Alban Returns to Colon After Clearing British Grievances
General Alban, Colombian commander, arrives in Colon from Bocas del Toro and blames the Pan ama railway for isthmian troubles. Paris to issue a Chinese loan of 265,099,000 francs at 3 percent this December. British trade shows a November slump.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Alban
Colon
Bocas del Toro
Tribune
Alban
Panama
Paris
M. Lazare Weiller
America
Baron Fava
United States
Italy
Mississippi
Tripoli
Edward
Alexandra
Longon Saturday Review
Reichstag
Rome
Monsignor Scalabrini
Piacenza
Washington
War Department
Root
Congress
The
McKinley Memorial Association
Canton Monument
Washington Arch
White House
George H. Roberts, Jr
Brooklyn
Kentucky
Dunne
Chicago
Andrew M. Lawrence
H. T. Canfield
the American
American Federation of Labor Convention
Scranton
van Sant
Interstate Commerce Commission
Minnesota
Amalgamated Copper
van Wyck
John F. Carroll
Croker
Patrick Keenan
Lewis Nixon
McClellan
William Dalton
King’s Plaster Mills
New Brighton
Theodore Reichmann
Odell
National Guard
Nelson H. Henry
Vth
Brooks
Devery
Bissert
Captain Diamond
Sing Sing
Diamond
Murphy
Albany
McCarren
Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge
Bulgarians Hold Miss Stone as Ransom Gap Widens
Miss Stone remains alive and in fair condition as Bulgarian brigands refuse the $66,000 raised for her release, insisting on the original $100,000 demand. The Macedonian Committee shows internal strife with Mihailowsky clashing with Sarafoff, while Sarafoff quarrels with the Russian minister in Sofia over aid and Macedonian policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Stone
Macedonian Committee
Mihailowsky
Sarafoff
Sophia
Europe
Ferdinand
Macedonia
Russia
Bulgarian Government Faces Blame for Stone Case Crimes
The text accuses Bulgaria of tolerating the Macedonian Committee and enabling its criminals, arguing the government bears responsibility for Miss Stone's outrage due to prior blackmail and murders. It claims government inaction until Romania threatened war and stresses accountability for its proteges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mihailovsky
Sarafoff
Miss Stone
Rumania
United States Losses in Cuba Prompt Trade Outlook
The piece argues that U S Cuba trade has declined while Britain and Germany gain. It cites 1899 1900 sales figures and eight month totals to February 1901, urging a reciprocal trade arrangement with Cuba and a revival of McKinley era provisions to restore U S influence and honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Cuba
Great Britain
Denver
Germany
Hamburg
London
Berlin
Europe
Harrison
McKinley
Blaine
Spain
Blank paper by construction in constitutional debate echoes through history
In Fuller’s dissent on the Porto Rico duties, the phrase blank paper by construction appears as a rebuke to expansive federal power. Jefferson warned against it in 1803, and Campbell echoed it in Dred Scott, while the current court resists turning the constitution into blank paper. The piece frames two schools of constitutional thought and their role as brakes on national expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dooley
Fuller
Porto Rico
United States
Jefferson
Louisiana
Wilson Cary Nicholas
Justice Campbell
John Quincy Adams
Congress
Constitution as living framework through changing times
The passage argues that repeated claims of the Constitution being blank paper by critics and shifting policies have proven unfounded. It cites historical debates on the Alien and Sedition Acts, Hamilton's bank, tariffs, territorial acquisitions, internal improvements, and Civil War reconstruction, asserting the document remains vital and its rights secure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Kentucky
Hamilton
National Bank and Protective Tariff
Louisiana
Monroe
Jefferson
Supreme Court
High Speed Electric Traction Experiments Temporarily Halted
United States Consul Mason reports Berlin Zossen electric traction tests on the Berlin Zossen road are suspended while motive apparatus changes are prepared. The goal remains investigating feasibility and costs of very high speeds with safeguards on track and machinery, including potential deterioration and repair issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Mason
Berlin-Zossen
Hutton
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Wasteful Public Printing Shocks Congressional Audits
A 19th century critic decries the wasteful handling of public documents by the Government Printing Office. The piece cites chronic excess copies, piling folding-room stocks, and calls for centralized control to save over $100,000 annually. It questions Treasury watchdogs and asks where Holman and Randall’s successors are.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Houses
