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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1915
Page
13
Oliver Carley Harriman elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Harriman wed Loise R. Bisbee daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elton Bisbee at St Bartholomew's Church. The ceremony followed by a reception at West Seventy-Eighth Street. Attendants and family members named, guests included many Harriman relations and Bisbee connections.
Miss Marian Stickney Osgood daughter of Professor Herbert L. Osgood and Mrs Osgood married Dixon Ryan Fox at St Pauls Chapel Columba University with Chaplain Raymond Knox and Rev Harold Pattison officiating. Best man was Professor Carlton Hayes and Alpha Chi Rho ushers attended. A small reception followed at the bride’s home.
Transatlantic liners arriving yesterday bring passengers including Mrs. Mies and Miss Alston among multiple travelers listed. Names recurring across liners include Mr. Florence, Miss Tow, Mrs. Newton Fort, and several others, with ships tied to Liverpool and St. Louis reporting on the arrivals.
William Hall Campbell a wealthy drug importer of 80 Maiden Lane and North Plainfield N J will wed Miss Mabel Raper daughter of Mrs Augusta Raper at All Saints Episcopal Church Bayside S I tomorrow The Rev Charles A Brown rector will perform the ceremony only immediate relatives attend Afterward the couple will reside in North Plainfield
Eugene Lebner Steindler son of Mr and Mrs David M Steindler New York and Miss Marjorie W Schloss daughter of Mr and Mrs Benjamin Schloss West Sixty eighth Street were married yesterday at Delmonico's Rev Stephen S Wise officiating The bride wore white satin with lace from her mother and a tulle veil The bridal party included Mrs Walter Heas as matron of honor Dorothy J Baston as flower girl and Samuel W Cohen as best man Ushers included Malcolm Schloss Milton Steindler Percival Steindler George Wagner and Arthur Richman The couple will reside in Cabalt Canada where Steindler is a mining engineer
Miss Miriam Neuburger daughter of Mr and Mrs David Neuburger of VII Park Avenue will marry Albert J Alsberg in a six o'clock ceremony at Delmonico's. Rev Rudolph Grossman will officiate with maid of honor Ruth Arnstein, flower girls Sylvia Koenig and Maxine Sondheim, best man Sidney Alsberg, and ushers Milton Fisher Elliott Sterling Bernard Heineman Seymour Ottenberg.
The wedding of Mrs. Phoebe Hayward Slocum and Henry Hyde Whitman occurred yesterday at the bride’s sister Mrs. Everett L. Judkins residence on East Sixty-fourth Street. The Rev. William Walton Clark officiated. Whitman, a member of the University Club, is a Columbia University alumnus from the class of RO.
The traveling saleswoman heroine from Edna Ferber’s Roast Beef Medium is set to reach the stage with Ethel Barrymore in the role of Emma Mc Chesney. Arrangements were completed for her appearance in George O Hobart’s stage version after rights were secured by Joseph Brooks and negotiations with Charles Frohman followed.
Frederick W. Seward former Assistant Secretary of State under Lincoln died April 25 at Montrose. His will filed in White Plains names a $10,476.59 debt to Mrs. Mary Gibson to be paid with securities, then leaves the remainder to his widow Anna Seward. The will directs the balance be divided equally between her kin and his kin after the widow's death.
Sixteen relatives of lumberman Enoch R. Tuthill seek to block testimony about a will substitution in a $200000 estate now controlled by Mrs. George W. Debervoise, sister of the decedent's late wife, with Supreme Court action set for June 14 before Justice Greenbaum after prior appellate rulings on technical points.
A sequence of social items from Easthampton to Newport notes a special train for Mildred Poor and Dr. Lawacgee Garrett, dinner invitations at 151 Central Park West, a Cedarhurst lecture by Henry Davison for Polish relief, and more travel plans. It lists engagements for Elizabeth Hotchkiss and Walter Marsden Jr., double weddings in New York, and an Admiral Ward garden show for Neuilly hospital aid.
Charles B. Dillingham takes over the New York Hippodrome from the Shubert-Anderson era and plans a drastic overhaul to reopen in September with a large scale spectacle, prioritizing music and European style entertainment. He will feature a patriotic work All America and has secured a global slate of acts plus a big orchestra.
