Charity and Music Ennobled His Life
Leopold Gusthal a longtime New York resident died at 1 185 Lexington Avenue aged eighty two. A German born financier and milliner investor he sheltered friend Edward Ridley from bankruptcy in 1837 and later became a noted music critic and early Wagner proponent. He left two sisters and an 1180 lot Long Island estate while supporting charities quietly. He lived in Stuyvesant Square and later uptown, with a reputation for philanthropy and musical patronage.
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Lexington Avenue
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New York
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Grand Street
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Jamaica
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Long Island
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John Gerken
Ridley
Wagner
Germany
Stuyvesant Square
Second Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Quiet Wedding Planned for April at St Thomas Church
The wedding of Mrs Cornelia Van Renselaer Erving Pruyn to Hamilton L Hop pin will be held Monday afternoon April 6 at St Thomas Church. Engagements of Louise R Talcott and Edward Wyckoff Harris are announced with no fixed date yet. The spring reception will be at the bride's parents East Sixty sixth Street home. Gladys Kissel and J Miler plan a wedding on April practical details include Ellen Rogers as bridesmaid and Charles Miller as best man with ushers Ogden Mills Reid Charles E Adams Francis H Kinnicuil Theodore P Dixon Henry Alexandre Jr and Anson W Hard Jr.
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Cleveland
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Princeton
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Cuba
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SQ West
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General Sessions
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Hotel Majestic
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Marron
Price
East Forty Eighth Street
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East Eightieth Street
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West Fifty-fourth Street
Tarrytown Young Men’s Christian Association
Music Hall
Hamilton College Glee and Instrumental Club
John D. Archbold
Helen Miller Gould
Henry F. Lord
M.D. Raymond
Frank R. Pierson
J. D. Maxwell
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KE. B. Monroe
A. P. Cobb
Roswell Skeel
James I. Laurie
H.A. Grant
C. C. Brace
Frederick E. Lewes
John P. Herren
Cornelia van Rensselaer Erving Pruyn
John Erving
John V. L. Pruyn
Hamilton L. Hoppin
St. Thomas’s Church
Louise R. ‘Talcott
Edward “Wyckoff Harris
Ors Edwards Rowland
Gladys Kissel
J.n. Miler
Ellen Rogers
Priscilla Stanton
Mr. Miller
Charles
Ogden Mills Reid
Charles E. Adams
Francis H. Kinnicuil
Theodore P. Dixon
Henry Alexandre, Jr
Anson W. Hard, Jr
The Sowers Vaudeville Benefit at Plaga Ballroom
The Sowers a band of twenty one school chums finish a Lenten program for Darrac Home for Crippled Children with a vaudeville show at Plaga ballroom on Monday March 30. Cissie Loftus and The Jewels Trio join with Donald Brian Nina Gordon Burr Mcintosh Winter Watts and Fanchon Thompson among others. admission is by voluntary donation. Mrs Henry Starbuck presides with officers including Mrs Charles Gaye and Mrs Henry Wise Wood.
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Darrac
Plaga
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Jewesl
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Nina Gordon
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Burr Mcintosh
Winter Watts
Unete
Fanchon Thompson
England
Frederic Norton
the Sowers
Henry Starbuck
Charles Gaye
Henry Wise Wood
Frank Black
Frederick West Macdonald
Elizabeth
Lufborrow
Duer Couple Sail to Europe for Months Offshore
Mr and Mrs J B Duer sail Tuesday for Europe to remain until June. Mr and Mrs John H Cole announce the...
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J. B. Duer
Europe
John H. Cole
Union League Art Exhibit Opens at 3 East Thirty-ninth Street
A spring show of American artworks loaned from Union League Club members is now on view in the club gallery. The exhibition, opened Friday and running through today, features artists such as Inness Remington Bierstadt and Hassam with a large turnout on ladies days and many attendees listed among the guests. Col Henry B. Wilson chairs the Art Committee with Herbert S. Carpenter as secretary.
