Wont U K Contracts Shield Public Service Push
The Public Service Commission debated funding for the Fourth Avenue subway as Acting Corporation Counsel O'Brien declined to endorse contracts due to lack of appropriation. He did approve the contract forms, and the commission planned to advertise for bids while awaiting possible funding. Controller Metz pledged to certify only what funding exists, with bids likely within a week.
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Public Service Commission
Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn
John L. O'Brien
Willcox
Board of Estimate
Pendleton
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Brooklignites
Colereid
Corporation Counsel
Metz
Fourth Avenue Subwaer
Public Service Board Protest Overhead Cable Action
Albert H. Harris counsel for New York Central protested the Public Service Commission’s attempt to rule on the legality of placing high voltage overhead cables along tracks north of Harlem within city limits. John H. O'Brien Water Supply Gas and Electricity Commissioner charged the company had no right or permission to string the cables. Harris argued Eustis should limit inquiry to construction standards.
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Albert H. Harris
New York Central
Public Service Commission
Hariem
John H. O'Brien
City Railway Receivers Granted Certificates For Rehab
Judge Lacombe granted the receivers for New York City Railway and Metropolitan Street Railway authority to issue certificates totaling 3 5 million dollars to rehabilitate lines and equipment. The one year notes pay interest semi annually and will replace certain mortgages with separate proceeds accounting.
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New York City Railway Company
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Lacombe
United States Circuit Court
Ryan Denies Julian Story In Manhattan Inquiry
Thomas F. Ryan says he wishes to attend the hearing on charges against District Attorney Jerome and dispute Louis Julian’s testimony alleging Metropolitan Street Railway funds influenced a Supreme Court justice election. Ryan, called by name, claims Julian’s statements are untrue and offers to testify, noting no summons.
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Thomas F. Ryan
Jerome
Louis &. Julian
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Supreme Court
Byron
Grand
Manhattan
Wall Mod Cortlandt Street Ferries
Bassett to speak on Public Service Commission work
Edward M. Bassett of the Public Service Commission will address the public about the commission's work at Public School 165 located at 108th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. The event tomorrow evening marks the fifth in a series of municipal topic addresses arranged by the Board of Education.
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M. Bassett
Edward M. Bassett
Public Service Commission
108Th Street
Amsterdam Avenue
Board of Education
Railway Regulation in New York History Update
The Public Service Commission notes state efforts to regulate public utilities and railroads began twelve years after New York’s first railroad in 1830. The first Railroad Commissioners formed in 1855 but dissolved in 1857. The 1866 Rapid Transportation Commission proposed building underground railways in the city.
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New York
Public Service Commission
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Howeve
Rapid Transportation Commission
Senate
George H. Andrews
H. BR. Low
Charles G Cornell
John T. Hoffman
Alfred W. Craven
Croton Board
Bronx inquiry exposes payroll waste and phantom work
In the Haffen inquiry into Bronx city operations, James McGinley reported a $30,6449 overcharge in highway engineering payments and difficulty reconciling engineers reports with the assessment fund. Key officials admitted payrolls included inactive Inspector George A. Scott while Bluemner implicated in courthouse plans.
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Bronx
Haffen
James McGinley
Bureau of Highways
McGinley
Oscar Bluemner
West 1Sst Street
No Cholera Found as Rhein Freed at Quarantine
The North German Lloyd liner Rhein arrived with illness aboard but was released after tests showed no cholera. A steerage passenger from Russia, Catherine Lehmann, was ill but judged to have intestinal trouble. The ship was disinfected and cleared for New York with passengers for Baltimore. Two Wakiva seamen observed after a week pending further statement from Dr. Doty.
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New York
Baltimore
Catherine Lehmann
Russia
Rhein
Doty
Swinburne Island
Woman Carries Child to Hospital After Fatal Newark Crash
Nine year old Andrew Vehala was fatally injured when an automobile driven by Gustave Jacobson struck him on Camden street Newark. Jacobson, of 282 South Suh street, was captured after a chase by a mounted policeman. The boy suffered a fractured skull and multiple injuries. Mrs. Mary Welhelm of 46 Camden street carried him to City Hospital nearby.
