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New York Tribune

Location

New York, New York, United States of America

Date

Aug 09, 1908

Page

105

Gossip of the Borough A fire horse sold and new Brooklyn theatre boom

Bob a prized fire horse of Engine Company 16 in Fort Greene Brooklyn is to be auctioned with eleven aged horses and worn fire apparatus next Thursday at 1 pm at St Edwards and Bolivar streets veterinary stables. Proceeds go to the firemen pension fund. Brooklyn theater growth with seven new houses and major venues like Academy of Music the Old Montauk Fulton Empire Casino Liberty Theatre and more attract investment and promise large annual returns. Playgrounds in Brooklyn bustle with hundreds of children daily at Flushing and Wrekoff avenues guided by Yale and Dartmouth trained staff and seasoned women instructors.

Bob Engine Company 16 Fort Greene Place DeKalb Avenue Brooklyn Company 156 Charier McPartland McPartland Fire Department St. Edwards and Bolivar Streets Academy of Music Montauk Percy G. Williams The Realty Associates Liberty and Stone Avenues 2Th Ward Empire Henry W. Brewster Manhattan East New York Brownsville Miaguramer Flushing Wrekoff G. H. Reed M. Noone Yale Dartmouth Andrews and Hitchcock

Guarding Government Paper Money Offests Theft Risks

A Chicago Record Herald account describes the secure process by which U S government paper money moves from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to the Treasury cash room. It details seals, presses, automatic counting, packaging, drying, and meticulous records kept by James A Sample to prevent theft. Only two known attempts occurred in decades, both detected. one involved a pressman hiding a top sheet, the other a colored messenger who pocketed a loose sheet, both resulting in dismissal and accountability without public charges.

Bureau of Engraving and Printing Tréssure James A. Sample Chicago Record-Herald Carth Room Sample Inn Bates

Wedding of Miss Marie Louise Abbott and Albert Cushman Aborn

The Brooklyn ceremony will be held at The Pines Greenport Long Island at noon with only family and close friends in attendance. Also noted are New England tour parties including Mr. and Mrs. G Maurice Hecksher and others, plus separations and travels of Brooklyns social set to Lenox Manchester and Lake George.

Marie Louise Abbott George B. Abbott Judge Abbott Joralemon Street Albert Cushman Aborn East Orange the Pines Abbott Greenfort Long Island New England G. Maurice Hecksher Née Vanderpoel Helen Y. Judson Walter N. Stillman Aspinwall Lenox Manchester Clarence Kenyon, Jrr Sagamore Lake George Mrs. Kenyon Lake Champlain James Stokes Canada Elton Waterbury, Conn

Social and Travel Notes From Brooklyn and Long Island

Brooklyn and Long Island residents are abroad for extended travel in Europe. Kennedy and family plan three months in Paris Dalmatian coast and Balkans with return to New York by late September. Several others linger in Paris or Tyrol while Bay Shore hosts its eighth annual Horse Show with multiple Brooklyn exhibitors noted for blues reds and overall success.

Sidney Robingon Kennedy Leonard Kennedy Elijah R. Kennedy Sidney R. Kennedy Paris Balkans

Social News and European Travel of New York Families

A Brooklyn society column lists residents and visitors at Rangeley Lakes Manchester Vermont and Greenwich Conn as well as summer hosts at Camp Hardwicke and the Mount Washington. It notes engagements and travels including Miss Angela Michaud’s engagement to Richard Wolf and various families sailing or returning from Europe on the Amerika Kronprinz Wilhelm and the Nieuw Amsterdam with names such as Michaud Luckenbach Salmon Haviland and Meserole.

Brooklyn Angela Michaud Henri Michaud Richard Wolf Michaud Brooklyn Heights Seminary Brooklyn Institute Lre No. 140 East 48Th Street Manhattan

Brooklyn Orphan Asylum Plans Fireproof Hospital

The Brooklyn Orphan Asylum board outlines a 36 by 96 foot two story hospital in Harvard brick with Indiana limestone and terra cotta. Five wards with baths nurses’ quarters dining rooms and a modern operating room will ensure isolation to reduce disease spread.

Brooklyn Orphan Asylum Harvard Board of Health Heights Brooklyn Atlantic and Kingston Avenues Herkimer Street Board of Education Asylum Christiana Clemmer Academy of Music Herbert Lee Pratt Broadway James R. Hollinshead Joseph B. White Jeremiah V. Meserole Joshua Sands William Sands Phoebe Butler A. van Sinderen Charles Richards A. Suydam Dew Pierrepont Cutter Hadden Lewis Radcliff Davison Austin Boyd Porter Betts Howland Corning Flagler Lefferts Raymond Hoyt

Aid for Good Roads by Federal Bond Aid

Letter argues the federal government has constitutional power to fund road construction via bonds to improve rural mail routes and national welfare. It outlines a plan for $400 million in 2 percent bonds, state sharing 50 50 with population and mileage, and local units funding at least one third, with federal oversight and state veto power for unworthy projects.

the Tribune Congress Monroe Cooley Post Office Department United States House of Representatives Jefferson Madison Clay Webster Calhoun Cumberland Senator Bankhead Alabama Germany Chicago Daily News England Italy Spain France New York Pennsylvania Illinois Ohio Michigan H. H. Gross Farmers’ Good Roads League Chicago

Benzoates as Food Preservers Discussed by Langdon

H. H. Langdon argues in 1908 letters that Dr. Wiley’s findings on benzoic acid and benzoates are not final and that a Roosevelt referee board should publish its report first. He cites borax and English usage, claims many ptomaine poisonings could be prevented by proper preservatives, and urges hygienic measures to keep meat safe.

the Tribune Dr. Wiley Wiley Roosevelt United States New York H. H. Langdon

Foreign Notes Of Interest The Sleep Music Bed

The latest French invention is a musical bed claimed to cure insomnia and beat narcotics for sleep. It uses a spring to start a music box and plays lullabies from works by many composers. The piece notes how the Chinese home openness and loud daily life permeate rooms and affect study and conversation.

Random Snippets From Far Lands And Far Lands

A miscellany describes Morocco fruit abundance and sun warmed seas, Captain Mikkelsen’s Alaska northward expedition findings, Nuneaton church curfew bells, a new Indo China rubber tree, a hairy Russian youth, giant rafflesia flowers, a vast London silver tray for an Oriental prince, and Chinese decapitation lore with headless afterlife beliefs.

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