Tafts Open Social Season With Washington Hosts
Washington diary notes the Tafts arriving to begin a packed social schedule. Mr and Mrs Taft plan brief stops in Washington before a trip south, hosted by Mr and Mrs Boardman at Dupont Circle. A flurry of receptions, dinners, and a White House breakfast mark the season start with Red Cross events and diplomatic entertainments shaping the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York, Times
Washington
William H. Taft
Dupont Circle
Taft
National Red Cross Society
Mabel Boardman
Tafts
Boardman
Ohio
White House
Bacon
Thomas F. Walsh
Transmississippi
Augusta
Sixteenth Street
Mme. Jusserand
Australia
Lord Northcote
Lady Northcote
Mme. de Blanpre
Viscountess de Martel
Bryce
Mayor Des Planches
Hengelmuller
Mme. Nabuco
Lawrence Townsend
Belgium
Nicholas Longworth
Norway
Mme. Gude
Army
Navy
Archibald W. Butt
Butt
Sherwood A. Cheney
U.S. A
Chauncey Shackford
U.S. WN
Hugo W. Osterhaus
Gilbert J. Rowcliff
Semmes Read
Harry Lay
John R. McLean
I Street
Churchill Candee
F T Martins Birthday Dinner at the Plaza
Frederick Townsend Martin hosted a birthday dinner at the Plaza for thirty five guests. Attendees included Stuyvesant Fish Edmund L Baylies George Gould and many other prominent figures with a large cake and a single candle as the finale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Townsend Martin
Plaza
Louise Sands
Archibald G. Thacher
Frederick Martin Davies
Bradley Martin, Jr
H. M. Flagler
Edward Rathbone Bacon
Horace Porter
Charles Robinson
Lawrence L. Gillespie
Enry Sands
Brayton Ives
W. Mude Neilson
Howard T. Martin
Favershams Entertain Notables At Dinner Party
Mr and Mrs William Faversham hosted a dinner at 214 East Seventeenth Street honoring Miss Mary Garden and W J Locke. Guests included John W Alexander Edward Moore Robin Walter Damrosh Charles Russell Soley Norman Hapgood Lloyd Osbourne John Drew William Gillette and many others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Faversham
East Seventeenth Street
Mary Garden
W. J. Locke
John W. Alexander
Edward Moore Robin
Philadelphia
Walter Damrosch
Charles Russell Soley
Norman Hapgood
Lloyd Osbourne
John
Exhibition and sales highlight Keppel Bonaventure galleries show
Sir Seymour Haden’s etchings and mezzotints headline at Keppel Galleries through January 2, with a 118 print collection including An Early Riser and Sunset in Ireland. Private sale of Walter Satterlee works at 96 Fifth Avenue also runs, plus St Aubin antiquities at Bonaventure. Rossetti circle and Tiffany studies featured at Oehme, Tiffany Stiles, and Fisher Adler Schwartz venues. Portraits by George Rufus Boynton span the Sherwood Building exhibit with Coghlan and McCook among the sitters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keppel
Seymour Haden
England
Meryon
Whistler
Miller
Windmill Hill
Swanage
Dorsetshire
Ireland
Atherton Curtis
Hagen
Tipperary
Shere Mill Pond
Walter Satterlee
Fifth Avenue
Satterlee
St. Aubin
Duclos
Nancy
Mme
la Comtesse du Barry
Louis Bonnet
Aone
W. J. Stillman
Rossetti
Fiammetta
America
Oehme
George Rufus Boynton
Sherwood Building
Joseph B. Coghlan
Anson G. McCook
George Moore Smith
James Grant Wilson
Stewart L. Woodford
Vesta Victoria Arrested in Sunday Theatre Law Case
Vesta Victoria the London music hall singer was arrested in Blaney's Lincoln Square Theatre with the venue manager Joseph Folly of 151 West Sixty-fifth Street for violating the Sunday theatre law. Detective Folly of the 151 West Sixty-fifth Street Station led the arrest and bail was posted by Ames Buckley of Sixty-sixth Street and Broadway for each prisoner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vesta Victoria
Blaney
Lincoln Square Theatre
Joseph Folly
West Sixty-fifth Street
Folly
Ames Buckley
Sixty-sixth Street
Broadway
Brooklyn
Shubert Comedy Company to Run The Blue Mouse
The Clyde Fitch farce The Blue Mouse will be produced by the Shubert Comedy Company which will be formed as a permanent organization. The company plans a year run followed by another Fitch farce and will maintain a starless but stellar cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Fitch
The
Blue Mouse
Shubert Comedy Company
Shuberts
Lee Shubert
Shubert Company
Central Company
Twins Born at Housatonic Station in Great Barrington
Great Barrington Mass December 6 A railroad station birth news from Housatonic reports twins born last evening to Mr and Mrs George A Hyatt Cry 2 Li i 3 4 Nitta? fs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Great Barrington
Mass
Housatonic
George A. Hyatt
Nitta
Rush of the unelect to the Colony Club
