City gas rate case seen as landmark ruling say Burr
Assistant City Counsel W P Burr discusses the United States Circuit Court decision in the Consolidated Gas Company franchise dispute. He notes the ruling limits return on franchises yet allows recovery on tangible assets, and explains an appeal to the Supreme Court will follow after the decree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. P. Burr
Public Service Commission
Judge Heagh
United States Circuit Court
Hiengh
Consolidated Gas Company
Hough
United States Supreme Court
Burr
Orctober
Act of Assembly
Eastern Livestock Sanitary Association Meeting Called to Halt Diseased Cattle
At the Hotel Victoria eight states attended a meeting of the Eastern Livestock Sanitary Association to combat the sale of diseased cattle. Speakers urged stricter health certificates and examinations before shipping cattle across state lines, citing tuberculosis in cattle in transit and urging penalties for falsified certificates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Livestock Sanitary Association
Hotel Victoria
New York
William H. Kelir
New York Department of Agriculture
A.D. Merwin
United States Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Jure
Leonard Pearson
Pennsylvania
New Haven Rail Rule Suspension Extended To March Twenty-Eight
New Haven authorities suspend the piecework rule for the shops pending negotiations with multiple unions. A final decision on whether the measure will take effect will be reached by March twenty eight after further talks. Colonel William H. Early, 60s, and Ada Comfort of Somerville New Jersey announce their marriage, his third, in March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
William H. Ea
New Jersey National Guard
Ada Comfort
Somerville
N. J
Colonel Early
State Farm Colony topic to be discussed at charity meeting
Edmond Kelly will discuss A State Farm Colony at the monthly Charity Organization Society conference. The program includes Robert W. Hebberd answering Does the Farm Colony Plan Provide Independence and self Support for the Dependent and Unemployed. Homer Folks will speak on financial aspects and potential self funding from farm products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmond Kelly
Charity Organization Society
United Charities
Fast
Robert W. Hebberd
Department of Public Charities
Homer Folks
State Chartier Aid Association
Premier predicts room for Americans in Prairie provinces
J Louis March 12 Rodman P Roblin Manitoba premier and agriculture minister toured St. Louis on his way to Oklahoma and Texas after Parliament adjourned. He spoke on Western Canada farming prospects saying Manitoba Alberta and Saskatchewan can absorb about 20 000 Americans as rail service expands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Louis
Rodman P. Roblin
Manitoba
Louis
Oklahoma
Texas
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Alberta
Saskatchewen
Denies Charge of Scale Fixing in Brooklyn Trial
Oliver Spitzer dock superintendent for American Sugar Refining Company faced defense opening in U S Circuit Court Brooklyn. Prosecution rested on witnesses linking to a fixed scale found at Williamsburg dock and an alleged bribe attempt to hide the discovery. Defense motion to dismiss denied. Spitzer testified to deny the accusations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Spitzer
American Sugar Refining Company
United States Circuit Court
Brooklyn
Ricihiaré Parr
J. ©. Brezinski
Wiliamsburg
Spitzer
Clarence Lexow
Itzer
Flour Jobbers Hold Sixth Annual Dinner at Hotel Astor
The flour trade of the New York Produce Exchange held its sixth annual dinner at the Hotel Astor under the Flour Jobbers Association. About 125 men from the largest mills attended. Grenville C. Parrin served as toastmaster and William H. Douglas spoke on growth and opportunities, warning that trade could shift to Canada if New York does not secure its share. Peter Henderson and A. L. Goetzman also addressed the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Produce Exchange
Hotel Astor
Flour Jobbers’ Association
Grenville C. Parrin
The
Produce Exchange
William H. Douglas
Exchange
Douglas
Te Exchange
United States
Canada
Montreal
New York
Peter Henderson
Jobbers’ Association
A. L. Goetzman
Circus Freaks To Stay In Barnum & Bailey Show