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Andrew Vehala
Camden Street
Newark
Gustave Jacobson
South Suh Street
Jacobson
Mary Welhelm
City Hospital
Speeding youth fined twice for motorcycle dash
Jesse Seligman, eighteen, of 66 West 52d Street near Albert J. Seligman, was stopped at List Street and Central Park West for speeding. He claimed the motorcycle wouldn’t start, then sped away at forty miles per hour before stalling. Magistrate Walsh fined him 5 dollars for the first offense and 10 dollars for the getaway. He said his father would confiscate the machine if arrested again.
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Jesse Seligman
West 52d Street
Albert J. Seligman
List Street
Central Park West
Beckert
Walsh
West Side Court
Seligman
Amsterdam Avenue
Appletons’ Chauffeur Held For Speeding In Harlem
Fred Handlett of 30 Willow Street Brooklyn a chauffeur for Civil Service Commissioner R R Appleton of 14 Joralemor Street Brooklyn was arrested yesterday afternoon and held in Harlem court on 69 bail. In the car with Miss Rose Appleton and four friends the group later telephoned her father who posted bail.
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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 Spouse of Actress
Charles Enright ten, of 446 West 44th street, was struck at Tenth avenue and 44th street by a car driven by Frederick J. Titus, ex-husband of Edna May the actress. Titus took the injured boy to Roosevelt Hospital where he cried, and he was held on $2 bail for assault examination.
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Charles Enright
West 44Th Street
Frederick J. Titus
Edna May
Tenth Avenue
44Th Street
Titus
Roosevelt Hospital
Sailor Tragedy As Lydia Splits After Collision
A fishing schooner Lydia once a government vessel was cut in two by the steamship Chippewa off Puget Sound. Two crew members drowned while eight others including the captain were rescued by the Chippewa. The incident occurred near Seattle on March 20.
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Seattle
Lydia
Puget Navigation Company
Heaviest Westchester burglar sentence for 13 robberies
Judge William P. Platt of the County Court at White Plains yesterday sentenced James Harlan to twenty seven years in Sing Sing Prison. Harlan, one of the burglars who masqueraded as a yachts man in evening clothes, committed thirteen robberies in New Rochelle Mount Vernon and Yonkers. This is Westchester County’s heaviest burglary sentence.
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William P. Platt
White Plains
James Harlan
New Rochelle
Mount Vernon
Yonkers
Sing Sing
Westchester County
Boat Stuck in Hotel Ballroom Sparks Court Injunction
A gasoline launch trapped in a hotel ballroom on City Island prompted a dispute between the hotel owner and the boat builder. The builder would tear out part of a wall to remove the craft, leading Justice OGorman to grant an injunction to Ophelia Vail in the Supreme Court against William J. Graham.
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City Island
Justice O'Gorman
Ophelia Vail
Supreme Court
Wiliam J. Graham
William Clausen Art Sale At 381 Fifth Avenue
From the first afternoon and evening sale of William Clausen's art collection at 381 Fifth Avenue, James P. Silo disposed of 259 lots, realizing $947.25 amid strong attendance. Etchings and French mirrors drew bargain prices. a three-opening mantel mirror sold for $346. The sale continues this afternoon and evening.
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William Clausen
Fifth Avenue
James P. Silo
Fire on Ferryboat Montauk Destroys Straw Wagon
Fire destroyed a wagonload of straw for hats on the ferry Montauk from Hamilton Street Brooklyn to South Ferry. Deckhands used extinguishers to prevent spread as the vessel sped to its slip. Passengers were excited by the blaze but no further damage was reported.
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Montauk
Hamilton Street
Brooklyn
South Ferry
Geyting
Geneva Association Clubhouse Opens In New York
The International Geneva Association for hotel workers will formally open its remodeled clubhouse at 143 West 44th Street. The building cost $20,000 funded by members and includes a library social hall restaurant buffet billiard room bowling alleys and rooms for members to reside.
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The
International Geneva Association
West 44Th Street
Berkman Arrested as Bomb Plot Remains Mystery
Police worked all day to unravel the bomb plot after a mass unemployed meeting near Union Square. 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. Police and officials debated charges, while a wave of arrests and political action followed the Saturday event.
