Evils of congestion discussed at city conference
A three session conference at the American Museum of Natural History led by Governor Hughes examined population congestion in the city. Dr Felix Adler blamed commercialism for overcrowded tenements, urged moves to undeveloped lands, and warned that parks could raise taxes. Eugene Philbin urged enforcement of laws and public awakening to relieve the problem. Immigrant impacts and slum conditions were discussed by Lee Frankel Amy Bernerdy Speranza and others with health and social welfare leaders noting schools as social centers and calls for more parks and housing reform.
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America Museum of Natural History
Hughes
Felix Adler
Adier
Euch
Henry M. Leipziger
Board of Education
Adler Rose
Leipziger
Dr. Adler
Adler
Eugene A. Philbin
Metropolitan Parks Association
Sime
Eg. Leipziger
Tach
E. R. L. Gould
Schurben Homes Company
Robert Watchorn
Lee K. Frankel
Immiert
Amy A. Bernerdy
Cellege
OC. Speranza
Garlord S. White
Administrator for Dunlop Estate Appointed by Surrogate
Samuel H. Dunlop of No location Seventh avenue was named administrator for the estate of his uncle Dr. Clark W. Dunlop who died in the city. The estate totals 256000 in real estate and 9000 in cash and securities. The widow Mrs Eliza C Dunlop is described as over seventy five and unable to manage affairs. Citations are directed to the widow and to nephews Edward and Luniep to show cause why Dunlop should be appointed administrator.
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Samuel H. Dunlop
Noxu Seventh Avenue
Thomes
Fiie
Clark W. Dunlop
Eliza C. Dunlop
Dunlop
Mittes
Ete Thomas
de. Dunlop
Edward
Run Luniep
Frederick Tikman
Galt
Dunlap
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Tubes
Mr. Rice
Rice
Pennsylvania
East River
Bronx
Manhattan
Liberal immigration urged by National Liberal League
Resolutions adopted at the annual meeting favored liberal immigration and the deportation of alien criminals. It called for extending citizenship, free rail transport to immigrants and native workers moving to unpopulated regions, and opposed discrimination against Southern Italian and Chinese immigrants. It also rejected attempts to raise the Japanese question at that time.
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Enmuel
National Liberal Immigration League
Italy
Virginia
China
Engineers Name Steinetz Talks on Steam Turbines
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers met in the Engineering Song last evening. P Steinetz addressed as a society member and former president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. He spoke on steam flow through passages of a turbine and related engineering issues.
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Agrican Society of Mechanical Engineers Md
P. Steinetz
Society
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
General A Company
Dr. Steinmetz
Burglary Scare At Irving Place Home
Mrs JohnS Foster wife of Bowery Savings Bank president reported burglars in her No 54 Irving Place home early today prompting East 22d Street station reserves to rush to the scene. No burglars were found. The alarm also revealed a recent break in at Austro Hungarian Consul General Stephen Hansier s No 123 East 17th Street with valuables stolen but no suspects or missing items found tonight.
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Johns. Foster
Foster
Bowery Savings Bank
Irving Place
East 22d Street
Stephen Hansier
East 17Th Street
Mrs Evelyn Thaw to sue for annulment of Thaw marriage
Mrs Evelyn Nesbit Thaw announces an action for annulment of her marriage to Harry K. Thaw now in Matteawan Asylum. Grounds are that Thaw was insane at the time of marriage on April 4, 1915. Proceedings to be filed in New York County with counsel for both sides confirming intent and possible alimony or fees. Thaw reportedly defenses the suit.
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Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Matteawan
Thaw
A. Russell Peabody
Daniel O'Reilly
Belmont
Franklin Bartlett
William Thaw
Harry Thaw
Peabody
O'Reilly
Evelyn Thaw
Harry
Mr. O'Reilly
New York County
Prospects Bright for Mechanics and Traders Bank Reopening
Temporary receivers Henry Haggerty and Joseph B Ford report improving outlook for reopening the Mechanics and Traders Bank with a target mid May. They paid the Clearing House 23000, wiping out that debt, and claim remaining collateral now valued between 3 and 3.3 million dollars.
