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President Harding’s action in ordering the annulment of the contracts between the War Department and the United States Harness Company, under, which surplus leather and harness supplies in the army were to be disposed of on a profttsharing basis, was vigorously challenged today when Frank J. Hogan, attorney for the concern, filed a brief at …

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On five of the six sections of the Fourth Avenue Subway in Brooklyn the Public Service Commission awarded the contracts yesterday. The largest section, from Nassau Street to Willoughby Street, was reserved for further consideration.

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The Interstate Commerce Commission began a series of hearings here yesterday in the rooms of the Merchants’ Association, at 233 Broadway, on the charges of the railroad unions that millions had been spent unnecessarily by the New York Central lines on the rebuilding of locomotives. Both officials of the road and of the unions are to give testimony. [

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Another contract for subway construction work was let yesterday by the Public Service Commission, this one covering the section of the Lexington Avenue line between Twenty-sixth and Fourteenth Streets. The section figures in the award to the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and is not part of the subway layout which was offered to the Interborough.

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The first major league baseball player to sign a contract for the season of 1919 is Benny Kauff of the Giants, who yesterday went to the offices of the New York Club, had a few words with Manager McGraw, and affixed his autograph …

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The bulk of coal mined is sold ahead on long-term contracts by responsible producers and distributors. This coal can be traced so closely that profiteering is too dangerous. Many dealers are unable now to supply their regular customers at any price because the..

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All work on the new parts of the building of the American Museum of Natural History, at Seventy-seventh Street and Central Park West, has been suspended, and an investigation is being made of the contracts awarded, without authority, it is claimed, by the former Superintendent of Buildings at the museum.

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An important chapter was added yesterday to the long history of the effort to secure final disposition of garbage and general refuse by some other method than by dumping at sea. When the Board of Estimate and Apportionment met, Commissioner Waring of the Street Cleaning Department made his report on the bids recently received.

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June 12. — Contracts for war material which are bringing hundreds of millions of dollars into the United States from Europe also prove heavy losses to many of the manufacturers engaged in their fulfillment. A steel manufacturer of Pittsburgh, while in New York recently, was offered 5 per cent. commission if he would place $350,000 in contracts for shells.

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Street paying contracts aggregating $630,000 were awarded yesterday by Borough President Ahearn. Wood, asphalt, and Belgian block pavements were included. The contracts numbered more than fifty.

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Briefs were filed yesterday with Justice Blackmar in the Brooklyn Supreme Court in the Subway injunction suits. That for the Public Service Commission, which was signed by George S. Coleman, Oliver C. Semple, and Leroy T. Harkness, relied in great part on the decision in the Sun Publishing Company’s case that subways may be fairly built by the city as coming within the statutory meaning of “a city purpose.”

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The contract between the Electrical Subway Commission and the Consalidated Telegraph and Electrical Subway Company, which was provisionally awarded a short time ago, was yesterday formally signed, sealed, and delivered in triplicate, the company retaining one copy and the Commissioners the others.

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Senator Nathaniel Curry, President of the Canadian Car and Foundry Company, announced yesterday the Russian Government had agreed to make advances on war contracts sufficient to insure ample working capital until orders for $3,000,000 worth of shells were filled.

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Two agreements made by the New York Edison Company with large consumers were pronounced yesterday by Public Service Commissioner Maltbie to be illegal. No action was taken by the commission on the opinion, but it was decided on Commissioner Maltbie’s recommendation to allow the Edison Company reasonable time to state the course it would pursue in the light of the finding.

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Another important move was made yesterday in reference to the proposed Harlem River driveway. The bids, based upon the specifications calling for one sidewalk only, and that on the inner side of the driveway, were opened at a special meeting of the Park Commissioners, and James D. Leary was found to be the lowest bidder, at $620,916.10.

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The unfilled tonnage on the books of the United States Steel Corporation Sept. 30, reported at 4,796,833 tons at Tuesday’s meting of the directors, was 738,894 tons larger than that reported at the end of the previous quarter. Much comment on this fact was heard in Wall Street yesterday.

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The American Ice Company, a New Jersey corporation capitalized at $22,500,000, suspended operation in the State of New York yesterday, and all its ice-distributing business here was taken over by the Knickerbocker Ice Company, The President of the old company, Wesley M. Oler, was retained as President of the new corporation. The manufacturing plants of the corporation will have a separate existence under the name of The Ice Manufacturing Company.

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Following the announcement of their Spring training plans, with the dates of departure for the camps in Texas and Louisiana, John McGraw and Miller Huggins will begin within a few days the task of rounding up their players for the coming season.

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The Acts of Congress which were intended to put restrictions upon dealing in gold, had a brief existence, but long enough to lead to the usual crop of lawsuits, which is sure to follow hasty legislation. One of these suits was recently summarily disposed of by the Circuit Court of the United States in an opinion which we publish this morning.

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One of the “65-35 per cent.” contracts between the independent operators and the coal companies controlled by the anthracite railroad interests was produced in copy yesterday before the Inter-State Commerce Commission at a session of the hearings on the petition of William R. Hearst. The contract, which was produced by Lawyer Clarence J. Shearn for the petitioner, was admitted as evidence.

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