Gerard at P S C Again Says Tracks Should Go
Justice Gerard urged action on condemning New York Central tracks on Eleventh Avenue, arguing the Public Service Commission failed to carry out the 1906 law. Leopold Hellinger sought a mandamus to compel condemnation, while the commission and Corporation Counsel cautioned against hastily proceeding amid plan changes and high costs.
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Justice Gerard
Supreme Court
Public Service Commission
New York Central
Eleventh Avenue
Leopold Hellinger
60Th Street
Gerard
Corneil
Thomas J. O'Neill
Corporation Counsel
Rapid Transit Board
Franklin Street
59Th Street
Spuyten Duyvil
Hellinger
O'Neill
George 8
Coleman
William
H. Burr
Burr
Rapid Transit Commission
Mr. Burr
Mr. O'Neill
Public Service tests compare trolley car fenders in Schenectady
The Public Service Commission conducts experimental tests to determine best trolley car fender and wheel guard designs for New York City life safety. In Schenectady, 37 manufacturers will submit devices tested on live dummies, with seventeen tests per device, under A W McLimont. The event draws observers from Chicago, Massachusetts, and several rail firms, with a Pittsburgh series planned next month.
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Public Service Commission
New York
General Electric Company
Schenectady
A. W. McLimont
McCarroll
Eustis
Board of Supervising Engineers of
Chicago
L. H. McLain
Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners
Third Avenue Railroad Company
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company
Long Island Railroad Company
Pittsburg
Voting machines a New Jersey wasteful burden
Secretary of State Dickinson seeks a solution as New Jersey towns reject voting machines and abandon trials. The state spent about 596000 on the devices in three years with little support, and many municipalities plan to abandon them. Colonel Dickinson says no storage place is available and a different state may need to be found to take the machines. Attorney General McCarter is abroad and expected back in about ten days.
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Trenton
Dickinson
New Jersey
McCarter
Europe
Dick 4Neon
City to enclosure of subway shafts at two stations and Mott Avenue
Public Service Commission ordered glass enclosure for elevator shafts at W68th Street and Net Street on the Broadway line and at Mott Avenue on the West Farm branch. City pays the cost as an extra under Contract No 1. Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company will perform the work.
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Public Service Commission
W68th Street
Net Street
Broadway
Mott Avenue
West Farm
Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company
Missouri Editors Dollar Dinner Planned as Cold Water Affair
St. Louis reports the committee on arrangements says the September 25 dinner for Missouri Democratic editors at Hotel Jefferson will be strictly cold water. Augustus Thomas has not yet accepted an invitation to speak. Thomas, a former St. Louis journalist, did not secure Missouri support to back Bryan at Denver.
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St. Louis
Committee On
Missouri
Hotel Jefferson
Augustus Thomas
Jhas
Thomas
Bryan
Denver
Cost of forest fires would build a navy says official record
Washington reports that fires across Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin have burned large tracts of timber and left thousands homeless. Officials say the year 1908 may rank as one of the worst for forest wealth losses in the northern United States with extensive damage from coast to coast.
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Washington
Minnesota
Michigan
Wisconsin
United States
Lake States
Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountain
New England
Canada
Tonawanda Mayor Attacks Canal Superintendent Stevens
At a New York business meeting in the Hotel Astor Mayor William H. Follette argued that canal policy harms regional commerce. He accused Canal Superintendent Stevens of siding with railroads and criticized Governor Hughes for appointing a legislator opposed to canals.
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New York
Astor
William H. Follette
Tonawanda
Buffalo
Stevens
Hughes
Atlantic City Defiant Over Sunday Liquor Sales
Atlantic City leaders face a looming showdown as saloonmen plan Sunday business despite Governor Fort’s threat to deploy militia if excise laws are not enforced. Detectives will monitor violations while independents push to reopen amid previous grand jury inaction and local power struggles.
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Atlantic City
Governor Fort
Royal Arch
Café Men's Protective Association
Governor Fort Will
Forest fires may cost nation millions in losses this year
Officials warn that total losses from nationwide forest fires will run into the millions and that a final season tally could surprise. They credit rational fire protection shifts and national forest patrols for limiting damage, noting the government will spend under 30,000 dollars to guard about 168 million acres.
