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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
10
Opera lovers witness Verdi's La Traviata with Mme Sembrich Signor Caruso and Signor Scotti delivering a splendid performance. The old work delights a superb audience at the Metropolitan, contrasting Verdi's mastery with later composers.
The New York premiere of Gustave Charpentier's Louise draws strong public interest with full houses and optimism for further performances. Review notes Gilibert's compelling father figure, Garden's striking presence, Daimores' fervor, and Bressler-Gianoli as mother, while praising Campanini's spirited conducting and urging restraint in stage gesture and costume choices.
The case seeks to determine the validity of George T. Leaird’s 43 year old will as a Manhattan estate valued at 30.4 inherits among fifteen first cousins and others. Sixty relatives contest the will claiming equal shares. Jam G Wood receives one half of the estate after deaths altered prior shares while testimony covered subscribing witnesses whose signatures were in question.
The Blaney bears perform in a comic medley called The Bad Boy and His Teddy Bear. They gave a reception on Tuesday for a young audience member, with children flocking to the stage and receiving souvenir teddy bears in costume. Mrs. Mary G. Spooner assisted and was warmly greeted. Another Teddy bear reception is planned for Tuesday afternoon, January 14.
The pleasing play Miss Holland now at the e7 Theatre will be produced with another cast at the Illinois Theatre Chicago and later by a third company at the Colonial Theatre Boston. It is said performers will be drawn from England and America. Mr Paul Rubens may supply a new play for Mr Charles Frohman to produce in September.
William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes, based on Conan Doyle, has been produced in French at the Antoine Theatre in Paris with success. Gillette plans a return to Paris to perform Holmes in English. His play Secret Service has been revived in Brussels at the Alcazar, and a company plans a tour of provincial towns in France.
The Lyceum Theatre will present the 129th consecutive performance of Mr Bern Stein's The Thief on January 16. Souvenirs will be distributed to the audience. The play has enjoyed extraordinary success locally and in Europe.
A basement blaze discovered last evening at Thomas Young Jr. florist shop drew a large crowd in the dense smoke. Firemen hampered by onlookers called in Tenderloin units to gain elbow room. The rear fire origin near Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theatre was contained. doors kept smoke from entering the theatre and damage was slight.
The Tennessee Society hosted a Jackson Day ball at the Waldorf Astoria in New York to mark the 93rd anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans. Richard H. Gordon Jr. chaired the dancing committee as organizers pledged a lively event.
Mrs. George A. Gormley, 60, Sewickley, daughter of General Alexander Hays who led the 63d Pennsylvania Volunteers, died this morning. She remained with the regiment at Wilderness where her father fell, later sent to relatives in Pittsburgh. Wealthy, she devoted her life to charity and amateur theatricals, appearing in over a hundred charity plays and holding honorary posts in the 63d Regiment and a Grand Army post.
Rome reports the death of Joseph Kennedy brother of Mon Signor Thomas F Kennedy titular bishop of Adrianapolis and rector of the American College here He had been an invalid for two years local church circles note his long illness and bearing in the faith this city yesterday
Santa Barbara California January General Horace Binney Sargeant a Civil War veteran died today at the home of his son in law R Bowman McCalla.
Henry M Burnett 74 a Custom House employee in Newark died of heart disease. He served about forty years in government and was active in Essex County Republican politics leaving a wife and two sons Dillon in lumber New York and Frederick. James Gibson eldest White Plains resident 94 died at Bonnie View after a long career as baker and theater owner leaving four children and fortune around 590000. Edmund Jobson 80, lumber trader known across Central Massachusetts, died at his Springfield home.
The first U S branch of the International Association of Cooks has been formed as the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Alliance of America with 800 members and headquarters at 103 East 53d Street. Plans call for branches in major cities and a meeting within a week to form a Culinary Trades Alliance to regulate work hours. Committees seek unity with the American Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association Manhattan Cooks League and the German Cooks Association to join the international.
Omaha on January 8 reports that engraved passes were mailed to every member of the State Railway Commission by B P Waggoner general counsel for the Missouri Pacific. The commissioners forwarded them to the Attorney General for prosecution of the railroad and Waggoner under Nebraska law.
Congressman William Sulzer of New York and Miss Clara B Roedelheim of Philadelphia married yesterday at the First Presbyterian Church manse. The ceremony followed a hospital ward meeting where Miss Roedelheim served as Sulzer’s nurse. The pair, Columbia alumni, are honeymooning at the Traymore with friends including Charles F Murphy and Battery Dan Finn seen on the boardwalk.
Official record notes rapid barometric movements over northern and eastern U S with snow and rain in many districts. A Pacific low moves east to Atlantic by Saturday bringing sharp temperature falls east of the Rockies. Local forecasts call for snow flurries today, then colder with fair conditions and A NW wind later. coastal winds vary by region.
Interborough officials push to sell the Steinway tunnel under East River to New York City arguing it would expand transit to Queens. Officials insist price reflect actual construction costs and require guarantees of a 5 cent fare for Queens residents, with lease terms likely modeled on the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridge operations. The sale hinges on ongoing franchise disputes and city debt limits, amid talks with Corporation Counsel Pendleton and Chief Engineer Lewis.
