Alarm system overhaul urged after dangerous city wiring risk
Commissioner Hayes warned the West Side fire alarm network is exposed to collapse from a fire or accidental contact with third-rail wires. Fire official Martin testified cables are worn and poorly insulated, raising false alarms and endangering operators. A new system could cost about 3400 dollars, with testimony to continue.
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Hayes
Sith Street
Third Avenue
Bureau of Combustibles
Martin
Sithgstreet
South Ferry
Ninth Avenue
Central
Tle
Socialist parade and meetings planned in Union Square area
Socialists and the Industrial Workers of the World announce a mass meeting in Union Square today after a parade from Rutgers Square. The parade permit dates back to April and stipulates no traffic disruption or red flags except union banners. Samuel Moskowitz chairs the mass meeting with Webster Hall events and Morris Hillquit headlining the Labor Temple fair.
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Industrial
Samuel A. Brodel
Smith
Rutgers Square
Samuel Moskowitz
Socialist Labor Party
Webster Hall
Socialist Party
Labor Temple
Morris Hillquit
Fight to Strike Down New Liquor Tax Law
The Cairo proprietor George Bernard sues to compel Deputy Commissioner McKee to issue a liquor tax certificate under a new amendment effective April 21. Justice Dowling reserves decision and flags the law as a major legal question. Several certificate revocations target disorderly premises and gambling venues, with others awaiting outcome as the State's Maynard Clement defends the overhaul to curb repeat violators.
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Cairo
Broadway
Justice Dowling
Frederick W. Stelle
State Excise Department
Moses M. McKee
George Bernard
McKee
Lcense
Angus McIntosh
East 14Th Street
Maynard N. Clement
Excise
Bachman Charged With Murder In Alliance
Robert Bachman of Alliance near Easton was formally charged with murder for killing his five year old niece Irene May Smith during a religious frenzy. His wife and Henry E Smith and his wife are charged as accessories. Bachman and the men are jailed in Northampton County Jail while the women were rearrested after the funeral attended by hundreds.
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Easton
Penn
Robert Bachman
Alliance
Here
Irene May Smith
Bachman
Henry E. Smith
Northampton County
Smith
Reformed Church
Allience
Bachfinen
Mrs Smith
Jell
Ex Governor Herrick Named Society for Savings President
Telegraph report from Weverend April states ex governor Herrick of Obto was elected president of the Society for Savings, resigning the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad board chairmanship and his directorships at Bowling Green Trust New York and Combertal Trust Baltimore. The appointment recalls his ten year prior tenure as post holder.
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Tribune Weverend
Herrick
Society For Savings
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Board
Bowling Green Trust
New York
Combertal Trust
Baltimore
A. So “Ithington
Merrick
Goveron
Maloney Case Seeks Annulment Of Philadelphia Daughter
Justice McCall considers a report by referee Daniel F. Cohalan on the annulment of Helen Maloney daughter of Martin Maloney of Philadelphia and Arthur H. Osborn. Miss Maloney eloped with Samuel Clarkson and later learned the Montreal ceremony was part of her mistaken impression. Her father a Papal marquis active in Roman Catholic circles, and the proceedings opened after statements by A L Humes for the Maloney family. If confirmed, the annulment would be interlocutory with a three month period before permanence.
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Helen Maloney
Martin Maloney
Philadel
Arthur H. Osborne
No. 1
West List Street
Daniel F. Cohalan
Justice McCall
Supreme Court
A. L. Humes
Maloney
C. T. Cowenhoven, Jr
Osborne
Miss Maloney
William H. Boyd
Mamaroneck
Helen Eugene
Herbert Osborn
Samuel Clarkson
London
Montreal
United States
Newburger
Suits Over $100,000 Check In United States Circuit Court
Albert B. Boardman sues Charles A. Hanna as receiver for National Bank of North America to recover a $100,000 check indorsed by Charles W. Morse and guaranteed by the bank. Morse, O'Brien, and Mercantile National Bank figures testified as witnesses. Judge Lacombe heard the case after both sides waived a jury trial.
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Lacombe
United States Circuit Court
Albert B. Boardman
Charles A. Hanna
National Bank of North America
Charles W. Morse
Morgan J. O'Brien
Mercantile National Bank
Morse
Mr. O'Brien
Alton B. Parker
Boardman
O'Brien
Miles O'Brien
Mayor censured in Stapleton over ferry opening
Mayor McClellan was censured at a Stapleton Citizens League meeting for delaying the opening of the Stapleton to Manhattan municipal ferry. Dr James Feeney reported the Stapleton terminal was finished five months ago and urged use of old ferryboats. A citizen delegation plans to visit City Hall next week with Borough President Cromwell to push action.
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McClellan
Stapleton
Staten Island
Manhattan
Stapleton Citizens’ League
James Feeney
Spooner
Cromwell
Anarchist Caminita Returns to Paterson After Grand Jury Charge
Ludovico Caminita former editor of the suppressed anarchist paper La Questione Sociale returns to Paterson after three weeks. He reads Justice Minturns grand jury directive indictments against those connected with the publication. The article urged murder arson and destruction of police HQs. Caminita speaks with defiance noting a prison term would let him study English. The grand jury is expected to act on the suggested indictments.
