Ambitious Grigsby Yerkes scheme shocks New York
In New York a rich financier named Yerkes lavishly supports Emilie Grigsby a Kentucky beauty and social climber. He buys her a grand Park Avenue mansion and bankrolls her bid for status while suspicions rise about his control over her life and her mother Sue Grigsby. A romance unfolds amid high society, inheritance and schemes, with public curiosity and elite scrutiny.
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A fragmentary tale follows Emilie Grigsby with social ambition in New York and London. It recounts lavish social scenes at Old Point Comfort and the Waldorf Astoria, intrigue about Capt Hobson, Yerkes, and Emilie’s claim to status, including a rumored illness and a promised Park Avenue home.
Yerkes Will Leaves Art to Museums in New York City
The will of Charles T. Yerkes assigns control of his Fifth Avenue and Sixty eighth Street houses and their art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Yerkes collection will remain in place, with the museum directing and naming the holdings as the Yerkes collection. A private funeral is planned, with possible further bequests to hospitals and charities.
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Editor's Defiant Denial of Railroad Mining Pressure on Statehood
In a bold statement NO MURPHY condemns a circulating slander that a corrupt lobby in Washington by railroad and mining interests seeks to block Joint Statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. He challenges any proof of improper lobbying and vows calm, lawful debate before Senators and Congressmen, asserting no influence by any interest.
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New 35 Foot Naval Launch Tested at Navy Yard
Special to The Washington from Norfolk Va reports experiments with a 35 foot gasoline whaleboat built by order of the Navy Department. The craft may operate with or without sails and carries a 20 horsepower engine. If successful, more launches will replace steam cutters aboard the home squadron. Secretary Hitchcock, confined by a cold, is improving and hopes to return to desk in Interior Department tomorrow.
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Washington experts presented on railway questions at the American Scientists convention in New Orleans. Chairman Martin A Knapp of the Interstate Commerce Commission read a history of transportation and favored rate regulation, predicting industry control by combinations amid steam and electricity growth. Professor H T Newcomb discussed rate problem solutions.
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