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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1908
Page
4
Hyde Park hosts a massive suffrage demonstration with about 500000 in attendance. Processions stretch a mile as speakers advocate voting rights while volunteers wear white with green white and purple sashes. The crowd causes minor injuries and several scuffles around Mrs Pankhurst and Mrs Martels platforms, with police reinforcements required.
Berlin report says Westinghouse electric interests join with Bergmann Electric Company of Berlin to install Westinghouse traction across Germany. The Prussian State Railway Administration has $12,500,000 appropriated to electrify steam lines. Bergmann, once partner of Thomas A. Edison, runs Berlin works employing 5,000 men.
Rome dispatch reports that all French Deputies and Senators who voted for the separation law were excommunicated latae sententiae. Bishops must deny Christian burial unless they repent before death, with the act instantly placing them under church censure.
Mme Tschaikowsky visited her husband Nicholas Tschaikowsky at the fortress of St Peter and St Paul amid reports that his court martial on high treason charges is imminent. Police have linked him to Terrorist groups but lack substantial evidence.
In Santo Domingo on June 21 Gen Ramon Caceres was proclaimed president for a six year term by the National Congress. A twenty one gun salute marked the ceremony and celebrations followed throughout the day.
Port of Spain reports four new plague cases since June 15 with three deaths and one active patient in isolation. Sanitary Corps efforts include rat destruction and city cleanup. About 150 contacts remain in observation with no infections seen so far. Authorities aim to eradicate the disease soon.
Colorado offers mountain air and six thousand miles of crystal trout streams. Free booklet Under the Turquoise Sky from K. E. Palmer 401 Broadway New York Adv.
The freighter Wray Castle returned with a cargo including thousands of Chinese hair tails valued at over 35000 dollars. The hair, said to come from beheaded bandits, was kept protected for the American market. Also aboard were Mrs. L. E. Clarke and her infant Horace bound for the Isthmus to join her Panama Canal engineer husband.
Louisville hosts a large temperance mass meeting at the Armory as part of the International Sunday School Association sessions. National leaders attend to mobilize Sunday school workers for the prohibition campaign with speeches by Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens and others amid hot summer weather.
Delegates in London observe a partial Saturday holiday with meetings on social topics. The Bishop of Pennsylvania spoke before 13,000 children while the Bishop of Massachusetts preached at St Pauls and Westminster Abbey. The Cathedral services featured the Lord Mayor and leading legal figures among the congregation. Bishop Wilkinson of Minnesota spoke at an open air Victoria Park gathering in the afternoon.
The Educational Alliance on East Broadway held closing exercises for its School for Religious Work led by Dr. Samuel Langer. About 2,500 attendees across 55 classes watched diplomas awarded to graduates and postgraduates, with many medals and prizes announced for Hebrew language proficiency and general excellence.
A horse pulling a buggy with four people ran away on Central Park West Drive at 103rd Street and crashed into a carriage at 01st Street. The carriage driver was J. D. Rischell of 299 Broadway. All occupants were knocked to the street but none seriously hurt as crowds watched near the busy west drive.
Times Square hotel checkroom stores 1100 unclaimed items left by guests with items ranging from ivory handled canes to Abyssinian grape vine sticks. Patrons forget to reclaim belongings while others use dressing rooms for shopping hauls. Estimated value held in custody approaches nearly $5000.
Police report an Italian street-dying man named Labato, urchin umbrella maker, found with a dagger wound near 220 Varick Street. His brother in law Genera Calapano of 21 Mott Street identified him, noting quarrels with his wife’s relatives and a possible duel aftermath with a razor nearby.
Boston hosts the General Federation of Women's Clubs ninth biannual convention with delegates arriving from Illinois Ohio Texas Missouri. Key leaders include Mrs Sarah S Platt Decker Denver president and Mrs Philip H Moore St Louis first vice president. The convention opens Tuesday after a Pullman train arrival of delegates from multiple states.
The Optical Society of the State of New York holds its thirteenth annual convention at the Hotel Savoy. Edward E. Arrington of Rochester, who helped draft the new optometry law, attends as delegates arrive from across the state. Five optometrists will join the State Board of Examiners in Optometry, responsible for licensing optometrists. A debate over board representation pits ophthalmologists against physicians, with concerns that exams will be so hard only physicians pass.
New Yorkers faced near ninety degree heat with humidity pushing discomfort higher. A 67 year old homeless woman, Mary Corcoran, collapsed in front of 2 436 Second Avenue. Police rounded up fifteen men cooling on grass at Corlear’s Hook Park and sent them to Night Court for a lecture and discharge.
In Brooklyn parks thousands gather for cool air but face constant trouble from gangs of thirty to fifty youths. They harass riders on trolley cars, shove passengers off steps, and fight with conductors while women cry for help. Queens also reports street brawls forcing closures of Campbell's Dexter Park and Dauer's Park. police make twenty five arrests with little effect.
The 250000 or more visitors at Coney Island yesterday flooded the boards and beaches amid crowding amusements. Al Seldon aged 6 from Jersey City spent 25 cents and slept under a sand cave. a false fire alarm caused three engines and two ladders to respond at Sweickert’s Walk. a pedestrian accident near Surf Avenue left one man lightly injured. Moors at Dreamland will observe the Feast of Marshap at sunrise with prayers and sheep blood ritual.
NCON reports George H. Barclay Charge d Affaires at Constantinople may replace Cecil Spring Rice as Minister at Teheran, who retires on ill health. Spring Rice was appointed minister in 1905 succeeding Sir A H Hardinge.
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