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Mechanics and Traders’ Bank
Henry Haggerty
Joseph B. Ford
Ford
Kronprinzessin Cecilie lands on the minute after long voyage
The Kronprinzessin Cecilie reached Cherbourg and docked at 5 p m after a six day run from Cherbourg, despite ten hour delays due to storms. Captain Hegemann asserts the exact six day voyage, averaging 21.81 knots and 581 miles from Monday noon to yesterday noon. Passengers Van Horne and Duntler note improved European view of American securities as investors regain confidence.
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Kronprinzessin Cecilie
Cherbourg
Hégemann
Kronprinzessin
William C. van Horne
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Europe
America
J. W. Duntler
Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company
Auerbach testifies in Vidaver extortion case hearing
Herbert P. Auerbach appeared at the district attorney's office under a grand jury subpoena and was summoned to witness in the police court hearing of Nathan Vidaver who faces charges of trying to extort 1500 dollars from W. R. Montgomery. The hearing resumes at 2 pm before Magistrate Herrman in Centre street court.
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Herbert P. Auerbach
Nathan Vidaver
Vidaver
Auerbach
Ten hits a minute as South Dakota arrives at Magdalena Bay
The cruiser South Dakota reaches Magdalena Bay on its shakedown trip from San Francisco, averaging eleven to twelve knots with eight boilers. Admiral Swinburne's squadron plans to sail north tomorrow with cruisers Charleston Milwaukee St Louis and destroyers Perry Preble. The Albany logs a new cruiser trophy in rapid-fire trials, while California stays in harbor with the South Dakota Buffalo and two others.
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South Dakota
Magdalena Bay
Point Loma
San Francisco
Admiral Swinburne
Charleston
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Perry
Preble
Albany
California
Buffalo
Transit Outlook at West Side Y M C A talk
George S. Rice, subway engineer for the Public Service Commission, spoke on traffic facilities at a “transportation night” event hosted by the West Side Y M C A at 320 West 57th Street. Brokers and operators attended with questions about likely near future traffic problems in the metropolitan area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Side
Young Men's Christian Association
West 57Th Street
George S. Rice
Public Service Commission
Albany Breaks Speed and Accuracy Records in Target Practice
Unofficial Navy Department reports indicate higher firing speed and precision this year. The Albany now holds the trophy once won by the Boston, which was decommissioned with its crew transferring to Albany. At Magdalena Bay the Albany averaged ten hits a minute with 65 inch guns, while the St Louis averaged eight and three fourths hits a minute with 1 inch guns.
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Washington
Navy Department
Albany
Boston
Magdalena Bay
St. Louis
Large Midtown deals reshape seven tenements and flats
The Atlantic Realty Company and Strange & Slawson sold Nos 433 and 435 7th Ave and 168 West 3th St, two five story and one four story tenement houses for about 425000, with seller basis around 300000 eighteen months earlier. Multiple other parcels change hands: Hall J. How & Co. sold four lots at 179th St and Broadway. Hugo Cohen and Folsom Brothers completed lengthy transfers.
