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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1902
Page
9
A Plymouth Rock gathering extols the Pilgrim Fathers, their faith in God, education, and work, linking colonial Virtues to modern New England renewal. Speakers recount Puritan ideals, critique democracy limits, praise Harvard ties, and connect civic reform with ancestral duty.
Ex attorney general Griggs headlines a Forefathers Day fete in Orange New Jersey as 250 members hear praise for Dewey McKinley and the Philippine policy. Speakers include Governor Murphy Edison and Princeton president Wilson in a tribute to the nation and the Puritanic tradition.
In Philadelphia Forefathers Day was marked by the New England Society gathering at Horticultural Hall with toastmaster James M. Beck. Senator Hoar delivered the Forefathers Day toast while ex-Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith spoke on New England in government and policy.
The schedules in the assignment of Gustave A. Jahn & Co. wholesale dealers and importers in Sugar molasses coffee and rice at No 98 Wallst were readied last Saturday and shown for creditors and creditors claims to follow.
Wingate and Cullen, acting as counsel for the firm, filed tenence statements in the Supreme Court showing liabilities of 134 804 dollars, nominal assets of 260 184 dollars, and actual assets of 58 758 dollars.
The Automobile Club of America hosted a reunion dinner at the New-York Athletic Club last evening for about one hundred automobilists who took part in the New York to Boston reliability run. S. M. Butler received a $50 watch as thanks for his tireless work on the event. Toasts praised the club, the reliability contest, and the participants while guests shared anecdotes about their machines and the day's table talk stayed focused on automobiles.
A Pittsburg hotel receives a phone claim from an actor playing Hamlet that a suit would be delivered COD. A messenger brings a package marked COD for 47 dollars. Mr. Sothern denies ordering the suit. inside are two bricks wrapped in newspapers, proving a hoax.
Burgin Kentucky December 22 Colonel Jack Chinn will establish a fox and hound farm on a recent Kentucky River purchase Employing William Conder to breed and rear blooded hounds and red foxes large wire enclosures will keep foxes unaware of captivity while hounds are cared for on the west side Chinn a noted dog lover has sold over 33500 worth of foxhounds last year and once offered Walker of Garrard County 500 for two pups prompting wide local interest
The Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Club holds its first regular shoot tonight in its new gallery at 2623 Broadway near 100th Street. The club will switch shooting nights after next Tuesday to Thursday, and will use smokeless ammunition in .22 calibre at present.
The common stock of the International Mercantile Marine Company traded yesterday in the local curb market on a when issued basis. About four hundred shares changed hands with 100 shares at 15 and later up to 21 before a dip to 15 on light activity. Preferred stock showed 30 bid, 50 offered with no sales, while the former bid stood at 6 with 25 asked and the preferred quoted 40 bid, 70 asked.
Washington December 22 Navy and Army orders list artillery transfers among 22d, 75th and 224 Coast Artillery Companies. Major Hardin detailed to examiners at Governor's Island. Lieutenants Lando Brownlee designated for the Philippine Islands. Royden reassigned to Omaha and Ehlerhaus to command the Santee. Bertollette sent to Pacific Nation, Medical Inspector Green to the Wisconsin.
Charleston correspondent reports Charles Francis Adams addressing the New England Society on constitutional questions since 1787. He argues sovereignty cannot be shared, traces shifts between Federal and State power, and cites Jeffersonian and Madisonian pressures plus J Q Adams foreseeing dissolution as inevitable.
The speaker traces the rise of nationality from 1788 to 1861, viewing history as a single long Greek tragedy. He argues unseen forces shaped destiny, then praises Southern resilience in Charleston as a model of adapting to harsh conditions with vigor and equanimity.
Southern Pacific officers in New Orleans report a January 4 change: all passenger trains will enter and leave Union Depot at Howard Avenue and South Rampart Street, jointly with Illinois Central. Trains to the West formerly left Algiers station. A ferry exchange is removed and passengers start from downtown New Orleans. The shift mirrors future Illinois Central routing via its tunnel.
In St Paul on December 22 reports say Great Northern and Northern Pacific were asked to grant wage increases to trainmen. The two roads reportedly will act jointly and issue identical responses. Officials plan meetings this week to weigh local conditions. Managers reportedly favor the rise for about ten thousand trainmen on lines tributary to St Paul.
Butler Pennsylvania dispatch reports the Standard Steel Car Company has orders for 2000 box cars with metal underframes for the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad and 500 air bottom steel coal cars for Lackawanna. Each coal car capacity is 30 900 pounds and designs follow plans approved by the Association of General Managers.
San Francisco dispatch reports the cable steamer Silvertown at noon notes hawtee 211 knots total cable out and weather as heavily resh southerly breeze with noted conditions and progress on the transoceanic line.
A directory of notable guests arriving at major New York hotels includes R G Erwin of Hartford at Albemarle, Congressmen Hitt and Payne, Oswald Tighman, Luis de Herrera, Captain Wilson Chase, and James H Fitzsimon from Buenos Aires. Other noted arrivals include Comte Y dela Motte, ex-Judge Hamilton, J S Lee, J M Cudahy, Ex-Mayor Robinson, and state figures such as Senator Greene and George Treadwell. The list names hotel branches Waldorf Astoria, Fifth Avenue, Imperial, Manhattan, and Victoria with associated officials and executives aboard the chaperoned party lists.
Co C Shayne, Manufacturer, West 41st Street at Broadway, advertises Hudson Bay sable muffs, neckpieces, mantles, capes and vic torines at opening prices from 10 to 250 dollars. It notes no blended or darkened items sold, only genuine natural color sable.
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