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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1911
Page
9
Barnard College seniors joined Columbia classmates for class day exercises on campus. Alumni awards, Phi Beta Kappa honors for 17 seniors and the valedictory were announced. Gifts totaling $148,783 and academic appointments highlighted the trustees meeting.
Andrew I. Ten Eyck of Selkirk New York won the $100 Sandham oration prize at New York University yesterday afternoon, topping five other selected speakers with a speech on Child Labor. Pierre F. Jones of Brookline won the second prize for a talk on Napoleon's Russia.
Miss Florence Aufses daughter of Mr and Mrs Samuel Aufses wed Harry M Goldstein at Delmonicos in a white satin gown with Duchesse lace. Rev Dr Aaron Eiseman officiated. A reception followed and they sail to Europe through England Germany France and Holland for their honeymoon.
Miss Birdie Baumann daughter of Mr and Mrs Samuel Baumann of 51 West Ninety Ninth Street married Milton Samuel Ballenberg last evening at Delmonico's The ceremony was performed by Rev Dr Isaac S Moses The bride’s sister Miss Rose Baumann served as maid of honor Best man was Jerome S Ballenberg and ushers included James Garrett Wallace Jr A Philip Bargebuhr and others They left for a trip through Canada after a reception and dinner.
Miss Marion Bigelow daughter of Edwin W Bigelow and Mrs Bigelow married S Worcester Sargent nephew of artist John Sargent yesterday at 4 pm in St Ann Church Brooklyn Heights. Bridesmaids Elise Flanagan Ethel Carhart Dorothy Strattan Jean Murray Une Jean Mallory. best man Winthrop Sargent Jr. ushers Julian D Este Louis Flanders Effingham Burnett Gorham P Sargent Fitzwilliam Sargent. Reception at 10 Schermerhorn Street. Sargent is son of Winthrop Sargent of Haverford Pennsylvania and Harvard graduate last year.
Plans for Miss Ethel Herrick daughter of Mrs Herrick Boston and Paris to wed Thomas J Prindiville of Chicago are announced. The ceremony will be at noon on Thursday June 22 in St Patrick’s Lady Chapel followed by breakfast at Sherrys. Matron of honor is Mrs Frank Grenville Curtis. Best man is James Prindiville. ushers include Paul Prentice Morris Metcalfe Frank Warren Alden Swift Frank G Curtis and Henry Lowe. The couple recently lived in Paris and now reside at 70 West Fifty fifth Street. The former engagement to Walbridge Taft was broken by mutual consent over a year ago.
Miss Katherine Boyd daughter of Mr and Mrs James Boyd of 64 West Seventy seventh Street married Henry Detrick Jouett of Boston Massachusetts last evening at the Hotel Gotham. The Rev Dr Spee W Work conducted the ceremony with a court train lace and tulle veil. She carried lilies of the valley bouquet. Her sister Miss Jessie Boyd was maid of honor in pink satin with sweet peas. Mark Jouett served as best man for his brother connected with the New York Central Railroad. a reception and dance followed in the elaborately decorated ballroom.
Miss Lucy Baldwin Walradt daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur E Walradt married last Saturday evening at Trinity Church New Rochelle to Prof Charles William Kennedy of Princeton University The ceremony was conducted by Rev Ralph B Pomeroy and Rev Charles F Kennedy with best man Prof James Southall Wilson and maid of honor Miss Marjorie Driscoll A reception followed at the bride’s home in New Rochelle The wedding party included brothers Arthur Cary Walratz Edward Trudeau Kennedy and several ushers from New Rochelle New Brighton Baltimore and Staten Island.
The marriage of Miss Katherine De lano Adams daughter of Mrs. George L. Adams to John Brecken ridge Brandreth of St Andrews Jamaica was held at noon in Holy Trinity Church Brooklyn with Rev. Dr. John H. Melish officiating. Brandreth is the son of the late Gen Ralph Brandreth of New York. The engagement had been announced last April.
Miss Polly B Rueff daughter of Mr and Mrs Benoit Rueff 222 Riverside Drive married Albert H Sternfeld of Philadelphia last evening at 6 30 at the St Regis with Rev Dr Blum officiating. The ceremony was intimate with relatives, the bride wore white satin Duchesse lace and tulle veil, carried lilies of the valley. Attendant Miss Lillian Michel wore lace over yellow chiffon with yellow roses, best man John Sternfeld. A dinner followed and the couple left for their bridal trip.
Miss Sadie Cable daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cable of 20 West 89th Street and Charles Dupee son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Prentice are announced. No wedding date has been set.
The New York Times notes a recount of $2 donated by J. W. S. to support a widow with eight children. The brief item highlights charitable aid during hard times and names the donor initials.
Ten feed financiers join the push for Votes for Women as suffragists plan a canoe campaign on Saranac Lake and consider purchasing a house boat to serve as canal trip headquarters. Mrs. Scott will organize in New York and the Woman's Political Union weighs a two deck craft with meeting space and living areas for campaigns starting mid June.