Davis Arraigned In Murder Case In Omaha
Omaha September 11 Davis arraigned on murder charge after identification by Dr J P Lord as man seen leaving Dr Austins home after the killing. Bail set at seven thousand dollars. Davis released after arraignment. Witness Frank Graham to establish alibi locations near Daviss room. time gaps before the murder remain unaccounted for with cigars and cigarettes found on the Rustin porch.
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Omaha
Austin
J. P. Lord
Charles E. Davis
Dr. Lord
Davis
Dr. Austin
Latham Davis
Davis Brothers
Frank Graham
Omaha National Bank
Graham
Rustin
The Roosevelt Welcomed in Muskegon Campaign Stop
Muskegon Sept 11 fireworks lit the harbor as 6000 people greeted the steamer Theodore Roosevelt carrying the Marquette Band on a Republican national ticket campaign jaunt. Western Michigan Republicans packed Manitowoc and Muskegon venues with talks by W L Taylor W K Cubbison Charles Mauen Albert Vinck and R H McCormick. A Taft telegram drew cheers as the party pressed toward Traverse City at midnight.
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Muskegon
Mich
Theodore Roosevelt
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Manitowoc
Wis
Grand Opera House
W. L. Taylor
Indiana
W. K. Cubbison
Kansas City
Charles Mauen
Albert Vinck
Philadelphia
R. H. McCormick
Illinois
Taft
Sherman
Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Traverse City
Heat and dust topple thousands of soldiers marching to Missouri
In four days four thousand regular army troops moving from Fort Riley to St. Joseph suffer over three hundred prostrations from heat and dust. More than one hundred seriously ill were transported to Topeka by rail as cavalry churns the dusty road.
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Tribune
Topeka
Kan
Fort Riley
St. Joseph
New York Canal Crisis Sparks Urban Rail and Waterway Debate
Mayor Follette led a heated session on neglect of canals and the shift of wheat trade to Montreal and other cities. He attacked the canal administration, urged to finish the Erie Canal, lower wharfage, and remove discriminatory rail rates to restore New York City’s trade supremacy. Governors, legislatures, and canal opposition were cited as obstacles to progress.
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New York
Follette
Alert E. Henschel
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Montreal
Albany
Buffalo
Chicago
New York City
Bay Ridge
Brooklyn
Alaica Bay
Staten Island
Canada
Ferry Service Follows Long Island RR Discontinuation
Public Services Commission heard residents urge retention of the ferry between Long Island City and Pier 8 East River. Louis Windmuller suggested a 10 cent fare to keep riders off crowded elevated trains. Eugene V. Daly argued a public franchisee should not cut unprofitable routes. LIRR cited losses of 40000 in 1906 and 45000 in 1907 with a larger expected loss this year. service to continue only until the official withdrawal next month pending formal complaints.
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Bassett
Public Services Commission
Long Island Railroad Company
Long Island City
Pier 8
East River
Louis Windmuller
Mth Street
Eugene V. Daly
Port Washington
Long Island
C. L. Addison
Long Island Railroad
Russians Appeal to President Over Pouren Extradition
Crowded Cooper Union hears Russians protest the decision to extradite Lettish peasant Jan Pouren charged by Russia with murder and arson. Protesters call Pouren a political offender and seek reversal of the commission ruling via a petition to President Roosevelt. Speakers include Herbert Parsons Franklin Wentworth and James B Reynolds with letters from Abbott Greenbaum Finley Brisbane Greer and Gompers read.
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Cooper Union
Jan Pouren
Pouren
Roosevelt
Herbert Parsons
State Department
United States
Lberty
Franklin H. Wentworth
Boston
James B. Reynolds
Society of Friends of Russian Freedom
Jacob Gordon
Meyer London
J. A. Hourwich
David Blaustein
Simon C. Pollock
Lyman Abbott
Samuel Greenbaum
John H. Finley
The
City College
Arthur Brisbane
David H. Greer
Samuel Gompers
Moon race ends with Davis on 0 55 31 stint in Dash
F J Davis finished the Moon car event in 0 55 31 after a skillful run as Ralph De Palma in the Fiat Cyclone equaled the track record with 0 34 in an exhibition mile. AAA threatened disqualification for participants though ACC offered no sanction. Moonlight aided visibility for a tense duel between the Simplex and Allen Kingston.
