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New York Tribune

Location

New York, New York, United States of America

Date

Dec 31, 1908

Page

25

World in Wex and The Patriot N Reading List

A dense program listing across venues including Empire Theaters and Grand Central Palace. Entries note titles such as The World in Wex, What Every Woman Knows, The Patriot, Sleeping Beauty, and Vaudeville acts at Halls like Hackett Hippodrome and Nickerbocker. Also shows at Lyceum Lyric Madison Square Garden and Broadway venues with times and page references.

Wex Gatden Mary Jane SRICK Sleeping Beauty Grand Central Palace Neil Mammerstein Ballet Pirtlanca Frederick Nickerbocker Viberty Wireless Lyceum LYRIC Blue Mouse Madison Square Garden Maxhattan Opera House Maxine Elliotts Theare Metropolitan Opera Alda New Amsterdam Little Nemo NEW Flokr Wallace Betty Weber BET Mierhtef

New York Daily Cethnic at Tribune Building Details

This item lists the paper New York Daily Cethnic published by The Tribune Association. It names Ogden Mills as president and James M Barrett as secretary and treasurer, with offices at Tribune Building 154 Nassau Street New York.

The Tribune Association New York Tribune Nassau Street Ogden Mills James M. Barrett

News Update From The Morning World

Global disaster reports place Calabria and Sicily death toll high with 156950 dead and 110000 in Messina and Reggio. Refugees flood north to Naples as hospitals overflow. International notes include Siberia prison terms, Baku land policy debate, Wright’s Le Mans flight, and Caracas welcomed American envoy Buchanan. Domestic items cover Taft’s Southern outreach, German ambassador presentation, New York and Albany political moves, mine disasters, and city woes with taxes and a proposed Central Stadium plan. Weather forecasts show fair skies with cool temperatures.

Calabria Sicily Messina Reggio Naples Derbapearidze Ower Siberia Caracas Willemstad W. I. Buchanan Thomas Alfred Bernier Winnipeg Taft Augusta Taft Clubs Gourt von Bernstorff Geman White House James 3 Orton Wars and Means Wash Albany Wadsworth Merritt Assembly Charles H. Sgeus Aljheny Henry Jews Eugene Meyer, Jr American Society For the Advancement of Science Baltimore William L. "Mathues Pennsylvania Capitol Ugraft Media United States Districte Court Boston Lick Branch Voters’ League Pittsburg CTTY Meyer McClellan J. P. Morgan Italy American Red Cross Manning Trinity Corporation St. John’s Chapel Citizens Union Herbert Parson Mets McIntyre Hains Second Avenue Walt Frank A.vanderlip James Stillman National City Bank Charles W. Morse United States Stimson New York Fair End Bighert

Aid For The Stricken In Sicily Disaster

The world rallies to Sicily’s earthquake victims as Italy’s tragedy prompts global aid. Dispatches report British and French ships already en route. American help may follow. The great war fleet moves toward the Suez canal, potentially diverting to assist Mediterranean relief efforts and reach Malta.

Italy Mediterranean America Pacific Indian Oceans Perim Suez Port Said Vist Malta Qmrescina Qpost

Aid Needed for Italian Relief as War Costs Rise

The article calls for wide support for Italian relief after a colossal catastrophe. It urges sending ships from Port Said to Messina to aid with relief, medical care, and disease prevention. It highlights American Red Cross leadership and urges gifts through the New York State branch. cites Taft as president and Jacob Schiff as treasurer.

Messina Port Said America American Red Cross Taft Hughes McClellan New York New York State Jacob TH. Schiff Fifth Avenue

Parsons urges unity for change in mayoral race

Herbert Parsons, president of the Republican County Committee, urges independents to back any ticket for what he calls better government. He warns the party must lead civic reform, avoid fusion that weakens appeal to independents, and not be a reluctant instrument for righteousness.

