Sims Testimony Targets Naval Criticism in Senate Hearing
Commander William Sims, naval aide to President Roosevelt, testifies before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, promising sensational disclosures on battleship construction. He accuses officials of misleading statements and presses logs and waterlines as proof, while clashes over scope and ethics occur with senators and Admiral Capps.
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Washington
William Sims
Roosevelt
Senate of Naval Affairs
Admiral Capps
Converse
Capps
Pacific
West Indies
Sims
Hale
Tillman
Rio de Janeiro
el Rie
Heer
Mr. Sims
MBB
Rio
Ad- Bitl Canos
Tral Goodrich
Sace
Plan Tariff Revision Quietly Set for Spring Action
Tribune reports the Republican plan to revise tariffs in the coming spring without public hearings. Aldrich seeks Senate authority for recess sessions to study schedules. Ways and Means in the House mirrors the plan. A Treasury committee will collect data to guide changes, with no tariff commission or broad public inquiry.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Republican Party
Congress
Treasury
Tariff Commission
Harriman Daughter Under Medical Consultation at Fifth Avenue Home
Reports confirm one Harriman daughter was ill and under a physician consultation yesterday at the Harriman residence 74 Fifth Avenue. Dr W G Lyle led the care with Dr W T Bull and others in attendance. An ear operation described as old was performed in Baltimore before the daughter was brought home.
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E. H. Harriman
Harriman
S74
Fifth Avenue
W. G. Lyle
West Ssth Street
Lyle
William T. Bull
Cornelia
Robert Livingston Gerry
Carol A. Harriman
South
Baltimo
Creel's Bank Robbed In Mexico With $300000 Stolen
A telegram from Chihuahua reports the Banco de Mimera owned by Ambassador Creel was robbed of 300000 pesos. No arrests yet. Border authorities told to watch the area closely. Notes seized include 1000 100 50 and 20 peso bills. Governor Creel offered a large reward for the robbers. Immigration officers along the border instructed to trace the missing notes.
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el Paso
Tex
Chihuahua
Mexico
Banco de Mimera
Ambassador Creel
Sesior Creel
Ghosts Reported at Clark University After Bequest
A $5 bequest from George Battles to Clark University yields a reported haunting. Matilda Kelley told police of loud rappings, window noises, doors opening, and voices. She claims a spectral visitor seized her son before departing. authorities will investigate.
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Tribune
Fitchburg
Mass
Clark University
George Battles
Matilda Kelley
Merc
Ammonia Tank Tragedy Claims Three Workers
Three Poles die after fumes overwhelm them at Colm Brothers chemical factory on West Side avenue Jersey City. They fell into an ammonia tank while placing a cover. one died at once, others died in City Hospital. Victims are John Wosas 28 Joseph Balasag 35 and John Ashaben 40 all of 229 Pacific avenue. It is believed Wosas fell in and coworkers sacrificed themselves attempting rescue.
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Colm Brothers
West Side Avenue
Jersey City
City
John Wosas
Joseph Balasag
John Ashaben
Pacific Avenue
Wosag
Hayes Will Not Publish Davis Letters
Mrs J Addison Hayes of Colorado Springs declares she will not search her father's letters in Memorial Hall for evidence regarding Grant and Thomas offering services to the Confederacy. The subject is best treated with silence.
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the Tribune
New Orleans
J. Addison Hayes
Colorado Springs
Jefferson Dafile
Memorial Hall
Grant
Thomas
Sis
Andrews May Go to Oklahoma President Post
Benjamin Andrews chancellor of Nebraska University is discussed as a possible successor to David Poyd as president of Oklahoma State University. He has applied formally and regents may convene to act.
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Ity
The
Tribune
Guthrie
Oklo
Mare
Benjamin Andrews
Nebraska Univrsity
Purse
David Poyd
Oklahoma State University
Andrews
Velvet securities mystery lurks in Knickerbocker assets
The Knickerbocker Trust Company file inventories reveal a secret security account called velvet not shown on books. Appraised at 107 963 dollars full list includes nearly 100 000 Alaska Gold Syndicate shares and 26 000 Gold Creek Nevada Mining shares valued nominal or nothing with one substantial stake in American Ice Securities Company at about 40.6% value.
