Literary News and Criticism NS OF HENRY IRVING Tribute by Pollock
Walter Herries Pollock gathers memories of Henry Irving in a volume with a preface by H B Irving. The notes mix personal recollections and critical insights, showing Irving as actor and man, with anecdotes on readings, costume choices, and audience perception.
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Henry Irving
Walter Herries Pollock
H. B. Irving
Longmens, Green & Co
Pollock
Saturday Review
Irving
Lyceum
All-Year Swimmer Drowns From Cramps Off Bath Beach
Harry Walsh of Bay 2th street and Bath avenue formed an all-year swimming club. While swimming in the Lower Bay off Captain's Pier at Bath Beach he was seized by cramps and drowned yesterday. William Coorey leaped in to help, and Dr. Plunkitt of Coney Island Hospital treated him for an hour without success. Walsh is the first club member to die from cramps.
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Harry Walsh
Bay 2Th Street
Bath Avenue
Captain's Pier
Bath Beach
Walsh
William Coorey
Bay 234 Street
Plunkitt
Coney Island Reception Hospital
Canadian Pacific Directors Arrive to Accept Wheat Road Contract
Sir Thomas Shaughnessy and CP Rail directors arrived in Winnipeg to accept the double track wheat road 423 miles long from here to Fort William built at cost 10000000. The party will proceed to Lethbridge to take over the Alberta Railway properties including a large colliery and 113 miles of railway with 425000 acres of irrigation land amid long rivalry with rival interests.
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Winnipeg
Thomas Shaughnessy
Canadian Pacific Railway
Here
Fort William
Lethbridge
Alberta Railway
Canadian Pacific
Openings in fiction and the draw of dinner time mystery
Andrew Lang surveys story openings in Victorian fiction through the Illustrated London News. He argues opening devices range from dead bodies to vanished wives and domestic domes, praising the dinner clock moment where the spouse is absent to spark curiosity and propel plots.
Officials Attacked at Newark Real Democracy Meeting
Charles M Mason Essex County under sheriff leveled charges against Mayor Jacob Haussling City Counsel James Nugent and Judge David Howell at a Newark gathering. He alleged a raided poker game involvement and said Howell faced assault and battery records. Demonstrators accused the Democratic administration of boss rule as Real Democracy fields a ticket with Colby and Morgan.
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Charman
Howell Mason
Charles M. Mason
Essex County
Real Democracy
Newark
Jacob Haussling
James R. Nugell
David T. Howell
Frank H. Sommer
Philip Veser
New York
Nugent
United States
James Smith, Jr
Howell
Mason
Sullivan County
Thomas G8. Henry
Edward M. Waldron
Everett Colby
W. Fellowes Morgan
New Idea
Pendleton Examines Sale of Unpaid Special Franchise Taxes
Pendleton advises the Controller that public auction may proceed to sell properties of local corporations unpaid on special franchise taxes. He notes potential city trouble, questions full validity of assessments, and cites risks of reduced valuations and possible refunds with interest.
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Pendleton
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Broadway Tied Up As Horse Breaks Window on Sixth Ave Car
A white horse from a truck team reared near 84th Street and leaped into a northbound Sixth Avenue car, breaking front windows and delaying traffic for 30 minutes. Three patrolmen stood by as crowds fled. Lieutenant Dempsey finally ordered the track cleared and the horse restrained away from the street.
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Sixth Avenue
84Th Street
34Th Street
General Bingham
Tenderloin St.oon
64Th Street
Dempsey
Tenderloin
Coler Requests Investigation Of City Expenditures
President Coler of Brooklyn pushes a five member committee to probe the Commissioners of Accounts and the Bureau of Municipal Research. He charges overrun in spending and hints at an $8,000,000 bond overissue and book alterations. The matter was referred to rules.
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Board of Aldermen
Coler
Brooklyn
Bureau of Municipal Research
Commissioners of Accounts
Manhattan
Sinking Fund Commission
Committee On Rules
Yonkers Considers Forfeiture Over 8 Cent Fare Pact
Yonkers Aldermen rebuke Receivers Sutherland and Whitridge and back a report warning Union and Yonkers Railways to observe franchise provisions or risk forfeiture of the franchise and bond. They also seek longer Putnam line service to Getty Square and a shuttle to Van Courtlandt, with PS commission review.
