Bridge case moves to inquiry on Blackwell Island span
At a Brooklyn Board of Estimate meeting a plan to appoint expert engineers to assess whether the Blackwell’s Island Bridge is dangerously overloaded is discussed. Controller Metz advocates an outside investigation with input from Chandler Withington and Professor William Burr amid calls from The Tribune and The Scientific American for tests and accountability.
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Board of Estimate
Blackwell's Island
Horough
Color of
Brooklyn
Metz
Chandler Withington
Arsa
William H. Burr
Columbia University
the Tribune
Manhattan
Queens
Stevenson
Bridge Department
The
Tribune
Scientific American
Quebec
Blackwell's Island Bridge
Rthal
Withington
Scientific American backs Tribune bridge safety call
The article cites Scientific American supporting the Tribune’s Bridge Safety stance after the Quebec Bridge collapse. It notes structural failures, compares chords and diaphragms, and cites tests on Blackwell’s Island and other bridges to question cantilever design strength.
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Scientific American
The
Tribune
Evers
Quebec Bridge
Blackwell's Island
Exet
Quebec
Eye Ee
Blackwell’s Island Bridge
Pidee
Lindenthal Hi
Tee Tee
Blair
Lusitania Seeks Record Run Amid Thick Fog
The Cunard liner Lusitania, near Nantucket and Fire Island, faced dense fog delaying speed tests as observers tracked the ship. Wireless updates claim record daily runs around 632 knots for a 24.5 knot average possible to claim a $750,000 government subvention, with projected arrival near Sandy Hook Lightship tonight.
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Cunard
Nantucket South Shoals
Sandy Hook
Nantucket
Fire Island
Lusitania
Daunt’s Rock
Dynamite strike disrupts Cleveland streetcar line
A dynamite blast on the East 105th street streetcar injured several passengers and a crippled boy named George Ignant, likely fatally. Two nearby cars were damaged as authorities report two arbitrators, with a third pending, mediating between the traction firm and striking workers.
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Cleveland
East 105Th Street
George Ignant
Brooklyn Eyes Suffolk Water for City Needs
The Board of Water Supply plans to tap Suffolk County for extra water to meet Brooklyn's growing demand. A proposed aqueduct and wells could yield 250 million gallons daily for about 40 million dollars, with smaller production at 19 million. The Burr law repeal faces county opposition from private preserves and estates.
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Board of Water Supply
Suffolk County
Brooklyn
Suffolk
State Board of Water Supply
Albany
Bensel
Alton Ordered to Admit Bibb Children to Public School
After twelve years of litigation the State Supreme Court issued a mandamus against Alton to allow Ambrose and Minnie Bibb two Black students to attend Washington or any suitable public high school. The Bibbs will enter high school after private tutoring, with other Black students also eligible under the writ.
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Tribune
Springfield
State Supreme Court
Alton
Ambrose
Minnie Bibb
Washington
Bibbs
Bonds Found in Cistern Excite Vineland Community
Vineland New Jersey May 21 Special All Newfield residents rejoiced when barber A S Kandle found 4400 worth of West Jersey Railroad bonds dating back forty two years at the bottom of an old cistern he was cleaning The bonds were issued to John Kandle father of the barber who died about fifteen years ago and neighbors recall tales of his wealth yet inability to use it
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Vineland
N. J
Newfield
Kandle
West Jersey Railroad
John Kandle
Ruef Jury Disagrees After 44 Hours
The San Francisco jury in Abraham Ruef's trial failed to reach a verdict after about 44 hours of deliberation, breaking on the thirteenth ballot at six to six. One hundred eleven indictments remain pending against Ruef.
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Abraham Ruf
Ruef
San Francisco
Texas flowers for Germany shipments from Texas coast
Orders have been entered for two million tuberoses from the Texas coast to Germany and half a million cape jas mines. German importers report cape jasmines growing popular in Berlin while tuberoses go to nearby provinces for cultivation.