Barnum and Bailey announce that the freaks will continue to appear when the circus opens at Madison Square Garden next Thursday night. Officials say abolishing the freak department never crossed their minds as fans await the museum of curiosities and the famed showman’s legacy of collecting oddities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnum & Bailey
Madison Uare Garden
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Barnum
Death ends skunk cabbage feast in Hackensack
Coroner investigates three deaths from eating skunk cabbage root near Norwood. Five to nine year olds die. two more boys aged eight and nine are seriously ill. Names linked to Frank Bucala and Sylvester Martini families. Coroner suggests sending the stomachs to Columbia University for analysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia University
Public hearing probes Long Acre Electric Company finances
Commissioner Maltbie continued the Public Service Commission inquiry into Long Acre Electric Light and Power Company asking authority to issue 10 000 in stock and 56 000 000 in bonds. Witness Henry W King said assets barely exceed the franchise and the company carries debts and a large outstanding bond issue with few receipts or real property. The Manhattan Transit Company controls 46 of the stock and several contracts are inactive. The next hearing was set for 1 2:33 p.m. Tuesday with a possible price reduction proposal for 16 candlepower lights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malthbie
Public Service Commission
Long Acre Electric Light and Power Company
Henry W. King
the Tribune
Maltbie
Manhattan Transit Company
Issioner Maltbie
Edison Company
Brick attack at Local 98 meeting shocks city
Seven union members waited for the secretary at Local 98 of the United Teamsters at 120 Cherry Street when a brick smashed a window and two shots rang out. Bullets flew through a partition into the secretary’s office as assailants fled. No injuries reported. police blame a rival teamsters’ group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Teamsters of America
No. 120
Cherry Street
Teamsters
Piano Movers Serve as Pallbearers for Large Coffin
An unusual funeral for Mrs. Margaret Morgan at 491 West 53d Street featured six piano movers lowering a special coffin built for her nearly four hundred pound frame. The coffin was disassembled, transported to her home, assembled in her apartments, then lowered to ground level with block and tackle amid a large crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Morgan
West
Streep
Pressley Not Lynched in Sword's Creek Inquiry
A March report from Lebanon Wa says Jackson Pressley was not seized or lynched over the Sword's Creek murder. Officials in Mendota caution the tale arose from local excitement aiming to mobilize a mob, with no evidence tying Pressley to the killings of George Call and John Mutter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lristo
Lebanon
Jackson Pressley
George Call
John Mutter
Sword's Creek
Pressles
Sword’s Creek
Actress Hitchcock Trial Proceeds After Jurors Withdrawn
In Manhattan the Raymond Hitchcock case advances as two jurors withdrew and the trial continued in the Criminal Branch. Mrs. Mary Von Hagen testified that her sixteen year old daughter, Helen Von Hagen, had ridden with Hitchcock several times and was later housed at Great Neck incidents. Flora Whiston and Elsie Veecks, aged sixteen, were also involved in rides and stays with the actor at various New York locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Hitchcock
Supreme Court
Mary von Hagen
Helen von Hagen
Hitchcock
Frank Garvan
von Hagen
M. de Witt
West 41Si Street
Flora Whiston
Garvan
Elsie Veecks
Great Neck
Long Island
Children’s Society Shelter
Garden Theatre
Elsie Voecks
Montauk Theatre
Brooklyn
Grand Opera House
Manhattan
Sixth Avenue
Dirt Street
Whiston
West 41St Street
Big NYC Property Deals Reported in Vesey Street Auctions
Several large property sales reported yesterday include John H. Deane selling block front property on Broadway between 152nd and 153rd streets to a building firm. William A. White & Sons and Charles B. Van Valen selling for James Gibson Jr. a four story building on Maiden Lane to be leased long term. John R. Davidson selling Saxonia, a six story apartment house at Broadway and 138th Street for $325,000. Numerous other sales in Vesey Street rooms, including addresses on Washington Avenue, East 14th Street, Greenwich Street, West 26th Street, and 3rd Avenue, with prices ranging up to $42,000. An auction budget for today lists parcels on 156th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, with taxes and amounts due noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Deane
