Bridge case up to day inquiry on Blackwell's Island span
At a Brooklyn board meeting the appointment of an expert commission to assess whether the Blackwell's Island Bridge is dangerously overloaded will be discussed. Controller Metz supports an independent investigation with input from his chief engineer Withington and prominent engineers, while the Bridge Department may also be heard from.
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Color of Broeoklyn
Metz
Gey
Chandler Withington
William H. Burr
Columbia University
the Tribune
Manhattan
Queens
Stevenson
Hrkee Department
Tee
Bridge Department
Jevenson
Tribune
Scientific American
Yes
Quebec
Farm the
Blackwell's Island Bridge
Lee Department
Withington
Engins
Scientific American backs Tribune call on bridge safety
The article argues Quebec Bridge failure shows structural chords and diaphragms failed under load. It compares with Blackwell’s Island and Forth Bridge, warning that designs must ensure chord members stay in plane. Royal Commission findings cited on weak chord joints and riveted webs.
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Quebec Bridge
Blackwell's Island Bridge
Quebec Me
Blackwell's Mead Bridge
Royal Commission
Behoeves
Wens
Heram
Wne
Ciera
Gs Colia
Eto
England
Lindenthal
Lusitania Aims For New Transatlantic Record Run
The Lusitania, passing Nantucket at 6 37 p m and later thick fog near Fire Island, is expected to reach Sandy Hook by 1 45 a m today. Wireless reports claim a record 632 knots in 24 hours, with speed over 25 knots earlier, and a target long course time of 2 days 20 hours 12 minutes for a government subsidy of 750000.
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Nantucket South Shoals
Sandy Hook
Nantucket
Fire Island
Thisland
Lusitania
Daunt’s Rock
Dynamite strike disrupts Cleveland streetcar line
A car on Cleveland's East 105th street line was blown up with dynamite injuring several, including George Ignant, a crippled boy, who was thrown from his chair and likely fatally hurt. Two nearby cars were damaged, no others hurt. Two arbitrators have been named to mediate between the traction company and striking workers.
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Cleveland
East 105Th Street
George Ignant
Brooklyn plans Suffolk aqueduct to boost water supply
The Board of Water Supply reveals a plan to tap Suffolk County for extra water. A proposed aqueduct and wells could deliver up to 250 million gallons daily at an estimated $40 million. A smaller 70 million gallon option may cost about $19 million. Opposition from Suffolk interests looms as Burr law repeal faces Albany.
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Suffolk County
Brooklyn
Suffolk
State Board of Water Supply
Albany
Bensel
Alton Ordered to Admit Bibb Negroes to Public School
After twelve years of litigation the Illinois Supreme Court issued a mandamus against Alton authorities to allow Ambrose and Minnie Bibb to attend public school. The Bibbs, now ready for high school after private tutoring, will enter with other black students benefiting from the writ.
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Tribune
Springfield
State Supreme Court
Alton
Ambrose
Minnie Bibb
Washington
Bibbs
Bonds Found in Cistern Astonish Vineland Alongside Barber
In Vineland New Jersey on May 21 A and Randle found fifty nine dollars worth of bonds at the bottom of an old cistern being cleaned by the village barber John Kandle father of the barber. The West Jersey Railroad issued the bonds forty two years ago. Elder Kandle had died about fifteen years earlier and neighbors recall rumors of wealth long suppressed.
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Vineland
N. J
Newfield
A. &. Randle
Kandle
West Jersey Railroad
John Kandle
Ruef Jury Fails to Reach Verdict After 44 Hours
San Francisco May 21 jury in Ruef trial spent forty four hours deliberating and failed to reach a verdict. The panel stood six to six on the thirteenth ballot with 111 indictments and suspensions pending against Ruef. Abraham was discharged earlier in the evening.
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San Francisco
Ruef
Abraham
Texas flowers for Germany shipment orders.
Berlin has ordered two million tuberoses from the Texas coast and an additional half a million cape jasmines. German importers say the cape jasmines are gaining popularity in Germany. Tuberoses will go to nearby provinces for cultivation. cape jasmines to Berlin.
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the Tribune
Galveston
Tex
Berlin
Texas
Germany
Mae C Wood Arrested End of Platt Divorce Suit
Mae Catherine Wood was committed to the Tombs in default of 5900 bail after Justice O Gorman found the marriage claim against Senator Platt to be a fabrication built on perjury and forgery. The court rejected her testimony of marriage and ordered her confined unless bail is posted.
