Mahler Second Symphony Mesmerizes New York Audience
Gustav Mahler conducted his Second Symphony at Carnegie Hall before a large crowd. The 115 players, chorus of 200, plus soloists Miss Laura Combs and Mrs. Gertrude Stein-Beiler, delivered a monumental performance that sparked long applause and emotional response. The piece, dense with varied moods across five movements, showcased Mahler’s orchestral scope and modern restless spirit.
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New York Symphony Society
Gustav Mahler
Carnegie
Mahler
New York
Toro Society
Solnist
Aintain
Mahier
Berlioz
I¢ Brass
Sigf
Laura Combs
Gertrude Stein-Beiler
Melba to sing La Bohème at Manhattan Opera House Monday
Nellie Melba arrives in New York on the Lusitania and will perform Puccini's La Bohème at the Manhattan Opera House on Monday, with Zenatello as Rodolfo and an all-star cast. The program includes further Puccini, Offenbach, and Verdi selections with notable artists like Sammarco, Schaunard, de Segurola, and Trentini in multiple roles across upcoming performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Melba
New York
Frider
Lusitania
Manhattan Opera House
Mimi
Puccini
Gilibert Schaunard
de Segurola Colline
Gianoli-Gelletti
Sandiers
Mie
Trentini
Musetta
Mme. Melba
Manhattan
Mr. Taccani
Buenos Ayres
Itali
Offenbach
Dalmores
Renaud
Coppelius
Pedler
Dappertuilo
Dr. Miracle
Wizard
Gilibert
Spalanzani
Mile. Zeppilli
Doll
Scorpie
Sammarcoe
Gianoli-Galletri
Mery Garden
le Jongieur de Notre Dame
Messrs
Uframne
Valles
Crabbe de Securda
Vieuttte
Philadelphia
le Jongieur
Mr. Constantino
Alfredo Germeat
Burnley Recital Marred by Violinist Illness
Mrs Hardin Burnley's recital at Edmund Russell studios was interrupted when violinist Theodor GorGohn suffered a sudden illness during Godard Berceuse. Mexican barytone Raoul De Leon substituted and completed the program amid generally favorable reception of Burnley's child impersonations.
Charitable Matinee by The Pied Piper Cast at Majestic
De Wolt Hopper Miss Marguerite Clark and the Pied Piper company perform a charity matinée at the Majestic Theatre to aid the sick and Marsh Free Hospital. Part of the scenery will be displayed in a ward and Nursery Rhymes songs performed. Hopper and Clark sing multiple numbers and a duet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Wolt Hopper
Marguerite Clark
New Puccini Opera Le Villi Joins Met Lineup Next Week
Metropolitan Opera plans the second of eight novelties for 1908 09 featuring Puccini s Le Villi with Alda Bonci Amato in the cast and extra pricing for the special opening. Mahler conducts Tristan und Isolde with Schmedes Fremstad Homer Feinhals Blass Muhlmann Reiss Baxer. Lucia di Lammermoor Carmen Carmen and Tiefland repeat performances also outlined along with Sembrich Caruso Amato and Campanari debuts and Hertz conducting concert efforts.
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Puccini
Conservatory
Alda
Messrs
Bonci
Amato
Cavalleria Rusticana
Destini
Santuzza
Maria Gay
Lola
Caruso
Turiddu
Gustav Mahler
Tiefland
Lucia di Lammermoor
Mme. Sembrich
Mmes. Fremstad
Homer
Messrs. Neté and Blass
Alexander Petschnikoff
Dippel
Philadelphia
Gatti- Casazza
New York
Opera
Metropolitan Opera Company Faces New Legal Turmoil
Ongoing disputes over management contracts at the Metropolitan Opera House intensify as Conried sues for 90000 dollars and the former manager returns to New York to defend his 900 dollar claim. Cross suits allege disagreements over the company balance sheet prior to Conried's departure last spring.
