Hopper Plays for Crippled Children at Majestic Theatre
De Wolf Hopper Marguerite Clark and eight children from the Pied Piper company performed for patients at St Mary's Free Hospital for Children 467 West 34th Street. The show moved to the wards with seats among beds, delighting crippled youngsters and drawing praise from Hopper who called it the most appreciative audience he had ever seen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Wolf Hopper
Marguerite Clark
Pied Piper
Majestid
St. Mary's Free Hospital For Children
West Thirtyfourth Street
Hopper
Catherine
Episcopal Sisters
United States
Richard Irwin
Board of Governors
Fopper
Vaudeville for Charity Aids Babies Ward in New York
The fourth annual vaudeville show by the Young Women's Hospital Guild of New York was held at the Plaza to benefit the Babies Ward of the Post-Graduate Hospital with limited donation to the Babies Hospital in Lexington Avenue. The program featured The Twelve Madcap Magyars, a dream fantasy, and comic acts, closing with Its Happened in Hatley. Patronesses included Mrs. Wendell C. Phillips and many other prominent ladies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Women’s Hospital Guild of New York
Plaza
Post- Graduate
Babies’ Hospital
Lexington Avenue
Balkans
Land of Dreams
Perdita
Mrs. Eeenan
Duchess of Richmound
Mme. J.¢ Brun
Carmencita
Betsy Ross
Hobo Twins
Plazaland
Dowling
Lambert
Hatley
Wendell C. Phillips
Charles R. Scarborough
George W. van Vinck
Lionel
Wayland Smith
William H. van Steenburg
Allen J. Clark
James B. Curtis
Alexander Candlish
Walter D. Despard
Andrew E. Foye
Clarence H. Clayton
Edward Davis Jones
Michael Mulqueen
A Final Effort at Irving Place Theatre
A Vienna farce The Final Effort concerns a divorced husband trying to win back his wife. Dr Dunker the clever lawyer stages a ruse to force public opinion to restore the marriage while jokes flow amid schemes and a Rus sian dancer appearance ending in a happy pairing for the lawyer amid comic complications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heinrich Neubrunn
Otto Gebuehr
Irene
Hermine Hollmann
Seraphine Blomquist
Amalie Cramer Stella
Gertrude Urban
Max Dunker
Julius Strassmann
Agathon Stulpnagel
Agathon Stulpnagel, Restaurateur
Gustave Conradi Herschfelder
Max Walden Egon Platon
Nicol Albrecht Nolte
Dunker’s
Eugen Hohenwort
Mademoiselle Malwa
Adelheid Schneider
Cane
Betty Konrad Ifubre
Wildsee
Ferdinand Schindler
Jean
Wiildsee
Cenzi
Hopf
Rom
Euuung
Schnellpacher
Gustav Olmar
America
Irving Place
Philipp Berges
Vienna
Dunker
Anastasia
Joe
Mademoiseile Malwa
Toni
MISS WYATT TO WED ENGAGEMENTS ANNOUNCED
Judge William E. Wyatt and Mrs Wyatt announce the engagement of their daughter Cornelia Wyatt to Lieut Robert Henderson of His Majesty s Royal Canadian Army Service Corps now stationed at Halifax The announcement will be made at a tea by Mrs Robert Logan The couple plan to wed late next spring or early fall Also announced Dudley Butler son of Rev Edwin A Butler and Mrs Butler to Miss Mabel M Donald of Delhi New York Planting a double set of matchups for the season news reflects social circles and army links in Halifax Toronto and Delhi
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henderson
Dudley Butler
William E. Wyatt
Wyatt
Cornelia Wyatt
Robert Henderson
His Majesty
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Halifax
Robert Logan
Samuel J. Henderson
Merritt Trimble
Lord Fairfax
Toronto
Cuba
Mr. Henderson
Aed
Edwin A. Butler
Butler
Anna H. Fuller
Mabel M. McDonald
Delhi
N. Y
Kahn and Lowenstein Weds at Sherry's in Christmas Decor
