Subway funding crunch blocks Brooklyn Fourth Avenue plan
The mayor and city controller report only about 50 million dollars available for subway, school, park, and other needs through the end of the McClellan administration. Private capital requires new legislation, delaying a Manhattan subway and threatening the Brooklyn Fourth Avenue project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCreNan
McClellan
Treasury
Brooklyn Fourth Avenue
Lexington Avenue
Metor
Public Service Commission
Manhattan
Board of Estimate
Eustis
Broonlyn
Fourth Avenue
Rapid Transit Commission
Ashland Place
Theatre District
Brooklyn
Brocktyn
Chamber Plan to Aid Diplomats School and Firemen’s Family Fund
The Chamber of Commerce committee on foreign commerce and revenue Jews urged support for expanding the School of Political Science in Washington to include a consuls and diplomats program, separate from GWU. Dr. Richard S. Harlan spoke on university growth and enlargements. A monument fund for Deputy Fire Chief Kruger widows and orphans was approved, as was a push for a bipartisan commission to study foreign currency systems and advise on new law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On Foreign Commerce and Revenue Jews
The
Chamber of Commerce
Gustav I H. Schwab
Chamber
Washington
George Washington University
Richard S. Harlan
Kruger
Congress
Senate
Mouse
Cent Tossing Juror Cleared In Railway Verdict Case
Justice Guy sustains $50 fine on Edward Cavanaugh while exonerating juror Cavannaugh from blame for the cent toss that aided the New York City Railway Company's verdict. Court finds Cavannaugh protested the methods and failed to report due to misapprehension of duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Guy
Edward Cavanaugh
New York City Railway Company
Cavanaugh
Cavenaugh
Newspaper editor shoots at burglar in Montclair home
George B. Mallon city editor of The Sun fired two shots at a burglar who entered his residence at 238 Mountain Avenue in the early morning. He scared off the intruder, who dropped the silverware bag and fled through a window, leaving only two silver spoons taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montclair
N. J
George B. Mallon
the Sun
Mountain Avenue
Three Pennsylvania Tunnels Open Under East River
Three of four Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels under the East River are now open shore to shore. Tube E opened earlier this week and Tube D broke through on Washington's Birthday. Tube C was breached yesterday morning with Superintendent Letrina first through. Tube A imminent, enabling operation readiness within weeks.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
East River
Washington
Letrina
Mount Morris Republican pushes subway plan at meeting
The Mount Morris Republican group adopted a resolution urging the Board of Estimates to start building new subways without delay. The meeting notes mention approximately 20 unemployed men could be employed by the project.
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Mount Morris Republicanlab
Eetimzie
Paper group price fixing alleged by publishers association
Herman Ridder, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, cites letters from Attorney General Bonaparte and records from the Fibre and Manila Association. He alleges a pool formed by 24 mills to fix output and raise prices, with meetings in Chicago and New York. He claims seven groups of paper makers, all under the American Paper and Pulp Association, coordinate to restrict production and set prices, with one bid typically found to be a bogus price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Ridder
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Bonaparte
American Paper and Pulp Association
Mr. Ridder
John Norris
The
Fibre and Manila Association
John H. Parks
West 34Th Street
Ridder
Western Trustee
Chicago
Grand Pacific Hotel
Wisconsin
Michigan
New York City
American Paper and Pulp Assuation
Broadway
York City
General Paper Coute
Black Hand Notes Target Police Chiefs in St Louis and Birmingham
A St Louis report describes Black Hand letters threatening Chief Creecy and demands for cash left at locales tied to Edward L. Lovet and Theodore Tourse. Birmingham Chief Bodeker received a similar note warning him to quit, while a related case connected to a biscuit company shipping clerk yielded multiple indictments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Creecy
Edward L. Lovet
Theodore Tourse
Birmingham
Ala
Bodeker
Bessemer
Nief Bodeker
Jim
Black Hand at Far Rockaway
Magistrate Eugene C. Gilroy of Far Rockaway is armed after receiving a Black Hand letter on Tuesday night. A detective watches his house as police secrecy aims to aid the investigation. The letter is linked by some friends to a previous case involving two Italians sentenced to Sing Sing for robbery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene C. Gilroy
