Amusements in New York Theatres and Venues Listings
A dense listing of vaudeville shows concerts operas and exhibitions at venues including Carnegie Hall Empire Gotham Hippodrome Liberty Lyceum Majestic Metropolitan Opera House New Amsterdam Savoy and more. Notable acts include The Rose of the Rancho Miss Hook of Holland The Merry Widow Rosmersholm and A Knight for a Day with multiple daily showtimes.
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Emy
MUSIC
Rancho
Secret Orchard
Virginie
Comet Blaney
Bad Boy
Teddy Broadway
Criterion
Miss Hook
Holland
DEWEY
Empire
Quanlity Street Garrick
Gotham
Herald Square
Hudson
Knickerbocker
New York
Liberty
Polly
Circus
Lyceun
LYRIC
Rosmersholm
Madison Square
Amajestic
Manhattan Opera House
Louise
Mendhall
Metropolitan Opera House
Marta
Alda
National Academy OF Design
New Amsterdam
Knew Circle
T. Nicholas Rink
SAVOY
Stuyvesant
Wallace
Dar Weber
Tribune Association Publisher And Office Address
The New York Daily Tribune is owned and published by The Tribune Association, a New York corporation. The office and principal place of business are Tribune Building, No 154 Nassau Street, New York. Ogden Mills serves as president and Nathaniel Tuttle as secretary and treasurer.
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The
Tribune Association
New York Corporation
Tribune
Nasseu Street
New York
Ogden Mills
Nathaniel Tuttle
Congress and World News Briefs Across Nations
Senate not in session as House debates codification and financial panic causes. Panama Canal cost may rise to 200 million dollars. E Benjamin Andrews resignation rumors at Nebraska. Pittsburg Stock Exchange to decide on resumption. Roosevelt predicts Taft on first ballot. Varied domestic and foreign notes including Congo, Berlin protests, and shipping accords. Weather. rain or snow with highs near 30 and lows around 17.
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Congress
Senate
House
Washington
Panama Canal
E. Benjamin Andrews
State University of Nebraska
Lincoln
Board of Regents
Andrews
Pittsburg Stock Exchange
Roosevelt
White House
Taft
Malone
N. Y
Alton B. Parker
Kingston
Albany
Court of Appeals
Rio de Janeiro
Permambuco
Congo
Leopold
Berlin
Landtag
Lloyd
Bremen
Rodolphe Lemieux
Canada
Japan
State Department
United States
People’s Institute
Cooper Union
Wall Street
Knickerbocker
Public Service Commission
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Metz
Coler
Cripple Creek Railroad Company
Supreme Court
McClellan
John F. Ahearn
Manhattan
Westinghouse
Rigid Economy and Growing City Debt Critique
The writer decries a so called rigid economy while noting a 12 million dollar budget rise and a nearly 76 million dollar increase in bonded obligations. City debt swells to about 700 million, outpacing national debt levels and fueled by annual assessed value hikes and bond sales despite proclaimed thrift.
Civic groups push costly curios in city budget
The piece condemns self appointed civic bodies that urge the city to spend beyond its means on projects like school dental care and playgrounds, accusing them of rigid economy in pursuit of contracts. It critiques the budget process, noting lump sums and logrolling that hide true spending and misallocate funds across departments.
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Civic
Board of Estimate
Practical considerations on the Aldrich currency bill
Southern and Western lawmakers oppose the Aldrich currency bill as biased against their regions. The piece questions whether the proposed currency would truly loosen money supply for crop movement and warns of consequences for savings banks and bond values. It argues passage could lock the nation into bond secured currency, provoking local political resistance.
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Savings Bank
Savings Banks
Indians in Africa face harsh treatment under Transvaal rule
The Transvaal’s stance toward Indians, many professionals and merchants, brands them as outlaws and lepers, with fines and expulsion. Indians argue imperial accountability from Westminster, while Boers push to remove educated, enterprising Indians despite loyal British status.
