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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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In response to the Assembly resolution calling for information upon the prison contract labor system and its financial results, State Superintendent of Prisons Isaac V. Baker to-night presented his report.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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William J. Ferguson, the Italian villain in “Called Back,” has just been somewhat rudely called back to the remembrance of a contract which existed between William W. Kelly and himself. Mr. Kelly had begun a suit in the Court of Common Pleas to recover $25,000 damages for an alleged breach of contract.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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Whether or not Mayor Hylan’s letter, originally written by John T. Hettrick, representative of the limestone contractors, and copied by the Mayor, who sent it out to various officials, resulted in the substitution of limestone for terra cotta in public school contracts, hinges chiefly upon a question of dates.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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Some startling disclosures were made this evening before the sub-committees of the Ways and Means Committee of the House and the Finance Committee of the Senate touching the contract made on the part of the State, through Edward Hannan, Superintendent of Public Works, and the Cataract Electric Company to conduct electric wires along the canal under the canal electric experimental law.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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The Mayor, Aldermen and Conmmonalty of the City of New. York, Horace P. Russ, George W. Reid, and Bartholonmew Purdy, Commissioner of Repairs and Supplies. –Mr. NOYES said: The questions in this case came up originally upon an order to show cause why an injunction should not be continued, a preliminary injunction having been granted by Hon. Judge Roosevelt.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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Popular interest in Mme. Amelita Galli-Curei’s transfer of allegiance to the Metropolitan Opera Company, as regards her operatic appearances in New York after the present season, caused much discussion yesterday following the first publication of the fact in THE TIMES of yesterday morning.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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The Thompson Legislative Committee tried again yesterday to find out the name of the man who is said to have gone to Colonel Timothy S. Williams, President of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, with a suggestion that a city official, now dead, in consideration of the payment of $500,000, would vote in the Board of Estimate in favor of the B.R.T. obtaining the dual subway contracts.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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Preliminaries to establishment of trade relations between Soviet Russia and Canada have been completed, according to announcement yesterday by Ludwig C.A.K. Martens, Soviet unrecognized “Ambassador” here. A mission has just returned from Canada, Martens ..
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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How Shipping Board emergency construction was hampered at the time of America’s entrance into the World War on account of enormous British orders to American shipyards, and how he overcame the handicap, was told today by William Denman, first Chairman of the united States Shipping Board, in his testimony before the House Committee, which is investigating the board’s activities.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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-How Shipping Board emergency construction was hampered at the time of America’s entrance into the World War on account of enormous British orders to American shipyards, and how he overcame the handicap, was told today by William Denman, first Chairman of the united States Shipping Board, in his testimony before the House Committee, which is investigating the board’s activities.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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A contract has been awarded by the Grand Trunk Railroad to the Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad Company and Bell, Lewis Yates, of Rochester, its agents, to supply the former company with 120,000 tons of coal. The contract was given to the Rochester and Pittsburg Company at a rate 35 cents higher than the bid of the Erie and the Buffalo, New-York and Philadelphia Company.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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Major Gen. Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia, against whom charges of favoritism have been made in connection with the warding of fuse contracts in the United States, took the witness stand this afternoon before the Royal Commission of Inquiry which is investigating allegations made in Parliament against the methods of the Canadian Shell Committee.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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he Committee on Appropriations began to-day the investigation into the conduct of the star contracts, and examined Assistant Postmaster-General Brady at considerable length. Mr. Brady was permitted…
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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Munitions makers in this country have been notified by the British Government that all contracts for the manufacture of shrapnel and other shells must be completed by March 31, and that on that date all contracts in existence for these war materials will lapse.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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Justice Russell Benedict, in Supreme Court, Brooklyn, yesterday sustained the right of Controller Charles L. Craig to delay payment on city contracts pending investigation to determine whether there was collusion in the bidding or fraud in the performance of the contracts.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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One of the most important steps toward the realization of rapid transit was taken yesterday, when Contractor John B. McDonald announced the awards of bids to sub-contractors of the Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company. The bids were for materials for the entire construction of the system and for the work of construction of the subways of a major portion of the routes.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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Wire manufacturers completed yesterday the allotments of 110,000 tons of special barbed wire to be manufactured and shipped to France and Italy for use by their nations on the battlefronts. This is one of the largest contracts for…
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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Contracts for the construction of 30,000 box and coal cars of standard modern type and heavy capacity have been awarded by the Railroad Administration to the American Car and Foundry Company.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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Eight contracts totaling $79,889,37 were awarded yesterday by the Transit Commission for track work on the Fourteenth Street-Eastern District line. This is $3,904.06 below similar contracts submitted to the Board of Estimate a year ago for the same work.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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Secretary DOBBIN has, at last, finished the award of contracts for the construction of the engines and machinery of the six steam frigates now building for the United States Navy. The contract for the engines of the mons?ership, the Niagara, is awarded to PEASE MURPHY, of the Fulton Ironworks, in New-York City, who will doubtless add not a little, by the execution of this contract, to the excellent reputation they have already achieved.
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