Captain Rome Simonson Dupes Army Officers on Governors Island
A man calling himself Capt. Roman Simonson, nicknamed Rome, swindled social circles on Manhattan and Governors Island with tales of artillery commands and West Point diplomas. Officials say he is not in the Army, but he continues to parade in uniforms, fast talk, and staged photographs, prompting calls for scrutiny as his lies surface.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Governors Island
Roman Simonson
Times
Artillery Corps
Army Register
Fort Riley
Kansas
Simonson
Rome
Carrie Braslan
West Twenty-seventh Street
New Jersey
Peking
Lower West Side
West Point
Col. H. O. 8
Heistand
Department of the East
Castle Williams
Second Field Artillery
West Point Military School
West Point School
West Point Academy
West Point Military School College
United States Army
Braslan
Newark
Mamma
East Side
Third Avenue
Coast Artillery
Sandy Hook Proving Grounds
Sandy Hook
Proving Grounds
Play Producers Unite Form Inter-State Amusement Co
The Inter-State Amusement Company formed with 250000 capital. Meeting at Savoy Theatre elected officers for one year: President Frank McKee, VP William A Brady, Secretary Joseph Brooks, Treasurer William Harris. Directors include McKee Brooks Brady Harris Hayman Erlanger McLean. Executives Al Hayman Brady Erlanger McKee. Stock subscribers include Frohman, Cohan, Whitney, and others from St Louis Cincinnati Philadelphia Detroit and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inter-State Amusement Company
Savoy Theatre
Frank McKee
William A. Brady
Joseph Brooks
William Harris
W. A. Brady
Sam H. Harris
al Hayman
Henry Savage
A. L. Erlanger
K. K. McLean
A. W. Dingwall
Charles Frohman
W. H. Rapley
Alex Lichtenstein
Isaac B. Rich
Alf Hartz
C. H. Spaulding
St. Louis
J. Fred Zimmerman
Ransforth & Havlin
Cincinnati
George M. Cohan
Sam S. Nixon
Philadelphia
D. C. Whitney
Detroit
Boy and dog arrested after fatal cat fight
A one eyed bull terrier named Buster and a one legged boy Frank Hail were taken to East 126th Street Station after a cat died in a fight sparked by the dog. The boy, employed at 28 West 128th Street, and the dog were charged. the owner claimed he tried to save the cat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East 126Th Street
Frank Hail
West 128Th Street
A. L. Mollman
Buster
Hall
John Riorton
West
128Th Street
Opposes Crerar Library on Chicago lakefront
Special to The New York Times reports building operations for the John Crerar Library began with excavating machinery drawn to a lakefront site near the Art Institute. Legal actions loom as Montgomery Ward plans immediate suits, challenging lakefront development as park land. Ward has opposed projects from the Post Office to Field Museum, arguing the view and lake access are at stake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Chicago
John Crerar
Lake Front
Art Institute
Illinois Central
Montgomery Ward
Ward
South Park Commission
Field Museum
Crerar
Wedding in Newport Draws Guests From Elite Resorts
Society news notes the Newport wedding of Miss Anita Sands to Mr. Minott today with bridesmaids named Janet Fish Ada Acosta Georgette Collier and Rosamond Street. Brother Otis Minott is best man. Also listed are summer arrangements by Elizabeth Remsen at Lenox and the Pel ls at Garden City Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
Anita Sands
Mr. Minott
Tuxedo
Long Island
Miss Sands
Janet Fish
Ada Acosta
Georgette Collier
Rosamond Street
Joseph
Otis Minott
Henry Starr Dies at Freeport Club
Henry Starr deputy county clerk Nassau County dies suddenly at 51 in the Freeport Club while talking to Frank E Pitcher. Starr a Brooklyn native and former Wechsler and Abraham associate served since Nassau County formation. He leaves a wife and three children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Starr
Freeport Club
Freeport
L. I
Nassau County
Frank E. Pitcher
Starr
Brooklyn
Wechsler & Abraham
The Hypocrites to Open Hudson Theatre in September
Selwyn and Co announce Henry Arthur Jones's new play The Hypocrites will open at the Hudson Theatre early in September. Jones will supervise the production. William A Brady and Joseph Hart, lessees of the New York Theatre Roof, visited yesterday for the summer. Wright Lorimer will produce Ibsen's The Wild Duck next season under Brady's direction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selwyn & Co
