Board tackles ventilation and salaries in busy session
The Board of Education voted to study ventilating and heating in 562 city public schools and consider four janitor engineers. It approved hiring MIT expert S H Woodbridge for advice on the latest plant design. The board also increased City Superintendent Maxwell and eight associate superintendents salaries despite internal opposition.
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Board of Education
Maxwell
C. B. J. Snyder
New York
Snyder
Brooklyn
Committee On
Building Bureau
Stern
Supt. Maxwell
Dr. Maxwell
Higgins
Commissioner Wingate
Wingate
Jonas
Aldcroft
Francolini
Gen. Wingate
Battle Drill At Camp Seventy First Regiment Practice
State Camp Peekskill June 13 continues rigorous cavalry training. Seventy first Regiment Squadron C and Troop D perform extended order and close order drills with battle formations and advance guards. Captain Lyon lectures on riot duty. Revolver match starts today and returns tomorrow with scores. Tomorrow features excursion, Veterans visit, and numerous athletic events with hundreds of entries.
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New York Times
Peekskill
Lyon
Seventy-first Regiment
Company B
Seventy-first
Kaiser Wilhelm II Delayed By Propeller Damage Arrives Late
The North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm II reached port after losing half a starboard propeller blade. Chief Engineer Schrieber located the damage in midOcean. the ship slowed to a slow pace as a precaution. Immigration officers detained Herr L Fischer at Ellis Island on German government request. The Caronia and Oceanic also docked, bringing many saloon passengers including notable names such as Duncan Cryder and George L. Bourne.
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Schrieber
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Oceanic
Herr L. Fischer
Ellis Island
Germany
Herr Fischer
Caronia
Hners
Duncan Cryder
W. B. Leeds
E. B. Ayer
Oscar Bolza
F. L. Eldridge
A. I. Hamilton
E. Townsend Irvin
A. E. Pratt
Quay
Pennsylvania
Miss Quay
Henry Schenck
Samuel Sachs
J. Stevens Ulman
E. L. Frisbee
W. D. Sloane
Hugh Auchineless
L. H. Babcock
T. D. Bushnell
Edward EB. Hall
Dallas
D. L. McGrew
Thomas McKean
McKean
J. G. Newcomb
H. C. Tilden
E. H. Weatherbee
C. E. Young
G. F. Whiting
H. H. Porter
Hudson Centennial Plans for 1909 Celebration
The Hudson Fulton commission outlines a naval and land parade with oratory memorial dedications and parks. Plans call for facsimile Half Moon and Clermont ships, a VerPlanck Point State Park, Inwood Park, a Dyckman Street viaduct, and a Sept 20 1909 start date with Sept 23 1909 anniversary.
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Inwood
Verplanck’s Point
United States
Great Britain
Netherlands
Merchant Marine
Government of
Holland
Clermont
Albany
Grand Army of the Republic
Riverside Drive
Claremont
Hudson Memorial Bridge
Spuyten Duyvil Hill
Dyckman Street
Inwood Hill
Washington Heights
Stony Point
Hudson
New York
Fulton
May show Biondi's Saturnalia at issue in court
The Appellate Division heard Biondi's appeal over damages from the Metropolitan Museum of Art for not displaying Saturnalia. The museum argued Gen di Cesnola had no authority to exhibit and that Biondi acted as his own agent, making an exhibit contract improper. The court reserved its decision.
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Biondi
Saturnalia
Supreme Court
Justice Leventritt
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Robert W. de Forest
Gen
di Cesnola
Ocean travelers board multiple transatlantic liners
Passengers sail for France on the La Touraine including Mme Sarah Bernhardt and notable travelers. On the Deutschland Barbarossa Rear Admiral Yates Stirling and family depart for Bremen. Hamburg America liner Bluecher carries George Cleveland and several couples to Hamburg.
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France
Mme
Sarah Bernhardt
C. Carter
Carter
H. B. Glover
Pierre Julien
C. F. Janson
George F. Marion
E. C. Weeks
Edward T. Ryder
Count Jean de Valon
Bremen
Will Gall
Yates Stirling
George Cleveland
Charles Doherty
Seymour Davis
A. Marshall Elliott
George F. Fiske
C. H. Hildreth
L. H. B. Kissam
Frederic Palmer
Jules Reese
Normal College Head Quits After 37 Years Service
Dr. Thomas Hunter resigns as President of the Normal College effective September 1 after nearly 37 years in office. He began as a 19 year old teacher at Public School No. 85 and later led the college through its shift from normal school to a four year high school and three year college program. The board grants him a $5,000 annual pension and honors him with President Emeritus while preparing a memorial of his career.