Siegfried H. Kahn and Miss Germaine Lowenstein were married last evening at 6 in Sherry's banquet room decorated with holly and greens. The Rev. Dr. Magnes officiated. The bride wore white satin with Dorothy Mack as attendant and Sigmund Marx as best man. A dinner for thirty two followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siegfried H. Kahn
Germaine Lowenstein
G. C. Lowenstein
West Eightieth Street
Sherry’s
Magnes
Dorothy Mack
Flora Salinger and David Burkenroad wed in New Orleans
Miss Flora Salinger of 623 West 136th Street and David Burkenroad of New Orleans were married yesterday afternoon at 2 30 at the home of the bride's sister Mrs. S P Hessel 311 West Ninety seventh Street. The Rev I Aaron of Buffalo officiated. They left for their honeymoon and will establish their future home in New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flora Salinger
West 136Th Street
David Burkenroad
New Orleans
S. P. Hessel
West Ninety-seventh Street
I. Aaron
Buffalo
Benefit for the Blind Opens With Notable Attendance
The New York Association of the Blind hosted the first day of a two day exhibition and sale at 118 East Fifty Ninth Street. Miss Julia Dodge led the tearoom while Miss Nina Chisholm and Miss Eleanor Du4ane curated the flower table. Patrons included Henry Phipps J Hampden Robb and Mrs Robb Dr Lyman Abbott Jacob Schiff and Mrs Schiff Emelix M Warburg Miss Winifred Holt Dr Joseph Colt Bloodgood and Mrs Bloodgood Arch bishop Farley Mark Twain and Columbia president Butler among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Association of the Blind
East Fifty-ninth Street
Julia Dodge
Nina Chisholm
Eleanor Du4ane
Eleanor Whitridge
Doris Bissell
Helen Lucas
Emily Gilbert
Shepherd de Forest
Josephine
Augusta de Forest
Henry_ Morgan Post
Arthur Goodby
Charles Butler
Teas for Debutantes Announce Five Introductions
Debutantes Miss Estelle Morris Crosby Miss Cornelia Hoy Miss oeanie Lazarus Miss Florence Alker and Miss Elizabeth B G Fowler are to be introduced at afternoon teas hosted by relatives at upscale New York addresses. Receptions at 929 Fifth Avenue 13 Park Avenue 13 West Eleventh Street 288 Madison Avenue and 26 West Tenth Street precede a dinner and dancing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Duane Pell
Estelle Morris Crosby
Livingston Crosby
Fifth Avenue
Jesse Hoyt
Park Avenue
Cornelia Hoy
Charles P. Howland
Oeanie Lazarus
West Eleventhtreet
Florence Alker
Alphonse H. Alker
Madison Avenue
Robert L. Fowler
West Tenth Street
Elizabeth B.G. Fowler
Mrs Fanshawe Dies After Illness at Plaza Hotel
Mrs Jessie Fanshawe wife of banker William S Fanshawe and sister of District Attorney Willi am Travers Jerome died after an appendicitis operation in her Plaza Hotel apartment. She was in her fifties and survived by four daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Jerome Fanshawe
Williams
Fanshawe
Willism Travers Jerome
Plaza
Appe
New York
Murray
Ballston, N. Y
Leonard
Fanny Jerome
Lawrence R. Jerome
Leonard Jerome
William R. Travers
August Belmont
Jerome Park
American Jockey Club
Jennie Jerome
Randolph Cherehill
Duke of Marlborough
Robert Fanshawe
Fanshawe Gate
Burke
Dromfield
Derby
William S. Fanshawe
Columbia
The
Stock Exchange
Lounsberry & Fanshawe
Fanshawes
West
W. S. Fanshawe & Co
Harvey Fisk & Sons
Delta Phi
Columbia University
Westchester County
New Yacht
Colony Club
Plaza Hotel
Jessie Jerome
Trinity Chapel
25Th St
Broadway
Annual Confederate Ball in New York Hotel Astor
The New York Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy hosted its annual ball at the Hotel Astor last night. A gallery bridge setup and a Butterflies committee of prominent Southern Colony women facilitated social mingling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United Daughters of the Confederacy
James Henry Parker
Hotel Astor
Sadie C. Dickinson
Connelly
Thweatt
Jessica Physiac
Emma Semple
Caroline Dew
