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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1908
Page
9
Newport social groups such as the Reading Room, Casino Club, Golf Club, and Spouting Rock Beach Association explore uniting under one leadership while facing resistance from members loyal to current homes. Plans hinge on consolidating venues like the Reading Room and Casino Club, with August meetings likely to decide.
On the granite State off West Ninety-seventh Street the Signal Division First Battalion of the Naval Militia held its final dance for the season aboard the ship Gran ited. The spar deck was covered with magnolias and colored lights while division rooms opened for the reception.
Alfred Lawrence Snyder son of the late Henry Snyder married Miss Margaret Oliver Wright daughter of Mr and Mrs Parker O Wright Oswego New York at Grace Church chantry conducted by Rev William R Huntington. The couple will reside at 180 Prospect Street Brooklyn after a South trip.
Mrs Roosevelt travels from Washington to attend the Metropolitan Easter dance at Sherry's small ballroom. Miss Ethel Roosevelt accompanies her mother as guests of Mrs James A Roosevelt on West Fifty seventh Street. The event ends late with cotillion led by Edmund Rogers and prizes including hats fans bags pens canes and neckties.
Invitations issued from Mrs Daniel Burr Conrad of Winchester Virginia announce the engagement of her daughter Eleinore Barnard Conrad to Adam Clarke Carson of Manila Philippines set for eight o clock Tuesday evening May 42 at Christ Protestant Episcopal Church Winchester. Additional engagements include Miss Marian Hooper to Frederick T Stevenson USN aboard the battleship California and Miss Mary Therothea Hoffman to Thomas Courtney Jenkins.
Charles Rowell Christy Jr and Miss Gladys Tilden Southack to marry tomorrow afternoon at St Thomas Church. Miss Marion W. Kelley maid of honor, bridesmaids Julia Southack Alice Peterson Gladys Christy Josephine Ward. Best man Charles Christy. ushers LeRoy Christy Warren Chapin Tingh Milliken.
The Sisterhood and Junior League of Congregation Shearith Israel plan a Spring festival and lanes of the evening at the Hotel Majestic in April. Appointees for the tableaus include Mrs. Napoleon TLev, Mrs. Miriam Adler, Mrs. M. De ATercado, ae Cardova, the Misses Mordecai Toledann Hays Reitlinger Mildred Cardozo and Messrs Clarkson Ryttenberg Edwin Hays.
Mr and Mrs J C Page of Boston guest of Mrs T Hanna Iodia West Eighty first Street. Mrs Beoward Tauterbach and son Alfred Tauterbach attended the Briarcliff auto race and will stay for the weekend at Briarcliff Lodge. Mr and Mrs James P Snow issued invitations for the marriage of their daughter Marguerite Snow to Rene, Thursday evening, May at Broadway Tabernacle. Mr and Mrs J S Bachhants Mrs J Bz have their country home Pinehurst at Kingson Hudson for the summer. The Misses Fraser of 20 West Twenty thers will return to Witham Bee on River View Place Hastings on Hudson for the summer. Mr and Mrs Miss Helen Miller Gould has closed her town house on Fifth Avenue and is now at Lyndhurst Irvington. Mrs G H Seliwab will return to her home 21 West Forty seventh Street on Wednesday. Mrs Jerome Canfield Cook and Miss Zelma Baylor gave a studio party at Miss Baylor's studio at Carnegie Hill with Hungarian music and dancing.
Maxine Elliott announces a New York home theatre to be built on 105 to 113 West Thirty-ninth Street just west of Sixth Avenue. The Elliott Company will own the house with Shubert partners, planned as a small dramatic venue under Elliott's supervision.
A crowd at Durland's Riding Academy attended the Society Circus for the Little Mothers' Aid Association. The program mixed professional and amateur acts including a pageant procession with fanciful monsters, a half mile handicap race between James Sullivan and a horse, and an automotive event, with society patrons such as Mrs. George Gould in attendance.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show continues a three week engagement at Madison Square Garden. Indians lead in the playful mock football on horse back with skillful maneuvers, while a cowboy horse is knocked over during a scrimmage as audiences cheer like a college game. The Prairie Fire segment has improved with the show's twenty fifth year anniversary.
