New York Times Newspaper Archives, Mar 3, 1908, p. 7

Pink Ball Nets Large Sum for Blind Charity at Plaza

A Plaza Pink Ball in New York raised a handsome sum for the New York Association for the Blind. French Ambassador Jusserand was to attend as guest of honor but could not be present. the event featured pink decor, sup dinner, and a Carnival dance with many social and committee members in pink gowns and coats.

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Plaza New York Association For the Blind M. Jusserand Boston Horace Por Schuyler R. W. Gilder The Association For the Blind Hamilton Fairfax Ostrander Edward R. Hewitt J. Kensett Plyphant Algernon Julet P. Dodge Edith Winifred Holt Schuyler Schieffelin John Claflin Clarkson Jay Lasteer Eleanor Duane Ina Kissel Annie Graham Helen Morgan Gladys Roosevelt Rosiha Otis Frances Thorne Nahan Franko Julia Dodge Hamilton Tait- Schieffelin

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Tableaux for Charity at Colony Club benefit

A fashionable crowd filled the Colony Club assembly room for a charity tableaux vivants event hosted by Mrs. J Borden Harriman and others to benefit Sister Katherine's Home for Girls. John W Alexander posed the living pictures while Myron Whitney performed.

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Colony Club J. Borden Harriman Thomas Hastings Edward T. Potter John W. Alexander Reynolds Simlicity Ethel Cowdin Sylvia Parsons da Vinci Seton Henry Itlan Man With van Dyck M Th Deacon Goya Iss Beatrice Benjamin Memling Saint Catherine Katherine Wright Cardinal Tintoretto C. W. Ladd J. I. A. Clark Newell W. Tilton Lucy Brown Fillippo Lippi Gertrude Sheldon Raepurn Dorothy Bigelow Madonna Hotticelli Rosamund Fish Rossetti Proserpina Frang Hals Frank Ward Whitney Bizet Brogis Notte Bianca Canzone di Taormina Ruth Draper Conservatory

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Miss Harriman Aids Charity Musicale at Plaza

Miss Cornelia Harriman, soon to wed Robert Ju. Gerry, leads charity efforts for a Greenwich House Handicraft School musicale at the Plaza on March 5. She and Miss Eleanor Mortimer describe the project, its aim to fund a lace and rug making program in the Italian quarter, and efforts to make the school self supporting through donations and auctioned items after the concert.

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Cornelia Harriman Robert Ju. Gerry Greenwich House The Plaza Mortimer Harriman Egeo Fellew Gordon Bell Heinrich Meyn Elconora Jackson McLaughlin

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Harriman Wedding at Grace Church Noon Bride to Wed Gerry

Miss Cornelia Harriman becomes bride of Robert Livingston Gerry at Grace Church with bishops and ministers officiating. The reception follows at Stickney House Six Fifth Avenue. Family and Arden House staff attend as part of the ceremony detail.

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Cornelia Robert Livingston Gerry Grace Church McGuinness St. John’s Church Aréen Mary Harriman Carol A.harriman Marion H. Clark Ruth Averell Margaret Dix Elsie Howland Anita Peabody Gerry Peter Goodlet Gerry Robert W. Goelet Frederick Icernochen Monson Morris Reff Harriman

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Untermyer Dinner for Holland Poet Guest Honor

Frederick Van Eeden the leading Dutch poet and sociologist will be honored at a tea hosted by Mrs. Samuel Untermyer at 679 Fifth Avenue on March 5. Van Eeden travels to America to speak at Carnegie Hall on March 22 and is noted as founder of Walden Mol cooperative colony.

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Frederick van Eeden Holland Samuel Untermyer Fifth Avenue Mr. van Eeden America Carnegie Hall Walden Moland

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Raphaels Lewisohn Art Appears In New York Show

French painter Raphael Lewisohn exhibits at Julius Oehmen gallery 320 Fifth Avenue. The works highlight open countryside light and figure studies including Harvest Time and On the Way to School. Notable pieces: Watercarrier on Her Morning Trip, Village Scene in Montoire, Le Pouldu shore scene, and Summer Morning on the Banks of the Oise. Lewisohn elected to Société Nationale des Beaux Arts in 1897 and has shown in Paris salons. works praised by French and American institutions. The item also notes social events at Delmonico's Waldorf Astorina and St. Regis with several notable guests attending.

