Mechanics and Traders Bank to reopen within thirty days
Depositors representing slightly over one half of the bank's deposits sign the resumption plan after the January 29 suspension. The plan calls for a trimmed board, likely appointing Leo Schiesinger as president, and requires cash reserves and court and state approval before reopening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechanics and Traders’ Bank
State Superintendent of Banks
David A. Sullivan
Sullivan
Leo Schiesinger
Northern Bank of New York
Schiesinger
Mechanics and Traders
Williams
Hamilton Bank
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Borough Bank of Brookiyr
Broadway
Hancock Street
Fulton Street
Broocktyn
No Subway Money for Fourth Avenue Bridges Blocked
After a city officials conference the Mayor and Controller Metz said there is no money for any section of the Fourth avenue subway in Brooklyn. They warn funds cannot be raised before July 1 and even then may be limited by debt capacity and competing needs.
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Metz
Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn
Pendleton
Nelson P. Iewis
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Stevenson
Board of Education
Teay
Manhattan
Blackwell's Island
Brooklyn Ferries
Brooklyn Bridge
Belmont Cystem
Vanderbilt fined for speeding on Revere Beach Parkway
Harold Vanderbilt of New York, son of William K. Vanderbilt, arraigned in Chelsea police court for speeding on May 1. Park officer said his car traveled 25 to 32 mph. Vanderbilt was fined $20, appealed, and posted $4 bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Boston
Harold Vanderbilt
New York
William K. Vanderbilt
Chelsea
Revere Beach Parkway
Park
Vanderbilt
The
New Yorker
Governor designates units for joint army and guard drills
Albany reports Adjutant General Nelson Henry announces Governor Hughes designated units for the joint army and national guard drills at Pine Plains in Jefferson County from June 6 to 3. Squadron A and 1st Battery from New York City, 234 Regiment from Brooklyn, Troop B from Albany, and others named. The governor detaches the 12th and 6th regiments of New York to camp service this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Nelson Henry
Hughes
Army and National Guard
Pine Plains
Jefferson County
New York City
Brooklyn
Syracuse
New York
Ministers in Chinatown Meeting Nears New Mission Building
About 150 Baptist ministers gathered in the Morning Star Mission in Chinatown to hear Rev Fung Y Mow outline a six story building project costing about 60000 dollars. The plan includes a gym basement a chapel on the first floor and dormitories on upper levels. Ministers pledged donations at a luncheon but deferred a final decision to Monday’s conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chinatown
Conference of
Baptist Ministers of
New York
Morning Star Mission
Dovers Street
Fung Y ¥. Mow
David ©. Hughes
Hughes
Fung Y. Mow
Bowery
Canton
Fire Chief Croker Defends Hose Purchases Under Fire
Chief Croker testified amid a probe into Civil Service exams and hose contracts. He criticized volunteer companies, urged five paid Richmond Borough units, and claimed no personal stake in hose specifications or Windsor dealings. Loughman, now Deputy Water Commissioner, said Sea Island duck appeared in specs and discussed hose pricing with Manhattan Globe Rubber Company. He noted Croker’s friendly ties influenced hose sales and prebid expectations.
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Croker
Commissioners of Accounts
Loughman
Windsor Fire Hose Company
Hale
Insanity Test Debated After Ward's Island Clinic
Three Manhattan State Hospital patients displayed ability to distinguish right from wrong before doctors and lawyers at the Academy of Medicine. The event, part of reform efforts with the Bar Association of New York, featured Arthur Train and judges weighing the adequacy of the current insanity standard in homicide cases.
