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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1908
Page
7
Chester Park drew vast crowds with 700 crowd levels noted as the bathers opened the season and the free vaudeville bill drawing thousands. The Tickler ride and moving pictures joined a packed pavilion, restaurant, and other attractions as visitors enjoyed chutes, toboggans, and shows throughout the day.
Sunday at Coney celebrated outdoor pleasures with steamers Queen and Princess sailing Cincinnati to the river park from morning until night. Balloons, vaudeville by Miss Estelle Marelles, and a new whirlpool ride drew large crowds as pinky summer life thrived under a lively parade of amusements and diners.
Grand Opera House reports strong business with vaudeville acts singing dancing and talking pictures. Prof Swain’s reptile act failed due to unavailable saurians but the show continued with other performers pleasing audiences. All pictures this week are good and the singing of So Long Mary drew attention. Shows run daily 1 to 10 30 pm.
The Columbia theater featured a refreshed bill with talking pictures and illustrated songs pleasing audiences yesterday and last night. New experts joined the behind the curtain team, improving the production and making talking pictures look more life like. The cool theater environment and higher show quality promise a strong week of business.
The Alhambra Theater hosted the premier of A Stubborn Cinderella by Adams Hough and Howard before a large crowd. George Marion staged the three act musical with fourteen tuneful songs and a company of about 100, led by John Barrymore, Sallie Fisher, and Alice Dovey.
The Prize Band of America led by John C. wowed Cincinnati crowds at the Zoo yesterday. Afternoon and evening programs featured marches, European pieces, medleys of popular airs, and a new burlesque on The Merry Widow by Bellstedt. Miss Mahaffey sang Two Little Birds with encore Because You're You, drawing applause and an impromptu reception.
Mehaffey’s “Sweetheart Days” draws praise as a strong opening with a widely acclaimed soprano and a top-notch band. Weber’s ensemble promises varied programs from Verdi to George Cohan, with two special Saturday Decoration Day events and Tobani’s “The Civil War” on May 30.
The tenth annual Railway Employees Association outing in Chester Park concluded with John F. Grady of the Pennsylvania Railroad winning the vote with 2,480. George J. Ross, Big Four, was second with 1,078, and J. W. Pauli, C H and D, third with 1,751. Total 11,305 votes cast. many did not vote. Grady receives a silver tea service. Ross gets a bronze clock. Pauli earns pearl opera glasses.
Arthur Fabish, chief representative for William Morris, is sightseeing in Chester Park guests of Colonel Ike Martin and his brother Jack. He tours the Chester free vaudeville theater to assess the park, its patrons, and the Morris acts, aiming to maintain top standards for the circuit.
The Queen City Bathing Beach starts its summer season this Saturday. The Bellevue pavilion has been fully overhauled with new equipment, making it one of the most inviting spots in the West. River conditions are excellent with a wide sandy beach ready for aquatic sports. Manager Kroger will personally oversee operations to ensure safe and enjoyable river bathing for women and children.
The lovers of good music rejoice at John Weber and his band returning to the Zoo. Patrons will hear a mix of everyday catchy tunes and more scholarly compositions presented without sensational flourishes. Weber is esteemed as a leading bandleader and proprietor of a great modern outfit.
Professor Herman Schneider dean of the engineering college reaches out to Dayton Middletown and Hamilton to join a cooperative course. The plan has national attention as students alternate work and study with a scholar handling the off day. Local university students may work in nearby towns in the future.
The notice promotes page ten of next Sunday's Illustrated Magazine free with The Sunday Commercial Tribune. It promises a handsome bowling team picture and a hammer club photo, plus local articles jokes and an attractive cover, encouraging readers to obtain the magazine for Sunday reading.
Naset Issek, 25, of Front Street and Broadway, was struck on the head with a billiard cue during a riverfront clash between a Syrian crew and black men near Broadway. He fell, others fled after seeing his blood, and he was found by police and sent to City Hospital. He faces a disorderly conduct charge.
Paris dispatch reports the American car leads the New York to Paris race after arriving in Novolsk Russia. The German car trailed by a few miles near Vladivostok as both vehicles battled through mud and frequent stalls during the grueling stage.
Medical students and the State Board of Medical Examiners clash in court over where physician licensing exams should be held. Dr. Ravagli leads a push to keep tests in Columbus with practical work rooms, while Cincinnati student Joseph H. Shaw seeks four city exam sites. The dispute may reach the Ohio Supreme Court.
James Henry Howard, M D a long time Cincinnati physician died of heart exhaustion after grippe. He was born March 12 1846 to William S Hazard and Marion Snelling Hazard and served in the Civil War hospital duties. He held roles at St Luke’s Hospital and the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, later Pennsylvania Railroad surgeon and pension examiner. He leaves a wife two brothers and two sisters.
Dr. George Matson, Secretary of the State Medical Board, plans the memorial examination for June 8 in Columbus only. A Cincinnati suit seeks simultaneous exams there, but the July 1 start of the new law means it cannot apply to June 8. The old law grants the board authority over exam locations.
James B. Christopher of West Fifth Street, Indiana House, recounts entering the wrong hotel room and waking with missing $74. He claims the money was in his possession before the mixup and believes it was gone by morning. Investigation seeks to determine where the loss occurred.
Thomas Brown aged 38 of 1428 Race street was admitted to City Hospital with multiple head and facial wounds. He said he mistakenly entered a house nearby and a large man in the hallway knocked him down and struck him severely.
