Setback for Wellman airship shed wrecked in storm
Tromsoe June 27 The steamer Arc hie returns from Spitzbergen with news that Knud Johnson perished in the pack ice and the airship shed was destroyed by a heavy storm. The roof 70 by 215 feet was blown away and the building collapsed. Wellman plans a new stronger shed and orders timber while workmen depart for Spitzbergen. If summer voyage fails they will persist toward success with possible August weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tromsoe
Norway
Archie
Walter Wellman
North Pole
Spitzbergen
Knud Johnson
Wellman Camp
Johnson
Paul Bjoering
Bjoervig
Bjjeervig
Kjeervng
Mr. Wellman
Messrs
Wellman
Vaniman
Flor rie Sullivan Funeral Draws Thousands in East Side
Florence J. Sullivan known as Fiorrie Sullivan former Tammany leader in the 16th Assembly District, is mourned at a funeral at St Catherine of Siena Church. The Very Rev J R Meagher officiated. Politicians and Tammany adherents line the procession with floral tributes, pallbearers named, and 2500 mourners in mourning badges march in formation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Side
Florence J. Sullivan
Fiorrie’ Sullivan
Tammany
New York
Maloney
Christopher D. Sullivan
Max 8. Levine
Rosy Pers
Little Tim" Sullivan
Philip D. Benjamin
Harry McGowan
Timothy P. Sullivan
Giegerich and McCall
Thomas F. McAvoy
John J. Dooling
John F. Ahearn
James Ahearn
Patrick F. McGowan
Philip E. Benjamin
Joan P. Cohalan
Thomas F. Foley
John J. Scannell
Percival E. Nagle
Daniel E. Finn
Hearings Scheduled by Public Service Commission This Week
Public Service Commission plans a series of hearings this week led by Chairman Willcox and Commissioner Maitbie. Topics include the Third Avenue Railroad reorganization scheme, Kings County Lighting bond refunding, New York & Queens County Railway franchise, general electric light and power investigations, and South Flatbush Railroad surface railroad permit in Brooklyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Willcox
Maitbie
Third Avenue Railroad Company
Bondholders’ Committee
J. S. Wallace
Maibie
Kings County Lighting Company
Bassett
New York & Queens County Ratinay Company
Board of
Maltie
Electric Light and Power Companies
McCarroll
South Flatbush Railroad Company
Brooklin
TEE SEVENTH AT HOME AGAIN
Two hundred officers of the 7th Regiment returned from Salem Centre New York to Grand Central Station after a weekend drill. They traveled by train with Colonel Daniel Appleton and staff, noted improved marching without packs and a cooking talk by the quartermaster sergeant. Five men remained on the sick list. Trainees conducted manoeuvres at the 1st Battery farm as Captain J. F. O'Ryan trained horses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem Centre
N. Y
Daniel Appleton
Sajem Centre
Purdy
Grand Central Station
F. O'Ryan
Good as new before the Fourth
Seven year old Suranec Antopolansky of 406 Wrona Street Brownsville was badly burned on the hands and face at Bradford Street Hospital after picking up a lit firecracker used in a pre Fourth display. The device exploded in his hand but the boy, in pain, grinned when told he would be as good as new before the Fourth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suranec
Antopolansky
Wrona Street
Brownsville
Bradford Street Hospital
Bricklayer’s Toy Cannon Accident Injures Man at Home
Martin Horwerth, 43, a bricklayer living at 507 West 51st Street, was taken to Flower Hospital yesterday afternoon with a burned hand. He was packing a toy cannon with gunpowder in his room when it exploded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Horwerth
West 51St Street
Teeth of Children and the Cost of Dental Care
Miss Dorothy Whitney and Charles Loring Brace report a Health Department study showing widespread dental decay among 500 five to sixteen year olds examined after securing work papers. Only four teeth were sound. 2,908 unsound teeth among 486 children. Costs for treatment could reach 250000 to 506000, prompting calls for charity clinics and volunteer dentists in schools and city agencies to ease the burden on families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Whitney
