Miss Yaw Debuts With Lucia at the Metropolitan Opera
Ellen Beach Yaw, an American soprano, made her opera debut in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan. She impressed with coloratura at times and the mad scene, though her high notes and some intonation drew mixed judgments. Bonci as Edgardo praised, Stracciari as Lord Ashton and Navarini as Raimondo received tepid notices. Ferrari conducted.
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Lucia
Metropolitan Opera
Mme. Tetrazzini
Métropolitan
Mme. Sembrich
Ellen Beach
Yaw
Miss Yaw
Nice
America
Sbe
Bonci
Edgardo
Boston Symphony closes New York season with classical program
The Boston Symphony Orchestra ended its New York stay at Carnegie Hall with Haydn Surprise Symphony Mozart overture to The Marriage of Figaro and Beethoven Fourth. Dr Mack, returning to Boston, faced arm issues but delivered a flawless performance. At the Met Miss Farrar sang La Traviata, with Caruso and Scotti in the cast. at the Manhattan Tetrazzini performed Crispino e la Comare and Carnival of Venice with demand for an encore.
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New York
Carnegie Hall
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Dr. Mack
Jie
Boston
Gericke
Meade
Ardit
Boston Orchestra
Dr. Mucko
Metropolitan
Miss Farrar
Messrs
Caruso
Scotti
Manhattan
Mine Tetrazzini
Crispino E
Benedict
Gianoli-Galletti
Sammarco
Arimondi
Caruso to Sing Trovatore at Popular Prices
Plans set for a popular priced Metropolitan Opera House performance featuring Caruso in Trovatore a week from Saturday. The tenor is expected to debut there, with Mme Le Forma likely singing Leonora as the season closes.
Pittsburg Orchestra Seeks Public Support For Future
The Pittsburg Orchestra concludes its thirteenth season and warns that the ensemble faces disbandment unless the public increases its contributions. If funds do not improve, the musicians will not be re-engaged.
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Pittsburg
Miss Garden Hosts Farewell Dinner for Opera Guests
Miss Mary Garden of the Manhattan Opera House Company hosted a farewell dinner at Café Beaux Arts for friends and fellow-singers including Mr and Mrs Jean Perter and Mr and Mrs Hector Dufranne who depart to Europe after their New York season. Also present were M Morères, Campanini, Oscar Hammerstein and Mrs Hammerstein, and the Garden sisters.
Calvé Sings Carmen at Manhattan Opera House
Mme Calvé performed Carmen last evening at the Saturday popular priced show at the Manhattan Opera House. The cast included Miss Zeppilli Mr Dalmores who has recovered from hoarseness and Mr Dufranne who repeated the Toreador song. The audience was very large.
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Mme. Calvé
Manhattan Opera House
Miss Zeppilli
Unmetered Water Pipe Found At Standard Oil Building
Col Michael Padden Water Register reports an unmetered pipe entering the Standard Oil Building at 26 Broadway. He cites four metered pipes and one four inch line that could supply about 3500 dollars worth of water annually, with Standard Oil paying the city about 1500 dollars yearly. Inspectors also found a small meter in Sing Sing prison yard likely feeding a piano factory, prompting further inquiry.
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Michael Padden
Water Register
Standard Oil Company
Padden
Broadway
Col
Guerin
Col. Padden
Sing Sing
Cadman Offered Wesleyan Presidency in Brooklyn Announcement
The Wesleyan University presidency in Middletown Conn was offered to Rev Dr Parks Cadman pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Hancock Street Brooklyn. Dr Raymond the current president seeks retirement for health and is touring Europe. Cadman declined to discuss the offer until a decision is made.
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Wesleyan University
Middletown, Conn
Parks Cadman
Central Congregational Church
Hancock Street
Bradford P. Raymond
Raymond
Europe
Cadman
Dr. Cadman
Metropolitan Temple
Manhattan
Hummel Sails to Europe After Release
Disbarred lawyer Apraham J. Hummel, released from Blackwell’s Island after a year for subornation of perjury, boarded the Cunarder Lusitania yesterday bound for Europe with nephew A. H. Kaffenburgh and Mrs. S. H. Kaffenburgh. He traveled incognito, avoiding press contact and planning to conceal his identity with an assumed name in France and England.
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Duke of the
Erie Trainmen Meet Over Wages and Idleness
Engineers firemen and trainmen on the Erie Railroad met with General Manager J C Stuart at the Broadway Central Hotel to discuss wages and conditions. They admitted no increased demand for train crews and noted many men in the brotherhoods are idle with no immediate prospect of reemployment.
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Erie Railroad
J. C. Stuart
Broadway Central
Vanderbilt Nephew Absolved By Court In Fraud Suit
Supreme Court Justice Dayton dismissed the trustee in bankruptcy of Edward E. Gwynne’s suit to set aside a 1904 deed to his mother Helen Gwynne as a fraud on creditors. The court found Gwynne had extravagant tastes but owed money to his mother and others, and the conveyance was for adequate consideration. The complaint was dismissed with costs.
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Supreme Court
Dayton
Edward E. Gwynne
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Gwynne
Helen Steele Gwynne
East Eighty-sixth Street
Gill
Louise Gwynne
Europe
Reinach
Greenberg
Derailment of Illinois Central Diamond Special
The Diamond Special fast night train between Chicago and St. Louis derailed near Springfield. The locomotive baggage and express cars overturned and the buffet car left the rails but no injuries occurred. Wreck caused by train wreckers. all derailed spikes were pulled. Engineers and fireman escaped by jumping as cars dragged. Montclair commuters face delays from a stiff turntable on the Lackawanna line. crews, passengers, and onlookers assist turning it, causing five to fifteen minute delays.
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Ill
Illinois Central
Chicago
St. Louis
Montclair
N. J
Lackawanna
New York
Kissena Inquiry Fights for Case Before Governor
Queens Grand Jury in two month probe of Kissena Park sale returns three indictments and a scathing presentment. Real estate firm Paris and Macdougal seeks access to minutes to set aside the presentment claiming witnesses conspired to block justice. Justice Garretson ordered further inquiry and adjourned the hearing to Wednesday. The text also notes unrelated items about a woman judged insane after a stabbing and a veterinarian doctor found dead with no cause yet determined.
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Queens County Grand Jury
Kissena Park
Joseph Bermel
Queens Borough
Gov. Hughes
Paris & Macdougal
Flushing
Paris
Macdougal
Garretson
Woman Stabber insane and wife of Davenport sent to asylum
Evansville March 21 Mrs John M Davenport reportedly declared insane and placed in the Southern Indiana Insane Hospital during the investigation into Dr Jorgenson death authorities stated the woman was brought to the facility for examination.
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Evansville
Ind
John M. Davenport
Southern Indiana Insane Hospital
Batony's New Home Prompts Divorce Case Interest
Newport Delaware March 21 Special to The New York Times speculation surrounds the Batony divorce suits. Mrs Aurel Batony may regain possession of her Middletown Two Mile Corner farm or hand it to sons Maurice and Francis Roche. Batony recently bought two acres with a house near Frank K Sturgis lands and the New Perry House owner via a New York man Quinn. Predictions say Elm Court on Bellevue Avenue may again be managed by Mrs Batony, shut for two seasons.
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New York Times
Newport
Batonys
Aurel Batony
Two Mile Corner
Middletown
Mr. Batonyi
Maurice
Francis Roche
Frank K. Sturgis
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