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Metropolitan Opera Company
Geeral
Conried
New York
Opera Company
Opera
Chicago to get permanent opera house and longer season
Max Rabinoff says Chicago will abandon the provinces label by creating a permanent opera house on Michigan avenue. He reports 500 residents pledged 500 each toward the project and plans for a twenty week season with top artists and productions from the Metropolitan and Manhattan. If successful Chicago would stage five operas by a Russian composer in the original language with interpreters from St. Petersburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New York Operatic Enterprises
Max Rabinoff
Hotel Astor
Rebinoff
Chicezo
New York
St. Petersburg
Dartmouth Alumni Hold Dinner and Elections at Manhatt an
The forty fifth annual Dartmouth Alumni Association dinner drew about one hundred members and guests at the Hotel Manhattan. A brief business meeting elected Luther B Little as president with two vice presidents Charles A Rich and O P Conant and A B R Clark as officers. Paul P Edson was named secretary and John French corresponding secretary with Joseph W Gannon as treasurer.
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Dartmouth Alumni Association
Hotel
Manhattan
Luther B. Little
Charles A. Rich
O. P. Conant
A. BR. Clark
Paul P. Edson
John French
Joseph W. Gannon
Weather report and forecast for region and ships
The Weather Bureau reflects a low lake region mood bringing snow in the lake region and upper Mississippi valley. Fair weather continues in the south central and eastern districts with temperature declines along the Atlantic coast. Snow flurries expected from the lake region to New York and New England, while most of the country remains fair. Winds mostly southwest for steamers to European ports, with a short period of snow flurries to the Grand Banks. Local forecasts note increasing cloudiness and warmer today for New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, fair Thursday. Western New York and Western Pennsylvania see snow flurries near the lakes, with moderate variable winds. New England and Western New York also cloudy with snow flurries followed by fair conditions. Temperature changes show yesterday’s high 36, low 30, with various readings compared to last year and long-term averages. Local forecast calls for increasing cloudiness today and fair conditions Thursday with moderate variable winds.
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Washingon
Mississippi
Middle States
Atlantic Coast
Lake
New York
New England
Middle Atlantic
Grand Banks
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Pennsgrania
Bryce Praises Southern Progress At Commerce Congress
British Ambassador James Bryce addressed delegates of the Southern Commercial Congress praising the South’s postwar growth. He noted gains in agriculture, resources, and education since his first visit and urged continued development. The meeting formed a permanent organization with John M. Parker named president.
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Washington
Dec
James Bryce
Southern Commercial Congress
Congress
South
Mr. Bryce
George Hillier
Georgia Railroad Commission
William J. Oliver
Knoxville
Edwin C. Eckel
John H. Finner
Appalachian Forestry Commission
D. A. Tompkins
Charlotte
N. C
C. W. Hayes
Edwin A. Alderman
University of Virginia
John M. Parker
New Orleans
Appalachian and
White Mountain Forest Reserve
Carnegie Board Adopts $636,300 Budget For 1999
The Carnegie Institution of Washington approved 636,300 in appropriations at its annual board meeting to continue ongoing projects for 1999. Missing were President-elect Taft and Secretary of State Elihu Root. New trustees include Charles W. Eliot and Martin A. Ryerson with changes on the executive committee. Andrew Carnegie attended the dinner with his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dec
Board of Trustees
Carnegie Institution of Washington
William H. Taft
Elihu Reet
William B. Parsons
William H. Welch
Carroll D. Wright
Daniel C. Gilman
Andrew Carnegie
Alderman Proposes Milk Safety Plan In New York
B W Brown introduces an ordinance to curb tuberculosis in milk. It requires certified milk with no more than 309000 bacteria per cubic centimeter and mandates pasteurization for uncertified milk at specified temperatures and times under the Health Department supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. W. Brown
Board of Aldermen
Committee On
New York
Department of Health
Epartment of Health
Salvation Army Wedding in West 14th Street Hall
A rare Salvation Army marriage united 70 year old John Young and 65 year old Mary Martin at the Memorial Hall 122 West 14th street New York. Guests paid a 10 cent ticket to witness the ceremony led by Colonel McIntyre with speeches praising the couple and the Salvation Army. Both spouses belong to the New York corps under Captain Caroline Mac Veigh.
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New York
Salvation Army Memorial Hall
West 14Th Street
John Young
Mary Martin
MrsIntyre
Salvation Army
England
America
Memorial Hall
New York Corps
Caroline MacVeigh
Mclintyre
Court of Appeals Lets Fixed Copyright Prices Stand
Albany December ruling says the American Publishers Association may set fixed prices for copyrighted books but lacks authority over uncopyrighted volumes in the case Isador and N Straus of New York against the Association. The article notes the decision and hints at issue for a Sunday Tribune follow up.