Henry Arthur Jones
Hudson Theatre
Mr. Jones
William A. Brady
Joseph Hart
New York Theatre
New
Wright Lorimer
Belasco to Manage New Bimbergt Theatre Named Stuyvesant
David Belasco will oversee a new 1400 seat theatre on Forty fourth Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue to be named the Stuyvesant. Meyer R. Bimberg to erect. George Keister designer. The house aims to host independent plays and foreign attractions, with summer operation via modern cooling. Belasco vows straight drama and no musical comedies, keeping his offices at the Belasco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Belasco
Forty-fourth Street
Broadway
Sixth Avenue
Meyer R. Bimberg
Independents
The
Stuyvesant
Dittenhoefer
Bimberg
Belasco
George Keister
Belasco Theatre
Harvard
Mr. Belasco
Queen Bee for Czar Becomes Swarthmore Breeder Trend
E L Pratt of Swarthmore, a queen bee breeder, reports an order for a queen from the Czar as Russia’s hobby of apiculture grows. The monarch has dispatched agents worldwide to study hives, equipment, nectar sources, and bee breeds for his subjects. Pratt previously sent a queen of the same breed to Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
E. L. Pratt
Swarthmore
Russia
Mr.Pratt
Francis Joseph of
Austria
Ocean travelers sail on five liners to Europe today
Passengers listed for New York bound to Southampton on the American liner include Mayor George B. McClellan and Mrs McClellan, prominent figures such as Lorado Taft and Mrs. Homer Folks, and many others. Also sailing on the Red Star Finland to Liverpool Cunarder Campania and Hamburg American ships Pretoria and Oceana with notable travelers and officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southampton
New York
George B. McClellan
McClellan
G. H. V. Allen
Walter Barwick
H. 8. Brooks
H. E. H. Chipman
F. H. Cossitt
A. C. Fish
Homer Folks
Alfred O. Hewitt
L. N. Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Herbert E. Day
J. F. de Navarro
James Neilson
Frederic R. Newbold
Newbold
F. R. Page
Leopold Wallach
Wallach
Hamilton Schuyler
Liverpool
London
Wynne
Henry Gilsey
Gilsey
G. ¥. Bliss
A. C. Butterfield
B. J. Baldwin
C. H. Goodier
William Henderson
Gilbert King
King
Walter McCreery
Howard T
Lewis L. Delafield
Delafield
J. H. Ingersoll
Henry Cleveland Perkins
Perkins
F. H. Richardson
W. A. Shelton
Pretoria
Noel Blakeman
George Bancroft Ashley
Francis B. Brandt
Edward Collins, Jr
William W. Carr
Charles Morrison
Anna F. Shaw
Charles A. Tyler
Kerr Boyce Tupper
Oceana
Thomas S. Baker
W. D. Corcoran
E.R. Dick
Max von Frey
Robert Gerlach
A. Augustus Healy
Charles P. Kimball
H.W. Longfellow
Frederick M. Wilson
Weather Bulletin Maps Show Unsettled North. Fair South
Low pressure persists east of the Rockies with unsettled showers in the northern and extreme west central districts. The South remains generally fair. Shipping winds along transatlantic routes vary from light to fresh and showery. Forecast calls for more showers Saturday and Sunday in Eastern New York New Jersey Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware and New England with cooler conditions in the south portion Sunday. Temperature readings show a 24 hour high of 82 and a low of 32 felt in yesterday’s records with humidity around 89 percent in the morning and 56 percent in the evening.
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Washington
Rocky Mountains
European
Grand Banks
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New England
New York Times Subscription Ad Promotes Summer Delivery
Don’t travel until you telephone 1000 Bryart to have the New York Times sent to your summer address promptly. Daily and Sunday options at seventy five cents per month. Tele phone any hour to arrange, with next day service. Subscriptions can be left with a newsdealer or at Times Square Spruce Street 29 Broad Street and 129 West 125th Street offices. All the News That’s Fit to Print.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York Times
Times Square
Spruce St
Broad St
West 125Th St
Tailor caught in bold theft ring at West Fourteenth Street
Jacob Karp owner of a Broadway area tailoring shop observed weekly suit losses and caught three tailors, including Jake Brenner of Brooklyn, after staking the stairwell. Brenner found with a blue serge coat. detectives recovered twelve suits, two overcoats and more valued at 500 dollars from his Brooklyn home.
