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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1908
Page
7
Newport New Jersey July 18 the Newport Golf Club hosted a record turnout for an 18 hole medal sweepstakes. top scores were Robert Sedgwick Jr 75 net Alexander Moten 81 net and William Gammell 84 net. social news notes guests and visitors from Goelet Vanderbilt Dyer and Iselin among others attended dinners and dances at local clubs and mansions.
The July surf at Narragansett Pier Rhode Island drew large crowds as the highest waves of the season rolled in. Several rescues were needed and a life raft was swept from its moorings while promenaders including De La Montague Randolph and other notable guests looked on at Linden Hall in the afternoon.
Carl H. Schultz opens a store at 1129 Broadway between 25th and 26th Streets selling artificial mineral waters and cream sodas. Waters use distilled water and pure salts, offer Carlsbad and Marienbad cures without foreign travel, and are served at elevated temperatures matching natural waters. Schultz waters are used by over 1,500 physicians and widely prescribed for therapeutic purposes.
Special to The New York Times from Lenox Massachusetts notes two heavy rainstorms marred the day. The Lenox Becket baseball game was halted in the tenth inning with the score 8 to 3 as spectators from society looked on. The column then covers a string of social gatherings at Westinghouse hosts and other prominent residents welcoming guests and noting entertainment at venues like Erskine Park Four Brook Farm and the Hotel Aspinwall.
The third weekly Bar Harbor Swimming Club hop drew about fifty couples as the Boston Symphony Orchestra provided the music for the first time. The Bar Harbor Property Owners Association plans its annual meeting on Monday, July 27. The Féte Champetre for St. Sylvia's Church is set for Friday, July 31 on Miss Celestine Eustis's grounds. Hotel arrivals include Mrs. W. Harry Motley and party from New York City, Miss money, Miss K. Motley, plus Miss Mary Fitzgerald and Mr. and Mrs. George Perkins from Covington New York.
Forest Park Pennsylvania hosts a married ladies prize bowling event with winners Mrs Josephine Lederer Mrs Max Waterman and Mrs Eugene Wile. The shirtwaist dance attracted many couples. Moonlight boating by the Park’s younger set continues as new arrivals join local families and notable residents listed among attendees.
Miss Linda Corning and her mother, walking home from Arverne in a green and white tight fitting skirt, drew a crowd of about 5 400 on Third Avenue at 138th Street. Police used clubs to clear the throng as residents and bystanders pressed in, delaying the sisters for an hour and a half before reaching home. The skirt suffered travel wear and could not be worn again.
Dr William Thomas Power of New York married Miss Hsther Redmond daughter of John E Redmond Nationalist leader at the Church of Our Lady of Victories London A large congregation including many Parliament members attended Canon Fanning and Father Cox officiated Dr James Power was best man Bridesmaids were two sisters Redmond gave away his daughter A wedding breakfast followed at the Royal Palace Hotel Honeymoon planned in the west of Ireland
Quincy Shaw 2d buys the Bryce Allan estate at Beverly Farms with seventeen acres to convert into a premier north shore home. Mrs. Quincy Shaw 2d, long absent since her 1906 marriage, becomes a leading hostess amid Boston society. Her wealth and family ties position her among the North Shore elite.
Oyster Bay July 18 Miss Ethel Roosevelt daughter of the President has spent the day receiving congratulations by telegraph mail and verbally from friends and relatives. The President and Mrs Roosevelt hosted a fancy dress party at Sagamore Hill with many out of town guests. Japanese lanterns decorated verandas and lawns as dancing began and late supper was served.
Tab leaux vivants were staged at the Medaw Club in Southampton Long Island for charity benefiting the College Settlement and the Up lands Vacation Home for Consumptive Girls. An amateur vaudeville program drew a large Summer colony audience with patronesses led by Mrs. James L. Battley and Burtrall Hoffman modeling tableaux.
Dixon Boardman son of Mr and Mrs William H Boardman announces engagement to Miss Adele Collins daughter of Mr and Mrs Francis H Collins. He sails on the Mauretania on July 22 and has been appointed foreign manager of Hall Signal Company based in London.
Miss Rita Sulzbacher of Chillicothe Ohio to wed Louis J Halle of 110 Riverside Drive in this city. Miss Sulzbacher is a Wellsley alumna of 1907. Halle is a well known business man and was the first importer of the Mercedes motorcar.
