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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1908
Page
8
A brief quotation on happiness and suffering notes that whether a day brings joy or sorrow largely depends on the individual. Author credited as G S Merriam.
A note directs that ail letters and packages intended for the T. S. should be sent to the Tribune Sunshine Society at Tribune Building New York City with checks and money orders payable to the Sunshine Society. It warns the Society has no connection to other groups using similar names and urges careful observation of the address to avoid misrouting.
Mrs P A Greene forwards donations totaling a sum from a lawn fete and other gifts to finance a large canopy for the Rest House lawn. Contributions come from Mrs Du Bois of Brooklyn and Mrs Lacy Thomas Guild of Cuba, among others, with small gifts earmarked for clothing, badges, and meals for children. George Mendez, Excelsior ranch president, plans an August 7 Sunshine outing from Harlem to Rockaway Beach for mothers and babies, extending to families. she notes the event expanded beyond its original scope and encounters emotional scenes at the Rockaway gate.
A boat trip for forty seven children and eighteen mothers cost only 1 75 per person. Mothers enjoyed baths and a luncheon of clam chowder tea and milk was provided with cababoies donated by friends. Mrs Mendez is praised as a financier for the day’s total 16 56 bill.
Miss Curry reports remarkable July results caring for over a thousand women and children at her summer memorial home. She moved many from unsanitary tenement homes to country air, with one physician praising her care. Three hundred residents currently, funds totaling six dollars to date support fifty six children a week of sunshine as they plan to extend to September.
A new branch of New Branch. Another New York S. S. organization in Ischua was formed July 9 at Mrs. George Wall's home. Named Faithful Workers, it plans biweekly meetings 1 30 to 4 30 with limited refreshments, a one cent per member collection, two cents from absentees, and a sunsh ine themed roll call. Officers include Mrs. Wall as president and a long advisory list, with photos for shut ins, quilts under construction, and a Sunshine picnic noted with Rev W H Smith speaking.
Multiple listings seek legal representatives and office staff, plus a wide range of domestic workers. Positions include bookkeeper, cashier, chauffeur, coachman, gardener, janitor, nurse, cooks, housemaids, and general housework. Locations mainly in New York City with occasional suburban bids. many show specific addresses and contact details.
Comprehensive timetable listing New Jersey Central trains to Philadelphia and Baltimore, with Liberty Street and Pier 81 routes, all stops, frequencies, and Sunday variations. Includes all-rail connections via Long Branch, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, Sandy Hook, and transfer offices in New York and Brooklyn.
The Ischua Good Cheer branch appoints a new president as it hosts a revival of sunshine endeavor. All branches stay busy in small ways, but quarterly reports have not been received, as noted in a recent update.
New Jersey residents respond with charity toward a German widow and her two children. Mrs A of East Orange offers her Brooklyn home for two weeks and covers rail fare and $7 monthly rent to aid debt relief. Mrs V funds a week of sunshine for twenty five children with Miss Curry as others offer aid to the Roth family in crisis.
Miss Olmstead leading No 11 branch at Greenwich Street reports a $4 contribution from Mrs M Greenleaf for trolley rides for Little Mothers Settlement day nursery children. A mother with baby and two sickly youngsters will join, plus a dedicated young woman who cared for family babies all summer.
A member of Manhattan branch No. 10 asks if positions can be secured for a fourteen year old boy and a fifteen year old girl who graduated last June. Their father is unemployed, and the mother struggles to support the family while keeping the children in school. Full particulars will be given if one applies to the T. S. S. office.
At the office there are pieces of wool work including an afghan mittens and infants sacks awaiting completion. Members skilled in this craft are asked to volunteer to finish the items so they can be sent as helpful cheer to others.
An express package from Mrs. E. S. Van Deusen adds hats shirts and other garments from Yonkers New York. Salisbury Connecticut sends a white gown collars ribbons and related items. From Montclair New Jersey Mrs. Smith contributes magazines. Greenwich New York furnishes a blue kimono and shirtwaists. New Bedford Massachusetts supplies a fine raincoat waists and more. Cornwall New York contributes hats gloves side bags belts. Horner New York Mrs. Dickinson sends magazines and Miss Fink provides a warm muffler for Labrador.
A compact notice lists geographical names Gibraltar Pannonian Carpathian and a street address Vernon H B at 21 24 State St. The fragment hints at a registry or directory entry with regional terms and a precise street location.
The City of New York requests the Supreme Court appoint three disinterested freeholders as Commissioners of Appraisal under Chapter 724 to oversee the acquisition of parcels in Orange Putnam Dutchess and Ulster counties for the Catskill Aqueduct project. The filing outlines map references and detailed property boundaries in the Towns of Montgomery Newburgh Cornwall Fishkill Phillipstown and surrounding areas for the conveyance to the City.
The document notes two foreclosures in New York County with sale dates set for September 1, 1908. It lists the properties, loan amounts, liens, and expenses, including a parcel at 277 Harlem, and leasehold interests in a Broadway area plot. Referees James T. Brady and Charles A. Curtin oversee sales at Vesey Street and Exchange Salesrooms.
A long sequence of metes and bounds describes lots along Moffatt Fishkill and Carmel roads near Cold Spring and the Hudson. The text notes numerous compass bearings, distances, and curves across parcels 269 to 321, crossing roads, brooks, and county lines, ending along the center line of Moffatt Road.
Public notice describes the City of New York acquiring real estate parcels 287 through 318 with a perpetual easement in parcel 307 and excluding certain parcels. It lists lands owned by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company and notes highway use may continue until NYC rights change. Dated August 1 1908. Francis Key Pendleton Corporation Counsel.
Steamship service leaves Pier 1 North River foot of Warren Street at 5 30 p m every day. Passengers reach Boston about 8 o clock the next morning. Fare is three 55.
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