Last Church Rites For Bishop Potter in Cooperstown
Funeral services for Right Rev Henry Codman Potter were simple yet public in Cooperstown New York with local Masons escorting the casket to the train. Business places closed at 11 and villagers attended the ceremony at Christ Church with clergy from New York participating and a small palm-decorated coffin bearing details of his birth and death.
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New York Times
Cooperstown
N. Y
Henry Codman Potter
New York
Dlot
Fernleigh
Christ Churchyard
Andrews Alley
Christ Church
George F. Nelson
Percy S. Grant
Church of the Ascension
Ralph Birdsall
George William Douglass
Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
Olmsted
Delaware & Hudson Station
Dr. Douglass
Body of Bishop Potter Arrives in New York In State Funeral
The body arrived at 6 45 PM at 125th Street Station with eight mourning coaches and a hearse to transport the funeral party to Trinity Church Cemetery where the coffin will remain in the reception vault until a permanent interment is decided. Family members and numerous clergy joined in the solemn rites as bells tolled from Episcopal churches across New York in tribute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop Potter
New York
125Th Street
New York Central Railroad
Trinity Church Cemetery
West 155Th Street
Boulevard
Alonzo Potter
Frank H. Potter
M. C. Davidge
Sarah. L. Potter
Frederick Ambrose Clark
Edward. S. Clark
Edward C. Potter
Col. Scrivin
Robert Maclay
K. Howard Potter
Stephen C. Clarke
Rudolph Birdsall
Christ Church, Cooperstown
Canon G. W. Douglas
Percy S. Grant
George F. Nelson
Canon Douglas
Cooperstown
New York City
Trinity
St. Paul’s Chapel
Grace Church
Potter
Trinity Chapel
St. Andrew's
Harlem
Creditors appoint trustees for McIntyre estate
Charles C. Burlingham Arthur R. Peck and A W Bonynge named union trustees and co receivers for the failed firm of McIntyre & Co at a creditors meeting led by Referee Peter B Olney. About seventy creditors attended and claims totaling $366 000 were proved. Net assets to come into trustees hands expected at least $100 000 with potential recovery from customers and undisclosed accounts. The ailing Thomas A McIntyre was not present and may not recover.
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Charles C. Burlingham
Arthur R. Peck
A. W. Bonynge
T. A. McIntyre
Stock Exchange
A. McIntyre & Co
Peter B. Olney
Irving L. Ernst
Ernst
Thomas A. McIntyre
McIntyre
White
Mrs Tower Wins Suit for Separate Maintenance
In White Plains on July 24 Justice Keogh ruled Mary B. Tower entitled to a permanent separation from husband Albert E. Tower the Poughkeepsie iron magnate. She will receive 700 dollars monthly alimony for life and he must pay the suit costs.
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White Plains
N. Y
Supreme Court
Keogh
Mary B. Tower
Albert E. Tower
Poughkeepsie
Tower
Ocean Travelers Sail With Packed Cabins Across Four Liners
Four large transatlantic liners depart today with cabins full. Listing passengers includes notable names aboard the Carmania, Minnehaha, Majestic, Caledonia and Atrato, among others from Liverpool London and Glasgow origins.
Yvette Guilbert Readied for American Tour With Brooks
Yvette Guilbert, famed French chanteuse, signs an American contract via Joseph Brooks of Klaw & Erlanger. She may appear in a musical or interpolated songs, with Charles Frohman holding American rights for a Paris production. Other Brooks engagements include Marie George and Irish actor Joseph O'Mara in Peggy Machree, cut short by Dennis O'Sullivan's death.
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Yvette Guilbert
Joseph Brooks
Klaw & Erlanger
London
America
Brooks
Mme. Guilbert
Paris
Albert Chevalier
Liebler & Co
Mme. Grenier
Charles Frohman
Marie George
Joseph O'Mara
England
Ireland
Peggy Machree
Mr. Brooks
Mr. Dingwall
New York
Dennis O'Sullivan
Art Unfettered in Chicago to House Modern Drama
Chicago set to host a free thirty week experimental drama season at Fullerton Hall. The Art Institute led by Charles L. Hutchinson and Donald Robertson announced the project on municipal ground to foster art without box office pressures. Performances begin the final week of September with weekly queue night and no admission fees.
