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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1905
Page
9
The Crimmins committee of Equitable Life policy holders endorses a reorganization plan and stock control changes. It notes vacancies on the Board allow immediate director selections and claims the plan preserves solvency, with a state Superintendent’s report pending.
Agent James E Whitehead spots a black cylinder in the gutter at 17 Lifayette Place and calls it a dynamite bomb Whitehead hands it to Ponca Bell who carries the device to Mercer Street Police Station Bell coolly declares a dynamite bomb to the desk sergeant Police notify Bureau of Combustibles Inspector Piurray examines the tube and discards it in disgust as frightened officers react
Commissioners Swanstrom Stapleton and Furst proposed tentative damages totaling 1 950 000 dollars for a 21 foot wide taking on the south side of Livingston Street Brooklyn. Corporation Counsel review expected.
Charles Bower of Hickory North Carolina arrived in Washington to complete a two hundred fifty dollar balance on a New Jersey purchase. He was lured by two men to meet the Governor and sign a deed, but suspicions grew. After the plot failed, his wallet with 475 dollars disappeared from the steps of the Criminal Courts Building before detectives could recover it.
Washington June 16 The Navy Department released that Rear Admiral Sigsbee has been ordered to coal and prepare to proceed to Cherbourg France to transport the body of John Paul Jones to the United States The transfer ceremony is expected in Paris around July 4 or 5 and the squadron will sail to Chesapeake Bay on July 9 The force at Tompkinsville includes the armored cruiser Brooklyn flagship and cruisers Galveston Tacoma and Chattanooga A large silk American flag donated by the Daughters of the American Revolution will drape the casket and be sent back to Mrs Donald McLean president of the DAR after the ceremony
Radcliffe College in Cambridge opens Elizabeth Cary Agassiz House on Mrs Agassiz eightieth birthday. Radcliffe girls and Harvard men will act in a five act play Marlowe by Josephine Preston Peabody with three performances then house becomes student theatre. President Eliot and the Radcliffe Council back the event. both E H Sothern and Richard Mansfield weigh producing the play.
Lee Shubert stated he would visit Klaw & Erlanger within a week to secure bookings for the coming season. Speculation grows over whether Klaw & Erlanger will book the Shuberts attractions, with potential impact on Shubert productions and possible need to team with outside managers if refused.
The Garrett Land Company sold its Paterson New Jersey property to a New York amusement firm identified as Thompson and Dundy. Plans include fencing in Luna Park and Hippodrome animals, building attractions, and a large hotel. Construction to start immediately for the next summer crowds.
Emma Nevada, the American soprano, returned to the stage after years away, appearing tonight at the Waldorf Theatre as Violetta in La Traviata. A great reception greeted her in London on June 11.
Ex President Cleveland and a party of four occupied a box at the Hippodrome last evening. Mr Cleveland, speaking to Mr Thompson of the management later, said I am amazed at it all.
The New York Public Library allows card holders in good standing to borrow up to eight books at a time for summer use outside the city. Books must be returned by October 1. Exceptions apply to titles with high demand including all books published within six months.
Concetta Cagliostro 14 writes to The New York Times begging aid to find her 11 or 14 year old brother Vincent who ran away after a scolding at 141 Mulberry Street. Father Antonio, a restaurant owner and part time banker, is distraught as police have yet to locate him. A $200 reward is offered for news of the lad.
Miss Susan Coolidge Lantz, daughter of Mount Vernon banker Jesse Lantz, wed Lieut. Orlo Smith Knepper of the cruiser West Virginia at 8 pm in the Dutch Reformed Church. Rev. M. H. Hutton officiated. A reception for four hundred followed at the bride’s home with notable guests including Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans and other naval officers.
Miss Mabel B Day daughter of Mr and Mrs Stephen S Day of Olyphant Park Morristown was married to John Van Cleve Parker in a home ceremony. The Rev Ralph B Army of the Methodist Church officiated with assistance from Rev Dr James E Adams of Stamford Conn.
Direct boat service to Midland Beach begins today with steamboats running frequently from West Twenty second Street and the Battery landings per the published timetable. The uptown landing is added to relieve the crush at downtown gangplanks.
Secretary of State John Hay, arriving from Europe aboard the Baltic, leaves New York for a rest at Payne Whitney’s Long Island country home at Manhasset with Mrs. Hay and the Whitneys. The party travels by Whitney’s touring car. Hay plans to stay through Monday before returning to Washington for a Roosevelt conference.
In Chicago on June 16 Frances Rush, a former chorus girl, received a $75,000 payment claimed by her lawyer as part of her divorce from Charles H. Thaw. Judge Albert Akers granted the divorce with no defense from Thaw and no alimony listed in the decree.
London reports Ascot Week will be brilliant with King Edward and Queen Alexandra hosting a large Windsor Castle party. Ambassadors from Austria and Germany, the Portuguese minister, and many British nobles will attend. Guests include the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and Marlborough, Lord Rosebery, Sir Frank C. Lascelles, and others. American guests are invited to several house parties.
Mrs Clarence Mackay hosts Roslyn schoolchildren at Harbor Hill with Delmonico catering for 700 guests. Mrs Nichollas Fish relocates to Newport for summer. Mr and Mrs Towne plan Adirondack camp trip June 30 from Tuxedo. Tytus duo to winter in Egypt for explorations. Peet family to Lake Champlain until August. Miss Alberta Sturges weds George Beckwith in London July 25. Lord and Lady Cheylesmore to summer at Newport with Mrs Francis Ormond French.