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Selig Cohen
T’nion Square Park
Alexander Berkman
Anarchist Federation of America
Warzansky
Berkman
Droege
Mother Earth
Emma Goldman
Voltairine de Cleyre
Hippolye Havel
Minneapolis
Canada
No. 210
East 18Th Street
Starday
Emma
East Side
Abram Cahan
Daily Forward
Louis Miller
Die Wahrheit
Cohen
Union Square
the Tribune
Russia
Labor unrest over permit refusals and socialist critique
Labor leaders demand a Central Federated Union inquiry into claims that the Park Department blocked a mass meeting for the unemployed by the Industrial Workers of the World. They distance themselves from the I W W yet oppose park control, attacking millionaire socialists like Robert Hunter and criticizing amateur activists as dangers to workers’ interests.
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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
Berkman Explains Anarchy After Court Release
Alexander Berkman returns home in a jubilant mood after court, denying police links to the Union Square act. He promotes peaceful propaganda, discusses the Anarchist Federation of America, and reiterates his past act against Frick as a sacrifice for workers' welfare. He contrasts anarchist principles with violence and cites Tolstoy and Jesus Christ.
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Cohen
Henry
Frick
McCafferty
Berkman
Defence Committee of
Philadelphia
de Piau
Weinberg
Alexander Berkman
West 13Th Street
Union Square
Anarchist Federation of America
Federation
Democratic Party
Tolstoy
Homestead
Jesus Christ
Socialists hiss woman speaker at Forsyth street meeting
East Side socialists disowned anarchists after a bomb attack. Yetta Lensky urged that a patrolman be the victim, provoking hisses as Max Liebau defended the group. She led the crowd in the Marseillaise and a planned Forsyth street meeting was later abandoned.
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East Side
Cohen
No. 8
Forsyth Street
Max Liebau
No. 98
Reverend Hillis Witnessed Union Square Bomb Blast
Rev Dr Newell Dwight Hillis testified at a Methodist meeting at 150 Wirth Avenue about the Union Square bombing on Saturday. He recalled walking with Dr Dawson when a young Jewish man denounced a socialist target. The bomb exploded just as he rebuked him.
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Newell Dwight Hillis
Union Square
Wirth Avenue
Dawson
Jewish socialist youth speaks on park crowd scene
A Jewish young man, described as a socialist, quotes a socialist writer and argues the poor man bears two capitalists on his back. He cites a middle man who grips the poor by the throat and urges that the poor draw a knife to cut away the middle man. He mentions living with his family on 15th street.
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15Th Street
Public works urged to employ idle labor in Brooklyn
A Brookyn meeting at the Manufacturers' Association urged state and city leaders to push public improvements immediately to create jobs for about 180000 unemployed as of March 11. Resolutions asked rapid public works, a legislative inquiry into industrial depression, and enforcement of sanitary repair laws in old tenements.
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Manufacturers’ Association
Montague Street
Brooklyn
Union Square
Nathan S. Jonas
Board of Education
McClellan
Frederick E. Crane
Supreme Court
James T. Hoile
Robert Baker
Family seeks Ferdinand Huppner missing since Jan 20 from New Haven
The family and relatives of Ferdinand Huppner of New Haven seek information on his whereabouts. John J. Zeller of 1799 Merrill Street The Bronx reports Huppner left New Haven January 20 to report for work at a factory in College Point Long Island and has not been seen since.
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Ferdinand Huppner
New Haven
John J. Zeller
Merrill Street
Bronx
Huppner
College Point
Long Island
Wadsworth Favored for Governor by Chautauqua GOP Delegates
Chautauqua County Republicans elected delegates to two state conventions. In the 2d District resolutions urged Speaker James W. Wadsworth as the gubernatorial candidate. They also endorsed Governor Hughes for President in both districts.
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Jamestown
N. Y
Chautauqua County
James W. Wadsworth
Hughes
Brooklyn Man Pleads Guilty to Grand Larceny
Joseph Dexter, 32, of 4420 Eighteenth Avenue Brooklyn admitted stealing postcards valued at 4000 from Souvenir Postal Novelty Company. Dexter, linked to Ridley Memorial Church, told Magistrate Barlow his share was 4. Dexter and co defendant Benjamin Levy, 23, of 235 Penn Street Brooklyn, held on 1000 bail each for trial.
