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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1908
Page
9
Mrs George Jay Gould plans a spontaneous natural performance as Mrs Van Vechten's Divorce Dance at the Plaza. Frederick Townsend Martin hosts a reception with Sybryl Bellew Frank Connor and Mrs Pruyn guiding a one act comedy for charity while Mr Gould supports the event and guests are seated to avoid crowds.
Mrs Drexel hosts a 4 dinner at 1 East Sixty-second Street for Széchenyi family members visiting Europe for Count Laszlo Széchényi and Miss Gladys Moore Vander Lilt engagement. Guests include Denes Széchényi, Anton Sigray, Stefan Széchényi, Esterhazy, Przedziecky, Laszlo Széchényi, and Gladys Vanderbilt. A future dinner dance for relatives and debutante nieces is planned this week.
Yale hosts its junior promenade with morning worship at Woolsey Hall led by Anson Phelps Stokes. Underclassmen form a single file along College Street as upperclassmen and guests pass. Tomorrow features teas and an evening Glee Club concert followed by social events at Sheff chapter houses.
Mrs John Jacob Astor has issued invitations for a dance and cotillion at her Fifth Avenue address tonight. The guest list features younger married society members, season’s debutantes, and notable strangers in town.
The Curtis Publishing Company declares it spent fifty thousand dollars on the Christmas issue of The Saturday Evening Post, asserting faith in the country’s and its own future and inviting advertisers to join the forthcoming Wave of Prosperity.
Funeral services for banker poet Ed mund Clarence Stadman will be held tomorrow at 4 pm in the Church of the Messiah on Thirty-fourth Street and Park Avenue conducted by Rev. Robert Collyer. The service will include Stadman’s The Undiscovered Country and Abide With Me. The burial will take place at Woodlawn Cemetery between the graves of Mrs Stadman and their son Frederick.
Boston figures praise Mr. Stedman as a national figure and benefactor of criticism. Biss Perry notes his universality beyond New England and his role in presenting American authors to Britain and Europe. Col Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Prof Barrett Wendell call his loss a blow to America and letters.
Nahan Franko, a veteran concertmeister, says the public’s music taste has improved and now favors Italian opera excerpts over musical comedies, ragtime, or vaudeville. He notes the Plaza tea audience mirrors broader society, citing patrons like Mrs. Vanderbilt and Andrew Carnegie and praising Cremieux and Lambert waltzes for novelty and appeal.
Samuel L Clemens known as Mark Twain lies in bed at 21 Fifth Avenue with a bad cold, hoping Bermuda sun of last year would have prevented it. Doctor Edward Quintard treats him as he fights bronchitis risk, while he remains in bed under careful nursing. Miss Dorothy Quick, daughter of Mrs Quick of Brooklyn, visits him at Tuxedo and Brooklyn meetings continue.
French baritone Maurice Renaud discusses Wagnerian ambitions and a diverse repertoire while touring the United States. He cites Paris and Brussels performances and hopes to appear in The Flying Dutchman in America, with plans to sing Don Giovanni in Paris and return to New York next year.
A showcase at the Manhattan Opera House saw star tenor Charles Gilibert cancel after developing tonsillitis. He was replaced by Simla and Arthur Kammerstein amid a large audience including Caruso in a stage box. Other solos at the Met featured Cavalieri Jacoby Journet with Mr Bovy conducting. crowd size varied.
The Top o' th' World will celebrate its th performance by moving down on Broadway at the Casino Theatre. It plays for the 2th time on Monday night Feb 3 with minor revisions after the holidays. The show features George Monroe Bailey and Austin with fewer Santa Claus and Christmas scenes and souvenirs are issued for the 00th performance.
The Interurban Woman Suffrage Council will visit the Hippodrome tomorrow evening with about two hundred people. Led by Miss Mary Garrett Hay of this city and Mrs. Creola W. Haskell of Brooklyn, the venue will be decorated with yellow bunting and banners and Interurban officers will occupy draped boxes.
Berlin reports a satire titled Cloud-Scratchers focuses on a German naturalized banker posing as a Yankee with four daughters. Three daughters wed Germans and Austrians, while the fourth, divorced from three American husbands, marries the bank cashier. The plot climaxes with a scheme to trigger a Wall Street panic to profit the banker’s son-in-law.
Special to The New York Times reports the start of statewide prohibition debate in Texas. On January 19 mass meetings drew large crowds at Bush Temple and at First Methodist and First Baptist Churches. Atlanta speaker W. D. Upsham known as Earnest Willie spoke at both sessions.
