Quay's Plan to Reshape Republican Convention Delegates
Ex Senator Quay’s resolution at the Philadelphia convention urges a new basis for National Convention representation. It would grant four at large delegates per state plus one per 10,000 votes for Republican electors, six delegates per territory and DC, aiming to reduce Southern overrepresentation and shift power toward Northern states. Debate follows, with strong backing in New England New York and Pennsylvania, and Southern delegates signaling intense opposition.
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Philadelphia
Quay
Henry D. Payne
Wisconsin
National Committee
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Payne
Rhode Island
Gen. Bingham
Pennsylvania
District of Columbia
New England
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Lodge
di Quay
McKinley
Alabama
Hampshire
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New Jersey
California
Colorado
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Florida
Ohio
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Virginia
Massachusets
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Wyoming
Missouri
Stlaa
Montana
Nebraska
Bingham
Committee On Rules
Penrose
Col. Quay
Rumor Denied on Breslin Lease of Victoria Hotel
Victoria Hotel at Broadway and Twenty seventh Street denies any agreement with James H. Breslin former Gilsey House owner. Proprietor F T Walton says Breslin has not contacted him and there is nothing in the rumor. Read of Philadelphia reportedly spent 280000 on refurnishing Victoria, but Breslin reportedly declined after learning Walton held the lease.
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James H. Breslin
Gilsey House
Victoria
Broadway
Twenty-seventh Street
F. T. Walton
The
Breslin
Charles M. Read
Philadelphia
Mr. Breslin
Platform of the Republican Convention in Philadelphia
The Republican platform proclaims a gold standard, protective tariffs, opposition to free coinage of silver, and opposition to Democratic aims. It endorses McKinley, calls for expanded immigration restrictions, naval power, liberal pensions, civil service, and statehood for territories. It supports arid lands reclamation, a Isthmian canal, a Department of Commerce, and Hawaiian annexation while urging Cuban independence and Philippine governance under U.S. authority.
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Committee On Resolutions
United States
Republican Party
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McKinley
Democratic Party
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Department of Labor
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Orient
China
Department OF Commerce
Congress
Department of Commerce and Industries
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Volunteer Aid Association
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Samoa
Pacific
Hawaiian Islands
The
Hague
Great Britain
Washington
Paris
Senate
Spain
Western Indies
Graduation Exercises at Normal College in White Robes
Forty seven graduates of the Normal College training department marched in white with white rose bouquets to Mendelssohn’s Wedding March. Dr. Waldo H. Richardson presided. valedictorian Grace Merrill spoke after Miss Merrill placed second highest in Manhattan with 93.9 percent. Diplomas were distributed by Dr. Richardson and Miles M. O’Brien. Dr. Thomas Hunter also spoke. Selections highlighted Nature and patriotic songs with a daisies theme by twenty children.
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Normal College Training Department
Normal College
Sixty-eighth Street
Lexington Avenue
Waldo H. Richardson
Normal College Executive Committee
Mendelssohn
Howard A. Johnson
Grace Horsman Merrill
Manhattan
Richardson
Miles M. O'Brien
Board of Trustees
Thomas Hunter
The
Jessie Hein
Florence H. Herrman
Mabel Hulse
Amy Evelyn Jacoby
Elsie Katherine Kaus
Maud Lehman
Mildred R. Mack
Grace H. Merrill
Janet H. McLaren
Elsa Rice Myers
Anna May Newland
Grace Patterson
Christine W. Peper
Lilias Josephine Purdy
Helen Childs Read
Clarisse Riehle
Bertha Sanders
Olga M. Schedler
Louise Frances Stevens
Edith Albertine Stone
Emme Virginia Unger
Rita M. Unstermeyer
Flora de Varona
St John's College Fordham Honors 55th Commencement
St John s College Fordham held its fifty fifth commencement on campus with Mgr Joseph F Mooney presiding. Degrees awarded included honorary Doctor of Laws Rev T A Hendrick and Masters and Bachelors of Arts and Science for names such as Thomas J Coady John A Dillon Charles W Sinnott and Ambrose P Dunnigan. Prizes honors went to Michael J Larkin Thomas J Coady and others. John W Corcoran delivered the address.
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St. John’s College
Fordham
Mgr
Joseph F. Mooney
Eighth Regiment
Philip D. Reilly
Napoleon I
Thomas J. Coady
T. A. Hendrick
John Mullaly
Charles W. Sinnott
Charles E. Sterling
Lawrence P. Monahan
St. J. McPartland
George A. Daly
Francis P. Murphy
John A. Dillon
Romeo Peloquin
Henry P. Downes
Philip B. Reilly
Ambrose P. Dunnigan
John J. Toohey
James Kilroe
James A. Treacy
Michael J. Larkin
John S. Flannigan
Martin P. Walsh
Hughes
Abraham Lincoln
John D. Cavinato
Arthur M. A. Kane
Sheldon B. McLaughlin
Charles J. Munn
Daniel J. Haggerty
John W. Corcoran
Harvard Prank Targeting President Eliot Thwarted
Harvard students staged a class day prank by sending fake invites claiming President Eliot and Mrs. Eliot would be at home Friday. The Class Day Committee uncovered the ruse and issued counter notices indicating the traditional reception would proceed as usual, avoiding a repeat of a prior Dean Briggs joke.
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New York Times
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Eliot
Dean Briggs
Manhattan College expands engineering and architecture programs
Trustees authorize expansion of engineering and architecture offerings at Manhattan College after two years of rising attendance and quality. Three degree tracks will be available: Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering and Architecture. Harry Lynch receives the senior class gold medal for drafting and design with honorable mention to Wilfred Southern. the junior medal goes to Robert.
