McKim Mead & White Plans for City Hall Site Debate
Architect R Lamb criticizes New York authorities for choosing an irregular site on the Triangle bounded by Duane Row and Centre. He urges adoption of a Chambers Street arcade plan with towers, a unified civic complex, and a central 750 foot tower, aligning with a complete public building vision. The Municipal Art Society and past administrations are noted as supporters of a westward Hall of Records expansion.
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McKim, Mead & White
Municip
Inax Row
Centre
Duane Streets
R. Lamb
Cty
Cleveland
Yr McKim
Ge Washington
New York
Chambers Street
Hall of Records
Broadway
Municipal Art Society
le Hall of Records
Lamb
City Hall Park
de Street
Lambie
NEW York Supreme Coure
Ninth Judicial District
Westchester County
A. Na
Supreme Court
State of New York
Newburgh
Grange County
City of
Mount Pleasant
County of
Westchester
Fee
County of Westchester
Southern Aqueduct Department
Board of Water Supply of of New York
Mount
Tarrytown Road
Mt. Pleasant Avenue
County of Westchesters
White Plains
N.Y
Mt Pleasant Avenue
Kensico Avenue
Madison Avenue
S& T
Arcela
Harvard Avenue
Yale Avenue
Paracels
Amherst Street
Wilts
City of New York
Francis Key Pendleton
Corporation
Chambers and
Centre Streets
Borough of
Manhattan
New
Labor Department Statement from Albany on Child Labor
Albany May 3 Commissioner John Williams of the State Labor Department said in a statement that April saw no prosecutions for employing a child under fourteen. He noted a factory owner fined for locking doors during hours endangering workers. The month included five new prosecutions, including violations of various provisions.
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Albany
John Williams
Te State Labor Department
Flight New
Afty
New York City Flower and Feather Makers Face Labor Violations
During a inspection period eighty-six cases went to trial with sixty-nine convictions and four withdrawals. Fines totaling $755 were imposed. Two weeks before Easter inspectors found makers of artificial flowers and feathers violating child labor hours. Thirty-one complaints were filed. fifteen cases pled guilty with penalties about $120.
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New York City
Deaths blamed on horses in New York health scare
A 1900s city controversy links horse prevalence to disease and high costs to public health. Edward Hatch Jr petitions Roosevelt for federal protection while Merchants Association pushes horse control, citing millions in street maintenance and hospital costs. Appleton's Magazine argues flies are minor. horses drive fatal health tolls.
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New York
Edward Hatch, Jr
Roosevelt
Merchants’ Association
Fly
Appleton
Spain
Help Wanted Classified Notices for Various Positions
Employment ads seek a bookkeeper cashier and auditor with strong education and executive ability plus an office manager and advertising marker. Also seeking a caretaker couple and a chauffeur with London traffic experience and temperate conduct. References required with full contact details.
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Govouniant
C. Li. Bex
Tribune
Woods Business School
Skerce
North Sth St
Brooklyn
Multiple Chauffeurs and Help Wanted Notices
A crowded classified item list offers numerous portraits of job seekers and private hires. Chauffeurs, mechanics and drivers detail years of experience and references from addresses in Jersey City Heights Brooklyn and Manhattan. Also listed are a private agent secretary stenographer and a range of assistants including bookkeepers typists and companions with strong references and temperate records.
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L. H
Trouglass St
Brooklyn
William
Meyer
Bowers St
Jersey City Heights
N. J
Domestic situations wanted fill many jobs
Male help sought for inside or outside work by Morrow's Bureau and other agencies. Listings include butlers, valets, cooks, gardeners, drivers, chauffeurs, porters, and house staff with references. Advertisements show multiple agencies and contact details across Manhattan addresses such as Lexington and 6th avenues and Uptown offices.
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Ma' S Bureau
6Th Ave
Morrow
Lexington Ave
Domestic situations wanted job ads from unspecified paper
Various help wanted notices list positions for coachmen gardeners janitors cooks and house workers. Individuals and agencies including Trib une Office Carpenter's Bureau Miss Fitzgerald's Bureau Advertiser M G Port Chester N J and Box 1 Tribune Office seek domestic help or farm foreman with references and experience in private homes clubs or estates.
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Carpenters Bureau
6Th Ave
Sweene
Port Chester
N. J
Domestic Help Ads Span Nationalities in New York Hire
A dense, classifieds style listing from a 1925 New York paper shows agencies advertising cooks, chambermaids, nurses, governesses, waitresses, laundresses, maids, and housekeepers. Multiple firms including Morrow's, Osterberg's, Flaherty's, Collier's, and Jussila Bureau offer staff by city or country, with language notes and wages.