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East Thirty-ninth Street
George Inness
Homer Martin
Robert C. Minor
Julian Rix
George de Forest Brush
Charles Melville Dewey
Robert Reid
Frederic Remington
R. M. Shurtless
Arthur Parton
Childe Hassarm
Paul Dougherty
Albert Bierstadt
C. B. Coman
Anson G. McCoo
F. K. Trowbridge
Charles R.bissell
Jones
William Edward Foster
E. T. Hale
E. R. Rossiter
Eeith Rossiter
Congressmen Wives Club Seeks Social Ties in Washington
Wives of national legislators form a tentative social club to ease official life in Washington. Only about 140 of 400 eligible women favor the idea. A preliminary meeting at Representative Perkins’s home outlined aims to foster closer acquaintance among congressional wives with Mrs. John Sharp Williams as chair and a committee on constitution and by laws including several senator and representative wives from New York California Wyoming Georgia Missouri Massachusetts Texas Pennsylvania and other states. The next gathering is set for Wednesday at Mrs Fassett’s home with prominent hostesses such as Mrs Blakeley Crane Dolliver Hopkins Reed Smoot and Southerland taking interest.
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Washington
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Perkins
Congressional Circle
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Sherman
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Iowa
Murray Crane
Massachusetts
Bulkeley
Connecticut
J. B. Perkins
Serena E. Payne
New York
Kahn
California
Mondell Ot
Wyoming
Howard
Georgia
Champ Clark
Missouri
McCall
Burle
Subscription Dance At Rip Van Winkle Honors Notables
Mrs Ernest Thompson Seton and Mrs William Roberts hosted a subscription dance last night in the Colonial ballroom of Rip Van Winkle at 4 West Fortieth Street. Guests included Mr and Mrs Charles de Kay, Mr and Mrs Myerett Shinn, Mrs Mary Heaton Vorse, Mrs George Broadhurst, Miss Raymond, Miss French, Mrs Ralph Lester, Lloyd Osbourne, Alvin Untermyer, Frederick Stearns, Wilhelm Funk, and Stephen Goddard.
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Ernest Thompson-Seton
William Roberts
Rip van Winkle
West
Fortieth Street
Charles’ de Kay
Myerett Shinn
Mary Heaton Vorse
George Broadhurst
Miss Raymond
French
Ralph Lester
Llyod Osbourne
Miss French
Alvin Untermyer
Frederick Stearns
Wilhelm Funk
Stephen Goddard
Zurich Welcomes Miss Silva in Faust Night
Marguerite Silva an American singer appeared tonight before a crowded house in Faust, creating a brilliant success. The performance in Zurich drew a large audience and favorable notices from critics.
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Zurich
Miss Silva
Marguerite Silva
Faust
Theatrical Notes on March Theatre Changes and Casts
The Musical Union demands wage rises for regular players. managers to discuss at Monday meeting. Walter Lawrence substitutes in The Soul Kiss at New York Theatre. The Savoy hosts the first Henry Miller associate Players performance of The Soul Kiss on Monday March 23 with no evening show. The Strollers invite leading members of Savage and Weber casts to watch The Merry Widow burlesque in German tonight at 67 Madison Avenue. Gertrude Quinlan signs to play Flora Wiggins in London production of The College Widow opening Easter Monday at the Adelphi. Cyril Scott debuts in The Royal Mounted at Garrick Theatre Philadelphia on Monday evening.
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Musical Union of the Musicians
Managers’ Association
Walter Lawrence
Cecil Lean
New York Theatre
Henry Miller
Savoy Theatre
Strollers
Henry W. Savage
Joe Weber
Madison Avenue
Gertrude Quinlan
Flora Wiggins
London
Adelphi Theatre
Cyril Scott
the Royal Mounted
William and
Cecil de Mille
Samuel Claggett
Garrick Theatre
Philadelphia
Rear Admiral Kane Dies After Heart Attack at Park Avenue Hotel
Rear Admiral Theodore F. Kane retired at Park Avenue Hotel died suddenly at 6 10 AM from heart disease in his sixty eighth year. Born 1840 in Washington DC he served 39 years worldwide including China Africa West Indies and the Mediterranean. He fought in the Civil War on Bainbridge Savannah and Neptune and was at the Colon revolution in 1885. He commanded ships such as the Minnesota Lancaster Frolic and Monterey and earned the rank of Rear Admiral before retirement. He leaves a wife and two sons and his funeral will be held at Trinity Chapel with interment at Arlington. He was a member of the University and New York Yacht Clubs and Loyal Legion.
