Baths Open to Boys for Public School Swim Lesson
Public baths at 23d street and Avenue A hosted a trial of a Board of Education swimming lesson for boys from public schools 40 38 13 and 14. The crowded pool hindered teaching as the instructor said space was needed. Dr Crompton did not attend. Lessons planned for Tuesdays and Thursdays 3 to 5 pm, with strict bath rules including clean rub-downs and no sores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Avenue A
Coney Island
C. Ward Crompton
Julia Ward Howe Celebrates Ninety-Eighth Birthday
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe will mark her eighty ninth birthday on May 27. She remains active at her desk with writings and correspondence and stays engaged in club work and human rights causes. The Boston Authors Club New England Woman Suffrage Association and New England Women’s Club plan celebrations and honors. An album of fourteen songs authored by Howe will be published this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Ward Howe
Boston Authors’ Club
New England Woman Suffrage Association
New England Women’s Club
The Cost of Liberty in Women's Education
Lucy M. Saunders argues in Appleton's Magazine that early women who pursued higher education paid a cruel price in social death and lost chances for marriage. The piece notes pioneers faced ostracism, while later graduates encounter less stigma though prejudice remains, especially for working women and business careers.
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Appleton’s
Lucy M. Saunders
Pioneer College
Harriet Martineau
Mrs. Saunders
Trade School Resurrection Sparks City Club Women
Excitement runs high as the Woman's League of New York State votes to make industrial training for girls its key effort. The move prompts a canvass for Mrs Doré Lyon to lead the city federation, signaling alignment with the trade school cause. With Mrs William Cuming Story newly serving as NY DAR regent, her willingness to remain city federation president appears unlikely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's League
New York
Doré Lyon
Old Trade School Party
State Federation
City Federation
Wiliam Cumming Story
New York State Daughters of the American Revolution
Woman’s League Takes Up State Federation Hoodoo
The Syracuse Trade School suffers from long neglect as the city federation owns the City Federation Hotel and the state federation funds the school not built. The Woman’s League steps in though cautions against imitation while the school’s building was undermined by nearby excavation. Mrs Linda Hull Larned opposed a $25,000 rebuild, later withdrew, leaving the institution with no suitable home and reduced attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Federation
Woman's League
State Federation
Syracuse Trade School
Lyon
Linda Hull Larned
Petticoat pattern for children's undergarments
The New-York Tribune offers pattern No 5,986 for a simple shoulder-supported petticoat for girls aged two four and six. Materials include nainsook lawn batiste and similar fabrics. Medium size needs 1 1/8 yards 36 inch wide fabric 2 3/4 yards insertion 2 1/4 yards wide embroidery and 2 1/2 yards edging. Pattern mailed for 10 cents or 12 cents if rush delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New-York Tribune
Three Drown On Fishing Trip In Pennsylvania
Blossburg Pennsylvania May 19 three men Harry Grover twenty four Roy Grover seventeen and Arthur Mase twenty three drowned in Black s Pond near Liberty ten miles from the borough while on a fishing trip. They hired Herbert Werline to row them across the pond the boat leaked and all jumped in Werline escaped but the others clung to each other and sank. The three bodies were recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blossburg
Penn
Harry Grover
Roy Grover
Arthur Mase
Black's Pond
Liberty
Herbert Werline
Werline
Five Breweries Face Antitrust Action In Indiana
Indianapolis May 19 Five separate oyster suits filed by Attorney General Bing ham contend that the Indianapolis Brewery Company Terre Haute Brewing Company Capital City Brewing Company Home Brewing Company and American Brewing Company exceed corporate powers by leasing saloon buildings.
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Indianapolis
Bingham
Indianapolis Brewery Company
Terre Haute Brewing Company
Capital City Brewing Company
The
Home Brewing Company
American Brewing Company
Highwayman shoots traveling man near Hornell
H W Fuller of Springboro Crawford County Penn a traveling man for a Rochester nursery was halted by a stranger who stepped into the road fired at him the bullet lodged in the carriage side but Fuller’s wound is not serious and he is aided as deputies scour the countryside for the assailant
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Hornell
N. Y
H. W. Fuller
Springboro
Crawford County
Penn
Rochester
Fuller
van Dusen
Three Men Drown in Black River Near Dexter
Watertown reports that three men died when their boat capsized in the Black River at Dexter, six miles west of the city. One victim was American and the other two Hungarian.
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Watertown
N. Y
Black River
Dexter
Italian Benevolent Institute to expand facilities
The four story Italian Benevolent Institute at 165 and 167 West Houston Street will be enlarged. Plans include improved lighting and sanitation, additional wards on the top floor for patients, and remodeled nurse rooms. J H Freedlander is the architect.
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Italian Benevolent Institute
Celestine Piva
West
Houston St
J. H. Freedlander
Will Erect Big Brooklyn Hotel
Louis Bossert plans a twelve story apartment hotel on the former Pierrepont House site at Hicks and Montague streets Brooklyn extending to Remsen street. He took title to the property on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Bossert
Pierrepont House
Hicks and Montague Sts
Brooklyn
Remsen St
Six Story Riverside Drive Apartment Planned for Transit Realty
A Transit Realty Company plan calls for a six story brick apartment house at Riverside Drive and 138th Street with limestone and terra cotta trimmings. Architects Schwartz & Gross estimate a $100,000 cost and two families per floor.
