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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1908
Page
3
Brooklyn Navy Yard unions held three meetings outlining grievances on trades consolidation, pay delays, and harsher Civil Service rules. Talks of strikes rose as workers faced weekly pay holds and rigid budget constraints, while yard officials blamed staffing and policy for delays.
Captain James D. Adams of the New York Navy Yard stated there is no foundation for reports of a strike in the steam engineering department. He explained wages are fixed annually in November by a board, align with outside rates, effective December 1, with no chance of change. Hiring follows standing on the list. veterans and long-time employees favored, union status not recognized. Furloughs are in effect due to reduced work, and a strike would not affect current operations.
John Arbuckle of New York who signed with the Navy to float the stranded cruiser Yankee from Hen and Chickens ledge in Buzzard Bay visited the ship today with Paul Shuman expert wrecker. The vessel shows little storm damage since striking the ledge.
A wireless message from the Maine's commander states the Alabama and Maine separated in mid ocean last Wednesday. The Alabama heads for New York expected Tuesday arrival while the Maine should reach Portsmouth tomorrow. both vessels were ahead of the Atlantic fleet on its global voyage. Rear Admiral E. K. Moore at Portsmouth Navy Yard confirms the Maine’s arrival around 7 am tomorrow after wireless contact with the Maine’s captain.
San Francisco news reports a rate war between Pacific Mail Steamship Company and Nippon Yusen Kaisha. A Japanese line is said to cut freight rates by 3 percent, with Pacific Mail ready to meet reductions. The clash draws on subsidized operations and government subsidies for rival lines as Pacific Mail reports losses against five ships while others receive state support.
Oceanic Steamship Company plans January resumption of service between San Francisco and New Zealand. Vessels will sail to Wellington instead of Auckland, with Tahiti as a port of call, and operations run in partnership with Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. The move follows earlier withdrawals due to competition with the subsidized Canadian Pacific line.
Boston October 18 John P Reynolds Jr assignee for E H Gay Co bankers petitioned into bankruptcy by three creditors declares he acted as a receiver would with power to realize for all creditors. He says larger creditors never urged a different course and asserts a prior understanding guided his actions.
At the adjourned annual meeting in Detroit the new directors named are J. Ramsey Jr Hugh Harrison and Newman Erb Erb has also been elected director of Wisconsin Central Railroad at the same gathering E H Harriman joins Wisconsin Central board amid reports the Detroit Teleflo Ironton Railroad may soon reorganize and come under their control
Winnipeg reports 7 000 bushels of wheat inspected in the first half of October and 17 500 0% bushels since September 1, surpassing one sixth of Western Canada’s estimated crop. If navigation stays open like last year, 50 000 000 bushels may reach the lake front this fall.
The National Grain Dealers' Association voted to adopt uniform grading rules. Grain exchanges nationwide will be required to implement the standardized standards.
On Plum Island in Sheepshead Bay, 194 residents face rent increases after ex Judge Winfold Scott Overton, who controls half the island via government lease, raises rents. Ex-Alderman J Dotzier, a tenant, hires William Blau to contest. Dotzier had paid 60 dollars rent with a March 1904 lease, while his rent rose 45 dollars as he travels to Washington to urge action for himself and others. The other half of the island is leased by William A Engeman, with talks of locating an athletic area there.
Washington reports on the three scout cruisers Birmingham Chester and Salem undergoing long tests at Boston and Hampton Roads to compare Parsons and Curtis turbine and reciprocating engines. Other items cover oil fueled fleet colliers Port Royal School of Application relocation and army field artillery trials and rifle matches.
A fragmented listing describes multiple building loan contracts and lenders including Lawyers' Title Insurance and Trust Company Meehan Construction Company Realty Mortgage Company Washington Heights Development and Construction Company and Audubon Avenue area properties with amounts cited such as 180 000 and 100 000.
Real estate auction catalog lists five site sales in the budget week at 14 and 16 Vesey Street with multiple properties. Parcels include a South Street five story loft, a Front Street loft and store, Jerome Avenue block, and various Brooklyn and Queens dwellings and lots with detailed addresses, dimensions, and outstanding amounts.
W K Aston owner of Pepperidge Hall Oakdale Long Island plans to subdivide land for bungalow homes near the bay. Plots are elevated and ready for building with enduring bay share rights in perpetuity. 60 percent of price may stay on mortgage for three years at 4 percent. Sale by Bryan L Kennelly at noon Thursday in the Real Estate Exchange sales rooms 14 and 16 Vesey Street.
G Osgood Pell & Co and Charles S Brown & Co list leases for numerous Manhattan addresses including West 4th West End Avenue and East 41st Street. A four story factory at 2B West 46th Street is leased by an automobile firm for ten years at seventy thousand dollars total.
Brokerage houses announce numerous property transfers in New York. Properties include a four story Beekman Street building Nos 113 and 19x50 lot. a double apartment at 153 East 12th Street. a five story double tenement at 540 West 55th Street. a five story double flat at 59 East 10th Street. a six story Lenox Avenue apartment house Nos 433 and 435 with a West 128th Street fallback. a four story factory at 1 First Avenue. and a three story dwelling at 211 East 48th Street with various parcels in part payment.
Ernestus Gulick Company sold a DeKalb avenue and Steuben street Brooklyn plot of five lots to raise a six story mill building by a prominent shoe manufacturer. Ground breaking is planned for this fall for Clarence True, owner.
Floors of steel and concrete laid and the front rebuilt. The improvements will cost the city $10.00. The building will also be used as a fuel station for the department.
W C Reeves and Co reports selling over eight percent of Richmond Terrace Long Island property at $300 per lot. The site lies four blocks from the Long Island subway and steam station and one block from the trolley. A special excursion train leaves Long Island City and Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn at 1 40 today to Richmond Terrace.
The Northern Central Realty Company led by president Joseph Fleischman leases the twelve story fireproof Le Marquis apartment hotel at 14 and 16 East List Street to Edmond H. Chatillon for 21 years. Albert B. Ashforth acted as broker. Chatillon previously worked with Hotel Leonort management.
The Bronx plans list multiple new buildings with addresses along 166th and 178th streets and surrounding avenues. Four to six story structures include brick tenements and frame dwellings with assorted lot sizes and specified owners and architects. Estimated costs range from 25,000 to 128,000 dollars.
Oil news shows scattered declines in lower Southwest despite many new wells in the Mingo pool. Mingo and Fallansbee pools run around 1,600 and 1,500 barrels daily, while Lincoln County output climbs aided by railroad expansion. North central fields report big wells in Creek County Oklahoma and a 1,260 barrel start in Douglas Lacy No. 22. European markets hold. refined price steady at 3 1/2 cents a barrel.
The Lawyers' Title Insurance and Trust Company lent $375000 on premises at 374 Fifth Avenue. Bought last month from Charlotte Astor Haig by Robert E Dowling and resold to Thomas R Ball of Best & Co. The three year loan marks easing mortgage rates and stronger market activity. The corner plot adjoins Fifth Avenue and 28th Street. Best & Co. also leased the site for a children's clothing shop.
Kurz and Uren sold ten lots on the easterly side of Bronx Boulevard, 100 feet south of 235th Street, to Christian H. Werner. The plots measure 250 by 95 feet.
Alexander Stevens architect for the Fire Department filed plans with Buildings Superintendent Murphy to enlarge and renovate the three story hospital stable at No 199 Chrystiest. A rear extension will be built and new facilities added.
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