Far Rockaway
Stalians
Captain Gove Leads Tug Crew to Panama After Patagonia Incident
Captain A. E. Gove and twelve crewmen of the tug E. G. Reynolds returned to port aboard the Panama steamer Coln. They had sailed from this city via the Strait of Magellan to Panama. In the strait, Patagonia women in canoes threw stones and charcoal at the party when the crew refused to share chewing tobacco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Gove
E. G. Reynolds
Panama
Strait of Magellan
Strait
Guard Borden Milk Co Stables Guarded After Threat
Police and fire crews guard the Borden Milk Company stables at Nos 186 and 188 East 116th Street after a threatening letter warned of a fire or explosion. Two blasts have occurred nearby recently. about eighty horses are housed there, and investigators suspect a discharged employee may have written the note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borden Milk Company
East 116Th Street
Stein acquitted by insanity in 1906 killing case
Mrs Theresa Stein thirty five on trial in the criminal branch of the Supreme Court for killing Frank Gettinger an electrician who boarded with the Steins. She was yesterday acquitted on the ground of insanity after a brief jury deliberation. Stanley Y Beach will give an illustrated lecture Monday evening at the Aero Club of America No 12 East 42d street on the development of heavier than air flight in Europe. Justice O Gorman denied the certificate of reasonable doubt sought by the Poilson sisters in their defrauding the Hotel Bristol board bill case. Manly M Gillam advertising counsel of The Herald will lecture on Opportunities In the Advertising Field Saturday at 7 pm before the School of Commerce Accounts and Finance of New York University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theresa Stein
Supreme Court
Frank Gettinger
Steins
Stanley Y. Beach
Europe
Aero Club of America
East 42d
Justice O'Gorman
Poilson Sisters
Court of Special Sessions
Bristol
Manly M. Gillam
the Herald
School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance
New York University
Headly Despair Ends In Death At Herald Square Hotel
J J Levey whiskey salesman of 448 Central Park West shot himself at Herald Square Hotel on 34th Street near Broadway yesterday. He died hours later at New York Hospital. Notes pinned to his coat instructed delivery of letters to Albert Haas and Mrs Levey and Mrs Dreyfus. An impending inquiry into his finances was suspected to have driven the act. Levey, one of the oldest whiskey men in the United States, had recently faced money troubles and had promised to visit Empire Distilling to account for missing certificates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Levey
Central Park West
Herald Square
34Th Street
Broadway
New York Hospital
Levey
J. J. Levy
Philadelphia
Harbeck
Audubon
Edward Dreyfus
Albert Haas
Meareth 4
Iss
Harlem
I Levey
Accident Causes Suit Against Parsons in Queens Court
Alice K Cherbuliez sues Robert E Parsons of 371 Broadway Flushing for 25000 damages on behalf of her sister Adele said to be mentally incompetent after being knocked down by a galloping horse Parsons rode on November 4 185. The accident occurred on Parsons street and Mitchells avenue Flushing near a Bayside Yacht Club and Oakland Golf Club member. Adele planned as private secretary to a well known city businessman about twenty eight and her family seek reparation. Evidence before referee Lucius N Manley filed with Queens County Clerk Jamaica Long Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Parsons
Broadway, Fiushing
Supreme Court
Alice K. Cherbuliez
Lenox Avenue
Adele Cherbuliez
Mr. Parsons
Parsons Strout Street
Mitchells Cherbuliez
Ch Avenue
Flushing
Parsons
Bayside Yacht Club
Oakland Golf Club
Cherbuliez
Lucius N. Manley
Queens County
Jamaica
Long Island
Subduing Anarchists and Immigration Measures Raise Alarm
Immigration figures and opinions from officials and ship lines push for stringent laws to deport aliens convicted of crimes. Commissioner Watchorn cites limited anarchist presence and hints at federal power, while Hamburg America Line and North German Lloyd endorse rejection and strict screening at emigration hubs. Officials stress moral as well as physical vetting and praise existing control at Hamburg reception stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watchorn
Ellis Istana
Hamburg-American Line
Steamship Line
Emil L. Boas
Europe
Rudeleben
Berlin
Hamburg
Mr. Boas
Committee of Congress
Gustav H. Schwab
Lloyd Line
Straus
Averbuch had no confederates in Chicago plot