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Park Avenue
Kane Spet
China
Africa
West Indies
Mediterranean
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D. C
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Neptune
Colon
Annapolis
Constellation
Mystic
Florida
James River
North Pacific
Minnesota
Lancaster
New York Harbor
Board of Inspection
Monterey
Kane
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Trinity Chapel
West Twenty-fifth Street
Arlington
Washington, D.C
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New York Yacht Clubs
The
Loyal Legion
D. H. Kane
City
T. P. Kane
States Marine Corps
George W. Gibbs
San Francisco
Theodore Frederick Kane
United States Navy
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Broadway
Katz
West 110Th St
New York City
George E. Dimock
North Broad St
Elizabeth
N. J
Ohio
Rockwell
Sunshine Sanitarium
Bensonhurst
Eliza E. Rockwell
Church of the Sea and Land
Corner of Market and
Henry Sts
Margaret S. Valentine
George H
Priscilla S. Purser
Wendover
Selena Berry
Samuel Warren Wendover
Washington Se
Hoboken
White
Tangerine
Fla
Mortimer G. Avnite
Jefferson Av
French Opera Matinee Attracts Crowd To Manhattan House
Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande drew a full matinee audience at the Manhattan Opera House with Garden Gerville Réache Périer Du fran ne Arimondi conducted by Campanini. Metropolitan Rigoletto had a smaller turnout with Abbott Benci Stracciari. Manon Lescaut at the Met featured Martin for the first Chevalier role with Cavallieri Scotti. A double bill La Navarraise Pagliacci at the Manhattan saw Dalmarés frail but performing Pagliacci principal parts by Agostinelli Bassi and Sammarco.
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Manhattan Opera House
Opera
Debussy
Miss Garden
Mme. Gerville-Réache
Messrs
Périer
Dufranne
Arimondi
Mr. Campanini
Metropolitan
Miss. Abott
Gilda
Benci
Duke
Stracciari
Sparafucile
Gravina
Mihlmann
Manon Lescaut
Martin
the Chevalier
Mme. Cavallieri
Mr. Scotti
Manhattan
Dalmarés
Mass
Paid in Full for London
Miss Annie Russell once starred in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Astor Theatre and then faced a quiet year. Wagenhals & Kemper produced Eugene Walter's Paid in Full at the Astor, creating a season sensation and hinting at a London production around May 1 with Miss Trussell possibly leading.
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Annie Russell
Astor Theatre
Wagenhals & Kemper
Eugene Walter
Astor
London
Miss Trussell
Kespeare
Knowles Lectures At Carnegie Lyceum On New York Tour
R G Knowles draws large crowds at the Carnegie Lyceum with Thursday lectures. This week he discusses Things in New York You Have Never Seen in the afternoon and presents South Africa in the evening.
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R. G. Knowles
New York
Carnegie Lyceum
Mr. Knowles
South Africa
Bishop Rouxel very ill in New Orleans clinic
G A Rouxel Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New Orleans is seriously ill with pleurisy and diabetes. Once today he was thought near death but tonight he rallied slightly. He is 67 years old.
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Rouxel
New Orleans
G. A. Rouxel
Féte D'Hiver at Hotel Astor Aids French Kindergarten
The fourth Féte D'Hiver of Ecole Maternelle Francaise will be at Hotel Astor on Thursday March 26 with a concert at 8:30 featuring Mlle Gerville-Reacher, Mlle Ely Barnato, Mme Teresa Dorgeval, Mr McCall-Lanham, and William E. Philip. A de Brahms orchestra will accompany. The school at 346 West Twenty-eighth Street operates 7 AM to 7 PM and is funded by subscriptions and previous events.
