Punishment Demanded At The Slocum Graves
More than 4,000 gathered at Lutheran Cemetery in Middle Village to mark the second anniversary of the General Slocum disaster. Survivors and families listened as clergymen and Congressmen spoke, while young singers performed amid sobs and memories of lost children and drowned lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middle Village
General Slocum Survivors
Niederstein
Grand Hotel
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
Sixth Street
Seventh Street
Avenue A
Williamsburg Bridge
Slocum Monument
Chopin
Charles Dersch
D. W. Petersen
Lutheran Church
Mr. Dersch
Congressman Sulzer
Theodore Leonhard
Jacob Schlegel
John C. Palmer
Hattie Jacobi
Olivet Memorial Church
Lori
St. Mark's Church
George C. F. Haas
Columbia School Honors Commencement at Grammar School
The Columbia Grammar School held its commencement in the gymnasium, ending the institution's 142nd year. Robert Scarborough Erskine led as head boy with several other honor students named and prizes awarded for German English bookkeeping drawing French penmanship and more. Twenty six of the thirty five graduates will take examinations to enter colleges or scientific schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Grammar School
Robert Scarborough Erskine
Wendell Merrick Arnold
Julian Waldo Booth
Lyndon Bulkley Cady
Randall Moss Keator
Charles Augustus Myers, Jr
Percy Edward Swift
John Kernan McCormick
Matthew Griswold Ely
Maxwell Steinhardt
David J. Stern
The End of a Bad Man
Victor Haubner a fifteen year old bellboy from West Sixty fourth Street inspired fear with a revolver and dime novel bravado. Detectives Brosnan and Levens captured him as he rode a bicycle out of his apartment and presented the mock surrender. At West Side Court he cried. his mother and magistrate Mayo urged discipline and sent him home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Haubner
West Sixty-fourth Street
Victor
West
Brosnan and Levins
West Sixty-eighth Street
West Side Court
Mayo
Boone Day in Kentucky Celebrates Daniel Boone Heritage
Louisville hosts Boone centennial events in Cherokee Park with a Boone statue unveiled by Enid Yandell. Descendants gather, a Fort Boonesborough reenactment unfolds, plus open air dancing, an illuminated parade of fifteen Kentucky themed floats, and a grand ball at the armory with 20 000 invitations. Daniel Boone is portrayed by W W Davies in the queen’s procession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Stephen Co. Foster
Daniel Boone
Cherokee Park Pavilion
Boone
Enid Yandell
Boonesborough
Kentucky
Armory
Clara Haldeman
Daniel_Boone
W. W. Davies
Platform Hog Burned On Brooklyn Elevated Train
A man known as a platform hog on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit elevated line at Bridge Street caused crowding by blocking doors. His coat pocket caught in the gate and a fire started as the car moved, leaving him to depart at the next station amid jeers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Young Man's Eden Afloat on Mesaba Ocean Journey
The Mesaba is scheduled to sail today for London with 96 passengers. Of these, 46 are spinsters and 21 married women, plus eight married men traveling with wives, other married travelers, four boys, several bachelors, and a few young men. The women-to-men ratio is reported as a yearly record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Mesaba
Mesabe
Society Notes: Engagements and Social Events
Mrs Le Grand Lockwood announces the engagement of her daughter Louise Benedict Lockwood to Francis B T Thurber Jr son of Mr and Mrs Thurber A bachelor dinner for Frederick Henry Cossitt at Delmonico s lists guests and future marriage to Miss Antonia Dugro A garden party on Ile St Gilles near Montreal hosted by the Hon Lionel Guest and Mrs Guest A wedding at Oyster Bay for Miss Marie Montant and Huntington Norton with guests traveling from New York A look at society movements from the Crittendens and the Deans with travel plans and early autumn returns
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
le Grand Lockwood
Park Avenue
Louise Benedict Lockwood
Francis B. T. Thurber, Jr
Francis B. Thurber
Frederick Henry Cossitt
Delmonico’s
Donald Cuyler Vaughan
J. B. Anderon
K. Sawyer Goodman
M. Wiley
Amory McK. Miller
Antonia Dugro
Philip Henry Dugro
Lionel Guest
Guest
Flora Bigelow Dodge
Ile St. Gilles
Montreal
Marie Montant
Huntington Norton
Oyster Bay
