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Post by jon on May 18, 2010 12:29:36 GMT -5
Levey worked for a patent gas company with headquarters in Ohio, and stopped at the Dudley House on January 3, while representing that concern. The gas company then went into liquidation and Levey was thrown out of work. He continued boarding at the Dudley House, without funds to pay for his maintenance. When he had been there several weeks Mr. Shaw, husband of the proprietress, suggested that the go to work as night clerk and Levey accepted the position. They did not talk about wages. After working behind the desk for nearly six weeks, Levey had some words with the hotel woman and quit work. He then handed in a bill for $9.32, which he claimed to be due him at $7 per week over and above his board. These facts are admitted by both sides. The dispute arouse over whether he was to have the $7 or not. Mr. Levey, the complainant, was the first witness sworn, and it took over an hour for the lawyers to adduce sufficient evidence from him. John F. Gaffney, attorney for the defendant, asked the witness if Mr. Shaw acted as manager of the hotel.
"You'd think so sometimes," was the reply.
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Post by jon on May 18, 2010 12:30:08 GMT -5
Mr. Gaffney endeavored to amend the answer by putting in a counter charge of $32, but the plaintiff's attorney, Henry L. Gates, objected and the Judge sustained the objection.
Considerable testimony was taken, several witnesses being sworn, and the Judge reserved his decision.
In City Court yesterday William Hayes, colored, was sent to jail for 59 days. He was intoxicated Saturday evening and created a disturbance on Post Avenue. Archie Quail, arrested for a like offense, went to jail for 10 days. A similar sentence was given James Adams for public intoxication.
Annie McCarty, arrested for vagrancy, was discharged.
Charles Seivers, aged 18, mill hand; George Ulrich, aged 20, laborer; Edward Garbuit, aged 18, painter; William Farrell, aged 17, baker, and John Rush, aged 18, laborer, arrested Saturday night, charged with vagrancy, by Officers Arheilger, Maxey, Rose and McHugo, were discharged.
UTICA HERALD DISPATCH - MAY 26, 1902
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Post by jon on May 18, 2010 17:24:50 GMT -5
FEMALE TRAMP AGAIN
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Lillian Hedstrom Arrives in a Post Avenue Raid[/size]
Lillian Hedstrom, the Brooklyn woman who first sprang into local notice when she was arrested in the guise of a male tramp and who has since been picked up by the police for drunkenness, vagrancy and similar offenses to-day found herself in City Court again. This time the woman was charged with being an inmate of a disorderly house, having been arrested in a raid upon a resort in Post Avenue early this morning. Two others were gathered in at the same time, - a man and a woman, but they were both black.
Her various depredations since striking this section last summer have served to keep the Hedstrom woman in jail a good share of the time. About a week ago she was released upon the expiration of a sentence she had been serving and not long thereafter she was noticed loitering about Post Avenue with colored people of questionable - or rather unquestionable - character. Officers who patrolled the avenue kept an eye on the woman's movements and found that she was indulging in immoral practices. Hense, this morning came a raid on the house of Hiram Carpenter, a negro, by Sergeant Arheilger and Officers Reagan and Jones. Hiram, the Hedstrom woman and a negress named Isora Butler were arrested.
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Post by jon on May 18, 2010 17:25:19 GMT -5
The trio was taken before City Judge O'Connor this morning for arraignment. To the charge of keeping a disorderly house, Carpenter pleaded not guilty and said that while he was willing to admit that the Butler woman lived with him he supposed any man had a right to employ a housekeeper. Miss Hedstrom, he claimed, went to the house on an errand and upon invitation of the Butler woman she remained all night. The woman pleaded not guilty to the charge of being a prostitutes, raising the same contention as Hiram. The women were held until this afternoon and Carpenter's case was put over until Monday.
James Parrolla, the boy whom John Switzer charged with stealing needles, accused another boy of committing the theft and was given until this afternoon to produce the boy in court.
UTICA HERALD DISPATCH - MAY 5, 1903
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Post by jon on May 18, 2010 19:38:06 GMT -5
HOPE CHAPEL PICNIC
Through the courtesy of Mrs. J. Howell Reea, one of the teachers, the Sunday school of Hope chapel enjoyed a delightful outing at Proctor Park. The little ones enjoyed themselves immensely. Mrs. Reea wishes to acknowledge contributions from the following whose gifts of fruit, candy and other things helped make the children happy. Mrs. E. Brown, Mrs. H. C. Sholes, Mrs. B. S. Frable, Mrs. J. L. Grant, Mrs. S.Ella, Mrs. Joelah Perry and Mrs. W. G. Cahill. Mrs. William Scranton and Mrs. Ballou who are the teachers in the school, are now out of town, but they have a deep interest in the affairs of the school.