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Chicago
Charles L. Hutchinson
The
Art Institute
Donald Robertson
Robertson Company of Players
Fullerton Hall
Will support Grand Opera in Philadelphia
Oscar Hammerstein warned he would hand over the opera house to a theatrical syndicate if $35 orchestra seats did not attract more subscribers. Philadelphia society figures expected slow but eventual subscriptions and said openings would occur on schedule once society women return.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Oscar Hammerstein
Benefit Show For Hebrew Children At Arverne Theatre
A charity performance in aid of the San itarium for Hebrew Children at Rockaway Park's Arverne Theatre will be held tomorrow by Lee Shubert and Lew Fields. Eighteen numbers to entertain the audience with many notable contributors including Charles and Nellie King Clarice Vance De Wolf Hopper George Monroe Lotta Faust and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockaway Park
Arverne Theatre
Arverne
L. I
Lee Shubert
Lew Fields
Charles and
Nellie King
Mimic World
Melville Ellis
Walter Lawrence
Clifton Crawford
Felix and Caire
Louise Gunning
James T. Powers
McWatters and Tyson
Irene Bentley
Margaret Dale
Rose Karbe
Gertrude Hoffman Announces Vaudeville Tour
Gertrude Hoffman finishes the season at Hammerstein's Roof Garden in Salome on Labor Day and will tour as head of the Gertrude Hoffman Vaudeville Company. The program includes nine other acts and will run as a combined attraction with regular performances rather than matinees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Hoffman
Hammerstein
Salome
Berkeley Lodge for Sale by Mrs. Harrison widow of President
Berkeley Lodge or Harrison Adirondack Summer home on Lake Fulton Chain is offered for sale. Built by President Harrison and used until his death, the log constructed cottage features two towers, a grand stone fireplace, and cheerful interior. The boathouse cookhouse and servants quarters harmonize in log style.
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Harrison
Berkeley Lodge
Wonder Plays for Greeting Company Next Season
Ben Greet has accepted three new one act Wonder Plays dramatizations from Hawthorne's Wonder Book. Pan dora, Midas, or the Golden Touch, and Bands, or the Children's Paradise are staged with Rose O Neill adapting. A Chicago trial with Walter Damrosch Orchestra precedes outdoor Columbia performances August 3 to 5 featuring A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Greet
Hawthorne
Midas
Golden Touch
Everyman
Star of Bethlehem
Columbia
Abramson Italian Grand Opera at American Theatre Opens Sept 5
William Morris announces the Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company will open the American Theatre on September 5 for a four week engagement. Afterward the house becomes a vaudeville venue with Harry Lauder among first acts. The Boston Orpheum will present Bandanna Land for four weeks before vaudeville policy starts. Morris plans a vaudeville circuit by October.
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William Morris
American Theatre
Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company
Harry Lauder
Orpheum Theatre
Willam Morris
Boston
Williams and Walker
Mr. Morris
Sullivan Considine
Amusement Notes Preview This Afternoon in Atlantic City
A. L. Erlanger George M. Cohen and a party of managers head to Atlantic City to open the Cohan Harris Minstrels Monday night. Notables attend The Merry Widow at the Aerial Garden and plans for European act Miraglio to tour America this autumn are announced. Billie Burke sails from London to star in Love Watches while Jules Murray secures Berkeley Lyceum rehearsals and Florence Gear begins Marrying Mary rehearsals on August 8.