L. I
New York
Manhattan
Ice Price Increases Stir City Watch for New Plant Talk
A major ice firm plans a 50 cent per 100 pounds price rise from June 15 and the American Ice Company enforces higher mint prices, sparking resident concern. Alderman Peters asks for a municipal ice plant, with debate on authority and a possible Health Board role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Continental Hygeia Ice Company
American Ice Company
Ice Trust
Continental Company
Continental Hygeia Company
Wesley M. Oler
Larchmont
American Tea Company
Charles T. Barney
H. Clay Peters
Aldermanic Committee On
C. M. Sheehan
Roger P. Smythe
Brooklyn
Mulligan
Board of Health
Painter Rescues Woman Then Marries in Essex Street Court
Charles Lustig a Brooklyn painter fell from a scaffold but grabbed a window sill and was saved by Annie Paukter a dressmaker. After their dramatic rescue they wed at Essex Market Court with Joe Levy the Duke of Essex Street presiding, binding two strangers into a couple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Lustig
Christopher Street
Brownsville
Brooklyn
Annie Paukter
Boerum Street
Justin
Lustig
Essex Market Court
Joe Levy
Essex Street
Ocean liners sail Europe bound full this Saturday
Six liners depart with full passenger lists including the St Paul Umbria Mesaba Columbia Zeeland Patricia Patricia Lippincott and more. Notable travelers include diplomats ministers judges generals and consuls heading to Southampton Antwerp London Hamburg Glasgow and Munich aboard diverse routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
St. Paul
Columbia
Anchor Line
Southampton
Senor
Don J. Domingo de Obaldia
Panama
Washington
Mme. Obaldia
Gonzalo de Quesada
Mme. Quesada
Mistes Quesada
W. Bayard Cutting
Heyward Cutting
Duchess of Lante
L. V. F. Randolph
J. Lorimer Worden
Antwerp
Zeeland
Rockefeller funds out door camp for sick babies on East River bluff
A new out-of-door camp named Junior Sea Breeze will house up to 100 sick babies in seven open tents on the East River bluff between Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Streets. John D. Rockefeller provides land and substantial support, with the camp run by the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor near the Rockefeller Institute at Sixty-sixth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixty-fourth
Sixty-fifth Street
East River
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller Institute
Sixty-sixth Street
New York Association
William H. Allen
Association
Darlington
John W Brannan
Bellevue and Allied Hospitals
Henry D. Chapin
W. P. Northrup
Schermerhorn
The Vaudeville Merger Unites Major American Circuits
Announcement yesterday reveals a merger of leading vaudeville managers led by B F Keith and F F Proctor. The alliance links twenty five interests from New York to Chicago and the West, creating a chain of nearly one hundred theatres and a shared booking office unified as a vaudeville clearing house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Keath
F. F. Proctor
A. J. Dittenhoefer
United States
BR. F. Keith
Charles E. Kohl
George Castle
Morris Meyerfeild
E. F. Albee
Martin Beck
George Midaleton
Frank Tate
Keith & Proctor Amusement Company
Kohl & Castle Amusement Company
Variety Amusement Company of
Chicago
Haymarket
Monroe
Majestic
Olympic Theatres
Columbia Theatre Company
Orpheum Circuit Company
California
Orpheum Theatres
New Orleans
Denver
Steed
New York
B. F Keith
Western Vaudeville Association
Clearing House
Vaudeville
B. F. Keith
America
Grandmother Arrested on Kidnapping Charge in New York
Mrs. Mary E. Drake of Quincy Massachusetts, 61, arraigned in Tombs Court on kidnapping seven year old Carl Worcester Sidelinger. Remanded on $1000 bail after allegedly taking the boy to New York from Quincy. The boy was found at a boarding house in Lexington Avenue and sent to the Children’s Society. The grandmother claimed the child as her favorite grandchild who would inherit about $100,000. police note possible mental unbalance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary E. Drake
Quincy
Mass
Tombs Court
Carl Worcester Sidelinger
Tombs Prison
Children’s Society
Drake
McLaughlin
New York
Savings Bank
Hamlet at Smith College Delights Large Northampton Audience
