Fourth Avenue subway funding row stirs Brooklyn politics
Public Service Commission faced with Corporation Counsel refusal to endorse contract forms for the Fourth Avenue subway. O'Brien says contracts are correct in form but lacks appropriation to complete work. Advertising for bids expected soon as officials debate funding sources and approvals.
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Public Service Commission
Brooklyn
John L. O'Brien
Willcox
Board of Estimate
Fourth Avenue
Pendleton
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Metz
Protest Over PSC Cable Legality Near Harlem Tracks
Albert H. Harris, counsel for the New York Central, protested to the Public Service Commission over its attempt to rule on the legality of overhead high voltage cables along tracks north of Harlem within city limits. John H. O'Brien, Water Supply, Gas and Electricity Commissioner, complained the company had no right or permission to string the cables. Harris argued Eustis should limit inquiry to construction.
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Albert H. Harris
New York Central
Public Service Commission
Harlem
John H. O'Brien
Water Supply
Gal and Electricity
Harris
Eustis
NYC and Metropolitan Street Railway receive rehab loan certificates
Judges approve the issuance of 3.5 million dollars in certificates for rehabilitation of the New York City Railway and Metropolitan Street Railway lines and equipment. The one year certificates bear 6.5 percent interest payable semi annually and will supersede existing mortgages. Receivers must keep a separate account for proceeds, to be used only for property improvements and maintenance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City Railway Company
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Ryan denies Julian's charge in Manhattan inquiry
Thomas F. Ryan refused the charges leveled by Louis Julian and said he would testify to dispute Julian's statements about the Metropolitan Street Railway Company and a Supreme Court justice election. He also indicated willingness to testify if summoned. Edward M. Bassett will speak on the Public Service Commission at Public School 165 in a Board of Education event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas F. Ryan
Jerome
Louis &. Julian
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Supreme Court
Ryen
Grand
Fisks of
Manhattan
Metropolitan Street Hallway Company
Wall and Cortlandt Street Ferries
M. Bassett
Edward M. Bassett
Public Service Commission
108Th Street
Amsteriain Avenue
Wnter
Board of Education
Dumas
Hubert Hunter
Cornell
Yorkville
Bingham
Board of Aldermen
Secret Service
Robert Hunter
Railway Regulation in New York History Note
An appendix to the Pub- Me Service Comission annual report outlines early state moves to supervise public utilities. It notes railroad regulation began about 1839, the Board of Railroad Commissioners formed 1855, and its then brief existence. The Rapid Transportation Commission of 1866 proposed New York underground railways.
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New York
Free Board of Railroad Commissioners
Howeve
Rapid Transportation Commission
Senate
George H. Andrews
H. BR. Leow Ang Cheres G Cornell
John T. Hartman
Alfred W. Craven
Croton Board
Bronx Inquiry Reveals Waste and Payroll Overcharges
At the Haffen inquiry in The Bronx, James Mc Ginley reported a $90,644 overcharge after analyzing highway engineer payrolls. Inspections showed no balance between engineers' reports and the assessment fund while several officials acknowledged payrolls for a worker rarely on duty. An architect testified that Blue mer plans were used for the Bronx Courthouse, implicating fraud in the plan replacement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bronx
Haffen
James McGinley
Bureau of Highways
McGinley
Oscar Bluemner
West 1Ist Street
Bluemner
Michael J. Garvin
No Cholera Found Rhein Freed From Quarantine
The North German Lloyd liner Rhein arriving Saturday was released after Health Officer inspection. Passengers bound for New York and Baltimore disembarked. ship disinfected at quarantine as precaution. A steerage passenger from Russia, Catherine Lehmann, had intestinal illness but no cholera found. Seamen from Wakiva under observation may be commented on today.
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New York
Baltimore
Catherine Lehmann
Russia
Rhein
Doty
Swinburne Island
Woman carries child to hospital after Newark accident
Nine year old Andrew Vehala was fatally injured near his Newark home on Camden street when struck by an automobile driven by Gustave Jacobson of 282 South Suh street. Jacobson was captured after a chase by a mounted policeman. The boy suffered a fractured skull and multiple injuries. Mrs. Mary Wethelm of 46 Camden street carried him to City Hospital.
