Swarms at the Island Draw Big Crowds to Coney Island
The hot weather drew a large crowd to Coney Island with press agents claiming over 1000000 visitors though numbers varied. Three counterfeiters were arrested at the station after a complainant from Luna Park reported fake money. The Bostock animal show drew its best Sunday crowd in Dreamland and other parks bustled with activity. Martin Walsh was injured when his horse bolted near Avenue X and Ocean Boulevard.
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Mercury
Coney Island
Benjamin Steinert
Monroe Street
Manhattan
Celia Silenski
Fannie Karitsky
East 117Th Street
Frederick Siegfried
Luna Park
Siegfried
Steinert
Silensky
Dreamland
Martin J. Walsh
Lexington Avenue
Brookstyn
Avenue XK
Ocean Boulevard
C F U Delegates Wrangle Over Per Diem Bill
Central Federated Union delegates clashed over a report to draft a per diem employee bill akin to the Hoey measure. Mayor McClellan vetoed the amended Hoey bill. A committee was sent to Alder man Delaney to draft a city claimance aligned with the original bill.
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Central Federated Union
W A. Cad
McClellan
Bohm
Alban
Board of Aldermen
Alderman Delaney
Hoey
Central Federated Union Receives War Department Reply
The War Department replied to Steam Engineers Union 319 complaints about enlisted men doing mechanics work at Liberty Island. It cited lack of funds preventing civilian employment. Martin F. Cody of Engineers 318 criticized Secretary Taft, claiming he seeks votes but has not yet addressed the grievances. Cody will submit the letter to his union.
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Central Federated Union
War Department
Union
Liberty Island
Martin F. Cody
Engineers
Taft
Mr. Cody
Pope blesses Brooklyn College cornerstone ceremony
Crowds of about ten thousand gathered under a summer sun to witness the cornerstone laying of Brooklyn College the Jesuit institution in Crown Heights. Speakers included Vicar General McNamara Borough President Coler and Justice Carr with messages of papal blessing and well wishes from President Roosevelt. The three story building will host four to five hundred students with plans for grammar high school and later a full collegiate course.
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Brooklyn College
Crown Heights
Brooklyn
O'Connor
Kings County
McDonnell
Rome
McNamara
Coler
Whalen
John Greene
Board of Education
Terence J. Shealy
Fordham University
William J. Carr
Metz
Roosevelt
Widow Ellen Gray Dies After Amputation In Yonkers
Ellen Gray of Yonkers died in St. Joseph's Hospital two hours after a below the knee amputation performed for gangrene following a backward fall from her rear piazza ten days earlier. She had broken ankle bones, underwent surgery, and developed gangrene before the fatal operation.
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Ellen Gray
St. Joseph's Hospital
Yonkers
Canoe Upsets Leave Three Drowned in Saugeen River
Walkerton Ont May 2 Three persons drowned when a canoe upset and capsized over a dam in the Saugeen River. Those buried are Frederick Clark twenty one Gertrude Obrecht nineteen and her sister Bertha twenty two all residents of the Walkerton district.
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Walkerton
Ont
Saugeen River
Frederick Clark
Gertrude Obrecht
Bertha
Ethical Social League to Convene at Temple Beth El
The Ethics Social League holds its fourth conference tonight at Temple Beth El on Fifth Avenue and 79th Street. Charles Edward Russell will speak on social conditions. Rabbi Samuel Schulman and Charley Spregue Smith will also address attendees. The meeting looks to discuss uniting ethical social forces in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethical Social League
Temple Beth-El
Fifth Avenue
79Th Street
Charles Edward Russell
Samuel Schulman
Charley Spregue Smith
Ethical Social
Cits
Strikers Vote to Return to Work Under Municipal Traction
Cleveland May 24 By telegraph to The Tribune striking streetcar workers vote by 29 to 0 to resume work tomorrow on Mayor Johnson s Municipal Traction Company lines while awaiting arbitration Their fellow workers may vote on arbitration questions and seniority rights could affect negotiations A referendum on the franchise may be signed and Mayor Johnson could delay until next year s city election
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Tribune
Cleveland
Johnson
Municipal Traction Company
Kid joins the New York Zoological Garden goat clan
The New York Zoological Garden welcomes its first captive born Rocky Mountain goat kid named Philip. Born May 20 at 3:00 am the white kid with black eyes quickly climbed the mother’s pack and leapt to the cage floor. Parents and keeper Bernard McEnroe care for the trio remaining goats.