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Manhattan State Hospital
Ward's Island
Academy of Medicine
Bar Association of New York
Arthur Train
Norman S. Dike
Brooklyn
Bartow
Weeks
William Hirsch
Carlos F. Macdonald
J. J. Walsh
C.S. Dana
Bound for Yonkers on Third Rail Incident
Mrs. Hi M Fried of 144% Third Avenue witnessed a man cross the Third Avenue L structure near her window and walk along the northbound track. Police detained James Wren, 43, of Yonkers at 79th Street on intoxication charges after he claimed he was going home. He allegedly wandered between the Seventh Street and Faith Street stations, dodging trains and crossing the third rail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hi. M. Fried
Third Avenue
East 88Th Street
79Th Street
James Wren
Yonkers
7#th street
Taith Street
City News In Brief A Mixed Bag Of Local Court Actions
John F. St John of 57 West 120th Street was convicted of aiding and abetting in false registration in the 7th and 9th Assembly Districts and will be sentenced Friday. Martin Dixon, seven, of 21 East 120th Street, detained on a diamond theft charge, was discharged after Mrs Ziegler reclaimed her property. Henrietta A Wheeler failed to appear in a divorce suit. Justice Truax ordered a jury verdict in favor of the husband singer Frederick J Wheeler. Edyth A Stein withdrew a $2400 breach of promise suit. case stricken as both sides said it was discontinued. James Dunne, plaintiff’s attorney in an annulment action, represented the other party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. St. John
West 120Th Street
Assembly
Supreme Court
Martin Dixon
East 1Mth Street
Emil Ziegler
Both Street
Lexington Avenue
Harlem
Edyth A. Stein
James Dunne
Justice Dowling
Mr. Dunne
Dormer
Bridge overloading raises alarm on Blackwell's Island span
In 1907 to 1909, New York City faced a surge of extra payments for the Blackwell's Island Bridge superstructure. Officials cited contract clauses and a controversial Corporation Counsel opinion to authorize $1.5 million in extra cost, totaling $2.31 million in additions. Engineers warned that increased weight could raise stresses beyond safe levels, echoing fears after the Quebec Bridge collapse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Aldermen
Finance Department
Controler
Corporation Counsel
Blackwell's Island
Quebec
City Bridge Department
The
Tribune
Ice Trust Denied Right to See Grand Jury Minutes
Supreme Court Justice Davis denied the American Ice Company's motion to inspect January grand jury minutes. May grand jury witness hearings continued as Special Deputy Attorney General James W. Osborne probes the trust case. Davis warned disclosure would prejudice final grand jury action and lacked authority. Several witnesses testified before the May panel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
Supreme Court
American Ice Company
James W. Osborne
Grand Jury
May Grand Jury
Woman Nurse Miss Lenahan Found Dead in Philadelphia
The body of Catharine Lenahan a nurse formerly of 168 West 130th Street New York was identified in Philadelphia. Police say she likely killed herself by swallowing carbolic acid after suffering nervous prostration and being a patient at a local hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
May
Catharine Lenahan
West 130Th Street
New York City
Australian welcomes for battleship fleet planned
Melbourne may 11 Alfred Deakin prime minister asks a joint committee to consult with New South Wales and Victoria premiers on the welcome to the American battleship fleet. The fleet is due to arrive in Sydney by August and Melbourne in August. It will depart Australian waters in September.
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Australia
Melbourne
Alfred Deakin
New South Wales
Victoria
Sydney
Australian
Welfare Work Session At National Civic Federation Meet
The National Civic Federation welfare committee opened a three day session in Washington with a business morning, a White House visit, and an evening reception. President Roosevelt urged support for employment liability laws and a federal safeguards plan. Notables from New York and Chicago attended, including Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks and Mrs. Oscar Straus, as the group pressed for model government employment standards and better protections for injured workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Welfare Committee
The
National Civic Federation
Roosevelt
White House
United States
Anama
District of Columbia
New York
New Willard
Charles W. Fairbanks
William H. Taft
James R. Garfield
Oscar Straus
Nicholas Longworth
George Dewer
William Sheffield Cowles
Laura L. Ray
J. Borden Uarriman
Anna Morgan
J. Kemys West
Francis Higginson Cabot
W. Everit Macy
Ernest Fabbri
Andrew Carnegie
John W. Nichols
Mary Hatch Willard
Florence M. Rhett
Donna R. Easley
Marcus M. Marks
Gertrude Beeks
Tessa L. Kelso
Civic Federation
Cortelyou
Navy
Newberry
William R. Willcox
Public Utilities Commission
New York City
Federation
James O'Connell
International Association of Machinists
Seth Low
N. J. Bachelider
National Grange
Sarah S. Platt Decker
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
John Mitchell
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Thaw Habeas Corpus Hearing Postponed One Day
Poughkeepsie New York May 11 The hearing on the writ of habeas corpus in the case of Harry K Thaw scheduled for next Wednesday has been postponed until Thursday to accommodate District Attorney Jerome who will be here on Thursday James Graham Thaws counsel who had come to consult with his client agreed to the postponement
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Harry K. Thaw
Jerome
James
Graham
Thaw
Church Fears Apartment House Over Chapel Deed
St Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church sought in Supreme Court to strike a deed clause barring use of the chapel site for non church purposes The clause originated with the Church of the Transfiguration and was retained when Quintard sold the property to St Stephen's The Transfiguration fears an apartment house if the restriction is lifted and demanded $15 000 to remove it
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church
Church of the Transfiguration
Tragic double infant plunge shocks Chicago family