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Andrew Vehala
Camden Street
Newark
Gustave Jacobson
South Suh Street
Jacobson
Mary Wethelm
City Hospital
Speeding Youth Fined Twice for Fast Motorcycle Dash
Jesse Seligman aged eighteen lived at 66 West 52d Street and was stopped at List Street and Central Park West for speeding. He claimed his bike wouldn t start but sped forty miles an hour down Amsterdam Avenue before stalling. Magistrate Walsh heard the case as Patrolman Beckert intervened. Seligman was fined five dollars for the first offense and ten dollars for the escape dash. He warned his father would confiscate the machine if arrested again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Seligman
West 52d Street
Albert J. Seligman
List Street
Central Park West
Beckert
Walsh
West Side Court
Seligman
Amsterdam Avenue
Appleton Chauffeur Held On Speeding Charge
Fred Handlett a Brooklyn chauffeur employed by R R Appleton was arrested yesterday afternoon and held in Harlem court in 6 bail for speeding. Miss Rose Appleton and four friends were in the car. Miss Appleton telephoned her father who posted bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Handlett
Willow Street
Brooklyn
Civil Service
R. Ross Appleton
Joralemor Street
Harlem Court
Miss Rose Appleton
Miss Appleton
Boy Run Down by Car Driven by Former Champion Rider
Ten year old Charles Entright of 446 West 44th Street was struck at Tenth Avenue and 44th Street by a car driven by Frederick J. Titus former husband of actress Edna May and once a bicycle champion. Titus took the injured boy to Roosevelt Hospital where officials reported serious injuries. He was held in $2 bail for exam today on an assault charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
West 44Th Street
Frederick J. Titus
Edna May
Tenth Avenue
44Th Street
Titus
Roosevelt Hospital
Schooner Lydia Split By Chippewa Then Two Drown
Seattle March 30 A fishing schooner Lydia once a government vessel was cut in two by the steamship Chippewa off the coast. Two crew members drowned while eight others including the captain were rescued by the Chippewa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Lydia
Puget Navigation Company
Judge Platt sentences burglar to twenty seven years
Judge William P. Platt of the County Court at White Plains sentenced James Harlan, a burglar who posed as a yachtsman in evening clothes and carried out thirteen robberies in New Rochelle, Mount Vernon, and Yonkers, to twenty seven years in Sing Sing Prison, the heaviest burglar sentence in Westchester County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William P. Platt
White Plains
James Harlan
New Rochelle
Mount Vernon
Yonkers
Sing Sing
Westchester County
Boat Stuck in City Island Hotel Ballroom
An owner and a boat builder clash after a gasoline launch blocks a City Island hotel ballroom. A Supreme Court injunction by Justice O Gorman barred William J. Graham, ordering tearout to remove the craft if needed.
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City Island
Justice O'Gorman
Ophelia Vail
Supreme Court
William J. Graham
William Clausen Art Sale Sets Prices At Auction
The William Clausen art collection auctioned at 381 Fifth Avenue realized 94725 from 259 lots sold by James P. Silo. Attendance was large and some etchings and French mirrors sold for bargain prices. A three opening mantel mirror fetched 39. The sale continues this afternoon and evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Clausen
Fifth Avenue
James P. Silo
Fire on Ferryboat Montauk Delights Passengers
A blaze aboard the ferryboat Montauk from Hamilton Street Brooklyn to South Ferry destroyed a wagon load of straw used for women hatmaking. Deckhands used extinguishers to keep the fire from spreading beyond the straw as the vessel sped to its slip.
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Montauk
Hamilton Street
Brooklyn
South Ferry
Geyting
Geneva Association Opens New Clubhouse on 44th Street
The International Geneva Association of hotel employees will formally open its remodeled clubhouse at 144 West 44th Street today. Costing $20,000, the building houses a library social hall restaurant buffet billiard room bowling alleys and living rooms for members who may reside there.