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Raphael Lewisohn Julius Oehmen Fifth Avenue Lewisohn Paris I Montoire France Montoire le Pouldu Brittany The Oise

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Society Notes Highlight Belmont Plans and Charity Events

Marlborough firehess due Saturday on the Lucania. Mrs. Belmont plans a town residence at Madison Avenue and Fifty first Street. Italian benefit at Manhattan Opera House features Mrs. Clarence Mackay on March. Charity events include Vassar Students Aid Society at Hotel Astor and Rhinebeck convalescent home entertainment. Weddings and travels of society figures, lectures at Cooper Union and Colby University, and Fresh Air Sewing Class at St John the Divine are listed with numerous hostesses and participants.

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Firehess of Marlborough Lucania O. H. P. Belmont Madison Clarence Mackay Manhattan Opera House Goodhu Civingero California HE. D. Morgan Rowland Mexico West Twelfth Street Madison W Avenue Fifty-first Street E. EK. F. Fenellosa J.C. Calhoun Thornton Mise Luin Thornton Roe Vassar Students’ Aid Society Hotel Astor Laurence J. Carmall Helen Clay Philadelphia Bryn’ Mawr Club East Fortieth Street Sturgis Joel Nott Allen Harry Payne Whitney Rhinebeck Rosamond Street Henry Spies Kip Gladys Rice Ruth Draper E. N. Harriman Fifth Avenue Nehan Franko Richard Barthelemy Plaza Bessie Maulsby Mceiecan Donald McLean William A. Dallam Church of the Heavenly Rest James R. Doudge Edith Doudge Celia B. Seymour Italy Continent Howard Carroll Carroll Palm Beach Fla Cuba Fresh Air Catthedral of St. John the Divine Frank Hunter Potter Richard Irwin Caroline Morgan Mii

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Thomas B Wanamaker Dies in Paris

Paris reports state Thomas B Wanamaker son of ex Postmaster General John Wanamaker died in Paris after a months long illness. He had arrived recently from Egypt with his mother and sister staying at the Hotel Liverpool when his condition suddenly worsened despite a French physician's warning of little hope.

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NEW York Times Paris Thomas B. Wanamaker John Wanamaker Mr. Wanamaker Warburton Egypt Liverpool

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Wanamaker Heir Thomas B Wanamaker Dies After Illness

Special to the New York Times Philadelphia March 2 Thomas B Wanamaker eldest son of ex Postmaster General John Wanamaker died after months of illness leaving Philadelphia North American and Wanamaker firms in his portfolio He was born March 27 1861 Princeton BA MA married Mary Lowther Welsh and had two children He supported water purification efforts in Philadelphia and chaired local civic projects He lost a Meadowbrook home and art collection in a later fire and days later remained active in business and philanthropy

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New York Times Philadelphia Thomas B. Wanamaker John Wanamaker Fjill Jodman Wanamaker Wanamaker University Princeton Germantown Huntingdon Valey Nineteenth Street Rittenhouse Square Meadowbrook Penn Reading Wenamaker Cassius M. Gillette United States Army Engineer Corps Weaver Gordon Jefferson Hospital

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Little Newsboy Herbert Smith Dies of Diphtheria

The 14 year old Herbert Smith of the Newsboys Home at 14 New Chambers Street died at Willard Parker Hospital after a four day illness. His life included aiding two older boys to the Catholic Protectory and an adopted mother in Richmond Hill who abused him. Newsboys and Superintendent Heigard mourn his loss.

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Herbert Smith Newsboys New Chambers Street Willard Parker Hospital Helgarea Herbert

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SLAIN PRIEST BURIED WITH SOLEMN POMP

Father Leo Heinrichs, a Franciscan priest shot during Mass in Denver, was buried in Paterson as thousands joined the solemn rites. His funeral at St Bonaventure's drew sixty monks and forty priests. Police fenced crowds while orphans and Sisters of Charity prayed at St Joseph Orphanage.