Junior League
Charles Loring Brace
Children's Aid Society
Health Department
Health
New York
William Carr
Bellevue
West Iid Street
William J. Nicholls
Brooklyn Bureau of Charities
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Committee On Physical Welfare of
Association For Improving the Condition of
Charity Organization Society
United Hebrew Charities
Hewitt Legacy Discussed by Metropolitan Art Trustee
Frederick R. Kaldenberg, long-time Metropolitan Museum trustee, vice to honorary fellow for life, describes how Frederick C Hewitt left a substantial fortune to the museum and other institutions. He profiles Hewitt, his wealth, seclusion, Yale education, and the will dispute with Hewitt’s sister, noting letters that support the plan. A compromise may still extend the bequest to hospitals and art bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick R. Kaldenberg
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Frederick C Hewitt
Kaldenberg
Hewitt
Mr. Kaldenberg
Owego
N. Y
Yale
New York
Mr. Hewitt
Post-Graduate Hospital
Woman to Argue Suit Abroad In Austria
Mrs Sophie Mayer a New York attorney sails July 17 on the Cincinnati to Austria to represent Herman Ehrenschaft in a will contest. The case concerns an aunt’s estate of over 300000 in Tarnow contested by the husband’s relatives after her conversion and remarriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophie Mayer
Austria
Attorney Street
Cincinnati
Marer
Herman Ehrenschaft
Ridge Street
Ehrenschaft
Tarnow
Mayer
Saul Goldhammer
Unions Defy Arbitration Board Over Open Shop
United Brotherhood of Carpenters unions in this city resist the General Arbitration Board order to return workers. They threaten a lockout to maintain open shop conditions, which the board’s ultimatum already makes effectively in force. Dr. Snow Leaves Cortland Normal in Montclair NJ June 27. Lewis F. Snow resigns as head of the Cortland State Normal English Department to become dean of education at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He previously worked with Teachers College, Columbia University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
General Arbitration Board
Snow
Cortland Normal
Montclair
N. J
Lewis F. Snow
No. 218
Walnut Street
State Normal School
Cortland
Department of Education of the State
University of Kentucky
Lexington
Teachers College of
Columbia University
Navy Yard Lunchroom Struggles With Crowded Brooklyn Site
Crowded navy yard lunchroom in Brooklyn faces long lines and insufficient space despite a plan to cut lunch to half an hour and close shops in rotation from 11:30 to 1:00. A reduced food cost option and new schedules aim to ease service for about two hundred per squad, with management by a National Civic Federation sub committee and Anne Morgan. Opposition calls for more space and possible expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Woman's Department
The
National Civic Federation
Ogden Hammond
William Rand, Jr
George Blumenthal
Elbert H. Gary
Marie B. Pond
Mary Sherswood
Anne Morgan
Mary E
Opposition Moves To Oust Blake In Key Assembly Race
A delegation of about 300 Black voters pressed James S. Shea to promise a leadership bid against Michael H. Blake of the 9th Assembly District. Shea avoided factional ties, noting potential support from Herbert Parsons. Opponents cite Blake’s lax constituent advocacy while praising Shea's activity. Concurrent bouts for control erupt in districts 26 and 15 with factions led by Jacob Schiff, Jacob Katzenstein and Lemuel F. Quigg vying to unseat leaders including Sam Krulewitch and Harry W. Mack ahead of fall battles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael H. Blake
James S. Shea
Blake
Mr. Shea
Herbert Parsons
Parsons
Shea
Samuel Krulewitch
Jacob A Schiff
Jacob €Atzenstein
Harry W. Mack
Lemuel F. Quigg
William H. Douglas
Mr. Mack
New Party After Election Frauds Forms Voter Bureau
