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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1908
Page
1
A mile long tunnel west of Laramie hosts a car race with mud on the course. Protos show distance over immediate rivals as Imme diate competitors struggle to keep pace while the De Dion Motobloc advances.
The item lists arrival times for cars from Evanston Wyoming to Ames Iowa including models De Dion Protos Motobloc and Cedar Rapids with distances. Remained all day and last reported. Weather forecast calls for fair and colder conditions for leading cars and possibly rain and colder for others.
Special to The New York Times from Evanston Wyoming March 13 reports the Thomas Jeader in the Paris Main continues toward New York to Paris. The crew traveled on Union Pacific rails after axle damage and rough roads forced detours. The report notes snow mud and mountain terrain, possible receptions in Ogden and Salt Lake City, and rivalry with an Italian 7500 pound car in the Rockies. E. Lavin Mathewson wires the update.
The Italian entry, chasing the Thomas, arrived in Laramie, Wyoming at 1 50 p m after a four hour run from Cheyenne. Overhauls at Union Pacific shops left the car in fine trim and the crew planned an all night run to close the gap. They praised Western hospitality and thanked the reception committee but left for continued competition at 2 55 p m.
A woman in white satin and an ermine cloak alights at a Harlem theatre and pays with a two dollar bill. She asks for a seat with a hundred dollar bill, and theatergoers whisper that she is Evelyn Thaw. An automobile is later called, car number 47235N tied to Barber Asphalt Co., as Daniel O'Reilly leaves with a companion puzzled by the crowd.
Harry K. Thaw attended an entertainment by the Fenberg Stock Company at Matteawan State Hospital in Fishkill Landing. He sat in the front, applauded acts, while six chorus girls were dismissed to avoid attention. Separately, Thaw’s attorney served an answer in Evelyn Thaw’s annulment suit denying insanity at marriage and requesting dismissal with costs.
Report from Pittsburg says Mrs. William Thaw has lost use of her left arm from rheumatism and plans to retire to Florida with her daughter Mrs. Thomas Carnegie. A sharp disagreement exists over cash vs securities to satisfy Mrs. Evelyn Thaw in the separation from Harry Thaw, with heirs said to oppose funding a cash settlement.
Mrs Frances Cleveland wife of the ex president has asked her financial agent in Omaha to collect a long overdue debt of 70 dollars from a local resident. She notes that the couple lost heavily in the Knickerbocker collapse and the decline in values of holdings while retaining some small Omaha property.
The libel suit against De Mercy Argenteau, known as Princess de Montyglyon, advances after appellate judges upheld overruling a demurrer. Chin Chino, a Chinese dog shown in New York, sparked the dispute with dyed hair claims and a ruling on first prize. The Princess, resident of Tappan, N Y, is alleged to have insulted Mrs Ada Olive Van Heusen in a letter about the show.
Latest shipping news reports the vessel Graf Waldersee arriving at Hamburg on February 29. The record notes the port of entry and date for maritime traffic in the era's brief dispatch.
Longtime Tammany ally General Ide is linked to Cochran's removal from key committees. Daniel Cohalan and Lewis Nixon gain Cochran roles as Murphy reshapes leadership after Cochran battles with War leader Murphy. Reuters-era tone notes Croker-era echoes in the internal purge.
Report from Mineola New York says the Public Reservation Society of Massachusetts may not exist and the Julia Sands Bryant $10,000 bequest could go to the Trustees of Public Reservations. In Boston authorities expect the trustees led by Harvard President Eliot to receive the funds for historic site care.
Pittsburg records show no real estate transfers filed Friday the 13th marking an unprecedented day in the Recorder's office. A broker arrived with a $2 000 transfer but left after seeing the blank entry and promised to return tomorrow. Brokers note several patrons refused to close deals amid the Black Friday climate.
Fragmentary OCR lists places Asheville Augusta Aiken Florida and mentions Via Southern Ry Pullman Drawing Room and biogas office terms, unclear context. No coherent event or dates are identifiable from the readable text.
Posters announce Mme Emma Eames cannot appear due to a knee problem from a fall. Mme Marie Rappold steps in to sing Alda as the large audience hears Aida with Kirkby Lunn Amneris and Scotti Caruso Plancon in the cast under Mr Ferrari. The chorus was faint in the second act.
Mrs. Kaziah Whaley of Hempstead L I testified that Fioretta Whaley who eloped with the unfrocked rector Jere K Cooke last May contacted her for funds. The grandmother said a telegram claimed the pair and baby were ill but she refused to send money, suspecting a ruse. Report says the runaways may be destitute in the West and asked reply via Western Union in San Francisco.
In Lakewood New Jersey a cartboat overturned in high wind while Harry Herst of Brooklyn and Neil Hopper a Manhattan Hotel musician were aboard. Spectators and rescuers including John Aspegren and Patrick Bray entered the water. Hopper was saved while Herst body was recovered hours later.
The French Academy refused a $20,000 bequest from Miss Louise H. Leclerc to fund efforts to raise France’s moral tone. Leclerc, who died in New York on February 25 1907 at age 83, inherited funds for France from her Minneapolis will. She scorned modern French novels and warned against perceived moral decline.
Marcus A. Hanna grandson of the late Senator Mark Hanna, Yale Sheffield School student, and Adele Pratt of Elmira N Y were quietly married by Justice EB Hull at his Bridgeport home. They traveled to New York after the ceremony.
