Miss Ethel Cryder to Wed Cecil Higgins
Announcement of engagement between Ethel Cryder daughter of Mr and Mrs Duncan Cryder and Cecil Higgins eldest son of Harry Vincent Higgins and the late Lady Higgins of London. No wedding date set.
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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1908
Page
9
Announcement of engagement between Ethel Cryder daughter of Mr and Mrs Duncan Cryder and Cecil Higgins eldest son of Harry Vincent Higgins and the late Lady Higgins of London. No wedding date set.
Mrs. Mina A Hubbard widow of Leonard Hubbard Jr marries Harold Ells son of the Right Hon John Edward Ellis P C former British cabinet member in Toronto. The ceremony was in a drawing room hosted by Mrs Roberts and officiated by Rev G W McCall. After, the couple departed for New York en route to Scotland and England. Attending were the Ellises and Miss Emily Ellis among others.
Alice Morgenthau married Jesse W. Ehrich at their summer home on 435 Broadway Far Rockaway. Her sister Minna wed Dr. Ludwig E Loeb after a noon ceremony with maid of honor Beatrice Morgenthau. Honeymoon voyage by car to Adirondack Mountains followed. Maximilian Morgenthau, prominent real estate figure, holds multiple posts across several firms and banks.
The twenty third annual Westchester County Fair and Horse Show begins at White Plains Fair Grounds. Wealthy New Yorkers enter high stepping horses and blue ribbon winners, with prizes from Alfred G Vanderbilt and others. An ostrich farm attraction debuts as Reginald Vanderbilt’s horses arrive. The racing highlight features a four in hand championship on Saturday.
The Kaiser Wilhelm II Bremen and Rotter dam Hamburg set sail today with a dozen passenger lists. Noted names include Mr and Mrs Samuel Abbott Lieut Ireland Allport Mme Braniff Mrs Addison Byben Dr Gustav Frank William E Lauer Mrs R A Lawrence and more aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II.
A roster of names including Adams James F Ballard Mis Carolyn Clarke Howland Davis Frank van Grilse Dr and Mrs H J Hornbogen Mr and Mrs Joseph S Isider Mr and Mrs R H Munson Mr and Mrs George Peck Mrs Gilbert Reed Brig Gen J N Wheelan in Hamburg Naples area society. Jessie Barnard H W Beveridge Louis Ebert Mrs W B Gladding Charles E Jacques Walcott G Lane GT Peregrine Tyler Long Street Reifield and Mrs Caroline L Summer noted.
New York Times reports Mr and Mrs George J Gould visiting Newport this summer more than ever since the Casino tennis tournament began. It is said the Goulds may make Newport their summer home in the future.
A stream of social news from Long Island and New York society notes summer visitors and movements. Mrs Luther Kountze sails to Europe from Morristown while Mr and Mrs Amos Tuck French host at Adirondack camps. Engagements announced include Dorothy Perry to Alfred Dennis Bell and Meyer H Lang to Florence Wiener. A Montclair native, Eleanor Hibbard Gregory, and Raymond Ewing Durham plan to marry in Highland Park near Chicago on Sept 26.
President Roosevelt directs U S troops to leave Cuba on January 28 next year, three days earlier than planned, to honor José Marti on the Cuban patriot’s birthday. The move follows a call from Gen. Enrique Lottnaz del Castillo and a reply letter confirming evacuation preparations with Gov. Magoon.
Public funeral services for Right Rev. Henry Codman Potter will be held on Tuesday October 20 at 11 oclock in Grace Church Broadway and Tenth Street Bishop Greer will conduct. The committee appointed by Bishop Greer met at the Diocesan House 416 Lafayette Street to arrange details and honor the life work of the bishop. Potter was consecrated bishop at Grace Church on October 20 1883 making the date the twenty fifth anniversary of his consecration. His body will rest in the cathedral crypt and entombment will be in the Cathedral of St John the Divine on Morningside Heights with a marble floor stone marking the tomb. The body has been in Trinity Church Cemetery and was brought from Cooperstown New York where he died.