UTICA HERALD DISPATCH - JUNE 9, 1909
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Post by jon on May 19, 2010 0:16:56 GMT -5
POLICE BUSINESS
Francis Woodruff is a disorderly and disreputable person of the lowest order. She has been living on Post Avenue. She was arrested Saturday for being drunk and went to the penitentiary for six months as she could not pay a fine of twelve dollars and a half.
Martin Whalen was found drunk in the Arcade. He as now pounding his ear on the soft side of a board in the station house.
Patrick Birmingham will appear in the City Court to-day as a frightful example of intemperance.
UTICA HERALD DISPATCH - APRIL 16, 1883
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Post by jon on May 19, 2010 0:47:52 GMT -5
CLEANING THE STREETS
Cleaning the streets - About twenty teams and a gang of laborers will be put to work cleaning up the streets to-day, the work being under the supervision of City Survivor, Baxtor. The good work will be continued until the principal streets are in a decent condition. Householders are requested to clean up back yards, lawns, pavements, etc., and pile the dirt in the streets, when it will be drawn away.
Saturday the city surveyor and Health Commissioner Wheeler were engaged with five teams and a gang of men trying to bring cleanliness out of the filth of Post Avenue. One evening last week Mayor Doolittle and other city officials, guided by Officer Latham, paid this classic precinct a visit and made a thoro examination of the Avenue, most of the residents of the street being in total ignorance of the distinguished guests in their neighborhood. Many complaints had been made about the unhealthy condition of the street and surroundings and this was the cause of the pilgrimage of the officials. While the condition of affairs was found bad enough, it was thought that the reports had been exaggerated; but the result was the work undertaken Saturday. It was with some difficulty that laborers were procured to undertake the job, the refuse of snow, ashes, and filth making a combination peculiarly distasteful to most human beings.
UTICA HERALD DISPATCH - APRIL 16, 1883
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Post by jon on May 19, 2010 1:38:39 GMT -5
NO MORE COLORED
FOLKS ON POST ST
Only Remaining Dwelling On Once Noted Avenue to Be Demolished - Permit Issued To-Day[/size]
The final one of the double row of houses once occupied by the colored colony of Utica on Post Street, formerly Post Avenue, is to go the way of the rest of the shacks of the once noted thoroughfare with the securing of a permit by John P. Sheehan to-day from Superintendent of Buildings Cornelius Roberts to demolish the two-family dwelling at 219 Post Avenue.
The dilapidated old house facing the rear of Central Fire Station has long passed its usefulness as a dwelling, the windows in the cellar and first floor being broken or out entirely gone. But the second floor is still unoccupied by colored folks. The former noted Post Avenue has now been taken over completely by business firms and the Central Fire Station, and with its razing of the dwelling at 219 the last colored folks will depart from the neighborhood.
UTICA OBSERVER DISPATCH - JUNE 12, 1918
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Post by jon on May 19, 2010 9:43:32 GMT -5
POST AVENUE RAIDED
Three Dusky Belles Taken In - Sorrow In the Avenue[/size]
Post Avenue has dark features other than those of its residents. The departure for jail of Adelaide Wallace, who battered the windows and the countenances of the Avenue some days ago, did not bring light and peace among the shadows of that district. Early yesterday morning Officers Clark and McMullen raided the place and arrested Maud Washington, Clara Lansing, Augusta Robertson and Michael Dool, inmates of the Avenue. Michael was fined $10 in City Court yesterday and the Washington woman was sentenced to the Western House of Refuge at Aiblon for three years, with sentences suspended upon her promise to leave town immediately and never return. Clara and Augusta were held until this morning, pleaded guilty to vagrancy in the City Court and were sentenced to three years each in Aiblon House of Refuge.
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Post by jon on May 19, 2010 9:44:36 GMT -5
The children of the Avenue attended City Court in a body this morning and long, loud and spasmodically, had lamentation to the solemnity of the proceedings. Such manifest sorrow seldom penetrates the judicial department nor has such a storm of tears fallen in many a day at the feet of the City Court Judge, who sat unmoved and irresponsive throughout the watery pleadings of the colored brethren. At each of his declarations renewed cries went up. Offices were temporarily closed, business suspended and the lobby thronged, that all might see and hear the falling of the tears, the raising of the voices and the changing signs of sorrow upon the features that are colored by more than nature with an indelible darkness.