Chicago police say Mrs. Emma Lofgren threw her two children from a second story window last night, injuring Arthur aged three and Julia six months before likely fatally. The motive appears linked to a mental break as neighbors report she became suddenly agitated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Emma Lofgren
Arthur
Julia
Bath
Malfeasance Charged in New Jersey Building and Loan Case
Justice Dill overturns vice chancellor and orders injunction and receiver for State Mutual Building and Loan Association of New Jersey amid malfeasance allegations. Insolvency shown. trustees appointed by directors suspected of maintaining control. Camden HQ listed with officers and directors named, including Armstrong, Morgan, Brace, Adams, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
James BR. Dill
Court of Errors and Appeals
State Mutual Building and Loan Association of
New Jersey
Dennis Ryan
Leaming
I Nselvent Association
Dill
Association
Camden
State Department of Banking and Insurance
E. Ambler Armstrong
J. Willard Morgan
Cape May
Franklin Dye
State Board of Agriculture
Alexander R. Fithian
Bridgeton
Edward E. Grosscup
Wenonah
Robert Gwynne, Jr
Salem
A. C. B. Havens
Toms River
S. Stranger Islard
Woodbury
H. O. Newcomb
Millville
Charles N. Reading
Frenchtown
P. Kennedy Reeves
Charles H. Richman
Woodstown
J. Frank Shull
Old Salt Searches for Merry Widow in New York
An aging captain visits 21 Pearl Street and the Statue of Liberty in a quest to locate his long lost sweetheart, now a widow. He recalls a thirty five year career at sea and claims to be Wallace, captain and cabin boy to master. He muses on buying the restaurant before departing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pearl Street
Wallace
Captain Wallace
Whitehall Street
Lawyer Arrested In Note Deal At Hotel Buckingham
On a complaint by H H Hull of Keyport New Jersey Charles Barry a lawyer residing at the Hotel Buckingham Sixth Avenue and Fifth Avenue was arrested on a grand larceny charge. Hull says Barry obtained about 3108 000 in notes from Sherman Co bankers and brokers by false representation with intent to negotiate but the firm received no returns. John Gundlach was recently sentenced in General Sessions for a similar offense and made a confession to Assistant District Attorney Rindelberger before going to state prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Hull
Keyport
N. J
Sherman & Co
Charles Barry
Buckingham
6Th Street
Fifth Avenue
Hull
John Gundlach
Rindelberger
Rosenthal Taken From Matteawan on Writ of Habeas Corpus
Aaron J. Rosenthal, linked to an Albany family and formerly with the New York Stock Exchange, was removed from the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane at Matteawan today on a writ of habeas corpus. He appeared before Judge Hasbrouck in Poughkeepsie as authorities report he was committed for forgery and harbored delusions of persecution by prominent New York financiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Aaron J. Rosenthal
Albany
New York Stock Exchange
State Hospital
Matteawan
Hasbrouck
Rosenthal
New York
False Alarm Forces Police Response at New Lots Playground
A mass meeting permit mix up triggered a large police response in East New York when a supposed anarchistic unemployed rally was feared at the New Lots playgrounds. Deputy Chief Baker and 265 officers searched for trouble, only to find none. Parker Kennedy’s error caused the mistaken alert.
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New Lots
Brownsville
Baker
Flood
Miles O'Reilly
New York
M. J. Kennedy
Brooklyn
Peter J. Flanagan
Socialist Party of
2D Assembly District
Mr. Kennedy
Mystery at Gunness Farm Advances in Postfire Search
La Porte Indiana May U The Gunness farm progress in solving the deaths of at least fourteen people continues despite heavy showers hindering excavations. Workers clear debris hoping to recover gold fillings from Mrs Gunness teeth to confirm identity of a body, while autopsy findings on Andrew Helgelein and Jennie Olsen raise clues. Christiania May 11 The La Porte killings alarm prompts speculation that Olaf Jensen a potential victim may be alive in the wake of Mrs Gunness marriage ads prompting inquiries to locate him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Porte
Ind
Gunnness
Schmutzer
Louis
Schultzeh
Howe
Manfield, & Dpd
Jennie Olsen
Gunness
Meyer
Heigeleim
Christiania
Olaf Jensen
Death by own action in Guinness murder report
Warsaw Indiana May 11 A seventy year old man named Jacob Pouch reportedly killed himself after reading newspaper accounts of the Guinness murders. The incident occurred last night and is being investigated as a suicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Ind
Jacob Pouch
Detectives Nab Counterfeit Ring In West 42nd Street Raid
Joseph Clarkson alias Frank Keegan, long pursued by Secret Service, is arrested with John Hunt at 444 West 42nd Street. Officers seize counterfeit 25 and 1 cent pieces and note a “push pack” method used to pass fake money at bars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Clarkson
Frank Keegan
Secret Service
Flynn
John Hunt
West 42d Street
Clarkson
Hunt
Arrow Injury in East New York Girl Struck by Arrow
Nine year old May O Connell of 29 Chestnut Street East New York is hospitalized with a head wound from an arrow shot by a boy playing in the street. The arrow, sharpened umbrella rib, was pulled from her head after she was knocked unconscious. A passerby carried her to a drug store and then to Bradford Street Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May O'Connell
Chestnut Street
New York
Bradford Street
Peter Gembava
Frederick Jackel
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J. Heins
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Heins
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Building Loan Association
Merry Widow
Statue of Liberty
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Helgelein
Guinness Reports
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S. E. Cor
Henry A. Hartman
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Yellowstone Park
Pacife
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27Th St
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Lenox Ave
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