Herbert Tparson Next Fail Republican County Committee Republican Organization Quigg Republican Party Parsons Mr. Parsons Flechpots Brienites Stecklerites Hearstites

A Sultan on Sufferance and Ottoman Parliament

The article views the Turkish constitution as evolving in Stam boul. The Sultan attends the opening of parliament in a Westminster style, pledging subordination of autocracy to the constitution. Deputies swear allegiance to the constitution first, then to the Sultan, and rebuke him for dissolving Midhat's parliament. The chamber asserts the Sultan is sovereign on sufferance, dependent on good behavior, while the people insist on their hard-won rights.

Stamboul Yildiz Palace Westminster St. Petersburg Berlin Douma Constantinople Chamber of Deputies Midhat

Abdul Hamid and the Ottoman throne compared to Europe

The article argues the Ottoman ruler lacks Western dynastic strength and popular support. He relies on sheer force while able to govern only if he maintains good conduct. It notes Abdul Hamid’s shrewdness and suggests he will continue to rule through prudent conduct to secure his position.

Western Europe Abdul Hamid

Earthquake Causes Center Near Strait of Messina

A review by Major Dutton notes severest shocks arise from dislocation along rock faults with vertical or horizontal movement. He argues stresses build from material transfer between regions, citing coastlines with steep slopes as prone to debris movement. The article links Italy’s recent disaster to such fault displacement, discusses Krakatoa and Etna, and suggests the Messina Strait area as the likely center with possible land and sea involvement.

Dutton Italy Etna Calabria Strait of Messina Sicily Krakatoa Java Messina Catania Reggio Hagnara

A Married Woman as Slave Says Mrs Gilman

Mrs Charlotte Perkins Gilman calls a married woman a slave not a wife and argues many accept slavery by choice. She notes suffragists capitalists and moralists all claim someone is a slave to convention or wealth. The piece questions who remains free from some form of slavery.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Andrew Carnegie John PD. Rockefeller

Tribune Almanac and Political Register for 1909

The 1909 almanac presents detailed state by state presidential votes by counties for Taft and Bryan, congressional district results, and state officer outcomes. It highlights federal and Albany legislation, treaties, and banking laws of 1908, plus international arbitration strides. It portrays legislation’s growing local impact and notes treaties signed at The Hague shaping neutrality and wartime conduct.

Tribune Almanac and Political Register Tribune Almanac Taft Bryan Congress House of Representatives United States Albany New York Almanac Isws Army Navy Consular Service Revenue Marine Service Marine Corps The Hague

Almanac 1909 Promises United Overview Of National Affairs

The 1909 almanac promises a comprehensive national handbook with legislation administration party politics and global development. It includes religious educational sports foreign affairs and trade finance industry changes with a well organized index. It urges subscriptions to fund a tuberculosis exhibition and notes political and social shifts reflected in the era's debates.

University of Breslau adds accident insurance for students

The University of Breslau signs a contract with an accident insurer for students in mathematics astronomy physics chemistry botany zoology mineralogy geology and pharmacy. Firemen machinists and clinic staff are included. Policy ends when the student-teacher relationship ends.

University of Breslau Germany

Crystallized Banana Sweetmeat Described by Consul Totten

Daily Consular Reports recounts a Santo Domingo delicacy labeled a sweetmeat made from bananas. Skins are removed, fruit sliced, dusted with sugar, sun dried, and turned daily on boards. Crystalized conserve forms in a few days, praised for its delicate flavor and superior to other crystallized fruits.

Ralph J. Totten Puerto Plata Santo Domingo She Cory

Ejecting Partisanship In Civil Service Reform

From The New York Globe, Governor Hughes issues a midnight order to protect civil service tenure for Jerocrats who entered during Democratic control, while planning a future shift to Republican heads after 1905. The editorial argues Hughes aims to keep politics out of administration and avoid spoils for victors.

New York Globe Hughes Cleveland Harrison Vernor Groun

President to spend day with Rear Admiral Rixey in Virginia

The President plans an out of town visit tomorrow at Rear Admiral Rixey’s Virginia farm, his first since returning from Oyster Bay. He inspected Navy Department battleship models and hosted a string of White House callers including Count Bernstorff and Sigma Kappa society delegates. The day included a rainy walk and a flurry of social engagements across New York society.

