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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1900
Page
7
This morning we offer several hundred of this season’s best selling Worsted and Cassimere Suits at half price. Most sizes in each line are sold out and the remaining odd lots are cleared to make room for fresh stock.
City of Mexico June 14 reports the National Bank of Mexico declares a seventeen percent dividend on last year’s business. It holds 14 million dollars paid up capital and about 7 million in reserve. Net profits for 1899 reach 3,480,889. Rumor ties Cecil Rhodes to a railway scheme linking Con tras and Toluca with a line to manufacturing towns.
John Field of Philadelphia has been reelected president of the National Association of Credit Reporters. The organization will hold its next meeting in Milwaukee on a date not specified.
The Manufacturers' Club laments being sidelined as the Citizens' Committee runs the Philadelphia convention effort. Members A J Ennis and James L McLoughlin refuse Mississippi delegation entertainments amid calls for balanced representation of colored Republicans. Several clubs and hosts include the Harmer Club and various national affiliates coordinating weeklong events.
The police department will deploy 1,750 officers under five captains, 33 lieutenants, and 68 sergeants for Monday night’s parade. Twenty-two bicycle policemen, 42 physicians, 12 ambulances, and 26 patrol wagons will assist, with a telephonic coordination system of 19 Broad Street stations linked to the Electrical Bureau. City Hall decor, planned by Clement Remington, will feature large color designs illuminated by 8,000 lights, including the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania coats of arms and a national emblem over the east facade.
Philadelphia clubs organize entertainment for visiting delegates next week. Allied Clubs have raised 15000 for hospitality with more expected to come. Mercantile Club will host open houses daily and War Veterans Club plans fireworks and guided tours. Union Republican Club coordinates vaudeville, music, banquets.
Delegates arriving visited the convention hall and praised seating. City Hall tower and elevator open to the public next week with access to the balcony. Police arrested four men in New York addresses for exam on June 25. A Republican Club banner from 1840 will lead Monday's parade. Street fair orders and badges flood the scene as delegates arrive.
Dr. Moses Stern claims election to Fifth ward council seat while being charged with breaking into the lower chamber. Witnesses report Stern forcing entry as guards watched, with Reform advocate R Courtland Horr named in the incident.
Zadkid Mare is in benefice select with the moon and favorable for consulting surgeons and dealing with engineers and martimes. The reading notes good alignments for business and travel.
Both branches failed to clear the municipal calendar for the summer recess, prompting a likely special session on June 28. Lawmakers faced delays as 15 ordinances remained, with action on tax rate adjustments, Gimbel Brothers bridge and tunnel plans, and various street and sewer projects continuing into the next session.
The councils approved numerous measures including a 1.0 million appropriation to Public Works for bridges streets and curbing. A Morgue property sale was approved and a public bath house site bought near Ann and Belgrade. Education funds were allocated across wards and several street projects plus waterworks changes were authorized.
An amendment to the ordinance raises the retaining wall reconstruction appropriation on Boone street between Grape and Roxborough from 8000 to 4400 dollars. An omnibus paving ordinance approves paving on Maplewood and Bellfield avenues and a long list of streets including Rockland Sherman Pomona Musgrave Wendover Kipp Percy Conarroe Hilton Firth Huntington Sergeant Twenty-ninth Ontario Bristol Brown Fifty-eighth Markoe Race Thompson Wilton Grove Fifty-seventh and Sixty-eighth streets.
A special session of the Select Council ran about four hours beginning at 2 P M with most measures passing without debate. An amendment to the $76 000 appropriation for the Twenty eighth ward school house was discussed but not pursued to avoid blocking the vote. The original $76 170 allocation had been set, but the lowest bid reached $81 350, leaving a funding gap unresolved. The Board of Education asks the City Solicitor about contracting beyond the appropriation. Appointments approved include Dr John H Shoemaker to the Board of Charities and Correction and Mrs Sarah Selfridge as matron at the new Thirty third police station.
The document lists multiple city ordinances affecting street openings and repairs from Front Street to Sixth and Chestnut, including lease of 824 Lombard Street for a police bureau house for five years at $600 yearly, rent remission for Beach and Fairmount avenue wharf up to 5600, Meade Post G A R occupancy, mayoral security for Front Street opening, Harvey Street lines and grades adjustments, a retaining wall at Sixty-Seconds and the Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, and opening Highland Avenue past Germantown Avenue to Thirty-third Street.
Select Council introduced ordinances to authorize opening Orchard street northward from Brown street for a distance of 89 feet 11 inches and to restore Callowhill street between Twenty third and Twenty fifth to its original width.
The itemized measures introduced include street openings and repavings from Ontario to Tioga and Lansdowne to County bridge, street openings on Juniata and Fleming, Moravian and Clifton repavings, park land funding, refund of Lan caster avenue excess, 5000 for city wharf repairs, new sewers on Atlantic and Hartter, Ninth and Jessup repavings, bulkhead at Penn Treaty Pier 58, railway track rights on Hancock, main sewer on Little Tacony, Markoe repave, property purchase at Sixtieth and Media for schools, and a 4200 fire engine for Fire Co. No. 16.
Philadelphia council committee reviews reports from subcommittee on ordinances to permit single tracks by Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company and River Front Railroad on Delaware Avenue between Callowhill and Dock streets. Petition asks Reading to remove tracks from Pennsylvania Avenue. Additional ordinances authorize Hay to lay siding on Pennsylvania Avenue and Seyfert & Sons to lay crossing at Thompson Street.
The finance committee postponed deciding if City Treasurer McMichael may keep commissions on mercantile taxes. Council members debated referring the issue to a sub committee and noted McMichael did not attend. A ten hour day and wage concerns emerged as the panel planned further study before reporting.
An electrical display at City Hall will be finished today along with other decorative features such as flags and bunting prepared by the telegraph service. The frost tower opened to visitors earlier will remain accessible until the end of tomorrow.
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