The Newport letters report Mr and Mrs James B Haggin arriving for the season and several notable guests at local cottages including Lispenard Stewart Theodore W Phinney and others. The battleship Maryland arrived from Gardiner's Bay and fired eleven guns for Rear Admiral Charles M Thomas while the shore battery answered with seven guns.
Brooklyn officials clashed over paying 500000 for the Montauk Theatre site as part of the Manhattan Bridge approach. The Board of Estimate voted 14 to 2 to authorize the private sale. controller and Littleton opposed reopenings citing appraisals from 500000 to 546000.
The last remaining hull of the excursion steamboat General Slocum was turned over to a Philadelphia barge company to be used as a coal barge on the Delaware. The fire anniversary was observed yesterday. The hull will carry about 1,000 tons of coal.
The Weather report notes low pressure across the country except New England and the Middle Atlantic. Showers are widespread east of the Rockies with high temperatures reduced only by storms. West of the Rockies, conditions are generally dry with a notable drop in temperature in the North Pacific states. Winds vary by coast and region with potential thunder squalls, and steamships heading to Europe expect fresh southerly winds with showers to the Grand Banks.
Regional outlook shows unsettled weather Saturday and Sunday with occasional showers and light to fresh winds mainly from the south and southeast. Temperatures last 24 hours ranged from 61 to 82 degrees with humidity around 81 to 88 percent. thermometer sits 9.5 feet above street level.
John A. Locker and Elma Locker doing business as E. Locker & Co., a Brooklyn tobacco wholesaler and retailer, sue the American Tobacco Company and the Metropolitan Tobacco Company for 100000 damages. They claim an unlawful restraint of trade and boycott after the Metropolitan firm formed. The suit states the two defendants control at least 90 percent of New York tobacco output and coerced exclusive purchasing. They allege representatives solicited their business and threatened to boycott unless they exited the trade.
News arrives of the death of Alexander Blumenstiel a prominent New York lawyer at the Hotel Cecil London born died of pneumonia after sailing from New York on the Cel tic he was sixty two years old and leaves eight children two sons Edwin and Emmanuel both lawyers his wife had died three months earlier.
Richard M. Raven, aged 77, died in Bay Shore on June 16. A New York City native and son of the late Thomas Raven, he retired from business 17 years ago and founded the South Side Bank, serving as its president until death. He is survived by a son, Harry M. Raven.
The Rev. Dr. J. M. Titzel, pastor of the First Reformed Church of Lancaster, died this afternoon at age seventy three. He co authored The Reformed Church in the United States and largely shaped the liturgy now used by the denomination.
Mason Cruger Hasell twenty years old of 126 East Seventy-first Street died in the Adirondacks last Thursday. He was the son of Lewis C Hasell and the great great grandfather was John Mason founder of Chemical Bank. He was a Columbia College graduate.
Chicago Chronicle reports the Judiciary Committee backed Corporation Counsel Tolman in denying City Council authority to regulate landlords who bar families. An ordinance to punish landlords who refuse housing to children was filed but not advanced, and the committee placed the matter on file, leaving large families without City protection.
The Boston Christian Register reprints a letter from Helen Keller responding to blind students in Hungary. Keller praises their courage in seeking independence and notes a strong bond between the visually impaired across nations. She emphasizes shared books and journeys while urging peace through civilization.
Fred Sutherland known as the human fly ascends the 240 foot spire of Most Holy Trinity Church to replace the wooden cross with a galvanized iron one. The rotted cross nearly caused a fall as it was lowered. Sutherland, a Californian by birth, carries his dog in a hammock at the top, and praises his two minute climb.
In Syracuse Kansas election, a peculiar ruling allowed Mrs Schroll to vote as a resident while her husband Charles Schroll, who had moved from Arizona, was denied. The law requires six months in state to qualify, which Mrs Schroll met but Schroll did not. The judges cited that a man’s home is where his family resides, barring Schroll from voting.
To art collectors Mr Louis R Ehrich of the Ehrich Galleries invites letters from American buyers planning purchases in Europe. He offers expertise on genuineness and value of antique paintings and will receive correspondence via Messrs Brown Shipley and Co London.
Several union announcements dated June 14 and 15 1905 from New York City and Plainfield New Jersey. Cornelia Day McLanahan wed F Kingsbury Curtis at St Martins in the Fields London and Genevieve Morse Robinson married MacIntosh Kellogg in New York. Carrie Weil Levy married Louis A Solomon and Lucy Dunham Tomlinson wed Philip Spencer Suffern in Plainfield.
Obituaries list multiple individuals with residences in Brooklyn and surrounding areas, detailing names such as Lizzie Bradley Abbott Mary C Duncklee Samuel Goldberger Mason Hasell Allan MacLean Madeline Lee Manley Joseph J Minster Richard M Raven Richard Sears Sayer Francis Willard Sayer Winifred Melville Louis Victor Southack Nathan Steinam Lydia Worcester and related funeral arrangements. Dates span June 15 to June 19 with services at St Mark's Church Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church St James's Church and other venues. Interments noted at Salem Fields Trinity Cemetery Woodlawn and Kensico Cemetery with transport details for some.
FHL New York Times announces that marriage and death notices may be inserted and will appear simultaneously at no extra charge in a list of morning newspapers including the Boston Globe Buffalo Courier Cincinnati Enquirer Chicago Record-Herald Cleveland Plain Dealer Minneapolis Tribune Philadelphia Public Ledger Pittsburg Dispatch Providence Journal Rochester Herald St. Louis Republic St. Paul Pioneer Press Syracuse Post-Standard Washington Post.
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