Baron Andrew Vincent de Patterson and Anita Baldwin Turnbull, daughter of the late L. Baldwin, wed by Justice Charles Silloway after Dr. Alexander Mann refused to officiate due to the baron’s recent Ohio divorce. The 43 year old groom describes himself as a financial organizer with ties to banks across France and Latin America and holds titles from Portugal and Spain.
The second week in June keeps many shows running in New York. Twin Reda and Under Cover playhouses cross schedules at Harris and Cort while Chin-Chin and The Birth of a Nation draw crowds at Globe and Liberty respectively. Star Mary Pickford headlines Standard with The Dawn of a Tomorrow, and Meets Me at Seven headlines Vitagraph alongside Goddess chapter five. Vaudeville bills feature Elizabeth Brice and Charles King at New Brighton, plus Murphy and headliners at Proctor's and Fifth Avenue. Baseball Flirtation stars at Mil.
Eva Tanguay did not appear at the Palace yesterday. Frank Tinney was brought back for one week after a management decision amid a program reshuffle. Tinney delivered a lively set with a pastiche routine, while Foster Ball Joe Jackson and a Metropolitan Opera Ballet company shared the rest of the program.
Entertainer Nora Bayes joined the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic at the New Amsterdam Theatre last night adding new songs to her vaudeville repertoire. She performed in her best style, helping to heighten the holiday mood as the show’s merry lineup grows.
Lady Mackenzie returns from Faust Africa with film trophies of big game. The Lyceum Theatre screened her footage showing zebras, vultures, antelope, a rhino, and a charging lion. W W Roberts narrated with enthusiasm while the huntress received roses and flowers flooded the venue.
In Tokyo on June 7 the Emperor and Privy Council approved new treaties with China negotiated after China accepted Japan's ultimatum. The treaties will be ratified tomorrow. In the Japanese House of Representatives the Opposition failed to topple the Cabinet, 130 to 232, and Viscount Oura faced corruption accusations over a $500 March election gift. In London Lord Robert Cecil outlined Britain's stance to the Commons on China Japan notes.
Officers aboard the Cameronia reported it arrived from Glasgow and Liverpool after departing New York on May 1 with troops and horses for Devonport. The contingent included the Twenty-fourth Regiment of Canadian Isles, the Twenty-eighth Bermudian Rifle Corps, and the Calgary Rough Riders. On the voyage six torpedo destroyers escorted the ship until the Tay coast where six submarines relieved them. One Cameronia officer said four German submarines surrendered after being entangled in the Tay bridge nets for sixty-two hours.
Lady Herbert president of the British American War Relief Fund reports a letter from Sir William Garstin of the British Red Cross. He thanks the fund for the continued supply of relief materials to Kenya let nations hospitals. The stores are described as of incalculable value to 900 hospitals relying on the aid.
The will of George S Barnard filed in St Iannis on June 7 leaves the 2,000,000 estate after legacies and business needs to the St Louis Skin and Cancer Hospital which he founded. Swift Company reports New York beef sales for the week ending Saturday June. Domestic beef 12.08 cents per pound and imported beef 11.02 cents per pound.
Dudley Bartlett of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum reports that German methods favor commission agents in Europe. He urges American manufacturers to appoint local agents in key cities, preferably English, to sell on commission and outlines London trade clustering, wholesale-retail dynamics, and the role of English buying departments in securing orders and financing through discounts.
John M Hickey a leading figure in Klaw & Erlanger and Liebler circuits died Sunday night at Polyclinic Hospital aged 65. He managed stars like Barney Macauley in The Messenger from Jarvis Section and Shakespearean actor John Griffith. His productions included Merely Mary Ann and The Ghetto. He lived at 5 West Fiftieth Street and his funeral was at 10 am at Leon T Stowe chapel at West Fifty-first Street. His first wife left him a daughter Edna.
Justice Benedict in the Brooklyn Supreme Court orders Samuel L Peckerman to pay Rose Peckerman alimony of $25 a week and $75 counsel fees after a dispute over a pre-nuptial financial agreement. The decision finds the wife a helpless victim in a conflict between her husband and her father and affirms support obligations.