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Albany
Dec
American Publishers’ Association
Court of Appeals
Isador & N. Straus
New York
Death of New York real estate figure Miss Mary Pinkney
Miss Mary G Pinkney a wealthy New York spinster died at the Buckingham Hotel aged ninety eight from old age. She managed the Watt estate after Archibald Watt's death and helped finance Harlem holdings becoming a notable developer. Her death shifts ownership to heirs Junia Watt Morris Curtis Thomas Watt and Grace Watt.
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Mary G. Pinkney
New York
Buckingham
Miss Pinkney
Archibald Watt
Ter
John Pinkney
Maryland
Colonel Pinkney
Harlem
Harlem River
Watt
Thomas Watt
Educator William Ireland Knapp Dies in Paris
Professor William Ireland Knapp a noted scholar born March 1 1835 in this city died in Paris He taught modern languages at Colgate Vassar Yale and Chicago later living in England and France He authored works on Spanish history language and literature and edited Borrow translations He was knight commander of the Order of Isabel la Catolica in 1877 and received LL D in 1888
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ireland Knapp
Paris
New York
Colgate
Vassar
Yale
University of Chicago
England
France
Isabel la Catolica
George Borrow
Borrow
Longtime Continental Iron Works President Warren B. Hill Dies
Warren B E Hill longtime president of Continental Iron Works at Greenpoint died of heart disease in his Florence apartments at 115 East 18th Street. Born in New York in 1835 he helped build Detroit water system before returning to work for Continental Iron Works. Last survivor of engineers who built Ericsson's Monitor he belonged to Brooklyn Union League Club and ASME. He leaves wife and two daughters. Funeral Friday at Grace Church Chantry 2 p.m. burial Greenwood Cemetery.
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Warren BE. Hill
Continental Iron Works
Greenpoint
Florence
East 18Th Street
Mr. Hill
Altair Works
Detroit
New York
Ericsson
Brooklyn Union League Club
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Grace Church Chantry
Greenwood Cemetery
William Gold Brinsmade Dies at Ridge Preparatory School
William Gold Brinsmade head of Ridge Preparatory School Washington Conn died suddenly of heart disease. A Yale Harvard educated educator born 1838 in Springfield Mass he founded the Ridge School and served on the Washington Board of Education. He leaves a daughter Dorothy and wife Ada Colton. Funeral Thursday. Jean I Bonn noted music director at St. Vincent Ferrer died after illness. Bonn born in the Palatinate in 19 7. He led one of the nation’s top church choirs and leaves a wife four sons and four daughters.
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Washington, Conn
William Gold Brinsmade
Ridge
Mr. Brinsmade
John and Mary Brinsmade
Charlestown
Mass
Springfield
Willim B. Brinsmade
Harvard University
Ada Gibson Colton
W. S. Colton
Dorothy Brinsmade
Jean I. Bonn
St. Vincent Ferrer
East 56Th Street
Professor Bonn
Rhenish Palatinate
United States
The Baroness d Altomonte Dies at 33 in New York Home
Miss Jeanette Locke of Lexington Kentucky, wife of Baron Antonio Benedetti d Altomonte, died yesterday at 127 Westth street. A lyric soprano formerly on Paris and Berlin stages, the baron once commanded police in the Congo for King Leopold and now holds a government post. Robert Locke, a brother, survives.
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Antonio Benedetti d Altomonte
Westth Street
Jeanette Locke
Lexington
Paris
Berlin
Congo
Leopold
Robert Locke
Auction notes high values for rare books and manuscripts
The Anderson Auction Company rooms saw total receipts of 8400 dollars at the Poor library sale as buyers bid on first editions and fifteenth century vellum manuscripts. Notable purchases included F W Morris paying 361 for Montaigne, George D Smith 339 for Killigrew, 281 for a vellum French manuscript, and Dr Hirsch 281 for Here Beate Virginis cum Calendario.