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Aldorf
Friars Clubhouse Secured at 107 West 45th Street
Friars complete plans for a clubhouse at 107 West Forty-fifth Street. Lease runs four years from May 1. A new front will improve street presence. The building features a 200 seat hall, plus a library, billiard room, and restaurant with monastic style decorations.
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West Forty-fifth Street
Waldorf Astoria Hosts Second Children's Play Series
The Waldorf Astoria offered the second performance of five Saturday afternoon children's theatricals. The program remained largely unchanged with new dancers and Ernest Seton Thompson's Wild Animal Play. The piece delighted the children as Little Red Riding Hood the Wolf and other creatures performed in rhyme. A hunter pursued them but a benevolent fairy saved everyone.
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Waldorf-Astoria
Ernest Seton- Thompson
Red Riding Hood
Craze for riches ends in death of wallpaper magnate
Alfred Peats, a leading organizer of the wallpaper trust, died in Bloomingdale Asylum after years as a patient. Once based in Greenwich and Rockland Illinois, he built a fortune via a mail order wallpaper business sparked by a sample book idea. His collapse followed a fatal house fire that also claimed his young daughter. Body to be taken to Chicago for burial.
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White Plains
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Greenwich
Conn
Rockland
Ill
Chicago
New York
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Woman Missionary Eliza E. Rockwell Dies at 58
Mrs Eliza E Rockwell longtime missionary for the Church of the Sea and Land died yesterday at Sunshine Sanitarium Bensonhurst in her fifty ninth year She leaves a daughter Edith Rockwell a settlement worker in Brooklyn The Rev O G Cocks called her death a blow to east side mission work She came from Binghamton sixteen years ago and served in Cherry Hill and Hamilton Street districts Funeral will be Monday at the Church of the Sea and Land.
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Church of the Sea and Land
Market and
Henry Streets
Sunshine Sanitarium
Bensonhurst
Edith Rockwell
Friendly House
Brooklyn
O. G. Cocks
East Side
Binghamton
Cherry Hill
Hamilton Street
Cleveland breakfast executive Edward Day dies in Los Angeles
Edward L. Day, head of a Cleveland Ohio breakfast food company, died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles from araemic poisoning. He and his wife had been guests at a local hotel for some time.
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Los Angeles
Edward L. Day
Cleveland
Ohio
Good Samaritan Hospital
Edwin H. Nevin Dies in Mount Pleasant at Seventy
Edwin H. Nevin longtime Philadelphia journalist and former proprietor died Friday at his Mount Pleasant New Jersey home at age seventy. He was formerly involved in journalistic affairs and business interests in Philadelphia.
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Edwin H. Nevin
Philadelphia
Mount Pleasant
N. J
Frederick W. Foster Civil War survivor dies in Atchison
Frederick W. Foster a machinist and gunner aboard the Confederate cruiser Alabama and one of forty to escape when the vessel sank to Kearsarge died in Atchison Kansas He kept his role with the Alabama secret until less than a year ago.
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Atchison, Kan
Frederick W. Foster
Alabama
Kearsarge
Hartford Banker John R. Redfield Dies at 63
John R. Redfield president of the National Exchange Bank died in Hartford after joining Hartford financiers in New York to inspect the McAdoo tunnel. He fell ill on the return trip and death was attributed to a cold contracted during the journey.
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Hartford
Conn
John R. Redfield
National Exchange Bank
New York
McAdoo
Notable Clergy, Businessmen Die Across Cities
The Rev. David R. Hindman died in Parkvill Missouri at 81 after Civil War service and Presbyterian ministry. Bonaire C Sawyer, once prominent in Pittsburg in the sixties, died in Los Angeles. Rev. C. E. Dorr, 65, a Northern New York Methodist leader, collapsed in Flackville. John Kohler of Tiffany & Co. died in Belleville New Jersey at 50. NSatah Stoutenberg, 92, retired lumber dealer in Newark, died of apoplexy. William A Kellogg, 61, longtime pharmacist in New York City, left a widow and four children.
