Protests Grow Over St Johns Vicar Dismissal in Varick Street
Readers readers and parishioners at St John’s Church in Varick Street challenge Trinity Church and Dr. Manning after the dismissal of Rev. L Gomph. The chapel will close February 1, with calls for fair treatment and continued work in the district. Parishioners defend Gomph, noting five years of service and strong ties to the poor. The Churchman critiques Trinity and Bishop Greer for actions and hints at plans to consolidate with St Luke’s.
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Mark Twain Company Formed To Protect Name Rights
The Mark Twain Company of New York, capital 35000, incorporated in Albany to secure for Samuel L. Clemens and his family all rights to the pen name Mark Twain. Directors include Samuel L. Clemens, Clara L. Clemens, Jean L. Clemens, Isabel V. Lyon, and Ralph W. Ashcroft. The move aims to guard the name from pirate publishers and improper use on products.
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Soldier A Wreck After Long Trip From San Francisco
Alfred Fields Rhodes, thirty nine, former Company F infantryman, who was court martialled for killing a native in the Philippine Islands and sentenced to fifty years, was pardoned by President Roosevelt. He tramped home from San Francisco via a 3000 mile trek to Mount Vernon, after months of wounds and fever. He walked five hundred miles, rode freight trams, and rode with teamsters, finishing the journey Tuesday.
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Viola Allen to star in The White Rioter by Liebier Co
Liebier and Co present Miss Viola Allen in a new play The White Rioter by F Marion Raw ford. The work has four acts and differs from the later serial novel, which followed the drama.
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Hope Farm appeal seeks aid for Protestant children
An editor's letter from David H. Greer urges donations to Hope Farm Verbank Dutchess County a Protestant protectory for children. It describes crowded Juvenile Court cases of neglect poverty abuse and improper guardianship and explains Hope Farm's five hundred acre site its staff school training and farming program. At present 124 children live there awaiting adoption or placement and funds are sought to cover running costs and expand capacity.
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Mahler Leads Wagner at Metropolitan in Tristan Debut
Mahler conducts Tristan und Isolde at the Met delivering a thrilling performance in Wagner's lyric drama. Fremstad earns praise for a commanding tragic presence while Homer and Fernhals shine in key moments. Schmedes shows dramatic promise as Tristan. Melba sings La Bohème at the Manhattan Opera House, restoring her season’s cast.
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Bridge Scandal Letter Calls for Accountability
Letter to the Tribune writer James F. Dick criticizes bridge construction waste and urges a paying commission to apportion blame. He asks who profited from faulty contracts and questions the readiness of American business men to object to graft and costly errors.
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Opera Singers Take Key Roles in Summer Bayreuth Plans
Hinckley, American bass and Metropolitan Opera member, will portray the King in all five Lohengrin performances at Bayreuth next summer. He also sings Hunding in two Die Walkure and Gurnemanz in Parsifal. Mme Bernice James di Pasquali replaces Sembrich in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan for the upcoming popular priced performance, marking her Met debut.
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Mischa Elman to Return Next Sunday at Opera House
Mischa Elman, the young Russian violinist, impressed at his first solo appearance in Campanini's program last Sunday at the Manhattan Opera House, prompting Hammerstein to schedule a repeat performance next Sunday. He will perform Wieniawski Faust Fantasy with orchestra under Campanini, Rubinstein Melodie, and Sarasate Caprice Basque with pianist Waldemar Liachowsky.
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Thais to Open at Manhattan Opera House Next Week
Next week at the Manhattan Opera House opens with Thais starring Miss Mary Garden and the usual cast. The initial week had announced Rigoletto for Monday with Mme Tetrazzini and others and Thats for Wednesday, but dates have shifted and Rigoletto will now be staged on Wednesday.