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Geneva Association
International Geneva Association
West 44Th Street
Berkman Arrested as Bomb Mystery Deepens in Union Square
Police worked through the day in Minneapolis after Selig Cohen threw a bomb at a mass unemployed meeting in Union Square Park. Alexander Berkman, treasurer of the Anarchist Federation of America, was arrested and released on recognizance. Emma Goldman fled to Canada with others connected to Mother Earth. Authorities investigated letters and signatures linking Berkman to Cohen while others were detained or questioned. The mayor and police chief defended their conduct as officers faced mixed public reaction and a socialist committee planned witness collection and potential charges against police.
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Selig Cohen
Tnion Square Park
Alexander Berkman
Anarchist Federation of America
Warzansky
Berkman
Droege
Mother Earth
Emma Goldman
Voltairine de Cleyre
Hippolye Havel
Minneapolis
Starday
Emma
Cohen
Silverstein
Defence Committee
Philadelphia
de Piau
Weinberg
Hunter
McClelan
General Committee
Socialist Party of New York
Morris Hillquit
Broadway
Joseph Wanhope
Wilshir
Bruno L. Zimm
Unemployed Conference of
New York
J. A. Behringer
Brooklyn
East Mth Street
Berkman Expounds Anarchy After Release From Court
Alexander Berkman returns home in a jubilant mood after court, denying police links to the Union Square outrage. He defends anarchist aims as peaceful education, discusses the Anarchist Federation of America, and clarifies his Frick episode as an act to help workers, likening it to Jesus Christ's sacrifice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Berkman
West 13Th Street
Union Square
Berkman
Hige
Anarchist Federation of America
Cohen
Federation
Democratic Party
Tolstoy
H. C. Frick
Frick
Homestead
Jesus Christ
Labor Storm Over Permits and Socialist Critics
Labor leaders demand a Central Federated Union investigation into claims the Park Department blocked a mass meeting for the unemployed by the Industrial Workers of the World. Delegates say they oppose the IWW but oppose dictating permit decisions. Herman Robinson denies a Park Department ban on Saturday’s demonstration. They attack wealthy self styled socialists like Robert Hunter and J G Phelps Stokes for hypocrisy while criticizing amateurs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Federated Union
Park Department
Industrial Workers of the World
Union Square
Park Board
Herman Robinson
Robert Hunter
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Mr. Hunter
J. E. Pritchard
International Pawers’ and Rammers
Socialists hiss woman speaker over bomb outrage
East Side socialists disavow anarchist links after a Saturday bombing. Yetta Lensky condemns the act, calling for a patrolman as the victim, while Max Liebau defends the movement against a lone madman. The meeting on Forsyth Street ends without a follow up gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Side
Cohen
Noe
Forsyth Street
Max Liebau
Reverend Hillis Witnessed Union Square Bombing
The Rev Dr Newell Dwight Hillis testified at a Methodist preachers meeting about the Union Square bombing on Saturday. He and Dr Dawson saw a young Jew denounce a middleman, rebuked him, and then a pillar of smoke rose as the bomb exploded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newell Dwight Hillis
Union Square
No. 150
Birth Avenue
Dawson
Jewish socialist youth quotes writer near the park
A Jewish young man described as a socialist spoke to a crowd near the park quoting a socialist writer. He spoke of the poor man burdened by two capitalists and of a middle man choking the poor, saying the writer advised the poor to draw a knife and cut the middle man. He said he lives with his family on 15th street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
15Th Street
Public works urged to curb idle labor force
A Brookyn meeting of the Manufactur ers' Association pressed resolutions urging the state and city to accelerate public improvements to provide work for about 180000 unemployed as of March 1. chaired by Justice Crane, the gathering called for an immediate start on public works and a legislative inquiry into industrial depressions. A sanitary repair enforcement resolution on old tene ments was referred to a committee.
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Manufacturers’ Association
Montague Street
Brooklyn
Union Square
Nathan 3. Jonas
Board of Education
Melellan
Frederick E. Crane
Supreme Court
James T. Holle
Revert Baker
Wadsworth Favored for Governor by Chautauqua Republicans
Jamestown reports Chautauqua County Republicans elected delegates to two state conventions. In the 2d District, resolutions favored nominating Speaker James W. Wadsworth for Governor. The Hughes for President candidacy was endorsed in both districts.