The Arbuckle floating hotel Jacob Stamler moored at Sedgwick Street Brooklyn will host four onboard weddings tonight. Superintendent Frank D. Sheeley and a staff of over a dozen prepared as fifty seven residents of the ship gather for the nuptials. Couples include Pierce Dempers with Teresa McBann and Thomas Young with Annie Berkhardt along with James A. Henry and Eleanor Powell and Harry Keenan and Bessie Scone. Each couple will receive $100 from the coffee merchant founder of the hotel as a wedding gift.
In Malone New York on September 14 a dispute arises over whether deer kept in captivity may be killed in the close season. Ford Chase of Loon Lake Hotel Company slaughtered five deer claiming private property rights, while the State Forest Fish and Game Commission contends otherwise and courts will decide the issue.
John Drew returns in a new W Somerset Maugham comedy with Rose Coghlan and Mary Boland sharing the spotlight. The three act farce uses a disguise plot with Archduke identity and a hotel waiter, delivering lively dialogue but uneven staging and acting.
Mrs. David Bispham vanished from her Westchester home after taking 15 year old David and 10 year old Leonie from Connecticut. The couple, long separated since a disputed London divorce case, had agreed alimony and limited custody. Police suspect she is with her mother in Atlantic City.
Robert W. de Forest notes Frederick C. Hewitt leaves an absolute 1500.40 to the Metropolitan Museum and residuary estate. The museum plans to include Hewitt ivory collections if possible. Executors may retain family heirlooms and await estate settlement before payment. Henry W Kent confirms no final decision yet.
Miss Esther A. Hilbert, 20, disappeared from her Chesterfield summer home while awaiting Smith College entry. State Detective McKay led 100 men through the woods in a major search. Hilbert, a Springfield High School graduate from Philadelphia, was last seen packing a trunk and reading under trees. she wore a white shirt waist and a plaited skirt with a facial scar.
Hartley C. Baxter of Brunswick Maine reported two checks totaling 10000 dollars stolen from his car in front of Young's Hotel. The checks on Chapman National Bank of Portland Missouri were not endorsed and are valueless to others. bank stopped payment. Baxter left the car three to four minutes.
Gus Edwards musical sketch School Days at the Circle Theatre New York features a cast over forty youngsters aged 16 to 20 with two voters in the show. Milfred Berrick Jeannett Priest Joe Keno Agnes Lynn and Gregory Kelly win stage notice for stabs at humor. Ned Wayburn directs the production.
The Italian Grand Opera Company presented Il Trovatore at the American Theatre last night to warm audience approval. Mme L Bertozzi as Leonora attracted strong applause for both drama and coloratura. M Michalloff sang Manrico and Mlle G Strauss Azucena. Manager Abramson announced Mme Therry will sing for two years, following her earlier Aida role. The program also features a double bill of Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana tonight instead of the planned work.
Henry Miller began rehearsals for Percy Mackaye's Mater at the Savoy Theatre set for next Saturday. Isabel Irving leads with Charles A. Stephenson as the prospect lead, joined by John Turner and Frederick Lewis. Blanche Bates books The Fighting Hone at Belasco Stuyvesant on Sept 22 after Pittsburg debut. Edgar Allen Wolf to present a playlet at Keith Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theatre next week with Violet Black. The Mimic World continues a twenty week run in William Morris circuit. James K. Hackett engages Carl Ahrendt as Sapt in revived The Prisoner of Zenda, Ahrendt having played the role before. Inez Bauer and Eleanor Pendleton join Elsie Janis in The Fair Co-Ed. Helen Royton signs long-term Shubert contract to appear in The Mimic World.
Maude Adams and Otis Skinner, Frohman stars, sail to the United States today. Adams travels aboard the Carmania and Skinner sails on the König. Adams has spent summer in Dublin and London awaiting Barrie’s What Every Woman Knows possible Broadway staging. Skinner tours For the Honor of the Family then plans a New York premiere in a play he co wrote with a French dramatist. Frohman announces rights to Israel by Henri Bernstein with Rejane starring in Paris.