Nina Clark
McGuire
Marie Turner
Alberta Martin
Marion Ewing
Emma Spencer
Louise Thweatt
Loretta Connelly
Gladys Enslen
Ethel Munnaugh
Maynelle
Mildred Barton
Charlie Anna Norris
A. G. Dickinson
Clifford Williams
T. Darington Sempler
Edma Connelly
Peter Nicholson
W. Alexander Scott
Everett Jackson
C. C. Cowan
Julian Rivers
Social calendar notes from Sherry's and Mendelssohn Hall
Mrs Henny Coster Gmmet hosts a dance for the Serottante daughter Miss Laura Ommet at Sherry's tonight. Mrs Benjamin Lathrop of California gives a song recital at Mendelssohn Hall this afternoon. The New York Sigma Nu Chapter holds its annual dance at the Hotel Astor with John C. Calhoun Jr as secretary. The Maryland Society hosts its tenth annual reception at Sherry's tonight with patronesses including Mrs J R Nevett Steele and Mrs Edwin Warfield. Mrs Oakleigh Thorne yesterday hosted a reception for her daughter Mrs Birdseye Blakeman Lewis at 299 Madison Avenue. Mrs William Allen plans a luncheon and bridge for Mrs James R Duke. Mr and Mrs Perry Belmont prepare to sail tomorrow on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria for Europe. Mr and Mrs George Dilwyn Cross move from Bernardsville to stay on West Fifty-second Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Lathrop
California
Mendelssohn Hall
Sherry’s
J. R. Nevett Steele
Edwin Warfield
Hanson R. Duval
Oakleigh Thorne
Madison Avenue
Birdseye Blakeman Lewis
Thorne
William Allen
East Sixtyfifth Street
Bridge
James R. Duke
Inman
Perry
Belmont
Europe
George Dilwyn Cross
Bernardsville Country Place
West Fifty-second Street
Mrs. Grace Chapin Dies After Opera Day Surgery
Mrs Grace Stebbins Chapin wife of Alfred Clark Chapin ex mayor of Brooklyn died at her East Fifty sixth Street home after an operation for peritonitis. She was in her forties and had attended the Metropolitan Opera recently. Her death came after a sudden illness beginning last Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Stebbins Chapin
Alfred Clark Chapin
Brooklyn
New York
East Fifty-sixth Street
Grace
Chapin
State Assembly
Congress
Metropolitan
Union
Publisher Joseph A Dear Dies In Jersey City Home
Joseph A Dear publisher and owner of The Jersey City Evening Journal died at his home 103 Summit Avenue Jersey City after a illness. Born May 11 1840 in Great Easton England he came to America in 184 and joined the Army of the Potomac as a stenographer. He later owned The Journal with partners and held several civic posts including president of the Jersey City Board of Trade and secretary of local charities. He leaves a wife four sons and a daughter Mrs How ard C Gurney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph A. Dear
Summit Avenue
Jersey City
Jersey City Evening Journal
Mr. Dear
Great Easton
England
Civil Department
Army of the Potomac
Norfolk
Lee
Journal
William B. Dunning
Z. K. Pangborn
Major Pangborn
Sheffield Phelps
Elbert Rappelye
Rappelye
Dear
William H. Taft
Jersey City Board of Trade
Jersey City Printing Company
Home For the Homeless
Newman Home
Howard C. Gurney
Died in San Francisco Coast and Geodetic Survey Captain
Capt Augustus F Rogers assistant superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey died suddenly at his home in San Francisco. He served sixty one years in government service and was the son of Commodore John Rodgers who defended Baltimore in 1812. Also David B Gulick died at his Jersey City home aged eighty years after long work with Frank Leslie Publishing Company. He organized the Mozart Orchestra at the Jersey City Arts Club and leaves a wife and three married daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augustus F. Rodgers
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
San Francisco
Commodore John Rodgers
Baltimore
