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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1908
Page
16
A historical note argues that Free Trade burdens have starved rural life in Scotland. It claims sportsmen and gentry sustain impoverished communities by employing locals in hunting and care of game, horses, and dogs, but rising taxes threaten these leisure activities and rural livelihoods.
Nearly three hundred fifty children attended a Leap Year dance at Ashford Hill Home near Ardsley on the Putnam division of the New York Central. Girls dressed in finery and chose partners from over 250 boys as music from a piano delighted the crowd. The event showcased orderly supervision by Superintendent Mr. Austin and the efficient Fresh Air Fund program with Japanese staff, clean dormitories, and orderly meals. Ashford Hill will host over two thousand children this season before closing.
Infant son of Mr and Mrs Reginald Brooks dies at grandparents home after stomach illness. cottagers visit to offer condolences. floral tokens sent. Mrs James P Kernochan hosts dinner with officers from German cruiser Freya. Gooseberry Island Fishing Club luncheon earlier. Notables registered at the Casino include Robert J Collier H Bertram Whitman George Gould and Robert Russell. George Widener and family arrive aboard Josephine for a few days.
Berlin reports a foreign pastor honored the Baptist pulpit as about a thousand delegates from major nations attended the Congress of European Baptists. British Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George sent a message urging Baptists to promote peace and sermons urged better understanding between Great Britain and Germany.
The article portrays Duke Adolph Frederick of Mecklenburg Schwerin pressed to dissolve a happy marriage to a bourgeois wife to wed for dynastic succession. It outlines the grand duke and British connections, royal boycotts, and concerns over succession. It notes Lord Wolseley and a widow’s career as a gardening college head, plus Hampton Court Palace lore and ghost anecdotes connected to royal households.
The article praises a German duke known for athletic prowess across steeplechase crashes, motor accidents, and long horseback journeys from Berlin to Constantinople. It notes his Ottoman medal for shielding the sultan and his fame as an African explorer with many trophies. It discusses royal succession involving Mecklenburg-Schwerin and potential throne passage to Mecklenburg-Strelitz if senior dynasts die without sons.
The piece explains morganatic marriages as purely ecclesiastical contracts that do not grant legal rights to wives or children. It cites King George IV and King Frederick William of Prussia, noting how rulers used such unions to secure dynastic aims while avoiding civil dissolution, with Lutheran pastors performing ceremonies and royal consent recorded.
The piece notes that the Almanach de Gotha omits many royal morganeatic unions. It cites Queen Victoria’s sister Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain secretly marrying Mr Romers before becoming consort to the Landgrave of Hesse. The marriage was quietly solemnized at St James's Palace with royal family awareness and approval.
The lord surrenders the Glynde country seat in Sussex and auctions valuables including engravings paintings furniture and fine porcelain. Rumors say poor investments led to loss of government endowment payments totaling 260,900 dollars instead of a life annuity for him and the next two peers.
Services for Tony Pastor were held at the Brooklyn Elks headquarters on Schermerholm Street with Exalted Leading Knight John T. B. Shaughnessy and Father William H. L Reaney presiding. The procession included hundreds of friends, a string orchestra, and a quartet, ending at Evergreen Cemetery where Father Reaney conducted the burial service.
Acting Secretary Forster visited Sagamore Hill on a Sunday night with official business for President Roosevelt. He remained at Sagamore Hill for some time before returning to Oyster Bay and staying late at the executive offices. The exact nature of the business was not disclosed.
Imperial record and casket containing the signed order and coins were stolen from the foundation site in Ischl. The theft occurred overnight and no trace of the thief has been found. the foundation had been laid by Emperor Francis Joseph for a hospital in memory of Empress Elizabeth.
Dr Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia University travels through Berlin on a trip from Switzerland to Copenhagen to lecture at the University of Copenhagen starting tomorrow. After the course, he will return to Berlin for the Interparliamentary Union conference planned for December.
Across Buffalo Troy and other papers the Hughes candidacy is described with mixed views. Some praise his loyalty to the oath and public welfare while others argue that opposition targets the law or questions his fitness. The Rochester Democrat notes fierce opposition yet says good government gains. The New Rochelle paragraph frames the fight as machine politics versus the people.