Pennsylvania
Treasury
Holman and
Randall
Greek Church Fights Forest Fires and Slavic Influence
The Greek Church in Greece rebukes forest destruction and condemns forest arson as unholy. It links modern Greek translations to Pan Slavic influence and urges denunciation and punishment of arsonists, with excommunication for involved parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greece
Athens
Russia
Holy Synod of
Forest Destruction in Greece and Its Warnings
The encyclical condemns forest ruin as a public foe, citing Greece as a cautionary example of denuded lands and desertification. It urges strong self-protection measures, noting Greece’s lack of church excommunication for destroyers and urging nationwide vigilance against needless woodland loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Persia
Arabia
Greece
Controversy and appointments shadow early 1900s politics
The piece notes Nelson H. Henry’s appointment as Adjutant General to succeed the late General Hoffman, praising his National Guard service. It also discusses Tammany asphalt contracts, Sen. Lodge’s executive building proposal, and calls to repurpose the White House to correct crowded conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson H. Henry
Edward M. Hoffman
National Guard
Guard
Odell
Leonard Wood
The Talk Of The Day Aboard A Street Brass Band
A Clinton Missouri street performance by a traveling brass band ends in tragedy as a nearby horse collapses dead amid the noisy fife and drum. The scene prompts satirical quips on theatricals and animal reactions from observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
Social Roundup at the White House on December Day
President Roosevelt received a long list of callers including Senators Allison Beveridge Hawley Clapp Pettus Bard Tawney Stevens McCall Jones Hamilton Hemenway Landis Watson Crumpacker Bowie Littlefield and more. Alice Roosevelt returned from Boston with Mrs Roosevelt drove in the afternoon. The St Louis Exposition Commission visited, and numerous social events followed at Delmonico's and the Newbold home with upcoming dinners and dances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
William B. Allison
Iowa
Albert J. Beveridge
Indiana
Joseph R. Hawley
Connecticut
Moses E. Clapp
Minnesota
Edmund W. Pettus
Alabama
Thomas R. Bard
California
James A. Tawney
F. C. Stevens
Samuel W. McCall
Massachusetts
Wesley L. Jones
Army
Alice Roosevelt
Boston
White House
John Allen
Notable Washington social season notes and debuts
Mrs. Fuller hosted a luncheon for Edith Harlan Child with a large winter debutante attendance. John W. Foster hosted a twenty-cover dinner for Presbyterian creed revision members and friends, followed by a reception for about two hundred guests at a grand new house. The social calendar includes upcoming debuts, weddings, and charity events at the New Willard, with a Russian embassy dinner and a St. Nicholas kettledrum event at the same venue. Chevy Chase Club riders held a ten mile drag with three falls but no serious injuries. the hunt lasted about 45 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
St. Louis
Hitchcock
van Dyke
Princeton University
Macfarland
McKibbin
Cincinnati
Greely
Stevenson
Chicago
Mackay- Smith
McCormick
Iowa
Justice Bradley
W. R. Crabbe
Pittsburg
Talmage
D. R. Noyes
St. Paul
Gallaudet
Roberts
Philadelphia
Fisher
Hanover College
Presbyterian Church
Grace Bell
Charles Bell
Miss Clabaugh
Mary E. Blackburn
Senator Blackburn
Frances Wendling
William S. Conant
McKenna
Loring
May
de Peyster
New Willard
Hildegarde McKenna
Lydia Loring
Helen Bell
Isabel May
Caroline de Peyster
Marguerite Cassini
Count of Montebello
Robeson
Miss May
Barney
de Faramond
Hermite
Hermite and Members of the Embassy Staff Were Present. Miss Hitchcock
Est
Chevy Chase Club
Brightwood
New York Society Crowded With Early Lent Social Season
A bustling week of dances receptions and teas leads into a concert week at the Waldorf Astoria with Hofmann and Lehmann and numerous society debuts. Notables include Miss Elise Postley and Mrs Clarence A Postley, plus many Oyster Bay and Fifth Avenue hosts. The Minturn Hospital Christmas sale and Stony Wold Sanatorium benefit close the week with patronesses from the Astor and Havemeyer circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Morris Bagby
Waldorf-Astoria
Josef Hofmann
Mme. Lilli Lehmann
Hamilton Deck
Twombly
Misses Hewitt
Edmund L. Baylies
Miss de Forest
Miss Furniss
St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas Skating Rink
Delmontico’s
Waldorf Astoria
William Astor
Elbridge T. Gerry
Sherry’s
Delmonico’s
Stony Wold Sanatorium
Miss Leary