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Justice O’gorman
Senator Platt
Justice O'Gorman
Flynn
Wood
New York
Mr. Platt
Hink
Frank Platt
Hummel
John B. Stanchfield
Charles E. le Barbier
Platt
Joseph Day Lee
Lee
J. Martin Miller
United States
Rheims
France
Miller
Rabies kills Marsh Doctor may have virus
Brooklyn manufacturer William H. Marsh died from rabies confirmed by autopsy. Dr. Ira Van Giesen and Dr. Emil F. Hartung performed the examination and discussed immune serum trials, brain flushing, and future rabies treatment potential. Marsh’s stenographer Edna Thompson and son Ramsey were treated at the Pasteur Institute. Three men bitten near the Brooklyn navy yard were cauterized and sent to the Pasteur Institute.
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William H. Marsh
Brooklyn
Ira van Giesen
Emil F. Hartung
16Th Street
East River
van Giesen
D. W. Poor
Marsh
Dr. Poor
Mr. Marsh
Park
Department of Health
Edna Thompson
Robinson Street
Young Marsh
Institute
Ocean Avenue
Charles J. Wyckoff
Grace Reformed Church
Lincoln Road
Bedford Avenue
Greenwood Cemetery
Brooklyn Navy Yard
William Rand
Cumberland Street
James Plumbell
Vanderbilt Avenue
Frank O'Neill
Fulton Street
Cumberland Street Hospital
Pasteur Institute
Flushing Avenue
Banks in Cleveland Combine Into One Trust Firm
Cleveland announces the merger of Citizens Savings and Trust Company and Commercial Savings and Trust Company the former Dime Savings Bank. The combined deposits total about 490 million dollars.
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Cleveland
Citizens Savings and Trust Company
Commercial Savings and Trust Company
Dime Savings Bank
Mrs Margaret D Vokes Near Death in Boston Suburb
Actress Margaret Daly Vokes sister of the late Dan Daly is reported dying at the Lynnwood home of her brother in law Colonel John O'Donnell. She is wife of Harry Vokes and of tuberculosis with death expected momentarily, doctors say.
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the Tribune
Boston
Margaret Daly Vokes
Daly
Dan Daly
John O'Donnell
Lynnwood
Vokes
Harry Vokes
Great Bear Spring Water Ad claims purity
An advertisement promotes Great Bear Spring Water with the slogan Jip purity has made it famous. The claim emphasizes purity as the product's key feature and branding notes Adyva as the source.
Arrest of famed boy soprano Earl Gulick shocks New York
Earl Gulick aged nineteen of Gramercy Park is arrested for assault and robbery after a late night incident near 41st Street and Seventh Avenue. He once sang before President McKinley and at the president’s funeral, earning a Carnegie gold medal. Gulick claims a bad mistake, saying Dunlop lent him five dollars and then the others attacked. His father, Dr. J G Gulick, tried to post bail but funds in Kings County prevented it.
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Earl Gulick
Gramercy Park
United States
Gulick
McKinley
Andrew Carnegie
Uptown
Alexander H. Dunlop
West 42d Street
Dunlop
41St Street
Seventh Avenue
J. G. Gulick
Broadway
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Skyscraper Neck Traps Boy Amid Smoke in Manhattan
A ten year old boy, John Witz, became stuck looking up at the Singer Building flagpole as smoke and mist rose. Doctors at St. Gregory's Hospital applied mental suggestion and massage to straighten his neck. He left for home at 120 Eldred Street, Brooklyn, after treatment.
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Lower Manhattan
St. Gregory's Hospital
John Witz
Singer
John
Dre. Jacobs and Heacock
Eldred Street
Brooklyn
London Cyclist Breaks World Record For 1000 Miles
London rider T. A. Fisher set a new world record by covering 1000 miles in 91 hours 1 minute, surpassing the previous mark by twelve hours and reshaping endurance cycling history.
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London
T. A. Fisher
Injunction Bills Fail in House Conference Vote
The Republican led House conference failed to unite on anti injunction legislation. After hours of debate the adjournment sine die motion passed 75 to 63, a earlier vote 69 to 68 showed no measure could secure a majority. Representative J Sloat Fassett fainted briefly before revival.
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J. Sloat Fassett
Tornadoes Kill Seven Across Kansas and Iowa
Tornadoes and violent windstorms swept through Clay Centre and surrounding areas in Kansas and Albia Iowa. In Clay Centre three people were killed and several houses destroyed as telegraph and telephone lines failed. In Albia a school building was wrecked and one person J M Taylor died when a corncrib fell. In Washington County near Lynn two children and Mrs Fred Becker were killed and a home demolished.