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F. J. Davis
Ralph de Palma
Walter Christie
American Automobile Association
Automobile Club of America
Simplex
Allen-Kingston
Erie Bill Nearly Got Away in Court Break
A. D. Andrew known as Erie Bill, a bank burglar wanted in Ontario County New York, was about to slip free when a Pinkerton detective in the Pittsburg courtroom called him and failed to recapture him. A struggle followed but the detective prevailed. Andrew is accused of breaking into the Shortsville bank on December 1, 196 and fleeing with $6.30 after a Riverside Penitentiary release.
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New York City
Baltimore
Boston
Tribune
Pittsburg
A. D. Andrew
Erie Bill
Ontario County
N. Y
van Voorhis
Pinkerton
Eric Bill
Andrew
Shortsville
Riverside Penitentiary
Public Service Commission seeks proposed fall train reductions
Albany reports the Public Service Commission 24 District issued a circular to all railroad corporations asking for rapid submission of proposed changes in passenger train schedules. It requests continuation or discontinuation of summer service and any fall or winter changes for 1997 with reasons and timetable train numbers. The notice notes June to October expansions reduce complaints about overcrowded or inadequate service, while post summer travel declines justify withdrawing such facilities and often increase complaints.
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Albany
Public Service Commission
24 District
Dunning Murder Trial Ends in Second Degree Verdict
Gouverneur New York September 11 The Dunning murder trial in Canton ended with a verdict of murder in the second degree. Rollin Dunning formerly of Rossie New York was found guilty for the shooting death of his young wife's father Jerry Apple and brother-in-law Albert Crowder on an island in Black Lake eighteen miles from Gouverneur.
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Gouverneur
N. Y
Dunning
Canton
Rollin Dunning
Rossie
Jerry” Apple
Albert Crowder
Black Lake
Theft of 30000 Bonds Stuns Boston Brokerage Firm
A. B. Turner & Co. on Milk Street reports a missing batch of negotiable bonds totaling 30000. A man posing as a buyer paid with a worthless certified check and fled with the securities. The stolen issues include Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 4s, Oregon Short Line refunding 4s, American Tobacco 4s, Georgia Central 4s, and New York Central 4s.
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Boston
A. B. Turner & Co
Milk Street
Chicago
Burlington & Quincy Joint
Oregon Short Line
American Tobacco
Georgia Central
New York Central
Safebreakers Sentenced Fifteen Years in Newark
George Williams alias Humpty and his associates Richard Vaughan and Martin Tiffany were sentenced to fourteen years in state prison by Judge Davis in Newark for five counts of burglary tied to a planned break in at J. Wiss & Sons No. 68 Broad Street. Williams confessed to additional New York robberies including Iver Johnson and Diamond Point Pen Company cases.
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George Williams
Humpty
Richard Vaughan
Martin Tiffany
Newark
J. Wiss & Sons
Broad Street
Davis
Williams
New York
Iver-Johnson Company
Diamond Point Pen Company
Lenox Private Hospital Opens With Guests
The Lenox Private Hospital at 149 and 151 East 6th Street opened for inspection yesterday. Dr and Mrs Philip Metrevitz head the institution which is fireproof seven stories tall and newly equipped. It offers one hundred patient beds with engaged rooms and a planned trained nursing corps. A reef garden for convalescing patients will double as a winter sun parlor.
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Lenox
Philip Metrevitz
Madison Avenue
Lenox Private Hospital
Meiravitz
Patrolman Sentenced to State Prison for Extortion
Judge Malone in General Sessions described William F. Waltman of Mercer street station as a deplorable spectacle and sentenced him to not less than three years nor more than five years in state prison for extorting $3 from two women on 18th street. Waltman's partner Benjamin Cordes pleaded guilty, will testify, and faces sentencing on Monday.
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Malone
William F. Waltman
Mercer Street
Waltman
Benjamin Cordes
Cordes
Mrs. G. W. Helme Scalded at Waldorf Astoria
Mrs. George W. Helme, wife of Walldorf founder, was severely scalded during a bath at the Waldorf Astoria in New York last week. At about seventy five, she slipped on soap while turning off hot water and struck her head on the tub. Her physician says she will recover.
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G. W. Helme
Waldorf Helmetta
N. J
George W. Helme
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
New York
Helme
George A. Helme
American Snuff Company
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