The Democratic Union plans a fall campaign bureau near Cooper Union to collect legal evidence for Attorney General prosecutions of election law violators. It cites past convictions and argues importing voters from New Jersey and Pennsylvania can be stopped with proper energy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic Union
Cooper Union
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Water supply feared in South Orange amid pressure drop
South Orange New Jersey faces a threatened water famine as pressure falls from 12 to about 50 pounds in lower areas and higher sections see no supply. Trustees consider a municipal plant. Commonwealth Water Company plans new pumps. A million gallon reservoir reportedly holds only a foot of water, prompting talks of municipal water and potential contract termination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Orange
N. J
Millburn
East Orange
Commonwealth Water Company
Summit
Irvington
Carroll P. Bassett
Andrew 8. Taylor
Commonwealth Company
Hill
Open shop adopted by National Team Owners Association
The National Team Owners Association announced the open shop in every city with a local. Chicago faces teamster strikes over union demands, while New York reports a three month strike series. Association officers say wages were not cut and most New York strikes failed for employers. A national committee will testify before Washington on tariff revisions impacting horses hay and oats. Gold berg of New York Team Owners objects to the tariff and notes increases under the revised tariff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Team Owners’ Association
Chicago
Teamsters
New York
National Association
Senate Committee On
Washington
Goldberg
Team Owners’ Association
Illness Sends Bishop Home to Holland Voyage
Bishop Van Baars of Curacao, recently struck by heart disease, arrived aboard the Dutch steamer Prins Willem III and was kept aboard until this evening. He will be towed by a tug to the Holland-America liner Rotterdam to sail tomorrow for Rotterdam, accompanied by a Cathedral of St. Anna priest for the journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Baars
Curacao
Prins Willem III
Gossip Of The Commuters On Bloomfield Avenue Line
Items describe Bloomfield Avenue line workers leaving cars at a Montclair gorge to drink at a pure spring near Gates Avenue. A late Newark to South Orange trolley service is added. The Erie Rail Road employees’ Dont Worry Club gains its first female member and plans a picnic on August 10 at Union Hill. Commuters remark on ferry trips and a rider’s joke about a Statue of Liberty sighting misattributed as Martha Washington.
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Bloomfield Avenue
Public Service Railway
Montclair
Gates Avenues
Newark
South Orange
Broad and
Market Streets
South Orange Avenue
Hmit
North River
Jersey Iy
Martha Washington
Auditorium opens at Ocean Grove in debut service
An audience of about five thousand filled the Ocean Grove Auditorium for the first preaching service. Rev. Dr. Luther B Wilson of Philadelphia preached, with Bishop Wilson as a platform, and Presidents Ballard and Dr. Alday assisting. An evening platform service featured brief addresses by Wilson Ballard and Alday.
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Tribone
Asbury Park
N. J
Ocean Grove
Luther B. Wison
Philadelphia
Methodist Episcopal Church
Jersey News Briefs Mix Fire Accident and Cultural Events
Jersey City battalion chief George Dingler was thrown from a carriage when a rear axle broke, suffering numerous cuts and bruises. The New York Symphony Orchestra under Walter Damrosch plans a four concert series in Montclair next season, starting in November. Bloomfield Auxiliary of the Newark Orphan Asylum to hold its annual visit with orphans on Tuesday. Montclair Golf Club women's mixed foursome set for eighteen holes Wednesday. Governors Cup finals slated July 14 amid rivalry. Hackensack police slaughter unmuzzled dogs Saturday, prompting SPCA action concerns. Proclamation by improvement commission follows two rabid stray dogs entering town and biting pets.
