Hines opposes Esch Townsend rebates bill at Senate hearing
Walker D Ilines continued his remarks before the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce criticizing the Esch Townsend measure as impractical. He argued the ICC cannot prosecute rebates effectively, would delay rate changes, and that courts could instead fix maximum reasonable rates while opponents warned of reduced service and higher costs.
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Walker D Ilines
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Interstate Commerce Commission
Elkins Net
Commission
Hines
Answeing
Mir
Congress
Clapp
Townsend Answers Spencer Wholesale Rate Cuts Not Contemplated
Congressman Charles E Townsend of Jackson Mich, author of the Townsend Esen railroad bill, spoke to the Michigan Manufacturers Association about rate justice. He rejected wholesale reductions, urged a commission to set just rates, and argued against secret rebates while aligning with Roosevelt on keeping highways open on equal terms. Also mentions Wall Street era incidents and notable figures in transit and tech history.
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Tellere Mich
Charles E Townsend
Jackson
Mich
Michigan Manufacturers” Association
Townsend
Spencer
Southern Railway
Pittsburg
Roosevelt
Rumerts
Parker, Bridget & Co. founder Harry B. Parker dies
Harry B. Parker born March 4 1850 in Charles County Maryland. He moved to the city at age nine and began work at twelve with Smith Brothers Co. Later he formed Robinson Parker Co., then Parker Bridget & Co. established 316 Seventh Street and later at Ninth and the Avenue. He retired in May 1948 and leaves a married daughter.
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Harry B. Parker
Parker, Bridget & Co
Charles County
Smith, Brothers & Co., Clothiers
Robinson, Parker & Co
Seventh Street
Twelfth
F Streets
Ninth and
the Avenue
Parker
Miss Eaton
Frederick City
Deficit blame shifts to Shaw and Treasury estimates
Senators and lawmakers quote Secretary Shaw’s deficit estimates to argue the Treasury head shares responsibility for the current wasteful conditions. The article notes Congress underfunded appropriations, while executive departments spent beyond available money, prompting penalties for officers who overspend.
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Treasury Department
Shaw
Treasury
Congress
Legislative House
Fifty-Eighth
Secretary of the Treasury
House Committee On Appropriations
Navy Department
Livingston
Fifty-eighth Congress
Senate
House
Carnegie Gift for Higher Education Across United States
Officials report Andrew Carnegie's gift may fund pensions for college professors nationwide. Trustees include Hadley Eliot Harner Butler Schurman Wilson and many university leaders. Reactions from Hart, Pritchett, Eliot, Hadley, Seelye, Schurman, Faunce, Peterson and Plantz call the donation a historic step boosting dignity and security for teachers and the profession. The plan envisions funds used flexibly by a two thirds vote to fit evolving needs in education.
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A T. Hadley
Yale University
New Haven
Mass
Charles C. Harrison
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Alex. C. Humphreya
Stevens Institut
Hoboken
N. J
Cleveland
Ohio
Thomas McClelland
Knox College
Galesburg
Erwin H. Hughes
de Pauw University
Greencastle
Ind
H. McClelland Bell
Drake University
Des Moines
Iowa
George H. Denny
Washington and
Les University
Lexington
Peterson
McGil University
Montreal
Canada
Samuel Plavtz
Lawrence University of Wisconsin
Appleton
Wis
David
Boston
Henry 8. Pritchett
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carnegie
Eliot
Harvard University
Cann
Hadley
Fale
Northampton
L. Clark Seelye
Smith College
Ithaca
Schurman
Cornell
America
Providence
H. J
W.W. H. P. Faunce
Brown University
McGill University
Carnegie Degeiver
Samuel Plantz
Lawrence University
Augusta Bridge Draw Decision Delayed Amid Cost Concerns
Secretary of War Taft may suspend indefinitely the order to install draws in three Savannah River bridges at Augusta Georgia. The proposed $60,000 to $70,000 city cost sparked citizen wavering while Senator Bacon and local leaders push delay. The Southern Railroad bridge draw issue remains tied to river navigation and rail side tracks.
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Secretary of
Taft
Augusta
Southern Railroad
Savannah River
Department
Georgia
Bacon
Secretary of War
Savannah
Army
Georgia River and Harbor District
War Department
Army Officers Orders and Duty Transfers 1905
Compiled instructions list extensions of leave and sick leave for officers, transfers within Coast Artillery, reassignment of Chaplain Joseph Casey to First Infantry, and postings for Maj Rudolph Gibert and other staff. Paymaster movements include funds transport to posts and payments in person on muster lists for Fort Mott through Washington Barracks.
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Samuel W. Robertson
David L Stone
Twenty-second Infantry
Charles F. Donnahue
Artillery Corps
Coast Artillery
Charles P. Stivers
Kansas City
Junction City
Fort Myer
Fort Wayne
Mich
Fort Mott
New Jersey
Fort du Post
Fort Delaware
Delaware
Fort McHenry
Fort Carroll
Fort Armistead
Fort Howard
Fort Washington
Maryland
Fort Hunt
Fort Montes
Virginia
Washington Barracks
District of Columbia
Quartermaster’s Department
Rizal Monument Design Prize Offer and Rules
The Bureau of Insular Affairs announces a Rizal Monument design contest in Manila with a $5000 Philippine currency prize and a $2000 secondary prize. Designs must cost under 100 Philippine currency and be submitted by November 30, 1905. materials should preferably come from the archipelago. Fifteen Naval Academy midshipmen are disqualified for physical reasons but may remain until next year’s exam. Naval movement notes: Hornet Shen Yan kee Sanchez Saturn arrive and depart various ports.