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Anderson Auction Company
F. W. Morris
Michael
Lord of
Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Val Sims
Edward Blount
George D. Smith
Thomas Killigrew
Charles I
Smith
Notre Dame
Paris
Dr. Hirsch
Today’s city events include free museum entries and society meetings
Free admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art American Museum of Natural History and the Zoo logical Garage. Meetings include the New York Board of Trade and Transportation 208 Broadway at 3 15 p m the Board of Education Park Avenue and 59th Street at 4 p m and various dinners and lectures at Waldorf Astoria Delmonico’s and Gramercy Park plus free Board of Education lectures at 5 p m and Arthur Harrington on municipal securities at West Side Y M C A 320 West 51st Street.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Museum of Natural History
Zoological Garage
New York Board of Trade and Transportation
Broadway
Board of Education
Park Avenue
59Th Street
Convent of the Sacred Heart
Waldorf- Astoria
New York Browning Society
Waldorf— Astoria
New York Southern Society
Canadian Society of New York
Delmonico's
Fire Insurance Exchanges
Nassau Street
Unanimouslab
Manhattan
John Milton
Columbianiversity. Spm
Arthur M Harrin
Om “Municipal Securities
West Side
Herbert L. Brithe
Gramercy Park
Taft Heads Red Cross as President-Elect
President elect Taft was unanimously re elected president of the American National Red Cross at its annual meeting and said he would be pleased to continue. He noted legal clearance to hold both roles while inaugurated. Special medals honored earthquake relief workers. officers for the year were elected including Taft as president.
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Washington
Dec
Taft
American National
Hed Cross
Army
Red Cross
Russell Sage
Louis Klopsch
The
Christian Herald
China
Roosevelt
Mr. Taft
Ernest P. Bicknell
Chicago
Edward J. Devine
New York
Carroll A. Devol
Bridge Probe Likely Under Mayor Pressure
Mayor McClellan indicated a formal probe into the Manhattan Bridge via a letter from Homer Folks of the city Club. He will not discuss the matter until the Board of Estimate and Apportionment meets Friday, with plans for a comprehensive inquiry likely to target the Bridge Department and its officials.
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McClellan
Homer Folks
City Club
Board of Estimate
Manhattan Bridge
City Hall
Department of Bridges
Stevenson
Commissioners of Accounts
Ahearn
Haffen
Coler
Mitchell
Federal Council adjourns with antiarmament stance
The first Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America adjourned in Philadelphia to meet again in December 1912. It adopted resolutions opposing armament, supported obligatory arbitration, and condemned the divorce evil while praising reform groups and the press.
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Philadelphia
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In
America
Henry Wade Rogers
Yale University
United States
Europe
New Rochelle Honors Coghlan in Obsequies at Station
The body of Rear Admiral Coghlan lay in a private car at New Rochelle station as six Spanish War Veterans acted as pallbearers. The funeral cortege, soon to Washington, drew crowds and half staff flags. Veterans fired volleys, taps sounded, and wreaths from naval officers and Admiral Dewey marked the solemn procession.
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Coghlan
New Rochelle
Federal Express
Waanhington
Loyal Legion
Norman Crosby Post
Admiral Coghlan
Raleigh
Manila Bay
Port of New York
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Admiral Dewey
MISS BATES S GOLD MINE A BONANZA
Miss Blanche Bates star of The Fighting Hope at the Stuyvesant Theatre reports a rich gold vein found on land in southern California she long owned. An initial analysis showed little ore but the claim lies far from rail, and she expects fuller details in a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Bates
Stuyvesant
California
Miss Bates
Souvenir Play Planned For Billie Burke At Lyceum
Charles Frohman ordered his general manager to arrange an elaborate souvenir performance by Billie Burke in Love Witches on Monday January 4 at the Lyceum. Maude Adams is set for Empire engagement beginning December 2 with advance ticket sales opening December 17 limited to four per person to curb scalpers. Congressional Humor by the author of Letters from a New Congressman's Wife appears in next Sunday's Tribone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harles Frohman
New York
Billie Burke
Lyceum
Frohman
Berwick-Hasell marriage at Grace Church New York
Marriage announcement notes the December 7 ceremony at Grace Church New York with Rev W Huntington presiding. Mason Hesl to George elder son of Sir Robert and Lady Berwick of London, with full names and addresses required for notices.