Chicago officials stated Lazarus Averbuch acted alone in the February attempted murder of Chief Shippy. Assistant Chief Schuettler said arrests would extend to Averbuch's associates to “sift this thing to the bone.” The plan to detain Emma Goldman’s speech was cancelled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lazarus Averbuch
Shippy
Schuettler
Rose Stern
Averbuch
Olga Averbuch
Harry Goldstein
Edelstadt
Isadore Maron
H. Abramovitz
Stern
City Law Department
Emma Goldman
Union Hall
More Jerome Support Letters From City Bar Leaders
District Attorney Jerome received several more letters from prominent city lawyers offering support amid charges raised by William F. King and allies. Judges and merchants’ leaders affirm confidence in his integrity and administration, praising his prudent policy of pursuing indictments only with reasonable prospects of conviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome
Bar
Hughes
William F. King
Edward M. Shepard
Klins
Merchants’ Association
Wife details brutal murder linked to Copagalio case
The wife of Salvatore Copagalio recounts a murder by hatchet in Moosup Connecticut. Dina Petro vanished after a visit, the body was hidden in ice near the stone mill, and later found with the axe and bloody clothing recovered. Her testimony spurred coroner and sheriff to the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
J Moosup
Conn
Gershon Marx
Colchester
Salvatore Copagallo
Jennie Geliows
Dina Petro
Jennie Copagalio
Copagalio
Petro
Capagallo
Philadelphia Prepares to Deport Aliens After Riot
Philadelphia authorities rally with immigration officials under Secretary Straus to root out alien anarchists and criminals. Investigations begin to deport hundreds of foreigners. searches and censuses target aliens in penal and reform institutions. About six hundred aliens in four city penal institutions identified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Mareh
Immigration Service
Schwab Agrees to $8 Million Potosi Mine Purchase
Telegraphed from Mexico City reports Charles M. Schwab of New York and partners near completion of buying the famed Potosi mine in the Santa Eulalia district of Chihuahua for about 8,006,000 in gold. The deal would rank among Mexico’s largest mining transactions. Schwab’s recent European trip was tied to the pending purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Mexico City
Chihuahua
Mex
Charles M. Schwab
New York
Potosi
Santa Eurilla
Mexico
Schwab
England
France
Fake collector abducts Ada Pettit at West 120th Street home
S C Pettit reported that his daughter Ada Louise Pettit was bound and gagged by a man posing as a telephone company collector at their West 120th Street residence yesterday morning. He demanded four dollars owed to the company and fled after assaulting her before the family physician revived her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. C. Pettit
New York and New Jersey Telephone Company
West 125Th Street
Ada Louise Pettit
West 120Th Street
Telephone Company
Merchants' Association Elects Officers and Supports Legislation
The Merchants' Association board elected Henry R. Towne as President Gustav H. Schwab as Vice President William A. Marble as Second Vice President William Jay Schieffelin as Third Vice President Gustav Wintschger as Treasurer and C. J. Mead as Secretary They approved Beveridge’s tariff commission bill backed a land title registration plan from Governor Hughes’ commission and supported enlarging George Washington University’s School of Political Science to train diplomats for government appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Merchants’ Association
Henry R. Towne
Gustav H. Schwab
William A. Marble
William Jay Schieffelin
Gustav Wintschger
C. 3. Mead
Beveridge
Hughes
School of Political Science
George Washington University
Four Armenians Arrested in Boston Libel Case
Boston March 5 four Armenian newspaper figures were arrested on criminal libel charges linked to a February 26 article in the Tzian Habenatz. Editors Nushan Yacoobian Hagop Arsadorian and M. Shahinian and printers Artin Papasian and others face arrest by Boston police and New York authorities. The case stems from factional strife within the Muntcha kist Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Muntchakist Society
Fitchburg
Tzian Hatreniatz
D. M. Arshag
Ardiziv
Armenia
Txian
Arshag
Italian Anarchist to Be Deported from Buffalo
Vincenzo Marccione aged about thirty five will return to Italy within a week. He was arrested in Buffalo on Monday as an anarchist and has spent under three years in the United States after serving seven years in an Italian prison, bringing him under the deportation act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincenzo Marccione
Italy
Marccione