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Clay Centre
Kan
Lincoln
Salina
Frederick Grothe
Ottumwa
Iowa
Albia
Grant
J. M. Taylor
Concordia
Fred Becker
Lynn
Washington County
Paterson to sue writer over libel article
Mayor Mc Bride instructed City Counsel Merrey to sue The Broadway Magazine and writer Broughton Brandenburg for libel over The Menace of the Red Flag. Brandenburg previously published a similar piece in Collier s Weekly about three years ago. a protest by Mayor Johnson led to a retraction.
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Paterson
N. J
McBride
Merrey
Broughton Brandenburg
Brandenburg
Collier's Weekly
Johnson
Steady Resumption of Steel and Coke Trade in Pittsburg
May reports show major coke market activity as United Iron and Steel opens a large Leetonia plant and signs a 150000 ton coal contract with Washington Coal and Coke. Foundry and furnace coke deals total 80000 tons, with Wisconsin buyers close behind. Regional coke plants near Connellsville repair and expand, while a new gas plant with thirty two open hearth furnaces debuts at Duquesne Steel Works of United States Steel.
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Pittsburg
United Iron & Steel Company
Leetonia
Ohio
Washington Coal and Coke Company
Pittsburg Coal Company
Wisconsin
Connellsville
Duquesne Steel Works
United States Steel Corporation
Paranoiac Develops From Ego Tism
Dr Theodore H Kellogg of New York told the American Neurological Association that insane thoughts mirror sane processes. He argued delusions stem from ignorance superstition and morbid fancies and that both insane and sane acts of violence follow similar motives. He said paranoiac develops from native egotism.
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Philadelphia
Theodore H. Kellogg
New York
American Neurological Association
Buried Cities Sought Near Houston Texas
A syndicate forms to explore Southwest Texas for buried cities two miles northwest of Houston in Harris County. Work has begun with a large caisson sunk and $150000 raised for preliminary work. Professor T L Braissons believes Texas hosts severe buried cities like Mexico with ancient ag tecs and Toltecs.
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Tribune
Galveston
Texas
Houston
Harris County
T. L. Braissons
Mexico
Opera Singer Miss Marion Weed Injured in Accident
Rochester reports Miss Marion Weed an opera singer was thrown from a carriage and bruised in the head and shoulder when a wagon struck her overturned coach.
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Rochester
Marion Weed
Navy Yard Employes Warned Of Political Activity
Boston laborers at the navy yard were told by the Secretary of the Navy that pernicious political activity will lead to discharge.
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Navy Yard
the Tribune
Boston
Secretary of the Navy
Death of Bill the Tapir at Central Park
The new Central Park tapir Bill died yesterday after a brief appearance in the menagerie since last Tuesday. He could not adjust to his surroundings after being recently taken from a Brazilian swamp.
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Bill
Central Park
Tapir
Congress Teeters Over Adjournment As Senate Presses Off
The Senate moves toward Saturday adjournment while the House plans to delay into next week. President Roosevelt weighs a veto risk on the 82 million public buildings bill as Cortelyou prepares a guidance report. Speaker Cannon and Rep Tawney discuss remaining measures and omnibus funds.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senate
House
Appropriations Committee
Congress
Cannon
Tawney
Roosevelt
Cortelyou
Supervising Architect of
the Treasury
House approves plan for national forest reserve commission
The House passed a bill to create a commission to study a White Mountain and Southern Appalachian forest reserve and to authorize state cooperation in conserving natural resources. Opponents argued the cost could rival the Panama Canal, with 75 million acres to be purchased at high average prices. The House also created a bureau of mines in the Interior Department and acted on District of Columbia transit and agricultural appropriation issues.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
House
White Mountain
Southern Appalachian
Congress
Scott
Kansas
Committee of Agriculture
Bureau of Mines
Interior Department
Commissioner of Mines
Bureau
United States
District of Columbia
Union Station
Senate
Car of Oriental Mail Burned on UP Train
A Union Pacific fast mail train traveling about fifty miles per hour caught fire near Maxwell last night. One entire through mail car from New York to San Francisco with first class matter for Japan, China and the Philippines was burned. No postal clerks were aboard.
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the Tribune
Omaha
Union Pacific
Maxwell
New York
San Francisco
Japan
China
Philippines
Roosevelt not a plagiarist in last message says Steffens
Washington May 21 Lincol n Steffens visits the White House and clears President Roosevelt of plagiarism claims over his Congress message. Steffens noted the president did not originate the idea, quoting a cautious phrasing about a man described as having “face grown hard and cruel.” Also announced are more trains to Asbury Park with parlor car service starting May 24 and Pennsylvania Railroad route changes.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Lincoln Steffens
White House
Steffens
Asbury Park
Pennsylvania Railroad
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