Levin Porton
Eodore A. Havemeyer
W. Butler Duncan
Mary R
Dr J P Peters Leaves on Yearlong Eastern Trip
The Work Club at St Michael's Church bids farewell to Rev S John P Peters president as he departs for a yearlong journey through the Eastern Hemisphere. He met Jacob Cantor on Eight Hour laws and wages, Ralph M of the National Civic Federation, and plans to study archeology in the Holy Land and finish books on prehistoric life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Work Club
St. Michael’s Church
West
S. John P. Peters
Peters
Jacob A. Cantor
Borough of
Manhattan
Canton
Low
Ralph M
National Civic Federation
Dr. Peters
Chicago
Holy Land
Transatlantic Travelers Arrive With Dense Passenger Lists
The St Paul from Southampton and Cherbourg brings many notable passengers including John W. Baird Henry Bennett and family Miss Persis Bouton Captain Burnham and Embassy official John R. Carter among others. Lucania from Liverpool adds W H Cortelyou and Rev Sholto Douglas plus diverse travelers. Columbia from Genoa Naples and Gibraltar includes Baron von Herman and Consul from the Netherlands at Honolulu. Minneapolis sails for London with C K Fownes H Stanley Jevons and J S McDonald among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Southampton
Cherbourg
John W. Baird
Henry Bennett
Persis Bouton
W. B. Burnham
John R. Carter
United States
London
Carter
M. A. Clapp
de Witt D. Cook
Dom Flinger
C. S. Drummond
W. N. Farnbourough
Lucania
Liverpool
W. Rathbone Bacon
L. F. Berndes
W. H. Cortelyou
George F. Crane
Emil Fischer
M. Ford
G. W. Hall
J. R. Hamlyn-Nott
W. Stewart Johnston
C. S. Hope-Johnstone
J. B. McCormick
George A. Moore
Lester Reiff
John Reiff
J. M. Thomas
Gordon Watson
W. H. Woodcock
J. Trafford Hutesom
H. Barber
Columbia
Genoa
Naples
Gibraltar
W. H. Avery
W. G. Gilmors
F. M. Adams
Baron von Herman
H. Martens von Holt
Netherlands
Honolulu
R. H. Jackson
George B. Orr
Cornelia P. Stone
Tappen
Clarence W. White
W. Wiggins
Max O'Rell Improves After Illness at Marello's
Max O'Rell remains ill at Marello's on Twenty-ninth Street near Broadway. A nurse said last night he was much improved and expected to be up in a few days, though visitors still not allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Budapest
Wurmestube
Austria-Hungary
Westminster School
Busby
Westminster
Star Chamber
Greeze
London Globe
Max O’rell
Marello’s
Twenty-ninth St
Broadway
Goulds Arrive in Bermuda Incognito for Honeymoon
Frank J. Gould and his bride arrived in Hamilton Bermuda today from New York aboard the British steamer Pretoria. The couple are traveling incognito and have booked a suite at the Hamilton Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Bermuda
Frank J. Gould
New York
Pretoria
Hamilton Hotel
Public figures and rough riders cross paths in old column
A retrospective column sketches notable figures tied to New York ports and Oklahoma claims. It highlights Ohio Columbus Barber as a rival for the Port of New York post, notes Colonel Zach Mulhall's western rise, Roosevelts, Barneses and a Rough Riders reunion incident involving saddles and a writ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port of
New York
Ohio Columbus Barber
Diamond Match Company
Cassius M. Barnes
Oklahoma
William Jenkins
Roose
Pres Velt
Barnes
Rough Riders
Homa City
Kent Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Gow Roosevelt
Bidens
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Country Board
New—Jersey
Onccese
New York Daily Tribune
Bulgaria
Asia
Graff
Grant
St Louis
Senator Lodge
Senate
Lodge
Executive
Catholic Standard and Times
Amsterdam
Holland
Transvaal
Donte
Mackintosh
Chicago Tribune
Wurtemberg
Bavaria
Reichsanzeiger
Shanghai Mercury
Stevens
Castle Point
John Burling Arence
Oliver Livingston Jones
Law
Randolph Price
Samuel Spencer
Melcomian Gomery Schuyler
Joan C. Calhoun
Montgomery
Notes OF Society
NEW York Society
Lewis Livingston Delafield
William Rockefeller
Fifth-ave
Ethel
George F. Seward
Emma Seward
Delmontco’s
Elise Postley
Clarence A. Postley
Marie Harmon
Ethel Peck
Grace Timmerman
Helen Bacon
N. Sartel Prentice
Lexington-ave
Mary
E. Parmelee Prentice
Alta Rockefeller
West Fifty-third-st
Charles Lord
West Forty-third-st
Zaidee
C. B. Alexander
West Fifty-eighth-st
Cornelius Fellowes
East Thirtyseventh-st
Caroline
Fellowes
Delia Gurnee
Fifth Ave
Minturn Hospital
John W. Minturn
Washington Square North
Reginald Francklyn
George W. Vanderbilt
Biltmore
North Carolina
Henry Clews, Jr
Adolf Ladenburg
England
Egypt
J. P. Peters
Minneapolis
C. K. Fownes
H. Stanley Jevons
J. S. McDonald
J. A. Coombes
F. J. Gould
Zach
Mulhall
Oil
Missouri
Zach” Mulhall
Tfe
Sam
Bessie
Lucille
Oyster Bay
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