Strikers clash with police over taxi strike in Columbus area
A Columbus Avenue riot amid a New York Taxicab Company strike led to about twenty arrests as two prisoners were taken by a crowd from special officers. Justice Blanchard issued a temporary injunction restraining union leaders from interfering with company operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Avenue
New York
Justice Blanchard
Archibald Rogers
Chauffeurs’ Protective Union No
John Sheridan
Xnited Teamsters of America
Edwin Gould
Liberty Dawn Benevolent Association
United Cab Drivers and Chauffeurs
Protective Chauffeurs’ Union
United Teamsters of America
Reidy
Central Park West End Broadway
Upper West Side
Mmen
Timothy D. Sullivan
McClellan
Outlaws Resume Depredations In Buckingham County
Edmund W. Hubbard Commonwealth's Attorney telegraphed Governor Swanson for help as the Zimmerman Thomas clans, driven from the county last week, are believed to have returned to Ar wonia causing renewed panic with depredations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
Richmond
Edmund W. Hubbard
Commonwealth
Buckingham County
Swanson
Arwonia
Zimmerman-Thomas
Four Children Witness Fatal Self-Inflicted Murder
Andrew Zaduara, a Jes s up hotel keeper, shot himself after killing his wife following a divorce suit. He woke his four children in a half light, kissed them, and fired twice, dying beside the bed. Report cites possible motives including financial strain and a contested $80 note held by his mother-in-law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Penn
Andrew Zaduara
Woman Leaps From Prospect Point Into American Falls
At Niagara Falls a woman from Saginaw Michigan, acting erratically, leaped from the bank into the American Falls after being warned the island was closed. She vanished in the water, marking the twelfth self inflicted death at the falls since July 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara Falla
Gost Island
Park Police
Saginaw, Mich
Prospect Point
American Falls
Borough President Demands Detailed Report on Borough Expenditures
Coler accuses Commissioners of Accounts and Municipal Research of wasting funds on borough investigations while failing to address city land frauds and larger crimes. He urges a full, itemized public accounting to the Board of Aldermen, prompting heated floor debate and party-line splits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coler
Brooklyn
Board of Aldermen
Commissioners of Accounts
Bureau of Municipal Research
Committee On
B. W. B. Brown
Redmond
Walsh
Alderman Downing
Alderman Dowling
Star Chamber
Downing
McGowan
Dowling
McCarren
Alderman Brown
Mr. Coler
Rumors on Boston and Maine control denied
J P Morgan & Co denies having any part in the Boston and Maine stock purchase or in the Billard takeover. J R Billard and President Tuttle held talks in Boston and dismissed reports of leadership changes following the October 14 stockholders meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Boston & Maine Railroad
J. P. Morgan & Co
John L. Billard
New Haven
Boston & Maine
Billard
the Tribune
J. R. Billard
Tuttle
Stevens
Panama Canal
Porter Elected Chief at Clearing House Meet
William H. Porter was elected president of the Clearing House Association succeeding Alexander Gilbert. Samuel Woolverton became secretary, with a slate of bankers named to key committees. The report notes 1908 figures below 1907 due to the panic, though loan certificates reached a record 528 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Porter
Chemical National Bank
Clearing House Association
Alexander Gilbert
Market and Fulton National Bank
Samuel Woolverton
Gallatin National Bank
Albert H. Wiggin
Chase National Bank
Clearing House
Dumont Clarke
American Exchange National Bank
A. Barton Hepburn
Edward Townsend
Importers and Traders’ National Bank
Valentine P. Snyder
National Bank of Commerce
New York
Gates W. McGarrah
Mechanics’ National Bank
Frederick B. Schenck
Liberty National Bank
Walter KE. Frew
Corn Exchange Bank
James G. Cannon
Fourth National Bank
Alfred M. Bull
Phenix National Bank
William Sherer
William J. Gilpin
Block Brooklyn Tube Injunction Blocks Fourth Avenue Subway
Hays and Hershfield on behalf of Fleischmann Realty obtain a temporary injunction from Justice Blanchard in the Supreme Court restraining the Board of Estimate and Apportionment and the Public Service Commission from letting contracts or issuing bonds for a Fourth Avenue Brooklyn subway project. The injunction also bars salary certification for the Public Service Commission, contending the Public Service Commission law is unconstitutional for bundling multiple subjects and forcing a single locality to bear state costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn
Hays & Hershfield
Fleischmann Realty and Construction Company
Justice Blanchard
Supreme Court
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Public Service Commission
Adolph Gubner
Long Acre Electric Light and Power Company
United After Fourteen Years in Supreme Court Case
Flora Avery of Spearfish South Dakota reunites with her 15 year old daughter Myrtle Barber in a habeas corpus hearing led by Justice Blanchard. The father Charles Barber allegedly deserted and abducted the child, who has lived at a Westchester Protectory. Adjourned to Friday for proof of maternity.