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Riverside Drive
138Th St
Transit Realty Company
Henry Edelmuth
Schwartz & Gross
Real Estate Auction Nets $177 08 for 257 Lots in Bronx Tract
Homeseekers and speculators flocked to Lohbauer Park sales at Vesey Street as 257 plots sold for $177,08 with a top price of $3,000 on a corner lot at Layton and Waterbury. 443 remaining lots to be sold today. many parcels front Eastern Boulevard and Fairmount Vincent and Valentine avenues. Buyers included W. P. Rooney, Charles Horstmann, Annie Craft, and others. district eyed for immediate improvements into a residential area.
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Real Estate Exchange
Vesey St
Lohbauer Park
Throg’s Neck
Bronx
Joseph P. Day
Layton and
Waterbury Aves
Pelham Bay
Eastern Boulevard
Day
W. P. Rooney
Charles Horstmann
Annie C. Craft
M. del Gardia
Alfred J. Talley
H. H. Jarchow
Charles Kirby
Karl P. Schriner
Caroline Mutter
Harry Levine
Frank Horothy
W. E. Triumi
H. Westfehling
August Ruhrmeister
Arthur J. Pellett
George W. Beal
William Horton
Daniel Nimhill
Charles E. Deverman
John G. Dolan
Henry Grossman
Patrick McKeogh
D. E. Crockeron
Baisley, Fairmount
Valentine
Vincent Ives
Baisley Ave
Vincent Aves
Fairmount
Fairmount Ave
Vincent Ave
Baisley Aves
Valentine Ave
Town Dock Road
Valentine and
Ellsworth Ave
Dean, Fairmount, Layton and
Clarence Aves
Dean Aves
Layton Ave
Dean and
Clarence Ave
Layton
Fairmount Aves
Fairmount and
Dean Ave
Wilcox Aves
Waterbury and
Waterbury Ave
Plans filed for Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church buildin
Plans filed for a Gothic one story church to front 3 feet on 181st street near Fort Washington Avenue. It will be owned by Collegiate Church Chapels, cost 25000 dollars, with brick Flemish bond facades, terra cotta trim, and Gothic mullion windows. Architects Nelson and Van Wagener. Plans also filed to remodel Nos 41 and 43 East 132nd Street into Mount Gilead Baptist Church edifice for Rev. A B Twisby, cost 20000 dollars, brick with limestone trim, pinnacles.
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181St St
Fort Washington Ave
Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church
The
Collegiate Church Chapels
Nelson & van Wagener
Murphy
Mount Gilead Baptist Church
A. B. Twisby
J. ¢. Cocker
Real estate sales in Broadway, Amsterdam and Harlem areas
The broker market reports multiple property transfers. Bernard Smyth & Sons sell for John J. Geraty to Webster Realty two Broadway lots. Dixon estate sells a 70 by 10 foot plot at Amsterdam and Cathedral Parkway to a builder for a seven story apartment house. Charlton Construction sells Nos. 108 and 110 Charlton Street a six story warehouse. Edgar & Curtis sell No. 110 Prince Street at Greene Street a three story building on a 20 by 75 foot lot. S Osgood Pell & Co sells No. 345 West End Avenue a four story dwelling to A. F. Holly. Herman Altman sells No. 36 East 44th Street a four story tenement on 27 by 100.5 feet. Tony McOwen resells eight lots on Whittier Street with buyers Spears, Gruffely, Fitzgerald. Hunt's Point Realty sells 100 by 105 foot plot at Whit tier and Garrison and a 25 by 100 foot lot on Faile Street to Mr. Kennedy for a dwelling. R I Browns Sons sell for Gertrude Skinner the west side Sheridan Avenue lot 350 feet north of 153rd Street 25 by 100. Elizabeth Steinmuller sells 50 by 80 foot plot on south side 179th Street near Creston Avenue for a private dwelling. Burrill Brothers sell three story brownstone No 485 First Street Brooklyn to Realty Association for Y. L. Macon. lot 19 by 10.
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Bernard Smyth & Sons
John J. Geraty
Webster Realty Company
Broadway
169Th Ft
Dixon
Amsterdam Are
Cathedral Parkway
Charlton Construction Company
Charlton St
Edgar & Curtis
E. H. Ludlow & Co
Prince St
Greene St
S. Osgood Pell & Co
Adelaide Lagasse
A. F. Holly
West End Ave
Herman Altman
Vessenzo Vessella
East 44Th St
Tony McOwen
Whittier St
Garrison Ave
Hunt's Point
Samuel Spears
Adrian Graffely
Patrick Fitzgerald
Hunt's Point Realty Company
Faile
153D St
Elizabeth Steinmuller
Francis Frey
179Th St
Creston Ave
Burrill Brothers
1St St
7Th and
8Th Aves
Brooklyn
Realty Association
Y. L. Macon
Richmond Building Sold in Staten Island Investment
J Sterling Drake sold the Richmond Building to Penn Realty Company for Staten Island Savings Bank. The five story structure at Richmond Terrace and York Ave New Brighton Staten Island on a 100 by 100 foot plot will be altered at a cost of several thousand dollars to become a modern building for investment purposes.