George Arliss plans to head a company next autumn in a new play titled The Devil adapting Molnar Ferenc. The modern Budapest-set Hungarian comedy features a half supernatural lead and is being staged in Berlin Rome Paris and Budapest. Arliss currently stars with Mrs Fiske in Rosmersholm while pursuing the new role.
The Amicitia Amateur Band, a group of businessmen who volunteer for love of music, will give a Carnegie Hall concert this evening. Admission is by invitation only, with no tickets sold. The ensemble comprises seventy five performers forming a complete military band.
A benefit concert for the Legal Aid Society will feature Paderewski Sembrich and Adamowski at Carnegie Hall on May 2 in the afternoon. Sembrich will sing several of Paderewski's songs with the composer himself providing the piano accompaniments. Tickets are available from Mrs A M Dodge at 125 East Thirty-ninth Street or from Louis Windmiller at 20 Reade Street.
The Three Arts Club led by Mrs. John Henry Hammond plans a Faosday vaudeville at Duryea Hall Seventy second Street and Broadway to raise funds for a clubhouse. Bishop Greer is honorary president. The club seeks a permanent home and has already raised six thousand dollars toward a tenfold goal. The program features Love's Locksmith musical sketch, costumed Spanish dance, barnyard stunt, folk dances, and Pierrot scenes, with dancing after.
The Hoyt sisters presented a costume musicale in the Astor Gallery at the Waldorf Astoria to a crowded audience. Dances and songs featured Indian Moqui attire with tomtom accompaniment, a Maquis snake dance, Holland maidens, and an Italian ditty. The program closed with Raspberry Shrub starring the Hoyts and Miss Lent.
Tomorrow afternoon at 4 30 the ladies class of the Fencers Club meets the Philadelphia team at the clubhouse in a return match. The club championship test follows next Monday with Misses Stimson Baylis Dick to represent New York and future matches planned for May 4. Carrol Beckwith presides, Charles Tatham to judge, with others from Philadelphia.
Mrs Frederick Edgar Camp and Horace Bullock wed at the bride’s home in Lakewood New Jersey The ceremony was led by Rev Ernest F Matthews of All Saints Church The bride is a Ridgely of Maryland and was given away by her brother Martin Ridgely of Baltimore The couple will reside in Philadelphia with Mrs Lidden Flick of Wilkes Barre as matron of honor and Benjamin Bullock as best man.
Ex United States Senator Johnson N. Camden of West Virginia died at the Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore at age 80 after kidney congestion. He had been in failing health for years, with his wife and son J. N. Camden Jr present, along with Gen and Mrs B D Spillman. Funeral plans set for Parkersburg, West Virginia, next Monday. Born in Lewis County on March 6 1828 Camden built wealth in oil and railroads and served two Senate terms. He authored the long and short haul clause of the Interstate Commerce Act.
The Circle Theatre reopened with The Merry-Go-Round a vaudeville revue featuring James J. Morton Mabel Hite and Ignacio Martinetti. The production offers familiar county fair sketches then solid vaudeville acts with witty monologue and dancing while promising value for the price of one dollar.
Charles T Rowe longtime Boston horse show and race meeting official died suddenly in Brookline. Born in New York sixty nine years ago he started in the linseed oil business with his father and later served as clerk of Boston horse shows and secretary of Newport horse shows.
Mrs William Post forms a Dutch Treat dining club with a weekly party at the Plaza tonight. Each member may invite an escort, and dinners run weekly through spring.
A Tuesday 3 30 p m concert in the Waldorf Astoria East Room raises funds to help Emma Thursby pupils finish musical education abroad. Donations in sealed envelopes accepted at the coordinators desk. Patronesses include Mrs John Clatin Mrs Hi Flagler Mrs Bradley Martin Jr Mrs Henry Phipps Mme Nordica Mrs Franklin M Warner Mrs Henry Villard and Mrs Clarence Rice.