W Herbert Adams, son of Samuel Adams and Columbia graduate, hosts his farewell bachelor dinner at Delmonico's. He plans to wed Miss Gertrude Slocum of Far Rockaway at St Mary Star of the Sea. Guests include best man Thomas E Adams ushers Theodore E Steinway and J Rod erick Buchanan and several Adams family members.
Dr L L Danforth of 49 West Fifty second Street hosted a dinner for ten last night at the Buckingham. Guests included Dr W H Bishop Dr B F Wilcox Dr Sinclair Smith Dr G M Dillon Dr A R McMichael Dr E J Rudderon Dr R S Copeland Dr G H Boynton Dr W F Honan and Dr Decker.
Dr W G Schoonerover of Yonkers and Mrs Nellie B Morrison daughter of Ontario minister Aubrey White were married at the bride’s father's home 35 Admiral Road Toronto yesterday afternoon. The ceremony was by Rev Dr Eakins. The couple sailed down the St Lawrence River and plan to reside in Yonkers after a fortnight in Nova Scotia.
Yesterday’s programs across New York theatres featured Lolo the Indian mind reader headlining at Fifth Avenue with Montgomery and Moore and a slate including Cheyenne Days and Exposition Four. Alhambra listed Andrew Mack and others in new songs, and Secret Service and Monte Cristo played at Academy and Grand Opera House respectively. The Lion and the Mouse starred Kirny and Nordstrom at West End, Ginger Girls opened Columbia’s last week, New Brighton showcased the Mertons and more, while Orpheum Brooklyn announced Frederick Le Maitre and a varied supporting cast.
Death notices detail 1908 to 1911 will dispositions. Julius Hamel receives 1500 from YESTERDAY'S WILLS. Olga Brussel and Harriet Brussel Will inherit from Joseph Brussel. Theresa Fox bequeaths 2000 to Joseph Ox. Skevington heirs share 700 real, 200 personal, 350 each to Harry and Mary, 10 to Samuel J and Libby Sherman. Murray estate partly to husband James Murray. Patrick J Morgan leaves 3200 to aunt Ann McMahon. Isaac Klein divides estate between wife Fanny and children Frances Max Jacob Sarah.
Swift & Company reported weekly sales of Frya Beef in New York City during the week ending June 3 averaging 8.76 cents per pound. The summary notes state the figure as the average price per pound for the city market.
Dr and Mrs Walter F Chappell sail to Bernardville New Jersey for summer. Mrs Belmont Tiffany will sail for Europe on the Adriatic Monday. Mrs W K Vanderbilt Jr to close Roslyn house and tour Europe starting June 25. Ernest Warrin and wife open Stockbridge house for summer. Cornelius Vanderbilt sails with children to Europe then Beaulieu Newport estate delayed opening. Several social events and marriages precede European trips. Prof Bashford Dean and Mrs Dean sail for the Continent to attend museum conventions. Dr Ludwig Kast and Mrs Kast sail to visit Austria and return in October. Baron Rosenkrantz meets Baroness at Ritz and departs for Europe aboard Campania.
The Symphony Society of New York adopts Walter Damroschs plan for eight Friday afternoon concerts at The New Theatre Century Theatre. Programs target music students and symphonic lovers with no new works and a twenty minute Damrosch lecture. Subscriptions cost 6.50 for orchestra seats. house capacity 1 200, funding deficit covered by a 6 000 reserve.
Henry W. Savage wired from Berlin that Leon de Souza will create the role of John son (Ramerrez) in Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West in English. De Souza, son of American soprano Laura Harris, trained by his mother and Jean de Reszke, has appeared in Rodolfo in Bohème and other major parts. Last July he was hired to create the lead tenor in Strauss's Feuersnot for the first London production.
Julius Hopp announced a week of concert evenings at Madison Square Garden to benefit New York City wage earners. The Russian Symphony Orchestra of fifty pieces will perform Wagnerian, Russian, French and American programs nightly starting June 25 under conductor Modest Altschuler. Admission is 25 cents with no reserved seats and free for children.
Sam Bernard made a one night appearance at the Winter Garden during the first act of the revue. He joined the horse and cab stage prop, rode out, fell from the carriage, borrowed Arthur Cunningham's hat and Harry Fisher's coat, and delivered a speech in German before returning to his seat in the audience.
The Italian comic opera company opens at Iron Place Theatre tonight with I Saltimbanchi. Tomorrow sees the first New York Italian performance of The Merry Widow. Bert A. Williams joins F Ziegfeld Jr for The Follies of 1911, after starring in 1910. Vivian Blackburn to play Mrs Whitcomb in Excuse Me in Boston this August, continuing Vanity in Every Woman until then at the Lyric Theatre.
A crowded Victoria Roof Garden opening features a suffragette farm exhibit with female laborers and a lone male tending a baby. Visitors see a vegetable garden dairy and milking, sheep being sheared, a fish pond, and a Suffragette home with a man cooking while women read papers and smoke. The vaudeville bill heads Truly Shattuck and a lineup including Bert Levy Minstrels and the Soleen sisters.
