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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1908
Page
10
Lord Wemyss, at ninety, introduced a Land and Property Transfer Bill in the British House of Lords. The measure seeks a fourteen year transfer of private property and Church assets to a public commission, a socialist premise aimed at provoking debate over state takeovers.
The elderly Lord Wemyss, once a striking figure resembling painter Sir John Millais, recalls his long public life from East Gloucestershire MP to Lord Elcho. He is famed for aggressive DEbate, helped shape the volunteer force, and once knocked the Prince of Wales’s hat with a sweeping gesture, causing amusement and a hat disaster in the Lords.
The piece traces Lord Wemyss ancestry from medieval Scottish magnates to the Charteris marriage, noting the dubious fame of Colonel Francis Charteris and his crimes. It laments the family adopting the Charteris name and recounts his court scandal, gambling, usury, and bribed punishment, ending with a mob at his funeral.
The text recounts the sixth earl’s attainder after the Jacobite rising of 1745 and revival of honors for his brother upon the earl’s death in 1787. It notes the current tenth earl, his eldest son Lord Elcho, and Elcho’s marriage to a Wyndham. It mentions a Sargent portrait of Mrs Adane and Lady Tennant titled The Three Graces by King Edward.
The case centers on Karl Kurt, jailed 20 years in Britain for blackmail under the name Francis von Veltheim. The German Embassy seeks redress as the Veltheim name is an ancient German noble title, with warrants for Kurt’s arrest on multiple charges including perjury and fraud once he serves at Dartmoor.
Art lovers packed Mendelssohn Hall for the Blakeslee Galleries sale of early English Dutch Flemish and French masterworks. Thomas E Kirby conducted the sale realizing 50 345 for eighty three paintings with spirited bidding. Top price 4300 paid by General Rush C Hawkins for Mountains in Norway by Jakob van Ruysdael.
San Francisco reports First Lieutenant David A. Lindsay of the Signal Corps shot himself in his quarters at the Presidio. He destroyed all personal papers and no motive is known. Fellow officers note he had grown morose in recent days. Lindsay, a Pennsylvania native, was thirty three, enlisted in 1900 and commissioned in 1903.
A society column lists notable guests at major New York hotels including Oliver Ames of Boston at Belmont, Winthrop Jordan of Rutland at Holland Winthrop, Colonel Lucien F. Burpee of Waterbury at Hotel Astor, T. F. Godley of Detroit at MaJestic, Mr. and Mrs. W. Pickens of Richmond at Prince George, and Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Goodhue of Salem at the St Regis, with Benjamin Z. Phillips noted at Waldorf Astoria.
Charles Henry Parker aged ninety two, Boston native and oldest Harvard alumnus from the class of 1833, died at his Chestnut Street home. A lawyer, banker, and longtime Trinity Church vestryman, he fathered Fire Commissioner S. D. Parker and left eight children, five surviving. He helped bring Phillips Brooks as rector and served in Boston politics and banking before declining health.
Joseph Henry Taylor died at Washburn North Carolina from heart disease. He reached the Platte River in 1864 and wrote Beavers and Their Ways Frontier and Indian Life and other books. Dr J W Gore, twenty two years a UNC faculty member, died suddenly in Charlotte. Isaac M Davis, long time merchant in Fonda New York, died at eighty four. Edmund A Smith, Knickerbocker Scene treasurer for twenty years, died in Glen Ridge New Jersey from pneumonia. He left seven sons and two daughters.
Paris reports the death of Count Giuseppe Tornielli Brusati di Vergano, Italian Ambassador to France, from a brain hemorrhage after influenza. Born February 12, 1836, he joined the diplomatic service in 1859 and served at Constantinople, St Petersburg, Athens, Bucharest, Madrid, and London, becoming dean of the Paris diplomatic corps and head of the Italian delegation at The Hague peace conference.
A carved marble hall table with Carrara base sold for 575 dollars at the Aimene collection sale at Fifth Avenue Auction Rooms 341 Fourth avenue. A Louis XIV wood table top replica fetched 200 dollars and a Louis XVI settee with fruit baskets 270 dollars. An antique Di Medici trunk with coats of arms brought 215 dollars, with the total sale reaching 8360 dollars. The sale continues today at 2 30 p m.