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Board of Aldermen
Yonkers
Sutherland and Whitridge
Nugent and
Sylwell
Special Railroad Committee
Union
An &Cent
New
Railroad Committee
Getty Square
New York Central
Putnam Division
van Courtlandt Station
President and Son Will Vote at Oyster Bay
Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary Loeb will vote on election day though Oyster Bay lacks 5000 residents thus no registration. The President’s train leaves Washington the night before and returns by six p.m. on election night with all New York electors. Theodore Roosevelt Jr turns twenty one and will cast his first vote at Oyster Bay.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Roosevelt
Loeb
Oyster Bay
New York
White House
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Central Vermont Annual Meeting Chooses New Director
At the St Albans meeting C W Witters was elected a director in place of Henry B Day while all other directors were reelected. Charles M Hays was named president E H Fitzhugh vice president W H Chaffee clerk and treasurer and W G Crabbe auditor. Fiscal year net earnings were 700 29 with net surplus over fixed charges of 5652 and receipts down from the prior year by 92328 though operating expenses decreased by 108854.
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St. Albans
Central Vermont Railway Company
C. W. Witters
Henry B. Day
Boston
Charles M. Hays
Montreal
E. H. Fitzhugh
W. H. Chaffee
W. G. Crabbe
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Yearly Report
The Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton Railway Company reports fiscal year ended June 2 shows gross earnings of 7 560 612 against 8 915 0 0 last year. Expenses and taxes total 7 099 210 versus 7 061 000 and net income 361 402 versus 1 885 000 in 1907. The year ends with a deficit of which compares with 341 000 in prior year.
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Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway Company
Bomb that Failed to Go Off on Chrystie Street
Vincenzo Masimeo slept as a dynamite filled car tridge hung from a fire escape above his window. Chioda cut the cord and took the box home fearing it, but his wife fainted upon seeing the bomb. A patrolman seized the device, detectives questioned Vincenzo who remained silent, and the fuse had not burned thus the danger passed.
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Vincenzo Masimeo
Chrystie Street
Vincenzo
Chioda
Bureau of Combustibles
Cupid On Double Loop the Loop
Conrad Knubbert of West New Brighton and his bride-to-be Tillie sought a marriage license at City Hall. The couple, married in Germany four decades ago, were divorced there twenty four years ago and widowed twice since. He sent for his former wife who arrived from Germany yesterday and they secured the license certificate to marry again.
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Conrad Knubbert
West New Brighton
Conrad
Tillie
Knubberts
Germany
Knubbert
America
Hcense
Comet’s Tail Still Visible Says Brooks
Geneva N Y Oct 13 Professor William R Brooks director of Smith Observatory says the newly discovered comet retains its tail. He observed the tail clearly last night with a 10 inch telescope and explains its fleeting visibility may be due to fluctuations in the comet’s form and brightness.
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Geneva
N. Y
William R. Brooks
Smith Observatory
Brooks
Informers in Unions Highlight Labor Conspiracy Claims
Springfield reports John H. Walker president of the United Mine Workers of Illinois testified by deposition in a contempt case against Samuel Gompers Robert Morrison and John Mitchell of the AFL. He said union informants in Murphysboro and Duquoin were offered 32 a week to report to the National Manufacturers' Association on union activities. He read a letter from Corporation Auxiliary Company offering to pay 15 for reports of the Denver Federation of Labor sessions to various manufacturers, noting pending labor legislation.
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Springfield
Ill
John H. Walker
United Mine Workers of Illinois
Samuel Gompers
Robert Morrison
John Mitchell
American Federation of Labor
Bucks Stove and Range Company
St. Louis
Walker
Murphysboro
Duquoin
National Manufacturers’ Association
Corporation Auxiliary Company
Chamber of Commerce
Cleveland
Great Eastern Telephone Company
New York
A. M. Todd Company
Kalamazoo
Mich
Federation of Labor
Denver
Congress
May Fly at Hempstead
A. M. Herring presented parts of his aeroplane to the Signal Corps board at Fort Myer and plans secret preliminary flights. He has not secured all patents and may fly in Indiana, Hempstead Plains, Long Island, or Atlantic City. Orville Wright’s leg healing at Fort Myer hospital shows slower improvement after earlier critical stages.
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Washington
M. Herring
Signal Corps
Army
New York
Mr. Herring
Professor Langley
Fort Myer
Orville Wright
Mr. Wright
Sir Wright
Copper Market Sees Increased Activity and Price Rises
The copper market shows higher activity this week with prices advancing from 13 to 14 cents per pound. Sales totaled 1 785 000 pounds with 600 000 pounds sold Monday and 400 000 on Tuesday at 13 4 cents. Buyers delaying until after the election begin reentering the market as a Republican victory appears likely and government bids for 2 3 million dollars of copper open.
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Lake
Nag
Newark to Be Big Shipping Point for Steel
United States Steel Corp progresses on warehouses and a railroad yard at Newark Bay. Dredging will create a channel for cargo steamships. When complete, Newark will connect with major lines and handle most exports, possibly becoming the world’s largest steel distribution center within two years.