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Jacob Karp
West Fourteenth Street
Karp
Jake Brenner
Booklyn
Jake
Brenner
Fourteenth Street
Hains
Tenderloin
Raynes and
Farley
Broadway
Brooklyn
Charles E. Tripler Dead Inventor of Liquid Air Machine
Charles E. Tripler died at 57 in Liberty New York after a two month illness from Brights disease. He directed the creation of the Tripler Liquid Air Company with sponsors John P. Jones and Stephen W. Dorsey, organized in Arizona with 20 million dollars capital. The venture failed financially as Dorsey allegedly provided insufficient funds. An investigation by District Attorney Jerome into subscriptions began four years ago but was not completed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Tripler
Bright
Liberty
N. Y
Mr. Tripler
Tripler Liquid Air Company
John P. Jones
Nevada
Stephen W. Dorsey
Star Route Memory
Arizona
Tripler
Dorsey
Jerome
Death List of a Day Rev. George Barker Stevens
New Haven Conn June 22. The Rev George Barker Stevens Dwight Professor of Systematic Theology Yale Divinity School died today after a short illness. Born Spencer NY 1854 he graduated University of Rochester 1877 earned PhD Syracuse 1884 DD Jena 1886 and LLD Rochester 1902. He served as pastor in Buffalo and Watertown before Yale 1886 1890. Married Kate Mattison November 1883. Author of Pauline Theology The Johannine Theology Doctrine and Life The Theology of the New Testament The Messages of Paul The Messages of the Apostles and The Teaching of Jesus among others.
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New Haven
First Congregational Church
Watertown
First Presbyterian Church
Germany
Yale
Kate A. Mattison
Oswego
N. Y
Paul
Jesus
William Brock Shoemaker Fatally Injured in Elevator Accident
William Brock Shoemaker of Shoemaker & Bates stock brokers died at Hudson Street Hospital after injuries from an elevator accident. He was the youngest son of Henry F. Shoemaker, longtime head of the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton Railroad. Born in 182, he graduated Columbia in 1902 at 19, was business manager of campus papers, led varsity football and hockey, and joined his brother Henry W. Shoemaker and Thomas Towar Bates in business. He married Ella Morris de Peyster on December 14. Funeral at 16 West Fifty-fifth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Brock Shoemaker
Shoemaker & Bates
Hudson Street
Henry F. Shoemaker
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad
Shoemaker
Columbia University
Psi Upsilon
Henry W. Shoemaker
Thomas Towar Bates
Ella Morris de Peyster
Frederic J. Je Peyster
West Fifty-fifth Street
Lieut Col Alexander S Marshall Dies at 69 in New York
Lieut Col Alexander Stewart Marshall a Seventh Regiment Veteran Association leader died at his home 73 West 124th Street after a lingering illness. Born in Southern Pennsylvania, he joined the Seventh Regiment at the Civil War outbreak, later serving with the Seventh Virginia Volunteers as Adjutant and fighting at Antietam and other battles. He was with Sherman in the march to the sea, returned to New York after the war, pursued a short business career, and retired. He leaves a widow, two sons, and two daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Stewart Marshall
Seventh Regiment Veteran Association
West 124Th Street
Pennsylvania
Seventh Regiment
New York
Seventh Virgnia Volunteers
Ntietam
Sherman
Death of Joseph Leeming Former Drug Trade Leader
Joseph Leeming longtime secretary of the Druggists' Proprietary Association of America died at his Summit New Jersey home. Born in Montreal in 1869 he moved to New York as a boy and joined Lazell Marsh Gardner before partnering with his father and later with his brother Thomas in the family drug importing business. He belonged to the Sphynx Salmagundi Nassau Country Montauk and Hardware Clubs and was noted as an able artist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Leeming
Druggists’ Proprietary Association of America
Summit
N. J
Montreal
New York
Lazell, Marsh & Gardner
Leeming
Thomas
Sphynx
Salmagundi
Nassau
Montauk
George Young Former Seventh Ward Leader Dies at Home
George Young a former Republican leader of the Seventh Ward died of apoplexy at his home 14 West 128th Street after a brief illness. Born in the city he entered contracting with his father and rose to power in the Seventh Ward. He served as an Inspector in the Customs Department during McKinley’s administration. A widow and two sons survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Young
Old Seventh Ward
West 128Th Street
Seventh Ward
McKinley
Customs Department
Notable deaths across cities include tradesmen and officials
Hercules Atkin a Philadelphia car pet trader dies at 65. William J Wallis Albany Orphan Asylum superintendent dies after hemorrhage during outing. Robert C Martin retired lawyer dies at Riverdale. 17, a director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Daniel Hanrahan Stamford Connecticut legislator known as Honest Dan dies at 80. William Maxson Brooklyn resident dies at 60. former Stewart Building engineer, veteran fireman and club member leaves widow two sons and two daughters.
