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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1900
Page
27
The advert lists venues including Victoria at 30 Star and Garter, Henry V at Opera House, Gold Mine at Place Theatre 8:15, and Royal Family at YC Eum Theatre. It notes continuous performances, vaudeville shows, and late options such as The Late Mr Castello and Mistresses Nell, with multiple theatres and start times across the bill.
Knox Hat announces un questioned Sly Correct ion Quality with high class workmanship at its Brooklyn sites 860 Fulton Street and corner of Broadway and Fulton Street near Gh Ave Hotel.
Foreign ministers instructed Conger to sign the Peking conference agreement. Wood backs a 58000 award to Michael J. Dady for Havana contract rights. Sewer Commission report granting Dady 555684 may be rejected. Storms sweep the British Channel as wrecks are reported. Rossgull foundered near Jersey with nine or eleven casualties. Senate action on Hay-Pauncefote treaty. Army Reorganization debate in House. Croker anti-Tamany forces to form. Guardian Trust receiver appointed. Weather: fair today. high 47, low 41.
The British government and its colonies accept a British company’s bid to lay a purely British trans Pacific cable costing 8 975 000 dollars to be completed in two years. The plan, favored by Joseph Chamberlain, aims to outpace the United States in cable reach but will bypass Hawaii and use Fiji Singapore and Australia, reinforcing imperial communications.
The article argues the United States should own and control its insular positions and communications. It asserts the Hawaii to Guam to Luzon route is shorter direct and superior to Britain's Pacific path via Vancouver, Fanning Island, and urges against allowing British cable monopoly to stand.
Albany's experience shows a sand bed filtration system on Hudson water cut typhoid cases and bacteria by over 50 percent and left costs under two dollars per million gallons. The Tribune argues New York and Croton water could be kept pure long term with similar filtration under capable management.
A Massachusetts city votes Republican by nearly a thousand, ending two years of Socialist administration. The election shows Socialist votes clustered with anti Republican sentiment and many Democratic voters opposition to radical movements. The piece argues the Fates of Populism and Socialism warn against demagogic successes.
The text argues socialism flourishes only as an ideal not allowed by a wicked capitalistic world. When permissive, it loses its appeal as the model community grows tired and dissolves. It claims the socialist person is largely an abstraction and real human nature undercuts such schemes.
A New York editorial urges broad vaccination as December approaches. It notes smallpox spread in a minority neighborhood and appeals to residents to consult doctors and get vaccinated to ensure general immunity and prevent panic.
The Abbot, owned by John J. Scannell, aims to trot a mile in two minutes in 1901. The horse’s owner, a New York fire chief, seeks the feat with lavish preparation, noting progress since Maud S. era and comparing pacing and trotting records.
Opinion argues that public ownership of utilities is a poor instrument to deter or remove burglars, warning that such doctrine offers limited practical security benefits. The piece critiques governance strategies prioritizing municipal control over effective crime prevention.
Dozens of public spirited women form a league to curb rude conductors and insultive jeers on streetcars. The drive aims to improve behavior on trolleys and push for better cross street announcements. Washington backs road improvement. Congress may fund 150000 dollars for model thoroughfares. The piece notes Romans as model road builders and criticizes American road work.
A mix of eccentric notes applies satire to public life and oddities. References range from a plan to cross Belgian hares with jack rabbits to flood talk about Ramapo conspirators and endless poultry jokes. The tone skewers sensationalism and political panic with a dash of farce.
The Penn Club of Philadelphia held a Tuesday evening reception for Rear-Admiral Silas Casey as he nears the end of his term as commandant of the League Island Navy Yard and prepares to assume command of the Pacific Station. Casey is expected to be relieved in January after joining League Island in 1898 and earning promotion to commodore and then rear-admiral.
Passengers from Genoa and Naples on the Columbia of Hamburg America include J. H. Abel and family, Rev. M. F. Burke Bishop of St. Joseph, J. H. Gray, Charles H. Utley party, Paul Warren, and J. E. Willing. Also listed are arrivals booked to sail on La Gascogne for Havre today Manuel Garcia de Acula attaché to the Spanish Legation Captain G Muzard J. C. Hamlen and Miss Marguerite Hayes.
The young heir James Eads How vows to earn fare by walking from St Louis to Chicago, carrying few belongings. He rejects riding, values the journey as study of nature, and plans to attend Salvation Army rag time parties to buy an overcoat. A barber joke and crowd laughter follow.
Havana amid sewer project tensions as Colonel Black of the Engineering Department argues that 58000 dollars is a fair price to pay Mr. Dady for his bigs in terest while opposing the appraisers 555804 recommendation. Council splits but rejects that appraiser report and favors a smaller cost for broader, modern plans. General Wood backs Black and warns against the Commission’s large award.
Review criticizes a Met performance of La Traviata sung in English last night. The elder Germont voice is praised, while the rest are deemed extremely ill. Miss Strakosch earns sympathy through acting, but lacks Verdi style. overall, the audience is described as small.
Mrs Howard Gould of Sands Point Long Island will host a free Christmas afternoon at Liberty Hall Fort Washington on December 5. The event will feature Punch and Judy and a live show for the village children ages five to ten with two Christmas trees loaded with presents to be distributed.
The Pioneer Press will report that Charles A. Towne of Duluth has accepted an appointment as United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Co. K. Davis. Governor Lind has not confirmed or denied the statement, but the source is deemed trustworthy. Towne was the Democrats’ candidate for the seat four years ago.
The article notes a private donor at the University of Pennsylvania providing prizes in the School of Biology and the Department of Interior Decoration in the Architecture School, each valued at 550 dollars annually. It also includes unrelated items from various papers.
The Isthmian Canal Commission favors the Nicaragua route for a U S canal in opposition to Panama citing Panama Company exclusivity and unwillingness to sell while noting Nicaragua is 400 miles closer to the United States and European trade routes. Several papers call the report authoritative and final and predict canal opening within a dozen years under McKinley era prospects.
A member of the Chamberlain family has begun legal proceedings over published allegations that the concerns in which Joseph Chamberlain and chamberlain have had financial interests in government.
Canadian volunteers energized Westminster proceedings as Mr Chamberlain praised colonial loyalty. The Queen's Speech ahead will outline South Africa and China actions with brief proposals. Lord Donoughmore died after a brief illness tied to Peruvian debts and Grace scheme. Viscount Halifax denied reports of Catholic conversion.
Telegrams from Constantinople report Captain Colby M. Chester and lieutenants Scott Moffett and Palmer remain in the area until after a Friday Solamuk om. Other Kentucky officers may visit Constantinople while Captain Chester meets naval authorities at Smyrna and observes the turret system. The Government has halted all telegrams regarding the Kentucky. Lloyd Griscom and Capt Chester are invited aboard the guardship Imogene for a Bosporus excursion in honor of the Amel.
Tangier dispatch reports Baron von Mentain gen, German minister to Morocco, obtaining the Sultan’s agreement to pay three principal claims of injured offenders.
Judge Hanna upheld Colonel Joseph M. Bennett's will and codicils, confirming a fortune estimated at 2 million dollars bequeathed to the University of Pennsylvania and the Methodist Orphanage. His daughter, Mrs Imogene E Bennett Wellens, received nothing, while she had claimed the testator was not of sound mind.
London reports Count and Countess de Castellane are negotiating a London house. They plan to spend part of the year there as Count Bont seeks sympathy from friends and compatriots after a recent affair, Vanity Fair notes.
The bulletin from Livadia states Emperor Nicholas has no ill effects from sitting up in his armchair at meals and is much better, though the court notes some continued unrest.
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