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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Walter Sperrs
John Bardlett
George T. White
Allyn House
Hartford
Conn
Grand Union
Saratoga
Richard Harper Laimbeer
Richard H. Laimbeer,Jr
H. B. Ogden
Geoge du Pont Pratts
Glen Cove
Rangeley Lakes
Maine
William Ray
Cornelius Porter Kitchel
Ray
Elsie Fuller
William S. Ray
Amerika
I. B. Hastrouck
Edfia Hasbrouck
Hazel Scudder
Jessie Ogg
Austrian
Tyrol
George H. McCord
Howard Gibb
Herbert Atwood
Everett Stephens
William R. Adams
Ella Louise Adams
Rome
Henry R. Begnelins
Raquette Lake
N. Y
Mrs
Thomas W. Lauderdale
Mount Kineo House
Moosehead Lake
Bay Shore
Emily Bedford
Edward T. Bedford
Clinton Avenue
Joseph Edward Davis
Mollie Maxwell
Vesta Tilley
Charles Hubbs
Clarence Robbins
the Ladens
Jay F. Carlisle
Allan Pinkerton
Lewis Mills Gibb
John Dunbar Adams
Roland Whitney Betts
Maude N. Jones
Henry Hayes Wood
Edward C. Blum
Harfry S. Motif
Edward T. Bedfords
Charles F. Cartledge
William Tyson Hayward
Joseph H. Lester
Maxwell Lester
Sinclair Touséy
Simeon F. Rothschild
Willard L. Candee
George Herbert Potter
Clarence L. Fabre
Harry Gufon Barber
Julian D. Fairchild
Edwin Carrington Ward
Orphan Asylum Society
Atlantic Avenue
William F. Fuller
Homer Arthur Lattin
Quogue
Rangeley Lake
Nelson G. Carman
Equinox House
Thousand Islands
William N. Dykman
Charles M. Englis
Frontenac
George A. Mendes
Homestead Hall
Greenwich
Frank R. Sniffen
Mount Washington
White Mountains
Frederick Edley
Bellport
Madeline Chauncey
Ruel Ross Appletons Hve
Bass Rocks
Gloucester
Mass
Digby
Nova Scotia
Mrs. H. Edward Dreier
Camp Craig
Big Moose
Herkimer County
Charles H. Smithers
Goswold, Croton, Conn
Rufus, T. Griges
Florence Griges
Richfield Springs
Alexandria Bay
Clinton Elliott
Waterbury
Edgar F. Luckenbach
Lewis Luckenbach
Hamilton H. Salmon
Charles A. O' Donohue
Baden-Bader
John F. Talmage
Robert S. Talmage
Kronpring Wilhelm
Alfred Roelkxer, Jr
John A. McCorkle
Cornelius Zabriskie
Orlena Zabriskie
Hivia Zabriskie
Rotterdam
C. Augustus Haviland
L. Hastings Arnold
Irene Roeester
Francis S. Smithers, Jr
John van Nostrand
Adriatic
Bishop
William A. Leonard
Cleveland
London
Mauretania
Herbert F. Gunnison
Florence Gunnison
Elizabeth May
Nieuw Amsterdam
Europe
Kronpringess
Cecilie
Herman Hageorn, Jr
An R
F . i Mackay
General Meserole
Far Rockaway
Charles D. Pearce
Pearce
Bronx
Directoire
Wm. W. Astor
Jos H. Choate
Whitelaw Reid
John Whitley
Fulton St
Morocco
Sahara
Einar Mikkelsen
Copenhagen
Alaska
Mikkelsen
Nuneaton
Warwickshire
Indo-China
Vienna Medical Society
Lionel
Plater
Java
China
Marty
Tigh
Apy
Mets