Charlies Tbarney
Broadway
Wiliam A. White & Sons
Charles B. van Valen
James Gibson
John R. Davidson
Times Realty and Construction Company
James Madden
Saxonia
138Th St
Vesey St
Joseph P. Dar
Washington Avenue
Thomas Lenane
14Th St
John A. Aaron
E. J. Hogan
West 26Th St
65Th St
Houston St
1St Ave
Thaw Papers Served at Matteawan in Nesbit Thaw Suit
Supreme Court orders personal service on Harry Kendall Thaw at Matteawan asylum in the Nesbit Thaw marriage annulment case. A process server delivered summons to Thaw during dinner, to be officially handed to the asylum superintendent as legal guardian. Thaw accepted the documents and returned to his meal saying he would forward them to his lawyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
O'German
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Thaw
Matteawan
Pigeon Loft Raid Nets Burglary Suspects in Williamsboro
Police raid on a Brooklyn pigeon loft operation at 18 Humboldt street Williamsboro uncovers bureau drawers and two closets full of fancy pigeons. Henry Steiger John Gerrig and Joseph Jacobs arrested on burglary charges as detectives recover tumblers pouters carriers and other birds while suspects deny wrongdoing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stagg Street
Williamsboro
Brooklyn
McCauley
Salvey and
Ferris
No. 18
Humboldt Street
Henry Steiger
John Gerrig
Joseph Jacobs
Bushwick Avenue
Water system expansion urged for Central Park
Park Commissioner Henry Smith told Tribune that the Park Department needs 100 dollars from the Board of Estimate to extend the water system in Central Park. The plan envisions cast iron pipes replacing old concrete and wrought iron, with expansion to 9th Street on both sides possible for 135 thousand dollars. He also said Police Department, Central Park precinct, will be under park control to issue direct orders and warned of arrests if taxicab oil smoke nuisance persists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Smith
Manhattan
Richmond
Tribune
Park Department
Board of Estimate
Central Park
S@h street
71Th Street
59Th Street
72D Street
9Th Street
Smith
Police Department of
Cormminer
Geissenhainer verdict set aside on appeal
Miss Elizabeth Butcher of Sea Cliff Long Island sued for one third of the estate of Frederick W Geissenhainer and was awarded 17000 dollars. The Appellate Division ordered a new trial and set aside the verdict. Butcher who was Geissenhainers companion and attendant for seventeen years sued Jacob Geissenhainer executor in Freehold New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Butcher
Sea Cliff
Long Island
Frederick W. Geissenhainer
Supreme Court
Miss Butcher
Geissenhainer
Jacob Geissenhainer
Frederick
Freehold
N. J
Died Seeking Priest's Blessing at Brooklyn Church
An unidentified man collapsed and died of heart disease while approaching the rectory of St. Michael's Church at 42nd Street and Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn. He told bystanders he wished to see a priest before he died. He collapsed before any medical aid or clergy arrived. the body was conveyed to the Fourth Avenue police station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Michael's Church
Fourth Avenue
Missionary Convention Closes at Exposition Hall Pittsburg
The first international convention of the Young People's Missionary Movement closed with a monster evening meeting in Exposition Hall Pittsburg March 12. Hartford Connecticut based Dr William Douglas Mackenzie president of Hartford Theological Seminary was the principal speaker tonight. The afternoon program featured denominational rallies in principal churches of the Gide movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Young People's Missionary Movement
Exposition Hall
William Douglas Mackenzie
Hartford Theological Seminary
Hartford
Conn
Office building to be a flats project and more