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George Dingler
Jersey City
New York Symphony Orchestra
Montclair
Walter Damrosch
Montclair Golf Club
Hackensack
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Improvement Commission
Non-Union Hat Company Moves to Philadelphia
Orange New Jersey June 27 considerable uneasiness among local business interests as No Name Hat Manufacturing Company opens a shop in Philadelphia and plans to shift most work there. The long strike accelerates the move, with the factory employing four hundred men in good times. The hatters union remains closed and there is no reserve to call on if trouble arises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orange
N. J
No Name Hat Manufacturing Company
Philadelphia
No Name Company
Hatters’ Union
Manhunt in New Jersey after trolley attack on conductor
In Belleville on June 27 a mob pursued an Italian suspect after he struck a Bloomfield avenue trolley conductor in the right eye, risking the conductor’s sight. Passengers and Public Service Corporation workers joined the search in the Silver Lake district. the Italian fled and the conductor was hospitalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belleville
N. J
Silver Lake District
Bloomfield Avenue
Public Service Corporation
Petition Against Postmaster Delays European Trip
Arlington New Jersey June 27 Special At the last moment yesterday Postmaster James Freeman decided not to sail for Europe as he had planned due to a petition filed in Washington by many citizens regarding his conduct outside official duties The petition was delivered to Washington by Captain Wilson president of the Third Ward Republican Club In response the postmaster sent to the department letters attesting to his good moral character
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington
N. J
James Freeman
Europe
Post Office Department
Washington
Wilson
Third Ward
Republican Club
Metropolitans debut under Day in Carlstadt game
W H Day, returning to baseball after retirement from the New York Giants, organized a semi pro team, the Metropolitans, and opened at Carlstadt N J. About eight hundred spectators watched the Metropolitans defeat the Belmont Colored Giants of Harlem 6 to 5. Banker, a Stuyvesant High School student, struck out fifteen. Brown of New York, manages the Metropolitans. Batteries Banker Reed for the Metropolitans Copeland Holmes for the Giants.
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W. H. Day
New York Giants
Metropolitans
Carlstadt
N. J
Belmont Colored Giants
Harlem
Banker
Stuyvesant High School
Hoboken
A. E. Brown
New York
Reed
Copeland and Holmes
Colored Giants
Congress of Religions Opens in Montclair Church
Montclair New Jersey June 27 The Congress of Religions opened at Unity Church with Rev Dr William Hayes Ward editor of The Independent delivering the opening address. Ward outlined Christianitys distinctive message and its role in civilization before a large audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montclair
N. J
Congress of Religions
Unity
Freight wreck at Lindenhurst injures Scranton men
Frank Montgomery an engineer from Scranton Pennsylvania died at St Marys Hospital Hoboken after injuries from a Delaware Lackawanna and Western freight wreck at Lindenhurst. M J Leonard a Scranton fireman was seriously injured and taken to St Josephs Hospital. Montgomerys body sent home as rail traffic delayed several hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paterson
N. J
Frank Montgomery
Scranton
Penn
St. Mary's Hospital
Hoboken
M. J. Leonard
Alder Street
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Lindhurst
Leonard
St. Joseph's Hospital
Montgomery
Record's Plans Upset In New Jersey Politics
In Jersey City the fall of George L. Record unfolds as Assistant Prosecutor James W. McCarthy enters the Republican mayoral race, challenging Record's New Idea line. The conflict exposes factional split, party discipline efforts, and tense maneuvering ahead of primaries. Governor Fort plans a Sea Girt summer while county races and reform efforts shape Hudson County dynamics. The piece also notes illegal bookmaking concerns and a statewide education committee’s decisions at Bordentown for industrial training and broader curriculum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Trenton
N. J
George L. Record
Jersey City
New Idea
New Jersey
Record
James W. McCarthy
Republicarg
Mark Fagan
McCarthy
New Idea Prine
Republican
MacCarthy
New Idea Camp Legion
Carthy
Har
Hudson County
Governor Fort
Sea Girt
Men of State
Heat Drives Out Congregation in Montclair Church Service
In Montclair New Jersey on a hot day the Swedish Baptist Church moved services outdoors. The largely attended gathering took place on a lawn at The Crescent and Trinity Place near the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montclair
N. J
Swedish Baptist Church
Crescent
Trinity Place
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Florrie’’ Sullivan
Third Avenue
Tee
Battle of Salem
Navy Yard Workers
Civic Federations
NEW Party
Brief Notes OF
Jersey News
Bloomfield
Newark Orphan
Non-Union Hat Company
Union
Jersey
Sue
Washburn
Crosby Gold Vlas Ly
J. W. McCarthy
Governor's
Joseph Frelinghuysen
Senate
John D. Prince
House
Frederick Gilkyson
Ocean Boulevard
Atlantic Highlands
Cape May
Tribune
Negro Industrial School
Bordentown
State Board of Education
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