The decision of the judge, standing behind the known efforts of the officers, marks a new page in the history of Post Avenue. The frequenters of that district are hearing the end of a modern career. Too long has the Avenue lain like a polluting pool of vice between the sisters school and the Advanced school, a stench of crime between children's hearts, shadowing by its presence and its known deeds surroundings that should be kept clean and purr for the little ones whose lives are shaped in the neighboring schools. The police department and the judge have the support of the whole city in the breaking up of the present conditions.
UTICA OBSERVER - JANUARY 22, 1906
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Post by jon on May 19, 2010 11:56:18 GMT -5
POLICE MATTERS
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A Large Lot of Offenders on Various Charges[/size]
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SENT TO ROME[/size]
Wm. Kelly was arrested last evening by Officer Walsh for begging in the streets. He was sent to Rome Poor House.
LARCENY[/size]
Henry F. Tallman and Joseph Dunn were arrested by Officer Walsh for larceny from Oatley's lumber yard, corner of Court street and Chenango Avenue. Dunn was discharged with intoxication, was fined $12.50.
ASSAULT AND BATTERY[/size]
William Walsh assaulted Mrs. Jennison and was arrested on a warrant. He gave bail for his future appearance.
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Post by jon on May 19, 2010 11:58:28 GMT -5
FINED[/size]
Mathew Dobson, colored, and the husband of a white woman, was taken in charge by Officer Bullos last evening for creating a disturbance on Post Avenue. Dobson is said to be anything but friendly to the white woman who calls herself his wife.
ABUSIVE[/size]
Michael Hurley, of Tibbitts street, was arrested by Assistant Chief McElwaine last night for drunkenness. He was taken from Cornhill to the Station House, where he was very abusive. His conduct cost him $7.50 to-day.
DISCHARGED[/size]
Oue Lockhart was arrested by Officer Sang for drunkenness to-day. He was discharged by the recorder.
FOR STEALING COAL[/size]
Charles Sheenan was arrested this morning by Officer Mayne for stealing coal from the Delaware & Lackawanna Railroad. He was discharged by Recorder Clark to-day.
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Post by jon on May 19, 2010 11:59:17 GMT -5
DRUNK[/size]
William Napin got drunk to-day and fell into the hands of Officers Mayne and Sang.
BRUTAL ASSAULT[/size]
William Gruno was arrested for a brutal assault with a heavy stick upon Private Watchman Peter Clark, of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, yesterday. It seems Clark missed a fish-pole which he owned, and on going to Gruno's house, No. 1 Maple street, discovered it. The whole family are represented as "going for" Mr. Clark.Gruno, who is a cigarmaker, was arrested and gave bail to-day for future appearance.
BUSY[/size]
The police officers have their hands full just now, in addition to attending to the races.
UTICA DAILY OBSERVER - AUGUST 11, 1874
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Post by jon on May 19, 2010 12:26:01 GMT -5
OBSERVATIONS
Post Avenue will be illuminated by an open-air religious meeting at 6 P. M. to-morrow.
Proposals for a site for the new Government building will be received until next Wednesday.
Work will be resumed in the new Utica Steam Cotton Mills on State street one week from next Monday.
Bagg's Square pavement needs more patching and cleaning. The lower part of the square is in bad condition.
The city tax lists were approved by the Council last evening. Now property owners can pay their taxes to the Treasurer.
Ghosts have driven a colored family away from a house on Blandina street. Wonder if the spirits cannot be engaged to make another raid on the Avenue?
UTICA DAILY OBSERVER - AUGUST 31, 1872
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Post by jon on May 19, 2010 13:21:39 GMT -5
STRUCK A NEGRESS
WITH A CHAIR
George Thomas, Colored, Says He Thought She Might Have Had a Weapon, So He Took No Chances[/size]
George Thomas, aged 20, a negro laborer, was arrested by Officer Schafer while attempting to board a fast train for the East early this morning. Thomas is charged with assaulting Mrs. Ella Robbins of 13 Post Avenue. Thomas who claims to have lived here for about 10 years and who is a denizen of the Avenue, went into James Pell's saloon at 13 Post Avenue last night, and had several drinks. When it was time to close up the proprietor of the place requested all to vacate, whereupon Thomas had a few words with Mr. Pell. There was a door leading upstairs to the restaurant which is conducted by Mrs. Robbins. He started up the stairs and when he had reached the restaurant, Mrs. Robbins told him he ought not to talk to the proprietor in that way, whereupon, it is alleged, he picked up a chair and threw it violently at Mrs. Robbins. The chair struck the woman on the left side of her head inflicting a gash about an inch and a half long and quite deep. The wound bled profusely, and is very painful.
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