Paving in the Bronx Probe Resumes at City Hall
The Commissioners of Accounts reopen the Haffen investigation into borough paving contracts. Haffen defends decisions on Willis Avenue repaving and heavy-traffic streets while a report from Emanuel Fellman cites faulty Broadway grading. The inquiry, tied to Broadway between 230th Street and the city line, will be examined further.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haffen
Bronx
Commissioners of Accounts
City Hall
Board of Estimate
Lexington Avenue
Mitchel
Willis Avenue
Ahearn
Capitol Street
Palisade Avenue
Johnson
H. G. Opdycke
Broadway
230Th Street
Mr. Fellman
Teacher in Whitestone Shoots Self Over Degree Ambition
Frank E. Kerr a 30 year old Whitestone Public school teacher attempted suicide at his home 111 Forest avenue Flushing while awaiting a doctor. He was shot in the chest and taken to Flushing Hospital in critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia College
Frank E. Kerr
Whitestone
No. 111
Forest Avenue
Flushing
Foge
Water Board to Keep Catskill Workers Under Hygiene Rules
The Board of Water Supply reports no infection source near Peekskill after bacteriological tests on streams near the McNally camp. Dr. J A Shears indicates conditions are good and typhoid not found. Peekskill reports about twenty deaths and roughly twenty blood-tested cases confirming typhoid. The board blames no contractor workers for water troubles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Water Supply
Catskill
J. A. Shears
Health Department
Peekskill
T Stream
McNally Camp
Dr. Curry
Oler Defends Hudson River Ice From Pollution Claims
Wesley M. Oler, president of the American Ice Company, challenged a State Health Department report linking Hudson River ice to pollution. He argued the river stretch from Trey to Catskill is the heart of the ice fields and cited bacteriologist tests showing ice purity. He noted ongoing storage tests by ice firms to monitor quality and rejected department investigations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley M. Oler
American Ice Company
State Department of Health
Hudson River
Eugene H. Porter
Hudson
Trey
Catskill
Free Soup Kitchens Open for Poor Children in Brooklyn
A third free soup center opened at Wallabout street and Marcy avenue under the Brooklyn City Mission Society. Volunteers report hungry schoolchildren fed and the movement expanding with several kitchens already serving dozens daily. Donations from 25 cents to 100 dollars arrive as more kitchens plan to open and clothing donations are welcomed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallabout Street
Marcy Avenue
Brooklyn City Mission Society
H. M. Garrett
Union
Williamsburg
Frederick Cobb
City Mission Society
Franklin Trust Building
Brooklyn
North 2d Street
Bedford Avenue
Hamilton Avenue
North
2D Street
Seamen’s Mission
Ferry
Cortelyou Club
Flatbush
Brooklyn Kosher Kitchen Society
McKibben Street
Milk price cut to eight cents a quart in New York
Milk prices drop from nine to eight cents per quart as upstate supply exceeds expectations and contract prices ease. Borden credits surplus and March pricing. Sheffield Farms trims to match but warns of future profit pressure. Mutual Milk and Cream and Alexander Campbell keep or adjust rates, while certified milk stays at 15 cents and cream at 10 cents per bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogers
Borden Company
Horton
Sheffield Farms Company
Mutual Milk and Cream Company
Alexander Campbell Company
Brooklyn
Two Burned to Death on Engish Farm Tragedy
Telegraph report from Mount Holly says Lydia Carter thirty employed in Bordentown and William Fleck of Roeblings burned to death in a Florence area farm house. Fire started by a knocked stove. fumes from burning oil suffocated them. Firemen investigated. coroner to conduct inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Mount Holly
Engish
Florence
Lydia Carter
Bordentown
William Fleck
Roeblings
Bisbing
Mayor Marries Mulroney and Miss Fosdick at City Hall
Mayor McClellan officiated yesterday afternoon in City Hall at the wedding of Joseph Sylvester Collins Mulroney editor of The Tammany Times and Miss Maude Fosdick of Bridgeport Conn. Mulroney was secretary to Park Commissioner J J Pallas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClellan
Joseph Sylvester Collins Mulroney
the Tammany Times
Maude Fosdick
Bridgeport
Conn
Mulroney
J. J. Pallas
Star Masterpiece Berkshire Boar Dies at Kirkwood Farm
Word from Whitehall Michigan reports Star Masterpiece, the Berkshire boar sold at Gregory farm sale August 21 1907 for 5500 dollars, died February 25 at Kirkwood stock farm from apoplexy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Springfield
Whitehall
Gregory Farm
Ihirkwood Stock Farm
Obituary of James H. Oliver Plough Manufacturer