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New York Times Paterson N. J Leo Heinrichs Denver Societies of the Holy Angels Children of St. Mary Third Order of St. Francis St. Bonaventure Church West Fifteenth Street St. Joseph Sisters of Charity Diocese of Newark Edward Bleacke John J. O'Connor St. Bonaventure's Societies O'Connor

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Enoch Rutzler Dies. Brooklyn Businessman and Civil War Veteran

Enoch Rutzler, president of the E. Rutzler Company dealers in steam heaters at 127 and 129 White Street Manhattan, died Saturday at his home 40 Montague Place Brooklyn He was sixty four born in this city and a Civil War veteran He founded the business bearing his name and was a member of the Royal Arcanum Ancient Order of United Workmen American Legion U S Grant Post G A R and the Montauk Club

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Enoch Rutzler E. Rutzler Company White Street Manhattan Montague Place Brooklyn Rutzler Royal Arcanum The Ancient Order of United Workmen American i Ae of Honor U. S. Grant Post Montauk Club

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Brig. Gen. Vidal Dies in Ottawa After Illness

Brig. Gen. Vidal, Inspector General of the Canadian Militia, died at his Ottawa home after a period of illness. He had held the post for just under a year.

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Vidal Ottawa Canada

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Miss O'Hagan Receives License to Wed

Miss Anne O'Hagan, magazine writer, and Francis Adin Shinn of 7 Washington Place secured a marriage license in City Hall yesterday. O'Hagan listed age 87 and occupation writer.

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Anne O’hagan Francis Adin Shinn Washington Place

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Illustrated Cathedral Lecture Lends Home for St John Divine Talk

The Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Duane Pell will host an illustrated lecture on the Cathedral of St. John the Divine at their 929 Fifth Avenue residence. The event begins at 8 30 next Friday afternoon under the Cathedral League Trustees and Diocesan Auxiliary patronage with tea served at 5.

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Alfred Duane Pell Fifth Avenue

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James H Oliver dies a wealthy plow inventor in Indiana

James H Oliver a prominent plow maker born in Roxburgh Scotland on August 28 1828 died in Rend Indiana this morning. He immigrated to Geneva New York with his family in 1836 later moved to Indiana to work on farms and mills before founding a plow business that produced the chilled steel Oliver plow and expanded a large plant by 1875 employing thousands with branch agencies across the United States.

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South Rend Ind James H. Oliver Roxburgh Scotland Geneva N.Y Indiana Oliver United States

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Bishop W. W. Duncan Dies in Spartanburg

Bishop W. W. Duncan of the Methodist Episcopal Church South died in Spartanburg South Carolina. He was born December 20 1839 in Boydton Virginia and educated at Randolph Macon and R Wafford College. He joined the Virginia Conference in 1859 and was elected bishop in 1886.

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Spartanburg W. W. Duncan Methodist Episcopal Church, South Duncan Boydton Randolph-Macon Wwafford College Virginia

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Catherine B Davis longtime New York City educator remembered

Miss Catherine B Davis died recently and had served fifty two years as a New York public school teacher. She held roles as principal at Public School 7 and at Public School 98. Thousands of New Yorkers owe their education to her work.

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Catherine B. Davis West Eighty-ninth Street Public Schools of New York Public School 7 Public School

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Obituary Notice MARY J. DRAKE Dies in Newark Home

Mary J. Drake widow of E Cortlandt Drake dies suddenly at her Newark New Jersey home from heart disease. She passed away yesterday morning leaving a family and social circle noting her long marriage and community involvement.

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Mary J. Drake E. Cortlandt Drake Newark N.J

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Marriages Reported in Early March Notices

Kathleen Theodora Ludlow Harper, daughter of Orlando M. Harper, married L T Martin at First Presbyterian Church Greenwich Conn. Dr Samuel Schurhofer wed Miss Rebecca Kaiser. Teresa Ritzheimer connected with Aime Gerber in March ceremonies.

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Martin—Harper First Presbyterian Church Greenwich Conn

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Local notices list multiple 1908 obituaries and funeral details

A long obituary column lists numerous deaths with dates and funeral plans. It names William L. Ailey and many others, giving residences, ages, and service times, including services at Babylon, Woodlawn, Grace Episcopal, and private arrangements, with flowers omitted in several cases.

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Obituary notices list Brooklyn and New Jersey deaths

Brooklyn and nearby towns report numerous death notices and funeral arrangements. Names include John A Busse at 104 Bleecker Street and Sarah Chase at 936 St Mark's Avenue, with many others across Brooklyn Newark Yonkers and Jersey locations. Funeral times vary from today to tomorrow and cover multiple churches and cemeteries.