Mrs Josephine Downs Wood a noted pianist and Liszt pupil dies at her son in law Charles M Andrews Bronx home in her seventy first year Her father Horace Ely of Clyde NY sent to Weimar to study under Franz Liszt and she returned to America in 1871 with many northern city concerts Her last public appearance was with Joseffy in Rochester NY in 1871 She leaves one daughter Mrs Rosabelle Wood Andrews Funeral set for Wednesday.
The Rev Father Hugh B Ward pastor of St Malachys Church East New York died after 3 AM in St Marys Hospital from pneumonia. A Brooklyn native 82, he led St Malachys for fourteen years and was a noted Biblical scholar in the Long Island Diocese. He studied at St Francis Xavier College and the Grand Seminary in Canada and was ordained thirty years ago.
Charles T. Glen longtime Essex County lawyer died at his Elizabeth home. A 63 year old graduate of Burr and Burton Seminary he studied law with Cortlandt Parker and A Q Queasbey. He chaired Washington Lodge and belonged to Newark Board of Trade Lawyers' Club New Jersey Historical Society and Masonic circles. He is survived by his widow and four daughters.
Allen Campbell Barrows, 67, a professor of English literature at Ohio State University, died suddenly in Columbus. A Western Reserve University graduate of 1831, he taught at Phillips Academy, Western Reserve University, and Iowa Agricultural College.
Notices report deaths of Susan Graham in Nutley New Jersey Henry Gilbert owner of Gilbert's Hotel Richmond Virginia J Stewart Wells longtime Binghamton leader and former mayor Margaret Helm Rowan Irvington on Hudson New York Charles H Smyth retired iron merchant former Franklin Iron Works president and Hamilton College trustee Interment set for Princeton next Wednesday Surviving relatives listed for several entries
Horrigan, famed for tattooed chest and limbs, has deserted 13 times since 1892. Gen. Ainsworth ordered his recapture, with a nationwide alert describing he carries numerous matching tattoos. He was captured in San Francisco, awaiting court martial.
Frank Keenan told the Ameri can Playgoers Society at the Hotel Astor that a great American drama is not possible under current conditions The talk blamed prosperity and lack of home life as reasons He urged future drama to focus on the lives of ordinary people and the new rich while Samuel Wandell defended American drama as reflecting real home life and real experiences
Max Roseman celebrated the birth of three sons Selig Aaron and Osher at his new home 322 East 122d Street with an all day ceremony. Neighbors gathered before 9 a.m. as Boros Schivinsky Samuel Schromberg and Louis Zeltner served as attendants. Roseman recalled job loss and later recovery amid rent free six month arrangement and growing pride from his wife Rebecca.
On January 6 a daughter was born to Dr and Mrs Charles L Fox of General Schiff. On January 16 a daughter arrived to Mr and Mrs Henry Schiff. On January 10 a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Nathan Stern.
A series of marriage announcements dated January details couples including Grace Ford and Lindly Williams. Florence Newmark and Charles Abrams. Bertha Lyons and Bernard Alexander. Fannie Pachansky and Louis Back. Isabel Shone and Joseph Banks. Blanch Leehhoff and Elton Clark. Additional unions include Flora Schott and Charles Hecht. Adeline Niederwiesen and J Irving Hornbeck. Agnes Hanson and Gustave Kunkel. Mildred Speirs and Joe Marks. Anna Lohrden and Collina McLeod. Jennie Lewis and George Ritter. Celia Eichholz and Julius Rothbart. Emelie Frank and Dante Singer. Clara Schuman and Stephen Whelpley. Grace Blauvelt and William Waiters.
Death notices list many residents with addresses in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Entries include Richard Auguste at 12 East 19th Street and Mary E Baker at 16 Garden Place Brooklyn. Funeral details, private services, and interment plans are given for numerous individuals across January 18–24 1908.
A lengthy list of death notices and funeral details from Union Hill New Jersey and New York City addresses. Names include Kate Appel Atkinson Emma J B Atkinson Isidor Borchardt James Carter Thomas F Carney and many others with ages, addresses, and funeral dates where provided.
In remembrance of Bridget F Barrett who died January 21 1903 Mina L Froelich January 21 1907 Mass in memory of Michael J McCann January 22 at St Vincent de Paul Dedication of Henry Meyer monument at Cypress Hills Cemetery January 26 Unveiling of Frederick Nadelman monument at Cypress Hills Cemetery January 26 In memory of Mary Secor Platt who died January 20 1808.
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