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A. L. Erlanger
George M. Cohen
Sam Harris
J. M. Welsh
Atlantic City
Cohan & Harris Minstrels
William Loeb
Commodore
Swen
F. P. Morris
Garden City
John W. Vrooman
the Merry Widow
Aerial Garden
Miraglio
America
Jerusalem
Pain
Billie Burke
London
John Drew
Baltic
Jules Murray
Berkeley Lyceum
Florence Gear
Mary
Electric motor cars blamed in White Mountain wreck probe
Engineers from the New Haven system study whether short electric motor cars caused rail spreading on the White Mountain Express wreck near Greenwich. Reports say locomotives’ length and lateral sway may stress rails. NYCentral is adding leading trucks to fix the issue. The New Haven fleet costs about 1.5 million dollars with 42 cars, and lengthening them could cost nearly 250,000 dollars.
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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Greenwich
New Haven
New York Central Railroad
Scientific American
Twe
New York Central
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Bermuda fish for Detroit aquarium consignment arrives
A consignment of 800 Bermuda fish arrived yesterday aboard the Bermudian for Detroit's Belle Isle Aquarium. L. L. Mowbray of the Bermudian Aquarium supervised catching and arrangements for the long trip. The shipment includes grunt, ecowfish, angel fish, spotted hind, trunk fish and other sea life. The fish were placed in a special car with sea water to sustain them en route to Detroit.
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Bermuda
Belle Isle Aquarium
Detroit
Mich
Bermudian
L. L. Mowbray
Bermudian Aquarium
Michigan
Mowbray
Archibald Pell Opens Café Brokerage at St Regis
Archibald Pell presides a Wall Street firm in the Hotel St. Regis café as the first such office there. He plans formal quarters on Fifty-fifth Street but decorators work. for now he sets up a ticker and appurtenances in the cafe and greets customers who drop in to congratulate him.
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Archibald Pell
St. Regis
Tom Collinses
Mr. Pell
Wall Street
Fifty-fifth Street Side
Arion Singer Dies Abroad Amid Bremen Visit
Jakob Schrumpf, a member of the Brooklyn Arion Choral Society, died in Bremen after illness while the group remained in Germany. The Brooklyn singers arrived in Heidelberg to a warm reception, with a long procession and decorated carriages. Goebel, whose leg was broken, is to stay in Dresden hospital for several weeks.
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Frankfort-On-Main
Jacob Schrumpf
Brooklyn Arion Choral Society
Bremen
Goebel
Dresden
Brooklyn Singers
Heidelberg
Birth Announcement for Arnold Daughter
On July 28 a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Edward A Arnold in the family home. The newborn adds another member to the Arnold household as relatives celebrate the event.
Barnard Weds Wassung In July Nuptials
Delphine Wassung and Walter H. Barnard joined in marriage on July 20 in a ceremony announced by local society. The couple will reside in the city as plans for a forthcoming reception are set.
Died notices from a New York obituary listJuly 1968
A compilation of funeral notices and death dates from July 1908 including Batcheler Freed Geer Moore Murray Owen Pelzer Southwick Thomson Van Beuren Wright Adams Allen Anderson Beinhauser Bischoff Bourquin Brady Brewer Brisben Brooks Carragher Collins Conchie Cox Craig Daniels Diendomie Dougherty Endris Essertier Garvey Gavin Gawe Graham Hamilton Hatton Haynes Hermes Hinrich Hirsch Holme H Hughes Hunter Jager Kelly Lehberger Lehr Leipziger Leonard Lindsey McConnell McDonald Moriarty Murphy OBrien Osman Persennett Reilly Rose Scheurer Schlaubach Schmetzer Schoonover Stradinger Wainwright Warner Watson Weper Weber Wilgers and others with funeral schedules and locations in Brooklyn Jersey City Newark Montclair Yonkers and Westchester.