Morgan Wheeler aged 15 escaped from the Industrial Home at Canaan New York to reach his mother in Manhattan Avenue New York City. In Children's Court Justice Wyatt placed him with his mother while his friend Walter Munday remained in care as his parents did not appear.
The Sherman Brown Stock Company will premiere My Lord Chesterfield at the Davidson Theatre Milwaukee on July 27. Written by Asa Steele and Walter Percival, Percival will play a key role. if successful, a rapid move to a leading Chicago theatre is planned.
Subscriptions and pledges for the Firemen's Memorial Fund bring the current total to 56326 dollars. The fifteenth benefit in aid of the fund is set for Dreamland at Coney Island on the night of August 25, arranged with the courtesy of ex Senator Reynolds.
Charlies K Hamilton, the young aeronaut, rose in his airship at 10 57 last night at Brighton Beach. A high wind swept him over the ocean but he controlled the craft and landed near his starting point at 11 08 after eleven minutes aloft, amid a cheering crowd and searchlight beams.
Young Russian violinist Mischa Elman will make his first American appearance with the Russian Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on December 10. Henry B Harris will stage The Travelling Salesman at the Liberty Theatre August 10 with James Forbes directing and stars Franz McIntyre and Gertrude Coghlan. Grand Street Theatre opens under A H Woods as an English melodrama house on July 25 with matinees Monday Wednesday and Saturday. Louis Werba says two more productions of The Futurity Winner will tour the Continent from England with Joe Hart in charge.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt guests with Mrs. Henry R. Hoyt at North Haven. Charles Hughes Jr will spend August at Southampton. Col Ayres and Mrs Ayres at Bay Head New Jersey near son Lieut Fairfax Ayres. Dr George E Maurer sails for Europe visiting England France Switzerland. Henry Sloane and daughter Emily at Hotel Belmont after Europe trip. Mrs Richard J Bowes and Pauline Bowes sail for London Paris returning September. Mr and Mrs William Hoffman to spend August at Bar Harbor after Tuxedo. Mrs Kingsland arrives at Bar Harbor from Scarborough-on-Hudson. Mrs Morton F Plant in New London to host July 21 Branford House dinner. Dwight family at Long Branch Ocean Avenue West End. Hitchcocks go to Adirondacks for August. T W Morgan Draper from Paris stays Hotel Wolcott. Ward Thoren at Hotel Wolcott then Bar Harbor. Judge A B Gray at Wolcott. Mrs Thomas Henry Whitney from West Eightieth Street to Stonington Conn.
Washington reports United States Geological Survey foresees Pennsylvania coal lasting 460 years at current use. Estimated original totals include 21.0 billion tons of anthracite and 112.6 billion tons of bituminous. About 17.0 billion tons of anthracite and 110.0 billion tons of bituminous remain.
Paterson New Jersey July 18. On suggestion of the Cleveland Memorial Association Mayor McBride initiates a fundraising drive to build a monument to ex President Cleveland at Princeton. He names an eighteen member committee and a meeting will form an organization and plan subscription solicitations.
The Lake Erie and Western Railway announces full resumption of work for its 350 shop employees effective today after operating three days a week. Nearby Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway says two thirds of its 600 workers will return to an eight hour five day schedule.
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Doremus New Jersey's oldest woman who died at 104 were held yesterday at her daughter Mrs Thomas Linnett home 26 Osborne Terrace Newark many attendees from across the state attended the services
Ex-Supreme Court Justice Roger Atkinson Pryor turns 80 and reflects on a life spanning Virginia, Congress, the Civil War, and a late move to law in New York. He recalls Fort Sumter, secession, and his wartime roles, noting then President Davis and Sam Houston. He now shares memories from his home on West Sixty ninth Street with his wife at his side.
The article notes Justice Pryor, Democrat and former Supreme Court Justice, admired Culberson as a nominating choice and predicted Bryan would falter a third time. It praises Roosevelt as a broadminded patriot and welcomes Gen Luke Wright’s War Secretary appointment. Pryor, 60, remains fit, with keen sight, strong voice, and a gentle philosophy.
Robert Davis died yesterday at his Brooklyn home in his 80th year. He served 66 years in The Evening Post mechanical department, starting as a fly boy and later delivering papers on Wall Street routes. He leaves three sons and two daughters. Funeral Monday at 5 o'clock at his home.
