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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1908
Page
7
A farmer recounts years of indigestion and bilious colic until he switched from coffee to Postum. Within three weeks he felt renewed, with improved sleep, digestion, and energy, and never drank coffee again. His wife prepares the Postum per directions, and he praises the remedy advertised by Postum Co.
Harry Content Mrs Andrew Carnegie and Mrs Vernon M Davis announce a play to be presented at the Waldorf nightly all week with a Saturday matinée. Cast and specific show details to be announced.
A benefit tonight at the Manhattan Opera House supports the Italian Benevolent Institute and the Society for Italian Immigrants. Performances include Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana with Ambassador Mayor des Planches arriving from Washington to attend. Gount Massiglia and other prominent Italians have taken boxes, and many society women are purchasing boxes decorated with pennants and flags. The Italian and American national anthems will be sung and copies placed in orchestra seats for audience participation. A few good boxes and seats remain at the Manhattan box office and other theatre ticket offices.
Mme Lina Cavalieri of the Metropolitan Opera is featured at a Venetian dinner at Mrs. Benjamin Guinness’s home in Washington Square. Marquis Mario de Bosco, cellist, and artist Charles Barron led decor, music by Tzygane Orchestra and a Neapolitan quartet, with Cavalieri performing and dancing the tarantella. Joined by Caruso, Barthelemy, Mazzocorati, Scotti and others.
A Plaza matinée variée by The Sewers for the Darrach Home for Crippled Children adds dance by Donald Brien and numbers by The Merry Widow company, with Nina Gordon, Winter Watts, and Miss Ungehauer. Envelopes at the door collect donations. Mrs Ethel Watts Mumford Grant contributes a verse and the organizers seek a substantial charity sum.
Mr and Mrs Henry Sherman Gould announce the engagement of their daughter Frances Converse Gould to Richard Hall Stearns Jr of Boston. Mr and Mrs Homner Brooke of Jersey City announce the engagement of their daughter Lucella Brooke to Dr James Henry Winnessy of Rochester.
Mr and Mrs Hudson Maxim hosted friends at their St Marks Avenue Brooklyn home Sunday evening. Maxim, famed for smoke less powder, welcomed guests as his house displayed cannons pistols shotguns and cartridges. Wl Carleton recited poems Edwin Markham read Man with the Hoe while William Oberhardt and Anderson Norris contributed sketches and a Chopin piano prelude.
Miss Selene Pilcher hosted a Sunday afternoon informal musical at 307 Fifth Avenue. The program featured harpist Ada Sassoli, Rita la Fonla of the Metropolitan Opera House, contralto Marjorie Knowles, Ada Pierce of the Church of the Advent, Fred Hilliard, Arthur Rosenstein as accompanist, and Anthony H. Bower Christopher Chricket.
The last meeting of the Tuesday Night Roller Skating Club occurs tonight at the Metropolitan Rink and closes with a cotillion on skates led by Arthur L. Doremus with Miss Florence Barker and Howard S. Borden with Mrs. Borden. Ten figures will be performed, five favor figures.
Mrs Henry Carnegie Phipps and Miss Gladys Mills return from a bridal tour to attend a dinner hosted by Mrs Ogden Mills. Mrs Gilbert K E Jones entertained with a large bridge party at 222 Madison Avenue. Mrs John H Flagler hosts a dinner for Mrs Chamber Blair of Chicago at 15 Park Avenue. The Fresh Air Sewing Class meets at Mrs Payne Whitney. Leavitt of Leavitt Grant is seriously ill. Colony Club to host a reception for members relatives and friends with two male guests per member. Marian Coffin to give lectures on soil Spring bulbs and related topics at 32 East Thirty-sixth Street. Mrs Cornelia Van Rensselaer to host discuss ion March. The Entertainment Club hosts last season reception at Waldorf Astoria for Nicola Tesla with Admiral Sigsbee as guest. Miss Estelle Liebling to sing. Mrs Edwin Drexel Godfrey hosts luncheon at 21 East Sixty-ninth Street. National Society Daughters of 1812 holds pivot bridge at St Regis ballroom. Mr and Mrs F P Garrettson of Newport guests at Gotham. Sewing class for New York Orphan Asylum meets at Mrs F J de Peyster East Eighty-sixth Street. Seamen's Benefit Sewing Class also meets at de Peyster with large attendance. Next meeting of Seamen's Class at Miss Josephine Beeckman’s home.