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Thomas Hunter
The
Normal College
Boa
Times
Hunter
Board of Education
Board of Trustees
William A. Wilmer
the Normal College
Wilmer
Dr. Hunter
Man
Thirteenth Street
Ireland
Santry
America
College of the City of
New York
United States
City
S. Randall
Broadway
East Fourth Street
New York University
Arthur Forbes
Presbyterian
McCracken
University
Forbes
University of Omaha
Finley
Nebraska
Omaha
J. Finley
Cowan Plans Skiddoo Day Parade in Thirtieth District
John F. Cowan Tammany leader and Aqueduct Board president announces Skiddoo Day for June 23 to entertain 23 000 children at Mount Morris Park. Parade features 23 bands 23 regiments 23 autos with May Queens and multiple district floats led by notable local figures.
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John F. Cowan
Tammany
Thirtieth Assembly
Aqueduct Board
Cowan
Mount Morris Park
Scho 1
Johnny Meehan
Park Row
Meehan
Sinkers
Handsome Bill
Baumgaertner
Herr Baumeanener
Police Ice Cuts Spark Rural City Outrage
Police Commissioner Bingham slammed wasteful ice use in his department announcing a cut in daily ice allowances. He will limit to twenty five pounds for four offices and fifty pounds on the third floor, with Croton water replacing ice in some stations. He defended new automobile purchases and boasted of a Brooklyn trip, while promotions included Patrolman James R. Donoghue amid a bribery probe involving reporter Charles R. Price.
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Bingham
Slattery
Bureau of Information
Gen. Bingham
Croton
Brooklyn
James R. Donoghue
West 100Th Street
Mathot
Charles R. Price
Italian Funeral Stop Sparks Montclair Tense Scene
Health Inspector Wells halted the public funeral for Lucy Andolino in Montclair after learning the child died of diphtheria. Nineteen coaches were ordered to discharge passengers and return home. a crowded Italian community resisted briefly before calming. All coaches were fumigated.
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New York Times
Montclair
Wells
Lucy Andolino
Society Notes on Engagements and Weddings
Mrs. Francis Ingram Palmer announces the engagement of Maud Gerrard Palmer to William Fearn of Lincoln's Inn London. June 30 wedding at St Mary the Virgin chapel with intimate guests. Also, Miss Mary Hopeton Smith to Henry V. Register to marry June 25 at St James's Church Smithtown L I with sister as only attendant. Miss Louise Aldrich to William Meissner wed this afternoon at All Souls West End Ave. A small reception will follow. New Rochelle wedding: Miss Fanny Iselin and Philip Livermore, quiet ceremony due to a brother's death. bridal tour to Paris. Delmonico's hosts Charles Auchincloss's bachelor dinner. his marriage to Rosamond Saltonstall on Monday. Seattle? Rumson Road couple Fritz Achelis and wife opening Wiesenach. sailing July 17. Others travel and summers in Newport, Roslyn, Ipswich, and Oyster Bay as listed families.
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Francis Ingram Palmer
East Thirty-first Street
Maud Gerrard Palmer
William Fearn
Lincoln’s Inn
London
St. Mary the Virgin
Palmer
Rowayton
Conn
Mary Hopeton Smith
Emily Lawrence Smith
Henry V. Register
Ardmore
Penn
St. James’s Church
Smithtown
L. I
Smith
R. Lawrence Smith
Sarah Lawrence Smith
Raen
Louise Dall Aldrich
Spencer Aldrich
William Christen Meissner
Karl Meissner
All Souls’ Church
West End Avenue
Eighty-first Street
T. Dancers
Townsend
J. Nevett Steele
Trinity Church
Bishop Satterlee
Washington
New Rochelle
Fanny Iselin
Philip Livermore
Mr. Livermore
Countess de Lubersac
Countess de Selliere
Paris
Miss Iselin
Nora Iselin
Therese Iselin
Mr. Iselin
Miss Garner
Charles C. Auchincloss
Dgar S. Auchincloss
Delmonico’s
Rosamond_ Saltonstall
Boston
Longworths Stir London Social Scene at Dorchester House
Ambassador and Mrs Reid hosted 1500 guests including Cabinet Ministers and diplomats for a Dorchester House reception honoring Mr. and Mrs Longworth. The event featured supper in the pavilion, a dance for younger guests, and plans for a busy itinerary with theater, galleries, and parliamentary visits in London.