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Transvaal
India
Pretoria
Westminster
Calcutta
Perplexing imperial dilemma on self rule and equal rights
The British empire faces a delicate choice as it weighs home rule for the Boers, fears disaffection in India, and the risks of coercing a self governing colony. A cautious middle path between coercion and concession is sought, with epochal consequences expected.
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India
Reforms in the Navy Provoke Debate on Pay and Structure
Senator Hale seeks higher naval salaries and argues for better line and staff cooperation amid friction. He notes the shift in roles toward engineers and questions further amalgamation. Calls to adjust Army pay first and critiques Naval Academy retention face opposition as the Navy remains under offi...
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Senator Hale
Maine
Congress
Engineering Corps
Army
Adjutant General
Hale
Naval Academy
Navy
Eighth Regiment Restored and Reshaped as Heavy Artillery
Governor Singhes ordered the rehabilitation of the Eighth Regiment by General Roe’s recommendation, reducing it to a battalion under Major Elmore Farrington Austin. The move ends a period of dispute, with prior success seen in the 69th Regiment under George Moore Smith. The restored regiment may convert to heavy artillery, having proven capable at Fort Totten and earning praise from Colonel Whistler.
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Sth
Singhes
Roe
Elmore Farrington Austin
Tribune
69Th
George Moore Smith
7Th Regiment
Austin
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Fort Totten
Whistler
Streams Sewers and Wells in Typhoid Battle
The article praises steps to curb a typhoid outbreak in Trenton New Jersey while questioning water purification choices. It critiques officials who abandon purification in favor of new supplies and warns against optimistic but unsafe makeshift solutions. The piece notes prior apathy at the State Asylum for the Insane and urges rational action.
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Trenton
N. J
State Asylum For
Water supplies should be protected from pollution
The author argues against treating streams as sewers and condemns artesian wells as unreliable. Surfaces waters from lakes, springs, and streams offer higher quality and lower costs for urban supplies. Contamination from sewage increases risks to wells, so safe treatment of pollution is essential to keep springs, streams, and lakes usable for potable water.
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Trenton
Rio de Janeiro arrival on schedule after Atlantic trek
The fleet reaches Rio de Janeiro today on its thirteenth day out from Port of Spain after departing December 28. At ten knots the voyage covers about 3050 miles, with a welcome planned from Brazilian authorities and the American Ambassador. December saw record gold output in the Transvaal, and a political push in New York urges a rehearing of Suspender Jack’s police discharge.
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Rio de Janeiro
Port of Spain
Hearst
New York City
Guardian of the
Jack
McClellan
Talk of the Day Echoes Tips, Autos, and Satire Across Media
A collage of quotes and quips from The Talk of the Day and Life features satire on tipping habits as New Yorkers, skits about a generous luncheon host, and a humorous ice incident in Wilton. It also recalls a Sabbatarian dog tale, a missing sponge joke, and a Berlin theater note honoring August Yunkermann with brief humor from various periodicals.