Colonel Alexander S. Merritt longtime George S. C. Strong West and Kings County G A R leader died at Jewish Hospital Brooklyn after an operation. Born in 1847 he enlisted at 17 in Company F Second Duryea Zouaves fought at Port Hudson Winchester Cedar Creek and Andersonville where he was held. He lived at 227 Madison Street with his wife three sons and three daughters.
Allan Fawcett, stage manager for Maude Adams and actor in her company, was found dead in his San Francisco room. His body to be sent to New York. he had earlier performed in Electricity at the Lyceum and Chantecler at the Knickerbocker, later appearing in Peter Pan at the Empire. His brother George Fawcett is in Los Angeles.
Notable deaths include John Ht Burke long time Saratoga Democratic leader and county chairman. Nancy Riggs of New Jersey. Henry Holden a famed English cricketer and American football captain. William H Staub Zurich born Brooklyn resident. John F Farley a Brooklyn engineer. Grace V Craw active church worker. James W Webb Civil War veteran and Duryea's Zouaves hero. Edward F Rourke Long Island City trader. Tracey Becker Buffalo State Hospital manager. Richard S Brown Westinghouse employee. Canty wife of mining engineer. Captain Francis J Hurd Boston harbor master. Helen Louis Anthon Morristown widow of church founder. Leonard Silber salesman. Capt Edward Brandow Hudson River steamboat captain. Elias M Rinear former state senator. Patrick Clark Idaho mining magnate. Arthur Irving Griggs director. Nicholas Espenschheld retired hatter. Belin Abraham clear merchant. Many named cities and professions listed with ages and residences.
The Rev Dr Jesse Burgess Thompson theologian author and pastor emeritus of the Baptist Temple Brooklyn died Sunday night at a Gates and Grand Avenues sanitarium in his eighty third year Born in Edwardville Illinois he was son of the late Jesse B Thompson Illinois Supreme Court justice He held degrees from Kenyon College University of Chicago and Georgetown College and taught church history at Newton Theological Seminary He served multiple Brooklyn pastorates and wrote works including The Old Bible and the New Testament The Hold of Doctrine and The Parables of the Kingdom.
Colonel William H. Munn a Civil War veteran and longtime merchant died today in a Troy hospital at age 77. Enlisting as a private in the Fourteenth Vermont Volunteers he earned the rank of captain and was later promoted to colonel. He was a prominent Mason in New York and Vermont.
Notices regarding marriages and deaths are to be submitted by phone to 100 Bryant for insertion in The New York Times. The service invites readers to relay marriages and deaths via the telephone line provided.
In New Rochelle at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O Faulkland Lewis Alice W Sabine sister of the bride daughter of Bishop William T Sabine to Francis W Coles Jr. In Brooklyn Christ Church by Rev De F Johnson Alanson Trask Enos Jr to Dorothy Halbert Sutphin. Elizabeth Woodruff Howell Kirkpatrick to William P Hardenbergh Jr at Short Hills New Jersey. Marjorie W Steindler to Eugene Lochner Steindler. Elizabeth b Dunning to Kennard Underwood. Phoebe Hayward Slocum to Henry Ryde Whitman. June 6 7 1915 notices also London Myers Charlotte Myers to Emanuel A London.
A collection of funeral announcements and memorials for multiple individuals across New York and nearby areas. Entries include Felix H Abraham, Amalia Van Valkenburgh Anthony, Edwin S Bennett, Mary Gay Carrington, Henrietta Cohen, Joseph J Cotter, Freeman M Edgar, Mary J Van Nostrand Ferguson, Arthur Irving Griggs, Mary A E Heaney, John M Hickey, Richard Hobbes, Timothy Hurst, Philip Kelly, Alfred Levy, Claus Meyer, and others. Details cover residences, church services, and interment plans.
A lengthy column lists numerous death notices and funeral details across New York City, Jersey City, Newark and nearby towns. It records names such as Margaret Todd Millar, Dorothy M Krohrig, Edward F Rourke, Kathrina Chuzius, Conrad Frickel, Hertha Prange, Adalbert Greenshaw, and many others with dates, ages, and funeral arrangements.
In Wemnoriam Ackermann, Marie Ackermann mourns her husband Bernard L. Ackermann who died June 8, 1001. Notices list solemn requiem masses at Van Nest Borough of Proms and Cathedral Newark and St. Aloysius Newark with dates June 9 and June 11. Members, relatives, and friends invited.
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