Smith College seniors performed Hamlet to a large crowd in Northampton praising the production. Real trees enhanced outdoor scenes. Hassie Kearne of Brooklyn played Hamlet with strong dramatic power while Hazel Goes of Chicago as Ophelia and Louisa Ryals of Savannah as the Queen impressed. Helen Fillebrown of Plimpton, Mass., portrayed the King well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Northampton
Mass
Smith College
Hamlet
Hassie Kearne
Brooklyn
Hazel Goes
Chicago
Ophelia
Louisa Ryals
Savannah
Helen Fillebrown
Plimpton
Dreamland stage duo rehearse Destruction of San Francisco
Henry Lee and Henry Myers staged a dress rehearsal of their Dreamland show Destruction of San Francisco at Coney Island last night. The production features five scenes including earthquake and fire, ending with a rebuilt city as envisioned by the pair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Lee
Henry Myers
San Francisco
Coney Island
Lee
Myers
Klaw Signs Actors for Shaw Drama Caesar and Cleopatra
Marc Klaw of Klaw and Erlanger signed a contract in London with Forbes Robertson and Gertrude Elliott to appear in George Bernard Shaw's five act drama Caesar and Cleopatra. They will perform in the New Amsterdam Theatre next season in this country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marc Klaw
Klaw & Erlanger
London
Forbes Robertson
Gertrude Elliott
George Bernard Shaw
New Amsterdam Theatre
Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show Moves to Brighton Beach
The Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West and Great Far East opened at Brighton Beach and is settling into its new quarters. Crowds attended yesterday afternoon and night. Two performances are held daily, rain or shine, with Saturday and Sunday shows at 3, 5, and 8 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pawnee Bill
Brighton Beach
Copyright Suit Over Mrs Wiggs Production In Newark
Liebler and Company have instructed their counsel to sue individuals in Newark New Jersey for presenting Mrs Wiggs of the Babbage Patch in Wallace Hall. The play was staged for the Fenemith Memorial Church Missionary Society to benefit the J Clement French Industrial Home. The producers are accused of infringing the copyright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liebler & Co
Newark
N. J
Wiggs
Wallace Hall
Missionary Society of the Fenemith Memorial
J. Clement French
Save 4600 Babies by Building Junior Sea Breeze
To Save 4 600 Babies. Watch Junior Sea Breeze now being built at 64th Street and the East River. Work for clean bodies clean air and clean milk for all babies. Send babies to the seashore or country at 2 50 a week. Allow tired mothers and needy children a day at Sea Breeze for 25c or a week for 2 50. R S Minturn treas 105 Hast 22d St will acknowledge gifts and inquiries N S Association for Proving the 1848 Condition of the Poor 1906.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sea Breeze
64Th Street
East River
R. S. Minturn
Treas
N. S. Association For S
MISS ARCHBOLD MARRIED AT CUTTYHUNK ISLAND
Miss Anne Archbold daughter of John D Archbold of Standard Oil married Armar Dayrolles Saunderson son of a British MP at Cuttyhunk Clubhouse Cuttyhunk Island. The ceremony was conducted at noon by Rev Percy Gordon with a small family bridal party aboard the steam yacht Vixen. The couple will reside in the United States for a time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
New Bedford
Mass
Misa Anne Archbold
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil Company
Armar Dayrolles Saunderson
Percy Gordon
Grace Episcopal
Archbold
New England
Cuttyhunk
Prayer Meeting on City Hall Steps in New York
The Evangelistic Committee of New York City plans a campaign start with a noon meeting on the City Hall steps on Monday. The program includes hymns prayers and music by the Park sisters cornet quartet and a male quartet led by Prof. A Y Cornell. Religious leaders Rev. Dr. C L Goodell Rev. Dr. Howard Duffield James S. Ely and others will speak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hall
Evangelistic Committee of
New York City
Park Sisters
A. Y. Cornell
C. L. Goodell
Howard Duffield
James 8. Ely
Professor Bashford Dean sails to Europe for art and museum talks
Prof. Bashford Dean of Columbia University sails on the St. Paul today to attend the Verein fur historische Waffen Runde in Nuremberg in early July. He is delegated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and will visit European museums to arrange exchanges for the American Museum of Natural History.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bashford Dean