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Jamestown
N. Y
Chautauqua County
James W. Wadsworth
Hughes
Brooklyn man pleads guilty to grand larceny in postcards
Joseph Dexter, 32, of 4420 Eighteenth Avenue Brooklyn, admitted stealing postcards worth 4000 from Souvenir Postal Novelty Company. Dexter, a Ridley Memorial Church member, told Magistrate Barlow his share was 4.0. Dexter and co defendant Benjamin Levy, 23, of 235 Penn Street, Brooklyn, are held on $1 bail for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Dexter
Eighteenth Avenue
Brooklyn
Dexter
Ridley Memorial Church
Barlow
Benjamin Levy
Penn Street
Bankruptcy Petitions Filed in U S District Court
The United States District Court saw multiple bankruptcy filings including voluntary cases for George W. Palmer of Kingston and Boleslaw G Jelenski with varied assets and liabilities. Involuntary filings target the Star Café on Fifth Avenue, John L. Jordan & Son on West 28th Street, and Mary H. Pusey Incorporated with substantial debts. Discharges were granted to several debtors and receivers appointed for Burgoyne Hamilton amid claims totaling over $19,000 with assets around $1.40.
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George W. Palmer
Kingston
N. C
Antoinette Bouchton
Catskill
W. S. Shorwell
Broadway
The
Catskill National Bank
C. B. Sage
West Twenty-eighth Street Company
W. Wilson &C O
Kent Street
Brooklyn
Lawrence Tivey
Platt Street
Chelsea Exchange Bank
John Jordan
Fifth Avenue
Mary H. Pusey
East 324 Street
Aitken, Sen & Co
Sth Street
Helen D. Pyle
Elkins Park
Penn
Farmners” National Bank
Reading
John Towin & Co
Spring Street
Beanttablie Guarantee and Trust Company
Wilmington
Del
Sheenbersy & Pernik
August F. Feuss
John McGee
Strauss Drygoods Company
Shendell, Cohen & Bauman
Isaac Rabuchin
Jacob Humeritz
Israel Schult
William Henkel, Jr
Burgoyne Hamilton
Alexander Straus
Hamilton
Bank of North America
Standard Oil Reports Condition to Massachusetts Secretary
Standard Oil Company of New York has filed a statement of its condition with the Massachusetts Secretary of State. The report compares the current year with the previous year, outlining financial and operational figures.
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Standard Oil Company
Boston
Standard Oi Company of
New York
Trust
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Army and Navy News Uniform Coast Artillery Hit Moving Target
Reports from Fort Casey Washington praise precise coast artillery fire. Captain Granville Gevter’s Battery Worth scored four hits in three minutes fifty three seconds at a moving target from 7012 yards, speed 79 mph, within a 6.3 by 124 yard rectangle. General Murray seeks War Department commendation.
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Washington
Murray
Coast Artillery Corps
Granville Gevter
Battery Worth
Fort Casey
Navy
War Department
Blakeley torpedo boat damaged in torpedo accident at Pensacola
A Blakeley torpedo boat suffered a large breach below the water line on the port side after a Whitehead torpedo fired from her own tube during target practice off Pensacola Florida. A board of inquiry is appointed to investigate the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pensacola
Fla
Senate approves armor appropriation in urgent deficiency bill
Washington on March 30 the Senate passed an urgent deficiency bill appropriating 2 090 for armor as previously authorized. The measure advances defense funding and clears a long-standing authorization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Washington Navy Yard replaces damaged 6 inch gun
In Magdalena Bay during target practice the muzzle of a 6 inch broadside gun blew off cleanly with no metal flaw detected. Practice continued and the gun will be replaced from the Washington Navy Yard. No one was injured. Updated from Mexico City reports, the head of the Mexican Catholic Church, Archbishop Prosper Maria Alargen y Sanchez de la Harquera, died at eighty after a long illness.
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Washington
Magdalena Bay
Missouri
Washington Navy Yard
Mexico City
Prosper Maria Alargen Y Sanchez de la Harquera
Roman Catholichurch
Mexico
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