At the Lyric Theatre last night E H Sothern portrayed Rodion Raskolnikov in Laurence Irving's adaptation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. The review notes tedious pacing and moments of earnest acting, but criticizes the play for lacking dramatic vitality and atmospheric detail beyond Sothern's performance.
Boston March 9 Governor Guild suffers a sharp grip attack and acute rheumatism and has stayed in his room since a Wednesday dinner with legislators from Southeastern Massachusetts. Doctors say he must rest from public speaking.
Maude Adams adds her name to a lengthy petition sent to President Roosevelt urging a pardon for Captain Van Schaick of the ill fated excursion boat General Slocum. The effort seeks clemency for the captain amid the disaster’s aftermath.
Philadelphia observes Edwin Forrest's 102nd anniversary at the Edwin Forrest Home for Old Actors. The entertainment features William H. Bartholomew in Toodles, John Jack performing Polonius and King, and veteran staff member Charles J. Tyffe in roles from Lear to Hamlet plus others in Shakespearean selections.
West Forty seventh Street Station reserves under Capt Bailey were sent to Hammerstein Victoria Theatre to quell a fight among ticket speculators. Two men were arrested and later discharged after a harsh reprimand by Magistrate Moss. Policeman Lersner helped to detain Abraham Scharff of Times Square Hotel and Jacob Gogsten of 68 East 118th Street.
Vera Komisarzhevsky staged The Battle of the Butterflies at Daly's Theatre last night after managers signed a royalty contract during the second act. Alice Kauser, acting for Sudermann, sent Richard Grace with papers asserting his claim to royalties, prompting the agreement amid performance. The Russian producers had been notified by a separate attorney about other royalty demands. The show will be repeated Wednesday afternoon.
Vera Komisarzhevsky and her Russian players at Daly's Theatre will end their New York engagement a week from Saturday night, shortening the stay to three weeks from the originally announced five. The follow-up at Daly's will be Clyde Fitch's comedy Girls. Will Cressy in The Village Lawyer at the Garden will close on Saturday evening.
Beatrice Morgan leading woman of Keith and Proctor at Harlem Opera House wrote a new play set in the George Iz era. It follows actress Mary Ann Clarke, claimed as an ancestor by Miss Morgan, in a romance of the period. A $100 prize is offered for the best title.
The Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Orphan Asylum at 150th Street and Broadway hosts an afternoon entertainment by well known actors and actresses. Cohen and Harris have secured George M. Cohan to appear with Victor Moore and others, with the New York Theatre orchestra providing music.
Clyde Fitchs new comedy Girls had its initial presentation in Washington tonight. The play follows three man haters who vow not to marry but each eventually marries. Laura Nelson Hall Amy Ricard Ruth oe cliffe lead a cast with Charles Cherry Herbert Standing Zelda Sears and Fanchon Campbell in supporting roles.
Trovatore at the Metropolitan drew a crowded house with Caruso Eames and Homer in the cast. Crispino e la Comare at the Manhattan Opera House also drew a large audience as Mme. Tetrazzini again offered the Carnival of Venice encore.
The Board of Directors met yesterday and adjourned until March 19. The notes indicate ongoing governance actions for the Conried Metropolitan Opera Company.
John F. Stevens vice president of the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad and former Panama Canal chief engineer warns the canal will not aid U S trade with South America or the Pacific and Far East. He says coal and wheat are inland and the canal would cost more than it saves, with finishing date set for January 1915.
War Department officials dismissed J. F. Stevens former Panama Canal chief engineer’s forecast of failure and cost as mistaken. An officer who worked with Stevens said the canal will save about four weeks in ocean passages and will not be financially burdensome to the United States.
Lulu Glaser resumes her part in The Merry Widow burlesque at Weber's Music Hall after a week off due to a cold. The New Amsterdam Amusement Co is incorporated in Albany with 10000 capital, directors J H Alexander A R Sandergr and Fred Knowlton. Florence Gerald joins Nearly a Hero at the Casino replacing Zelda Sears who moves to Clyde Fitch's Girls. The Passion Play moving pictures will screen at the Majestic Theatre next Sunday evening.
