Civil Service Debate Highlights City Merit Issues
Budget Exhibit discussion recalls complaints against the State Civil Service Commission. Frank L. Polk and Samuel H. Ordway, along with Elliott H. Goodwin, defend reforms while Deputy Police Commissioner William F. Baker and George P. McVay accuse favoritism and arbitrary dismissals during probation.
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Municipal Civil Service
Broadway Resterees
Metz
Frank L. Polk
Samuel H. Ordway
Elliott H. Goodwin
Civil Service Reform Association
William F. Baker
Municipal Civil Service Commisoe
George P. FB. McVay
Bureau of Municipal Investigation and Statistics
Finance Department
Sho
State
Civ Service Commission
Polk
Service Commission
Water Hides Buildings in High Pressure Demo
Several thousand people witnessed a West Street public demonstration of New York Fire Department high pressure service led by Chief Croker. Thirty two hose lines sprayed in unison creating a waterfall effect though Water tower No 3 malfunctioned as stones in the water caused a nozzle to splinter into independent streams drenching spectators and firefighters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Street
Bank
Gansevoort Streets
Croker
I. M. de Varona
Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity
Western Electric
Bethune and
West Streets
NYU Chancellor calls end to class contests over flag rush
Chancellor MacCracken urged abolishing all class contests except six college activities after a flag rush at New York University. He announced a faculty meeting to propose reforms, as students warned of a possible renewed strike. The year opens with wrestling between upper and lower classes and the founders day flag rush tests strength and rivalry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacCracken
New York University
Gay
City officials clash over Civil Service rules and staffing
A City Club hearing features debates on Civil Service law, merit over politics, and retention of veterans. Officials compare department head practices, job protections, and examinations while a mass water pressure test and gymnasium cane spree close the day’s events.
Bellevue Hospitals Soap Purchase Clarified by Board
Bellevue and Allied Hospitals secretary IK Pa Ging announces a full review of soap purchases amid a charged claim of overpaying. Officials report the soap cost six cents per pound given its quality, with total values cited at 7350, 8470, 58, and 6018 across periods, and the soap deemed a good, resin-containing chip type suitable for cleaning in hospital salivaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
IK Pa Ging
Bellevue and Allied Hospitals
Gine
Bellevue Hospital
E.L. Pearsall
Nogh Street
Brooklyn
Board of Health
Pol man Scherr accused of fraud in police hiring
Franklin J. Polk, head of the Municipal Civil Service Commission, reports Patrolman Alexander Scherr of the East 58th Street station obtained his job by fraud via a substitute. Polk ordered Scherr’s pay stopped and said papers have been sent to the District Attorney for possible prosecution. The substitute, William Lake of Brooklyn, is likely to be indicted. police express support for the commission’s action. PAR. PAYS $18,322,141 FOR RELIEF. Pennsylvania Railroad relief fund records show total payments since February 15, 1886, with $7,463,344 to families of deceased members and $9,? for incapacitated members. September payments totaled $166,657.25.
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Frank J. Polk
Municipal Civil Service Commission
Police Department
Alexander
Scherr
William Lake
Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn
Polk
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pittsburg
Erie
Experts urge safer coal mines after international report
Washington reports recommend government testing of explosives, standardized cartridges, no shooting in or off the solid, controlled charges, stricter handling where gas or dust is present, and improved watering. They emphasize electricity use, better shaft construction, ventilation, haulage, and establishing training schools for fire bosses and mine officials.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Garfield
Arthur Desborough
England
Victor Watteyne
Belgium
Carl Meissner
Germany
Congress
Geological Survey
Negro broker on Broad street curb shocks gambling scene
Robert W. Taylor, a man said to have learned trading from a New York Stock Exchange house, operated as the first negro broker at the Broad Street curb market. He dealt yesterday in Cobalt Central, serving several well dressed black clients, with rumors of a San Juan Hill client base and potential shift from craps to mining stock speculation.
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Broad Street
Robert W. Taylor
New York Stock Exchange
Taylor
Cobalt Central
San Juan Hill
Man Hunt in Orange County Follows Paroled Convict
In Middletown on October 22 a fugitive, believed to be Charles Pitney, a paroled convict, fled a farmer’s assault on Carrie Smith twelve. The girl is in serious condition and a reward of $1,000 is placed for Pitney’s capture as armed farmers join the search across the county.
