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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
8
Publication details for The New York Times dated Thursday April 23, 1908. Lists editors Adolph Ochs and Frank S. Samuels secretary, with mailing info and rates for New York and national editions.
The document lists subscription and postage details for New York publications including Daily and Sunday options, weekly financial reviews, and foreign rates. It covers multiple buildings in New York and other cities, with prices per week month year and Canada options.
The piece argues William Jennings Bryan would discard winning the presidency to secure the nomination, urging delegates from the South as payoff. It contends his stance on disfranchisement harms his appeal among Black voters and could wreck the party to advance his personal power.
The New York Association for the Blind highlights two visually impaired employees in its report, including a secretary who writes the report and a home teacher who reads stenography from a typewriter. Other illustrations show blind people dressing dolls, caning chairs, mattress making, massage, telephonic switch work, broommaking, carpentry, shaving, and athletic activities, illustrating attainable employment for the blind.
The organization pursues training and jobs for the blind, promotes blindness prevention from childhood neglect, and provides recreation for the blind. It praises the association’s useful work and tireless effort. The report is available at 118 East Fifty Ninth Street offices.
Secretary Straus urged scrutiny of naturalization as a duty and privilege ahead of the coming Federal election. He cited Cook County courts revoking 154 naturalization papers from anarchists and warned that five year residents must apply by May 3 to vote next fall. The rule requires three months advance notice to Washington for pending naturalizations.
The Assembly approved the Robinson bill 99 to 16 to allow private capital in New York subway construction, undoing the Elsberg act, with terms permitting sale of rights via public auction, city purchase options, and extended lease periods to 35 years, aiming to extend the underground system and end the transit deadlock.
An editorial defends railway rate increases as a remedy for past underpricing. It argues current transport costs are low compared with foreign systems and that rates could rise without harming buyers. It recalls 1809 price competition and criticizes ownership intertwinings and calls for steadier policy.
In a courtroom argument the speaker claims the pending rapid transit pill can pass this week unless strap hanging becomes a permanent New York institution.
The Times previews a long intimate portrait of President Roosevelt at his daily tasks. The writer observed the executive office, dispatching business, receiving visitors, and conferring with Cabinet officers and lawmakers. Roosevelt speaks frankly, sharing his self view, with the piece authorized by the President.
The article notes a policy change by Dr. Bensel during his term as emergency Street Cleaning Commissioner shifting snow removal contracts. Last winter costs fell to 551 304 compared with 2 470 500 the prior year, a saving of 980 406, while the cheaper approach avoided paying by inches. The piece praises decisive reform as yielding substantial savings with courage.
The Rev J D Lona argues against centralized power and for transferring property from a few owners to the people when socialism triumphs. He says the Golden Rule should guide policy rather than the rule of gold and suggests the Eighth Commandment is ignored.
A critique of William Jennings Bryan’s speech on unemployment relief at Cooper Union questions whether government can truly eliminate suffering without undermining incentives. The piece contrasts ideal governance with practical limits and warns against treating work as charity. It then reviews the elopement romance Farwell McGibbon as a cautionary Victorian-style tale, noting proprieties and the couple’s attempt at virtuous public conduct.
A 1908 letter to the New York Times argues to use full dress for the Decoration Day parade on Fifth Avenue but keep olive colored National Guard uniforms in storage at the armories. The writer says olive uniforms make men look uncomfortable and ridiculous.
LAJOS STEINER of New York calls for immediate legislative action to curb east side bankers who allegedly mistreat immigrants. He urges creation of an enforcement office to collect and disseminate information, direct and discharge immigrants, supervise bankers, prosecute impositions, and keep immigration records, referencing the Merritt bill for a State Treaty of Immigration.
A Times discussion on whether love factors into marriage, with letters about metempsychosis. Walter Beverley Crane cites Buddhist ideas of former-state marriages causing current unions, suggesting couples may be bound by karmic torment.
A dated April 21 1908 New York letter references Lowell lines about a girl finding ambition and rising in stature. The writer notes the lines’ impact while traveling daily in the cars and acknowledges slight quoting differences.
A letter to the editor argues that marital issues stem from the man's choices, citing the saying of a wise man who finds one of the many Mary Harts in the city. Miss S Narp signed from New York on April 21, 1908.
A humorous letter to a doctor ponders future heart transplants after animal tissue ventures. John Kendrick Bangs imagines a repaired heart with a steel clad, tiled lining, amid a chorus of playful references to past loves and a mock medical inquiry.
The 1906 Guild of Book Workers show features Cobden-Sanderson bindings Paradise Lost and Emersons Essays. Otto Zahn, Ly Avarill Cole, Helen G Haskell, Adeline Gaylord Wykes and others present noted bindings. Doves Press and Village Press items included. guild spans fourteen states plus France England Russia. aim to promote book crafts without jury.
The annual Alliance Francaise federation meeting was held at Café Martin with a luncheon for sixty Americans and French residents. M Jucserand the French Ambassador traveled from Washington and Raoul Deboutard, Canadian Senate president, arrived from Ottawa. Ls Roy White presided and delivered an address reviewing the federation’s work. Notables included Mrs Daniel Manning, Poort Coudert J Lannel French Consul General and M Georges.
A gala in aid of United Hebrew Charities is planned for Sunday evening at the Metropolitan Opera House. Noted performers Mme Johannen Gadski Estelle Liebling Maud Powell May Mukle and Dr Vladimir de Pachmann volunteer their services. Mabel Taliaferro to perform Polly of the Circus. The event is organized by a 250 member committee to support United Hebrew Charities. The benefit aims to raise the remaining 25 000 dollars for the year.
The Senate debated the Naval Appropriation bill over livestock funding, quipping about sea cows and water automobiles. Senators Hal e and Hale led joking exchanges while suggesting edits to make the text read sea cows, amid a broader critique of hospital cow provisions and other oddities.
Readers are urged to engage in the Eleventh Conference on Education. The movement aims to improve public schools, expand funding, and elevate teachers through better methods and civic participation. The two forces are intellectual leadership and democracy urging national educational reform and broader public engagement.
Baron Rosen travels home aboard the Mauretania while three years of absence ends. Notable passengers include Mrs Huntington and Helen Phelps Stokes. The Adriatic carries racing figure John A. Drake and other notable travelers as Wall Street hopes Taft’s securities policy will aid business.
The Hamburg American liner Katserstin Auouste Victoria set sail today with many cabins filled including Mr and Mrs Arier Mr and Mrs Barton Mrs Browning Mr and Mrs Lippman Sachs Col Twedet Vanderbilt and Col P B Wright among others. The White Star liner Ce Wil also carried numerous passengers including Mr and Mrs Armstrong Brighan Barbour the Rev Matthew Harkins and Mrs H Langenburg. The French liner Touraine had bookings for H Bartleson Willa Daly James Miller Victor H Ober G P Sergiss Walter Candee Clement Paquet Thomas Walter Dent and Joseph Parmerstein among others.
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