Monkey Chows Down on Trainer at Luna Park Show
During Mundy’s animal show in Luna Park a trained monkey named Cora bit trainer Major Crawford on the face and neck while tugging at a meat strip. The audience panicked as officials separated the animals and Major Crawford received medical care from Dr. J W F Pierce for his injuries.
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Cora
Mundy
Luna Park
Major Crawford
J. W. F. Pierce
Bernhardt Season Ends At Lyric In Camille And More
Madame Bernhardt closed her Lyric engagement with two performances. She opened with Marguerite Gauthier in Camille to a packed house and great acclaim. In the evening she appeared in a composite bill including Hamlet L Aigion boraya in Le Sorciére and Gilberte in Frou Fruu with repeated curtain calls.
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Madame Bernhardt
Marguerite Gauthier
Camille
Mme. Bernhardt
Hamlet
L’ Aigion Boraya
Gilberte
Prospective Independent Theatre Planned for Springfield
Springfield prospects rise for a new $180,000 independent theatre on George A. Whitney’s property. Whitney returns from New York with Lee Shubert’s assurance that independents will find subscribers for the stock. Five-year contracts for independent attractions would bring annual star appearances, expanding the city’s theater scene to five venues in a city of 70 900 residents.
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New York Times
Springfield
Mass
George A. Whitney
New York
Lee Shubert
Independents
Whitney
Ellen Terry Sets 1907 Farewell U S Tour
London June 13 Ellen Terry will start a four months farewell tour in the United States in January 1907 under Charles Frohman management. She will perform a new play not yet named and reprise one or two of her best roles.
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London
Ellen Terry
United States
Charles Frohman
Theatrical Notes and Openings Ahead at New York Venues
May Yohe arrives on the Mesaba from London. E H Sothern and Julia Marlowe perform The Merchant of Venice at the Academy of Music tonight. Charles Frohman plans a Hudson Theatre season opening with Henry Arthur Jones’s new play on August 30. Henry Lee pursues the Dreamland attraction San Francisco with a full dress rehearsal tomorrow evening and a Saturday debut.
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London
May Yohe
Academy of Music
E. H. Sothern
Julia Marlowe
Charles Frohman
Hudson Theatre
Henry Arthur Jones
Henry Lee
Dreamland
San Francisco
Calliope Draws Crowds as Pawnee Bill Parade Tours Town
A town parade led by Pawnee Bill's Wild West troupe drew crowds along Broadway last evening. The standout was the calliope on the rear wagon performing tunes like The Irish Washerwoman and Marching Through Georgia. An Arab rider in full costume fell after a sudden pull near Thirty-ninth Street, injuring his right arm. he claimed to be Josey Rose from Newark and was taken to Roosevelt Hospital.
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Pawnee
Broadway
Brighton Beach
New York
Calliope
Georgia
Hugene Wood
Thirty-ninth Street
Dwyer
G’wan
Newark
N. J
Josey Rose
Roosevelt
American mural plan favors American artists in Baltimore
Theodore Marburg seeks foreign help for Baltimore court house murals but John La Farge argues for American mural painters. He urges prioritizing American talent, cites European practice, and praises Turner Blashfield and several American artists as fitting successors to lead Baltimore’s public art era.
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Municipal Art Society of
Baltimore
Court House
Theodore Marburg
John la Farge
la Farge
Europe
Mr. Turner
Death Notice of John L. Martin, 48, Harv. Alum
John Laurie Martin died suddenly at Roosevelt Hospital after five days with pneumonia. He was born in New York in 187? and, after Harvard College graduation, worked in real estate. Survived by wife Julia Dey Nichols, two sons Varick and Winthrop, all currently in Europe. Funeral private at his brother-in-law Anthony Dey Nichols’s home.