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Hie
Atlantic Realty Company
Strange & Slawson
7Th Ave
Hall J. How & Co
179Th St
Broadway
Samuel Kempner
Robert McGarity
Fredenbury & Lounsbury
Hugo Cohen
Harris Sturtz
Folsom Brothers
Mary A. May
High Stoop
East
Samuel Snow
David Stevenson Brewing Company
Albert B. Ashforth
N. L
L. Ottinger
E. C. Bingham
Waldorf-Astoria
West 97Th St
George A. White
Joseph B. Hughes
West 96Th St
Post & Reese
George P. Messerey
East 71St St
Max Hernstein
Thave
G. Freedman
Niels D. W. Jorgensen
L. L. Chevanney
98Th St
Mr. Chevanney
Whitney Place
Yorktown Heights
Westchester County
V. Herzog
J. J. Pittman
Hannah J. Frankel
E. Smith
East 135Th St
Edward Muller
Forest Ave
Josth J. Herzog
Herzog & Cohen
J. Pittman
Jath. St
Avenue D
Unionport
East Side House to Get Marble Facade and Additions
Plans filed with Buildings Superintendent Murphy detail remodeling four story and basement house at 19 East 73d Street for Mrs N F Palmer. Cost $40,000 with marble trimmed limestone facade, Colonial design, central entrance, second story balcony and copper mansard roof. Architect F T Dodge also drew up changes for six story Hudson and North Moore streets building for the estate of John W Cartrie, including more windows and an electrical elevator for Elberfeld Color Manufacturing Co. as lessee at $25,000. Additional plans cover enlarging 166 Lexington Avenue residence into stores and workrooms, owner Frank Fitzer, with architect Charles E Binge. Manhattan plans list three five story stable warehouses at 6 to 509 East 50th Street for Uhifelder & Weinberg at $60,000 and a one story laundry at 165th Street west of St Nicholas Ave for Murray & Hill at $1,000.
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Murphy
East 73d St
N. F. Palmer
F. T. Dodge
Hudson and
North Moorests
John W. Cartrie
Elberfeld Color Manufacturing Company
Henri Fouchaux
Lexington
Frank Fitzer
Charles E Binge
Manhattan
S0th St
Uhifelder & Weinberg
Transit boom calls for subways to curb looming crowding
Mr. Rice warns fares and population will surge if transit stays stagnant, citing 1900s growth and a 1910 forecast of about 1.55 billion in fares. He argues rapid subway expansion, including Brooklyn tunnel operations and the Van Cortlandt extension, is essential to avoid deplorable conditions.
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Mr. Rice
Brooklyn
Flatbush Ave
Long Island Railroad
Montauk
Long Island
San Francisco
van Cortlandt
Bronx
Manhattan
12Th Street
103D Street
Fourth Avenue
Rapid Transit Board
Broadway
McDonald
Washington Heights
Hoosac
Foreclosures and sales posted in East Side real estate auction
In the Real Estate Exchange Salesrooms Joseph P Day sold a three story dwelling at 299 East 142d Street to Bertha Pollack for 7 50 with about 44 owed. A vacant plot on Third Ave near 175th St sold to J W Cornish for 11 000 with about 13 000 due. Other adjourned sales and multiple exrs sales were listed with amounts due and taxes.
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Real Estate Exchange
Joseph P. Day
Bertha Pollack
Third Ave
175Th St
J. W. Cornish
Adams St
Brooklyn
Silliman
Ath
Logan
Joseph
Maison Ave
100Th St
State Bank
W Glatzmayer
Samuel Strasbourger
James L. Welle
Amsterdam
John Murray
MH Epstein
G B Hayes
M S Levine
Cypress Ave
James McLaughlin
Max Levine
van Mater Stilwell
Donald McLean
Mob Lynchings Reports In Mississippi Town
In Van Cleave, Mississippi, a mob of about thirty men fatally harmed four Black people Dave Poe Tom Ranston and two Jenkins brothers after a warehouse fire at Sam Byrd’s store. Authorities say the blaze was linked to an attempted robbery.
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Mobile
Dave" Poe
Tom Ranston
Jenkins Brothers
van Cleave
Miss
Biloxi
Sam Byrd
Rob Byrd
van Cleavs
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New York City
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134Th St
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Mercer ST
Johnn Tiger
New Jersey Real Estate
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W. L. Brown
Bridge St
Ersey City Heights Real Estate
Gorme - Mee
Jackson Ave
FOYE
Foye Place
Jersey
M. ” Levine
Ruland & Whiting CO
West End Ave
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James
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Tissot’s Bible
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