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Notable New Jersey and New York Deaths Span Charities to Industry

A series of obituaries from New Jersey and nearby states notes deaths of prominent figures. Homer N. Sowler, Rome State Custodian Asylum official, dies in Rome N J. Charles Cruger a Middlesex County hotel leader dies at 50. Pedro D F Cordoba, 72, longtime New York customs broker, dies in Middletown N Y. William Bridge, 74, Long Island vegetable canner, dies in Waterbury Conn. John R. Woodruff, builder of factories and refineries, dies in Arlington N J aged 75. The Rev A H Long, oldest Church of God minister, dies at Mount Joy Pa aged 83. James Chambers dies in Morristown N J aged 55. Theodore M Willis, 72, Montclair jeweler, dies in Mountainside Hosp Montclair. Charles H Lewis, formerly of Dominick & Dominick, dies in Park Hill Denver aged 50. Edward W Parsons, 64 Newark manufacturer, dies suddenly at 46 Chestnut St Newark. Harold S Morris, 33, Morris & Grenta, fire insurance adjusters, dies after brain illness in Hotel Walton West Seventieth St Manhattan.

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Fordham Orlovery Woodlawn Byrne West Thomas J. Byrne Arshand Marion Jrne Church of St. Paul the Apoastle Columbus Ax Chicago Society of the Friendly Sons of St.Patrick New York West 92A St York City Church of St. Paul the Apostle 59Th St Columbus Av Stephen Farreluey Warren Leslie Chambers Morristown N. J James Chambers James and Helena de Witt Chambers South Sireé Chittick East Orange William Gervais Chittick Summit St Cushing Atlantic City Olivie Cushing Heilner Elisabeth No J Jennie Reid Percival B. Heilner William Reid East Jersey Elizabeth Hedges Alennourst James Heiges New York City West Sith St Kemable New Orleans Frank Kemble Southern Pacific Steamship Company Tarden St Hoboken N. L Wenham Mass Boston Lewis Charles H Mary Elizabeth Lewis Giblers Ve John Robertson St. Moritz Switzerland Andrew Robertson J. Clarke Rusch Tucson Ariz Wiliam H. Rusch Frances Fauntleroy Rusch West 659Th St Tennant John Tennant Palmetto St Brooklyn Elm Av Richmond Hill Greenpolinte A. M van Note Seventh Regiment James M. van Note Eighth Company Long Branch Thomas Dimond Walton William T. Walton West End Av Werz St. Louis Ambrose Werz Pauline Werz Nea Thérmiger Charles Frank August Michael Albert Werz Sourth Cardinal Av SS. Peter and Paul New Jersey Homer N. Sowler Rome State Rome Charles Cruger Jameshure N.J Middlesex County Pedro Cordoba Middletown N. Y William Bridge Long Island Carrie Wilson Waterbury A. H. Long Church of God Mount Joy Penn Jie James. Chambers South Street THEODORE _M. WILIAS Valley Road Montclair Mountainside Hospital Bloomfield Avenue Wiliam Clymer Ninth Street Newark Charles H. Lewis Park Hill Denver Col Lis Dominick & Dominick Bookers Broadway F. W. Schaeffer Geores Breaf Jersey City Edweard W. Parsons Chestnut Street N. J. Hie Fast Orange Morris & Grenta William Street West Seventieth Street Dig CheNentown Military Academy Philadelphia Belle E. .Morris

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In Memoriam Judge James M Fitzsimons

In memory of Judge James M Fitzsimons who died March 4 1904. The notice honors his service and remembers his contributions as a jurist, with signs of mourning from family and colleagues in the community.

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Pink Ball Nets Large Sum for Blind Charity at Plaza

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Raphaels Lewisohn Art Appears In New York Show

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Thomas B Wanamaker Dies in Paris

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Little Newsboy Herbert Smith Dies of Diphtheria

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SLAIN PRIEST BURIED WITH SOLEMN POMP

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Enoch Rutzler Dies. Brooklyn Businessman and Civil War Veteran

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Brig. Gen. Vidal Dies in Ottawa After Illness

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Miss O'Hagan Receives License to Wed

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Notable New Jersey and New York Deaths Span Charities to Industry

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