Erie Railroad to Spend 15 Million on Improvements
The Erie Railroad plans about 15 million dollars in upgrades including high grade eliminations and new lines to boost capacity. Key projects: a low grade line from Highland Mills to Guymard, a 40 mile route with viaducts and tunnels, a Columbus and Erie line near Jamestown, and four track Bergen Hill through Jersey City to ease suburban traffic. Completion expected within a year for some, with others ready in six months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie Railroad Company
Erie
Highland Mills
N. Y
Newburg
Campbell Hall
Otisville
Guymard
Port Jervis
Moodna Creek
Shawangunk Mountains
Jamestown
Columbus & Erie
Genesee River
Portage
Buffalo
Cuba
Rush Creek
Bergen Hill
Jersey Clix
Readjustment extension delayed for Westinghouse plan
The readjustment committee for Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing grants no immediate action as Jarvie and others are away. The merchandise creditors' committee likely gets a further extension to September 27 to secure consents from bankers and stockholders. Wall Street anticipates discharge of receivers by year end amid recent stock gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
James N. Jarvie
Wall Street
Walsh receivership list shows $900,000 plus in claims
Buffalo reports Edward F. Walsh, appointed receiver for Meadows, Williams & Co, investigating liabilities. margins and securities total $900,000 or more, plus about $70,000 owed to banks. Post & Flagg of New York are creditors to $40,000. other claims range widely. Albany coverage notes coal price regulation case hearings with railroad executives testifying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Edward F. Walsh
Meadows, Williams
Walsh
Post & Flagg
New York
Albany
Edward Murphy
Troy
Jackson
C. S. Sims
Delaware & Hudson Company
David Bosman
Erie Railroad Company
Williams
State
William Opdyke
Lewis E. Carr
Delaware & Hudson
Adelbert Moot
Erie
Coal price rise prompts prewinter coal orders
Local dealers urge customers to stock up as coal costs rise 10 cents per ton affecting domestic anthracite sizes. Retail prices for certain sizes now reach 50 cents per ton higher. In Wilkes-Barre Judge Fuller enjoins county from suing Wilkes-Barre and Tazleton Electric Railway over the 2 cent fare law after reviewing earnings, finding the low rate cuts profits and prompts a rate increase.
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Wilkes-Barre
Penn
Fuller
Fromm
Wilkes Parre & Tazieton Electric Railway
Ile
No Trouble Over Coney Island Fare Incident
Police presence was not needed yesterday when the Brooklyn Rapid Transit began charging a 14 cent fare to Coney Island. There were no refusals to pay the second fare and traffic was light. Officials said they did not expect trouble but warned that if necessary a hundred passengers would be removed from every trolley car for refusing to pay the two fares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coney Tland & Brooklyn Redlroad
Coney Island
Havana customs: 1867 imports rise to $94.99 million
The Havana customs statement reports imports into Cubs for the 1867-05 fiscal year at $94,992,134, up from $56,488,589 in 1906507, while exports reach $97,449,91, and total shipments show $114,764,937.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Big Downtown Lease Rental For Term Reported
The Charles F. Noyes Company leased to a California wine merchant for a term of years a six story and basement building to be erected at 792 and 74 Washington Street. The rent will total about $100 000 for the period. Michael Erlanger sold No 1452 6th Ave a five story flat house on a 25 by 100 foot lot adjoining 18th St. Warren M. Bexter and S G Dessaver sold No 129 West 78th St a three story and basement dwelling on a 16 by 102.2 foot lot. Frederick A Caril sold No 317 10th Ave a five story tenement with stores on a 25 by 10 foot lot to P J Cronin, and sold a 100 by 125 foot plot at NW corner of 20th St and 10th Ave to Philip E Hoag with six flat houses and a coal yard on the site. Plans filed for a six building rapid transit plant at Broadway and 9th St to enlarge Lenox Ave and Broadway subway to ease congestion. cost about $3 000 for six buildings and a storage yard, architect George H Pegram. A V Porter filed plans for equipping the Metropolitan Street Railway carhouse with an auxiliary sprinkler plant. The Rusling Company plans a sprinkler unit at 514 516 Broadway for Livingston Estate. Manhattan plans include a one story basement office building on 68th St west of West End Ave for Bradley Construction Co at $10 000.