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Potter disavows parts of Moulin Rouge libretto
Paul M. Potter, author of The Queen of the Moulin Rouge, states he wrote the libretto in good faith and that the deplorable features were not written by him. He says the interpolations belong to management and the stage director, and notes his attempts to modify them in Washington were refused by Mr. Ryley.
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Complete Roosevelt Bibliography From The Tribune Bureau
Washington December 53 A R Nichol assistant director of the public reading room at the Library of Congress will announce within a month a complete bibliography of President Roosevelt works and all contemporaneous literary mentions excluding newspapers Nichol has worked over three years and expects about five thousand titles by year’s start he believes the collection will grow to at least that many more before the President’s final history is written He calls it a unique pastime and says the President may not know of it.
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Rumor of Recall of Ambassador Charles Francis in Feb
Vienna rumor reported by Die Zeit claims Charles Francis American ambassador to Austria Hungary will be recalled in February. Washington says the State Department has no knowledge of such intentions after reviewing the Vienna dispatch.
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Fine Turkeys From The President At The White House
A White House courier reported 220 pound turkeys arriving at Union Station, then a wagon delivered large birds to the Executive Mansion. The gift, from the President, honored the hundreds who serve there. Each turkey weighed over twenty two pounds and was raised on a Virginia poultry farm and processed today.
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What Every Woman Knows Opens at Empire Theatre
Miss Adams debuts in Barrie drama What Every Woman Knows at the Empire Theatre with a strong, nuanced Maggie Wylie performance. The cast features Richard Bennett as John Shand and David Torrence as David Wylie, as the production draws praise for its order, humor, and sentimental comedy.
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Filipino Weds Brooklyn Girl at Governor's Island
Jose Delgado a Pilipino servant to Major A W Kimball of the quartermaster's department on Governor's Island wed Miss Eva Colby an American from Brooklyn. The couple claim a December 11 marriage and will reside in New York. The ceremony surprised the garrison and sparked barracks talk of Filipino American alliances.
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Deadly dynamite blast at San Obispo hospitalizes, toll rises
Washington reports to the Isthmian Canal Commission that twenty one deaths have occurred from the December 12 premature dynamite explosion at San Obispo. Forty nine were initially wounded as debris is cleared.
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Cartoonist George McManus seeks marriage license
George McManus creator of The Newlyweds applied for a marriage license to wed Florence Bergere of 224 West 46th Street. He listed Hotel Bayerd at 142 West 49th Street as his address and 27 years old. Other licenses include Walter Merwin Seibert and Leila Terry Fraser, and Eleanor Phelps with Frederick H. Clark. Florence C Breed married Raymond C Knox in Newton.
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Eddie Foy Opines At Casino In Humorous Hamlet Show
Eddie Foy appears as the melancholy Dane in Mr Hamlet of Broadway at the Casino. He is praised as a pantomimist and clown who can hold an audience without words, aided by a trained bear and his signature drollery. Cast includes Maude Raymond Laura Guerite Mabelle Barker and George Archiller.
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Hughes Returns to Albany After New York Trip
Albany dispatch reports Governor Hughes arriving in Albany today from New York. The return marks the end of travel and duties for the governor as he resumes official responsibilities.
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Taft Welcomes Sir Horace Plunkett and Family Visit
Augusta dispatch reportsSir Horace Plunkett head of Irelands agricultural department met with President-elect Taft to discuss conservation and rural life commissions while Miss Helen Taft joins the family in Augusta. The Tafts plan Christmas dinner at the Landon Thomases with holiday decorations already in place.
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Center Hitchcock Dies After Long Illness at 53
Center Hitchcock died at his home on East 29th Street from gastritis after more than a year of illness and a six week confinement. Born 53 years ago, he studied at the University of Oxford and became a noted coach hunter and polo figure. He belonged to numerous clubs including Brook Union, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, and Newport Clambake, serving once as president of the Brook Club. He leaves a father, mother and two brothers and was never married.