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Joseph Dexter
Eighteenth Avenue
Brooklyn
Dexter
Ridley Memorial Church
Barlow
Benjamin Levy
Penn Street
Bankruptcy Petitions Filed in U S District Court
Daily bankruptcy notices list voluntary cases including George W Palmer of Kingston North Carolina with liabilities 5896 69 and no assets Antoinette Boughton Catskill W S Shotwell Broadway Catskill Bank and other creditors noted Voluntary cases for Boleslaw Jelenski and involuntary against Star Cafe details of assets liabilities and major creditors shown John L Jordan trading as John Jordan Son faces involuntary bankruptcy with large liabilities and assets including stocks bonds and open accounts plus large creditors list Mary H Pusey and Greenberg Pernik among others Discharges were granted to several entities and William Haupt appointed receiver for Burgoyne Hamilton pending further action Alexander Straus claims Hamiltons liabilities exceed assets with transfer noted as a preference.
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George W. Palmer
Kingston
N. C
Antoinette Boughton
Catskill
W. S. Shotwell
Broadway
The
Catskill National Bank
C. B. Sage
John L. Jordan
John Jordan & Son
West 28Th Street
West Twenty-eighth Street Company
C. W. Wilson &C
Kent Street
Brooklyn
Lawrence Tivey
Platt Street
Chelsea Exchange Bank
John Jordan
Fifth Avenue
Mary H. Pusey
East 324 Street
Aitken, Sen & Co
18Th Street
Helen D. Pine
Elkins Park
Penn
Farmers’ National Bank
Reading
John Toodwin & Co
Spring Street
Bouttable Guarantee and Trust Company
Wilmington
Del
Greenberg & Pernik
Fast Broadway
August F. Feuss
John McGee
Strauss Drygoods Company
Shendell
Cohen & Bauman
Isaac Rabuchin
Jacob Bigmoritz
Israel Schultz
William Henkel, Jr
Burgoyne Hamilton
Alexander Straus
Hamilton
Bank of North America
Standard Oil Company's Massachusetts Condition Report
The Standard Oil Company of New York has filed a statement of its condition with the Massachusetts Secretary of State. The report, dated March 3 in Boston, compares with the previous year, outlining financial and organizational details under state filing requirements.
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Boston
Standard OI Company of
New York
Trust Incorporated
New Jersey
Massachusetts Secretary of State
Army and Navy News Ends March Reports of Marked Marksmanship
General Murray praises coast artillery under Captain Granville Sevier for four hits in 3 minutes 53 seconds at a moving target at 7,912 yards. Navy moves list ships and officers, with arrivals at Bremerton Honolulu Margate and other ports, and transfers including paymasters and surgeons among promotions and leaves.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Murray
Coast Artillery Corps
Granville Sevier
Battery Worth
Fort Casey
Navy
War Department
ARMY
Charles BE. Stanton
Chi
Philippines
Thomas Moody
San Francisco
Geo. M. Holley
Ith
Forts Union Military Academy
Charles Fef
N Howard
Jere B. Clayton
Elmer & Dean
Manila
Charles F. Kieffer
Injury to torpedo boat Blakeley at Pensacola
The torpedo boat Blakeley suffered a large jagged hole below the waterline after being struck by a torpedo fired from one of her own tubes during target practice off Pensacola Florida. A drydock repair is underway and a board of inquiry has been appointed to investigate the accident.
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Pensacola
Fla
Blakeley
Senate approves armor appropriation bill in March vote
Washington March 30 The urgent deficiency Bill appropriating two thousand dollars for armor and related items previously authorized was passed by the Senate today.
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Washington
Senate
Washington Navy Yard gun mishap at Magdalena Bay
On Saturday at Magdalena Bay a broadside gun in the Missouri ruptured its muzzle in a clean fracture with no metal flaw. Practice continued and a replacement gun will arrive from the Washington Navy Yard. No injuries reported. HEAD OF MEXICAN CATHOLICS DEAD. Mexico City reports the death of Most Rev. Prospero Maria Alarcon y Sanchez de la Barquera, eighty, Archbishop and head of the Mexican Roman Catholic Church after a lingering illness.
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Washington
Magdalena Bay
Missouri
Washington Navy Yard
Mexico City
Frospero Maria Alargon Y Sanchez de la Barquera
Arc
Mexico
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