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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1908
Page
4
Illinois dispatch notes the Missouri delegation presenting Taft with a gourd shaped badge labeled big stick grown on the Nile. Delegates discuss Guild and Sherman booms while Californians vie for coveted headgear and badges. The piece captures convention humor, badge trades, and wave of activity at Chicago sites.
Miss Helen Maloney and her mother departed the Waldorf for Springs Lake New Jersey with heavy trunks, signaling plans to wed Samuel Clarkson the Englishman she eloped with last Fall. They likely will not return to this city before sailing for England in the near future.
Beginning tomorrow the steamboats of the People's Night Line will land at City Dock Yonkers northbound only at 7 30 P M This change will let Yonkers residents take the Hudson trip directly from Yonkers instead of going to New York piers The service runs daily including Sundays
The Sanitarium for Hebrew Children in Rockaway Park opened for the season with 450 attendees despite bad weather. About 200 infants and 50 mothers were admitted, marking the largest opening turnout. Dr. Samuel Kohn serves as president.
The pleas of Charles W. Morse indicted for larceny and perjury and Thomas D. Jordan former auditor of the Equitable Life Assurance Society indicted on eighteen counts were postponed from yesterday to today in the Supreme Court.
Chicago dispatch reports large turnout of African American delegates at Taft headquarters. Officials Vernon and Tyler aim to secure black backing, while Bishop Walters shifts to a moderate stance and Taft organizers plan post convention outreach to churches and northern communities.
Miss Sarah Gainsforth hosted a hospital staff dinner marking the first anniversary of the new Harlem Hospital buildings on 13th Street and Lenox Avenue. Doctors Collins and Herity, among others, raced eighty yards in rubber boots. the balance of the event ended in a dead heat and will be replayed.
An auto wreck on a pier ends in tragedy as four people drown in a river. William Dougherty and two others dive to recover bodies as police and divers work in rain. Victims include Mrs Coleman and Miss Borden. authorities identify them, while the chauffeur faces questions from Mrs Elebash over the car and timing.
In Newport Rhode Island E R Thomas of New York testified in a Superior Court case brought by the National Bank of North America to recover sixty thousand dollars on a promissory note. The bank had attached Newport property claimed as Thomas’s. He said the estate had been transferred to his wife but the deed was recorded after attachment. The jury convened late and verdicts expected tomorrow.
Henry Clay Weeks of Bayside known as the friend of green shade trees has been warned of renewed action by the telephone company seeking to string wires across his Vista Lawn property on Bell Avenue. A 1908 court order required payment of $50 damages to Weeks for pole placement, but the sum remained unpaid. After linemen were fined for trespass and a new order was issued, a $56.26 payment to the Queens County clerk was made in Jamaica to fulfill the court’s order and permit the wiring.
Commissioner Bingham’s plan to monitor policemen in the Criminal Court Building faced delays as a Police Lieutenant spent hours recording entries and exits. A long line of officers waited with subpoenas and business slips, and half hour waits for registration hindered court activity. The system worked when officer numbers were low but slowed proceedings yesterday with a larger turnout.
Annie S. Peck returns from Washington after meeting President Roosevelt to discuss her Peru expedition. She plans to ascend Mount Huascaran, reported at about 292000 feet high and never before climbed by a white person. Two Swiss guides will join her in New York before she sails to Peru via the Isthmus of Panama.
The Rev Dr Madison C Peters of Cosmopolitan Church plans Sunday morning services at the Alhambra Roof Garden located at 126th Street and Seventh Avenue this summer. This will mark the first roof garden used for religious services.
Smiths alumnae rally crowned Ivy Day as 299 graduates formed a line near the chapel while 500 alumnae in costume paraded through the back campus. Classes from 1883 to 1907 appeared in colors and carried parasols, lanterns, and babies, with night lights illuminating the grounds at Paradise Pond.
Ithaca June 15 Cornell University marks a senior week start with the masque production Facing the Music. About 200 alumni have arrived for the June 16 17 reunion to be joined by an expected 2000 graduates from 1568 to 1907 for a mass meeting on campus Wednesday morning with speeches by President Schurman former President White and Judge Hiscock. The alumni tents host events including baseball games and the unveiling of a memorial tablet for Robert Henry Thurston. Commencement exercises and class day activities follow.
The sixty first annual St Francis Xavier College commencement held at Carnegie Hall with Archbishop Farley presiding. Fifteen graduates earned BA degrees and eight honorary degrees were conferred including LL D and MA. Mer Lavelle gave the address to graduates Joseph F Dempsey Eugene A Donohue Francis J Gallagher William H Hayes George T Hoar Herman C Hug Robert N King Charles H C McAuliffe Arthur A McGivney John E McGeehan Allan T Pendleton James P Ronaghan Thomas Ryan John M Scelsa Ignatius L Wilkinson. Honorary degrees went to Henry V Cunningham Mer James H McGean and John Whalen.
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