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Paterson
N. J
Ludovico Caminita
la Questione Sociale
Minturn
Body of Turk's victim arrives in port after shooting
The body of Bernard Warkentin, Newton Kan., merchant shot aboard a railway car by a Turkish prince while traveling Damascus to Beirut, arrived in port aboard the Knig Albert from Naples. Widow and son accompanied the casket. a Turkish prince was arrested after a brief interrogation. The piece notes a prior American killed by a Turk within a year. The liner also carried the body of Mrs. Hungerford, grandmother of Clarence Mackay, with Countess Bonvouloir present.
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Bernard Warkentin
Newton
Kan
Damascus
Beirut
Syria
Naples
Warkentin
E. B. Warkentin
New York
Levant
Pacha
Slayer in duel exonerated in Alabama shooting
Dr. J E Garrison shot and killed J D Williams an electrician at Flat Creek in a duel after Williams sought to confront him over family matters. Garrison, recently moved to Birmingham, was exonerated by a coroner jury though he was severely wounded.
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Birmingham
Ala
J. E. Garrison
J. D. Williams
Flat Creek
Garrison
Williams
Antique furniture lovers attend Fifth Avenue sale
Collectors gathered at the Fifth Avenue Art Galeries for a sale of Chippendale Sheraton and Hepplewhite pieces. Captain Andrew B. Swannard of the Fine Arts Museum of Boston bought most Wedgwood ware, with the day’s total at six thousand seventy five dollars and the two day total at twelve thousand four hundred forty five. An old Sheraton escritoire sold for two hundred eighty nine dollars and Samuel Isham paid two thousand four hundred for a 1735 English side table. The sale continues today.
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Fifth Avenue
Chippendale
Sheraton
Andrew B. Swannard
Fine Arts Museum of Boston
Samuel Isham
Army and Navy News from The Tribune Bureau
Washington April 9 orders issued army officers promoted retired reassigned and stationed Navy captains and lieutenants commissioned detached reassigned among several ships stations and districts Movements of warships list arrivals at San Juan Saigon Norfolk Charleston San Diego and San Francisco.
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Washington
Henry P. Birmingham
Richard W. Johnson
Army Medical Building
Eugene D. Ecker
9Th Infantry
Frederic G. Kellond
19Th Infantry
Fort Reno
Henry W. Stamford
Signal Corps
Presidio of
San Francisco
Emeet Charles B. Hall
Winfield Harper
17Th Infantry
NAVY
A. Sharp
W. 5. Turpin
J. L. Gow
Quincy
Naval Hospital
Boston
C. A. Gove
Milwaukee
R. F. Lopez
Pennsylvania
H. A. Rispham
W. R. Cushman
St. Louis
W. R. White
Montana
G. L. P. Stone
Detroit
Chester
Ll. E. Morgan
Louisiana
Moses
J. H. Hoover
C. G. Davy
Chicago
G. M. Stackhouse
Minnesota
J. S. Higgins
R. E. Bakenhus
Newport
Bureau of Yards and Docks
J. G. W. Walker
Navy Yard
Portsmouth
Naval District
R. M. Warfield
Naval Station
Charleston
New Orleans
E. R. Gayler
Marine Corps
L. C. Lucas
Marine Barracks
Narragansett Bay
R. H. Lane
H. ©. Haines
E. R. Lowndes
F. K. Corrie
E. N. McLellan
Wisconsin
Seinageye
T. M. P. Potts
Ijr
Eave
San Juan
Chattanooga
Saigon
Rocket
Norfolk
Prairie
Fortune
San Diego
Raised Hands At Widow's Command In Brooklyn Burglary
Mrs. Molly Brown a young widow of 145 Court Street Brooklyn confronted a burglar in her dining room last night. He raised his hand as she cried for him to surrender and she threatened to shoot. The man surrendered when patrolman Thomas Griffin arrived. He claimed to be Richard Pike of Rochester and later suffered a fit, possibly from nervous strain, at the Long Island College Hospital.
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Molly Brown
Court Street
Brooklyn
Dorothy Augensicht
Dorothy
Thomas Griffin
Parishioners Seek Missing Priest in New Jersey
Washington New Jersey April 30 The Rev John Caulfield pastor of St Josephs Roman Catholic Church here is reported to have disappeared He has been missing since a week ago today when he left an other priest in New York City ostensibly to board a Lackawanna train to return to this place The congregation of St Josephs Church are so worked up over his continued absence that a number of them under the guidance of Father Kelly of Oxford and Father William Tighe of Hampton Junction left here today for New York to try to find the missing clergyman.
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Washington, N. J
John Caulfield
St. Joseph's
New York City
Lackawanna
St. Joseph's Church
Kelly
Oxford
William Tighe
Hampton Junction
New York
Court approves pay raise for trolley conductors and motormen
Notices posted at the Mount Vernon trolley line terminal state conductors and motormen will now receive higher pay. Justice Morschauser of the Supreme Court granted the application filed by J Addison Young as receiver for Westchester Railway and the Tarrytown White Plains and Mamaroneck Railway Company to increase wages.