David B. Gulick
Izy Bramhall Avenue
Jersey City
Frank Leslie Publishing Company
Mozart Orchestra
Catherine McCormick
Thomas McCormick
Philip S. McCormick
Obituaries and tributes from a busy week in early 20th century newspapers
Notices report Yonkers resident dies at 2977 Bainbridge Ave Bedford Park. Brig Gen Henry Jackson US Army dies in Leavenworth Kansas at 71. Philip H Long Newark jeweler dies of pneumonia aged 62. Charles Henry Norwood of Newark dies aged 84 with Civil War wounds. Capt Henry S Lubbock Confederate Brigadier General dies in Alameda at 87. Myron T Wilbur district telegraph and western union treasurer dies at 61 in New York City. Surviving spouses and children noted for several.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yonkers
Bainbridge Avenue
Bedford Park
Henry Jackson
Leavenworth
Kan
England
Philip H. Long
Long & Koch Company, Jewelers
Newark
N. J
Birmingham
Charles Henry Norwood
Cornelius Naarwood
New Amsterdam
Holland
Norwood
Antietam
Henry
Lubbock
Alameda
Cal
Myron T. Wilbur
American District Telegraph
Western Union Telegraph Company
West 136Th Street
Palmer
Marriages notice from New York society page
Multiple December nuptials listed with dates December 8 and 9 1908 in New York. Couples include Rose Ethel Towne with Dr Douglas Walker Cairns Dorothy Perram with Frank Chickering Warren Clara K Maybeck with Walter H Aspinall Annie L Jennings with Howard M Jennings Irma E Muegge with Bertram Gendar Laura F Pipe with Graham M Polley Isabella Mullen with Alfred Worsnop Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairns —Towne
Church of the Transfiguration
New York
Clarence Buel
Detroit
Mich
Ethel Towne
Douglas Walker Cairns
Warren—Perram
Chapel of the Good Shepherd
General Theological Seminary
Roper
Dorothy
Walter H. Perram
Frank Chickering Warren
George Wiliam Warren
Aspinall
Maybeck
Clara K. Maybeck
Walter H. Aspinall
Ae Ne—Jennings
Plainfield
Annie L. Jennings
Howard M. Cae
Obituary notices from New York and New Jersey area
Death notices list Grace Stebbins Alfred C Chapin Joseph Dear Jessie Fanshawe Anabelle Goldsticker Warren Hill Philena Hill Josiah Lombard Jane Ray Alexander Riviere Catherine Secor M Raymond Witney Myron Wilbur Annie Barnes John Bell George Kennet Harrieta Bleckwedel William Brown Oliver Coe Catharine Conway Margaret Costello David Culick May Curoe Anna Donohue William H Drury Ann Dunn Sophia Ebel Leonora Ermold Michael Fauls Helen Flagler John Wolsey Kate Friedmann Sarah Frost Mary Fuller Anastatia Garvey Annabelle Goodhart Michael Grimes Margaret Griffin Lena He Hamilton Percy Hamilton James Y Hammond Anastasia Garvey etc. Funeral notices continue for numerous residents across Brooklyn Jersey City Newark and surrounding towns with multiple private or pending services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hilis
Florence
East 15Th St
New York City
Warren Eden
Priscilla Sutherland Hill
Grace Church Chantry
Hilil
West 4Th ‘St
Philena
William J. Hill
Johnson
French Hospital
William Nelson Johnson, Jr
Effie Lewis Johnson
Kershaw
Smith Infirmary
Staten Island
Hugh Kershaw
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
Castleton Av
West New Brighton
L Dee
Lawrence Park
Bronxville
N der
Josiah Lombard
Chicago
Loston
Ray
Ridgewood
N. J
Jane A. Ray
Chambers St. Riviere
Milford
Penn
Alexander Riviere
Emile J. Riviere
Milford Des
Secor
Oregon St
Catherine Secor
Iee Murray
Robert F. Secor
Whitney
L. B. Strong
Devis
N. Y
M. Raymond Witney
Brooklyn
William H. Marston
Lafayette Av
Greenwood Cemetery
Wilgbur
Myron Thomas Wilbur
Westmuth St
Irriday
Rochester
Barnis
Annie A. Barnes
Bell
Grove St
Jersey City
John A. Bell
Bennet
Glen Cove
L. L
George EK
Kennet
Bergen
Bay Ridge
Carmel L. Bergen
Bleckwedel
Harrison Av
