Currency Reform Meeting Aims Unified Bankers Plan
Trf ine Bureau reports the currency reform conference of the American Bankers Association and the New York Chamber of Commerce discusses methods to supply the nation with credit and clearance currency. A. B. Hepburn presided as Shaw Ridgely Treat attended. sessions were closed. Proposals include a central bank and a seven member Washington commission with a push for unified action and possible legislation with Roosevelt and Cannon support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Currency Commission of Reform
American Bankers’ Association
A. B. Hepburn
Chase National Park
New York
Shaw
W. B. Ridgelynd
United States
Charles H. Treat
Treasury
Treat
Ridgely Wes
Commission
Frank A. Wangerup
Charles A. Conant
New York Chamber of Commerce
Vanderlip
Washington
Sre
Arthur Reynolts
Des Moines National Bank
Des Moines
Iowa
E. F. Swinney
First National Bank
Kansas City
Joseph A. McCord
Third National Bank
Atlanta
W. V. Cox
Second National Bank
John L Hamilton
Jon & Cunningham
Hoopeston
James Forgan
Chi@go
Joseph T. Talbert
Commercial National Bank
Chicago
Charles Huttig
St. Louis
Testus J. Wade
Mercantile Trust Company
St Louis
John Perrin
American National Bank
Indianapolis
A. B. Hepbun
Chase National Bank
Luther Drake
Merchants
People’s National Bank
Pittsburg
Frank A. Venterlip
Charles A Conant
Treasury rejects silver offers as price stays high
Washington November 12 The Treasury Department received offers for the sale of silver to the government at 72 cents a fine ounce These offers were rejected and officials said current prices justify no purchases at present Secretary Shaw noted that silver would be bought if needed but the government has enough to keep mint requirements in gold and silver The department began buying August 6 and has accumulated ounces ranging from about to much of the total available to the market
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Washington
Treasury Department
Shaw
Gove
Secretay Shaw
Toney Market
Day
Stata Py
Yale Princeton Cable Meet Announces Train Schedule
A fragmented note notes events between Yale and Princeton with train times on November day. Mentions Mt Neve and Mt Neve Ee, with two trains listed at 19:34 and 19:25. Further readable items are unclear but reference ongoing transport arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yale-Princeton
Princeton
Mia
Mindil Blamed in Gem Valuation Probe at Custom House
Treasury investigators fault the gem valuation division under General Mindil at the custom house. The inquiry, ordered by Secretary Shaw after a complaint in Washington, focuses on undervaluation of precious stones including gems consigned to Edward Van Dam. A resignation or reprimand for Mindil is anticipated today.
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Custom House
George W. Mindis
Customs Service
Treasury Department
Shaw
Washington
Edward van Dam
City Hall Place
Burton Parker
Mindil
George W Morgan Weds In Dutchess County Wedding
George W. Morgan state superintendent of elections for the metropolitan district married Miss Helen Eloise Demuth in New Hackensack. The wedding party faced delays from speed enforcement and a disabled car before the ceremony. The couple will reside on Riverside Drive in New York City after a brief southern honeymoon.
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Tribune
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
George W. Morgan
Morgan
Helen Eloise Demuth
J. Arthur Demuth
Oberlin College Conservatory of Music
Oberlin
Ohio
William H. Morgan
John M. Siddall
New York
New Hackensack
Dutchess County
William A. Dumont
Hastings-on-Hudson
Geraldine Woods Morgan
Peekskill
Riverside Drive
S4th Street
New York City
Mexican mine owner plans 10 million aid reveal
Pedro Alvarado, one of Mexico's wealthiest young mine owners, announced plans to distribute more than 10 million dollars to the poor. The fund will fund homes farms schools and churches via government distribution with at least twenty thousand beneficiaries. Diaz seeks four or five trusted men to form a commission to oversee the plan. Alvarado's wealth stems from the Palmillo mine and Parral residence.
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the Tribune
Galveston
Pedro Alvarado
Mexico
Alvarado
United States
Diaz
Sefior Alvarado
Parral
Palmillo
British Atlantic Fleet to Sail for Tangier Demonstration
The British Atlantic fleet will depart Gibraltar on November 12 to join a French fleet in Moorish waters for a show of force. British warships were provisioned tonight on short notice for the operation.
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Gibraltar
Tangier
Immigrant Train Wreck Kills Dozens Near Woodville Ind
A Baltimore and Ohio through train carrying Russian Jews Servians and Poles collided with a freight near Woodville Indiana. Forty seven dead and thirty eight injured as the wreck ignited burning many victims. Relief trains and hospital care followed with uncertainty over several deaths.
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Chicago
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Woodville
Ind
Northwest
Baltimore
McCool
Babcock
Valparaiso
Baltimore & Ohio
Mercy Hospital
Baltimore & Ohio Road
Strike Cloud Breaks Lackawanna Labor Talks
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western adjustment committee won a ten hour day and wage raise of 30 to 35 thousand dollars annually after a short conference with company officials at No 26 Exchange Place. Grand Chief Warren S Stone and Grand Chief Hanrahan spoke for the engineers and firemen as talks continued with the New York Central and Civic Federation organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company
Warren S. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
No. 26
Exchange Place
J. E. Clarke
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Truesdale
Stone
Cleveland
Erie
Hanrahan
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Erie Firemen
Civic Federation
Underwood
National Civic Federation
Hannahdan
Board of Adjustment
New York Central
A. H. Smith
Engineers
the Central
Broadway Central
Hurley
Ellerance
Broadway Central Hotel
Suburban Cleveland Boiler Explosion Kills Six
Six men were killed and five injured at the Lake Shore Railroad powerhouse in Collinwood Cleveland when a boiler blew while workers laid a foundation for a dynamo. The blast scalded them in the subway mouth as cam formed a mud ring in the water filter, experts say. News of the shock reached two miles away and stirred town excitement.