A Brookhaven Mississippi dispatch reports William Hilton and son Thomas Hilton, and Bensom Nation were killed in a four handed road fight near the Nation home in Memphis Tennessee. Thomas Nation, father of one victim, is fatally wounded. Feud began after Nation elder was beaten in a farmhand dispute. The Hilton party had reportedly agreed to end the matter. A shotgun and pistol fusillade ensued as the parties met.
Police arrested 20 year old Isaac Penso of 621 West Sixth Street after he set up a post card display in a doorway of a West Fifth Street department store. Manager H. E. Hudson attempted to enter his office, but Penso allegedly blocked passage. Patrolman Klosterkemper placed Penso under arrest for disorderly conduct.
Mrs Phoebe Mack 53 of 612 Oliver Street leaped into the fountain basin at City Hospital shortly after 4 am. Delirious from fever she was saved by ward nurse Miss Lyda Rogers several interns and attendants with help from Harry Dietrich and night watchman Adolph Schwartz. She was only slightly injured and remained in the hospital where she had entered on April 29.
Will L. Finch returned from the East and said he has entered negotiations to persuade Washington officials not to move the Steamboat Inspector's office from Cincinnati. He also aims to keep the Western Methodist Book Concern plant in Cincinnati and traveled to Trenton New Jersey to lure a major manufacturer to the city. Finch expressed optimism about the prospects.
Retail milk dealers in Covington and Kenton County prepare to test the tuberculosis clause of the recently enacted milk ordinance. Health Officer Brinker and Dr W E A Wyman face opposition as secret meetings and a fundraising circular seek court action to strike the tuberculosis certification requirement.
Ben Graham a pioneer Newport fireman now on the Island Queen saved passenger Edward Blake from drowning after he fell overboard as the calliope sounded. Blake sent a letter from Huntington West Virginia with a check for the heroic act. Graham, long associated with Newport fire service, was off watch when he plunged to save Blake.
The St. John's Orphan Society held its annual election naming H. Holtrup as President and H. B. Schuler as Vice President. Other officers include Joseph Dressman as Financial Secretary Clemens Kroger as Recording Secretary and William Rabe as Treasurer. Directors are J. T. Boske John Rif Clemens Meyerrathen William Brunen. Special committees list church secretaries and treasurers.
Elmer Day found a dead man in the Ohio River near Bromley. Coroner W W Tarvin said the body had been in the water at least two weeks. The unidentified laborer is described as 40 to 50, with black trousers a colored shirt gray mustache and dark brown hair. The body is at Donnelly Brothers' morgue awaiting identification.
The Covington Fire Department responded to a lunch stand blaze on Twenty first street and Russell Avenue, Ernest Garrett’s stand. The fire was extinguished with no losses reported. It was the first run in the area. horses were exhausted upon arrival. Covington annexed in 1906. no hose company in the territory. A new fire house is near completion and council has proposed adding more men to staff it.
The Covington police were notified of a small boy about three years old found yesterday by James McGill of 1904 Scott Street. The child wore a black cap a white waist and dark trousers and could not say where his home was or his name.
Harry Krussleman aged 28 of Sixth and Craig streets died yesterday in Speers Hospital. Funeral services are set for Monday morning at Mother of God Church.
John Bilaising, 39, an inmate of the County Infirmary in Cold Springs, died yesterday afternoon after over a year of illness. The region marked the first guard mount of the year and a battalion drill, with a regimental drill and a 4 PM band concert planned for the parade grounds under Chief Bandmaster Swinburne.
The Loyal Legion inaugurates under Department Commander Colonel James Kilbourne of Columbus with a June 3 gathering at the Masonic Temple. The informal session will admit members and ballot applicants Winfield S. Pattin of Marietta and John Joseph O Dowd of the Havlin Hotel, son of the late Colonel John O Dowd. Indorsers include Major James W. Foley Colonel Cornelius Cable and Asa B. Isham.
Edward Wittrock a 36 year old paper hanger from 947 Clinton street was admitted to City Hospital with acute mania. Relatives say he grew violent at home and believes a great king employs him to paper all rooms of a palace. He thinks enemies block his work and fear of beheading follows.
The Wilsons of 725 Monroe Street Newport found their house brightened on arrival at 10 30 last night. Upstairs they discovered silverware and jewelry gathered and left on the floor. Three men were seen leaping from the rear roof and all escaped uninjured.
Patrolmen Hoff and Brumfiel dispersed a craps game near Sixth yesterday. Ed Bram was arrested and booked on a charge of shooting craps. He faces trial in Police Judge Hawkins' court this morning.
Newport items report Arthur Heckerman of 642 Monroe street injured in a ball accident with a broken nose and heavy bleeding. Harry Smith and A Collier jailed for disorderly conduct after a fight at Sixth and Brighton. John Koch of 810 York Street suffered a serious apoplexy attack. Fritz Faber and wife plan to sail from New York to Germany on the New Amsterdam. County Clerk Yates issued marriage licenses to Louie Runnels and Mae Watkins and to James Dunlap and Mattie Doolittle. Covington police sought Clifford Kennett, 16, who is missing after taking 21 from his father’s pocket.
Dr. George W. Brown lists eight Newport deaths in the past week: Amelia Borchers 40 typhoid John Knock 46 enterocarditis Arthur Dressman 20 railroad accident Mary Miller 36 heart failure Fred Bannerman 18 consumption Thomas Whitehouse 56 pneumonia Hannah Kelly 73 pneumonia Wilson Shelton 43 carbolic acid poisoning.
A week has passed since Emma Johnson drowned in the Ohio River during a boat outing with friends. The family has hired a renowned diver as authorities continue round the clock searches for her body with no success.
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