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Knickerbocker Trust Company
Justice Clark
Supreme Court
St. George
Staten Island
Maryn Scudder
Charles M. Talbot
Charles T. Barney
Alaska Gold Syndicate Company
Gold Creek-Nevada
Wall Street
American Ice Securities Company
Velvet’ Securities
Alaska Geld Srynd
American Metallurgical Company
American Metal— Lurgical Company
Automatic
Ealing and Weighing Barge Company
American Ke ees _ Company
Brunswick
Birmingham
Bell & Bogart Leap
Naesiitection Wp
Cook Inlet
Oda Tngis
China Investment Construction Company
Colorado
Entral Hudson
Delaware & Northampton Railroad Company
Delaware& Northampton Railroad Company
Depew Realty Company
Dairy Products Company
General Building & Construction Company
Gold Creek- Nevada Mining Company
Genesee ‘County
Niagara Power Company
Sais
Hampton Reads Hotel Company
Judge’ Company
Land & River Company
Ist
Scrip Land & River
Scrip Land & River Company
Eee Sonne
Land & River
Cerip Land & River Company
Common Land & River Company
Michigan United ‘Railways Company
New York Weighing
New York Weighing ‘Barge and Coaling Company
New England Consolidated Ice Company
Northeastern Cuba Development Company
New Jersey Terminal Dock and Improvement Caerecom
New Jersey Terminal Dock and Improvement Company
Pn Point Comfort Improvement Company
Mort
Old Point
Fort Wea
LST
Pennsylvania & West Virginia Railroad
Varick Securities Company No
Admitted asset entry sparks claim NY City Railway case
New York Attorney General’s suit to dissolve the New York City Railway Company hinges on an admission by Paul D Cravath that a 4 5 million asset entry on the June 30 1906 balance sheet should be disregarded in asset valuation The admission could shorten the trial and bolster the opponents claim of insolvency since the defendants concede the entry was not a true asset.Witnesses including Mortimer L Schiff and Daniel B Hasbrouck testified as the case viewed the company debts and missing cash from the Metropolitan Securities note issue and alleged improper use of funds The proceedings continued before Justice Davis with the receivers pursuing recovery against Metropolitan Securities directors.
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Paul D. Cravath
New York City Railway Company
Jackson
H. R. Limburg
Liebure
Limburg
Cravath
Jerome
Mortimer L. Schiff
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Metropolitan Securities Company
Daniel B. Hasbrouck
Charles E. Warren
Schiff
Europe
Justice Davis
Supreme Court
Nathan Vidaver
Kissena Park
Queens County Grand Jury
Warren
Mr. Waren
New York City
Mr. Limburg
Mr. Cravath
Brown
Moorehead
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Securities Company
Bradley backs Fairbanks for President in Kentucky
Senator elect W. O. Bradley endorses Fairbanks for president and predicts a Taft nomination would doom the Republicans in Kentucky. He cites Fairbanks as the state’s unanimous choice, notes his integrity, neighborly ties, and past campaign support, and pledges full support regardless of the eventual nominee.
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Frankfort
Fairbanks
Kentucky
W. O. Bradley
Mr. Fairbanks
Taft
Feirbanks
Mr. Bradley
Cannon
Hughes
Frankie
Indiana
Union
Roosevelt
Robbery At Cherry Street Grocer Netted 1100
Clerk Randle loses 1100 entrusted to two employees while en route to the bank. Witness Captain Toole told the Oak Street station that two men worked with the money. William Murphy of Union Street Brooklyn and Hush F Sullivan drove toward the bank before two youths seized the grip and fled, despite pursuit.
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Joan Randle
Cherry Street
Captain Toole
Oak Street
William Murphy
Union Street
Brooklyn
Randie
Murphy
Hush F. Sullivan
Randle
Sullivan
Hospital sans Doctor at Bayonne Station
Henry Dietrich, a Newark draftsman, collapsed on a Bayonne platform and died at Bayonne Hospital after an ambulance found no physician. Dr. F M Corwin, Bayonne medical board president, said the hospital had no resident doctor for two months and that nurses and nearby physicians cared for patients while applications were sought.
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West Suh Street
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Bayonne
Henry Dietrich
Plane Street
Newark
Bayonne Hospital
Kroeller
F. M. Corwin
Medical Board of
Dr. Corwin
Day Wave in Bay State No License Wins Widest Margin
A telegraph report from Boston says the no-license movement swept Massachusetts as votes tallied in 186 towns. Early tallies show nearly 80 percent voting dry for a year, with surprises in Revere and Lynn where no-license carried by several hundred votes. Across the South Shore and western areas the anti-license outcome was decisive in most contested towns.