Washington January eight The President was asked to revoke a Civil Service Commission height rule requiring all Postal Service workers to be at least five feet four inches Representative Overstreet Indiana chairman of the Post Office Committee urged his aid noting the blanket rule pressures clerical and manual staff alike and questions why other departments are not similarly restricted The President said the rule was new to him and offered no defense while citing limited logic if required only for mail cars and pigeonholes.
Judge Edgar Jackson in Nassau County jailed Max Gelb a trolley conductor for three months after a fatal collision that killed motorman James Vandersweep. A certificate of reasonable doubt was granted and Gelb was bailed pending a new trial. An August Valley Stream head on collision showed Gelb disobeyed company orders.
Dr Augustus Armagnac 68 head of modern languages at Massachusetts Agricultural College died suddenly of apoplexy while seated at his desk in a recitation room He was born on Hayti and a Princeton graduate of 1861 After postgraduate study at Colgate he taught in Chester Pennsylvania Tarrytown New York and Indiana University He came to Amherst about a year ago.
Passengers listed sail today on the Celtic bound for Liverpool including Mr Cave Brown Cave Fo and Mrs J E Searles and many others. Yesterday the Oceanic arrived from Southampton with travelers such as Harry Cruickshank and Dr W L Norris among the arrivals.
Harvard and Princeton officials reached an agreement for a game at Harvard Stadium on November 7, contingent on Harvard Athletic Committee approval. Princeton, absent from Cambridge since 1896, led negotiations with Harvard representatives Captain F. H. Burr, ex-captain Parker, and Coach Joshua Crane present for Harvard, and Captain Dillon and Head Coach Roper for Princeton.
Harvard Athletic Committee approves a seven man policy panel to control football direction at the Stadium next fall. Captain Frank H Burr leads the plan granting autocratic authority to appoint and discipline coaches, with Joshua Crane Jr likely to return as head coach but under new limits.
The Southern Pacific Creole, on the New York run, went aground on a soft Gulf bank just outside the Mississippi River mouth. The ship is in little danger, and captains have asked for tugs to pull her free. Notably, Creole is the only American built turbine steamer and this marks her second trip on the N Y New Orleans service. Rear Admiral Coghlan is among the passengers.
Mile. Adeline Genee praises New York after touring in an automobile from the steamer. She admires the wide streets, tall buildings, and Central Park, hoping the public will like her as much as the city. She recalls crossing the Atlantic on the Oceanic and notes she opens in Philadelphia January 20 with the hunting dance.
Frederick Coggswell of Bethel, Connecticut, asserts a leg caterpillar forecasts weather. He claims the movable mark changes color with conditions and predicted mild winter with little extreme cold. Coggswell notes seasonal color shifts and spring/summer changes, plus itchy prickles in fall.
Five year old Mary Hess of East 14th street saved her sister Tessie and Mary Dunn from a Madison avenue surface car. She pushed them to safety as the southbound car could not stop in time, Mary was dragged under wheels and left with minor bruises while her mother and two other children avoided serious harm.
El Paso report says Horace Boles former Iowa governor, hospitalized with pneumonia, sat up briefly and is regarded as out of danger. He had been seriously ill and remains under care as doctors monitor his recovery.
Clergymen urged enforcement of Sunday laws after a vote against theatre performances on Sunday. Two young men, Henry S. Huntington and Daniel J. Fingalton, opposed the resolutions, saying performers and actors have mixed motives. They explained their positions as a Christian worker and a vaudeville actor respectively.
New Haven January eight two important paintings have been received by the Yale Art School. One work by Benjamin West depicts the death of General Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham and was donated by William L Andrews of New York City a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The second painting by F A Schenck a German American artist from a century ago was donated by Mrs E B Tuttle of Saugatuck and shows a storm scene in the country.
A dispatch from Mentone confirms the death of Right Rev. George Worthington, Bishop of Nebraska, who fell ill while walking alone and expired in a trolley car. Mrs. Worthington identified him at the Catholic Cemetery. funeral services will be held in Mentone on Friday before the body is transported to Paris for collection by a brother.
Marriage notices republished with no extra charge list Winthrop Cowdin and Lelia Bell Harrison wed January 8 1908 at the Chapel of the Good Shepherd officiated by Rev W J Seabury D D and Marte Antoinette Murray daughter of William Murray wed Sherman Brownell Joost at 155 Henry Street Brooklyn New York officiated by Dr Newell Dwight Hillis Notices require full names and addresses for indorsement.
The notice lists multiple interments and funeral details for individuals including Mary Allen, William Bones, Samuel Carpenter, Lydia Creuzbaur, Augustus De Tartes, Samuel Fessenden, Phebe French, James Gibson, Ruth Harned, and others. Details cover addresses, dates, church services, interment locations, and times, reflecting regional obituary notices typical of early 20th century papers.
Funeral notices and interment details for Harris Hart Heiser Hunt Jacobson Kubtt Leonard McCarthy McGrath Miller Noble ONeil Orton Raynor Whitney Worthington and accompanying cemetery and undertaker notices. Includes cremation and train times, private services, and locations across New York Brooklyn Paterson and nearby towns.
Special notices advertise access to a file of applications for positions at the Uptown Office of The New York Tribune. Details include office hours, subscription rates, and international mailing options. Also lists numerous offices and international representatives for The Tribune in cities worldwide.
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