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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1908
Page
8
April 11 in Port au Prince reports six weeks after a mass shooting of political prisoners. Foreign warships from four nations secured lives and property, while native executions reportedly continued in whispers. Haitians fear further upheaval and await a stronger power to stabilize the republic.
Police observed a game at Alaska Park West Brighton Richmond where 900 to 1000 spectators watched the Alaska Baseball club face the Sub urbans with a 7 to 2 result. No money passed and no arrests were made as attendees showed membership cards. Memberships were sold at a Castleton Avenue store near the clubhouse with a directors meeting.
A Oswego Montana woman reports gradual eye deterioration linked to coffee and says switching to Postum Food Coffee restored sight and eased pains. She notes her nursing baby remained healthy and her friend also improved after abandoning coffee for Postum.
Fire underwriters laboratories in Chicago conducts tests on building stones for fire and water resistance. The study reviews how different stone types withstand heat and moisture exposure under controlled conditions.
Washington April 19 The State Department formally creates the Division of Far Eastern Affairs under Secretary Root with Huntington Wilson named general superintendent William Phillips chief and Percival Heintzleman assistant chief The move aims to manage American political and commercial affairs in the Far East and signals plans to organize foreign service into three or four large geographic divisions.
The Atlantic fleet split into four divisions at San Pedro on Easter morning and will reunite next Saturday for sailing to Santa Barbara. Thousands view the ships as crowds gather at piers and churches host sailors in pews while Southern California plans five days of festivities and shipboard tours for up to a quarter million visitors.
Secretary Cortelyou of the Treasury Department leaves Washington for New York to speak at three state venues this week. He will address the Utica Chamber of Commerce Monday, Syracuse businessmen Tuesday, and the Auburn Business Men's Association Wednesday before returning Friday.
The five masted schooner George F. Hudson, previously ashore at Southamption Long Island, was pulled into deep water by wrecking tugs Relief and I J Merritt. She leaked badly and took on water near the Sandy Hook Lightship, was beached inside the Hook by the Merritt, with the tug crew assisting.
The City of Columbus on the Savannah Line arrived yesterday with seventy four women school teachers from the city who spent a week in Savannah. J C Horton the general passenger traffic manager met the steamer and was thanked by the teachers for the courtesies arranged at sea and in Savannah.
The Central Federated Union announced via letters from Congressman Goldforte that an amendment passed by the Naval Committee would require one of two new battleships to be built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A letter was sent to the Senate committee urging adoption of the amendment.
Secretary Taft spoke at the Metropolitan Temple on General U S Grant’s birthday anniversary. Andrew Carnegie and ex Secretary Leslie M Shaw followed. crowd pressure closed doors and several people fainted as the event drew a large audience.
Secretary Taft will address Carnegie Hall tonight for the Laymen's Missionary Movement. He will share impressions of missionary work in the East from a government official’s viewpoint. Other speakers include John R. Mott Silas McBee Samuel B. Capen and J Campbell White.
John Hoffman and W E Koehn were chosen as delegates to the Republican National Convention in Chicago by the 1st Congress District Republicans meeting at Fairmont West Virginia. The delegation was instructed to vote for Secretary Taft for President with no other candidate named.
Reports from Paz Peru describe a railway strike by workers on the Arequipa Mollendo line with unrest and serious disorders reported though details are scarce.
The U S Geological Survey conducted a first series of fire tests at Underwriters Laboratories in Chicago to assess materials from concrete blocks to hydraulic pressed brick. Bricks showed mixed results with new bricks splitting and older bricks faring better while hydraulic pressed bricks resisted fire best and natural stone failed.
Henry Chadwick known as the Father of Baseball is gravely ill at age eighty three from heart disease and pneumonia. He was found with heart disease at his Brooklyn home on Saturday and a physician noted pneumonia symptoms. He attended the Polo Grounds game last week, where exposure to a sharp cold may have led to his illness.
Baltimore hosts the quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church from May 6 with over eight hundred delegates and twenty thousand visitors expected. Debates on representation, episcopal elections for race bishops, and constitutional amendments dominate the agenda as clergy and lay leaders gather at the Lyric Theatre for lectures and sessions.
Dr. Simeon Flexner's new serum for spotted fever used in Boston hospitals and New England with considerable success. Experiments indicate mortality, once as high as eighty percent, has dropped to below twenty percent by the serum.
Auction begins Wednesday at the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries 36 Fifth Avenue. James P. Silo conducts sale by order of attorney Joseph F Osborne. Features a fourteenth century Ghi ordez prayer rug from the Habib Askar Ali Mosque and other rug treasures on exhibit today and tomorrow.
An advertisement highlights auto apparel produced by trained designers with attention to fabric sweeps for comfort and movement. It notes that most fabrics are exclusive with Saks & Company and woven specifically for this purpose. Everything for the autoist but the alto.
Army and Navy news reports Major George E. Pickett, son of the late Confederate cavalry leader, cleared for continued active duty in the pay department despite long-standing deafness. He impressed surgeons with his skill handling troops and patients at San Francisco General Hospital, and preferred active service over civilian wealth. The piece also covers plans to form military rifle and pistol teams for Camp Perry, and upcoming tests of scout cruisers comparing reciprocating engines and turbines, with focus on endurance and coal consumption.
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