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The
Tribune
Boston
Massachusetts
Revere
Lynn
Hartford and New York Transportation to buy United States Transport
Announcement: Hartford and New York Transportation Company will acquire the property and feed of the United States Transportation Company. The merged entity will control the Joy Line between New York and Providence, the Neptune Line between New York and Fall River, and the Maine Steamship Company route between New York and Portland Maine.
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Hartford, Coon
Hartford and New York Transportation Company
United States Transportation Company
Joy Line
New York
Providence
Neptune Line
Fall River
Centrol
Maine Steamship Company
Portland
Prosperity Convention Opens in Baltimore at Lyric Theater
The Prosperity Convention opened in Baltimore at the Lyric Theater with about twelve hundred attendees. Speeches were given by Governor Austin LeCrothers Mayor J Barry Mahool former Mayor Ferdinand Latrobe and Travellers and Merchants Association President F J Lamotte. The notice also lists train times by Penn and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Florida Information Bureau.
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Baltimore
Prosperity Convention
Travellers and Merchants’ Association
Austin le Crothers
J. Barry Mahool
Ferdinand ©. Latrobe
F. J Lamotte
The
Augusta
Charleston, Summerville & South
Penn & Atlantic Coast Line
Florida Information Bureau
Bw Cor
Adrt
Waterfront Bills Open Door to Seizure of Upland Property
The Maritime Exchange condemns Assemblyman A. E. Smith and Senator Dominick Mullaney for bills that would allow the Dock Department to seize uplands without prepayment or public notice. Hearing set for 3 PM, with opposition from city groups and potential impact on steamship leases and waterfront revenue.
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Dominick F. Mullaney
Tammany
E. Smith
Albany
Deck Department
Maritime Exchange
City Club and
Merchants’ Association
Assemblyman Smith
Assembly Cities Committee
Hammond
Cities Committee
Chearing
Mullaney
Maritime. Exchange Resolution
Maritime Association of the
Port of
New York
A. E. Smith
Greater New York
Senate
Dock Department
Dock Board
City of
Assembly
Smith
Hughes
Brooklyn
Autoists Taunt Woman They Hit In Corona
Three women in a fast touring car struck Mrs. Caroline Felison of Putnam Avenue Brooklyn as she crossed Flushing Road near Junction Avenue in Corona Queens. Felison suffered a broken leg and severe bruising, while the car’s occupants laughed and urged the chauffeur to speeds away. A bicyclist pursued them before they slowed briefly and then sped off.
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Farge
Caroline Felison
Putnam Avenue
Brooklyn
Flushing Road
Junction Avenue
Corona
Queensborough
Brokaws Expected in Asheville at Fairview Lodge
Telegraph from Asheville reports Willian Gould Brokaw and wife are due at Fairview Lodge with Mrs Brokaw in a sanatorium in New York. The group includes Mr and Mrs Blair and other staff. Blair seeks reconciliation and mentions no separation stance by either party.
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the Tribune
Asheville
N. C
Willian Gould Brokaw
Fairview Lodge
New York
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van Hale
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Pierda Paute
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Davis
Oklahoma
Poland
Fucker & Sons
Broadway OB
Hiram New York Depot
BIG
Velvet
Knickerbocker
Praisal
DEWEY
H. T ‘Ewey & Sons Co
Fulton
Inpany
Broadway Co
City & Suh
Dairy Products Co
Inter-Met
Mercantile Nbr
Dean Lehigh
North Pac Railway
Hoe Rat Ry Co
Srenislaus Power Dev
Minal Co
Inderg Elec Co. London Railway Syndicate
Iby
T. Harney
Ss HK. & Im
Gus West Amen
Ice Sec
Toba
Clyde Ss
Ldawek & Imp
Idack Mead
St i. Se Western
Frafcix
Anderer
Haring
P.d.cravath
N.Y. City Railway Company
Bradley
Grip
Hospital Sans Doctor
Bay State
U. S. Transportation CO
Hartford
New England
Department
Seine
MR. Gerrish
Bill
William L. Gerrish
Bretton Hall
Broadway
Seth Street
Brokaws
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