Jerome scandal remarks dominate hearing before Hand
The hearing on charges against District Attorney Jerome moved swiftly as Franklin Pierce for the King committee pressed for grand jury minutes. Jerome defended remarks about Supreme Court justices and clashed with Pierce over production of minutes while Commissioner Hand presided.
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Jerome
Hand
Franklin Pierce
King Committee
Supreme Court
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Pierce
Eugene Kremer
Well and Weiller Guits
Mr. Jerome
Mr. Pierce
Weil and Weiller
Lucian M. Stanton
Henry W. Brown
New York City Railway Company
Herbert R. Limberg
Justice Seabury
Judge Rosalsky
Ice Trust
Squadron A Coach to Resume Triweekly Polo Trips
Under Squad ron A N G NY auspices the road coach will resume triweekly runs from Hotel Savoy to Van Cortlandt Park polo grounds on Tuesday and Saturday. Drivers are squadron members using cavalry horses. twelve passengers plus guard and coachman. Depart Savoy 3 45 Tuesday Thursday and 2 45 Saturday. trip lasts about one hour fifteen minutes. Passengers view polo games on run days. return departs at 6.00 each day.
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Hotel Savoy
van Cortlandt Park
Banking Laws in Effect in New York State
Albany May 1 Clark Williams state superintendent of banks uses reform banking laws to issue a weekly bulletin. He liquidates Home Bank Brooklyn appointing G S Leonard as special deputy. Branch requests are granted and refusals issued for several institutions including Hungarian-American cooperative savings and loan association.
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Albany
Clark Williams
Hughes
Home Bank
Brooklyn
G. S. Leonard
New York Produce Exchange Bank
Manhattan
Commercial Safe Deposit Company
New York
The
Home Trust Company of
Vesey Street
Hamburg and
Myrtle Avenues
Despatch Co-Operative Savings and Loan Association
East Rochester
Banks Merge Three Way Create New Institution
The Northern Bank of New York Riverside Bank and Hamilton Bank approved a merger at director meetings and called stockholders to meet May 18 to ratify. The combined capital exceeds 1.09 million with deposits over 7 million, and a possible subsequent merger of additional banks is anticipated.
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Northern Bank of New York
Riverside Bank
Hamilton Bank
Frank L. Grant
Carnegie Trust Company
Northern Bank
Hearing Sets May 14 On NYC Surface Car Seats
Public Service Commission announces May 14 hearings on service upgrades for four Manhattan downtown surface lines and routing changes to reduce crowding. Other orders require at least 25 cars per 15 minutes on specified routes with a 16 percent seat excess if needed. Additional matters include Broadway Lexington subway stations and a sanitation complaint against the Forty second Street M V St N line.
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New York City
Public Service Commission
Manhattan
Christopher & Twentythird Street
8Th Street
Brooklyn
Fourteenth Street
Williamsburg Bridge
Third Avenue
23D Street
Grand Street
Lexington Avenue
Broadway
New York City Railway Company
Maltbie
Manhattanville
St. Nicholas Avenue
M. Burr Wright
Mayor vetoes four bills over home rule and costs
Mayor McClellan vetoes four measures including a plan to cut voters from 600 to 400 in an election district. He also rejects raises for firemen grades three and four and a coroner jury pay parity, citing unequal work and unnecessary expense. He opposes expanding election districts from 49 to 798 due to high city costs.
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McClellan
Booksellers’ Dinner Souvenir Named for Plaza Event
The American Booksellers Association selects Cupid's Pack of Cards by Walter Pulitzer as the official souvenir for its annual dinner at the Plaza on May 20, with Luce & Co as the publisher.
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American Booksellers’ Association
the Plaza
Luce & Co
Walter Pulitzer
Berkman Takes Lead In May Day Clash In Union Square
Industrial Workers of the World held a May Day demonstration in Union Square with about 2500 attendees. Alexander Berkman attacked socialists on stage while police barred certain banners and kept order.