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Mount Vernon
Justice Morschauser
Supreme Court
J. Addison Young
Westchester Railway
Tarrytown
White Plains
Mamaroneck
Evening events and lectures across New York venues today
Free admission to museums and zoos, benefit performances for Firemen's Memorial Fund and The Daily Call, Labor League meeting at Hotel Astor. Dinner at Hotel Manhattan. Emerson lecture at Cooper Union under People’s Institute. Free Board of Education talks at multiple public schools with illustrated talks on European art, Niagara, eyes care, Ireland, Congo, Patagonia, auto mobility, and other topics led by educators and guest speakers. Continuous programs fill afternoon and evening at schools, Union Square, and nearby venues.
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American Museum of Natural History
Zoological Gardens
Firemen's Memorial Fund
Metropolitan Opera House
Daily Call
New York
Labor Temple
East 84Th Street
New York Equal 6Buffrage League
Hotel Astor
Tau Beta Pi
Hotel Manhattan
Edward Howard Griggson
Emerson
People
Moshelu Parkway
Briggs and
Bainbridge Avenues
Bedford Park
Guy Maine
China
Fordham Avenue
Main Street
City Island
G. Bayard Young
Turkey
Land of Star and Crescent
Anthonys
Tremont
Rm Serena Curtiss
Florida
18Th Street
Beaumont
Cembreling
Clarence de Vaux Royer
Composers and Music of America
Jerome Avenue
Lewis
New Chinese Church Planned for New York Chinese Community
Prominent women including Miss Gould fund a property at 2 1/2 East 31st Street to host a Chinese church serving New York’s ten thousand Chinese. The Presbyterian Chinese mission, run by Rev. Hale Kin and wife, will move to enlarged facilities with an auditorium gymnasium dormitories and showers.
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Helen Gould
East 31St Street
New York
Daughters of the Revolution
Presbyterian
Hule Kin
Lenox Mansion
Fifth Avenue
West 9Th Street
Young Men's Christian Association
Hufe
Mr. Hale
China
Hale
Lotos Ladies Day at Fifth Avenue Club in Rainy Afternoon
Women attended a Lotos Club ladies day event at 558 Fifth Avenue despite rain. The program featured Anna Taylor Jones and other performers with musical numbers by cellists violinists and pianists. Guests and the entertainment committee included prominent members and society figures of the era.
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Lotos Club
Fifth Avenue
Lotus Club
Anna Taylor Jones
Gluck
Narciso L. Salicrup
Chopin
Max Liebling
W. W. Walker
Ernest H. Behrens
FE. Searle
R. M. Searle
N. E. Adams
D. B. Frazer
Harry Lilley
Charles Quinery
G. F. Ayer
W. A. Lombard
Arthur Dawson
A. Dawson
J Grennell, Jr
Fred W. Wright
Lace Imports Reveal Swiss Lead in Embroideries
The United States consumed 60 million worth of lace last year with the majority imported. Switzerland dominates export of cotton laces and embroideries, sending goods through St. Gall as its mills expand. U S embroidery machines number 606, Swiss 6000 power and 16000 hand. Wages differ, with New Jersey filers earning higher pay than Swiss workers, while American owners control large Calais factories. Plauen, Germany, also shipped 5 million in lace goods last year.
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United States
Bureau of Manufactures
Switzerland
St. Gall
St. Call
New Jersey
Calais
Plauen
Germany
Lace wages and child labor in global lace trade
The piece notes that much lace is made by children and contrasts wages: in the United States 357 dollars weekly for adults is cited as good pay, in Belgium top earners get about 20 cents a day, most workers 10 to 17 cents, while India reports six days of embroidery yielding under 33 cents for workers. Consul General Michael warns these embroideries reach the United States.
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Belgium
India
Michael
United States
Looking for a President in the Professional Woman's League
The Professional Woman's League seeks a president for an election on May 1. Incumbent Mrs. Suzanne Leonard Westford is unavailable due to travel. Amelia Bingham has declined due to illness, and others including Mrs. Fernandez and Mrs. Edwin Arden have refused. Dr. Ida C. Nomm serves as first vice president.
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Professional Woman's League
Suzanne Leonard Westford
Lillian Russell
Westford
Amelia Bingham
Fernandez
Edwin Arden
Ida C. Nomm
Potential President Tension in Professional Woman's League
Dent, acting president after Mrs Westford’s travels, is not considered a safe candidate for the vacancy. Members warn the office carries disaster and discuss appointing Westford as figurehead while another does the work. Nominations will be from the floor at the election.
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League
National League of Women Workers Opens in Washington
The semi annual meeting of the National League of Women Workers opened in Washington with about six hundred women from Eastern states. The gathering runs through Saturday and includes sightseeing as the main activity. A separate note warns about clutter in shared bathrooms described as bear gardens.
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Washington
National League of Women Workers
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