Charles H. Dale president of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company died yesterday at his Summer residence in Larchmont from heart disease. A longtime figure in New York business and clubs, he served as a director of the United States Rubber Company and the Merchants' Exchange National Bank and belonged to the Century Bank. He was a member of the Union League Club New York Yacht Club Larchmont Yacht Club Automobile Club of America and the New York Athletic Club. He was 56 and survived by his widow a daughter and his mother.
The column records several late July 1908 marriages including Mary Carryl Van Dyke to Edward Lang Perkins in Newark at St James Church. Jeannette L Cochrane wed Nathan S Finch in East Orange. William Henry Hallenbeck wed Sarah M Halleck in Givenville North Carolina. Frances Knapp married George L Henzel on July 16. Kitty M Popper joined Joseph Michel in July.
The notice compiles multiple death announcements from July 1908. Names include Edwin K. Bullis William Fairfield Burr Charles H. Dale and many more with residences in New York City Morristown Newark Hoboken and surrounding areas. Entries note ages relatives and service details with funeral timings or arrangements.
Hannah Louisa Whitman Heyde, last surviving sister of poet Walt Whitman, died at 81 in Burlington Vermont after months of illness. Born in Brooklyn she married Charles L. Heyde, a landscape artist and friend of Whitman. The couple moved to Burlington after the Civil War. he died years ago. They had no children. Her body will be sent to Camden New Jersey for burial in the Whitman family tomb beside the poet.
Charles Webster Howard died in San Francisco on Saturday July 11. A pioneer who went to the Pacific Coast in the early fifties he held the presidency of the San Francisco Veter something for four years and was active in insurance banking and corporate interests. He leaves a widow and several children including Shafter. Contemporaries such as B Uo Milla and James Gb. Kiassgin are noted.
Thomas C Kinney, a Manila attorney born in Virginia and once based in New York, died today from neurtonitis after an appendicitis attack. He studied at the University of Virginia and had a large Manila practice. He was not married and belonged to several local clubs.
The obituary notes the death of William H. Burr of Columbia and Lake View Oregon from pneumonia at Lake View. He graduated from Harvard University three years ago after study at Oxford Law School and Cornell Agricultural School before living on a Diamond Oregon ranch. He fell ill while en route to California.
Jaime Nuno a native of Spain and noted composer and musician who authored the Mexican National Hymn died at his home in Auburndale near Fiu on Friday aged 51. He led the Italian opera for nine years and is survived by his widow Kate Remington Nuno two daughters and a son.
A list of death notices from Newark New Jersey and nearby towns dated July. Individuals named include Frederick G Q Horton Molly Jones Charles Kayser Este slay Keene Auguste 31 Auguste Lapp William McAvenna James McGraw Mary E McNally John Moran Richard V O Brien David O Connor Partridge Joseph L Verley Gordon F Phelps Magdalena Polatschek Jesse D Rankin Caroline N Russell Exina C Seyerle Regina P Silbernage Peter Smith John Thorsen Catherine Van Buren Jacob Varey Aug Werbeck and others with funeral details and ages where given.
The ceremony in Henmham marks the unveiling of a monument to Max Lowenthal at Cypress Hills Cemetery scheduled for 8 P M Today with attendees expected from local organizations and family members.
Ideal Beautiful Cedar Grove Cemetery at Flushing six miles from East 34th St Ferry. Easily accessible from all parts of Greater New York with i cent fare via Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Plots $75 and upward. Booklets at Cemetery office 1 Madison Ave New York City.
Frank E Campbell offers chapel and ambulance services at 141-243 West 224th Street Chelsea with telephone access at 1124. Local firm provides funeral arrangements and transport in the Chelsea area.
Local paper box makers Hughes and Brother announce a Harrod plan offer. For a limited time out of town buyers spending four dollars or more will receive car fare and entertainment at Dr Roland B Jones’s Institution for the Special Treatment of Rheumatism and Gout at 58 East 59th Street New York.
The notice lists multiple Trinity and affiliated chapels with service times including 7:30, 10:30, and 3:40 PM hours. Churches include Trinity Church at Cedarway and Wall, St Pauls Chapel, St Johns Chapel, Trinity Chapel, St Chrysostoms Chapel, St Augustines Chapel, St Agness Chapel, St Lukes Chapel, Intercession Chapel, and St Corneliuss on Governors Island with varied morning and afternoon services.
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