John Brown's wagon used in his anti slavery crusade was burned yesterday in Iowa City. The wagon, left by Brown forty eight years ago, had been preserved by Herbert S. Fairall, pioneer Iowa City newspaperman.
Washington March 13 The House approves the largest federal appropriation in history totaling 222 198 392 dollars. The bill carries an additional 1 475 dollars beyond the committee estimate.
The Board of Estimate approved Broadway Lexington subway plans from Battery to Bronx. A joint opinion says building in sections does not violate the debt limit if each year’s contract cost stays within the limit. If $20 million is available this year, multiple lines could begin, with public consent sought and bids expected.
Nearly a thousand residents from Long Island City and nearby towns met at Schuetzen Park to press immediate city purchase of the Belmont tunnel. The United Civic Associations of Queens County organized the meeting with 25 groups. a three-member per group committee will press the Board of Estimate and Apportionment and the Public Service Commission. Speakers argued subways divert traffic rather than relieve congestion and urged extending a line three miles from the tunnel mouth for 000,000 rather than into the Bronx for 60.
Corporation Counsel Pendleton sent the mayor an opinion stating the city cannot purchase the Steinway Tunnel from Belmont interests under present law. He notes forthcoming bills to let the Board of Estimate and Public Service Commission jointly authorize such purchases, though the Public Service Commission opposes a tunnel buy.
A man walked into the Senate lounge on the Republican side and was removed after officers confronted him. A suitcase rumored to contain dynamite was found near the Capitol, raising alarms. The intruder, a New York lawyer, claimed no knowledge of Senate customs and declined to reveal his name.
Ivan R. Coffin aged 22 from Asbury Park New Jersey, a Lehigh University student, drowned when his canoe tipped in the Delaware River near Easton Pennsylvania today.
Charles J. Glidden of Boston and Mrs. Glidden arrived in Jerusalem today by motor car from Haifa, Syria. It was the first automobile ever seen in Jerusalem and caused a great stir among residents.
A Socialist demonstration for universal suffrage in Budapest tonight led to three hours of rioting with revolvers and stones. Many police and rioters were wounded. Fifty persons were arrested.
New Brunswick New Jersey March 13 1908 the ruins of the Janeway Carpender wallpaper factory destroyed March 13 1907 were still burning. A mass of paper buried in debris flamed intermittently as residents dug to check lingering fire. The plant now operates at Highland Park after rebuilding.
In Berlin creditors of Sigmund Friedberg met to hear the official receiver report. Friedberg, a private banker and owner of a financial newspaper, disappeared in February with assets $2,750 and liabilities $1,000,000. They will likely recover about a quarter of one percent.
In Upper Sandusky Ohio on March 13 five hundred people became ill after a church social hosted by the English Lutheran Church ladies. Illness spread after departure with many life parishioners at home. Doctors crowded the city as stores closed due to clerks falling sick. no deaths reported yet.
Christiania March 13 The cabinet resigns after socialist and radical lack of confidence motions. Though rejected, the government can stay only with coalition support which ministers refuse to accept. They will urge the king to appoint radical leader Gunnar Knudsen to form a new cabinet.
Big Timber the county seat near Butte with 2500 residents was nearly destroyed by fire. Both business and residential areas burned out leaving many homeless as losses likely exceed 109000 amid high winds hampering firefighters.
Three mounted robbers struck the Tyre Bank in Coffeyville Kansas and escaped with 2500 dollars heading toward Oklahoma. Three men were inside when the heist occurred and were ordered to raise their hands. A posse of citizens pursued the robbers.
Mrs Russell Sage enlarges her Sag Harbor Long Island homestead by buying the William Moylan property adjoining. The Moylan cottage will be razed and grounds graded into a broad lawn. Plans approved last Fall will finish the remodeling of the Sage homestead, nearing completion.
Prince Helle de Sagan arrived in Paris this afternoon after a projected voyage to the United States. Reports said he might travel with Mme Anna Gould or sail on another steamer. He departed Paris on March 10. Mme Gould boarded the Adriatic for New York from Cherbourg on March 11.
Jury convicts four men after six hours deliberation in the Capitol conspiracy trial. San derson Snyder Mathues and Shumaker found guilty of defrauding the state in Capitol furnishings. Motions for new trials filed. next case set for March 23 and involves $17,780.76 metallic furniture bill.
March 13 report from San Diego notes a massive rush to the Dulzura gold fields thirty miles east with hundreds of prospectors arriving from the southwest. Assays show free milling ore around ten dollars per ton and several ledges with higher values. Wyatt Earp endorses promising surface indications and predicts a historic boom amid cross-border movement into Mexico.
Notices posted today reveal a one percent wage cut at the Amoskeag Corporation mills in Manchester employing 14 000 workers and at the Jackson Company and Nashua Manufacturing Company mills in Nashua with 4 000 operatives.
Anaconda Montana March 13 The reverberatory furnaces were started yesterday at the Washoe copper smelters of the Amalgamated Copper Company and today copper smelting began The furnaces are described as the largest in the world reducing about 10000 tons of ore daily The limestone quarries west of Anaconda resumed operations yesterday
March 13 report from Philadelphia states the United States Mint has rehired 550 workers. Washington ordered immediate coinage of 10 million dollars in twenty dollar gold coins. Additional coinage of silver and copper is planned.
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