A large crowd of nonmembers crowded the Colony Club at 122 Madison Avenue for a 3:30 pm lecture by Miss Berry. security limited access, but many nonmembers entered the gymnasium and social rooms, causing chaos and a fundraising moment by Miss Morgan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colony Club
Miss Berry
South
North
Georgia
Mountain
Tennessee
Anne Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan
J. Borden Harriman
Friends of
New York
Madison Avenue
Chosen Sttle Company
Woman's Club
Brooklyn
James River
Virginia
Thirtieth
Thirty-first
Slory
Jeannette M. Gilder
Rhett
Caroline de Forest
Mary Callender
Elisabeth Marbury
Richard
Misses Shippen
Higginson
Berry School
Miss Morgan
Mrs. Harriman
New Theatre at Coney Island to Rise in Moorish Cast
A summer vaudeville theatre is planned for Coney Island on Ocean Parkway and Sea Breeze Avenue. Groundbreaking in about two weeks for a $100,000 complex by David Robinson, consisting of a theatre and a casino restaurant, both Moorish in style, with a hoped-for opening next season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bader
Metropolitan Concert Draws Packed House at Opera
An enthusiastic Metropolitan Opera House audience enjoyed a Sunday concert featuring Mmes. Sembrich and Marie Gay with Jean Noté and Ricardo Martin. Petschnikoff the Russian violinist added appeal as encore responses followed a Verdi Ernani and arias from Sampson et Dalilah and Pagliacci. The program closed with Tschaikowsky and Mendelssohn works and the William Tell overture conducted by Francesco Spetrino.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Opera House
Mmes. Sembrich
Marie Gay
Jean Noté
Ricardo Martin
Petschhikoff
Mme. Sembrich
Mr. Noté
Ek Mme
Sembrich
Verdi
Ernani
Oe Mme
Gay
Mscepts
Francesco Spetrino
Mendelssohn
Banker E F Young Dies. Jersey City Financier and Politician
Edward Failoute Condict Young a leading New Jersey financier and Democratic figure died at his Jersey City home at Glenwood Avenue and Hudson Boulevard after a long illness. He chaired the First National Bank of Jersey City and led numerous banks and industrial firms while shaping public utilities and rapid transit. A former presidential elector and gubernatorial candidate, he remained influential in state politics and philanthropy until his death. He left a large stock based estate with wife Harriet Strover and two children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Failoute
Condict Young
New Jersey
Glenwood Avenue
Hudson Boulevard
Jersey City
Young
Morristown
Liberty National Bank
Bankers
Bowling Green Trust Omens
Orly
Mr. Young
New York
Hudson County Bank
Mechanics and Traders’ Bank of
First National Bank
Cines
Democrats
State Railroad Board
Grover Cleveland
Millio
Manhattan
St. John’s Episcopal Church
All Saints’ Catholic Church
Lafayette
Harriet Strover
You
Joseph Dixon Crucible Company
American Graphite Company
Acker Process Company
Hudson County Gas Company
North Jersey Land Company
Consolidated Iron
Obituary notices recall notable deaths in New Jersey and Brooklyn
Tecone A O Neill of 1217 South Clin Trenton died there reverely but the report is unclear. Joseph C Wickham of Jersey City a lumber merchant died after injuries from a train wreck in 1904. Franklin E Kneeland a deacon of Plymouth Church Brooklyn and New York Produce Exchange member died at 378 Grand Avenue Brooklyn aged 63. Edward A Downey Yale Sheffield School graduate died at 446 Madison Avenue. David H Miller pioneer Brooklyn druggist died at 709 Cortelyou Road aged about 92. James W Leahy Hudson County Engineer died at 123 Kensington Avenue Jersey City aged 47. He had worked for Jersey City Bergen Street Railway, Public Service Corporation, Hudson Companies. He leaves wife and three sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph C. Wickham
Jersey City
West Hampton
L. I
Alton B. Parker
Esopus
Franklin E. Kneeland
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
New York Produce Change
Grand Avenue
Mr. Kneeland
Buffalo
David H. Miller
Cortelyou Road
Peekskill
N. Y
Fulton Street
Miller
Royal Arcanum
Society of Friends
James W. Leahy
Hudson County
N. J
Kensington Avenue
Philadelphia
Jersey City & Bergen Street Railway Company
Public Service Corporation
Hudson Companies
Robert Davis Association
Jersey City Lodge of Elks
Jersey City Club
Knights of Columbus
Sunday Manhattan Concert At Manhattan Opera House
A large crowd filled the orchestra and dress circle with overflow into upper galleries for the Sunday concert under M Campanini at the Manhattan Opera House. The program mixed Cavalleria Rusticana in concert form with selections from Verdi De Lara Chaminade and Puccini. Soloists Agostinelli Parelli Severina Parola Crabbe and others performed with M Parelli and M Campanini as conductors and M Charlier on piano.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan Opera House