Marie Doro starred in The Morals of Marcus under Charles Frohman at Montauk Theatre. George M. Cohan’s Fifty Miles from Boston with Edna Wallace Hopper played Broadway Theatre. The Futurity Winner headed the vaudeville bill at the Orpheum. Vanderbilt Cup was the Majestic Theatre musical comedy. Uncle Tom's Cabin at Columbia Theatre directed by Al. W. Martin.
Mrs. Rheua Miller, claimed to be the state’s only actual Daughter of the Revolution, died yesterday at her daughter’s home in Mount Vernon after a fall. Born April 12, 1807 in Stamford, Connecticut, her father Colseth Webb served as lieutenant of Coal Guards under Capt. Reuben Scofield. Her descendants total seventy five, including children, grandchildren, and great great grandchildren.
George Edward Thomas 66 died of pneumonia on March 6 at his home 620 West 136th Street after a brief illness. He supervised the Subway power house on Fifty-ninth Street and the City Investing Building on Cortlandt Street. He leaves a widow and three children: John William Thomas of Chicago, Mrs Willis B. Hayes of Burlington Vermont, and Mrs R Hogue of Douglas Arizona.
Mrs Ida H Abbey mother of Stephen H Abbey editor of The Ulster Square Dealer died after a stroke of apoplexy. Worry over her son's troubles with a citizens committee attempting to suppress The Square Dealer is believed to have caused her illness. She was the widow of S Abbey.
The funeral of Dr Daniel Bennett St John Rocsa M A LL D president of the Faculty of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital who died Sunday morning will be held at 10 o clock this morning in Marble Collegiate Reformed Church Fifth Avenue and Twenty ninth Street Kingston business figure Legeand Abbey noted among prominent locals.
Justus A. Traut, a prominent manufacturer of New Britain Connecticut, died of heart disease. He had filed more than seven hundred patents.
Henry Bosch a US paint and oil figure died in Chicago after a long career that began in Amsterdam. Frances A Dawes widow of Major Dawes died in Atlanta and will be buried in Milwaukee. Dr Hal C Wyman surgeon and author died in Detroit aged 66. Stephen L Dows pioneer contractor died in Daytona Beach at 76. Henry Sigourney died in Boston where he was born 55 years earlier. Edward H Chase 78 died in Wilkesbarre. Cantine Tremper 55 died in Albany. Robert Hudson Cunningham 53 died in Paterson after 30 years in silk trade. James H Areson 91 died in Flushing L I. Maria Townsend died in Oyster Bay. John L Sectey 80 died en route to hospital in Jersey City. Capt Henry Dawson Civil War veteran mentioned.
On Wednesday March 4 a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Hirsch. The mother is Sadye Weinberg. The event appears in a newspaper notices section as a personal birth announcement.
The notice announces Mildred McCorkle will wed Frank R. Steven on March 7. It records a formal betrothal event with names and the planned wedding date.
A long column lists funeral notices for numerous individuals from Plainfield to Brooklyn and beyond. It includes names such as Richard Bowen Mary Crimmins Peter Dauffenbach Ella Montgomery Jeannie Taylor Lillie Keith Eliza Kelley Gertrude Leslie Theodore Kenneth and many others with dates and service details. Local churches and residences from New York City Brooklyn Montclair and Oyster Bay are cited for services.
The First Monitor died at his daughter’s home in Richmond Hill aged 74 after thirty years in Brooklyn. Julius C Gerlach of Newark florists firm Eegerow died at St Augustine Florida aged 64 from heart trouble and asthma. Edward K Jones of Jones Gavin law firm died suddenly in Atlantic City New Jersey aged ? He belonged to several professional and social clubs and lived at 104 West 58th Street.
Brooklyn and New Jersey burial notices list names and ages with addresses and dates from March. Many entries state funeral or interment details, including Margaret Baley Francis Beers Dorcas Burtchaell Hyatt Burger and Alice Esterbrooks.
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