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Committee On the Philippines
Bureau of Insular Affairs
The
War Department
Rizal
Philippine Islands
Philippine Commission
Jose Rizal
Manila
Naval Academy
Carnegie Gift to Hospital in Wilkinsburg
Andrew Carnegie donates 16000 dollars to the Columbia Hospital now under construction at Wilkinsburg for furnishing and endowing two rooms named for Mrs Andrew Carnegie and Miss Margaret Carnegie his daughter. It is the first hospital gift from Mr Carnegie to the Woman's Association of the United Presbyterian Church.
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Commodore Nicholson
Coramore Sommerville Nicholson
Reeinld F. Nicholson
Tacoma
Santo Domingo
Helen M. Cooke
Nineteenth Street
W. S. Dixon
Navy
Carnegie
Pittsburg
Andrew Carnegie
Columbia Hospital
Wilkinsburg
Margaret Carnegie
Woman's Association of the United Presbyterian Church
Pennsylvanian Railroads Timetable and Connections
Station at Sixth and B Streets shows daily routes from Harrisburg to Chicago, Pittsburg, St Louis, and beyond with numerous parlor, dining, and sleeping cars. Also listed are Baltimore and Ohio line services to Philadelphia and New York, Atlantic Coast Line timing, Norfolk and Western connections, and Washington South ern Railway schedules with through sleepers and cafe cars.
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Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Co
Norfolk
Monroe
Portsmouth
Newport News
Washington
Alexandria
Fort Monroe
Ft. Monroe
General Ticket
14Th St
Colorado
6Th and
Pa. Ave
OLD Dominion Steamship CO
New York
Boston
John Callahan
American Line
Cherbourg
Southampton
Philadelphia
Queenstown
Liverpool
Atlantic Transport Line
London Direct
RED Star Line
WERP
Dover
London
Paris
White Star Line
York
Mediterranean
Canopic
F Street N. WW
David Lindsay
Cunard Line
North River
Etruria
Carolia
Campanie
Lucania
Umbria
Gibraltahr
Ultonia
Slavonia
Pannonia
Europe
Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd
Broadway
N. Y
State St
Mass
G. W. Moss
Hamburg
Plymouth
S. S. Deutschland
c.Deutschland
Patricia Pennsylvade
Pretoria
Bluecher
tDeutschland
Fort Room
Paria
B. Frank C. Clark
D. C
Southern Railway
Harrisonburg
Warrenton
Danville
Way
Washington and Florida Limited
Columbia
Savannah
Jacksonville
United States Fast Mall
New Orleans
Manassas
Charlottesville
Atlanta
Columbus
San Francisco
Florida Express
Augusta
Port Tampa
Memphis Limited
Lynchburg
Roanoke
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Memphis
Washington and
Southwestern Limited
Pullman
Macon
Nashville
Memphia
Bluemont
Leesburg
Garrisonburg
Ell Paave
Pennsylvania Station
P. RK. R
H. B. Spencer
H Hardwick
W. H. Taylor
Pass
Brown
Chesapeake and Ohio
Chicago
ST. Louis
Cincinnati
Louisville
Indianapolis
Chicags
Virginia Hot
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Pennsylvania R. R
H.W. Fuller
Pennsylvania Railroad
Sixth
B Streets
Pittsburg
Harrisburg
THE
Pennsylvania Limited
Cleveland
Toledo
Detroit
ST. Louis Limited
St Louis
Main Line
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Chicago Limited
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Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Rochester
Erie
Canandaigua
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Bor ‘Ehhiagel Pha
Atlantic City
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Annapolis
Pope's Creek
Fifteenth
W.W. Atterbury
R. Wood
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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Fittsburg
Wheeling
Winchester
Frederick
Hagerstow
Union Transfer Company
Pennsylvania Ave
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Hegh
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Charleston
Norfolk and Western
Memnin
Delly
Bristol
Wineton- Salem
Naghville
Berryville
Lutay
Shenandoah
New York Avenue
Washington Southern Railway
Richmond
Fredericksburg
Florida
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Ola Point
Quantico
E. W
WD. Duke
C. W.culp
W. P. Taylor
Gen. Man
Man
Richmond, Va
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Penna. Ave
Petersburg
Raleigh
Wilmington
Saverash
Tampa
Birmingham
Mobile
Pensacola
Seaboard Mall
Jackennville
Hemiet
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Kahn & Pollak
Fifteenth Street
Union Square
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Alexander G. Bell
Telephone
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A Fenton
Washington, DC
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Newark
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Hornet
Shen
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Saturn
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Rolla Wells
Mary S. Wright
Rebecca Reeves van Lennep
Spruce Street
Gladys Smith
Cutler
Tex
Wm. Wrigley Jr. & Co
Massachusetts Avenue
Marshall Hall
Charles Macalpster
Seventh St
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Mount Vernon
Home and Tomb OF Washington
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Arlington Falls Church
Aqueduct Bridge
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Berlitz School OF Languages
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Princ
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Strayer
Business College
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Mile
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Indiana Ave
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Uctive
Gatatogrien
Frances Mann Ball
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Principel
Dennis
Walter J. Buzby
M. W.t
Grand Atlantic
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A. Cheshire Mitchell
Deville
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Ocean
J. P. Giberson
Dunlop
Ocean Ave
Privat
W&s
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Hotel Chelsea
Young's
Jas
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Marlborough House
Josiah White & Sons
Haddon Hall
Cis
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Chalfonte
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Apla
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Uewan Front
Newlin Haines
Apld-Desset
Rio Grande
J. Paul Kilpatrick
Savoy
S. M. Hanley
Prietor
Irvington
Heath
Virginia Ave
Boardwalk
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Irvin HN. Wells
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D&s
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Hall F
Hotel Borton
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Noordam
Rotterda
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F. Droop & Sons
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