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Mrs Letitia Nassau Gosman Dies at 71 in Princeton
Mrs Letitia Nassau Gosman of Princeton dies at home aged seventy one. Widow of Rev Dr Sue Abram Goe, pastor of Lawrenceville Presbyterian Church, she was daughter of Rev Dr Charles W Nassau ex professor and acting Lafayette College president. She leaves five children and two brothers, Rev Dr R Hamill Nassau and Charles W Nassau of Troy NY.
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Letter from Carl Hauptmann on Salvaton Nell at Hackett
Professor Carl Hauptmann praised Mrs. Fiske for Salvation Nell performances, praising the stage pictures and acting as a unified whole. He admired the life depicted in street scenes, barroom crowds, and rooftop life, noting a divine touch on inanimate details akin to Steinlen’s Parisian work.
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Funeral honors on curb market for Suydam in Plainfield
At 1 30 yesterday the curb brokers paused two minutes with heads uncovered to honor Harry B Suydam the popular curb broker shot last Saturday by John C Lumsden and died Monday The funeral was in Plainfield New Jersey where he lived This marked the second time curb market suspends for a member funeral
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Townsend Russell Capivating Car negie Hall Reading
J Townsend Russell delivered the second of his picture readings of The Tales of a Wayside Inn at Carnegie Music Hall last night. A large audience attended and appropriate incidental music complemented the performance.
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Professor Lanman Honored by Paris Academy
Charles Rockwell Lanman, professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University, was elected corresponding member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres in Paris on December 20.
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Christmas varied events today at city museums and churches
Free admission today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. A noon Christmas carol service at St. Paul’s Chapel, with a 4:15 p m Christmas tree and entertainment for the children of the New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled at 42d Street and Lexington Avenue. Later, Christmas entertainment for children by the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children at 207 Fourth Avenue at 7:15 p m. A Christmas tree and entertainment at New York Hospital at 8 p m. Harlem Property Owners’ Association meets at 147 East 125th Street. The Ladies’ Fuel and Aid Society meets at Hotel Astor at 4 p m.
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Weather Forecast and Official Record from Washington
The Wednesday weather was mostly fair east of the Rockies with a developing storm in the upper Mississippi Valley bringing cloudiness to the middle states. Warmer interior temperatures contrast with cooler conditions west of the Mississippi while snow or rain is possible in the Great Lakes and upper Chin Valley through Thursday and Friday. Local forecast warns of increasing cloudiness and warmth for several eastern locales and rain or snow chances for western Pennsylvania and New York, with steamer winds from southeast to south toward the Grand Banks.
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Weather forecast and numeric averages note
A fragmented weather update reports local averages: 28 and 26 as recent and prior year correlative figures, and 49 as another corresponding average across thirty three years. The forecast lists today as increasing cloudiness and warmer, with Friday unsettled and warmer and possible rain or snow. winds shift from southeast to south.
Obituary notices from The Tribune republications
Death notices list names with dates and locations including de Mauriac Guindon Hitchcock Holton Mekeel Nickerson Smeltzer Smyth Travia Tyler Williams Wood and Abby Doolittle. Services and interment details follow at homes private churches and cemeteries in New Jersey Brooklyn and Utica with December 1908 dates and funeral times provided.
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Woodlawn Cemetery Accessible by Harlem Trains and Trolleys
Woodlawn Cemetery advertises easy access from Grand Central via Harlem trains and Webster and Jerome Avenue trolleys by carriage. Lots priced from 150 dollars. Contact Gramercy for Book of Views or representative undertakers Frank E. Campbell at 241 3 West 23d Street. Chapels and ambulances available with Chelsea telephone 1324.
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Job applicants file opens at Uptown Tribune office
Special notices invite employers to consult a prepared file of selected aspirants for various positions. The New York Tribune installed the file at 1364 Broadway between 36th and 37th Streets. Office hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Tribune Subscription Rates Detailed for Domestic and International Mailing
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