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United States Steel Corporation
Newark Bay
Steel Corporation
Newark
Pennsylvania
Erie, Lackawanna
Reading
Baltimore & Ohio
Baltimore
Harriman Re-Elected to Erie Railroad Board of Directors
Erie Railroad stockholders re-elected E. H. Harriman Norman B. Ream Charles Breele and H. McK Twombly after terms expired. Fiscal year ended June reported net earnings dropping from 15 7 47 788 to 8 9 13 570 and gross revenue of 50 0 07 603 with expenses and taxes totaling 39 9 77 497 1 111 535.
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The
Erie Railroad Company
E. H. Harriman
Norman B. Ream
Charles Breele
H. McK. Twombly
Fire destroys Settler Alberta town in massive blaze
Winnipeg reports a large section of Settler Alberta wiped out by fire this morning. Five hotels twenty stores the bank and the post office burned. Leslie Miller died as he slept in a store. Loss expected at two hundred fifty thousand dollars.
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Winnipeg
Settler
Alberta
Leslie Miller
Thaw Order Served on Matteawan Officials Refused
Harry K Thaw was ordered by a federal court in Pittsburg to appear for bankruptcy proceedings in that city. Matteawan State Hospital authorities say they will not obey the order as Thaw remains in New York custody pending a Court of Appeals ruling on his insanity jury trial. Mrs William Thaw travels to Lorraine N Y to stay with her daughter Mrs George Carnegie after leaving White Plains.
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Fishkill Landing
N. Y
Harry K. Thaw
Pittsburg
Federal Court of
Matteawan State Hospital
Thaw
Pennsylvania City
Lane
Westchester County
New York
Matteawan
Court of Appeals
William Thaw
Carlyon Arms
White Plains
Lorraine
George Carnegie
Southern Pacific bonds offered at about 4.27 percent yield
The Southern Pacific Railway Company's $14 million first refunding 4 percent bonds, sold to Kuhn Loeb Speyer and Co. and National City Bank, are offered at 5.25 percent with 4 paid at subscription and balance due October 21. The bonds are secured by a mortgage on 3,285 miles of owned main track plus franchises, with future first mortgage on 393 miles in Arizona and 167 miles in New Mexico, subject to stated existing mortgages and bonds in California.
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Southern Pacific Railway Company
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Speyer & Co
National City Bank
E. H. Harriman
Southern Pacific Company
Southern Pacific Railroad
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
California
Arizona
New Mexico
Aged Woman Killed by Fall In Apartment Hallway
Mrs. Mary Walsh aged sixty of Morton street died after falling in the hallway of her home. Police initially treated the death as suspicious but concluded no foul play. Tenants found her on the floor. her husband was fetched from a third floor room and she was moved upstairs where she briefly revived before losing consciousness. Walsh left to find a doctor but returned to a scene where officers were alerted by tenants.
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Mary Walsh
Morton Street
Mrs. Walsh
Southern superintendents praise New York City schools
After a day touring public schools with Maxwell the Association of Southern State Superintendents of Education praised the New York City system as the best in the world. They lauded teacher training and individualized instruction, noting the absence of machine methods and the liveliness of history through dramatization led by Dr Maxwell. The group heads to Boston today.
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Maxwell
Association of Southern State Superintendents of Education
New York City
Seymour
Brooklyn
Joyner
Boston
May Sign Death Certificates Court Rules Osteopaths Recognized
The Court of Appeals orders New York Health Department to register osteopaths as physicians and accept death certificates signed by them. The ruling upheld lower court decisions after Dr Charles F Bandel of Brooklyn signed a death certificate and the department initially refused it, causing a coroner to intervene. Judge Vann states the statute and sanitary code recognize osteopaths as regular practitioners.
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Albany
Court of Appeals
Charles F. Bandel
Brooklyn
New York State Osteopathic Society
Department of Health of
New York
Bander
Health Department
Vann
IMT
Patent attorney dies after drinking wood alcohol substitute
Frank M. Reese fifty four a Sharon Hill resident and noted patent attorney died after consuming wood alcohol to satisfy a craving for liquor. Relatives asked saloonkeepers and druggists in Darby and nearby Philadelphia to withhold alcohol but he obtained the toxic substitute instead. Reese inherited a fortune from his father who helped Andrew Carnegie in early ventures and owned over fifty homes in the neighborhood.
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Tribune
Philadelphia
Frank M. Reese
Sharon Hill
Reese
Andrew Carnegie
Darby
Jacob Reese
Neghborhood
Razer Pleads Not Guilty to Fiancée Murder
Medina Ohio October 13 Guy Razer charged with the murder of his fiancée Miss Ora Lea near Wadsworth was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. At the defence counsel's request the hearing was postponed until next Monday.
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Razer
Medina
Ohio
Guy Razer
Ora Lea
Wadsworth
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