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the Tribune
Texas
Germany
Berlin
Galveston
Rabies death and marital fraud in New York case mix
A Brooklyn rabies autopsy confirmed William H. Marsh died of the disease. In New York City, Mae Catherine Wood was committed to the Tombs for perjury and forgery after a judge ruled against her claim of marriage to Senator Platt, ending her long publicized divorce suit.
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Mae Catherine Wood
Justice O’gorman
Senator Platt
Justice O'Gorman
Flynn
Wood
New York
Platt
Him&k
Frank Platt
Hummel
John B. Stanchfield
Charles E. le. Barbier
Joseph Day Lee
J. Martin Miller
United States
Rheims
France
Miller
Cleveland Banks Combine Merger of Two Savings Firms
Cleveland reports the Citizens Savings and Trust Company and the Commercial Savings and Trust Company formerly Dime Savings Bank have merged. The combined deposits total about 40 000 000 dollars.
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Cleveland
Citizens Savings and Trust Company
Commercial Savings and Trust Company
Dime Savings Bank
Actress Margaret Vokes Near Death in Lynnwood Home
Boston telegram reports actress Margaret Daly Vokes wife of Harry Vokes and sister of the late Dan Daly is dying at her brother-in-law Colonel John O'Donnell’s Lynnwood home. Doctors say her tuberculosis is advancing and death is expected momentarily.
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Tribune
Boston
Margaret Daly Vokes
Daly
Dan Daly
John O'Donnell
Lynnwood
Vokes
Harry Vokes
Great Bear Spring Water Ad Claim
An old newspaper ad promotes Great Bear Spring Water with the slogan The purity has made it famous and emphasizes its brand recognition. The fragmentary text presents a consumer product endorsement from a vintage advertisement.
Ear l Gulick Arrested for Assault and Robbery
Earl Gulick a nineteen year old formerly renowned boy soprano who sang before President McKinley and at the President's funeral faces arrest on charges of assault and robbery. The alleged victim Alexander Dunlop says Gulick robbed him of 60 dollars at 41st Street and Seventh Avenue after a saloon visit. Gulick claims Dunlop lent him 5 dollars and that a struggle followed. his father Dr J G Gulick attempted bail but was blocked by Kings County property limits.
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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
Kings County
Skyscraper Neck Alarm Spreads in Lower Manhattan
Ten year old John Witz was near the Singer Building when smoke and mist trapped his head in an odd posture. Doctors at St. Gregory's Hospital diagnosed the condition as a plastic contraction called skyscraper neck after treating him with mental suggestion and a head massage. He returned home to Brooklyn at No. 120 Eldred Street.
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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 Prumbell
Vanderbilt Avenue
Frank O'Neill
Lower Manhattan
St. Gregory's Hospital
John Witz
Singer
John
Dre. Jacobs and Heacock
Eldred Street
London rider breaks road cycling world record
T A Fisher of London shattered the world two wheel record by riding one thousand miles in 9 hours 1 minute, reducing the previous mark by twelve hours.
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London
T. A Fisher
House fails to pass anti injunction bills
Washington report says Republican delegates remain divided and no anti injunction legislation will be pursued this session. House conference votes 75 to 63 to adjourn sine die after four hours of debate, with earlier 69 to 68 defeat of adjournment. Representative Fassett fainted but recovered in the cloak room.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
House
J. Sloat Fassett
Tornadoes Kill Seven Across Kansas and Iowa
Tornadoes swept northern Kansas and southern Iowa killing seven people. In Clay Centre area three died as wires fell and homes were wrecked. near Salina Mrs. Frederick Grothe was killed and injuries reported. In Albia a windstorm wrecked the Grant school with pupils escaping. J M Taylor died under a fallen corncrib. In Washington County near Lynn a wind storm killed two children and severely hurt Mrs Becker.
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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 ordered City Counsel Merrey to sue The Broadway Magazine and writer Broughton Brandenburg for libel over The Menace of the Red Flag article about Paterson. Brandenburg had published a similar piece in Collier's Weekly three years earlier after a protest and retraction by former Mayor Johnson.