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Cleveland
Lake Shore Railroad
Collinwood
Truck Ram Sides Brougham Near Miss in Central Park
Mrs Charles Steele wife of banker with offices on Wall Street and her 14 year old daughter Ethel escaped injury when a heavy steel hauler struck the rear of their brougham at 84th Street and Fifth Avenue. Traffic Patrolman Brady halted the vehicle as the truck collided and the occupants were unharmed aside from a shock and were driven home.
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Charles Steele
Wall Street
West 45Th Street
Ethel
Will Deport Mexican Leader Antonio Villareal
Washington reports Antonio Villareal, detained in El Paso, will be deported to Mexico to face treason charges. Officials say his crimes before immigration render him unfit for entry, with extradition pursued under treaty provisions. Mexico cites a prior murder conviction and seeks sixty one associates as well.
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Washington
Antonio Villareal
el Paso
Tex
Mexico
State Department
Department of Justice
Department of Commerce and Labor
Villareal
United States
Mexican Revolutionary Movement
St. Louis
Regeneracion
Missouri City
Diaz
President Off Cuba Roams Caribbean Sea Route
Wireless telegrams report the Louis iana with President Roosevelt aboard moving southeast of Jupiter Inlet at about fifteen knots. The fleet aims for Crooked Island Passage and Cape Mays as conditions permit, while the President and party inspect the ship. The Alliance, carrying Isthmian Canal Commission engineers, arrived at Colon to join the inspection tour.
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Charleston
S. C
Louisiana
Colon
Jupiter Inlet
Fla
Crooked Island Passage
Crooked Island
Watling
San Salvador Island
Columbus
Couden
Cape Mays
Island of
Cuba
Washington
Isthmian Canal Commission
Alliance
Roosevelt
Canal Zone
Pittsburg Switchmen Accept 4 Cent Wage Increase
Pittsburg reports that switchmen have agreed to accept the four cent hourly advance offered last week by railroad officials, with no strike likely. Firemen and engineers met at the Seventh Avenue Hotel to discuss wages but took no definite action. All statements must come from general officers.
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Pittsburg
Chicago
Seventh Avenue
Trainmen Send Ultimatum Over Wages And Hours
A secret meeting of delegates from the Order of Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in Pittsburg discussed strike prospects and wage offers from the Pennsylvania system. The groups seek a rehour day and a one cent per hundred mile run raise, with Chief Hanrahan present though details of the ultimatum remain undisclosed.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Order of Trainmen
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Pennsylvania Mnes
Hanrahan
Murphy targets McClellan as he plots to oust him
The report says Charles F Murphy plans to force Mayor McClellan off the 12th Assembly District general committee and to treacherously undermine Fire Commissioner Lantry. Murphy funds Johnson to challenge Lantry, seeks affidavits of disloyalty, and pressures appointments to build an anti Murphy bloc while staying home instead of traveling to Atlantic City or Hot Springs.
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Charles F. Murphy
Mc‘telan
Tammany
Murphy
Maurice Featherson
Lantry
Daniel ¢. Johnson
Johnson
East 424 Street
Democratic Star
Tammany Executive Committee
Atlantic City
Hot Springs
McClellan
James J. Martin
Heagg
Hughes
Hearst
Mayor Murphy Seeks Control Of Tammany Elections
The mayor fights to keep control of the Tammany leadership as the general committee election nears. He plans to oust John R. Voorhis from the Board of Elections and replace him with an anti Murphy figure. Voorhis, president of the board, has had influence over running it. Maguire will be renominated, while Dady’s fate remains unsettled and a Republican may be named if he is not reappointed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Hearst
Grady
Assemblyman
Beck
Hearst
Tammany
Buffalo
McClellan
Charles F. Murphy
Murphy
Maurice Featherson
Featherson
Joseph I. Green
Supreme Court
Platzek
Board of Elections
Comminesioner Voorhis
Tammany Organization
John R. Voorhis
Voorhis
Tammany Hall
John Maguire
Kings
Page
Michael J. Dady
Dady
Richmond
Queens
New York
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Senate
Cannon
Bankers’ Association
John L. Hamilton
Association
House
Hamilton
Congress
Wate
S J. Louis
Forgan
First National Bank of Chicago
Perrin
American National Bank of Indianapolis
Talbert
Commercial National Bank of Chicago
Stan
Comtiouré
J. J. Hannahan
F. D. Underwood
Erie Railroad
W. H. Truesdale
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Warren 8. Stone
Lackawanna
Central
West
Subway
Fifth Avenue
Russ Sherries
Weldmapn Importing Co
Texas
Pennsylvania
Dewey
H. T. Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
Big Chief
van Wyck
Coler
Grout
Daniel C. Johnson
Mr. Murphy
12Th
Congress District
Mayor
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