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J. Sterling Drake
Staten Island Savings Bank
Penn Realty Company
Richmond Building
Richmond Terrace
York Ave
New Brighton
Staten Island
Midtown House Annex Plans In East 29th Street
Four story addition to the four story house at 114g East 29th street owned by the Walden Pell estate adjoining the Church of the Transfiguration. Annex frontage 25 feet depth 35 feet baths for lessee, estimated cost 3000 dollars by Pell & Corbett architects. Also recorded are a six story flat building for Darrow Realty Company on Manhattan street west of Broadway costing 73000 dollars with Neville & Bagge as architects.
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East 29Th St
Walden Pell
Church of the Transfiguration
Pell & Corbett
Manhattan
Darrow Realty Company
Manhattan St
Broadway
Neville & Bagge
Bayberry Point Rentals Reported for Havemeyer Estate
Herbert A. Sherman rents cottages at Bayberry Point Islip Long Island from the Havemeyer estate. Cottage No 1 goes to Co A Van Rensselaer and Cottage No 3 to John G.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert A. Sherman
H. O. Havemeyer
Bayberry Point
Islip
Long Island
Co. A. van Rensselaer
John G
Breese estate leases two Manhattan buildings to Cushman Bakers
John H. Berry as trustee leases the entire building No. 159 8th Ave at the southwest corner of 8th Ave and 18th St and building No. 30 West 18th St to Cushman Company bakers for a term of years.
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John H. Berry
Breese Estate
8Th Ave
1&Th St
18Th St
Cushman Company, Bakers
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Sud
Studebaker
Studebaker Electric
Studebaker Bros. CO
Bway
48Th St. N.Y. City
Bryant
Trade School Resurrection
Paquin
Dover Street
Mayfair, W. London
Nainsock
Indiana Breweries
Dexter, N. Y
Italian Hospital
BIG
London
Paris
Lohbauer
Joseph P Day
Sth
Park Ave
Seth St
Ssth St
N S
Antoinette Apth
Hester Et al
Attys
F Malone
5Th St
Sty Apth
Maple Realty Co
W Levy Building Co
MS & I S
Mort
Jacob Newstate
Samuel Hyman
Audubon Ave
City Real Estate Co
Joseph Wilkenfeld
Harold Swain
P J Dobson
Adolph Zeh
James L Wells
Lexington Ave
24Th St
E P Palmer
Georgianna Smith
Foster & Tattys
Harold Nathan
Esseff Realty Co
Bryan L Kennelly
171St St
Tiffany
H M Picabia
Griffen Tompkins Et al
Bowers & 8S
W P Schoen
127Th St
Erananaenn
Mort Co
Rutland Realty Co
L Westcott
Coughlan
Met Imp Co
W B Coughlan
Amsterdam Ave
Samuel Marx
Manhattan Ave
Pennington Whitehead
H M Weed
Duer
Willam Allen
Southern Boulevard
Longwood Ave
Whitlock Ave
Henry Dreyer
Brooks Herman Elfers
Atty
J Dobson
Placad
Exchange
Joseph KP. Day
Tribune Building
Nassau St
Merk Park
Fidelity Development & CO
Times Building
GEO. M. Exhagott
Cortlandt
Long Island Real Estate
Ackerson Houses
Great South Bay
Bay Shore
LT. B. Ackerson CO
L. Darby
Shire
Buck Hill Falls
Pocono Mountains
W. E. Walter
Arch St
Philadelphia
Howell C. Perrin & CO
Sth Avenue
Washington Heights
Richmond
Midtown
Bayberry Point Rentals
Rafton
New Bond Street
Eighth Ave
Country Property
W. K. Aston
Wail St
New London
Larchmont
Edward Liman Bill
Madison Ave
Mineola
WM. H. Moffit Realty
Hudson
Hudson Heights
Hastings-on- Hudson
Rose Co
W. Sie
River View Wanor
Washingtonville
Orange County
Phillips
Front St
New Jersey Real Estate
Jersey Manor
C Reeves & CO
Somerville
X. J
Chimney Rock Falls
Peters Brook
George Washington
W. ¢. Reeves & CO
East 23Rd St
New York City
Ruland & Whiting
Beekman
Dio
York City
Harmon
David Remsen
East 22d St
King’s Highway
Wood, Harmon & Co
Harlem
Kingsboro
E. B. Potter Trust
Astor Place
Lafayette St
Francis H. Kimball
Hoe Ave
Derick
H Aarom
Oscar Lowingon
4Th Ave
Guisto
Gisceo
ad-Nauheim
A. Raberland
Kaiserhof
Panaion
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