James H. Oliver of South Bend died this morning. Born August 28, 1823 in Roxburyshire Scotland he immigrated to America at age twelve. He built a plough business from a wagon venture into a 60 acre plant and became its president. He leaves two children Joseph D. Oliver and a daughter married to ex Congressman George Ford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James I. Oliver
Whitehaugh
Liddesdale Parish
Roxburyshire
Scotland
James
America
Geneva
Nn. F
Mishawaka
Ind
Susan Doty
Oliver
South Bend
Joseph D
George Ford
Indiana
Wanamaker Dies in Paris After Egypt Journey
Thomas B. Wanamaker of Philadelphia, son of John Wanamaker, died suddenly at the Hotel Liverpool in Paris after arriving from Egypt with his mother seeking health. Mrs. Wanamaker plans to sail for Paris with Rodman Wanamaker to bring back the body. He was born 1860, Princeton 1882, led the family business, owned The Philadelphia North American, and retired earlier this year. He leaves a wife and two young sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Thomas B. Wanamaker
Philadelphia
John Wanamaker
Liverpool
Wanamaker
Egypt
Palm Beach
Rodman Wanamaker
Princeton
United States
Philadelphia North American
Clayton McMichael
Major Gillette
Weaver
Gordon
Mr. Wanamaker
Mary Lowther Welsh
Samuel Welsh
Rittenhouse Square
Broad and
Sansone Streets
Philadelphia, University, Sedgely
Germantown
Huntingdon Valley
Bishop W. W. Duncan Dies at Spartanburg Home
Bishop William Wallace Duncan of the Methodist Episcopal Church South died at his Spartanburg home after months of illness. Born December 2 1839 in Boydton Virginia, he studied at Randolph Macon and Wofford College, served as a Confederate chaplain, taught philosophy at Wofford before his 1886 bishop election, and attended the 1881 London ecumenical conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spartanburg
S. C
W. W. Duncan
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Duncan
William Wallace Duncan
Boydton
Randolph-Macon College
Wofford College
Virginia
London
Doctor Armand Dufloo Dies After Long Service in War
Dr Armand Dufloo aged about 76 of 239 West 21st street died after a three month illness. Born in Wormhout France he arrived in 1861 to join the Union army and served as surgeon major in the 70th New York Infantry and later the 3d New York Cavalry. He never married and gave free care to veterans. Funeral tonight at 8 at a 20th street chapel with burial tomorrow at Cypress Hills National Cemetery led by Phil Kearny Post No 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armand Dufloo
West 21St Street
Wormhout
France
70Th New York Volunteer Infantry
3D New York Cavalry
Jie
Army and Navy Club
Loyal Legion
Phil Kearny
Third Army Corps
National Cemetery
Cypress Hills
Obituaries of notable New York area figures
A sequence of obituaries reports deaths in New York and New Jersey. Homer T Fowler Rome State Custodian Asylum manager and board secretary dies in Rome New York. Pedro de Cordoba a 72 year old New York custom broker dies in Middletown. Edward W Parsons Newark manufacturer dies from heart disease in Newark at 64. William Bridge Long Island vegetable pioneer dies in Waterbury Conn at 74. John B Woodruff sugar refinery builder dies in Arlington New Jersey aged 78. Mrs Sarah Coe Chase Brooklyn widow of Dr Walter B Chase dies at 935 St Mark's Ave Brooklyn. Pauline Dillenius Mollenhauer widow of Henry Mollenhauer Brooklyn music educator dies at 73 Livingston St. Henry Stuart House Hartford insurance man and deputy collector dies at home in Hartford. Henry D Norms Jr aged 33 dies at parents home. funeral set for tomorrow morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Coe Chase
Walter B. Chase
St. Mark’s Avenue
Brooklyn
Dr. Chase
Central Presbyterian Church
Pauline Dillenius Mollenhauer
Henry Mollenhauer
Livingston Street
Mollenhauer
P. R. R. Annual Report Highlights Raised Costs and Lower Net
The Pennsylvania Railroad 1907 report shows higher gross earnings and operating costs, with net earnings dropping about 1.5 million. It notes total gross earnings of 026,735,525, up from 1906, and a revenue decline due to higher wages and expenses amid a broader economic slowdown and rail regulation impacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Perk. Co
Inc
Nsylvania Railroad
Penania Company
Pennsylv
Pittsburg
Erie
New York
Pennsylvania
Bronxites clash over Broadway Lexington subway plan at public meeting
Several hundred businessmen and real estate brokers gathered in City Hall to press the Broadway Lexington avenue subway proposal. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment heard debate with Controller Metz insisting funding precedes construction while others urged rapid transit and alternative routes. Representatives of local boards urged selective routes and immediate relief through tapping the existing subway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Council Chamber
City Hall
Bronx