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Middletown
Charles Pitney
Carrie Smith
Smith
License Bribery Trial Involving Moving Picture Owner
Sergeant Peter J. Bird faced trial before Deputy Commissioner Hanson on charges of unlawfully demanding and accepting a fee in April 1907 from Mrs. Dorothy Mason, operator of a moving picture show on East 149th Street. Mason testified she paid $50 after declaring she paid $200, received a temporary license within hours, and later obtained a permanent license. she estimated a $1,000 loss from having to sell her business. Witnesses Edward Dorr and Frederick F. Klein said they saw the payment. Augustus A. Ireland claimed no money changed hands. Bird denied receiving money, admitting only warnings to close until licensed. The case resumes Saturday.
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Peter J. Bird
Hanson
Dorothy Mason
East 149Th Street
WIFE STICKS TO MAGNUS IN DESERTER CASE
Toursville October 22 Charles Joseph Magnus married to Ada Gorman daughter of Maryland's late Senator Gorman was arrested on a deserter charge from the navy and will likely be sent to Philadelphia Magnus says his wife's family can secure his release and he earned a furlough at her urging Mrs Magnus visited him at the jail and pledged to stand by him throughout the trouble
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Toursville
Charles Joseph Magnus
Ada Gorman
Senator Gorman
Maryland
Navy
Philadelphia
Magnus
Express Firms Loss Shippers Gain Through Rate Reforms
The Hughes Alliance pressed the Public Service Commission after an express firm cited annual costs of 250000, prompting a rate overhaul. Inspections showed new scales reduce charges for fractions over ten pounds, benefiting small shippers who now pay for just a full pound beyond the exact fraction, shifting costs away from senders to carriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hughes Alliance
Alliance
Express Company
Public Service Commissions
Of Interest Ladies Day Sparks Republican Rally in New York
At the Commercial Travellers' League hall in Astor Place a Women’s Republican event featured Miss Helen Varick Boswell and several speakers including Mrs. William Grant Brown and Mrs. Story. The women urged voters to back Governor Hughes, with one speaker likening Democrats to a spider and another noting women's usefulness will earn them votes. A follow up ladies' day is planned at Union Square.
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Commercial Travellers’ League
Astor Place
Broadway
Republican Party
Helen Varick Boswell
National Woman's Republican Association
William Grant Brown
Woman's
West End Republican Association
Mrs. Brown
Miss Boswell
Hughes
Brown
William Cumming Story
Daughters of the American Revolution
State of New York
City Federation of Women's Clubs
Woman's Republican Club
Alliance
R. C. Benedict
Democratic Party
Adelaide Stedman
California
Stedman
Sound Money League
Union Square
Timid suffragettes disrupt political meeting at hotel
Suffragettes in yellow vote for women buttons interrupted a West End Republican campaign meeting at the Hotel Astor. Mrs Sofia Loebinger and allies attended, but the social atmosphere kept protests muted. Conklin urged women active in tenement charities to help verify registrations.
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Camp Hughes
Hotel Astor
West End
Woman's Republican Association
Sofia Loebinger
Frank Hendrick
William Grant Brown
Loebinger
Hendrick
Gertrude Collins
E. Heilmuth
0. Goldberg
Mary Jennings
Maud Glascow
Alfred R. Conklin
Blue laws upheld in Nebraska Supreme Court ruling
Lincoln Nebraska October 22 The Nebraska Supreme Court sustained the legality of blue laws forbidding most Sunday business transactions The court also upheld the dismissal of a habeas corpus petition for John Ryan a Omaha cigar dealer and Jacob Caldwell an Omaha barber arrested under a state statute The ruling makes the prohibition statewide
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Lincoln
Neb
Supreme Court
Nebraska
District Court
Douglas County
John Ryan
Omaha
Jacob Caldwell
Waterbury Judgment Vacated By Supreme Court
Justice Bischoff in the Supreme Court yesterday vacated the default judgment of 10097 against Lawrence Waterbury in favor of George J. Gould on two 1991 notes. He also signed an order opening the default in the suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Bischoff
Supreme Court
Lawrence Waterbury
George J. Gould
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