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Manhattan College
Harry Lynch
Wilfred Southern
Robert
Mount Holyoke announces endowment gifts at commencement
South Hadley Mass June 20 The Mount Holyoke College Board of Trustees announced endowment and memorial gifts following commencement in Mary Lyon Chapel Contributions total 75000 including 50000 from Dr D K Pearsons 60000 from John Dwight for a memorial art building and 18000 raised by New York and Brooklyn alumnae A Doctor of Literature was conferred on Ada L How ard class of 1853 An endowment for a Chair of Philosophy and renovations to the Dwight homestead hospital were also approved.
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South Hadley
Mass
Mount Holyoke College
Mary Lyon Chapel
D. K. Pearsons
H. C. Houghton
New York and Brooklyn
Ada L. Howard
Brown University fund reaches 1 million after pledges
Providence reports Brown University completes a one million dollar fund with cash and pledges totaling 1 096 106 including recent large gifts from Marsden J. Perry Frank A. Sayles Robert I. Grenna and William Gamewell. Also notes omissions of several graduates from Public School 165 and 166 admitted to City College in a New York Times column.
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Providence
R. I
Corporation of
Brown University
John D. Rockefeller
Marsden J. Perry
Frank A. Sayles
Robert I. Grena
William Gamewell
New York Times
City College
Edward S. Oppenheimer
Private names list of officials and associates by district
A long catalog of individuals associated with multiple districts and institutions, listing names and cities such as WALDORF O D Beebe Syracuse HOLLAND Walter Gorham Philadelphia Carter Harrison Chicago and many others across imperial, plaza, Manhattan, Fifth Avenue and other districts, reflecting a social or professional directory style. It reads as a registry of figures connected to prominent groups in cities like Syracuse Philadelphia Chicago Baltimore and Boston with army navy ties and academic affiliations.
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Chicago
W. S. Hurd
W. P. Henry
M. Lodge
Moncton
Ont
C. L. Bissell
San Francisco
W. F. Becker
Milwaukee
Manhattan
John B. Mullings
Waterbury
Conn
F. H. Hoffman
Buffalo
George C. Carpenter
St. Louis
Park Avenue
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Arrival of Buyers From Broad Range of Firms Across Cities
A disparate list shows Adam Meldrum & Sanderson Buffalo H J Simons books at 2 Walker Street. Gross & Strauss Worcester J F Campbell cloaks at 31 East 10th Street Belvedere House. and many others including Murray Hill hotels and Broadway addresses. Buyers from Springfield Boston Chicago and more acquire dry goods textiles cloaks hats and furnishings.
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Adam
Meldrum_ &_ Sanderson Company
Buffalo
H. J. Simons
Walker Street
Gross & Strauss Company
Worcester
Mass
J. F. Campbell
East 10Th Street
Belvedere House
Pudan
Springfield
F. M. Pudan
F. K. Warriner
Murray Hill
Goldenberg Brothers
Baltimore
L. Goldenberg
Albert
Benkert
Piqua
Ohio
G. Benkert
Reid & Hughes
Lawrence
Franklin Street
May Company
Cleveland
E. Barrett
Broadway
Broadway Central
Cowan, McClung & Co
Knoxville
Tenn
J. L. Thomas
White Street
Albemarle Hotel
Plant & Girard
Lincoln
All
S. Plant
Nations
Imperial
Biermeister Brothers & Co
Troy
Fbigerm Jr
St. Denis
Denholm & McKay Company
M. L. Hengee
Polochek, Leo & Co
Chicago
Ill
A. Polochek
Woolens
Goldsmith Brothers
Easton
Herald Square
Victor, A Co
Cincinnati
H. Victor
Hotel Imperial
Fair
F. Ransford
Hoffman House
Rothschild, Levi, Company
Rochester
N. Y
R. Rothschild
Syracuse Dry Goods Company
Syracuse
Re Sa
J. Barnard
Leonard Street
McKelvey, G. M., & Co
Youngstown
L. A
C. Curry
W. P. Curry
Heiser, Muhlfelder & Co
I. Muhlfelder
Uhl
Wilkesbarre
Penn
Broadway Central Hotel
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Sixth Avenue
Victoria Hotel Lease
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Ella Ackerman
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Elsie Bamberger
Louise Emilie Bagot
Bessie Bradstreet
Nina Brenan
Anna Loretta Casson
Beryl Clara Chapman
Lisette Cohen
Agnes Teresa Coyle
Florence H. Dickins
Marguerite Dulon
Orpha Farren
Lulu
Edith Faulkner
Elsie Louise Ferguson
Estelle Friedman
Jane Ellinor Goodyear
Lucie Louise Gosselin
Vera Aminta Grass
Lillian Edwina Graetz
Jeannette R. Graecen
Gertrude Green
Florence S. Gross
Clara Estelle Heil
Hunter
Russia
Alfred J. Cammeyer
6Th Ave
20Th St
Pommeter
Mr. McMorrow
Mount Holyoke
Brown
Arnold J. Hantschel
Dudley B. Hollister
Hayward A. Hibberd
Lewis C. King
Harry B. Kirkland
Carlton Kelley
Frank P. Lothrop
John J. Lavelle
John D. MacDonald
Louis E. Manley
Thomas J. McNulty
Charles A. Nicklas
Leopold M. Promis
Frank Riley
Harold F. Reid
Novara
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Cluett, Peabody & Co
Union Square
West
New York City
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Carey & Sides
4Th Ave
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