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General Discussion / 2024 Research
« on: March 07, 2024, 08:47:22 am »
The book, East Side Story, is completed in December and is published by Barnes & Noble in January of 2024.
Numerous findings and observations by this site's membership contributed to the book.


https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/east-side-story-howard-and-nina-brown/1144649128?ean=9798881130411

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Pete:

Thanks!

I was so excited last night that I cut off the top of the photo.

That 'J.Ruppert' was the father of Jacob Ruppert, Jr, who was on the Coroner's Inquest panel in May of 1891.





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Photograph Of The East River Hotel :Found After 133 Years / The Photo
« on: March 06, 2024, 09:17:20 pm »
  Over the last two days, I'd been looking into the background of Herman Jaeger (1836-1916), who was the proprietor of the East River Hotel up until the mid to late 1880s
Nina became interested and located this photo taken during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was completed on May 24, 1883.

These men are standing on the Catherine Slip side of that intersection of Water ( the brick work at right) in front of 14 Catherine Slip.

The man behind the 'X' is Herman Jaeger, born in Prussia in 1836. His first wife, Metta, died in 1873. His second wife, Eva...the one he shot in the face and stabbed by a domestic...was with him until 1881.
His third wife, Margaretha, bore him seven children. He died in Brooklyn in 1916.

More information to follow.  All records from his descendants. They probably have no idea of the significance of the photo in connection to the murder.

Hats off to Nina, once again !!!!!




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The Honeymoon Is Over

Hmmmm....two years after shooting his second wife Eva ( His first wife Metta is featured in the first article), he wants to annul the marriage.
He didn't stay single long. In 1882 he married Margaretha Otten ( born in Germany, 1857).
After Metta, his first child with his first wife, he and Margaretha had seven children between 1883 and 1896.

New York Sun
December 31, 1881
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Happy Fourth of July !!!

New York Tribune
July 4, 1883
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Going through these few stories involving Herman Jaeger, it's unusual that he escaped serving serious jail time, if he served any time at all.

He also had balls. Sending a message to the Superintendent of the NYPD 'warning' him to move police from the front of the hotel.

For those just tuning in, the East River Hotel was known in the neighborhood as the 'House of All Drinks'; later on in the post-Brown Murder days as the Cambridge Hotel; and also as the Fourth Ward Hotel.

There are noticeable differences in how Jaeger's name is spelled in the papers reflecting the level of concern for accuracy when cases involved people who weren't listed in the social register.

New York Sun
January 9, 1871
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New York Herald
March 28, 1872
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New York Daily Herald
August 9, 1879
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New York Times
August 9, 1879
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New York Times
February 18, 1883
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New York Sun
June 26, 1883
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James Jennings took over the day-to-day management of the hotel at least by 1886 and may have been at the helm earlier following this prior article.






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Sketches & Photographs / Fourth Ward Hotel 1907
« on: March 05, 2024, 09:07:57 am »
I don't have the exact date when the demolition of the East River Hotel occurred.....but it may have been shortly after these clips from November 1907.

One of the tenants at the time, Dan Donovan, must have had hundreds of lurid stories to tell having lived there for quite some time.




Brooklyn Daily Eagle
November 10, 1907
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New York Tribune
November 11, 1907
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New York Times
November 10, 1907
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Somewhere within these two links is probably the closest we'll ever come to seeing the hotel other than the sketches.

Good of Tom Edison's company to film the area 121 years ago.



https://www.loc.gov/item/00694364/


https://www.loc.gov/item/00694390/

If someone could only rework these films to make the buildings more defined.... :-\

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General Discussion / Re: Limited Number Of Letters
« on: March 02, 2024, 10:43:13 am »
The Sunday Inter-Ocean
Chicago
January 20, 1889
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I requested a depiction of Water Street in the 1890s.....


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'Was It Jack The Ripper?'
Illustrated Detective Magazine
October 1931
Charles Edward Russell










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General Discussion / Re: The Coming Nation 1913
« on: February 29, 2024, 01:50:31 pm »
The Coming Nation
March 1, 1913
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Sketches & Photographs / Re: Photo of Dougherty In Matteawan
« on: February 28, 2024, 05:20:29 pm »
Good to see that those finds keep coming How. Although those photos look like they come from the worst gay dating site ever...


oy vey, they're homely!

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General Discussion / The Coming Nation 1913
« on: February 27, 2024, 06:28:19 pm »
The Coming Nation
March 8th, 1913
Girard, Kansas
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Charles Edward Russell




















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Sketches & Photographs / Re: Photo of Dougherty In Matteawan
« on: February 25, 2024, 04:22:29 pm »
Thanks Pete.

Looks like it was 'Laundry Day' at Mattewan that day. ;D




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