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Hercules Atkin
Philadelphia
William J. Wallis
Albany Orphan Asylum
Robert C. Martin
Riverdale
Martin
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Union League and Country Clubs
American Geographical Society
Daniel Hanrahan
Stamford
Connecticut
Honest Dan
William Maxson
Jefferson Avenue
Brooklyn
A. T. Stewart
Stewrart
Maxson
Knights of St. John and Malta
Kings County Republican Club
Obituary notices from New York area June 21 1906
A sequence of death notices and funeral details from June 19 to June 23 1906 listing names such as Mabel Elizabeth Scott Lindley Z Murray Charlie Stuart Severson Richard Satterlee Marius Sullot Irma Nachod George H Baum Caroline Tyler Martha Dyrsen Corinne Holt William P Iddings Fannie A Judson Harriet Maria Dorin Fritz L Lichtenstein Col Alexander Stewart Marshall Laura M Rankin Annie Ridgley John Egmont Schermerhorn William Brock Archibald Watt Helen Musgrave Woodward and related funeral details with dates times and locations across New York New Jersey and adjacent communities. The notices include church services private funerals and interment plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray—Scott
Roger A. Dunlap
Paterson
N. J
Mabel Elizabeth Scott
Lindley Z. Murray
Satterlee — Severson
St. George's Church
Charles C. Harriman
Charlie Stuart Severson
Memphis
Tenn
Richard S. Satterlee
Suliot—Nachod
Lima
Peru
Marius Sullot
Salem
Ohio
Irma, Pamente
Jesus E. Nachod
Glenside
Enn
Dyrsen
West 87Th St
Martha
Paul L. Dyrsen
Farmer
Montclair
Corinne H
Edward D. Farmer
William A
Lily Sheets Holt
Madison Av
New York
William P. Iddings
High St
Orange
Judson
West 92A St
Fannie A
Charles Gideon Judson
Kirtland
Yonkers
Harriet Maria Dorin
William Hathorne Kirtland
St. Paul's Church
Grand Central Station
Albany
N. Y
Lichtenstein
Fritz L. Lichtenstein
Paul
Clara Lichtenstein
Middletown
Conn
Schermerhorn St
Court St
Brooklyn
Marshall
West 124Th St
Alexander Stewart Marshall
St. Chrysostom’s Chapel
39Th St
Seventh Av
Mount_ Vernon
Woodlawn
Schermerhorn
East 79Th St
New York City
John Egmont Schermerhorn
John
Emily Hills Schermerhorn
Paris
London
Shoemaker
William Brock
Henry F. Shoemaker
West 55Th St
Woodlawn, Tripler
Charles E. Tripler
St. Michael's P. E
99Th St
Amsterdam Av
Watt
Commodore Archibald Watt
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Anthony Pe Lawrence Mott
Anne Warner
France
Uncle John
Play Producers Unite
Lad
Terrier
Crerar Library
Elizabeth Remsen
Lenox
Osgood Pell
Garden City Hotel
William Orr Barclay
Sylvia and
Beatrice Barclay
Seal Harbor, Me
Mrs. H. McK. Twombly
Mrs
William D. Sloane
W. Goldby Loew
Monmouth Beach
Marion Holloway
Joseph Holloway
West Orange
William L. Hirst
Anthony A. Hirst
the Stuyvesant
Queen Bee
Czar
Ocean Travelers
C. O.D. Iselin
United States Weather Bureau
Mr. Karp
Rev
George Barker Stevens
Col. A. S. Marshall
Appleton’s Magazine
D. Appleton & Company
Canada
Continent
Hugh D. Lumsden
Cy Warman
Glasgow
Frederic C. Howe
Ernest Thompson Seton
Dalmatia
Peixotto
Venice
Edward Penfield
F. Hopkinson Smith
Barnegat
Mary R. S. Andrews
F. Walter Taylor
Lincoln
Gettysburg Battlefield
Lucia Chamberlain
H.J. Peck
California
Francis Lynde
F. B. Masters
Maurice Francis Egan
Stanley M. Arthurs
Charles Scribner’s
Ouse Howsslide
Thejohn C.winstonco
Philadelphia, Pa
Undertakers
Frank E. Campbell Co
Chelsea
Harlem
Gramercy
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