Henrietta Bleckwedel
Brown
Wadsworth
William A. Brown
Buchanan
Kingston
WN. Y
John Buchanan
Coe
West 94Th St
Oliver W. Coe
Conway
Sd Place
Catharine Conv
Fs Costello
William H. Drury
Dunn
9Th St
Ann Dunn
Ebel
Lexington
Sophia Ebel
Ermold
Leonora Ermold
Fauls
Bellevue Hospital
Michael Fauls
Vflagier
Yonkers
Helen Flagler
Folsey
John Wolsey
Franklin
East 12Th St
Flatbush
Josephine T. Franklin
Friedmann
South 4Th St
Kate Friedmann
Oeed Jackson
Sarah J. Frost
Fugee
South &J
Newark
N.ee
Mary H. Fuller
Garvey
West 80Th St
Anastatia Garvey
Goodhart
Annabelle L. Goodhart
Grimes
West 44Th St
Michael Grimes
Heckman Place
Marret Griffin
Halpen
York St
Lena He
Hamilton
Percy Co
Hamilon
Hammond
Roosevelt Hospital
James Y. Hammond
Harris
Lexington Ave
In Memoriam notices for Mora Baldwin Holmes and Wolmes
In memory notices list Joseph M. Mora who died December 15, 1904 Minnie R. Baldwin who died December 12, 1906 and Michael B. Wolmes with a mass. The items mention Grace Hoboken and a morning schedule for canning bars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mora
Joseph M. Mora
Woodlawn Cemetery Access From Grand Central via Harlem Trains
Public notice describes Woodlawn Cemetery accessibility by Harlem trains from Grand Central and by trolley routes Webster and Je Avenue plus carriage. Includes contact for Books of Views and office address. Mentions crematories Rosehill and Lundertakers Frank E Campbell and ambulance services. Religious notices list St George's Church Stuyvesant Square with rector Rev Hugh Birckhead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodlawn Cemetery
Harlem
Grand Central Station
Webster and
Je Avenue
St. George's ‘Church
Stuyvesant Square
New York City
Hugh Birckhead
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chester Er An
Sv Idso Randelb Ranger
Irving Place Theatre
Miss Wyatt
Kahn—Lowenstein
Burkenroad
Salinger
Crosby, Hoyt
Lazarus
Alker
Fowler
W. S. Fanshawe
Dis
Trict Attorney
Jerome
Social Notes
Henny Coster Gmmet
Serottante
Laura Ommet
Lightning Ridge
New South Wales
Jaargus & Go. Jewelers & Goldsmiths
Fifth Avenue Cor
Street
A.c.chapin
OPERA
Schieffelin
Fily
Met
Ropolitan Society
Westinghouse Nernst
Bryant
Woward & Ms
Brentano
5Th Ave
27Th St
38Th Street
29Th Street
Fulton Street
Canal Street
Strith
Washburn-Crosby Company
Egypt and Its
Robert Hichens
Allah
Egypt
Oh Aman
Jules Guerin
Nile
Behning
LENOX
125Th St
New York Times Weekly Financial Review
Fifth Ave
Baillie Reynolds
London
All Booksellers
Brentano's
Bird. Heins
Erederick Heins
Hess
Ferry St
Joseph Hess
Hoy
Perth Ambey
William Hoy
Jones
Marion St
Frooklyn
William H. Jones
Kahles
Brooklin
George Kahles
Kauders
St. Nicholas
Ignatz Kauders
Koenig
Springfield
Fridolin Koenig
Kollmar
Troutman St
August Kollmar
Kuhan
Bowery St
Lipps
Ocean Grove
Lydia A. Lipps
Littile
8Th St
Cordelia F. Little
Osborne Terrace
Philip H. Longen
Asbury Park
John Ludlow
LYNAM
Delia Lynam
Wiseras
Macclinchey
Hart St
Theodore Macclinchey
Macmannus
Lefferts
McNeff
East 110Th St
Thomas J
Case
Mahon
Columbia St
Thomas Mahon
Martin
East 49Th St
Daniel B. Martin
William H. Pleuss
Poole
Geor
Cole
Powers
James W
Sonsee
Degraw St
Robert Powers
Radlauer
St. Ann's
Bernhard Ti
Eo Rathjen
van Buren
Meta Rathien
St. Ann’s
Bronx
Raymond Lenzo
Be Roberts
South 9Th St
John H. Roberts
Roberts
Palisade
Clarence
Robertson
South Orange
A J
Wiliam Robertset
Robinson
Boulevard
John One
Rohde
Frieda Sangabush
Schaffer
East 108Th St
Sigce Shaffer
Schmitt
Orange St
George Schmittes
Nat Fist
Claus Stadtlander
Strange
Ooline
A. Thiel
Susanna Thiel
Cne
M. Stobin
East 20Th St
Elizabeth Tobin
Dutton’s
Charles E. Swan
Hy Maye
West 23D Street
Rosehill
S Lundertakers
Frank E. Campbell
Werths
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