Lieutenant Adolphus Andrews of the U S N traveling from the Philippines to Washington stopped in St Louis with his sister Miss Lucia Andrews. He had luncheon at Union Station with local friends and declined to discuss the trip’s purpose, mentioning only the visit to Miss Katherine Elkins.
Official weather record reports clear conditions in the northeast and fair weather across eastern states and the Northwest, with rain in the Southwest and showers in Tennessee Missouri and Colorado. Forecasts predict rain in several regions Friday night through Saturday, with warmer periods in the lake and Atlantic states and cooler spells in the Northwest. Northwest and extreme West to stay generally fair. Winds vary by coast and region, with lighter winds along New England and Atlantic coasts and fresh southeast winds along Gulf coasts. District of Columbia Maryland Eastern Pennsylvania and Eastern New York to see partly cloudy to showers. Delaware and New Jersey fair to-day with showers tonight. New England fair to-day with Saturday showers. Western Pennsylvania showers and warmer. Western New York increasing clouds and warmer with Saturday showers. Local weather bureau records show temperature changes over the last hours, noting yesterday's high 61 and low 30 with an average around 45.
Washington reports an engagement between Miss Katherine H. Elkins daughter of Senator and Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins and the Duke of the Abruzzi. The marriage is planned for Europe in October, with no financial settlement and Miss Elkins expected to convert to Catholicism. Elkins family background, education, and social standing are detailed, including Roosevelt’s praise and her horsemanship.
The Bellevue Training School for Women and Mills Training School for male nurses held graduation exercises at Cornell Medical College. Seventy-nine men studied with thirty-one accepted from fifty-six probationers. thirty-three women graduated from eleven states and seven from Canada, with twelve graduate certificates awarded to both genders.
Otto Weil announced last night that from May 1 the Irving Place Theatre will be under his personal direction. He aims to revive the German drama with plans and contracts from European capitals. Weil was previously associated with Mr. Conried and served as business manager at the Metropolitan Opera House era.
Mme Viardi, formerly of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, returns from abroad and plans a dramatic academy at 9 West 35th Street. She will train pupils to support her on the road next fall, seek exceptional talent for a company, and revive old successes with new plays. Her German translations include The Martyr Euripides Judith Moses and Jacob.
The Intruder by Thompson Buchanan was staged at the Tremont Theatre Boston this afternoon by the Man of the Hour company directed by William A Brady and Joseph A Grismer. The plot centers on a young girl affected by her parents divorce and remarriage with subsequent business rivalry between the husbands. Cast includes Harriet Otis Dellenbaugh Lillian Kemble James E Wilson Raple Holmes Charles Mackay. The author was called out after the second act and declined to speak as applause greeted the performance.
Henry E. Dixey plans a weeklong return at Taylor Opera House Trenton in Papa Lebonnard then Bijou summer run. Rose Coghlan survived a taxi accident en route to Fifth Avenue Theatre, still performing. Jean Lennox to debut on stage in Utica April then Keith & Proctor's Fifty eighth Street Theatre. Shuberts report Suffragettes march on Daly's Theatre April 22 to defend Girls as Easter week shows begin.
Passaic April 9 Mrs Charles E Leonard mother of actress Lillian Russell died at her daughter Mrs Edward Schultze 15 Newell avenue Rutherford this morning. She was eighty one and death came from general debility. She had lived in Rutherford with Mrs Schultze for several years and left three other married daughters besides Miss Russell.
The Rev Dr Thomas C Hall of Asioen Theological Seminary warned at a People's Institute gathering that schools teach a savage morality of unbridled competition and hatred. He argued law is manipulated to justify success, urging that patriotism inflames prejudice against Dutch Jews Irish French and Poles, praising force as the path to national success.
Died notices list several Brooklyn and New York obituaries with residence details and funeral plans.Mary A Carmody Laura May Cogan Catherine Donovan Major John Crane Jeannette Dean Michael Driscoll Mary Flaherty John M Haldenwang Madeleine Inslee Hopper Alexander B Morrison Jonnee Pell Sophia West and cemetery directions for Woodlawn and services.
The New York Tribune invites employers to consult a newly installed file of aspirants for varied positions at its Uptown office, 1364 Broadway between 36th and 37th. Hours are 9 am to 6 pm daily including Sunday. Subscriptions and mail rates for Daily Weekly and Almanac services are listed, with special foreign postage details.
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