Dean
St. Paul
Europe
Columbia University
Bashford
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Verein Fur Historische Waffen
Unsettled Weather Across Regions with Forecast Notes
The latest bulletin reports unsettled showery weather east of the Mississippi while the West remains generally fair. Eastern New York and New England see partly cloudy skies with cooler conditions Saturday, warmer in the east Sunday, and light to fresh winds. Temperature readings show a 24 hour high of 83 and a low near 68 with humidity around 74 to 78 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mississippi River
New England
North Pacific States
Grand Banks
New York
New Jersey
United States Weather Bureau
New Currency Reform Bill Introduced in Congress
Representative Lovering of Massachusetts unveils a currency reform bill to give elastic notes. It allows National banks to issue up to 20 percent of their capital in circulating notes in addition to bonds, aiming to meet varied business needs while noting a 170 million dollar ceiling at current bank capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Representative Lovering
Massachusetts
House
Committee On Banking
Lovering
National Bank
Congress
Forrestiana collection fetches $454 at Daly sale
An Augustin Daly set and other rare theater items from Edwin Forrest era sold yesterday by Anderson Company in West Twenty-ninth Street. Forrestiana two folio volumes brought $454 to George D. Smith, amid items like Wilkie Collins drama manuscript and Life of Edwin Forrest editions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Forrest
Augustin Daly
Augustus Toedteberg
Daly
Anderson Company
West Twenty-ninth Street
William H. Terry
Clarke
Eewin Forrest
James Rees
Lawrence Eee
Edmund Kean
F. W. Wawkins
Kean
Secretary Shaw Tours Davenport After Address
Secretary Shaw returned from Davenport Iowa where he delivered an address on Wednesday night outlining policy priorities and remarks to local officials and attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Shaw
Davenport
Iowa
Death List of a Day Rev. Edward B. Hodge
The Rev. Edward B. Hodge secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Education and president of the Presbyterian Publishing Co died today in Philadelphia after a surgical operation. His eldest son, a medical missionary to China, was killed in the Boxer uprising. Hodge, born in 1841, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1859 and Princeton Theological Seminary in 1863. He served as pastor in Burlington, New Jersey from 1864 to 1893 and authored works including Instructions Preparatory to Baptism and The Lord's Supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Edward B. Hodge
Board of Education of
The
Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Publishing Company
Hodge
China
University of Pennsylvania
Princeton Theological Seminary
Presbyterian Church of
Burlington, N. J
Alice Cogswell Jan Rensselaer
Mrs Janet Dalziel Dies After Short Illness At 109 West Ninety Street
Mrs Janet Dalziel wife of John A Dalziel Assistant Superintendent Fidelity and Casualty Insurance Company died yesterday after a short illness at her home in New York. Born in Madras India fifty three years ago she lived in Edinburgh before moving to New York in 1883. She leaves her husband two sons and three daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janet
Susan Elizabeth Dalziel
John A Dalziel
Fidelity and Casualty Insurance Company
West Ninetieth Street
Alexander Lorimer
India
Dalziel
George Deane
Col
C. B
Death of Patrick Doogan East Tyrone MP
Patrick Charles Doogan national MP for East Tyrone, a farmer who first represented the constituency in 1895, died at his Lisbellaw residence in County Fermanagh on June 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Patrick Charles Doogan
East Tyrone
Lisbellaw
County Fermanagh
Death of Mrs Mary L Clarke in Bellagio Italy
Word reached East Orange of the sudden death of Mrs Mary L Clarke wife of Louis D Clarke formerly Secretary and Auditor of Standard Oil. The couple who lived at 75 Walnut Street North East Orange went abroad about a year ago and were traveling in the Continent. Mrs Clarke was believed to be in good health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Orange
Bellagio
Italy
Mary L. Clarke
Louis D. Clarke
Standard Oil Company
Widow MRS RACHEL T JONES DIES AT 172 Heyward Street
