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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
22
The Met presents La Traviata with Sembrich Caruso and Scotti, delivering Verdi’s beloved melodies and dramatic potency. A large audience applauded as Sembrich and Scotti performed in act two and Caruso stirred thousands with his singing, despite conventional staging.
The Manhattan Opera House hosts a strong reception for Gustave Charpentier’s Louise with a sold out show and high audience engagement. Performances follow the prior version with cast tweaks including Miss Trentini for Morichini, and praised father figure Gilibert. Garden’s star persona earns praise but voice and interpretation draw mixed feedback alongside Campanini’s spirited conducting.
The estate of George T. Leaird, died last March with Manhattan real estate valued at 4, of which half would go to cousin William G. Weed. Sixty relatives claim rights as the Surrogate court weighs the 43 year old will and the admissibility of subscribing witnesses, all now deceased. The heirs seek equal shares among all cousins amid disputes over validity.
The little bears in Mr Blaney's medley gave a reception on Tuesday for the Mirenim audience and children. Teddy bears in costume were distributed as souvenirs. Mrs Mary G Spooner assisted and received warm applause. Another Teddy bear reception is planned for January 14.
The pleasing play Mies Hoot of Holland now at the Cherien Theatre sails to the Linois Theatre Chicago with plans for a long summer run and to the Colonial Theatre Boston with another company. Performers will be drawn from English and American theatres. It is reported that Paul Rubens, author and composer of Miss Hook of Helland, will provide a new play for Charlies Frohman to produce next September.
Mr Gillette has produced Sherlock Holmes on the French stage at the Theatre Paris with success and is expected to perform the role in English in the French capital. Isiliette's Secret Service has been revived in Brussels at the Alcazar, with a company formed to tour provincial towns in France.
The Lyceum Theatre will present Mr Bernsteins The Thief for the 180th consecutive time on January 16. Souvenirs will be distributed to the audience as the play continues its extraordinary success in this city and in Europe.
A basement blaze at Thomas Young Jr. store on West 28th Street caused heavy smoke and a large crowd. Firemen, hampered by spectators, summoned reserve crews while Proctor's Theatre nearby kept actors off stage as smoke blocked entry. Damage is unlisted.
Jackson Day in Tennessee marked by the Tennessee Society of this Gry celebrating the ninety third anniversary of the Salle of New Orleans with a dull at the Waldorf Astoria. Gordon Jr. chaired the dancing conqne dt was derided to make the celebration Pearly eveul.
Mrs. George A Gormley died at home in Sewickley aged sixty. She was daughter of General Alexander Hays who organized the 63d Pennsylvania Volunteers and died at the Wilderness. She supported philanthropy and charity through amateur theatricals appearing over one hundred times. She was honorary member of the 63d Regiment and of a local 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. He had been an invalid for two years and died in the city yesterday.
Santa Barbara California reports the death of General Horace Binney Sargeant a Civil War veteran who passed away today at the home of his son in law R Bowman McCalla. The brief obituary notes his service and immediate family.
Henry M Burnett seventy four died of heart disease at his Newark home after forty years with the Custom House and active Essex County Republican participation. He leaves a wife and two sons Dillon in New York lumber and Frederick L Burnett. James Gibson oldest White Plains resident died at Bonnie View aged ninety five. Scot born, he built a fortune through baking and branch stores and once owned Westchester Auditorium. He left four children and many descendants. his son owns several downtown restaurants. Edmund Jobson eighty died in Springfield after a long lumber career across New England.
The first U S branch of the International Association of Cooks known as the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Alliance of America has formed in New York with 800 members. Headquarters are at 103 East 53d Street and a local Culinary Trades Alliance meeting will be held soon to unite major cooks groups and regulate working hours.
Omaha dispatch reports Missouri Pacific mails finely engraved passes to each member of the State Railway Commission. B P Waggoner, general counsel for the railroad, furnished the passes. The commissioners forwarded them to the Attorney General with instructions to prosecute the road and Mr Waggoner under Nebraska law.
Congressman William Sulzer of New York City married Clara B. Roedelheim of Philadelphia at the First Presbyterian Church manse in Atlantic City. The ceremony followed a hospital stay where Roedelheim served as Sulzer’s nurse. The couple, once schoolmates in New Jersey, were attended by friends including Tamany leader Charles Murphy and Battery Dan Finn.
Official record from Washington notes a ten day pattern of moving low pressure from the North Pacific coast toward the Atlantic bringing snow in northern areas and rain or snow midwest and a sharp temperature fall east of the Rockies. Local forecasts call for snow flurries and colder conditions from Thursday into Friday with fresh west to northwest winds across New England and mid-Atlantic coasts.
The Interborough Rapid Transit Company plans to sell the Steinway tunnel to New York City. Officials, including Theodore P. Shonts and William Barclay Parsons, met with city lawyers to set terms based on actual construction costs and a 5 cent fare for Queens riders, with transfers weighed for future operation.
The President was urged to revoke a Civil Service Commission rule requiring all Postal Service employees to be at least five feet four inches tall. Representative Overstreet said the blanket height standard covers clerical and manual staff alike and lacks a logical basis. The President said the rule was new to him and would not be defended by him.
Judge Edgar Jackson of Nassau County sentenced Max Gelb, a trolley conductor, to three months in jail for manslaughter in a fatal collision that killed motorman James Vandersweep. A certificate of reasonable doubt was granted and Gelb was bailed while a new trial is sought after the August head on crash at Valley Stream.
