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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1908
Page
21
Memorial Military Field Mass at the Brooklyn Navy Yard drew about 30,000 people despite extreme heat. Marines and police aided exhausted attendees as organizers staged the event with multiple uniformed units, a Mass led by Father Reaney, and graveside honors at the Navy Cemetery on Flushing Avenue.
The graves of soldiers buried in Cypress Hills National Cemetery Brooklyn were decorated by Army and Navy Union members yesterday afternoon. Gov. Hughes, who planned to review the veterans, could not attend and was represented by a delegate.
Col Treadwell with his Military Secretary and Adjt. Gen Henry led a long parade that thousands lined the streets to witness. Participants included Grand Army of the Republic Spanish War associations regular army navy National Guard and various civic groups. Addresses followed by Gen J Edwin Browne Borovet Coler and religious leaders. Marines fired the salute over graves.
About five thousand people from Newport and troops from Fort Adams Greble and Wetherill gathered at the naval training station parade ground for Newport’s first military mass. Chaplain Edward J Brennan officiated with Newport priests and Father Robert as orator honoring the dead of the Spanish war Philippine insurrection and Boxer uprising. Civilian heat casualties were treated by hospital corps outside the lines.
At Annapolis Maryland the new Naval Academy chapel held its first public service this morning for the brigade of midshipmen with Chaplain H H Clark U S N presiding. This afternoon’s services marked the chapel’s practical completion after construction begun in 1898 costing the government over £10 Guy40.
Crowds in Brooklyn and Manhattan attend a cornerstone laying and blessing for the Brooklyn College of the Jesuit Fathers on the site of the former Kings County Penitentiary. Rev J F X O Conor presides as dignitaries from city and church address the assembly.
The twenty fifth anniversary of the ordination of Rev. Luke J. Evers, pastor of St. Andrew's Church on Duane Street, was marked by a solemn high mass and a dinner at the parsonage. Mgr. Lavelle preached, with a reception of clergy including Fathers St. John, Connell, Carr, Murphy, Evers, Gilmore, Abbott, Sinnott, Owens, O'Connor, Parisi. A Latin address by Rev. A Palisi was given. telegrams of regret came from Arch Bishop Christie of Oregon and others.
In Pittsburg on May 27 the General Conference and semi centennial of the United Presbyterian Church opens. A major topic is union with the Presbyterian Church. The 1858 formation here is recalled with a dramatic cross river consolidation. A free will offering aims for 2 million dollars, with pledges around 1.25 million.
The Rev Dr Charles H Parkhurst in Madison Square Presbyterian notes fewer prayers for sea travel as people travel to Europe. He cites scarce requests for thanks after safe crossings and says modern navigation reduces reliance on divine aid while travel increases. He argues fear prompts prayer more than calm.
The Rev. Dr. Charles Goodell, Calvary Methodist pastor, received broad backing from thousands at two services as trustees issue a statement defending him amid past divorce allegations. The congregation pressed to shake his hand and a special board meeting pledged to protest perceived injustices at the Baltimore Conference.
The Methodist Episcopal General Conference in Baltimore May 24 faces intense scrutiny as candidates for Bishoprics are attacked. Rev. Dr. Charles L. Goodell of Calvary Church New York bears the brunt from a divorce case charge. Rev. Dr. Joseph C. Hingely also faces telegrammatic influence from Minneapolis. The tenth ballot may elect two bishops, leaving four to be chosen amid ongoing work and an adjournment sine die planned for one week hence.
At Camden Country Club in Collingswood New Jersey Sunday golf was stopped after the mayor banned play. About a dozen members gathered at the club house as police were called and former Judge Harrison H Voorhees sought a test case but was refused.
The Jewish Publication Society of America announced completing plans to translate the Bible into English with no non Jewish interpretations. The edition aims for three year completion and affordable pricing for all Jewish households. A $50000 Bible fund is described to cover expenses. President Edwin Wolf urges united American Jewry to support the effort.
More than a thousand delegates gather for the twenty second annual B Rith Abraham convention at Tammany Hall. Grand Master Max Stern opens proceedings with officials including Judge Rosalsky Justice Hoffman Assemblymen Stern Graubard and Justice Sanders present.
The Emmanuel Sisterhood directed four religious schools held graduation day at Temple Emanu-El. About 1200 children aged 6 to 16 filled the central pews as Jacob H. Schiff Rabbi Joseph Silverman and others spoke on religion and charity. Mrs William Einstein led the Sisterhood and Principal Mrs Alexander Kohut introduced the speakers.
The Rev. Dr. Charles F. Aked preached at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church on the perils of self interest. He urged chivalry and sympathy, criticizing modern individualism and noting Americans’ treatment of women as comparatively humane. He praised the American husband as an ideal.
In Kansas City commissioners to the General Assembly rested, then held a mass meeting for men on evangelism among laboring workers. Rev. Charles Stelzle and John B. Lennon spoke, Lennon urging the church to stress the human side of Christianity to win wage earners back to the church.
A series of minor blazes reported at addresses including 8d Av I Jacobs 12:10 to 1: Prior incidents at 13:15 70th St and Columbus Ave Hotel MAHON Bridget Cunningham 163d St 500 8:25 W 76th St Mrs Scoppin H Taylor 11:00 426 W 31st St 99 Ree at Tth Ave 12:00 85 Henry St and 2:00 488 Amsterdam Ave trifling losses listed with several unknown residents and a 50 000 line at Liberty Sub-L rox. details indicate small property damage and negligible injuries.
Eighteen anti-race-track gambling mass meetings were held in Brooklyn yesterday under the Brooklyn Citizens' Anti-race-track Gambling Committee. Speakers included Arthur Brisbane of the Evening Journal and Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, who urged voters to back Gov. Hughes and press for anti gambling legislation.
One thousand letters were mailed to Senator George Cobb in Albany urging him to vote against the Anti-Gambling Racetrack bills. Additional petitions will be sent to the Capitol to influence his stance.
A special meeting of the National Committee for the Relief of the Unemployed at the Manhattan Lyceum reported that Governor Hughes had only twenty four hours to act before a special legislative session. The group said deputies from labor and agriculture agencies would place several hundred unemployed men on farms statewide through cooperation with the Ethical Social League.
A National Negro American Political League protest against race prejudice is planned with a nationwide day of fasting and prayer on Sunday May 31. Local leading Negro Republican politicians push for a mass meeting at Cooper Union tomorrow night to endorse Secretary Taft and current administration policies.
East Orange New Jersey activates the anti Sabbath observance act with arrests including three Chinese laundry workers and caterer Francis Purssell. Despite patrols and public warnings, deliveries of ice cream and other goods face penalties while newspapers milk and rail services run, marking a tense first Sunday.
A meeting of the Ethical Social League is set for tonight at Temple Beth-El on Fifth Avenue and Seventy Sixth Street with addresses by Charles Edward Russell Rabbi Samuel Schulman and Charles Sprague Smith. A Chinatown gambling house was raided last night by Captain McNally and Elizabeth Street detectives. 23 Chinamen were arrested. Four year old Salvatore Deluce was run over and killed by a milk wagon on First Avenue while the driver Charles Fahrenholz failed to see him. The Central Federated Union accepted the credentials of delegates from the new Chauffeurs Union of the International Association of Machinists. the union cites YMCA trade schools expanding chauffeur training and sets minimum wages at 25 dollars per week. The United Order of Odd Fellows of America plans Decoration Day events with 5000 colored men marching from Gold Fellows Hall on West Twenty Ninth Street to the Palm Garden on Fifty Eighth Street at 1 PM.
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