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New York Zoological Garden
Philip
Director Hornaday
Fort Steele
British Columbia
Bernard McEnroe
Atlantic
Child Shot By Stray Bullet In Hell's Kitchen
Five year old Catherine Hopf of 402 West 38th Street was struck in the neck by a stray bullet while walking with her mother near 555 West 39th Street Hell's Kitchen. She underwent Bellevue operation and is expected to recover. An armed man nearby fired into the air and the bullet struck the child. A separate shot at 116 Charles Street tore a hole in the ceiling and narrowly missed Mrs. Sadie Cox. Francis Clark, eighteen, sailor on the Mohawk, was arrested for felonious assault. his mother said the shot was meant as mischief.
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Catherine Hopf
West 38Th Street
West 39Th Street
Hell's Kitchen
Bellevue
Francis Clark
Triplets Placed in Incubator After Borough Park Wedding
In a hat box improvised as a basket, three newborns stopped a Borough Park wedding. They were rushed to Dreamland’s infant incubator facility at Coney Island early yesterday morning and now weigh a total eight pounds six ounces. Mrs J R Steinberg and her husband, owner of a local business, are mentioned in connection with the event.
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Dreamland
Borough Park
Brooklyn
Coney Island
J. R. Steinberg
Steinberg Triplets Born at Dreamland In Surprising Delivery
The Steinberg triplets weighed a total of pounds and ounces at birth and were taken to the Dreamland infant incubators on Surf Avenue, Coney Island, after their birth at home on West 3rd Street. Dr Pierce and Dr S Fischer oversaw early incubator care.
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Surf Avenue
R. Dicker
Borough Park
S. Fischer
Paterson Building Blown Up At Fair Street
An explosion and fire damaged a two story dwelling at No. 17 Fair Street. Mrs. Johanna Vanderlinde leaped from a second floor window and was hospitalized unconscious but expected to recover. A man identifying himself as James Molteni of No. 639 Lyon Street Brooklyn was arrested with burned hands and admitted being in the building during the blast.
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the Tribune
Paterson
Fair Street
Johanna Vanderlinde
James Molteni
Lyon Street
Brooklyn
Airship Accident Not Fatal in Oakland
Seven men injured in the Oakland airship crash yesterday are recovering at Roosevelt Hospital in Berkeley. L. V. Rodgers believed fatally injured will recover. Captain Penfold, an Australian aeronaut, is improved after leg fractures and internal hurts. J. A. Morell, inventor of the airship, plans to start work on another craft after hospital discharge.
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Oakland
Cal
Roosevelt Hospital
Berkeley
L. V. Rodgers
Penfold
J. A. Morell
Rest Home aid and Chelsea branch report at annual meeting
The Chelsea branch reports a crucial year with low funds and member illness. Donations supported six tuberculous patients, food for forty seven families, fuel for eleven, and outings for many. The Rest Home opens June with Mary E Ferris memory room funded and many local gifts aiding emergencies and clothing.
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Kansas
Dakota
George S. Stewart
Ilsues
Twen
Fort George
South Beach
Coney Island
Brink
Singer Company
Bridgeport
Chelsea
Mary E. Ferris
SPECIAL PLEAS SEEK FUNDS FOR MOTHERS AND CHILDREN
A Brooklyn widow must return to a Raybrook Adirondacks sanatorium for continued treatment. She has lived in New York City for years with meager earnings and relies on milk, eggs, and T S S support to survive with her young son. Funds are sought to send the boy with his mother and provide board near the sanatorium. The East Side faces similar hardship as a child is incapacitated and starving. Restawhile Camp work advances in Caldwell New Jersey with a $50 initial contribution from Miss De Camps.
