Jusserand Praises Greatest Auto Race At Club Banquet
At the Automobile Club of America dinner, French Ambassador Jusserand lauds a New York to Paris motor race as a bold voyage of exploration. He cites space conquest and dust problems, warns against neglecting slower road users, and urges continued global auto progress alongside American innovation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Automobile Club of America
Jean Juigierand
United States
New York
Paris
Colgate Hoyt
M. Jusser
Depew
Nelgon A. Miles
George Moore Smith
John Jacob Astor
Hoyt
Gov. Hughes
Mr. Hughes
King Solomon
Ruggiero
Rabelais
France
Pasteur
Suez Canal
Panama
Laveran
M. Jusserand
Alaska
Peking
Asia
Prince Borghese
China
Russia
Bering Strait
Canadian Wilds
Porter Praised At Montauk Club For Peace and Navy Role
Gen Horace Porter former Grant staff survivor and ex ambassador to France was honored at the Montauk Club in Brooklyn. The event featured songs praising Porter and remarks on peace war and Monroe Doctrine with references to the navy’s role in enforcing peace and The Hague conventions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Porter
France
Grant
Montauk Club
Brooklyn
Gen. Porter
Montauk
Timothy L. Woodruff
A. S. Higgins
Maryland
Bon Homme Richard
Navy
John Paul Jones
Europe
Ike
The
Hague
America
Porter Speaks On Navy Strength and Peace Policy
Gen Porter argues the navy is essential and costly but necessary for peace. In his second speech he defends battleships heading to the Pacific under Rear Admiral Evans, saying fleet moves are peace preserves. Attendees include R Ross Appleton, William H Childs, John Dittmars, William H English, Charles E Knapp, George A Price, and Bird S Coler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porter
Pacific
Evans
Arctic Club dinner debates pole reach and drifting plan
Capt. Bernier presented a Peary message found in a matchbox and a Swedish flag relic, proposing drifting as the sole pole route. Explorers debated autos ships and balloons as means, while Brewer predicted a south pole discovery within two years and Bernier foresaw pole reach this year amid ice danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arctic Club
North Pole
Polar
Joseph E. Bernier
Arctic
Far North
Cone Island
Ferbert E. Peary
Bernier
Peary
Osborn
Amundsen
Felix Reisenberg
Wellman
Pole
William Steffanson
Alaska
William H. Brewer
South Pole
Capt. Bernier
Contractors Laugh At A Horse Story
A light hearted town gathering at Shanleys features Mr Metz defending his Jos while contractors joke about a horse tale. residents enjoy a jovial evening as the crowd reacts to the tall tale and playful banter.
Customs Inspectors Dine at Port of New York Dinner
The annual dinner of the United States Customs Inspectors of the Port of New York drew 251 attendees at the Hotel Savoy. W. O. Cloyes, promoted to Deputy Surveyor, served as toast master, with Gen. James S. Clarkson and other officials among the guests. The benevolent group offered vaudeville after the no-speech dinner, while other attendees and speakers praised the city and noted no graft in inspector work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Customs
New York
Hotel Savoy
W. O. Cloyes
James S. Clarkson
George Wanmaker
J.:.m. Bishop
H. C.tuart
Contractors’ Protective Association
Shanley
John Cloughen
Thomas F. Freel
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Mr. Freel
Freel
John J. Delany
Corporation Counsel
Mr. Delany
Thomas M. Mulry
Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank
Metz
McGowan
Auction sale of rare Lowell book linked to Conway
A hidden treasures auction in this city features a rare copy of Poems of Maria Lowell edited by James Russell Lowell privately printed in Cambridge in 1835. The volume, stamped with a presentation inscription to Moncure D. Conway and Lowell’s autograph, has long circulated among literary friends and is now offered for sale. Also listed is a privately printed Lincoln Ode with Lowell’s inscription to Mr Bigelow from 1865.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Russell Lowell
Moncure D. Conway
Maria Lowell
Cambridge
Mass
G. M. Williamson
Consway
Lowell
Lincoln
Harvard University
Mr. Bigelow
Peddie Institute to Become Boys School Next Fall
The Peddie Institute at Hightstown New Jersey will switch from co education to a boys only school starting with the fall term. Principal Swethind cites dormitory needs and parental sentiment against co education in boarding life plus declining girl enrollment. Faculty will remain until June then men will teach as a day school at the Hightstown Baptist Church brick chapel.
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Jules Verne
New York Times
Hightstown
N. J
Peddie Institute
R. W. Swethind
Institute
Men Peddie Institute
Logan
Hightse Town Baptist Church
Thomas B.peddie
Newark
Niuely
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Jusserand
Fanshawe
Franklin
Fulton, Bell
Edison
Panama Canal
Hippogriff
Col. Goethals
clares—Club
Paul Jones
Fiela
Ziegler
Florida
ST. Augustine
Neves
Ees Gy
Newport
South
Palm Beach
Biscayne Bay
Gulf Stream
Havana
Cuba
Florida East Coast Railway
Florida Keys
Knights -Key
Key West
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Adams ST
Chicago
Ill
Ea Er
Nature
MR. Metz
Jos
Shanley’s
Tcast
Boston
Philadelphia
James J. Larkin
Association
Charles L. Sidlitz
Joseph W. Savage
John B. McDonald
John P. Colahan
P. J. Scully
George Scannetl
Peters
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