Edgar Selwyn’s new comedy drama Father and Son premiered at the Belasco Theatre to a favorable reception. The plot unfolds in a New Jersey manufacturing town centered on a strike. Dr Wilkins, a veterinary surgeon, is the leading character played by William Morris.
De Wolf Hopper appeared tonight at His Majesty's Theatre in Montreal in the new musical fantasy What Happened Then. The piece is a new access by Austin Strong with music by Ward Corlisa.
Francisco Mariano Quinones, born 1850, dies in San Juan. A key figure in Porto Rican history, he lived in New York briefly, joined the Liberal Cortes, led the Provisional Autonomist Government, served as first Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, and was later elected historian of Porto Rico.
Gloucester, Sept 14 Charles Myles Collier about 65 an artist who kept a summer home here died tonight. He formerly lived in Memphis Tennessee and for the past two years had resided in New York City.
H. H. Smith longtime educator and father of Georgia Governor Hoke Smith died at his Atlanta home. A New Hampshire native, he had lived in California Baltimore and parts of North Carolina. He was 18 years old.
Hugh Coyle died at County Hospital in Chicago on Saturday at age 65 from cancer. A telegraph operator and Civil War drummer boy, he created the modern press agent role and later served on the efficiency staff of P. T. Barnum. He will be buried by the Actors' Fund.
Mrs Andrew Reasoner aged years widow of the former superintendent of the Morris and Essex Division of the Lackawanna Railroad died Sunday night at her East Orange New Jersey residence of old age. She founded the Andrew Reasoner Memorial Chapel at the Main Avenue Presbyterian Church and donated to other charities. After Mr Reasoner's death she had Thomas Nast paint a portrait. Nast finished it before his death but delivery came later. Mrs Reasoner paid the bill but cut up the portrait.
Miss Minna Morgenthau daughter of Mr and Mrs Maximilian Morgenthau wed Dr Ludwig M Loeb in Far Rockaway on September 14. The notice lists other marriages including Anderson Allbrecht Culp Gohl Smyth Pearce and asks Chicago papers to copy.
A crowded death notice column lists individuals including Franklin Wardge in Carlstad Austria, Myrea Collier of New York, Georges Lob dell Filliott, Justine Van Den Heuvel, Abigail Trene Brinemade, Gardner Dexter Hiscox, Webb Horton, Theodora Porter Barnum Trout, Frederick Kroupfeiffer, Edward Leavitt, Susan A. Miller, Jessie Charnick Revynoluts, Henry Lincoln Saltonstail, John H. Suydam, Hilda Goddard Tiffany, Emma Tillotson, Frances Ward, Forward Malcolm Waitson, Joseph P. Wright, and several others, with funeral or burial details and locations across New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia.
Fragmentary notes describe a woman burning pieces of a painting and displaying the Stars and Stripes. It mentions Abby Byxbee of Norwalk Connecticut as an only child who died forty years ago, with unclear prior context and a 1941 reference.
Obituaries list numerous figures including JOHN ANDREWS longtime Cleveland Fire Chief, MAJOR BRADFORD DUNMAN former railroad executive, WEBER HORTON leather industry leader, FRANKEN PURDEE physician, and MELDA GOPPATL LY... died yesterday. Notes mention Ashland and Montgomery interments, widowhood, and affiliations with the American Astronomical Society.
A long list of death notices with names such as Brown Burke Burt Cleary Conyers Costigan Cook Crane Crist Croke Dowle Dolant Dolan and many more, detailing addresses in Brooklyn Newark Jersey City and Yonkers. Entries note ages funeral to-day and times, with numerous family names and locations mentioned.
In memory of De, ee ix Nowde mann who died Sept 15 1907. LOCKE Mass for Mary Locke at 9 A M. MARCEL A Mass for Sister Wrurce at St Agnes Church Long Island City today.
Readers learn that Wouldla wn Cemetery is easily reached by Harlem trains from Grand Central and by carriage, with lots available near Gramercy 485% area. The note mentions train stops Webster and Jerome Avenue and lists an office at 58d St. in the city.
Frank E. Campbell of 211 243 West 234 Chapels is associated with ambulance service. Contact numbers include Tel 1524 Chelsea and related details.
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