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Charles F. Noyes
California
R. F. Kilpatrick
Washington St
Michael Erlanger
6Th Ave
18Th St
Warren M. Bexter
S. G. Dessaver
78Th St
Frederick A. Caril
P. J. Cronin
10Th Ave
Philip E. Hoag
20Th St
Murphy
Lenox Ave
Broadway
Mth
9Th St
Rapid Transit Subway
George H. Pegram
A. V. Porter
Adrian H. Joline
Douglas Robinson
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Rusling Company
Livingston Estate
Manhattan
68Th Street
West End Ave
Bradley Construction Company
Foreclosure Sale at West 46th Street Properties Draws Bids
In the Real Estate Exchange Salesrooms foreclosure sale of five story dwellings Nos. 206 to 212 West 46th street drew bids. N Talor Phillips sued James Churchill for about $92,500. Gaiety Theatre owner adjacent bought for $191,200. Separate offerings followed with several properties listed and bids recorded.
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Real Estate Exchange
Vesey St
46Th St
Joseph P Dar
Wooster St
Prince St
U S Trust Co
Yagt Landauer
Stewart & S
Attys
F Hendrich
Corn Exc Bank
14Th St
Ist Ave
Kaufmann
Bryan L Kennelly
Vyse Ave
Jennings St
Dwigh
J Harrington
M Harrington
J O'Beirne
Builder Blake Buys Brooklyn Lots From Ronk
Lawrence E. Blake of New Utrecht Manor buys twenty six lots on the southerly side of 74th street between New Utrecht and Highteenth avenues in Brooklyn from William E. Ronk. The sale includes corner parcels at Seventeenth avenue.
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William E. Ronk
Lawrence E. Blake
New Utrecht Manor
74Th St
New Utrecht
Highteenth Aves
Brooklyn
Seventeenth Ave
Real estate sales reported in brokerage market
Barrett Nowack sold a south Oak Tree Place plot to Alois Ernst. Nellie Meyer sold 747 West End Ave house. John Steinmetz sold 805 East 179th St two family, exchange for 107 East 180th St one family. John Miller sold 775 East 176th St two family to Edward English. Leroy Coventry brokered 305 West Sd St three story dwelling for M J Degnon with buyer plans to occupy after alterations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrett Nowack
Oak Tree Place
Hughes Ave
Alois L. Ernst
Nellie Meyer
West End Ave
John A. Steinmetz
179Th St
Bronx Building Plans Notice
Building permits listed for three properties in the Bronx. A two story brick factory at 91 ft east of Park Avenue, owner Samuel Weiss with Shaefer and Jaeger as architects. A two story frame dwelling at Castle Hill Avenue east of Eastern Boulevard, owner Edward Bentz with Chris F Lohse as architect. A two story frame dwelling on Van Nest Avenue near Taylor Street, owner Joseph Gamache with Henry Nordheim as architect. Estimated project values total $10,000.
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A List St
Park Ave
Samuel Weiss
Shaefer & Jaeger
Eastern Boulevard
Castle Hill Ave
Edward Bentz
Chris F Lohse
So Piens Ny Arana Bes Sabener Taylor
van Nest
Joseph Gamache
Henry Nordheim
Great Lakes Wheat Rates Steady as West Shipments Begin
The Dominion Marine Association, vessel owners on the Great Lakes, sets seven cents per bushel for grain shipments from Fort William to Montreal, unchanged from last year. Montreal shippers, seeking five cents, are disappointed and some favor a government probe into the association’s rate fixing authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Dominion Marine Association
Great Lakes
Fort William
Japan Moves to Cut Expenses by One Hundred Million
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. report Tokio's government plan to extend the six year curtailment to twelve years cutting expenditures by over 200 million yen with 159 million yen for army and navy. New loans are excluded and the national railway is placed on special account with limited borrowing. The government will pay at least 9.9 million pounds yearly on national debt.