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Parkvill
Presbyterian Church
Bonair C. Sawyer
Pittsburg
Colorado
California
Los Angeles
C. E. Dorr
New York
Flackville
St. Lawrence County
John. Kohler
Tiffany & Co
Belleville
N. J
Nsatah Stoutenberg
Newark
Stoutenberg
Obituary notices from New York area March 14 1908
A string of funeral notices from New York and New Jersey cities lists names ages and addresses for March 14 1908. Notable entries include Theodore Frederick Kane rear admiral US Navy at Park Avenue Hotel and Mortimer Kennedy Flagg of Briarcliff Manor with services upcoming.
Obituary Notices From City and Suburbs
Funeral and burial notices for Esther Kavanagh Edwin Kitchell Bertha Knell Alois Kreusser Jacob Levy Simon Lewengood and many others listed with addresses across New York Newark and Bernardsville dated March 11 12 or 13. Several services are scheduled for later today including 9 10 1 2 4 p m while others show private funerals or tomorrow arrangements.
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Hudson St
Hoboken
Wilhelmina Aeschbach
Barr
Pearl St
Brooklyn
John Barr
Bellany
Elwood Av
Newark
N. J
Charles L. Bellany
Bennett
Betz
West
Frederick Betz
Boyle
Atlantic
Joan A. Borie
Britt
New Rochelle
Mary H. Britt
Bruckner
Avenue A
Elisabeth Bruckner
Bruder
Harrison
Peet Bruder
Carlisle
Classon Av
Mary A. Carlisle
Daniels
St Clerk St
Jersey City
Grace H. Daniels
Davis
East 32d St
James Davis
Degen
Jacob Degen
Denman
Northfield
N.J
Thomas Denman
Duebner
German Hospital
Louis Duebner
Elliott
Jersey St
New Brighton
S. I
Samuel Elliott
Goodman
West 144Th St
Esther Goodman
Greenhalgh
Maple St
Yonkers
May Greenhalgh
Gruse
Melrose Av
Maergarethe Gruse
Haeussler
Main St
Union Hill
John Haeussler
Hamilton
Hart &J
Sarah J. Hamilton
Harrington
Mount Prospect
Carrie Harrington
Hirschl
Somers St
Charles J. Hirschl
Hirschlaff
West 118Th St
Lucy Hirschlaff
Frederick
P. Mescall
Market St
Michael Mescall
Mills
East Orange
George B. Mills
M.nelson
Sterling Place
Russell Nelson
Oliver
East Peat
Thomas W. Oliver
M. Oswald
Fidelius
Padelinetti
Lenox
Orange
Francis Padelinett
Mae
Fisher Av
White
N. Y
John Refily
Rennie
Amsterdam
Mary Hennie
Robbins
Grant
Wilbur E. Robbins
Rollins
Prospect
Elphabet Rollins
Rowe
Johnson St
Margaret Rowe
Ryan
Schaeffer
Lena Seckel
Shean
John Shean
Shields
Summit
Janet Shields
Sievers
North Broadway
Albert Sievers
Singer
East 6Th St
Henriette Singer
Skidmore
Westbury
L. L
Ruth E. Skidmore
Smith
Cortlandt St
Hampton Smith
Sands St
Hannah V. Smith
Sonn
East 48Th St
Abraham H.sonn
West 21St St
Mes
G. T. Springsteed
ST An der
Camden St
Ni J
Eugene =tauder
Thul
Powers St
Michael Thur
Eged al
Thurer
Douglass St
Lottie E. Thurer
Tiernan
East 31St St
Mary A. Tiernan
Totten
Monroe St
James J. Totten
Traub
Evergreen
van Blake
Scott St
Emily L. van Blake
Zagurski
Clayton St
Anna Zagurski
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