Special to The New York Times Pittsburg June 5 Miss Julia Parrish Dodge daughter of Mr and Mrs Cleveland H Dodge of New York will wed James Childs Rea son of Mr and Mrs William Holdship Rea in Riverdale New York. The couple will reside in Pittsburg after a wedding tour with a bachelor dinner aboard Mr Odge s yacht tomorrow evening. Family attendees include Marianne Howe Rea and several Rea relatives and social guests.
Ernest Kaufman and his sister Miss Edythe Kaufman of 1980 Seventh Avenue were presented to the King and Queen of Spain. The pair are in Barcelona and plan to travel to London to witness the coronation festivities.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary issued a favorable report on the nomination of William H. Lewis, a Boston Negro attorney, to serve as Assistant Attorney General. He would be the first African American in the position.
Lillian Russell appeared at the Colonial Theatre yesterday afternoon marking her first vaudeville return to New York in years. She sang selections from recent musical plays and older works, including Come Down Ma Evening Star, a favorite from a decade past. The programme featured Jack Wilson trio, Bell family Mexican musicians, Bert Kalmar and Jessie Brown, Ed Blondell and company, Julius Tannen, the Rossow midgets, Paul La Croix, and Sharp Wilks.
Ger R. B. Brinkerhoff died at his Mansfield home last night keystone figure in prison reform. He led the Prison Congress and served as a delegate to multiple international conferences in Europe. He was 84 and had earned the rank of Brigadier General in the Civil War.
Marquis Emilio de Ojeda, ex minister at Washington and envoy to the Holy See, died in Biarritz on June 5 amid the rupture of diplomatic relations between Madrid and Rome.
Obituary notices list Willimantic City Attorney George B. Meloney who died at his home. Veterans Louis L. Beaubien of Detroit a Lincoln rescuer aged 89. Charles Incent Smith Russell & Co. China head died in West New Brighton aged 67. Frank Dana examiner at Port died near Tarrytown after pneumo mania. G Frederick Wolf market owner in New York died of tuberculosis. Sophie Ruf Ellis Island immigration matron aged with two children. Capt Day Liverpool to Japan pioneer died in Berkeley. Col F M Locke Texas secession leader died in El Paso aged 87.
Mrs William Elliott daughter of David Belasco noted playwright died in Colorado Springs after a prolonged illness. She married actor William Elliott on January 22 this year at the Hotel Marie Antoinette and spent their honeymoon in Atlantic City. She had pneumonia after returning to New York, later sought Asheville and then Colorado Springs for health. Her sister is married to Morris Gest vaudeville manager.
The notice indicates marriage and death notices are not intended for insertion in The New York Times and may be telephoned to 1000 Bryant.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Allen in Hartford on June 1. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Gross in Hartford on June 2.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Andrews of New Haven announce the engagement of Norma H. Andrews to John L. Brevoort of Brooklyn. The couple are planned for nuptials in the near future.
Notices of multiple marriages on June 3 to 6 1911 across New York and New Jersey. Entries include Katherine D Adams weds John Breckenridge Brandreth at Holy Trinity Brooklyn NY and others pairing Speranza Cerqua Morrill Forrest and Zabriskie Munn Lansing Zabriskie with locations in Montclair Roxbury East Orange.
June nuptials listed include Ida Spe ranza to Agostino Cerqua in Brooklyn Irene Locks to Harrison Dwenger in Connecticut Mary Roberts to Francis Smith in New Jersey Jessie Anderson to James Gall in East Orange Elizabeth Nicholas to William Greene in Newheim Wick Margaret Franz to Edward Miller in West New York Carolyn M. Jones to G R Shotwell in Westfield Olive L Beaumont to George R Skinner in West Orange
Died notices list Edwin Bradley Currier Jr Aimee Dealy Augusta Elliott Martha Harkness Ann Harrington Christopher Hawley Paul Henkel Mary Daniel Montgomery Sister Fischer Minnie Pfluger Arthur Cappan Pierson Phyllis Rohe Addie Smith Charles Smith Emma Ward John Waydell G Frederick Wolf with funeral details and private interments across New York and New Jersey, June 1911.
Obituary column lists numerous deaths and funeral times from addresses in Brooklyn Manhattan and nearby towns with ages and service times. Names include Isabella Brown Margaret Campbell Alonzo Dargen Garrett Hendricks Alice Kleinschmidt Anna Ling Joseph McLarney Michael Mulhall Mary Pohlmann Henry the Reverend Thomas Roach Albert Rohtermel Catherine Sullivan Lillian Weis Thomas Nealis Julia Nill Fanny Stroller Ernest Succow Lena Tholon Evelyn Trigge Evelyn Wilton Patrick Woods Allen Zavalet and many more with multiple birthplaces and dates in June and across New York State and New Jersey. Funerals are scheduled for today or tomorrow at various times with private services or public viewings.
In Wemortam today officials report Owen Cummings mass at St Rose of Lima's Newark and Mary McDonnell mass at Saint Francis of Newark both at 8 A M.
Funeral services completed at g75 funeral. contact Riverside at phone 2070 for details.
Easy access noted for Books of Views with telephone contact 4855 Gramercy and representative. Office located at 26 East St N OPTY. Lot numbers 9180 and up referenced.
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