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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
6
The notice lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, weekly financials, and foreign rates. It notes locations in New York and Newark, with pricing per week month and year, plus Canadian and foreign options. The document reflects 1908 pricing for the New York Times and related sections.
Readers are offered matted Daily and Sunday Editions of The New York Times at 75 cents per month, Daily Edition 60 cents per month. Orders can go through newsdealers or directly to the Publication Office at telephone 1000 Bryant.
A historian argues that representative government powers voters to choose agents who act in conformance with voter wishes while each legislator may follow judgment. In Oregon a pledge asks lawmakers to vote for the U S Senator with the most votes, regardless of personal view, a move condemned as surrender of self-control and a step toward absurd representative government.
The article portrays Senator William Boyd Allison of Iowa as a long serving, cautious organizer who has mastered Senate maneuvering. It notes his eighty plus years, forty four years in national politics, and a record of aligning with his state's and party sentiment while avoiding bold risks.
Obscure 193 vote tally at Mutual Life Insurance Trustees election sparks critique of reform turnout. Editorial contrasts banking reforms led by Supt Williams with insurance reform apathy, questions royal diplomacy amid Russia and Britain, and highlights tuberculosis law advances championed by Roosevelt and Huanes.
A reform plan treats banking knowledge as vital for bank receivers, enabling Supt. Williams to place a small bank under oversight just two days after the law’s signing. The restoration cost totaled $1,200, far less than typical legal retainer fees, sparking early returns within two months.
King Edward VII sails from England to meet the Russian Czar in a move seen by Conservative statesmen as strengthening the Anglo Russian alliance and Franco Russian ties. The visit sparks German praise for possible triple alliance while Russophobes in Britain and France criticize the monarch's stance on democracy and the Boer War ending.
The Cooper Union marks its fiftieth year with commencement exercises as trustees plan expansion. A 99 year lease on Tompkins Market property next to the Union will extend facilities for technical education in art and science. Trustees Parsons Cutting Hewitt Carnegie Cooper Hewitt and Rives pledge to seek city support to broaden access and capacity.
The essay argues the great white plague claims 200000 lives yearly, framing each life with an economic value of 5000 dollars and presenting tuberculosis as a national asset loss surpassing mines and forests. The passage emphasizes the economic impact of death from TB.
Observers note conductors sometimes miss fares and passengers ride free. The piece argues placards declaring theft won’t curb losses and may provoke misconduct, since fares are not always legally or morally required, and misreads could worsen issues on Third Avenue surface cars.
The American Medical Association launches an organized campaign against anti vivisectionists citing threats to medical progress. The piece argues anti vivisection stifles original research and warns England’s limits on inquiry show dangers of sentimentality. it stresses the need to defend medical science.
A reader from New York dated June 2 1908 urges the Public Works and transit leaders to clean and improve trolley cars. The letter criticizes dirty windows and asks if the Public Works Commissioners could order new cleaning work to treat the public fairly.
A New York physician argues that Italian Americans are rapidly Americanizing and that Italian adults lag in English fluency. He cites hospital figures from 1903–1908 showing Italian ward patients far fewer than Rome’s total, and notes higher tuberculosis rates among Italians here but few treated. He urges practical education and tougher immigration rules to curb criminal influence from the Black Hand. He also discusses art students facing tariff duties on sketches made abroad.
Helen Waldo, daughter of a Grant era veteran, approves Taft speech and rebukes unqualified praise in a New York letter dated June 2 1908. She cites the Solomonic wisdom about ruling spirit and honors General Grant's sacrifices amid personal odds.
An insider letter from New York on June 2 1908 argues against clerical control of education. It warns the Rev Joseph H McMahon could replace the best schools with a church backed system and calls for keeping church influence to religious and moral guidance within public schools.
Peary thanks The Times for yesterday's editorial praise. He says such friendly words help advance the desired end and expresses belief that his plan will proceed. He signs as E. Peary, United States Navy, New York June 2, 1908.
Public opinion halted the display of advertisements on Fifth Avenue buses. The writer Fletcher Brush suggests launching a crusade against bill boards to curb visual clutter and influence.
Poem narrates a quest for a pristine lake north and west of the narrator. The speaker rejects roads and engines, seeking wild waters nourished by winds and mountains. Images include fishing, healing baths, and a solitary, craggy landscape framed by nature.
From The Hague comes news that Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, former Amsterdam Print Collection director, will visit New York in early fall to catalogue private Dutch school collections. He revealed fifteen artists previously lacking documentary evidence including Judith Leyster and P Janssens. He is noted for Vermeer research and joint Rembrandt records with Dr Wilhelm Jie of Berlin.
The annual Cooper Union Woman's Art School exhibition highlights students aligning art with industry. Awards include silver and bronze medals for figures in illustration, life drawing, and general drawing. notable winners include Miss Ina Harvie and Miss Marguerite C. Hickey.
The Interstate Commerce Commission issued its ruling on released rates. It holds that a rate conditioned on shipper assuming full loss risk is void if caused by carrier negligence and valid if loss arises beyond the carrier's control. Valuation agreements are valid if tied to real value and stated by the shipper. arbitrary carrier fixes are void. An extra 20 percent charge on property not subject to limited liability is deemed unreasonable.
Reports allege railroads use the commodity clause and Sherman Act to restrain cotton markets. Case centers on Central Railroad of Georgia and Union Springs line. complaints filed with Inter-State Commerce Commission and Alabama court actions seek to curb railroad ownership of cotton compresses and centralization of crop handling.
The International Cotton Congress in Paris adjourned to reconvene in 1909 in Milan or Rome with dates to be decided. It urged confederated associations to coordinate during distress, urged European governments to expand colonial cotton, and discussed shifting to net weight purchase. The body also studied buffers against price spikes and proposed an annual cotton statistics program. American delegates see benefits but acknowledge limited chance to break the U.S. monopoly.
The President appointed Roy H. Chamberlain an attorney from Town and of this city as General Appraiser of Merchandise at New York. He is a son in law of Representative Hepburn of Iowa and succeeds Wilbur F. Lunt, deceased. The position pays 7500 dollars annually and carries life tenure. Chamberlain previously served in the customs service under General Bell and held a government post in Honolulu.
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