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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1908
Page
6
A reflective note questioning the harmony of art and utility. It discusses the challenge of balancing aesthetic aims with practical usefulness, noting years of effort with occasional success and ongoing disappointment.
Cross Specialties presents mahogany or silver plate serving trays with sporting prints, leather or hand woven matting mounted under glass. Also offered are Do Bo ladies card cases stamp pockets pencil watches manicured boards with matching manicure sets. Prices start at $13.75.
An Albany source warns the Republican Party in New York faces its bitterest factional clash as Taft and Hughes camps feud. Ex Gov Black reportedly joins Hughes forces, while Sen Brackett emphasizes careful delegation and loyalty. Woodruff calls a Camp Kill Kare conference with Roosevelt faction allies to shape strategy.
Advert reads children's chamois white gloves WellsWots Coser 2244s e 08s for $1.00. Women’s white dress at $1.50. Ladies' gray, tan gauntlets priced $1.50 to $2.75. Silk lined gloves from $2.00 and wool lined options also listed.
Parsons poses to table Hughes endorsement again as Taft gains appear limited. The Republican County Committee plans no vote tonight at Lyric Hall to avoid openly opposing Gov. Hughes. Senator Page and Parsons drift apart over the Hughes push amid 1,200 returned postal cards showing 490 for Hughes and 300 for Taft.
Report says Gov. Hughes asked Massachusetts Senator AVinthrop Murray Crane to meet in New York with plans for a discussion at the Hotel Astor. Crane declined a Albany visit but offered to meet if he passed through Washington or New York, leading to a scheduled conference today.
Brown University seniors at the Brown Union authorized a committee to form a Hughes Club to boost Charles E. Hughes as Republican candidate for president. The move follows U S politics and Faunce's suggestion that students take action. Gov Hughes is a Brown graduate.
The Charles F. Tacies Club of the ninth Assent District New York City filed a certificate of incorporation with the Secretary of State on January 15. Directors named are Clarence R. Freeman G. F. Davis Fran Hendrick S. D. Livingston and W. G. Davidson all of New York.
In Albany a new gas electric rail car built by General Electric and tested with delegates from Delaware Hudson and American Locomotive and General Electric, achieved 60 mph with a 150 hp gas engine and 120 hp DC generator. The compact unit, operated by one man in a small space, signals potential use on branch lines.
Senator Grady halted the Wainwright Military bill citing state rights risks and guard autonomy under the Dick law. A Senate special order Monday restricts Governor time for consideration, tying Jan 21 enactment to national funds. Fuller argues Congress guides the National Guard in insurrections and law enforcement scenarios.
Albany January 15 Gov Hughes approves the Agnew Hart anti race track gambling bills as amended, proposing imprisonment as the sole penalty. Assembly Codes Chairman Murphy said no hearing has been requested, while Senate Committee Chair Senator Hill was in Buffalo.
Albany N Y January 15 The Senate confirmed Thomas M Osborne ex Mayor of Auburn as a Public Service Commission member despite opposition from Senator Grady and other minority Finance Committee members. Democrats argued the post should go to organized labor representatives.
Albany report lists bills: Santor Willite for State Fair Grounds development and 220000 for a Manufacturers and Liberal Arts Building in Syracuse. Armstrong seeks 98100 for State Training School site. Davis allows savings banks to invest in first mortgage bonds of ships. Agnew for Grant's Tomb care contract. Assembly actions include Keller on labor law hours, Stern on candidate ballot naming and extra jurors, Gluck on bank receivers' pay, and a manslaughter bill for hunting deaths.
A Blount Springs woman chronicled relief from indigestion after five years of illness and failed remedies. She credits three weeks on Grape-Nuts with improved digestion and a weight gain, noting morning walks became enjoyable and others reported similar benefits. The letter promotes the product and references The Road to Wellville.
Silas Olmsted's heirs dispute which of his six children are rightful successors to his Michigan estate. The New York Court of Appeals ruled New Jersey born children cannot claim share, despite prior Michigan divorce and New York ties. Protest continues to U S Supreme Court.