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Myrtle Barber
Flora Avery
Spearfish
S. D
Supreme Court
Westchester
Justice Blanchard
Justice Blanchard. the Case Was Adjourned Until Friday To Allow Mrs. Avery
Charles 8. Barber
Sioux City
Iowa
Dippel and others creditors in T A McIntyre & Co case
Hearing of the special creditors of T A McIntyre & Co was continued before referee Peter B Olney. Named creditors include Andreas Dippel with 7000, Vincent Loeser 21000, Van Frantzies & Co 52000, and T B Hasler 17500. Edith L Kinney testified about her account, noting purchases of American Car and Foundry stock and a balance of 1090 prior to the firm’s failure. Stock values at failure were stated as 33 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. McIntyre & Co
Peter B. Olney
Andreas Dippel
Metropolitan Opera House
Vincent Loeser
East River National Bank
van Frantzies & Co
Chicago
Court of Appeals says NYW&B must secure certificate of necessity
In Albany on October 6 the Court of Appeals ruled the New York Westchester and Boston Railroad Company must obtain a certificate of convenience and necessity from the Public Service Commission before building its road. The ruling overturns a lower court decision in the Huntington case, which concerned condemnation of lands for right of way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Court of Appeals
New York, Westchester & Boston Railroad Company
Public Service Commission
Huntington
Banks Reject Booth Reorganization. Sell A Booth & Co Property
Indications that U S District Attorney Sims would act under the Sherman act against A Booth & Co in a reorganization led creditor bankers to reject Booths plan and decide to liquidate the corporation’s assets at physical valuation in all states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Sims
A. Booth & Co
Creditor Bankers’ Committee
W. Vernon Booth
Orders issued in Army and Navy moves and ship arrivals
Washington October 6 The Tribune reports army orders transferring officers to new posts and appointing second lieutenants across cavalry field artillery and coast artillery. Navy transfers include Captain Cutler to the 2d Lighthouse District and several officers assigned or detached. Movements of warships note vessels arriving at New York Norfolk Hong Kong Portsmouth and Bridgeport for Columbus Day observances.
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ARMY
Hubert L. Wigmore
Corps of Engineers
Washington Barracks
New York City
Robert W. Barnett
Vancouver Barracks
William C. Rogers
27Th Infantry
Toeral H Tal
Morton J. Henry
San Francisco
John T. H. Slayter
Medical Reserve Corps
Cambridge
Anton H. Schier
United States
Harold Lincoln Gardiner
Coast Artillery
White
M’neill
Pullman
Ross
Kobre
Warden
Walker, Jr
Whitside
Field Artillery
King, Jr
Perkins
Kirkwood
Marr
Rumbough
McLeave
M'Rride
Brabson
Sparks
Crane
Palmer
Prince
Magruder
Mart Si
Rogers
Dougherty
Hopkins
Stewart
III
Clement
Pierie
Norton
Reynold
Danielson
Pitz
Tisi
Cook
Longino
Ottosen
Thompson
M’leary
Reynolds
Goodier, JR
Maddux
M Cuno
Chambers
Knight
Ellis
Mather
Snow
Goolrick
Boatwright
Sisi
J. P. Smith
Vaughan
Payne
E. Smith
Marsh
Maynard
Titus
Frank
Bell
Campbell
Rowe
Martin
Shallenberger
Loughborough
Peyton
Clark
Coker
Keene
Hoey, Jr
Statesman
Bodoif
Langwill
Sarratt
Sitk
Kennedy
Harris
Tucker
French
Marston
Whiting
Simpson
Elliott
Rivet
Koehler
Merritt
Wood
Burdett
Foors
Cleary
Emory, Jr
Rudolph
Lathrop
Baird
Palen
Adam Slaker
Albert Hardman
4Th Infantry
James I. Mabesa
Medical Corps
William H. Simons
6Th Infantry
NAVY
W. G. Cutler
Boston
C. J. Boush
Navy Yard
Portsmouth
J. M.C. Luby
Maryland
Bureau of Steam Engineering
K. M. Bennett
Hancock
Celtic
A. Brand
J. B. Pollard
A. H. Dodge
G. F. Cottle
W. L. Mann
P. A. DE Figaniere
Naval Medical School
Washington
Navy Department
New York
Norfolk
Villalobos
Hong Kong
Bradford
Newport News
Castine
Atlantic
New Hampshire
Bridgeport
United Italiana of Connecticut
New Home for Professional Woman's League Sparks Mistrust
The Professional Woman's League has moved from 103 West 45th Street to three rooms on the first floor of the Hotel Remington at 127 West 45th Street. Members question the move's purpose, noting rent savings of 800 dollars a year but potential losses from subletting and membership declines. Missing programs and a bygone ward robe era add to the dissatisfaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Professional Woman's League
West 45Th Street
Remington
Th Street
League Library
Amelia Bingham
Seven Army Officers Complete Fifty Mile Walk
Seven army officers, footsore but happy, finished the second day of a fifty mile walk ordered by the President at 2 PM. They began at the main entrance to Prospect Park Brooklyn and marched seventeen miles to the Coney Island seawall via Ocean Boulevard. Many children followed along part of the route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prospect Park
Brooklyn
Coney Island Seawall
Ocean Boulevard
Emma Eames To Sing for Antis At Waldorf November 10
Mme Emma Eames will sing for the Anti Vivisection Society on November 10 at the Waldorf Astoria. The event has a powerful patroness list and a concert committee leading ticket sales as the group plans political and clerical outreach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme
Emma Eames
Waldorf Astoria
John Jacob Astor
Anne Morgan
Callender
de Forest
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Henry Flagler
Robert Ingersoll
Maud Ingersoll
Thompson Seton
Henry Villard
Samuel Untermyer
Lovell Halls Jerome
Wal
David Belais
Lewis Boynton
Florence Guernsey
Rockefeller Held For Speeding In Morrisania Court
William G Rockefeller 28 a yacht builder of Greenwich Conn came from Greenport Long Island and stopped in New Rochelle to pick up two friends. At Pelham Parkway and Williamsbridge Road they were stopped by a motor policeman. He had $10 and a friend left a gold watch as bail with the desk lieutenant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William G. Rockefeller
Court of Special Sessions
Moss
Morrisania
Young Rockefeller
Greenwich
Olney Arnold Named Governor Nominee by Rhode Island Democrats
At the Providence Democratic State Convention Olney Arnold of Providence was acclaimed governor nominee. Other state officers chosen unanimously include Adelard Archambault Woonsocket for lieutenant governor Robert Grieve Providence attorney general Thomas Corcoran Pawtucket and Tristan Babcock Westerly as general treasurer Presidential electors named Albert Steinert Edward Romar James Cotterell and John Canning. The platform backs the national Democratic ticket campaign finance disclosure and state constitutional revision for equal urban rural representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
Olney Arnold
Rhode Island
Adelard Archambault
Woonsocket
Robert Grieve
Thomas RB
Corcoran
Pawtucket
Tristam PD
Babcock
Westerly
Albert E. Steinert
Edward ©. Romar
James B. Cotterell
Newport
John E. Canning
Indicted for Blackmailing Priest in Suffolk County
Riverhead Long Island Oct 6 Special The Suffolk County Grand Jury indicted Charles Pieck and Vessa Oticka two Poles arrested yesterday for blackmailing Father Louis J Sloane rector of St Johns Church Centre Moriches The men were locked in county jail when the true bill was signed Public indignation runs high in the county The blackmailers demanded money from the Riverhead Savings Bank to refrain from exposing alleged falsehoods about the church and Father Sloane
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverhead
Long Island
Suffolk County
Charles Pieck
Vessa Oticka
Louis J. Sloane
St. John’s
Centre Moriches
Father Sloane
New Patriotic Society Planned by Syracuse Activist
Mrs Eva Frances Smith Wilkin of Syracuse organizes a patriotic group for descendants of all American wars fought on U S soil from Colonial times to the Spanish American War. A meeting at Hotel Gotham today will plan the society with President Roosevelt asked to name and join the effort. Other Syracuse women backing the move include Mrs Horace Candee Mrs William Kesson Pierce Mrs James Mead Belden Mrs Charles E Crouse and Mrs Charles C Baldwin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Frances Smith Wilkin
Syracuse
Patriotic Society
Wilkin
Hotel Gotham
Roosevelt
Horace Candee
William Kesson Pierce
James Mead Belden
Charles E. Crouse
Charles C. Baldwin
Sword sent to Rockefeller sold in London warehouse
A sword gifted to John D. Rockefeller by Miss Annie Parry of Leigh Street London sold at the appraisers' warehouse for 0. Parry requested 600 for it in a letter claiming the weapon was 150 years in the ground near Leigh Parish Church and nearly 300 years old after Cromwell’s bombardment. Rockefeller refused. C W Woodbridge, a warehouse laborer, bought it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Rockefeller
Annie Parry
Vernon Street
Leigh Lane
London
A Pewter Collection and the Dying Craft
A Westchester County dining room hosts a valued pewter collection including plates tankards and spoons. The owner explains the scarcity of authentic old pewter and recalls the laborious gathering process spanning generations from her great grandfather to her father and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westchester County
Old Brith Pewter with Rose and Crown Mark
A reader recalls finding old Brith pewter bearing a full blown rose with a crown. He advises holders of such pieces to seek out genuine antique value, noting they are rare and highly sought by collectors.
Baroness Goto on American wives and Japanese ideals
Baroness Goto of Tokio in the Fujin Gwaho offers views on American wives noting happiness is not guaranteed when one partner dominates. She argues domestic wellbeing rests with the wife and contrasts public profile with private duties. Baron Shinpei Goto's career is noted, including leadership roles in Japan's railway and postal systems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goto
Tokio
Japan
Tesio
Gote
America
Baroness Goto
Fujin Gwaho
Raron Goto
Shinpei Goto
Katsura
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Virginia
Arvonia
Niagara Falls
Coler Scents Scandal
W. H. Porter
Brooklyn Tube
P. S.C
United
Dippel
M'Intyre Creditor
Metropolitan Opera Impresario
Company
Army and Navy News
Tribune Bureau
Bai
P. W. LS
Eames
ANTIS
Rockefeller
R. I. Democrats
A New Patriotic Society
Golo
Zou
John D
Dept
NEW York Tribune
W. HH. Taft
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