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Westinghouse CO. Rehabilitation
Meadows, Williams & CO
Pennsylvania
Upper Fifth Ave
Churchill
West 46Th Street
Joseph P Day
Edgecombe Ave
145Th St
Edgecombe
State Bank Agt
Cander, Jr
J A Kohn
Aitty
McAvoy
Roth St
Cor Broadway
J S Sutphen, Jr
Varuna Realty Co
THE
Bronx
Dominion Association
Japan
Country Property
K. R
P. Houser
Eustist
Mount Vernon
Ansonia
Seleplone
Columbus
Massachusetts
Grosvenor
Ave
10Th Street
HE Touraine
East 89Th ST
Ftotel Algonquin
44Th ST
Riverdale
Riverside Drive
79Th St
79Th Street
Park Street
U. S. Naval Battalion
REMCO
Milano
West 58Th St
28Th St
Robert Dale Compton
Fifth Ave
M'Knight Realty Co
5Th Ave
Langham
Central Park West
E Sonoma
N. BE Cor
Way
55Th ST
Iotel Belleclaire
Broadway and
77Th ST
al E Kenilworth
Cor
75Th St
Berkshire
Madison Ave
the Apthorp
8Th and
Oakdale Waterfront
Great South Bay
Vanderbilt Estate
Exchange
Vesey Street
Shore High
Rich Lawn
Water Edge
Oakdale
Bryan L. Kennelly
Hee Ts
Martinique
Gibbs & Kirby
Herman SQ
Dobbs Ferry
Hudson
Esther Wood
Armour Villa
P. J. Connolly
Clark Estate
City
John Mundschenk
Park Row Building
Reade ST
WM. c. Walker’s Sons
Bronx Real Estate
Bronx Borough
P. Cc. Sherman
Long Island Sound
Downtown
W. J Russell
Young Ladies—City
de Lancey School
West 98Th St
Barnard School For Girls
College Prep
Misses Rayson
West 75Th Street
le Baron Drumm School
Semple West An St
Mardner
Schorl
Jends’ Seminary
Friends’ School
East 16Th St
Schermerhorn &T. Eklyn
Friends’ Seminary
Schermerhorn St
B’klyn
Berlitz School OF Languages
Madison Square
Harlem
127Th St
Court St
Institute OF Musical Art of the City of New York
Frank Damrosch
Fifth Avenue
Twelfth St
Friends' School
16Th St
Biklyn
PRATT
Setar
Berkshire Hills
the Hotel
Aspinwall
Lenox, Mass
Berkshires
Stock Exchange
Co. D. Seavey
Briarcliff de
Lodge
Briarcliff Manor
Grand Central Station
Scarborough
David B. Plumer
East 46Th St
Manhattan Beach
J. P. Greaves, Mas
WEW
Coner Island
East 34Th Street
BR. T
Brighton Beach
Sheepshead Bay
Oriental Automobile Omnibus
Hotel Gramatan
Bronxville
Westchester County
J. J. Lannin Company
Tribune
8Th Ave
125Th St
Ackard Commercial School
4Th Ave
23Rd Street
Cortland
Lawyers Title Insurance and Trust Company
Montague Street
Ruland & Whiting CO. Real Estate
Beekman ST
Woman's Property Protective League
Elberon
N. J
Tribune Ce
Npesau
Law Schools
NEW York University Law School
L. J. Tompkins
Bec
Washington
NEW York Day School
Fulton St Law School
New York City
George Chase
Jean
American and Foreign Teachers’ Agency
M. J Young-Fulton
Union Square
1St Ave
7Th At
Tremont Ave
Dwight School
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
Columbia
Cornell
Mass
Ins. Tech
Colleges and Technical
Semil E. Camerer
Arthur Williams
Berkeley
Columbia School (Consolidated
120 Street
West End Avenue
F Clark
N.Y
Fulton St
L. C. Mygatt
West 3Th Street
Manhattan College
Christian Brothers
First St
Peter
Barnard School For Boys
St. Nicholas Av
West
Trinity School
West 91St ST
Garden City
Long Island
J. J. Lanninco
New Jersey
Atlantic City
Walter J. Buzby
Galen Hall
N.jhotel
Twa
I Jung
Mer
Warlorough
Kienbeim
Josiah White & Sons, Proprietors
Ocea Pleasure Bay
AR Peninsula
USA
Seabright
Stratford Ain Ave
Ocean Grove
N. St
Kittatinny
Delaware
Weere Gap
Pocono Mountains
Canadensis
Irving School
L. D. Ray
West S4th St
DR. Ray
Kelvin
G. L. Dionne
West 70Th ST
al and Technology
St.paul’s School
Walter BR. Marsh
Cathedral School OF
Saint Paul
Peekskill
Worrall Hall Military Academy
J. M. Furman
A. M
Tarrytown-on—Hudson
Jestchester Academy
College Preparatory School
White Plain
Prin
T. David's Hall
College of Business
WM L Evans
C. E. Mason
the Castle
Tarrytown-on-Hudson
Dana
Morrist
New York Suburb
Louise L. Newell
Eee Cessee
J. Max Harr
D. D
Prince
Hazen
Pelham Manor
Cane
John Cunningham Hazen
Ytown-On-Hudson, N. Y
the Misses Metcalf
Chappaqua
Chappaqua Mountain Institute
Scccc
Society of Friends
Centenary Collegiate Institute
Hackettstown
Jonathan M. Meeker
Pennington Seminary
Frank Moore
Pennington
Rye Seminary
the Misses Stows
Rye New Tb
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