Board of Estimate and Apportierment
Public Service Commission
Lexington Avenue
J. Harris Jones
North Side Board of Trade
Augustus FB. Barnet
Julius H. Hass
Boulevard
Westchester Avenue
John Wiggers
House Owners’ Association
First Avenue
Edward A. Acker
Twenty-third Ward
Mr. Metz
Central Federated Union
Metz
Illinois Central stockholders adjourn meeting after brief session
The Illinois Central Railway stockholders meeting in Chicago adjourned two hours after convening due to an incomplete proxy report. Judge Ball had refused to issue an injunction blocking voting of 251,299 shares held by Union Pacific and Railroad Securities. Stuyvesant Fish attended but did not speak. Harriman, Astor, and Vanderbilt were absent. An appeal was planned after the decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Illinois Central Railway
J. T. Harahan
Farlin Q. Ball
Superior Court of
Cook County
Union Pacific Railway Company
Railroad Securities Company
Stuyvesant Fish
Henry W. Leman
Leman
E. E. Harrriman
New York
William Nelson Cromwell
John Jacob Astor
Cornelius Vanderbilt
O'Brien Slams Public Service Commission Over Water Pipe Work
Commissioner John H. O'Brien of the Water Department attacks the Public Service Commission for ignoring existing contracts and threatening water mains during Centre street and Bowery Delancey street work. He cites five letters with no action from the commission or contractors, while Chairman Willcox says the commission’s engineers are told to protect pipes as subway work proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. O’brien
Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity Sever
Public Service Commission
Water Department
M O’brien
Centre Street
Bowery
Delancey Street
Willcox
O'Brien
Tie
Railway promoters in trouble in Boston insolvency case
Boston March 2 The street railway promoting firm James F Shaw Co was placed in the hands of receiver Arthur D Hill by Judge Lowell U S Circuit Court at the petition of a creditor and the firm. Mobility assets are listed at 700 976 while non negotiable assets total 880 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
James F. Shaw & Co. Incorporated
Arthur D. Hill
Lowell
United States Circuit Court
Receivers Appointed in Multiple City Cases
In Pittsburg and other cities, receivers were named or status updated in several cases. Kissell Minni cut Co represents S$10v. to sent term notes of Westinghouse Palace and Manufacturing Co in Westinghouse proceedings. Oscar Layne named receiver for Robert Field Pig Iron Steel and Coke Co. in Cincinnati. W M Bell named receiver of National Glass Co. in Pittsburgh. Judson Harmon released as receiver of Toledo Railway and Terminal Co. with reorganization forming Toledo Terminal Railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Kissell, Minnicut & Co
New York
Westinghouse Pieelace and Manufacturing Company
United States
Crcuit
Judge & Young
Cincinnati
Oscar Layne
Robert Field Pig Iron, Steel and Coke Company
Robert Field
Toledo
Judson Harmon
Toledo Railway and Terminal Company
United States Circuit Court
Toledo Terminal Railroad Company
Bankruptcies filed in U S district court yesterday
Petitions for involuntary and voluntary bankruptcies were entered against multiple firms and individuals in Ulster and New York. Filers include Frederick K Clark civil engineer and attorney of Cragsmoor facing various asset debts. Alfred E Gottleib with liabilities 7612 27. Davis & Monson with 105 810 liabilities. F P Harrison Electrical Manufacturing Co insolvent for 00 claims. and others with assets and debt schedules listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick K. Clark
Cragsmoor
Ulster County
Walter EB. Etikdreth
West Sith Street
Clark
Paul Rines
Union Avenue
Hough
R. P. Lewis
Frederick Landmann
Alfred E. Gottleib
Gottleib
Harry Schramm
Schramm & Presbee
Crosby Street
F. P Harrison? Electrical Manufacturing Company
Soutstreet
Davis & Monesen
Sorsae
Wth Stret
Pas S Om
2Th Street
Freres
Also Mentioned on This Page
Catskill System
Oler
NEW Free Soup Centre
Wellville
Postum Cereal Co, Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich, U. S. A
James H. Oliver
Homer T. Fowler
Rome
Pedro DE Cordoba
Middletown
N. Y
Edward W. Parsons
Newark
East Orange
William Bridge
Long Island
Carrie -Wilson
Waterbury
Bridge
Old
Long Island City
Old Long Island City
Queens County
John B. Woodruff
Arlington
N. J
Mr. Woodruff
Long Island City Savings Bank
Corn Exchange Bank
Perry
Henry Stuart House
Hartford
Connecticut
Lincoln
Toleveland
Henry D. Norms, Jr
No. 4
Thetreet
Imnerning
Oelock
Thompson & Norris Company
Cork Manufacturers
P. R.R. Annual Report
Evans
Evans & Sons
Hudson, N. Y
I. C
J. H. O'Brien
Detroit
Swan
United “Ee
Guaranty Trust Company
Tormon Council
the United Railway
W._M. Bell
National Glass Company
W. Knight
United States District Court
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