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Paterson
N. J
McBride
Merrey
Broughton Brandenburg
Brandenburg
Collier's Weekly
Johnson
Steel activity surges in Pittsburg coke trade
May 21 reports show a broad revival in the iron and steel sector. United Iron & SteelCo begins a Leetonia Ohio plant at full capacity and signs 150000 tons of coking coal with Washington Coal and Coke Co for 18 000 tons monthly. Foundry coke sales reach 50000 tons over eleven months and a Wisconsin firm nears furnace coke contract. Connellsville area coke plants repaired and expanded for a long run. United States Steel opens a 32 open-hearth furnace gas plant at Duquesne Steel Works, said to be largest in the world.
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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 Egotism
Philadelphia May 21 Dr Theodore H Kellogg of New York told the American Neurological Association that thoughts and actions of the insane are not original but reflect phases of sanity. He cited delusions caused by ignorance superstition and morbid fancies and warned that anarchists may be driven to homicide by these delusions. The paranoiac develops from native egotism.
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Dr. Kellogg
Philadelphia
Theodore H. Kellogg
New York
American Neurological Association
Buried City Hunt S Netted Near Houston Texas
A symbate forms to probe Southwest Texas two miles NW of Houston in Harris County for buried cities. Work starts with a large caisson sunk and $150000 raised for initial exploration. Prof T L Braissons believes ancient Texas held severe buried cities akin to Aztec and Toltec Mexico.
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the Tribune
Galveston
Texas
Houston
Harris County
T. L. Braissons
Mexico
Miss Marion Weed Injured in Carriage Accident
Rochester reports opera singer Miss Marion Weed injured after a wagon collided with her carriage causing it to overturn. She sustained bruises to head and shoulder. condition not updated.
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Marion Weed
Rochester, May “L
Navy Yard Employes Warned for Political Activity
Boston May 21. Secretary of the Navy informed laborers at the navy yard that pernicious political activity will mean discharge.
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Navy Yard
The
Tribune
Boston
Secretary of the Navy
Bill the Tapir Dies at Central Park Menagerie
Bill the new Central Park tapir died yesterday after a brief stay in the menagerie. He appeared only last Tuesday and failed to acclimate to his surroundings after being brought from a Brazilian swamp.
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Bill
Central Park
Congress Faces Prolonged Session Aim and Veto Risks
The Tribune notes a split between Senate and House over adjournment with the Senate near a Saturday adjournment while the House delays into next week. President Roosevelt weighs the $32 million public buildings bill, seeking guidance on signing or veto.
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Senate
House
Reserve Plan Approved by House for National Forest Commission
The House passed a bill to create a commission to survey and assess the White Mountain and Southern Appalachian forest reserve, and to authorize cooperation with states on natural resources. Supporters cite prelude to federal land acquisition. opponents warn of high costs. The House also approved a bureau of mines in the Interior Department and acted on related measures including transport and public building appropriations.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
House Today
White Mountain
Appalachian
Congress
Scott
Kansas
Committee of Agriculture
White Mountain Reserve
Currier
New Hampshire
Tawney
Panama Canal
House
Bureau of Mines
Interior Department
Commissioner of Mines
Bureau
United States
Columbia
Union Station
Senate
Car of Oriental Mail Car Burns in Fire Near Maxwell
A Union Pacific fast mail train traveling about fifty miles per hour near Maxwell last night caught fire from the locomotive and consumed an entire car of mail. The burned car carried through mail from New York to San Francisco with first class matter for Japan, China and the Philippines. No postal clerks were aboard.
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Tribune
Omaha
Union Pacific
Maxwell
New York
San Francisco
Japan
China
Philippines
Roosevelt not a plagiarist says Lincol Steffens visit
Lincol Steffens visits the White House and asserts President Roosevelt did not plagiarize in his last message to Congress. He notes the president did not originate the idea and quotes his careful wording about a man whose face has grown hard and cruel. The item also mentions changes in railroad parlor car service and new timetables.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Lincoln Steffens
White House
Steffens
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LE Barbier
Mr. le Barbier
Cleveland Banks Combine
Margaret D. Vokes
Earl Gullick
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