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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1908
Page
17
Amusements section listing numerous vaudeville acts and stage titles. Entries name acts such as The Man from Home The Devil A Gentleman from Mississippi and The Patriot plus operas dances and specialties at theaters like Lyceum Lyric and Manhattan Opera House with varied prices and performance notes.
New York Daily Tribune issued December 14 1908 lists The Tribune Association as owner and publisher with offices in the Tribune Building at 155 Nassau Street New York. Ogden Mills serves as president and James M Barret as secretary and treasurer.
Dutch cruiser Gelderland nabs Venezuelan coast guard vessel Alix near Puerto Cabello, tow to Willemstad, no shots fired. President Castro visits Cologne en route to Berlin, aims to settle dispute with France. Dynamite blast at Bas Obispo claims fourteen dead, many bodies feared. American fleet enters Colombo harbor with celebratory entertainments. Pacific cruiser reaches Panama. well aboard. Constantinople reports Turkish cabinet rejects Austrian compensation offer. Joseph Devlin in Queenstown says Americans pledged 160000 dollars to nationalist fund. King Edward regains health, returns to London from Brighton. Reports from Washington reveal Agriculture, Manafactures, Internal Revenue, and Mint officials’ testimonies. Albany bovine tuberculosis statement from Pearson. Phelps Hoyt of Chicago injured in car crash. six others hurt. Night Riders trials begin at Union City. Rabbi Krauskopf notes divorces reflect civilization state. Cruiser Birmingham arrives at Rockland for standardization. Farmer perishes protecting his home at Litt Falls. Congressman Mouse falls ill on return from Washington. Taft, McCook, Carnegie speak at Metropolitan Temple. Oklahoma actions against Barnsdall might affect Standard Oil loan value. Rockefeller Jr urges biblical adherence to law. Double of Rockefeller at Fifth Avenue Baptist. Central Federated Union discusses tuberculosis after museum visit. Delegates flood National Civic Federation meeting. Repair work on Brockton navy raid cave-in begins. Williamsburg police arrest five for prizefight. Major King dies. Jersey City man confesses to two house arsons. Maine sails for Havana for Gomez inauguration on January 22. Weather: fair. highs 34, lows 27.
States and nation pursue foot and mouth disease control in Western Pennsylvania and New York. Questions persist on transmission routes including car floors, stock pens, and immigrant clothing. Port of New York official Dr Doty disputes immigrant clothing as a primary cause and urges broadened infection search. Disease believed bacterial but no bacillus identified yet. isolation and cultivation could clarify spread and enable tests. Disinfection of highways and pastures emphasized.
The text argues for quick congressional action on Secretary Wilson's request to fund disease control. It notes the difficulty in judging how long the disease endangers healthy animals and proposes a liberal prize for identifying the microbe. It praises government compensation covering two thirds of losses from culled cattle to protect healthy stock.
In New Haven police court the driver of the car that killed Rev. Dr. Morgan was bound over to the Superior Court. Judge Tyner criticized chauffeurs who think horn signaling suffices to endanger others and urged driving that protects pedestrians, noting the value of human life over machines. The Tribune endorses rising public sentiment and legal action to curb reckless driving.
Controller Metz urged a central architectural bureau to plan city buildings, arguing exuberant expenditures create monuments at taxpayers’ expense. He contrasted with past work by Horgan & Slattery and warned against inefficiency in payroll land and contracts. A noble civic center could reflect pride and improve government.
Commentary notes Newark's harbor improvements allow large steamers to dock without lighterage, signaling it as a growing seaport. Two major U S corporations plan Newark operations, boosting exports and manufacturing, while Paterson eyes a Passaic River canal to the Hudson, a project with profitability questions and sewage concerns. The western suburbs rise as a vital industrial and population hub near New York City.
The passage notes how great land lines of travel and transportation, while unlikely to rival New York, will remain worthy companions. They will grow as the city grows, offering mutual benefits of metropolitan association through ongoing exchange and development.
The farmer enjoyed a record year with profits up to 7,778,000,000 and a total product value surge since 1899. Secretary Wilson notes farm product values rose 65 percent in nine years, unshaken by business downturns. Prices for cereals climbed 32 percent in five years, signaling ongoing stability and a shift back to farming as rent lands decline. Nature love and agricultural growth accompany this trend.