Mrs Rachel T Jones widow of Leo E Jones and a member of an Eastern District family died Thursday night at her home 172 Heyward Street Brooklyn. She was born in Wales forty eight years ago and was a daughter of the late John T Williams. She leaves two brothers ex Coroner Philip T Williams and William E Williams of the Corn Exchange Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rachel T. Jones
Leo 8. Jones
Heyward Street
Brooklyn
John T. Williams
Wales
Philip T. Williams
William E. Williams
The
Corn Exchange Bank
Seventy First quits camp as regiments move out
State Camp Peekskill reports cavalry first to move tomorrow followed by infantry. Squadron A plans a dawn break and ride to Yonkers then Brooklyn armory by Sunday 0 40 A M. Seventy first to break camp 7 30 A M and depart on trains for new regiments. Weather hot with full drill and two horses die overnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Peekskill
Yonkers
Brooklyn
Red Hook
Marriages in New York and Nearby Areas Mentioned
Notices announce several marriages on June 14 15 1906 across Albany New Rochelle New York City Yonkers and related locales. Couples include Amy Treadwell and James Porter Fiske Fannie Iselin and Philip Livermore Alm Durant and John Nicolson Anne Archbold and Armar Saunderson Robert Stevenson and Helen Cole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piske—Treadwell
Albany
N. Y
Edard Caldwell. Moore
Cambridge
Mass
Amy
George H. Treadwell
James Porter Fiske
Newark
Livermore-Iselin
All View
New Rochelle
W. R. Huntington
Fannie Garer
C. Oliver Iselin
Philip Alton Livermore
Nicolson—Durant
West End Av
New York
A. J. Palmer
D. D
Alm
Durant
John L. Durant
John Nicolson
Saunderson—Archbold
Cuttyhunk Club
Cuttyhunk Island
Percy Gordon
Anne
John D. Archbold
New York City
Armar Dayrolles Saunderson
Castle Saunderson
County Cavan
Ireland
Stevenson—Cole
First Presbyterian Church
Yonkers
Stevenson
Robert Alston Stevenson
Helen
William A. Cole
Obituary notices and funerals in New York area June 1906
Deaths and forthcoming funeral arrangements for Ann Eliza Bertine Amble r Nathalie Beebe Edward Bierstadt Janet Dalziel Aaron Dunham Agahel Eaton J J Fleming Hila Helms Friend Pitts Robert Roosevelt Albert Cys Smith Augusta Thomson Alice Zimmermann with service details and locations across New York City and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
New York Beebe
Westhampton Beach
L. I
Nathalie
Henry Warren
Mary Wheelock Beebe
Henry St
Brooklyn
Bierstadt
Edward Bierstadt
West 85Th St
New York City
Alexander Latimer
Dunham
Halsey St
Fleming
Iday
West Foot St
J. J. Fleming
Mount Forest
Ontario
Helms
J. M. Donald
Trenton Junction
N. J
L. W. Sageman
Mast 2d St
Mount Vernon
N. Y
Boston
New England
Roosevelt
Lotus Lake
Sayville
Robert B. Roosevelt
Bayville
Greenwood Cemetery
5Th Av
Smith
Albert Cys Smith
Margaret F. Smith
R. A
Tabernacle Lodge
A. M
Loring Council
L. A
Regents and Regents Association
St. John’s
St. Luke's
Third Assembly District
Rerubicee Club
Ates
St. John’s Chapel
Varlok
Laight St
Thomson
Augusta
William J
Mary B. Thomson
Alice
John and
Marie Zimmermann
South
Oxford &T
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Columbia School
R. S. Erskine
Fort Boonesborough
Louisville Park
Walter H. Crittenden
Alice Crittenden
Hotel Grematan
Henry G. Trevor
Adirondacks
Francis P. Kinnicut
Mrs. Kinnicut
Morristown
Bar Harbor
Hygela Co
Painter
Ocean Travelers
George McClellan
J. Bertrem Lippincott
Lippincott
George Clark
Robert I. Fleming
E. H. Porter
Porter
F. T. van Buren
Edward D. Winslow
E. C. Chichester
H. P. Cole
Susan A. Delano
Thomas M. Fry
Charles Herald
H. S. Miller
A. E. Murdock
H. Winfield Wyman
Wyman
Patricia
Hamburg
Richard W. Buckley
W. E. Lucas
Lucas
Maynard M. Metcalf
Metcalf
J. T. Quarles
George H. Taylor
Glasgow
Robert J. Boyd
Winthrop M. Daniels
James A. Irwin
Adam Laidlaw
Laidlaw
Edward R
Arthur V. Bennett
Marcella Calhoun
Harry C. Cushman
Cushman
Annie S. Dix
Edward M. Grout
Grout
Worthington Mayo-Smith
Mayo-Smith
F. C. Frentiss
Rockefeller
Mrs. Drake
Carl Sidelinger
Quincy, Mass
Herit
Miss Archbold
Standard Oil
M. P
Forrestiana
Terry
John A. Dalziel
Patrick C. Doogan
Avis Sale J Gies Ag
Woodlawn
Harlem Grand Central
Webster and
Jergi Avenue
Gramercy
East 23D &T
Undertakers
Frank E. Campbell Co
Chelsea
Catskills
Long Island
Jersey Coast
Pennsylvania
New England, Ks, Hudson River Counties
Canada
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