Buffalo
United States
Governor declines to entertain Mann charges in Troy case
Albany March 6 Governor Hughes announced he would not entertain charges against Troy Mayor Elias P Mann citing lack of jurisdiction He notes removal power should be clearly conferred by statute and that the uniform charter does not grant such authority He intends no action in a doubtful case and declines to hear the proceedings based on these reasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Hughes
Elias P. Mann
Troy
Syracuse
Timber Famine Warned By Pinchot At Engineers Meet
Gifford Pinchot warned 1,500 at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers that a timber famine is imminent. He cited rapid consumption, only twenty years of timber left from current growth, and urged rapid public sentiment shifts to protect forest lands, noting 165 million acres already set aside in the West, representing just one fifth of the nation's timber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot
Department of Agriculture
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
West
H Street
Yonkers syndicate buys John Clark estate for 130000
Edward Gerbereux led a group that purchased the John Clark estate on South Broadway Yonkers for 130000. The 88 lots 25 by 100 feet total about six acres front five streets near trolley lines and rail stations. They plan a central street, subdivide into plots, and fast track high rise elevator apartment developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Gerbereux
Yonkers
South Broadway
Morris
Pest Sis
Sesta Yonkers
John Clark
Eugene Gerbereux
Gerbereux
South Yonkers
New York Central Railroad
Ludlow
Park Hill
Lawerre
Elliott Ave
South Carolina Tries to Shield Autonomy Versus Federal Ruling
Governor Ansen urged the General Assembly in extra session to pass laws preserving state autonomy and shielding dispensary funds from federal court interference. He responded to Judge Pritchard taking jurisdiction over creditor suits seeking liquor debt payments by the former state dispensary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
S. C
South Carolina
Pritchard
Ansen
General Assembly
Short-Lived Receivership in Indiana
In La Porte Indiana March 3 the La Porte County Circuit Court sustained a motion to vacate the order appointing George F Mull of Indianapolis as receiver for the Chicago New York Electric Air Line Road Cooperative Construction Company and the Goshen Chicago South Bend Railway Company The court dismissed Mull as receiver saying a final hearing could lead to a permanent appointment if fraud insolvency or squandering of funds were alleged by stockholders The receivership lasted only twenty four hours and ended today
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Porte, Ind
Chicago- New York Electric Air Line Road
Co-operative Construction Company
Goshen, Chicago & South Bend Railway Company
George F. Mull
Indianapolis
la Porte County
Mull
William Adler Indicted for Bank Misconduct in New Orleans
New Orleans March 5 William Adler former president of the State National Bank of New Orleans was indicted by a U S grand jury on misapplication of funds and related crimes. The 74 count indictment alleges concealment from directors false entries and fund misappropriation totaling between 200 and TRANSCRIPT missing numbers. Adler sailed from New Orleans on the Alps with groceries from A Adler & Co and has since been absent. The steamer wrecked off Spanish Honduras coast and Adler and his son fled to British Honduras.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
William Adler
State National Bank of
United States Grand Jury
National Bank
Adler
Alps
A. Adler & Co
Spanish Honduras
British Honduras
City hearing on electric lighting rules continues
Commissioner Martble of the Public Service Commission revisits the electric lighting inquiry. Witnesses from Brooklyn Edison and New York Edison adjust breakdown service cost estimates, testifying on annual per kilowatt charges. Hearing adjourned till Wednesday as metropolitan line assets and liabilities are reported. Some Tribune feature previews Taft stories by his brothers Henry Horace and Charles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martble
Public Service Commission
W. W. Freeman
Brooklyn Edison Illuminating Company
John W. Lieb, Jr
New York Edison Company
Bill
Taft
Henry
Horace
Charles
Tribune
Affidavits detail payment demands amid Hamilton Bank affair
Jackson and Montgomery figures appear in an affidavit trail tied to threats and alleged payoffs. Vidaver pressed for money to “protect” Montgomery, with references to Gro ssman and Osm Hammerstein contracts and a Metropolitan Opera payoff plan. Untermeyer distances himself, denying ties to the bank or the case.