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John Laurie Martin
William Runyon Martin
Roosevelt Hospital
Frances Bacon
Society of Decorative Art
Edward R. and
W. Rathbone Bacon
Mr. Martin
New York
Harvard College
the Lampoon
East Thirty-first Street
University Club
Calumet
Julia Dey Nichols
Varick
Winthrop
Europe
Martin
Anthony Dey Nichols
West Twentieth Street
Obituary notes two New Jersey figures dies after long illness
John H. Moore of Bloomfield former Independent Order of Foresters member died at home after months of illness. Charles W. Brower long time Farmingdale hotel keeper died Tuesday night after four years of illness. he served as Commissary Sergeant in the Civil War and ran the American Hotel since 1860 with no complaints reported about his house.
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John H. Moore
Independent Order of Foresters
New Jersey
Bloomfield
N. J
Charles W. Brower
Farmingdale
Weather summary from Washington on June storms and forecasts
The Southern storm affected Northwest Georgia with diminished impact but rain continued in the South and spread to the Middle Atlantic States and the Ohio Valley. Winds shift southeast to south with rain expected in many areas today and Friday, with regional variations and warmer interior conditions.
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Washington
Georgia
Middle Atlantic
Ohio Valley
Lower Lake Region
New York
New Jersey
New England
Obituaries and Funeral Notices Listed By New York City Addresses
A series of death notices and funeral arrangements from June 1906 list victims with residences across Bedford N Y Syracuse Montclair and New York each entry giving name age and burial details. Notable names include Edward Mead Belden Emily Elizabeth Bleecker Susan Taylor Raymond Samuel Samstag and John Laurie Martin with services at St Matthew’s Church Montclair and private interments. notices reference Erie Railroad arrivals and Nauheim Germany.
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Brooklyn
Susan Taylor Raymond
John Tasker Howard
Lathrop
Montclair
N. J
Emily Elizabeth Bleecker
Edward Lathrop
Garrat
Noel Bleecker
New York City
Howard
Ieee
Edmund Ketchum
Upper
Erie Railroad
West 23d St
Lowry
Louise Lesure
John Lowry
Big Moose
Dirondack Mountains
Worcester
Mass
Martin
Roosevelt Hospital
John Laurie Martin
East 31St St
Rohrer
Hotel Grenoble
Adolphus
Icermest
Fairmount Cemetery
Newark
Samstag
Samuel
Augusta Samstag
West 78Th St
Baltimore
Washington
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de Forest
Ocean Travelers
Fritz Achelis
East Fifty-seventh Street
Wiesenach
Rumson Road
Seabright
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Guinea Hill
Roslyn
N. Sartell Prentice
East Fiftysixth Street
Norfolk, Conn
Cornelia Beekman
Gerard and
James W. Beekman
Oyster Bay
Clarence Pell
Charlotte Pell
Wilson Shannon Dunn
West Fifty-eighth Street
Ipswich
Dudley Winston
Chicago
Reginald de Koven
Robert G. McGann
Winston
Arwell
Herbert Chatfield-Taylor
John McGann
Erie
Elliott Danforth
Philadelphia
Amerika
Longworths
Mrs. Longworth
Edward
Leo
Pold
Dorchester House
Yeomen of the Guard
St. James's Palace
Mrs. Reid
Earl Parcy
Duke of Northumberland
House of Commons
John Henniker Heaton
George Vanderbilt
Mme. Eames
Longworth
Ambassador Reid
Royal Palace
Brussels
England
Lioness
Lyric
NEW Independent Theatre
Enterprise
United States Weather Bureau
Dr. Lyon
AY Lyon
New York Produce Exchange Bank and Branches
Sea Breeze
Minturn
Treas
East 224
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Association For Improving
NEW York Times Saturday Review OF Books
Bliss Carman
Whitcomb Riley
James Huneker
H. W. Boynton
Jessie B. Rittenhouse
Roger Williams
Providence
Massachusetts
Providence Association of Mechanics and Manufacturers
George H. Utter
W. H. P. Faunce
Brown University
Belden
Catlin
N. Y
Sarah
Amity St
Halsey
Stras Ondit
Nathaniel Witherell
Witherell
An Nauheim
Woodlawn Cemetery
Harlem
Grand Central Station
Webster and
Jero Avenue
Undertakers
Frank E. Camp O
West
Buffalo
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Rochester
T. Louis Republic
Paul
Pioneer Press
Ayracuss Post-Standar
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