Subways and Population Projections Stir City Officials
Delis F Wilco chief of the franchise bureau of the Public Service Commission addressed the Charities Conference in the United Charities Building outlining estimates of a 21 billion annual subway ridership and 91 thousand population growth, arguing for extensive new tracks and questioning funding. Edward M Hassett, a former commissioner, offered a more optimistic view of the rapid transit system’s impact on the city.
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Delis F. Wilco
Pureau
Public Service Commission
Charities Conference
United Charities
Commission
Wilcox
Pon Lation
Mien
Mr. Wilcox
Sietora
Edward M. Hassett
Public Service
Morning's News Highlights From A Turbulent Local Scene
Local brief items report unrest in a professional league revolt and a violent incident leaving one dead and three wounded. Mayor's commission hearing on censorship and a city cleanup tablet unveiled trigger regional concern. Alimony case and factory labor disputes surface amid a chaotic general news page.
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Fieht
Friedmann
Professional Woman's League
Auto Smaeheocisch
Konate
Wagan
Jersey
Ily
Mott
Willard Parsons
Marbere
Mra Heye Ashe
Heraty
Theft of Two Plans Shrouded in Navy Mystery
The Tribune reports two nearly identical drafting plans for a new battleship disappeared from the Navy Department on March 4 and later. Secret Service and Navy officials pursue theories including possible insider involvement while noting the plans’ limited value to foreign powers. Secretary Daniels vows tougher safeguards amidst concerns over naval records security.
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Tribune Aurea Washington
Pennying Toom
Bureau of Steam
Navy Department
Wvce
Secretary of the Navy
Department
Navy
Icials
Daniels
Bureau of Steam Engineering
Stareh A
War and Navy
Titanic Loss Impacts White Star Dividend Outlook
London notes the Titanic disaster affects the White Star Line and allied Titanic insurers. Wages disturbance delays repairs to the Olympic and financial strain reduces profits. The Queanic Steam Navigation Company faces reduced capital returns. last year’s dividend was half prior levels, with no final dividend due to losses from the sinking.
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London
Olympic
Queanic Steam Navigation Company
White Air Line
Thampany
Manel
Rosato
Importer Dies In Taxi En Route To Clinic
Darius vo oars importer of No 73 Wooster Street died in a taxicab while being taken to Poly Clinic Hospital shortly after 1 AM. He had spent part of the night at Palais de Danae with Dorent Steinberg, a lawyer of No 57 East 26th Street. They left at 1 o clock and walked toward Broadway when Moses complained of feeling ill and collapsed. Steinberg summoned a cab but the importer was dead before reaching the hospital. Death due to heart disease. He lived at No 21 West 18th Street and was thirty years old.
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Darius Vo Oars
EponRe
Wooster Street
Moger
Dorent Steinberg
East 26Th Tront
Palais de Danae
Broadway
Pth Street
Ocho
Moses
Steinberg
Ladwie
West Asth Street
Kurere
Mackerel Dealers Use Hidden Bottles In Delaware Trade
Mackerel fishermen from New England are hiding liquor in fish to sell to Delaware dry counties. The scheme, dubbed pay a fish and get a big drink, involves pints and half pints concealed inside mackerel. Officials had restricted interstate liquor shipments, prompting this inventive loophole.
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Jone Toregia
Wilmington
Del
Delaware
Lewes
Newengland
Miller
Kent
Sussex
Webb
New England
Oral will to be obeyed heirs ten charities receive funds
In surrogate court yesterday a will named ten public institutions to receive 1000 each from the estate, following an oral request by the testator. The charities include Montefiore Home Mount Sinai Hospital German Hospital Hebrew Orphan Asylum and others. The will also directed specific gifts to his granddaughter Beulah Hymany, nephew Joseph Runs beim, daughter Mrs Tillie Opentrum, and son Lewis Schoolhouse. The testator, founder of Charles Schoolhouse & Co, died May 7 at eighty one.
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Armongh
Tieighder
Montefiore Home
Mount Sinai Hospital
Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Hebrews
New York
Sltebrew Technical Institute
Auctional Alliance
Blyth Lale
Society For
Crinpled
Schoolhouse
Hiss
Beulah H. Hymany
Joseph
Beim
Tillie
St Berkeley
Lewis School
West End Avenue
Charles Schoolhouse
Woodward and Wife Escape Injury After Car Collision
William Woodward president of Hanover National Bank and Mrs Woodward escaped serious harm when their Drougham overturned after a speeding automobile struck it at Madison Avenue and East 19th Street. Driver William Delaney and footman Alfred White were unhurt but bruised. the Woodwards were treated at home later.
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Willan Woodward
Hanover National Bank
Woodward
Madison Avenue
East 19Th Street
A.D. Pratt
East With Street
Frederick Wik
Raymond
Albert Mosby
Kelven and
Mpromptu
Oll
Riage
Quagna
Flower Hospital
Carl Man
Wife testifies in suit for alimony and clothing needs
Mrs Inez Kleeman testified before Justice Adleton that she has been seeking five years for funds to buy a new set of teeth and a new dress, while her husband Rudolph Kleeman, an insurance solicitor, allegedly provides only five dollars weekly for food. The counsel claimed he would sign a separation agreement if the wife accepted eight dollars weekly in alimony.
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Inez
Kleeman
Rudolph Kleeman
Justice Adleton
Women Form New Professional Women’s League After Exit Election
The Professional Woman’s League election produced Mary Shaw defeated by Maida Craigen. Craigen leads a new, nonpartisan league aimed at an “aristocracy of brain” with plans for a sanctified, reform-minded group. Organizers include S. Ludiew Neldtin and Susanne Leonard Westford. Westford named first vice president.
