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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1908
Page
10
In a parliamentary maneuver the Prime Minister outflanked the Lords and secured backing from the general electorate to pass the contentious measure. The government now faces a political test as public support is decisive.
President-elect Taft won the annual Christmas handicap golf tournament at Augusta Country Club with Major J. BR. Cumming as his partner. Taft rode a dozen miles on horseback, then dined with the Langdon Thomases. Citizens sent mistletoe baskets and flowers, and Taft praised local cordiality. A planned trailer trip to Aiken, S C, with Hammond and others was scheduled for tomorrow.
Washington hosts the twenty fourth annual meeting of the American Historical Association drawing three to four hundred delegates. Sessions in Washington and Richmond run from Monday through Friday with joint meetings with the American Political Science Association and addresses by James Bryce George B Adams and others on newspaper history census materials and regional studies. An excursion to the University of Virginia closes the event.
A well dressed stranger duped Count Hans Munchow at the Prince George and Belvedere hotels on West Street, winning money and borrowing a diamond ring and an heirloom seal ring. The heirloom ring was returned by messenger but the companion remains missing as police search for the confidence man and his accomplice.
Miss Margeret Guggenheim, second daughter of Penjamin Guggenheim, was removed from her suite at the St Regis Hotel on Wednesday and operated on for appendicitis at the semen Hospital. Reported last night to be recovering, with Dr William Myers said to have performed the operation.
In Chicago a mammoth clock weighing seven thousand pounds has been installed in the Mitchell Tower at the University of Chicago. Professor Earl B Forson designed the time piece and the bell can be heard up to five miles away. Four illuminated dials are readable from half a mile at night.
A brief note criticizes The Boston Transcript’s poetry selections in a telephone book insert. It mocks sing-song verses about the telegraph and Central station, listing lines from Shakespeare and other authors, and ends with a humorous exchange from a Chicago Tribune joke.
Crowds fill St. John's Chapel on Varick Street for four Christmas services amid sorrow over the chapel's uncertain future. Communicants total 296, down from 208 the previous year, as Rev. Charles E. Gomph preaches his last Christmas at the church. The bell has not rung since February 1959 following the death of Dr. Morgan Dix, and locals speculate about the fate of Georgian sculpture including a marble tablet to Bishop Wainwright.
The vestry of Trinity Church contemplates removing memorials from St John’s Chapel as it contemplates closing the church. A former Fifth Ward-born resident recalls skating in St John’s Park and bells that marked memories of the old church. He warns locals that destroying the cathedral would hurt the town’s soul and force residents to feel its loss deeply.
The Pan American Scientific Congress opened at the Grand Opera House in Santiago de Chile with President Montt and officials present. Delegates from American republics heard addresses from the congress president and representatives. Leo S. Rowe of the University of Pennsylvania led the American delegation and praised the Bureau of American Republics. The congress aims to promote scientific progress and closer hemispheric relations, with ten days of sessions on topics from civilizational study to law, commerce, criminology, and art.
Notable guests check into hotels Waldorf Waldorf Waldorf Waldorf. G W Baxter of Bethlehem and Erastus Foote of Chicago arrive alongside Wolcott Augustus Dilkes from Washington and Manhattan doctor R J Thomson from Spokane. Holland sees G Howard White of London while Grand hosts H P McMillan of Baltimore and D E Gideon of Louisville.
Free admission events listed for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Natural History, and the Zoo. Evening dinners are planned by several fraternities at various hotels with start times around 7:20 to 7:30 p.m.
The premiere under Hammerstein last night presents Verdi’s Otello as a renewed triumph. Zenatello’s vivid Otello dominates, Melba’s Desdemona shines with refined vocal artistry, Campanini receives acclaim, while Sammarco and the chorus garner admiration for their disciplined performance and strong emotional impact.
The Metropolitan offers a lively revival of Donizetti's L Elisir d Amore led by Mme Sembrich and tenor Nemorino with Benci and Campanari. Adina charms with dainty singing, while Dulcamara and Relcore support a spirited performance. Afterward Cavalleria Rusticana followed under Toscanini with Destini and others.
In St Petersburg on December 25 Sarah Bernhardt visiting performer was received by Emperor Nicholas at Tsarskoe Selo. A portrait of the Empress was presented to her.
Rio de Janeiro December 25 Lieutenant Conrado Heck has been named naval attaché to the Brazilian Embassy at Washington.
Weather forecast shows unsettled conditions over the East fading into the Atlantic while the Pacific coast storm moves east. Most of the West and central states remain fair with lower temps, rising later in the weekend. Snow flurries are possible in lake districts and northern New England with colder Atlantic temps and stronger NW winds along coasts.