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Batcheller
Paris
France
George Sherman Batcheler
International Supreme Court of Appeals of
Egypt
Circular St
Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Freed
Deborah Freed
David Freed
Sam
Dick Bernard
Morris Jones
Madison Av
Mount Hope
Cypress Hills
Geer
Ophelia A. Geer
Edward Warren
Hortense C. Geer
West 44Th St
Moore
Joel Stacy Moore
80Th St
Brooklyn
Westchester
Fenn. Murray
Somers St
Hannah M. Acker
Jefferson Murray
Middletown
N. Jowen
Montclair
N. J
Mary C. Owen
James Owen
St. John’s Church
New York
Mest
Chambers St
Southwick
Colorado Springs
Col
John H. Southwick
Yonkers
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
N. Y. Thomson
Mary Hanna
William Hanna
Catherine van Dyck Thomson
Proadway Tabernacle
Taylor Drapel
van Beuren
Westth St
Elizabeth Spingler van Beuren
Michael M.van Beuren
Mary
Fenerden
St. Mark’s Church
Secona Av
10Th St
Wright
Farside
L. L
Charles H. Wright
Jordin
Mary P. Wright
Auburndale
East 44Th St
Adams
Pound Ridge
Timothy C. Adams
Allen
Clifton AY
Newark
Edward H. Allen
Anderson
West Freehold
Georgianna Anderson
Beinhauer
Oyster Bay
Elizabeth Beinhauer
Bischoff
Park Place
William M. Brisben
Brooks
Fulton St
Solomon Brooks
Carragher
Belleville
Edward L. Carragher
Collins
Hoyt St
John Collins
Conchie
Coles St
Jersey City
John S. Conchie
Cox
Tremont
James Cox
Craig
William H. Craig
M. Daniels
St. Nicholas
Clement L. Daniels
Diendomie
Lefferts Av
Union Course
Henry Diendomie
Dougherty
West
9Th Av
August Endris
M. Essertier
Hackensack
Mary E
Gawe
Manhattan
Greenpoint
Gustave F. Gawe
Graham
Palisade Av
Lyda Graham
Hamilton
Halsey St
Elizabeth Hamilton
Hatton
Forest
Bronx
Elizabeth i
M. Haynes
de Kalb
Isabell M. Haynes
Hermes
SO Holland St
Charles Hermes
Hinrichs
Sarah I. Hinrich
Greene Av
Hirsch
Prospect Av
Emma C. Hirsch
Emma C. Hirsch, Funeral to day, 10 A. M._ HOLME.—At 280 Kosciusko St
Charles E. Holme, Jr
Hughes
East 113Th St
Catherine A. Hughes
Hunter
Putnam Av
John Hunter
Jager
Marie Jager
Seuba
N.J
Charles Johnson
Ae di
Eho
Daniel Kaiser
M. Kelly
95 North
9Th St
James H. Key
Parerse
Latera
Newark, oy ottly = Margarethe P. ‘Lehberger. Paeras July 27. LEHR
George P. Lehr
Leip’ Ziger
Ziser
Me Leonard
Rath
Peter Leonard
van Pelt Manor
Wiliam F. Giidley
McConnell
Sith St
Lenora Tallman
M. McDonald
East 22d St
Margaret McDonald
Moriarty
West Fist
Dantel Moriarty
Murphy
Stone St
Helen JF. Murphy
O’brien
T Mutherry
William O’ Rien
Osman
Utica
David Ty Osman
Personett
Cedar Grove
George Persennett
Reilly
Newark Av
John Reilly
Rose
Bedford Park
Sarah BD
Scheurer
Prospect St
Elizabeth Bd
Scheuber
Schlbach
Stradinger
Charles J. Stradinger
Obituary notes from New Jersey residents and notables
Henry Geis of 245 Adeline Street Trentony New Jersey died at home aged 67. Warren L. Fish inventor of the first stove died at his Newark home age 73. Mrs Charles Emmet formerly Miss Alice Placide niece of Lester Wallack died at General Hospital Paterson She was an actress in the seventies and retired after inheriting a fortune. Mrs Emmet owned Garfield Cottage at Long Branch and lived there with husband Charles Emmet.
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Henry Geis
Adeline Street
Trentony
N. J
Warren L. Fish
Newark
Charles Emmet
Alice
Placide
Lester Wallack
General Hospital
Paterson
Woodlawn Cemetery Access via Harlem Line and Trolleys
Woodlawn Cemetery is readily accessible by Harlem trains from Grand Central Station Webster and Jerome Avenue trolleys, and by carriage. Lots priced from 150 dollars. Telephone 4855 Gramercy for Books of Views or representative. J Office 20 East 280 Street City.
