Luckenbach and White Star. The text is garbled with incomplete place names and dates, lacking coherent narrative or verifiable events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fromary
Philadelphia
Southampton
American Sams
Kingston
Ham-Am
Uracao
Pete Luckenbach
Juan
Insular
Ran Juan
Vyapr
Liverpool
White Star Doreths
St Lucia
Wells City
Swansea
Bristol Elokta
Buelva
Maritime schedule notes and shoe ads in city paper
A cluttered page lists ships and routes with June dates from Antwerp to Napoli, Halifax to Havana, and Galveston to Savannah, plus several ocean liner names. It also promotes Oxford shoes, tropical mohair suits, and English cravennetted fabrics from a Warren Street store, emphasizing leather quality and customer service.
Shipping News Summary of Steamer Arrivals and Movements
Shipping notices list arrivals at the bar and quarantine departures for steamers including Milton Philadelphia bound with chalk to Elwell and Co, Harvard Boston with passengers, Ocmulgee Brunswick with cargo, Zafra Huelva ore, Prins Willem VI Dutch with 11 passengers, Seminole Santo Domingo to Clyde, and other steamers sailing from Sandy Hook and Liverpool to ports like New York, Antwerp, and Havana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton
Fowey
Philadelphia
James W Elwell & Co
The
Bar
Princess Anne
Newport News
Norfolk
Old Dominions Co
Harvard
Boston
Metropolitan Ss Co
Moise
Delaware
Clyde Ss Co
City of Everett
Philip Ruprecht
Sandy Hook
Ocmulgee
Brunswick
Brunswick Ss Co
Mdise
Ashfield
Bri
Fort Spain
Guanaco
Zafra
Huelva
Bowring & Co
Anglo-Bolivian
Baltimore
Norton & Son
Mossen
Australia
Monterey
Tampico
Nassau
New York and Cuba
Apache
Jacksonville
Charleston
Clyde
Prins Willem VI
Paramaribo
Demerara
Trinidad
Cumana
Guanta
la Guayra
Puerto Cabello
Curacao
Jacmel
Aux Cayes
Jeremie
Port Au Prince
St Marc
Royal Dutch West India Mall
Seminole
Santo Domingo City
Macorig
Sanchez
Samana
Puerto Plata
Turk’s Island
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mass Meeting
of Counties Athletic Union
New-York Tribune
Blaze
Union
South Sea Island
Stevenson
Copeland
Joe’ Reynolds
Tidbit
Bronx Park Gardens
Salome
Dartmouth
Federal Council of Churches
Marine Intelligence
Governor's Island
Hell Gate
James McCreery & Co
23Rd Street
54Th Street
Antilia
Themisto Seneca
Cretic
America
Niagara
Momus
el Siglo
Kaiser Wii
Coppename
A Wilhelm Carpathia
Konigin Luise
Argentina
Catalone
Santiago
Ward -Patras
Havana
Ward
Naples
White Star Napies
Fabre Havre
New Orleans
So Pac
Savannah
Galveston
So Pac Esday
Antwerp
Rotterdam
Holl-Am -Bremen
NG A -Trinidad
Hamb-Am
London
Ad Trans
Gibraltar
Cunard -Bremen
Lloyd
Austrian -Huelva
Parima
St Thomas
Quebec
Saratoga
Lincoln
Ham-Am ‘Trocas
Portland
el Dia
Mallory
Marowijne
Sav
Adriatic
Lusitania
Cunard
Debra
Montevideo
Barber
Korona
Barbados
Blucher
Hamburg
Hamb
Oceania
Aust
Venezia
Fabre
Yumart
Manzanillo
Alamo
Tampa
Algonquin
Colorado
Transpacific
N. S
Guam
Philippine Islands
Japan
Corea
China
Seattle
Wom Mare
Vancouver
Hawaii
Sierra
Philipine Islands
Ehurfia
Rocers Peer & Company
Broadway
Warren St
Shipping News
Port of New York
Bohemian
Queen Amelia
Talcahuano
Herminius
Maracaibo
Ponce
San Juan
Sao Paulo
Braz
Para
Chesapeake
Jamestown
Dover
Lapland
Belg
Celtic
Queenstown
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Cleveland
Ger
Batavia
Genoa
Lizard
Hammee
Minneapolis
Romeo
Viewnese
Ambert
Coanay
Leland
Cissle
Knigkerbogker
Amy Cost
Arcadians
Henry Miller
Aaron
Jardin
Paris
Ziegfeld
JRS
Follies
Anna
Williams
Reno
Jeffries-Johnson
Louis Mann
Fras Casino
Marie
E ‘Mika
DO Ressler On
Hammerstein
Keith & Procter
BIW
Mile
Polaire
Russell Bros
Adie
I. S
Astor
Coney Eslands
Coney Island’s Great White Way
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