Washington hosts diplomatic corps dinner dates and polit ical talks
The Tribune reports a morning cabinet session with President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft discussing army affairs. Senators Burkett Brown push for Omaha postmaster Benjamin F. Thomas's reappointment, with the President promising to send his name to the Senate. A large diplomatic and social gathering followed with numerous dignitaries, including foreign ministers, judges, and military officials, attending a formal dinner and reception. A wedding for Miss Gertrude Claggett and Paymaster Bonnaffin drew guests to a Women’s Club venue.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Taft
New York
Burkett and Brown
Nebraska
Benjamin F. Thomas
Omaha
Thomas
Senate
McEnery
Curtis
Hopkins
Shirley
Denby
Wilson
Interstate Commerce
Harlan
Cooley
Roosevelt
Diplomatic Corps
Judiciary
Cabinet Hosts Teatime with Guests at Washington Dinner
The Secretary of War and Mrs. Taft entertain with Mrs. George Post Wheeler and prominent guests including Vice President Fairbanks, Ambassadors Jusserand and Sternburg, Sen. Depew, and Rep. Longworth among others at a Cabinet dinner. Wheeler writes under Hallie Erminie Rives about Japan.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Taft
George Post Wheeler
Japan
Philippines
Wheeler
Hallie Erminie Rives
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Straus
Fairbanks
France
Mme. Jusserand
Germany
Baroness von Sternburg
Russia
Great Britain
James Bryce
Depew
Dillingham
Longworth
the Treasury
Beekman Winthrop
A. Abraham
Brooklyn
Bayard
Hobson
Diplomatic Social Round in Washington Hosts and Steals
Visiting Austro Hungarian Embassy figures Mrs Hubbard and Mrs Oelrichs attend dinners with Ambassador Hengelmuller and guests including Mr William Sloane and Rear Admiral Cowles house guests. Baroness Sternburg hosts a reception for the Sloaned entourage. Netherlands and Sweden ministers plan long Europe absences with delayed returns.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Hubbard
Oelrichs
New York
Baroness Hengelmuller
William
Douglas Sloane
Washington Society Hosts Dignitaries at Dinner
Senator and Mrs Burrows entertained Mme Nabuco wife of the ambassador at a Washington dinner event, part of the social scene reported by The Tribune Bureau.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Burrows
Mme. Nabuco
New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor Report
The 1907 year end report shows 6,688 families aided and 3,000 persons helped by the relief department, with 7,281 aided through United Charities. Despite financial strain, contributions held steady as aid appeals rose 2 percent. The group laments Rockaway Beach ocean park land delays but notes a promised children’s TB hospital site and a $250,000 raised for a building. Nurses totaling twenty trained mothers in tenement districts. Disbursements reached $195,188.59.
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New York Association For
Relief Department
United Charities
Ocean Park
Rockaway Beach
Ex Empress Sails for Colombo
Ex Empress Eugénie widow of Napoleon III sails from Marseilles with her suite today bound for Colombo.
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Empress
Colombo
Marseilles
Eugénie
Napoleon III
Empress Visits American Church in Berlin West End
The German Empress visited the American Church in Berlin's west end today and was received by Pastor Dr. Dickie.
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Berlin
West End
Dickie
Professor Milyoukov Addresses Russia on Constitutional Government
Professor Paul Milyoukov of St. Petersburg travels eleven thousand miles to speak on constitutional government for Russia at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday evening. The address is hosted by the Civic Forum with Bishop Potter presiding. He arrives by Carmania Monday morning and returns to Russia Thursday to attend the Douma’s reopening after a three week recess.
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Paul Milyoukov
St. Petersburg
America
Russia
Carnegie Hall
Civic Forum
Milyoukov
Carmania
Potter
A Proverb’s Flight From Falconry to Hamlet
The Manchester Guardian traces the saying to falconry origin noting that to know a hawk from a hernshaw means distinguishing falcon from prey such as a young heron. A later corruption to handsaw appeared in Hamlet and others.
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The
Manchester Guardian
Millionaire crackers set price records in festive fad
A Dundee Advertiser column notes the "North Country Millionaire" spent £1 on a Christmas cracker but fails to beat a prior record of £250 for six crackers by a London silversmith. The top cracker cost £400, crafted as a gold wheat sheaf with a matching ring hidden inside.
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Dundee
London
Automobiles on Rails
The Pathfinder notes growing demand for small inspection cars that run like automobiles on rails. In the United States these autos reach forty miles per hour and carry enough gasoline to travel one mile. Similar machines are used in India, with at least one railroad manager building a dual on rail and road vehicle.
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United States
India
New York Society Hosts Dances and Weddings in Winter
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney plans her annual January 2 dance at her West 37th Street home. The Count Szecheny engagement to Miss Gladys Vanderbilt is set for January 27 with Count Sigray as best man. Monsignor Lavelle will perform the wedding at noon in Mrs. Vanderbilt’s ballroom. Debutantes, dinners, and musicales fill the season. travels include the Pyne and Vanderbilt households heading to Europe and Palm Beach.