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Brooklyn
Raybrook
Adirondacks
In Memoriam
Caldwell
N. J
Miss de Camps
Home Textile Price List for Rugs and Cloths
The notice lists Centre Pieces Tea Cloths Luncheon Cloths and Bureau Scarfs priced at 0.90, 2.735, 5.75 and 1.85 with sizes 9 by 12 feet. Wilton Velvet and Royal Wilton Rugs in 9x12 foot sizes cost 22.50 to 39.50 and up to 52.50 for higher grades. Body Brussels and All wool Mission Rugs offer 9x12 and 9x9 foot options at 25.00, 27.50 and related prices.
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Belmont Park
East 34Th St
Flatbush Aves
Brooklyn
34Th St
Turf and Field Club
Waldorf-Astoria
Pinkerton
Broadway
Sunshine Society Seeks Help For Caldwell Camp Tents
Two 14 by 14 foot officers tents cost 35 dollars and are at Caldwell ready for installation. A physician suggests tar paper under floors and cheap matting to make the tents damp proof. Warmer eating flannel sheets replace cat sheets for children. A stove costs 10 dollars. The Jolly Boys Club at Caldwell High offers to build dish closets and useful camp items. Donations to the Tribune Sunshine Society are welcome for bedding and dishes.
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Caldwell
Jolly Boys
Caldwell High School
Sunshine
Tribune Sunshine Society
Flowers and quilts aid Sunshine members in need
Westport Connecticut sends blooms for New York Hospital and shut-ins in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Miss Osborne of Binghamton shares early garden flowers with Sunshine members. A Catskill member gifts raffia for sewing classes and for individual use. an eighty one year old Greene County sender donates face room patterns for lace. A large box of blankets clothing and fancy items arrives from Brooklyn and Norwalk sources.
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Westport
Conn
New York Hospital
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Osborne
Binghamton
Sunshine
Catskill
Greene County
N. Y
Mrs. S. & Betts
Norwalk, Conn
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Ethical Social League Meeting
Kid
Rocky Mountain
Steinberg
Ralph Connor
David Gluck
Nassau Street
Howard Ferris
T. S
John B. Todd
Mayflower
New Haven
Sunshine Circle
Philip Correll
de Camps
Dillon
New York
T. S. S. Rest Home
Joey
James McCreery & Co
34Th Street
Beauvais
23Rd Street
354Th Street
St. Gall
East Orange
T. S. S. Rest
Clark's Falls
Westerly
R. I
Amusemen
Lammerstein
Eva Tanguay
Ryan & 5
Marion Bent
Julius Tannen
the Krat
Rock & Fulton
Irene Franklin
Bert Green
Rice & Cohen
Karno’s
Colonial
HAR Cole & Joh
Alhambra Teen Fox Sason
Hall & & Macy
Bowser-Hinkel Co
St. Eves
Mats Wedares
Opera Company
Racers, Peer & Company
MD St
Empire Ar
W. H. Crane
Tay
Hudson
Otis Skinner
Savoy
Knickerbocker
GEO. M. Cohan ¢Snsi
Ernational
Madison SQ. Garden
Daly
Sam Bernard
Vhce
Lew Fields
Eves
I Mats
Hackett Jon
Carle
Mary's
Lamb
New Amsterdam
Merry Winow
Asto
Wallace’s
Bray & Son
the ‘Day
Heatre
Gus c. Gus
Dewey Inda
Carnegie Sss Co
Grace Merrit
Bblaney’s
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Illiam H. Reynolds
Unny Plac
WWE
Thompson
DUNDY
Eden World
Myserf
TI O' Belmont Park Terminal
Queens
East 14Th
Field
Mrs. O
Bath Beach
Mineola
Long Island
M. L
Stamford
Clinton Branch
Clinton (Conn
Josephine Nettleton
Clifford Evarts
John Eliot
Edward Harris
Bessie Buell
Howland
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
Poughkeepsie
Julia Bennett
Catherine Street
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