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Constanti
City
Mount Phone Plaza
Morrow's
Lexington Ave
58Th St
Olsen
Assen
Averlen, Inc
East
Guid
Lis
Aod Sraumiress
Mathewsen
Oth Ave
Hryant
Weekly curb transactions and industrial sales data
Daily market brief lists high and low quotes for tobacco, gas, and railroad stocks. Notable figures include Am Tobacco at 360 345 with a 34 drop and Bay State Gas near 125. Standard Oil shows 596 with a 12 decline. Royal Rai Pref at 94 with a 2 move.
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Am Tobacco
Bay State Gas
Royal Rai P
Weekly Livestock Market Report Philadelphia May 3
Receipts for the week include beef cattle 2 455 head sheep and lambs 7 154 hogs 2 916 calves 62. Beef values range from 5 to 6 50 with best 6 50. Cows steady to 3 65 with milch cows 3 5 60. Calves steady 4 50 to 7 36. Sheep and lambs active with ranges from 4 to 8 20 for various grades. Westerns and grassers 4 to 5 50. City dressed stock steady with steers 9 to 10, cows 5 to 6, veals 10 to 12, sheep 11 to 14, hogs 8 to 9.
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Philadelphia
Through Daily Trains and Steamship Lines to Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio routes advertise hourly through trains to Baltimore and Washington with connections at Union Station New York NY. Listings show coaches diners parlor cars and multiple daily departures. another ad lists New York headquarters and bureau contacts plus job classifieds for housekeepers nurs es and maids in Brooklyn Jersey City and Manhattan.
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NEW Jersey Central
Philadelphia
Liberty ST
Baltimore
Washington
le. W
Atlantic City
Ly. W
Lakewood
Lakehurst
Sea
Astor House
Broadway
West 125Th St
Columbus Av
New York
Court St
Fulton St
Nostrand
Brooklyn
Williamsburg
Baltimore & Ohic R
New Union Station
Chicago
Pittsburg
Columbus
Clevel
S.louisv
ST. Louis
Louisv
Ang Broadway
Astorouse
Reerwich St
Union Square
Grard St
N. H
Ikiyn- West
Bureau of Information
R. R
Ma St
Esi
Hartford
Boston
New London
A. M
Soone
Willatmantic
Bse A. M
Lakertile & Norf
Barrington
Stockbridge
Lenox
Pittfield
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St. xStars
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Labor Department
Williams
Howells
Rowell
Powell
Engle
Tee Trorene
University Place
Washington Square
West 15Th
C. H. Brown CO
Fats Otis
Apy
Borysscl
Caa
Laderwoo
S. Keming
Mier Marat Whod Muni Employment Bureau
Beth St
Plaza
Public Accountants
E. D
Breedway
Femais
Shrewsbury River
Red Bank
Penn
Fere
Cooke
Fairhaven
Wagner
Fourth Ave
Ted
Pawne St
Mats
A. R
Pennsie
Tribune Office
Aguages
Las Broadway
Roy
Larson
Pleasant Ave
Spencer
Fairmount Ave
Park
White
East List
London
Trafic
G. Shaw
H. V. Shaw
Red Hook
Woolsey St. Astoria
A. F
Harriaen
The
P&p
Tremont Ae
M. Nathan
West 137Th St
Packard
Locomobile
Charies Perkins
Adelphi St
Fami
Thomas
Stevens-Durrea
Jumbia
John Morrow
R. Braun
S57
West 50Th St
Otto Paseman
Jacobson
Southern Boulevard
Ae Schiappapietra Settimio
Genoa
Jaly
Magnussan
Dear St
England
E. Horley
E. Ith St
Zimmermann
Bronx
H. J. Ferris
East Stast
Tribune Ofice
Times
Heluman
East 76Th St
H. R
Briggs Ave
JM. S. Care Store
William J. Sweeten
East 146Th St
Good Penman
A. Gorman
van Cottage
Maspeth
C of Cordes
Logan Sr
TL Tuok
Principe of
Southern College
Weber
Remington
J. M J
A. Hoffman
Stagsst
Central Ave
West Hoboken
Coniker
Joseph Shardiow
TY Pewriter
Margaret J. Och
West 48Th St
Japan
Komichi
Young
Tman
G. MA
34Th St
Woodcliff-on-Hudson
West Sith St
Butler
Valet
Osterberg’s Bureau
Breen
E. 40Th St
I. W
East 41Th St