Percy G Williams opens the season at Colonial and Alhambra theatres with a list of well known performers. At the Colonial Era Tanguay leads a varied bill with Amy Anderson Howard and North and the Long Acre Quartet. Mabel Barrison and Joseph E Howard helm the Alhambra show joined by Bernardi Stuart Barnes Le Maire Elsie Boehm Hathaway and Siegel. Blaney's Lincoln Square Theatre reopens next Saturday under William Morris with Alexander Carr Co headlining and Mile Bianca Frohlich Grace Cameron and company Marco Twins Canfield and Carleton adding to the merriment.
The Gaiety Theatre opens tonight with a rule requiring women to remove hats and any headwear obstructing views. George M. Cohan and Sam Harris promote a ticket agreement urging hat removal at seating. The opening show features The Yankee Prince by the Cohans.
Georgia Caine is engaged for the role of Sonia and makes her first appearance tonight. The roof garden season ended Saturday and the Widow continues onstage. Sav age updates the chorus, dusts scenery, and outfits the principals and chorus with new clothes.
The Hippodrome will open next Saturday night with two new spectacles Sporting Days and The Battle in the Skies. The Shubert and Andersons present elaborate shows with five scenes in Sporting Days and circus acts throughout. The Battle in the Skies is by Burnside Voegtlin and Klein, Marceline the clown among the principal merry makers. Two performances daily except Sunday.
The American Theatre will reopen next Saturday night with Abramson's Italian Opera Company starting a short season. The group returned last season and offered creditable performances. The opening bill is Alda to be repeated Monday afternoon, followed by Carmen Monday night. Principal singers were previously listed in The Tribune.
The Witching Hour reaches its 275th performance at Hackett Theatre tonight with Augustus Thomas hosting Mason and the company at his New Rochelle home for a celebratory dinner. Shubert managements Western circuits travel to Chicago by special train. Mary Mannering opens at Lyric next Monday in Glorious Betsy. Rose Stahl visits Grand Opera House September 7 for Chorus Lady.
Oyster Bay August 30 1930 The Roosevelt party planned to attend Christ Church morning service but only the President and Mrs Roosevelt went to the 8 o'clock communion service at Sagamore Hill. Longworths did not attend.
Official Weather Record notes fair conditions east of the Rockies with showers in east Florida and the extreme Northwest Cooler air moves in Monday and Tuesday bringing changes across the Midwest and Ohio Valley Forecast covers winds by region and local notes for New Jersey New York New England and western New York Also reports yesterday high 77 low 57 and three decades of averages
New Orleans reports the death of Lieutenant General Alexander P. Stewart at Biloxi Mississippi. Born 1821 in Rogersville Tennessee he served in the Army and later academia before his Civil War rise to lieutenant general. He commanded in Shiloh Perryville Murfreesboro Chickamauga and Hood campaigns.
Mrs. Fanny Wells Embree died August 2 widow of Dr George W Embree once Acting Collector of Customs for New York. Born in 187 in lower Broadway she lived on Prince Houston Irving Place and Madison Avenue. She served as New York State representative in the Sanitary Commission during the Civil War era and helped found the New York Colored Mission. She was active in several churches including Marble Collegiate and contributed to mission work with Ralph Wells’s family.
Joseph Steiner a lawyer of 49 7th Street and 369 Broadway died Saturday of heart disease at his Rockaway Park summer home. A former law partner of Justice Roesch he led in Tammany circles and district committees. A 32nd degree Mason and former grand master of District No. 1 of the Free Sons of Israel he held many lodge titles. He leaves a wife and one son. Funeral Tuesday at 11 at Masonic Hall 23d Street and Sixth Avenue.
Funeral for the late Rev. Dr Donald Sage Mackay will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Collegiate Church of St Nicholas at 48th Street and Fifth Avenue. Officiating will be Rev Dr Er B Coe senior minister of the Collegiate Church system with colleagues from Marble West End and Middle Churches in attendance. Earlier services were held at Marble Church and Middle Church with limited reference to the death.
Emily Bolton Myers of Dennison Street White Plains appears in obituary records dated August 1908. Also noted are memorial services for Rev. Donald Sage in Portland Maine and Ruth Willits Velsor of Westbury Long Island with funeral details.
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