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Borwick—Hasell
Grace Church
New York
W . Huntington
Greer
Mason
Lewis Cruger
Ace Mason Hes
George
Robert
Lady Berwick
London
Funeral notices from a Brooklyn newspaper
A hodgepodge of obituaries and funeral notices for multiple adults including Joanna Bissell, John L. Bonn, Eleanor A. Brinsmade, William G. Dickinson, William M. Ferris, and Adelaide Ward Gallagher. Entries list residences, dates in December, church services, and interment details, with multiple addresses in Brooklyn and nearby towns.
Undertakers Frank F Campbell and Co
Frank F Campbell and Co advertise private and public ambulances at 241-3 West 234 Street and 8th Ave and 19th St Chelsea. Rev Stephen Merritt is described as a world known undertaker. The firm claims to be the largest in the world with telephone numbers 1334, 124, and 125 Chelsea.
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Frank F. Campbell
St Chapel
Chelsea
Stephen Merritt
8Th Ave
19Th St
Special Notices from The Tribune File of Applications
The New York Tribune announces a central file of applications for various positions at the Uptown Office No 136 Broadway hours 9am to 6pm. The notice lists subscription rates and multiple office addresses including Nassau Street William Street Harlem East 125th Street and Newark Brussels London and Geneva bureaus with international agents and partner firms for service and advertising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
THE
NEW York Tribune
Broadway
36Th
37Th Streets
Nassau Street
Ay Ae
William Street
Harlem
125Th Street
125Th
Elngtos
F Street
Newark
Branc Y CE
Frederick N. Sommer
Broad Street
Ameens
the Tribune
Brussels
la Cour
London
Iribune
Denes House
American Express
Thomas Cook & Som
Ludgate
Shipley & Co
Pall
Wer Brothers
Othbury
Cave
John Monroe
Saker
Rue Des Fel
Cambor Haries
Boulevard Hausman
East Tinnais
Bureau Des Etrangera
Figaro
Saarbach
Auest
American Express Company
Neil Rue
Viale Moniferta
ISA Ham
Expresa
CE Saartach
Special Services at St George’s Church Stuyvesant Square NYC
Rev Hugh Birckhead leads a special service at St George’s Church Stuyvesant Square New York City. Rector officiant Dr W J Dawson of London attends this Tru 6 6 686hh event.
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St. George's Church
Stuyvesant Square
New York City
Hugh Birckhead
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Melba
la Boheme
Hardin Burnley
le Villi
Seasor of Grand Opera
Giulio Gatti- Casagna
Andreas Icippel
Mr. Conried
Real Opera For
Dartmouth
the Weather Report
Commercial Congress
Carnegie Board
Dr. Eliot
Dr. Ryerson
Alderman Brown
Campbell MacCulloch
Sundsy
Tribune
W. J. Knapp
Warren E. Hill
William Gold
John L. Bonn
Baroness D’altomonte
Sage
Dr. Klopsch
Rogers
Church Council
Tri-Weekly
Barrett
Joseph Barrett
Franklin Ave
Brooklyn
Barton
Oliver Great
William and
Elise P
Calvary Church
4Th Ave
Greem Weed
Kappa Alpha Society
Iver Grant Barton
Pee Church
Theodore.gilman, JR
Bissell
Joanna Bissell
Nelson A. Bissell
Decatur St
Bonn
Mast St
John L. Sonn
St. Cathedral
Dickinson
Warren St
Wiliam
Panerai
Ferris
Reet
Peekskill
Gallagher
Montgomery St Brookivn
Adelaide Ward Gallagher
Hugh Lagher
Mary
Wse
Alexander
Hill
Warren Eden
Priscilla Sutherland
Heten Inslee
West T24
Eodere Keeler
Morison
Mt Raven Pelter
Arch
Ber
West
150Th St
Fower
Peabody
Beverly
Henry
LS ml
Young
Jersey City
Edward F.C. Young
St Johns Episcopal Church
Summit Ara
Owens
Woodlawn
Grand Cenetral Statior
Jerome Avenue
Gramercy
East 234
New Yor City
Undertakers
Mexico
Bronx
Hawaii
Philippines
Ceba Porto Rio
Sunday Tribune
Gai Yereal
W. J. Dawson
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