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Woodlawn
Harlem
Grand Central Station
Webster and
Jerome Avenue
J Office
East 280
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Prs Bie
Algernon Burnaby
York Harbor
White Mountain District
Bretton Woods
Seth Barton French
Virginia
Barton Lodge
Wiliam H. Taft
Chateau Frontenac
Quebec
Aileen Roberts
United States
Captain Leslie of
Kingston
Bar Har
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Bar Harbr
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Morris
W. D. Sloane
Knox
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Joseph Leiter
Mr. Leiter
L. Z. Leiter
Europe
Edward Lauterbach
Alfred Lauterbach
Oriental Hotel
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Count Messiglia
R. D. Hitchcock
Frederick C. Harriman
Henry Hollander
Edgar Fredenau
Wrathwright Parrish
Scotland
Reginald Brooks
Westbury
Newport
Mortimer Brooks
Harry Alexandre
Saratoga
Lenox
Spa
John E. Alexandre
Duncan Cryder
Haggard
Albert Clifford Barney
Washington
Whistler
Henry H. Hollister
West Fortyninth Street
Cyrus Judson Field
Dobbs Ferry
Henry T. Sloane
Emily Sloane
Trom
Dark Harbor
Maine
Bishop
David H. Greer
East Hampton
L. 1
Lewis Gouverneur Morris
J. M. Bailey
James A. Burden Jr
Peter Moller
BB West Thirty-seventh Street
Hamburg
Jay
Mrs. Tower
Ocean Travelers
Carmania
Liverpool
E. S. Allen
George
Brackett
Douglas Buckna
Hugo Chartens
E. M. C. Davis
James W. Denny
A.E. Disbrow
John H. Easley
Grans Fitch
John Fleming
G. B. Gager
James L. Hamil
Charles B. Heartfield
John F. le
William G. Sumner
W. C. Talmadge
Isaac Verso
H. J. L. Washington
Rob“n Watt
William J. Ood
Minnehahba
J. W. S. Arnold
Albert C. Aubrey
D. A. Bishop
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Edward Bosworth
Jerome Chase
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G. Wythe Cook
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William S. Dilworth
W. L. du Bois
Charles W. Gorton
J. Watson Hughes
Ralph T. Keyser
Walter Frederick Knox
E. M. Parmelee
Charles E. P. Sanford
W. C. Shaw
John L. Weber
Ano i
Majestic
Southampton
A.C. Armstrong
Gertrude Bennett
W. R. Boughton
H. Colerdine
Dennis
E. Carroll
Daniel Draper
W. G. van Glehn
Robert Francis Harper
Dendy Marshall
W. A. McEnery
Franklin Pierce
F. E. Rice
Henry van Dyke
K. van Rensselaer
M. H. Solomon
M. A. Waas
C. E. Holle
M. K. Brown
C. A. Cipriani
F. A.hoctor
T. C. Gordon
Guilbert
Kian & Erlanger
Chevalier
Marie, George, and
Joseph O’mara
Mr. Hammerstein
Yellow
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Rochester Democrat
Boston Herald
ST. Paul
Salt Lake Tribune
Brentano's, Publishers
Fifth Ave
27Th St
Wonder
Greet
OPERA
Abramson Company
White Mountain
Putnam’s and the Reader
Arthur Stringer
Anne Warner
Elliott Flower
Alice MacGowan
Albert Kiner
Hugh Fraser
Alice Duer Miller
Skyland
Andes
Great Lakes
Taft
Bryan
Times
Arion Singer
Weirfield St
Eugene J. Wilgers
Duffield
Shakespeare Library
Comedie of Errors
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Shakespeare Classics
Romeus and
Juliet
Shakespeare
Spruce Street
Broadway
Schloss
Heidelberg Liederkranz
Frankfort
Tompkins
Fifth Avenue
Stephen Merritt
Frank E. Campbell
Chelsea
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