West 45Th St
Tribune Union Office
P. H
Mathewson’s Bureau
Ethnve
L. L. Tribune
Coatchman
Coechman
Dolores
Stockley
Warburt Ave
Yonkers
Luachman
Scotchman
West 35Th
North German Lloyd
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Premen Kaiser der Gr
Kronprinz Wm
Cecilie
Kaiser Wm
Bremen
Kurfuerst
Derfinser
Barbarossa
Luetzow
STAR
Naples
Irene
K. Lutse
Friedrich
K. Albert
Dune
Hoboken
N.C. Lloyd
Oelrichs & CO
Paris
Hamburg
S. S. Amerika
Bluecher
Pennsyvania
South America
Atlantic and
Pacific
Europe
THOS
Cook & Son
Madison Ave
Fifth Ave
D” Lene
la Guayra
Puerto Cabello
Curacao
Maracaibo
San Juan
S. Caracas
S. Maracaibo
Zulia
Boulton, Bliss & Dallett
Walt St. Clark
F. C. Clarn
COOK
Madison
Sth Ave
James O'Connor
Henry St
T. S
Coller
West 25d
Carpenter's Bureau
West
North of Ireland
W. P
East 41St St
M. N
Sands St
West &Thst
Frederick Schmidt
Uptown
Advertiser
West 4Th St
J. J
Pearl St
Sabine
Amsterdam Ave
150Th St
Barrow
Flatbush Ave
W. Kriedter
East 120Th
Ito
Nassau St
Joe
Cherry
Houseman
Y. Shige
Brooklyn Postoffice
G. H. Wilmot
Stuyvesant
Morgan, S17
West 47Th St
M.S
Nygord
Lawust St
Corona
Long Island
Mudie
Femaia
Miss Fitzgerald
Pier
N. R
American Line
Plymol Eure Nu
Thampton
RED Star Line
Dover
Antwerp
Finland
Zeeland Vaderland
Celtic
Cedric
Baltic
Adriatic
Azores
Gibraltar
Cunardlines
Piers
North River
Liverpool
Queenstown
Lusitania
Caronta
Campania
Irom
Lucania
Mretania
Etruria
Mauretania & Lusitania
Fiume
Trieste
Pannonia
Carpathia
Henderson Brothers
Pce Taibeients
Fassengerervice
Rotterdam
Boulogne Ryndam
Statendam
New Amsterdam
ROTTE
New Vereer
Vegas York
Porto Ricas
Wall St. Ferry
Raucas
Ros
Hassaxe
Bliss & Dallett
Wall St
Atauam SS
Erale Res
Italia
Willams
Will
Seth St
Osterberg's
Waitres
A. PF
Collier
West 23d
Collier’s Agency
Flaherty
Bu_Teau
Columbus Ave
River
Chamber
Good City
Hotmayer's Bureau
West 23d St
Chelsea
Chambermail
Jussila Bureau
Zington Ave
Aoung
Harrigan
East 144Th St
Flaherty’s
Burreau
Flaherty’s Bureau
Jussila Brrean
Aso Lexington Ave
Gomd
38Th
A. H. Mrs. Colliers Agency
Osterberg’s
Lexington Love
Frien
Tel
Morrow's Bureau
Cor
Sire
Jaggo
Sss
H. Hofmayer’s Bureau
West Sider
Sd Ave
Hofmayer's Bureau
TRST
IAG
Walt
Reliacle
Osterberg Reau
Lexington Ac
Plasa
Innea i
British Columbia
Butte Coalition
Dominion
Ely Central
Furnece Creek
Giroux
Mont-Shoshone
Monte Mines
Miami
Nevada-Utah Mines Co
Eee
Moons
Trinity
Nipissing Ae
Stewart
Union
United Rico
Ukon
Adams
Allis-Chalm
Air Bk
Pennsylvania
Saltie
Ocean Steamers
OCEAN _STEAMERS
Hamburg American Building
Metropolitan Line
YALE
Harvard
Metropolitan Steamship Company
Lre
Pier 45
India Wharf
Yaudsore
N. Fi
West Line
Greater New York
Catskill, Hudson and
Coxsackie
P. M
Railroads
Lerigh Walley
W. A Ann & Des
Rosses
J. Pickrim
Gates Ave
Addre
Fullen
Brookly
Mathewson's
Tb Ave
47Th St
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F. BE
Grand St
Jersey City
Lexington
28Th St
Bell
Tella
Piata
King
W. Gist
Lesington Ave
Ssth St
Cole Her
Thee West
Teiss Shea
East Ant St
Isfant Baby
Mise
Jennie Mannan
Care Hulste
Usterberg
Kraft
Mathewson
Grh
Ave
Het
Ryan
J. B Gray
Ene
Pizgeralis Bureau
Ig 44
Toung Capat
Spesta
Contre
Xerald
Lewington Ave
Tal
L. Kupfer
Hingston Ave
Mere Corlier
Stricthr
Ity Seferrace
B. Hotmajyer
Wam
Heisen
Asterbere
Sureen
Ireland
Iumbus
Bostor
Fall River
Newport
N. B
Warren St
Puritan
Norwich
Clarkson St
City of Lewell
W. Chapin
New Haven
New Haves
Richard Peck
Newsburgh
Poughkeepsie
Mons
WEDS
Fris
Old Point Comfort
Charleston
Savannah
Jacksonvill New Orients
Bermuda
Jamaica
Mexico
Panama
Marsters Tours
W. Sith
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