Plans filed by Buildings Superintendent Murphy seek converting the top two stories of a five story Broadway and 72d street office and store building into flats for lessee Paul Ryck. Other filings include converting part of Ursuline Academy at 137 139 Henry Street into clergy dwelling quarters, enlarging 29 West 53d Street into a four story dwelling at 10,000 dollars, remodeling 52 Fifth Avenue with new bay windows for Mortimer Schiff, and a four story Cortlandt Street office building with workshops for Frank Sakser at 82 Cortlandt Street costing 14 000 dollars. Architects Hedman and Schoen. Richard Berger. Theodore Visscher. C P H Gilbert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphy
Broadway
David S. Brown
Paul Ryck
Hedman & Schoen
Ursuline Academy
St. Theresa's
Henry St
Rutgers Street
Richard Berger
James H. Ottley
Fifth Ave
Mortimer L. Schiff
Theodore Visscher
C. P. H. Gilbert
Manhattan
Frank Sakser
Cortlandt St
Glynn Leases City Office Space in City Investing Building
Controller Martin H Glynn has leased the entire twenty-ninth floor of the City Investing Building at Cortlandt Street and Broadway for the state transfer tax corporation tax and inheritance tax departments. The departments move from 237 Broadway. Emmanuel G Howard B Kullard Frank E Smith and 5 Herbert Wolfe have also leased suites in the same building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin H. Glynn
City Investing
Cortlandt St
Broadway
Emmanuel G
Howard B. Kullard
Frank E. Smith
Herbert Wolfe
Dyckman Taxpayers Association backs transit and bulkheads
At a recent meeting the Dyckman Taxpayers Association adopted resolutions urging a trolley line across the 207th street bridge and paving Sherman avenue and 207th and Fifth streets. A committee was appointed to campaign for bulkheads along Harlem River streets to provide docking facilities for upper-borough building operations in need of wharfage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dyckman Taxpayers’ Association
207Th St
Sherman Ave
207Th
Fifith Sts
Harlem River
18Th Stone
Michael J. Adrian Corporation Incorporation Filed
Albany March 12 The Michael J Adrian Corporation of New York filed a certificate of incorporation with the Secretary of State to deal in real estate with a capital of 1782.00. Directors are J M Adrian C L Adrian and F L Adrian all of New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Michael J. Adrian
Private Sales Market Transactions Across Several New York Districts
A series of property transfers including J Hopkins Smith Jr purchasing a four story stone front dwelling at 113 Fast L4rd st, Lion Jaeger selling a five story flat at 200 Eighth Ave near 136th St, and Solomer L. Kaye handling sales at 506 and 505 West Laith St. Louis Becker & Co. sold for Joh H. Pratt a two story dwelling at 586 West Laith St near Audubon Ave. Other deals include a six story tenement at 50 Norfolk St near Broome, Bates & Oesting selling a new five story flat at Doxtmontit rent S, and S. Loewenthal selling Nos 1H and 1051 Prospect Ave. to Charles Guaxbaum. Smithe & Co. closed northwest corner of 6th St and Macombs Road and adjacent lots, while E Osborne Smithe & Co. handled Kaiser’s sale of the Featherbed Lane area plots and three Plympton Ave lots. BR Coviter, J J Pittman, and Ernst Cahn Realty Co. sold 219 Burnside Ave northwest corner of Anthony Ave, a three family dwelling on irregular 200x95 foot lot, with William Bell taking title. The same brokers listed 2202 to 2307 Camberling Ave consisting of three dwellings on the Dixie plot. Lizzie Cahn and others hold title to Stebbins Ave properties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R & Heese
Latham Reed
Fast
Tis J Hopkins Smit, Jr
Lions Jaeger
Eighth Ave
136Th St
Solomer L. Kaye
West Laith St
Bates & Oesting
August K. Hrasche
S. Loewenthal
Charlies Guxbaum
Prospect
E. Osborne Smithe & Co
J. F. Kaiser
Th St
Macombs Road
Nelson Ave
Plympton Ave
BR Coviter
J. J. Pittman
Ernst Cahn Realty Company
Burnside Ave
Anthony Ave
William Bell
Cambrelieng Ave
Dixie
Lizzie Cahn
Stebbins Ave
Real Estate Board to Meet on March 1 for Land Title Act Support
The Real Estate Board of Brokers schedules a meeting at No 1 Broadway at 3 PM on Thursday March 1 to advocate passage of the land title registration act. Several property leases and sales are reported: Harvey N Bloomer leases in Nauss Building 201 West 125th St to Henry Weissman and Joseph Levy for United Merchants Realty for five years. Folsom Brothers lease multiple East Houston Street premises to Howard Conkling M Casey Paul Edelman A Kibande and H Weiderman. Cur Company leases 4 story building at No mM Bank St to May Irwin for five years. Frederick A Booth leases upper floors at Nos 5% and 7 Front St to Tomson & Co. Mrs Margaret Sage loans 434000 on 12 story building at 22nd St and 5th Ave. Rev G W Douglas buys dwelling at 54 East 7th St from receivers of Jere Lyons Building. A Hollander sells 728 Franklin Ave Brooklyn four story double flat with stores on 27x100 ft lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Real Estate Board of Brokers