Amherst Mass Jan 8 Dr Augustus Armagnac head of modern languages at Massachusetts Agricultural College died suddenly of apoplexy while seated at his desk in a recitation room He was sixty eight born on the island of Hayti and a Princeton graduate class of 1861 He taught at Colgate Chester N Y Tarrytown N Y and Indiana University before joining the Amherst faculty about a year ago
Among today’s passengers bound for Europe on the Celtic for Liverpool are Mr. Cave-Brown-Cave, Mrs J E Searles, Mr and Mrs Winthrop, Mr and Mrs William Cowdin Rainsford, Eugene Kelly, Mr and Mrs C H Norton, G K Sharp, Mr and Mrs James Mason, Mrs J Mills Walker. Yesterday’s arrival from abroad includes the Oceanic from Southampton with Mary D Crulekohank jh Kroupeneky, Mrs Stewart Den jch Joan Swerley Robinson, John G Eiletr ue and Mrs Arthur Mace, Dr W L Norris.
Cambridge, Jan 8 After a conference tonight Harvard and Princeton officials agreed to a game at the Stadium on November 7 barring Harvard Athletic Committee disapproval. Princeton, absent since 1896, initiated talks with Harvard. Attending from Harvard were Captain Burr former captain Parker and Coach Crane while Princeton was represented by Captain Dillon and Head Coach Roper.
Boston Jan 8 Harvard Athletic Committee approved a seven member panel to run football policy at the Stadium next fall. Captain Frank H Burr proposed autocratic authority with power to appoint head and assistants and to nullify coaching orders. The committee named Garcelon Fearing Farley Haughton Newhall Marshel and Burr as members, all Harvard players except Garcelon a track man. Joshua Crane Jr is expected to be head coach with limited power.
The Southern Pacific passenger steamer Creole bound for New York ran aground tonight on a soft bank just outside the Mississippi River mouth. Officers telegraphed for tugs to pull her free as the Creole, the only American built turbine steamer, makes its second New Orleans to New York trip. Rear Admiral Coghlan is among the passengers.
Mile. Genee, famed Danish ballet star, expresses delight with New York during her first American visit. She praises the city, Central Park, and Broadway Theatre, notes her Oceanic crossing, and mentions opening in Philadelphia on January 2%. Genee is billed as the world’s greatest ballet dancer and will perform in The Soul Kiss under Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. management.
Frederick Coggswell of Bethel, Conn, relies on a birthmark caterpillar on his thigh to forecast the winter. He says the marked caterpillar moves with the weather and signals a mild season with little extreme cold, though it itches when hairs shed in fall and colors shift with caterpillar changes.
Mary Hess aged five of East 11th street risked her life to push her sister Tessie and a four year old friend free from an oncoming Madison Avenue surface car. The child was dragged under the vehicle but escaped with minor bruises while the others were unharmed.
El Paso report says Horace Boles former Iowa governor recovering from pneumonia at a hospital. He sat up for a short time today and is regarded as in danger amid the illness.
At Marble Collegiate Church Fifth Avenue and 29th Street a mass meeting voted for resolutions urging enforcement of Sunday observance laws. Two young men opposed the move named Henry S. Huntington and Daniel J. Fingalton. They argued performers seek Sunday work for pay. Clergy members pledged to push Albany mediation and request signatures to enforce Sunday liquor laws, with appeals to Mayor and Police Commissioner. Magistrate Kernochan declined to dismiss a Sunday costume performance case against John Buck.
Two valuable pictures were received by Yale Art School. One painting by Benjamin West depicts the death of General Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham, presented by William L. Andrews of New York City. The other, a storm scene by German American artist F. A. Schenck, was presented by Mrs. E. B. Tuttle of Saugatuck.
Dispatch from Mentone details the death of Right Rev. George Worthington Bishop of Nebraska who collapsed while walking and died after being assisted into a trolley car. Identified by Mrs Worthington, his funeral will be held in Mentone Friday before body sent to Paris for family arrangements by a brother of the late Bishop.
On Wednesday January 8 1908 Winthrop Cowdin wed Lelia Bell Harrison at the Chapel of the Good Shepherd with Rev W J Seabury officiating. Also Marie Antoinette Murray daughter of William Murray and Sherman Brownell Joost were wed on January 1908 at 15 Henry Street Brooklyn New York per notice.
The Tribune republishes death notices including Allen Mary J Jacobson Charlotte Bones William L Carpenter Samuel Creuzbaur Lydia K McCarthy Margaret De Tartes Augustus G McGrath Catherine Fessenden Samuel Miller William French Phebe W Gibson James Harned Ruth A Orton Sarah A Harris Sarah B Barner Hart Elon M Whitey Charles W Hiser MarianS Whitney Hunt Frederick Worthington George Harned Ruth Anna Harned with interment and funeral details across Danville Northampton Philadelphia White Plains Rahway and Brooklyn locations.
Funeral notices list Harris from Brattleboro Vermont and Heiser of Leington Avenue, with services at No 1 South Ellice Place Brooklyn and Greenworth Cemetery. Additional obituaries include Hunt Jacobson Kuett Noble ONeil Orton Raynor Whitney and Worthington, with services, interments, and hospital or home venues noted.
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