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Warerie Wan Mes
Professional Woman's League
Onex
Progressive Professional Womans League
Mary Shaw
Maida Craigen
Als
Mra. Craigen
New League
Craigen
S. Ludiew Neldtin
Susanne Leonard Westford
Lillian Russell
Mme
Car Roma
PLAW
Mina
Min
Westford
Berkeley
Miss Shaw
Tiegalt
Igen
Wilson Stands Pat On State Rights in Mexican Anti Alien Law Debate
Representative Kahn cites the serenity with which the United States handled the Mexican anti alien land law as California and federal officials weigh the Webb Bloodgood bill. Governors Johnson, ambassadors Chinda, and Secretary Bryan face pressure over constitutionality while Mexico’s 1858 land ban prompts debate on foreign ownership near the border and fears of renewed territorial loss.
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Kahn
United States
State Department
Acien
Bryan
Beth
California
Japan
Bryan Nos
John Bassett Moore
Hiarrisburg
Penn
Pennsylvania
Washington
Mexico
Johnsons Mind Made Up to Answer Bryan and Sign Bill
Seramento May 1i Governor Johnson will likely send a message to Secretary Bryan tomorrow morning on the federal government veto of the alien land bill The announcement says the governor has made up his mind and will issue a full statement of views to Washington then sign the bill The day showed the governor delayed by legislative business and shifted plans to tonight or tomorrow morning
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Tribune
Washington
Johnson
Chinda
Janane
Bryan
Bill
Seramento
Johneson
Bryan Tormorrow
Beans End Hunger Strike at Fort Bliss
In El Paso Texas on May 11 a hunger strike by 200 Mexican federal soldiers detained at Fort Bliss ended after they were fed frijoles instead of standard American army rations for several days. The prisoners complained roast beef potato gravy and pie were inappropriate. Tre coated the frijoles and they eagerly accepted them.
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Hi Paso
Tex
Fort Bliss
Tre
Sailors Celebrate Shore Leave With $4000 Boston Ball
Three hundred sailors from the battleship Georgia dined and danced in a Back Bay hotel ballroom tonight. Mothers wives and sweethearts helped them celebrate shore leave. Each man was assessed 8 and the event cost the sailors about 4000 dollars amid a collective effort to pool funds for a good time.
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Boston
May
Georgia
Back Bay
Georsia
Johnson Guilty on White Slave Charge
Chicago prizefighter Johnson was found guilty on all seven counts of transporting Belle Schreiber from Pittsburgh to Chicago in 1910 under the federal white slave law. The jury reached the verdict after about an hour. The maximum penalty is five years or a $10,000 fine, or both. he was released on a $10,000 bond. A new trial was set for May 19. Johnson testified denying Miss Schreiber’s paid transportation claim, only admitting sending money in response to her request by phone.
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Chicago
Aue Gennson
Buimy
Belle Schreiber
Pittsburgh
Miss Shreiber
Miss Schreiber
Phone saves girl life in perilous gas incident
Croner, a loom designer and fiancé of Milleman, was alerted by hourly calls from his loft office. He found Miss Milleman unconscious beside a gas‑leaking telephone, revived after Dr Murray of New York Hospital treated her for half an hour. The couple had been engaged to wed and Croner had instructed her to stay at the office until he returned.
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Milleman
Albert Ri
Croner
West 424 Street
Mise Milleman
West 11Th Street
Auto Pyramid in Harlem Club of Crashes on Seventh Avenue
A sequence of collisions on Seventh Avenue and 110th Street involved Charles Mitchell of Katonah New York Henry M Steck of Weet Mth Street John D B Taylor of West 1234 Street and Isaac Rosenberg of Tompkins Avenue Brooklyn. Rosenberg’s car sped into the scene and struck the others. Dr Carsagia from Harlem Hospital tended to injuries including a broken arm and facial cuts.
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Isaac Rosenberg
Tompkins Avenue
Brooklyn
Rosenberg
Dr. Carsagia
Harlem Hospital
Mr. Roseberg
John Ian Curran
Initiative vote failure and railroad pay dispute headline
The Illinois House refused to pass the initiative resolution amid an uproar as Speaker McKinley postponed further action. In Kansas City, 27000 railroad shopmen won a wage raise after federation talks with Southern Railway and Wabash system, ratified at federation headquarters in Kansas City Kansas.
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Clinois House
Springfield
McKinley
R. R
Kansas City
Federation of Shop Crafts and
Southern Railway and Allied Railroad Companies
Wabash System
Federation
Kan
Fight Over Turtle Germ Guests Splits Thirteen Club
The Thirteen Club at the Cadillac dinners erupts over inviting Dr Friedmann and others tied to the turtle germ vaccine. Dr Gottheil storms out after clashes with toastmaster Colonel Hobbs and the guest of honor Dr Sturm. Sturm defends not advertising the vaccine while Friedmann and Eisner dispute Sturm’s claims to a secret formula.
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Thirteen Club
Cadillac
Briehmann
Dr. Sturm
William & Gotthell
Friedmann
Tiaas
M.A. Sturm
Dr. Gotthell
Drotthell
Dr. Gotther
Hell
Johnny Hobbs
Gotthell
Hobbs
Almos
Ain G. Hughes
John W. Russell
J. Arthur Lehmann
Dr. Gottheil
Sturm
Thomas W. Embley
Sol Rosenbaum
Leo Jacoby
Walter A. Shonles
L. L. Satenstein
David Lazarus
Friesmann-Eigner-Sturm
Moritz Eisner
Maurice Sturm
Eisner
Berlin
Turtlegerm
Fole Hows
Friederich Frang Friedmann
Maurice A. Sturm
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Wilson
Pat
Foreiguers
Texas
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Carson City
Nev
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George Gregoviteh
Toomorrow
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