A dinner at the Aldine Association rooms on Fifth Avenue honored three recipients of the French Order of Public Instruction. Speakers includ Bishop Potter and Dr Percy Grant urged protecting workers as industry and invention advance, stressing safer lives and reduced burdens for laborers.
Professors Harold Jacoby and S A Mitchell of Columbia plan repeat Foucaults famous pendulum experiment in February to show the Earth moves. A 91 foot pendulum will hang from the dome at St Pauls Chapel on Columbia campus with a cannonball weight and a plano wire shaft. Mitchell will test Friday February 7 and Jacoby will test Wednesday February 12, a long-ago New York experiment not tried in years.
Henry O Trave Havemeyer head of the American Sugar Refining Company, died December 4 and his will filed in the Surrogates Office leaves the estate to his widow and children. Mrs Havemeyer gets the New York City home at 1 East 66th Street and furniture jewelry and personal articles with life use and annual income of a specified amount. The residue goes to trustees for Horace Havemeyer Adeline Frelinghuysen Electra Havemeyer with terms for the son’s share payable at 21 or 25 and transfer options after age 21. Executors named include the widow and the younger daughter Electra.
Captain John J. Lantry of East 51st Street Police Station rushed to his mother's home on Mast Forty sixth Street when a fire erupted on the floor below. With his nephew, he carried his 80 year old mother weighing 200 pounds to the roof to escape the flames as tenants followed. Mrs. Lantry sustained minor burn injuries to her hands. the fire caused light damage to the building.
Miss Agnes Hewson of this city will wed Sk. W. Dawson, an English shipping firm executive, in Bombay after sailing from New York aboard the Lusitania. The romance began in 1900 when they met at a dinner party and matured through years of waiting and letters. Dawson was in New York for the firm then moved to India.
William Helder aged 61 of 21s East Highly-fourth Street, a special policeman at Mount Sinsi Hospital, was fined $23 in Harlem Court. Police Commissioner Bingham ordered his shield seized after Mrs Anna Leh ler of 015 East Hightyurst Street accused him of striking her when she refused to yield her place in a patient line at the hospital.
The Lloyd Sabaudo Line said the steamer Regina d Italia will sail for Naples on Saturday. The dispute with English shipbuilder Sir James Laing & Sons, who attached the ship on November 2, was settled with a claim of 1 31,007, 640.
Justice Blanchard issued an interlocutory decree cancelling the marriage of Katherine E. Rogers and Edward K. Rogers after ruling the bride was under age at wedlock. Guardian Mrs. Grace J. Carr petitioned on Katherine's behalf. The couple wed Sept 31, 1904, honeymooned in Europe, arriving London Sept 2, 1906, and Mrs. Rogers later left the husband for Paris.
The Maryland General Assembly elected John Walter Smith to the U S Senate for a six year term beginning March 4, 1900 and declared William Pinkney Whyte the successor to fill the late Senator Gorman's unexpired term. The Republican minority backed Gen Felix Agnus for the short term and Judge Leon Motter of Frederick for the long term.
Indiana January 15. George B. Lockwood private secretary to Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Congress in the Eleventh District.
Two windjammer ships reach port within hours of each other after swift passages from distant ports. The King George logs 107 days from Hongkong to New York and the Glendoon completes a Hong Kong to Cape Town and back voyage in 12 days. The Glendoon’s captain Capt Robinson celebrates his honeymoon voyage with bride Miss Marcella Smith aboard.
The King George, under canvas and sunlit sails, neared Sandy Hook Lightship after completing part of its 15 000 mile journey. Logs show a 125 knot day in November and several 200 mile legs as it rode favorable trade winds from the China Sea to the Indian Ocean. It rounded the Cape of Good Hope with all sails set, covering 14 000 miles in 76 days before heading to Cape Town to unload 24 case oil and take on 40 tons of ballast rock, then returning to port.
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