M. Campanini
Campanini
Parelli
Charlier
Mascagni
Verdi
de Lara
Chaminade
Puccini
M. Marcel Charlier
Agestinelli
Mme. riska-Aldrich
Mile. Severina
M. Parola
M. Crabbe
M. Parelli
Mme
Agostinelli
Tosca
M. de Segurola
Mme. Doria
M. Arimondi
Mlle. Gervillee
Mile. Zepilli
M. Gianoli-Galletti
Donizetti
Don Pasquale
Tenth Klein Concert Delights New American Violinist
The tenth Hermann Klein Sunday concert at the German Theatre on Madison Avenue featured new American cellist Jean Schiller in his debut. He joined Miss Ethel Newcomb and Edouard Dethier in a Brahms trio and performed Pepper’s Hungarian Rhapsody. Soloists Miss Newcomb, Mr. Dethier, Miss Josephine Swickard, and Cecil Fanning were applauded. The composer Harriet Ware accompanied Fanning on In the Forgotten Land, with words by Edwin Markham. Ossip Gabrilowitsch is announced for next Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hermann Klein
Madison Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
Jean Schiller
America
Brahme
Ethel Newcomb
Edouard Dethier
Pepper
Miss Newcomb
Mr. Dethier
Josephine Swickard
Cecil Fanning
Miss Swickard
Mr. Fanning
Edwin Markham
Harriet
Mannes Couple Open Second Sonata Recital at Stuyvesant Theatre
Mr and Mrs David Mannes opened their second series of violin and piano sonata recitals at Stuyvesant Theatre to a good audience. The soft lighting and homelike stage added to enjoyment as Bach, Vitali, Grieg, and Raff works were performed. The second recital is scheduled for Sunday evening January 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Mannes
Stuyvesant Theatre
Bach
Vitali
Giaccona
Grieg
Schnelling Piano Recital Delights Carnegie Hall
An appreciative audience welcomed Ernest Schnelling at Carnegie Hall for a solo recital. The program featured pamme Bach Scarlatti Schumann Schnelling Ravel Rubinstein Liszt and Chopin nocturnes etudes and a waltz. This is his only New York recital this season.
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Ernest Schnelling
Carnegie Hall
Pamme
Bach
Scarlatti
Schumann
Schnelling
Ravel
Rubinstein
Liszt
Chopin
Mr. Schnelling
New York
Morgan Purchases King Charles Bible at Amherst Sale
London dispatch notes J Pierpont Morgan bought the King Charles I Bible from the Amherst library dispersal last Thursday for 5000 dollars. The sale occurred at Hackney with the Cambridge Bible featured among the Lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
J. Pierpont Morgan
Charles I
Lord Amherst
Hackney
Obituary: William N Dickenson Dies at 86 in Brooklyn
William Noble Dickenson a prominent Manhattan stationery dealer died yesterday at 316 Warren Street Brooklyn. Born in Cincinnati in 1839 he came to New York as a youth and led William N Dickenson & Co at 75 John Street before joining Raynor & Perkins. A Civil War veteran he retired two years ago leaving three sons and a daughter.
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William Noble Dickenson
Manhattan
Warren Street
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
William N. Dickenson & Co
John Street
Raynor & Perkins
Dickenson
Professor William Ireland Knapp Dies in Paris
Paris reports the death of Prof. William Ireland Knapp, a Yale and Chicago University alumnus and famed authority on Spanish history and literature. Born in New York in 1835, he taught at Colgate, Vassar, Yale, and the University of Chicago, later living in England since 1895 devoted to literary work.
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Paris
William Ireland Knapp
Yale
Chicago
New York
Colgate University
Vassar College
Universe of Chicago
England
Knapp
Death of Oliver Grant Barton Vestryman of Calvary Church
Oliver Grant Barton, longtime Calvary Church vestryman and fifty year member, died suddenly of heart disease at home 122 West ene aee Street. He was 65 and a bachelor living with his brother George De Forest Barton. This brother and Mrs.
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Oliver Grant Barton
Calvary Church
Westene Aee Street
Barton
Orge de Forest Barton
Social Notices of Transfers and Marital Name Changes
A list of name transfers and closings dated December 2 and November 29 shows Sophia Marks to Samuel H. Bijur Carrie Sonnenschein to Julius Bloch Natalie Levensen to Alexander Latner Bella New to Joseph Littau Ray Newmark to Herman Schlesinger reflecting micro-entries of personal transitions and affiliations stored in the community record.