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Industrial Workers of the World
Union Square Park
Alexander Berkman
Selig Silverstein
Rutgers Square
Union Square
Moses Cortright
Steinbruch
Russell
Schmittberger
Irish Socialist Club
St. Patrick’s Day
Ireland
Sam Muskovitz
James Connelly
Harp
Mr. Muskovitz
Berkman
Rebecca Edelson
Inspector Schmittberger
Moskovitz
Alexander
Max Kosminsky
Abe Weiser
Inspector Cortright
Robert Hunter
Woman Trampled in DeKalb Avenue Car Panic
Miss Ella Mitchell of 24 John Street Brooklyn was taken to Brooklyn Hospital yesterday after hysteria and multiple injuries from being trampled by about seventy people when a controller box blew out in a DeKalb Avenue car.
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Ella Mitchell
John Street
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Hospital
DeKalb Avenue
Moving Day Extended in Manhattan Office Leases
Moving day stretched across May first as major Manhattan office buildings opened for tenancy, with demand for space in three landmark towers and new facilities expected to house about 300 000 people. Uptown changes were fewer, while residential leases shift toward fall and moving vans surged to Brooklyn Queens and New Jersey suburbs.
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Manhattan
Brooklyn
Queens
New Jersey
Governor appoints Donaldson to state land appraisal board
Albany May 1 Governor Hughes named ex Senator Harvey J Donaldson of Ballston Spa as special examiner and appraiser for lands taken for barge canal. The three member board replaces a prior panel. Donaldson earns 4000 dollars yearly plus travel. colleagues J Edgar Leaucraft of New York and George Bingham of Lancaster Erie County are paid 5000 and 2500 dollars respectively.
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Albany
Hughes
Harvey J. Donaldson
Ballston Spa
Donaldson
Board of
J. Edgar Leaucraft
New York
George Bingham
Lancaster
Erie County
Mrs Herrman’s May Birthday Party Held For Esther Herrman
The Woman’s Health Protective Association celebrated Mrs Esther Herrman’s eighty fifth birthday with a May party at Mrs Ralph Trautmann’s home No 1 West side street. Guests crowned Esther with pink and white velvet and awarded a laurel wreath bearing her virtues. A large birthday cake and framed resolutions marked the event. Herrman, second vice president of the association, often hosts the luncheon on monthly meeting days.
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The
Woman's Health Protective Association
Esther Herrman
Esther
Oscar Pays Top Price at Lehne Art Sale for Sèvres Vases
Oscar of the Waldorf Astoria led bidding at the Lehne sale on Fifth Avenue, paying 540 dollars for a pair of early Brongui Sèvres vases signed C. C. by Cabau. The pieces were imported by the late Robert Gilmor of Baltimore, with W. J. Stone taking the next-highest bid for a Hogarth chair settee dating 168 years back.
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Oscar
Waldorf-Astoria
Fifth Avenue
C. C
Cabau
Robert Gilmor
Baltimore
W. J. Stone
Missing Priest Found After Week in NYC Hospital
Father John Caulfield pastor of St. Joseph's in Washington New Jersey was missing for a week before being found in a New York City hospital by Father William Tighe and Father Kelly.
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Washington, N. J
John Caulfield
St. Joseph's
New York City
William Tighe
Hampton Junction
Father Kelly
Oxford
Columbia Graduate Arrested in Oakland Burglary Case
Dr W W Goelet alias D F Wythe a Columbia graduate and recent husband of an Oakland social figure is jailed in Berkeley on charges of burgling eight residences and flats in Oakland and Berkeley. A 35 year old Virginian who served in the Spanish war hospital corps, he was secretary to Benjamin Fay Mills and Dr Bidd Wolfe.