Tribune Bureau Rixey Virginia Oyster Bay Navy Department Amador Count Chamoray Mayor Dimick Scranton Penn Dimick Knox White House Secretary of the Navy Bacon Winthrop Carter Newlands Fulton Burkett Hawley Alexander Foster Underwood Cook Porter de Armond Oliver Drain Winelow James Creelman John Wesley

Cabinet Dispatches Holiday Travel and Family News

Washington dispatch notes the Secretary of War and Mrs. Wright will arrive from Memphis to spend Christmas with plans for their daughter Mrs. Watkins in New York to receive on New Year’s Day. Edward Wales Root has returned to New York, and Mrs. Bonaparte will come to prepare for the White House reception. The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Newberry will keep twin sons Barnes and Phelps Newberry with them until after New Year’s Day, with the boys returning to Hotchkiss School in Lakeville Connecticut. Miss Newberry arrives from Detroit tomorrow.

Tribone Bureau Washinton Secretary of War Wright Memphis Tenn John Humphreys Watkins New York Edward Wales Root Root Bonaparte White House Secretary of the Navy Mrs. Newberry Barnes Phelps Newberry Hotchkiss School Lakeville Conn Miss Newberry Detroit

Diplomatic Luncheon Hosts in Washington

Mrs. Bryce, wife of the British Ambassador, hosted luncheon for guest Mrs. Lowell of Boston. Attendees included Mrs. Thomas F. Bayard, Mrs. Gibbons, Mrs. Kennard, and Maud Pauncefote. Danish Minister and Countess Moltke have left Boston for Washington. Baron Stael de Holstein, Russian second secretary, hosted a dinner for debutantes and others.

Tribune Bureau Washington Bryce Lowell Boston Thomas F. Bayard Gibbons Kennard Maud Pauncefote Countess Moltke Baron Stael de Holstein

Washington Society Hosts Ethel Roosevelt Birthday Ball

Mrs L Z Leiter held a Washington ball honoring Miss Ethel Roosevelt with 250 invitations. Notables included Longworths, diplomats' families, Roosevelt children, and Harvard students. Separate dinners were hosted by Rear Admiral Leutze and Larz Anderson for the visiting Harvard contingent, with Beekman Winthrop entertaining Dr Lyman.

Tribune Bureau Washington L. Z. Leiter Ethel Roosevelt New York Boston Philadelphia Longworth Alexandra Bernstorff Nabuco Marguerite Moncheur de Lagercrantz Mercedes Godoy Calvo Calderon Julia Meyer Alice Meyer Christine Roosevelt Margaret Roosevelt Josephine Osborne Ellen H. Rogers Cornelia Landon Madeline Borland Janetta Alexander Martha Bacon Faith Simpkins Fargo Mathilde Townsend Yvonne Townsend Katherine Elkins Preuschen von Und Zu Paolo di Montagliari Baron Ambrozy Count Torok Baron von Richthofen Diplomatic Corps Harvard Secretary of the Navy Newberry Navy Yard Leutze Clover Weeks Richard Harlow Sellers Bingham Larz Anderson Country Club

Debutante Kathryn Auerbach Honored At Colony Club Dance

Mrs Joseph S Auerbach hosted a Colony Club dance for her daughter Kathryn H Auerbach debutante of the season. The dance was led by Alexander D R Pratt with Miss Auerbach as partner. Supper followed around midnight and guests included Miss Beatrice Pratt, Miss Constance Pratt, Miss Katharine Metook, Miss Carol Harriman, Miss Blanche Oetrichs, Miss Vern Onativia, Miss Cecily Sheldon, Miss Margaret Winslow, Miss Dorothy Tuckerman, Miss Helen Alex.

Winthrop Burr Rosamond Burr East 38Th Street Angelica S. Brown Laura Emmet Jean Delano Antonella Kane Eleanor Alexander Julia Coolidgs Ellen Farnsworth Boston Beatrice Claffin Carol Harriman Katharine McCook Eleanor H. Hoodenwald Sarah Robbins Joseph S. Auerbach Colony Club Kathryn H. Auerbach Alexander D. R. Pratt Miss Auerbach Beatrice Constance Pratt Katharine Metook Blanche Oetrichs Vern Onativia Cecily Sheldon Margaret Winslow Dorothy Tuckerman Helen Alex

Language Association Elects

The Modern Language Association of America closes its twenty sixth annual convention in Princeton with three resolutions. They urge tariff reform to remove duties on foreign books art works and scientific instruments for private use. They seek closer ties with the Carnegie Institution and advocate a pronunciation test for college entrance. Officers and executive council are announced including Learned Gruene Olmstead Neilson Grandgent Howard and Todd.