Broadway
Harvey N. Bloomer
Wendelin J. Nauss
Nauss
West 125Th St
Henry Weissman
Joseph (. Levy
United Merchants’ Realty and Improvement Company
Folsom Brothers
Howard Conkling
East Houston St
M. Casey
Paul Edelman
A. Kibande
Ear Houston St
H. Weiderman
Cur Company
No mM Bank
G. W. Douglas
East 7Th St
Jere ©. Lyons
A. Hollander
Franklin Ave
Fire drills avert repeat of Collinwood blaze at Peckville school
In Scranton territory three hundred pupils watched as No 1 School Peckville caught fire. An informal bucket brigade formed and teachers and janitors quickly fought the flames. Pupils followed a practiced drill, leaving the building in orderly fashion as authorities contained the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Penn
Collinwood
No. 1
Peckville
Capitol Case to End Today in Harrisburg Trial
After about seven weeks of trial the Capitol conspiracy case nears verdict with jury to hear final arguments. The second prosecution is scheduled for March 2 involving W P Snyder W L Mathues and J M Shumaker，以及 Congressman H Burd Cassel and architect Joseph M Huston slated for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Penn
Capitol
W. P. Snyder
W. L. Mathues
J. M. Shumaker
H. Burd Cassel
Joseph M. Huston
Bronx Building Plans on Steinhester Avenue
Plans show a frame dwelling house by owner Joseph Wagner with architect Turnbull Avenue detail and a coal pockets project at Zerega to Westchester Avenue. Additional property on B Fhe Avenue lists owner A EB Bennett with RH Gilteapia as architect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steinhester Ave
Joseph Wagner
Turnbull Ave
Zerega
Westchester Ave
EB Bennett
Gilteapia
Searspasterersey
Civil War officer honored at Sandy Hook naming
Governor Ford learned from adjutant general F C C Ainsworth that the new battery at Sandy Hook will be named Battery Arrowsmith in honor of Lieutenant Colonel George Arrowsmith a Monmouth County native killed at Gettysburg on July 1 1833 while commanding the 157th New York Infantry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Governor’s Island
Marehtz
War Department
Washington
Forts Levert
McKinler
Preble
Williams
McConston
N. H
Ethan Alien
Vi Wr Arsenal
Andrews
Banks
Revere Rodman
Strong Warren
Mass
Adams
Greble
Mannstielt Rl
Plattsburg Barracks
Watervliet Arsenal
West Point
Hamilton
Jay Niagara
Ontario
Porter Schuyler
Slocum
Terry
Totten
Wadsworth
Wood
Monroe
San Juan
Jas. N. Allison
Ass't Comsy
Ien
Trenton
Governor Ford
F. C C. Ainsworth
Sandy Hook
Arrowsmith
George Arrowsmith
Monmouth County
Gettysburg
New York Infantry
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Public Service
Enix
Arthur H. Masten
Judge Hough
Safeguard Meat Supply
N.Y
Pauceo
New Yorker
Theretavrs
Soirees Artistiques
Barnum & Bailey Management
Bergen Woods
Long Acre Company Hearing
Public Service Commission Investigaton
Pressley
Girl
Barney Estate
Maiden Lane
Joseph P
156Th St
Amsterdam
Niemer Co Et al
Arnstein & L
Emil Goldmark
Gide
Nassau St
City Hall Park
Brooklyn Bridge
Subway
Frank Danby
Sally Snape
Kidderminster
London
Macmillan Company Publishers
3Th Ave
Harlem
N. Y
Gow Roads
Eee Field Griffin & CO
Sth Ave
Glynn
City Hotels
HOTEL
Grenoble
56TH ST. AND _— AY
Trint
New Bridge
Epartment OF the Interior
Unitedtates Patent Office
Washington, DC
Patent Office
Congress
Edward 5. Moore
James Rudolph Garfield
States Customs Service
Port OF New York
Seizur
Washington Street
Custom House
Sampion
H.C. Stuart
ERS
Realty
O Lofts
Mercer ST
John Ger
New York City
City
Whiting Co
Beekman SF. Oo
Sete St
Edgecombe
2Th St
Ooo
West 45Th
End Ave
Ball Tiverside Park
Country Property
Sals
Penneyla Railroad
Mark Tocker
OX Sound
Box
Montclair, N. J
Westport
Seashore
Fitch
Aaroet
Ardner
KF. D
George K Horton
Bedford St. Lilu
Sining
SN. Y
Leary
Ossia
Capitol Case
Bronx
South Bay
Ideal
Cranford
Ferguson & van Name
M Priest
New Jersey Real Estate
Ersey City Heights Real Estate
Goesley
Jackson Ave
R. R. of
Bath
Jersey City
Sentleman
Bayside Realty Co
Ccan Ave
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