Six Boys Arrested After Fire on East 135th Street Roof
Six youths aged thirteen to fifteen were detained after a rooftop fire on 135th street near No 3 4 East. Deputy Fire Marshal MacCarthaigh arrived to find about a dozen youths on the roof guarding a bonfire on tar. The suspects denied knowing the blaze origin and said they went to the roof on the alarm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East 135Th Street
Charles O. MacCarthaigh
Alexander Avenue
Socialists Denounce Erdman Act At Cooper Union Meeting
A Socialist party gathering at Cooper Union denounced the U S Supreme Court Erdman act ruling. Joseph Vanhope Etter, editor of a Socialist publication, argued that rights require political power and urged socialism as the only hope while resolutions condemned the court decisions in Haber cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooper Union
New York
Socialist Party
United States Supreme Court
Joseph Vanhope Etter
Diverse City Events and Lectures Across New York Today
A crowded schedule features free museum and zoo admission, multiple club and association dinners, mass meetings, and lectures. Notable events include Esperanto talks, art lectures, and a large masquerade at Lexington Opera House, with participation from educators, clubs, and literary figures across Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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Metz
Diplomats School
Act
Pennsylvania
Price
Gilroy
Wiliam J. Gaynor
Association Hall
Bond
Fulton Streets
Stephen S. Wise
Free Synagogue
William A. Prendergast
Francis Bacon
George Frederick Elliott
Charles Edward Russell
Carrie Chapman-Catt
Grace C. Strachan
Guard Borden Milk CO
City News
Sailant Worked
G. L. Rives
FE. M. Shepard
William J. Wallace
Wallace, Butler & Brown
Wall Street
George S. Fives
Philadelphia Police
C. M. Schwab
Mann
Yonkers Tract
Judge Pritchard
Chicago-New York Electric Line
New Orleans Bank
Metropolitan Line
Metropolitan Steamship Company
Eastern Steamship Company
Mastern Steamship Company
Jackson
Gomery
Frog
Mr. Jackson
Hamilton
Mr. Montgomery
Grossman
Norman J. Fitzsimmons
Montgomery
Vidaver
Astor House
Metropolitan Opera House
Osrap Hammerstein
Nog Jackson
Frederick F. Searing
No. 7
Fig.simmons
Griesman
Untermyers Office
MR. Untermyers
Jackson Yeterday
Sanuel Untermyer
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Hamilton Bank
American Museum of Natural Hisory
Zoological Gardens
Equal Suffrage League
Astor
Social and Industriellab
Traffic Club of
Amer
Brown University Cin
Knickerbocker
University of Michigan Club
Asta
Lawrence Mulligan Association
Lexington Opera House
Charles E Hughes Regue Hiean Club
16Th Assembly Luistriet 4 Star Casino
Interborough Association of Women ‘Teachers
Fultos Bond Streets
E. HH. Babbitt
Libecil Club
Mott Hall
Dominich Clark
Broome
St East Ich Street
Minnie D Kuhn
St. Nicholses Aue
227Th Street
Euwin A. Hayes
Avenue A
Tirhan Streets
William I Scandlin
Public Schooler
Suffolk
Ravine
Jennie Mc Davis
Growt
West Side
Neigt House
West Seth Street
Frank Sueburn
Uncle Sams
Young Men's Benevolent Smn
East Broadway
Benjan G Yenberg
168Th Street
Ener Avenue
J Newton Gray
Bainbridge
von Finnetstein Mountford
Palestine
Main Street
Ces Aeter
Spain
Thony
Ptely
Jerome Avenue
Henrietta Steke- Seeley
Schnet
St. Walenpert
A. Seymour
Liszt
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