Princeton N. J Modern Language Association of America Congress Carnegie Institution Theodore W. Hunt Princeton University M. D. Learned University of Pennsylvania G. Gruene Yale E. W. Olmstead Cornell W. A. Neilson Harvard The University of Chicago C. A. Smith University of North Carolina George Hemple Leland Stanford Lewis F. Mott College of the City of New York Henry A. Todd Columbia University

New Extension of the Merit System

Governor Hughes is commended for approving the State Civil Service Commission resolutions and rearrangements. Some politicians may be disappointed, but the public service is believed to be materially improved.

Hughes State Civil Service Commission

Lenox holiday guests flock to Berkshire for New Year events

Lenox crowds from New York and Boston arrive for the holiday week as sleighing and skating thrive. Invitations go out for a Lenox Club New Year’s dance with a midnight supper. The wedding of Miss Kathleen Whiting to Rockwell Kent is set for Berkshire. A flood of visitors from New York and Switzerland gather at local homes and hotels for festive activities and the Bacon Benjamin wedding plans.

Tribune Lenox New York Boston Lenox Club Emily L. Bacon Kathleen Whiting Edward M. Whiting Berkshire Rockwell Kent Tarrytown N. Y Kent Louis Lombard Russell Atwater Pittsfield Switzerland Carl A. Degersdorf Glenburnie Stockbridge Trinity Church Richard C. Dixey Tanglewood Albert Gray Janet Fish Stuyvesant Fish Marshall Kernochan Kenneth Budd William W. Hoffman Burrell Hoffman Albert Hoffman Miss Hamilton Fish Benjamin

New Year Dance At Tuxedo Club Attracts Elite Guests

Notes from Tuxedo Park report a New Year’s Eve dance at the Tuxedo Club drawing prominent guests and colonists. Preceding dinners at the clubhouse will feature parties by Wiltsee and others, with vaudeville planned for New Year’s night. Musicians and several arriving families are listed among attendees.

the Tribune Tuxedo Park Tuxedo Tuxedo Club Ernest A. Wiltsee James Brown Charles J. Coulter Howland Pell T. Wyman Porter Louisa Norwood Albert E. Gallatin George P. Cammann Whch Charles B. Alexander Newbold Edgar Hans Letz New York Horace Britt Frans Mather Frank H. Mather Reginald Rives H. P. Rogers Stewart Duncan Henry S. Redmond F. F. Carr H. W. Munroe Miss Munroe K. Gandy Gibson Fahnestock Cecil D. Landal E.L. Burnett

Chinese Commissioner Tang Shao Yi Set for US Tour

Special Chinese commissioner Tang Shao Yi, in Washington, will visit New York Boston and Springfield Mass next month to revisit boyhood haunts and renew school friendships. He will be accompanied by several aides and Columbia University plans to confer an honorary degree. In Boston he will inspect Harvard, in Springfield visit a past friend. He will be away ten days to two weeks.

Washington Tang Shao Yi New York Boston Springfield Mass Columbia University Harvard University

Would Issue Stamps to Aid Italy

A letter to The Tribune suggests that the National Red Cross issue a New Year edition of tuberculosis stamp booklets as a humane relief gesture for Italy in distress. The author notes personal satisfaction from prior stamp drives and urges non-partisan groups to support the effort, with any excess funds aiding ongoing Red Cross work.

National Red Cross Italy New York

Will of Rev James Chrystal Leaves Books to Astor Library

Probate of the will of Rev James Chrystal who died in Jersey City on November 12 leaves all books manuscripts and personal property to the Astor Library Manhattan. A small sum from savings goes to the American Bible Society to distribute New Testaments to the heathens of the world especially the Mahometans.

James Chrystal Jersey City Hudson County Court Astor Library Manhattan American Bible Society

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