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Harry Payne Whitney
West 37Th Street
Count Szecheny
Mrs. Whitney
Gladys Vanderbilt
Miss Vanderbilt
Count Sigray
Monsignor Lavelle
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Vanderbilt Farm Tax Fight Draws Staten Island Officials
George W. Vanderbilt and Sir Roderick Cameron contest heavy city taxes on their Staten Island properties. A referee, Eugene L. Richards, is to review the assessment while witnesses dispute land values with estimates from Vanderbilt estate agents and local brokers.
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George W. Vanderbilt
Sir Roderick Cameron
Staten Island
Eugene L. Richards
William Street
Vanderbilt
New Dorp
Cameron
Guy. .C. Dempsey
Richmond Borough
Talbert Root
Charles W. Schutzendorf
Waterstreet
Stapleton
Gaillard
Ist
Hust
Evils of Congested Population Exhibit in New York
City departments and numerous civic bodies will mount a March exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History on congested population in New York City. Governors Hughes and Mayor McClellan will speak. participants include health, charity, education and welfare groups and several reform organizations.
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New York
New York City
American Museum of Natural History
Hughes
McClellan
Board of Health
Department of Charities
New York City Consumers' League
The
National Consumers’ League
New York Charity Organization Society
New York Association
Passengers Sailing Today to Europe on Lusitania Philadelphia and Prinzess Irene
The list includes passengers aboard the Lusitania bound for Southampton and the Philadelphia bound for Southampton, with names such as Julius P Meyer H Cecil Jackson George R Dyer W H Kessler Lord Herbert Vane Tempest Mrs John J Knox and Miss Florence M Bragg, and the Prinzess Irene bound for Naples featuring Dr Charles E Miss A A Sprague and the Thompsons among others.
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Europe
Lusitania
Tor
Liverpool
Julius P_ Meyer
H. Cecil Jackson
George R. Dyer
W. H. Kessler
Herbert Vane Tempest
John J. Knox
E W. Nor
Maudamyton
Francis M. Wilson
Philadelphia
Southampton
E. K. Bennett
Amy Grant
Florence M. Bragg
Mes
Johncom
James H
Thomas P. White
Brown
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Agenci
Advis
Inter Resorts
New York Daily Tribune
Africa
Josephus Miller
John Sharp Williams
Williams
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Columbia University
Ernst Muller
New Yorker
Clara
Maud
Charlie Spooner
Wilton
Kennebec Journal
Dr. A. L. York
Wilton Lake
Puck
Tip
Tipperary
Louisville Courier-Journal
August Yunkermann
Fritz Reuter
Briasiz
Uncle
Yunkermann
Cane le Seure
Non. Townsend
Borah
Timmons
Senator Bourne
Kean
Carow
Dixon
Christine Roosevelt
Taylor
Upham
Eee
Stephenson
Mrs. Roosevelt
Brazil
Scott
Brandegee
Oliver
Bonnaffin
Women's Club
I Street
Mme. de Sibour
Miss Claggett
Bonnaffon
Charles
Bromwell
Interior
Garfield
Belgium
Baroness Moncheur
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wiliam J. Boardman
Henry C. Corbin
Glover
George Young
the Diplomatic Corps
IN Washington Society
Association For Improving
NEW York Society
Charles H. Marshall
East Sith Street
Evelyn Marshall
Marguerite Walker
Joseph Walker, Jr
Samuel Sloane
Rae H. Rogers
Archibald Rogers
Hyde Park
Walker
Josep Walker
Fifth Avenue
Delmonico’s
Charles R. Huntington
Grinnell
William K. Vanderbilt
Philharmonic
Fritz Kreisser
Geraldine Farrar
Richard Barthelemy
Percy R. Pyne
Azores
James A. Burden, Jr
East 1St Street
Pierre Lorillard Ronalds
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Newport
Mrs. Vanderbilt
Walter Cutting
Miss Cutting
St. Regis
Palm Beach, Fla
Vanderbilt Farm
Cameron Estate
Prinzess
Irene
Naples
Chartes E
A. A. Sprague
Mer
Clifford Thom
Jaac Norris
W. D. Henry
J. R. White
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