A London Times report notes a Hungarian designed machine that can send about forty six thousand words per hour over a single wire using punched paper tapes and light writing. It discusses reliability, cost, and potential uses while comparing to Wheatstone and Gray telautograph methods and mentions Marconi’s wireless ambitions.
The sixty leading railway shares reached a yearly high of 1412 last Thursday, up 24.37 from a year earlier and close to the all time peak. Market analysts warn of possible overvaluation due to manipulation while noting ongoing short covering and mounting bank influence. Call money neared 3 percent, with general rates around 2.5 percent amid easy terms versus a year ago.
The piece surveys global finance with bank reserves, gold flows into Paris, and a $60 million year deficit amid modest exports. It notes holiday retail strength, improved weather aiding agriculture, steady steel and coal activity, and ongoing labor demand. It also covers wheat, cotton, and leather markets, plus brief notes on local regulations and cultural items.
A digest from multiple papers notes a German charity scheme using cigar and cigarette end boxes in cafes to fund winter aid for 1,728 children. It cites odd tales from Uncle Eben and a Portland sandwich invention for circumventing Sunday tobacco sales, plus a Baltimore street cleaning plan using five mules and other brief city notes.
The National Civic Federation holds its annual gathering at the Hotel Astor with a full schedule of sessions and speakers. Tonight features a large dinner with Judge and Mrs. Taft as guests of honor and the programme highlights trade agreements and welfare topics led by notable figures like John Mitchell and Louis Brandeis.
Iowa Society of New York plans two monuments to late Senator William B. Allison. One to be erected in Washington and another likely in Des Moines. James S. Clarkson, president of the society, writes to General Granville M. Dodge. Dodge chairs the fundraising committee and aims to complete within a year.
Preparations for Edgar Allan Poe centennial on January 19 include a commemorative pamphlet by the North Side Board of Trade and an all day program by the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences. The Poe centenary committee seeks readings in Morris High School and Bronx public schools, evening lectures, a bronze statue in Poe Park at 11 a.m., and commemorative exercises at NYU and the Aqueduct at 3 30 p.m. The Authors Club will host a memorial January 28 with Professor Trent of Columbia speaking. Friends of West Point and Poe admirers will fund a Poe memorial in the Army library near Saint-Gaudens’s Whistler statue.
William B Wait of the New York Institute for the Blind and B B Hunteen of the American Printing House for the Blind perfected a two sided point reading system. The new method doubles page usage and cuts production costs by about forty percent, aiding eighty thousand blind readers nationwide. Sunday school lessons will press in a week, signaling broad changes in religious instruction for the blind.
The New York Port Society marked its ninetieth anniversary at the Broadway Tabernacle. Organized in 1818 to aid seamen, it runs Mariners' Church at Catherine and Madison and the Chariton and Washington streets branch. Addresses by English, Spanish, and Scandinavian sailors followed a string orchestra and sailor choir. The society spent 16.17 last year and aims to raise 35,000.
Mrs J Donald Cameron wife of the Pennsylvania ex Senator arrived yesterday with her daughter Miss Martha Cameron on the American liner Philadelphia. They were accompanied by R Lindsay son of the Earl of Crawford and second secretary of the British Embassy at Forts. The engagement of Miss Cameron and Mr Lindsay has recently been announced.
G W Van Nest protests congestion at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in New York. He warns that proposed tunnel plans would turn a major street into a broad thoroughfare, worsen pedestrian crossing, and mainly benefit officials pushing the measure. He cites crowding by carriages and traffic, urging restraint on Fifth Avenue widening. New York, Dec 1, 19%.
A 1908 New York letter laments speeding automobiles crowding curb to track space and harassing streetcar riders. It details near collisions and abusive drivers, noting conductors’ rough handling and public danger, urging transit protest to protect business and safety.
A letter from New York officials urges editors to curb lewd and sensational content. It cites trials like the Thaw case and upcoming sensational murders, calling for a national movement to protect homes and children. Signatories include Archbishops Farley and Greer, Robert W. de Forest, and Jacob H. Schiff.
A letter from New York dated December 12, 1908 notes the Queenstown Bridge is to open to the public once excessive weight on the river spans is removed, but observers see no changes yet and expect opening in a few weeks. The author questions the Bridge Commissioner and expresses public uncertainty.
Brighton December 13 King Edward, who has been staying here for the last few days, will return to London tomorrow to resume his engagements. The King was not in the best of health when he came to Brighton, but he now seems to have entirely recovered. Albany December 16 Governor Hughes returns from New York with no significant matters on hand.
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