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Columbia
San Francisco
W. W. Goelet
D. F. Wythe
Columbia University
Oakland
Berkeley City
Berkeley
Benjamin Fay Mills
Biddewolfe
Goelet
Bingham Wins Again Against Reynolds in Police Row
The Appellate Division in Brooklyn vacated a writ of mandamus that had reinstated James G. Reynolds after the board of police surgeons declared him unfit for service due to disability. Commissioner Bingham won on appeal, with the court noting Reynolds eyesight was only 15 percent below normal and requires further consideration.
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James G. Reynolds
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Maddox
Reynolds
Board of Police Surgeons
Bingham
Board of Surgeons
Quarrel Over Theatre Hat in Paris Turns Violent
In Paris a man tried to seize a woman's hat after she refused to remove it. Her husband intervened and a free fight broke out before order was restored when no gendarme stepped in to arrest the aggressor.
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Paris
City News in Brief
George Robinson released from the House of Detention by Coroner Shrady after being suspected in a bomb incident at Union Square. Frederick Miller held on $5 bail for rug theft from St. Raphael's rectory, West 41st Street 02. Choral Society closing exercises for Ancient Hebrew Melodies set for Educational Alliance East Broadway 6 15 tomorrow night.
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George Robinson
Selig Silverstein
Union Square
Shrady
Robinson
Frederick Miller
Father Barry
St. Raphael's Church
West 41St Street
West Side Court
Choral Society For
Educational Alliance
East Broadway
Mothers Day proposed with white carnation tribute
The piece explains that May 10 will be set aside as Mothers Day with white carnations worn in honor of mothers. Philadelphia originated the memorial, New York supporters push for permanent observance, including Mrs Story and Mark Twain among enthusiasts plus Mayor McClellan’s approval.
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New York
Philadelphia
William Cummings Story
New York City
Suffrage League hears plight of domestics and marks May celebration
At the Equal Suffrage League meeting in New York, Catherine Utley urged better meals for domestics in summer hotels and higher worker standards. Harriet Blatch announced a May 7 Seneca Falls rights celebration with speakers including Mary Church Terrell, Antoinette Stone Blackwell, and others, followed by a ten day trolley campaign.
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New York
Catherine Utley
Consumers’ League
Equal Suffrage League
Hotel Astor
Frederick Nathan
Miss Utley
Harriet Stanton Blatch
Seneca Falls
America
Mary Church Terrell
Blatch
Frederick Douglass
Servant market shifts as wages fall in hard times
Commissioner Bogert reports NYC employment agencies see a flood of applicants for domestic service while wages collapse. Cooks in private homes fall from 5 to 32.50 a month, houseworkers from 16 to 25 down to 15 to 23, and agency hires for cooks drop from 50 to 4 a month. Stenographers and typewriters earn 6 to 7 a week now, vs 8 to 9 previously, and clerical staff cuts of 30 to 50 percent reduce overall employment.
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John N. Bogert
McClellan
One of Last Real D A R Daughters Dies in Connecticut
Miss Rhoda Augusta Thompson, born June 1 1871 in Woodstock New York, youngest of seventeen children, died at her Waterbury area home. Her father was a drummer boy and she belonged to Millicent Porter Chapter D A R Waterbury.
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Woodbury
Conn
Rhoda Augusta Thompson
Woodstock
N. Y
Millicent Porter Chapter
Waterbury
Market prices rise and fall for fruits and vegetables
Market reports show green vegetable prices easing with spring arrivals from truck gardens. California and Jersey asparagus drop to 35 cents a bunch while Cuban cantaloupes fetch $1 each. tomatoes 15 cents a pound. lettuce 10 cents a head. oranges cost 4 to 5 cents each. many fruits and seafood show varied but steady changes as summer nears.
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Southwest
California
Jersey
Long Island
New Orleans
New York
North Carolina
Nellis
Virginia
California Old Mission
Philadelphia
Jersey Coast
St. Roe
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Staten Island Ferry
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Seaxn Winner
Home Bank of Brooklyn
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P. S. Board
Berkman Takes
Health Protective Association
Missing Priest Hospital
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