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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1906
Page
2
Bankers push southward expansion as a booming undeveloped market awaits. New jobbing houses emerge while the Shippers' Association gains members daily. A campaign against railroad rate discrimination and poor facilities is planned, with tomorrow's meeting set to mark an epoch in commercial history.
Milton E. Ailes of Riggs National Bank, John Joy Edson of Washington Loan and Trust, Robert N. Harper of American National Bank, and Charles J. Bett of American Security and Trust endorse a Washington industrial and commercial boom. They argue increased commerce benefits banks, merchants, railroads, and the public, urging organized support for the Shippers Association to foster prosperity.
Banks in Washington urge a commercial boom led by the Shippers Association. Mil ton E Ailes of Riggs National Bank notes smaller cities with robust banks outpace Washing ton in capital and business and calls for country bank accounts in the city. The Shippers’ Association gains momentum with hopes for 100 members at tomorrow’s meeting to challenge railroad rates and spur local industry from manufacturing near the Potomac. WV Cox supports broadening the field to include light manufacturing while promoting clean industry and favorable transport costs. The Board of Trade outlines steps to promote commerce and publish data to attract manufacturers to the District of Columbia.
The Board of Trade outlines steps to attract manufacturers to Washington DC with free inserts and folders, aims to identify firms maintaining branch plants in the capital, and seeks meetings of commercial groups nationwide. It rebuts claims that DC is not a manufacturing city and warns against tax bonuses or artificial incentives. Washington is urged to build on its wholesale homes as a model for new establishments.
Midvale Steel, once barred from a navy contract, bid $346–348 per ton for armor plate for the Michigan and South Carolina, undercutting Carnegie and Bethlehem by about $40 a ton. The new bids slash costs vs last year, with Midvale promising delivery starting in five months at 60 tons monthly.
The National Negro Business League will hold its annual session in Atlanta Georgia at the invitation of the governor and mayor Magnus Robinson editor of the Industrial Advocate has been asked by Booker T Washington to call a local meeting to form a chapter in Alexandria and surrounding counties August 1 meeting call issued for African American residents of Alexandria Prince William Loudoun Fairfax Fauquier Culpeper King George Louisa Orange and Stafford counties to unite with the national body.
A 13 year old girl Dora Pur chase fell during a swing ride at Arthur School playgrounds and sustained severe chest injuries. She was transported to Emergency Hospital for treatment and later returned home to 1621 Connecticut Avenue NW by Telanves. Trade-mark Treaty Proclaimed. The President proclaimed on June 28 8 convention for the protection of trade marks between America and Fou manta.
Ice magnate John D Bartlett warns of a coming ice famine with a big shortage likely in Tina City and New York as Maine sources dwindle and Hudson River harvests misalign with demand. He urges companies to disclose the true situation before summer heat.
Bangor correspondent reports on the American Ice Company's holdings across Maine New York Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington. It lists 54 ice houses in Maine with a combined Maine capacity and explains totals for 18 308 600 in five cities with New York leading at 5 254 501 Philadelphia 4 098 280. The firm owns 91 houses on the Hudson largest 58 000 tons and Pittston Maine largest 84 624 tons. The company claims 2 200 000 tons yearly and 6 percent dividends on 14 700 000 preferred stock with profits rising in hot summers though competition sparked past price hikes in 1900.
The firm notes the trust paid 4 percent yearly on common shares from 1899 to 1902, despite asserting the move endangered both property and credit. It explains the 1901 capital reduction from 40 million preferred and 30 million common to 15 million preferred and 26 million common, with only 14.6922 million preferred and 23.8710 million common issued, as a prudent step.
In Kansas City July 10 1900s street report shows County Prosecutor Kimball probing ice firms as a possible restraint of trade. Harry L Burke secretary of the People Ice Storage and Fuel Co testifies the firm dictates city ice prices buying at 20 a ton and selling at 30 while denying production costs. He says supply and demand set prices and that contracts with other tea companies could hinder competition. He notes some firms would not dare supply rival concerns.
Policeman Allen B Clark of the Fifth precinct fled in District Supreme Court a petition for a limited divorce from wife Edna G Clark. They married June 26, 1895, have three children. He claims seven years of failed attempts to curb her fondness for strong drink and says she threatened violence against the children, leading him to place them in an orphan asylum. Attorney Campbell Carrington represents the husband.
Six young men who two years ago served as ushers at Miss Talbert and Samuel E. Boyce Jr. wedding acted as pallbearers at the funeral of a recently married woman. The service was at First Methodist Protestant Church with Rev. W. P. Truitt officiating. Pallbearers included W. B. Lawson John Scott Frank L. Scott Walter B. Robinson George T. Gremory and % Clark.
Judge Wright naturalizes an Irishman who landed in New York as a boy and now becomes a U S citizen. Two Russians fail to pass the government test, receiving a second chance if they study the Constitution and government structure for a future hearing. The Irishman, in his own words, notes the judge could not stump him. The Russians, father and son, are urged to study so they may join the citizenship process. The son is now past 18 after arriving at age eight. the father arrived 21 years ago.
Too large damages awarded to property owners on M street between First and Fourth through changing the grade. District Commissioners, via Special Attorney A Leftwich Sinclair, objected in District Supreme Court. They ask set aside the appraisement and appoint seven disinterested jurors to view the property and determine proper compensation for the claims of Will am M Clayton Isadora Jaks Eugene Benjamin Stephen Telty Mary Salty Fennell Margaret A Talty Tobin Helen B Talty and Abbie R Talty.
A St Louis family story unfolds as P A Galvin, a government clerk at Manila in the Land Office, rises to $1200 yearly then dies of cholera just before his wife and two young children arrive aboard the transport Thomas delayed near Guam. The wife and her two children left for Manila after his letter promising a new home.
The Catholic Educational Association opened its third annual convention in Cleveland with Rev. Mer. D. J. O Connell of Washington DC praising Catholic education in parochial schools. Secretary General Rev. F W Howard and Treasurer General Very Rev. Bernard J Multigan reported strong finances as the gathering met. Two bands perform tonight with US Marine Band at Capital grounds and an Engineers Band at Garfield Park scheduled for concerts.
Three sisters of Judge George Mead Emory in Seattle and the Seattle incident draw Washington social circles. The dead judge, born in Atlanta, aged about 35, was a Cornell alumnus. Survived by his mother Mrs Campbell Emory and three sisters. funeral likely in Seattle. Mrs Emory spent winter in a Baltimore sanitarium.
Pred Tibbs and Liewellyn Ball both fifteen are detained at the Tenth precinct on charges of housebreaking and arson. Police say they entered RB Clements store at Nineteenth street and Wyoming avenue northwest, failed to open the cash drawer, set a small fire causing about ten dollars in damage, and fled before being arrested on the way home. Tibbs and Ball to be arraigned in Police Court this morning.
Unsettled conditions persist east of the Rocky Mountains with showers in the East and South, and clear warm weather in the Northwest. Showers expected Wednesday in the East and South Atlantic States with similar conditions into Thursday. Temperatures generally high, with regional variations and coastal cooling. Local readings and city temperatures noted for July 10 with river and humidity observations.
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