The engagement of Harry Lord Powers son of Jesse W. Powers of New York and Miss Elizabeth Robinson Hazard daughter of the late I C Hazard has been announced. The wedding is planned for early summer at Shrewsbury Manor in Shrewsbury New Jersey. Miss Hazard is a sister of the Princess Auersperg.
Samuel Claggett will send two companies to stage The Prince Chap next season Cyril Scott may perform The Royal Mounted with his Garrick appearance Fernanda Eliser returns to the English stage in autumn George Codder and sister Josephine write and appear in a new musical skit at the Friars Festival The Servant in the House book will souvenir the Savoy performance Scottish Rite Actors collect booklets for the show A voting contest opens tomorrow at Percy G Williams theatres for most popular actress A matinee of The Little Princess and Editha's Burglar at the Children's Theatre with Mark Twain present.
Programme notes list Sembrich and Paderewski performing at Carnegie Hall on Saturday afternoon May 2 1908. Paderewski plays, Sembrich sings, and Mozart's trio from Il Re Pastore is included. Orchestra seated behind, dress circle priced 2 1.50 and 1 dollars. Reserved seats for orchestra and boxes by letter to Mrs. Arthur M Dodge or Louis Windmeller. Proceeds benefit the Legal Aid Society via concert organizer.
Announcement of the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Newman in Lambertville New Jersey on April 24, 1908.
Harry J. Seamon announces the engagement of his sister Heckie Miller to Edward J. Miller at home on Sunday evening May 10 at 150 West 125th Street Novards.
On several dates in April and May 1800s, multiple couples were married in Jersey City and nearby locations. Names include Ridley Amp ta and Horace Bullock. Adele Winterburn and Otis Yale Harsen. Gladys Appleton Peck and George Upton Harvey. Beatrice Merrill and Robert J Crans. Mary A Harms and Charles F Green. Fannie Jensen and William J Heermann. Jennie Cobb and George Le Blanc. Clara Wright Barclay and Jos Victor Onativia Jr. Adelaide Pettit and George Schoppe. Laura Creveling and T K Stewart. Anna C Mosberger and Fred A Thielsen. Josephine Merseles and J Albert Van Horne.
A long list of death notices and funeral details from New York City and nearby towns. Names include Bryson Arnold Coffin Cooper Cornell Cox Crane Folwell Healy Johnson Lorton Morgan Moses Mostyn Sawyer Smith Myck Thomas Ulmann Wilson Abrams Amelis Anders Azvest Barr Baxter Beamish Boughton Brown Bruns Campbell Caruth Clark Collins Connelly Conlough Cooper Costa Crane Cruger Cunnion Curry Fallon with ages and service details, churches, and train times where given.
A list of death notices from April dates across Mount Sinai Newark and Jersey City addresses. Included are Simon Fishel Charles Garvin Ellen Gibbuns William Glaser John Goetz Sarah Goodman William Green John Gregory Mary Griffiths Sees Finligan Ida Hargraves Alfred Harris John Heckren John Helil Thomas Hill Christian Lif er George Hoffman Mary Tiratt Mary Johnston John A Jones George Kraemer Anna Kreuter August L Rung John Lehmkuhl Sophie Lickdorf Arguet Lott Jeremiah MetCarthy Rocher McGough James McLeavey Josephine Plunket Edna A Post Elisa Romana Rosa Roth Alice Scannell Clara Schweikhardt George Sharples Andrew J Shanny Hose Stone Marta Stone Margaret Taetzsch Bessie Wallace Charles F Waltz Mary Whalen Edward B Winans Albert Wirth among others. Funeral times noted for several.
In Memoriam notices list multiple unveilings today for monuments across Cypress Hills Maimonides Bayside and other cemeteries. Names include Behrens Fishel Gerber Gross Heilbrunner Kalisel Levy Nathan Stern and Stern with times from 2:30 to 4 P. M. at various cemeteries.
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