Ogden D Dutcher once a Princeton football standout secretly married Miss Marian Stingerman of Trenton New Jersey. The ceremony occurred in West 24th street home with physical and spiritual permission from families. The couple plan to move to Idaho to pursue mining and engineering work after a brief mystery delay amid parental concern and a psychic premonition.
Charles West Spalding, 79, a pioneer Kansas newspaper man, died in Kansas City Kansas. He is said to have been the first to receive a President's message by telegraph while a Chicago operator. He played first violin at McVickar's Theatre and was organist at St. Mary's Cathedral. He belonged to the Ben Cotton minstrel troupe and served as a Civil War special correspondent for The Chicago Times before moving to Kansas journalism in 1873.
Grenobie France Dec 25 General Fetter former grand chancellor of the Legion of Honor and longtime Panama scandal figure has died following a Chamber of Deputies censure over the canal question. He resigned July 13 1895.
The Rev James F Mee longtime pastor of St Marys Rosebank Staten Island died after a lingering illness. Lemuel Hitchcock of Boston died in Paris at forty leaving a wife. Francis M Moore Brooklyn dentist died at home aged fifty five. William Denny Portland insurance rate adjuster aged eighty, former Shawmut president and descendant of John Alden.
Charles W. Whitney, designer of the ironclad Keokuk and ally of Ericsson, died at his sister Mrs. Fleming Popham's home in Kinderhook New York after months of inflammatory rheumatism. Born in New York City seventy seven years ago, he worked with Horace Abbott Son and later aided Herbert Spencer publishers along with Beecher Abbott Manning. He moved from Flushing to Kinderhook after retiring a decade ago, leaving a sister and brother Alfred R. Whitney.
Fireman David Mullen of Truck Company 1 risked his life to rescue Mrs. Alice Looker by sliding down a fifth story extension ladder through flames at No 12 West 127th Street early Thursday. Both were burned. Mullen’s hands and face suffered burns as Mrs Looker was injured. The hospital staff and Mrs Looker praised his bravery and attended to both.
Rochester report states Bishon McQuaid made further improvement in the last twenty four hours and some hope is entertained that he will rally from his illness.
F P Bellamy, counsel for the Society for the Prevention of Abuse in Animal Experimentation, responds to a Frank Van Fleet letter defending vivisection. He denounces secrecy in laboratories, calls for state oversight, and cites concerns over cruelty and open reporting. The piece frames a push for restrictive legislation backed by 700 medical professionals and cites Herbert Spencer's 1895 view on state supervision.
Montclair New Jersey writer G. D. Da Cunha argues for generous half pay for ex presidents and widows, a $194,900 salary, a $25,000 widow pension, plus funding for a sea level canal. He dismisses canal steps as old fashioned, urging nature’s patient approach.
A letter references Edward Everett Hale and a railroad skit about uncomfortable car seats to mock Mr. Lambs plan to plant trees along rights of way. It argues trees would ruin summer travel by blocking scenery and increasing heat and dust, and critiques the idea with satirical tone about seasonal discomforts for passengers and references to fashion and language of the era.
In a letter from Scranton dated December 7 1968 J Fisher describes an artificial cut where swirling winds and drifting snow chokes the roadbed making rotary plows useless. High winds bend trees along the right of way severing telegraph links and raising wreck risk for trains.
The article notes peppermint is grown on Kalamazoo area farms with over 20,000 pounds of oil produced annually in southwestern Michigan. Mentions soil quality, plant height, harvest timing through September, and yields about 25 pounds per acre with planting costs around one dollar.
The Boston Transcript quotes a satirical view arguing drink ruined Paradise and Eve’s curiosity about the apple led to human fall. The piece invokes a moral lesson while lampooning the idea with biblical references.
Death notices list multiple individuals with service details across December 1908. Entries include Bird, Chidester, Gaindon, Hitchcock, McCord, Miller, Newhall, Poole, Rathborne, Scannell, Whitney, and Woodnutt. Services occur at residences and churches in New York area, with dates December 23–28 and various times.
Woodlawn Cemetery accessible from Grand Central Webster and Jerome avenues. Lots priced from 150 dollars. Telephone 4853 Gramercy for Book of Views or representative. Undertakers Franke and Campbell at 2413 West 23rd Street. Chapels private and public ambulances at 1324 Chelsea.
A historic notice invites readers to consult the file of applications for various positions kept at The New York Tribune Uptown Office, 1364 Broadway. It lists office hours, subscription rates, and multiple international mail arrangements, with numerous foreign offices and agents noted for subscriptions and exchanges.
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