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Bijur
Obituaries and Funeral Notices from New York City 1908
A cluster of death notices and funeral announcements for December 1908 in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Entries include Joseph C. Alexander of Brooklyn, Clar ence H. Alpers of Elizabeth New Jersey, Eliza Ann Weed Randolph of West 70th Street, and multiple local residents with service details, interments, and addresses. The list also notes military figures Rear Admiral B Coghlan and Capt. John W McDougall among the obituaries.
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A. L. Alpers
Westfield
N. J
Greenwood
Barton
West 74Th St
Oliver Grant Barton
William and
Eliza P. Barton
Calvary Church
Fourth Avenue
Benjamin
East
Julia Kean
Samuel N. Benjamin
Daw Reece
Hamilton Fish
Garrison
Lexington Av
Ogee
Washington, D. C
Coghlan
New Rochelle
N. Y
B. Coghlan
Wes N
Arlington
Madison Av
Woodlawn
Randolph
Elizann Weed
Obadiah W
Ite Randolph
West 70Th St
Intermont
Fritzel
William Fritzel
Grand Av
Brooklyn
Knevals
West 56Th St
Sherman Willard Knevals
Church of Zion and
St. Timothy
West 67Th St
Larocque
Annie
Whittemore
Joseph Heriat Ue
Povr
East 56Th St
Resaan
Leonard
Anna Verah Getty
106Th St
Elizabeth Bassett Peers
Alba Leonard
Mount Adnah
Iienne McDougall
nSonteal Presbyterian
57Th St
7Th Av
Eeearey
McDougall
Seventh Regiment
John W.mcdougell
Third Coneans
Central Presbyterian
Thos Dimond
Seatment
New York
Vine
John W. McDougall
Central Eet Atence
West 57Th St
Broadwith Av
Nicholas Engel
Poe
Sinten
Ardor
Bristol
Dorothy _Shirile Mingsher
Harry Faies Aingher
Aes P
Tee
R. T Nealis
Society of the St. Wee
James J. Mealie
Deena
Church of St. John
Memorial notices and monument unveilings listed
In memory notices for Capt. Frank and Rosa Grob. Mrs. John Kise died Dec 7 1907. Leerburg monument unveiling Dec 13 at 2:30 PM. Maxcy Mason Thomas Femner and Immaculate Conception ceremony Dec 11. Nashelsky monument unveiling Dec 13 at 2 PM. Pettys memorial for William H died Dec 8 1907. Prager monument unveiling and Rudolf Sholom Cemetery services. Scholder memorial for John. Union Field Cemetery ceremony Dec 18 at 2 PM.
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William H
Prager
Rudolf Sholom
M. Scholder
John Sentegt
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ASON
Boardmans
F. T. Martin
Favershams
Bonnet
du Barry
NEW Theatre AT
Coney
David Robinson
Dutton’s
Metropolitan
Jean Note
E.F.¢. Young
Jersey
Messenger
Tecone A. O’neill
South Clin- Trenton
Eesi ‘Ames Dewan
Edward A. Downey
Yale Sheffield Scientific School
John Downey
Squadron A
Riding Club
Yale Club
Apawamis Golf Club
KLEIN
New
the Stuyvesant
Morgan
King Charles I
Amherst Sale
Ireland Knapp
Waters
Horace Waters
Fifth Ave
27Th St
A.frankfield &Co Jewelers
Bird
Sturges
Jane Scott Sturges
Catherine P. Scott
Rivercrest
Fort Washington
Warner
Mony J
Frank M
Rose
Temple Emanu-El
Nostrand
Charles A. E. Amelung
Archer
Eugene Archer
Eine
Eest
Brooklye
Bop
Rarah Meral
Enenia Mgs County Hospital
Bektora St
Martha W. We
Forlong
Whee Westminster Road
Flatbush
Osulla A. Forlong
Henderson
King St
Po Henderson
Hago Mae
Hultgren
oBrooklyn
Esentia Icgren
Kanaley
M. Koch
Koch
Kopp
Tae Willis
Lena
David Wileick
Caroline Wick Leonard
Beth B. Nard
Leverich
Bloomfiela
Age McCarrick
Richardson
Edward McCarrick
McCormick
West
Gay Marie L. McCormick
Mead
Dea
Middleton
Reth St
Ohnson Mulvibtl Wail East Wth Bt 8 >Etta Mulvihill. Funeral of Oee P. Murphy
East 120Th St
E. Murphy
P. Y
Plainfield
Murrad
Oltmann
Atlantic
Henrike Oltmann
Ae Stranheim
West 116Th
8&T
Bernhard Sternheim
Taylor
Je Kalb
Dev
Tuthill
Bath Beach
Peat
Matilda
Webby
Puneral
Memoriam
Fiaures
Undertakers
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